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Fight to Survive

Summary: The BAU gets called to a case in LA, California, everything is going great then tragedy strikes. Can the youngest team member be saved?

Pairings: Bobby Nash x Daughter!FBI!Reader, Athena Grant x Stepdaughter!Reader, May Grant x Stepsister!Reader, Harry Grant x Stepsister!Reader, BAU x Nash!Daughter!Reader

Warnings: angst, fluff, guns, gunshots stabbing, swearing, fighting, inaccurate medical talk, hospitals, bruising, being beaten up, strangulation, mentions of sexual abuse (to victims), kidnapping, cheating (not on reader)

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A/N: After a long overdue wait I give you the crossover fic that you all voted on. Again sorry for the wait!

It was a late Friday night when everyone on the BAU team got the call that you all were headed to a case in LA. Luckily for everyone, everybody already had their go bags packed. When JJ got the call you, Y/N Nash, were all out clubbing together celebrating a case solved. You had walked outside to your car to call your dad, Bobby Nash, and mother, Athena Grant. The phone rang twice before he picked up.

"Hello?" Your father's husky voice came through.

"Hey, Dad." You said quietly you always loved the sound of his voice.

"Hey, honey. How are you? You sound tired." He said a little bit concerned then you heard Athena's voice come through and ask if that was you and to put you on speaker phone.

"Hey, sweetheart!" Athena said in her cheery voice and you smiled.

"Hey Athena. How are you and everyone else?" You asked

"We're good! Missing you." She said and you quietly laughed.

"You didn't answer my question Y/N." Your father back on the phone.

"I'm fine. Just a little tired. The last case got to me." You told them the truth. You always told them the truth.

"Are you allowed to talk about it?" Athena asked.

"I can tell you but it's not to be repeated." You said

"We understand." They both said at the same time.

"The case was about an unsub taking kids that resembled their kid that passed away due to drowning. They would keep them for 3 days and then drown them. We saved the last kid but they were around Harry's age." You told them and they were silent.

"Oh baby girl. I'm so sorry." Your father said. You looked up when you saw a shadow standing outside your window. You saw it was JJ.

"Hey guys hold on. JJ needs me." You told them and opened the door.

"Hey sorry to interrupt but we got a case." She sighed and you nodded.

"Ok let me finish up here and start rounding up everyone I'll drive whoever doesn't have a car here." You told her and she nodded and headed off to round everyone up. On the other end of the line Athena and Bobby were smiling at how you were taking charge, it must run in the family.

"Sorry guys. We got a case." You told them.

"You just got done with a case. Have you gotten any sleep?" Your dad asked concerned.

"Dad, I've gone on a lot less. I'll be fine this is what I signed up for when I joined the BAU. I love you guys." You told them, it was true you've gotten some sleep but not enough and you've ran on 2 hrs of sleep before.

"We love you too. Be safe. We'll talk later." Bobby said.

"Absolutely." You said smiling you said goodbye again and hung up.

About the time you hung up the team was heading your way. You got out to greet them. You all load up either in your car or separate cars, thankfully most of everyone took their own cars.

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When you arrived at the BAU headquarters everyone got out started to file into the building. Nobody was really complaining about being back except for Morgan who had been currently dancing with some lucky ladies.

"Always when I'm getting my groove thing on with the ladies." Morgan said as you all sat down waiting to be briefed. You just laughed.

"Morgan, I don't think you'll have a problem getting your groove thing back." He just laughed.

"You're just jealous that it's not with you." Morgan teased and you smirked.

"Oh, I'm just heartbroken." You faked hurt. He had always flirted with you but you had another man on your mind, a certain blonde-haired, blue-eyed, with a unique birthmark, a few tattoos, and is firefighter under your dad's command, even though he has a girlfriend, you had no interest in Morgan. Hotch, JJ, and Garcia walked into the conference room.

"A body of a teenage girl was found dumped in a local park in CA. According to LAPD, this is the 8th girl taken. Her name was Amanda Hills." Hotch said as Garcia pulled up the pictures.

"The medical examiner has confirmed that they were sexually abused and then their throat slit post-mortem. Then dumped during the night in the park and found the next morning they're usually unclothed." JJ said. "We also have gotten word that a 9th girl has been abducted, Amelia Lanco." She reported.

"All the girls had signs of abuse. They also reported that they were stabbed in the same places beforehand and then strangled. They also had their throat slit afterward." You said looking at the tablet in your hand. You swiped the picture to get a better look at the victims and your heart stopped. They all look like May. You took a shaky breath before continuing "They also sent a video to LAPD which they gave to us." You said and Garcia played it, it showed the latest victim chained to a pole blindfolded, and dressed in only her bra and panties. Only a few seconds were played but that was enough for it to be engraved in your head forever.

"It also says here that he keeps them for 2 days and then dumps them." Rossi said to the team.

"Wheels up now." Hotch said and you all filed out of the room and picked up your go bags and headed to the jet. It was a 5 hr flight. As you were walking up the jet Hotch stepped you.

"Are you alright?" He asked you and you hesitated.

"All those girls looked like my sister, Hotch." You said and he nodded in understanding.

"Do you need to sit this one out?" He asked and you shook your head.

"Absolutely not." You said and nodded.

"If it gets too much come tell me." He said and you nodded your head. You both got on the plane and were up in the air in no time.

"It says here that the unsub keeps them for a total of 5 days before killing and dumping them. All of them were 18-24 years old." Rossi said. "The girls are taken during broad daylight but nobody claims to see anything." He continued.

"What if they do see it but just don't want to mention anything?" Spencer said and you nodded along with the others "It says here that 9-1-1 calls were called in from the same number but they always ended shortly after before help could help. All the numbers were the same and dispatch said that there were before the girl could say what was wrong a man came on and disconnected it." He said.

"Ok. I want Y/N and JJ I want you to meet LAPD and the fire department at the latest scene, we ask for them not to touch it until we're there. Reid and Morgan, I want you to go to dispatch and listen to the 9-1-1 calls. Emily, Rossi, and I will go to the police station to start setting up a profile." Hotch said and you all nodded in understanding. 5 hrs went quickly and before you knew it, you were touching down in LA. You all went to where you were supposed to go. You and Reid got into the SUV, you driving, and headed to the crime scene where you met your father, stepmother, and your current crush.

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You strolled up to the crime scene and saw the 118 firetruck and ambulance there along with several police cars including Athenas. You parked in front of the firetruck and got out and killed the engine and got out the same time JJ got out. You both had sunglasses on and walked to the crime scene.

"Welcome Agents. I'm Detective Lou Ransone." Lou announced and JJ spoke up.

"Nice to meet you. I'm SSA Jennifer Jareau but everyone calls me JJ and this is SSA Y/N Nash." She said nodding to you, everyone shook hands.

"Nash? As in Fire Captain Bobby Nash?" He asked and you nodded.

"That would be correct." You said just about the time when Bobby and Athena walked over.

"Hey! I didn't know you were coming to LA." Bobby said and you shook your head.

"Neither did I until 5 hrs ago. So what do we have?" You asked about getting into your professional FBI voice Bobby and Athena was impressed. Detective Lou answered your question as you all walked over to the body and you bent down to examine it along with JJ, who gave you gloves to put on.

"Call came in early this morning, around 7 AM from a frantic jogger that was jogging and discovered the body." Detective Lou said and you both nodded. You were watching JJ when she stopped and that got your attention.

"What do you got JJ?" You asked her.

"This is new." She said and pointed toward the left shoulder. "None of the other victims have had a bite mark on them." She said and your eyebrows shut to the one of confusion.

"You're right." You said, "Do you think we're dealing with more than one unsub or are they changing their mo?" You asked forgetting that the rest were there.

"There could be a good possibility." She said and about that time Buck, Eddie, Hen, and Chimney came over. You looked up and noticed the crowd. You got up which alerted JJ. She looked over and saw the news crew. You looked over at Detective Lou and Athena.

"Tell your detectives and officers that this does not get to the media. Not until we're ready to give a profile." You said and they nodded.

"Buck that means no telling Kelly anything." Eddie said and a surge of jealousy went through you. You didn't wait around to hear the rest. You went back to searching the crowd when you spotted something out of the ordinary. A man in his late 20s with a ball cap that was hiding his face and a jacket on with his hands in his pocket. He saw you and started to move.

"What is it?" JJ asked you

"There is someone in the crowd that doesn't look too concerned." You said and when you both went to question him he was gone.

"Let's get back to the station and get with Hotch and the rest." JJ said and you nodded and did just that

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While you headed back to the police station you talked over all the details with JJ. When you arrived you killed the engine and walked in and to the conference room where you were set up for the time being.

You told Hotch what you had come up with. He nodded letting you know he understood. "I think we're dealing with more than one unsub." You had said.

"Why is that?" He asked asking for further explanation.

"JJ I forgot to show you but I got a picture. There was another set of footprints, smaller than the other. Also, new evidence has been found, there was a bite mark on the shoulder of the latest victim." You said and pulled up your pictures sending them to the tablets. "Also if you look back at the video you can see at least one male forcing moves on her, and another one holding the camera." You said and they looked at you and realization came upon their face. Gracia phoned you all and Morgan answered the phone.

"Talk to me momma." Morgan said

"Ok my lovelies I ran the names through all of the systems and it turns out that they all went to the same high school and lived in the same neighborhood." Garcia said.

"Do you have an address of the latest victim and the other one that recently was taken?" Rossi asked.

"What kind of question is that? Of course I do. I'll have them to you in a jiffy." Gracia said and hung and true to her word she had everyone's phones pinging.

"Nash and Morgan I want you to go and talk to the parents of the latest victim, Mr. and Mrs. Lanco, and start talking to places that they frequently visited show them pictures of Amelia. Rossi and Reid start building a geographical profile and JJ start going through tapes and camera. Prentiss your with me, we're going to go and check out the Hills." Hotch ordered around and you all nodded and you left with Morgan with Preintess and Hotch following.

You both got into the SUV and headed to the address that Garcia had given you. It was in a neighborhood you knew all too well, it was the neighborhood your parents currently lived in. You arrived at the Lanco Residence and got out of the SUV when it was parked and turned off. Morgan stood right by you as you walked to the door. Morgan knocked and Mrs. Lanco answered the door.

"Mrs. Lanco, I'm SSA Morgan and this is SSA Nash." Morgan said introducing you both.

"Oh like fire captain Nash?" She asked and once again you nodded.

"Yes ma'am." You answered her. "Mrs. Lanco, we're here to talk about Amelia." You told her and let you both in and into the living room where Mr. Lanco was.

"Honey this is SSA Morgan and SSA Nash." Mrs. Lanco said her husband got up and shook both of your hands. She offered you a seat on the couch and you took it.

"First I want to say I'm sorry for your loss. Did Amelia have any enemies?" You asked then.

"No none at all. She was a very well-liked girl." Mr. Lanco said "She wouldn't hurt a fly." He continued.

"She always helped around the house and loved everyone." Mrs. Lanco said and you nodded.

"If you have any more to add, here is my card with my number. Please let us know if anything else comes up." Morgan said and handed them his card.

"We will. Have a nice day agents." Mr. Lanco said and got to show you to the door. Once out and in the SUV, Morgan was the one driving this time, you two began to talk.

"Ok so Amelia seemed like a nice girl. She helped out around the house and helped her parents." You said to Morgan and he nodded.

"She also didn't have any enemies, no one to hate her. That we know of." He said and it was your turn to nod. "I wonder if Hotch and Rossi got anything different." He said and you nodded. You started to visit each location the victims frequented but it was no use until the last stop who told you both a description of the guy and actually had videos from CCTV.

You both arrived at the station and got out of the SUV and made your way into the building. When you got to the conference room Hotch and Rossi were already there and were already talking.

"What did you both find out?" Hotch asked and so you spoke up.

"She was a really well-liked girl. She helped out around the house and wouldn't hurt a fly. She also loved everyone. Also, the last place they visited had a video that showed the victims leaving with one of the unsubs. Videos should be here now." You said relaying the conversation that you had with the parents and other information. Hotch nodded.

"This Hills said the same thing about their daughter. So why is this unsub going after friendly girls and who helps around the house? Rossi said and asked.

"He must be going after a specific person but can't have her or saving her for last." Emily spoke up and it hit you. May was like that so he must have May on his mind. You looked at Hotch and he was looking at you, you knew what he was thinking.

While you, Morgan, Hotch, and Emily were out. JJ, Reid, and Rossi had gotten the names of the unsubs, Jackson Phillips and Anthony Bennett. Garcia also gave pictures and. It was silent for a minute then Gracia phoned.

"Guys I just got a video of Amelia from the unsubs." Gracia said "Sending it to you now." She said before you all could get anything else out. Your phones pinged.

Just then Athena walked in "We just got a report of shots fired at 23 South Comet Drive."

"That's the same address that the video sent from. Ok guys let's go." Hotch said and you all threw on your Kevlar FBI vests and you were on your way.

You all got there at the same time as the 118 and the other police officers. You were the first one out of the SUV and then followed by Morgan and the others followed. You saw Buck and he was looking at you but you were too busy running to the door. When you got there you had decided to kick down the door.

"FBI! OPEN UP!" Hotch shouted and when you got no response he nodded at you and you brought your foot up and kicked down the door. In fluid motion and boy did you feel powerful. You all rushed in. Everyone split up.

"CLEAR!" Hotch yelled out

"CLEAR!" Morgan yelled out

"CLEAR!" Emily yelled out and then you got to the basement.

"Guys we need a medic down here!" You said into your comms just as the man coughed and blood spewed out.

Everyone else ran down along with Hen and Chimney. You were bending down when they came in. They worked on him and when they got him out onto the gurney he was awake and you went up to him along with Hotch. "Anthony Bennett?" You asked.

"Yes?" He replied.

"You are under arrest for the murder of Amanda Hills and 6 other kills and the kidnapping of Amelia Lanco." You said authoritatively he just looked down like he was upset that he got caught. An officer gave you cuffs and you handcuffed him to the gurney then turned the officer as Hotch spoke.

"I want an officer posted at his hospital room at all times and when he's healed take him away." He said and they nodded. He turned to you once they loaded him up and left. "You need to tell them who they're really after." He said and you looked at him he would never suggest that. He must've seen the look because he continued "They need to know and I know how you get when you have to keep a secret." He finished and you nodded.

You walked over to Bobby and Athena as well as Eddie and Buck. They saw you and saw the look on your face. "What's wrong?" Buck asked.

"This is not easy for me to say this but the unsub's target is May." You told them and the color drained from their face the same it had done to you when you saw it. "That's the same look I had when I saw it." You said and you felt bad "I wasn't allowed to tell you until now." And that was true even if it wasn't spoken you knew the rules.

"Are you absolutely sure?" Athena asked

"Yes. We want to put someone with her the entire time and we will be calling the 911 command center to let them know. I also want Maddie to know." You said and they nodded. You all talked more and then you needed to go.

"Y/N wait." Buck said as he jogged over to you and you turned. "How have you been?" He asked and you looked at him expression neutral. Even though you were jumping for joy on the inside but you knew he had a girlfriend.

"I've been fine Buck." You said and gave him a small smile.

"That's great! Hey listen maybe we can hang out after this is all done." He said and you sighed.

"We can hang out but Buck you have a girlfriend and I don't want to stand in the way of you two." You told him and he nodded his head "Do you have your phone?" You asked him and he nodded and so you held out your hand and you put your number in and then sent a message to yourself "I have your number now. Text or call me." You said and then turned away and back to the SUV. What you didn't see was Buck smiling like an idiot and what you didn't know was that he liked you too.

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It was the next day and you had gotten zero sleep. You just couldn't fall asleep not with that creep of a murder running around. Everyone greeted each other and got to work. "I think we're ready to give a press conference. Y/N want you to give it." Hotch said and that surprised you but got ready to do one anyways. "Tell them that we have a suspect in custody and tell them what and who to watch out for." He said and you nodded your head. The news reporters and several television stations were there. You were nervous but you were ready to give to do it.

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Bobby had told Hen and Chimney what you had told them and Buck had told Maddie. "Hey the FBI is about to give a statement." Buck said and so everyone gathered around.

"I'm SSA Y/N Nash with the FBI. We have a suspect in custody but the other one is still at large. We ask you not to approach this man he is considered to be armed and dangerous. He is a white male in his early 30s and has black hair and blue eyes. He is usually seen in a black baseball cap and has a scar over his right eyebrow. Up on the screen is a picture that will help you identify him. We also ask any female to not be alone at all times while this case is going on. If you see this man or he approaches you please call the FBI hotline or 911. There will not be any questions at this time. Thank you." You finished your speech.

Everyone was silent. "She looks stressed." Chimney said and everyone nodded in agreement.

"She also didn't look like she got any sleep." Hen said.

"I just hope she's ok. Maybe I can convince her to stay a couple of days afterwards." Bobby said

"We would love to see and hang out with her again." Eddie said and again everyone agreed. Buck was silent he loved you and wanted to be with you but was too stupid and hid it, now he was with Taylor and he didn't want that anymore he wanted you.

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Everyone at the call center gathered around the TV as the news began to play. There was chatter going around and questions. May and Maddie were together when it was playing and it freaked her out because she knew this person.

"Oh my gosh." May said in disbelief.

"What? What is it?" Maddie asked her concerned.

"I know that man. He's always in Cali Café. The café that I really like and the one I brought coffee to you from. He's a barista." She said and Maddie knew what she was talking about.

"Have you told Y/N?" She asked and May shook her head. "I think you need to." She said and May nodded her head and pulled out her phone and dialed your number. You answered on the first ring.

"May?" You answered

"Y/N I know that man." May said to you.

"You do?" You asked surprised

"Yes he's a barista at Cali Café. That's my favorite place to get coffee. He was fired last week though for inappropriate behavior towards women and taking off so often." She told you and you nodded tho she couldn't see.

"Ok. May we are sending someone to stay with you until this whole things blows over. I want you to be safe and if you need to stay with Maddie." You told her

"Ok. I got it." She said

"Good. I don't want anything to happen to you. I love you May." You told her

"I love you too sis." She said and then you both hung up the phone.

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You relayed the information to the team and they had sent an officer her way. Everyone was working and trying to figure out a plan and his plan when Athena came rushing in "They just found a body." She said and that had you all getting up and rushing off. When you arrived it was in a park just like he originally had done. There were strangulation marks around her heck and she was severally beaten and the new signature of a bite mark. The 118 also arrived a minute later.

"That is Amelia Lanco." Rossi said standing up from having been bent down.

"Someone needs to go and inform the parents. Reid and JJ you go." Hotch said and they nodded and headed to one of the SUVs.

"I think now that he's dumped her. He's going to go after May now." You said and they nodded in agreement. You all didn't care who heard since you had already told the 118 and Athena. "We have an officer with her, correct?" You asked and Athena nodded her head.

