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disneymiraculousefandomsblog · 4 years

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Hey Guys! Sorry it took me long to post the best chapter it took longer than expected😒 I had a lot of writers block😑 and I am currently working on another Fic, that I am trying to get done and post soon😊 so here is chapter 4😊 I’d like to give props to @animagicsalina for giving me permission to use her storylines from her 7K comic😉 she is amazing! Anyway I hope you all enjoy:)

A Friendly Visit

Varian and Selena made it back to the bakery carrying the ingredients they needed. Rapunzel Walked in holding some kind of wood and a cover over it, She walks over to Selena.

“Selena I have something for you” Rapunzel said with a smile.

She pulled off the sheet and it was a sign Rapunzel made and painted herself for Selena and her family. Selena was In shock, the sign was so beautiful, it had a bunch of different colors and different designs and there was a crown drawn in the middle and the name was inside the crown it said La Corona Bakery, Selena loved the name Rapunzel gave the bakery.

“Wow, Rapunzel this is AMAZING!!! I love it!!” Selena said existed.

“Aww, I’m glad you like it, I named it La Corona bakery or as they told me The Crown Bakery in English” Rapunzel answered with a smile.

Selena smiled, she was so happy to have amazing friends, she definitely could not have done it without them.

“Well, I think we made great progress today, We can finish tomorrow if you want?” Rapunzel asked Selena.

“Yes, your right princess, we can finish this tomorrow I know you all are tired from helping me today..it’s not your guys duty to help me..but I really do appreciate it this means a lot to my family and to me.” Selena said with a bit of sadness I her voice.

“Selena are you ok?, What’s wrong?” Rapunzel asked.

“It’s just no one has ever showed us this much kindness to me or my family like you guys have, and being a very simple girl from a small kingdom..I just don’t feel like I’ve proven that I or we deserve your friendship” Selena said with a sad tone.

“Hey Selena, you don’t have to prove yourself to anyone, we help you because we want to, that’s what friends do, you and your family are wonderful people, we love you Selena, and your more than just a friend your family.. Don’t ever forget that” Rapunzel said pulling her into a hug.

Selena didn’t know what to say, She never had any real friends like she has here in Corona, or any other family other than her parents.

“Th-Thank you Rapunzel, to be honest your like a big sister I never had” Selena said returning the hug.

“Aww Selena, Thank you, your like a little sister I never had” Rapunzel said with a smile.

Rapunzel and Eugene were headed back to the castle, “Selena I’m going back to the castle with Eugene, do you want to come?” Rapunzel asked.

“Yeah in a little bit, I just want to walk around the town for awhile then I’ll be over there soon” Selena answered with a smile.

“Ok, I’ll let your parents know, and your room will be ready as well, don’t stay out to late” Rapunzel said waving goodbye.

“I won’t” Selena answered waving goodbye.

Varian and Selena were the only ones left In the bakery, Varian wanted to go to the market to get some traveling supplies, for the trip he was planning, that he hasn’t told his dad yet or even told him about the journal, but it’s better to be prepared he thought to himself. Varian thought it be a good idea to invite Slena with him since she was going to walk around anyway and he can ask her the questions Eugene told him to ask or he would never hear the end of it with Eugene.

“Uhh..Selena, I was going to go to the market to buy some traveling supplies for my upcoming trip, since your going to walk around would you like to join me?” Varian asked putting his hand behind his head.

Selena pondered for awhile, she forgot that Varian did say he was going on a trip to finish his moms work. She just had to get used to the fact that he wasn’t going to be there, even though she really wanted to open the bakery here In Corona to be around him, but that wasn’t going to happen, so she thought it be best to stop having this silly crush on him and enjoy the time she has with him now. “Sure it’s always better to walk with a friend, thanks Varian” Selena answered with a smile.

“Hehe yeah” Varian answered.

They left the bakery and made their way to the market, Varian was going to his favorite store where he bought all his alchemy supplies and maybe he would even buy a new outfit. Varian saw his chance to ask Selena the questions Eugene told him to ask. Varian thought he start off with an easy question.

“Selena, what is your favorite thing to do?” Varian asked Selena.

“Well I actually love to read books about adventure, mostly because I would want to go on adventures myself like Rapunzel did, but my most favorite thing is just spending time with my family.” Selena answered.

“Wow, your really close to your family, that’s nice not a lot of people want to be with their family’s all the time” Varian stated.

“Yes, but for us family is everything, because when thing fades or goes away your family will be the only one standing with you no matter what” Selena answered with a comforting smile.

“I know what you mean” Varian answered.

Selena didn’t know what Varian meant by that but she knew that Varian didn’t like talking about his past so she wasn’t going to push him to talk about it. Varian tried to change the conversation and just asked his last questions.

“Selena, what are your thoughts about Relationships? And are you interested in someone?” Varian asked sheepishly trying to hide his nervousness.

Selena stayed quiet, she wanted to know why Varian would ask the same question she asked him, “maybe he knows I have a crush on him”, “I probably wasn’t good at hiding my feelings,” Selena thought to herself. Selena took a deep breath she felt her stomach turn.

“I think relationships are nice, I actually would like to have a relationship with someone I know, he’s nice, smart, kind, and a really great friend” Selena answered trying to hide her nervousness.

“ uhh...hehe...that’s great to know, it is someone I know?” Varian asked nervously

“Maybe, he’s really close though” Selena said nervously looking at Varian.

Varian didn’t know what to say, he was flattered that Selena liked him, but he just didn’t feel the same way about Selena he liked her as a best friend not as a crush, but if he were to actually have a relationship with her and it didn’t work out, it be so weird they would loose their friendship and he didn’t want that. Varian had to find a way to tell Selena that he likes her as a friend only, but without hurting her feelings.

“Why is this so hard” varian thought to himself.

Varian thought it be best to tell her later, he didn’t want to make it weird, so he changed the subject.

“Look we’re here” Varian said pointing to the store

“Cool, so this is where you buy all your Alchemy stuff” Selena said.

“Yeah, they know me pretty well here,hehe” Varian said sheepishly.

They walked around the store, Varian already knew what he wanted, he grabbed viles, alchemy balls, potions, cylinders, Ect. He put everything In a box and was ready to pay when Selena stopped him.

“Hey, why don’t you get a new outfit, I mean if your going on an adventure might as well dress for it right?” Selena asked Varian.

“Ehh, I guess your right” Varian answered with a smile.

Varian looked through all the clothes they had to offer for a young boy, he didn’t see anything he liked, then Selena stepped in.

“Hey what about this Varian?” Selena asked him.

She pulled out a blue/green mixed colored shirt with half long sleeves, then she grabbed navy blue colored pant, and a orange bandana. Selena showed the outfit to Varian to see what he though.

“So what do you think?” Selena asked him

Varian gave it a look, he wasn’t much of a person that liked people picking out what he would ware not since he was a toddler, but he liked the colors and the styles Selena picked out.

“Wow, I like it” Varian answered.

“Yeah, I thought the colors would look good on you, and it would make you look your age” Selena said to Varian trying not to giggle.

“Hey, what do you mean by that?” Varian answered offensively.

“Well, you do look like your 14, when your actually 18” Selena said still trying not to laugh.

Varian didn’t say anything, he hated to admit it but Selena was right, everyone treated him like a kid, his dad, Eugene, Rapunzel, Cassandra. “Ugh curse this baby face...but your right” Varian answered admitting defeat.

Selena just smiled, “now all your missing are shoes, and maybe gloves” Selena stated to Varian.

Varian looked around and saw some black boots with gray straps, then he saw some black gloves that he always were to protect his hands from his chemical solutions. “Well, These black boots would go good with the outfit and these gloves would look good and protect my hands” Varian answered.

Selena agreed with Varian. They put the outfit into the box of things they were going to buy, once Varian was done paying he grabbed the box and they left the store. It was Sunset by the time they were done, Selena thought it be best if she went back to the castle so her parents wouldn’t worry about her.

“Well I better be headed back to the castle, I don’t what my parents to get worried” Selena said to Varian.

“Thank you for inviting me to walk with you, I’ll see you tomorrow?” Selena asked with a smile.

“Yeah, i have to head back too, I had a good time...I’ll see you tomorrow” Varian answered sheepishly.

“Ok, bye Varian!” Selena said waving bye and headed towards the castle.

Varian waved back, while He made his way back to his house, he kept thinking to himself if he should talk to his dad about his moms journal, his curiosity is getting the best of him, and he really wanted to know why his dad would keep this alway from him. Once he arrived he saw his dad was there sitting in the living room reading a book. “Hey Son, How was your day?” Quirin asked him.

Varian couldn’t take it anymore he had to ask his dad about the journal and get some answers. “It was great dad, but we have to talk” Varian said with a serious face.

“Ok, what is it son? Is everything ok?” Quirin asked with concern.

Varian pulled out the journal to show his dad.

“How did you find that?” Quirin asked Varian.

“It doesn’t matter. You’ve hid this for almost 18 years, when we’re you going to tell me about it?” Varian asked upset.

“Look son, I never meant to hide it for this long, I can explain” Quirin said with deep sigh

“Good take your time, I have all night” Varian answered. Of course he didn’t have all night because he was going to see Selena early tomorrow at the bakery, but his dad didn’t need to know that.

Quirin took a deep sigh, “Well the day you and Princess Rapunzel freed me from the amber... I lied about the contents of the letter I wrote.” Quirin explained to Varian.

“Aha! I knew it!” Varian shouted.

“While I did write I was proud of you, I also wrote about the dark kingdom and the brotherhood. As well where I hid your mothers journal. I was scared I didn’t tell about the journal because so much had happened to you then. I figured I’d give things time, but then your friend Cassandra stoke the moonstone... and you took the Royal engineer position and well....” Quirin stopped not knowing what to say next.

Varian took a min to process what his dad just told him. “Okay, but is mom alive? This journal and letter makes it seem like she’s on some sort of research trip, also who Donella?” Varian asked.

“We don’t speak of that name in this house” Quirin said sternly.

“What,Why? Mom seemed like she really cared for this women.” Varian asked.

“To much In my opinion, *sighs* might as well tell you what happened. Your mother was a brilliant alchemist, Much like yourself. She and Donella were research partners, they were strategizing ways to complete a series of trials within the seven kingdoms. Something about an Eternal library. I was supportive of course, but when she had you, she was reluctant to continue her studies once she realized she’d be away. Donella convinced your mother that a chance like this only happened once in a lifetime and said they worked too hard to get this far and call it quits. With a heavy heart, she left, leaving me with the letter and a promise of her return. But she never did. Months later Donella came back with your mothers journal, claiming that something happened to her. She didn’t tell me anything else. When the black rocks came and destroyed the dark kingdom.. our home, I fled with you to old corona. Only a small rundown village back then. We started a new life.” Quirin told him.

Quirin took a deep sigh, “To answer your first question, I don’t know. She could still be alive but trapped somewhere, even if I tried to find out, all of the research in her Journal are riddles to me. Quirin answered.

Varian stayed quiet trying to let everything his dad just told him to sink in, “I need to know more, I think mom would have wanted me to follow in her footsteps, and complete what she had been researching” Varian said with an assured tone.

Quirin knew this day was going to come it was just a matter of time. “I feared this day would come. What are you going to do now?” Quirin asked his son.

“Well I already have my stuff to leave, I just need to get notes information, Someone who knows a lot about legends. I guess I’ll have to see Xavior” Varian answered to his dad.

Varian went to his room, it was nearly time to get up, but he didn’t care he was used to not sleeping. Varian ponder everything his dad had told him, he was eager to leave, but he didn’t want to be rude to Selena. She came all this way to see him so the least he could do was hold off on the adventure till everything was settled with Selena and the bakery.

And this concludes chapter 4😊 it was longer than all the other chapters due to Quirin telling Varian the story😊 I hope you liked it and enjoyed reading it? It took me 4 days to try and write this chapter. Your feedback, comments, reblogs are most welcome i love to hear what you guys thought of it 💕 reading your comments and feedback really keeps me going💕

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dream-beyond-the-fantasy · 5 years

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Thoughts on Rewatching Supergirl Season 3

While I did watch most of this season, it was kinda where I dropped off of watching the show. I just to be too busy and some of the story.

I still freaking miss Cat being on the show. But I love that she became Press Secretary for President Mardin.

Even though I love Adrian Pasdar, I hate Morgan Edge. He is a mix between Maxwell Lord, Lillian Luthor, and Donald Trump.

Love having more Lena.

I don’t like mopey Kara. But I get it. She loved Mon-El, who had to leave Earth in order to live. But James is right - Kara needs to get her head on straight and not just be Supergirl 24/7.

While I like James being more CatCo-oriented in this season opener, I really miss Snapper Carr. Especially since Kara just quit. You know Snapper (and Cat) woud be pissed and disappointed in her because they spent so much time teaching and mentoring her as a CatCo reporter. I feel like Clark would understand, but still be a bit disappointed.

Glad that Alex called Kara out on her pity party.

Ooh, Kara just foreshadowed the breakup of Alex and Maggie.

Awww, super sweet moment between Alex and J’onn when she asks him to walk her down the aisle in place of her father. Too bad it never happens.

While I like Erica Durance and loved her Lois on Smallville, I don’t like her Alura. I am too attached to Laura Benanti.

I love the mother/daughter relationship between Sam and Ruby.

Well, we know why Eve is a big fan of Lena’s. She’s a member of Team Luthor.

I am glad that Lena bought CatCo, but she and James have an interesting transition ahead of them.

I think the beginning of the end for Maggie and Alex was Maggie’s dad.

I liked meeting J’onn’s father.

I like the girls spending time together: Kara, Lena, Alex, Maggie, and Samantha.

Not as much James and Winn bonding as the last two seasons, which makes me sad.

I hate cult (and religious) storylines. Ugh, to the Cult of Rao and Thomas Coville. I like Chad Lowe, though.

I wonder if they will keep Alex’s desire to be a mom for future seasons.

Morgan getting back at Lena by harming children is truly disgusting.

And Mon-El is back... from the future! Yeah, like we didn’t know that was going to happen. But couldn’t they have waited a season or two to bring him back and do the Legion story?

Mixed feelings on “Crisis on Earth-X”. Nazis are overdone, though can be relective of the time. Earth-X Oliver & Kara = ewwww. Oversaturation of main Arrowverse characters in the Supergirl episode. Yeah, I know I complained that there wasn’t even crossover last season. Not enough Winn, or I should say Earth-38 Winn.

Alex and Sara are a pretty hot couple. Too bad they were only a drunken hookup at a universe-crossing wedding.

I love Kara and Barry’s friendship. They understand each other’s problems, both of the superhero nature and the strains of relationships.

I love General Winn Schott of Earth-X

I like Ray Terrill aka The Ray, but wasn’t a fan of his CW Seed animated series.

Supergirl in distress during this crossover was a bore, but I liked Alex having a leading role in The Flash part of the crossover.

The most interesting thing about Overgirl is her dying of a solar radiation meltdown.

Imra Ardeen, Saturn Girl, is pretty and nice, but why bring her in when she is treated as a disposable wife to Mon-El, who isn’t even her canon love interest?

J’onn’s father is the most adorable man, er, Martian.

Still feel like James and Lena came out of nowhere. Still missing James and Kara’s squandered potential.

Brainiac 5 seems endearing, but I feel like the costume/makeup is a bit off. I felt like Seasons 1′s Indigo fka Brainiac 8 looked better.

I love it when there is an all-girl team episode in almost episode in almost any show. So, naturally I liked Saturn Girl and villainesses Livewire and Psi joining up with Supergirl to fight Reign.

I hated losing Leslie aka Livewire. She was so much fun.

I hope to see Psi again.

Umm, I don’t remember this karaoke scene... wow...

Aww, poor Winn. His dad was a bad guy, but he did love his son, in his own way.

And so we meet Winn’s mom.

Yeah, I would say that he wanted to go out with a bang.

M’yrnn J’onzz having the Martian equivalent of dementia is the saddest story of the season.

Oh, God. Mon-El cannot sing. At all.

I love the new, or rather revised, costume Mon-El wears. Very comic-accurate.

Honestly, not too interested in the other Worldkillers.

My poor Winn.

I like the conversations between Sam and Reign inside Sam’s head while Lena is trying to help her.

I like Brainy with the image inducer.

And I guess this is where we start to see a division between Kara/Supergirl and Lena.

Yay, Winn made Alex a battlesuit with modified weapons! I love when the techies upgrade the heroes.

Ha, I love Lena showing up Brainy on the Legion ship.

While I didn’t care much for the Worldkillers story, what was the purpose in having two more along with Reign if you weren’t going to utilize them?

I will say that I like that Julia overcame the Purity personality and killed Pestilence before succumbing to her injuries.

I like that James tells Lena the truth about him being Guardian and that he broke into her lab to make sure there wasn’t anymore kryptonite. And Lena admitting that she made the kryptonite. Being honest and trusting others goes along way. Something that Kara still needs to learn.

Brainy and Winn’s “goodbye” is awkward and funny.

I feel bad for Imra. Yeah, she helped save Kara and the people of National City. Yeah, her sister is alive now because Pestilence is dead and can’t become Blight now. But still the Mon-El/Kara awkward relationship rears its ugly head. Imra is too nice and cool to be forced onto the sidelines.

I’m surprised that they brought back Sam’s adoptive mother. Not surprised that she was killed by Reign.

And James gets outed as a hero/vigilante.

While I like Alex and Ruby spending time together both before and after the Sam/Reign secret was out, I feel it just hurts Alex more. She gets to play mom to this girl who is soon out of her life and then Alex doesn’t seem to be any closer to finding love after Maggie or a new chance at motherhood.

Argo City! Alura is alive. Mother/daughter reunion.

Nice going, Winn. Make the near-orphan feel worse because you are stressed. She has it worse, honey. Your late father was a minor supervillain in comparison to what is a part of her mother.

I love the mentions of Astra and Non when Kara brings her mother up to speed. It’s also nice to hear Alura say that she was wrong in some of her decisions regarding Fort Rozz and Krypton.

While I understand Kara’s wish to go live in Argo, it would have been way too easy. Plus,

Poor James and Winn. Bored with slow days of patroling.

I like that they are bringing up the gun debate.

Wow, it astounds that Eve is more than the blonde secretary stereotype.

I wasn’t surprised by Selena being the leader of the Kryptonian witch cult. We had already seen visions of the priestess.

How could they not see it was a damn trap? Kara spent years on Earth. She should be genre savvy enough to know when the Big Bad speechifies about their plan, it means they are trying to kill the heroes. Duh. She should have known before then.

While I like Brainiac 5 and I understand why he can’t go back to the future, I hate that Winn is being sent in his place. I am so going to miss Winn and looking at Jeremy Jordan.

Alex asking herself the hard, very real questions.

For a season-ending battle, it was pretty good. I do like that Kara tried to stick to her morals.

Glad that Sam will be okay.

Sad to lose J’onn’s father.

I’m not surprised that Alex is being made the Director of the DEO. It has been hinted at since Season 1.

I like Alura’s fight suit.

This sweet, sad goodbye.

Mon-El will have his hands full with Winn.

Not sure how I feel about J’onn leaving the DEO.

Oh, Lena. What have you gotten yourself into?

And the Season 4 tease is a Kara clone(?) in Siberia.

So glad that I finally finished that season. Because I totally missed those last few episodes.

