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sequinsmile-x · 7 days

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Stained Glass Windows - Chapter Sixty Eight

Life was complicated, but they wouldn't have it any other way.

-x-

Hi besties <3

As always, the love for this version of them means the entire world. Sorry for the delay in this chapter - my brain wasn't working for the multi chapters whilst it was being melted by the mumps, but I am on the mend so here we are.

Cannot believe we are close to 70 chapters on this. I still have a lot to do with this version of these two, so as I've said before as long as you guys read and still enjoy this I will keep writing it.

As always, please let me know what you think - feedback means the world <3

-x-

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“Son of a bitch,” Emily grunts as she lowers herself onto the couch, her hand pressing against her immobilised shoulder as it’s jostled as she sits down sending pain through her upper body.

Aaron drops the bags in the hallway, his body tensing as she calls out in pain. He rushes into the living room, his eyebrows furrowing as he looks at her, walking over his hands on his hips as he approaches the couch, “Are you okay, sweetheart?”

She smiles as she looks up at him, releasing a slow breath as the pain dissipates. He looked like he hadn’t slept since he left Pakistan. He’d barely left her side in the hospital, his hand wrapped tightly around hers as she slept fitfully through the one night the doctors had insisted she’d stayed. He was bordering on coddling her, but she knew he needed this. That looking after her was a way of trying to alleviate any guilt he felt for leaving in the first place.

It was a conversation for another day, something she’d raise with him when she was feeling better and he didn’t look like he was going to collapse at any moment.

“I’m okay,” she assures him, her hand slipping from her shoulder to her lap, “Is JJ on her way with Lily?”

He nods and sits next to her on her good side, making sure he’s careful so he doesn’t jolt her, “I called just before we left the hospital.”

Emily sighs, resting her head back on the back of the couch, her eyes drifting closed as she thinks about seeing her little girl. It felt much longer than the one day it had been since she’d seen her, a hollow feeling in her chest that only holding Lily would fill, “Good. I missed her.”

He smiles sadly as he looks at her profile, his eyes drifting over the features he’d memorised a long time ago, the ones she’d passed on to their daughter and that he hoped she’d pass on to any future children they’d have. “I missed her too.”

She turns her head to look at him, smiling sadly as their eyes meet. She feels guilt rush over her, pulling her under as she reaches over with her good hand and curls it around his. It was a feeling she’d started to forget. She’d lay in their bed at night unable to sleep and desperately try to remember the feeling of his hand in hers, his fingers slotted between hers, the spaces the perfect size as if they’d been made for each other. She tries to memorise it again, and tries to make sure she doesn’t take it for granted.

“I’m sorry,” she says, lifting their joining hands to kiss his knuckles, “I can’t imagine…” she drifts off, not sure how to put it into words. She missed Lily after one day, she couldn’t put herself in his shoes - couldn’t imagine how she would feel if she’d been the one who had been gone for as long as he had.

“It’s not your fault sweetheart,” he says, leaning in to stamp a kiss to her cheek, taking the time to breathe her in, “I’m the one that agreed to go.”

She hums in response and they fall into silence, the usual peace they both found in their home tinged with an awkwardness she hates. She rests her head on his shoulder and smiles to herself when he rests his cheek on top of her head, an automatic reaction to her affection, something they’d done countless times.

“You know what’s a shame?” She asks, looking down at their joint hands, watching as he runs his thumb back and forth over the heel of her hand. It was something else she’d missed, the subtle kind of affection she’d lived without the first 37 years of her life but had become too used to the last three. She already knew that she didn’t want him to do something like this again, she hadn’t truly wanted him to this time, but she also knew how important his job was.

That was another conversation they’d have to have another day, one of many that seemed to be piling up somewhere in the back of her mind. Including the job offer to lead the Counterterrorism unit that she hadn’t mentioned to him yet.

“What?” He asks, pressing a kiss to the top of her head, enjoying the closeness he’d been deprived of for weeks.

“If I’d been t-boned by that jackass just five days earlier you would have been here for our wedding anniversary.”

It takes a moment for him to realise what she’s said, and a laugh of disbelief escapes him as he pulls back to look at her, his brows creased as he shakes his head, “Em.”

She laughs, the sound turning into a groan as it makes her shoulder ache, “Sorry,” she says, sounding anything but, “Too soon?”

“Yes,” he replies quickly, shaking his head at her. The air briefly stolen from his lungs as he remembers the call he’d received from JJ, the panic that had taken residence in his chest and hadn’t gone anywhere until he’d made it to his wife’s side. He breathes in deeply, sucking in hair and the peace only she could give him, and he blows it back out, choking on another laugh as he carries on, “Too soon,” he confirms, shaking his head as she presses her lips together, a half attempt at an apologetic smile flitting across her face, “I am sorry about our anniversary.”

She shrugs her working shoulder and sighs sadly. She can’t say that it’s okay, that she hadn’t missed him. She’d spent their anniversary with just Lily, a quiet evening pacing around the nursery as she soothed her teething baby. Haley had sent her an anniversary card with Jack the next day, an understanding smile on her face as she passed it over.

“When my shoulder is better we’ll make up for it,” she says, cupping his cheek, enjoying the scrape of his beard against her skin, “We’ll be making up for a lot of lost time.”

He smiles and leans in to kiss her, taking the opportunity to sweep his tongue through her mouth, capturing the contented sigh she sets free. When he pulls back he rests his forehead against hers, “I’m looking forward to it.”

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Emily tries to get up the moment she hears Lily crying from the nursery, ready to get off of the couch to go upstairs and get her, but Aaron stops her, his hand on her thigh as he squeezes.

“I’ll get her,” he says, pressing a kiss against her temple, “You stay here.”

She opens her mouth to argue with him, but she stops herself, knowing he needs time with Lily, that she has to get used to sharing the load with him again. She also knew since her shoulder was immobilised, and therefore her arm, she wouldn’t be able to lift her baby up from the crib by herself anyway

“Okay,” she says, smiling at him, “Bring me my baby.”

He winks at her, “Yes ma’am.”

He walks upstairs, following the sounds of his daughter’s cries, and he smiles at her as he walks into the room. She was standing up, holding onto the edge of the crib, something she couldn’t do before he left, her face screwed as she cries. He knew in the grand scheme of things that it hadn’t been that long, but he couldn’t believe how much she’d grown. She was bigger, her hair longer, her face impossibly more like Emily’s - something he hadn’t thought was possible - and even more of her personality had started to develop.

“What's this all about, Lily-Pad?” He asks soothingly as he walks over, lifting her into his arms. She shakes her head and tries to wriggle out of his embrace, her tiny hands pressed against his chest, something that makes him chuckle at first as he balances her on his hip, “I know sweetheart, you want Mama. But she’s got a bad shoulder so you’ll have to put up with me doing all the heavy lifting for a little while.”

Lily grumbles as if she understands him, a frown on her face that would rival his own, every bit as adorable as it always had been on her sweet face.

He couldn’t deny that it hurt that since she’d come home that morning she’d resisted it every time he’d picked her up to feed her or change her diaper. She’d looked at Emily each time, her eyebrows furrowed as she reached out for her, making noises so close to actual words it made him ache. He knew it was natural, that Emily had been her only caretaker for the last couple of months, that the little girl had got used to how life looked without him, but it didn’t make it any less difficult to take. Lily had always been all about Emily, ever since the moment he’d first handed her to her, but she’d never resisted him before.

“Mama.”

He snaps out of his thoughts at the sound of her voice, at the first clear word he’d ever heard her say. He looks at her, a disbelieving laugh escaping his chest as he holds his little girl closer.

“What did you just say Lils? Did you say, Mama?”

There’s a moment of silence, a brief pause as she furrows her brow before she says it again, wriggling in his arms again, “Mama.”

He kisses the side of her head and walks out of the nursery, moving quicker than he thought he ever had in his life. He gets to the living room in record time with Lily in his arms, surprising Emily with his speed. Her eyes go wide, panic flaring in her chest as she looks over their daughter to make sure there is nothing wrong.

