Fic Rec Tag
Rules: Recommend us 3 of YOUR fics: 1 that is "most popular" and 2 that are "hidden gems!" Then tag some folks.
Tagged by @residentdormouse
thank you so much love <3
Most Popular: the echo (or the answer)
Fandom: Top Gun: Maverick
complete / 6 out of 6 / 48,752
Collective Note Count Across Chapters: 837
Pairings: Jake "Hangman" Seresin/OC, Werewolf!Jake/OC, Robert "Bob" Floyd/OC, Werewolf!Bob/OC
Warnings: language, angst, werewolf lore, werewolf mating stuff, violence, gore, explicit smut, slight love-triangle
cross-posted to my AO3
The town of Marnmouth, Washington has carried a dark secret for centuries. Werewolves live among them, roam in their forests, and live peacefully amongst the humans they live alongside. To everyone else, it's just an urban legend, but to a select few, it is reality and truth. One such as these is Veronica Bradshaw - human sister to the Alpha of Blue River pack, Bradley. But across the river in Bellmoral, another werewolf pack is forced from their territory and into that of Blue River. Will Ronnie remain loyal to her brother, or will the opposing Alpha, Jake, seduce her to the other side?
it's a werewolf au y'all not much else to it lol
Gem 1: The Princess and The Freak
Fandom: Stranger Things
WIP / 1 out of 8 / 2,353
Collective Note Count Across Chapters: 34
Pairings: Eddie Munson/OC
Warnings: fluff, mutual pining, tutor/student to lovers, angst, misunderstanding goodness
Eddie is determined to graduate this year, so he seeks helps from a tutor. Only the tutor he finds is Princess of Hawkins HIgh, Lydia Gasper.
I know I only posted one chapter of this and then immediately got sucked into the Top Gun Brainrot but I do still love this story and what I have planned. It takes place the semester before season 4 and Eddie and Lydia are just....Perfection, your honor.
Gem 2: The Power of Suffering
Fandom: The Maze Runner
WIP / 3 out of 9 / 11,804
Collective Note Count Across Chapters: 145
Pairings: Gally/OC
Warnings: violence, aged-up characters, blood/gore, angst, friends to lovers, gally being very soft
Gally was one of the toughest and one of the strongest fighters the Right Arm had ever seen. He took no shit, lead with an iron fist, and had a wit like a whip. But combat medic Joan got to him in a way he couldn’t really describe. She was kind to the point of stupidity, honest, and always saw the best in people. She broke down his walls and forced him to face the vulnerable part of himself he wanted to bury. But what happens when these two opposites are forced to face their feelings for each other instead?
Another WIP I'm determined to come back to someday. I love Will Poulter he is my BOO. And I really just love this fic. I did this really cool thing where there is a book quote, read by a character, at the end of each chapter that goes along with the theme of that chapter.
No pressure tags friends, just know I love you and would love some fic recs!: @a-reader-and-a-writer @loverhymeswith @blue-aconite @laracrofted @indynerdgirl @princessphilly @clydesducktape and anyone else who sees and would like to join!
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Drawn to his Light
Context: Will has been missing for the past few days, after he got vecnad and now the burned grinch keeps him as his avatar/vessel.
Mike felt his heart still inside his chest, setting out several beats.
There was Will. There was Will. He had found him.
His heart picked up its work again, hammering furiously against his rip cage.
“Will!”, he called, running towards him. “Will, are you okay?”
He fired the light signal, while stumbling towards his best friend.
The other would find them. They had split up in their search for the boy.
Nancy and Mike. Joyce and Jonathan. Steve and Dustin. El and Hopper. Lucas, Erica and Murray.
Mike and Nancy had been assigned to the woods. As were Jonathan and Joyce. The others were covering different areas.
“ … If I go there will be trouble …. stay I’ll make it double … let me know … should I stay or should I go … “
Will was singing to himself.
Mike fell to his knees in front of him, taking him by the shoulders and shaking, shaking, shaking, crying for Will to wake up, to come back.
“Will. Hey, Will!”
He put his hands to Will’s cheeks, making him look up at him. There was no resistance, Will’s head weighing heavy in his palms. And then, finally, Mike was looking into his eyes.
Into his eyes. Will’s eyes. Warm hazel, instead of that burning glow. Will instead of Vecna.
“Mike”, he rasped and his voice was raw. Like he had gone without water for days, because he probably had.
