#blame Vic

[justplainwhump]

Just A Fling: Distraction

Because @wildfaewhump has amazing (hot!) characters and Dany just can't keep her hands to herself, here's another spicy AU. In which my Dany and Vic's Peyton have had nothing bad happen to them and are successful rich kids working in their parent's companies. They also happen to have insane chemistry.

[Just A Fling Masterlist]

(Don't worry though, there's plenty whump on the horizon. Peyton isn't exactly a nice guy.)

(This is technically aligned with the "Everything and Nothing" AU of Vic, focusing on Valerian as Peyton's spouse)

Content: (Very) Spicy flirting. A lot of innuendo.

Night has long fallen, and Dany leans back in the leather chair of the hotel bar, staring at the city lights far below. Young Leaders in Management, the conference is called, and it's an honor to be there; chances are a bunch of them will be in next year's "30 under 30" list of top managers. It's hard to truly believe in it, when most of them work for companies that have their parents' name.

People like Peyton Montgomery, 29, CFO of Montgomery Capital. Charlene Lennox, 26, CFO of Baxter, Lennox and partners. Orville Roscoe, 25, whose grandmother put the R in WRU. And herself, Danielle Hammond, 29, COO of the Hammond Group.

Charlene had invited her to dinner over their joint venture building up a freight airline; and as always she'd been a strenuous and utterly un-fun conversation partner, leaving Dany in desperate need of a drink after their meeting had finally ended.

A drink, and a distraction.

She pulls out her phone with a sigh, scrolling down to find the respective apps.

"What are you doing?", Kate asks, suddenly alert. Shes been half asleep before, and Dany almost feels the pang of a bad conscience. Kate is second shift of her security detail, but that still means she's been working all night.

"Bumble." Dany turns her screen for Kate to see. "I need a fuck."

"Dany," Kate groans. "Please, give me a break. You know how hard it is to vet random strangers on the internet? For all I know, any of the men in that app could be a serial killer."

"Well, what else do you suggest?"

"Look at what's right in front of you. How about..." She makes a vague gesture. "Peyton Montgomery? He's sitting at the bar and he checked your ass out twice in the last five minutes alone."

Dany glances over her shoulder through the dim light of the half empty bar, easily spotting Peyton's dark curls. He's sitting at the bar. Alone, it seems - a state that seems entirely wrong for him. At home during any social events, he's the heart of the party; him, his spouse and their elitist circle of old-money friends. She'd never felt any need to belong.

"Pretty sure your line of arguments is flawed," she notes. "Rich boys can be serial killers, too, you know."

"At least I can be sure that he isn't in it for your money." Kate shrugged and pushed her glass of water from one side of the table to the other. "Plus, he lives in the same hotel. Neither of us has to get out in the cold."

Dany sighs and looks at him again. She's attended a panel with him, earlier today, 'Cost cutting by Process Automation'. Arrogant, spoilt, pumped with the casual confidence of those who always got whatever they wanted. He's also got a pretty smile, dry humour, and a way with numbers. And she really likes the way his shirt emphasises his shoulders.

Maybe it's worth a shot.

His head goes up to the mirror over the bar and he smirks, acknowledging her stare. Slowly, not breaking eye contact, he raises his glass to his lips and takes a small sip.

Fuck.

Just for that smirk, she'd swipe him right in any app.

She breaks their eye contact and looks back at Kate, half defeated. "I'll talk to him."

Kate grins and raps her knuckles on the table. "Good luck."

~

"Dany Hammond." Peyton smiles as she steps up next to him. "Really enjoyed that debate with you today. You're up late."

"Thanks. Right back at you. Still not over your cost efficiency argumentation, though. These numbers are obviously -" She bites her lip and shakes her head. Focus. She's here to find something else entirely. "Well you're right with one thing. It's too late to talk business."

"It is." He tilts his head at the empty bar stool next to him. "Let me buy you a drink?"

Dany raises an eyebrow, stepping back to look him down slowly. His shoulders and arms under that expensive shirt look even better up close. He really is her type. "Depends on what your intentions are with that."

He chuckles and returns the favour, taking her in head to toe. "Well... I could certainly come up with some ideas for my... intentions." Peyton glances over her shoulder and raises his glass towards Kate. "I guess it all depends on what your bodyguard back there will let me do to you."

