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[creepiecreator]

Oceanside

Daniel had never been the biggest fan of the ocean. Sure, he had seen it before. His old home in Newark used to be pretty close to the ocean, he saw plenty of it. And truthfully, it had never seemed that appealing to him. It was polluted to high heaven, something to avoid unless you were willing to risk a flurry of diseases. He had figured most seaside areas were just like that. But he had been proven wrong once he had moved to California. Going to the beach that night for the party-despite the beating- it had still been something special. The ocean, at least in this location, seemed pretty clean. It seemed much more alive than the one in Newark. And honestly, despite the incredibly sour ending of it all, leaving him groaning in pain on the sand, he had at least still had fun initially after arriving. The next time he had been there was for training with Mr. Miyagi before the All Valley. He had to keep his balance in the ocean waves, kicking at them and proceeding further and further into the ocean with every successful movement. The water had been freezing cold, and the waves had been rough. Despite it all, it made him feel alive too, cautiously avoiding stepping on a few hermit crabs when he stumbled his way up to the beach, a towel being draped around his shoulders by his teacher as they both made their way back out to the truck. He hadn’t had much time to appreciate the beach then. Nor did he get the chance to do so when he went back for the third time, this time on his own as he tried so diligently to practice what his sensei had taught him so far, doing his best to put everything together and to try to make sure he would have a solid chance at winning against Johnny at the tournament. After that point, Daniel hadn’t been able to go back to the beach for a while. He had gotten busy with school, and with healing his injuries he had sustained from Bobby in the All Valley. Johnny and the other former cobras were avoiding him now, and that was alright by him. Having them back off made his life feel a lot easier for the rest of the school year. His senior year ended peacefully, with Daniel passing all his classes, albeit barely in terms of the math class. Graduation came and went, his leg healed, and he spent his time trying to improve his karate with Mr. Miyagi. Safe to say, he found ways to keep himself busy, which in turn, kept him away from the beach and from most of his friends. He had found the time to go there again well into the tail end of spring, driving his little yellow car up towards the beach, parking nearby before he headed down to the sandy beach, laying his towel out and just trying to relax, tuning out to most of the world for a good long while before he had ended up moving to a sitting position, running a hand through his hair to try to get it sorted some before he spotted a head of familiar blonde hair, a bit further down the beach while on his own with his Walkman on. And…truth be told, Daniel didn’t think he looked too good. Now, the dark haired young man absolutely wanted to just leave him alone and mind his own business. He had won their rivalry, and with Cobra Kai being as good as dead he didn’t have to worry about him anymore. Yet. It felt almost wrong to leave him alone too… While he was debating this, the blonde before him took off his headphones to look over. “I can feel you staring at me, LaRusso.”  The words shook him out of it, blinking a few times. “Huh…? Shit. Sorry.” He spoke sheepishly, pushing himself to his feet to head over towards his side. “So where’s your lackeys huh?” He asked, tone more curious than malicious. Even if he couldn’t help but eye him like he was a potential threat. In his defense, he still thought it was entirely reasonable. Daniel had a habit of saying the wrong thing at the wrong time, and that could instigate plenty of things.

“Not here, obviously. They’re all busy. Not like it's any of your business though.” Johnny insisted with an annoyed huff, crossing his arms over his chest. Was it just him or was he eyeing him as a threat just like Daniel had been doing to him? That was weird. “Figures.” He hummed, moving to glance to the sun on the horizon of the ocean. He supposed, despite it having been months, he should ask… “How are you holding up anyway? After the whole… Mr. Miyagi saving your ass thing.” He figured that was fine to say since he wasn’t bringing up how Kreese had nearly choked Johnny to death directly. But it still seemed to make Johnny uncomfortable, as the other shifted his feet slightly, his eye contact wavering for a moment. “I’m fine. Not like it’s any of your business though…if it wasn’t for you weaseling your way into the competition none of that would have happened.”

Okay. Okay. He was trying to keep his temper down here, but that did set him off some…and. Well. He’d like to say that he had managed to keep his cool. He really would. But that wasn’t the case. “I wouldn’t have had to ‘weasel’ my way into the All Valley if you never went after me in the first place! I’m not the one who started all of this, Johnny, you were! Last I checked you were the one who started things at the beach, you were the one who decided to knock me off the road, and you were the one who decided to do a five on one!” Even looking at Johnny Lawrence had been a bad idea. He was so sick of this already.

