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DC X DP PROMPT #22
I've seen Everlasting Trio with Sam and Tucker being villains and Danny being a house husband, and I love it dearly, but what if it was flipped?
Danny isn't necessarily evil... He's nothing like how Dan operates, but he's still no where firmly on the 'good' spectrum. His lovely spouces on the other hand, had landed themselves onto the roster of the Justice League - and listen, Danny is very proud of them! Sam and Tucker worked very hard to get where they are, using their positions for immeasurable good. But, Danny is a bit over the whole hero thing. He would never stop his beloveds, but he's not going to make it easy on them.
Since Sam and Tucker had joined the JL, he's been biding his time. He didn't go into hiding, but he's been more subdued. They know what's up, they always know what's up. But Danny wants to have a good anniversary! And what could be a better anniversary than kidnapping your loved ones from work while their coworkers fight tooth and nail to retrieve them?
Maybe he's been listening to Jordan to much.. Danny won't complain! It sounds super romantic! So off he goes, with his brother and mirror sister, off to cause some minor mayhem.
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Bring Me Home Arc 2 Part 20: FINAL
So guess what I realized this morning. Today, November 13, 2023 is the one year anniversary of me posting my first DPxDC fic to tumblr. It was the original fill for this very fic. (Which you can find here.)
So I decided I just had to finish this arc and get it posted. This year has been amazing and so much fun. I've become a much better writer and joined a community that has brought me so much joy. I'm glad to be here and I'm glad so many of you like to read what I'm sharing.
I noticed I got a few new readers over the past week or so, so welcome to all of you! Hope you enjoy this early update!
In personal news, my nephew was born and he's adorable and I'll be meeting him tomorrow! (As soon as I'm done posting this, I'm off to make food for his mom.)
Story Summary: Tim and Danny are both neglected by parents who care more about their work than their families. They deal with this by spending too much time online and find each other playing MMORPGs. They keep up their friendship as Tim becomes Robin and Danny becomes Phantom and don't bother keeping secrets from each other.
Arc 1
Arc 2: Part 1, Previous
Word Count: 1.2k
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In the end, it ended up taking several hours for Danny, Sam, and Tucker to escape their families and converge on the park. In that time, Tim had called Bruce to let him know heâd be back in Gotham by tomorrow and finished most of his homework.
While he worked, Wulf and Bart were having an animated conversation in Esperanto.
Tim was pretty sure Wulf would be bringing Bart to the Ghost Zone for a tour sometime and started making plans to learn Esperanto himself and bribe Bart to get in on them.
Cassie was helping Conner sort through some of the music Sam had given him. Tim was jealous as he solved more banal trig questions. Why did school have to be so boring? He tapped his pencil on the paper in time to the beat of whatever music Conner had playing.
Tucker was the first to arrive. âDanny and Sam not here yet?â he asked as he plopped down next to Bart and Wulf.
âNope. Havenât heard from them, either,â said Tim. He opened his phone notifications again just to be sure, but there was nothing new.
Tucker shrugged and pulled out a stick of jerkey to munch on. âNot surprising. The Fentons will be all overprotective after the mayor was kidnapped by a ghost on live TV. And Samâs parents are just as bad. Only they smother rather than check the weaponry.â He turned to greet Wulf in Esperanto.
An email came through on Timâs phone and he groaned. âOur evening interview was canceled. No one wants to hear us try to defend Phantom anymore.â
Cassie cursed. âCourse not. Bet the paper wonât publish our editorials either.â
Conner looked over, confused. âWonât they? Clark works for the Daily Planet. They publish stuff like that all the time.â
Tim didnât look up from his math as he answered, âThatâs the difference between a big, Pulitzer winning publication and a small-town op-ed.â
Tucker sighed. âWell maybe someone will remember your interviews from this morning in a positive light.â
Bart rolled his eyes. âCome on, we canât change it. So letâs move forward. Next step, make friends with more ghosts! Wulf says thereâs a bunch of cool people in the Realms.â
âRealms?â asked Tim.
âItâs what he says the Ghost Zone is actually called. The Infinite Realms.â
âHuh. Iâll have to check JL databases, see if they have any information on them.â
Tucker asked something in Esperanto and Bart burst out laughing as Wulf looked on in confusion.
With Bartâs help, though, he rephrased until Wulf was able to reply. And then the three kept to Esperanto. Tim really had to find time to learn it.
Sam was the next to arrive. She grinned and sat down next to Conner. âHow you liking the music?â
Conner grinned and showed her the sheets where he ranked the bands so far based on which songs heâd listened to. She then took over the speakers and searched for specific tracks to try and change his mind about some of the bands he liked the least.
Tim let his eyes close as his friendsâ voices washed over him.
After some indeterminate time where he dozed between sleeping and awareness, a foot nudged his hip. Tim grumbled out what was supposed to be a, âWhat?â but was too mumbled to really be understood.
âCome on, Secrets. You can do better than that.â
Tim cracked an eye open to see Danny grinning down at him. He pushed himself up slightly and blinked heavily in the sunlight.
âFinally got away from your parents?â asked Tim.
Danny collapsed on the ground next to him. âUgh, donât remind me. Theyâre freaking out over everything thatâs happened the last few days. Jazz and I are basically going to be on lock down until they feel confident the ghosts are gone.â
âDid you have to sneak out to get here?â asked Cassie.
Danny shook his head. âNo, I told them I was going to find you guys to make sure you were all safe. Youâre welcome to come back to ours tonight, by the way. Mom and Dad basically insisted on it.â
âWhat do you guys think?â asked Tim. âSpend one more night here at Dannyâs and head out in the morning?â
Cassie sighed. âMy momâs already freaking out that Iâve been gone longer than planned. I should get back tonight.â
âIâll stay,â offered Conner. âIâm your ride home, anyway.â
âWhy donât you come to my place, Conner,â offered Sam. âYour nails need a fresh coat after fighting today. And I need teach you about the different brands of makeup and what to look for in terms of cost, quality, and ethicality. Plus I can get you more music.â
Tim laughed when Conner looked to him. âGo for it. Have fun.â
Conner grinned. âThen yeah, letâs do it!â
Bart shrugged. âWulf is going to go back to the Realms soon. Iâll head out after. Wally and Linda want me over for a family dinner tonight.â
âWell, looks like thatâs it, then,â sighed Danny. âBeen fun having other heroes around.â
Tim nudged his shoulder. âJoin the Young Justice. You could join us and we'd help out whenever you wanted. Get you around people who actually appreciate what you do for them.â
But Danny was already shaking his head. âI have to stay here. And now Amity trusts heroes even less. I want to improve that, not make it worse.â
âEven if you donât join,â declared Conner. âYouâre not getting rid of us now.â
Bart nodded his agreement. âYep. Weâre gonna be stopping by all the time. Youâre in the group chat.â
âExactly,â agreed Tim. âAnd weâll figure out ways to help you. Starting with how to minimize property damage. That seems to be the big thing people focus on. You can make shields, right? How big can you make them and how much power do they take?â
Danny smiled wryly. âCanât say Iâve really tested it.â
Tim laughed. âWell, I know one thing weâre doing tonight. Weâre going to go back to Nasty Burgerââ Tim looked around at the whole group ââall of us. Then Cassie and Bart are going to go home. Danny and I, at least, are going to take a nap. Then weâre gonna test the current limits to Dannyâs powers.â
Danny bumped their shoulders together. âYou know, this is just like gaming with you all those years.â
âYeah, well, itâs best to be thorough.â
âWeâve measured, like, his top speed and stuff,â said Tucker, pulling out a PDA. âWant to see what weâve got so far?â
âAbsolutely.â Tim took the device and looked through it. âYouâve a decent amount of information here. Maybe instead of taking a nap, Iâll help you organize it and come up with a testing plan.â
Conner flew over to him and pulled the PDA out of his hand. âNot after pulling an all-nighter you wonât. Weâre going to get some food, then the two of you are going to sleep for at least four hours.â
âIâll set Jazz on you, too,â threatened Sam. âDonât think I wonât.â
Tim pouted as the device was given back to Tucker. And grumbled more when Conner picked him up and threw him over his shoulder.
âCome on, food time.â
âI am going to put kryptonite in your phone,â threatened Tim.
âBingo!â shouted Cassie.
Danny laughed as he stood. âDoes this mean I can join the next round?â
Tim scowled. âTraitors, all of you.â
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Next
And that's the end of this Arc! Arc 3 will pick up where the original fill did. (Only this time, Tim won't be the only DC character there to help Danny.)
I'd say something like I can't believe it's only been a year, but so much has happened to me in the last twelve months that it feels like a lifetime ago, to be honest. But it's been a good year and I'm glad this community has been part of it.
Please follow the subscription post if you want updates for when I start transferring this arc to AO3 or begin posting Arc 3.
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2024 April fools and Anniversary Event Prompt List part 4

See what the event was and it's rule here!
Hero! Prompts:
Hero Fortune Cookie
Iâm rewriting the ultimate enemy episode. CW sees the evil dan timeline, and instead of weird timeline shenanigans, he decides that the solution is to just make sure that Danny gets placed with a caregiver who knows enough about magic to protect the halfa. CW starts collecting John Constantineâs soul pieces, and compels him to adopt the freshly traumatized Danny
Hero Gil
Bruce came back home, very tired of a day of crime fighting, and finds a young woman sitting on his kitchen with Alfred serving her some hot chocolate. The older man is smirking, saying that he should really listen to what she has to say
Bruce's new secretary is very competent. Suspiciously so. It isn't until one late night at the office that she fights off the goons after the young Wayne heir that he begins to understand there's more than meets the eye
Hero Strawberry
When Danny took the crown the zone itself changed to reflect this taking on a more cosmic appearance
Tim is sacrificed to the ghost king, only problem is said ghost king is missing when he gets to the zone, rescue mission ensues
Villains! Prompts:
Villain Guardian Soul
A bunch of cats are released into the Watchtower! It's Damian's fault, but he blames it on his dad, since he wouldn't let him keep them at home.
In order to kidnap the Justice League, villains first turned them into cats.... they probably could have chosen easier animals to handle, but regardless, their prodigies will have to rescue them!
Villain Nezu
Condiment King vs Lunch Lady food war
Cujo found the ghost of Ace the Bat hound and has lead him to Danny
Villain Goat
Before he dropped out of med school, Bruce Wayne made many friends. Among them was Jasmine Fenton, fast on her track into becoming a neurosurgeon. She graduated, he dropped out, life went on. Until one day, a Doctor Fenton shows back up in Bruceâs life, running from something terrible.
If anyone wants to use and post with these prompts the Ao3 collection link is here, or post with #April Fools event 2024
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HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO ME â CHOI HYUNSUK
SYNOPSIS : after hyunsuk lends you his blue crayon in elementary, you fell head over heels for him, which resulted in you confessing your undying love for him and stealing his first kiss when you two were just six. years pass and you two lose contact, but hyunsuk remembers the day very vividly and wishes himself a âhappy anniversaryâ every year, celebrating it as an inside joke.
on your 16th anniversary, as he blows out the candle on his cupcake, he wonders what you were doing and wishes to see you once again. who knew his wish would come true? that too, very soon as you walked into his university the very next day as a transfer student.
GENRE : college au, social media au, fluff, comedy-crack, best friends to strangers to lovers kinda (?)
PAIRING : performing arts major! choi hyunsuk x performing arts major! female reader
WARNING(S) : members aged up and down to match the â00, â01, â02 and â03 liners, swearing, please ignore times and dates on the pictures, there may be plotholes so yeah
HEADS UP : pictures used in the smau are in no way to give an idea about what y/n should look like! the pictures are merely used to show what the ongoing scene looks like and nothing more. will try not to include much pictures like that, but i hope you can forgive me for a few pics here and there!
RELEASE DATE : 22.02.2022
PROFILES : brokeboisuk and co. || therapy kids
01 : HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO ME
02 : DREAMS COME TRUE
03 : SWIPER NO SWIPING
04 : YOU'RE STILL A TRAITOR
05 : CAUGHT THEM IN 144P đ¤ đ¸
06 : YNSUK NEWS ; THE ANNAHOON FANSITE
07 : I'M FRYING HYUNSUK
08 : DANIEL 'DANNY' CHOI
09 : FAKE MARRIAGES AND STOLEN KISSES
10 : GROCERY SHOPPING AT 2AM
11 : THE ASAHI HATEPAGE WAS KIDNAPPED?!
12 : STAN TAYLOR NOONA
13 : ⨠MISSILE LAUNCHER â¨
14 : Y/N'S SUGAR DADDY AGENDA
15 : ROOMING WITH BROKE BOI SUK
16 : HYUNSUK MESSES UP ... AS ALWAYS
17 : YOU CAN'T LEAVE, Y/N!