“Aaron, is she okay-”

“She’s fine,” he says, sitting on the couch next to her, sitting Lily on his lap, securing her to him with one arm as he points at Emily, “Who’s that Lily?”

Emily frowns as she looks back and forth between the two of them, the room falling into silence as Aaron looks at their baby girl expectantly, “Honey, what-”

“Lily,” he says, cutting Emily off with a smile, holding her close, “Who’s that? Is that Mama?”

There’s another pause, another beat of silence, and Emily is about to roll her eyes at her husband and his strange behaviour when Lily reaches out for her.

“Mama.”

She gasps and puts her hand over her mouth, joy filling her lungs so quickly she chokes on the laugh that escapes her, “Did she just…” she asks, looking up at Aaron, smiling when she sees tears shining in his eyes before she looks at Lily, “Did you just say, Mama?”

“Mama,” Lily says again, frowning as she reaches for her again, her hands forming into fists as she tries to get out of Aaron’s embrace, clearly confused as to why she wasn’t in her mother’s arms.

“She said it upstairs,” Aaron explains, handing over the little girl gently, making sure that she’s settled against Emily’s good side, “She was so fed up with seeing me she decided to say it for the first time.”

Emily chuckles and holds Lily close, pressing a kiss to the top of her head as tears slip free from her lash line, “I love you so much, sweet girl,” she says, kissing her again, “I love you so much.”

“She loves you too,” Aaron says, reaching out and wiping the tears from her cheeks since she couldn’t, her only available arm holding Lily to her chest. He sighs contentedly and wraps his arm around her, holding both of his girls in his arms, “I can’t wait to hear her say Dada.”

Emily freezes briefly, a quick thing he thankfully misses as he tickles Lily’s stomach, drawing out her sweet laugh. Guilt burns her from the inside out, making her cheeks warm as she thinks of the secret she is keeping from her husband. She shakes it off, hoping she was making the right decision by protecting him from one of the things he’d missed. She looks up at him and smiles, pressing a kiss to his cheek.

“Me neither.”

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She yawns as she walks into the master bedroom, exhausted even though she hasn’t done anything all day except sit on the couch and let Aaron look after her. She smiles as she finds him dressed in his pjyamas, rooting through the large linen closet in the corner of their room.

“Are you remaking the bed?” She asks, rubbing at her eyes with her good hand, “Before you do that can you help me change?” She says, sitting on the edge of the bed, suppressing another yawn, “I’d like to say I can do it myself but we both know I’d struggle and then you’d have to help me anyway.”

Aaron chuckles and walks over, pressing a kiss to her forehead before he guides her to stand up, reaching for the zipper of the sweater he’d put on over her immobiliser that morning when they left the hospital. He lets it drop to the floor and starts to undo the velcro of the immobiliser so he can take off the clothes underneath.

“I was looking for that blanket I like,” he explains, careful as he eases her arm down to her side, apologising softly when she winces at the pull in her shoulder, “I thought I’d sleep under it in the spare room so we don’t have to change the bedding in there when I’m done.”

She looks up at him so sharply, and moves so quickly that pain spreads through her shoulder and down her arm, “Fuck.”

“Easy, sweetheart,” he says, placing his hand on her shoulder to steady it, to provide support until the pain subsides, “You’re okay.”

She breathes through it until it passes, blinking until her vision is no longer blurry as her breathing slows. She looks up at him, her eyebrows furrowed, “Why…why are you sleeping in the spare room?”

He sighs and slowly removes his hand from her shoulder before he goes for the hem of her shirt and lets her lift her good arm out of it before he helps her with the injured one.

“You’re in pain, Em. You have to sleep with that damn thing on,” he says, nodding towards the immobiliser on the bed, “You need the room.”

She feels a surge of anger she knows he doesn’t deserve that she has to swallow back, taking a moment to blow out a breath so she can react more accordingly, “What I need is my husband sleeping next to me.”

He sighs, his hands soft and gentle on her bare waist, “Em-”

“No,” she says, firmer this time, “You just spent two months sleeping on the other side of the world. I won’t have you sleeping in the next room when you’re this close. I…” she shakes her head and presses her lips together, “I won’t. You need to sleep in here with me, okay?”

He stares at her, their eyes locked as he feels himself lose his resolve. He’d never been able to say no to her, not really, and he wasn’t going to start now. Not when it was what he wanted to do too.

“Okay.”

She sighs in relief, “Okay?”

He smiles and nods, leaning in to stamp a kiss against her lips, “Okay.”

He continues to help her get ready for bed, unhooking her bra and slipping it off before he puts one of his t-shirts over her head. He reaches for the immobiliser but she stops him, her good hand on his arm.

“Wait,” she says, smiling as she steps a little closer until they are chest to chest, “Hug me.”

“What? Em-”

“You haven’t hugged me properly since you got back, and I know my shoulder is still fucked up, but I just want you to hug me. No immobiliser, no side hug. Just you and me.”

He wraps his arms around her, not waiting for her to ask again, and he gently pulls her closer, careful not to hurt her. She wraps her good arm around him and her palm rests on his back as she sinks into him, her face pressed into his chest as he rests his cheek on top of her head.

“I love you, sweetheart,” he says, stamping a kiss against her hair as he takes the opportunity to hold her this close, something he'd imagined every night since he’d last seen her.

“I love you too,” she says, kissing his chest through his shirt, her lips catching on what she knew was his thickest scar, “I love you so much.”

They stand like that, wrapped up in an embrace that isn’t fierce enough for either of them but one that would do for now until he pulls back and cups her cheek, his smile soft. Something just for her and their family.

“Come on,” he says, “We’ll get this back on you and then I’ll go get you some ice cream before I join you in bed. Jack will be here bright and early.”

She smiles and nods, already feeling cold when he steps away from her, his warmth something she had been chasing since he left, “He’ll be so excited to see you.”

“I’m excited to see him too,” he says, smiling as he straps her arm to her chest, “He was surprised when I called him earlier.”

She hums and runs her fingers through his hair, a wistful smile on her face, “He missed his Daddy. We all did.”

He wraps his arm around her again and kisses her forehead, his chest aching for all he’d missed, all the things he’s sure he didn’t even know about yet.

“I missed all of you too.”

-x-

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f4iry-bell · 17 days

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Surprises (grayson hawthorne x desi!reader)

anddd another one :3 this is for @lanterns-and-daydreams !!! also once again eid mubarak !!!!

Grayson couldn't wait to see his long distance girlfriend Hamnah’s reaction when he sees her face to face.It has been over two months since she flew back to Pakistan to spend time with her family. Though they facetime each other almost everyday it's not the same as being in the presence of each other. He missed her so badly.

Once he landed, he texted her, asking where she is to make sure she's home. Apparently she was meeting her friends and would be home after an hour or so. He had enough time to go to her parents' house and wait. He has already met her parents when they visited her in Texas. They absolutely love Grayson like their son.

He told her parents about his plan, and how Hamna doesn't know about the fact that he is in Pakistan. He waited and was having a chat with her parents before he heard the front door open. He immediately adjusted his suit jacket and stood up.

Hamnah walked inside the living room with her bag and dropped it once she saw Grayson in her living room. She immediately ran to Grayson and threw her arms around his neck as Graysons hands wrapped around her waist hugging her tight he nuzzled his face in her neck.

She finally pulled back “Oh my god, what are you doing here? Why didn't you tell me!” She asked, her excitement is so obvious in her eyes.

“Eid Mubarak, my love” He wanted to surprise her on Eid. It's all she talked about this past month.

She pecked his cheeks quickly and thanked him.

“I have another surprise for you” He said before walking towards the sofa and taking the shopping bag in his hand.

“What is this?”She asked, taking it from him.

“I got you another Eid dress, hope you'll like it” He said with a proud smile.

She took out the dress. It was a dark green lehenga with an uncountable amount of rhinestones. The lehenga screamed rich. But she was used to him getting her expensive things.