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yourcoolfriendwithallthecandy · 5 years

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Magic and Miracles

Ok so since Tumblr is being cool and offering my own posts back to me with the read more intact. Let’s try this again.

Magic and Miracles, all the way from the beginning. Because I’m feeling nostalgic, that’s why. Also I’m slightly recasting. As always, Johan Akan as Nyx Ulric. Now featuring Liza Soberano as Selena Ulric. The ever lovely Nastya Kusakina as Lunafreya Nox Fleuret, Alex Pettyfer as Ravus Nox Fleuret because when I think of pretty blonde guys who can both be douche bags and have some character development and turn out into sweetheart hearthrobs, I think of Alex Pettyfer, I’m taking creative license. And Greg Blackford as Luche, I can’t recast him. He’s too perfect and pretty. And Heather Graham will be playing Sylva Nox Fleuret, that’s a good looking family right there.

So again you can read it here-> AO3 or below.

Magic and Miracles

Chapter 1

Nyx was walking into school with his little sister Selena, his best friends – Libertus, Crowe, Pelna and Luche before they saw a white limo pull up in front of the school.

“What kind of pretentious ass-wipes do we have now?” Crowe complained, her irritation and disgust clear.

The rear driver’s side door opened and a tall blonde guy came out, polo shirt that looked pressed and khaki slacks and just everything about him screamed prep, his posture was proud and the unimpressed expression he carried on his face was to those who looked on- was hardly surprising. He walked around the car to open the car door on the passenger side and opened it, offering his hand to the occupant in a very gentlemanly like manner. A slender, almost fragile hand reached out and grasped it. Nyx stood still, barely breathing, as a blonde girl, hair as brilliant as sunshine stepped out, it was in a twisted side braid and the prettiest blush dusted her cheeks as she came out of the car. She happened to look in his direction and their eyes locked and for that moment, while minuscule to everyone else, it seemed to stretch until it felt that time had stopped. Her big blue eyes were hypnotizing, then she smiled bashfully at him before she ducked her head and stole into the guy’s side as she took his arm before he escorted her into the school.

“Uh oh,” Libertus teased before giving a playful punch to Nyx’s arm to break him out of his trance.

“What?” Nyx blinked rapidly a few times before he turned to his friends who were snickering.

“Damn, Nyx, one look, one look,” Libertus teased.

“I’ll bet you ten bucks he’s smitten,” Crowe crooned.

“Shut up,” Nyx dismissed as he shrugged it off and began to walk into school.

“You better not be man,” Luche muttered, being the only one not snickering.

“Why?” Selena asked before Nyx could.

“Dude, have you not heard the rumors? That was probably Lunafreya Nox Fleuret, and that was her brother, Ravus Nox Fleuret, their family owns Miracle Hospital.” Luche informed them.

“What’s she doing here then?” Nyx asked, his curiosity piqued.

“Well, the last I heard, their mom wanted her kids to have a ‘well rounded’ education. Looks better on a resume apparently.” Luche shrugged.

“Well here’s to hoping we’ll get new uniforms,” Libertus chuckled as they all made their way into school.

When they walked past the office, he could see Lunafreya and her brother talking with Principal Regis Caelum. It was when Lunafreya was talking to the Principal that he saw her smile and his heart fluttered and he could feel himself swoon and his steps slowed to a stop as he stared through the windows of the office. It was almost odd since Lunafreya had now taken Regis’ arm like he was now escorting her and the way she looked up to him, the adoring bright smile was completely unlike the way any other girl looked at the Principal before, almost like the way a little girl would look up to her loving and doting father. Which didn’t make much sense, Principal Caelum only had one son unless she was like a niece? She must have been his niece, because it was such a familial smile that Principal Caelum and Lunafreya both smiled at each other with. But it was such a gorgeous smile nonetheless.

“Oh, Nyx Ulric.” Principal Caelum said as he escorted them out of the office.

“Yes sir?” Nyx answered shaking his head out trance.

“Ravus, Lunafreya, meet Nyx Ulric, he’s our quarterback and captain for our football team, he should be more than happy to show you around and to your classes.” Principal Caelum invited before he reached into his suit coat jacket pocket to pull out his note pad and wrote Nyx a pass to excuse him from all tardiness from all of his classes for the day.

“Sure,” Nyx nodded. ‘Jackpot!’ Nyx thought to himself he just had the best excuse to get closer to her.

“Excellent, if either of you have any questions or concerns my door is always open,” Regis invited before shaking Ravus’ hand with one hand while Luna had taken Regis arm and was practically glued to it and Luna hugged his arm before he wrapped his arm around her and they hugged each other from the side before he, out of habit and not thinking twice about it, kissed Lunafreya on the crown of her head. Oh yeah, she had to be his niece. And only barely registering her brother roll his eyes and glare at both of them in disgust. “Have a good day Sweetheart.” Regis bid Lunafreya who nodded eagerly and flashed the brightest of smiles back at him.

“Will do, I’ll come to you at the end of the day and give you a full report.” Luna offered with a light and melodic laugh that had Principal Caelum crinkling his nose at her. Oh yeah, doting uncle. Nyx had to be on his best behavior.

“So, what classes do you guys have?” Nyx asked once Regis retreated back to the office.

“AP Chemistry,” Ravus answered.

“Biology,” Lunafreya answered.

“Awesome, well, Ravus your class will be just up the hall,” Nyx invited as he turned to lead the way.

“So what brings you to Lucis High?” Nyx began curiously.

“Our mother insists on us having a well rounded education,” Ravus answered aloofly. “Personally, I prefer Tenebrae Prep or even Niflheim Academy.” Ravus added.

“I think it’s a great idea to come here,” Lunafreya countered softly.

“Yeah?” Nyx asked, as he turned his head to consider her curiously.

“Tenebrae Prep and especially Niflheim Academy has nothing but elitist snobs who are sheltered in bubbles of their own making who have no idea how the world really works.” Lunafreya professed softly, Nyx had to strain his ears just to hear her over the general roar of the throngs of students. But while her words were softly spoken, they were still quite astounding and Nyx found himself agreeing with that sentiment because he felt the same way.

“You’re just repeating what mother said,” Ravus retorted snidely.

“Doesn’t mean she’s wrong.” Lunafreya argued quietly before they came to Ravus’ class.

“Go break a leg.” Luna bid Ravus and Ravus just rolled his eyes as he walked into class.

“Sorry,” Luna apologized to Nyx once Ravus walked away.

“What are you apologizing for?” Nyx asked as they turned and Nyx led the way to their class.

“For him, he’s the biggest elitist snob I know.” Lunafreya murmured lowly with a playful grin as she walked a little closer to him so he could hear her before she reestablished their distance. Even so, Nyx got a good whiff of her perfume. It was sweet and floral and it took all of Nyx’s self control not to breathe in as deep as he could to try and smell it some more.

“Oh I’ve met worse.” Nyx dismissed.

“Gosh I would hate to meet worse.” Lunafreya grimaced with a soft laugh. Everything about this girl was soft and Nyx felt himself completely swoon. She wasn’t even wearing makeup and goodness gracious she was still so pretty. Model Pretty.

“So what other classes do you have?” Nyx inquired curiously as he mentally tried to map out his route for the day.

“Oh um, after biology, I have social studies, algebra, history and then I have second lunch then there is gym, drama and study hall.” Lunafreya listed off from her schedule.

“Awesome, we actually have some classes together,” Nyx grinned.

“We do? Which ones?” Lunafreya asked, the light of her enthusiasm making her eyes shine bright.

“Well, we have biology then lunch, gym and drama together.” Nyx informed her.

“Awesome,” Lunafreya grinned happily.

“So, Luna-freya was it?” Nyx started, slowly enunciating her name.

“Just Luna, please, my friends call me Luna, only adults and my brother call me Lunafreya.” Luna insisted. “I don’t care for it.” Luna shrugged.

“Why?” Nyx inquired.

“Because my full name sounds pretentious and stuffy and blah,” Luna made a disgusted face which Nyx found utterly adorable.

“Ok, well Luna, here we are,” Nyx said as he nodded toward their first class. “After you,” Nyx invited as he gestured for her to walk in first taking advantage of her walking in front of him so he could get one more lungful of her perfume.

“Thank you,” Luna ducked her head as her cheeks stained rose again as she tried to hide her smile.

“Luna?” Noctis said as he saw her walk into the class.

“Noct!” Luna gasped happily as she quickly jogged over to him and the two hugged each other tightly like they hadn’t seen each other in years.

“What are you doing here?” Noctis asked as they pulled away.

“Remember when I told you about my birthday wish and mom’s idea? Yeah, that,” Luna excitedly informed him.

“Awesome!” Noctis cheered before the two began their super friend handshake. “You’re so sitting next to me, Prompto, move over bud,” Noctis directed.

“Nice to see you again Prompto,” Luna greeted as they too hugged but not quite as tightly as Noctis and Luna had.

“Princess.” Prompto grinned as he moved over. Luna rolled her eyes but smiled none the less as she sat down.

“Please don’t call me that here,” Luna requested of Prompto.

‘Dammit,’ Nyx cursed inwardly as he hung his head in defeat and walked to the back of the class where Libertus could barely contain his laughter.

“Shut up,” Nyx murmured under his breath he took his seat.

“Aww, poor Noctis stole her away already,” Libertus pouted sarcastically.

Nyx glared at him in return.

“So what classes do you have?” Noctis asked Luna.

“See for yourself.” Luna invited as she handed her schedule over to him.

“Sweet, we have most of your morning classes together and lunch, oh and drama, for the win!” Noctis raised his hand to give Luna a high five.

“Ok, settle down class, we have a new student with us today. Would you like to introduce yourself?” The teacher invited.

“Hi, I’m Luna,” Luna said as she quickly stood up, waved a little to everyone before she sat back down.

“Oh come on, all of it,” Noctis prodded as he grabbed her arm and shook her gently. Luna was so tense it made to motion look more forceful than it was as her whole body seemed to move stiffly with the motion. Nyx frowned at the gesture, wanting to rip Noctis’ arm off in a flare of his temper which he quickly stamped down. It wouldn’t be a wise idea to rip the Principal’s son’s arm off. And who was he to be so protective of a girl he just met?

“No,” Luna hissed.

“This is my best friend, Lunafreya Nox Fleuret,” Noctis introduced proudly. Luna ducked and covered her face as she blushed scarlet. Nyx could see her ears turn bright red as he imagined the rest of her face to be as well.

“Idiot,” Nyx mumbled under his breath as he rolled his eyes. Was Noctis blind? Could he not see how embarrassed she was? Before he realized that Noctis said ‘best friend’ not ‘cousin’. Ok this wasn’t adding up anymore and Nyx suddenly worried that Noctis and Luna perhaps were ‘friends with benefits’ and that thought made him sick to his stomach and he couldn’t say why exactly. Maybe she was dating Noctis? And Principal looked at her like a future daughter in law? That made him even sicker.

“Also known as Princess,” Prompto added loudly.

“No, no, please don’t,” Luna spoke up, panic evident in her tone as she shook her head before giving Prompto a glare that could freeze lava. Luna then gave Prompto a jab in his side with her elbow in retaliation.

“Ow,” Prompto gasped as he rubbed his side.

“Alright, that’s enough, Luna, this is your textbook, we’re in chapter 14,” the teacher started to teach the class.

After class Noctis went up to Nyx. “Hey Nyx, I have the next few classes with Luna so I can walk her to those, ok? See you at lunch.” Noctis said.

“Sure man,” Nyx smiled politely.

“Bummer,” Libertus snickered as Noctis walked away.

Nyx shot Libertus another glare and simply went to his next class.

At lunch, Nyx wasn’t surprised in the slightest when Noctis continued to keep Luna by his side, moving his friends around so he could sit right next to her. So close their sides were touching and shared their food with each other as well as Noctis’ friends who all seemed very happy to see her and have her with them. She was talking with Ignis about something… about her phone before she handed it over to him. She must have been having issues with it. But when Ignis had solved whatever the matter was, Gladio took it from Ignis and held it just out of Luna’s reach.

“Give it back!” Luna demanded as she tried to get it out of Gladio’s hold.

“I just want to see your wall paper Princess,” Gladio waved off.

“I said,” Luna bit out before she got up, marched around the table and reached out and grabbed his ear and twisted it violently.

“Ow! Ow, ow, ow!” Gladio yelped as his towering frame crumpled from the pain.

Luna held out her palm expectantly and Gladio laid her phone into her palm before she grasped it and let go of Gladio with a victorious smile. Nyx smiled to himself. Gladio was a tower of muscle but he deserved what he got for messing with her. Ok so maybe she wasn’t all soft, she had an edge or two, he could definitely dig that.

After lunch Nyx walked Luna to the girls locker room for gym.

“So how is your first day treating you?” Nyx asked as they strolled down the hall.

“Treating me just fine,” Luna assured him.

“Having trouble with Gladio?” Nyx asked.

“You saw that huh? He’s...harmless, he’s just being...himself.” Luna shook her head as she waived it off.

“I can make him do extra push ups.” Nyx offered.

“Oh that’s right, quarterback and captain of the football team,” Luna recalled. “It’s ok, don’t worry about it. But I’ll keep that in mind the next time Gladio decides to be a jerk, I’ll have extra ammunition.” Luna grinned mischievously and Nyx found that grin out right enchanting. “Thank you, by the way for escorting me today,” Luna graciously thanked him.

“You’re welcome, happy to help.” Nyx said as he stopped just short of the girls locker room before he turned and went to the boys locker room himself.

He tried not to stare at her when she stretched, clearly doing the splits as she did so.

“Damn girl,” Crowe remarked.

“Ballet,” Luna tried to explain as she pointed her toes to deepen the stretch.

“Oh I gotcha ya,” Crowe nodded in understanding.

Nyx smirked as he continued to stretch, so she was a ballerina, he could definitely see that. She had the slender physique and grace of one. It was also evident in the way she ran, it wasn’t so much a run as it was bouncing and leaping from foot to foot. It looked beautiful. But she had very little hand eye coordination. They practiced basketball and she could barely dribble or shoot the ball.

The big surprise came in drama when everyone gave their own little performance. She had taken out her notebook, perhaps to recite poetry.

“Luna, Luna, play Hallelujah!” Noctis begged. “Play and sing,” he insisted as he shook her arms again.

Luna huffed in defeat and got up and went to the keyboard and selected the piano setting. She was blushing again, giving her pale complexion such a beautiful contrast. She squared her shoulders, sitting up straight but keeping her focus down at the keyboard and laid her hands on the keys and began to play the familiar melody. She slowly swayed a little to the rhythm, causing the wisps of hair that had fallen out of her braid to sway as she did so.

“I heard there was a secret chord that David played and it pleased the Lord.” Luna began softly as she focused on the keys, trying to block out the rest of the class as they quietly talked among themselves before the teacher shushed them.

“But you don’t really care for music do you?” Luna continued in the same soft tone before she looked up at Noctis who was smiling and nodding at her, trying to encourage her.

“Well it goes like this. The fourth, the fifth. The minor fall and the major lift. The baffled king composing Hallelujah.” Luna sang out much stronger as she found her voice’s sweet spot. And everyone’s eyes got wide as they all seemed to realize the girl had a hell of a voice and had already been classically trained.

“Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelu-oooh-ooh-oooh-ooh-ya,” Luna closed her eyes for a moment, as a gently smile played on her lips, the class was silent except for the sound of her playing the piano and her singing.

“Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bathing on the roof. Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you.” Luna sang as she chanced a look up at Nyx. He was staring in awe and he instinctively gave her an encouraging smile and nod. She smiled shyly in return before she looked back down at the keys.

Nyx couldn’t believe his eyes or ears, God she had to be an angel, she had to be. How could she not be? She was kind and sweet and gracious and funny and so pretty, he was definitely smitten, beyond smitten. God and she was so talented! Was there anything this girl didn’t have or couldn’t do? Then the tone of the song made as her face change to that of sadness and her tone was filled with such moving emotion, everyone seemed to forget that they were watching a student and not a professional singer.

“She tied you to a kitchen chair. She broke your throne, and she cut your hair.” Luna’s face morphed into one of pain and agony as her voice began to crack like she was in real physical pain as Luna tried to just imagine she was at home alone playing and singing and not in front of a class of strangers and her new instant crush, which made her so nervous, she wanted him to like her, so much, she didn’t know why she did either, she just...did, she wanted to impress him, make sure he knew that she was smart and kind and funny and she had tried to get him to laugh but she did get a grin and a smile and they had been beautiful and she didn’t care if she made a little bit of a fool of herself. God he was so handsome and so far had been nice and sweet and careful around her, almost like he instinctively knew she was a fish out of water and awkward that that was ok, she just...she felt safe around him. Which is something she hadn’t felt around guys other than Noctis and his friends in forever. She almost didn’t recognize the feeling but when she did, she was so pleasantly surprised and longed for more.“And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah,” Luna continued. “Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelu-oooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ya.”

“Baby, I’ve been here before, I’ve seen this room and I’ve walked this floor. I used to live alone before I knew you. Well I’ve seen your flag on the marble arch. But love is not a victory march. It’s a cold and it’s a broken Hallelujah!” Luna cried out, her sorrow temporarily replaced with anger as she sang the last two verses and finding a raspy growling edge to her voice as Nyx’s eyebrows nearly shot up into his hair line, he wasn’t expecting that, that was surprising but thrilling. “Hallelujah, Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelu-oooh-ooh-oooh-ooh-ya.” Luna continued to sing before her key change.

“I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch. I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you. And even though it all went wrong, I'll stand before the Lord of Song. With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah!” Luna sang forcefully.

“Hallelujah, Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelu-oooh-ooh-oooh-ooh-ya.” Luna sang acapella her eyes closed serenely as she did so before playing the piano again. “Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah Hallelu-ooh-ooh-oooh-ooh-ya, Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah Hallelu-ooh-ooh-oooh-oooh-ya.” Luna sang as she continued to look at the keyboard, not being brave enough to look up at her classmates, too afraid to look up at Nyx, what if he thought she sounded horrible? What if he hated it? What if he didn’t like her singing? What if he didn’t like her? She faded her voice before she ended the song and was about ready to cry, her thoughts spinning and running away from her. But the whole class erupted in applause, whistles and cheers that it made Luna snap her head up as she looked at them in surprise, as she jumped in her own skin a little, not used to that kind of outburst but when she noticed that it was Noctis and Nyx who were cheering the loudest and clapping the hardest and the smile of relief that quickly donned her face and the small, soft giggle left her as she bashfully had to look down at the keys and wondered if the class wanted to hear something else.

“Are you in choir?” The drama teacher asked.

“No,” Luna shook her head.

“You should be,” The drama teacher encouraged.

“Thanks.” Luna smiled.

“Nyx,” The teacher called out. Nyx grabbed his special deck of cards and walked to the front of the class, gently and “accidentally” bumped into Luna as she made her way back to her table she shared with Noctis and Prompto before shuffling the deck in these very elaborate ways.

“Noctis, help me out,” Nyx invited and Nocits rose and stood next to Nyx.

“Pick a card,” Nyx invited as he spread the deck out and Noctis chose his card.

“Show the class if you want.” Nyx suggested and Noctis showed a king of spades before he put it back into the deck.

“Did you like your card?” Nyx asked as he began to re-shuffle the deck.

“Yeah man,” Noctis nodded.

“Good,” Nyx said before he held up a joker card. “Was this your card?” Nyx asked.