Chapped lips, dried tears on his cheeks, dirt and blood sticking to them. Will looked meager, dark shadows under his eyes. Mike was almost sure he could see blue veins under white skin that seemed paper thin.
“Yes”, Mike smiled, pure relief flooding his whole being. Relief so great, it hurt him physically.
“Yes, yes, I’m here, you’re here and you’re gonna be okay, I promise, I promise, I promise you Will.”
Mike was rambling, he knew he was, but he couldn’t care less. He was holding his best friend, the boy he loved more than the world and Will was breathing and his eyes were his own. He had his Will back. This was Will who was looking right back at him. His eyes tired and worn, but Will.
“Mike.”
Will almost smiled at him, his eyes incredibly warm, despite of the pain they held.
“Yes”, Mike cried and he didn’t even care that he did. “I’m here, I got you. I’ll take you home, Will. Everyone will be so happy to have you back safe.”
He was stroking his thumbs over Will’s broken skin, swiping away tears and dirt and blood and he was happy. Mike was beyond happy, relieved, whole, and he wanted nothing more but to kiss him.
He almost did. If it wasn’t for Will’s smile fading away.
“I’m sorry”, Will said, his eyes still incredibly warm.
“What?”
Mike frowned, not understanding. He searched Will’s eyes for an answer but only found him looking past him. Past Mike and directly at Nancy.
Mike turned around, finding his sister standing frozen, staring at Will with wide eyes.
“Now?”, she asked, her voice small, trembling.
Nancy looked scared, like something horrible had just dawned on her.
Mike looked back at Will and then at his sister again. “What’s going on here?”
He pressed down firmer on Will’s cheeks, forcing him to look at him. “What’s wrong, Will? Is he still in there?”
Vecna. He had taken Will. The cold glow inside his eyes. He had hurt them.
Some common sense seeped back into Mike’s mind as the adrenalin finally subsided. The situation had been bad. His friend was himself right now, but that couldn’t be it.
Or could it, maybe?
Could they, for once in their life, just be lucky?
Will’s gaze focused back onto him, into his eyes, searching for something there. He opened his mouth, taking in a soft breath. And then he hesitated, eyes still searching.
Mike felt warm all over, with Will’s focus solely on him.
Whatever Will found inside his eyes, it was enough to make him huff out the softest of laughs, weak and broken but warm, warm, warm, brimming with light, because Will always was. Will was light. And Mike was the moth aching for it, always.
“I love you.”
Will’s voice was soft, dripping with warmth. And Mike was rendered speechless.
He looked at Will.
That’s it. He just looked.
Floating.
He felt like floating. Warmth. Light. Will.
He waited too long. Mike waited too long. Because, Will smiled at him, sad, broken, warm. Still, so incredibly warm, because everything about him was.
And he pushed Mike away.
Will pushed him away and Mike could feel the force of it inside his chest, he felt himself being pushed and pushed and pushed away, like an invisible hand was pressing down and down and down against him.
And he saw Will moving farther and farther away. Only it was Mike, who was moving away. Because Will had pushed him.
With his mind. Just like El would have.
Just like Vecna.
“No”, Mike muttered when he finally realized.
But it was too late.
Red burst from Will, exploding into the dawn, wrapping him and Nancy into a whirling mass of glowing matter, blocking Mike out.
“No!”
It was too late.
His sister. The boy he loved. They were swallowed whole.
And Mike could only watch.
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So, before the Avatar obsession hit, I was a Stranger Things girl.
I wrote this for fun. It's a nice little change and writing short stuff once in a while keeps me motivated. There's gonna be more to this, but only like a One Shot. Different povs on how shit goes down. Nancy and Will have an agreement that nobody else knows about. A lot of pain, bc I'm good at that. I will post the finished thing on ao3 when it's done. But like I'm absolutely not rushing to do so. I have an ongoing Avatar fic I need to keep going and I'm planning on a brand new one for the same fandom. The plotting is a bitch.
(Also, no idea if this has been done before. I only ever read Steddie fics in the Stranger Things Fandom)
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ahoy, maties. i return not with a prompt fill, but with a Steve POV companion piece to this post-S2/pre-S3 post-stancy breakup prompt fill because i'm sick in the head. read at your own risk.
3,400ish words (somehow) of nonsense under the cut.