18 : HYUNSUK SCREWS UP ... AGAIN
19 : Y/N FINALLY GETS IT TOGETHER
20 : Y/NSUK STARTS OVER
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25 : HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO US
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Vampire!Reader x Markiplier Egos
ty anon for the request
A/N: YES. IT'S BEEN A WHILE. HAPPY FUCKING HALLOWEEN. I absolutely remembered today is the 1 year anniversary of ahwm absolutely this is not a coincidence what are you talking about ahahahahha. I've been busy w/ school and drawing and general depression and anxiety with the current situation but I'm getting back into it! Vampire reader. That's pretty much it. Rated T, a bit of cursing, mentions of blood, mentions of fangs. A slightly suggestive phrase but that's just Illinois like there has to be at least one with him it's the law. ALSO. NEW RULE? IF I'M DOING LIKE HCS OR SMTHN I WILL DO 6 AT A TIME. I CANNOT BE WRITING 14 DIFFERENT EGOS AT ONCE I JUST CAN'T I'M SORRY. anyways enjoy!
Vampire!Reader x Egos Headcanons
General
Not much PDA
Not much going out in general
You have to cover your whole body when you do, unless itâs nighttime
You spend much of your time inside or in the forest
Youâre basically nocturnal
You do drink blood, and you donât need a lot of it
You drink human blood only if they give permission
You donât kill people
You know or know of some other supernatural creatures that exist
You are friends with a werewolf. One specifically. You know the one.
Darkiplier
You both are edgy as all hell itâs perfect!
Politely asks you not to bite him
a) because heâs not human and b) because itâll hurt
You both are very calm and well-spoken. So. not much happens.
However, you are both, in fact, dumb bitches, so things are still entertaining
âMy darling, would you like some garli-mmm nevermind...â
You go out with him sometimes on romantic moonlit walks
You donât have to wear as much then
You make him get a pet, a black cat specifically
He loves it
You named it Darko, Dark for short, and he hates the name
Like he hates the name a lot
It is irrational how much he hates the fucking name
He calls it DA
He never explains why
When you want blood heâll trap a deer or something
You go into the forest and drink a little of its blood
Heâs surprised
âWhat am I, a werewolf?â
Heâll ask you about supernatural creatures, and how to defend against them
Youâre pretty sure heâs an eldritch entity so you arenât sure why heâs asking YOU
He wonât ask how you became a vampire, that seems personal
He never gets startled when you turn into a bat
He can hear your lil wingbeats from a mile away
Sometimes youâll sleep as a bat and he just smiles at you hanging from the fan
Fine with you not interacting with others, like he does much of thatâŚ
Just likes hanging out in your fucking giant victorian mansion with you
Wilford
We all know that his type is, in fact, edgy bitch
Therefore, you are perfect
Dark clothes? Check
Edgy backstory? Probably
Kinda scary? Oh absolutely
And he loves you for that!
He doesnât want to be a vampire, but he fuckin loves your teeth
Heâll ask you to bare them and then heâll do a happy wiggle afterwards
He loves dancing with you, slow or fast
Itâs always romantic
Heâs basically a god so like. Anything you ask for heâs gotchu
You said you were hungry and he fucking kidnapped someone
You said you were hungry, that was on you
You then explain that you donât need a whole FUCKING PERSON
He then steals some blood bags from the hospital
âOh, calm down! They have enough!â
Likes taking you out, so you go on night walks a lot.
Youâre not used to social interaction, so he makes sure to steer you away from people
Unless you want to talk to them, then he starts up a conversation and lets you take over
You donât understand people, and neither does he! Itâs great.
Likes when you turn into a bat
He doesnât know why, it just makes him happy
You made him adopt a black cat
He named it Colonel Whiskers
Loves you and your castle and your weird ass little quirks
Actor
Bite him.
BITE. HIM.
LET HIM BE IMMORTAL
You refuse for the sole reason that he is a dick.
You do get along because you both are, in fact, pretentious
You wear those silk robes around the house, and he gets mad at you
HE is the sexy mysterious one, COME ON!
At least you wonât have an edgier backstory than himâŚ
Likes slow dancing with you
Very much enjoys your Aesthetic
Believes that he too belongs in a Victorian era castle isolated from the world
Loves the dark romance
Is a Fancy Boy
Was fully prepared to murder someone for you to drink their blood
Surprised when you said it wasnât necessary???
Buys a horse or smthn
Asks about supernatural beings and which are immortal
He asks that a lot
He worries you sometimes.
Hates it when you turn into a bat
Youâre small and you fly around and youâre fucking GROSS
He doesnât. He doesnât like animals very much. Besides dogs I mean.
Buys you clothes because youâve been wearing the same shit for fucking EVER
Donât worry, theyâre all black, dark purple, or dark red
Sometimes you decide to go on a walk and he tags along
Possessive bitch
Thinks youâll leave him if you talk to other people
He scares them or leads you away
Was fine with a black wolfdog you brought home after searching for food
Names it Phoenix, and you call it Nix for short
Is deeply in love with you, but will never say or show it
Yancy
He thinks youâre wonderful!
Originally a bit mean to you
He thought YOU thought you were better than him
He saw the fangs and backed off
He asked about them and you answered, so you got along
Asked if he could be a vampire
You asked if he wanted to be immortal. He declined.
Suggested you drink his blood when you were hungry
You said it wasnât necessary, but he pushed
Stared at you the whole time
âwhatâs your issueâ âthis is very⌠intimate.â
On that note: has an issue with intimacy
Youâre very cold naturally, so youâd want to cuddle
He awkwardly shifts away
Once he gets more comfortable, he might cuddle with you
Loves the silk robes you own, theyâre so fucking COMFY
AND THE SILK SHEETS?? Heaven
Absolutely loves all the fancy shit you have
You teach him how to waltz and he teaches you how to tap dance
You have a very equal give and take relationship with everything, itâs great
Neither of you like social interaction
You will if you HAVE to but mostly keep to yourselves
You love Yancy's prison buddies
They love you too
Asked if you knew mothman
You couldnât tell if he was joking
He absolutely Was Not joking
He sings to you sometimes
It echoes through the place and the Aesthetic man
Hates it when you turn into a bat
Bad. No. Stop. Scary.
A small animal flying at him is a no go
Alternatively: get him a pet dog and he will love you forever
He names it Elvis. Yeah you know why.
Overall loves you and your aesthetic, and you could tell even before you got together
Illinois
Excited but doesn't show it
He's met PLENTY of supernatural creatures
Ghosts, gods, there was a thing with that werewolf one timeâŚ
(He has the scars to prove it)
But a vampire? That's new
He doesnât live at your place because he travels a lot
He still stays there sometimes between adventures
Uncomfortable with how clean it is
You are. An immortal being. And you take the time to clean. What the fuck.
âWould YOU wanna spend eternity in a dusty ass mansion?â
His flirts are often about your fangs
You threatened to bite him and he said âpromise?â
Said you could drink his blood, but you said no
âI donât know what the fuck you got in that bloodstreamâ
Doesnât do walks but takes you on adventures
If itâs a cave. And you turn into a bat.
ONLY if you turn into a bat
Sidenote: he fucking adores when you turn into a bat
He just thinks theyâre neat
Uncomfortable with how soft everything you own is
NOTHING is soft in nature
Except. Like a lot of things. But donât tell him heâll get mad
Doesnât really want a pet bc heâll never be home to deal with it
Heâll be fine if you get one though
He wants to name it Nathan Drake he doesnât care what it is
NERD(see: Uncharted)
Will never EVER wear a fucking suit
He will DIE before he wears a suit fuck you
Dislikes anything remotely fancy
Talks about the creatures heâs met
you get Bard Vibes if ya know what i mean wink wink nudge nudge he's a whore is what I'm saying here
You hang out normally mostly
He refuses to acknowledge his feelings for you
Not after the mermaid incident.
He eventually will, i promise
Magnum
Heâs a pirate, he doesnât care
Heâs seen sirens, ancient spirits, probably Davey Jones at some point
A vampire? Low on the list of dangerous creatures
He has a whole ship made outta wood heâs not that worried
You don't really sail with him often
When you do, you're seen as a threat to anyone and everyone
He loves that about you
Warned you not to bite him or he'd stake you
You promised not to and that was enough for him
You get along with the crew fairly well
However do NOT turn into a bat around them
They will not hesitate to shoot
"UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT, MAN YOUR BATTLESTATIONS!
You can maybe do it around Magnum and only Magnum
Doesn't like your house
He belongs to the sea
But can and will steal your sheets for himself
A pirate can have a little silk, as a treat
Offered his crew's blood to drink after a while
You declined because you don't know what the fuck kinda diseases they have
Doesn't really want a pet. He can't tell them what to do.
You bought an axolotl and he loves it a lot
Its name is Delta but he has deemed it Magnum Jr
Can't really. Fit. In any suits you have
He has to go out and get one personally tailored if he wants it
Likes dancing with you
Slow dancing. To Danny Boy.
He can't dance but that's ok he tries
You talk about land creatures and he talks about ocean creatures
So far he despises werewolves and skinwalkers
He likes spending as much time with you possible
He doesn't much like the idea of a relationship bc of his uh line of work
But he loves you
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The Double Date
Kurtis asked for a fanfic about a double date with Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates. My dream is for them to make a video about it. I wrote it to make them laugh.
Based on a true story
Kurtis walked down the busy sidewalk, hand in hand with his lover. It was their 6 month anniversary, and they were going to a new fancy restaurant for their date. He smiled at Bill, his heart beating faster with excitement. Suddenly, he felt a thump and fell backwards. Kurtis mumbled a âSorry,â as Bill helped him up. Kurtis looked up at the person he had run into. He couldnât hide the gasp that escaped his mouth.Â
âHey, Kurt.â Danny said, a cool smirk on his face.Â
âDanny?â Kurtis said, still in shock. Bill stuck out his hand. âHi there, Iâm-â
âBill Gates?!â Danny stepped back in surprise before shaking Billâs hand. âNot bad at all, Connerâ
Kurt looked at the person at Dannyâs side. âIs thatâŚ?âÂ
âJeff Bezos.â Danny said, nodding.Â
Jeff shook Kurtâs hand. âHey Kurtis, Iâve heard alot about you.â
Kurtis wondered what that meant. What had Danny said about him? Bill brought him back. âBabe, weâre gonna miss our reservation.â
Kurt looked at Danny. âYeah, sorry, we should go. We have a reservation at that new restaurant by-â
âI could eat.â Danny said, cutting him off.
âWell-â Kurtis started to object when Bill interrupted. âThe more the merrier,â He smiled and squeezed Kurtâs hand.
Walking to the restaurant, Kurtis was quiet. He hadnât seen Danny since the breakup. They had texted each other a few times, and they were still friends, but it had been almost a year since heâd seen him in person.Â
Once they were in the restaurant, Kurtis had calmed down a little. He was telling the story of how he met Bill on Tinder, and how their first date was at a charity event. That was where Kurtis came up with the nickname âDaddy Warbucksâ after he dared Bill into making a large donation to an orphanage. Bill lifted Kurtâs hand and pecked his knuckle. Kurt blushed, embarrassed. âAnyway, howâd you two meet?â
Danny laughed. âWell he actually saw our minecraft videos and dmâd me to congratulate me after we beat it. We didnât start dating until later, though. Iâm glad I met my Iron Daddy.â He smiled at Jeff, kissing him on the cheek.
Kurtis felt a squeeze in his heart. He used to be Dannyâs Iron Daddy. He thought back to the old days. He loved Dannyâs minecraft talk. âIâd love to explore your daddielands,â He heard Dannyâs voice echoing in his mind. He remembered Danny giving him the sex eyes, and he looked up to see those same eyes, now looking at Jeff.Â
The rest of dinner, Kurtis was conflicted. He had all but forgotten about his feelings for Danny, but tonight was bringing it all back.Â
Jeffâs phone rang, and he explained it was a work emergency. He handed Danny a roll of cash to call an uber, before leaving.Â
Kurtis stood up, âWe should get going, too.â He grabbed Billâs hand and started pulling him out. Bill scribbled out a quick check for the dinner, and they left.Â
Danny followed them out. âWait, Kurtis!âÂ
âIâll go get the car. You two should talk.â Bill said, giving him a kiss.Â
âThanks honey.â Kurtis said, half hoping he would stay. He turned to Danny. âWhat do you want?âÂ
âIâm sorry. I got carried away, itâs just that, seeing you with him⌠Reminded me of us. The house has been lonely without you. I thought I could fill the hole in my heart with Jeff, butâŚâ
âBut what? Weâre both with other people now. You look happy with Jeff.â Kurtis said, folding his arms.
âItâs just not the same. You were the one that was there for me after Drew died. I didnât think Iâd ever love again.â
Kurtis noticed his heart beating faster. Danny still loved him? But Kurtis was with Bill now, and loved him.
âKurtis, if you can tell me honestly that you have no feelings for me, Iâll leave you alone.â
Kurtis was quiet for a moment. He shook his head. âI canât.â
Before Danny could say anything, Kurtâs phone started to ring. âHello?â Kurtis said.
âKurtis, itâs Drake from Drake and Josh. I have to tell you something about Danny.â
Kurt glanced up at Danny. âWhat is it?â
âHe kidnapped Josh.â
Kurtis almost dropped his phone. He and Josh had hooked up a few times, but they had to stop because Josh was married. Did Drake find out? Kurtis wondered why Drake would call him.
