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tuiyla · 2 years

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Do you fast forward through all male plot lines on Glee? Do you like any of their stories? What do you like about the main male characters?

I don't fast-forward anything and I do like a lot of the boys' storylines. I swear I'm not a misandrist y'all lol, just because I generally much prefer the girls' characters and stories I can still enjoy and appreciate the boys. It's just personal preference, partly stemming from my interest in the ignored perspectives in all stories and that tends to be the girls in Glee.

That said, here's the boys’ version of mainly thematic things I like about Glee characters:

Finn Hudson

I make it no secret that Finn's a very frustrating character to me but I do genuinely like a lot of things about his basic concept as a character and his journey. The Finn I choose to like in my head has this contradiction going for him: he's the beloved All-American quarterback on top of the high school social hierarchy but, as the series goes on, he's acutely aware of how little that means in the real world. He often leans into his popularity and is just as concerned about status as chs like Quinn or Santana but there's this sense of dread when it comes Real Life and post-high school. Because Finn knows this isn't all there is to life but he's terrified that if he's not the quarterback or even the leader of the New Directions, he's just a big aimless loser. His fragile sense of identity is fascinating in all his flaws and triumphs, if only Glee had explored that more. It's a shame tragedy struck and we never got to see how he would grow as a teacher and leader. I think his arc of finding meaning in not being the star but helping others with their dreams was poignant.

Kurt Hummel

Kurt's story is easily the most well-developed in the series and the care with which his story was formed is evident. I've said it before and I'll say it again, his season 2 arc in particular is the best of Glee (along with Santana's, but then hers wasn't followed up on in s3). If I had to choose one aspect for him it's for sure his compassion and how it shines through in a lot of story beats. Kurt can have an air of arrogance about him but I think he more than most has amazing moments of compassion. He really defies "hurt people hurt people" and shows there's another way because where others lash out he reaches out and tries to make it so others don't have to feel the way he did. A good heart is the best trait to have. A standout moment is him forgiving Karofsky and helping him after the attempt because really, it would have been understandable if Kurt didn't want to ever see him again after s2. But he found it in himself to realize Karofsky was also struggling and helped Dave while also acknowledging that he didn't deserve to be hurt by him. And that's called healthy.

Artie Abrams

I think Artie was done dirty in terms of storylines compared to his overall presence and just looking at things like how well featured his voice was, but there’s still stuff to like there. I have to admit that I’m perhaps the least invested in him as a character but I see his main arc being that of limitations and overcoming them. And that can mean limitations because of his disability of how people perceive him as a disabled person, and even limitations he sets for himself. It’s not just that he’s in a wheelchair but he’s a self-described nerd and loser as well, and I think towards the beginning he really leans into that role. But as he goes on and gains more confidence, largely due to his relationships with women, he interestingly goes a bit too far much like Tina did with her newfound confidence. What I’m referring to is things like his womanizer are in season 5 and how easily he casts Kitty aside, even though he once worried so much about cheerleaders being out of his league. His sexism is where he loses me but I also do see some of it as just overdone and misplaced confidence and as a whole his arc about outgrowing limiting labels is interesting. Justice for Wildebrams though, damn shame.

Noah Puckerman

I always struggle with Puck because I actually really, really like so much about his character, themes and journey but then the icky things overshadow that. Still, focusing on the stuff I like, I think Puck's relationship with people's expectations of him, like with all the popular kids, is super interesting. (Seriously, I need to write about the Finn-Quinn-Santana-Puck quadrangle one day.) He pretends like he loves beng the resident bad boy but he’s actually really hurt when people assume the worst and has this deep-seated fear of being a loser, much like Finn does. He’s terrified of becoming exactly like his father but it’s often as if he can’t help but double down on worst expectations because it’s easier than proving he can be better. He, like Santana, proves how much it can mean when there’s just one person who believes in you and how it makes all the difference in the world. I really think Puck doesn’t want to be a bully or a bad boy or a bad student, he just defaults to it when he thinks it’s the best way to navigate social hierarchies. The way season 3 handles this in particular is really interesting and I wish what little he had in later seasons was more in line with that and just in general better.

Mike Chang

Mike, like Tina when it comes to the girls, is given by far the least and though I still think there’s much to like about him, so much of it is confined to the background. He only has one real storyline that is truly his as a main character but luckily I do like it. Mike’s plot about going against his parents’ wishes and pursuing the arts instead of a ~better~ and more stable career is imo well done. Do I love that according to Glee only a career in the arts is one worth having because otherwise you’re settling, no, but it works well for Mike. Here we have this quiet but popular guy who’s good at football but not the best or anything, and who carries much of ND without the appropriate appreciation. And he skates by being the one in the background but he does learn in that choir room that he loves performing so much and, with some prompting, stands up for that passion. Contrast is always nice to see in stories so contrasting Mike’s overall chillness with him ultimately standing his ground and wanting to dance is interesting. Sadly, we never get to see much more of his story and how life goes after graduation. The single most underutilized character.

Sam Evans

Sam’s tricky because, and I think many can agree, he changes a lot throughout the series and so I don’t always know where I stand with him. I’m gonna have to get back to you after I rewatch the whole series. But overall I think people don’t give him nearly enough credit for stepping up and looking after his family at such a young age. I don’t think the storyline was particularly well done for many reasons - in Rumours it’s not even really about him, rarely mentioned again, being an underage sex worker played for laughs, and only Chris Colfer even remembered it all happened by season 5. But still, it gives his character depth and him having to grow up so fast but then also having this himbo vibe is an interesting concept. He can be goofy and even seem immature while also being emotionally intelligent and looking after his siblings. It should have been explored more but ah well. As another thing, his relationship with his own body is also an interesting one and I guess more comes of it but not by much. Sadly, for being so relatively well featured Sam doesn’t actually get to tell his own story often so even though I do like him, I don’t have as much to say as with others.

Blaine Anderson

I talked about Blaine a while back but basically, I most appreciate Blaine when it comes to his flaws. Personally, I view his story as a deconstruction of the dreamy boyfriend he was in season 2 and the gradual peeling back of layers until we get ananxious and imperfect boy. The thing with Blaine is that his character was built almost retroactively, at first mainly just being a jukebox and Kurt’s amazing boyfriend, but still there is a story there and imo it’s a juicy one. He’s somewhere in the middle in terms of how much there’s to analyse: you have to read into it more and put the energy in more than with Kurt, Finn, and Puck, but Blaine certainly has more going for him than Artie, Sam, and Mike do. For me, the thing I like about him is how he turns out to not be perfect, because of course, and is instead grows into his own as just another messy teenager who makes mistakes but loves his friends and is just trying to his place in the world.

#glee #kurt hummel #blaine anderson #sam evans #finn hudson #noah puckerman #mike chang #artie abrams #glee asks #see i can like the guys and find them interesting too lol #my thoughts #anon #ask #anonymous #not anti anything this time #favourite things about

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satellitesunset · 2 years

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what are your favorite tina, mercedes, & kurt outfits? :)

anon beloved!! great question

mercedes

so I chose outfits for mercedes, there's so much looks I love, but these are ones I consider memorable and so stunning. the one chose to showcase is my all-time favourite maybe? I love how chic it looks, the blazer, the dress, the hair, it's perfection.

I think her fashion in S3 and forward is utterly brilliant, amber makes any piece look great, I love the dresses she wore, always so elegant and the colours?? gorgeous. shout out to S5 for so many good pieces.

Tina

deciding the top 9 Tina outfits was a fun game is this a good outfit or can Jenna make anything look off a runaway?

I love Tina's fashion (although not a big fan of the S5 dresses) I love the goth lace, dynamic looks, she served, I love the softer pink times in S4, but steampunk Tina!! My Love!! the best easily, I wish they have done more outfits like this, it's so beautiful, and a good nod towards earlier moments, also Tina always served at the prom, I need to highlight her prom dresses because stunning!!

Kurt

I'm not sure if I agree with my own ranking?? so many great outfits I love I had to cut, but I tried to put as many different looks as possible, so you have the blackbird performance, symbolism and is so effortlessly (not technically) stunning, a S1 throwback, the suit of the wicked witch is dead which is delightful, the jumper which is v cute, a turtleneck because it's me, the pattern of the American boy performance (which he also wore similar to in got back) a patterned shirt + coloured jeans combo which not a big fan of but this one is solid, and ofc waistcoats, love those and my dearest beloved, the aiwnsgb performance definitely not the best Kurt outfit but has a special place for me personally.

#oo this was fun if pretty tough to dd #I'd love to know your favourite outfits!!#myle's ranking #glee #asks #myle mumbles answers #anon my love #c: blackbird #c: becuase you loved me #c: try a little tenderness

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paceypeternathanslawyer · 2 years

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I saw this going around as an Ask Game but I decided to do it a different way lol

How many new TV shows did you start/watch this year? 13 (Including mini series. 11 not including mini series)

Favorite TV show you’ve watched/discovered this year. Girls5Eva

Least favorite TV show you’ve watched this year. “Don’t Trust The B In Apt 23″ I haven’t finished that one cause it just didn’t live up to expectations... I might finish it someday though.

Longest and shortest TV shows you’ve watched this year. “Bones” is the longest but I haven’t finished that one yet. I found out one of my favorite characters dies and maybe if I don’t continue it that character won’t die? lol. “Schmigadoon” is the shortest so far.

Favorite ship you discovered this year. Bones and Brennan

Favorite platonic relationship you discovered this year. Ted Lasso and literally anyone.

A ship that broke up this year. I can’t think of any ships that actually broke up in 2021 but if we’re talking about shows I watched in 2021 in general then my answer would be Cole and Alison from “The Affair” and Alexis and Ted from “Schitt’s Creek”

A ship that finally got (back) together this year. I can’t think of any truly

A ship you’d like to finally see get together next year. Joyce and Hopper from Stranger Things... which I think is a possibility since they agreed to go on a date at the end of S3 before Hopper presumably died

Favorite series finale that came out this year. Can’t think of any that i’ve seen

Most promising pilot that came out this year. “Schmigadoon” and “Girls5Eva”

A TV show that came out this year you can’t wait to see more of. “Schmigadoon” I got a free trial to watch S1 of Ted Lasso and Schmigadoon and then cancelled the trial. At some point i’ll get Apple TV again and finish Schmigadoon and Ted Lasso

A TV show that ended this year you’ll miss watching in the future. “Schitt’s Creek” is the only one I finished though the show itself of course ended in 2020

A TV show you didn’t plan to watch this year but ended up watching (and loving) (or not). “Bones.” I originally watched the pilot back in like 2011 and it took me 10 years to watch it again... I thought i’d never get to it lol

A TV show that’s been on your “to watch later” list forever and you’ve finally watched this year. “Bones” lol

A TV show you wanted to watch this year but didn’t get the chance to. “Only Murders In The Building” I still could get around to it technically, i’ve got time lol

A TV show you’re looking forward to watching next year. Stranger Things S4, The Marvelous Mrs Maisel S4, and Only Murders In The Building (if I don’t get to it this year)

Favorite new character you met this year. Cole Lockhart and Ted Lasso

A TV show that shouldn’t have been cancelled this year. I can’t think of any

A TV show you’ve stopped watching this year. “Don’t Trust The B In Apt 23″

Favorite song you heard in a TV show this year. Oh so many!!! “Keep The Street’s Empty” by Fever in “Bones”, “Under My Skin” by Maura Fogarty in “Dawson’s Creek”, “Calm” by Jill Cohn in “Dawson’s Creek”, “What You Do To Me” by “Blakroc in “Bones”, “Shipwrecked” by Shane Alexander in “Bones”, “Piano Joint” by Michael Kiwanuka in “Ted Lasso”, “Strange” by Celeste in “Ted Lasso”, “The Best” by Tina Turner in “Schitt’s Creek”, “The End” by JPOLND in “Bridgerton”, “The Middle” by Son Little in “When They See Us”, “Falling Leaves” by Clare Maguire in “When They See Us”, “Bitch” by Ruby Amanfu in “Little Fires Everywhere”, “I Walk On Guilded Splinters” by Dr John in “Little Fires Everywhere”

Favorite scene/quote from a TV show this year. The scene in Ted Lasso episode “All Apologies” the scene where Rebecca apologizes to Ted... I cried like a baby!

Favorite episode you’ve watched this year. No one episode sticks out

Any event/news/etc. about a TV show you love that made you happy this year? Not too much when The Stranger Things trailer teaser came I was pretty ecstatic

Rec me a TV show I should watch next year! Stranger Things, Fringe, Dawson’s Creek, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Get Smart, Gilmore Girls, Community... I could go on but i’ll restrain

#once again doing something that absolutely no one asked me to do #cause it looks fun lol #ted lasso #schitt's creek #dawson's creek #scarecrow and mrs king #life in pieces #little fires everywhere #the affair #documentary now #girls5eva #dr death #schmigadoon #don't trust the b in apartment 23 #bones #stranger things #only murders in the building #the marvelous mrs. maisel

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angelhummel · 3 years

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More random thoughts on episodes I’ve watched lately 💖

Acafellas - This episode isn’t that bad, you guys are just mean. Okay it’s still in like my bottom 5 of s1 but it’s not the worst. The edgy humor is particularly off the charts here compared to other episodes moving forward (two special ed kids jokes, two about suicide, plenty of ableist comments [though those would definitely continue]). The songs aren’t great (except Mercedes’s number, duh) but it’s plenty funny. And the Kurtcedes scene was touchingly sweet. To think that they basically came up with early Kurt plotlines on the fly bc he was a last minute addition to the show? Still blows my mind. The power of Chris bb <3

The Rhodes Not Taken - Yeah this episode is a hot ass mess but I love it. It’s hilarious and endlessly entertaining. It’s the first episode I watched so it holds that special place in my heart. Also the music is really great. Plus Kurt is getting drunk at school and Mercedes and Tina are shoplifting. I love my delinquent children <3 Also Rachel has some good growth and learns her lesson by the end of this episode and we can pretend it sticks :)

Furt - It’s not one of my personal favorites but I think it’s a really good episode. There’s the happiness of Burt and Carole’s wedding. The hilarity of Sue marrying herself. And the seriousness of Kurt’s bullying storyline. It’s a perfect blend of all the many sides of Glee. Obviously there are parts I don’t like (and I literally always skip Sue’s song with her mom) but over all it’s a great ep