“No,” Noctis shook his head with a laugh as he perceived the trick going wrong.

“Huh, maybe Luna has it.” Nyx grinned and the class looked over to see Luna pick her hands up off the table in a ‘I surrender’ motion, a playing card underneath her sleeve on the table.

Luna’s jaw dropped as she picked the card up and looked at it before turning it around to show the class- the king of spades.

“How?! How did you do that?” Noctis demanded as he went over to Luna to get the card from her.

“Magic,” Nyx smiled victoriously as he took the card back and took his seat again.

Luna continued to stare at him in amazement before she got her notebook out and wrote down something before turning her attention to the next performer in class. Luna bumped into Nyx on their way out of class giving him a knowing smile as she did so before she went with Nocits who showed her where the library was so she could attend study hall. Nyx went to his next class and sat down before he heard the crinkle of paper in his back pocket. He reached out and pulled out a little note. Nyx looked at the folded piece of paper in curious amusement. Noting the definitely feminine way his name was written before unfolding the intricate folds.

‘Thank you Nyx, for helping me today. P.S. I know exactly how you did it. But don’t worry, your secret is safe with me. Let me know if I can help again. Sincerely Luna.’ Nyx smiled wide as he reread it over a few times. He refolded it carefully and put it into his pocket, his front one this time for safe keeping.

Nyx watched as Luna and her brother walked out of school and into the limo that was waiting for them. Luna caught his eye and flashed him a bright smile and a small waive which he returned before she got in the car.

“Ready for practice?” Libertus asked as he nodded to the football field.

“Yeah, sure thing.” Nyx nodded.

“So why do you guys call Luna- Princess?” Nyx asked Gladio as they did push ups together.

“Oh it’s what her dad used to call her all the time,” Gladio explained.

“Used to?” Nyx inquired.

“Yeah man, he died, of cancer, like five years ago, we all keep calling her Princess in memory of him, and we’ve all been friends since we were little, her dad was a real cool dude, she misses him a bunch, and she’s practically been adopted by Uncle Regis, and she’s practically adopted him too, calls him ‘Dad’ and everything, pisses Ravus right off every time she does.” Gladio explained between push ups.

“Oh, then why doesn’t she want to be referred to as that anymore?” Nyx asked, his curiosity getting the better of him.

“Well, especially in this school, no one knows about any of that, I think she’s afraid people will assume she’s a spoiled brat, which, I mean she kind of is spoiled, you saw the limo right? But she’s not a brat, not even close. Her brother though, he’s the spoiled brat through and through. But keep that to yourself man,” Gladio urged with his own scheming and knowing grin. Having picked up on Nyx’s interest at lunch. And Gladio knew Luna well enough that he knew Nyx and Luna would be really good together so he would do all he could to steer Nyx her way. Nyx was the hero, always, and that’s exactly what Luna needed.

“I will,” Nyx nodded as they finished their rep. Now all of it made much more sense. Well they weren’t related by blood but they were basically family, and that meant that she practically was, for all intensive purposes, Principal Regis Caelum’s daughter. Ok, that made him a little nervous and felt a little inadequate, he was on good terms with him, was a pretty good student, but he felt like he should be asking Principal Caelum for “permission” to date his “daughter”. But he then started to worry again about the ‘friends with benefits’ thing again.

When Nyx got home, Selena was sitting on the couch watching TV. “Hey, how was practice?” Selena asked, happy he had made it home because she could barely contain her excitement another second.

“Fine, how was your day?” Nyx mirrored.

“Good, I made a new friend today, we made plans to hang out Saturday. She also helped me with my homework, got it done in study hall so I didn’t have any when I got home.” Selena baited with a scheming grin.

“Oh yeah?” Nyx asked as he crashed on the couch with her.

“Yeah, she’s really nice, explained geometry better than Mr. Hills ever could.” Selena grinned wider and waited for Nyx to ask the inevitable. But Nyx was too tired at the moment. Selena frowned, wanting so badly to tell him her ‘news’.

“You’re not going to ask me who it is?” Selena finally asked.

“Should I?” Nyx asked as he turned his head to consider her curiously.

“I don’t know, I would think you would care if she came over to the house, considering she also told me about how you threatened Gladio with extra whatever for messing with her. She thought that was really sweet. She also, took a personal interest in me asked me what I wanted for a career and what college I was thinking of going to.” Selena explained as she started to smile even more mischievously.

“L-Luna? The new girl we saw this morning?” Nyx asked, suddenly much more alert as he angled himself toward her and leaned toward her expectantly as his heart started to pound in his chest.

“Luna, blonde hair, big blue eyes, really pretty and bright smile, totally your type? Yes, and I may have informed her that I was your little sister.” Selena teased as she got up and went to the kitchen to get another Gatorade.

“And?!” Nyx asked, he couldn’t help himself, he happily jumped right into her trap.

“And then it was 20 questions,” Selena giggled at the look on her brother’s face as she tossed him a Gatorade.

“What did she ask? What did you tell her?” Nyx demanded. Oh his luck could not get any better. She was interested in him enough to ask about him! This had to be a good sign.

“Oh gosh, we talked about your music tastes, which she, by a giant surprise, knew just about all your favorite bands and had been to their concerts this past summer with Noctis and his friends. And then we talked about your football career and wondered if you were going to go on to play professionally and wanted to know your college choices. And then it was what was your favorite food and your favorite everything else and blah blah blah.” Selena waved off. “I think she really likes you.” Selena ventured.

“You think so? Are you just saying that to mess with me?” Nyx asked.

“I would say you like her too, by the way you kept staring at her.” Selena ventured.

Nyx hung his head. “Yeah a lot of good it’s going to do, Noctis has been hanging all over her all day, they are practically an item.” Nyx informed his sister as his head hung and his shoulders slouched.

“I wouldn’t be so sure about that.” Selena smiled evilly.

Nyx’s head shot up and fixed her with an expectant look.

“Do the dishes for me, and I’ll tell you.” Selena brokered.

Nyx groaned in frustration and pulled himself off the couch and went back to the kitchen and unloaded the dishwasher before reloading it and turned it on. He went back to the couch and sat next to his sister and folded his arms over his chest.

“Spill,” Nyx ordered.

“Ok, so I asked her about her relationship with Noctis and she said that they were just strictly platonic friends, like best friends and that they’ve known each other since they were little kids and that she stayed with him when he was hospitalized as a kid when he was in that horrible car accident and they’re more like brother and sister than anything and that she’s actually single.” Selena divulged. “But she was, I believe I would use the term – delighted- to hear that you’re single too.” Selena revealed with a bright beaming smile of her own.

Nyx’s eyes went wide as his jaw dropped. “No way,” Nyx breathed in disbelief as his hopes soared.

“Yeah so like maybe get to know her, keep walking her to class, see what happens.” Selena encouraged.

Nyx smiled and gave a small cheer of himself. Oh this could not get any better! “I will do just that.” Nyx vowed before he got up and went to his room to do his homework at his desk.

Once in his room, he shut the door and sat down at his desk and took the note out of his pocket and carefully unfolded it again to read it again. He set it aside and tried to focus on his homework but it took him forever to complete it because he kept looking from his homework to the note. He had to reciprocate. He needed to do something for her but he had no idea what.

Meanwhile…

Back at the Nox Fleuret’s residence, Luna had emerged from her room for snacks and was dancing around the kitchen as she cut up an apple and sliced some cheese and got a bunch of grapes, lip syncing her music. She ducked into the pantry to get crackers and when she emerged Ravus was standing in the kitchen with a friend he had made that day. Luna screamed and jumped as she dropped the box to the floor at the sudden appearance of them.

“Ravus! You scared me!” Luna scolded as she pulled the earphones out from her ears and put her hand over her heart to calm its racing rhythm.

“I’ve been talking to, if you stopped listening to that pop and rap crap you would have heard us.” Ravus retorted as he and his friend tried and failed to control their snickering laughter. “Could you please make us sandwiches?” Ravus requested.

Luna looked from Ravus to the guy standing next to him curiously then to back to Ravus.

“Lunafreya, this is Luche, he’s in most of my AP courses.” Ravus introduced as he realized she may not know his new friend yet, but knowing she should get to know him sooner than later.

“Lovely to meet you, please, call me Luna,” Luna greeted cordially as she regained her composure and shook Luche’s hand. “Would you like a sandwich as well?” Luna asked politely.

“If it’s not a bother,” Luche ventured.

“No, it’s not a bother, she loves to cook and host,” Ravus answered for Luna.

Luna cut her eyes at her brother for a brief second before turning back to Luche to try and save face. “It’s no bother at all, we have turkey, a couple different kinds of ham and roast beef and I have white, wheat and I think rye bread.” Luna explained as she went to the fridge to get out what she needed.

“So...” Luna began as she continued to gather her ingredients. “What do you like on your sandwich?” Luna asked.

“Chef’s choice, I’ll refer to your superior and refined tastes.” Luche smiled as he took a seat next to Ravus as they sat at the breakfast bar as he watched her appreciatively, not being the only one to be instantly smitten at sight of her that morning.

Luna smiled politely at that, goodness gracious, he was laying on the flattery a little thick wasn’t he? Right out of the gate too, she got the feeling Luche was going to pursue her as hard as he could and that made her feel dread. She didn’t want him. He was handsome and obviously charming but that feeling of safety that she felt with Nyx was non existent with him. In fact, she very much felt like prey and she felt on edge and could feel his eyes on her. She went back to the fridge to get out her favorite ingredients before she went to an herb planter in the kitchen window. She snipped a few herbs off before going back to the cutting board and assembling her own favorite sandwich before she plated it artfully and presented it to Luche.

“Thank you, so much.” Luche smiled as he graciously took it from her.

Luna nodded as she went back to make Ravus his preferred sandwich of turkey, lettuce, tomato and mayo on white. She went ahead and plated her snacks before she started to put her ingredients away before Luche practically moaned.

“Good?” Luna guessed as she shot him a curious look over her shoulder with a hopeful smile.

“Oh this is extraordinary,” Luche praised. “What did you put on this?” Luche asked.

“Oh, um, smoked honey ham, arugula cause it’s spicy and sweet basil for extra flavor, and I used an heirloom tomato and this probably overpriced sandwich sauce...” Luna listed off before she showed Luche the bottle. Luche took his phone out and snapped a picture of it so he could find it for himself.

“Smile,” Luche prodded as he focused the camera on her. Luna indulged him and posed with the bottle herself like she was a model on the price is right.

“I’m happy you like it,” Luna grinned as she took a seat on the other side of Ravus, putting him between her and his new ‘friend’ to eat her snack. “So you're in the same classes as Ravus?” Luna asked politely, no use in being rude and get accused as a frigid bitch by her brother, again.

“Yeah, we take a lot of the same AP courses.” Luche answered.

“Wow,” Luna nodded, ok so he was smart. “So what college do you want to go to?” Luna asked civilly.

“Harvard.” Luche answered and Luna wanted to snort a laugh. Every ‘smart’ person wanted to go to Harvard. Ravus included.

“Well I hope you get in, maybe you and Ravus can be roommates.” Luna remarked with a dry humored sense of sarcasm that Ravus immediately picked up on and gave her an unimpressed side glance but it went right over Luche’s head and he thought she was being sincere.

“Where do you want to go to college at?” Luche mirrored.

“My mom wants me to go to Julliard for ballet and something Ivy League to get my doctorate.” Luna answered, purposefully being vague to keep him from immediately changing his mind and decide to go her school of choice to be ‘closer’ to her.

“So you dance ballet?” Luche asked even though Ravus had already told him that his sister danced. But Ravus had encouraged Luche to ask Luna about it as a way to find a common ground that they were both athletes. “That is one tough sport, anyone who says it’s not a real sport has obviously never tried it.” Luche complimented and smiled charmingly when Luna smiled appreciatively in turn. Ravus gave Luche an encouraging smile and nod of approval at that.

“Thank you, I try, but I don’t have the passion for it that perhaps I should, I would rather be a pediatrician.” Luna revealed.

“Wow that’s awesome, I’ll keep you in mind the next time I’m injured on the field.” Luche grinned.

“Oh you play a sport?” Luna asked.

“Yeah, football, wide receiver, get tackled a lot.” Luche informed her proudly.

“Oh, yeah totally, I work with a lot of the sports medicine doctors at Miracles, yeah from one athlete to another, you guys have a game on Friday night right? I’ll bring my goody bag just in case.” Luna offered and immediately wanted to face palm herself. WHY DID SHE JUST OFFER THAT? WHY?! She didn’t want to give this guy some false hope that he had a chance as Ravus smiled encouragingly at Luche.

“That would be great,” Luche smiled even brighter and more victoriously and Luna immediately wanted to retract her offer. But then she remembered that Nyx played football, so she could still go and cheer Nyx on, so it wasn’t a total loss.

“I should get back to my homework, it was lovely to meet you Luche. See you tomorrow.” Luna bid him before she got back up and put her plate in the sink before retreating to her room again.

“You’re sister is really awesome,” Luche said to Ravus.

“Yeah, she is.” Ravus nodded in agreement. He had hoped the introduction would go well, instantly liking and clicking with Luche on so many levels and they had hit it off so well already and Ravus had hoped that Luche might be the one to get Lunafreya out of her frigid bitch phaze and start coming around. All she needed was the right guy and Ravus had a really good feeling about Luche that he could be that ‘right’ guy. Especially since Luche had been so respectful and curious and not derogatory in any way when Luche had asked Ravus about his sister.

Back at the Ulric’s residence, Nyx was banging his head on his desk while groaning and whimpering, trying to wrack his brain of how he could respond to Luna.

“Selena,” Nyx called out.

“Yeah,” She answered.

“Did Luna say anything about her favorite... anything?” Nyx asked as he leaned out of his room.

“Yeah, her favorite flower is the sylleblossom.” Selena answered from her room as she folded her own laundry and put it away.

Nyx went back in his room and googled images of the sylleblossom as he got out his drawing pad and practiced and practiced drawing them before their parents came home from work with takeout. Nyx took his food and went back to his room to eat and continue to practice the rest of the night before he finally made a decent picture of a field of wildflowers, most of which were sylleblossoms with butterflies. He signed the lower corner and oh so carefully folded it up to give to Luna in the morning.

He tried to sleep but the anticipation of the next day had his brain fighting off sleep no matter how badly his body begged for it.

The next morning he practically jumped out of bed and got ready for school, giving himself a pep talk to give himself the added confidence. He put the small folded piece of paper in his pocket for safe keeping.

He went to school and met up with his friends in front of the school but Luche was showing everyone a picture on his phone.

“And she made me the most delicious sandwich.” Luche boasted.

“Wait, what happened?” Nyx asked, not catching the first part of Luche’s story.

“I went to Ravus and Lunafreya’s house yesterday after practice and stayed for dinner, oh you should have been there, Lunafreya was so sweet and hospitable, made me her favorite sandwich, which is now my new favorite sandwich, and then she and her Nana made me the most amazing, delicious dinner and their mom is amazing, real firecracker, Luna said she would be coming to game on Friday to cheer me on,” Luche bragged as he showed the pictures of a smiling Luna, cropped from her shoulders up, both in her kitchen and at the dinner table. The ones at the dinner table tho were clearly taken in secret.

Nyx’s stomach dropped. How, how had Luche weaseled himself into Luna’s life already?! It wasn’t fair god damn it!

The white limo rolled up and dropped Ravus and Luna off. Luna found Nyx in the crowd and flashed him another bright smile as she left her brother to walk up to the group before she realized Luche was standing with them and froze at the sight of him.

“Ravus! Luna!” Luche invited and smiled and waved them over. Luna smiled politely back and forced her feet to move toward them and that was only because Nyx and Selena were there too. Nyx especially. She would be ok if Nyx was there. Even though Ravus had come and had his hand on her back and was pushing them over to Luche and his friends.

“Good morning,” Luna greeted everyone politely before standing between Nyx and Luche while Ravus stood between Luche and Pelna, Luna however stood closer to Nyx than she did to Luche by both subconscious and instinct.

“Good morning, thank you again for your hospitality yesterday,” Luche thanked her as he leaned towards her slightly Luna leaned back slightly to keep the same amount of distance between herself and Luche before he introduced her and her brother to the rest of the group. And it was then that Selena realized that Luna’s brother Ravus was actually… really... ok, he damn handsome himself, like crazy super fine hot kind of handsome even up close. But the way Luna talked about him, Selena knew she would be giving him a wide birth. He sounded like a fuck boy and she had no interest or patience for those. But still, whew, lord have mercy, why were all the super pretty boys assholes? Why? This wasn’t fair.

“You’re welcome, happy to oblige,” Luna nodded at Luche before she turned to Nyx.

“Hey Nyx, would it be horribly inconvenient for you to show me to class again today?” Luna inquired hopefully, as her instincts told her to run and put some space between herself and Luche. “I’ve been trying to study the school layout and I suck at directions.” Luna tried to explain.

Ravus snorted at that. “That’s an understatement.” Ravus muttered under his breath. Selena frowned at that. Not liking the way he said that, because he was mocking his sister. Ravus noticed the change on Selena’s face and blinked as he noticed how Nyx’s sister was actually... really pretty herself. She had that slightly exotic look with her dark brown eyes and dark brown hair and olive skin tone and she was slender but had softness where it counted and she looked... beautiful if he was honest, she would be an absolute knockout if she did her hair or put make up on because she had a lot of natural beauty to build up on and actually... she seemed...really sweet, he decided. And he realized that she was actually so his type. But then he remembered that he shouldn’t be looking, since he currently had a girlfriend. One that would have his hide if she knew he was looking at another girl. Besides his current girlfriend was all woman and Selena was still clearly in her girl turning into a woman phase, but God, what a beautiful woman she’d be when she would... But that didn’t mean he couldn’t appreciate another girl’s beauty right? But it bothered him that she frowned at him and cut her eyes at him and looked at him with...disapproval. Every other girl always smiled at him. No matter what. But she didn’t, he couldn’t shake the feeling that she could see right through him. And Ravus didn’t know why that...it just didn’t feel right, like she saw who and what he was and was already disappointed in him and didn’t like what she saw- and he wanted her to smile at him, to like what she saw when she looked at him. He quickly tried to tell himself that he shouldn’t care what she thought of him. That it didn’t matter. But that resolve was the weakest resolve he had yet.

“Yes, I mean no, I mean, it would not be inconvenient, I would be glad to show you to class.” Nyx happily and readily agreed, tripping all over his damned self and flushing with embarrassment at his so not smooth answer as Crowe was damn near crying not to laugh too loudly. Oh but she was going to roar with laughter once they left.

“Awesome, thank you so much.” Luna thanked him appreciatively before the bell rang and they began to walk together.

“So your brother and Luche are friends now?” Nyx asked as they weaved their way through the throngs of students.

“I guess,” Luna muttered with a heavy sigh. “I take it you’re friends with him too?” Luna guessed with a hint of apprehension and wariness. Oh god, what if there was like a “Bro Code” that they stuck too? What if Luche had already ‘staked a claim’ on her and that meant no one else could try? What if Nyx became deterred by Luche’s advances, thinking he didn’t have a chance? How could she possibly assure him that she wanted his attention, she wanted him to keep trying. She wanted to get closer to him without coming off as creepy or desperate?

“Yeah, kind of.” Nyx admitted even though deep down Luche was like a brother to him and was like another big brother to Selena but right that second he was the competition that needed to be beaten.