âAct natural, donât tip him off. I know youâre with him. Danny is blackmailing me into helping him get back with you. Iâm across the street watching you right now.â
Kurtis could hardly breathe. Was this really happening? He swallowed. âItâs my mom, Iâll be right back.â Kurtis said to Danny before turning the corner, out of hearing range.
âDrake? What should I do?â
âI need you to leave with him. Pretend like everything is okay and weâll catch him off guard. Maybe if you agree to go out with him, heâll tell me where heâs holding Josh.â
âI can try.â
âText me once youâve left.â
âOkay.â
Kurtis gulped and walked back to Danny. âWanna go back to your place?â
Danny and Kurtis went back to the house they used to share. Kurtis texted Bill that he would be home late, assuring him that everything was okay. Little did he know it was anything but. Kurtis sat on the couch, noticing that everything was mostly the same as it had been a year ago. Danny came out from the kitchen with two glasses of wine. He handed one to Kurt and sat on the couch. Kurtis was suspicious of the wine but tried not to show it. He quickly set it down and kissed Danny. He kept his lips planted as he took Dannyâs wine and placed it next to his on the table. It seemed to work, because Danny smiled, not seeming to care about the drinks anymore.Â
âWanna take this to our room?â Danny said.
Kurtis faked a smile and nodded, letting Danny pull him to the room. Kurtis went directly to the closet, and found a box of their things, left untouched for a year. He found exactly what he needed. He flashed Danny a smile and held up the handcuffs.
Danny smirked and raised his eyebrows.
Kurtis breathed a sigh of relief. He was into it. Danny let Kurtis handcuff him to the bed frame. Kurtis then ran out of the room, bringing back a hostage of his own. Dannyâs beloved nutcracker. Danny looked confused.Â
âDanny, where are you keeping Josh?â
Danny looked confused. âWhat are you talking about?â
âDonât act dumb. I know you have him, and if you donât tell me where he is, Iâll destroy the nutcracker.â
âWait no!! Kurtis, I really have no idea what youâre talking about!â
Kurtis heard a pounding noise in the bathroom. âDonât move.â He said to Danny, before cautiously opening the bathroom door. There was Josh, tied up with tape over his mouth.
Kurtis gasped. He kneeled and untied him. Josh ripped the tape off his face. âKurtis!â They hugged. Kurtis took Josh to the kitchen. âIâll be back.âÂ
He went back to Dannyâs room. âYou have sixty seconds to explain what the hell is going on.âÂ
âKurtis, I have no idea, youâve gotta believe me. I donât know how he got in there.â
âDanny, you kidnapped him!!â
âI didnât! I swear! Please Kurtis, you know I could never do something like this! Check the security camera footage on my phone!â
Kurtis grabbed Dannyâs phone and went to the Ring doorbell app. He saw two people had entered the house an hour ago. It was⌠Drake and Josh? Danny was nowhere to be found.Â
âShow me,â Danny said.
Kurtis turned the screen to him. âDrake helped him frame me.â Danny said. âBut⌠Why?â
Kurtis unlocked the handcuffs. âLetâs go find out.â
Danny and Kurtis walked out to the kitchen. Josh looked up and saw them together. He gulped. âKurtis?â
âDrop it. We know you faked it. Why?â
Josh sighed. âOkay, okay. I wanted to make Danny the bad guy so you would get back together with me.âÂ
âWhat?â Danny and Kurtis said at the same time.Â
âThat doesnât make sense. Youâre with Drake.â Kurtis said.
Josh shrugged âOh, yeah. Heâs okay with it. He even helped me cause he wanted to threesome.âÂ
Danny and Kurtis looked at each other and laughed. Josh laughed too.
âNah man, youâre crazy. Weâre calling the cops.â Kurtis said.
After Drake and Josh were arrested, Kurtis and Danny talked. Kurtis went back to Bill, and Danny studied the Dark Arts to revive Drew from the dead.
What the fuck was the point of this.
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How Alias Anticipated Modern Superhero Storytelling
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J.J. Abramsâ spy drama Alias, which turns 20 this week, was a lot of things: high-octane action-adventure series, twentysomethings relationship drama, occasional National Treasure homage. It was also, surprisingly, a spiritual predecessor to todayâs hyper-saturated superhero movie and TV universes: A preternaturally gifted fighter, Sydney Bristow (Jennifer Garner) inhabits comic-book-esque alter egos to infiltrate secret missions related to ancient artifacts and promised immortality, all while ensuring that her nearest and dearest donât know how many times sheâs saved the worldâor which side sheâs really on.
Like the seriesâ MacGuffin-generating Nostradamus figure Milo Rambaldi, Alias has proven to be somewhat prophetic itself about what makes for the kinds of superhero stories that land today. With some 20th-anniversary hindsight, letâs look back at what made Sydneyâs story so super and what lessons Abramsâ ridiculous(ly fun) series can still impart to the current crop of superhero sagas.
The Secret Identity as Kiss of Death
The highest priority that spies and superheroes share is that they cannot get madeâthat is, have their identity as a larger-than-life individual linked to their ânormalâ selves. They must always keep their personal and professional personas separate, lest they risk losing the people who know both sides of them. Alias establishes this difficult lesson in the first half hour of the pilot, when Sydney reveals her true work (she thinks SD-6 is just a covert branch of the CIA) to doctor fiancĂŠ Danny, only for him to blab about it later and get bloodily taken out in their bathtub. Itâs the first time that SD-6 treats its sweet protĂŠgĂŠe harshly, making clear the consequences of her actions should she open up to anyone else in her life. And then she defects to the CIA, which will be a death sentence for her if SD-6 ever finds out.
Yet beyond the specter of grisly assassination, what the series really digs into is Sydâs growing ethical dilemma about being a double agent where it concerns the actually good people at SD-6, primarily her longtime partner Dixon (Carl Lumbly) and sweetly awkward Q stand-in Marshall (Kevin Weisman). It would be too easy if the series were only about her getting long-game revenge on SD-6 director Arvin Sloane (Ron Rifkin); the real conflict comes from Sydney lying to Dixonâs face on every stakeout, knowing that he still thinks heâs working for the good guys and she canât ruin that fantasy for him without potentially turning him into collateral damage.
Similarly, the moments in which Sydneyâs two (or three) lives begin to collide have other heartbreaking consequences: While the scene in which her best friend Will (Bradley Cooper cast as the friendzoned buddy, amazing) gets kidnapped and sees Syd saving him, is one of the decadeâs best laugh-out-loud moments, it also leads to Will going into the Witness Protection Program. His life ends, in a sense, because Sydney couldnât keep everything compartmentalized. And we havenât even gotten to the awful fate that befalls her best friend Francie (Merrin Dungey)âŚ
What Alias Predicted: The beating heart (or arc reactor) of many a superhero story is this tension between selvesâwhich means that the big reveal of a secret identity has to be carefully timed and deliberately presented. Itâs as emotional as Peter Parkerâs (Tobey Maguire) mask getting ripped away when he saves the subway car of people in Sam Raimiâs Spider-Man 2, as big as Spider-Man: Far From Home doxxing that Peter Parker (Tom Holland) in a commentary on fake news, or as pure and simple as Tony Stark (Robert Downey, Jr.) outing himself as Iron Man in the very first installment of the MCU. You cannot unring that bell, so it better be a memorable moment.
What Superhero Stories Can Still Learn: Rev the secret identity stakes back up! Captain America: Civil War ably took on the game-changing Marvel Comics arc of the same name by having heroes collectively unmask, and movies like Spider-Man: Far From Home are still playing out those ramifications. But mostly we see the dangerous ramifications of heroes doxxing themselves, without really digging into the strain for heroes to constantly have to lie about the things that truly matter to them.
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Campy Disguises and Clever Aliases
If youâve watched Alias or were even vaguely aware of it, no doubt the first thing you envision is Sydney in black leather and bright red hair, a.k.a. her iconic look from the pilot. Her non-SD-6-sanctioned, under-the-radar disguise (impersonating Willâs sister) displays her ingenuity and establishes the seriesâ brand: attention-grabbing hair paired with increasingly ridiculous outfits, from chain mail waitress ensembles to rubber dresses. Sheâs played punks, rich bimbos, alluring businesswomen, escorts, and all manner of female personas upon which her marks would project their assumptionsâall of which belied her true strength and cunning.
Even when future episodes riffed on the color wheel with teal, magenta, purple, and good old-fashioned blonde wigs, it was still within a clear spectrum established on that pivotal mission, when she channels a silly girl who cares more about the color of her hair than her safety, only to pin her torturer with the same chair to which sheâs bound.
What Alias Predicted: I would hazard a guess that Natasha Romanoffâs first appearance in 2012âs The Avengersâa seemingly helpless redhead tied to a chair, about to be nastily interrogatedâwas a nod toward Sydneyâs triumphant pilot mission. Whatâs more, despite the first ten years of the MCU leaning toward sleek costumes, later phases (like WandaVisionâs cheeky Halloween callbacks) have realized that they can embrace the bold colors and campy designs of the comic-book source material.
What Superhero Stories Can Still Learn: Better to lean into the bold colors and campy designs of the comic-book source material than to go for more sleek and cool. WandaVision did this, albeit cheekily and using the excuse of Halloween, but the nod toward Scarlet Witchâs original outfit was well received. Because any superhero can look cool in leather, but only the standouts can rock color.
Rambaldi Artifacts, Immortality, and Clones
While replicating the romantic dramas of Felicity, Abrams was also playing with early iterations of his signature âpuzzle boxâ narrative style: The pilot has Sydney chasing after the mysterious Mueller device, which turns out to be⌠a floating red ball⌠which bursts into water the moment she tries to remove it. That head-scratcher of a device is only one of many inventions belonging to Milo Rambaldi, a fictional Renaissance-era philosopher whose sketches and writings all pointed toward the ultimate endgame: immortality. You know, just normal spy thriller things.
The series saw Sydney and co. chasing after all manner of Rambaldi MacGuffins, from a clock to a kaleidoscope to a music box to flowers that either demonstrated proof of eternal life (by never wilting) or amped up human aggression. Through all of this, it becomes clear that Sloane helped found SD-6 in order to collect all of Rambaldiâs artifacts and capture immortality for himselfâeven and especially at the cost of people like his daughter, Sydneyâs half-sister Nadia Santos (MĂa Maestro).
Before we get more into Rambaldiâs prophecies about the sisters, we canât forget the parallel fever dream of the series: clones! Or, rather, secret agents genetically modified to look like anyoneâwhich means everyone is a suspect. This constant paranoia quickly got out of hand on the series, but its first reveal was perfect TV drama: Thereâs not an Alias fan who doesnât remember âFrancie doesnât like coffee ice creamâ and the complete devastation that followedâthe knock-down, drag-out fight that destroyed Sydneyâs apartment just as badly as Dannyâs death, but also Sydneyâs heartbreak upon realizing that her best friend was already long dead.
What Alias Predicted: The Infinity Stones themselves are less interesting than in various superheroesâ personal connections to them: Loki (Tom Hiddleston) tempted by the tesseract in Thor: Ragnarok; Star Lord (Chris Pratt) and the Guardians of the Galaxy channeling their friendship to withstand the effects of the Power Stone; Wanda Maximoffâs (Elizabeth Olsen) stages of grief as she copes with trying to keep the memory of Vision (Paul Bettany) alive even without the Mind Stone. In short: grounding the most out-there plotlines in the personal ensures they will always land.
What Superhero Stories Can Still Learn: Ground the most bonkers of plotlines in the personal, and theyâll always land.
The Chosen One and the Passenger
This is when the Rambaldi business started getting less National Treasure levels of charming and more outright weird. Turns out the team wasnât just recovering a treasure trove of artifacts, but also Rambaldiâs prophetic writingsâincluding the mysterious âPage 47,â which featured a drawing of a woman known as the Chosen One⌠who bears quite the resemblance to Sydney herself. That would be easy enough to dismiss as a strange doppelgänger coincidence, but then comes the reveal of âProject Christmasâ: When Syd discovers that she didnât just stumble into the spy life on her own, but was actually trained as a sleeper agent from childhood, it only amplifies her fears that she has no true agency over her life.
Further Rambaldi writings center Sydney and Nadia into predestined roles as the Chosen One and the Passenger: supposed foes who are fated to clash, with one dying. Nadia getting injected with âRambaldi fluidâ in order to tap directly into the long-dead manâs consciousness (contained within another artifact known as the Sphere of Life) only earns her some nasty apocalyptic visions. But despite their genuine friendship that comes from bonding over their fucked-up childhoods, Sydney and Nadia are forced into that preordained confrontation when the latter is injected with a compound that reduces her to a mindless killing machine⌠all while a giant red ball is hovering over a city in Russia, because why not. Even after Nadia dies, and is brought back to life, then dies again, with her ghost haunting Sloane as he finally attains immortality, she remains a presence on the series.