“Last I checked, you were the one who had started to flirt with my girl, LaRusso!” Ah, when one hot headed boy met another hot headed boy, it was bound to result in a forest fire of a fight. And in this altercation, there already seemed to be some sparks. “You were broken up, god - are you *really* still hung up on Ali like that?” Daniel couldn’t believe that he had been concerned for him earlier. He was still the same old Johnny when it came down to it. Still a jackass.

“No! I’m not ‘hung up’ on her now- I may have started this shit, but you continued it. You were the one who started everything at the Halloween dance by soaking me! I probably would have left you alone if you didn’t do that!” Just because the blonde wasn’t interested in Ali much anymore, didn’t mean he was over the altercations they had all been through. “I lost because of you, LaRusso. If you had just stayed in New Jersey or whatever hell you came from, I still would have been broken up with Ali, sure, but I would still have my title, and I’d still have Cobra Kai! If I had never lost then Sen- then Kreese never would have gotten pissed at me!” Lord. That was a ramble and a half. And from the look of the expression on his face…he hadn’t meant for it to all come spilling out like that.

But at least, it gave Daniel some context. And it reminded him of something Mr. Miyagi had told him… There were no bad student’s. Only bad teachers. And he should keep that in mind while talking to Johnny. Maybe that would make this go easier. “... I… You do realize that the whole thing with Kreese wasn’t either of our faults right?” He began, trying to take on at least a slightly calmer tone than earlier and to shove his annoyance at the other to the side. “Like What he did, that was fully on him. Not on you. Not on me. Not on anyone but him.” They were all responsible for their own actions right? Johnny had done a lot of terrible things to Daniel, and that was all on him and his gang of cobras. But what John Kreese had done to Johnny that night, that was all on the older man. And the blonde most certainly didn’t do anything to deserve it.  Maybe it was a good thing that Johnny ended up bringing that up, as it definitely took his desire to argue right out of him.

Daniel watched as Johnny’s face twisted in confusion, it was as if he was questioning why exactly he would say that. Or maybe, he had never thought of it before. Either way. Johnny shoved down the initial confusion. “The fuck kind of question is that, LaRusso? You trying to get inside my head or something?”

“No. This may come to a shock to you, Johnny, but I’m actually asking. You don’t seem to know who to blame y’know?” Daniel walked back to his towel, sitting back down before he turned his attention back to the other. “You may have been a jackass, but you’ve left me alone since the All Valley went down. And besides. I’ve uh…kind of noticed that you haven’t been looking so good.” He half expected the other to just get pissy and walk away, or even to try to start a fight. The blonde did neither of those things.  Instead, he just looked away and shrugged. “That old man said to settle it at the All Valley, we settled it at the All Valley. Sides. Like hell I’m showing my face around my old Dojo anymore so…we don’t have that stupid rivalry. I don’t have any reason to go after you unless you end up being stupid again.” Which, let's face it, Daniel knew he would end up being stupid by Johnny’s weird standards at some point too. And he would have absolutely addressed that, but he was more caught up in the fact that the other had admitted they didn’t have any issues between them for the time being. “Huh… Gotta admit. I didn’t expect to hear that. But you didn’t ever answer my question.” He pointed out, figuring getting an actual answer may be a stretch, but there was no harm in trying.

The taller man rolled his eyes. “Yes. I know it isn’t my fault. Or yours technically. Happy now?” He was more annoyed than anything else at that moment. But, oddly enough, he still didn’t look angry. “I called him out on his bullshit, he choked me. I know that’s on him. I just…” Johnny hesitated. “I’ve never seen him react like that, okay? He’s a hardass, sure. But he never got that pissed at me before. Never saw him choke anyone out either so I never thought he’d do anything like that.” Wow. An actual straight answer with no blame or insults or general jackassery. Daniel had to admit, he was pretty impressed with how far he had gotten into this conversation. “So no. I don’t blame myself…”

“I’m sensing there's a but coming?” The Italian patted the sand beside him. If they were going to keep talking then Johnny may as well sit down. Otherwise, it’d just feel a little weird. And Johnny, oddly enough, did end up taking him up on his silent offer. Even if he gave him a look while doing so, judging him for his previous statement. “Sometimes I just..have these moments I guess. Where I think that if I had done things differently none of that would have happened, and I’d still be with my friends in Cobra Kai.”