"Ah." Dany clicks her tongue in fake disappointment. "Wrong answer, rich boy."

"Oh?" He narrows his eyes, a hint of a challenge sparking in them. "Depends on what... you'll let me do to you?"

She takes a sip of her drink and tilts her head. "Better."

He's not moving for a moment, simply assessing her, and she wonders if Kate's been wrong.

"Let's say..." He begins, and something to his tone makes a warm shiver run down her spine already. His eyes are firmly on hers now, very carefully observing any reaction. "Let's assume my intentions were to fuck you over every horizontal surface of my suite?"

Dany's heart is racing with anticipation. "Hmmm." Her lip twitches into a smirk. "Then I guess you should order these drinks to go."

Peyton snaps his fingers and signals the bartender without taking his gaze off of her. "You should just know, Dany," He gives her an almost boyish grin, as the bartender scurries back to pick up a bottle. "I was prepared to properly seduce you. I'd have given you the whole nine yards. The words, the smiles, the body language, the touches. People tend to admire my effortless charm."

Dany slides from her chair, their bodies almost touching, but just not, close enough to feel the heat radiating from each other. "Oh I don't have a doubt you're a good actor", she admits, and reaches out, fingertips resting on his chest. "But haven't we found on in that debate that we both rather share a passion for..." She leans in, acutely aware of how her hair falls over his shoulder, how her breath must feel on the skin of his neck. "... efficacy."

He moves faster than she expected, his hand on her hip spinning her around, and then she's pinned between his body and the bar, and it's his mouth that is on her neck, his teeth grazing over her skin.

From the corner of her eye, she sees Kate jump to her feet.

Peyton chuckles, holds out his hand, and a cold bottle of champagne is handed to him.

"Make sure your bodyguard knows not to disturb us," he murmurs into her hair. "We're going to be making a lot of noise."

[darcyolsson]

love how raphael inexplicably thinks jace and simon have something going on between them. don't we all

[angelsdean]

DEAN And she's gonna kill you, and then she's gonna kill me.

Castiel and Dean exchange a look. Castiel agrees, this situation is hopeless, but he can't bring himself to say it.

DEAN I'm sorry.

[i3utterflyeffect]

Oh yeah, maybe Nightshade doesn't get his memories back all at once from his initial amnesia,and is trying to piece together his past using fragments of what he can recall. Maybe he even asks victim for help with it. However, when he figures out that he was originally a human, he doesn't say anything to them because he knows they didn't have good experiences with humans in the past. Then he figures out that he wasn't just any human, he was that human.

god, a slow realization would REALLY suck.... just realizing that he was human and being terrified to tell Victim because he knows Vic hates humans (i mean he's not REALLY human. he's still a stick, he'd rather be a stick in any world. right? right. his life was probably miserable anyway) and like, surely he wouldn't be one of those humans, right? but as the memories keep coming back he slowly realizes that he wasn't only one of those humans, he was THE human who hurt vic--

[helenofblackthorns]

ok maybe this is just me BUT hear me out. the murders of shadowhunters are one of the few plot points that did in fact make it way from tmh to tlh right? but while their purpose in tlh is Belial bring Leviathan to earth, in tmh they are heavily implied to be for Jesse's resurrection. and immediately after this its revealed Grace is quite skilled as a warrior and this kinda suggests that Grace will be the one to kill the shadowhunters. which is idea I think you do so much with like think of the possibilities.

like imo I don't think Grace is the type to just kill five innocent people. Tatiana would, but not Grace. so when deciding to undertake this task, I think she would select people she deems deserving of it, who aren't innocent and instead are bad, people nobody would really miss, not nice etc. so yes Elias still dies <3 also I think it would be a given that while Tatiana is under the impression Grace is doing all this on her account, that she will end up being the fifth and final death needed. like the inverse of Valentine and Jace in tmi. this also ties into Grace being Heaven with the whole idea of a Avenging Angel. also this would create the messiest love triangle in existence like wouldn't even be about James anymore lol

[themotherofhorses]

what if vic said she’s considering writing the absolute nastiest raunchiest sinfulness smut for riley bitchsss “ghost” simon.

what then.