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i'll be alright [it's just a thousand cuts]
He sees her sometimes.
It’s not like he’s, like, looking for her. He’s not, because no matter what Robin says, Steve’s not a maso…a macho…a mecha…okay, like, one of those weirdos who gets his rocks off by getting smacked around or whatever.
He’s not.
It’s just that it’s kinda hard to totally avoid her. According to her brother, Hawkins is, like, smaller than Thor’s thumbnail – and Christ, he really needs to stop hanging around those little dweebs if that’s the kind of shit he’s absorbing – so it’s hard not to see her. Anywhere. Everywhere.
But it’s usually only just out of the corner of his eye. A flutter of flowery skirt disappearing between the aisles at Melvald’s, or the bounce of perfectly set brown curls right as she’s crossing Main Street, walking with quick little steps that are so purposeful.
(Steve used to spend most of free period making a mess of those curls, tangling them between his fingers, testing how far he could go before she’d swat his hands away. They were soft as one of his mom’s silk scarves, but somehow still not as soft as her lips when they’d curve against his, her little body arching between his hips and the creaky leather of his backseat.)
He doesn’t know if it’s better or worse that whenever their paths cross, she’s always just out of focus, blurred at the edges like a messed up Polaroid.
It’s no secret that Steve’s no great lover of the language arts (no matter how many long lectures Henderson’s given him – from the front seat of Steve’s car, that Steve drives him around in – about why that’s hurting him with the chicks).
But he thinks maybe if he did give a shit about similes, or metaphors, or any of that crap that he’d mostly slept through in second period English, that it’d be a pretty decent way to sum up their relationship. A couple pictures that might’ve been pretty if they hadn’t gotten all smudged up.
Oh, and her new boyfriend’s a photographer. How’s that for poetic?
Anyway, Steve would have to be an idiot – more of an idiot – to actually go looking for her. So he doesn’t. Because he remembers how much it had hurt, forcing himself through the last seven months of his own goddamn senior year, seeing her every day and feeling tender as a walking, talking bruise, long after the worst of the damage to his face had faded. It’d been almost fucking unbearable, catching her eye only to see exactly how far he’d fallen reflected in them.
Back then (a whole two months ago) he hadn’t even tried to play it cool, had figured it was still common enough knowledge that she could step on his neck, no questions asked, and he’d probably thank her for it. Ask her to do it again, if only to keep her undivided attention for just one more second.
But that was then. Now, he’s moving on.
Mostly.
Trying to.
It’d help if the universe would cooperate – if, at the same time he’d lost Nancy, he hadn’t also somehow lost every bit of mojo that made Steve Harrington that guy, especially when it came to the ladies.
Because it’s definitely gone, and he didn’t need Tracey Wiltshire – who’d rocked full headgear until, like, the end of sophomore year – to stammer out some lame blow-off to confirm it.
It’s painfully evident every time he looks in the mirror, because he doesn’t see Steve Harrington – basketball star, swim captain, somebody who’s somebody – anymore. He just sees some loser in a shitty Popeye costume (which itches, Jesus). A loser who got laughed out of goddamn Tech.
Whose dad barely throws him more than a dismayed glance over the morning paper – when he’s around to read the morning paper, that is.
Who constantly finds new and creative ways to get splotches of Rocky Mountain Fudge where Rocky Mountain Fudge should never be, and takes home maybe ten bucks in tips on a good night.
Of course Na - Tracey wouldn’t want to waste her time on a dipshit like that. Who would?
But he’s not gonna give up, because he knows the only sure way out of a slump is to shoot through it. Besides, it’s not, like, not fun, letting Robin bust his balls nonstop on the days that they’re teamed up. She’s pretty ingenious, like, he wouldn’t be surprised if she goes home after every shift and shuts herself away in her little dork hidey hole until she’s got at least ten new zingers locked and loaded.
(Most of the time it's fun. More fun when she’s not leveling him with big SAT prep words, because then he has no choice but to try to return fire without revealing that he still has no goddamn clue what a charlatan is, no matter how many times Nancy’d drilled him on it last summer. And – surprise surprise – that usually doesn’t end well for him.
But come to think of it, she has kinda backed off from that lately. So maybe it’s more fun for her the other way, too.)
Anyway, he keeps trying, and ultimately racks up more “You Suck” ticks per shift than Robin has room for on her whiteboard (she’s been talking about starting a ledger, and yeah, that’s exactly what he needs, his failures all neatly leather-bound and cataloged in permanent marker).