The Purple Piano Project - The tone was weird and it’s hard to appreciate the episode when nothing introduced here ends up mattering. Kurt’s running for president? Doesn’t get it. Mercedes wants to try out for WSS? Doesn’t get it. Kurt wants to audition for NYADA? Doesn’t get it. Rachel is scared she’s not good enough for NYADA? Of course she gets in you dummy this is the Rachel Berry Show after all. Quinn left glee club and is a skank now? Resolved the next episode. Then the bullshit about Santana getting kicked out when you know she’s coming back in two episodes just to leave again an episode later. Idk this whole season is one big dumpster fire but if I pretend I don’t know what’s coming, this episode is pretty fun and enjoyable

Promasaurus - It’s an okay little episode. Obviously nothing is more iconic than Prom Queen but it’s fine. Brittany is dumb and Finn is trash but I don’t hate it. The songs are pretty good and all the prom stuff is cute. Blaine’s issue being hair gel is dumb, and Rachel winning prom queen is just stupid as hell. Buuut over all this would probably rank higher in s3, mostly bc the rest of the season is such garbage

Girls (and Boys) on Film - This one is fiiiine. It’s not like offensively awful but there’s nothing in it that I’m going crazy over either. The songs are pretty good for the most part. Come What May is obviously a fave, along with Shout and OTR&R/DG. The boys obviously won that contest, and Blaine, Joe, and Artie looked hot in their pilot gear. I like the Kurtcheltana side and even Adam, even tho I still think he’s as interesting as a wet paper towel. But I liked their scenes. It’s a basic but fun little time, I might put this ep in the top half of this season

A Katy Or A Gaga - Okay this episode is silly as hell but I lowkey love it. I adore all the NY stuff, obviously. Kurt starting his band, Starchild, good Hummelberry, as much Dantana as we’ll ever get. Would I have liked Kurt to get even a solo line in a song that HIS band is performing? Yes. But all the songs are wonderful. I hate Jake cheating but didn’t hate the Jarley drama. Also there are hot girls in cupcake bras and grass skirts and I am but a humble wlw

Puppet Master - Almost hate to say it but I like this one too. Idk the cringe factor isn’t there for me rn. I’m just having a good time vibing with pretty colors and fun songs. And I mean it’s no less grounded in reality than everyone going to the dentist to get high and hallucinate Britney numbers. People hate on s5 but I love it in general. This episode is funny and as usual I love whatever’s happening in NY so yay

#glee #angel watches glee #my thoughts

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theonewiththefanfics · 5 years

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Hawkins’ Charm (Part 5/?)

Synopsys: They had gotten out of Hawkins. After all the shit that had happened, all the heartache and pain, Billy and the Reader had gotten away from that hellhole, building their life in California as he had dreamed. But when Max’s graduation rolls around and they go to celebrate, it’s as if the Upside Down was just waiting for all of them to return. And it has a bone to pick.

Pairing: Billy Hargrove x f!Reader; platonic!Steve Harrington x f!Reader

Genre: angst

Warnings: blood, mentions of injuries and death, fighting, swearing

Word count: 4262

DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT CONDONE BILLY’S ACTIONS AND THE THINGS HE’S DONE! THIS IS BASICALLY AN AU, WHEN REALLY LOOKING AT IT! SPOILERS FOR S3! READ AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION!

When they arrived at the old Byers’ house, the sun was already over the horizon painting the sky and their surroundings with deep golden hues, pastel pinks and even some light greens. If the situation wasn't the way it was, he'd think it might even be the prettiest sight ever. Nothing would compare to the sunrises in San Diego with Y/N by his side, but there was something eerily beautiful in the view. “They’re all most definitely asleep,” Johnathan warned placing the key in the lock and twisting it. Billy was barely listening to what he was saying, how maybe they should talk to Joyce first, and then wake the kids up, but the second his eyes befell on Alex, he wanted to disappear. He looked so much like Y/N; the same hair, the same eyes, just his mouth and nose were their late father’s. If there wasn’t the age difference between them, they could pass as twins. With how much taller Alex had grown, most definitely. They were all in the living room, Mike and Lucas splayed on the couch while the rest were in sleeping bags littered around the floor. Soft snores filled the air, and Billy’s gaze befell on Max. His little sister that he used to genuinely hate, then managed to somehow tolerate and now called her family without hesitation. Her ginger locks was a mess and even that was an understatement, nose hidden in the pillow underneath her head. A soft smile pulled up at his lips before it dropped. He’d have to involve all of them in this mess. Again. It was his fault, and now he’d be the reason the week they were supposed to be having fun before the panic of moving to universities and colleges would start, would be replaced by fear and genuine terror. A groggy Joyce stepped in the living room, rubbing her eyes with the back of her hand to get rid of sleep. “What’s going on?” her raspy voice was quiet as to not wake the kids. They were practically adults, but for them, they’d always be kids. “Y/N’s missing,” Steve whispered. “And the Demogorgon is back.”

“What? But… that’s impossible.” Joyce shook her head. “I closed the Gate. Hop…” she struggled to get the word out and had to look to the ground. “Hopper gave his life so I could do it. I saw them pour cement down every single crack of every single door. And the one at the lab has been closed as well. We checked. Four. Years. Ago.” Joyce looked at Will as he slowly stirred, sighed and then turned to the other side going back to sleep. “Are you sure, the Gate’s open again?” she whispered. Everyone simultaneously nodded. “There’s no other explanation as to how a Demogorgon and a bunch of Demodogs could be in Hawkins again.” “Demodogs?” it was Dustin who butted it lifting his head from the ground, a trail of drool down his cheek. “What’s going on?” Hearing the chatter, the rest of the Party slowly woke up, small grunts escaping most of their mouths ‘cause they’d only slept for a few hours, spending most of the time watching movies and playing one last game of Dungeons & Dragons. “El, we need your help,” Nancy was the one who spoke up and watched as the girl’s eyebrows furrowed mind still ruled by sleep. “Why?” she yawned and stretched her neck. “Y/N… she’s missing.” Alex’s head whipped to the side to look at the young woman. “What do you mean by she’s missing?” “Alex…” Joyce stepped forward ready to be a buffer between the two people, but the younger one shook his head and stood up. “No,” he pointed at his brother-in-law, “answer me – what do you mean by Y/N’s missing?” Billy couldn’t lift his gaze to meet Alex’s. “Don’t make me ask again.” Robin sighed and went to place a hand on his shoulder. “Now’s not the time.” “Where’s my sister?!” he roared and finally got his answer, though it was one that chilled him to the core. “I don’t know!” Billy yelled. “That fucking thing took her!” Alex felt like he might vomit, much like Billy did. “What thing?” he got out through clenched teeth. Billy couldn’t respond, he didn’t want to. It would mean confirming everything that had transpired since Tina’s just a couple of hours ago was real, and he didn’t want it to be. Steve broke his silence. “The Demogorgon.” “That can’t be right,” Mike shook his head. “I thought it was all over when we fought that thing at the mall.” “It’s true,” Will said and had to swallow a lump that had grown in his throat. “I – I didn’t want to believe it when I first felt it. I just thought it was the nerves cause graduation is in two days… but… I think I knew it all along, just didn’t want to admit it.” Will’s words were what sealed it as the truth. Even though they wanted to question it more, even though they wanted to dismiss it and go back to sleep, write it off as a horrible nightmare, the fact that Steve, Billy, Robin, Nancy and Johnathan all sported cuts and bruises and looked like they were about to collapse was proof enough. “Please,” Billy begged through tears dropping down on his knees before El, “please I need you to find her.” She didn’t say yes, or no or anything, just that she’d need something of Y/N’s. “Like what?” “Anything I can use to connect to her.” He had nothing on himself that was a piece of Y/N except… his hands trembled as fingers wrapped around his wedding band and slowly took it off. The skin was so much lighter where it had snugly sat for years, and Billy didn’t feel right without it on. “Will this do?” he choked out looking at the golden circle. Not once in his life had it been taken off. The day Y/N had slid it along his skin and helped it rest against the base of his finger was the day he had vowed to keep her safe. Seemed fitting that Billy parted with it when he’d broken the promise. El just nodded, not wanting to say anything that could cause more pain. She sat down on the floor crisscross, Mike turning the TV on static with the old radio as well, helping her slip a black blindfold across her eyes. Billy knew it could take a while, but every second that El just sat there, blood trickling down her nose and towards her lip was a second of agony. “She’s,” she finally spoke up after about five minutes, her eyebrows scrunched up in confusion. “She’s laying on the floor on her side. There’s blood on her shirt… a lot of it…” “Is she breathing?” it was Steve who asked the question, but Billy was not about to yell at him, it was the same thing he needed to know. Had to know to figure out if he himself should keep breathing. “I – I think so,” El nodded, wiping away a little trickle of blood from her nose. “I think she’s cold. She’s shivering. I can see her breath in the air.” “Where is she?” Nancy tried to steer her in the right direction. It was good news to hear Y/N was fighting, but if they didn’t get to her in time, that might just be it. El shook her head. “I don’t know. It’s a dark room… it looks like a big fridge…” Cautiously she stepped towards where Y/N laid, and that’s when she noticed that all the shivering was not just that, but it was the woman crying her shaky breaths making her whole-body rattle. She stepped around to look at her face, to see if she was hurt more than the slashes littering her back. Y/N’s eyes were wide open, jaw clenched in either pain or in an attempt to stay composed. El watched as her Y/E/C orbs moved along the far end of the unmarked room as if tracking something. “It’s the Demogorgon,” El breathed out watching the creature as well. Y/N didn’t move a muscle, as it slinked around the wall. “What’s it doing?” Mike pressed on. “Is it hurting her?” Alex’s voice broke in the middle of the question. She might be his older annoying ass sister, but she was his sister. “No,” El shook her head. “He’s… pacing…? It’s like he’s guarding her. Waiting for something…” “Guarding her?” Robin looked to Nancy and Johnathan. “I don’t remember you two mentioning it did that.” Johnathan replied just as confused. “That’s ‘cause it didn’t.” “Is there anything else there? Can you see anything through the door?” Mike tried to lead her in the right direction and not get distracted. ‘No’ she motioned with her head but tilted it to the side and everyone could just imagine her squinting her eyes as if she was trying to see better. “But there’s something on wall… it’s like a vent…?” She suddenly flinched and was bombarded with questions, but she just brushed all of them off by saying ‘something’s coming’. Rhythmic thuds echoed through the small room, and El heard Y/N’s breathing pick up. From the corner of her eye, she saw the woman’s grip tighten around something. “She’s holding something… Y/N… it’s a piece of a pipe…” That’s when El sprung away, even though nothing could hurt her in the weird space in between, but it was still startling, when Y/N charged at the Demogorgon, jamming the jagged piece of metal through one of the open lapels of its mouth and running towards the vertical little window. “Help!” Y/N screamed, trying to slam against the wall (door?), but it was just too sturdy. “In here!” The glass shattered, and Y/N yelped shielding herself from the shards, making both of the girls spring back. As quickly as she could, El rushed to see what was on the other side but was greeted by a screeching swirling black mass. A moving red light shone through and what looked like a cash machine at the back of a diner counter sat still. Screaming El ripped the blindfold off and fell back into Mike’s embrace. “What happened? Is Y/N alright?” “I don’t know,” she cried out. “The Mind Flayer attacked.” Suddenly Billy was very light-headed to the point Max had to hold his back, to not let him fully collapse. “Her?” El shook her head looking at Billy. “Me. It’s very angry. But it didn’t want to hurt her… it wanted to hurt you… it wants to punish you…” A chill as sharp as an icicle went down his spine, and everyone’s gaze turned to look at him. It made sense, in a way, he just didn’t want to believe that the Mind Flayer had enough of a brain to hold a grudge, but of course, it would. And what was a better way to hurt him than hurt the one person he loved most? “Billy, Billy look at me,” Joyce’s voice was calm and soothing, just like her palms on his cheeks. She reminded him so much of his own mother, that he couldn’t help the additional tears that feel. “We’ll find her okay? Y/N’s gonna be alright.” He nodded not having the strength to do anything else. And that’s when he broke. Billy’s body shook with sobs as Joyce allowed him to use her shoulder to cry on, his hands grasping at her nightshirt as if he was a kid and had just woken up from a nightmare. Fuck, how he wanted all of this to be just a nightmare. To wake up in San Diego, with early morning light filtering through their pearly curtains. With Y/N soundly sleeping next to him as he kissed her on the cheek and rushed outside for a quick swim. To come back home and have his two girls on the couch, eating breakfast with Tom & Jerry playing on the TV. “It’s my fault,” he cried holding onto Joyce tighter. What he didn’t see was how Max had to turn away and grab Lucas’ hand. She had never seen her brother so utterly broken, it was breaking her as well. “Because of me she went to the woods, because of me she went to the junkyard, because of me she got attacked and now, possibly will be killed. It’s all my fault.” “Billy, don’t say that,” Max croaked. “You know Y/N loves you, she’d never blame you.” “But it’s true,” he laughed running a hand through his hair. “It’s because of me all this bullshit’s happened.” “You don’t know that,” Alex spoke up. He’d calmed down enough to know it was something out of Billy’s control. “She was coming to my graduation anyway. It could've happened then...” “Yeah, but it was me who wanted to go to Tina’s fucking party, not her. And you heard El! She said the Mind Flayer was mad at me, it’s angry at me!” No one had a response to that because, in a way, it was true. Yet had Billy not stood up against the one who’d enslaved his mind, everyone was pretty sure - all of them would’ve been dead. Yeah, Joyce and Hopper had managed to close the Gate, but the moments Billy had fended off the Mind Flayer’s monster from attacking Eleven had saved her life and in turn the lives of everyone else. “Fine,” Billy sighed, and Joyce gave him a tight-lipped smile. “I need to uh I need to see her mom…What do I say to her mom?” There was no way he’d possibly even utter the words – hey, so the reason your daughter used to wake up in the middle of the night screaming and hyperventilating was because her best friend was killed by an interdimensional monster. And oh, yeah, she kinda fought one as well a few years back, and now she’s been kidnapped by one. And it has a personal agenda against me. So, no biggie. “Tell her she’s staying with me,” Nancy said chewing on her nail. “Tell her we’re having a little get together until the nerds’ graduation; a girl’s night and you guys are having the same. It’s not that far off from what we used to do.” Alex nodded. “I’ll cover for you if needed. Besides, she already knows I’m hanging ‘round Byers’ until Friday.” There were a few places they had decided Y/N could be kept at by the description of a large fridge and a cash machine, so they had split up in little groups. Joyce, Will and Dustin would go to Benny’s, the rest would investigate the mall and visit every eating joint they could, to see if it matched what El had seen. Billy would’ve never agreed to stay out of the search, but, in the end, had relented, when Joyce told him someone had to stay at the house. “She might show up somewhere, and someone needs to be by the phone.” “No, what I need to do is find my wife.” Joyce sighed and placed a gentle hand on his chest. “Billy when was the last time you slept?” “I don’t know, does it really matter?” “You’re not in the right state of mind, sweetheart…” He knew he wasn’t. At the thought of seeing the Demogorgon or any of those creatures, the only thing he saw read and knew - he wouldn’t stop to even think when presented with the chance to kill them, no matter if, in turn, his life would be in danger. “Then what am I supposed to do? I’ll go nuts just sitting here.” “The Mind Flayer doesn’t like you,” Max spoke up. “It wants to hurt you, punish you for what you did, for saving El and everyone else. I kinda think it knows that by hurting Y/N it hurts you. Imagine if you just so happened to walk into its trap, which it clearly is.” Max had a point, and he hated it. There was nothing left to do but watch as everyone else piled into the respective cars, his own Camaro the only one left behind. Billy would never forgive himself if there was even one more scratch on Y/N's body. He was already the reason she was in that position. He huffed and plopped down onto the couch. It wasn’t long before his eyes slipped closed.