“It's beautiful, I'll try this on right now. You wait here” She said and walked to her room. It was so perfect on her. She also noticed that the shopping bag had matching jhumkas and bangles, of course Grayson Hawthorne would buy accessories as well along with a lehenga for his girlfriend.

Grayson froze when he saw Hamna in the lehenga, she looked exactly like how he imagined her to look in this lehenga.

“We'll say something” She chuckled, she can tell that he's in awe.

“Words can't describe how good you look right now.” He said and kissed her forehead.

“Thank you so much, you really made my day” She said.

“Anything for you”

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starlightshadowsworld · 10 months

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Pakistani Steve Harrington

This is how I imagine Steve's parents.

And subsequently his grandparents.

Steve's mother is Maira (My-rah) Harrington

And his father is Arun (Ah-roon) Harrington

Though they both tell everyone their names are Maria and Aaron.

Both come from villages in Pakistan but if asked they both say they come from Lahore.

Both of their fathers are actually old friends.

Having both come to America on the same boat after the Partition.

Which for Pakistan is the 14th August 1947.

They were both two men coming to a new country, leaving their wives behind.

And both became close friends. As did their wives, Arun and Maira's mother's from helping each other in their husbands absences.

Though they both joke that they hated for years.

The two men both worked together in America on contracts for before coming back home when they ran out.

During that time families were grown.

Arun had an older brother and two younger sisters.

Maira had 2 younger brothers and a younger sister.

Arun was sent to America with his older brother to study. They lived with their uncle.

Though years later Arun's father made the journey bringing Arun's mother and his sisters.

Maira came soon after, Arun's father had found work for him and her father so he went back.

Though it was several months before he could send for his wife and kids.

Arun attended school, graduated and than went to work for his father.

Maira attended school but dropped out at 15.

Taking up a position as a seamstress to help support her family.

Arun and Maira were arranged to be married after Arun had graduated.

Being friends, their parents really wanted their kids to end up together.

Arun and Maira agreed, having known the other and wanting to please their parents.

Arun continued to work for his father and uncle and Maira quit her job.

In time Maira's mother went back home to care for her elderly parents.

And Arun's father went back to expand the buisness, going back and fourth from America and Pakistan.

Steve was born on the 4th July 1966.

He was named Steve because his parents feared that having an "abnormal" name would lead him to be ostracised.

Maira looked after Steve and they were both really close. She taught him their culture but also how to hide his heritage.

It started for his own safety but became you are in America, act like it.

She has lovely brown skin but would cover it up with fair and lovely products.

Showing her son how to apply it so he could be handsome and fair.

She taught him Urdu, English wasn't to be used in the home.

Although both his parents would get annoyed at how slow his English was coming along.

Arun was a distant figure, always working and held Steve to a high standard as his only child and son.

They do have fond memories but not many.

Maira stayed at home with Steve, doing charity work and such.

Until she found out Arun was cheating on her with his secretary.

And took to going with him on his trips.

Steve's grandmother, Arun's mother babysat him though this stopped when he turned 10.

As both of his parents thought him to be tall enough and old enough to look after himself.

Citing that they had looked after themselves when their parents had been working.

And Steve was too soft compared to them. Didn't know the value of hard work and was too coddled.

So this would fix that.

Basically both Steve's parents were bought up by parents who were proud of their heritage.

So were they but as time went on, businesses booming and such they both lost their connection to their roots.

That is why Steve was bought up knowing Urdu frequently as his first language.

And would happily talk to his grandparents in it.

While also taught that being fair skin and having a western name is a good thing.

As Steve grew into his own person he found himself and his heritage.

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kaigome · 11 months

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my queue is set to fill about 2-3 weeks of my absence but i'm getting married hopefully in the coming year so checking out some wedding venues in pakistan and dubai so i'll be mia from dash for a few weeks! please please reach out to me on discord ( @ / sesshomaru's no. 1 enemy#7911 ) during this time (i fly out june 8th and return july 6th). my dash presence is gonna drop so please bare with me! much love.

#when i have an inuyasha themed wedding....#i just wanted to provide some context! i'm putting up 30 things into the queue so i should be good on content but i will definitely miss —#being present!!#out of character.

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someoneintheshadow456 · 6 months

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Hi! I recently found your blog, and I've seen some posts you've made/reblogged a long while ago about the political situation in India, like with the situation in Kashmir. I've recently seen some people say India is "brutally colonizing Kashmir" and other such things. I understand that this is a topic that is not being discussed at the moment, but some posts along these lines are quite recent and I wanted to know your thoughts on the Kashmir situation and these arguments, if that is okay with you.

It's the other way around. Kashmir is being brutally colonized by Pakistan.

Kashmir was originally a 60/40 distribution between religions (with Muslims having slight majority), and was ruled by a Hindu king. There was supposed to be a ruling to decide the fate of Kashmir in the 90s, however a mass genocide of the Hindu population in the area and an invasion by Pakistan happened before the ruling could even take place. In short - whatever the people of Kashmir wanted - Pakistan decided to ignore it and make the decision for them.

If you look at Kashmir's religious demographics, you will see the Hindu population suddenly rapidly drop in the 90s (to the point where less than 10% of the population is Hindu today) and most people will refuse to tell you why that happened, or brush it off as "migration." Many people will even justify the genocide by saying that Kashmiri Hindus were the "rich oppressors" and "had it coming" - the same reasons used to persecute Jewish people in Nazi Germany.

Kashmiri Hindus in India to this day live in horrible conditions because the government knows if they do anything to actually improve their situation beyond offering platitudes, fundamentalist Muslim groups will riot. In fact, most Kashmiri Hindus feel that it would be safer for the government not to notice them at all, because when they do, hate crimes against them increase.

Until very recently in Kashmir, only Sunni Muslim men had the right to vote and own property. When homosexuality was legalized in India, this applied to every state but Kashmir. Most laws relating to women's rights, domestic violence, child rights, etc did not apply there. It wasn't even a state for all Muslims - it was a state to benefit a very small pool of upper caste Sunni men in power.

When Kashmir went from being a special territory to statehood, the ones who were rioting were these upper caste rich Sunni men who were salty that they wouldn't be the only ones with exclusive rights anymore. And sure enough, after this ruling, hate crimes against the Kashmiri Hindu community rose.

Whenever you hear of the Indian army committing atrocities in Kashmir - it's usually tales of the Indian army retaliating against Pakistan-sponsored terror in the region, or cases when terrorists deliberately put their own people in danger and pin the blame on the army.

This video by Middle Ground (and the comments provide more information) will help you to understand the situation better. In it, the Kashmiri Hindu was the only one who had a loved one die because of the conflict (his father was killed when he was 15). And he was dismissed/mocked by the conservative Muslim speakers while the moderate Muslim speaker sympathised with him.

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#desiblr #kashmir

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nada-khader · 1 year

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Egypt maintains its position as first destination for MENA-based travellers in Q2 of 2018: Wego

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According to the survey, this large increase is mainly due to the holy month of Ramadan, which starts in mid-May, and the large number of Indian expats living in the Gulf who choose to return home during this time (or right after).

Similarily, it moved up two spots in Pakistan from position 11 to position 9 for the same reason.

Meanwhile, it was revealed in the report that Saudi Arabia had lost ground.

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chameli · 1 year

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Pathaan Review

WARNING: contains spoilers and impure thoughts lol

When the opening scene showed Lahore, Pakistan, my sister and I burst out laughing because OF COURSE. Bollywood making Pakistani Muslims the bad guys?GROUNDBREAKING! 🙄

I was a bit nervous because I thought the film would be super nationalistic and anti-Pakistan because I did NOT spend $30 to watch desh bakht shit. But I’m glad it wasn’t like that because so many films in this genre are. Like, stop fucking preaching and being annoying.