“Why do you ask? Is everything ok?” Nyx asked curiously, hoping Luna didn’t like Luche back. Hoping he still had a chance.

“Well, um,” Luna stuttered and stammered as she tried to be delicate about this. And then it dawned on Nyx that Luche made her uncomfortable and it was clear as day to him in her behavior.

“Was Luche a creep?” Nyx guessed with a barely contained knowing grin and laugh Luna immediately relaxed and the look of relief on her face was clear as day.

“Yes! And it was so awkward! So hear me out, so I emerge from my room for provisions and Ravus and Luche sneak up on me in my kitchen, nearly give me a heart attack and then Ravus demanded that I make them sandwiches, which, they have two hands they could have made themselves sandwiches but whatever. So Luche is all ‘chefs choice’ so I make him what I like on a sandwich and of course he thinks it’s the ‘greatest thing ever’ and just pouring on the flattery nice and uncomfortably thick and so I show him what I put on the stupid thing and he takes a picture and then he goes ‘smile’ and snaps a picture of me holding the sandwich sauce like I’m a model on the price is right, and of course he just had to stay for dinner and, ugh! It was so creepy! Like I was just waiting all day yesterday to go home already.” Luna confided as she put her things in her locker as she got ready for her morning classes as Nyx snickered a good hearty laugh. Yes! she was able to see past his pretty face and see him for who he was, a suck up. Nyx had listened attentively, relieved to hear her side of the story and eternally grateful he had chose to walk her to class, his hope and faith were restored.

“And so then he invited me to the game and I, sadly, feel obligated to go.” Luna grimaced.

“Well the next time that happens, you could always say you have plans,” Nyx suggested.

“With you?” Luna asked, raising a quizzical brow and a barely contained grin. Quite proud of herself for being that quick.

“Sure,” Nyx immediately agreed before he inwardly chided himself for appearing too eager, he had to play this cool, Luche had been too eager and had crashed and burned. He had to go slower. He couldn’t scare her off. He liked her way too much to chance scaring her away. Besides his gut was telling him, no, screaming at him that he had found someone, someone special, someone that could and would change his life forever. He couldn’t mess this up. He had to get this right.

Luna smiled brightly at him as she took out her phone and tapped on a new contact page before she handed it to Nyx. “Name and number please.” Luna watched as he Nyx typed in his name and cell number in.

“Thank you,” Luna smiled brightly again as she took her phone from him before she turned and walked into class.

He went in and sat down before he felt something in his back pocket again. He pulled it out and found it was an ace of spades with her own number written on it. Oh she was smoother than he gave her credit for. He pulled out his phone and put the number in it and saved the contact as Luna before Libertous walked into class himself.

On the way out of class, Nyx slipped the picture he had made for her in her own pocket.

While Luna continued to sit with Noctis and his friends at lunch, she did spare Nyx several smiling glances while he did the same. After lunch Nyx walked Luna back to the girls locker room.

“Thank you for the drawing, it was beautiful, you’re a really good artist,” Luna praised feeling herself become absolutely smitten and falling hopelessly for him. He was handsome and sweet and talented. And he was a freaking artist and her heart immediately melted because what were the chances?

“Thanks, and thank you for the card.” Nyx replied bashfully.

“Well if Noctis was the king of spades, then you should definitely be the ace,” Luna reasoned as she ducked her head back down to hide her own bashful smile as she cheeks started to stain rose and she fidgeted with the edge of her sleeves. The bell rung before Nyx could say anything else.

“See you in there,” Nyx bid her as he turned and walked quickly to the boys locker room.

And for the rest of the week, they would continue to subtly flirt with each other, afraid that if they flirted too hard it would drive the other away and it was clear to the whole school that something was happening between them even if both of them were too shy and uncertain of themselves to make a real move on the other yet. But they did get to know each other and quickly became friends even if they both wanted so much more. And Nyx was blown away that Luna wanted to be a doctor, a pediatrician of all things and was practically a doctor already with how vast and intricate her knowledge was about it. He could listen to her talk all day long and never get tired or bored of it.

When Friday evening came around, Luna found herself sitting next to Selena and her parents while Ravus sat behind them with Luche’s parents and Luche’s little sister Luca who was a decade younger than Luche but who Ravus got along with really well, kicking into cool big brother mode. Meanwhile, Luna practically froze in her white hoodie and jeans.

“Here,” Selena offered as she shared the blanket that she and her mother were using to shield themselves from the cold snap that had seemed to come out of nowhere. Luna, Selena and her mom snuggled together closely to retain heat and Selena’s mother broke out their thermos of hot cider and Selena and Luna shared a cup, taking turns holding the cup to keep their hands warm.

“Next time I’ll bring hot chocolate,” Luna offered. “And a blanket, and a coat, preferably a parka, like the kind they use in the arctic. And boots, and a scarf, and a hat, and a face mask, and hand warmers, possibly some wool layers.” Luna muttered to Selena as they laughed. Noctis arrived not long after with Ignis and Prompto. Noctis sat on the other side of Luna as Ignis sat on the other side of Noctis while Prompto took pictures of the game.

Nyx and his team came onto the field and everyone cheered. He chanced a glance at his parents and did a double take to see Luna sitting next to them, sitting extremely close to his sister. Luna smiled brightly at him and gave waive. Nyx gave a small wave back. Thrilled that she was there, and unbelievably pleased she was with his family as he suddenly put so much pressure on himself that his team needed to win this game, if only to have Luna see them win, see him win. Every girl loved a winner right?

“Wait is that Crowe?” Luna asked as she saw her on the field too.

“Yeah, our school is quite progressive, she isn’t the only one,” Selena revealed as she pointed out two other girls on the field. “The best players make the team, no matter their gender.” Selena informed her. Luna nodded her approval of this.

“Alright, you guys are going to have to talk me through this because I have no idea what’s going on.” Luna explained as the teams warmed up before the game started. Selena, Noctis and his friends all tried to explain the game but Luna, for all her trying, still could not figure it out.

However, only into the first quarter, Libertus sustained a sprained ankle in a pileup when the opposing team fumbled the ball. Luna left the group and grabbed her bag and made her way to the field and talked with the medic and coach Drautos before she was allowed on the sidelines.

“Hey, Libertus is it?” Luna asked as she knelt down in front of him. “On a scale from 1 to 10 how much pain are you in?” Luna asked as she dug through her bag to find the tube of cream she had been looking for before she pulled out a pair of exam gloves and put them on.

“11,” Libertus told her as he tried to keep his cries and hisses of pain down to a minimum.

“Sounds about right,” Luna nodded in understanding. “Now Libertus, what I have in this tube is a proprietary medicine, still being tested by the FDA for human use, it should help alleviate the pain and swelling, think bio-freeze or mineral ice on super jacked up steroids.” Luna informed him.

“Do it, put it on.” Libertus authorized.

“Do you swear to not hold me or the school liable for any ill effects.” Luna warned.

“I swear,” Libertus confirmed.

“Ok then,” Luna grinned as she squeezed some out into her hand and carefully took the ice packs off his ankle and applied it generously.

Libertus watched in amazement as the cream, within less than two minutes alleviated nearly all of the pain before the joint became nearly completely numb.

“I don’t suppose I get to keep that tube of yours.” Libertus hinted as Luna took off her gloves and sanitized her hands.

“Uh, well, sure, um, just,” Luna stuttered before she blushed scarlet and whispered something in Libertus’ ear. Libertus blushed crimson himself and nodded before Luna handed it tube over to him.

Nyx, Crowe, Pelna and Luche watched the exchange curiously. Luna carefully replaced Libertus’ ice packs before standing and turning to them.

“He’ll be fine,” Luna assured them. It was only when she was closer that Nyx realized she was wearing makeup. Subtle but gorgeous all the same. And her hair was either naturally curly or she had curled it and it was sticking out around her face from her hood, framing her face with it’s golden brilliance. She was like an angel who had materialized in front of them again.

“Thank you,” Nyx thanked her earnestly before the rest of them followed suit and thanked her.

“You’re welcome, happy to help, sorry it’s needed.” Luna smiled and nodded before she went back and sat with Nyx’s family.

“What did she say to you man?” Nyx asked as he took a seat next to Libertus.

“I’ll tell you later,” Libertus muttered.

“Oh come on, what did she say?” Crowe pressed before Libertus whispered it in her ear before she fell onto her knees cackling.

“What? What?” They pressed her.

“Apparently, this stuff is so potent, if you try to jack off with it, your dick will literally fall off!” Crowe cackled as she laughed so hard she was crying. “Tredd! Tredd! I have lotion you should jack off with!” Crowe howled as Tredd frowned and flipped them off.

With Lucis winning the game, everyone decided a victory pizza party was in order. Luna continued to sit next to Selena who was quickly becoming another best friend, only this time Selena chose to sit with Nyx and the rest of the team, putting Luna between herself and her brother purposefully trying to get them together like she had been subtly encouraging them to do all week. While Luche invited Ravus to do the same, putting Ravus across from Selena while Luche sat across from Luna.

“Libertus, how’s your leg doing?” Luna asked Libertus who was sitting on the other side of Nyx.

“Doing fine, thank you again, that’s some miracle cream.” Libertus informed her.

“Good,” Luna grinned before she pulled out her notebook again and wrote down recommendations for doctors to see and programs to use to help with his recovery and tore the page out and folded it and handed it to Nyx to pass to Libertus as Nyx smiled proudly, eternally grateful she went to that length to make sure his best friend would be taken care of. Her heart was just so big and she really, genuinely cared and he went from smitten to head over heels for her. He really needed to make a move sooner than later. He just needed the right moment. He couldn’t let her slip through his fingers because he was too afraid. Maybe tomorrow when she came over to his house. When they wouldn’t have everyone staring at them, she seemed to be such a private person, he doubted she would be up to being asked out in the middle of Pizza Hut in front of the whole football team, even though part of him wanted to stake a claim to her in front of all of them, especially Luche who hadn’t let up in the slightest and who was giving her every look, smile and compliment and piece of praise he could. And while Luna had accepted it all with grace, it was clear she just didn’t like him like that at least and while she was friendly, civil and polite, she was never more than that and that gave Nyx so much hope.

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khaleesiofalicante · 3 years

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So I did end up reading the chapter last night only because I was in too much pain to focus on smth fluffy like One Last Stop so I decided why not more pain

As for what I did to treat myself today, I got Skittles, an iced coffee and this liquid yogurt (that's literally what it's called...) in the evening and I just bought more iced coffee. I also found one of my mom's old medical book and I've been flipping through it. Today's been good.

Ok back to the chp. First of all,

I'm sure captain Holt speaks for all of us when he says this.

Here's me going crazy at 1am

This chapter's gonna be them processing his death....

Jace...

No don't do this to me.

Fucking hell I just saw the marble episode.

David had always been equal parts terrified and in awe of Uncle Alec. She almost wanted to take a picture - a picture of David in Uncle Alec's arms.

David would have liked to keep that in his room. He would have used it as a bookmark for his favorite book.

Why is it always the good ones?? I'm in so much pain right now

David who was a literal angel...

I'm not ready for this. I really shouldn't be reading right now.

The necklace...that thing was following Max's scent and David had the necklace...

Alright I think I've seen everything 🙂

But sometimes, you didn’t need a parabatai. Sometimes, you need your family.

Lexi if you get hurt it won't bring him back. You can't get hurt please.

She had wanted him to be there.

She had wanted him to be there when she took Idris back.

She had wanted him to be there when Michael finally escaped the cohort to be with Selena.

She had wanted him to be there when she stepped into the Fairchild Manor for the very first time.

She had wanted him to be there when she dragged him around Fifth Avenue looking for the right suit for his wedding.

SO.MUCH.PAIN

Selena's the oldest now...DUDE NO-

Michael called her dearest 😭😭

Sorrow is all I have known...what is this strange new emotion

(this coffee is not good)

Is this what it’s going to be like for you, Alec wanted to ask. If so, I am glad I won’t be around to see it.

I don't know what you're talking about :D

Alec what are you hiding??? I'm so close to the edge don't do this now

Rafael...

I know I chose to put myself through this but sometimes I ask myself, why.

They're all in so much pain...I genuinely don't know what to say

Aww they're playing monopoly!!

What medicine? Wait brain not working lemme open Google

But it turned out it was because she was the worst at spending money and was an impulsive shopper.

He wanted to take her to Madison Avenue and buy her everything she wanted.

He would probably go broke by the end of it, of course. But he didn’t mind.

“You’re boobs look great,” Rafael and Camila said at the same time.

CAMILA NOT STRAIGHT?? oh wait we know she isn't straight. Well my brain isn't working.

Also this made me laugh and brightened my night

“That’s the lady who works with the Lesbian Alliance, right?” Camila asked.

Rafael blinked.

Anjali chuckled. “She means the Iron Sisters.”

“They are not lesbians!” Rafael pointed out.

“That’s homophobic,” Camila tutted.

“I’m obsessed with you,” Lily pointed out in a very matter-of-fact tone.

your honor I love them.

Wait what...

It's making them...less shadowhunter-y?

I'm so sorry for laughing I'm processing 4 character deaths right now, everything's hilarious

I'M GONNA FUCKING CRY WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS??

Whomever did this...bitch I'm coming for you

TF YOU MEAN THEY AIN'T GONNA BE SHADOWHUNTERS ANYMORE

“It’s bad luck to ignore a dying girl’s wish, Santiago,” Anjali grinned then.

And his heart broke.

No one fucking touch me I'm about to fall apart

“I like Max,” Anjali said then. “He is nice.”

“I could always just suck it out of them,” Lily winked.

“While I would pay good money to watch that, now is not the time,” Camile said, sounding like she actually meant it.

Same though.

I mean id let lily suck my blood-

AHEM ANYWAY

Crap I reached my image limit. This is homophobia

“I like Max,” Anjali said then. “He is nice.”

“Nice?” Rafael echoed. “You’re probably the first person to call him that.”

THEM!!!

“Be there for him, Rafael. Be there for your brother,” she said, wrapping her fingers around his. “You’re going to need him to be there for you very soon.

Y'all heat the sound of my heartbreaking?? DO YOU HEAR IT???

Imma find these bitches who did this and shove this awful coffee down their throats

I'm gonna go and watch some TikToks and ignore the pain :D

ily 😂

Here is one for tiktok for the pain.

This is Lexi and Liv when they find the assassin 🤭

#lbaf

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freezing-kaiju · 7 years

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Stardate: 2689

Chapter 5: Sugar, Spice, Chocolate, and Ice

a fire emblem heroes fic by me and @pupmon1

Semi-NSFW: Nudity and implied sex near the end.

Captain’s log: XX/XX/2689. Lyndis. Our ship has docked at a refueling station in neutral territory, specifically the planet Materna. Apparently their sovereign government, convinced by our Nohrian and Hoshidian delegates, is sending two emissaries, a delegate from the government named Rinkah, and a mercenary hired to protect her. I have never personally met this mercenary, but Camilla assured me that she had called on her services and she was serviceable, if...”difficult”. At present time, I have allowed the crew some leave on the station, though a few of us still have duties to perform.

“Hey, I heard we were getting some new crew today,” Flora mentioned as she, Peri, and Setsuna were inspecting the station.

“Did they say who?” Peri asked. “Hopefully nobody mean...Camilla said I couldn’t thwack anybody anymore...”

Flora shrugged. “Some bounty hunter with an axe. I didn’t recognize her. Oh, and a delegate from the Maternan government, the daughter of the chief.”

As they rounded a corner, Flora spotted her. She was tall, looked very strong, wore an oddly skimpy white suit of battle armor, long blond hair contrasting her dark skin, and a white bow. She was actively carrying her axe.

“CHARLOTTE!” Peri exclaimed.

The woman whirled around, a look of astonishment on her face. “...PERI???”

Peri immediately tackle-hugged Charlotte. “It’s been so long! What’re you doing here?”

Charlotte stumbled and fell backward, laughing with Peri on top of her. “Hey there Peri, I’m here to...serve a little time.”

“Huh? What for?” Peri asked.

“Oh ya know...smuggling and the like. The Union bastards caught me and have sticked me on one of their ships. Something called the...Kinshi?”

“That would be our ship,” Flora said. “Hello, I’m Flora. Peri’s...uh...friend...yeah let’s go with that...”

Charlotte looked up, a little confused. “Friend? Is something going on here, Peri-berry?”

Setsuna chuckled. “Peri-berry? Aww. Cute.”

Peri shrugged. “Friend, amateur therapist, nearly murder victim. She’s a lot of things.”

“Mostly I’m a janitor,” Flora said sourly.

“A janitor?” Charlotte paused for a moment. “Huh...you usually don’t get along with those.”

“Yeah, she mentioned usually killing the red shirts,” Flora said. “I....uh...stopped her from killing me, at least, that’s something.”

“Aww, you’ve helped more than that,” Peri said.

“She’s right,” Setsuna added. “Don’t think she’s killed anyone this whole mission...”

“Wait really?” Charlotte raised an eyebrow. “Like...nobody? How long has this mission been going on?”

“...two months?” Setsuna said, looking to Flora for confirmation. Flora nodded. “Yes, two months, about.”

“...I’m impressed.”

Setsuna looked away and darted off, mumbling “be right back...need some snuggles...”

Flora nodded sympathetically.

Peri grinned at Charlotte. “So, ya want me to take you around the ship? We have all sorts of cool weapons...ooo, and the holodeck makes enemies that bleed!”

“Sounds fun,” Charlotte said with that characteristic grin of hers.

Flora sighed. Wonderful...seems like Charlotte was going to be just as difficult as Peri. Still...she couldn’t deny a certain...attraction to Peri...perhaps she could warm up to this new woman as well.

---

As Peri led Charlotte across the ship, a small red comm in Charlotte’s belt went off. “...oh great...I gotta go to the cargo bay, where is that?”

“We’ll lead you there,” Peri responded. “C’mon!”

When they got to the cargo bay, all three captains were waiting, along with a tall, muscular woman with white hair, traditional Flame Tribe garb, and markings on her arms that flickered lightly, like a moderate fire. “Charlotte!” the woman exclaimed with a loud laugh. “There you are. We’ve been waiting.”

Charlotte eyed the captains and suddenly took on a more serious, submissive expression, snapping to attention. “Yes, Rinkah. My apologies.” She turned to the captains. “I’m ready to be part of your crew, I was just...visiting an old friend. Hope that’s okay.”

Flora raised her eyebrow, and Peri gave her a concerned expression, muttering something that sounded like “oh, Charlotte...different mask, same principle...”

The Nohrian captain laughed and smiled. “It’s fine dear, it’s fine. You’re here, and that’s what’s important.”

“If you say so.” Charlotte remained at attention, then looked down at herself. “...apologies for my outfit, if you have a uniform in my size I’ll change immediately.”

The Nohrian captain let out a long sigh and held up a hand. “We will deal with that when you get settled in. For now, at ease. There’s no need to be so formal with us, right girls?”

The two others just nodded and smiled.

“...whatever you say, Captain...Camilla, right?”

“Correct. And this is Captian Lyndis, and Captian Lucina. Get used to taking orders from all three of us, as I’m sure you’re not used to a ship with three captians.”

“...you’re baiting me.”

“I-...I’m sorry?” Camilla frowned and looked down at Charlotte. “What are you talking about?”

“Experience with past employers.” Charlotte winced. “...sorry, captain...captains...

“You have got to relax,” Camilla said simply. “If you’re going to be on the ship, ya gotta relax.”