Daniel was quiet for a moment. “I think that makes sense.” He hummed quietly. “I mean..you looked up to him, didn’t you? Even if he’s completely psycho.” And if you looked up to someone for a long time, and they ended up doing a terrible thing to you, then it most certainly made sense for you to blame yourself, at least a little bit, even if it wasn’t true. Or at least that was what he figured. “What happened to your goon- friends.  anyways…? I mean. I haven’t seen them hanging around you in a while.” he had to correct himself, not wanting to set the other off when they were actually having a pretty solid conversation.

Johnny shot him a halfhearted glare when he had almost called his friends goons. “We’re still friends. It’s just.we’re all trying to find new stuff to get into I guess. And a lot of our hangouts were after practice.” So they were growing apart. That would explain a little bit of it for sure. “It's just. It sucks that Kreese loses his mind, chokes me out, and *we* lose my only place to practice karate. We all know we can’t go back there after the crap he pulled.”

Now that. That gave him an idea. One that, to be honest, Daniel found himself hating but. He had to keep reminding himself of Mr. Miyagi’s lessons. “I mean.that's not entirely true. You didn’t lose your only place to practice karate.” He began cautiously. “ If you’re being honest about us not having any issues, I could always ask Mr. Miyagi, if you could try to train with us?” Johnny’s eyes widened in disbelief. And Daniel couldn’t blame him, he couldn’t believe he had actually gotten out the words himself.

“... If you had asked me at literally any other time I would have kicked your ass just for saying that.” The blonde began, forcing the surprise off of his face. “You’re damn lucky that I need to find a new dojo, LaRusso.” He warned. Daniel simply grinned in response. “I’m the lucky one? Really?” He laughed. “If anything you’re the lucky one that I suggested it. I’m guessing you’re down for me asking then, huh?” His grin only got wider as the other nodded. “Yeah, I guess I am.so you really think the old man would let me?”

“I’m pretty sure he would. I mean.he knows you had a bad teacher so he might want to see if we can get the true meaning of karate hammered into that thick skull of yours or not.” Daniel jolted slightly as the other punched him in the shoulder for that last comment. It wasn’t out of maliciousness, not anything of the sort really. Even if it was a hard one, he was pretty sure it was to serve as more of a joke warning. “Ow! Don’t make me take back the offer, man! I’ll do it!”

“We both know that isn’t going to happen,” Johnny insisted, and surprisingly enough, he found himself laughing right along with Daniel after that one. Daniel never once thought that they’d have a civil conversation, let alone be laughing together. But here they were. Daniel looked to the horizon, watching as the sun dipped below the ocean. “It’s getting late. I gotta get going.” He decided. “I’ll ask Mr. Miyagi about you joining tomorrow okay? Maybe we can meet up, same time, tomorrow night, so I can give you his answer,”

“Yeah. That works I guess. Sides. I should probably start heading out soon too.” Daniel moved to stand up, collecting his towel. The moment honestly still felt so unreal. He couldn’t believe that any of that had just happened. “Great! I’ll see you then - just don’t make me regret this,” There was a slight teasing edge to his voice, but he had meant the words at least partially, giving him a wave before he started out towards his car, climbing inside and starting it to head home. “I can’t believe I did that.” He muttered, taking a deep breath to steady his thoughts before he started off towards his home, finding himself both excited and nervous for the day to come.

[ff7-has-taken-me-over]

“You need to fix him.”

Daniel blinked, letting go of the door to lean on his crutches a little more comfortably, “Well gee Bobby its great seeing you too. Oh my leg? Well its great, thanks for asking.”

Said boy rolled his eyes, heaving a sigh before literally waving his words away, “Yeah yeah, whatever. I don’t know what happened, but you need to fix him.”

Daniel frowned this time, actually taking in the other’s words, “Fix who?”

Bobby gestured uselessly, the action filled with annoyance and anger, “Fucking Johnny man. He’s- i don’t even know what’s wrong with him. But hes been off since the tournament and you were the last one to interact with him. So fix. It.”

[moonlit-knightz]

so lawrusso coded! i love how this could go for both robby or samantha and anthony

[bollface]

🌞 𖨂 Let your power shine . ༘۠　

@skyf0ckz Rapunzel au! <3

[zappedbyzabka]

“What do we do now, Philly?”

“We get outta here, that’s what we do. Come on!”