SRK was absolutely fucking delicious. Each look was better than the last. There’s just something about a dirty, scrungly looking man and he made me weak af. Watching Besharam Rang on the big screen and seeing him shirtless? Especially when he ran to Deepika’s room looking like THAT? Whew! I was literally feeling like a dog in heat lmaoooo

His hairstyle was giving off Eren Jaeger vibes 1000% and that’s all I could think about.

Pathaan’s backstory about Afghanistan was really sweet and wholesome. I love how they all helped him in the end, because I kind of had a feeling that’s what was going on.

John Abraham as Jim, oh my godddd. He was so sexy and played a great villain. I’m so glad he’s lean again because that super muscular, beefcake look he had going on for a few years was not attractive. I felt really sorry for Jim and what happened to him. It was understandable why he became a villain. I thought it was an interesting detail that he basically had no loyalty to any country and was doing it for a personal reason instead.

When John does that cute winking and smiling thing...my weakness

Deepika. Lord. That woman is a goddess. She was absolutely badass. I like that she played a Pakistani character and how just because someone from her country is bad, doesn’t mean everyone else is and she doesn’t consider his actions as something Pakistan as a whole is doing/agrees with. Basically that guy alone is an extremist and she would never condone his actions because she actually loves her country just like Pathaan loves his. The way the Besharam Rang lyrics literally described her character and motives, I was shook.

When she was like “Trust me, Pathaan” with those puppy dog eyes? I was like “BABY I TAKE U BACK!”

I think SRK & Deepika had amazing chemistry and the sexual tension! Especially when he was changing her bandages. Sorry girl, but I would have let Pathaan hit it.

I know this website hates a certain Khan but I really enjoyed his special appearance and the banter between Tiger & Pathaan. The Karan Arjun reference!!! Too bad it was spoiled for me by Reddit, ugh.

Dimple Kapadia was so stunning! I want to age like her. I cried when her character died.

SRK singing “Tu Hai Meri Karen” and the “I love you, K-K-Karen” dialogue had me and my sister crying 😂

LOL OF COURSE PATHAAN SAVED THE DAY AT THE VERY LAST SECOND

I was nervous that Ashutosh Rana’s character was going to talk shit about Pakistan and say how we all suck at the end, but thankfully that didn’t happen.

The pre-credits scene of Pathaan & Tiger was absolutely fucking gold. It’s like, they were talking about their job as agents but also irl how they rule Bollywood and none of these hoes can reach their level. So meta.

Love how Pathaan said he was going to see his hairdresser to get shampoo but then stayed looking hobo af in the very next scene (the Jhoome Jo Pathaan song)

Overall, I really enjoyed the movie and it was great seeing my man back on the big screen after 6 years 🥰

I’m gonna gif the fuck out of it once the torrent drops~~~

#pathaan #review

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The Quotebook

I already posted half of those quotes once, but there’s more now AND I learned how to do read more.

Most of the quotes are from different mcyt, but there’s also a couple of other people like CallMeKevin, Steven Suptic, Insym, Jacksepticeye, Gabby, etc.

Current quotes count: 431

Some of the quotes may be a bit different from the original, but it’s hard to type them out while it’s a livestream

1. “Oh it looks different in the darkness! Like a glow stick!” Ranboo

2. “Just killed a woman, feeling good” Tommy

3. “I am not mad, I am just disappointed in everything you are” Tommy

4. “Even if i started as a gaslighter, I ended as a girlboss, and that is what matter” Tommy

5. “No one except me put my life in danger, but yet i still do” Tommy

6. “I lost, but to be fair, i also cheated” Tommy

7. “I am my own girlfriend” Tommy

8. “I have a gun and no will to live. Let’s see what will happen” Tommy, playing minecraft

9. “Scott doesn’t like my russian dancing???” Tubbo

10. “I think I am fine just russian dancing, baby!” Tubbo

11. “I haven’t got a time to lose” Tommy

12. “If you don’t like the rules, you shouldn’t be in Wyoming” Tommy

13. “I think psychological war is a key to all relationships” Tommy

14. “Sorry, you couldn’t talk to me, I was too busy being alpha” Wilbur

15. “She drops her wings like guillotine” Wilbur

16. “Tubbo maybe love America. But I only love things that are real. Like Jesus” Wilbur

17. “I will give you advice. No matter how you look, no matter who or where you are. QUIT YOUR JOB! And then start a company! And quit it too! There’s not enough quitters in the world” Tommy

19. “If we all build a bomb and then combine it, we can finally get rid of America!” Tommy

20. “Will, I am dipped again” Tommy

21. “We need mud more than ever” Tommy

22. “We’re dumpenning the glam” Tommy

23. “I’m the only cock round here” Tommy

24. “Get birthed, bitch. Enjoy pregnancy, you fuck” Tommy

25. “Thing about friends is that they all gonna leave you. So you should leave them first” Tommy

26. “If Georgenotfound was a mouse, Schlatt would be a rat” Tommy

27. “‘I can't block clutch that’ is what I said when my marriage was failing” Tommy

28. “Who these axolotl fucks and why are they getting more attention than me?” Tommy

29. “Oh, this zombie found a food. But I am a food” Tommy

30. “Let me find my own battles” Tommy

31. “I got this boat still, I am optimising on it” Tommy

32. “The wind is truly cooking up on my sail” Tommy

33. “There’s a thing, Phil. I overcame death” Tommy

34. “Everyone dies in their own unique and wonderful way” Tommy

35. “Tubbo is such an only child” Tommy

36. “I crave manipulation” Tommy

37. “I’m gatekeeping right now pretty hard, ngl” Sneeg

38. “Would’ve start serious dming Tubbo” Tommy

39. “I lost my phone, I think I dropped it in the shower and never picked it up” Tubbo

40. Tommy: You didn’t explain me the game!

Tubbo: Well, explaining only works when you listen

Tommy: Mememem look at me, I am Tubbo, I am smart

41. “C’mon, king, take Pakistan, you deserve this” Tubbo

42. Tubbo: I think it’s everyone’s game except for Tommy.

Tommy, chuckling: Thanks, man. Iran will remember that.

43. “You lecturning me” Tommy, to the Villager

44. "It's not about the people you mend along the way, it's about- it's about you know, the fact that when- 'cause you're gonna die, the fact that when you die, you're not- you're not alone" - TommyInnit, 2022.

45. “I am wearing a Tubbo hoodie. I am wearing a Tubbo hoodie. I am wearing a Tubbo hoodie. Tubbo moment, Tubbo moment” Tommy

46. “Guys, I am currently your uncomfortable streamer, because I am completely discomforted” Tommy

47. “‘Streamer has morals’? Just know I can turn them off. I can and I will” Tubbo

48. “As a civilization, would we benefit from Tommyinnit not being able to swim?” Wilbur

49. “I will not add something like that to my kingdom. Too much math. And I am gay, I can’t do maths” Scott S Smajor

50. “I don't know how you expect us to live laugh love in these conditions” Scott S Smajor

51. “Only Tubbo would go ‘I’ve been craving ability of changing probability recently’” Tommy

52. “But only if it’s cute. If it’s not… I’d rather live dangerously” Scott S Smajor

53. "Gatekeep, Gaslight, and Girlboss, Cleo. That's the 3 Gs of this series. You want to gatekeep the resources, you want to gaslight the other players, and you want to girlboss by winning" Scott S Smajor

54. “I am gatekeeping gates now! No one gets in!” Scott S Smajor

55. "I already came out, it was a few years ago Pearl. It was a hard time” Scott S Smajor

56. “I encourage milfs and dilfs to watch my streams” Tommy

57. “My job in this group is to make it extremely gay” Scott

58. “Who cares. I care” Tubbo

59. “You know, sometimes I really don’t know how I got this far in life” Jimmy

60. “Please don't put a bomb in it if you ever give me a gift either, i don't like bombs” Tommy