There are certainly echoes to Black Widow and how it handles Natasha and adoptive sister Yelenaâs (Florence Pugh) strained reconciliation after the older sister got out of the Red Room while the younger was still caught in its web. Their bickering banter about vests and poses, their differing memories of their false childhood, and their respective feelings of abandonment are what elevated Black Widowâs standalone outingâand made it even more tragic, on multiple levels, that this was the only time we would see the two of them in a movie together.
What Alias Predicted: Sister stories are gold! The Rambaldi storylines would mean nothing if they didnât hinge on a tragically preordained confrontation, just as the MCUâs Red Room depiction seemed overdone until it was presented within the context of multiple generationsâ differing experiences with its bloody legacy.
What Superhero Stories Can Still Learn: More stories about sisters! With Nat dead not long after she and Yelena had just started to bond again, itâs vital that Yelenaâs future MCU appearances show her still grappling with the little time they got together.
After all, the best superhero stories are the ones that can feel just as fresh now as they did 20 years ago.
Alias is currently streaming on Amazon Prime Video.
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(different anon, but!) now iâm curious - how would you do an actual crossover between sga and h50?
gosh, crossovers are honestly very far out of my wheelhouse (in that i don't read them and i don't write them because i'm sure they can be very good!! but it's just always felt vaguely awkward to me), but i can definitely throw some thoughts at the wall!
okay, so, i assume that if we're talking crossovers that means we want the characters to meet while keeping both canon universes intact, which is fine, because there's not really anything in either of them that would contradict the other. a very easy out would be to put the stargate program on steve's resume as one of those very top secret missions that he drops into conversations just to watch danny be annoyed when the only answer to all of his questions is "classified". another take could be to - and it keeps coming back to this, for some reason - steal some plot beats from vegas, as in, a live wraith has somehow found its way to earth and has gone undetected, but the detectives on the case, which would now be steve and danny, can feel that something is up. those two starting points could also both work, of course: steve has that background (but has been out of the stargate program since he came to hawaii and probably doesn't know what a wraith is), so he can see there's something off about these bodies they keep finding with causes of death that fascinate and puzzle max and really frustrate danny, and he makes a call to sam, who alerts the right people, which is how eventually some experts get called in, which obviously need to come from atlantis, so that's john and rodney and definitely carson (there's dead bodies to be examined!) and maybe teyla and ronon too, because you need a tracker if you want to find that wraith.
or, alternately, and actually way more interesting on second thought: jeannie still drops out of the scientific community because she gets pregnant, but then she realizes that even though caleb is an incredibly sweet vegetarian english major and will definitely be involved in the raising of their child, she can't marry him because she's a lesbian. so. what i'm saying is. jeannie mckay/mary mcgarret, recently invented rarepair. jeannie marries mary instead, and when jeannie gets kidnapped obviously rodney, john and ronon still show up (plagiarizing miller's crossing this time - see! there's episodes of sga other than vegas!), BUT mary has already made a call to her big brother, like help, my wife is missing, and of course steve and danny have also sprung into action, and inevitably the two investigations end up running into each other. steve's like "we know about atlantis" (either because again, steve was part of the stargate program, or because jeannie told mary, like she did with caleb in canon, and now that jeannie is missing mary shared what she knew with steve and danny) and john's like "... what's an atlantis?" at the same time that rodney blurts "how?" because his SISTER is MISSING and he has no time to pretend he cares about secrecy when that's obviously a moot point anyway. at some point rodney is like, this is my SISTER we're talking about!, trying to make the point that he has more of a personal stake than anyone else, and steve's like, she's a sister to me too!, and they probably have a talk about growing up with bad parents (rodney feels a little better about his once he hears about steve's my-mom-pretended-to-be-dead-so-she-could-raise-my-arch-nemesis-who-then-killed-my-father issues) and about how that can lead to accidentally becoming estranged from your little sister, and about how to fix that. this leaves john and danny in each otherâs unlikely company, so dannyâs like, â... howâs living in another galaxy?â and johnâs like âpretty cool. we have flying shipsâ and dannyâs like âPLEASE donât tell steve about those. he WILL crash themâ and johnâs like ânoted. hey, i heard you guys have kids?â so danny gets out his phone to show him pictures of grace and charlie and doesnât correct him on the part where he seems to think theyâre steveâs kids too, because why bother. they of course save jeannie and bring her back home safe to mary and madison (and caleb). once everyone heads back home thereâs probably a thing where john and rodney talk while on the deadalus and realize that if it can work between steve and danny, then why not between them, and meanwhile on some plane somewhere steve and danny are having the exact same conversation in reverse (because none of them were actually dating yet, but they both thought the others were). this works out well for everyone involved until jeannie and maryâs big tenth wedding anniversary party, at which the truth somehow comes out, but then all of the guys realize that in the grand story of their lives, with all of the strange things that have happened to them all, this really isnât even that weird. (it is that weird to jeannie and mary, though. itâs the ONLY story they tell ANY of their friends for an entire year. madison grows up and writes a semi-autobiographical book about her family and the strange case of how her uncles ended up together and itâs a new york times bestseller but also gets called âsweet, but a little implausibleâ.)
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Chapters: 1/1â¨Fandom: Danny Phantomâ¨Rating: Teen And Up Audiencesâ¨Warnings: No Archive Warnings Applyâ¨Relationships: Danny Fenton & Wesley Westonâ¨Characters: Danny Fenton, Wesley Weston, Jazz Fenton, Maddie Fentonâ¨Additional Tags: Walker is mentioned repeatedly, Phantom Family AU, Revelations, being a lil shit is genetic apparently, Danny swears in stars and constellations and space stuff, Wes swears with cuss wordsâ¨Summary: Prompt from Tumblr: I wish you would write a fic about Danny being a little shit to Vlad by revealing him to Wes.â¨Wes comes over and nearly gets Dannyâs half life ended, which leads to further family revelations that leave Dannyâs head spinning.
Danny Fenton was having a weird and not particularly pleasant week. His Dad had finally encountered the Box Ghost, who took one look at him and glitched out like a Bethesda character before apparently regaining his memories. Apparently, the Box Ghost was Jason Fenton, older brother of Jack Fenton. The Box Ghost was Dannyâs Uncle. That was weird as fuck to discover, especially when he implied that Box Lunch would be a person heâd have to deal with soonish. He was going to have a cousin. His already living cousin, Wes, had decided later that week to ruin Dannyâs life by asking him right in front of Jazz and Mom if he still had that giant green dog thing heâd crashed a game with. Danny dragged him up to the third floor of Fentonworks, shoved him into his room, and learned very quickly that Wes had figured out that he was Phantom the moment he focused on him. âOrion, man, you canât just imply Iâm a ghost in front of Mom or Dad!â âWhy not?â Wes stared at him like heâd grown a second head - he hadnât, he knew the sensation - and Danny took a moment to redirect the energy surging to his eyes over his skin and outward. It blanketed the room in a wave and left what Tucker had described as the feeling of touching an old tv and feeling static on your fingers all over the place. Wes rubbed his arm and raised a brow at him. âWes, tell me what Jack Fenton is going to think if you tell him âhey that ghost kid you shoot at all the time is your kidâ? Actually, no, how the fuck did you even figure it out?â âYou look like you put on your suit and then someone turned on the color inversion filter on their camera. Blue skin, white hair, black and white suit.â Wes paused and poked Dannyâs cheek, looking him in the eye. âYour eyes should be orange instead of green though if that were the whole case. Howâd this happen? Last time I talked to you, you n Tucker were talking about building a motorcycle that could fly.â âThe hoverbike has sorta been put on hold, Iâll admit,â Danny grumbled, digging the heels of his palms into his eyes. He pulled his hands away from his face and Wes was still there, tall and stupid and overly observant. âIf I tell you what happened, do you promise not to out me to my parents?â âI-should I treat this like youâre in the closet?â Wes snorted at the idea. âCloseted dead guy. Alright, I can get that. But uh, if youâre dead, why are you stillâŚâ he wiggled his hand and then gestured at Dannyâs room. âIn a house with ghost hunters?â âWell, to start with, Iâm not actually dead. Not entirely, anyway.â Danny sat down on his bed and Wes followed, and after taking a moment to triple check that Vladâs bugs werenât in his room with another wave of energy, Danny told Wes the story of the Accident. It was a short story, but he was slow about it. Heâd never really discussed it with anyone, Sam and Tucker just sort of knew better than to bring it up and Jazz probably thought heâd tell her himself in his own time. By the time he finished, Wes looked almost as uncomfortable with the situation as Danny felt. âYou know, not to sound like a cheesy 90âs cartoon character but this is why you shouldnât give in to peer pressure.â Danny snorted and laughed at that, and Wes grinned even when Danny elbowed him. âOk, so Iâm putting together that you did a bunch of dumb shit and found yourself decided to be a superhero. What the fuck was up with the dog, or the mayor getting kidnapped? Your eyes were fuckin red when you stole a bunch of shit that one time too.â âOk in order of what all happened: Axiom labs euthanized their guard dogs and one of them came looking for his squeaky toy but forgot where it was and no matter how many times I shoved Cujo back into the portal-â â Cujo ?â Wes snorted and ruffled Dannyâs hair. âHave you been reading the stuff Sam gives you or did your emo phase just never really end? You have the emo bangs.â âI do not!â Danny huffed, running a hand through his curly hair that, well, Wes couldnât really ruin a mess, could he? âYouâre the one with actual bangs, sasquatch hunter.â âAcknowledging that Big Foot is real doesnât mean Iâm gonna go and shoot it.â Wes crossed his arms and rested them on Dannyâs head. âBy the way, any idea when that growth spurt is due?â âBold words for someone with his shins within targeting range.â âI can and will put you in a headlock Astroboy.â âI can slam dunk you through a hoop like your precious balls.â Wes said nothing to this and simply leaned more onto Dannyâs head. âIf I snap my neck because of you Iâm suing. Anyway no matter how often I yeeted Cujo back into the Ghost Zone-â âI beg of you to call it something cooler. Call it the afterlife even, just. Please.â âHe just kept digging his way out. So, I looked at his tag, saw that he came from Axiom, and we ended up in there, while getting shot at by the Red Huntress-â âValerie, right?â âH-â âShe appeared as the Huntress literally the same time the dog shit was happening, and I am getting increasingly worried that no one has noticed that she sounds the same in her Red Huntress suit as she does in the Nasty Burger mascot suit.â Wes dropped his arms to Dannyâs shoulder, but still rested his chin in his hair, humming loudly. Danny slid into that spot between and snorted when Wes fell onto the bed. âI canât tell you how pissed she was that I outed her to her dad about being the Huntress so that she wouldnât get herself killed fighting Pariah Dark. Pretty sure if you tell her or anyone else about that, sheâll shoot you.â âI mean, itâd probably get her swarmed by so much hostility she stops shooting at you, so thatâd be a plus. Iâd just come back and bug you anyway.â âYouâre a jerk, but I guess youâre alright.â Danny flopped back. âThe mayor thing was a ghost, this douche bag prison warden named Walker in the GZ who decided that since I broke out of his prison I owe him over a thousand years and heâd make my home a prison instead.â Wes stared at him, clasped his hands flat against each other, and took a deep breath. âThere are so many things wrong in that sentence. Why were you in ghost prison?â âI did ghost crimes.â Wes looked and sounded like he was in some deal of pain, and Danny couldnât help but grin. âDadâs anniversary present for Mom fell through the portal while I was cleaning up by shooting things into their proper place,â he covered Wesâ mouth as he opened it, âand so I flew in after it, but it was a âreal world itemâ as though the Ghost Zone is fake somehow, and that was âAgainst The Rulesâ according to Walker.â Danny rolled his eyes. âI got the present out and back to Dad but I had to like, get to him at your momâs place.â âDid you fly all the way from Minnesota to Arkansas for a present?â âArcturus, no, not with my powers.â Danny laughed, laying back on his bed. âThatâd take me like, 8 hours at top speed. No, I used the Speeder.â âHave you modified it to get into space?â âNot yet.â âDo you have permission to mod it for space travel?â âDo I have permission to be dead?â âTouche.â âAnyway, Walker is stronger than me, even when possessing a human, so when all eyes and cameras were on me he possessed the mayor and dragged me back inside to make it look like I was dragging him in. Whole invasion was his idea.â âDanny?â âAnd then with the robberies when my eyes were red, did you know about Circus Gothica? Cause me and some other ghosts were under the control of the ring master of the circus, Freakshow, who had this freakin crystal ball thing that could control ghosts attached to his staff. It shattered after a very long fall, thank Astrea.â âThatâs really fucked up. Youâve had a fucked up life.â âYeah.â Danny shrugged. âI guess I have.â âKnow whatâs more fucked up about this?â Wes had a too big grin on his face and Danny narrowed his eyes. âDo you remember my momâs last name?â âWal..ker⌠no. â The two of them were thundering down the stairs in seconds, Danny half shouting in the livingroom. â Mom was your dad, by chance, a law enforcement officer, or jail warden or something?