"Yes Detective Lou is with her." She said and you nodded your head. Hen and Chimney had loaded Amelia up and headed off.

"Good." Just then the media rolls up and to be honest you were pissed. "What the hell is the reporters doing here? How did they get information?" You asked sounding pissed and everyone could hear it.

"Rossi and Prentiss go take care of it." Hotch said and he nodded and headed that way then you looked at Buck.

"Did you tell her?" You asked in a pissed off voice.

"I swear I didn't. You have to believe me. Y/N I promise I didn't." He said defending himself and that's when Bobby spoke up.

"He didn't tell her anything. He hasn't even looked at his phone since he's been at work." Bobby said to you.

"He's been with me the entire time." Eddie said and you nodded believing them but it still infuriated you that she found out somehow.

"Agent Nash! Agent Hotchner!" An officer yelled out and you and Hotch turned and saw an officer waving you both over. So with one last look at Buck who had an expression on his face that you couldn't place you and Hotch walked over to the officer.

Buck stood there and looking in shock. He then turned to Bobby. "I swear I didn't tell her." He said.

"We know that Buck. She knows that too but she's just stressed right now and from the looks of it not getting enough sleep. She would never jeopardize a relationship that she truly believes in. Just give her some time." Bobby said and Buck nodded.

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You were truly getting frustrated and were getting little to no sleep. Hotch has pulled you aside and talked to you about snaping on people and that if you didn't stop he was sending you back to the hotel. It was in the middle of the day when you got the worst news any FBI agent or sister to get. Your face drained of color and you would've collapsed if it weren't for Hotch holding you up. Athena was also there when she got the news and you two comforted each other.

Once you got over your shock you really dived into your work not stopping to do anything. "Ok so we know that he keeps them for a total of 2 days. He usually abuses them, sexually assaults them, strangles them, and slits their throats post-mortem. He then dumps them naked in the local park. He used to have a partner but doesn't anymore so it's going to be harder to dump them." You said pacing around thinking. You turned to Rossi "Did it say where May was taken from?" You asked.

"Y/N." He said and you looked at him with a look you've never given them before and it scared them.

"Where Rossi?" You said sternly and he looked at Hotch and he nodded.

"Coming out of the 911 dispatch center." You could've sworn you felt your blood boil.

"Wasn't Detecive Lou with her?" You asked incredibly annoyed.

"Yes there was but they found him knocked out where the cars were. Cameras did show that a black Toyota Corolla stop and the unsub got out and knocked him out and pushed May into the car." Hotch said.

"When was she taken?" You asked sternly

"This morning after her overnight shift." Reid told you

"Does Bobby know?" You asked looking at Athena who had just walked into the room when she heard commotion.

"No he doesn't." She said and you looked at Hotch.

"Go tell him in person. You need to cool off." He said tossing you the keys to the SUV and you stormed out and got into the SUV and drove to the firehouse.

You arrived at the firehouse and blew past several people until you got to the kitchen. You looked him straight in the eye "May has been taken." You could see the color drain from his face.

"When?" He asked "What are you doing here?" He asked again.

"This morning after her overnight shift. They sent me to tell you because I was starting to snap at people. Hotch told me to." You said and he nodded. Just then your phone buzzed. You looked at the message it was from Garcia she gave you the address "1157 California Lane. Is close to here right?" You asked looking up at your father.

"Yea it's about 20 minutes away from here." He said, and you rushed down the stairs with everyone following they watched you throw on your Kevlar vest and then get in the SUV before any of them could say anything and speed off sirens blaring. As you were driving you got a call from Garcia.

"Hey you're on with everyone else including Athena and the 118." She said and you didn't say anything.

"We're right here with you Sweetheart." Your dad's voice came through your phone.

"I'm almost there." You said

"You wait for backup. Understood?" Hotch said and you didn't say anything too busy grinding your teeth "Agent Nash. Do you understand?" He asked again voice going authoritative.

"Understood." You said teeth clenched together.

"Good. Here is the plan. When we all get there we'll all go in together and get May put safely." Hotch said and you knuckles tightened until the turned white. You knew you needed to follow orders but you didn't like it.

They continued you talking but you tuned them out when you arrived at the house. You switched your phone to your comm. You hated waiting. Just then a scream came from the house and you couldn't wait anymore.

"Hotch I can't wait anymore I'm going in." You told them.

"Just wait for backup. We're 10 minutes out." Morgan said and you shook your head.

"10 minutes is too late. I can hear screaming." You said getting pissed.

"Y/N, Sweetheart. Just hold on a little longer. I know its hard and it hurts. We're 8 minutes out." Athena said and again you shook your head.

"Y/N please listen to them. We're almost there." Buck's voice came through and you closed your eyes you wanted to listen.

"Agent Nash. Stand down." Hotch said but you needed to go now.

"I'm sorry, I'm not waiting anymore." You said and got out and ran to the door. They were screaming in your ear but you ignored them.

You got to door and tried the knob and it opened so you pushed it open and quietly walked in. You cleared each room one by one. Until you got to the basement and then May screamed again and that had your aderline pumping and walking down the stairs. You say May and you started to walk to her she had blood coming from a cut over her eyebrow and brushing on her temple along with a cut. She also had some signs of strangulation.

"Y/N/N?" She asked looking up and you nodded you holstered your gun.

"Yea it's me. We're gonna get you out of here." You said and spoke in your comm.

"I have May. I-" you said and then May stopped you.

"Y/N/N behind you!" She said and when you turned around the unsub, Jackson Phillips, was behind you with a 2x4 and he swung it and hit you across the temple. It had knocked you down and your vision was disoriented. You saw him coming for you and you used the wall to help yourself up as he took a swing at you, you ducked and he hit the wall and you stumbled forward holding your head. He grabbed your shoulders and pulled you up and punched you in the face. You need to fight back and so you did. You took a swing and successfully hit him across the face knocking him to the side.

"Jackson Phillips we can work this out." You said

"Oh no. Working it out with you people means guns." He said and stood up and rushed you. You stepped aside and he quickly recovered. This went on for about 3 minutes and both of you were pretty beaten up. He grabbed a knife and got some good cuts and stabs in you but you quickly disarmed him and then he grabbed a gun and you quickly upholstered your gun.

"One last chance. We can work this out and I can get you a deal." You said standing up in front of May to protect her and labor breathing. He raised his gun.

"I'm not going back to prison." He said and both of you fired two shots. One of his hit your shoulder and the other just below your vest. Both of yours hit his chest successfully but somehow he was still alive but barley hanging on. You stumbled over to May and untied her and then collapsed. And spoke into your comm.

"Suspect is contained. I'm gonna need a medic." You said and your words were slurred.

Then everything turned black. You didn't hear May's pleas for you to wake up or the pressure she had on your wounds. You felt nothing.

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Everyone could hear what was happening and it was breaking their heart. They drove as fast as they could. Buck, Bobby, and Athena were taking it the hardest.

They heard you fight with the unsub they heard every hit and every word.

"Y/N/N behind you!" May shouted and they heard you grunt in pain and then hit something metal. "

Jackson Phillips we can work this out." You said sounding out of breath.

"Oh no. Working it out with you people means guns." He said and more punching and throwing around could be heard along with grunting.

"One last chance. We can work this out and I can get you a deal."

"I'm not going back to prison." He said and both of you fired two shots. Everyone’s eyes went wide and they drove faster.

"Suspect is contained. I'm gonna need a medic." You said and your words were slurred.

Bobby had his head hung. Buck was looking wide-eyed. Athena was gripping the steering wheel. Hotch, Emily, Reid, JJ, and Rossi were in shock and afraid for their youngest member's life. They could hear May shouting out at you but you didn't respond.

"Y/N, please! Wake up! You can't leave!" She said but got no response back and they heard her start sobbing.

Everyone arrived and the BAU rushed in along with Athena and the 133 paramedics. Two other ambulances, 133 and 136, had arrived with them. Jackson Phillips was still alive but barley there. They loaded him up as Athena put cuffs on him and then the gurney "Keep him alive I want see him charged for murder and attempted murder of a federal agent." The 133 paramedics nodded and took off with him. Along with another officer to stand post at the room. The other suspect was healed and in prison already.

Emily had removed May with the help of JJ, she didn't want to leave but she knew she had to they took her the 136 ambulance to have her checked out. Hotch was bending down next you and putting pressure on. "Y/N, can you hear me?" He asked but you didn't respond. Chimney and Hen came down with a backboard. They started to put the pulse ox on your finger and hook you up to the heart monitor.

"She has a pulse but it's weak and her oxygen is dropping. We need to move her fast." Hen said and they all nodded and Hotch and Morgan helped them get you onto the backboard and helped them out of the basement and then onto a gurney. They got you into the ambulance and Bobby climbed into the ambulance. Chimney put an oxygen mask on your face as you started to come to and lolled your head the side and saw your dad there.

"Dad?" you asked slurred and he looked at you and you held your hand out to him for him to take.

"I'm here, Sweetheart." He said with tears forming in his eyes.

"Did I get 'im?" You asked eyes wanting to slip closed.

"Yea, Sweetheart. You got him." He said stroking the back of your hand. Then your grip loosened and fell out of his and your eyes rolled into the back of your head and your head lolled to the side as the heart monitor started to go crazy.

"She's flatlining!" Chimney yelled out and started to take your vest off and Bobby helped. Once it was off Chimney started to do chest compressions and then Bobby spoke up.

"Don't you leave me, Sweetheart. I can't lose you." He said and that seemed to work because your heartrate came back your eyes began to open.

"Hey, welcome back." Chimney said just as soon as they pulled up to the hospital. They got you out and wheeled you in and gave you off to the doctors "She codded in the ambulance once but came back." He said and they nodded. Now they had to wait.

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3 hrs. that is how long it took for you to be in surgery to repair some major wounds and remove the bullets. 3 hrs. is how long you spent fighting to survive. 3 hrs. is how long everyone had to wait nervously in the hospital waiting room. 3 hrs. is how long Buck had to wait for an update for the love of his life. Everyone had changed but Athena since she had to work still. Michael, David, Harry, and May were at the hospital as well waiting. Athena had arrived and spotted Bobby who was talking to Hotch and the rest of your team. "Any word?" She asked and they shook their head.

"No, not yet." Bobby said and she was about to sat something when your doctor came out and Bobby looked over and nodded his head.

"Family of Nash." Bobby, Athena, and Hotch walked over.

"I'm her father and this is her mother." Bobby said and pointing to Athena.

"I'm her boss." Hotch said and the doctor nodded.

"I'm Dr. Summers. I was Agent Nash's surgeon and doctor. We lost her twice on the table but she his stable now. I want her to stay here for a few days just to make sure she recovers well. You can see her but if she starts getting overwhelmed I recommend limiting her visitors." She said and they nodded their heads understanding "She's in room 555." She said and they thanked her and she was on her way.

They went over and told the others and everyone sighed in relief. Buck even collapsed in the chair. "We want to limit the people she sees to at least three." Bobby said and they nodded.

Hotch, Bobby, and Athena went first. They walked up to the room and looked through the window. They could see the brutal attack you went through. They walked in and you looked over to them. "Hey." You said weakly.

"Hey, Sweetheart." Bobby said for everyone.

"May?" You asked scooting up and groaning in pain everyone rushed to help you.

"She's ok, thanks to you. A little bruised and some cuts here and there but ok." Athena said and gently grabbed your hand and rubbed it. You smiled and then turned to Hotch, he knew what you were asking.

"They want you to stay here in the hospital for a couple of days. I also want you to take some time off and recover. You're not going to be able to fly for a few weeks so I thought you could stay here." He said and turned to Bobby and Athena.

"Of course. You don't even have to ask. It would be great to catch up." Athena said and you smiled so it was settled you'll be staying home for a couple of weeks.

Everyone visited you but Buck. You were a little sad but put up a wall and masked your feelings. You were just about to go to sleep when Buck knocked on your door and walked in and you smiled.

"Buck." You said his name and it brought chills up his spine.

"Hi." He said and walked over and sat down by your bed and you looked over to him "You gave me, well everyone, a scare." You smiled.

"Sorry about that." You said and chuckled but then groaned in pain and Buck jumped up.

"Are you ok? Do I need to go get a nurse?" He asked and you waved him off.

"It's ok. I promise." You said and he sat back down.

"Listen Y/N I really like no love you. I have ever since I laid eyes on you but never made a move. I was young and naïve and you were just visiting from Quantico. I want to be with you even if it is long distance." Buck said and you thought about it.

"I've always loved you Buck. You never seemed interested so I never went for it. You just never seemed to pay attention to me or knew I existed. I really do love you Buck but you're with Taylor and I don't want to get in the way of that." You said and before you knew it or continue his lips were on yours and you were kissing him back. You only broke apart when air was needed "Buck. What about Taylor?" You asked and he shook his head.

"I don't want her. I want you and only you. I'm going to break up with her when I leave here." He said and you nodded. He sat down and you two talked in a comfortable silence. Bobby and Athena walked back in, they had decided to stay with you until you were ready to leave. Buck left but not without giving you a kiss and a wink.

Bobby and Athena started asking 20 questions and you couldn't help but smile. This was the family you had been missing but you loved your job. Buck and you were finally together and everything was right now. Yes your job was dangerous but you loved it and wouldn't give it up for anything. You couldn't wait to start your recovery with the people you love.

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'The Crown' Boss Reveals Why Meghan Markle and Prince Harry Are Off-Limits

The Hollywood Reporter Aug 18, 2020

Creator and showrunner Peter Morgan shares the unofficial feedback he gets from the royal family and why characters based on Prince Andrew and others won't be making an appearance in the Emmy-nominated series: "I'm much more comfortable writing about things that happened at least 20 years ago."

Peter Morgan was nearing the end of a lengthy shoot for the upcoming fourth season of Netflix's The Crown when the coronavirus took hold in the U.K., halting production. While he was ultimately able to wrap the season with what they had, he still lost a couple weeks of filming. "I can see where the gaps are, but I'm hoping that you won't," says the showrunner, who adds that he feels "lucky" that they were able to get as far as they did. In the wake of the show's nine Emmy nominations, including one for best drama series, the London-based Morgan shares what caused him to change his mind about the number of seasons the show will run, the unofficial feedback he gets from Buckingham Palace and why present-day royal scandals are off the table.

How did you celebrate your Emmy nominations?

I'm not sure I did celebrate, to be honest. I mean, I was relieved. I'm not sure that relief is a celebration. This just feels like such a strange time. Jumping around punching the air and lighting cigars feels like something I look forward to doing again, but at the moment, it just would feel weird to be doing that.

Having lost a couple weeks of filming on the upcoming season, is there any chance that you could reconvene everyone once it's considered safe to do so and get those final shots?

In order to hit the release schedule for season four, we needed to start editing and lock episodes, which we've been doing throughout this time. And everything takes much longer under these new social distancing regulations and rules, [even post-production.] So if we'd, for example, waited until next month, when a number of people are starting to film again in late August, beginning of September, to pick up these extra scenes, I think a) everyone would have been out of the rhythm of it and it would have felt very strange, and b) I think it would have compromised our post schedule. And we had to weigh up, "Is it worth it or not?" And, actually, that we're still able to hit our release schedule in November for seasonal four has been worth it.

It was announced recently that the fifth season, the one you're currently writing, won't be released until 2022. Was that a decision impacted by COVID or was that always the plan?

It's a normal schedule for us because what happens is, as you've noticed, we filmed The Crown in two season chunks, so we had Claire Foy for two seasons, we've now got Olivia Coleman for two seasons. And there was a gap year in there in which I frantically do a draft of all the scripts, and then I re-write the scripts and polish the scripts after that — but at least we have a roadmap of where we're going for the two seasons. And I said that there was no way that I could possibly do that and be showrunning the seasons if they were in production. You do need a gap year to get ahead with the writing.

This year, you said that the show was going to run five seasons instead of the expected six, but you recently reverted to the original plan. Why the change?

That's me being exhausted, and the truth is people have just been so supportive and so kind. They were so kind to go with me on the five-season version. That was an act of generosity because it was always pitched as being six seasons and always imagined to be that. And then I think they just looked at the state I was in, which is a classic showrunner look. You look slightly green and yellow and you have bags under your eyes, and you look at least 10 years older than you actually are. At that point, people say, "Just let the poor man out of his misery." But then in the course of meeting the actors, they were all furious they were only getting one season. (Laughs.) They were like, "Well, that's not fair. How come Claire Foy gets two and Olivia Colman gets two and I only get one?"

Are you writing that next season with COVID protocols in mind or are you hoping that the virus will be a thing of the past by the time you're in production again?

I think so. I'm writing it exactly as I wrote it before. I'm making no concessions whatsoever in terms of international locations, in terms of extras, in terms of size. If anything, the show's getting bigger. So I am absolutely banking on there being not just a vaccine but that the vaccine has had global dissemination by that point.

What was the most challenging scene for you to write last season?

If there isn't a challenging scene to get on paper in every episode, I'm not doing my job. If it doesn't feel to me like I'm climbing without a rope, then I don't see [the point]. I remember in season one when Claire Foy comes back to find her father dead, she cries when she sees his dead body. And I said to everybody then, "This is the first and the last time we're ever going to see the queen cry. She will never cry again. There'll be many times where we imagine she's crying, but no tears come." When you have the queen in scenes of extreme emotion, those scenes are very difficult to write because she's not a person of extreme emotionality. So you're constantly having to find ways to make the audience cry without, as it were, the queen crying. In other words, it's all about inability and restraint and being blocked, because she herself is blocked because it's wrapped up in this package of being the queen — and the queen is in itself an abstract concept rather than Elizabeth Windsor, who she is underneath. So any scenes that really push to that are always a real challenge.

You've meet with royal aides to brief them on what's to come in the show. How do they typically respond, and what do you hope to get out of those meetings?

I meet on an entirely informal and impersonal basis with a couple of people who used to work at the palace and who I imagine still have contacts with the palace. It ends up as one of those rather ridiculous conversations in which everybody is slightly tiptoeing and saying something other than what they mean, but you're still finding a way of getting some information out while at the same time everybody has the most important thing, which is deniability.

Do they ever come to you and say, "No, it didn't happen this way," or "That isn't accurate"?

Occasionally they might come back and say, "I enjoyed certain aspects of the season," and by that I know that he or she probably means other people enjoyed that. And then they'll say, "There were one or two things that I personally found disappointing," which probably means that somebody else found them disappointing.

Does that feedback influence how you write the show at all?