You know what, though? It’s fine. It can’t last forever, right? Steve’s a pretty positive guy. Eventually, some girl’s gonna want to buy what he’s selling, even if what he’s selling isn’t a whole bunch more than a final fling with the homecoming king. One last stop on the Hawkins Express before it’s all frat boys and keg stands at Boilermakers tailgates.
(He can only imagine what Robin would have to say about that.)
On one Saturday in late June, he thinks he might be on the verge of a breakthrough. Thinks he’s maybe a free scoop of mint chocolate chip away from talking Lisa Kurtz into the back row of the 7:15 showing of Cocoon – because he’s always kind of wanted to see if her boobs really are bigger than her hair, and he’s running out of time to find out.
Things are going well, so according to the current logic of Steve’s life, that means something’s gotta step in to ruin it. And boy, is that something a doozy – all five-foot-four of her, freshly permed and pretty in pink kitten heels.
It’s been two months since Steve Harrington fully laid eyes on Nancy Wheeler. Two months since he’s admired – before he can stop himself – the little dimple in her chin and the delicate curve of her neck and shoulders, today draped carefully in a demure sundress.
Once upon a time, Steve would have taken great pleasure in wrecking that dainty piece of cotton, fisting it in his hands and bunching it all the way up to her waist.
“Hi,” she says softly, biting her lip, and Christ, how Steve wishes she’d stayed in the blurry outer rim of his brain. Because he’s looking right at her, and it’s blinding, the way she just fucking glows for no good reason. It’s worse than that time in fifth grade, when he’d maybe (probably) burned his retinas after Tommy dared him to stare straight into the sun for five whole minutes (he’d made it about fifteen seconds).
“Hey,” he finds it in himself to reply, and he congratulates himself on the way he stays so chill, right up until Lisa’s cup of mint chocolate chip tumbles out of his nerveless fingers and splatters all over the floor and a little bit all over her shoes.
(She’s not happy. There goes the 7:15 showing of Cocoon, along with his only shot this week at a mark in the “You rule” column.)
Now his date’s gone, stormed out in a cloud of Windsong so thick he can taste it, and gone too are his chances of escaping this encounter with minimal humiliation. Perfect.
(Thank god Robin’s still on her break. At least someone up there is still doing him a solid or two.)
Nancy’s eyes flick once, twice between Steve and the door.
“Am I…interrupting?” she asks slowly, as if this isn’t a public dining establishment, as if she doesn’t have as much right to be here as any other prospective paying customer. There’s a glint in her eyes that he doesn’t even try to decode. He’s not dumb enough to think he can still read Nancy Wheeler.
(That he’d ever been able to read her.)
“Not a chance,” Steve lies quickly, flipping the ice cream scoop with suddenly numb fingers. “Always room for one more on this flotilla of flavor!”
He’s pretty sure that was the right way to use “flotilla”, the way he’d overheard Robin say it last week. Like, ninety percent sure. Well. Sixty.
Also, what is wrong with him?
But Nancy smiles that little smile she used to give him every time he said something painfully dumb that she found charming in spite of herself, so no permanent damage, he guesses.
Not that it matters anymore. Because it doesn’t.
“A flotilla, huh?” she plays along. “That’s…a lot of flavors.”
“Thirty-two, to be exact,” he replies on autopilot. “They, uh, wanted one more than Baskin Robbins.” Goddamn it. He swears he used to be able to talk to girls. This girl, in particular.
“Oh,” she blinks. “Interesting.”
Okay, so. The last time Steve and Nancy had spoken for real, they’d just broken up. Billy Hargrove had basically made scrambled eggs of Steve’s brains. And yet somehow, it had still been less of a disaster than the last minute of his life.
Steve has to salvage this somehow.
“It’s…really not,” he admits. “But you’re sweet to pretend.” Without thinking, he moves to drag his hand nervously through his hair and comes away with his cap instead. Oops.
Still, though, they both laugh, and that’s better. Good, even. Getting back on track. He’s not a total lost cause.
“So, uh, what brings you to Starcourt?” he follows up, and that’s safe enough. Neutral. Boring. “Feels like most of Hawkins has been through here, not that that’s saying much. Haven’t really seen you around, though.”