Peri elbowed Charlotte. “It’s okay, they’re alright. Masks off, Char.”

Charlotte looked at her strangely...then smiled and relaxed her stance. “Alright, if you say so. If Peri says you’re okay, you’re okay...probably...Can you explain the three captains thing, though?”

Camilla chuckled and crossed her arms. “Long story short: Union be weird.” Camilla said simply.

“Oh, yeah.” Charlotte grimaced and muttered “no scholarship system my ass...”

“She’s a little angry at them,” Peri explained. “I got shipped off to the academy and we couldn’t see each other anymore.”

“Who isn’t at this point,” Lucina muttered with a shrug. “Anyway, you and Rinkah are able to go on the ship and get comfortable.”

“I don't suppose you have any single-person rooms?” Rinkah asked.

“Can I room with Peri?” Charlotte asked.

“Sorry, no. Peri’s room is full. You two will be bunking together along with…” Lyndis stopped and looked down at her pad. “Flora and her sister.”

Charlotte groaned, but Peri smiled. “It’s alright, I spend a lot of time in there! Having uh...special time with Flora. Her sister usually hangs out with one of the fighters...what was her name again?”

“Scarlet,” Flora said.

Charlotte looked surprised when Peri mentioned “special time”, but not quite angry, more... intrigued.

Rinkah nodded. “As long as none of you disturb me on purpose, I’ll be fine.”

Lyn nodded. “Charlotte, you will be taking on the duties of a regular crew member. Rinkah, you may choose to do tasks based on your whims.”

Charlotte and Rinkah nodded and entered the ship.

A few hours later, the ship detached from the station and continued on its way, and Flora and Felicia began giving the new crewmembers a tour. Flora followed behind them speaking quickly. “I can guide you to our room, and to the quartermaster’s desk to order things.”

“All I think I need is a uniform,” Charlotte said. “The rest is in my bags...though I hope they make it in my size.”

“They make it in Camilla’s size, I assure you they’ll make it in yours.”

“Good point.”

Rinkah shook her head. “I’m not wearing a uniform. These clothes are important...and shirts are uncomfortable.

“That’s the one thing you have to do,” Flora pointed out. “It’s not really optional. You at least need the shirt while on duty.”

Rinkah grumbled. “If I must...”

“Yes you have to. But you can edit it how ever you like. You just have to wear it on duty.”

“Ah.” Rinkah shrugged. “I suppose I could ‘edit’ it to fit my liking...”

“Good, now, here’s our quarters, make yourself at home.”

Rinkah sat down on one of the beds and immediately began unpacking her things, taking out her large brass club and setting it to the side. Charlotte flopped down on a bed, grinning. “Heh...more comfortable than the one in your house...”

“Too soft.” Rinkah frowned. “My bed was better for my back...gonna pull a muscle or something with this.”

“You’ll be fine. They probably have a sparring range, we’ll both stay in top shape.” Charlotte responded. She pulled up a tablet and pen and started writing. “Gotta write this down...” After she was done, she paused. “Hey...quick question.”

“Yeah?” Rinkah asked.

“Are you okay with...uh...polyamory? Or does the Flame Tribe have a rule against that, like the betrothal-by-combat thing?”

Rinkah chuckled. “Yeah, on a personal level I’m okay with it.”

“Oh, good.”

“...it’s Peri, isn’t it?”

Charlotte smiled, but the smile had a tinge of sadness to it. “It’s been so long since we talked...I worry about her. I hope I can keep an eye on her...”

Rinkah smiled, leaned over, kissed her on the cheek and lightly punched her in the shoulder. “Don’t worry, it’ll be fine.”

---

“I feel claustrophobic,” Rinkah grumbled, tugging at her new yellow shirt. “My arms are not meant to be concealed...”

“And we’re wearing each others’ colors,” Charlotte said, tugging at her new red shirt which was...uncomfortably tight in several places.

“What did ya expect, the height of fashion?” Severa said, a bit too smugly. She always enjoyed giving orders, to...well, anyone. “It’s form over function. Now, you, mercenary will be joining security as patrol.”

“Alright.” Charlotte responded. “Acknowledged...uh...ensign...Selena?”

“Officer Severa.”

“Right, got it, officer. So sorry,” Charlotte said innocently, then flashed Rinkah a grin when Severa’s back was turned.

Severa turned her back to the two and grumbled something about Selena being a stupid name, then she stopped. There was a strange sound in the corridor...something being dragged along the ground.

“Well...this had to happen eventually. The unofficial member of our crew.”

Beruka rounded the corner, wearing a fresh Starfleet uniform with an extra-long left sleeve. Her cybernetics were mostly cleaned up. She noticed the two and waved her right arm.

She shambled forward and looked over at Severa. “Good day, Security Officer Severa.”

“Well, someone sounds more personable,” Severa said with a laugh.

“This unit have been...practicing social skills with Weapons Officer Sestuna. She told us it’s proper to greet people when you see them.”

“Correct.”

Behind Severa, Rinkah was backing up and Charlotte looked utterly confused.

“I’ve....” Charlotte was nearly at a loss for words. “...I’ve...seen...one of those before...but never one that didn’t want to murder people...”

Beruka peered around Severa, her red eye examining the two new crewmen. “...the two new organics Commander mentioned?”

“Yes...and please stop referring to crewmen as ‘organics’.”

“But that’s what you are.”

“...she’s not wrong,” Rinkah said.

“Don’t enable her…” Severa grumbled. “Anyway, this is Beruka, she came with the ship and is unofficially part of the engineering crew.”

“...interesting...uh...” Charlotte leaned down. “...hi?”

Beruka leaned away as Charlotte got close, but didn’t respond to her greeting.

“...guess you’re not much for conversation,” Charlotte said, with an awkward forced-politeness to her voice.

“She’s really not...especially if she doesn’t know someo-”

“Charlotte, human Nohrian mercenary. Will do anything for a quick buck, as Commander puts it,” Beruka said plainly. “Organic morals need not apply.”

“Hey, she has morals!” Rinkah said angrily. “And she’s sure as hell refused a lot of bribes to have me knocked off...”

Beruka blinked as Rinkah got...uncomfortably close. “Move away, organic.”

“Have I made my point?”

“Move away,” Beruka repeated, her left arm trembling a little.

Severa put a hand on Rinkah’s shoulder and tried to pull her back. “Rinkah...she doesn’t like people to be that close to her, move back...give her space.”

Rinkah grumbled and pulled back. “...right, probably shouldn’t piss her off...”

Beruka relaxed as she was given space, and she nodded. “...thank you…” she muttered softly. “You...were too close...this unit should go.”

“...look, I’m sorry,” Rinkah muttered gruffly.

“......error…” Beruka twitched, her human eye closing and her red eye glowing. “Data unavailable...can’t calculate behavior...this unit doesn’t understand.”

Severa sighed and crossed her arms. “Translation: she can’t find anything about you in the database...so she doesn’t know what to make of you.”

“Oh yeah. Our planet is pretty cut off, tech-wise. We have a proud history of mostly isolationism.”

Beruka paused and grunted. “Surprised we haven’t assimlated your kind…” she muttered. “Isolation is prime prey.”

“They attacked our outer stations, but never came to our home planet,” Rinkah said softly, glancing away. “...we still lost many...as others have. Just...no planets.”

Charlotte put a hand on her shoulder. “...I’m pretty sure that someday someone will find out how to stop them. Don’t worry too much about it.”

“WORRY? There’s one RIGHT THERE!” Rinkah exclaimed, pointing.

“There is no way to stop the borg,” Beruka said simply. “All will be assimilated...all will be made perfect. Resistance is futile.”

“...be more of a ray of sunshine why don’t ya…” Severa grumbled, rolling her eyes.

“...I think we’ll be...going...now...” Charlotte said, glancing at Rinkah’s arms. The fiery marks on them were...well, not firey. That meant very bad things...crying, sometimes. Complete emotional shutdown sometimes.

Beruka tilted her head for a moment, then suddenly turned around and walked away without another word. Severa sighed and closed her eyes. “...I apologize for her...she doesn’t understand…”

“Hey Severa...is there a bar here?”

Severa looked up and nodded. “Yeah...it’s by the cafeteria.”

“Alright. Come on, Rinkah.”

-----

Charlotte and Rinkah sat down at the bar, Rinkah still shuddering a bit.

“Oi. Bartender.” Charlotte said to the bartender, who had long blue hair and an outfit that made her look like a betta fish. “A shot of bourbon, and some sake if you have it.”

The woman looked up and nodded. “Of course dear,” she said with a smile before placing a small glass of bourbon, and a cup of sake, along with a small ceramic container, on the counter. “A tall lager pint for you?”

“Uh...yeah. How’d you know?”

The woman simply smiled. “You just...look like a lager kinda gal,” she said as she poured a glass of lager.

Rinkah grabbed the bourbon and sake and downed it all.

“Don’t think that’s how you do that...” Charlotte said concernedly. “...or how you usually drink...”

“Oh she’ll be fine,” the bartender said with a smile before turning to mix a drink.

“Gah!” Rinkah shouted. “I...I feel kinda better...” The fire on her arms and in her eyes was flickering back to life. “...gods...”

The bartender set out four drinks...something Rinkah recognizes from her home...it’s a special drink to be shared among...well...lovers. The bartender simply smiled and whisked away to other patrons before they could flag her down.

“Where the hell did she get this?” Rinkah asked. “...I mean we export our liquor n’ stuff but not this kind...”

Charlotte shrugged. “...why are there four? And...should we drink it?”

Before Rinkah could answer, Peri and Flora, or more so Peri dragging Flora, came up to sit beside Charlotte.

“Hey Charlotte!” Peri said happily. “Order too many drinks? Can we have the extra?”

Rinkah hesitated but Charlotte said, “Heya, Peri! Sure.”

Peri grabbed one and started drinking. “Tastes...kinda weird...like white chocolate and dried chili peppers and that weird blue flavoring they put on shaved ice...”

Flora made a few ice cubes and sipped hers. “Hmm...I taste the peppers and the chocolate but I’m not getting the blue flavor but I can kinda taste...sugar...It’s really sweet, but not quite unpleasant?”

Charlotte stopped and looked over and Rinkah. “...can it be more than two…?”

Rinkah simply shrugged. “Why not…?” She tasted hers. There was that familiar white chocolate flavor...but also a lot of sugar, and what Rinkah assumed was the weird blue flavor. Certainly tastes blue..and sour...

“Blueberries…” she muttered softly. “...that’s what this is...maybe…? But it’s tart... and sugar, and white chocolate.”

“Blue raspberry,” Peri corrected her. “Really it’s nothing that exists on Earth or any Earthlike planets, but they had to name it something...it just tastes blue.”

Charlotte shrugged and downed her drink. “...no white chocolate here...but everything else is there…”

Peri shrugged and giggled. “That was weird...those flavors aren’t supposed to fit but...they did? It was cool!”

Flora squirmed and put the glass on the counter. “...what was that anyway?”

“Fire Heart,” Rinkah replied, not meeting anyone’s gaze.

“Never heard of it.” Flora said. “Do your people make it?”

“Yes...but we don’t export it...even on my planet it’s kind of rare.”

“It’s a ceremonial thing,” Charlotte said. “Me and Rinkah have had it before...but...last time we both only tasted one flavor...”

“What’s the ceremony?” Flora wondered, peering over Peri.

“...uh...” Rinkah and Charlotte fidgeted uncomfortably, Rinkah’s fire burning actively now.

“It’s...supposed to be...well...used for…” Rinkah grasped for words. “It’s...a ceremony in private before people…” Rinkah trailed off and looked at Charlotte.

“...I’m not saying it in front of Peri, no way,” Charlotte hissed.

“It’s usually drunken before sex,” the bartender said simply as she moved past to grab a bottle and whisking away again, leaving Rinkah’s face bright red and fire burning hot, and Charlotte just...burying her face in her hands.

Flora literally froze, her hands were stuck to the table. “It’s...I must have misheard that. It’s what???”

“You didn’t miss hear…” Charlotte muttered between her fingers. “It’s a ‘we’re gonna have sex for the first time’ drink at it’s heart.”

“It’s...not that simple,” Rinkah managed. “But...yeah...I think it’s akin to...a honeymoon tradition back on Earth?”

Peri was blushing so red she looked like a tomato. “And...and I just...walked up and drank it...”

“What were you thinking??” Flora asked, not blushing so much as turning light blue.

“...it’s supposed to taste like your partner…” Rinkah muttered. “I-...I don't know why there were three…”

“The bartender just gave it to us…” Charlotte groaned and put her head on the counter, hiding her face in her arm.

Peri paused...and then burst out laughing.

“What is it?” Charlotte moaned from the counter.

“I was...hee-hee! I was...I walked up here to...hehehe, to ask you two out!” she said between spurts of giggling.

“Well...looks like the fucking drink accepted for us…” Charlotte grumbled.

“...fucking bartender…” Rinkah grumbled.

Charlotte noticed the looks on Flora and Peri’s faces and she sighed. “...it doesn't taste right if people aren't supposed to be together…” She groaned and settled down a little. “...blasted little thing can nullify a week's worth of other compatibility rituals...it works the other way ‘round too… Rinkah is legally in a relationship with all three of us now…”

Flora nearly fainted. “...we...wait what?”

“You can skip to the honeymoon if you get your hands on Fire Heart…” Rinkah muttered, twitching a little. “Straight there...and everything else is legally approved...so...yeah...and now it’s kicking in…”

“Do we need to go?” Charlotte asked softly.

“...no…not...not yet…”

Peri sorta started...leaning her soft shoulder on Charlotte and Rinkah. “...feels like ‘ere’s a fire in my belly…” she muttered softly.

Flora’s ice started melting. “I...I think I’m going to need a moment or two to...to process this...”

Peri shifted positions and nudged Flora with a dopey smile. “Come on Flora...it won’t be so bad...Charlotte’s nice...and so is Rinkah…”

“...hmmm...” Flora looked over to them. “Well...they are...certainly attractive...don’t think I’ve gotten to know them enough, though...”

Rinkah twitched and shivered. “Yeah well...it deems us...ah...compatible…”

“Rinkah? Are you okay?”

“...no…”

Peri leaned over her, grinning. “D’we need to find a room?”

“...s-soon...yes…”

Peri hefted herself up and took Rinkah, Charlotte, and Flora’s hands in her own. “Then let’s,” she said, uncharacteristically charmingly.

Flora pulled away and shivered. “I-...Peri! What are you suggesting?” she fumbled over her words and looked at the others. “This...this is...inappropriate.”

“No, it’s totally according to rules and stuff. Right?” she said, looking at Rinkah.

“Ah...it is...according to the rules...w-we...are to...ah…” Rinkah put a hand on her head, her fingers twitching. “...it’s...getting hard to think…”

“Then we have to hurry,” Charlotte said with a soft grin. “I r’member last time...heh...say we got ‘bout...five minutes left?”

“It’s...starting to effect...you two too...isn’t it?” Rinkah mumbled.

Peri giggled and smiled. “I...I don’t know what you mean. But I feel...really warm…”

Flora snapped her fingers...and made a burst of slushy water. “...can’t make ice...I’m getting warm too...”

Charlotte chuckled and leaned against Rinkah gently. “We...gotta hurry...right? Before ya...comp’ete’y loose it?”

“...that would...be preferred…” she responded.

“Then c’mon!” Peri said, helping the other three up and heading to the door.

“But...but...” Flora was blushing.

Rinkah growled and shivered. “Just...just admit you want to fuck us before I take you on the counter,” she said firmly.

“.......okay yeah maybe I do...” Flora whispered.

“Then let’s go…” Rinkah hissed.

“Alright...” Flora shakily got up and followed them, refusing to make eye contact with anyone in the room.

Peri smiled and led them to an empty room...the door locking behind them.

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Flora woke up in a dogpile. She slowly opened her eyes and looked around. She found Peri laying to her right, Charlotte to her left...and Rinkah laying across all three. She groaned and put a hand on her head.

“...my head hurts...what...what happened…?”

“...we all got fuckin hangovers...” Charlotte moaned.

“...you sure that was a...ritual?”

“Course it was…” Rinkah groaned. “...you agreed to come in here…and...hooo boy...for someone who thought this was inappropriate...you were really good.”

“...I...what...” Flora sputtered. “...we...I...how...I...”

Rinkah pulled herself up and crawled over, the other two groaning as the heating pad left their laps. She settled down into Flora’s lap and leaned down, lightly placing her hands on Flora’s bare chest.

“We had sex, darling,” she cooed with a grin. “And...for a little ice queen...you were very hot~”

“...okay, several questions...and I’m surprised I did well...” Flora got up.

“You were very good with your tongue~” Rinkah teased, leaning back to let Flora get up.

Flora’s face turned dark blue, but she didn’t let Rinkah have the pleasure of her faltering. “...where’s my uniform?”

Rinkah nodded over to a pile of clothes on the floor. “Under there...Peri insisted we make you comfortable first, so you were the first one to...have fun, should I say.”

“...okay...” Flora put a hand on her head. “...now I remember...yeah...it was...fun....”

“It was enjoyable...to watch you turn blue with my fingers in you~” Rinkah said with a grin.

Peri giggled. “...that rhymed...”

Flora blushed even more. “....y-yeah...” She quickly dressed herself. “...hey, if we’re going with this...can we have like, a regular date? Or...lots...”

Rinkah frowned as Flora go dressed, taking her place between Charlotte and Peri. “Of course. Whatever you want...I can’t speak for these two, but I have no intention of forcing anyone to do something they don’t want to do.”

“Same,” the other two girls groaned.

“...I can’t really full well say ‘I love you’ yet...” Flora began

“You don’t have to say anything…” Charlotte mumbled. “Sex is sex...love is love...they aren’t solely inclusive of each other.

“...but...I like all three of you…” she continued, ignoring Charlotte’s comment, “and I’ve been lying to myself for a while, so...maybe this could work out.”

Peri smiled and nuzzled closer to Rinkah. “Good...maybe you can’t say it...but I can. I love you three...you were...so good and gentle…”

Charlotte smiled and leaned up. “Would you mind coming back and laying down with us? It’s...it’s kinda...too hot without you…”

“...sure,” Flora said, smiling. She walked back over and laid directly down on Peri.

Peri squirmed and inched away, until Flora was off her soft torso. “Don’t be a doodle…” Peri grumbled, playfully glaring at Flora.

Rinkah lifted Flora and gently turning her to lay across all three, Charlotte sighing in comfort as Peri started absently petting Flora’s head as it rested on her chubby belly.

“That’s better…” Charlotte mumbled.

Rinkah sighed happily. “Nice and cool…”

Flora smiled again. “...I could get used to this...”

Charlotte sighed and nuzzled closer. “Well...this is what most of Fire Tribe relationships are...snuggles when not running around like a chicken with your head cut off.”

“Down time is more important than anything...we don’t get much of it…” Rinkah chuckled absently. “That drink is so we actually...do it...instead of just laying there snuggling….”

“Sounds fun...” Flora said.

#charlotte #peri #rinkah #flora #fire emblem heroes #feh #stardate: 2689 #my fics #baked alaska ot4 #beruka #ninian #severa

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A special day for a special person-HAPPY BIRTHDAY LANCE!