No, nor would they want it to. No one's trying to censor me. No one's ever tried to correct what I do or censor what I do. No one wants anything to do with each other. I don't want anything to do with the palace and the palace wants nothing to do with me — again, so that we all have the most important thing, which is that they can say, "I don't know what they think they're doing." And we can say, "We have no interest in making them happy." That's really important because different people have different attitudes. Some people could say, "Oh my god, it's outrageous what The Crown has got away with saying," and other people could say, "The Crown could have said it a lot worse." So depending on your perspective, if you are a rapid anti-monarchist then no matter how critical I am, it will never be critical enough. And if you are really staunch establishment monarchist, then just about everything I say is pure treason. You will never make those two extremes happy. And there's no point even trying to. I only write what I want to write.

You've said the show won't get into modern royal subjects like Meghan Markle or Prince Andrew. Why?

I just think you get so much more interesting [with time.] Meghan and Harry are in the middle of their journey and I don't know what their journey is or how it will end. One wishes some happiness, but I'm much more comfortable writing about things that happened at least 20 years ago. I sort of have in my head a 20 year rule. That is enough time and enough distance to really understand something, to understand its role, to understand its position, to understand its relevance. Often things that appear absolutely wildly important today are instantly forgotten, and other things have a habit of sticking around and proving to be historically very relevant and long lasting. I don't know where in the scheme of things Prince Andrew or indeed Meghan Markle or Harry will ever appear. We won't know, and you need time to stop something being journalistic. And so I don't want to write about them because to write about them would instantly make it journalistic. And there are plenty of journalists already writing about them. To be a dramatist, I think you need perspective and you need to also allow for the opportunity for metaphor. Once something has a metaphorical possibility, it can then become interesting. It's quite possible, for example, to tell the story of Harry and Meghan through analogy and metaphor, if that's what you want to do. Because there've been so many examples in the past, whether it's Wallis Simpson or Edward VII, or whether it's Diana and Prince Charles. There have been plenty of opportunities in the past where there have been marital complications. There've been wives that have been married into the Royal family that have felt unwelcome and that they don't fit in. So there are plenty of stories to tell without telling the story of Harry and Meghan.

Interview edited for length and clarity.

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Line of Duty: the Best Crime Thrillers to Watch Next

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Line of Duty is over, perhaps for good. It’s time to dismantle that evidence wall, file the exhibits away, and close the door on AC-12. With H unmasked, we can all rest our adrenal glands and get back to a healthy, Jimmy Nesbitt-free sleep pattern.

Once that’s achieved, if you start to feel the itch for more seismic shocks and sleights-of-hand, here are a few suggestions of what to watch next – eight TV thrillers that provide similar doses of double-dealing, truth-concealing, witness-squealing, case-breaking shenanigans. Add your own recommendations below!

Bodyguard

Bodyguard proved that there was life after the Red Wedding for Richard Madden. His performance as David Budd, a former combat soldier living a new – and equally dangerous – life as a Principal Protection Officer (PPO) in the London Met deservedly netted him a Golden Globe and a Scottish Bafta award.

Budd’s job protecting the abrasive yet vulnerable British Home Secretary Julia Montague (Keeley Hawes) is complicated by their conflicting ideologies, Budd’s fractured home-life and PTSD, and a wide-ranging conspiracy that brings together Islamic terrorism, organised crime, intra-governmental malfeasance and dodgy cops. Be prepared to watch from behind half-closed eyes, wincing in anticipation of the oblivion that’s promised around almost every corner.

Bodyguard has the kinetic ferocity and explosive twists of 24; the grim and gritty characterisation of a Jimmy McGovern project; and the ‘Oh my God it was them along… or was it?’ twists of Line of Duty, which follows as it was also created by Jed Mercurio and World Productions.

Watch on: Netflix UK

The Americans

What if you were so deeply embedded with your enemies that you were indistinguishable from them, both inside and out, and even started to become increasingly disillusioned about what side you were supposed to be on? That’s the central conceit of FX’s slick and superlative spy drama The Americans, set in Washington DC during the height of the Cold War. Russian operatives Philip and Elizabeth Jennings have fake pasts and fake identities, but they also have very real American teenage children, who have been raised oblivious to the devastating secret thumping Poe-like in their parents’ hearts. Other shows trading in similar tropes may well deal in deception and corruption, but the cross that the Jennings have to bear in the name of ideology makes even the biggest conspiracies in Line of Duty and Bodyguard seem like a fib told by a child to avoid punishment for stealing freshly-baked muffins from their mother’s windowsill.

The heat on the Jennings is turned up even further when an FBI agent tasked with uncovering Russian agents moves next door with his family; further still when the two families become friends, further blurring the lines between truth, lies, identity and loyalty.

Whom do you trust when you can’t even trust yourself?

Watch it on: Amazon Prime Video UK (available to purchase)

Edge of Darkness (1985)

Edge of Darkness is steeped in the same Thatcher-tainted, Reagan-ruled, greed-is-good, hyper-capitalist era as The Americans, but is a contemporaneous piece rather than a period piece, having debuted in 1985.

The tragic tale follows tortured policeman Ronald Craven (Bob Peck) as he tries to unravel the truth behind his eco-activist daughter’s murder, while he himself starts to unravel in a sea of lies, half-truths, hard truths and shifting allegiances. Craven snakes his way through a colourful cast of misfits, agitators, loudmouths, snobs, yobs and psychopaths, as the battle for power – nuclear, economic, hegemonic – and perhaps the survival of the earth itself, swirls and dances and ricochets around him.

It’s a series that’s unafraid to immerse the viewer in complexity; leaving them to fathom the ever-morphing labyrinth of motivations and revelations on their own; leaning heavily into ambiguity whenever it serves the shape and tone of the story. Often, the viewer is left as bemused and perplexed as Craven himself in the face of this deadly puzzle, but they will still find themselves – also like Craven – unable and unwilling to rest until the pieces fit together.

The late Bob Peck – whom many will only know as the game keeper from Jurassic Park, who utters his memorable final line, ‘Clever girl…’, seconds before becoming a velociraptor hors d’oeuvre – puts in a mesmerising, career-defining performance as Craven, effortlessly embodying the full gamut of the man’s grief, guilt, obsession, melancholy and mania. Craven seems at once mythical and otherworldly, and yet solidly, painfully, exquisitely human.

Watch on: Amazon Prime Video UK (available to purchase)

The Shield

“Good cop and bad cop left for the day. I’m a different kind of cop.”

So says LA Detective Vic Mackey (Michael Chiklis) seconds before demonstrating his no-holds-barred interrogation technique to an obfuscating paedophile. It’s not that Vic considers himself above the law, more that everybody else is below his. He often does the right things for the wrong reasons, or in the wrong way, or the wrong things for the right reasons. Or at least for reasons that he thinks are right. And he’s got a justification for everything, from bribing fellow officers, to partnering with organised criminals, to even murdering suspects.

Impossibly corrupt, relentlessly self-righteous, fearless to the point of psychopathy, Vic is the badge-wearing heir apparent to Tony Soprano, but burdened with little of the gabagool-guzzler’s guilt. Viewers are left under no illusions about the lengths Vic will go to protect himself and his kingdom, nor about the sort of show they’re watching, when at the close of the first episode he executes an officer who has been placed in his Strike Team to investigate his corruption, framing a similarly deceased drug kingpin for the crime.

So begins the toxic, spreading rot of secrets, lies and double-dealings, each action an effort to cover over and stay a step ahead of the misdeed before. Vic’s three-man Strike Team would follow him into Hell, which is just as well, because that’s exactly where he leads them, along with his family, and anyone who ever associated with or went toe-to-toe against him. The Shield begins as a punchy, kinetic pop-corn spectacle of a series, but slowly evolves into an almost Shakespearian tragedy, rich in sadness, sacrifice and betrayal. The final act – hell, the final few seasons – will leave you in no doubt as to The Shield‘s place in the pantheon of small-screen greats.

Watch on: All4 (UK)

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Dexter

If Internal Affairs set up an office in the Miami Metro Police Department, the last person they’d suspect of foul play would be the handsome, unfailingly polite blood-spatter analyst Dexter Morgan, doyen of the Homicide bowling team and daily bringer of doughnuts. Whereas Vic Mackey flaunts his corruption in plain sight, Dexter has to stay in the shadows. Dexter’s corruption is a little more extreme than Vic’s: he’s a highly active serial killer. That he only kills according to a strict ethical code – only other murderers, and only those who’d escaped, or would escape, justice by more legitimate means – makes him a complex, compassionate and compelling figure, one with whom we sympathise easily: perhaps too easily. Dexter makes us complicit by proxy. We find ourselves rooting for a serial killer, hopelessly lost in the hedge-maze of his amorality.

Dexter’s relationships with his sister, Deborah (Jennifer Carter) – a detective at his precinct – and Rita (Julie Benz) – first his girlfriend, then his wife and eventually mother of his son – are his only toe-holds on humanity, which is why the show regularly has them dancing on the edge of his dark secret. No more so than when Dexter has to help the department investigate the crimes of a serial killer the media dubs The Bay Harbor Butcher, a serial killer who just happens to be… Dexter.

While it’s true that Dexter came to a perfect natural conclusion after four great seasons, it’s also true that it limped on for another four seasons after that, capped by a finale that is quite possibly one of the weakest and worst of any drama series ever made. Thankfully, it’s coming back for a ninth season later this year, hopefully to right past wrongs.

Watch on: NOW (UK)

Cracker

If you only know the larger-than-life Robbie Coltrane as the much-larger-than-life Hagrid in the Harry Potter series, you’d do well to check out the mid-90s UK crime-series Cracker, and see Coltrane at his most searing, endearing, dangerous and iconic. Here he plays Eddie ‘Fitz’ Fitzgerald – quite simply the role he was born to play – a sharp-witted, full-blooded, foul-mouthed, fast-living psychologist who impresses (and largely imposes) his way into a consulting gig with the Manchester Police, helping them to solve their more grizzly and unusual crimes. The storyline that sees Fitz investigating one of ‘his’ own is perhaps its most harrowing and heart-breaking – a network of tragedies dovetailing into one other – with a denouement that casts a long, sad shadow over the rest of the series.

Warning: If you are a Harry Potter fan, and you decide to watch Cracker, do take the time to psychologically prepare yourself for the sight of Hagrid in bed with Harry Potter’s mum.

Watch on: Britbox (UK)

Luther

Detective John Luther (Idris Elba) has the presence of a bear, the heart of a lion, and the mind of Columbo. With his razor-sharp stare, long, lived-in coat and propensity to stick his neck precisely where it’s needed but never wanted, Luther’s ‘Oh, one more thing’ is just as likely to be a fist as it is a verbal death-blow.

Over the course of five seasons Luther is betrayed by those closest to him, mangled by loss, framed for murder and even strikes up an unusual but oddly touching relationship with a serial killer. It’s electric, captivating TV, and Idris Elba wears and lives Luther’s rage, sadness, regret and fuck-you-ness so intensely that you won’t be able to draw your eyes away from him. A barnstormer all round.

Watch on: BBC iPlayer (UK)

State of Play

The cast-list alone is enough to commend this early 2000s conspiracy thriller: John Simm, Philip Glenister (prior to the duo teaming up in Life on Mars), David Morrissey, James McAvoy, Bill Nighy, Amelia Bullmore, and Line of Duty‘s own Kelly MacDonald. Thankfully, almost everything else about this mini-series also screams excellence, especially the crackling, incisive and deeply honest writing from Clocking Off, Cracker and Shameless-stalwart Paul Abbott.

State of Play follows a group of journalists as they stumble onto the greatest story of their lives – ministerial corruption, contract killings, corporate greed, industrial espionage, illicit affairs – that pits the police, the government, and even their own friends and loved ones against them. It’s a twisting, turning, shifting, shocker of a masterpiece: a true titan of the genre.

Watch on: Amazon Prime Video UK (available to purchase)

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USWNT as students in Hogwarts? So house, best/ worst suject, classroom behaviour/results. Im sure The Children will be full of shenanigans and mishaps, providing Professor Dawn plenty of headache.

Yo this one took me DAYS to do but it was so fun I loved it lol

Becky Sauerbrunn - 7th year Hufflepuff, head girl. Best subject is defense against the dark arts. She receives high marks in all her classes so she doesn't have a worst subject, but she's not really a fan of potions. She's very chill, answers when called on, does her work and turns it in on time. She tries to lay low and avoid trouble but Kelley is always somewhere near by dragging Becky into her shenanigans. Becky doesn't like using her title to bail her friends out, but she's unfortunately done it once or twice to get Kelley and Sonnet out of trouble.

Carli Llyod - 7th year Slytherin. Best subject transfiguration, she's quite the fan of turning people who mess with her 23 closest friends into a teacup pig. She once turned a kid into a hedgehog for saying "bless you" after she sneezed. Worst class, history of magic. It's boring and requires no actual magic, she can often be found transfiguring Allie Longs feathered quill into an actual bird and laughing softly to herself when it flys into her face.

Krieger - 7th year Gryffindor. Best class is potions, worst class is transfiguration. She's a quiet jokester, often sitting in the back goofing off with Pinoe. A random student once called Ashlyn a bad word and she threw hands faster than he could yell for Headmaster Ellis. (She still hears about it and bans krieger from quidditch for the rest of the year)

Pinoe - 7th year Gryffindor. Best class Charms, worst class transfiguration. They probs suck at it because that's the one they goof off in the most. She's the quidditch star. She's not head girl, but she's THE head girl if you know what I mean. Popular, admired, somewhat hated by people who want to be her.

Harris - 6th year Slytherin. She hates all classes and puts all her energy into quidditch. Ali and Pinoe are the only reason she actually goes to class. Was once given detention for throwing the biggest rager hogwarts has ever seen in the slytherin dungeons. (She would've gotten away with it if it wasn't for Honkle reporting her)

Alex Morgan - 6th year Gryffindor prefect. Favorite class is Charms, and her least favorite is Herbology. She's a great student, and everyone thinks she's a goody-two-shoes. Little do they know she gets into a ton of shenanigans with good ole Kelley O'Hara, Kelley's just the one who always gets caught. Has 100% used her prefect privileges to get her friends out of trouble.

O'Hara - 6th year Gryffindor that causes all sorts of trouble. Class clown for sure, but everyone in the castle adores her. Favorite class is Charms, more specifically the jinxes (her favorite is Epoximise which is a spell that binds two objects together. One time she bound Tobin and Press's sweaters together, which she firmly believes is the reason they are now dating.) Her least favorite class is History of Magic, or as she likes to call it Nap Time. Always tries to get Becky to bail her out of stuff.

Heath - 6th year Slytherin, not really a fan of any of her classes but she met Press in Defense Against The Dark Arts her 2nd year, so she's kinda partial to that one. She's a good student though, she gets all her work done and turns it in on time, she just doesn't put in any extra work. She only goofs off in class when she knows it won't be a big disruption. (Unless the class is with Alex, Kelley or Allie, then there's no controlling them) Definitely can be found practicing Quidditch with Ashlyn at the oddest times. Was really confused when Press asked her out because she already thought they were dating after Kelley bound their clothes together.

Press - 6th year Hufflepuff prefect, that everyone is in love with but she has no idea. She is Becky's favorite because she's the least chaotic out of this big group. Absolutely adores Herbology and Divination, she struggles in D.A.D.A but Tobin is always there to help her. She is the ideal student, always turning her work in, she's never late, and she's always confident in her answers. Never actually confirms that she and Tobin are dating, she just assumes the a-little-less-than-friendly-PDA is enough. (Its not, everyone outside this group still has no idea if they're dating)

Allie Long - 6th year Slytherin. She likes charms because she loves learning all the jinxes. She uses them on Tobin all the time, more specifically when she's in front of Press. Least favorite class is Herbology. Definitely goofs around in class, one time she jinxed all the test parchment to roll shut and never open. Didn't even try to ask Becky to get her out of it, she just accepted her fate.

Naeher - 5th year Ravenclaw prefect that everyone assumes is a professor and not a student. She loves all her classes but her favorite class is D.A.D.A. She protects all the youngins and tries to keep them out of trouble, while the older girls wreek havoc on the school. The best keeper Hogwarts has ever seen.

Ertz - 5th year Slytherin. Is quite the fan of walking through the hallways and casting the jelly legs curse on people. Favorite class is charms (where do you think she learned the jelly legs curse?) Least favorite is transfiguration. Both her and Dunn refuse to cause trouble in class, but once outside they join everybody in causing trouble.

Dunn - 5th year Ravenclaw, can often be found dancing next to Ertz while she curses peoples legs. The dynamic duo that confuses everyone, but it works. Definitely a great student, loves all her classes.

AD Franch - 5th year Gryffindor. She's quiet, but very intimidating. Everyone is terrified of her until they meet her and realizes she's like... the sweetest witch ever. Great student, excels in everything. Her favorite class is D.A.D.A because she loves learning to defensive spells. Can often be found conjuring roses for her girlfriend.

Horan - 4th year Gryffindor. Thing 1, (sonnett is thing 2 obviously) literally hates all her classes. Wanted to skip hogwarts and go straight to playing professional quidditch but 11 year olds can't play professionally. Would honestly leave hogwarts if it wasn't for Sonnet and her dad Tobin Heath. Is definitely the smarter, more logical one of her and Sonnett. Definitely just follows Sonnett on her dumb adventures just to see how it'll backfire in her face.

Sonnett - 4th year Hufflepuff, Thing 2, and the second biggest trouble maker in the school. (Behind Kelley O'Hara obviously) O'Hara taught her everything she knows. She loves her classes even though she may not be the best student. Favorite class is muggle studies because the idea of a "stove" fascinates her. Definitely almost burned hogwarts down after asking the househelves if she could use the kitchen to cook with a muggle stove.

Dahlkemper - 4th year Hufflepuff. She's in the same boat as Press where everybody is in love with her but she has no idea. Honestly just an all around great witch and student. Her best class is potions and care for magical creatures.

Morgan Brian - 4th year Ravenclaw. Silent but deadly, meaning she doesn't seem like she causes any trouble but she does. One time she and Mewis turned a few staircases into slides and Professor Dawn was scrambling to fix it while all 23 of them just kept on sliding down. (Anytime Dawn would fix one, they'd turn another) Great at D.A.D.A and charms obviously. Not a particular fan of potions.

Mewis - 3rd year Hufflepuff, who looks like a picturesque innocent little child, is the opposite. Loves muggle studies cause that's where they learn about muggle music and she really likes this muggle musician by the name of Lizzo. Once bewitched a muggle ipod to work inside the castle walls, but it went rogue and smacked her in the face and broke her nose.

Lavelle - 3rd year Gryffindor who only focuses on 1 class and 1 class only, and that is Care for Magical Creatures. She literally does not care about the rest. She once cried when a Demiguise hugged her. Has a tendency to follow Sonnett and Horan around, and often gets dragged into their *cough Sonnetts* shenanigans. Sonnett is very protective of her. Literally if you so much as utter a jinx in her vicinity, Sonnett will throw hands.