â Mom looked up at him from the staff she was tinkering with on the table - note to self, sterilize the table before dinner - and blinked at him a couple of times before smiling and nodding. âWhy yes, he did. Warden James Lamont Walker ran the Spittoon prison when he was alive. He was a good man, if a bit strict. To my and Aliciaâs fury and grief he was murdered during a prison break.â Mom stared off in the distance, the air around her curling with a dark cold that Danny was sure only he could see. Then she softened up a bit and smiled softly at them. âWhy?â âNo reason, auntie, I was just curious about something and Danny thought we should ask you.â Wes played with the hem of his shirt while maintaining eye contact and Danny wondered if he had a tell for awkwardness like that. Then he realized he was rubbing the back of his neck. âDo you have any pictures of him?â âOh, yes! Theyâre in the shed! My boxes are actually labelled.â âUh oh, careful, Dad might hear of organization and come to tear it up,â Danny said with a laugh, half dragging Wes out the back door. When they were out of his momâs considerable ear shot, Danny said softly, but with feeling, âFuck.â âGot locked up by grandpa, huh? Thatâs like, the worst way to get grounded ever .â Wes snickered and watched Danny run-walk up to the shed, hand glowing so softly you could only see it by staring directly at it as he turned the knob. âThere are odds, slim ones, that this is a whole different Walker. It might even be his first name.â âWho the hell names their kid Walker?â âWalter, Wayne and Wesley Weston.â âAlright then.â For a few minutes the two of them searched through the mess known as the Fenton Family Shed for a box with a label neither had thought to ask for. Eventually, they found one labeled Scrapbooks and carefully eased it out of the mess of it all. âYâknonw, Danny,â Wes said as they opened the box and started flipping through scrapbooks with just enough care not to damage them. âIâm feelin kinda good about investigating a ghost with you. Is this how it is with you n your boyfriend and best friend?â Danny almost tore a page out, turning to stare at Wes. He mustâve felt the temperature drop for a second because he looked up with a raised brow. âWhat?â âBoyfriend?â âTucker. Tucker Foley.â Dannyâs jaw dropped and Wesâ confusion morphed into a shit eating grin. âYou know, Tucker spends most of his time with you Foley? The one you build shit with all the time? The nerd that you get sick in sync with? Iâve seen you lose a pencil and then he puts one behind your ear while you look for the one you lost. You made him a custom gaming computer disguised as a console.â Dannyâs face burned red as a tomato at this point and he shoved Wes. âShut up Iâm not dating Tucker!â âI have to ask Jazz about this now, youâre killing me.â Wes snorted and flipped a page. He blinked down at the scrapbook and pointed at a picture. âJames Walker. This look anything like him?â Danny took the book and looked at the picture. Looked at the several pictures of the man with his daughters, wearing a black pinstriped suit in a handful of them. And he let out a long, loud groan. âI hate this week, I hate it so much.â Wes started cackling and Danny scowled. âThat reminds me.â He kicked Wes in the shins and grinned. âMuch better. Also, Wes, I gotta tell you. Iâm not one of a kind, as far as my living status goes.â âOh what, thereâs another Schrodingerâs little shit flying around out there?â Wes rubbed his ankle and hissed. âWell, you didnât hear it from me, but that fruitloop we call a mayor may have been elected because he possessed literally everyone that was voting.â Wes went silent and stared at him, and Danny nodded. âThink you can pester him instead of me? He wants to kill Dad and thinks that he can get Mom if he does that.â âDanny. My Dad works for Masters.â âThis puts you in the perfect position to mess with him, I say. Just act like youâre there to see your dad.â âYou oblivious asshole. I fuckin love you, cous.â âSame here, skyscraper.â
#Danny Phantom#Danny Fenton#Wes Weston#Jazz Fenton#Maddie Fenton#Walker#james walker#Box Ghost#fanfiction#fanphiction#phanfiction#phanphiction#phanfic#fanfic#fanphic#phanphic#prompt fill#Rexy Writes#Phantom Family AU
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Gah, this fic is so long, but I shall try and break it down!
So the initial idea came from a brief conversation I had with @soft-husbands about how ridiculous it was that in 2018 the writers had Lachlan kidnap Rebecca (who literally no one cared about) instead of Robert, which would have been a much better storyline. Since I needed to write something for her in a gift exchange, I decided to do my own version of it!
These are the key points/main ideas that were the most important for me:
Aftermath
One thing I knew I definitely wanted to do â even before Iâd really worked out the exact plot â was include a lot of the actual aftermath of the kidnapping, and really show how it mentally affected Robert (as well as Aaron). I didnât want to write one of those fics where you just have the drama, and then maybe one scene at the end where everythingâs suddenly okay again. Which, yâknow, is what the Emmerdale writers tend to do. đ¤ˇÂ
So thatâs why the fic is literally divided into two halves â the action and the aftermath. And I loved writing the second half â looking at Robertâs mental state, showing other charactersâ reactions, lots of communicating between him and Aaron etc.
I didnât want Robert to just be fine straight away, I wanted him to take some time to settle back into things again, to go to counselling and to work towards recovering from what heâd been through. I kept it mostly quite upbeat and hopeful â I couldnât bring myself to make it too angsty â but I did have Robert struggle to come to terms with what had happened to him.
On top of that, I wanted Aaron to be his rock. The writers never really gave Aaron a chance to be the strong one in the relationship, not for longer than a couple of episodes or so, and I wish we couldâve seen it. It wouldâve been great to watch, but also a nice switch for Danny and Ryan (who wouldâve both smashed it!).
And of course this was an excuse for me to write lots of soft fluffy husbands content, which as you all know, is my jam.
Lachlan
So in the show, I thought the writers did a good job of building up Lachlanâs psychotic tendencies. In late 2017, he did begin to seem quite scary, you could see they were building up to him properly snapping.
But then as soon as he actually did start killing people, he became kind of⌠meh. Theyâd done all this buildup to make him as deranged as possible, but from the Whites car crash onwards, his character lost all that great creepiness and just became a bit of a wet wipe. His killing of Gerry was completely lame, his kidnapping of Rebecca was rubbish and so was the aftermath. He spent most of his time flapping about what to do and obsessing over Belle, and honestly he became one of the most boring soap villains theyâve ever done. By the time he was arrested and went to prison, theyâd lost so much momentum it was kind of a pitiful ending for him.
Maybe itâs because I watch a lot of crime stuff (both true and fictional), but I just wanted more. I wanted him to be terrifying, to be unhinged and scarily cold. And it made sense to me that he would really show this side of himself by kidnapping and torturing Robert. Robertâs been his number one enemy from the beginning â he hates him more than anyone and essentially blames him for every single thing that went wrong in his life. In terms of storytelling, it only seemed right that his final showdown would be with Robert and no one else. Itâs what both characters deserved.
So thatâs what I wrote. I did a big final âfight to the deathâ between the two, and I tried to make Lachlan this cold-blooded psychopath who got off on making Robert suffer as much as possible â for as long as possible. All those years of built-up resentment finally spilled out of him and it made him totally lose the plot. But at the same time, he was able to switch that off and act completely normal when he was with Belle. I tried to show this in a few scenes, like including a moment where he told Robert â his kidnapped victim â he had to go because Belle was expecting him to go for breakfast with her family.
I really enjoyed doing it, but at the same time I was terrified that the way I was writing him would seem ridiculous, like heâd come off as a bit of a silly pantomime villain. It seems to have paid off though, judging by peoplesâ reactions, so Iâm quite happy with how my Lachlan turned out :)
Chas/Paddy/Liv
I knew from the beginning that Chas, Paddy and Liv would all be on the âwrongâ side of the story, so to speak. Theyâd be the sort of âlesserâ villains, the ones causing conflict on Aaronâs end and in the second half of the story.
On the show, I never really believed that any of them actually accepted Robert as family after reunion 2.0, to me it seemed like Chaddy were just civil with him as long as he made Aaron happy. And I never bought into the whole âroblivionâ concept during boyfriends era, so I was even less convinced of it in husbands era. I always found it shallow and fake on Livâs end.
This was pretty much proved right by Chas, Paddy and Livâs behaviour during the aftermath of Robertâs exit â all three of them showed their true colours and their true feelings about him very quickly.Â
Considering every time things got rough for Robron on the show, Chaddy and Liv either turned on Robert or just acted like he never existed/meant anything and actively tried to push Aaron to âgrow upâ and move on from him, it made perfect sense to me to have them suspect the worst of Robert in my story. To assume that him disappearing meant that heâd done something wrong, rather than he was in trouble.
(Fun fact: the scene where Robert has that big showdown with Chaddy in the pub was actually one of the first ones I wrote. Ah, priorities.)
I wanted Aaron to be strong, to never doubt that Robert was in trouble and to unapologetically stick by him in the aftermath. I wanted him to stand up to Chaddy and to put Robert before Liv for once (judging by quite a few comments that I got, lots of other people did too, so Iâm glad I went for it!). I also wanted him to make it very clear that his main family unit â his priority â was Robert and Seb, not the Dinglesâ feelings. Anyone who disagreed with him could fuck right off as far as he was concerned.
By the end of the story, Aaron has very much allied himself with the Sugden family, thatâs why we saw lots of him with Diane and Vic. I really wanted to call back to the âWho Shot Robertâ era, where they both stepped up and rallied around Robert 100%, only this time with the bonus of Aaron being on their side, too.
Rebecca/Ross/Seb
I mean⌠this is quite self-explanatory, but I knew from the beginning that Rebecca would die and Ross would end up going to Liverpool miserable and alone. No happy ending for either of them because they didnât fucking deserve it.
And of course, this would mean that Seb would stay with his dads where he belongs. I will never get tired to coming up with new ways for this to happen (just you wait for Aaron week).
The ending
Since I was writing this fic for the engagement anniversary gift exchange, I thought itâd be fun to include an actual engagement at the end of it. I hadnât necessarily planned to make it another lay-by proposal, but when I looked at my story timeline (yes, I did make an actual timeline lmao) and I realised that the 4th December wasnât very far away, I knew I HAD to get them back to that spot. It was only right!
So Iâm probably in the minority here, but Iâm not actually a huge fan of proposal 2.0. Donât get me wrong, itâs nice and super cute, but the whole âtrying to propose to each other at the same timeâ gimmick just wasnât really for me. I thought it was a bit unrealistic that theyâd both separately just randomly come up with the same idea at the same time (I know, Iâm sorry). And since weâd already had Robert do it the first time, I kind of wanted the second one to be totally Aaronâs thing, let him have a proper turn.
So I took elements of proposal 2.0 that I liked â the location, some of the dialogue â and took out the bits that I didnât â Robert trying to propose, Aaronâs funfair lie (Iâm sorry but that was just dumb), the jinx thing, other people (Chaddy and Liv) being so involved. Thereby creating my own perfect version of proposal 2.0 (what can I say, I am a self-indulgent girl).
I think in this universe, after everything theyâd been through, after Aaronâs terror of losing Robert for good, it seemed right that he would be the one to do the asking. And because we know heâs a sentimental sod, it made sense that he would wait until their lay-by anniversary to do it.
#omg i'm sorry this is so long#i think i've covered the main things#but if anyone wants me to expand/mention something else#go for it!#my writing#lauren rambles#robandaaronsoulmates
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Danny Williams x Reader
A/N: First of all I would like you to know that english is not my native language. Iâm practicing and trying to make my stories feel less âsimpleâ. Iâll try my best and hope you like it.
Title: Falling for you.
Part: 1/2.
Word count: 1250.
Summary:Â Youâve been part of the Five-0 task for a while now and youâre relationship with Danny is gonna take a step foreward thanks to an undercover mission.Â
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I remember coming to Hawaii knowing I was going to be working along a guy called Steve who created a task force not long ago. At first I though I was going to be working with them for just a month and come back to New York were a belonged but these people have become my family since then. Even though I've been here for a few months I knew this place was now my home. The governor gave me the chance to go back but I refused it. I was more than happy here. There were a lot of things retaining me here, well, there was mainly someone in particular...
I opened the door to the main office in HQ. Everyone was already there. We were attending to the Oahu's Museum anniversary party at Oahu's Resort Hotel. Our swindler was one of the main art collector so it was a great opportunity to get him.Â
"Am I late?" I asked making everyone to turn looking at me. "Hello Miss Red dress" Kono said smiling. She was wearing a long blue dress that fit her perfectly. "Thank you Miss Blue dress" We both burst laughing and hug. "Well... What's the plan?" I said coming next to the monitor were all the information was. "You three will attend to the party as art collectors and historians while Chin and I check everything from the van. We'll be ready if anything happens" We all nodded as a way of letting him know we understood. "If any of you sees something try not to make a scene. We don't want to scare anyone" Giving us a ear piece Steve proceded with the plan. "Kono, you'll try to talk to our target and see if you can get something. Danny and Y/N, you'll try to get into his room in case there's anything more" We all got in our way to the party. Danny and I went on the same car, followed by Kono and right behind Chin and Steve in the van.