It’s the birthday of a very special Guardian Spirt of Water. Lance, my baby. I like to say all the characters are my babies, but I hold a special place for Lance, since I see myself in him a bit. I got really excited when his birthday was being announced because it’s so close to mine. If he was born on the 31st, that would have been cool and Harry Potter would not be the only person I share a birthday with. But he’s born today and everyone is celebrating. So I was a bit stuck coming up with an idea when I watched PointlessBlog’s video about celebrating his sister’s birthday and it struck me. Since this is a klance story, I also knew what Keith was gonna give Lance. YouTuber AU has always been pretty hard for me and I’ve been wanting to do them for a while. So fingers crossed this goes well and another very happy birthday to my favourite Blue Paladin, Lance.

“Don’t.” Keith ordered as Red got close to his vlogging camera, which was filming a time lapse of him making Lance breakfast. He swore, if Red knocked his camera over again, he’d be on hiatus for a week because the screen would finally be broken and Amazon just loved taking forever with his orders. The Somali cat stared down at her owner, her paw slightly raised, as if to knock the camera from on top of the Keurig where it was balancing. “You do that, and I’m throwing you outside and not letting you in. I’ll even give your birthday dinner you only get like 3 times a year to Blue, do not think I won’t do it.” The two stared each other down before Red jumped down from the counter and sauntered out of the kitchen.

“Yeah, that’s what I thought.” Keith turned the stove off and dished the apple ring pancakes on a plate before putting on the tray. He already set out a glass of grapefruit juice, a small jug a maple syrup and a bowl of Greek yogurt and fruit. Once he was sure everything was set, he went over to his camera and stopped recording, putting the camera into his sweatpants pocket.

He carried the tray upstairs, where he knew Lance was awake, if the music coming from their room was anything to go by. He nudged the door open to see Lance splayed out on his back on, while Blue sat between her owner’s legs half asleep. At lease someone knows how to behave.

“Aww, babe.” Lance grabbed his own vlogging camera and turned it on to Keith. “Look what the world’s best boyfriend did for me. What’s on today’s menu?”

Sitting the tray on the bed next to Lance, Keith pointed out everything for Lance’s viewers. “Apple ring pancakes, actually made with red apples this time, Greek yogurt with mango, kiwi, blueberries and blackberries. No strawberries cause someone is allergic. Grapefruit juice to drink because somehow, you function without coffee in the morning. But I know for a fact we will be getting coffee later.”

“That is true, thank you.”

Keith sat down and nodded to the camera that was still focused on the food, as Lance poured the syrup on his pancakes, “have you told them it’s your birthday?”

Lance nodded, stopping his recording and putting his camera down before cutting into the pancakes. “Blue woke me up by purring in my face and rubbing her face all over mine. Also, good idea to put my phone on mute because my entire screen was filled with notifications. Mmm,” Lance moaned, “ok, red apples work better than green. This is amazing. Say ahh.” Lance ordered, holding a piece in front of Keith’s mouth.

Not even bothering to say no, Keith ate the piece, stunned when Lance snuck a kiss out of it. He chewed slowly as Lance stared him down with a cheeky smile on his face. Keith already knew his face was turning red from the look on Lance’s face.

He shook his head and pulled out his camera. Officially he hadn’t started his vlog and he had a lot planned. Flipping up the camera screen, Keith started recording again and faced it towards Lance just as he was taking a bite out of his pancakes.

“Lance, what’s happening today?” he asked, Lance putting his hand in front of his full mouth. He only smiled at the small glare his boyfriend gave him.

“It’s my birthday and Keith made me breakfast in bed.”

Keith decided to keep the camera on the birthday boy. “What are our plans today?”

“I’m going to go get my nails done while you go shopping for a possible new camera because Red is a naughty kitty who doesn’t understand the word no.”

“She almost knocked the camera down again when I was doing a time lapse. I had to threaten to not give her birthday dinner.”

“In case you guys are confused, when it’s mine, Keith’s or the cats’ birthday, we make this really fancy cat dinner. Because the cats were adopted at the same time, we consider that their birthday, so they only get it like 3 times a year.” Lance explained.

“Yeah, so I guess she understood cause she left without touching it, so this camera survived another encounter with the Great Red Beast.”

Lance almost choked on his juice. “Great Red Beast, pft. Oh my god. Anyway, after that, we’re going to chill at home because everyone got stuck doing things but everyone’s free this evening so we’re going out for dinner. After getting my nails done, we might just chill in the house?” Lance pondered out loud.

“Maybe, might go out for a little while. We’ll see where the day takes us.”

“Yay!” Lance cheered as Keith turned the camera off.

Keith started planting kissed all over Lance’s cheek and neck, making him giggle. “I didn’t say happy birthday yet, so accept my apology.”

“I accept. Babe, stop, your gonna wake Blue up. Stop.” Lance whined, not really pulling away from the onslaught of kisses.

Changed into shots and shirt, Lance stole one of Keith’s flannels and headed down the stairs, where he heard his boyfriend putting the dishes in the dishwasher.

“Don’t you have your own flannel shirts?” Keith asked, even though they both knew Keith loved seeing Lance in his clothes.

Lance only stuck his tongue out at him as he entered their video room where their main filming camera, tripods, lights, batteries and such would be. He opened the drawer that was labelled ‘Lance’s batteries’ and took one out, knowing his camera would die while he was out.

“Can you get my tripod please? I think I left it on the desk.” Keith called from the kitchen.

Lance spotted the tripod with its spindly legs. Usually the joints were grey but since they would have two of everything, Keith painted the joints red. He grabbed it and met Keith by the front door.

“Thank you. Got everything?” Keith asked, watching Lance pull on his low-cut converse.

“I need to grab my bag. You can start the car, I’ll lock the door.” Lance said, heading up the stairs back to the room.

Keith went in unlocked the car, sitting in the front seat and attached his camera to the dashboard mount before turning it to face him.

“Ok,” he said to the recording camera, “so Lance went to the room to get his bag, so I’ll be quick. Everyone was not busy this afternoon. Actually they’re at Allura and Shiro’s house getting ready for a surprise for Lance, which I’ll explain more of later.” He was quick to end that clip short as Lance came out the door, locking it behind him.

“Ready? Let’s go!” Keith pulled out of the garage and into the road while Lance messed with the radio. He couldn’t find a station he was happy with, so he plugged his phone in with the AUX cord. Keith tried not to groan at the sound of Selena Gomez’s Birthday, which Lance immediately started singing.

“Are you gonna do this every year?” he asked, noticing Lance was filming them on his own camera.

“Yep, top on my birthday playlist. Don’t worry, I have that violin cover of Growl on next. You and your secret boy-crush on EXO are all good.”

“Stop telling everyone I have a boy-crush on EXO.” Keith demanded, tempted to push the camera away from him, but couldn’t take his hands off the wheel. He knew he’d have to persuade Lance later when he was editing to cut that part out.

They soon reached the nail salon that Lance favoured.

“What designs are you going to get?” Keith asked, as his blue eyes boyfriend made sure he had everything.

“I don’t know. I got Space Ranger Vs last time. Maybe, cat whiskers? We’ll see. I’ll text you when I’m done.” Lance said, pressing a kiss to Keith’s cheek, before getting out the car.

Once Keith saw Lance getting attended to by one of the workers, Keith turned the camera to face him as he drove off.

“Ok, I dropped Lance off and now for an explanation. So like I said earlier, everyone is not busy, they are all at Allura and Shiro’s house because we planned a surprise birthday picnic for Lance. Lance and his family do a lot of birthday picnics and since they can’t be here, I got the idea for the surprise party and since we all love Lance, we made the biggest effort to make this really special. So I’m actually headed to Shiro’s house because thanks to Allura begging for it, when they got their house, they got one with a huge backyard and that’s where the picnic is. We’ve been planning this for a while. I’m just lucky Lance wanted to get his nails done and I had the excuse to get a new camera, so I can go. Also lucky that Pidge bought my new camera for me. They have it with them at the house so hopefully the next time we talk, the camera’s quality all around, will be much better.”

When Keith reached Shiro and Allura’s house, he went through the back gate, where he found everyone around a blue pop up gazebo. Two of the walls were up, blocking out most of the sunlight, and flowers were wrapped around the support lines.

“Hey you’re here.” Keith saw Shiro walking out from inside the house, holding two tables under each arm, one smaller and shorter than the other. His dog Voltron hoped out behind him.

“Here Voltron. Take to cameras.” He ordered the husky, handing her the stand. He went over to help his brother with the lager table and noticed the line of cameras sitting on the window ledges. Nice to know he wasn’t the only one who constantly did time lapses. “I couldn’t exactly force Lance to move quicker without making it obvious I wanted him out of the house.”

They rested the larger table next to one of the walls. On the inside, because of the sunlight, everything was bathed in a blue tint, making it look like it was under water. Which was perfect because the theme was anything sea related.

“Could you go inside and grab the blankets and stuff by the door? There should be pillows there as well.” Shiro asked, resting the smaller table. “Allura doesn’t want any dirt on this smaller table, so we’re gonna put them on the blankets.”

“sure.” He dodged Allura, who was bringing out another tall table, while Pidge was messing with his camera.

“The line of time lapses is done.” Pidge told Keith.

“Good, then you can help me bring the blankets out.” he said, picking up one pillow and throwing it at Pidge.

“Ah! Abuse!” they yelled.

“If Lance isn’t allowed to use that excuse, then you can’t either.” Keith said picking up the piles of blankets and outside mats, leaving the pillows and such for Pidge.

Between Allura, Shiro, Pidge and himself, they laid out all the blankets, pillows and had begun placing all the balloons when Hunk started bringing out the food.

“Keith, you might want to get your camera, because you’re going to love the cake.” Hunk suggested, as he headed back inside.

“Oh wait!” Pidge said, from their seat on Shiro’s shoulder as they attached large paper flower to each end of the gazebo. “I have your new camera, wait! Shiro, put me down!”

Keith saw Hunk heading outside while he was watching Pidge switch out his memory card from his old camera to his new one. When he actually went back outside, he saw why Hunk said to have his camera out.

“Everyone,” Keith said turning the camera to Hunk, who looked extremely proud of himself, “bow to the greatness that is Hunk.” Lance’s birthday cake was amazing. It was a two tiered cake and Hunk had taken inspiration from the unicorn cake. The top was the mermaid’s face and the bottom was covered in the pipped flowers that made up her hair, with shells and a wave motive. The crown Hunk made for it was amazing. “is that icing?” Keith asked, ghosting over what looked like a string of pearls going from the shell that sat in what would have been the middle of the forehead.

“Yep. It’s a vanilla cake with berries in the middle and I somehow got the tone of icing on the first try, so it matches Lance’s. Does it look good?”

“Hunk, this is amazing.” Allura said, as she looked over Keith’s shoulder. “You’re doing mine.”

Hunk looked so smug. Keith couldn’t blame him, both of them had been apprehensive that the idea would even work, but it did.

“I think we’re done decorating.” Allura announced. The balloons, blankets and pillows, streamers, food and everything was in its place. Now all they needed was Lance.

“How long have we been decorating for?” Shiro asked, stealing a slice of watermelon from the plater.

“Almost half in hour? I’m getting our camera and letting Voltron back inside.” Allura said.

“Let Hime out!” Shiro called after her, reminding her about their escape artist black cat.

“It usually takes him about 45 minutes to get his nails done because the people at the saloon love him and work pretty quick with him.” Keith said, doing a panorama shot of the whole set up. “It took me about 15 minutes to get here, so he should be done soon then.” Sure enough, Keith heard Lance’s ringtone from his phone and once Shiro turned off the music, Keith answered. “Hello?...hi…I got my new camera and I’ve been in the bookstore just browsing. Do you want me to come get you now?...ok, I’ll see you soon.” He hung up and faced the camera towards him, Shiro poking out from behind his shoulder. “And the pressure is on now. I’m going to pick up Lance and pray he isn’t confused as to why I’m bringing him here and then the surprise goes down.”

“Fingers crossed everyone. Godspeed Keith.”

When Lance spotted the car outside, he waved goodbye to all the workers, thanking them again before leaving the saloon. He opened the car door and slid into the seat, ignoring the camera as he pressed a quick kiss to Keith’s lips.

“Mm, you taste like champagne.” Keith commented.

“They gave me a mimosa and one of their special champagne cupcakes, which they usually charge like $4 for because it was my birthday. But I swear I’m not tipsy.” Lance stated, making it clear to Keith and the camera.

“Then I’d get to tease you about being a lightweight, but you’d complain about teasing the birthday boy. Can I see your nails?”

Lance showed him the galaxy nails with red and blue cat motifs on them.

“Wow. Are they gel?”

“They are. You are learning. I’m so proud of you.” Lance said, nudging his forehead against Keith’s. He could care less that Keith might leave this whole section out of his video, he was just happy Keith could be affectionate with him even with the camera on him. It had taken him a while to get used to it, but eventually, he was able to ignore the camera. Editing did exist for a reason.

“Hey, so I was asked something, not bad, but kinda out of our way. The person who was supposed to look after Voltron and Hime had to cancel last minute and Shiro asked if we’d be ok walking Voltron.”

“Not like we really have anything else planned. I don’t mind.” Lance said, shrugging.

“Yeah? Alright. We could pick up lunch after we walk her.”

“Yeah. That’s fine.” Lance turned Keith’s camera around while he did something on his phone before pulling out his own camera. He recorded showing off his nails, seeing how he didn’t get a chance to show the final product in the saloon and updated them on what they were doing as Keith drove them to Shiro and Allura’s place.

They arrived and were getting out of the car when Keith said, “Shiro said the back gate is open, so we can go in that way.”

Lance didn’t think much about how that would work on getting inside from the patio door as opposed to the front, but he still went the way Keith suggested. He opened the back gate and walked further into the backyard when he saw the pop up gazebo.

“What the hell?

“Surprise! Happy birthday!”

Lance let out a yelp as his friends came out from what seemed like nowhere. He couldn’t believe his eyes as he stood there kinda stunned as he was pulled into a hug from Hunk.

“Oh my god? Oh my god, guys!” Lance felt his eyes stinging once what was happening finally sank in.

“So we know that your family does birthday picnics and as much as I’d like to say that they’re here, they’re not. But we wanted you to do what you do with them for your birthday.” Keith explained, once Lance was out of Hunk’s hug.

Lance was wiping away any stray tears that had escaped. “Oh my god, thank you.” Lance said, hugging Keith before pulling away, “this is amazing. Thank you guys.”

“We got you good didn’t we?” Pidge said.

“Uh, yeah. I’m mostly surprised you kept this from me,” Lance said, looking at Keith, “especially since you’re a crap liar.”

“He got lessons from Pidge for weeks just so he knew what to say.” Shiro threw in, Pidge looking very proud of themselves.

Remembering he had a rolling camera in his hand, Lance turned around, getting everyone in shot. “So turns out that Keith can lie, with lessons from Pidge, because he tricked me into thinking that we were going to walk Shiro and Allura’s dog but instead, I come to my very own birthday picnic. I have the best friends ever! And the best boyfriend too.”

“Ok, you need to come see your cake before we get this party started because it is amazing.” Allura said, dragging Lance over to the gazebo.

“Oh my god,” Lance had a feeling he’d be saying that a lot for the afternoon, “that’s amazing! Guys, Hunk is truly one of the best people in the world. He made me a mermaid cake!”

“Yes I am and I filmed myself making this and the video for that goes up on the 31st of July.” Hunk told his own camera.

“Oh, vlogception. This means, I can give you my honest opinion on how it taste, which will no doubt be amazing. Quick thing though, can you take the top layer with the face and crown off so I can take it home?”

“I’ll do it before we cut the cake. But first, let’s eat!”

The cameras went away as everyone went to grab a plate and fill it with the amazing food Hunk made. While they were waiting, Lance was planting so many kisses on Keith’s cheek.

“My samurai actually managed to lie to me. I’m so proud of you. Should I be scared though?”

“No. It took everything in me to keep myself from giving it away this morning.” Keith said, looking like he really meant it.

“I swear, Keith is such an awkward liar.” Pidge complained, filling their mason jar with raspberry lemonade. “Teaching him how to actually lie probably was achingly painful.”

“Gee thank you for taking to time and effort to teach me.” Keith drawled, dishing himself a pasta dish.

Food was eaten and everyone was relaxed in the sun. Keith and Lance were lying on top of the Lazmac couch, while the others, except for Pidge, who was editing their video on a large pillow, were sprawled on the blankets. Lance was on top of Keith, letting the paler man play with his hair when he noticed Allura pulling out her camera.

“So Lance, we have another surprise actually.”

“What else could I get?”

“Am I that unforgettable?” an almost Australian accented voice spoke.

“Coran!” Lance yelled, getting off of Keith and running to hug the orange haired man.

“Oh great, Slav’s here too.” Shiro moaned

Slav was Coran’s Yorkshire Terrier who was scared of everything but also very good at annoying everyone. His favourite victim was Shiro. Coran on the other hand, had been the first YouTuber to colab with Lance and they had been close ever since. Lance did this series every year called ‘I have awesome friends’, where he talked about each person’s accomplishments and talking about how lucky he was to be friends with them. The first time he did it, he called Coran his YouTube dad. Lance might be a mommy’s boy but he always admired his father. Funnily enough, Coran met Lance’s parents and Mr. McClain and Coran got along great. Coran would travel the world at different times so Lance was glad he could be here in time to celebrate his birthday.

“Coran!” Slav already making quick work of annoying Shiro, by chewing at his shoe. “Get off flea bag.” Shiro growled

“Shiro!” Allura said disapprovingly.

“Ok, no. Voltron is a sweet dog who knows how to behave and listen. This monster doesn’t. Let go of my shoe!”

“I will go let Voltron back out and see if Hime lets me put her harness on her. Don’t kill my uncle’s dog please.”

“No promises.” Shiro said, leaving everyone giggling at him.

“I say, Hunk. You are going places. This cake is amazing. When are we cutting it?”

“Soon. We were going to play a few games so we can be empty enough for cake. Though mostly we’re waiting for me to finish editing.” Pidge said

“Good, I can eat a lot then. Slav, this way.”

Slav finally let Shiro’s shoe go, leaving the Japanese man to stare down at his ruined shoe. “How much do you think Allura will kill me if I make that dog disappear?”

“It’s like you don’t know your girlfriend at all.” Lance joked, laying back on Keith again.

“Doesn’t mean I’m still not tempted.”

When it came time to cut the cake, everyone held their breath as Hunk removed the top tier with the least amount of damage as possible. Everyone let out a huge sigh when the face was on the plate it was going back in.

“Alright, cake!”

Lance cut a small slice, since the circumference of the cake was quite big and put it onto his plate. “Yum berries and cream, without the strawberries cause this boy is very allergic.”

“Oh! Does everyone know the story of how Keith almost gave Lance a really bad allergic reaction?” Hunk asked.

“Hunk, no!” Keith moaned, trying to shut him up.

“Hunk yes! I wanna know.” Coran asked.

“Lance.” Keith moaned, but his boyfriend ignored him.

“So you all know we went out before Valentine’s Day right? Keith, I have a knife.” Lance warned as Keith tried to shut Lance up. Keith moaned, going over to sulk on one of the blankets. “Keith got me macaroons as a present and they were berry flavoured except Keith didn’t really know I’m allergic to strawberries. Luckily, I have to eat a whole one just to feel affects so one small macaroon just made itch badly. I start itching badly and I turn to Keith and I’m like ‘what berries are these?’ and first one is strawberry, to which I reply to ‘I’m allergic’. I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone turn so pale so quick and I’ve seen Hunk on a roller coaster.”