***

“Billy?” it was Y/N’s voice that made him shoot up from the couch, eyes wide in disbelief at the sight of her. He looked around and noted that he was still in the Byers’ home, but the door was unmistakably open, sunlight streaming inside. It looked like it was already dipping down, indicating he’d slept through most of the day. He couldn’t believe the sight in front of his eyes, but Y/N was right there. Battered, bruised and covered in blood, but alive and real. And there. “Baby? Oh my god,” his arms were instantly around her body, pulling her as close to him as possible. Desperate lips found hers in a second, and when she responded to the kiss, it was like all the worries melted away into nothing. “Where were you? How did you get away?” his palms cupped her face, looking over every feature, trying to ingrain them in his mind. Billy didn’t think it would be possible, seeing as he already knew where each scar and birthmark was, but there was no harm in doing it again. “I didn’t,” she shook her head taking a step back. “It let me go.” Billy’s eyebrows furrowed. “What?” “It just…” Y/N shrugged, “let me go.” And that’s when he remembered, that there was no way she would be so nonchalant about everything. By what El had said, he knew Y/N’s back had to be slashed open, and she’d be in severe pain. He looked at his hands and saw black blood covering them. But he noticed it too late. The pipe hit against the side of his head and everything went black.

*** His whole body was throbbing in pain, but most of all his head; it felt like it was on the verge of splitting open. Billy groaned and winced, trying to lift his hand to press against his temple, but found himself unable. “You made him mad, Billy,” Y/N tusked as if he was a toddler. “Very, very mad when you disobeyed the orders. Now, he wants to repay you the same way.” His hands were bound behind the chair he’d been propped on. Even through his blurry vision, he could distinguish he was still at Byers’, the picture of Joyce, Will and Johnathan all smiling being the dead giveaway, and that scared him the most. It meant Y/N or rather the Mind Flayer didn’t care about being found. There wouldn’t be anything left to find once she’d done whatever the hell she wanted to. Looking to the side, he saw a pair of tubes that he couldn’t really distinguish, but the sight of them made his stomach turn. “It’ll look like an accident, don't worry. He wanted to make them pay as well, but it would’ve taken too much time. And we have so much to do…” She was walking around the room, like it was nothing, like the rips across her back didn’t cause her any kind of pain. Billy was pretty sure, right now it didn’t, so he was somewhat thankful for that. “What will look like an accident?” he prodded, trying to figure out the Mind Flayer’s game plan and buy himself some time. Y/N shrugged. “Joyce…Nancy… Johnathan… the little buggers with them.” It was like he was dunked in an ice-cold bath head first. “The brakes just wouldn’t stop, and there’s that tight corner not far from here. I’m sure they’ve figured everything out by now and are on their way here but… panic makes people reckless.” The wires… they were brake cables. “Think about Clara,” he pleaded and had to push down the bile rising in his throat. “Think about our daughter! Y/N fight this, fight it for her! You love her! This is not you doing it, it's that fucking thing! Alex is in one of those cars!” “You were supposed to help us stay,” she purred not listening to a single word he was saying. Billy could see how the red little veins in her eyes had turned back, her pupils dilated to an unnatural size. “You were supposed to make sure she died. Now… you’ll have to see what happens to the ones who don’t do as they’re told.” With terror coursing through his veins he understood what she meant, or the thing possessing her meant. Billy had disobeyed, so now he would be punished. But when he thought the monster would rip him apart piece by piece, with slowly settling realization he realised that was not his punishment. Like a mindless zombie, Y/N stood before the moving wall. A lamb ready for slaughter. And only one creature made entrances like that. Billy struggled against the ropes, the material cutting into his skin, no doubt leaving bleeding red marks on his flesh, but that was nothing to the all-consuming fear of seeing the Demogorgon tear apart the apartment’s wall and drop into the living room. The TV was going haywire, and he thought he could hear his own car wailing even through the ringing in his ears. A sharp pain went through his knee, and he heard something crash to the floor but didn't care about what it was. “Y/N, please don’t! I know you’re in there.” Her eyes were soulless as she looked at him. “This was your fault, Billy.” But she didn’t even get to make a move towards the monster, as the door slammed open to the house. It was a split second of a distraction, but it was enough for an invisible force to fling the Demogorgon against the wall, and enough time for the other assailant to wrap his hands around Y/N's throat and lift her above the ground. Her hands gripped around the palms squeezing her neck. They were strong, and with every passing moment she was losing consciousness more and more, but right before succumbing to the darkness that promised nothing but sleep, her Y/E/C eyes looked up to glance into Jim Hopper’s blue gaze. “Hop?” she choked out. “Sorry kiddo,” and he squeezed a bit more until her eyes rolled to the back of her head, and her body went limp in his grasp. Gently, like Y/N was made of glass, Hopper laid her out on the floor, careful not to put her in the shards of the broken coffee table that Billy's leg had kicked against and destroyed it while trying to get out from his restraints. A beat passed, everyone in a complete state of shock, not only by his sudden appearance but by his resurrection, heroic act and subsequently the aftermath. “You fucking killed her!” Alex yelled, rushing past the ex-Chief to his sister’s side and knelt down much like Billy was already pushing strands of Y/H/C hair out of Y/N's face, two fingers desperately checking for a pulse while the other boy held a piece of glass against her nose to see if she was breathing Hopper slumped against the wall. “I didn’t kill her, I made her pass out!” “Yeah, by choking her to death!” Mike screamed back, even though he was ecstatic to see Hopper again. His body was thinner, but not in a sense of ‘I’ve been working out’, but ‘my meals consisted of a piece of bread and a glass of water. Sometimes the bread was so uneatable, I could carve paintings on the wall’. “Do I need to remind you she tried to kill you first?” “It wasn’t her it was the Mind Flayer!” Mike said. “Yeah, in her body!” Hopper replied again, not even thinking about apologizing. “I just saved your lives you ungrateful little shi-“ “Hop…” Joyce’s palm cupped his cheek, and he leaned into the soft touch the anger melting away in a second. He hadn’t felt something so sweet in four years, going on five. She had walked into the house right when he’d lowered Y/N to the ground, not believing at all what she was seeing. “How are you alive?” “Russians,” was the one word he said. It kinda didn’t need elaboration. El had been stuck to his side, the second she was done keeping the Demogorgon away, arms wrapped around his middle, the. It had slinked back into the carved-up wall and disappeared with one last screech. But she was one hundred per cent sure it’d rear its ugly head again. By that point, everyone had gathered back inside the Byers’ place. Nancy had converged with Joyce when they were on their way back and noticed something was leaking from her car. They’d been lucky that the speed they’d been driving in was slow, given how both vehicles were missing their brake cables. “What do we do?” Steve asked the trusty bat with nails he’d been holding now lowered to the floor. “We can’t just leave her like this with that… thing inside of her.” “He likes it cold,” Billy sneered as he leaned down and lifted Y/N, pressing her body tighter to his hoping that his warmth made the demon inside of his wife squirm in discomfort. “He put her in a fucking freezer… So, let’s put him in a sauna.”

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the prodigal sister. seven.

pairing: familial byers fam x reader, romantic paring tbd

word count: 3.3k

summary: y/n is the middle sibling of the byers brothers. she’s just ten months younger than jonathan, making the pair “irish twins”. except when her father and mother got divorced, lonnie got custody of y/n and took her away from the rest of the family.

notes: chapter SEVEN YES HELLO ! so this fic is probably going to follow a somewhat au of season three as i get closer to that point, cause in the timeline for tps we’re in february right now. i haven’t decided how much of the canon events of s3 i’m going to keep, or how long this fic will wind up being because though i have it plotted out roughly, i started this before we had a season 3 to work with. so i’m doing the ideas i had and attempting to bring it back to canon someways too.

other chapters: masterlist

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The following school day was going by slowly for everyone, or at least that’s how it seemed. Y/N felt like that one Monday morning in particular had gone on for at least a whole day, and she was only halfway through her history class. There was still a lot of time to kill before the lunch bell would ring and she was lazily taking notes and not even really paying much attention to what was going on in the classroom.

Tapping her foot against the floor in the classroom, her hand holding the pencil was much more interested in making small doodles over the notebook paper than actually taking any notes. Y/N would have to ask someone for their notes another time.

She should have been sleeping better, but the adjustment from the couch to her new bed had proven difficult to get used to. Maybe it was because she was used to the dormitory beds and having a roommate, and while being in a room of her own brought a sense of security and calm it also took away all the background noises of the house in general. When she’d been sleeping on the couch Y/N could hear doors opening and closing in the middle of the night and she was grounded in the small reminder from those noise that she was home.

But sleeping in her own room, with the door closed, the sounds of everything else around the house ceased to lull her to sleep and Y/N was struggling to adapt to the silence her own room proved to have.

If she didn’t get out of the classroom and walk around or something she was surely going to fall asleep on her desk, mid-doodle of a flower on the page and no notes. And that wasn’t the impression she wanted to leave on the class, especially when she’d not been at the school for too long.

Excusing herself from the class had been an easy one, she’d feigned a headache and left the room for the nurse’s office. Her backpack was slung over one shoulder as she made her way past the front office unnoticed. Thankfully, the secretary had been too busy on the phone and had her head turned toward the ashtray on the counter, lighting up a cigarette with her free hand. Y/N was grateful and quickly walked past, going outside.

She took in a deep breath once she was outside, looking around at the cars parked in the lot. Unfortunately even if Y/N was outside, she didn’t have a way to leave the school. Joyce had taken the car to work after dropping the kids off at the school that morning, leaving Y/N with no way to escape the school grounds. Not that Hawkins was a big town and she couldn’t walk somewhere she would want to go from the high school, but it was a little too cold for her to actually do that.

“Skipping class Byers?”

She turned her head towards the voice and found Billy leaning against the side of the school building with a lit cigarette dangling out of his mouth. For the winter morning, Billy wasn’t wearing anything more than a denim jacket, left open and his button up shirt underneath had the top four buttons undone.

“Aren’t you cold Hargrove?” Y/N replied, shaking her head as she descended the staircase and walked over to where he stood. Unfortunately, she didn’t have her sweater with her since she’d put it in her locker that morning when she got to school, not foreseeing leaving her class early. She leaned up against the wall, dropping her backpack to the patch of grass that wasn’t covered in the melting snow and turned to look at Billy.

“Aren’t you?” he asked, waving a hand at Y/N and looking her up and down.

She shook her head, “Nah, you forget that I’m from here and used to the cold.” Sure, her sweater would have made her a bit warmer, but the short sleeved shirt didn’t really bother her in this weather. If it were actually cold enough to snow, then maybe. Or if she’d grown up someplace warmer, maybe it would have bothered her to stand outside without “appropriate” winter clothes. But the chill, the slight kick in the wind causing moving her hair around and the fabric of her shirt to bellow slightly, did nothing but remind Y/N that she was home.

“Right.” Billy said, taking a long drag of his cigarette and letting the air blow out afterwards. His head rested comfortably against the school building and his eyes lulled half closed as he looked out into the parking lot.

This was how most of their interactions went back in California. A couple lines of chatter bookended long stretches of silence. But it was comfortable, Y/N had never felt pressure to fill the silence when she was with Billy--neither of them did. With other people there could be a bit of anxiety if there wasn’t a constant conversation, but Y/N understood that she didn’t need to fill the air with unnecessary chatter. Though there had been a couple of times when they had longer conversations, which had been late night chats during secret parties at the boarding school or after game parties, but they were few and far between.

“What class are you skipping?” they both asked after a long stretch, and it made Y/N laugh softly and she could see the tug of a smile pulling at Billy’s lips.

“History.” she replied.

“Math, I think,” was Billy’s reply which made Y/N raise her eyebrows at him. He shrugged his shoulders lightly as he answered the silent question, “I’ve been out here for a while.”

“Do you even go to class?”

“I go to athletics.”

“That doesn’t count as a class, it’s an elective.” Y/N scoffed out an airy laugh as she pushed herself off of the school building and stood in front of Billy. “Aren’t you supposed to graduate this year?”

“Supposed to do a lot of things.” Billy said, tossing his finished cigarette down on the ground and stomping it out.

With that motion Billy effectively ended that part of the conversation, huffing out a breath of air as he shoved his hands into the pockets of his jeans. He didn’t say anything else for a while and Y/N didn’t push the conversation even if she had a couple of questions that she wanted to ask.

The next couple of days Y/N had been looking out for Billy. The conversation stuck in her head and she wanted to know what he meant by it. But every time she saw Billy over the school days he was either with the idiot she’d punched the first day she’d been at school ( who always looked at her like she was a bad stink he couldn’t escape ) or he was flocked by girls who clearly wanted to get in his pants. She could tell that he wasn’t particularly interested in the conversations she could catch between him and some of the girls--most of them either talked about the upcoming Valentine’s Dance the school was throwing, Tina’s After Valentine’s Party, or something like going shopping. Y/N caught him rolling his eyes a couple of times when she’d overhear the conversations and it almost made her laugh.

She did however spend her study hall period with Steve every day. Whoever got to the library first would pick out a table for the two of them and they would speak quietly while they worked. They mostly kept up the conversation because Steve couldn’t keep his mouth shut even if he was studying. At first, especially given their first study hall period together, Y/N was annoyed and found herself almost leaving the table and finding some place new to sit.

But she never did.

It was while they both did homework or studied for tests that Y/N got to know Steve. She learned about his home life ( “My parents are gone a lot. Dad’s office is in the city and Mom visits him most weekends.” ) and his old habits ( “Used to be on the basketball team until everything. I kinda forgot about college applications with all the bullshit, so I’m looking for a summer job now.” ) and the fact that Dustin had gotten him interested in Star Wars ( “That shithead wouldn’t stop talking about it so I roped myself into a marathon with him and I have to say I don’t hate it. But don’t tell him that.” ).