61. “If your brother calls you an idiot, you should say ‘Shut up bitch’” Foolish

62. “The thing is: my game is never over, it’s only started” Tommy

63. “You used to be about water courses and Georgenotfound” Wilbur

64. “It’s not about the noise, it’s about the journey” Tommy

65. “We sacrificed two more people to the hardcore world” Joel Smallishbeans

66. “Big spiky hips. That’s what I look for in a woman” Wilbur

67. “Never put your fucking jizz and cum in the corner bitch” Jack Manifold

68. “I can feel myself melting down. I’m like a Chernobyl now” Tubbo

69. “What people did? Invented anime and war. Let’s eat people” Tommy

70. “Beckyamon, I take back all my thoughts about you I didn’t say outloud” Tommy

71. “You know? I all for equality, but I draw a line on eating people” Tubbo

72. “I remember losing my kidney virginity” Tommy

73. “Minding my business, I had a hay in my mouth. What can I say? I am a man of culture. So…” Tubbo

74. “I don’t think you should take eyeballs from strangers” GeminiTay

75. “Me too, king. I’m glad we can hang out like the old and gays… WAIT, I didn’t mean to say old and gays, it just kinda came out! Sorry… Well, they came out too.” Jack Manifold

76. “Philza Minecraft don’t do mercy. He also doesn’t do Geneva Convention” Tubbo

77. “An Irishmen never trust anyone who can make tea in the dark” Jacksepticeye

78. "I sucked Fundy... I'm sure he'll appreciate that” 5up

79. "A bunch of f*cking idiots... and then 5up" Sleepy

80. ��Sometimes i get in the shower with socks on to prove a point” Tubbo

81. “I like it when girl uses my own voice” Tommy

82. “You know I was pretending that I am bad at the game. But now when we are at 3 game, I can go all on” Connor

83. “I’m not the bigger person.. and I will never be the bigger person. but my god, will I be the louder person” Tubbo

84. “Guys, I guess my demons are coming out, Ive been threatening to fight a viewer for the past 5 minutes” Connor

85. “I can find something to complain about, give me 45 seconds” Connor

86. “Why would they make a game on any mechanic after 1.8” Connor

87. "I'm just a realist. It's not mean, some people would call it being real" DK

88. Tina: Apollo, why did you run away from this?

DumbDog: Cause I’m a bad bitch

89. “Tomatoes are strange creatures. I don’t trust them. I trust tomatoes about as far as I can throw them, which I suppose is a lot. Maybe that was a bad analogy” Foolish

90. “Am i a fruit? Am i a carb? No, I’m definitely a protein!” Foolish

91. “I’d be the guy in the apocalypse whose always chewing gum” Foolish

92. “See most people have boring merch, like shirts and hoodies. I’m gonna sell you guys dictionaries” Foolish

93. “I was stacking sand like an animal!” Foolish

94. “If anything, I underthink” Foolish

95. “I’m like a dolphin, or a shark... whatever drinks water” Foolish

96. “It’s good to have some muffins before kicking ass” Foolish

97. “If I was born in 98' what actually am I? Am I a gemini... or a millenial?..” Foolish

98. “Charity is never easy” Smallishbeans

99. “Why must I be in pain for simply just exiting” Tina

100. “Raft is like a game of chess. Sophisticated, yet modest” Tommy

101. “Patience is a virtue of a man” Tommy

102. “Plastic comes in so many shapes and sizes. It never fails to amaze me” Tommy

103. “I am just taking a moment to take it all in” Tommy

104. “I don’t need a sail when I have optimism” Tommy

105. “I hope I didn’t fail 5up here. I know how much he likes playing video games” Steven Suptic

106. “It’s like those american schools you have, with guns!” Tubbo

107. “You’re trying to tell me that Skeppy exists, and I don’t believe it” Tubbo

108. “People are dying over there, and I am looking at my storage” Tommy

109. Tommy: Sex kills!

Tubbo: And my god, it is morally wrong

110. “I got so much blood coming from my ears because of you” Tubbo

111. Tommy: Guys, I think I am happiest I’ve ever been right now.

Tubbo: I am so sorry, get well soon.

112. “We need to be well-rounded individuals, if we gonna shoot people and feel good about that” Tommy

113. “I don’t speak bicycle” JSchlatt

114. “You have to trust me, it’s you” DK

115. "I haven't seen 5up all round, maybe he's the killer" Koji says, when 5up was already dead the round before

116. “How do you defeat something which you cannot kill? How, how do you defeat something that cannot die? It’s simple...You take away things that it cherishes, one by one, until it wishes that it was dead.

That’s how you kill an unkillable god:

By making it want to die.” BadBoyHalo, on having his house moved to Ohio

117. “I think eyes are overrated” Eret

118. “Man I speak horse! [NEIGH] Learned that from a horse girl back in high school” BoomerNA

119. “Well, I take no responsibility for that. Unless you are happy with outcome. Then I take all responsibility for that” Scott

120. “I am a constant risk to my own safety” Tubbo

121. “WHAT?! I didn't- I don't- this was never-. IM NOT INTO YOU TUBBO. I'm not. Not in "that way". Sorry if that makes things Cringe but no where was that implied. Sure, you're Fresh as Fuck but not in a way that I just think you've read into this too much” Tommy, because Tubbo said that he doesn’t want to sleep with him

122. “We need to start spreading hate” Tommy

123. “Thats it, im spreading hate” Tommy

124. “That’s a beginners talk, and for that you will receive a penalty” Steve

125. Koji: Hey, Dumbdog, any congratulations for me?

Dumbdog: Absolutely not...

126. “Eat a giant pile of shut the fuck up” Bob

127. "When I look at your eyes... They're both.... Eyes" Wade

128. “‘What is money if not an obstacle’. And that’s a Steve quote for my life, I will take it to the grave” Steve

129. “You think it’s gonna get me, Koji? I am impenetrable. Koji, I can’t penetrate-slash-never’ve been penetrated” Steve

130. “It looks like a ca-HAT-strophe” Steve

131. “I am glad we came to a decider that it isn’t gonna be me” Ellum

132. “He has such a low impact that everyone is just disregarding him” Steve

133. “Feel free to respect me” Tommy

134. “Chat, I think this whole thing has got very out of hand. All I want to do is sit and eat polaroid photos” Tommy

135. “I’m gonna go vegan in rage” Tommy

136. “I am perfect. I am absolutely perfect” George

137. “I want more of me and less of anyone else” Tommy

138. “The master of Among Us, dude?? You not even a peasant of Among Us!” Steve

139. “Sorry, didn’t know you are out to silence my free will” Tommy

140. “I can simply porn act and pretend there’s a bomb on me” 5up

141. “I would fuck a tory, but I wouldn’t get fucked by a tory” Wilbur

142. “He says big words to basically say nothing. And I know that, because I am good at that” 5up

143. “hello streamer, did you know that if you use a bucket of water and place it just before you land you can negotiate fall damage” the Jims (5up’s chat)

144. “It’s like Jesus. My favourite Disney princess” Scott

145. “I’ve never felt more like an animal in my life” 5up

146. “I like red little birds. They fill me with happiness and joy” Tubbo

147. “Every second Grian is only getting closer” Phil

148. “So I decided to block out the sun!“ Oli

149. “Oh no, my one weakness… being weak!” Lizzie

150. “Me and Ranboo were roleplaying that I was gifting him a rat” Wilbur

151. “I’ll have to horoscope all over the place” Wilbur

152. “No one’s as alive as me” Tubbo

153. “A minecraft bird cant fly with two left wings” Wilbur

154. “She’s a FREAK, but a fun freak in that” Tommy

155. “There was still like milk to milk from a minion cash cow” Seamus

156. "You never realise how long a minute is until you spend it waiting to die" Kevin

157. "How do we know this isn't an act of god?" Tommy

158. "He plays Minecraft and I play psychological thriller" Iskall

159. “Dream is a modern day Hannah Montana” Illumina

160. “Maximus Bucharest is not just a fashion house. He is a fashion bungalow” Max Fosh

161. “You pulled him out of a catalog. But because you pulled him out of a catalog his personality is paper-thin” Dylan