“To be honest, he goes pale then green.” Pidge said, taking their plate. “But wow, first valentines at the hospital huh?” Pidge teased, poking Keith with their cold drink, making him glare at them.

“Shut up.”

“He got me the flower flavoured one, which I love and he always makes sure I never have anything strawberry, so he earned major boyfriend points for that.” Lance said, going over and leaning over Keith to kiss his cheek.

After cake, the group passed the time just talking, catching up, playing with the dogs and just being content with everyone’s presence.

Suddenly Pidge asked, “Wait, what time is our dinner reservation again?”

“7:30? Why?” Shiro asked, pulling out his phone and looking at the lock screen. “Oh. We’ve been taking for ages. Guys, its 6:02.”

“Oh gez,” Hunk said, getting up, “we need to pack everything up and head home to get ready.”

With everyone working together, they were able to put away all the food for leftovers everyone, the tent and decorations were taken down and Allura took possession of the balloons Lance didn’t want to keep. Before they knew it, people were in their cars back home to get ready for dinner.

Lance had gotten showered and changed, while Keith put away the food and cake, putting the balloons in Lance’s office so the cats wouldn’t be able to get to it.

Speaking of the cats, they were meowing at his feet, knowing it was time for dinner and tonight was special.

“Alright, calm down.” Keith said pulling the premade food Lance had been making the day before. It was a layer of chicken, cod and salmon and they’d pour a small amount of catnip water for it to sit in. “ok you two, sit. Red, sit.” Keith ordered, when the Russian Blue listened to him but her girlfriend kept trying to swipe it out of his hand. When she finally sat down, he waits a moment before placing the two bowls on the floor.

“Shower’s all yours,” Lance said, coming into the kitchen where the cats were eating. Keith took a moment to admire his boyfriend. He was in grey slacks, white dress shirts and blue tie, his blue boot like shoes just working with his outfit.

“You look very handsome.” Keith commented

“Aww, flattery will get you everywhere. Come on, we need to leave soon.”

Keith was quick to jump into the shower. He knew Lance was going to yell at him for his ripped jeans, but in his defence, they were only ripped once at the knee. He hated having to dress fancy, even though they were going to quite a fancy restaurant, so he tried rebelling just a bit. He pulled on the short sleeved shirt, heading over to his bedside table and at the very back was a jewellery box holding Lance’s present. Keith really hoped he liked it, because honestly it was two kinds of a toss-up. He pulled on his shoes once the shirt was buttoned up and after Lance’s present was in its bag, he went down stairs where he was greeted by Lance filming him.

“Look at this handsome man. And he’s got his hair pulled back in the way I really like.” Keith had used a hair clip to pull his hair back. Honestly Lance loved it whenever it was pulled back anyway but he liked the way it was in now the best. “Come here, I want them to see us in the mirror.”

Near their front door, they had a full length mirror. It wasn’t wide to fit them both in, but they didn’t mind as the pulled close together to show the camera their outfits.

“Ready for birthday dinner?” Keith asked.

“And my presents. Let’s go!”

They had dinner at a Maggiano’s, one of Lance’s favourite Italian restaurants. Coran had been added to the list last minute since Lance didn’t even know he’d be in town when his birthday came around.

“I know I’m supposed to wait until dessert but I can’t wait. Happy birthday my boy!” Coran had gotten Lance a solar system snow globe. It was more glitter than snow to make the stars.

“This is so cool. Where did you get this?” Lance asked, trying to make sure he didn’t drop it. It was pretty big.

“I made it myself actually. It took a while but it worked out in the end. I’m glad you like.”

“I love it, thank you.” While it was a whole course early, it just made Lance even more excited to get the rest of his presents.

Finally, food had been eaten and dessert had been ordered. In the time it would take for deserts to get there, they had time to give their presents.

Pidge had given Lance a sheet of paper. Lance was extremely confused and wondered if all the late night gaming and such had finally taken its toll when he realised it was a receipt for an online order.

“Oh, it’s those cat night lights. Look the one I really wanted.” The cat shaped light had been in Lance’s sights for a while but he hadn’t ordered it.

“They said it was supposed to be here by today, but it wasn’t, so that’s the proof I did order it. Hoping it’ll be in the mail tomorrow.” Pidge explained, as Lance came over to hug them.

Hunk gave Lance a crystal bracelet and crown from his girlfriend’s, Shay, store. It hadn’t been released to the public, plus as an apology for missing his birthday. There was also a stack of hand made coupons to redeem whenever he wanted Hunk to make his favourite treat. Honestly, Lance could see a good chunk being used in the next few days.

“Aww, it’s so cute!” Lance cooed at the large lion plush Shiro and Allura got him. It was wearing a customized ‘Paladin Lancelot’ t-shirt and even had the pricings Lance’s avatar would have.

“Thank you for making me lose my cuddling partner.” Keith mocked, watching Lance nuzzle the soft fur.

“Don’t be rude. Let’s see if you can earn back your cuddling rights.”

Keith took a deep breath. The only person at the table who even knew what his present was was Hunk, only because he needed to get the size for Lance’s neck. Hunk gave him a supporting look and once the lion was back in his bag, he took Lance’s hand.

“Hey. So we’ve been together how long?” Keith asked

Lanced hummed happily, “3 and a half years? Yeah, 3 and a half.”

“And we’ve made a lot of promises right?”

“Where is this going?” Lance asked, looking confused but not worried.

“Ok, before I freak out, you know I want to marry you but not yet but I want you to know that I do want it eventually.” Keith passed Lance the bag.

Marriage was something he and Keith talked about. It didn’t feel right yet but he was pretty sure Keith was the guy he wanted to spend the rest of his life with. He had a pretty good feeling as to what Keith had given him, which made him feel slightly giddy. He opened the jewellery box and started laughing.

“What, what? Come on, I’ve been silent to let you have your moment, what did you get him?” Allura demanded, being nosy as ever. Hunk just had a knowing smile on his face.

“I was gonna get him a promise ring, but I went about it a bit differently.” Keith said, as Lance turned the box around. Sitting in it, was what the group could describe as a betrothal necklace, similar to the ones they’d have in Avatar: The Last Airbender. The choker was blue but the small stone that had a symbol etched into it was red. The symbol was two Vs, the points on top of each other and a line between the spaces. Lance’s grandmother drew the members of the family symbols like Lance’s as their own personal symbol, so the family knew who it was.

“Wait, wait, wait,” Allura said, before Lance could take the necklace out of its box. She wiped out her volgging camera and started filming the other couple. “Lance, please explain Keith’s gift.”

“Ok. Um, so you missed the very heartfelt speech Keith gave basically saying how he really wants to marry me sometime in the future and he said he’s giving me a promise ring. I don’t care how high school that sounds, this sort of stuff makes me melt and I love it. Thing is, he went a bit differently and instead of a ring, he got me a necklace. Keith, want to explain the necklace?”

“If you know Avatar, then you know that Zuko and Katara did not get a long at first. Pidge likes to say that we had their relationship, minus the whole betrayal thing. We didn’t get a long when we first met but that changed and we got close then he asked me out. Funnily enough, apparently Zuko and Katara were supposed to be end game but that didn’t happen. Pidge also likes to say we lived the Zutara version. So instead of a ring, I gave Lance a promise betrothal necklace I guess. I got the idea one day and I asked Hunk and he said to do it.”

“Hunk! And you never said anything?” Allura said, as Hunk was dying in a fit of giggles.

Lance handed the box to Keith and let him put the necklace on him. It was perfect and he loved it and it fit them so well.

“Cheers to the promised couple,” Coran cheered. As their friends cheered for them, Lance partially hid his face in Keith’s neck, who pressed a kiss to his forehead. Lance was sure of something, this was the best birthday ever.

“So amazing birthday right?” Keith asked when they were back at home and in bed, ending his vlog.

Lance nodded, his fingers mindlessly playing with the necklace. It didn’t feel uncomfortable to wear to bed and he didn’t want to take it off. He knew it wasn’t an engagement but the thought that Keith wanted it enough to promise made him feel utterly giddy.

“This was without a doubt, the best birthday ever. Everything today was amazing and I never want it to end, but it has to.”

“Why?”

“If it never ends, you’ll never actually fulfil your promise.” Lance teased.

“And I really have to keep that one.” Keith said, pressing a kiss to Lance’s cheek. “So we didn’t film a lot, so we’ll post a team Voltron video soon.”

“Thank you everyone for the birthday wishes, I loved getting them.”

The two said their goodnights and once the camera was on the side table, Keith turned in bed so he could face Lance.

“And thank you for honestly the best birthday ever. I enjoyed every minute of it.”

“I’m glad you liked it.” Keith said, pressing a kiss to Lance’s lips. “I just hope I can make next year just as great.”

“Oh, I know you will.” Lance said, snuggling close to his boyfriend, letting his warmth send him off to sleep.

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OK I’M HERE! I READ IT! I’M LATE BUT IT DID IT! SERIOUSLY REGRETTING NOT READING IT EARLIER! FUCK SLEEP WHO NEEDS SLEEP!

I LOVE THE TWINS SO MUCH SHCDUJUHKFDUISVFDHYDEBCSJ

LEXI TELLING EVERYONE THAT SHE CAN TALK TO RAZIEL BESTIE YOU DOING GREAT!!!

“Lying is wrong!” Selena had told her sister.

“Yes, but cookies are delicious,” Lexi had pointed out, munching on them.

“Daddy!” Selena had said. “Tell her it’s wrong.”

“Lying is wrong!” Daddy had said, but she had barely heard a word since his mouth had been stuffed with cookies too.

LYING IS OKAY IF YOU GET COOKIES

She did not care much for jewellery, especially expensive ones. But Magnus had given this to her – and she didn’t want to take it off.

She combed her long hair and tied it into a high ponytail. If she was going shopping with Magnus, she had to look her best.

It was fine. There were worse ways to spend your tenth birthday. She got to spend it with Magnus. She was not going to complain about it.

AWWW SHE’S LITERALLY MAGNUS’ NO.1 FAN UHSDUCSDUYSDCFUYKSVCD

“Oh!” Selena had beamed. “Like Magnus! He always looks so magnificent!”

“Sure,” David had said, his ears pink in the cold. “That’s who I was thinking about.”

I don’t know much but I do know that his ears were not pink because of the cold and he was not thinking about Magnus.

Selena remembered wishing she caught the fever so Magnus could take care of her too.

Same- I MEAN WOULDN’T WE ALL??

ALSO, MAX STAYING WITH DAVID WHEN HE WAS SICK DWHYDYGUFEYUKGFYEUGFEWUYG

Oh, Jocelyn died.

Rip I guess?

OOOO THEY INVITED THE COHORT TO TALK ABOUT THIS STUFF BECAUSE SHADOWHUNTERS ARE DYING OF MUNDANE ILLNESSES

I say we kill them.

Selena had never felt anger like that before. She had wanted to drown that awful man in the lake she floated around in her dreams.

BESTIE SAME

“Lettuce?”

“Yes?”

“No screaming when I show you the gift,” Daddy said. “We have visitors at the institute.”

“Is it a sword?” Lexi asked.

“No,” Daddy replied.

“Then I won’t scream,” her twin shrugged at him.

AHUEDCHGUHFEWUIFUIRUI SHE’S SUCH A HERONDALE I LOVE-

PUPPY OH MY GOD IT’S A PUPPY!!!!!!!!

“IT’S A PUPPY! IT’S A PUPPY! OH MY GOD, IT’S A PUPPY! DAVID GOT US A PUPPY!”

Her twin had jumped – no, leaped – off the counter and dashed towards their father, who was holding a small grey puppy in his arms.

“I AM SO SORRY I TOLD YOU I DON’T WANT YOU, LITTLE FRIEND. I LOVE YOU SO MUCH. I WILL PROTECT YOU WITH MY TWENTY TOY SWORDS!”

“Lexi, stop screaming!” Mommy said. “You will wake everyone up.”

“EVERYONE WAKE UP AND COME MEET MY PUPPY!” Lexi screamed even louder.

I LOVE HER SO MUCH DHJBSDCHJBFSJSFEDSF

She drew the unlock rune on the door the way her daddy did on his office door and sneaked into the Consul’s office.

I’m not even surprised anymore-

AWW, SELENA GOING THERE TO LOOK AT THE MURAL OF IDRIS. YOU’LL GO THERE ONE DAY BESTIE I PROMISE

ANJALI IS HERE Y’ALL!!!!!!!

Anjali walked over to her father’s desk, sat down on the chair, and put her feet on the table.

The Inquisitor’s table.

Only she could get away with something like that.

THERE’S MY FAVORITE PERSON EVER Y’ALL

EVEN ALEC IS WARY OF HER UHJSDVCUHSVDUUHSVUHSUIVGRVSR

Selena loved Idris with all her heart. But she knew Idris was not a perfect place.

Any place that was mean to Magnus could never be perfect.

EXACTLY

“Well, it turned out well for me,” Anjali winked. “Now when he gives me shit for my ‘bad judgement’ I just throw his dating history in his face. Dated Zara Dearborn? Broke up with Cristina Rosales? Yikes. Could not be me.”

BESTIE YES! HOW CAN DIEGO JUDGE PEOPLE’S JUDGEMENT WHEN HIS DATING HISTORY LOOKS LIKE THAT???

“Just because he looks like a movie star, it doesn’t mean everything should be handed to him,” Anjali answered, rolling her eyes. “Entitled piece of shit.”

You know I kinda ship them-

“Dang, girl. No practice swords for you, huh. You just straight up went for the mortal sword. I like your style.”

“Uncle Kit!” Selena yelled and ran towards him.

KIT KIT KIT KIT KIT KIT KIT KIT HISDUIDEUYKFSFUS7IKKIYGVFSDLY7TKGVFEDYTGFECYGU

ASH OMG ASH IS HERE TOO!!!!

"some man called Anus" BYE-

PARABATAI KIT AND ASH OMG

The whole pre-meeting prep is kinda giving me pre-wedding vibes idk how to explain but the whole rush and organizing that day and making calls and stuff.

“Ash was very beautiful. After Magnus of course” “She liked Aunt Izzy best. After Magnus of course,” GIRL HAS HER PRIORITIES STRAIGHT

"How bad can the cohort be?" well you see-

“Is that the cohort?” Selena asked, her voice a whisper.

“No, that’s a bitch.”

Yup. that’s accurate

“Is he here?”

“Whom?” Daddy asked.

“Alec Lightwood,” the woman asked.

“You mean the Consul?” Daddy asked.

“I meant Alec.”

“The Consul?”

“Alec!”

“Who also happens to be the Consul?”

“Fine, yes, the Consul!” the woman sounded impatient. “Is he here yet?”

It’s Lightwood-Bane bitch

AWWW SELENA DESCRIBING ALEC AS REGAL THAT’S SO CUTE

And accurate-

IT’S THE SAME BLUE AGAIN

Selena noticed her father was looking very emotional. She couldn’t blame him.

“My liege,” Daddy bowed deeply.

“Cut it out,” the Consul smacked him. “What’s the status?”

Yup, that’s them. Also same Jace.Same.

“I always expected the offspring of these two to be like…”

“Like what?” Daddy demanded.

At that moment, Lexi ran past the hall, yelling and screaming as she carried a toy sword in one hand and Dorian Gray in another.

“MAKE WAY FOR ALEXANDRA THE GREAT AND HER LOYAL COMPANION DORIAN GRAY! CHRISTOPHER! BRING ME MY OTHER NINETEEN SWORDS! WE MUST SET FIRE TO THE EVIL EMPEROR AND SAVE THE PRINCESS!”

“Like that,” Magnus chuckled.

Will in the afterlife, wiping tears: A true Herondale.

“I hope so too, Magnus,” Selena said shyly.

The Consul frowned at that. “It’s Uncle Magnus to you.”

Selena ignored that. The Consul was not the boss of her.

Well, technically he was the boss of everyone. But still!

UHNJCSDUHUSDHSVUDVUD SELENA

Do not remind me. I would like to remain blissfully unaware that not all of them are mortal :D

The Consul grumbled and turned to Mommy. “You were right to name her Fairchild. She is going to be a pain in my ass.”

“Hey!” Daddy covered Selena's ears again. “It’s like you guys didn't get my monthly newsletter on language modification!”

“No one here reads your newsletter, Jace,” Aunt Izzy rolled her eyes.

"I do," the Consul put up his hand.

Of course, you do Alec. I can totally see the LBAF gang defying Alec left and right UHKGXUYCSUYGCSYCFSED

“Izzy, how many times!” the Consul grumbled. “No placing bets on the children. Besides, everyone knows it’s going to be Alexandra.”

“Hey!” her parents said at the same time.

“What are y’all doing here?” Lexi came running then, cause her superpower was to magically appear whenever someone was talking about her. “We have shit to do! Come on!”

“Not helping, Lettuce!” Daddy shook his head. “Clary, take the lead.”

Of course, it’s gonna be Lexi.

FHUJCSDUHSDUHJ SELENA NOT UNDERSTANDING THE INNUENDO MAGNUS MADE LMAO NOT IN FRONT OF THE KIDS

“My name is Alexander Lightwood-Bane. I’m the Consul of the Clave. You will talk to me with respect.”

Selena saw Zara flinch at that. It was satisfying to watch.

Zara, I will gladly feed you to sharks stfu

“You sound a little jealous,” Zara grinned. “If you want to come back, we can arrange that. You could leave that good for nothing husband of yours and-”

“Zara, I swear by the angel,” Aunt Izzy said through gritted teeth. “Insult my husband again and see what happens.”

ISABELLE YES! I NEED MORE SIZZY WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH OF THESE TWO

SHE DID NOT JUST INSULT MAX AND RAFE FUCK YOU BITCH

OH, NOW SHE INSULTED THE TWINS. I WILL DROWN YOU DO NOT TEST ME

“They called me a freak too,” her mother spoke. “Insult our children again and I will show you what freaks can do.”

YES CLARY

Max and David were really close. Like Daddy and Uncle Alec.

Maybe even closer. Like Uncle Alec and Magnus - cause one of them was a warlock! And they always gave each other dopey looks.

HJBASYUGJCESDYUTGVCSDUTVSDT6U7VSDC THIS! (I think they get together because of the snippet but if they don’t-)

The moment Magnus left, Max snatched the credit card and whistled. “Y’all, Christmas came early.”

“We can’t just buy anything, Max,” Rafe rolled his eyes. “Dad will be pissed when he finds out.”

“Maybe we should buy little things we can hide,” Max winked. “Little…but expensive things.”

“Oh, like diamond rings?” Lexi gleamed.

“What would you even do with diamond rings?” Selena demanded.

“Sell them in the black market in exchange for cash,” Lexi replied.

“By the angel, Lex,” Rafe chuckled. “I'm gonna keep both my eyes on you.”

LEXI YES OMG YES YES YES YES

“Your demands are unacceptable,” Rafe said, imitating his father. “How about ice-cream?”

“I accept your counter proposal,” Lexi nodded, imitating Daddy. “Let’s unleash hell in Baskin-Robbins.”

BASKIN ROBBINS BOUTA BE RAIDED BY 4 CHAOTIC CHILDREN LET’S GO

Holy fuck she has children. Who’s the poor father?

“These are my sisters Saraquel and Remiel and Michael,” the boy pointed at the girls, completely ignoring Rafe’s comment. “Our parents named us after the archangels.”