That’s less safe, but she doesn’t seem offended. In fact, she’s still smiling, and Christ, Steve remembers why he hasn’t gone looking for this. Why he’s pointedly avoiding asking if she’s here alone.
“Well,” she says with a sly little curl of her lips, “I’ve been pretty busy. But – someone told me I was missing out on thirty-two flavors of ice cream.” It's almost flirtatious, until she steps forward and winces. “Actually, I think one of them’s on the floor.”
The floor…? Crap. Lisa’s ice cream. It’s still splattered all over where he dropped it.
“Oh shit, sorry,” Steve starts, warmth creeping up his collar. “I can - I can get that cleaned up.”
Ignoring Nancy’s protestations, he scrambles for the mop bucket they have to constantly keep within reach. Of course, it’s nowhere to be found – which means it’s definitely in the back room, which means he definitely can’t get it without drawing Robin’s attention. He pauses, debating.
“No – look, Steve, most of it’s still in the cup, I can just – I can just throw it away.”
Steve is circling the counter to assess the damage just as Nancy is crossing his path to get to the garbage can, and they’re one perilous step away from unwittingly splitting a hefty splotch of Maritime Mint Choco Chip when his reflexes kick in.
On instinct, his hands wrap around Nancy’s bare shoulders to stop her just before they collide and – oh. Oh.
See, he hasn’t touched Nancy Wheeler in damn near nine months, and now his - his skin is on her skin. She’s soft, and warm, and his palms look so big against the slim curves of her arms. He can feel exactly where goosebumps are prickling against the pads of his fingers.
This angle also gives him a perfect, painful view of the swoop of her neck that he’s never quite been able to put out of his head. There’s a dull flush creeping up her collarbone, and for one unhinged moment he wonders what she’d do if he just buried his face there, pressing his lips heavy against that searing hollow until she’s gasping, like he’s done so many times before.
He catches her gaze. Her eyes are bright under the fluorescents, and he can’t help but picture them glassy with alcohol and resentment, punctuated by a sullen mouth and punch-stained blouse. Staring him down like he’s some kind of Upside Down pond scum. Bullshit.
He has no idea what she sees now, but it probably isn’t much of an improvement.
Steve swallows, and steps back.
“Sorry,” he says roughly, retreating back behind the safety of the counter, heart pounding. Nancy looks relatively composed as she neatly disposes of her trash, but he at least still knows her well enough to notice how her fingers curl tightly around her purse strap, the only sign that she’s a fraction as shaken as he suddenly is.
Ask her what she wants. Ask her what she wants and give it to her so they can start pretending this conversation never happened as quickly as possible.
“So, uh, busy? What’s – what’s up in the world of Wheeler?”
For fuck’s sake, it’s like his mouth is completely disconnected from what’s left of his brain.
“Oh, uh.” Nancy looks startled, like that’s not what she’d been expecting him to say. “Yeah. I got an internship at the Hawkins Post with Jonathan.”
So. No tiptoeing around it. Steve gives himself credit for not flinching like he wants to, for nodding his head like that simple statement hasn’t landed like a gunshot.
“Nice. Probably a way cooler gig than dishing out sorbet to all the Jazzercise moms,” he cracks, only half joking.
She doesn’t laugh, though. Her face drops and she kind of hunches in on herself, and he instantly feels like shit even though he doesn’t think he said anything to be sorry for, doesn’t know what could’ve made her react like that. Good one, Steve.
“You might be surprised,” is all she gives him in response. He doesn’t know what to make of that. And honestly, it’s not his job to make something of it anymore, so he lets it go, and they linger in awkward silence for a few seconds.
For once – this one time only – he wishes that snot-nosed Sinclair brat would barge in, flanked by her entourage of equally snotty, pint-sized little dweeb friends, loudly demanding free samples of every flavor. That would at least give him a way out of this.
“Hey Steve?” Nancy looks at him like she’s steeling herself, and he recognizes that look, used to dread it back when they were dating. Time, he finds, hasn’t really changed the way he feels about it.
“Nancy?” he parrots back, defensive for no particular reason.
“The reason I came here today – that is, I just wanted to see if…” She cringes, trails off uncharacteristically, and he waits her out, with mounting unease.
Patience isn’t his strong suit, but he’s found that for Nancy Wheeler, he’s usually willing to try to be the things he’s not. For all the good it does. Did.
She sighs, and tries again.