"Ready guys?" Steve said through the ear piece and we all answered with a 'yes'. Danny and I looked at Kono who just got in and walked into the party taking a glass of champagne. "Hello and welcome. Have fun" The girl at the door said after both of us gave her the names. "Mrs. Jones..." I whispered to Danny. "Yeah. Something wrong?" we both took a glass and start drinking. "I'm sure you were the one who chose it" He looked at me putting an arm around my waist walking next to one of the paintings. "Why so sure?" I turned to him and came closer to him. "Museum, Indiana Jones... Seriously?" "Told you Danno" We both heard Steve laughing. "Shut up!" He said. I smiled at the situation.
"I see him" Kono said and both Danny and I waited for her to get closer so we could go to his room knowing he was with her. "Okay guys, showtime" She said and both of us walked inside the hotel. "We need a key" I said and he nodded looking at me. There was a girl at the hall so he walked to the counter and asked her for a key. He was making her laugh and flirting with her. "Wow. That was fast" I said looking at him and getting into the elevator with him. "She couldn't resist" He smiled winking at me.
"Wait" We exit the elevator but Danny took me by the wrist making me turn to face him. "Too easy" We walked getting behind one of the corners. We were a few doors away from his room. I took a mirror out of my bag to try and see if there was any camera. "Security men coming our way" I put the mirror back in the bag and looked at Danny. "Follow me" I said before crushing my lips on his felling the footsteps of the men approaching. Danny continued the kiss making me walk near the room. The kiss went from soft to a bit rough. I started to unbutton his shirt when security men passed not even caring about us. Without breaking apart Danny passed the key opening the door and closing it behind him. I broke a part but neither of us moved. "We need to find..." "Yes" He said a bit fast letting me go and starting to look for some things. A few minutes later Kono talked. "He's coming back to his room. Get out now!" We looked at eachother and Danny opened the door for us to exit but I found something. "Guys... I think we found a kidnaper" I said taking a picture from his table. In the picture there was a girl who disappeared a few days back. HPD was looking for the kidnaper and asked us about it. "He's coming" Danny said taking me to the balcony. He closed the door and we both waited for the guy to come in.Â
Even if we were outside we didn't make a move. Danny was close to me trying to focus on the guy in case he opened the door. I was trapped between Danny and the wall, both being a few inches apart. He looked at me and smiled making me blush. His shirt was still unbuttoned so I started to button it back. He looked at my hands and took me by the wrists making me stop. "You need to stop" He whispered. I nodded thinking I was making him feel uncomfortable.
A few seconds later we heard a door being closed. "Guys, he's gone" No one answered. "Hello? Steve? Chin?" He opened the door and we both got inside. I tried to look for some sort of clue that could help us find the girl. "I don't think we have enough time. We should go. There's nothing here" "There has to be..." I kept searching for any paper or⌠"The phone" It was hidden in one of the closets. I stood up putting the phone in my bag. "Let's go" He checked everything was on its place but after turning the lights of I put my hand over Danny's who was just going to open the door. "We shouldâŚ" I moved my hands over my head and my dress. He looked at me confused and I tried to button his shirt up like I did in the balcony. The neck of the shirt was messed up so I put it in place the best I could. "No tie. I like it" He smiled making me blush. His hand was now on my check caressing every inch. "Danny we have to go" I whispered closing my eyes but I could feel him coming closer. "We have a few minutes" He finally crushed his lips on mine. He pushed me to the wall while kissing me. All those butterflies they say you feel when you're in love with someone were having a party in my belly. His hands were now on my hips trying to pull me even closer to him, if that was possible. We couldn't be like this for too long so I broke apart putting my hand over his chest. "Even though I would love to continue we HAVE to go" He sight nodding but before coming back to the door he kissed me one last time. "We'll finish this later" I whispered before walking out of the room coming back to the hall with Kono.
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Sleepover
My slumber was interrupted by the harsh ring of my phone. I slowly opened my eyes to the dark bedroom, slivers of light made their way through the window blinds to the walls. I felt my bedside table for the noise maker and shielded my eyes to the bright light once I picked it up.
âClearing,â I said in a tired voice.
âDanny, weâve got a kidnapping. Need you in right now.â Cragen said in a serious tone.
âOn my way.â I replied, somehow instantly out of bed. I pulled on some wrinkled black slacks and buttoned up a blue blouse. I was out of my building in ten minutes and on my way to the precinct. Â
There was an energy the second I walked into the building. The elevator ride was heavy with anxiety. The doors opened to a busy hallway with people running back and forth to something. The squad room was even busier. The squad had definitely been this busy at four AM before, but this time was different. There werenât people being booked, or people crying, or strangers yelling. There was one life source focused on one issue.
âFour year old Jeannie Parker was taken from her bed earlier this morning. Parents heard noise around one and went to her bedroom to find the window open and the girl missing. No sign of a struggle.â Benson said as I got to my desk.
âAny suspects so far?â I asked
âThe parents canât think of anyone that would want to take her, and weâve got no evidence to suggest anyone in particular.â She answered. âWeâve got an Amber Alert out and patrol is canvasing the neighborhood.â
âPatrol found something,â Cragen shouted to the room. Everyone turned their attention to him. âA stuffed animal belonging to the girl was found on the same block as her house in Queens. We donât think sheâs been taken very far away.â The room was buzzing once again when he finished up. âClearing, Carisi, I need you guys to meet CSU at the crime scene. Benson and Amaro, you go too. Fin and Rollins, I want you guys getting in touch with every bus station, train station, and airport.â Cragen ordered. âIâll let Barba know whatâs going on.â He added.
The Parkers were crying on their couch while a uniformed officer asked them questions.
âHey, weâll take it from here.â Benson said to the officer. âIâm Detective Benson and this is Detective Amaro. Do you mind if we ask you a few questions?â Benson asked. The couple nodded, their faces defeated.
âCarisi and I will look at the girlâs room.â I said as we started up the stairs.
The room was pink with flowery drapes and bedding that was still somewhat neat. CSU was dusting for prints on the window frame and around the room. The floor was clean of clutter and all of the surfaces were decorated with toys and knick knacks. Nothing seemed out of place besides the open window and the team investigating.
âNo signs of a struggle,â Carisi said, looking at the path from the bed to the window.
âYeah,â I continued. âIt looks like she just left. I bet she knew the kidnapper. She probably went willingly.â
Carisi went to the closet. âOne pair of shoes is missing,â He said, gesturing to the empty spot on the shoe rack. âEither she grabbed them herself before she left or the kidnapper got them for her. He wanted her to be comfortable.â He said.
âDoes this one feel odd to you?â I asked. âNormally right now I would be thinking it was a parent in a custody battle because sheâs taken care of but the parents are still together. Could it be another family member?â
âIt does feel odd to me.â Carisis said.
âThere is no family,â Amaro said, walking through the door with Benson behind him. âThe dad has a brother in Arizona but thatâs it. Both sets of grandparents have passed and the mother is an only child.â He explained.
âIs the brother worth looking at?â I asked.
âI donât think so,â Benson said. âThe dad doesnât talk to him much, but theyâre on good terms.â
âThe girl has to know this perp,â Carisi said. âNothing else makes sense. Is there anyone that the girl is close to?â
âShe has a babysitter in the neighborhood.â Benson started. âJust a 16 year old girl that watches her on the weekends sometimes, but thatâs really it. With no family and her not starting school yet, we really donât have anyone else to look at.â
Carisi and I went to the sitterâs house two blocks over. It was 9 AM by this time. The sun was out and birds were chirping. It made the day seem even worse, like the universe didnât know there was a girl missing.
Carisi knocked on the door. A middle aged man answered. âHow can I help you?â he asked.
We both showed our badges. âIâm detective Clearing and this is Detective Carisi. Is Sarah here?â
âYes, what is this about?â He asked.
âWe understand that Sarah watches a girl named Jeannie in the neighborhood.â Carisi began. âShe was kidnapped this morning and we were hoping that Sarah might be able to help us out.â
âOh my god, thatâs awful.â The man said. âOf course you can talk to her, let me get her from her room.â He walked halfway down the hallway. âSarah, I need you to come out here please.â
A girl with shoulder length brown hair came into the room. âHello,â she said, a little confused.
âHi Sarah,â I said. âWe are detectives. We were hoping you could answer some questions about Jeannie Parker.â
âSure,â Â she replied. âIs something wrong?â She asked.
âShe was kidnapped this morning.â I explained.
He face went pale. âOh no, is she okay?â
âWe arenât sure. We were hoping that you could tell us about her.â
âYes, Iâll help in any way I can.â She answered.
âWhen was the last time you saw Jeannie?â Carisi started. He was sat leaning forward with his elbows resting on his knees.
âLast Saturday,â she answered. âI watched her while the Parkers went out for their anniversary. They made a whole afternoon of it.â She said.
âWhat did you guys do that day?â I asked.
âWe made cupcakes when I first got there. Then we went to the park for a couple hours, then had a movie night. She was in bed by nine.â Sarah said. Her brows were furrowed and her eyes were worried.
âIs there anyone she was close with or anyone that you guys spoke to?â I asked
âThere isnât really anyone in particular. There are a few kids she sees at the park somewhat regularly, but she isnât really close to any of them.â She said. âI donât know any of their names, or even their parentsâ names.â She added.
âThatâs okay.â Carisi said. âIs there anyone else you can think of?â He asked.
âWe talk to the manager at the grocery store across the street,â She said. âHe always gives Jeannie a balloon.â She explained. âAnd thereâs Damian at the ice cream parlor.â She added. âHeâs always very nice.â
âWhat ice cream parlor?â I asked.
âItâs called Howdyâs.â She answered. âThey employ people with disabilities or with mental challenges.â She explained.
âDo you have any reason to think that either of those people would want to hurt Jeannie?â Carisi asked. âWere they ever inappropriate with Jeannie?â
âNo, never.â She said. âThey were only ever kind to her. Mark, the store manager, gave her balloons but he gives them to all of the children. I think it was to occupy them so they wouldnât make a mess of the store. And Damian is a lower mental age, so he got along with children better than adults. He functions well, heâs just a little slower.â
âThank you for your help, Sarah.â I said, standing. I held out my card. âIf you think of anything else, please give us a call.â
âYes, of course.â She took the card. âPlease find her.â She said.
Once back at the precinct, the squad gathered around a screen with photos and Jeannie and text. âHave we got anything on the second canvas?â Cragen asked the group.
âNot yet. We got a bit of info from the babysitter that weâre looking into, but Iâm not holding out hope.â Rollins answered.
âWhere are we on the market manager?â He asked.
âMark Dixon. 42, married, no record, and has an alibi for the night. Store security footage shows him locking up shop after a late night inventory after Jeannie was already taken.â She explained.
âAnd the ice cream parlor guy?â He asked.
âDamien Reese, 19, no record.â She answered. âCarisi and Clearing are going to talk to him once his shift at the parlor starts.â She added.
âOkay, you guys go talk to him. I need Fin and Rollins to go to the lab. CSU has something.â Cragen ordered. The group scattered to their tasks, and I walked to the elevator with Carisi.
The doors opened to reveal the Assistant District Attorney. âHello detectives.â He said. He was wearing a tan overcoat over his dark grey suit. He had a coffee in one can and a briefcase in the other.
âHey, Barba.â I said. âHowâs it going?â I asked.
âIâm just going to get caught up from Cragen on the case.â We switched places with him in the elevator. âWhere are you guys headed?â He asked, looking at us from the hallway.
âTalking to a suspect. He works at an ice cream parlor.â Carisi answered.
âOh bring me back a strawberry cone.â He winked. I gave a small giggle as the doors closed. Carisi and I rode down to the ground floor with small conversation.
âBarba is funnier with you.â Carisi said.
âWhat?â I asked, definitely confused.
âBarba is funny but heâs funnier around you. I think that he feels that he has to compete with how funny you are, so he really steps up his game.â He explained.
âWhat made you think of that because what he said wasnât even funny?â I said.
âI thought it was funny,â Carisi laughed.
The doors opened to the main floor and Carisi and I made our way to the car. I drove.
âWelcome to Howdyâs, how can I help you?â A tall boy with a name tag on his blue apron reading âMattâ asked from behind the counter. He spoke with slight hesitation but had a large smile.
âHello, is Damien here?â I asked, both Carisi and I showed our badges.
âWhoa,â he said, looking at the badges. âAre those real?â He asked.
âYes, they are.â I answered.
âThatâs so cool.â He said with a smile. âIâll get Damien for you. Heâs in the back.â He said, running quickly to the backroom. He soon walked out with a shorter boy with long curly hair.
âAm I in trouble?â he asked, not looking up. âMatt said the police were here for me.â He still didnât look up.
âYouâre not in trouble Damien,â Carisi said. âWe just want to ask you some questions.â He said.
âWhat about?â He asked, softly.
âJeannie Parker. Do you know her?â I asked.
He looked up at us finally. âYes, Jeannie is my friend. I like Jeannie.â He smiled. âJeannie comes in with Sarah. Jeannie always gets vanilla with sprinkles.â He added.