She had to admit, Steve Harrington was quickly becoming one of her favorite people in Hawkins.

She looked forward to their study hall period about as much as she looked forward to drama with Robin. Robin, who had no idea about the supernatural element Hawkins had, was definitely becoming Y/N’s best friend. Robin may have been in the same grade as Billy and Steve, so the pair didn’t have any other classes together except for their drama elective and their lunch period, but Robin had come to join the lunch table with Y/N, Jonathan, Nancy, and Steve. Robin seemed to have a resentment for Steve that Y/N didn’t understand and quietly noted how Robin wouldn’t speak when Steve spoke and focused more on Y/N or even Jonathan and sometimes Nancy.

Y/N made a quiet note to ask Robin about that the next time they were hanging out outside of the school walls where no one would interrupt them. Or overhear it, if it was something bad.

“So is anyone going to the Valentine’s Day parties?” Robin asked at the lunch table, looking up from the school bought lunch tray and shrugging her shoulders. She was trying to include everyone in the conversation, which Y/N appreciated. She still hadn’t had the chance to ask Robin why she seemed to dislike Steve.

“Oh, Jonathan’s taking me to the drive in!” Nancy said with a giddy smile, giving Jonathan’s arm a light squeeze when she looked at him. “And then we’re having that party for Y/N this weekend.”

Nancy had said it so casually that Y/N could have brushed it off. But she watched as both her brother and Steve hung their heads and sighed at Nancy’s comment and how the brunette was looking between the two of them with a confused what did i do expression on her face.

“Party for Y/N?” Robin asked before Y/N got the chance to do so.

Jonathan muttered something quietly to Nancy that, if Y/N heard it correctly, sounded a lot like “Good going Nance.” Then he turned to face the rest of the group. “I was going to invite you later today, Robin.” Y/N caught Steve shooting a glare at Nancy, who had finally realized her misstep as she gasped and muttered a soft apology under her breath. “It’s Y/N’s birthday the day after Valentine’s, so we’re having a party at the house for her. It was supposed to be a surprise.”

“I’m so sorry, Y/N!” Nancy said with widened eyes, shaking her head.

“It’s okay, Nance.” Y/N replied with a shrug of her shoulders, taking a sip from her can of new coke. “I mean, I love how everyone thinks it was a surprise. Mom can’t hold a surprise party to save her life. You think I didn’t notice the decorations she’d picked up from Melvald’s after her last shift?” She laughed at the comment, rolling her eyes. She loved her family, for the first time in a lot of years she was genuinely excited to celebrate her birthday ( for the first time she was actually having a party, other than the year prior where Natasha had thrown a quick dorm party with some store bought cake the girls had all chipped in for ).

She watched as Jonathan deflated, he hadn’t realized she’d seen the decorations before he’d been able to help their mother hide them in the back closet. After a couple of moments he nodded his head. “We thought it was a good idea.”

Y/N put her hand on her brother’s shoulder as she grinned, “It’s such a good idea. I’m gonna love whatever the surprise party is, even if it’s not exactly a surprise!”

And with that comment the conversation was dropped, but Robin did happily agree that she would be there.

It was Wednesday, the day before Valentine’s Day, and Y/N found herself leaving her first class of the morning halfway through. It was a big class and the teacher rarely paid attention when he was there ( there was a substitute today, who seemed more interested in primping her hair than the class ) so it was an easy one for her to sneak out the back door of.

She went outside and sunk down on the front steps, taking a breath. Everyone in the class with the sub had been talking about their Valentine’s plans and Y/N just didn’t want to listen to it all. Maybe if the class had been doing some actual work she would have stayed, but it didn’t matter. Which is what she told herself when she looked up into the parking lot.

“Y’know, all that time I knew you, I really thought you were a class going goody goody.”

Y/N turned her head to look at Billy when he announced himself as he walked over to her and took a step beside her on the school’s steps.

“Apparently I was wrong.”

She ignored his comment and looked at him, “Did you just get here? The school bell rang like fifteen minutes ago? Oh, that’s right. You only go to athletics.” Y/N laughed.

Billy chuckled at her comment, pulling his pack of cigarettes out of his back pocket and tapping it to get one out. “I don’t only go there. But if i did, it’s ’cause it’s the only one that ain’t boring.”

“It’s an elective, it’s not supposed to be boring.”

“And what elective are you taking?”

“Drama.” Which caused Billy to laugh quickly as he eyed her. She knew they’d talked about this before--how she loved theater but hated acting in it. Y/N always called herself a behind the scenes personality. “Don’t laugh at me, jock,” she nudged his arm with her own as she let out a small chuckle, “I’m not on stage, there’s like twenty other people in the room.”

“Sounds like Hawkins is changing you.” Billy commented.

“I don’t think that’s a bad thing.”

The conversation lulled between them into a competitive silence for a couple of moments as Y/N’s comment hung in the air between the pair. Billy’s gaze almost dared her to look away and her’s was screaming prove me wrong.

Neither of them budged or spoke again for a couple of moments. The competitive air soon dissipated and became the same comfortable air they’d both grown to know in conversation. They looked away from each other, Y/N opening up her backpack and Billy leaning back against the stairs and looking up at the sky. After a while the pair started talking again.

“Did you see the banner they put up for the Valentine’s Dance?” Y/N asked, talking about the bright pink and heard filled banner that hung right in the entry way for the school. It even had a countdown until the dance and a dangling heart that reminded everyone don’t forget to buy a rose for your Valentine! secret admirers welcomed!

Billy snorted, turning his head to look at her. “It’s hard to miss.”

Y/N nodded. “You going?”

Billy puffed out some air and shook his head, “Valentine’s Day isn’t my thing.”

“I’d say I’m shocked but.” And Y/N trailed off with a chuckle, rolling her eyes at his comment. Even if she didn’t know him well, she could tell it wasn’t his “thing”--he didn’t seem like the celebrating holidays or romance type. “Does that mean you didn’t say yes to any of those girls I saw you talking with about the parties?”

“Why, do you wanna be my special valentine, Y/N?” Billy asked, looking up at her from under his eyelashes that he batted at her. He was egging her on and she could tell, but she couldn’t help the flush of heat pricking her cheeks at his words.

“Uh, no thank you. I’ve got plans of my own.”

“What? Babysitting?”

“No.” Y/N grumbled, crossing her arms as she looked out at the parking lot before turning her gaze back on her friend sitting beside her. She could tell he didn’t really believe her. “Seriously, no. It’s my birthday so my family and everyone’s throwing me a surprise party this weekend.”

“Is it a surprise if you know about it?”

“I’m going to pretend to be shocked for my mom, she worked hard for the party since it’s the first one I’ve been home for in years.” Y/N nodded her head and looked over at Billy. She couldn’t tell if he said anything else or if he was just moving the dimming cigarette around ( he had in fact muttered something under his breath along the lines of “must be nice” and he appreciated that she didn’t comment on it ) so she continued anyway with a light tap on his shoulder. “You should come by. It’s Saturday at like five or something.”

“Don’t think they’d appreciate it if I showed up.”

“It’s my party and I can invite whoever I want.”

The conversation lulled once more as Billy tossed the cigarette down on the ground and lit up another. She didn’t get an answer from him, and she almost wanted to ask again. Which Y/N would have, if she didn’t think that Billy would make a sarcastic comment about her inviting him to the party.

So she let it slide and they fell back into a nice silence with a couple of comments every couple of minutes. The pair could hear the bell ring in the background, but neither of them moved to go back inside the building at any point.

Which was something that Billy did comment on, “Aren’t you missing class?”

“Aren’t you?” Y/N hummed her response, tapping the book in her lap that she was reading for her English class.

It had gotten cold sometime in the point they’d been outside, and she was sure the lunch bell was going to ring soon even if she wasn’t sure how long they’d been outside. It was definitely more than the first period, since she’d seen a couple of classes going outside to run the track. Y/N had been rubbing her hands against her arms for a short while now, the cold air getting to her after being outside this whole time.

“I thought you midwesterners had immunity to the cold. Ain’t that what you told me?” Billy laughed at her motion. Y/N turned her head to look at Billy, and she was about to come back with a witty response ( she’d had one on the tip of her tongue ) when he shrugged off his denim jacket and put it on her shoulders.

The bell rang.

“Don’t say I never gave you nothin’.”

And with that, Y/N watched Billy get up and walk down toward the school’s fields where she assumed he would be meeting his friends for lunch. He didn’t look back at her, but she couldn’t tear her gaze away from his retreating figure, his curly hair moving in the breeze as she pulled her arms through the jacket he’d left her with.

Y/N ignored whatever she thought, and wondered ( dared to hope, even ) if she’d be seeing Billy at her party that weekend.

#billy hargrove x reader #steve harrington x reader #byers!reader #stranger things x you #stranger things imagine #the prodigal sister

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Recent Reads - May 19, 2018

Multifandom--Dirk Gently, Sherlock Holmes, Harry Potter, a bit of Star Trek--and a mix of old and new, as usual. I've already recced some of these fics individually, but life's too short not to be effusive about the things you love, so I'm including them here too <3 Recs under the cut...

The Answer to a Question - @a-candle-for-sherlock - 22k, T, Holmes/Watson

"These are the stories behind the story we know: what really happened to Watson's marriage, and what made him follow Holmes to Reichenbach; what secrets were hidden in the mountains, and what a dead man wrote to the man he left behind." This fic made me Feel Feelings and also made me (almost) late for work.

To Join These Men in Holy Matrimony - A_Candle_For_Sherlock - 10k, T, Holmes/Watson

"Sherlock Holmes is a contradiction, an enigma, a force; at once the most generous spirit and the most self-contained man I have ever known. I've known more of him, I think, than anyone on earth. Yet for years I'd learned nothing about his boyhood, nor his fears, nor his future hopes, nor his father’s name. I never felt it as a lack until I knew he loved me." A moving story about family, forgiveness, self-acceptance, and historical queer marriages.

The Narrator - candle_beck - 8k, M, Holmes/Watson

"Watson is a degenerate gambler, a reluctant romantic, and the least reliable narrator in the history of the written word." A brief, gritty glimpse of my favorite Victorian disasters.

where the falling angels meet the rising apes - @cosmicoceanfic - 26k, T, AU (crossover, Dirk Gently & Discworld)

"A story of Death and the boy who could see him, through the years." In my sadness over finally finishing the Tiffany Aching books, I allowed myself to indulge in Discworld/Dirk Gently fics, and this one was an especially satisfying blend of the two universes. Highlights include Dirk & Bart's friendship, and Farah having a stare-off with Death.

you could bring my healing - cosmicocean - 38k, T, Dirk/Todd, AU (fantasy)

"Where the whole thing takes place in a fantasy world that is not unlike but not quite mostly for legal reasons Ankh-Morpork, Dirk is generally an existential dragon, Todd is a washed up electrical lute player, everyone is kind of awkward and useless except maybe for Amanda, and there is a boatload of fantasy references, plus one (1) Star Wars one." Sheer escapist delight.

Start at the Beginning - @dont-offend-the-bees - 61k, T, Dirk/Todd (AU, fake relationship)

”Y’know, make it up. Pretend to be in a relationship with someone. Can’t be that hard to fake, right?” it was still a stupid idea, but Todd was actually pretty invested in it now. He leaned forward, folding his arms. “C’mon, think about it- you got any other desperate homeless friends?” Takes a wacky ensemble piece and transforms it into a different sort of wacky ensemble piece. Sparing use of fake dating tropes makes this fic all the more enjoyable.

Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder: A Lovely Sentiment, But Rarely Applies To Anniversary Gifts - DontOffendTheBees - 7k, M, Dirk/Todd

"In which Dirk and Todd celebrate three years together- but forgot they were supposed to be doing that." Featuring: Todd Brotzman's "funhouse of self-loathing," Dirk & Todd's mutual uselessness, Amanda & Farah's mutual exasperation, winks to Douglas Adams canon, and a clever meta twist.

How We Go Together - ekb112 - 3k, E, Kirk/Spock

"'Have you ever been in love, Spock?' A series of moments in Jim and Spock's relationship." I like a semi-annual spot of K/S. It's a classic ship for a reason, and this fic scratched the itch just right.

Easy As Breathing - electricteatime | @kieren-fucking-walker - 1k, G, Dirk/Todd

"Their days start together. Warm and close, but all elbows and knees, tangled in covers and noses buried into hair. It takes time to swim up through the pull of sleep to break the surface, but when they come to they wake up to each other." A lovely soft distillation of a relationship.

Dress You Up in My Love - electricteatime - 3k, T, Dirk/Todd

“'So, what? Your solution is a pair of skin tight leopard print pants? How is that better than anything I’ve worn?'

Dirk just grins wildly at him, it’s the most like himself he’s looked in days. 'Put them on.'” A fluffy missing scene fic with a wonderful sense of interiority. (How is electricteatime is so good at characterization?!?)

A Flame Undamped - Frayach, read by wench_fics - 5k, 40min, M, Harry/Draco

"A happy ending. Because I can finally imagine one." Hurt/comfort doesn't even BEGIN to cover this sequel to The Price We Pay for Wings. No one does pain and poignancy--and sometimes, healing--like Frayach.

Saturn in Retrograde - gooseflesh - WIP series, M, Dirk/Todd

"As with most things in Dirk Gently's life, things are fine until they're not. A mystery and minor inconvenience for Todd Brotzman takes a terrifying turn when Dirk insists on investigating, and it'll take more than a hunch for them to hold onto to all that they've built." I'm not typically an angst gremlin, but I can't stop reading this WIP, even as the characters' situation worsens exponentially.

Death by Kittenshark - howldax - 1k, G, Dirk/Todd

"'You know,' Dirk says sternly, 'if you murder me, there will be nobody around to feed you.'" Cats (even cats who are also sharks) are gonna cat. Charming and fluffy.

i was born in a summer storm (i live there still) - janeseyre - 10k, G, Farah & Todd & Dirk

"Farah confronts the vestiges of her past as she, Dirk, and Todd travel east to visit her mother. It turns out Farah isn’t as over her father’s death as she thought she was." A deeper look into Farah’s families, both biological and chosen; full of lovely little smile moments and Farah getting the closure she deserves.