Pugh - 2nd year Ravenclaw a precious little student who loves charms and HATES arthimancy (the math of hogwarts). She does all her work, turns it in on time, focuses in all her classes. When she's not being a picture perfect student, she can be found being coddled by her parents Tobin Heath and Christen Press. They try to keep her out of trouble but obviously Sonnett and Horan make that difficult.

Davidson - 1st year Hufflepuff, absolutely terrified for her first year at hogwarts. Doesn't know what to do when these 22 random girls just swoop her up into their group, but she's quiet and goes along with it. Touch one hair on her head and Alyssa Naeher with hex you. She loves her flying class, but she's most looking forward to care of magical creatures in a few years. Literally cannot ever get in trouble. If she's with them when they pull a stunt, the professors let her go cause they know she's not capable of causing trouble.

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underoosweb · 5 years

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Salvation Ch.3

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No Warning: I mean fluff

Pairing: Tony Stark x Stark!Reader, Peter Parker x Reader (Eventually)

2018

Y/N walked behind Tony and Pepper, she was never one to hang around loving couples. Honestly, she would rather be with Peter. But her dad insisted on her being homeschooled, she wanted to be a normal teen. Public school, dances, a couple boyfriends. Nope. She spent most of her time in the tower. Y/N felt her phone vibrate, she quickly pulled it out of her jacket and smiled.

Puppy: what are you up to?

Y/N: Nothing, family walk through the park. You?

Puppy: Field trip, wish I was there. I'm pretty sure you're bored out your mind.

Y/N: As usual. Are you coming over later?

Puppy: Want me to?

Y/N: Always, I'll leave my window open

Puppy: You know eventually Mr. Stark is going to find out right?

Y/N: Mmm highly doubt that I sorta hacked F.R.I.D.A.Y.

Puppy: WHAT?

Y/N: Why do you think we haven't gotten caught? I hacked F.R.I.D.A.Y so she wouldn't alert dad about an extra body in my room.

Puppy: oh god, what if he finds out? He'll kill me. He's going to kill me.

Y/N: Peter you act like we're doing something we're not supposed to be doing.

Puppy: I SNEAK INTO YOUR ROOM LATE AT NIGHT THAT LOOKS BAD

Y/N: Peter, you sneak in and tell me about your day at school and who you helped, plus I help you with your suit.

Puppy: I know, but to Mr. Stark, we might be doing something else

Y/N: Something else? Like what Peter? ;P

Puppy: No...Nothing.

Y/N: Don't worry, he doesn't know.

Puppy: I mean friends hang out in each other's rooms

Y/N sighed when she saw that word friends. She always wondered if Peter liked her like she liked him. Peter sat on the bus staring at his phone, why wasn't she replaying? Did he say something wrong? Ned looked at Peter

“Dude, why so antsy? Are your spider senses tingling?”

“No, I was messaging Y/N but she's not responding now.”

“Ahh, girl trouble. Peter, you obviously like her, just tell her.” Peter's eyes widened and blood rose to his cheeks.

“Is it that obvious?” He said timidly

“Yeah, it's pretty obvious.” A new voice chimed in. Peter turned to his left and groaned

“You noticed too MJ?” MJ nodded

“I'm pretty sure everyone knows. Well that you have a crush just not on who.” Peter groaned and hit his head on the seat.

“Great.” He murmured

Peter felt his phone vibrate, he jumped up and looked at his screen

Sunshine: Yeah, they do. I'll talk to you later Peter, Dad's nagging me to get off the phone. Family time.

Peter: Oh alright, I'll see you later.

Peter once again hit his head against the chair and groaned.

“Ugh why do I feel like I messed up?”

“What'd you tell her?” Peter looked back at MJ. She shrugged

“What? I can help.”

“Well, the last thing I said was that friends hang-”

“Yeah, I'm gonna stop you there. You definitely messed up.”

“What? Why?”

“Pete, even I know you messed up.” Ned chimed in

“What? What did I say?”

“Dude you said, friends,” MJ said and Ned nodded

“But that's what we are?”

“She stopped messaging after you said that right? She likes you.”

Peter once again felt the blood rush to his cheeks and shook his head.

“Maybe…”

"Slow down, slow down. I'm totally not kidding." Tony said to Pepper Pepper laughed "You're totally rambling." "No, I'm not."

“Yeah, you are Dad.” "You lost me," Pepper said, Y/N nodded "Look, you know how you're having a dream, and in the dream you gotta pee?" Tony said while facing Pepper and Y/N "Yeah." " Okay, and then you're like, "Oh my god, there's no bathroom, what am I gonna do?" "Oh! Someone's watching." "I'm gonna go in my pants." " Right. And then you wake up, and in real life, you actually have to pee." " Yes." "Yeah. Everybody has that." " Right! That's the point I'm trying to make. Apropos of that, last night, I dreamt, we had a kid. So real. We named him after your eccentric uncle. Uh, what was his name?" Pepper nodded "Right." "Morgan! Morgan." "So you woke up, and thought that we were..." "Expecting." "Yeah."

Y/N turned to Pepper. Her mind filled with a million thoughts. Her dad looked so happy, when he found out about her he wasn't happy. Y/Ns thoughts darkened. She couldn't help it. Her dad wasn't happy nor did he really spend much time with her after the whole Iron Man thing. Pepper sat down and talked to him about her, how Y/N felt unwanted, she was worried about his safety and how she would cry herself to sleep. Tony felt bad instantly not realizing the effect he had on her. Y/N looked back at her smiling dad, she shook her head, bad thoughts slowly going away. Y/N smiled at them. "Yes?" Tony's eyes lit up Pepper shakes her head "No." "I had a dream about it. It was so real." "If you wanted to have a kid, you wouldn't have done that," Pepper said pointing to his chest " I'm glad you brought this up, 'cause it's nothing. It's just a housing unit for nanoparticles." " It's not helping your case, OK?" "No, no, it's an attachment, it's not a-" " You don't need that." " I know. I had the surgery. I'm just trying to protect us. The future uses, and that's it. Just in case there's a monster in the closet, instead of, you know..." "Shirts?" "You know me so well. You finish all my sentences." "You should have shirts in your closet." "Yeah. You know what there should be? No more surprises. We're gonna have a nice dinner tonight. Show off this Harry Win-stone. Right? And we should have no more surprises. Ever. I should promise you." "Yes." "I will. " Tony kisses Pepper.

“Ugh, you guys are so cute it grosses me out.” Pepper and Tony laughed, pulling Y/N in for a group hug. Tony kissed Y/N forehead

“Hey,” Y/N looked at her dad

“I love you.”

“I love you too.”

“Forever and always,” Tony replied

“Forever and always.” Y/N smiled.

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bestfluteninja · 6 years

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actual things my teachers have said, pt. 2

part 1 here

so, in honor of school about to start again, here’s my teacher quotes from second semester last year, my freshman year of high school. enjoy.

“Day one and you’re already undressing”

“I went to college for this”

“I’ve taught one person something today”

“He looks so loose and relaxed because he’s dead”

“There was this one pope who was a total prude”

“It’s called the Great Deflowering, and they just took all the penises off the statues”

“One student said, ‘do you think there’s this basket of stone penises in the Vatican?’”

“Oh, it’s like ‘pièce’ means ‘piece’ or something”

“Do you sleep in the salle à manger (dining room)? Only if you have a very sad life”

“I don’t know why I suddenly know your restroom schedule”

“I want to get up on a ladder and touch your hair. Still sounds weird”

“And then you have Columbus or Vasco de Gama’s little ship, which looks like it’s going to be eaten by the big ship”

“Let’s go metric, which we’re crazy for not using”

“When I pass on to whatever”

“You tempt my middle finger”

“Stop talking about my coworkers in a negative way. Or positive. Just stop.”

“I almost said a word I shouldn’t”

“Nachos aren’t happening without cheese”

“We are about to learn a new tense, which will shake the foundations of everything you know and love”

“Let’s make this nice and incriminating”

“Next year I’ll have to require students to get a tattoo of their password”

“Anybody else wanna criticize my decisions?”

“Hey. Hey! HEY!...have a good day”

“After announcements, I’m going to melt your faces off, so be ready”

“It’s magic time, kids”

“I have mad babysitting skills”

“You don’t go to all this effort if you have wheat just growing in your backyard”

“The Catholic Church was into destruction”

“You really don’t wanna write it down because then you’ll cry”

“Anyone wanna help me summon the dead?”

“My mother still tells me I should’ve been a lawyer”

“Rooms and stuff, oh yeah”

“That way, when he’s an old man, people can go ‘you’re old’ and he’ll be like ‘whaaa’“

“If you’re sitting there just tapping really hard, I don’t know what your aggression is”

“I wish I had autopilot”

“I won’t make you cry”

“There were some that considered that blasphemous. Heracy. Scientific heracy.”

“The access code is cookies18 because I’m surrounded by cookies and it’s 2018″

“Thumbs down is like ‘bro why’“

“Are you having fun in art class? Stop that”

“You all think you’re gang members now”

“Something French, woman! Get it together”

“We can be like Congress and have to have a talking stick”

“Here’s a dog with three stereotypes all at once”

“I am as serious as a heart attack”

“You don’t see many of those furry little creatures around here anymore. Except raccoons. They’re everywhere”

“It’s not politics if everyone agrees”

student: “I like your shoes” teacher: “thanks, they’re killing my feet”

“Focus less on witty comments”

“If we could just hang out, I’d, like, braid your hair”

“This guy with a stick, that can’t be good”

“Spent a little too much time in the harem, if you get my meaning”

“I really do try to find anything with singing and dancing camels”

“Another creepy clown, fantastic”

“Are those flower garlands, or are they chains?”

“Oh, how progressive, that you add Hindu women to your harem”

“Probably for the release death would bring”

“Easy with the f-bomb”

“I’m gonna go ahead and mark everyone absent just because I like to mess with the front office”

“That was a pretty good airplane”

“I got too deep in a book and forgot to make your test”

“This is for your cultural education” *shows Shia LaBoef*

“You don’t know why, but you know you hate them”

“This is a holdup, pow pow pow, give me all your money”

“Screaming is the same in every language”

“Satan scares me”

“I have nothing against turtlenecks, usually”

“420, blaze it. I shouldn’t have said that, it was inappropriate”

“If you don’t know basic computer skills, you’re just doomed”

“Attacked by many animals...I can just see him walking down the street going ‘oh god not again’“

“She’s preening you”

“We don’t do midterms in here cause they’re awful”

“I love praise”

“Everything is petit pois”

“Nobody can get through the French Revolution in a day and a half except me”

“Back when the History Channel had history”

“Everyone is like ‘oh I’m so nostalgic for the nineties’ and I’m like ‘burn it with fire’“

“Feel free to email me, I won’t respond”

“Don’t hurt each other”

“She looks like a jellyfish. No! That’s so cool! I love jellyfish!”

“I felt like lying on the floor and curling up in a ball”

“Laugh. Move on.”

“Your fort should be strong, to keep the Huns from invading”

“Why are you so smart right now?”

“I have all of her anxiety and none of her skill”

“Whatever will make my parents angriest”

“What’s happening, you animals?”

“Just fractions, nothing magical”

student: *drops ruler* teacher, deadpan: “why”

“Sooner or later that bell will ring and you’ll be like ‘yo what the heck’”

“Anytime there’s chanting, just be careful”

“There’s no mentions of prostitutes in the Jamaica letter”

“I like fire, so I might burn it”

“These are in your way just to distract you”

“Don’t build your expectations up too high”

“Oh, I had alcohol”

“I want to leave with both my kidneys, thanks”

“If you would take a town out of Alabama and put it here, that’s Fortville” (we live in Indiana)

“I’m gonna start dressing like a clown to get your guys’ attention”

“Everybody needs extra money in life”

“I don’t know if you guys know this, but an essential part of living is being able to breathe”

“I’m a popcorn-aholic”

“We’re gonna do an exercise in loving yourself real quick”

“I barely even go outside”

“It’ll be terrible. You’re gonna have nightmares”

“It is a vest with fake pockets and a cape attached”

“There are very few people who are not gifted in anything”

“Please let me retire”

“If the lottery plays out on Wednesday, I might be gone by Thursday”

“Then we burnish it with a wooden spoon because I’m too cheap to buy burnishers and a wooden spoon works”

“Be mindful of when you’re leaning up against cabinets. Or get shoved into them”

“I like to touch art. Not supposed to, but I like to”

“If you go to Canada, I need you to steal a stop sign”

“I always get excited but it’s always just you, being fantastic”

(a blade from our art project went missing) “I think there are three scenarios. One, someone dropped it and just refuses to acknowledge that they dropped something. Two, someone put it in their pocket to take it home and have..fun with it later. Three, someone.....ingested it”

“You don’t steal the blades during the demonstration. You steal them during class time, when nobody’s looking”

“God, it’s snowing again”

“Can you grow poppies? Yes. If you grow 10-20 acres, the authorities are probably gonna come talk to you”

“If you had the letters for that in scrabble, that’s the whole game right there”

“Oh, Gandhi, you’re name-dropping”

“Isn’t that dog staring into your soul?”

“I’m just impressed with anyone that can wear horizontal stripes”

“It won’t be fatal drowning”

“You can have the rest of the time to annoy each other”

“We’ll cover up the ‘attack teacher’ sign so you’re not scared of me anymore”

*chalk squeaks* “sorry, forgot to oil the chalk”

“I don’t wake up in the mornings and go ‘oh, themes’“

“I am not Harry Potter’s uncle”

“If I cared, I would’ve asked”

“That’s where the Bordeaux wine comes from. Not that you’d know that, right, kids?”

“They don’t care about your happiness”

“Kay cool do stuff”

“No, I will not allow that. You cannot just eat butter”

“If I were to buy a Japanese car and drive it into my mother’s driveway, that would probably be it. She’d go toward the light”

“Since that’s all so depressing, we’ll end with a taco dog”

“I am intellectually aware that there were days when the sun came out”

“I have to get paid for this”

“I just have under a thousand dollars in my bank account at all times”

“We are French two, we are a little better than second-grade writing level”

“If you have to ask me if it’s appropriate, it’s not”

“It’s plagiarism, 100%. Don’t even care”

“For God’s sake, people, indent your paragraphs”

“It’s Morgan Freeman and Matt Damion, what else do you need”

student: “banana” teacher: “good, jenna”

*sharp intake of breath*

“Join us on the dark side of Honors English”

*shows us stick figure* “look at this detail”

“Well, that’s just magical.” minute later: “never mind”

“I’ll try to come up with a Plan D”

“In India, they love cricket, whatever the heck cricket is”

“Before I buy Shrek 2 online”

“Next thing you throw, you’re gonna eat”

“Have I mentioned your guys’ grand prize? It’s absolutely nothing”

“Nowadays you just take a selfie. This is for you. Wink wink.”

“Hey guys, say bonjour to my mom”

“She says sit down and shut up”

“He’s my scapegoat, his mom said I could”

if you read all of these, i hope you were amused. i certainly was. all of these are completely real. if you feel like it, send me an ask with your favorites

#this took so long to type up #school #public school #mine #teacher quotes #funny #humor #if u reblog this youre the true mvp

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okayimoutofideas · 7 years

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Different (Cedric Diggory)

Requested: Yes, also I wasn’t too sure if you wanted like Draco Malfoy x Hufflepuff!Reader or something else but I’ve done Draco Malfoy a lot lately, so I hope this is okay!

Summary: Reader is a feisty Slytherin who has a crush on probably the nicest person in the world, Cedric Diggory

MASTERLIST

AN: Enjoy :)

~1st Year~

“Excuse me, is anyone sitting here?” A boy asked, smiling kindly at you.

“Uh, no. Feel free to take a seat.” You said. He sat down across from you.

“I’m Cedric.” He said, holding out his hand.

“Y/N.” You shook it. “Do you know what house you’re going to be in?”

“No, I don’t really care, because I think all houses are good. Maybe Hufflepuff though. You?”

“Gryffindor probably, because that’s where everybody wants to go so can’t be that bad, right?”

“But is that what you want?”

“No, I don’t want to be here. I want to go home and pretend its all a dream.” You said and he looked at you.

“You don’t want to be here?” “No. I had to leave my family for school. School sucks.”

“Oh, well that’s okay.” He said an you looked at him. How could somebody be so nice and understanding. Not even your best friends at home were like that. but, the train ride continued slowly and the two of you continued talking.

Arriving at Hogwarts was much different than you expected. It looked nice and welcoming. You rode in a boat with Cedric to the castle and stood next to him the whole time. He was the only person you talked to.

“Welcome, new students we hope you enjoy your stay for the next seven years. Let the ceremony begin.” The professor who announced herself as McGonnagall said. So one by one, students went up to the sorting hat and got sorted into their houses.

“Y/N L/N.” You walked to the hat and for the first time in your life,you were actually nervous. you looked over to Cedric and he gave you a sly thumbs up which made you smile.

“Hmmm, where to put you, you say Gryffindor, but I’m thinking…SLYTHERIN!” You noticed that some people were booing at you but most of them were clapping. You took a seat next to a girl who waved at you.

~2nd Year~

“Honestly, Cedric, I’m so sorry someone would do that.” You said,while you helped the boy pick up his stuff. “Oh, it’s fine Y/N. It was probably an accident.” He said and you were so confused how this boy would probably defend everyone and could never be mad at anyone.

“Okay the, let’s get to class.” the two of you had been friends this whole year and everybody was confused as to why a Slytherin and a Hufflepuff were friends.

~3rd Year~

“Y/N, I have a question of you.” Cedric said, sitting next to you on a bench where you were doing homework. The common room got a little too loud for you and your dorm mates were annoying you. “Yes?” You asked.

“Okay, so you know how we got the permission slips signed to go to Hogsmeade?”

“Yeah.” “Well, I was wondering, maybe, you’d like to go with me?” He asked nervously. You smiled at how shy he was being. “Sure.” You said and his eyes lit up.

“Great, I’ll see you Saturday, unless Sunday works for you, because Sunday is fine too.” He said quickly. “Saturday is fine.” You said smiling.

You met with Cedric and he was nervous. You were kinda nervous too. You were thirteen and having crushes were normal and that’s what you told yourself. The two of you went to The Three Broomsticks where some other people from school were, but it wasn’t too crowded. (A/N: Going over this, I just noticed I used “to”, “two”, and “too” in the same sentence. This probably isn’t interesting but I thought you should know) Madam Rosmerta sat you down in a booth and handed the both of you a glass of Butterbeer. That date went fine and the two of you talked about everything. That was when you knew that you definitely liked Cedric Diggory more than a friend.