âSomething happened to her this morning.â I started.
âOh no, is she okay?â He asked.
âWe donât know,â I said. âShe was taken from her bedroom by someone.â
He looked back down. âI donât know anything about that. I donât know anything.â He said quickly. My phone rang, interrupting us. I gave Carisi a look that said Iâd be right back.
âHello,â I said.
âClearing, we got something from the crime scene.â Fin said. âCSU found some blue polyester threads. Mostly used for uniforms and aprons.â He said.
âWas there anything else?â I asked.
âYes, there was a footprint, size 12, with some kind of frosting that was on the bottom of the shoe. Looks like a crushed dessert sprinkle.â He said.
âI think we have our guy.â I said, hanging up.
I returned to the conversation and gave Carisi another look. â Damien, you said that you and Jeannie are friends. When was the last time you saw her?â I asked.
âUhhhh, I uh saw her yesterday.â He answered.
âWhat time did you see her yesterday?â I asked.
âIt was when I was walking home from work. I saw her playing through the window. Sheâs very nice.â He smiled at his shoes. Pretty big. Maybe a size 12.
âDo you know where she is right now?â I asked.
He hesitated. âNo I donât know where she is.â He said unconvincingly.
âExcuse me for one minute, please. I need to make a phone call.â I said, backing away.
âBarba.â The ADA answered.
âCounselor, itâs Clearing. Iâm going to need a search warrant for Damien Reeseâs home. I think heâs our guy. Get with Benson on  the CSU details, but his apron and shoe size match those found at the crime scene and there were sprinkles which is what Jeannie always got in her ice cream from the store. And he lives on the same block as Jeannie.â
âIâm on it. Youâll have the warrant by the time you get there.â He said. âBest of luck detective.â
I walked back up to Carisi and Damien. âDamien, is Jeannie at your house right now?â I asked.
âSheâs not allowed to have sleepovers. She can only play during the day.â He said.
âDid she have a sleepover last night?â I asked him.
âI knew we werenât supposed to, but we were having fun.â
âIs she at your house right now Damien?â I asked again.
âYes. She was going to sleep over again tonight.â He said.
Carisi got behind him and handcuffed him. âDamien Reese, youâre under arrest for the kidnapping of Jeannie Parker.â He finished reading Miranda as we got in the car and sped to Damienâs house.
Barba was there with Benson and Amaro with a warrant in hand. âI say thereâs probably cause, but hereâs a warrant just in case.â He said, handing me the document.
âLetâs go.â I said.
We knocked on the door, but there was no answer. The door was locked, so Carisi gave it a swift kick, breaking it open. We stormed the house, shouting for Jeannie.
âIâll check the basement.â I said, starting down the stairs. âJeannie, are you down here? Can you make some noise, sweet heart?â I shouted.
The room was well lit. Wood panelling lined the walls and the floor was covered in green shag carpet. The click of the door to my right startled me.
âJeannie?â I spoke softly. The girl poked her head out from behind the door. âOh my god,â I said running to her. âAre you okay?â I asked, picking her up.
âIâm okay,â she said. âWhere is Damien? We were going to play dolls.â She said.
Jeannie had been reunited with her parents and Damien had been taken to the station by Carisi. I stood in front of the house with Benson and Barba. âI don;t think the kid knew what he was doing.â I said to Barba.
âHe knew that having a sleepover was wrong, but I donât think he knew that he kidnapped her.â Benson said.
âIâm going to plead him out, I think.â Barba said. âWeâll talk to him more, but I think itâs wrongful imprisonment.â He explained.
âGood work guys,â Benson said. âIâm heading home.â
We both said goodbye to Detective Benson. âYou did well on this one, Danny.â Barba turned to me. âItâs always nice when they get home and were never hurt in the first place.â He added.
âAbsolutely. Thanks Barba.â
He gave me a pat on the shoulder. âGo get some rest.â
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Idyllic Past vs Theoretical Future
- What Danny and Steveâs Hallucinations Reveal about How They See Themselves and Each Other -
While H50 is not a show that normally warrants a deep meta reading, the subtext, parallels, and allegories being more surface level and easily picked up on than a show like Sherlock, after an episode like 8x10, the need presents itself. In order to properly analyze 8x10 though, we have to go all the way back to 5x07.
In episode 5x07, we see Steve kidnapped and drugged by Wo Fat in what would prove to be their final confrontation. Wo Fat is in pursuit of answers regarding his father and Steve, at least at the time, genuinely did not know of his fatherâs location. Between bouts of being tortured, Steve is injected with a cocktail of hallucinogenic drugs that have him hallucinating a past where he envisions how the people he loves would be if they never suffered the greatest loss of their lives. In effect, he takes their pain away. This manifests itself differently for everyone involved:
Kono - Never blows out her knee surfing, so she goes pro and makes it big, to the point where she makes commercials for her endorsers
Chin - Is never believed to be a corrupt cop and rises to the rank of captain. There is even talk that he could one day become chief of police
Lou - The incident in Chicago never happens and he is only in Hawaii for a golf trip
Jenna - Her fiance is never murdered and is only in Hawaii for what is implied to be a vacation
Danny - He and Rachel never get divorced and he willingly moved his family to Hawaii
Steve - Doesnât lose his father to Victor Hesse and only comes back to Hawaii to apprehend the man behind the failed hit on his father
Notice the massive alteration Steve made?? By taking away the greatest loss his loved ones have suffered, he made himself a non-factor in their lives and subsequent happiness. He doesnât even meet Kono, Lou, and Jenna and only exchanges pleasantries with Chin. But aside from saving his own father, he does make one entirely selfish choiceâŚ
Danny.
By taking away the loss of his divorce, Danny has no reason to be in Hawaii, nevertheless speak of it as lovingly as he does or put everything into motion by saving Steveâs father. This speaks so deeply about what Steve wants for Danny as well as himself. He takes away the pain of Dannyâs divorce, hence giving him a happy marriage so his family is still a solid unit, but he is unwilling to compromise being in Dannyâs life even though he is the one of all of his loved ones that he never should have encountered in this idyllic past. Steve wants Danny to want to be in Hawaii, to choose it instead of being there against his will. He wants him to take part in the culture and loosen up a bit. But most revealing of all is that he wants Danny to want to be his partner, for Danny to ask him to be his partner instead of being ordered into a partnership. In other words, Steve wants to be in Dannyâs life and he wants Danny to want him there, to pick him in the same way he picked him. Thatâs an incredibly powerful statement.
In contrast to Steveâs hallucinations, Danny looked to the future in 8x10.Â
The episode opens with a flash forward to the restaurantâs future. Pictures of their ohana cover the entrance walls, the place is packed, Steve is happily chatting with patrons and getting some complimentary glasses of wine for a coupleâs anniversary. Danny is on quality control in the kitchen, getting dishes out, and preparing a new potential dish. When Steve comes back, he gives Danny a hug and tells him itâs a full house. Danny feeds him a bite of the new dish and Steve loves it, singing him praises, which obviously pleases Danny. The restaurant soon fades away and we find out Dannyâs been shot.
The next hallucination is of Grace and Willâs wedding day. Itâs taking place at Steveâs house and Grace calls Danny into the room, worried that love isnât enough for her to go through with the wedding. Danny tells her that if her experience of growing up with parents who divorced taught her anything, it should be that relationships take work and that itâs only when you donât put work into it that they fall apart. He leaves her to collect herself and goes downstairs to get himself and Lou a beer. They talk about how theyâve raised good kids and the scene fades.
After returning to the present, the scene goes to another hallucination, this one centering around Charlie becoming a member of HPD. The scene reveals that Tani (a cop) and Junior (a SEAL) are married, Junior sporting the longer hair that Tani said would be cute on him, and they kiss. Danny sees the kiss and turns away, cringing at the sight, and Steve is revealed to also still have his longer hair, not the buzz cut that Danny protested against (heâs also revealed to be wearing colorful socks like Danny (x)). Charlie looks towards them and Danny says that he was looking at him, whereas Steve says he was looking at him because heâs his role model. They all congratulate Charlie, Tani even offering him a position on her Five-0 squad (!!), and take pics with him, Danny photobombing Steveâs.
Present time reveals that Dannyâs situation is increasingly critical when he fades again, this time we see him walking towards the hospital nursery where Adam is revealed to be watching over his and Konoâs new baby girl. In a scene reminiscent of 2x14 when Steve went to comfort Danny watching over newborn Charlie, Danny comforts Adam and mentions that he needs to learn how to swaddle her. He says heâd teach Adam how to do it if it wasnât for the gunshot wound in his chest.
Danny is finally removed from the quarantine room after Lou sledgehammers a wall down and is taken into emergency surgery. His condition further deteriorates and he flatlines on the table, the final hallucination presenting itself at this point. Heâs sitting with Steve in their chairs on the beach (Steve with the full head of hair he mentioned earlier he would go to the grave with), both clearly in their 70â˛s or 80â˛s. Dannyâs dozing in his chair when Steve starts talking to him, informing him that Clara called for him the previous day, but he forgot to inform him. It turns out that Clara, Dannyâs granddaughter, called to inform him of her intention to attend the police academy and ask whether he wouldâve changed anything in his life. He tells Steve that he told her that he wouldnât, that he wouldnât change a single aspect of his life. They banter back and forth and the scene fades on a shot of Steve.
It cannot be understated how important this hallucination is. In the moments before death, this is where Danny went. His mind wanted to have one final conversation with Steve, one where he makes it clear that he regrets nothing, especially him, and to hear him say âI love youâ one more time. And whatâs incredible is thatâs only cutting the surface of it.
That final hallucinatory scene is also fascinating in that it raises more questions than it answers. Clara called Steveâs in order to talk to Danny and Steve admits that he forgot to tell him. First of all, why on earth would Dannyâs granddaughter call Steve to talk to Danny? And with Steve saying that he forgot to tell him, it implies that he saw Danny before the present time. The latter could merely imply that they still go see each other nearly every day, but taking their advanced age into account, that isnât very likely. When considering both issues though, it implies that Steve and Danny are, at the very least, living together and that Steve forgot to tell Danny Clara called because he was sleeping or working on something and it slipped his mind.
Also, why would Clara call instead of just visit? It could just mean she was too busy to stop by, but it could also imply that she doesnât live in Hawaii. If she doesnât live in Hawaii, was she raised by Grace and Will (Iâm assuming itâs Graceâs daughter since Charlie joined HPD and would presumably still be in Hawaii) in another state? With Grace potentially having moved to another state and Charlie an adult, why didnât Danny go back to New Jersey? You could say itâs because of the restaurant, but even that implies he made a choice. Much like Steveâs hallucination in 5x07 wanted, Danny chose Hawaii and Steve over New Jersey.
The big take away from this scene though is Danny telling Steve he wouldnât change anything, not one aspect of his life. Heâd take the divorce and heartbreak, the bullet and stab wounds, everything, to land to where he ended up. Heâs content, heâs happy, with the life that he - they - created.
Weaving all these hallucinatory scenes together reveals a common, and potentially damning, thread about Danny. Specifically, there are three subjects present in every single hallucination:
His kids, marriage, and Steve.
Hallucination 1 - Grace and Charlie are one of the pictures on the wall; the couple celebrating their wedding anniversary; Steve tending to the restaurant and trying Dannyâs new dish
Hallucination 2 - Has a heart-to-heart with Grace; Graceâs wedding day; the wedding is taking place on Steveâs beach
Hallucination 3 - Charlie joining HPD; Tani and Junior are married; Steve attended the ceremony with him
Hallucination 4 - Danny learned how to swaddle his babies; Adam and Konoâs marriage is still intact; the scene is reminiscent of the one when Steve comforts Danny after Charlieâs birth in 2x14
Hallucination 5 - The daughter of one of his kids called; heâs sitting with Steve on the beach
Now, when looking at the final hallucination, the marriage point isnât as obvious as it is in the others, but then the show pulled this sneaky move:
While it seems from the short glimpses we see of Dannyâs left hand that heâs not wearing a wedding ring, the lens flair on the final shot of Steve clearly draws attention to his left hand and our inability to see if Steve is wearing one. Assuming they didnât just decide to drop the marriage thread for this final hallucination, we know something is here. When you take into account Steve being somehow present in all the other hallucinations, Steveâs admittance in 8x06 that heâd like to grow old and get married, and the complete lack of girlfriends in any hallucination, as well as no one else being present in the scene, the marriage here is clearly Steve and Dannyâs.
On the heels of that revelation, weâre left to ask how serious the marriage thread here is. Their relationship has been compared to a marriage several times, Steve and Danny themselves drawing the comparison once each, so this could just be a nod to that and to us, the fandom who ships them. Itâs a figurative marriage in that case, not a literal one, but that may not be whatâs happening here. All the other marriages in the hallucinations have been literal ones and like I stated above, it is likely they are living together. In their old age, did they just decide living together was easier and more comforting?
Or, did they take that final step at some point and theyâve been married and living together, potentially for decades?