The Burning Heart - @may-shepard - 119k, M, John/Sherlock, AU (post s3 fix-it)

"Although he’s certain he’ll never get over Sherlock, John plans to move on, and build a new life with Mark, unaware that Sherlock is not quite as dead as he appears, and that Mark is hiding secrets of his own." As is my habit with zeitgeist-y fics, I didn't get around to this one until well after the rest of the fandom, but I'm glad I did. Here's to an assassin plot that's actually plausible and compelling!

The Easiest Way - nntkiwff - WIP, T, Dirk/Todd, Farah/Todd (“basically OT3”)

"'Is that everything?'

'Yes, essentially,' Dirk says, as Todd is saying, 'I don't have magic powers.'" A slow burn WIP, set immediately after the return from Wendimoor, featuring multiple perspectives (including Ken!), in-depth characterization, and some excellent lines, like this one about Farah: “She says all of this as though she is ashamed of being cursed, instead of proud that she blew up an evil warlock.”

Blood Magic and Rebirth (or, The One Where They Are All Feminist Academics) - @notcaycepollard - 1k, G, gen (Harry Potter)

"Moon cups, Luna thinks. Moon cups and blood magic. And she remembers the old itch under her skin, and a music box fluttering into a flock of birds, and wonders just how powerful it could be." This is 1000% headcanon for me now.

A Little Bit Scandalous - @oneprotagonistshort - 1k, E, Dirk/Todd

"Dirk Gently was self-aware enough to admit that he had… a thing. A quirk. One of those idiosyncratic little peculiarities that made up a tiny part of his personality. A kink. He just liked that extra edge; the need to be quiet or someone might hear, the blood pounding in his ears while he stayed hyper-alert for footsteps, the way Todd kissed him so urgently that he lost his breath." I especially appreciated the characterization behind the kink in this one.

Relative Distance - Quesarasara | @itsnotgonnareaditselfpeople, read by @lockedinjohnlock-podfics - 45k, 5hrs, E, John/Sherlock

"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end." One of the author's tags on this fic is "What if everyone just acted like a damn adult for a change?", which really clarifies how the fic differs from the later seasons of the show.

it's an institute you can't disparage - @shortcrust - 19k, T, Dirk/Todd

"Todd wakes up beside Dirk Gently four years to the day after having met him realises - abruptly and with categoric certainty - that he wants to do so every day for the rest of his life. What the fuck, he thinks." Hilarious, insightful, and absolutely nails a) the ridiculousness and pathos of Todd Brotzman mired in needless self-doubt, and b) my favorite Ship Dynamic: compatible disasters.

there's cell reception on this widow's walk - strix_alba - 2k, T, Farah/Tina

"In which Tina sort-of-kind-of asks Farah to stay with her in Bergsberg, and Farah kind-of-sort-of wants to say yes." Awkward flirting, Farina styles! Tina mentally describes Dirk & Todd & Farah as a “bunch of hot, uptight weirdos,” which is p e r f e c t.

Just Like That - @sussexbound (SamanthaLenore) - 8k, E, John/Sherlock

"For the first time in what feels like years he WANTS." The perfect combination of unf and feeeels.

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Updated Klaine fic recs

Hi everyone,

So there was a small disaster earlier this year in which the first page of my Klaine fic recs had all of its links wiped out. At long last, I have reconstructed a chunk of that first page - all of my canon recs and fill-in fics, and then a few of the Dalton! Klaine fics. This was a long process, as I had to go through AO3 to find new links there for as many stories as I could, and then back through my old LJ and FF.net bookmarks for those stories that have not made it to the Archive. Many of these are stories that were were written during S2 and S3, early in the Klaine fandom, which means they may not be familiar to those of you who joined the fandom later. I will keep working on reconstructing this page (and the other two that follow it) on my blog, but I wanted you all to be able to enjoy the stories I have re-linked so far. More notes and explanation under the cut, as well as all the links. Please enjoy! :)

Canon Klaine: one-shots, fill-ins, slight AUs.

Unless otherwise noted, links lead to AO3. If authors have multiple pseudonyms, they will be separated with a forward slash, e.g. aspiringtoeloquence/mybriefeternity.

A Hint of Blaine by OccasionallyRestless. The “Furt” wedding scene with a Blaine twist - When Blaine gets a call from the New Directions offering to let him help with a surprise for Kurt, he readily agrees. Cue singing, cute dancing and Klaine fluff. Posted on FF.net.

After Opening by Aeditimi Scriba. Artie notices an improvement in his leading actors as “West Side Story” goes into its second performance. Klaine and Finchel, Artie’s POV. Posted on FF.net.

And A Thousand Moments Like This by DaybyDay. Post-Original Song kiss fic. Fluff. Posted on FF.net.

Be It You Outside My Door by water_nix/the-water-nixie. 4x04 fix-it fic. Blaine’s instincts lead him to the right place at last. Posted on LJ.

Before You Met Me (I Was All Right) by purplehairedwonder. Without New Directions, Kurt never goes to Dalton to spy on the Warblers. For Blaine, life goes on… except for those strange moments he feels like something is missing. This is an AU inspired by that “Glee Actually” promo with Kurt asking Artie, “Who’s Blaine?” during the dream sequence.

Blame It On Insecurity by sunandrainfic/rainingaces. Blaine does not like blaming things on alcohol. A conversation between Kurt and Blaine during BIOTA. This is one of the most poignant and insightful BIOTA fics out there. Posted on FF.net.

Blaine Anderson is Missing by lovely-sparkle. AU spec fic for Season 4 Regionals. The break-up is included. What will New Directions do when Blaine goes missing on the morning of the Regionals competition? And why is Blaine worried about Kurt? Posted on LJ.

Blessing by antarcticbird/Alianne82. Happy engaged boys and the world’s best dad. 5x01 reaction fic.

Blossoming by avaserenity. Post-“The First Time.” Burt Hummel’s perspective. He knows because he’s never seen anyone look at Kurt the way Blaine does. Posted on LJ.

Box by trufflemores. 3x09. “But what are you promising?” Blaine surprises Kurt with a special gift before Christmas break. Gap filler.

Call by trufflemores. 3x22. Blaine makes a special phone call after Kurt tells him about his NYADA rejection. Gap filler.

Can’t Explain (How the Wind Went and Pulled Me Into Your Hurricane) by ahmarionette. After the kiss in “Original Song,” Kurt gets Blaine to explain some of his swings in behavior since they met. Posted on LJ.

Captivate and Enrapture by trufflemores. 3x08 and 4x09. “Oh my God, it’s the Gerber baby.” In which Blaine sees Kurt lip-syncing during Harmony’s performance, and Kurt finally sings for NYADA.

Convalescence by trufflemores. Quickie reaction fic to 4x07. Sometimes healing comes in unexpected ways. Blam friendship, with heavy Blaine angst.

Coping by trufflemores. 4x01. Kurt has been gone at college for months now. The New Directions’ newest member helps Blaine cope. Kurt/Blaine. Marley-Blaine friendship.

Counting Down the Days by skintightsocks. “It’s okay to be sad, you know,” Rachel says, petting at his hair. “You can pretend I’m Blaine if you want; I know we’re almost the same size.” It’s Kurt’s first birthday in NYC, and he’s missing Blaine. AnderHummelberry friendship. Posted on LJ.

Enough by flaming_muse. 4x02. Standing there silently as Rachel works, Kurt wonders if he should say anything to her. He’s just not sure there’s anything else to be said. Klaine, HummelBerry friendship.

Epiphany by trufflemores. 4x12. Sam thinks he’s worthless. Blaine shows him otherwise. Sam/Blaine friendship.

Everything Changes by wowbright. The more Kurt thinks about Rachel’s yearbook message, the more he doesn’t know what to make of it. Finn does, though. (Reaction fic to “Goodbye” and "Rachel’s Yearbook Message to Kurt Scene".)

Fearlessly and Forever by missbeizy. 5x01 reaction fic. They hold court on a leather sofa in the common room where Blaine and the Warblers had sung “Teenage Dream” to a wide-eyed and very unsubtle McKinley High spy.

Finish Line by klaineaddict/iconicklaine. 4x01. Burt’s perspective on sending Kurt to New York. Originally posted on LJ; posted to AO3 by my request, for the Glee AO3 Fest. :)

Firsts by tweeney. 4x11. Kurt goes on a date with Adam, but his mind refuses to cooperate and decides to take a trip down memory lane to his first date with Blaine. Adorable and sweet fix-it fic. Posted on LJ.

Five Times Blaine Wanted to Kiss Kurt But Didn’t (and One Time He Did) by tweeney. Some S2 Klaine, missing moments and kisses. Posted on LJ.

Goodnight Sweetheart (Well, It’s Time To Go) by antarcticbird/Alianne82. Kurt and Blaine say goodnight on their third date after becoming a couple. S2.

Happy Days Are Here Again by klemonademouth. It had been eighty-two days since Kurt had been in Ohio. Eighty-two days since he’d touched Blaine. Eighty-two days since he’d held him against his chest and pressed his face into Blaine’s hair, inhaling the scent of sandalwood and pine. Posted on FF.net. Also here on LJ.

Hurry Up Please, It’s Time by lookninjas. This is technically part of lookninjas’ stripper!AU ‘verse, but it is really a reworked version of The Box Scene, and it is fluffy and lovely.

Hurt by foraworldundeserving. A “Never Been Kissed” missing scene. Kurt finally looked up, his eyes glassy, and Blaine had to stifle a gasp at the absolute terror reflected in them. “He snapped,” Kurt whispered. Posted on FF.net.

I Don’t Have to Tell You, But You’re the Only One by aspiringtoeloquence/ mybriefeternity. Takes place during the events of “Rumors” - 2x19. With all that’s going on at McKinley, Kurt misses his boyfriend more than ever. Posted on FF.net.

If This Ain’t Love Then What Is? by aspiringtoeloquence/mybriefeternity. "I mean, what would you do if Blaine proposed to you today?“ Takes place during 3x12 - Kurt’s thoughts. Posted on FF.net.

If You Let It Go by trufflemores. 4x04. “It’s an expression,” Marley explained. “If you love something, you have to let it go. If it comes back, it’s yours. If it doesn’t, it never was.” Blaine and Kurt’s phone calls post-break-up.

I Guess We Thought That’s Just What Humans Do by sunandrainfic/rainingaces. Missng scene from “I Do,” in which Tina and Blaine argue and work out their differences after the Vaopor Rub incident. Posted on LJ.

I Love You More Than I Have Ever Found a Way to Say by lavender-love00. Kurt and Blaine after junior prom, S2. Adorable and sweet, awkward and romantic.

I’m Beginning to See the Light by normal_scaresme. It’s Kurt and Blaine’s two-year anniversary, and even if they aren’t technically together, Kurt still thinks they should celebrate. S4. Posted on LJ.

In Want of Magic by trufflemores. This story is how I found Truffles, and it is a truly amazing piece of writing. 3x01 - 4x01. “I just … I want my senior year to be magic.” Kurt knew that there would be challenges to overcome his senior year. Little did he know just how tumultuous it would be. Kurt/Blaine. Blaine as a senior. Minor canonical alterations, but otherwise canon compliant. Posted on FF.net.

Initiation by WickedForGood13. The aftermath of Blaine’s first slushie facial.

I Thought You’d Keep Me Warm by water_nix/the-water-nixie. 4x04 fix-it fic featuring Sebastian. Sometimes the right push comes from the most unlikely of places. Posted on LJ.

It’s All Fiction by happyinchintz72. Follow on from 2x15 and their ‘non-conversation’. Kurt is frightened and doesn’t ever see how that will change… ONE-SHOT. Angsty fluff. Posted on FF.net. Also here on LJ.

It’s Not Unusual by gigi42. 4x21 reaction fic in Kurt’s POV. Kurt’s in survival mode, but the idea of Blaine is in everything he does.

It’s Time by trufflemores. 4x01. Blaine, after Kurt has left for New York.

It’s You They’re All Waiting For by missgoalie75. 4x02. Blaine tries to get used to the eccentricities of the new New Directions. Wonderful Blainetana and Brittaine friendship. Posted on LJ.

Journey’s End by the-cimmerians. 4x04 fix-it fic. After the break-up, Blaine flees Lima, and Kurt finds himself enlisted by the Andersons to help find their son. Kurt is as surprised as anyone that he agrees to go looking. Posted on Tumblr.

Kiss by foraworldundeserving. The now-famous, 234-chapter prompt fic that is equal parts fun, fluff, angst, and gorgeousness. While the kiss in “Original Song” was oh-so-beautiful, there’s millions of ways those two boys could have shared their first kiss. Posted on FF.net.

Kiss & Tell by impromptucoffee/engorgioblaine. Kurt and Blaine’s progression through the four bases. Originally a GKM fill. Awkward, sweet, gorgeous emotion and description. Posted on LJ.

Kiss Me Slowly by skitzzy. "He wasn’t even paying attention to the sky anymore; the only thing he wanted to see was the beautiful boy in front of him that no sunset in the world could ever compete against.” Posted on FF.net.

Last Night by Icicle Raindream. “The First Time” missing scene. Rachel and Blaine share a secret with one another backstage. Posted on FF.net.

Letting Go by trufflemores. 4x08. Kurt finally calls Blaine intending to end his relationship with him permanently. It doesn’t go as planned. Canon-compliant.

Locked Out of Heaven by trufflemores. 4x11. In which Blaine can’t have Kurt, and so he finds love wherever he can. One-sided Blaine/Sam, with mentions of Kurt/Blaine.

Memory by trufflemores. 4x10. “Who’s Blaine?” Kurt/Blaine. Sebastian/Blaine. A take off from “Glee, Actually,” in which we see what has become of the Blaine who never knew Kurt.

May Your Days Be Merry by manywingedescape/wingedescapes. “Glee, Actually.” Kurt and Blaine have a discussion about love and life after Burt falls asleep on Christmas night. 4x10. Posted on FF.net. Also here on LJ.

Need by trufflemores. 3x07. “I have to find Blaine.”

Never A Good War, Never a Bad Peace by foraworldundeserving. Finn and Blaine in S3. Nobody’s perfect. So under that logic, it was entirely unfair to watch certain people just float through life without so much as stumbling, and Finn wasn’t going to stand for it any longer. Posted on FF.net.

New Meanings by flaming_muse. 4x01. It’s with a little hesitation that Blaine pushes through the doors of the Lima Bean and breathes in the familiar scents of coffee and baked goods.

Oh, Whistle and Come to Us by purplehairedwonder. 4x08. Whistles had come to mean something both haunting and seductive to Blaine by the time the Warblers performed “Whistle” at Sectionals. This amazing story was written based on a meta post I wrote for fyeahgleemeta, and I am so flattered and awed by it.