~5th year~

“I don’t want to study!” You yelled, pushing away the textbooks which caused Madam Pince to look rudely at you and you stared back. “Come on Y/N, it’s your O.W.L’s. They’re important, plus you always do great. So, if we study, the you can guarantee that you’ll at least get one ‘O’.” He said and you groaned. You didn’t want to do anything anymore. Teachers were annoying you and your crush on Cedric only grew unfortunately. You thought this would be over with, but that was not the case. He was so nice to everyone, like one time a girl bumped into him and he apologized so many times and almost started crying.

“Fine, but you owe me a Butterbeer.” You said. “Fine.” He said and you finally started working.

~Summer leading into 6th year~

“Come on Cedric, just get in the water.” You called to him as you, him, and a couple other friends were hanging out at the beach.

“But, what if I get water in my eyes?” He asked, worried. “Or what if I crush an animal- look a crab!” He exclaimed picking it up and smiling.

“Ced you dork, just get in.”

“Okay but let me get Dennis to a safer place.” He said and you rolled your eyes.

“Did you just name the crab Dennis?” You laughed. Finally he got into the water and you noticed a girl was looking at him. (A/N: This part gets really cringey and cliche but I wanted to show the readers feistiness) You rolled her eyes as she walked closer to you guys.

“Hi, I’m Morgan.” (Sorry if your name is Morgan)

“Cedric.” He said and they shook hands.

“Do you live around here?” She asked.

“Not really, how about you?” He asked and your blood started boiling. He didn’t even realize that she was flirting with him, because he mistook it for kindness.

“Oh well what school do you go to?”

“Ho-” He was cut off by you.

“Hansen boarding school. Hi, I’m Y/N, his best friend.” You snapped at her. She looked taken aback.

“Hi.” She shook your hand. Cedric was standing behind you, very confused as to why you were acting like this.

“Cedric, can you go get my hat? I think I’m starting to burn.” You asked. “Sure.” He said and wen to go grab your hat.

“Listen to me, stay away from him. He’s not yours and you don’t even know him so back off.” You snapped and she looked terrified.

“O-Okay.” She said, almost crying.

“Also, you might want to cover up, I can practically see your boobs.”

“Well, your ‘best friend’ didn’t seem to mind a minute ago.” She said,finding some courage. You turned back to her with steam almost pouring through your ears.

“Listen to me, don’t you ever talk about him like that! He didn’t even notice and if he did, he probably thought you should cover up. Don’t make me hurt you.” You said walking away. but, for extra measure, you muttered a spell and water came flying at her and knocking her backwards. Cedric came over to you with your hat.

“I got your hat. What’s wrong?” He asked.

“Come on.” You said, pulling his hand and putting your hat on.

“Is she okay?”

“She’s fine.” You said angrily.

“You didn’t have to be mean to her.” He said and you turned around.

“She was practically throwing herself at you! How could you not see?” You asked.

“She was just being kind!”

“No she wasn’t! She was flirting with you!”

“Oh, so you’re jealous.” He said smirking and you turned red.

“I’m not jealous.” You said to him. “You are so jealous.” He said, laughing. “Come on Y/N, you know I don’t like her like that. Your still my favorite person.” He hugged you from behind. You rolled your eyes.

“Whatever. Cedric, did you put the crab on my towel?”

“He has a name.”

“Sorry. Did you put Dennis on my towel?”

“Yes.”

~6th year~

“You can’t be serious.” You said, walking away from him. “Y/N. Just understand-”

“Understand what? That you want to put your name in a potentially dangerous competition?” You asked.

“Look, I need to do this.”

“No, you don’t! I can’t let you do this.”

“Please, Y/N, just let me do this.”

“Fine! but I’m putting my name in too.” With this, his eyes widened.

“No, you can’t.” He said, going over to you.

“Now you know how I feel.” You said, tears starting well up in your eyes.

“No, please don’t cry.” He said, hugging you. You still refused to show your emotions and wiped your tears. “Cedric, you don’t understand. What if I lose you?” “Y/N. Only stupid people die in those things.” “That’s why I’m worried!” You said and he looked offended.

“Excuse you!” He said and you started laughing. He smiled.

It turned out that Cedric got in the TriWizard tournament along with Harry Potter, who’s underage. He had finished the first competition and the second one was coming up.

“Y/N, Y/N, I need your help!” Cedric said running towards you.

“Yes?” You asked.

“I need to ask someone to the Yule Ball.” He said, taking a seat next to you.

“Okay. What’s her favorite color?” You asked.

“Silver.” Your favorite color was silver. “Okay, you should get a bouquet of flowers that are silver and just ask her. It’s simple, but will still show that you care.” You said. “Oh my god! Thank you Y/N! I hope Cho says yes.” He said and ran away. Cho? who the hell has Cho? It had just felt like your heart was stomped on. You immediately ran into your dorm and threw yourself on the bed. the tears just kept falling freely. You really hoped he would ask you but of course, you were the weird Slytherin girl with a temper.

“How stupid can a person be?” You asked yourself.

You were finally able to get a date for the Yule Ball, a boy named Henry. You were wearing a black dress with silver flowers decorated over it. To match, you also wore silver shoes. You noticed the champions dancing, specifically Cedric, dancing with their dates. Cho looked beautiful, wearing an elegant dress and Cedric looked handsome as always. after the first dance, everybody started dancing,but you didn’t want to. So, your date got angry and left you. There you were, sitting alone at a table, drinking punch. But that got boring, and you left to go into the corridors. You took a seat and noticed two different things going on. there was a girl who sat on the floor, bawling her eyes out, probably over some boy, and a group of girls yelling at each other, probably about a boy as well. You felt like both of those girls right now.

“What’s a pretty girl doing here all alone?” A random boy asked behind you. “I’m not interested.” You said and he groaned and walked away. There you were, alone in the corridor. You put your head in your hands and groaned.

“Y/N?” Somebody asked. You looked up to see Cedric.

“Ced, what are you doing here?” You asked sitting up. “Well, I noticed that my best friend wasn’t there.” He said, taking a seat.

“Shouldn’t you be dancing with Cho Chang?” You asked, anger lacing in your words.

“No, she left. She said that I obviously had feelings for someone else.” Your head shot up.

“Who?” You asked.

“I don’t know.” He said and looked over to you. “Yes, I do.” That was when he kissed you. You put your hands around his neck and he grabbed your waist. And for the first time, you weren’t jealous of cedric because you knew you had it all.

Okay I hope you enjoyed. I was tempted cowrite a funeral scene, but I don’t want to kill you guys. :)

#Cedric #diggory #cedric diggory #harry potter #harry potter imagine #harry potter imagines #cedric diggory imagine #cedric diggory imagines #cedric x reader #cedric diggory x reader #harry potter fluff #cedric diggory fluff

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shutupmorgan · 5 years

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They just won the World Cup and now they’re celebrating with all their friends and family in one of the most beautiful and romantic countries in the world. It feels like a dream, even more-so the hazier things get the more they all drink.

They know it’s only the beginning of at least a month long bender but it doesn’t stop a single one of them from pacing themselves. This is their fucking night and they’re sure as hell going to live it up because how many times do you get to win a World Cup in your life? For a lucky few it’s been two and those would tell you it only gets better each time and feels even more surreal.

Alex won it as a Captain this go around and couldn’t be more thrilled. Everybody knows how much Alex Morgan hates losing and then there’s Ashlyn Harris, who is right there next to her when it comes to being on the sorest of losers list on the team which is perhaps why they’re the two going what feels like the hardest of everyone around them.

Ashlyn has been sticking particularly close to Alex all night and while she’s noticed it, she doesn’t mind it. Who knows if the same can be said for her fiancee, Ali but that was their own thing and everyone was too busy having a good time for it to be that noticeable anyway, she was sure. Right? Either way, not Alex’s problem. If Ash wanted to celebrate with her she’d be right there to welcome her with open arms. Quite literally. The drunker each gets the more they start hanging all over one another. It’s friendly; they’re just having fun. It’s that special and close bond they have since they see each other so often being on the same club team and all along with being on the National Team together. They’re bound to have a close relationship, right?

That’s putting all their past behind them because they’d done that years ago. It was nothing but a distant memory that was barely even significant to be called that anymore. At least that’s what they told themselves. They had to. Work came first. Ashlyn’s new relationship and now engagement came first. Alex is nothing more than just “that time when we were crazy stupid kids.” Nothing more than Alex wanting to explore her sexuality more and Ashlyn being willing to teach her everything she needed to know. It was strictly for educational purposes. Neither one of them ever thought about each other after that. No way. Not a chance.

“I need some fresh air,” Alex spoke as she hopped off the bar with a few of the other girls still leaving a good number of them up there dancing. The champagne was really starting to hit Alex and she felt a bit too unsteady on her feet to risk falling off the bar and injuring herself. Not that it would matter too much, they’d won the final game. Still, she had the Pride to worry about.

“You good, Al? Let me come with you.” Ashlyn noticed the change in Alex’s demeanor and immediately grabbed onto her arm, leading her towards the door. She didn’t know if she was feeling sick or what but either way she wasn’t just going to let the brunette wander off alone while being that intoxicated. She was pretty damn buzzed herself but hey, two drunk brains had to equal at least one sober one, right?

Alex just nodded and let Ashlyn lead her through the crowd and out the door where she was finally able to take a deep breath. Alex walked around to the corner of the building and then leaned back against it trying to give her feet a rest from the heels that didn’t exactly feel the greatest.

“Hey--” Ash stepped closer and reached out to tuck some wind blown hair behind Alex’s ear being careful not to get her finger caught in the hoop earrings she was wearing. “You okay?” It was the second time she asked but since she didn’t get much of an answer the first time she couldn’t help but ask again.

“Yeah, yeah -- I’m fine. I was just starting to spin a little.” Alex let out a weak laugh and smiled at Ashlyn. “Thanks for the spot, though. I appreciate it.”

“Of course,” the blonde’s voice was soft, something only a very few select people ever got to hear from Ashlyn. “Besides, you’re not the only one completely intoxicated. I think I needed the fresh air, too.”

“Okay, you weren’t the one double-fisting in there!” Alex laughs, her competitive spirit coming out even when she’s not trying. As if who was more drunk was some kind of competition.

“I didn’t necessarily mean by the booze but yeah; that’s got me feeling some type of way, too.”

Alex’s brows furrow. She looks at Ashlyn like she had completely misheard everything she just said. “What?”

“You’re driving me crazy, Alex. Can’t you see that? Those jeans, those dance moves, the way you smell. I can’t fucking help myself, you’re so fucking sexy.” As the words slur out of Ashlyn’s mouth she moves in closer, each hand on either side of Alex’s head. Her palms lie flat against the brick wall behind them as her eyes shift from Alex’s icy blues to her perfect glossy lips and then back up.

“Ashlyn...” Even drunk Alex knows this can’t happen. But she’s breathless. Her heart has sped up to a completely erratic pace and when she swallows it’s hard. The forward struggles for a breath and without thinking lets a hand slide up to Ashlyn’s hip. She grabs tightly, digging her short pained nails into the smooth flesh.

“Yes, Alex?”

There’s something in the way she says it that makes Alex want her more than she ever has. She feels a wetness between her thighs and an aching at her core but that’s exactly the kind of wake up call she needs to realize they’re about to make a huge mistake. Her hand quickly lets go of Ashlyn’s hip and pushes her away firmly enough to cause space between them but not nearly hard enough to knock her over.

“Stop,” she insists. “We can’t.” She looks down to the ring on Ashlyn’s finger. “You can’t.”

“Shit.” What a wake up call. How had she not even once thought of Ali? It’s like something about this night brought her back to the old days, when sneaking off drunk with Alex was just something they did. How had she let herself become so fixated on the forward when her fiancee was right there in the same room? Better yet, what the fuck did it mean for them if Alex was so easily able to distract her like that?

“Alex I---” she doesn’t even know what to say but before she can find the words they both hear heels clacking against the pavement as Ali rounds the corner.

“There you are; what are you guys doing out here?”

“Sorry, Ali. I was feeling kind of sick, Ash just came out with me to make sure I’m okay.”

“Oh,” Ali looks at her concerned putting her hand on her back, Alex has to try not to flinch at the contact after what had just happened. The betrayal that almost just happened, that was definitely happening in her head, right now. “Are you? Do you need anything?”

Alex tries her best to force a little smile at Ali, doing everything in her power not to look in Ashlyn’s direction. She know’s she’ll regret it if she does. There will be a look that will definitely tell Ali they’re hiding something and she’s not about to risk it.

“I feel better. Sorry for stealing your girl. She’s all yours now.” The words stung both Alex and Ashlyn as she said them. To Ali they probably seemed as light as a feather but for the other two they did nothing but place a ginormous weight on their shoulders.

Without another word Alex disappeared back inside to find more booze. She definitely needed it after that.

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suburbdolls · 5 years

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「 Carmilla’s is a bar owned by American actress and model Hattie King. It is known amongst the LGBTQ+ community, as it was created to be a safe environment for the female identifying nerds and geeks of the community. Carmilla’s has become famous for its many extravagant theme parties and the numerous talented independent bands discovered within its walls. 」

[ BASICS ] name hattie king || nickames harry, boss lady, kingpin || birthname harriett good-king || age 30 || nationality american || gender female ( she / her ) || orientation gay || occupation actress, model, socialite, entrepreneur, bar & club owner

[ RANDOM FACTS ] 1. owns two bars and a club, all of them for the lgbtq+ community, but her favourite is carmilla’s || 2. came out to the public three years ago but never really felt like she had to hide herself before that, she only made it official because her ex insisted she did for the sake of their relationship || 3. has two mums, one of them is currently engaged to her ex fiancée || 4. big literature enthusiast even if most people don’t expect her to take time to sit down and read || 5. former child actress, has been famous since she was six. took a break from acting to get a business degree. admitted that even if it was hard to get back into acting after that, she didn’t regret her decision || 6. has seven tattoos and doesn’t count her piercings anymore || 7. “the bar looked more alive during the zombie party last year.” || 8. the most positive and supportive boss lady ever; encourages staff in her bars and club to give ideas on how to manage everything and bring up anything they think could help promote better || 9. your local exhibitionist. still thinks a nudist beach would be a good place for team bonding || 10. has a pet ferret named snow (she occasionally calls him jon or cocaine because she thinks it’s fun)

Meet the staff under the Read More...

[ BASICS ] name aisha okoye || nickames ice queen, wicked witch, shasha || birthname aisha okoye || age 30 || nationality american || gender female ( she / her ) || orientation gay || occupation manager at carmilla’s, bartender, mixologist

[ RANDOM FACTS ] 1. is everyone’s favourite stuck-up manager (everyone likes to complain that she has too high expectations, but they respect the work she’s doing) || 2. has trust issues that are easy to explain; her mother is in prison for attempted murder || 3. met hattie in college when they were working on their management degree and has been working at carmilla’s as manager since its opening day four years ago || 4. has three cats, all named after disney princesses (aurora, tiana and belle) but no-one can know about them or it’d ruin her reputation of being heartless || 5. once slapped one of the now-former regulars of carmilla’s because of her constant racist jokes and behaviour bordering on sexual harassment || 6. got through college thanks to a volleyball scholarship. she doesn’t practice anymore, but she goes play occasionally for the fun || 7. never actually plays for the fun. is too fiercely competitive to play for fun. more than a sore loser, she is a salty loser || 8. totally not a bottom (that’s what she tells herself, octavia knows it’s a lie) || 9. her death glare can haunt you for days. no joke. it sends shivers down your spine and makes you sweat until you want to run away || 10. everybody knows she’s the actual boss at carmilla’s, nobody says it out-loud tho. except hattie.

[ BASICS ] name octavia morgan || nickames o, little raven, octavius || birthname octavia simone morgan || age 35 || nationality american || gender female ( she / her ) || orientation pansexual || occupation manager, bartender, waitress

[ RANDOM FACTS ] 1. is basically considered an attraction at carmilla’s — she is known for being an absolute sweetheart and a flirt || 2. loves to joke around with everyone at the bar so people tend to think she isn’t serious enough to be a manager, but she takes her job very seriously and tries her best to do it right || 3. is the expert and reference for all the geeky things at carmilla’s, takes care of the consoles and makes sure no board game is messing pieces, and also helps anyone who could need it || 4. enjoys torturing her friends by saying puss instead of cat like a normal person (aisha hates it the most) || 5. “is this a challenge? feels like a challenge. don’t wanna do it, but imma do it anyway!” (she actually wants to do it) || 6. loves to kiss people. will randomly grab your face and kiss your cheeks, nose, forehead, with no warning. she doesn’t care. that girl just wants kisses. || 7. would literally punch herself for three dollars || 8. the kindest, most comforting and supportive friend ever. also can’t accept a compliment and feels like a burden whenever someone wants to comfort her or help her in any way || 9. 25% anime/movie/series quotes, 25% memes, 25% vines, 25% fornite dances || 10. totally never slept with aisha. or with a regular at carmilla’s. nope. never. ever.

Two more employees to come!

#( ooc;; bios )#just really needed some non kpop fcs again

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ryesnatcher · 7 years

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La Fée Verte - Part 1

Summary: Whilst investigating the deaths of four women in Virginia, the team uncovers the wild, thrusting, and vibrant underworld of a nightclub which seems to be the missing key to solving their investigation. Meanwhile Spencer falls for the main act.

Pairing: Spencer x Reader

A/N: I started writing this after watching Moulin Rouge on repeat for three days so it’s inspired by that, it’s also a slow burner and the first fanfic I’ve ever wrote so I know it’s not the best so constructive feedback is appreciated.

Also shout out to Giselle for being the sweetest whilst I wrote this!

“La Fee Verte” Spencer reads the words etched from the frosted glass, squinting slightly as he tries to see inside.

“Huh?” Morgan asks, turning to face his partner.

“The Green Fairy.”

“Like on our vics keychains? What do you bet they all came here?”

It had been sheer luck that had led them here. A receipt found stuck in the corner of Chrissy Gadot’s (victim number 4’s) bag. It had been this discovery that had led the authorities to call for the team. With four bodies on their hands and only a cheap green metal fairy hanging from the vics keys to connect them, the receipt had been the break they so desperately needed.

“Actually-”

“We’re closed” The voice of a small girl cuts him off. The two agents reaching for their badges as she peeks through the door.

“I’m doctor Reid and this is agent Morgan, we’re with the FBI” Spencer starts, noticing as the girl instantly shifts backwards, tightening her grip on the door. “Chrissy Gadot worked here, when was she last working here?”

“Chrissy? She was last here Tuesday..” She nods, her grip on the door loosening. “Is she okay? Can’t be good if FBI are looking after her.”

“I’m afraid we found her body this morning.” Morgan speaks firmly but with a gentle touch, already comforting the young girl. “Who’s your employer?”

“Harry Crane. He’s not here though. The show starts at eight” She looks behind her at an unseen noise.

“Do you mind if we ask you some questions ma’am?”

She shakes her head, swallowing dryly and leaning closer towards them. “Eight o'clock” She gives them a final nod before shutting the door and leaving the trail of her silhouette to disappear from the frosted glass.