162. "Do you want her to marry a freaking tree? 'Cause I'm available” Dylan

163. “Oh no, my cod, it’s drowning!” Joel

164. “You give a man fishing rode and he is fed forever. You give him 8 buckets of salmon and he is scared and confused” Wilbur

165. “Trees help you breathe, and we all need to breathe to play Minecraft” Joel

166. “The beach people worship Totoro” Lizzie

167. “It feels like Scott did a weird random wheel generator, balanced it out and that’s the teams!” Antfrost

168. “It’s not Lime Llamas, it’s Lime Liars, and it’s me, Dream, Fruit and Your mom” Zeuz

169. “I am not gonna wrote Aqua Axolotls cause I can’t be bothered” Zeuz

170. “Church? It’s a Saturday. Church doesn’t exist” Wilbur

171. “What’s a Wisconsin?” ZombieCleo

172. “I don’t think I’ve appreciated before how weird ghasts are looking. I kind of just… accepted them in my life” Grian

173. “I’m gonna skip so much time, we’re gonna kill God himself” Jacksepticeye

174. “If they will just add more Sands of Time… The MCC just will get better and better” HBomb

175. “Through our discussion we had established that we will win. Great news” Oli

176. "You're a highly unusual individual and I can't let my audience be around you" Techno

177. “This is a sin! Let me get God on you” Tommy

178. “How do you predict? It’s all copium and bias. I don’t know how to not be biased, i am an egoistical optimistic person. So how do I do it?” Purpled

179. “DMCA IS ONE OF THOSE URBAN MYTHS” Tommy

180. “If only Jesus knew about this… oh I forgot, I AM Jesus” Tommy

181. “Sniff, I mean this in a nice way, but knowing memes does not make up for a personality” Tubbo

182. “I hate british people. British people should stop being british” Purpled

183. "I've won over 6,000 games of solo bedwars, fun is a distant memory" Purpboy, the kid that grew up with older brothers

184. “Don’t you know you are playing against Purpled Bedwars? I invented Bedwars” Purpled

185. "Put my tea in the microwave" Grian

186. "If first you don't succeed, keep annoying your friends until they listen" Grian

187. "We must not dwell on the fact we have no friends" Grian

188. “Not everything I do has to start a war. Sometimes I just want to create a society of sewer-related mole people” Grian

189. “You’d make a great politician, Lannan, because that was all bullshit” Jacksepticeye

190. Seapeekay: One thing I’ve learnt from this is that you miss all of the shots you dont take

Jacksepticeye: Oh, I just miss all of the shots regardless; I like to be consistent

191. "I haven't seen the moon in 3 years because I'm on the same server as Bdubs” Mumbo

192. “I’m about to hit spit spakle the fuck outta someone” Tubbo

193. “I will never be selected naturally. I will choose when it’s my time to die” Tubbo

194. “I am such a good discomfort streamer. I got so good at that lately” Tubbo

195. “I already did that, I am a rebel. I am rebellious. I am in my rebellious phase. Yeah, I tried alcohol. What can I say, I am rebellious” Tubbo

196. "Thats right. I'm breaking into your house. I'm gonna steal your man" Life advice with Grian

197. “You buy the whole seat to this musical, but you only need the edge of it” YoBGS

198. “It’s okay, I have my cat ears and my skirt, I am still doing well!” Baablu

199. “Confidently said it with confidence” SMii7Y

200. “I’m a feeble boy, there’s only so much meat I can handle” Jack Manifold

201. “Trust me, dude. I want to find the suck. I just… I can’t” Ohmwreker

202. “It’s hard being a diplomat like that, people don’t really think it is but it did but it do you know” Smii7y

203. “I am being gaslit, and theres no girlbossing going on, lemme tell you that much” Jack

204. "I've seen all the bugs. I actually make the bugs” CJ

205. “Ghosts have urinated on the table” George

206. “I am going to play only copirated music this stream, because what if I will get DMCAed on Twitch during Twitchcon, that would be funny” Tommy

207. “I am gonna say it now, I am not at all sexually involved with this race” Wilbur

208. “Wilbur, say it with me: I love anal!” Tommy

209. “You are not cringe, you are an inconvenience” Tubbo

210. “You are just words, but you are wonderful words” Wilbur

211. “Phil, when I look at you, I think of you as a bit of a bottom guy” Wilbur

212. “Even in death I’m mega handsome” Grian

213. “I believed in the heart of the cards and the heart of cards KILLED ME” Grian

214. “The only rating system that matters is what tier you are in Scott Smajor’s head” Seapeekay

215. “Americans all they do is see a crime, think it’s probably a lag and walk away” Tommy

216. “No memes, just suffering” CJ

217. “I have a disclaimer, it fixes everything” Antfrost

218. “Superheroes don’t die in earthquakes” Sophie

219. “Phil, you pin me as a kind of person to own a Ferrari” Tubbo

220. “As long as we have the same fashion sense, it equals skills” Tubbo

221. “To be fair, I am all for some good bullying, if we are getting this kind of results” Tubbo

222. “In my mind I just think: ‘Man, I hope this organic. Only sinners eat not organic carrots’” Tubbo

223. “I am like a fish out of water, but the water is a Dodgeball arena” Wilbur

224. “Philza Minecraft! God, you look not a day over ninety” Tubbo

225. “I am going to get addicted to this game and I am not happy about it. But that is life” Tubbo

226. “I am a ball lover. I really am” Tubbo

227. “Ball is life, Tubbo” Wilbur

228. “I mean I’m already a criminal I may as well keep going” Shubble

229. Jack: There’s a lot of dsmp music, now that I think about it. Half of us made a song.

Eryn: Not me. I am too based.

230. “Everyone thinks I am a babysitter, but I am really just an alcoholic aunt” HBomb

231. “How much are you getting for babysitting today? Hopefully One Coin” HBomb

232. “Is this Skeppy? I think I just came” Tommy

233. “It’s me. Tombee Innit. The uncle of the great wedding we call life” Tommy

234. “Am I allowed to judge people's penises?” HBomb

235. “‘You hate me?'. No, I don’t hate you, I hate everybody” PeteZahHutt

236. “Jack’s literally wearing a Garfield outfit... I think he might be my soulmate” Martyn

237. “Who’s corpsing it?” Jack Manifold

238. “Is that my inner Trump?” Tommy

239. “I’ve been dunkin, pops” Tommy

240. “CJ is the one we need to be scared of, not the ghost” Insym

241. “Stop spending time with women and start spending time time-traveling” Tommy

242. “My new husband arrives today” Wilbur

243. “If you look through any of my fan’s twitters you’ll realize that these dudes aren’t okay. I should be sponsored by Better Help to be honest” Purpled

244. “Phil, remember when we smoked weed and fucked bitches?” Tommy

245. “I love doing nothing, it makes my life so much easier” HBomb

246. “Oh my god, I hate humans. All humans should die. Robots are better” HBomb

247. “I am a god with the dexterity of a mouse" Tommy

248. “Liberal. what is a liberal? It’s planting seeds in a garden you don’t get to see. If I throw away my balls— what is a liberal? That’s it, you’ve completely enraged me” Tommy

249. “‘Say a curse word’? Don’t tell me what to do you ✨fucking bastard✨” Tommy

250. “Among us would never kill me, Among us knows better. We are brothers in Christ, the Christ being, of course, Tubbo. Jesus Christ Tubbo” Tommy

251. “It’s like I am in Walmart! It’s my greatest nightmare!” Insym

252. “Don’t mean to flex, but I murdered two people, no big deal” HBomb

253. “And we need some smart people dust too” Geminitay, breaking redstone

254. “I feel like life is just better when people aren't wearing pants” HBomb

255. “It’s fine, I am a scum” Sneeg

256. “You know what, Sneeg, when I grow up I want to be just like you and do all the drugs that you’ve done” Tubbo