One Fine Day and Catch the Wind by arainymonday. They had talked about their dads enough for Kurt to know three things: One, Mr. Anderson desperately wanted a straight son. Two, Blaine desperately wanted an accepting father. Three, Kurt had everything Blaine wanted. And they had talked about their families enough for Kurt to know three more things: One, the Andersons do not get along. Two, the Andersons are not happy. Three, Blaine does not feel loved by them. But Kurt had no idea it was this bad. Posted on FF. net. Also One Fine Day on LJ and Catch the Wind on LJ.

One More Night by trufflemores. 4x11. Once he starts thinking about Sam that way, he can’t stop. In which Blaine projects, Sam reflects, and lines dissolve. Explores Blam, but remains firmly Klaine. Kurt features fairly prominently. One-sided Sam/Blaine, Kurt/Blaine.

One Thing Kurt Got Right by abbypotter327. 3x22. Kurt takes his NYADA rejection hard, but he has Blaine to hold him together. Posted on FF.net.

Out of Control by trufflemores. 4x12. Sam’s on a downward spiral with the ‘Men of McKinley’ calendar. Blaine intervenes. Unbeknownst to him, he, too, is on a downward spiral that leads up to “Diva.” Blaine/Sam friendship. Posted on FF.net.

Pamphlets by foraworldundeserving. 2x15, leading up to 3x05. Because as much as he wanted to, no matter how easy it was to stay naive and pretend that relationships never went beyond the touch of fingertips, Kurt had to face up to the facts and the truth. He couldn’t stay a baby penguin any longer. Posted on FF.net.

Perhaps by aspiringtoeloquence/mybriefeternity. 3x03. The aftermath of Blaine being cast as Tony in West Side Story - Blaine and Kurt aren’t exactly experts at this whole healthy relationship thing yet, but they try, and that’s half the battle. Posted on FF.net.

Pink Sticky Notes and Portable Hearts by hopewithfeathers. Post-“Dance With Somebody,” 3x17. Kurt and Blaine couldn’t talk out and fix all their sadness and insecurities in one conversation, so Kurt goes to apologize properly. Angst, fluff, and sexy times. Posted on FF.net.

Play It Cool, Boy, Real Cool by aspiringtoeloquence/mybriefeternity. Pre-3x06. McKinley is where Blaine’s heart is… but he’d feel better if he spent more time with some of the members of New Directions. Posted on FF.net.

Please Don’t Come and Go by sunandrainfic/rainingaces. 4x04 fix-it fic. He doesn’t say these things, because how can you say those things to the boy you cheated on? Anything that had happened before is meaningless, now. It’s been blotted off the paper by the huge ink-stain Blaine spilled on the canvas. Posted on LJ.

Promises by bluecloudsupabove/ca_te. 4x01. Blaine sends Kurt off to NYC with love.

Put Up the Tree Before My Spirit Falls Again by water_nix/the-water-nixie. 4x08-4x10. Kurt has secretly hated Christmas since he was eight years old, and now that he’s living away from home he can avoid it with nothing but a little excess guilt. So when he calls to say he isn’t coming home for Christmas this year, Burt decides it’s about time he did something about that. It’s a good thing he’s bringing along a right-hand man. Posted on LJ.

Ready or Not by unwrittenfic/drunkonwriting. Kurt and Blaine come to Santana’s aid in the aftermath of the Finn and Santana situation in “Mash-Off.”

Remind Me To Forget by peanutmeg. Blaine’s moved on from Sadie Hawkins. He’s fine. It was years ago. But it seems that the past isn’t done with Blaine. Canon-compliant through 5x07.

Seneca Falls, and Selma, and Stonewall by flaming_muse. January 21, 2013. Blaine watches the inauguration alone in his house, a bowl of microwave popcorn cooling on the coffee table and a glass of soda fizzing gently by his hand.

Shooting Star by trufflemores. 4x18. AU spec. Blaine’s bad morning spirals rapidly downward when a gunshot is fired. Here there be Blangst. No character death. TW: shooting. Features Blam friendship and Klaine romance. Posted on FF.net.

Sometimes It Takes a Storm to Calm a Storm Within by thefatesallow/comewhatmay. Another beautiful 4x18 reaction fic, in which Kurt and Blaine talk after the shooting and are on the road to mending. Background Brittana as well.

Something New by the-cimmerians. Post-4x14. Kurt and Blaine reconnect and being again. Posted on Tumblr.

Swallow My Heart and Flee by fallovermelikestars. Blaine Anderson comes to New York thinking the world is his oyster, overjoyed at the prospect of taking a bite of the Big Apple, moving into an apartment he and Kurt can call home and finally living the Manhattanite life together they’ve always dreamed of. But then Kurt gets an offer that he’s not sure he can refuse, the plans they’ve made are turned on their head and Blaine finds out that having a dream and living it are two very different things. While the first three seasons of Glee are canon here, it goes AU after 4x01.

The Art of Fixing Hearts by bluecloudsupabove/ca_te. 4x04 fix-it fic by the incomparable Cate, immediately following the confrontation in Battery Park. Also here on S&C.

The Key Series, comprised of ‘The First Steps" and “The Next Steps” by Fabrisse. This is probably my absolute favorite 4x04 fix-it fic. Blaine comes back to New York the week after “The Break-Up,” and talking, domesticity, and forgiveness ensue.

The Five New Voicemails of Chandler Kiehl by aspiringtoeloquence/ mybriefeternity. 3x17. Chandler Kiehl’s phone number finds itself in the possession of the members of New Directions. Who have a lot of feelings. Set after “Dance With Somebody.”

The Perspective of Age by flaming_muse. 4x10, “Glee Actually.” If there’s one thing that Burt does know, besides how to take any car engine apart and put it back together running better than before, it’s his son. Gorgeous fic from Burt’s POV in which he muses about Kurt and Blaine, love, loss, and his relationship with his son.

The Plans That We’ve Made by aspiringtoeloquence/mybriefeternity. Kurt and Blaine are back in Ohio for the holidays, and it feels like the next few weeks could be important in so many ways.

The Sparrow by wowbright. On March 8, 2013, at 3:42 p.m., the same calendar reminder pops up on both of their phone displays: “THERE YOU ARE - ANNIVERSARY in one week.” Kurt and Blaine do their best to cope with being broken up on their second anniversary. So poignant and sweet.

The Worst is Far Behind Us Now by normal_scaresme. Blaine calls Kurt after the events of 4x18. Lovely emotion and wonderful Anderson family moments at the end. Posted on LJ.

This House Doesn’t Burn Down Slowly by sunandrainfic/rainingaces. 4x01. It’s not the kind of “confronting what you’re afraid of” fear that got Neville Longbottom to win points for Gryffindor, or Diane Lane to dive into a lake and admit that she loves John Cusack. It’s the kind of paralyzing, one-wrong-move-and-the-snake-kills-you fear that boxes you in and turns out the lights and whispers in your ear, “Don’t make a sound.” Posted on LJ.

This Is It by impromptucoffee/engorgioblaine. AU for “Goodbye”; originally a GKM fill. Kurt gets into NYADA and Kurt and Blaine celebrate, all by themselves. Posted on LJ.

Till We Come Face to Face by the-multicorn/multicorn. They end up together at the Lima Bean, promises made over the phone at Thanksgiving long left behind. “I know the relationship between us is - complicated,” Kurt says. His hands are folded around the cardboard cup as if in prayer. “But I need to talk to my best friend. Can you do that?” Reunion fic, AU after 4x22. Also here on Tumblr.

To Love You Is To Need You Everywhere by undesirablenumber1/warble_on. 3x11. Blaine needs Kurt; a discovery reflected upon in Kurt’s arms. Blaine’s inner monologues on love and necessity and people who save you. Also posted here on LJ.

Transference by flaming_muse. Kurt and Blaine’s relationship is complicated; other people (and objects) are much more simple. Transference is the phenomenon of unconsciously redirecting feelings about one person or object to another. Set before through soon after 4x17, “Guilty Pleasures.”

Two Years Ago Tomorrow by flaming_muse. The afternoon of the day after Kurt and Blaine’s first kiss. Set within 2x16 (“Original Song”) and written for the second anniversary of Kurt and Blaine’s first kiss. So lovely.

Waiting, Hoping by flaming_muse. 4x21. Blaine’s perspective during “Wonder-ful.” There he is, Blaine’s Kurt. Almost.

When the Lights Go Out, Will You Take Me With You? by narceus. AU spec fic for 3x02 and 3x03. Blaine moves to New York with Kurt, and it takes his parents months to notice he’s gone. Beautiful and heartbreaking. Posted on LJ.

When We Can Say Goodnight and Stay Together by antarcticbird/Alianne82. 3x12. Kurt and Blaine talk about Finn’s marriage proposal to Rachel while doing … other stuff. Absolutely sweet and adorable perfection.

Wherein Blaine is Well on His Way to Becoming a Crazy Cat Lady by water_nix/the-water-nixie. Kurt’s impending move to New York may be upsetting Blaine far more than he is letting on. Cue Kurt and a plan to help soften the blow. Absolutely hilarious fic with spot-on voices for the the boys and the old ND members.

Wrapped in a Bow by livehighnmighty. Adorable Box Scene reaction fic. Posted on LJ.

You Are Not Perfect … To Me by cinnamont. 4x04. Kurt calls the universe’s greatest Dad for comfort and understanding and gets a whole lot more. Or, Burt Hummel giving Kurt a fatherly reality check. Posted on LJ.

You Touch Every Place in My Heart by bluecloudsupabove/ca_te. Alternative S4 Thanksgiving, where Blaine comes to NYC to surprise Kurt, with some loving and insistent help from Rachel. Cate wrote this for me after talking to me for the first time, during one of the hardest periods of my life, and it is so gorgeous and sweet and perfect that it made me cry. Posted on LJ. Also here on S&C.

Warblers! Klaine fics

A Fine Frenzy and A Fine Frenzy: Outtakes by arainymonday. The New Directions and the Warblers experience new friendships, hookups, and breakups as they perform a musical rendition of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at a Renaissance Faire. Posted on FF.net. Also here on LJ.

Dalton by CPCoulter. Post-“Furt,” Kurt begins an entirely new chapter in his life at Dalton Academy for Boys. Blaine, Wes, David and the boys of Windsor House make his life, for better or worse, far more eventful than he imagined. It’s hard to say enough about this beautifully imagined fic, which is now over 400,000 words and has its own fandom. CP Coulter also has her own extensive Tumblr with updates, Dalton fics by other authors, and lots of additional info, which can be found here. Dalton is also on FF.net, here.

Klaine, As Told by David and Wes by Ultraviolet-Ink. When David and Wes do something, they don’t do it by halves. So when David suggests they document ‘Klaine’ in all of its entirety, it’s not going to be some half-arsed job - they’re pulling out all the stops. This was one of the first Wevid fics I ever read, and I laughed until I cried. Hilarious. Posted on FF.net.

Lantern by Salazarfalcon. The power’s out, and all the Warblers have is a single, flickering light that may or may not be a literary metaphor for one Kurt Elizabeth Hummel. Posted on FF.net.

#Klaine #Klaine fic #fic recs #rec list #reconstructed #Glee

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February 2: Thoughts on 4x01 Echoes

Mmmmkay, literally JUST finished watching 4x01. I’m very proud of myself because I completely avoided ALL spoilers and I’m not going to unblock tumblr until I finish this reaction post so I can write down my totally spontaneous and unadulterated thoughts.

My general reaction: I actually kind of liked it. I wouldn’t say I liked it as much as Seasons 1 and 2 and I wouldn’t say I’m optimistic about the season and frankly I still have a lot of complaints, most of which are so general I don’t think they’ll ever be resolved BUT I would undoubtedly say that 4x01 was better than 3x01 and I’m actually looking forward to 4x02; it looks like just the kind of plot I like: tense, self-contained, lots of delinquents.

(loooong reaction under the read more)

So some things I didn’t like first so I can get my negativity out of the way:

I never fully believed that either Jarod Joseph or Chelsey Reist were going to be regulars because I thought that people were reading a lot into kind of vague tweets but I wanted to believe it, especially with Jarod Joseph and honestly even though I don’t like Harper…they both deserve main status by now. I mean they’ve lasted this fucking long. I cannot believe Zack McGowan gets main status and Jarod and Chelsey don’t.

I don’t give a fuck about the Grounders. I don’t! I don’t care!! And I will never care. So all this Polis shit, Grounder politics, Echo yammering on, blah blah blah. I can’t follow it and I don’t even want to follow it. In my incredibly subjective opinion, it really weighs the show down.

Roan constantly sounds like he’s having a * Tina Fey voice * talking like this contest. I have no idea what his real voice sounds like but if this is at all a put on accent he needs to tone it down for realsies I cannot take him seriously.

Monty/Harper. Get it away get it away. (I’m not going to go into why I hate them but rest assured every reaction I write this entire season will have some variation of this point, if the episode in question features them as a couple at all. Having a canon NoTP is such a fannish burden so I’m going to whine about it at top volume all the time.)

NO MILLER. A TRAVESTY.

This isn’t entirely the show’s fault but I roll my eyes every time I hear L*xa’s name, like some kind of Pavlovian dog, so obviously I did a lot of eye rolling and now my eyes kind of hurt. In particular, Clarke’s overwrought sadness about her was just so… I’m done, I’m tired of it, I don’t care. I know I’m not being fair, because in the timeline of the show obviously L’s death is very close. But, first off, I don’t think Clarke loved her at all—I think she thinks she did but she did not, and I don’t think that line would even have been included if it weren’t for RL events. Second, and relatedly, I think that little scene with Abby and the Dramatic Single Tear TM when she hands over the chip were so clearly about appeasing fans and doing penance for daring to kill a lesbian that they took me out of the show. I wasn’t watching Clarke in Polis, I was watching Eliza Taylor acting on a set. I hope that’s the end of that, and we never have to deal with that shit again.

I didn’t like Kane’s line to Bellamy about eventually deserving to survive. I know why it’s in there, both in an in-universe and in a line-to-the-fans way, but frankly my initial thought is: all human beings deserve survival. It’s not like only good people should be allowed to live a radiation free life lol. And second, can we just leave him the fuck alone already? I’m done with the Bellamy dogpile. Let’s hope that shit’s done too.

Speaking of lines I didn’t like, Bellamy calling Clarke Princess is basically the definition of Do Not Want. It’s the sort of thing that, small as it is, makes me think that the writers don’t know their own creation and it makes me lose faith in them again. That name was an insult—it was always a fucking insult, it’s not cute, it’s not a pet name, and it has no place in the Bellarke relationship anymore. Such an unnecessary false note. (I probably seem/am disproportionately mad about it…but I hate it.)