Morgan sighs. “Guess we’re coming back tonight”

By eight o’clock, Spencer and Morgan had once again pulled up outside of the sickly green building. The once empty streets now littered with lines of men all dressed in their Sunday best. The large windows emitting lights of pink and yellow whilst silhouettes of girls danced and drank within each white frame.

And it had taken less than a moment for the agents to be welcomed inside, a tall man in a jewelled waistcoat and a seemingly mute voice had taken a single look to their badges and gestured for them to follow after him. And with little choice, the agents obliged. Following him through the foyer, where already the chatter of excitement spilled out from the open doors, thousands of voices clamouring over the band and the laughter growing easier as the alcohol begins its rounds.

Bringing them inside the hall it was clear to them both that it had once been a theatre, where the stalls had once sat was now a dance floor filled with scratched up wood and surrounded by packs of men all formed from bankers and brokers, bachelor's eager to spend a penny. It seemed as though men from all wakes of life had crawled from their corner of the earth to celebrate under the domed ceilings of La Fee Verte. And those that didn’t stand, sat in velvet soaked booths, watching the girls that served as much of the background as they did the fleeting centres of attention. Draping themselves over balconies and each other. Dressed in every fantasy that could be thought of, scenes set away from the heart of the show pandering to the wants of the guests. Girls in mermaids tails sat in oversized oyster shells, contortionists on stools, women holding onto one another as they dance on pedestals, live snakes in the hands of others.

It was a whirlwind of tantric excitement, every corner you looked you would be greeted with a new sight, a new distraction. Everything as loud and bold as the ornate fixings themselves. The stage and floor overlooked by the band, controlled by every note they struck. And for a brief moment they brought silence, the men crowding in excitement as the first few notes are played and the once empty dance floor is invaded by the fierce movements of the dancers, and the men are once again alive. Each costume as individual as the girls themselves, heavy skirts lifting and falling, high kicks and splits against the polished wood floors. Flashes of stripes and fishnet, ruffles and garter belts. Each movement growing faster and faster, the room spinning with their movements as their voices collide in a salacious harmony.

The jewelled man leading them on the outskirts of the chaos, away from the violent and mesmerising fluidity of the dancers, waving for both men to follow him up the stairs, leading them past the band and into a dark and poorly decorated room backstage. Mirrors lining the walls, and stood in front of a dresser was Harry, his dark eyes looking up to inspect the intrusion. The jewelled man, who Harry revealed to be named Wonderful, speaking for the first time to introduce them. “The police are a popular presence but FBI? Must be a special occasion. That badge doesn’t get you a discount on admission though boys.” Greasy and large, Harry turns around, the confidence in his voice going beyond the definition of arrogance. “We’re -” Spencer begins, ignoring the soft laugh of Harry.

“Yes yes, you’re here because four of my girls are dead. It’s tragic. However I do not like my time being wasted so, I know nothing, I’ve seen nothing, and apart from the royal boxes, we don’t keep records of our patrons. Are we done?”

“All four girls worked here?”

Harry rolls his eyes, “Chrissy was one of the new dancers. The other three weren’t exactly big acts. Understudies and performers that worked up in circle and on the balconies.”

“Can customers access all these areas?”

“Depends on their ticket. If you pay for a ticket for stalls, you have access to the floor show and the balconies. But circle ticket holders are restricted to the circle and balconies. We have bouncers on every entrance all night to prevent patrons mixing.” He clasps his hands together, looking between the two with a slight sneer “Now. f you don’t mind gentlemen, I have a show to get on with. If you’re staying you’ll need a warrant or a ticket and I suspect we’re a little out of your price range.” Rubbing his hands together he strides between them, his shoulders brushing both agents as he leaves. Wonderful giving them an apologetic smile as he holds the door open for them.

Wonderful leads them back out into the corridor, following it back out into the main hall where the ravenous cheers still called out.

“Our unsub most likely meets the girls here. We know that he’s keeping them for three days, and there’s a week between each abduction so he’s most likely using that time to learn their schedule, could be coming back here to see her.” Morgan suggests, Spencer nodding in agreement as they begin pushing their way through the crowds.

“Wait here” Wonderful turns to them, his voice sincere as he holds both hands out before disappearing into the crowd, leaving both agents slightly confused as they look to one another. Using their new found time to look through the crowd, but nobody standing out. Even to them all the men seemed as desperate and eager as the last.

Then all at once, the obscene and carnal music comes to a stop. The warm lights gone and a darkness spreading into the corners as a single spotlight steals their focus. Stood at the highest point of the stage, shrouded by the spotlight. No words or sounds escaping her but already she had the attention and adoration of the crowd. Stepping forward, the click of her heel echoed around the hall, the desperation in the onlookers as they begged for more. Her corseted bodysuit, sparkled, the green diamante catching in the spotlight, the tulle train grazing her calf, the fabric catching slightly on her white stockings.

As she begins singing, the band holds back. Allowing her voice to fill the room by itself, pausing after every line to move closer to the audience, fixing her eyes on nobody but everybody seeing that the look was for them. Her movements as graceful as they are demure, “... But I prefer a man who lives…” Pausing once more as she reaches the flat of the dance floor, Spencer swearing that for a moment her eyes met his. “...and gives expensive. Jewels.” The band springs to life as she begins her routine. Twirling and stepping, the crowd moving with her, men with fistfuls of money and gifts, saps with flowers and earnest smiles bending to her song. Performers around her dressed in clown suits and waistcoats made of jewels lifting her up as the song demands, ensuring that the desperate hands that reached for her never wander too far.

“You came!” The voice of a young girl startles them both, Morgan smiling as he recognises her as the girl from before, Wonderful stood beside her as she grins excitedly. “I see you’ve already met Y/N” She laughs, nodding towards the girl playfully ignoring the reaching hands as she sings. “She’s our Green Fairy. I thought that you might want to speak to her. She’s the one who got me and Chrissy a job here. But she knows Harry better than anyone, if he knows something, she’ll know.”

“Do you think we could speak to her?” Morgan asks, nudging Spencer slightly as his attention remained a little too focused on the shaking curves of Y/N’s dress, his cheeks flushing.

“I’ve already set up a meeting, just you and Y/N, totally alone.” Gesturing to her heavy sunset skirt with its embroidered parisian skyline she shakes her head. “I’ve still got the show to do so wonderful will take you to her.”

“Thank you, uh?” Morgan prompts, the girl shaking her head in realisation.

“Oh sorry, Trixie” She introduces, giving them a parting smile her hand waving above the crowds as she disappears.

Before long, both Reid and Morgan were stood, awkwardly and a little uncomfortably inside of Y/N’s room, it wasn’t large by any means, with a large heart shaped bed taking up at least a third of the room, the other two thirds dedicated to props for entertaining, small tables with champagne and bottles of absinthe gathering dust, a piano, untuned and untouched sat in the corner, a divider with clothes hung over artfully giving the pretence of intimacy. Even a balcony overlooking the dance floor far below. “Do all the girls have rooms like this?” Morgan asks, gesturing to the room.

Wonderful, stood in the doorway replies first with a nod “Only the dancers. We do have rooms for our other performers but only dancers get their own. None are as extravagant as this”

“Did Chrissy have one?” Morgan asks. “Think you could show me?” He follows Wonderful to the door, looking back and winking to the rather lost looking Spencer.

Now alone, he takes the opportunity to look around. Opening drawers and sifting through them, unsurprisingly only finding changes of clothes and make-up, the odd phone charger and a small notebook, but as he reaches for it the click of the door makes him jump back, trying to push the drawer back in as it jams in the process.

“Looking for something?” Y/N speaks softly, shutting the door, dragging a hand up her thigh and keeping her gaze fixed on the young doctor as she walks slowly towards him, no regard for personal space as she shuts the drawer herself and turning towards the small table.

“I wasn’t… I was just.” He points to the drawer, shaking his head as he stammers. “I’m uh Doctor Reid.”

“You look a little young to be a doctor.” She raises an eyebrow, lifting the bottle of champagne from the ice and tilting her head. “Champagne, Doctor?” She reaches for one of the faux crystal glasses. Each move she made was calculated, Spencer could see it in the way she didn’t leave him time to answer, the routine in her fluidity. For him it made it easier to suppress the flush in his cheeks. Reminding himself this was her job.

“Uh no thank you. I have a few questions if you don’t mind.” “Oh?” The bottle of champagne clatters into the ice as Y/N puts it back with just a little bit too much force. Composing herself in less than a second.

Y/N dealt with all people from all walks of life. Before she was the star of Harry’s show, she had been only a dancer, she had learnt how to adjust each smile for every type of man. The perfect laugh for every person. She knew that the aggressive man needed a womans touch to put him in his place. The hero needed a woman to save. It was a simple switch. And the man before her was no different. She’d noticed the flush, the stutter, how he fixed his gaze to the wall behind her. Nervous men weren’t her usual clientele. But she wasn’t unfamiliar. They either needed a gentle touch or a firm hand. It was a simple matter of figuring which.

“Perhaps then we would be more comfortable sat down?” She takes a few steps back, gently taking his hand and keeping her eyes locked on his as she pulls him after her, leading him towards the bed.

“Trixie said that you got Chrissy her job here…”

“You want to talk about Chrissy?” She replies, dropping his hand and shifting uncomfortably. “I got her an audition. Look if you’re looking for a job I can -”

“No no I’m a federal agent. We think whoever hurt her may have met her here.” Spencer speaks quickly and Y/N’s eyes grow wide as she suddenly understands the situation.

“Oh God. I’m so sorry, Wonderful didn’t mention that you were here on business business.” Y/N shakes her head, slightly embarrassed. Trying to rectify the situation by sitting down on the edge of the bed, Spencer watching her for a moment and sitting beside her, Y/N facing him as she speaks. “What did you want to know?”

Spencer begins with his questions, Y/N answering them honestly and without much consideration, both relaxing as they go on.

“Do you know if Chrissy had a boyfriend or anyone in her life?”

“I don’t think so. Most girls here don’t have relationships, it’s not in our contracts but it’s generally frowned upon. It always leads to trouble and it can cost you your job if Harry finds out.”

“What about any customers who had a special interest in her?”

“There was this one guy she told me about. Small, blond curly hair. He didn’t like it when she drank. But I haven’t seen him in stalls all week.”

“Would she have a record of his name?” “Unless she kept a personal record or he paid with a credit card, no.” She shrugs, moving away from him and over to the bottle of champagne, pouring herself a glass. Spencer refusing to acknowledge his slight disappointment in the empty space beside him. Watching as she leans against the small table, trying to keep his gaze away from the lace tops of her stockings and the way they curved around the soft skin of her thighs. Y/N downing her first glass of champagne, Spencer growing suddenly aware of the dryness in his throat.

“You look like you need a drink, doctor.” Y/N asks, smirking slightly as she pours champagne into the spare glass and holding it out towards him. His dark eyes flickering in consideration, and for the first time that night feeling the slight touch of relief as she became a step closer, considering every time she so much as stepped closer to him, a doe eyed look would flicker across those same dark eyes, and even now she could see him evaluating the situation. “You don't have to be so serious Doctor, I'm not trying to catch you off guard” She speaks coolly despite it being a lie.

He shakes his head at the drink, Y/N pouting but shrugging with a flounce as she sips from it instead. “I can’t drink when I’m working.”

“It’s a pity” She laughs gently, not taking her eyes from him. Even as the door clicks open and Morgan hovers in the doorway, glancing between the two and smirking as Spencer stands up all too fast.

“You ready?” He asks, Spencer nodding and walking over to the door, glancing back to Y/N and giving her a half wave.

“Be seeing you again, Doctor”

#criminal minds #criminal minds fanfiction #spencer x reader #spencer reid fanfiction #spencer reid fic #spencer reid #reid x reader #criminal minds writing #drunk enough i no longer care

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Playlist: Rainivere

Alternate Title: I Lost My Ability To “Feel” Twelve Levels Ago (No I Didn’t)

Are Things Still Burning by Em Harris

I can't imagine life on earth now. And I just want to know is my bedroom still there, is it still standing. Is the tree that I planted still there in the backyard. I want to know are things still burning, still burning.

This song isn’t so much about the lyrics as setting the general tone for the playlist. The dark indie sorta vibe, the heaviness, the rhythmic trombone and drum, the almost lazy way the singer drifts between notes, the slow start that ramps up into the rest of the song, it’s all good shit! Could I tell you what this song is actually about? No! But the vibes. The Vibes!! Pitch perfect for the start of Raini’s playlist.

A Little Wicked by Valerie Broussard

No one calls you honey, when you're sitting on a throne Beware the patient woman, 'cause this much I know No one calls you honey, when you're sitting on a throne

This is the “I’m a bastard! Did you forget?” song! It builds off the heaviness of the last song while adding a twist of “I act like hot shit because I am hot shit” that I just felt like really fucking nailed Raini’s general contempt for anyone who isn’t one of the like ten people she knows and tolerates. Also! It represents (especially hypothetical early level raini’s) drive to and unshakable belief that she would succeed at becoming powerful enough to become a god. No one calls you honey when you’re sitting on a throne, and no one says shit to you when that throne is in the upper planes, bitch!

Deep Green by Marika Hackman

Just because I love your skin Doesn't mean I'll jump in The water's clean and warm and green I'm not allowed to swim I'm scared of getting in

First of all, again, vibes. Is Raini’s playlist 75% vibes? Maybe so. But they’re structural vibes so they have to stay or the whole playlist won’t be up to code, so. Once again, I couldn’t for the life of you tell me what this song is about. But I’m sorta starting to think that may be a problem between me and indie stuff instead of the songs in particular. I love again the laziness in the singer’s voice, as well as the eeriness of the backing vocals and the instruments, and like not to beat a dead horse about it but vibes!! Hello.

Come What May by The Last Bison

Come what may we will always be the same. You and I Shall remain in every way, so will I

You know the first of all at this point (it’s “vibes”) so let’s just skip to the second of all. Is it uhhh. Friendship time? In literally THE most haughty, roundabout way? Maybe so! “Hey I do have an aesthetic to maintain but. I do care about you. Technically.” Like the chorus is literally such an intense declaration of devotion, but it takes a hot minute to get to it and the second verse picks up immediately after it, moving the song quickly along. And I think between that and how intense the claim/music is, it’s the only possible way Raini could tell someone she’s in it for the long haul with them. You know who you are. Keep scrolling.

Don’t Fall in Love by Wake Child

Though I know I can't stay There's a price i may pay Baby don't fall in love while I'm away

Finally!! It’s a fucking BANGER in here boys!! And you know what it’s about. Sometimes you’re a hot and sexy and sexual pirate, and you travel a lot. Sometimes you’re a hot and sexy and sexual wizard/adventurer, and you travel a lot. Sometimes you and said pirate/wizard are dancing around each other in the longest, dumbest, horniest type of courtship imaginable, and sometimes you get deep enough into it where you’re like. Invested. In the other person. But you’re still not far enough into it where you can admit that you’re invested. So you. So you uh. So you? Silently pray that they don’t find somebody they like more than you in between your -admittedly more and more frequent- “accidental” run-ins? Because, boy, you’ll feel foolish if it turns out you’re the only one catching feelings. Best to just keep your mouth shut and hope for the best!

Everybody Wants to Rule the World by Lorde

We will find you Acting on your best behavior Turn your back on mother nature Everybody wants to rule the world

I would like to personally thank that one Legend of Korra amv that was super popular on tumblr like four years ago for putting this song on my radar. Thank you, Korra. As always: point one, vibes. Point two, VIBES for a character’s who ultimate goal at the beginning of her arc was to become powerful enough to become a god. Point three, VIBES again for a party of level 20 demigods who wield unimaginable power and can stand up to and defeat archdevils and fake gods and universe devouring planar systems and win. Listen to like the last minute of this song and tell me you can’t see a montage of the party shredding the not-mystra and the Abeast and the giant radiant eel and like, listen. It’s sexy. I’m not ashamed to admit it: this song Fucks.

I’m Tired, You’re Lonely by Liza Anne

And if I was a softer person I could give you the kindness you are deserving But I'm not And maybe that's just it

Raini doesn’t know how to process or express her emotions again we GET it do we really have to keep doubling down on this 😪 Obviously the answer is yes, we do. This is the “hey we just got back from hell without any memories, and I don’t know how to process the fact that this is obviously upsetting to the tiefling who flew halfway around the world overnight on little more than a vague sending, made out with me in our front hall, then painted our relationship as ‘glorified booty call’ but also seems to know everything about me” song. You know, that one song every playlist has. Because like! Obviously there was some tension and hurt between every party and their significant other when we came back sans memories, but I feel like there was still efforts made by both parties to reach for the other despite this sudden distance, you know? And Raini just, did not do that. And neither did Ecstasy really, and who can blame her? Morgan and I talked about it (I think ahah) and there was like a non-zero chance that they split up over this memory loss thing! They didn’t of course, but this song captures the mid-campaign tension of “...well, shit. I don’t know what our relationship actually is”.

Lover, Don’t Leave by Citizen Shade

I've said that love is just a word The idea seems absurd That one can give more than they take Away from me Woah, and then came you

Okay YES technically this playlist only has two themes and it’s 1) “Raini is a badass level 20 wizard” and 2) “Raini has never processed an emotion in her life”. What do you want from me. Now I know we don’t say the L word on this blog (l*ve, obviously. Not Lesbians) BUT we have to make an exception for this song because a) it’s heartbreaking and b) I mean. Come on. Sometimes you go into your adult life convinced you’re more than enough for yourself and that you don’t need any kind of romantic attachment to slow you down, and then sometimes you meet someone who can not only keep up with you, but makes you maybe want to linger? And then, of course, you do your best to blow it and push them away because you’re you and that’s what you do. And you’re not great at apologizing and, well, we already talked about how close they maybe came to splitting up in game. There’s definitely a universe where that happened.

Boy Who Has Everything by Annika Bennett

I just wish there was something he needs Some beautiful thing I could be To keep him from seeing the worst in me

Hey guys what if we took that “he” and maybe we... made it a “they”?? what might happen then.... Uh oh.......uh oh.....uh oh!!! Although the singer probably intended this song to be about a romantic relationship, in this playlist this song is about Raini looking at her party and going “.....well, fuck. Why am I here?” She’s an asshole! She’s not a pleasant person, and she knows it. And she’s looking at a group of people who really, really seem to have it together re: being a person. And aside from just the fact that they’re all, at the very least, personable, she knows that she owes them more than she knows how to put into words for what she did to them, without their permission. But it’s fine it’s cool she’s definitely just actually this much of an asshole 24/7 it’s not a defense mechanism or anything ahahahah :))

In the End by Marcus Warner

We’re DONE being emo it’s time to circle back to “Raini is a badass do NOT forget it”. This is our instrumental for this playlist! It starts out lowkey, and builds in power and confidence as it goes, and while the main melody never changes the addition of the timpani and the low brass REALLY brings another layer to the song that makes it driving and intense and I Love it. It’s pretty, yes, but there’s also an underlying power and focus that I feel like reflects Raini very very well. And! It’s an incredible song to picture her casting to! Raini standing, feet planted, arms outstretched, hair and robes whipping around her as she casts spell after spells at enemies that are just out of view, the camera starting low and slowly spinning around and coming up until it’s at eye level and she’s staring straight into it-- YES I’m still obsessed with the imagery of this campaign. Keep scrolling. Thank you for reading. I love you.