257. “I’ve never seen you so passionate about headwear” Tubbo

258. “Admittedly, I am a verified colonizer” Tubbo

259. “You’ve taken upon yourself to steal from the great city of France!” Tommy

260. “If you live in Wyoming, you have to be a cannibal” Tommy

261. “We have Salvador Dali for a villain” Sophie

262. “We're more stuck than your average stepsister” Insym

263. “I could’ve figure this out if I used my brain, but sometimes I just don’t use my brain” Insym

264. “This is my villain origin story. I am going to complete a villain arc right now” Insym

265. “I am actually potentially going to die here” Insym

266. “I am a stereotype :D” Kristin

267. “This city has more infrastructure than the entirety of America” Tubbo

268. “He is a dark whorse of this lobby, that’s for sure” Steve

269. “Every boy has a resting rock” Tommy

270. “I don’t know how to play Dungeon & Dinosaurs” Tubbo

271. “An old friend of mine, we call him Mr. Keys. Mrs. Keys for short” Tommy

272. “It’s fine, fella, you are with God now” Tubbo

273. “It’s like a beautiful rain of generational gaps” Wilbur

274. “Boomers destroyed themselves and zoomers just fucked around and failed” Wilbur

275. “And up to this point, Wilbur, I thought climate change was completely made up by Dream” Tommy

276. “I can get soggy for Schlatt” Tommy

277. “You’re a sucker and I am a fucker” Charlie

278. “Phil, Amazon forest is nice only until Tubbo will go and burn it down with his mid-eastern war force” Eryn

279. “No bears being pocked here” Beky

280. “I am quite content not having balls” Tubbo

281. “Punishment for trying” Phil

282. “We moved through catacombs from Tasmania to Spain” Eryn

283. “Do Spiderman’s friend shoot spiderwebs? They don’t shoot spiderwebs, so they are not cool” Eryn

284. “It was lunch. Well, technically breakfast” Tubbo

285. “I don’t want to live on an edge of uncertainty anymore” Insym

286. “They call me a doorbreaker. It’s actually my middle name in college” Insym

287. “‘How to survive school?’ That depends if you are in America or not. I assume it’s pretty easy everywhere other than in America” Tubbo

288. “You should be thankful. I was gonna kill you and I stopped myself” CJ

289. “Cause you died, dude. Get rekt” CJ

290. “I have an addiction at the moment, so I am a bit cold turkey” CJ

291. “I have my wits about me” Tubbo

292. “The shadows are shadowing, they are shadowing too much!” Vixella

293. “American people don’t quite understand, how do I say it lightly, anything” Tommy

294. “People often ask me: ‘Tom, what it’s like to be an internet superstar?’. And I answer them: ‘I don’t know, I have dementia’” Tommy

295. “You guys should turn your country off and on” Insym

296. “I am going to dress as a slutty cheese for Halloween” Kevin

297. “Never change yourself for a dude… it could give you ✨aCnE✨” Gabby

298. “Are you weeping?! But you're a baddie?!” Gabby

299. “Boys are not worth the stress acne, that is why I’m glowing” Gabby

300. “We could just burst down the door and battle to overthrow Ren. But that’s lame. You know what’s better? Psychological Warfare” Impulse

301. “When God said ‘let there be light’, AND THERE WAS I” Gabby

302. “If you have a power to shapeshift into anything and at any point in your life you choose to turn into insect, you should have your powers remove” Dylan

303. “Underestimating your enemies is as dangerous as underestimating your taxes” Kevin

304. “I can’t use a computer? Oh my god, I am a boomer” Kevin

305. "I'm a defender of the stupid. I gotta protect my own kind” Kevin

306. “Being insane isn’t that bad. I still win, that’s nice” Kevin

307. "Decision has been made. And the decisicion was wrong” Kevin

308. “Doesn’t seem like a good idea, but I kind of made of bad ideas” Insym

309. “Wait, I am not looking at the ceiling, what happened to me” Wilbur

310. “Imagine the entire house was a bathtub, that would be just unsanitary” Wilbur

311. “We’re all on the same team here, Scar. Except for Pearl. And everyone not on our team” Joe Hills

312. “I’M SORRY, I’VE NEVER BEEN A CHICKEN BEFORE” Elaina

313. “I am convinced that’s what dying is like” Tubbo

314. “I am not pregnant, it wouldn’t work for me” Tubbo

315. “Tips with me: just don’t die” Tubbo

316. “I want to have strong words with Fate” Tubbo

317. “Don’t leave me, Phil, I am parasocial!!!!” Tubbo

318. “I knew something was up when CPK died first” Sapnap

319. “I am hopping around and look at the sparkles and think: ‘Damn, they are sparkling’” Tubbo

320. “OH I FORGOT ANTFROST IS GAY! I FORGOT ABOUT THAT FACTOR” 5up

321. “People don’t like committing crimes when there’s a camera” George

322. “Oh my god, I am all over the place. I am everywhere and also nowhere at once” Vixella

323. “Tubbo is a biter, I guarantee” Martyn InTheLittleWood

324. “I am late, but I am the Moment” Gabby

325. “The secret is to just not use your brain” Krtzy

326. “I am not evil, I’m just twisted” Tubbo

327. “How’s my sanity looking, because I am loosing my fucking mind” Kiwo

328. “I am actually attracted to mundanity. It’s my biggest turn on” Tommy

329. “I sprinkle my clout into the sea to attract fish” Tommy

330. “Okay, chat, lay a thousands eggs then” Charlie Slimecicle

331. “No longer I am a flesh streamer. I am now a png tuber” Tubbo

332. “My cock is throbbing and I am full of frog” Tommy

333. “Tubbo, you can’t go around killing Gods” Tommy

334. “Kids, I know you always play those video games, but you know who is always among us and never sus? Jesus” Alex Meyers

335. “I am quitting youtube and becoming a psychology major to understand what’s going on in your fucking brain!” Dev

336. “Let’s give a head to Sniff” Apo

337. "Listen here you little shits (Laughs), I know what I'm doing... I created this game" Phil

338. "It turns out people give you free things, if you horrify them enough" Lizzie

339. “Oh no! It’s The Milf!” Sophie

340. “Don’t think I have enough in me to feel anything after… anything” Steve

341. “Yes, I can leak stuff too. Some might say it’s a speciality of mine” Tubbo

342. “Oh, 400k qrtw. I must be based today or ruining my career” Tubbo

343. “One day, Sneeg, I will know how to fry the air and we will be the same” Tubbo

344. “It turns on. I just have issues with it, spiritually” Tubbo

345. “It’s funnier if it’s american, because nobody will take it seriously” Tubbo

346. “It’s not very pumpkin spice latte of you” Tubbo

347. “I am being /srs /Garfield” Tubbo

348. “I was getting worried I started act a bit like an Emu” Tubbo

349. “We all emu deep in this Australia of the world” Tubbo

350. “New year, no gay” Tommy

351. “We can tell you are 4ft tall with the amount you are reaching” Tubbo

352. “Omg, Shubble, you have so much stuff that I could have instead” Tubbo

353. “My arrows did nothing to him! He is so scottish!” Tubbo

354. “Yeah, gaslight, girlboss, tiktok slay, cataways, all of those trendy words” Tubbo

355. “I’ve restarted this server day 1 style like 17 times now. At least half of them because of Tubbo, because he has no filter” Scott

356. “Sometimes I just don’t have the words. They all sound the same: awesome, awful, avocado. I can’t do it” Tubbo

357z “You have a powerful tongue” Tubbo

358. “I came back as a saturated streamer” Tubbo

359. “Sometimes it’s not about slaying the dragon, but making the dragon slay” Gunnar Deatherage

360. “How do I write ‘bank’ in stairs?” Tubbo

361. “The problem with Marvel is that it’s like you are watching a Mr.Beast video of cinema” Tubbo

362. “‘I hate planes’? Sorry, chatters, I just need to permanently ban someone” Tubbo

363. “‘Feeling bad for a criminal right now’? A little bit of a fraud never hurt anyone. You happened to have a photo of my ID you use it” Tubbo