I could have done without that last scene. It just looked so….fake. Again it just took me out of the show completely. Was it supposed to show us how dire everything is? I got that message the last 20 times lol.

The stuff I did like:

BELLAMY. There wasn’t enough of him, but he was A FUCKING STAR in the scenes he did get, especially the negotiation scene. Like I could list every line I liked and every moment I liked and that would probably be more proportional to the degree I liked them but it’s probably faster and more efficient to say that I loved it all. I loved that he and Clarke acted like (mostly) equal co-leaders. I liked that they looked to each other all the time, and had all of these silent eye-communication moments. I liked the scene with him and Kane and Indra before the meeting with Echo, I loved that Echo views him as the only Sky Person she’ll talk to, and I loved…basically all of it but I guess what I’m trying to say is I loved both how he handled the negotiation and that HE was the one doing it.

Indra was killing it in this ep too. I loved the hug with Kane of course. I loved her and Murphy in the pre-negotiation scene (“I never agreed to [guns].” / “That’s because you’re not stupid.”) (She and Murphy need their own show like I would watch it.) I like how she’s basically chilling with the Sky People now—like the little scene in the temple had such a cool collection of characters, I was digging it. (Except for Octavia…who I really don’t know what to make of this season yet so.)

Speaking of Murphy…. Okay, I wasn’t impressed by Murphy/Emori in Season 3 but I did like their scenes in this episode. Unfortunately, I was really looking forward to them joining up with the Sky People in Arkadia; I want to see another Grounder trying to find a place in Arkadia (since Lincoln was brutally murdered and all) and I want to see Murphy re-integrate himself because tbh he really is at his best when he has people to play off of. People who aren’t Emori. So I was a little bummed when they ran off into the night together because I really don’t care to watch the two of them in a vacuum and also…we already saw that? But anyway I did like their scenes in this ep so they’re in the positive column. I also like that we finally got an explanation as to why Emori took the chip.

I’ve had sort of mixed feelings about Jaha because I’m not sure whether or not I can follow his story line/character progression or not but I will say: I am 100% Team Jaha as of right now. I do think that, whatever he was on the Ark or in S1, his late S1/early S2 transformation was genuine, and he really is trying to be a good person who helps people. I hope he finds the salvation and the purpose he’s been looking for. And his role in the little ploy with Octavia and the shroud was great.

That whole sequence was probably the strongest in the episode. I think one of The 100’s greatest weaknesses at this point is the complexity of its various allegiances and all the old bad blood that’s been spilled everywhere. I haven’t seen S3 since it aired and so even as a pretty big fan I still find some stuff hard to follow—it’s hard to remember who betrayed who when and all this shit and even though some Obvious Exposition is peppered in to help us along, it’s not enough for me sometimes. But this spider web of interconnected relationships, both good and bad, is also an asset of the show and I thought that middle sequence, from the “we surrender” line to Roan waking up, really played all of that up in a good way. It brought a lot of characters and a lot of history together in a way that generally worked very well. I liked the shroud ploy (though omg the Azgeda warriors are dumb AF—how could Octavia just get up and walk around and no one noticed her? Like they’re all looking outward and no one’s looking at the big ol’ empty middle of the room? And then she, a child who lived sixteen very unhealthy years under the floor and has been on Earth probably less than a year with only a handful of months of warrior training if that is able to take out a whole room of the most fearsome warriors in the post-apocalypse? It defies belief I’m sorry). I liked the Griffins operating together. I loved the tension. (Lessened somewhat by knowing Roan would live, what with him being a main and all.) Loved the whole goshdarn thing.

Most of the Arkadia stuff was pretty eh but only in that there wasn’t much of it, and what there was, we’d seen before in promotional clips and stuff (though I will say: they did better with the promotional stuff this year; I think last year they gave away some of their surprises in a way that made the scenes ring very false on a first viewing imo). But obviously I loved my boy Jasper. I would have found his almost-suicide very hard to watch if I hadn’t known it was coming but as it was, I could be more detached about it. I wish we’d seen more of his room but what we did see was interesting (I have an obsession with the Ark/Arkadia sets okay): his art—not just Maya’s favorite painting but another one near the door; his goggles with the plastic over the eyes knocked out—like him, just a shell of their former selves; all his random tools on his desk like why does he have those?; his notebooks. And, oh, that he left a suicide note to Monty. And even just their small interaction at the door was great.

Also… while in a way I find it an odd beat for him to go from his last scene with Monty in 3x16 to almost killing himself in 4x01, mere hours later in the canon timeline… I believe it, and I’m glad that my previous fears, that the show would just forget what he’d gone through and do a Jasper re-set in the new season, can be put to rest. I liked and believed in his transition from really-ready-to-die, to well-the-world’s-gonna-kill-me-and-make-it-easy-might-as-well-enjoy-Earth.

But the best Arkadia scene was the one between Jasper and Raven. First of all because I FUCKING CALLED IT that Raven shouldn’t have the sort of coding/computer abilities that she has. I hypothesized that she might have improved her skills at some point during the S2-S3 hiatus because her disability lessened her ability to do legwork, but I also mentioned that it could have been ALIE which still means I WAS RIGHT BOOM. (I just like being right a lot okay.) Also the “upgrade” talk reminded me of Dollhouse. Which was exciting but also made me all bitter and mad because Dollhouse did the idea of artificial upgrades to your brain so much better. Made me feel inspired for my Dollhouse AU though so there’s that.

I don’t ship Jasper/Raven but I do friend-ship them and I hope they bond over having been ALIE-d.

Also speaking of being AlIE-d, I don’t think Harper forgives Jasper for what his chipped self did. And she probably shouldn’t honestly because my theory is still that ALIE pulled from the real feelings and thoughts of chipped people and maybe someday I’ll write a full explanation of why I think that—which isn’t to say that Jasper wants to hurt Harper but just to say that ‘pleading the chip’ isn’t as straightforward as all that. Still, even though it makes sense narratively, because I will pick Jasper over pretty much everyone this is sorta another reason to unfairly dislike Harper. If there is anything even remotely like a Monty having to choose scenario I will be very perturbed though. (This isn’t something I especially liked or disliked, the thought just occurred to me while I was talking about Arkadia stuff.)

It’s pretty early to say anything about her at all but Unnamed Possible Priestess (Kenza??) is looking so promising. First, we know from the trailer she’s gorgeous and I’m always here for that. Second and to be less shallow for a second, Indra seems to know her, maybe, so that could be cool. And third, while I have yet to be impressed by Grounder religion, I am very curious to see if she’s going to be bringing in a different aspect to their spirituality. I don’t know her but I already want to see her go head to head with Roan.

I had a bit of a discussion/ramble with my mom yesterday when she was telling me a bit about the episode in a vague spoiler-free way and I was trying to explain when I like Clarke (when she’s a co-leader with a reasonably sized head, when she’s cunning and imaginative like in early S2) (early S2 Clarke is my favorite Clarke fyi) and when I don’t like her (when she’s arrogant, when she thinks she can do everything herself, when she doesn’t listen to others—basically season 2B Clarke and Clarke in parts of S3), and she said I thought I would like her in this ep. I was on the fence. I liked her with Bellamy. And she had moments that objectively I probably should have liked but I’ve just been so tired of her shit for so long it’s hard for me not to feel Tired Of Her in general. But… I guess I’ll say I think Clarke looks promising.

I kind of loved how at the end of the episode when Kabby were saying goodbye to their children and story-line heirs Bellarke, Abby says “Okay let’s do this” or some such, and then the first thing she does is hug Clarke. I know she means “okay, let’s accomplish the plan, which means separating, so I gotta say goodbye to my daughter first” but it looked a little like the “this” was hugging. Which is sort of sweet.

…Um wow I’ve written a lot and I can’t think of anything so I guess I’m done FOR NOW.

Looking forward to lots of delinquents, some hopefully cool tense scenes, more Miller and Bryan, and Clarke in a better outfit next time.

#the 100 #the 100 spoilers #the year 2017 #2017: the 100 s4 #2017: fandom thoughts #s4 reactions

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Hawkins’ Charm (Part 4/?)

Pairing: Billy Hargrove x f!Reader; platonic!Steve Harrington x f!Reader

Genre: angst

Warnings: blood, mentions of injuries and death, fighting, swearing

Word count: 3345

DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT CONDONE BILLY’S ACTIONS AND THE THINGS HE’S DONE! THIS IS BASICALLY AN AU, WHEN REALLY LOOKING AT IT! SPOILERS FOR S3! READ AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION!

Y/N’s heart felt as if it was about to break out of her chest, her arms clutching onto a crowbar she’d found under one of the bus’ seats. Steve’s back was just as tightly pressed against the inside wall, as was hers, his own fingers wrapped around a sturdy looking piece of wood, yet she still felt like there was nothing separating them from the Demogorgon. Tears had started to stream down her face pretty much instantly when they both dropped down to hide inside the hull of the vehicle. “Do you think it heard us?” Y/N whispered, trying not to move a muscle in her trembling limbs. Steve shook his head. “I don’t think so, but I’m not about to ask it.” “We have to get out of here.” “Yeah no shit,” he hissed, extending his neck to see out the front window where the Demogorgon was still lurking, moving at a snail’s pace and sniffing each and every corner. It looked about a hundred and fifty feet away, but it was still a risk to leave. They could slam up against something sharp, and if the sound wouldn’t give away their position the scent of blood definitely would.

Y/N was desperately trying to look around the interior for anything they could use against it. She remembered that it hated warmth, despised it, so fire would be a sure way to incapacitate it for a moment, if not even gravely injure it. Her Y/E/C eyes befell on a graffiti can. “What are you doing?” Steve asked, hands gripping his weapon tighter. She just shushed him with a look and passed her crowbar to him. Barely breathing, Y/N leaned to stand on all fours and crawled her way down the aisle. Just as her fingers were about to reach for the can, she heard the Demogorgon approach. Y/N completely pressed herself against the floor as Steve did to the side of the bus. The fear was all consuming by that point. Sure, she’d fought one of those pieces of shit before, she had fought even bigger monsters, but there was something about the Demogorgon, that Y/N couldn’t quite shake. Maybe it was the fact it had been the thing that started it all – taken Will, killed Barb and had turned her life upside down. Quite literally. Or maybe it was the fact she was no longer fighting for herself or for her friends. Y/N had a family. A husband and a daughter that meant the most to her in the world, so the fact that the Demogorgon could so easily rip it away was not something she liked to consider. They could hear the weird noises it emitted, as it walked around the junkyard, slowly moving further away from where Steve and Y/N were hiding. He stretched his neck a bit further out to look at where the Demogorgon was, and after deeming it safe, Y/N crawled forward a bit more and got a hold of the can. She couldn’t tell if it was half full or completely empty, at least not by the weight of it, so the only way they’d be able to check was if she shook it and pressed on the nozzle. “It’s gonna be loud,” Y/N muttered, looking at Steve. He nodded. “I know…" then something dawned on him. "Wait, do you have a lighter or something?” Shit. She hadn’t even thought about how she’d light it up. Y/N’s main concern had been getting the can and now testing it, not figuring out if by the lucky chance it was usable, they had anything to flame the paint up with. Instinctively Y/N patted down Billy’s jacket, for the first time ever hoping to find either matches or a lighter, but of course, there was nothing. He hadn’t smoked in years. Her mind wheered with the possibilities of what they could do. “Do you think there’s something here we could use? There’s no way kids don’t come here to smoke or drink,” she muttered, scanning the bus again. “Maybe,” Steve whispered back, still tracking the Demogorgon’s moves, the crowbar his new best friend until he could get his hands on his trusty nailed bat. “And there could be some stuff of use in the other cars, but are we sure we wanna risk it?” “Steve,” Y/N whisper-yelled, “we’re gonna have to risk it either way. There’s zero chance we can take it on with a rusted crowbar and a wooden plank. Fire’s our best bet.” “And if it’s empty?” A pregnant pause passed. “Then we run like fucking hell.”

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The junkyard might’ve been a twenty-minute walk through the woods from Tina’s, but with a car, with having to weave their way through the town, no matter how small Hawkins was and no matter how fast Billy was driving, it was still way too far away. “Take a left!” Robin yelled, as he almost missed a turn, the tires screeching against the road and leaving black marks in their wake. She looked to the side, watching as Billy’s knuckles on the wheel turned from white to almost translucent, eyes boring into the street like he could see invisible marks Y/N had left there that would lead them to Steve and her. “They’re gonna be okay,” Robin tried to somewhat soothe him, but his grip only tightened, and his foot pressed on the gas pedal harder. “They’ve dealt with this before.” “That doesn’t make me feel any better,” Billy grunted and quickly looked in his rearview mirror to see Nancy practically decimate the path behind them, her headlights shining brightly before they disappeared as she took a quick right to pull up on the other side. “They’re alone, in a junkyard with whatever the hell kind of a monster the Mind Flayer has released now. No weapons,” he slammed a hand on the wheel, and Robin tightened her hold on the shotgun. “And it’s my fault,” he let out a bitter chuckle. “I called her a mood killer and told her to go home, ‘cause I just fucking needed to prove to fucking Tommy H, Tommy H! that I was still the King of Hawkins!” “Look,” Robin started and then pointed to where a forest road led to the junkyard, Billy quickly turning that way. “Yeah, you were a dick, when she just wanted to relax with her friends, and your ego might’ve gotten in the way, but this is not your fault.” “Really? Then whose is it?” “I don’t know!” she practically screamed. “Probably whoever opened the Gate!” Whoever. Opened. The. Gate. “Fuck,” they breathed simultaneously. The Gate was open. Had to be. There was no other way to explain how something from the Upside Down could be here. “Do you think it’s the Russians again?” Billy asked, trying to think of something else other than his wife fighting off a monster, and maybe, potentially, losing the battle. “I don’t know,” Robin shook her head and loaded two rounds into the gun. “It wouldn’t make any sense, cause the people Hopper called to help us out four years ago made sure to lock everything up.” “And do you trust what they said?” “I mean given how they poured cement over each and every door, and Joyce was there to oversee it, yeah. I trust her.” It didn’t make any sense. The only other option was that the old access point in the Lab had been opened. “I mean, the Russians did apparently have their own Gates,” Robin suddenly remembered a conversation she’d had after the whole thing had gone down, hands slightly shaking at the thought of what was to come. Would it be as bad as it had been the first time around? Billy’s eyebrows furrowed. “What like in Moscow or something?” “I don’t know. All I know is that the last time Joyce and Hopper grabbed some commie dude, and he told them they used to have their own Gates, but something always prohibited them from fully working, so that’s why they came to Hawkins. This is like the source of all that Upside-Down shit.” Of course, there’d have to be something completely wrong with this already godforsaken town. “So, you think they did what?” Billy bitterly chuckled, “hopped on a boat and sailed here? Or did they send ‘em through the post?" Robin was not on board with his attitude despite understanding where he was coming from. “Look, I said I thought I saw a weird humanoid thing with a flower for a head. Nance said that means it’s probably a Demogorgon, and the last time, that shit could make portals wherever the fuck it wanted. So, maybe there’s a Gate open somewhere in Russia, and it just decided to move on its own to where the pull is the strongest?” They had slowed down to a crawl, headlights turned off before Billy had to kill the engine. They’d make the rest of the way on foot as to not give away their position. “There still has to be a gateway open in Hawkins,” Billy whispered opening up the trunk and taking out a bat he kept there. Clara was a huge fan of baseball for some reason, and he had decided for her fourth birthday they’d go to a game and ask a player to sign it. “It might be able to survive with a Gate open so far away, but it wouldn’t be able to function. Trust me,” he gave Robin a painful look. “I’d know.” “We need to see El,” Robin muttered, whispering as they neared the junkyard. “Maybe she can help us find out what the fuck is going on. “After we save my wife.” “And Steve.” Billy just gave her a look of dejected confirmation before they stepped out into the dark woods. Y/N would always be his first priority. Her and their kid. His grip grew tighter around the bat.