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Hawaii Quotes

Official Website: Hawaii Quotes

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Well, I had just completed the Hawaii Ironman Triathlon. – Martha McSally • Being in Hawaii, it’s almost impossible not to be fit, I think. – Henry Ian Cusick • Come with me while the moon is on the sea The night is young and so are we Dreams come true in Blue Hawaii And mine could all come true This magic night of nights with you – Leo Robin • Donald Trump has made it clear that certainly over the last few years that President [Barack] Obama was born in Hawaii. – John Lewis • Ever since I was young I understood the whole meaning of life isn’t how much money you accumulate, how much fame you experience, it’s how many lives you touch, how many faces you bring smiles to. I see myself back in Hawaii doing something in the community to improve the lives of young children. Everything I’ve done is to prepare myself to give back. – Manti Te’o • Every city I go to is an opportunity to paint, whether it’s Omaha or Hawaii. – Tony Bennett • Every time I flicked channels, there I was, talking. I was talking too much and writing too little. So Naomi and I went to Hawaii. The phone was cut off and we lost touch. This gave me the chance to have a good think about my life. – Joe Eszterhas • For a while I got into the South Pacific theater of World War II. I read “American Caesar” by William Manchester, the biography of General MacArthur. Because of that I ended up reading “Tales of the South Pacific” by James Michener and then because of that reading his “Hawaii.” That is what happens. – Dave Barry • For many years I had allowed my second husband to take credit for my paintings. But one day, unable to continue the deception any longer, I left him and my home in California and moved to Hawaii. – Margaret Keane • For me, the magic of Hawaii comes from the stillness, the sea, the stars. – Joanne Harris • For some reason my father saw no problem with us pplaying “barbie and ken go to hawaii to save their marriage by picking up another couple for sexy good times,” but if barbie and ken had gone to hawaii to “rescue another couple from a crazed kidnapper,” that would have been wrong. – Michele Jaffe • Good schools, good jobs, good government. These are not unreasonable demands. But sadly, some of our people have already lost heart and have left Hawaii to look for these things elsewhere. – Linda Lingle • Grew up in Hawaii that gave [Barack Obama] a kind of optimism, an ability to see things, you know, and frankly, an ability to trust, you know, in his fellow, you know, white countrymen in a way that I, for instance, you know, and the vast majority of black people I know never really could. – Ta-Nehisi Coates • Growing up, the ukulele was always a respected instrument. It’s a big part of our culture. It wasn’t until I started traveling outside of Hawaii that I realized people didn’t really consider the ukulele to be a real instrument. – Jake Shimabukuro • Have you guys ever ghost hunted in Hawaii? No? Well, I have this fat friend… I shouldn’t say fat, that might offend him, but he’s Samoan and claims to have seen ghosts. – CM Punk • Hawaii ain’t a bad place to work. – T.I. • Hawaii can be heaven and it can be hell. – Jeff Goldblum • Hawaii doesn’t win many games in the United States. – Lee Corso • Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here. – Dan Quayle • Hawaii is a beautiful place to bring up a family. – Henry Ian Cusick • Hawaii is a small, close community. – Jake Shimabukuro • Hawaii is a special place because we have a very diverse population there, who are very respectful and tolerant of those who have differing opinions and different views. – Tulsi Gabbard • Hawaii is a unique state. It is a small state. It is a state that is by itself. It is a-it is different than the other 49 states. Well, all states are different, but it’s got a particularly unique situation. – Dan Quayle • Hawaii is absolutely beautiful. – Rachelle Lefevre • Hawaii is not a state of mind, but a state of grace. – Paul Theroux • Hawaii is paradise. It sounds cheesy to say it, but there’s music in the air there. – Bruno Mars • Hawaii is the best form of comfort for me. When I die, I want to be cremated, and I want half my ashes spread in the Pacific around the island, the rest on the property. – Richard Pryor • Hawaii is the birthplace of surfing, and many Hawaiians or part-Hawaiians surf, but in the rest of the United States it’s a pretty white sport. – William Finnegan • Hawaii made the mouth of her soul water. – Tom Robbins • Hawaii was beautiful of course, we played at Turtle Bay an amazing resort right on the ocean. – Natalie Gulbis • Hawaiis own Patsy Mink served as the first congresswoman of color and first Asian American woman in the House; she later sought the Democratic Party presidential nomination. – Colleen Hanabusa • Hawaii’s the 50th state? I thought it was a suburb of Guam. – Bobby Heenan • Here’s my gut belief: Obama got a leg up by being admitted to both Occidental and Columbia as a foreign exchange student. He was raised as a young boy in Indonesia. But did his mother ever change him back to a U.S. citizen? When he returned to live with his grandparents in Hawaii or as he neared college-age preparing to apply to schools, did he ever change his citizenship back? I’m betting not. – Wayne Allyn Root • Hula is the art of Hawaiian dance, which expresses all we see, smell, taste, touch, feel, and experience. It is joy, sorrow, courage, and fear. – Robert Cazimero • I am privileged to be able to work for the people of Hawaii in whatever capacity. – Tulsi Gabbard • I bought almost every single thing that I furnished my house with at the Salvation Army in Hawaii. All second hand. Some of them are kind of retro, and some of them you’d never know. – Evangeline Lilly • I can’t even speak Hawaiian, but if you go there and listen to a Hawaiian song, you get captured because it’s so beautiful, like the melody is just gorgeous and you know Bob Marley is on the radio every single day. It’s very reggae-influenced down there. Basically, you haven’t been to paradise if you haven’t been to Hawaii. – Bruno Mars • I decided that we’d have to take our chances with the law and get the hell out of Baltimore. I thought of seeking asylum in Canada or Australia or England, but I didn’t want to leave the United States, because for better or worse I’m an American, and this is my land; so I decided to fight it out on home ground, and finally we hit upon Hawaii, because of the liberal atmosphere created by its racial admixture, and because of its relatively large population of Buddhists, who are largely nontheistic. – Madalyn Murray O’Hair • I dive all over the world: Fiji, Australia, the Caribbean, Hawaii, and many other places. – Frederick Lenz • I don’t care about the money. I’m just interested in the perks. I’ll do a series if I am picked up by a limo, work only until 4, and the show is shot in Hawaii. – Harry Morgan • I don’t care where [Ted] Cruz comes from. I don’t care where the President comes from. Day one, I opened an investigation on a fraudulent government Hawaii document, period, on a birth certificate, so if you can say Cruz has fake documents, okay. – Joe Arpaio • I don’t have any simple things. I only have things like a gold-studded leather jacket. Then I’m going to Hawaii and I’m asking myself “Do I pack it? It could be cold.” I’m inventing scenarios where I could wear it. – Shaun White • I don’t like to spend money when I’m traveling. I like to go places like Hawaii and not spend money. I splurge on time. – Jonny Weston • I don’t look down on tourism. I live in Hawaii where we have 7 million visitors a year. If they weren’t there, there would be no economy. So I understand why a tourist economy is necessary. – Paul Theroux • I ended up in the Army Air Corps in the Pacific, operating out of Ayuka field in Hawaii. – Louis Zamperini • I got into this little habit of architecture and building. I designed a house in Colorado and one in Hawaii. The idea is supposed to be build and sell – but then I can never bring myself to sell them. – Trey Parker • I grew up in a musical family; the majority of my growing up was done in Hawaii. It’s what we do. You sing, you dance, you play ukulele and you drink. – Dwayne Johnson • I grew up in Hawaii and I think those islands are some of the most amazing places on the planet. – Mateus Ward • I grew up in Hawaii so I was outside a lot playing in the water. – Kelly Preston • I had actually been going to Hawaii for quite a while before I ever picked up the uke. I think with anything new you’re going to get more enjoyment out of it if it comes to you quickly, and the uke facilitates that. – Eddie Vedder • I had done ‘Die Hard’ and it was somebody’s franchise. I actually just got done with the ‘Hawaii Five-O’ pilot and I was developing some things of my own. So ‘Total Recall’ one of those projects that I read wanting more not to like it. – Len Wiseman • I had never been to Hawaii, and now I say that my body is from L.A. but my heart is from Hawaii, because I’m in love with it and it’s home on every level, from a spiritual, soulful place. – Shailene Woodley • I hate painting with a broad brush, but I think the birther thing, at its root, is racist. The guy was born in Hawaii. A black guy is president. It’s cool. Get over it. Just deal with it. There’s nothing you could show these birther people that would shut them up. – Henry Rollins • I have never been afraid to tackle tough or controversial issues, but I have always done it with the intent to do what I was elected to do, and that is represent the interests of my constituents, the working people of Hawaii. I feel that we are facing some of the most difficult issues in recent history with regard to food security, a widening income gap, and the rapidly increasing rise of the cost of living in our State. I know that the office of Lieutenant Governor can do more to address these issues. – Clayton Hee • I have to say, though, that somebody pointed out to me on YouTube that Conan O’Brien was being interviewed, and he was talking about how, oddly enough, he went to see that movie [South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut ] in Hawaii with his girlfriend or wife or whoever, and he didn’t even realize his character was in it. But there he was, and he said, “This voice comes out of me, and I’m thinking, ‘That’s not me! Who is that? That doesn’t even sound like me!’ – Brent Spiner • I just got back from Hawaii on Saturday, and it’s so depressing how quickly all the stresses and the stressful energy of L.A. comes bombarding back. Everyone’s in a rush, you’re annoying everyone, get out of their way, everyone’s most important than you are, has got somewhere more important to be – very draining town. But I still love it in many ways. I wouldn’t leave California. I think it’s a fantastic state, if you can’t be in Hawaii all the time. – Natalie Maines • I know I can serve Hawaii and our country well in the U.S. Senate, know we can mount a solid statewide campaign, know we have a good chance of prevailing. – Ed Case • I know that some of those plans [of the North Korea] could very well lead to a missile that might reach Hawaii, if not the West Coast. We do have to try to get the countries in the region to work with us to do everything we can to confine, and constrain them. – Hillary Clinton • I love Hawaii. I really enjoy surfing in Oahu, and Waianae is such a great area. And Maui – I like Maui a lot, too. – Troy Polamalu • I mean, Hawaii is beautiful, but the world is full of beautiful places. – Robert Kiyosaki • I remember watching Swan Lake and everybody looking exactly the same, but being able to relate because they were the only company I had ever seen even on video that had Asian dancers. The Asian community in Hawaii is actually almost as dominant as the Caucasian community. I thought “I can relate to that company because they look like people that I see every day.” They weren’t all little stick-thin Russian ballerinas. – Joan Chen • I see life everywhere I look. I get the energy off the water. Hawaii really, when I am there, it feels like how we are supposed to live and how it’s supposed to be: slower, just appreciating our surroundings. I love the people there and the aloha, the history. They’re really rooted in something. – Natalie Maines • I shined off high school band, marching, jazz studies. At the time I was too cool for school, I had this professional gig and I was going home taking a shower and heading to downtown Hawaii, Waikiki. – Eric Hernandez • I still consider myself a little, fat kid from Hawaii. – Robert Kiyosaki • I take golf trips with my brother or with friends. We usually go to Pebble or Bandon Dunes. One year we went to Hawaii. – Greg Maddux • I think I learned years ago when I went to Hawaii that you don’t bring puka shells back. You’ve got to be careful of your vacation purchases. – Joshua Homme • I think I was a mermaid and I used to swim the shores or Hawaii and used to pop up and see coconuts and pineapples everywhere. – Ella Henderson • I think somebody like Wes [Anderson] has a very good sense of style and is original. I think my sense of style got a little bit better after I was exposed to you guys at Valentino. Because I’m just in Hawaii and Malibu; it’s just kind of T-shirts and surfing-type stuff. – Owen Wilson • I think that being isolated from the Hollywood world of premieres and red carpet events was probably good for me because I could ease into those at will and by my own choice. But in other aspects, when it comes to fanfare, Hawaii is nuts and in L.A. they’re all so jaded. They don’t care. – Evangeline Lilly • I think there’s a really great amount of potential for Hawaii to become an example of what’s possible with renewable energy because there are so many renewable resources here: energy, solar energy, and wind energy. There’s so much potential here. – Jack Johnson • I thought my book was done, then we went to Hawaii and the whole last chapter happened. – Mariel Hemingway • I truly believe the brightest days lie ahead for the Great State of Hawaii. – Linda Lingle • I volunteered to deploy to Iraq. I was one of the few soldiers who were not on the mandatory deployment roster – close to 3,000 Hawaii soldiers were. – Tulsi Gabbard • I want people to think of Hawaii and think of palm trees and magical islands and Bruno Mars. – Bruno Mars • I want to stay in Hawaii a little while. I’m kind of liking it over there. – Josh Holloway • I wanted to go back on ‘Dancing With the Stars,’ I did it. One of my favorite shows is ‘Hawaii Five-0.’ I went on, guest starred. I wanted to be in a film, did ‘Tasmanian Devils’ in Vancouver. Wanted to host a show, boom, did it. – Apolo Ohno • I was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii – Steve Case • I was born in Hawaii, but I was raised in Iowa. – Jason Momoa • I was in Jersey when the whole World Trade Center thing happened and I felt powerless. So, I went to Hawaii and did a surf movie. It’s kind of fluffy. – Michelle Rodriguez • I was introduced to skateboarding through my father. He was a surfer back in the 50’s & 60’s in Hawaii, where my parents grew up. They later moved to California and I was born. Skateboarding was the thing for surfers here in California in the 60’s and my Dad immediately made me a homemade board. – Christian Hosoi • I was just asking Chad [Myers], how can you get a volcano in Iceland? Isn’t it too- when you think of a volcano, you think of Hawaii and long words like that. You don’t think of Iceland.You think it’s too cold to have a volcano there. – Rick Sanchez • I was over there in Hawaii. I was there on the big island. The ‘Big Island’ – that name cracks me up. First of all, it’s not that big, so I’m pretty sure a guy came up with that name. – Carol Leifer • I was raised all over. Kansas, Hawaii, Georgia, Texas and Kentucky, by the time I was 11. – Jeri Ryan • I would love to rent a little cottage or cabin in Colorado and learn to ski or snowboard. And on the warmer side, I also want to rent a house in Hawaii and learn to surf! – Karlie Kloss • I wrote ‘Big Yellow Taxi’ on my first trip to Hawaii. I took a taxi to the hotel and when I woke up the next morning, I threw back the curtains and saw these beautiful green mountains in the distance. Then, I looked down and there was a parking lot as far as the eye could see, and it broke my heart this blight on paradise. That’s when I sat down and wrote the song. – Joni Mitchell • I`ve always thought of him [Barack Obama] and from conversations know him to be a guy who takes the long view, who doesn`t get too high, doesn`t get too low and seizes the opportunities when they`re there and knows how to ride the wave. I ascribe that to Hawaii. He`s a body surfer, so he knows how to get on the wave. He knows just the right time. – Howard Fineman • I’d left Hawaii twice in my life, so I’d been on an island my whole life. I had no clue. I didn’t know how to live in a city. – Maggie Q • I’d love to be [one of MacGyver’s buddies]. I’d watch that one and just think, wow, what a life. Living in Hawaii, driving around in someone’s Ferrari, and solving mysteries. – Rhys Darby • I’d love to go somewhere warm, somewhere near the beach and somewhere with a cool culture. It could be Hawaii, Cuba, South America – anywhere that has a cool culture and a beautiful climate. – Steve Nash • If a nation’s security is only as strong as its weakest link, then America may be in serious trouble. Hawaii may be our weakest link and could have a serious impact on our nation’s immigration policy. – Joe Arpaio • If there’s a Disney animated feature based in Hawaii, I knew I had to be part of it. I’m very proud to be from Hawaii. There was no question the role was mine. – Tia Carrere • If we quit Vietnam, tomorrow we’ll be fighting in Hawaii, and next week we’ll have to fight in San Francisco. – Lyndon B. Johnson • If you don’t have at least a working knowledge of the Hawaiian language… you can’t chant well. You cannot… receive the images of poetry paints for you. It’s like having peas and no pod. – Keali’i Reichel • If you want to surf, move to Hawaii. If you like to shop, move to New York. If you like acting and Hollywood, move to California. But if you like college football, move to Texas. – Ricky Williams • I’m a surfer at heart. Both my parents moved to Hawaii in the 1970s, where they met and became Christians. Then they taught me and my two brothers how to love the Lord – and how to surf! – Bethany Hamilton • I’m not sure it’s possible to stay in Hawaii. It’s kind of impractical. – Terry O’Quinn • I’m of Filipino, Spanish, and Chinese descent, and was raised on Hawaii. – Tia Carrere • I’m quadracontinental. I’ve got a life in London, New York, L.A. and Hawaii. – Rebecca Mader • I’m still a little girl in Hawaii, I have the same friends I had when I was a kid who love me for who I am – not what I do. I never got caught up in the club scene or took wrong roads. – Kiana Tom • Imagine, if you will, you’re sitting at my desk in Hawaii. You have access to the entire world, as far as you can see it. Last several days, content of internet communications. Every email that’s sent. Every website that’s visited by every individual. Every text message that somebody sends on their phone. Every phone call they make. – Edward Snowden • In Hawaii they say, “aloha.” That’s a nice one, It means both “hello” and “good-bye” Which just goes to show, if you spend enough time in the sun you don’t know whether you’re coming or going. – George Carlin • In Hawaii, if you’re invited to dinner, it’s assumed that the children are invited as well. On the islands, no one treats children like they’re not part of the conversation. People talk to children as people and include them in adventures and conversations. – Gabrielle Reece • In Hawaii, some of the biggest radio stations are reggae. The local bands are heavily influenced by Bob Marley. – Bruno Mars • In Hawaii, the environment is fabulous. In Malibu, the people are fabulous. Our family unity is tight, and we have the Pacific Ocean outside our door in both places, so there is consistency. – Laird Hamilton • In Hawaii, there are 50-year-old grandfathers, because they got married so early. – Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa • In Hawaii, they’re happy to hear that you’re filming a show. They love it that people actually come and make use of their beautiful landscapes. – Rachelle Lefevre • In Hawaii, we go to this wonderful place, all families. My wife and I go directly from breakfast to a beach chair where we read all day. My daughter goes from water to pool to running around with friends she meets, some of whom are regulars there. – Stephen Collins • In Hawaii, we greet friends, loved ones or strangers with Aloha, which means love. Aloha is the key word to the universal spirit of real hospitality, which makes Hawaii renowned as the world’s center of understanding and fellowship. Try meeting or leaving people with Aloha. You’ll be surprised by their reaction. I believe it and it is my creed. Aloha to you. – Duke Kahanamoku • In Hawaii, we have something called Ho’oponopono, where people come together to resolve