[gncrezan]

I love your unhealthy clingy famous MC you don't understand how feral I'm over him

THANK YOU I LOVE HIM SO DEARLY TOO!!!!! the backstory with absent parents and just. everything about seven... i think makes a lot of infamous ocs potentially lean into this?? or at least there are a ton of choices that just made me go "oh yeah. that's him" . idk there is an element to how infamous is written that really helps with characterising him, including how customisable it is, and i do love that about this IF!!!!! crying about him below the cut <3

aki kind of navigates the world worried his loved ones will leave him and is a little too clingy because of it. he also has been playing those worries off by being charming, flirty and funny. like he can somehow project this hyper-extrovered version of himself and try to make people love that !!! he drops that more around his bandmates/friends, but not in front of people he's just met (please guess who accidentally escalated the bed fight on the tour bus)

aki also hooks up with people a lot, just cause he likes sex but also because he enjoys the no-strings-attached. because of those attachment issues, when he gets something that feels black and white to him, something one-and-done and he leaves in the morning, he can just. take feelings out the equation. he knows its not meant to last so he can just walk out (leave! hit da bricks!!! walk out!!!!!)

committing to a romantic relationship . you can imagine. is a little complicated due to all this LMFAO he just overthinks and worries before even getting into it, regardless of if it's reciprocated or not. between the one time he's actually into someone (seven) and how that ended (...badly) + the fact that deliriously avoiding commiting to anything except hookups = very little (none at all) actual dating experience. aki has no idea to deal with it and will balk. yeah this is immature of him but i have plans to make this guy character develop so hard throughout the course of infamous that he may implode

i love the genre of character where they're just going "i know i have a few issues, who doesn't, but honestly i think i'm well adjusted!!" <- they are not well adjusted. in fact they're worse than they think

also no one asked for the orionmance essay i sent my friend but here it is <3

[toxictoxicities]

I blame @revolvius

[gloriousmonsters]

done making sandwich. picked up sliced ham. think to myself, out of nowhere, 'Don't put it in the freezer.' Ask myself, puzzled, why that is a concern. no response. lads you'll never guess what I nearly did 5 seconds later

[killa-trav]

ten hag has literally been the most backed manager since fergie left n he keeps blaming the players HE BOUGHT are u fucking dense or what has the cold weather affected ur bald head so much u have zero braincells left ????

[waterfallofspace]

So the lovely @goodlucksnez made me fall madly in love with introduced me to U/ndertaker from B/lack B/utler, and so some bad art happened hehe~ (J- just don't look too hard at his hand <33)

This was my first time trying snz art, and despite using a reference, his hand turned out... innnteresting ;-; but either way imma put it here~ Only been sketching on and off for maybe just over a week, so please excuse the uh- everything <3

[il3x]

Ward

this post is also about ward

i decided to read the kenzie has a breakdown chapter so that I can be an even more annoying Kenzie apologist and

jesus christ

she'd get along so well with Pr0_d1gy. and by 'so well' I mean like an explosives factory on fire

screaming. "if not mine then whose". if you told me this line was said by Pr0 after Seb* got kidnapped I'd believe you.

*Pr0's teammate in the podcast Reboot.exe

sobbing sobbing SOBBING this is e.xactly how pr0 acted except his breakdown was quieter externally. this is it this is him. kenzie would handle the reboot s1 finale even worse because there it's not denial, seb IS alive, and he DOES need hacking and/or surveillance tech to be found.

pr0-core pr0-core pr0-core.

though pr0 would not be self-aware enough to say that. bless his heart.

anyways I remain a kenzie apologist. what she did was bad but not even halfway as bad as I imagined it (this is a pattern with her). I will be chalking it up to insanity defense and possibly (will have to cross-check with her former characterisation) She Would Not Fucking Say That syndrome. fooled by the projection

[darcyolsson]

everyone's characterisation during tmi is so funny but malcolm really knocks it out of the ballpark literally what is going on with him 😭😭😭

[fungi-maestro]

The Question #4 (1987)

[i3utterflyeffect]

Do you think that Agent would give Tim a stress toy because of their anger?

god.......... yeah. vic keeps it on them because it's incredibly cathartic to just crush something if they get stressed out

[6ixshitttttt]

This missing Ocean Gate vessel thing is so f*cked. What kinda excursion is that even ?! 😭