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They had miraculously managed to evade the Demogorgon, up until that point. Together Steve and Y/N had made their way across the junkyard and towards the tiny path that led into the forest but not before scouring every possible car. She was still holding onto the graffiti can like it was her last lifeline, which it might as well have been. “The one time his disgusting habit could’ve been useful,” Steve had muttered to Y/N after they had searched the third car for something to ignite the fumes if there were any left in the can. Their feet moved against the gravel with way too much noise for their liking, but the Demogorgon seemed to be far away enough, it wasn’t picking up on it or didn’t deem the prey noteworthy if it did hear them. “Quiet,” Y/N hissed with a motion to the trunk as Steve popped the back open. It seemed to be a relatively new car in the yard, at least it hadn’t been there when they were teenagers, the paint was still shiny, the light from the moon bouncing off its sides, compared to the rusty beasts lying around. A trash bag, what looked like a ripped-up sheet with stains littered across the fabric and a can of gasoline was what was inside. Gently, Steve grabbed the handle and lifted it up. Clear as the day, they heard liquid slosh around the cannister. And yet, still, with the additional fuel they could use, there was no way to ignite it. Something in the woods behind them cracked, and their heads whipped around. A low rumble echoed across the field. It was a rumble that Y/N would recognize even dead before it disappeared. “Billy,” she whispered, hope lacing that single word, but during the little moment of happiness, she had let go of the trunk's hood, as had Steve for he had grabbed onto the crowbar with both hands thinking it was the Demogorgon when it closed with a loud slam. The monster whipped its head around from where it had been sniffling, opening up its grotesque mouth and releasing a screech. Her first instinct was to drop down and hide, but someone from the opposite side yelled ‘hey!’, and they took it as their opportunity to flee. “Run!” Steve yelled, setting off in a dead sprint. A gunshot rang out, the bullet whizzing past their heads, and Y/N instinctively ducked, the graffiti can rolling out of her hands and under a pile of metal scraps. “Shit!” Y/N scrambled towards where she thought it could’ve gone but had to recoil when something sneered directly into her face. It seemed to be a Demogorgon, but it wasn’t big enough, more so the size of a big cat or a small dog. A hand grabbed at her collar yanking Y/N back, the crowbar in Steve’s hand meeting the back of whatever that thing was. “Watch out for Demodogs!” he yelled, and a bullet from the shotgun Robin was holding met its head, the beast recoiling away but not dead. Y/N’s eyebrows scrunched up. “Demowhatnow?” “Demodogs!” Steve was gripping at her hand and pulling her away to the bus to take cover, as more and more of those things surrounded them. “The year after the first incident, Dustin found this weird lizard thing, and it turned out it was a Demogorgon, only not fully evolved.” “So, you’re saying that those things,” Y/N pointed at one of them, “become that?!” By that, she meant the Demogorgon making its way towards them but being fended off by Nancy who had made a Molotov cocktail from a whiskey bottle she’d snatched from Tina’s, the end of her blouse and a lighter. A lighter! “Nance!” Y/N yelled. “There’s a can of gasoline in the trunk we were looking in!” “On it!” The Demodogs were pressing in on them. She could hear the yelps from them when the thud of a crowbar or Billy’s bat met flesh, Robin taking as many out with her shotgun, Johnathan keeping Nancy safe by creating a wall of flame as he spilt another bottle of whiskey around them and lit it on fire. It was unmistakably Billy’s arm that wrapped around Y/N's middle and pulled her behind him. “Get to the car! Now!” She wasn’t going to argue, seeing as she was the only one without a weapon, and where she was stubborn, she also knew how to read the situation. With one last look at Steve to know he was going to be okay, he nodded giving her the green light, and Y/N was running. But she didn’t get far. Pain exploded all across her back, and a metallic taste invaded her mouth as she was slammed onto the ground. Bright spots danced across her vision, and it was hard to take in a breath. It was like a belt was slowly being tightened around her neck. She thought she vaguely heard someone yelling her name. Someone vaguely sounding like Billy. Y/N tried to answer, to call out for him, but her tongue was made out of cotton, and lips wouldn’t move. Her fingers went to grab at whatever was prohibiting her from taking in a breath when she was met by fingers with razors for nails. Y/E/C eyes instantly sprung open to see the Demogorgon leaning over her, its mouth open as if waiting for her to give him permission to eat. Of course, that was not going to happen. With as much strength as she could muster, Y/N kicked at the knees of the Demogorgon, and for a brief moment, she had taken it off its balance, allowing air to start flowing once more. Quickly she turned on her stomach to crawl away, but her oxygen deprived limbs were too slow, and the agonizing feeling of claws digging in her back and dragging her away made her vision go black. For a moment, Y/N opened her eyes and saw the junkyard illuminated by a circle of fire and a horde of Demodogs surrounding her friends and the one person she could never live without. Then everything turned to darkness.

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Robin didn’t have any more bullets, and she was fighting the Demodogs off by simply slamming them with the shotgun. But the fight didn’t last much longer. In a way, it was a miracle, as the surviving Demodogs retreated back from where they’d come from, hissing and growling. But at the same time, it didn’t feel right. Sure, they were battered and bruised and tired, and they had no complaints about no more fighting, but that’s when they were the weakest, the easiest to be killed. Billy was sporting a nasty cut on his shoulder from one of the paws of the Demodogs, and it was hard to keep ahold of the bat the pain making bright white spots dance across the inside of his lids whenever he blinked. “What are they doing?” Johnathan asked, completely confused as they’d stood back to back while struggling to defend one another. “They’re retreating…” Robin stated the obvious, but it seemed so improbable it was needed for it to be pointed out. “Why – why are they retreating?” “Guys?” Steve butted in, “where’s Y/N?” “I told her to get to the car,” Billy responded, and it was those words that made him dash towards where he’d parked the Camaro by the junction. He’d never been a religious person, the Virgin Mary that always hung against his chest had been his mother’s, but for the third time in his life, he prayed. The first time had been when the Mind Flayer had injured him. He had prayed for death to come quickly. The second time had been when Y/N was in labour. He had prayed for everything to go as smoothly as possible. Now he was praying to find his wife in the safety of his car, but when he was fifty feet away, he didn’t need light to know she wasn’t there. “Y/N!” Billy roared but was only answered by the silence of the forest. “Y/N!” Four pairs of feet joined him and looked at the distressed man as he pulled at his hair and kept yelling her name “Maybe the Demogorgon was chasing her, and she decided to run,” Steve threw out the idea, hoping for it to be true, but everyone had a gut feeling it wasn’t. Nothing was ever that easy. “No! Fuck it took her! I left the keys in the car! If she would’ve made it, she would’ve slammed on the gas pedal.” Billy chucked the bat against the door, and it left a sizable dent in it. He didn’t care about it anymore, he didn’t care about anything else anymore. His wife was gone, missing, and it had been his fault. His fault she was hurt, his fault their daughter could possibly have to grow up without a mother. His fault. “Let’s go,” Johnathan’s voice brought him out of his self-loathing. “No,” Billy shook his head. “I gotta find her.” But he had nowhere to start. Nancy tried to reason with him. “That’s what we’re gonna do, but it’s pointless to scour the woods in complete darkness with barely any protection. We don’t know where the Demodogs are or the Demogorgon. El’s at our place with the rest of the Party… She can help. She can find her.” “Do you promise?” Billy asked through tears that he could barely keep at bay. “Can you promise me she’ll be alright?” “I can’t,” Nancy’s lip quivered at the admission. She couldn’t lose another friend, but she also couldn’t swear that they’d find Y/N alive. “But El’s our best option.” He kicked the dirt by the wheel of the car but nodded. El was their best option. “Come on,” Billy wiped his face down, a trail of dirt and tears left in the wake of his palm. “The sun's coming up.” With the first scarlet rays of the new day, Billy and Robin climbed into his car as Nancy and Johnathan went back to theirs. He'd find her. And if he didn't he'd burn Hawkins to the ground.

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A/N: I apologise for any grammar mistakes, I’m pretty tired, but I wanted to put out this part :D

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I am not a woman of my word, I tell ya what

So I started watching s6 after all. Well, parts of it...

Anyway I thought I’d just post my thoughts like I normally do for the rewatches. Although there are not many thoughts at all.

When I started watching, I was like wow. It’s good to not really feel invested in this at all because s6 is so pointless and also didn’t happen. But then Darren’s acting in That Scene blew me away, and Kurt’s breakdown in the bathroom- tears. Well not tears but something. ...A little something.

I’m sure someone’s already made this meta connection but Kurt telling Rachel about how he was the only one who showed up to their spot reminded me of s3 when Kurt’s the one who convinces Blaine to go to glee practice and they meet up with Artcedes and everyone comes in after that and they’re all together.

But also Artie is just... in film school, still. So he’s there. Ah well guess he didn’t feel like going out in the rain

At one point Sue refers to Kurt as “Middlesex” which is, surprise, another jab at his gender presentation and sexuality. Oh and she says he smells like a nursing home. Just a fun little taste of the oh so hilarious insults to come :)

Although even Jane sounded tired of what she was saying. Her voice was just so calm and chill. Not the usual crazy rage of a Sue insult tornado

Let It Go is actually a really good song for Rachel to sing at this point in her life. It’s very fitting. I mean I left the episode playing while I went to the bathroom, but it sounded really good from down the hall.

Wow that’s it for Loser Like Me. Moving on!

Yay Jane and Roderick are finally here. Happy days are here agaaain

I love Mercedes’s verbal smack down of the Tea Party people. And Tina’s one line outburst. But the funniest part is still Sam running into Quinn and her laughing like that. Unscripted moments > scripted moments on this show any day

Speaking of which. You know how someone edited the cartoon Hunchback of Notre Dame movie to completely remove the gargoyles to make it less wAcKy? Anyway someone make an edit like that for Glee where you just take out all Brittany lines

Anyway more importantly, Unholy Trinity hot. Me gay

All of the songs in this one are so fun, and I love the new characters, and the fact that Kitty is back. Am I actually warming up to s6?? Weird...

I love when Blaine gets angry. I mean people already demonize him for having any emotions or feelings in the first place so he might as well be angry. No one can do anything about it

Homecoming has great new characters, amazing songs, even made me laugh a few times. Normally when I think s6, I think Santana’s awful rant, the crazy Klaine locker, Myron, Dalton fucking burning down for no reason??? But hey parts of it aren’t so bad. I’m making progress

Anyway that’s Homecoming. On to Jagged Little Tapestry

Klaine duet. Not my one of my favorites but it’s still Klaine so... one of my favorites. I love how soft Kurt looks in the flashback. Little Dalton bbs

I love how you can tell that some of those pictures on Blaine’s phone are Chris and not Kurt. Probably some bts pics, which I love, because one of my pet peeves is when they use promo pics/stills for actual photos lol

“We all left glee club with a better understanding and appreciation of all kinds of music” me @ everyone about Glee

Okay I highkey hate Becky but the “Shut up I know!” delivery to Tina made me laugh

Oh great, more scissoring jokes. That’s totally what I was missing

They even say “I would hate us if I didn’t know us” well yep. I hate them. But I do know them lol. Ah well. Their duet mash up is probably one of my most played Glee songs. So there’s that

Santana proposes in the choir room and says it’s going to make all the single people upset lmao. Also she loves Brittany because they... don’t improve one another. Yeah it shows. God I fucking hate Brittana sorry not sorry

God Santana literally reads as psychotic here. Kurt barely even said anything bad and she looks like the fucking Kill Bill sirens are going off ffs. I reeeally hate her this episode oh my god. It makes me hate all of s6

Also can we please stop pretending like Brittany is a math genius. I’m over it. I’m tired. I’m tired of Brittany full stop. She’s the worst

Tv writers have a straight guy and girl know each other for one minute and like make eye contact and expect viewers to be falling over themselves invested in this couple (Finchel) and I’m like ...yawn. But also Jane and Mason have one duet together and I’m like 💖💜💕💞💝🥰💖💜💕💞💝🥰💖

“I think because we’re so close” Rachel shut up I’m still not buying it

“Did they really say that? That I helped them?” God Kurt I love you. You help everyone

“This isn’t about who I want to go to bed with. It’s about who I want to go to bed as” al;fklsdafjds nice line. I’m also making my peace with Coach Beiste being trans. They actually did a good job I think? The storyline just started and the rest I haven’t watched in 4 years so idk

Sooo all in all of 6x01 I watched maybe... 15 minutes of it. Basically any scene with Kurt or Blaine in it (except them watching Rachel’s pilot, or the Warblers number) and also watched the Sam/Rachel stuff. Everything else? Fast the hell forward.

6x02 I watched almost all of. Just skipped some Sue stuff.

I was ready to only skip through That Scene in 6x03 but I remembered all that Becky crap so I skipped most of that. Probably ended up watching about half an hour all together, so the majority of the episode. I consider that a win.

Overall, Homecoming is the only one I actually really loved. Gotta move it waaay up on my Glee ranking list lol

#glee #tdb rewatch #tdb rewatch loser like me #tdb rewatch homecoming #tdb rewatch jagged little tapestry #long post #my thoughts #anti brittana #anti brittany #lol brittana #lol brittany

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