“And they called us angel freaks?” Lexi muttered incredulously.

“I know, Lexi. Fancy names indeed,” Max nodded. “But kinda hard to pronounce to be honest.”

A very genuine what the fuck

“My name is Alexandra James Herondale,” Lexi said, her voice steady. “And I am named after the greatest Consul and dopest archer of all time. He is a better man than any of your dumb archangels.”

YES LEXI YOU GO, GIRL

“Idris is lame,” Max snorted now. “You don’t even have internet.”

Lexi shuddered at that.

The reason I would never want to live in Idris

THE WAY SELENA WAS READY TO BEAT THE GUY UP WHEN HE INSULTED MAGNUS AND HOW MAX GOT ANGRY WHEN HE INSULTED DAVID

SELENA’S 10 BITCH FUCK YOU

“Holy shit!” one of the girls said. “That was kinda cool. Is that a twin thing?”

“It’s a common sense thing,” Lexi rolled her eyes. “Duck!”

People are idiots

But Selena tried not to think about the other girl. It didn’t matter whose daughter Michael was – it only mattered whose daughter Selena was.

And she was the daughter of Clary Fairchild and Jace Herondale.

She was not going to run.

GIRL YES

Y’ALL DON'T GET KILLED

AYY MAGNUS IS HERE THEY’RE ALL GONNA BE OK NOW

“It’s warlock magic,” the boy whispered – but not too quietly. “It’s demonic.”

Some of the ichor from the demons fell right on the boy’s head.

“Oops,” Magnus said. “Warlock magic is also a little clumsy.”

HVBCDSHJCSDYCDYJGCD THE BOY DESERVED IT!!!!!

“Manuel has an important meeting,” Zara rolled her eyes. “I’m stuck babysitting them.”

“It’s not babysitting when you do it!” Daddy said incredulously. “You’re their mother. It’s called parenting.”

GODDAMIT WOMAN DON'T HAVE CHILDREN IF YOU CAN’T TAKE CARE OF THEM

“He called David a bastard,” Lexi said.

“He did what?” her mother demanded.

“And he called Max a freak,” Selena said.

“He did what?” the Consul demanded.

“And he flirted with Selena,” Rafe made a face.

“HE DID WHAT?” Daddy looked murderous.

NAH BECAUSE WE’RE ALL DOWNRIGHT READY TO KILL THIS BITCH

ALSO, SELENA WAS SO RIGHT TO BREAK THE BOY’S NOSE.

“Look at them! Cahooting in demonic languages,” Zara sniffed.

“It’s Spanish,” Aunt Izzy said incredulously. “Your husband speaks it too!”

Zara you dumb shit-

That part where Magnus was checking up on all of them and seeing if they’re ok and the kids looked like they had never seen anything like that-

They deserve better. GODDAMN IT JULIAN BLACKTHORN MANAGED TO BE A BETTER PARENT 12

Her father held Selena’s hand in his. “You better raise your son to respect women, Zara – Because I’m raising my daughters to break noses.”

YES YES YES YES

He knelt down next to her and put a strand of hair behind her ear. “Can I tell you a secret, cupcake?”

Selena nodded. She loved secrets.

“People call me a freak too,” Magnus winked.

“You?” Selena gasped.

“Yes,” he nodded. “If people call you a freak, it means you are doing something different. Something bold. Something small minds will never be able to think of. So, it’s not an insult. Don’t forget that.”

YES THIS

AWWW THE LITTLE GIRL GAVE SELENA HER NECKLACE.

“Some people don’t like women in power.”

“Why not?”

“Because women get shit done.”

Selena giggled at that. “You said a bad word.”

“It’s not bad. Say it with me, Selena,” her mother said gently. “Women get shit done.”

YES WE GET SHIT DONE

“Are you saying I shouldn’t be afraid?” Selena asked. “I should be strong?”

“I'm saying you should be anything you want to be,” her mother kissed her head. “You can be brave like Izzy. You can be fearless like Emma. You can be kind like Cristina. You can be cool like Dru. You can be sensible like Maia. You can be confident like Lily. You can be smart like Tessa. You can be fierce like Diana. You can be geeky like me.”

Her mother held her face closely. “You get to decide what kind of woman you want to be. I want you to remember that - because there is no wrong way to be a woman.”

THIS! WE NEED TO HEAR THIS MORE OFTEN!

“The next time someone points fingers at you because you are a woman, go ahead and break them.”

DO IT

This was her mother.

Clary Fairchild. One of the most powerful shadowhunters.

Selena sometimes forgot that. Sometimes you forget your mom is so much more than your mom.

There is a person underneath that – someone full of dreams and hopes and talents you could never imagine.

SHE’S LITERALLY SO POWERFUL AND AMAZING IF I SEE ONE MORE PERSON HATE ON HER I'M GONNA KILL THEM

THE IDRIS VISION EDYUGYFEUGYUKGFEWUYTGFEWUTFEW7FE

Rafe was going to be their leader. He would be Selena’s Consul. She knew it.

Gigi was going to be just like Aunt Izzy. An amazing inventor. A chaos to be reckoned with.

Lexi was going to be the best fighter in the whole world. She would fly above everyone and everything.

And David and Max…Well, they seemed very happy with each other. Selena supposed that was enough. Like Uncle Alec and Magnus. To find something you can be happy with no matter what. Because sometimes there was no greater purpose than love.

And Selena….She knew exactly what she was going to do.

She was going to lead all of them back to Idris.

Explain why I'm crying reading this. I love them all so much. They mean so much to me already. SELENA ONE DAY YOU’RE GONNA LEAD THEM ALL BACK TO IDRIS I KNOW YOU WILL

This chapter was beautiful. I'm gonna be in a corner crying in case someone needs me. See ya on Friday!! (well technically it’ll be Saturday for me since for me the updates come after midnight)

THIS GAVE ME LIFE. LIFE, YA HEAR ME?

Also my favorite comment (which I might print on something) - GODDAMIT WOMAN DON'T HAVE CHILDREN IF YOU CAN’T TAKE CARE OF THEM

Also this made me laugh out loud so hard >> - GODDAMN IT JULIAN BLACKTHORN MANAGED TO BE A BETTER PARENT 12

#my bad about them tears but I am glad you enjoyed this one!!#lbaf #thank you!

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in holt's voice: Pain. That's it.

Today hasn't been the best but HEY I HAD THESE PRECIOUS BABIES TO KEEP MY COMPANY

He looked exhausted like he hadn’t slept at all.

alec...

I'm already sad and ready to murder

the baby...

David had never lost someone he loved.

this is fucking foreshadowing isn't it

But real strength was not in surviving the presence of pain. Real strength was in suviving the absence of love.

despite the chaos I'm glad to see these two interacting

The Consul leaned back in his chair and ran his hand through his beard. David had to admit, he looked damn good with it. Even if it made him seem even more intimidating than before.

yes boy YES

it's really hard not to smile right now but my camera is on and im supposed to be finding meanings of foreign words based on my own knowledge so-

JACKSON

“Max is too old for me to tell him what he is and isn’t allowed to do,” the Consul said – although he didn’t sound very happy about it.

MY TEACHER ASKED ME THE FIRST QUESTION IM LOSING MY SHIT

It’s going to be okay. It’s going to be okay. It’s going to be okay.

let's hope so

Facts and figures, babe, Max had kissed his cheek last night. Dad likes facts and figures.

deep breathes

it'll be ok

“You’ve done your research,” the Consul nodded. There was a hint of approval in his voice that made David want to do a cartwheel.

AWWWW

“I’d like to take care of the New York institute,” David said now. “Because Jace Herondale and Clary Fairchild took care of me.”

And for the first time that evening, the Consul smiled. David wanted to burst into song.

AHHHH

this is beautiful

David couldn’t help but find that endearing. He wondered what it felt like to be loved like that. He wondered what it felt like to have a father like that – a father who couldn't stop loving his child even for a moment.

A love that was endless and tireless.

Every time he was in the presence of the Lightwood-Bane family he was reminded of what he had lost and what every child deserved.

It made him sad.

But then he would remember. He would remember that Max had grown up knowing nothing but this. Max had grown up with nothing but love.

It made him happy.

alright come here let me hug you

UHUHSCUICDUH "Why do you not like me"

“I know I worry too much about Max,” the Consul said, his smile sad now. “But I can only worry now. I won’t always be there to worry over him.”

it's 9 am boy

THESE TWO REALLY BE ASKING THE TRUE QUESTIONS

"Why are you scared of me" HSUHYUKDUMKDS WELL YOU SEE-

all we can really do is replace the bad memories with happier ones...

“No,” the Consul said, and David’s heart almost stopped. “I mean, of course I care. But I don’t have to be hard on you to show you that I do. There are many ways to show people we care about them without hurting them.”

David thought of his father then. He remembered the way his father had drawn the agony rune on his wrist and promised him it was because he loved David and wanted him to be strong. The memory hurt.

Jace and Clary bestest

“I’m sorry for whatever I did to intimidate you,” the Consul apologized.

that is so alec oh my god 😭

David looked him in the eye. “You’re Alec Lightwood.”

The man looked confused. “Is that supposed to mean something?

I'm smiling so much right now because yeah

yeah I get what he's saying

David hadn’t known that boys were allowed to kiss other boys – not until he heard about Alec Lightwood’s Accords Hall kiss.

David hadn’t known fairy tales existed outside of books - not until he heard about Alec Lightwood adopting a warlock baby with Magnus Bane.

David hadn’t known love can literally change the world – not until he heard about Alec Lightwood changing the world for the man he loved.

don't make me cry during linguistics

“Well,” the Consul chuckled. “To be entirely honest, I did all of that for Magnus.”

as he should

“Everything I have ever done has always been for Magnus,” the Consul said, his voice oddly soft.

we're talking about some wall in class and im here trying not to cry

my teacher just asked why some of us have our cameras off WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO SAY

“I don’t want to be a hero,” David confessed honestly. “I just thought if I ran away to a city full of heroes, they would protect me if someone tried to hurt me again.”

“What’s that?” the Consul frowned, pointing at his neck.

By the angel! David was going to have words with Max when he saw him again.

“Uh,” David said. “Mosquito bite.”

AHHHHHHHH MOSQUITO BITE

“Do you remember when Izzy got attacked by a demon in Edom?”

“And you drank my blood,” the Consul rolled his eyes.

“Aw,” the Dean of the Academy chuckled. “You do remember.”

poor David is stuck between them talking like this IM SCREAMING

He remembered the way Consul had blamed himself when Max had found the spoils room at the York Institute. The way he had believed he should have done better when his eldest son had been traumatized by foul rumours of the Clave.

oh honey no

There were people who got mad at themselves when things went wrong.

There were people who got mad at everyone around them when things went wrong.

While Alec Lightwood was the former, his son and David’s boyfriend, was definitely the latter.

I'm definitely both

“It wasn’t your fault,” David spoke up then. “When bad things happen to people, it’s because of the people who did those bad things. We shouldn’t atone for someone else’s sins.”

“Yeah. Stop atoning, dude,” the Dean said chuckled. “Listen to the boy.”

YES EVERYONE LISTEN TO DAVID

“And be careful,” the Consul said, his tone a little different now.

“I will keep an eye on-”

“No,” the Consul said and pointed at the hickey on David’s neck. “With Max. Be careful.”

David was pretty sure his face on fire.

OH MY GOD

IM SHAKING

“Um, we have the internet,” David pointed out.

The Consul blinked. “Right. Of course. The internet.”

yes

ao3 and Wattpad

KIDS DON'T GO ON THESE WEBSITES AT 11 JUST DO NOT

“If he gives you a hard time, don’t give up,” the man whispered like it was a secret. “You just need to weasel your way into his life.”

David chuckled. “Is that what you did?”

yup

“Yeah, and then he had the audacity to get accidentally get drunk and confess his love in the middle of the night.”

AWW SHE'S TELLING GIGI ABOUT THEIR PAST

“I did have a latte,” her mother said with a straight face.

Georgia didn’t find that funny.

I almost said "BECAUSE IT'S NOT FUNNY" before I realized that is exactly what I would've said

She knew her mother, like so many other people in her life, preferred to use humour to cope with the pain. They preferred to hide their pain away from other people.

Georgia never understood why people did that. Did they think others didn’t know what pain felt like? Everyone was in pain all the time – some kind of it at least. Everyone knew how to cope with it. So, it made more sense to share it than to carry it all by yourself.

i...I never look at it that way

Apparently, hand holding had special healing abilities at times like this.

yeah it really does

Georgia had hoped to find out herself. She had wondered so much about the baby.

tears. literal tears

It didn’t matter that Georgia had wanted to name the baby Abigail after the first iron sister. It didn’t matter that her father wanted to name the baby Jonathan to piss off Uncle Jace.

Abigail Jonathan Lightwood-Lovelace

FUCK OFF AND LET ME CRY IN PEACE

People said that poison was a coward’s weapon. But Georgia didn’t think so. It wasn’t easy to make poison. It wasn’t easy sneak it into the right place at the right time.

Whoever did this, they were not cowards. They were smart and they should be feared.

yeah, what did happen during the trial?

uh is Selena ok?

like genuinely

is she just a very heavy sleeper or...

MARYSE

Because sometimes the only comfort you needed was your mom.

yeah...

Except for random parts of the house that were incredibly organized – a sign Uncle Jace had been there

Yup.

“I’m staying in New York, mom. I’m going to help Selena and the centurions find out who did this to me,” her mother said, her words a promise. “And once I do, I’m going to strangle them with my whip.”

Yes you will

Anjali and Rafe

please be ok. please

HOW ABOUT WE DO A TRADE

ZARA'S LIFE FOR ANJALI'S 😄

ok I know that's not how it works but IM DESPERATE

her bedroom seems amazing though

Rafael gave so much shit to his dad because the other man had the habit of watching his husband sleep.

But now he sort of understood the fascination.

AWWWWW

“You do ballet?” he asked, holding up the ballet shoes.

slightly reminds me of rosa

OK WHO AM I KIDDING SHE TOTALLY DOES

the red binder

it's fucking genius

David can keep his flowers and cookies and scarves.

This, what he held in his hands right now, was the best thing anyone could ever give him. A file full of reforms to make the clave better.

IM SCREAMING

“You think I want to die and leave the Council in your cishet hands?”

YES BESTIE

“I don’t care what the Clave needs,” Rafael snapped, and Anjali momentarily looked taken aback. “I need you.”

he needs her

FUCK IT TIME TO CRY

“Bulgaria is known as the land of roses,” Rafael told her. “The Sofia Institute is built in the middle of a rose garden.”

“Oh,” Anjali’s eyes momentarily softened. “I like roses.”

you know that tiktok trend? the one which goes "listen it's a good joke it's a great joke even but i need you to stop" or smth like that?

yeah

His hand was itching to reach out and hold hers. So, he did just that. He reached out – very carefully – and took her hand in his own.

“I need you to get better, Anjali,” he whispered. “Cause I would very much like to take you there.”

HAND HOLDING

no she's not becoming a vampire

The part that was the shadowhunter – which told him she didn’t deserve to die over some angelic mishap.

The part that was the future Consul – which told him he needed Anjali on his side.

The part that was a Lightwood-Bane – which told him he should never give up fighting.

And then there was the part that was Rafael – just Rafael.

It told him he had to save his heart – no matter the consequences.

we're talking about some powerplant in geography and I'm crying over this

Anjali please please don't die

“Not everything,” Rafael told her. “I know someone who can help.”

WHO

GIVE ME A NAME

“Well, now we don’t know that for sure!” Max grinned. “Who knows what they get up to? Maybe there is someone occasional boning in the bone city.”

“How does manage to get more insufferable every time I meet him?” Jackson demanded.

i...never looked at it that way

OH JACKSON IS BECOMING A SILENT BROTHER

Max grinned widely at the other boy. “You wanna be my immortal buddy, Jack-Jack?”

OOP-

“The boys are back” he yelled, hugging David and Jackson. “Ty, our boys are back! Yas! The London Boys are back!”

THE LONDON BOYS

“Okay it’s a little disrespectful when you call her by the same name you call me,” Max pointed out.

“True,” Jackson nodded. “Irene shouldn’t be disrespected like that.”

YUYZXYSCGYZCGYUCUIZCVUH SCREAMING

"It’s hard being a celeb,” Max sighed dramatically.

“He is referring to the chaos you unleashed the last time you went there,” Jackson rolled his eyes. “People still remember you.”

“I’m memorable. It’s not my fault,” Max shrugged.

Max no more gambling bestie

“If the assassination attempt on Magnus had been successful, we wouldn’t be sitting and talking like this,” Kit pointed out. “The nephilim and downworlders would be at war.”

As they should. No one hurts Magnus

“So the target isn’t just Magnus Bane?” Jackson asked.

“Possibly,” Ty nodded. “The Consul and his husband…They are the ones who united the shadow world – with the Alliance. With their marriage. So, it’s not surprising that someone – seelie or not – wants to break it all down.”

with every line, I get closer to a breakdown

“There are people all around me to protect me from demons and crazy assassins,” Max smiled. “But you…You protect me from myself. So, don’t give me that I’m not good at protecting bullshit.”

so precious...

“Now let’s go find out which dumbass thought it would be a good idea to try and kill Magnus Fucking Bane.”

i have a few torture methods in mind

If shadowhunters couldn’t fight demons, it would put both downworlders and mundanes in danger. His father’s Clave – small as it was – did their best to keep the demons at bay. They were the only thing keeping the shadow world safe from demons.

Ikr?? Like David said earlier Alec's clave is literally the one doing the actual shadowhunting.

“Jackson is incredibly smart and perceptive. He knows what is good for him, David. He chose you to be his best friend. He has accepted that his family is gone for good and is finally focusing on his future. If this is what he wants to do and if this is who he wants to be, then you should trust that he has thought this through. He wouldn’t have chosen this life if he thought he wouldn’t be happy with it.”

TRUE

ALRIGHT WHO TF IS BEHIND ALL THIS

i just want to talk 🙂

“Great,” Max said, feeling frustrated. “So, someone created a fancy new poison just to kill my parents.”

“They did say something else,” Kit said, his tone worried. “The poison…It’s not entirely made of demonic properties.”

“Oh?” David said.

“It’s a mixture of angelic and demon properties,” Ty Blackthorn said. “And we know that-”

“Seelies,” Max whispered. “They have both angel and demon blood.”

Is anyone else scared?

GASP

WHAT IF

It's an angel and prince of hell working together?

ok that seems highly unlikely

“I don’t think you have a choice, bud,” Kit giggled. “Mina will have your head if you don’t get married. She has been working on a Pinterest board for years now.”

KIT

WHAT THE FUCK

OH MY GOD KIT

NO NO NO

HE CAN'T BE DEAD

NO FUCK NO

I'm absolutely loving all this angst so much. You said chapter 9 was the most angsty and frankly I can't wait :p

now...IF KIT AND ANJALI DIE I WILL BE VERY VERY SAD but the angst potential with Anjali though...NOPE NOPE NOPE. MY GIRL'S GONNA BE INQUISITOR I KNOW SHE WILL.

AHHHHHH THIS CHAPTER WAS A LOT LMAO.

I love how you are complaining but also thirsting for angst yall crazy.

I hope you are taking care of yourself and working on your entry for the competition!!!!!

Also the "we're talking about some wall in class" killed me lmao I laughed so hard fdhvjd.

#lbaf

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