Baby Billy “Quiet!” and voice crack + source <3 ⬇️

[pinkgrapefloyd]

part two of my lawrusso fencing au meme collection

[rosesradio]

Chapters: 30/30 Fandom: Karate Kid (Movies) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Daniel LaRusso/Johnny Lawrence, Background Bobby Brown/Jessica Andrews/Ali Mills Characters: Daniel LaRusso, Johnny Lawrence, Bobby Brown (Karate Kid), Ali Mills (Karate Kid), Tommy (Karate Kid), Jessica Andrews Additional Tags: all the nostalgia of summer camp with the self indulgence of smut, enemies to friends to sexual tension to fwb to lovers, johnny and daniel are lovable dummies as always, bobby and ali and jessica are so cute in the background for why, tommy is kind of an asshole but he means well, minors dni please, Fluff and Smut, Alternate Universe - Summer Camp, Smut, Anal Sex, Oral Sex, also?, Internalized Homophobia, Angst, Coming of Age, it's a lot, but it's fun <3 Summary:

Daniel didn't think the sound of his own name from Johnny's lips would turn him on so much. He nodded eagerly, and Johnny moved in, striking first as he pressed his lips to Daniel's, warm and intent and something natural despite the circumstances. Daniel wrapped his arms around the back of Johnny's neck, Johnny's wondering under his shirt, rubbing at his hips. The summer air suddenly grew twice as hot, the crickets' chirping and fireflies glowing in the night fading to dull and meaningless compared to the closeness of Johnny, the spark of how everything clicked when he touched Daniel.

a.k.a: Daniel, Johnny, and the others are all camp counselors. ft all the nostalgia of summer camp with all the self indulgence of smut. minors dni please and thanks :-)

[bubblegumflavor]

I'm building a home for Johnny and Daniel at Mt. Komorebi. Not sure yet if I want them out of the old home and live without the kids but I feel like the time will come and Johnnycake will move out to start an eco living with Dally XD

I'm not really great at house building but I love it, it's so relaxing X3

Daniel was certainly the leading mind in style choices here but Johnny was allowed to keep the fake tiger fur carpet and the poster with the guitar because Daniel has always been a man of compromises.

(Lawrusso home wip)

[kleenexwoman]

Arthurian Lawrusso AU concept

The magus came from the East, which he knew, and from the past, which he had only realized lately. It wasn't his fault that he was from the past; someone in his village in Japan had cast a spell to keep the gunships of Matthew Perry from ever influencing its world, and time had turned around obligingly.

When the young Miyagi had sailed away on his own fishing boat a few days later, space and time had mixed themselves up in his path. He went backwards in time through China, then spent untold centuries in monasteries in India and Tibet. The monasteries turned back to uncut stones around him and then bare mountains, and he made it to the Arabic world just in time for the Islamic Golden Age. Alchemy and ancient knowledge were everywhere to be had.

But there were also cruel pale knights whose armor hid their faces, and he knew that nothing could last, and the height of an empire was dwindling. He moved to Greece to find where the ancient knowledge had come from and found none of it, and then to Rome which had fallen and risen again and remembered nothing yet. He was aging, but slowly, and could not understand how one man could outlast empires.

The seat of the Holy Roman Empire was not in Rome, but in the lands far north of it, where the winter was cold and the faces were paler than Miyagi was used to. They did not call him Miyagi; the way people pronounced his name had changed, and he had gone from that to Meradi, then Merani over time. Now Merani became Meerin, then Merin. His skin had become darker in the Arabian and Italian sun, and now he wondered if it grew paler in the cloudy North, or if people only saw wrinkles and his long beard and nothing more.

In the mainland, they spoke of King Arthur. A champion of God and the glory of the Grail, the greatest warrior to ever live, a king of great wisdom because of his humble beginnings as a foundling squire. Farther west in France, they spoke less of his piety, and more of the way Queen Guinevere and Launcelot the Ill-Made Knight had betrayed him in their love affair. They spoke of his own early affair with the witch Morgan LeFay, and how their child Mordred doomed Camelot, the castle that Arthur had created.

And they called Miyagi Merlin, the name of a small but vicious bird of prey. The name stuck after that. It was the way he fought, the quick attacks right at the vulnerable heart of his unlucky foe.

He went west to Ireland to the monasteries there, great centers of learning and art. They spoke of how Arctorius, "the bear warrior," had been the last Roman leader in Wales, and they hastened to add that he was a good Christian Roman and not one of the paganii who sacrificed to Jupiter. When the first Roman Empire had crumbled to the heathen Germanii, believers in Tyr and Odin, they could no longer protect their British colonies. Arctorius had organized his own people in defense against the warriors from the untamed North, who worshipped dark faeries like the baby-eating Crom Cruach and the dreaded Morrigan, queen of madness and death. He had helped to civilize Britian and create the new Holy Roman Empire.