(also, if youâre into symbolism, smoking a pipe is an old trick to imply SMOKING a PIPE. youâre welcome)
No matter which way you cut it, Danny has come to see Steve as an integral part of his life, lovingly woven into every fiber and inextricable from himself. Much like Steve did in his hallucinations, Danny refuses to see a life without him and wants to grow old with him, bickering and bantering to their heartâs desire, maybe even living together. Their relationship permeates every aspect of his life, it being the greatest relationship heâs built outside of the ones with his children, and he wants to live out his days by his side. Whether figurative or literal, that sounds like a marriage to me, and to Danny, too.
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2024 April fools and Anniversary Event Prompt List part 5
See what the event was and it's rule here!
Hero! Prompts:
Hero Gremlin
Wes made a new friends online that love exposing the truth of other just as much as him!! turns out that person was Tim and Bernard!
Hero Cashmire
There's some very pampered bats in the batcave, and no, I don't just mean the vigilante kind. The actual animal bats are very well cared for by Alfred and the kids. Bruce doesn't realize how pampered the bats are until one of them gets comfortable enough around people to land on the batcomputer while Bruce is working. Turns out he never actually got over his fear. And the cave isn't as soundproof as everyone thought it was.
Pariah Dark is the origin of the Lazarus Pits. He was fighting with a demon to defend the Realms and got injured, badly. As he fought, he blead out ectoplasm, creating pools across Earth. When the fight was over, he retreated back to the Realms to heal. The problem is, that the injury was cursed. A little bit of demon blood got absorbed into him. It corrupted him, turning him into the Pariah that Danny fought. As he corrupted, the pools of his ectoplasm corrupted as well, becoming the Lazarus Pits as they're now known. No one realizes this until John Constantine, fellow involuntary receiver of demon blood, looks at the Lazarus Pits and realizes that there's something demonic going on here.
Hero Bucket OâRandomness
Phantom is hard to see, not because he can turn invisible (although that definitely helps) but because he is a Borrower, a small variation of ghost who resides in the Living Realms
Tim has always wanted to meet Batman and Robin. Being a Borrower makes that difficult
Villains! Prompts:
Villain Jayden
Things have been quiet in Gotham recently. Harley finally got rehabilitated and got together with Ivy, and has been slowly stopping crime. But whoâs this new redhead whoâs hanging out with the two of them? And why is she always in a hazmat suit?
Jasmine Fenton finally got into Gotham University for a dual degree in psychology and English. Thereâs a boy in their class thatâs definitely death touched, and they wouldnât be a Fenton if they didnât try to kidnap him.
Villain Non-Malicious Animalization
the Justice League are called in to catch a potentially dangerous entity. No one is sure if this thing is even sapient, and it's in no state to answer that question. It's injured, defensive, and very willing to bite. Danny's had a very, very bad time recently, and anyone in white is on his 'tear apart with bare hands' list.
there's a kid doing the Charleston while the Joker is in the Family Guy Death Pose (the kid is danny)
Villain Nezu
Danny may or may not have accidentally possessed the Batmobile and is trapped
If anyone wants to use and post with these prompts the Ao3 collection link is here, or post with #April Fools event 2024
#dpxdc#batpham server#batpham discord server#batpham server shenanigans#April Fools event 2024#dpxdc prompts
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There are quite a few new books coming out this week.
Isle of Blood and Stone (Isle of Blood and Stone #1) by Makiia Lucier Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Ulises asked, âHow can I look at these maps, see this riddle, and do nothing? They are my brothers.â
Elias reached across the table and flicked aside two shells with a fingertip. The map curled into itself. âItâs bound to be a goose chase. You know that?â
âOr a treasure hunt,â Ulises countered, âand youâve always been good at those.â
Nineteen-year-old Elias is a royal explorer, a skilled mapmaker, and the new king of del Marâs oldest friend. Soon he will embark on the adventure of a lifetime, an expedition past the Strait of Cain and into uncharted waters. Nothing stands in his wayâŚuntil a long-ago tragedy creeps back into the light, threatening all he holds dear.
The people of St. John del Mar have never recovered from the loss of their boy princes, kidnapped eighteen years ago, both presumed dead. But when two maps surface, each bearing the same hidden riddle, troubling questions arise. What really happened to the young heirs? And why do the maps appear to be drawn by Lord Antoni, Eliasâs father, who vanished on that same fateful day? With the kingâs beautiful cousin by his side-whether he wants her there or not-Elias will race to solve the riddle of the princes. He will have to use his wits and guard his back. Because some truths are better left buriedâŚand an unknown enemy stalks his every turn.
The Lost Kids (Never Ever #2) by Sara Saedi Viking Books for Young Readers
Just a few weeks ago, Wylie Dalton was living on a magical island where nobody ages past seventeen, and in love with Phinn, the islandâs leader. Now, her home is a creaky old boat where sheâs joined a ragtag group of cast-offs from the island, all dead-set on getting revenge on Phinn for betraying them. But when the Lost Kids invade Minor Island, theyâre shocked to find it totally deserted, except for one survivor who reveals the shocking news: adults have discovered the island.
Picture Us in the Light by Kelly Loy Gilbert Disney-Hyperion
Danny Cheng has always known his parents have secrets. But when he discovers a taped-up box in his fatherâs closet filled with old letters and a file on a powerful Silicon Valley family, he realizes thereâs much more to his familyâs past than he ever imagined.
Danny has been an artist for as long as he can remember and it seems his path is set, with a scholarship to RISD and his familyâs blessing to pursue the career heâs always dreamed of. Still, contemplating a future without his best friend, Harry Wong, by his side makes Danny feel a panic he can barely put into words. Harry and Dannyâs lives are deeply intertwined and as they approach the one-year anniversary of a tragedy that shook their friend group to its core, Danny canât stop asking himself if Harry is truly in love with his girlfriend, Regina Chan.
When Danny digs deeper into his parentsâ past, he uncovers a secret that disturbs the foundations of his family history and the carefully constructed facade his parents have maintained begins to crumble. With everything he loves in danger of being stripped away, Danny must face the ghosts of the past in order to build a future that belongs to him.
For Every One by Jason Reynolds Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
Originally performed at the Kennedy Center for the unveiling of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, and later as a tribute to Walter Dean Myers, this stirring and inspirational poem is New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award finalist Jason Reynoldsâs rallying cry to the dreamers of the world.
For Every One is just that: for every one. For every one person. For every one dream. But especially for every one kid. The kids who dream of being better than they are. Kids who dream of doing more than they almost dare to dream. Kids who are like Jason Reynolds, a self-professed dreamer. Jason does not claim to know how to make dreams come true; he has, in fact, been fighting on the front line of his own battle to make his own dreams a reality. He expected to make it when he was sixteen. Then eighteen. Then twenty-five. Now, some of those expectations have been realized. But others, the most important ones, lay ahead, and a lot of them involve kids, how to inspire them. All the kids who are scared to dream, or donât know how to dream, or donât dare to dream because theyâve NEVER seen a dream come true. Jason wants kids to know that dreams take time. They involve countless struggles. But no matter how many times a dreamer gets beat down, the drive and the passion and the hope never fully extinguishâbecause just having the dream is the start you need, or you wonât get anywhere anyway, and that is when you have to take a leap of faith.
A pitch perfect graduation, baby, or love my kid gift.
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âItâs Just The Way It Is!â
Monday 2nd March 2020
Good Evening folks! How was your weekend? I hope everyone enjoyed themselves and had a good chilled time. So, it seems there have been more #SPOILERS released over the weekend, I'm sure you've probably all heard them by now, but I love sharing spoilers on here and keeping everyone in the loop as to what is coming in the soap, just in case the news may have passed you by somehow! What do you guys think of the new-ish character, Suki? I know she's not had much screen time but I'm liking what I've seen so far and from what the new pictures reveal, I feel like I knew she was a wrong'un! Since the new Panesar family arrived on the square, it came to the viewers attention that the 4 sibling's mother was suffering with cancer and was desperate to get her relationship with her daughter, Ash, back on track. However, Suki has been lying to her family about having cancer and been manipulating Jean to get as much information as she can to make her story convincing. It new released pictures, it appears to show Jean grieving for Daniel and carrying his ashes. Everything Jean has been through in recent months, it's awful to see how someone can manipulate her and lie about having the same dreadful disease as her. Is Jean about to uncover the truth about Suki?!

In other news, it's been reported that Ben will come across a familiar face in upcoming weeks. Paul Usher will be reprising his role as Danny Hardcastle. Most of you will remember his run-in with the Mitchell family last year when he kidnapped Louise while Ben went on a rampage against his gang. What does his return mean for the Mitchell family? What could he want with Ben? We know Phil has suddenly done a disappearing act, is he after Phil again for something?! I'm intrigued to see what else could happen between Danny and the rest of the Mitchell's.

Meanwhile, tonight's episode, there was a lot of stuff to focus on I feel, loads of different things happening with different characters.
Firstly, I can't get over how tall Peter is! Compared to the rest of the Beale family, he's towering over all of them! I'm feeling really happy that Ian has now finally told someone what happened to Dennis, even though, when he told Peter, I thought Sharon was going to emerge from the kitchen and reveal that she had heard everything he'd said! I'm also enjoying seeing Bobby and Peter back together, it feels like it's been a long time since we had these two characters in the same room. Like Peter said "Everyone is here, except Lucy" ... That scene where the two brothers were having a conversation in the square, it was a really lovely moment. Bobby asking his brother to just blame him over anyone else. Could the two brother rekindle their friendship? Â ... There has to be a reason as to why Peter is back, surely he will have his own secret to expose eventually? What happened between him and Lauren? Could there be a reason for Lauren to come back in the future?
Wow! No funeral for Daniel? Just an urn right there?! Already? Would've liked to have seen them have a funeral for him, or at least a memorial ceremony! I'm sure Jean will do some kinda of recognition in her own way, like Shirley suggested. I loved that moment when they were sat eating cakes. "They taste like feet! - I did find them in the Queen Vic toilet!" Shirley always has the best one-liners! Her friendship with Jean is just pure too, you might say Shirley doesn't really have that many friends, but the friendship that has blossomed between Jean and Shirley over the past few years has been amazing to watch, I always smile seeing them on screen together! Ahhh! So, is Jean already suspicious of Suki?! Did you see that little puzzled face she pulled when Suki made the story up about her doctor?! She looked so uncomfortable when they bringing the bed in for her, she can't keep up the pretence for long! Jean will discover the truth, along with Shirley!
Oh! Martin is back?! Where the hell has he been?! I don't think we saw him once during the anniversary week last week did we? If we did, can someone please remind me?! I can't even remember the last time we saw Martin?! Ha! Awww, so it looks to be the start of Bex's exit storyline, she's looking to go travelling with her friend Jade. Sonia didn't seem happy, but hopefully she'll be able to support her daughter's decision. That conversation Bex had with Kat about Zoe, I remember Zoe leaving, can't believe it's been nearly 15 years! It's about time Zoe came back to see her Mum AND her new little brothers! Who calls for Zoe to return?! .... Anyway, back to Bex .... what do you think of Bex's decision, we know she's leaving but, if she wasn't, do you think it would be good if she was to stay on the square? To be honest, I think it's exactly what she needs! After her attempting to take her own life, plus abusing pills/drugs and with her best friend Louise gone, what is keeping her at Walford? She needs to get away, have some breathing space and find peace with herself. Explore the world before she settles in a job or something. It'll be sad seeing Jasmine Armfield leave, but I am hoping she'll return to the role of Bex in the future.
Ahh so the pressure is really getting Gray, trying to do all he can for Kush and Whitney, putting on a front showing that he's coping being able to do both cases. It was only a matter of time before he was back abusing Chantelle, he lashed out again at her because he was feeling pressure of the work. Plus now the added pressure of finding Keegan a load for his new business opportunity ... Speaking of Keegan, I'm sensing a racial story-line happening, I probably should've noticed it earlier on, but this has been building in recent months as Keegan has been stopped by police numerous times, for nothing in particular. Is Keegan going to start causing trouble just to get back at police? He's an innocent man who has been treated like the suspect, I understand Keegan's frustration, he was only doing right by his wife and he gets mistreated for it, just because of his appearance?! I think this is another tough subject that EastEnders are now tackling, I'm intrigued as to how tonight's episode will affect Keegan, this is blatantly the last straw! He's had enough of being treated like the bad guy ... so will he purposely go out looking for trouble and causing havoc to the square, just to get to the police? Plus what will it mean for his relationship with Tiffany, if Keegan turns to breaking the law, how is Tiffany going to be able to stand there and support him? There are better ways to go about it, take a stand, protest ... or make a complaint. But who knows what could be in store for Keegan now?! I'm looking forward to finding out!
I believe there is sadly no episode tomorrow night, due to football! (How dare they!) What did you all make of tonight's episode? I'd love to hear your thoughts! Will you miss Bex when she leaves? What did you think is going to happen now for Keegan? I'll be back on Thursday with another episode review and blog! Have a good Tuesday and Wednesday! Goodnight peeps! xXx
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