crises and restore peace and balance. – Duane Chapman • In my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago. – Mark Twain • In the case of Five-O, I believe it was a combination of many ingredients – timing, chemistry, Hawaii. – James MacArthur • Indian-styled garments are very popular in the U.S., especially in areas near the beach, like Hawaii and Los Angeles. – Maggie Grace • Insiders say Obama’s pretty comfortable around actors. He should be. He has been ‘acting’ like he was born in Hawaii for a long time. – Craig Ferguson • It doesn’t matter if the Republican or the Democratic candidate wins the governorship [of Hawaii]. Either one is already in the kingdom. – Ed Silvoso • It doesn’t matter to me where Barack Obama goes. If he wants to go to Hawaii because it’s his home state, fine! Hunky-dory. Plastic banana, good-time rock ‘n’ roller dittos. – Rush Limbaugh • It is really so nice here-country-busy-busy with so many different kinds of things-… I must say I feel far away in another world here-… always we go to a new place…the people have a kind of gentleness that isn’t usual on the mainland. – Georgia O’Keeffe • It’s easier to be healthy in Hawaii than it is, almost anywhere else I’ve lived. You spend a lot of time outside, in the ocean and on the beach. – Terry O’Quinn • It’s good to visit Hawaii if you’re seeking power. You don’t really need to live here. Just to come over for a week is enough. Switzerland is another spot like this. It’s very similar. These are the two clearest spots, Switzerland and Hawaii. – Frederick Lenz • I’ve always been under the impression that it would be such a bummer to be in a peaceful place like Hawaii or the tropics and be stressed about catching waves. – Shaun White • I’ve been surfing for a couple years, in the offseason in California and in Hawaii. I’m not very good, but it’s just something that to be out there in the water, no cell phone, no music… very few sports are as pure as that. – Troy Polamalu • I’ve enjoyed the accommodations offered by police departments from Florida to Hawaii. Any time I saw a badge, something in me would snap. – Grace Slick • Jason Lee is the most famous actor from Hawaii I can think of. – Tia Carrere • Life is very nice in Hawaii. I rent a place that has its own cottage so when my friends and family come to visit, they have somewhere nice to stay. – Jorge Garcia • Make good the good in you…and you will slowly steal into the Hawaiian heart, which is all of softness, and gentleness, and sweetness. – Jack London • Many believe that Hillary Clinton was channeling President Obama during her recent speech in New York City. She focused on equality, justice, and how hard it was for her growing up as a young black man in Hawaii. – Jimmy Fallon • Many exhibits from this aquarium use Hawaii’s abundant natural daylight. This allows Waikiki to display only live coral, which creates beautiful exhibits. It’s also a world leader in the propagation of live coral. The aquarium features some unusual and rarely seen species, including the chambered nautilus and the endangered Hawaiian monk seal. – John Grant • Most of my ukulele heroes were traditional players from Hawaii, like Eddie Kamae and Ohta-san. There may not be uke stars in popular culture, but there are certainly pop stars that play uke – George Harrison, Eddie Vedder, Taylor Swift, Train, and Paul McCartney. – Jake Shimabukuro • Most of the time, I’m working in places I’m not familiar with. Sometimes it’s Slovakia, and sometimes it’s Hawaii. Not to bash on Slovakia, but I really did enjoy Hawaii. – George Clooney • Most people are walking around the city like corpses; they aren’t alive enough to notice the trash. They come from other places and they see it as a big garbage dump. Do you want to live and work in a garbage dump? I don’t. That’s partly because I grew up in the most pristine environment possible – Hawaii, where it is sacrilege to leave your garbage on the ground. – Bette Midler • My boyfriend, who I love to death – he’s only 17 so he’s the youngest guy I’ve ever dated – he just moved here from Hawaii to be with me and I met him when I was 10. Anyway, in Hawaii they have such a different mentality and different priorities. – Nikki Reed • My father is Chinese, Spanish, and Filipino; my mother is half-Irish and half-Japanese; Greek last name; born in Hawaii, raised in Germany. – Mark Dacascos • My father moved to Hawaii from Brooklyn and my mother came there as a child from the Philippines. They met at a show where my dad was playing percussion. My mom was a hula dancer. – Bruno Mars • My husband is from Hawaii and his father who was also born in Hawaii was a teenager when Pearl Harbor happened, right before church and he ran up and got on the roof of his grandfather’s house and watched the planes go over. – Sigourney Weaver • My kids have never known me not working on The Bachelor. But they’ve lived in Paris and Italy and been to Hawaii and Bora-Bora with me, and it’s incredible to me that they’ve had these experiences. – Chris Harrison • Not very many companies go through Hawaii on their way to anywhere. San Francisco Ballet was the only company I remember, and Bolshoi, coming through Hawaii when I was younger. – Joan Chen • Nothing is more often misdiagnosed than our homesickness for Heaven. We think that what we want is sex, drugs, alcohol, a new job, a raise, a doctorate, a spouse, a large-screen television, a new car, a cabin in the woods, a condo in Hawaii. What we really want is the person we were made for, Jesus, and the place we were made for, Heaven. Nothing less can satisfy us. – Randy Alcorn • One volcano in Hawaii, one volcano in Indonesia, produces enough gases in the atmosphere, which include those natural elements that are in the Earth’s crust, that, uh, kind of make all the, you know, the science that we have about what we produce, moot. – Jim Gibbons • Over the years, I’ve traveled to many places for inspiration and research, including Pennsylvania, Ohio, South Carolina, California, and Hawaii. – Jennifer Chiaverini • President Obama and his family are spending the holidays in Hawaii, and while they’re gone, they got a fence jumper to house sit. Tomorrow, he will be in Hawaii playing golf with Raul Castro and the Pope. – David Letterman • President Obama has decided that he wants his presidential library to be in Chicago, not Hawaii. Today Hawaii’s governor said, ‘Great, who’s going to want to come to Hawaii now?’ – Conan O’Brien • Running gives me a clearer perspective on the world, and it makes me feel special. I’ve never been a traditional tourist. I’ve always seen the world by running, and that has allowed me to view things in a different way. Places look different in the early-morning hours, when the streets are deserted. – Grete Waitz • Should hostilities once break out between Japan and the United States, it is not enough that we take Guam and the Philippines, nor even Hawaii and San Francisco. To make victory certain, we would have to march into Washington and dictate the terms of peace in the White House. I wonder if our politicians, among whom armchair arguments about war are being glibly bandied about in the name of state politics, have confidence as to the final outcome and are prepared to make the necessary sacrifices. – Isoroku Yamamoto • Since my mom is the President of Ballet Hawaii, I’m always in touch with stuff going on. – Joan Chen • Six years ago, I completed the premier episode of Hawaii Five-O, and Jack Lord and I immediately realized that we had a good series, that this was a success such as we’d never hoped for! – James MacArthur • So it was a really pleasant surprise when [Independence Day] turned out to be a successful film. I don’t know if you’ve heard that they’re going to be re-releasing it next Fourth of July in 3-D. I’ve actually only seen it once, and it was in Hawaii, in a little theater in Oahu shortly after it was released. But Roland Emmerich is a really smart guy, and he makes really fun movies to watch. – Brent Spiner • Some people say Hawaii is spoiled, but I don’t think so. It’s modern. It’s a part of today’s world. – James MacArthur • Somehow, the love of the islands, like the love of a woman, just happens. One cannot determine in advance to love a particular woman, nor can one so determine to love Hawaii. – Jack London • That isn’t to say that Hawaii’s better. On the mainland, everyone seems to be trying to get somewhere. Kids are taught to shoot for the moon, to believe in their ability to do anything, to follow their passions. In Hawaii, you’re stuck in the middle of the Pacific, and it can be difficult to see how you’re going to follow your passion from there. – Gabrielle Reece • That’s a traditional Samoan dance. I was lucky that I was able to fly my cousins, who are professional dancers, up from Hawaii and they were able to be in the movie with me. We had a great time. – Dwayne Johnson • The Aloha spirit is something that is very special and very meaningful to us and our Polynesian culture. Those of you who have had the opportunity to visit Hawaii, or any of the Polynesian islands, know that it’s a very special thing. It’s an intangible, and when you get off the plane and have your feet on the ground there, it energetically takes you to a different place. – Dwayne Johnson • The band would play on the night off for the local hotel bands and we’d back all the different acts. So I’d been advised by good friends of mine to come back to Hawaii. Oh, I loved Honolulu, playing at a place right on the beach at Waikiki! – Martin Denny • The beauty of Hawaii probably surpasses other places. I like the Big Island and the two mountains, Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea, where you can look out at the stars. – Buzz Aldrin • The best thing about wearing black is that you can hide pretty easily, unless you’re in like Hawaii, then you can’t hide. – Gerard Way • The cause of Hawaii and independence is larger and dearer than the life of any man connected with it. Love of country is deep-seated in the breast of every Hawaiian, whatever his station. – Liliʻuokalani • The day before I left to fly in New York, I went in the ocean and was just lying on my black looking up at the sky, which was that Hawaii blue. Just that moment was worth the entire thing. The ocean is everything. It can heal you. – Gavin Rossdale • The five principles of aloha, when practiced together, awaken our awareness of our human potential and the sacredness of our life. – Paul Pearsall • The mindless rejoicing at home is really appalling; it makes me fear that the first blow against Tokyo will make them wilt at once…I only wish that [the Americans] had also had, say, three carriers at Hawaii. – Isoroku Yamamoto • The number one issue that Ocean Mysteries has opened my eyes to is, no matter where you are, whether you’re on a beach in Hawaii, you’re diving in the Pacific, you’re in a remote archipelago, or you’re in the middle of nowhere – I am blown away and sobered and crushed, emotionally crushed, by the amount of marine debris, of garbage, that is now in our ocean. – Jeff Corwin • The one we keep pitching and there are no takers is The Fabulous Baker Boys Go to Hawaii. There don’t seem to be any takers on that one! – Beau Bridges • The paintings are transferred from my computer to a disk, and I can hand it to the printer this way; or I can modem the painting to the printer over the phone lines from my house in Hawaii. – Buffy Sainte-Marie • The person who betrayed you is sunning themselves on a beach in Hawaii and you’re knotted up in hatred. Who is suffering? – Jack Kornfield • The sentiments in Hawaii about Washington’s failure of leadership are no different than the rest of the country. – Ed Case • The smell of the sea, of kelp and fish and bitter moving water, rose stronger in my nostrils. It flooded my consciousness like an ancestral memory. The swells rose sluggishly and fell away, casting up dismal gleams between the boards of the pier. And the whole pier rose and fell in stiff and creaking mimicry, dancing its long slow dance of dissolution. I reached the end and saw no one, heard nothing but my footsteps and the creak of the beams, the slap of waves on the pilings. It was a fifteen-foot drop to the dim water. The nearest land ahead of me was Hawaii.- Ross Macdonald • The spiritual destiny of Hawaii has been shaped by a Calvinist theory of paternalism enacted by the descendants of the missionaries who had carried it there: a will to do good for unfortunates regardless of what the unfortunates thought about it. – Francine du Plessix Gray • The U.S. started with no stars. In fact, it started with a completely different flag. The last two were added in 1959, Hawaii and Alaska. – Juan Enriquez • There are many things I’m looking forward to in 2013, both personally and professionally. Plans for new restaurants in the U.S., including Eataly Chicago, are underway, and I’m gearing up for the 2013 Ironman world championships in Hawaii – if I’m lucky enough to get a spot! – Joe Bastianich • There are several states where you can get married. But I think I can say without fear of contradiction, ‘Paradise awaits.’ We’ll be happy to welcome you. And if you do get married in another state, think about honeymooning in Hawaii. – Neil Abercrombie • There are spirits in Hawaii. They’re very protective and very good and they watch over these islands. I must confess, they’re not entirely happy with what they see, with the way the civilization is moving. But they’re patient. They’ve been here for a long time, and they’ll be here long after the human beings have ceased to inhabit the islands. – Frederick Lenz • There is one bright side to this, said Fang. “Yeah? What’s that?” The new and improved Erasers would mutilate us before they killed us? He grinned at me so unexpectedly I gorgot to flap for a second and dropped several feet. “You looove me,” he crooned smugly. Holding his arms out wide, he added, “You love me this much.” My shriek of appalled rage could probably be heard in California, or maybe Hawaii. – James Patterson • There’s nothing – there’s nothing – as action-packed as ‘Hawaii Five-O.’ – Michelle Borth • This sounds cheesy but when I would get in discussions with people about religion or spirituality, a lot of people would say, “I believe God is nature, there’s God in that tree” – and I would think, What the hell are they on about? But it was about four or five years ago in Hawaii where that all made sense to me and I got it all, and I felt God was in the trees and in the grass and the flowers, and I completely understood. – Natalie Maines • Though there is something cruel about being in Hawaii and you have a computer in front of you the whole time. – Justin Theroux • To be honest I don’t watch the show, I don’t watch any TV, so I have no idea what the show is about. I go to Hawaii, shot my scenes and script and ‘Ciao.’ I’m not a ‘Lost’ fanatic and it’s a disappointment for thousands people and friends that are dying to know what will happen. They know more than me. – Sonya Walger • Waterworld was the best time of my life. It was physically demanding, but it was fun. I mean, you’re in Hawaii for nine months shooting on the water every day. – David R. Ellis • We are truly the land of the great. From the rock shores of… Hawaii… to the beautiful sandy beaches of… Hawaii… America is our home. – Sarah Palin • We have great cities to visit: New York and Washington, Paris and London; and further east, and older than any of these, the legendary city of Samarkand, whose crumbling palaces and mosques still welcome travelers on the Silk road. Weary of cities? Then we’ll take to the wilds. To the islands of Hawaii and the mountains of Japan, to forests where Civil War dead still lie, and stretches of sea no mariner ever crossed. They all have their poetry: the glittering cities and the ruined, the watery wastes and the dusty; I want to show you them all. I want to show you everything. – Clive Barker • We have North Shore, Hawaii and Lost all there, so they have softball tournaments between the casts. It’s hilarious. – Josh Holloway • We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is manifest destiny. – William McKinley • We packed up all the worldly possessions we could carry with us and took the next flight to Hawaii from Washington. It took just about every cent my family had to our name just to pay the plane fare. When we arrived, we had about $15 left among us. We were really in pitiful shape. But we were together, and we were alive, and this was all that mattered. – Madalyn Murray O’Hair • We shot on location in our very first weeks, in our very first shows. I would like to go on location again, Hawaii would be good!! But normally, we tape five days a week in the studio starting at about 8:00 a.m. and continuing until about 8:00 p.m. – Juliet Mills • We were just floored by the kindness of the people here. The minister of the Unitarian Church in Honolulu invited my family over to his office the day we arrived and told us to make it our headquarters while we looked for a permanent residence. When we couldn’t find a place for about a week, he let us live in the church; that’s ironic, isn’t it? But it points up the vastly different intellectual atmosphere that prevails here in Hawaii. – Madalyn Murray O’Hair • We were on the island of Hawaii. I think I was there three months. It was fantastic. It is not much different than films. It depends on the television show but much of television today is as good or better than most films. – Bo Derek • Well, filming in Hawaii, you know, is a blessing. It’s one of the most beautiful places on this planet. It has a very mystic energy which informs you as an actor. – Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje • Well, President-elect Barack Obama and his family are gonna spend the holidays in his home state of Hawaii. And you know who couldn’t be more thrilled with this? The press, the reporters who follow the president. Well, think about it. After eight years of spending every holiday cutting brush in Crawford, Texas, they get to go to Hawaii! – Jay Leno • We’ve had every official in Hawaii, Democrat and Republican, every news outlet that has investigated this, confirm that, yes, in fact, I was born in Hawaii, Aug. 4, 1961, in Kapiolani Hospital. – Barack Obama • When I get in the sun I get very tanned. You can’t tell me from the native fishermen in Hawaii or Mexico. – Desi Arnaz • When I’m in New York, I bike everywhere. I have a couple of bikes stored over at Ed Norton’s. It’s the only way to go. But in Hawaii, I drive. I have a little Volkswagen Bug, from the ‘Drive it? Hug it?’ phase. I run it on biodiesel. – Woody Harrelson • When Japanese went to Hawaii they would go straight and buy the same thing that they would buy in Japan. They just got it cheaper, which they liked. And so they would still eat the red bean ice cream or the green tea ice cream, but they didn’t really take advantage of the variety and it wasn’t clear that they cared. – Sheena Iyengar • When people are worried about the future, they don’t take trips to Hawaii. – Linda Lingle • When you go to Hawaii, it’s all about “Aloha.” It means hello, goodbye and I love you. – Gabriel Iglesias • Whenever I finish a book, I go off and have some kind of adventure. Having had an adventure in my writing chair or on my writing sofa, an internal adventure, then I need to balance that off with an external adventure, so I’ll go tramping through Africa or whitewater rafting or float to Hawaii in a martini shaker or something. – Tom Robbins • Why are there interstate highways in Hawaii? – Steven Wright • With my being from Hawaii and being very family oriented I don’t really have a fear of a tragic ending. I dont see any tragic ending for me. – Bruno Mars • With the departure of Congressman Neil Abercrombie (D), who is running for the governorship of Hawaii, and with the tragic and very sad passing of my personal friend Jack Murtha (D-Pa.), mine is now the deciding vote on the health care bill and this administration and this House leadership have said, quote-unquote, they will stop at nothing to pass this health care bill. And now they’ve gotten rid of me and it will pass. You connect the dots. – Eric Massa • You are the lei I entwine with the beauty of your smile. – Robert Cazimero • You know, I think there was a point in time when people didn’t really understand how birth certificates were kept in the state of Hawaii, and now, I think that it’s been pretty much disclosed that they used to have a long form and now they don’t have a long form. Arizona used to have a long form, we now have a short form. – Jan Brewer • You know, or three kinds of ice cream bars and you’d see this and like this… okay they could clearly benefit from some more choices and I remember having these discussions with the Japanese because they you know they often like to go to Hawaii for vacation because it was definitely much cheaper for them and I would ask them, “So when you go to Hawaii, you know do eat all these other things?” – Sheena Iyengar • You think that you can hide; you think you can lay low? I’ll roll up on your ass like Hawaii 5-0! – Busta Rhymes [clickbank-storefront-bestselling]

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