“I just wanted to ask – how, how are you –”
“Hey, honey, if you’re gonna get your ice cream, get a move on. I still need to stop at the dry cleaners.” A bottle blonde perm pops into the shop, and Steve nearly exhales with overwhelming…relief? Disappointment?
Saved by Karen Wheeler.
She pauses, and Steve sees her notice him in real-time, watches the surprise dawn in her eyes as she identifies who’s behind the counter. “Oh. Hi, Steve.”
“Hi, Mrs. Wheeler.” Karen’s always been nice enough to him, but he’s never been too sure how much she actually likes him. Like mother, like daughter, he guesses.
She gives Nancy an indecipherable look, and honestly, these Wheeler women have got to cool it with all the weird mind reading shit.
“I’ll be there in a sec,” Nancy replies to the question spoken out loud, a tad clipped, before turning back to Steve. “So,” she says, drawing out the “o” and tapping the case. She seems to have set aside whatever she was gonna ask. “I – I guess that’s my cue, then. Any recommendations?”
Steve’s already mid-scoop, and he’s absurdly pleased to watch her eyes go wide as he slides the cup of strawberry across the glass to her, with just a tiny flourish.
“Oh,” she stammers, “is that –”
“Strawberry,” he interrupts. “Your favorite. If – if that’s still right.” He doesn’t think that much has changed.
“It is,” she affirms, and there’s a dusting of pink across her cheeks that Steve refuses to believe is anything more than a reflection from the neon sign.
“On the house,” he says when she goes for her purse, and it’s softer than he means it to be, less cheerful – but thankfully steady. He can’t help but smile at her, and she returns it, a tiny, kind thing.
“Thanks,” she says after a moment. “I’ll…see you around?”
Not if I can help it, is what he thinks.
“Sure,” is what he says instead. “Anytime you need a scoop, I’ll be here.”
Nancy raises her spoon in a minute, unbearably cute farewell salute, and the swirl of her dress is the last thing he sees of her as she disappears into the food court.
(On her way out, she takes her $2 and drops it into the tip jar, and he pretends it doesn’t smart a little.)
“Well, well. Do my eyes deceive me, or are we looking at another tally for Team “You Suck”?”
Shit. Robin. Great. He hadn’t even heard her come out from the back.
Steve recognizes the dangerous note of glee in her voice, but for once he doesn’t have the energy to try to head it off at the pass.
“You know,” Robin continues, “Between this and the truly spectacular crash and burn I know you were hoping I wouldn’t see with Lisa, I think that makes today some kind of record-breaking –”
She must pick up something unusual in his face, though, because she cuts off abruptly. “Steve?”
“Huh?” He knows he’s gaping at the door like a dumbass, but it’s too hard to find the willpower to tear himself away while he’s also blocking out the trace after-scent of Nancy’s baby powder-soft perfume.
Robin doesn’t seem to know what to do when they’re not actively playing by whatever rules she’s silently set for the Shit on Steve Variety Hour. After a minute, he feels a nudge to the side of his foot, and he knows instinctively that it’s the toe of one of her battered Chucks.
He doesn’t look, but he’s pretty sure she’s staring at him like he’s the weirdo.
“You…okay, dingus?” She sounds genuinely concerned, and that’s what jolts him out of it. Because no way in hell is he gonna spill his guts about Nancy Wheeler to Robin-whatever-her-last-name-is in front the sample spoons and a few carved up tubs of hard serve.
Even if Robin’s not, like, totally tragic. Maybe she’s even kinda cute. If Steve squints. Hard.
“Dude, not the shoes,” he finally mumbles, though she’d barely touched him. Her silence is heavy and unimpressed, perfectly matching her face (as Steve discovers once he finally gives in and spares her a glance).
Reflexively, he hitches his shoulders up in a stiff shrug. Arranges his face into a smile that he hopes is more cool and carefree than psychotic.
“Course I am,” he says, and it comes easily. He returns her nudge with one of his own and ignores her scowl. “I’m always okay. I’m…I’m Captain Okay.”
Jesus. He’s glad that one never made it into the yearbook.
Robin seems willing to at least pretend to buy it, though, and as she threatens him with the dry erase marker (though he notices she doesn’t make a single tally), he feels the grin he’s pasted on edge into something more genuine. He almost believes it himself, in fact. He is okay.
Will be okay.
(He has to be.)
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