The now-named Merlin went to Wales. Here Arthur was not a Christian, but a human who defied the faery gods to steal their cauldron of plenty from the heavens. He had three wives named Gwenifer, and his best knight was his blood-brother Kai rather than the French Launcelot. And he was a reluctant lover of the Morrigan, the great warrior-queen, mage, and seer goddess of the land. She chose the land's king by taking him as bridegroom, and he had been loath to betray his human partners by making them second to a god.

When he asked where Arthur had come from, they told him of the Isle of Avalon, where his body had been carried back to rest and from whence he would rise again when the land had need of him. And when he asked who had made that prophecy, they said it was the king's mentor, a seer and bard called Myrddin. And when Merlin told them his name, they could not help but pronounce it in the way of the name of the bard.

So the man who had once been Miyagi, from 1853, traveled back over a thousand years to find his destiny, and once again he set out on a fishing boat across the waters towards it.

When he reached the island, the world spun the way it had when he had left the tiny island off the coast of Okinawa that had been his home. He had not understood it the last time, but now he had meditated and learned enough about the universe that he knew time was righting itself again.

And on the Isle of Avalon, there was a boy named Arthur. He was a foundling, and Arthur was his nickname -- his real name was Daniel. He had been nicknamed Arctorius by Kay, the son of Lord Laurence, ruler of the castle of Laurencelot. The Laurence family were Anglo-Saxon invaders, Daniel a native Welshman, and the name had come about because he'd fought "like Beowulf the bear-berserker" when Kay and his friends had tried to use him for sport.

The old wanderer with many names offered to help the once and future king learn to fight, and settled into his place in the story. It would spool out again in waves that traveled in time and space outwards, but now it would have him in it.

[kajthes]

There is hope for Lawrusso in the future parts!!! Schlossberg teases: "It’s kind of like a bad marriage going into the second drop, where they know they’re in it for the kids, but the spark is gone. And so the question is: Can that spark be rekindled in Barcelona?" This gives me great hope❤❤❤

[fixfoxnox]

The way I would kill a man for a cobra kai/karate kid fic where the baby Daniel and Johnny getting sent to the future.

Like I love Lawrusso but I don't even need it to be a Lawrusso fic cause I lowkey wanna see baby Johnny be a himbo and head over heels for Carmen like-

PLS ITS ALL I WANT

[ff7-has-taken-me-over]

Johnny’s noticed that for some reason his Cobras don’t have their heads in the game. Theyre all a little spacey, all of them becoming easily distracted by something that Johnny can never manage to see.

It’s pissing him off and he really needs to punch something before he takes it out on them. When he sees LaRusso he thinks its the perfect chance to pull them out of whatever the hell is going on with them.

But when he gestures the guy out the rest of his friends kind of just freeze and stare, non of them moving as they simply stare at him. Johnny’s confused af now, looking between his guys and LaRusso, who’s just finished putting his books away and is now walking toward them.

When he looks up Johnny sees the way his guys all tense, thinks maybe they’ve snapped out of whatever the hell is going on, but then the kid smiles at them and gives a small wave, the action coming off so shy and unlike his usual self that it makes Johnny freeze as well.

But he sees the way the rest of them kind of literally melt, Bobby smiling as he looks away, Tommy flushing a brilliant red as he turns on his heel and leaves, Jimmy gives him a head nod but you can still see the way his cheeks flush slightly, and Dutch (who gives the most shocking reaction of all) smiles doppily and waves back.

LaRusso laughs lightly for a moment, but the second he makes eye contact with Johnny his smile drops and he scowls, giving him a wide berth as he rushes off to class.

Something about that reaction ticks him off, makes jealousy flare up and anger rise as he glares at his friends. They all look as if they’ve been slapped as they stare back at him with wide eyes, looking like they’re about ready to run if not for the way Johnny silently points toward the school exit.

They know their screwed now so they simply hang their heads and go.

[cobra-wives]

i love lawrusso so much until i suffer the brunt of my parents miscommunication and i feel the impacts of their lack of the ability to actually act like adults and an burdened to grow up faster and am thrust into a world theyre too distracted by the past to actually support me in therefore screwing up the future. not to be personal tho haha

[bollface]

　　　　　𝄞  •̩̩͙*˚ ❀　　　true love's kiss, the spell shall break

[rosie-tyler]

Any gif set ideas for older!Daniel and younger!Terry? I was thinking of “Daniel” from Happily Divorced or Ugly Betty and “Terry” from Crackerjack for instance haha. Maybe newly divorced, single dad Daniel finds himself pursued by a hot younger guy much to his confusion.

Hey nonny! I do have some actually!

The funniest thing is that most of them may be called older!Daniel & younger!Terry since I mostly gif TIG's filmography from 1990-early 2000s (when he stopped his acting career😤) and Ralph's filmography from 2000s-2010s.

Also my toxic trait is that I come up with AUs while making gifsets bc my brain thought some scenes would look interesting together🤣 All I'm saying is that I have some gifsets that's just absolute random without an AU planned, they just happened to have the same scenery to me wkdkwl

Now about the AUs

This one is based on Ralph being in his 50s here even though he doesn't look like that😅still let it be here

1. I'm a simple girl who is down bad for Terry McCain and have an idea for a Terry x Nick gifset. 2 actually. The one is about Terry being a criminal man mastermind obsessed with Nick and I've already made a gif for a Lawrusso gifset AU. Might do more in the future🤷

Or Terry being a partner to Nick.

Look at this cutie, should be protected at all costs! And Terry is the perfect man to do that🥰

While Nick takes care of Terry's depressed ass. What a duo!

(He's running to kick asses of those who hurt his bae. Good for him!)

2. Also Terry McCain and Logan Phelps. Let's say Terry is losing a case to a sarcastic charming lawyer and is Big Mad abt it XD

3. Def smth with Rock Hudson but it's one of those times when idl the plot, just the vibes. Let's say

4. I do remember I had smth with the gardener!Terry & divorced!Daniel heavily inspired by an amazing gifset but with KK!Daniel.

Or maybe not a gardener but a husbando helping his husbando with clearing out the dojo. But they look like of the same age here I'd say😅

As for your idea, I've had it in my mind for a while but haven't decided which characters to use. Luke Potter and Terry himself are the best choices rn from all the movies with TIG I've watches so far.

Guilty of having not watched Ulterior motives, Avalanche, and Black Point for which I'm 👀 as they look like they could fit some AUs

I haven't watched Ugly Betty yet, but Ralph from Happily Divorced would be the one seducting Terry I'd say🤣

Added to my list tho!

[wicked-jade]

OOOHHHH for the fic ask: I please? And since it's you, also K :D

Thanks for the asks!! 💖💖💖

I: Do you have a guilty pleasure in fic (reading or writing)?

Hmm, I can't really think of any examples off the top of my head. I'm fairly shameless and don't have much guilt when it comes to liking what I like, I guess. 😂

Does putting Johnny through the emotional wringer count?

K: What’s the angstiest idea you’ve ever come up with?

You know me well. 😂 One of them is already an active WIP: Or Forever Hold Your Peace. Basically, for the uninitiated: Dutch and Johnny are bitter exes that haven't spoken in years, and are reunited at Jimmy's wedding. That one is pretty angsty, because Johnny is just not in a good place. Like, even by my usual standards. I can't really say much about it without spoiling future chapters, but there are hints scattered throughout it about their history, and what went down the night Dutch got arrested that messed Johnny up so badly.

Let's see, what else... At one point, I also considered a 'Bad Luck' sequel where Daniel has a heart attack during class, right in front of Johnny and the kids. It was going to be based on a series of drabbles I wrote for one of the AV100 prompts. But I have too many unfinished sequels in that series already, so I never bothered starting it.

But the absolute angstiest idea was for a stand-alone LawRusso fic. I never wrote it because it features a much darker version of Daniel than I usually write, and I got cold feet. It was going to be set after they lose the All Valley in S4. They lose their dojos, and both of their lives fall completely apart. Carmen blames Johnny for Miguel running off and breaks up with him when he fails to find him. Daniel goes into a downward spiral, much like S5. Amanda leaves him, and the dealership fails despite the Doyona bailout. Silver wins. But instead of going to Johnny for help, Daniel blames him for everything and takes it all out on him. And Johnny feels so guilty/hates himself so much for fucking up everything with Miguel and Robby, that he figures he deserves it and just lets him. Cue lots of dirty/nasty hate sex, with self-loathing, self-destructive Johnny letting Daniel use him to vent all of his pain and rage (while also having feelings for Daniel that he knows are not reciprocated.)

So yeah, that one was very dark. All hurt, no comfort. Just very, very bleak.