364. “Criminals have anxiety too, never forget that” Tommy

365. “I am a gay lawyer second, and gay exterior design first” Scott

366. “Excellent stream, we’ve got a lot of done, we fucked around, we tolerated Tom for 20 minutes” Phil

367. “Cannibalism is wrong. Boom! I am based. You don’t need to tell me to be based, I am doing it by accident” Tubbo

368. “Thank you, chatters. You make me see clearly. When you say ‘Tubbo likes egg’ I go ‘yeah, I do like egg. It just makes so much sense” Tubbo

369. “Excellent! You guys are really good at this whole lying thing” Tubbo

370. “Bekyamon didn’t answer me. Jack Manifold would’ve answered me immediately” Tubbo

371. “Phil is not home! He will be gone for 10 days! You are stuck with me, second-choice-Toby!” Tubbo

372. “I am kind of second-choice-Toby, we would all rather watch Phil, including me” Tubbo

373. “I’ve learned how to spell ‘kitchen’ recently, and I am so pleased about it” Tubbo

374. “Some people were saying that there are different languages out there, but for me it sounds like a silly excuse to leave me out of the conversation” Oats Jenkins

375. “I am overall dissatisfied with you” Tubbo

376. “Sharing doesn’t come to me naturally” Tubbo

377. “I am not even bilingual, I barely speak english! I am not even monolingual!” Tubbo

378. “I am just trying to prevent me being stupid and it’s a full-time job” Kevin

379. “I am going for a negative IQ this game” Sykkuno

380. “Guys! I am unsupervised!” Tubbo, getting lost

381. “So you mix the yolk with your flour… and that’s how far I got into my tiktoks” Kristin

382. “I didn’t know streamers actually had talent” Tubbo

383. Bill: I'm breaking boundaries, I'm going further than what's expected of me-

Jack: The only thing you're breaking is Bad, Jessie Pinkman, now shut the fuck up

384. “Phil, do you reckon when you have kids in real life you call one Golden Baby Zombie?” Tubbo

385. “I am going to pee with my bladder” Tubbo

386. Velvet: Gay people are real.

Tubbo: Are they?

Antfrost: So unfortunate.

387. “I am not sweat, guys, I am not sweat, you are slandering me” Tubbo

388. “I don’t think you’ve ever approved anything I encouraged” Tubbo

389. “It’s got a little bit of blood in it, I like it” Tubbo

390. “I’ll scam everybody out of all their balls” Scar

391. "The Onceler's an idea, he can't be killed! He's beyond your understanding!" Awesamdude

392. “Me and Oneceler had something special in Columbia!” Awesamdude

393. “Guys if I ever get picked up by the police for something I didn’t do I might just hard flirt with the police officer and see what happens” Sneeg

394. “Who is Los? And who is Angeles?” Tubbo

395. “It’s overbelievablywhelming” Tubbo

396. “All of this review is going to be in bold and italics, so maybe you can interpret it as sarcastic” Tommy

397. “I think I might have to go and get a lobotomy” Tubbo

398. “I am so dehydrated from all the drama” Grian

399. “Sorry, I blew instead of suck, wrong one” Tubbo

400. “I just like having friends” MaxGGs

401. Tubbo: Bekyamon was lost to ethereal void

Niki: Good for them

402. “I killed my depression” Tubbo

403. “I’m too afraid to throw them out and I’m too stupid to know how to deal with them” Mike Trapp

404. “I am more of 8th impression kind of person” Tubbo

405. “That’s just my native secondhand embarrassment” Tubbo

406. “Secrets are made for sharing” Tubbo

407. “I don’t think he [Eminem] figured out blinking properly” Tubbo

408. “Is it possible to get bored while you sleep? Because I actually got bored” Tubbo

409. “Scott, I want your gay opinion on something” Tubbo

410. “That’s a very iconic photo! When everything was fun and I wasn’t depressed!… I am not actually depressed. I keep fighting this battle alone where I joke that I want to die and everyone believe me” Tubbo

411. “And if I can’t run away from my problems, then what’s the point?” Scott

412. “I am just that good of the sister. I dropped everything to be my brother” Lani

413. “If you can’t make friends in a normal way, make friends in a way that suits you” Scott Smajor, talking about summoning the undead

414. “Dude, I can’t wait to be exposed to be an awful person” Tubbo

415. Someone: Can we go mining? I don’t want to go there and die alone.

Tubbo: Oh, it’s fine, everyone dies alone :D

416. “What if I don’t want money? What if I just want my goldfish to be okay?” Tubbo

417. "I hate the IRS. I have to pay my taxes before april 15th otherwise the government is going to be upsetti spaghetti about it" Purpled

418. Scott: Told them they are playing chokers while we are playing chess.

Martyn: The thing is, I am playing Mahjong and I have no clue what I’m doing.

419. “If you are going to be an absent father, can you at least be absent?” Cleo

420. “How did half of your personality became gay sex, I just don’t understand” Tubbo

421. “We are going to make HOT. LOVE. because we hate them” Charlie Slimecicle

422. “I am impossible to make look bad in an account of looking so damn good” Jack Manifold

423. “Don’t hate the player, hate player’s political beliefs” Apokuna

424. “Martyn really thought I would fall into a trap? No no no, I did something even more stupid” Jimmy

425. “Are you telling me, that Philza Minecraft, the man, who streams 60 hours a minute, can’t take care of Tallulah?” Wilbur

426. "Quackity threw himself off the wall as an act of grief or whatever. So dramatic” FitMC

427. “People are just dying. To balls?” Phil

428. “Oh wow, past Toby was suicidal! :D” Tubbo

429. “‘We are all related’? Chat, are you like, my cousins?” Tubbo

430. “Just let me gaslight!” Tubbo

431. “Yeah, I have original thoughts, I can be smart sometimes” Foolish

#quotebook #tubbo #tommyinnit #wilbur soot #clingy duo #insym #steven suptic #mcyt quotes #purpled #callmekevin #foolish gamers #5up

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Whenever I see those "___ would kill a 15th century peasant" lines I think of this YouTube channel. The people on it are all tribal people from Pakistan with almost no contact with the world outside their village or maybe the nearest city and almost no significant knowledge of other cultures. They react to videos mostly of modern Western culture, often music videos. None of them had ever heard of metal music before they started watching it for this channel, though they've heard a few different bands now (and always had a positive reaction). For this video, none of them knew much of anything about Japan other than that they make electronics and got bombed during WWII.

Their very first exposure to Japanese culture is fucking BABYMETAL and I would have thought, "man, that's a LOT to drop on a Sindhi villager". Watch this fucking video. Watch this fucking video and see this village elder praise the skill of the singing and dancing. Watch the middle-aged father instantly recognize that they are demanding sweets from their parents just from the dance moves and gestures they use. Watch a man insist he is unable to come up with a single negative thing to say about it. Watch the smiles spread across all their faces.

I gotta be honest, I never cared much for a lot of the music they react to until I saw their reactions and they made me appreciate it for the first time.

Actually, go subscribe to their channel and leave some likes on their videos. The channel is struggling right now, fighting against constant copyright strikes despite the obvious fair use of the material, and there have been a lot of expensive medical issues that they're struggling to pay for to keep their loved ones alive and healthy. Sign up for their Patreon if you can, actually. There are no tiers or anything, just toss them a dollar a month (or however much you can afford) and get some cool behind the scenes videos and text posts talking about what they're up to.

I have no connection to this channel other than being a fan, but it breaks my heart to see them struggling when they work so hard and make such beautiful videos. All the big internet companies are constantly trying to shovel anger and fear down our throats all day long to increase their ad revenue. We're here on Tumblr because we don't want to support that model. This channel is doing something positive. Go give them a boost!

#trybals #babymetal #reaction videos #positivity #sindhi #Youtube

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running toward nothing (epilogue)

Summary: Hotch is injured in an explosion while on overseas assignment, putting Derek in a difficult position both with the team and with Spencer who has spent the last few months inadvertently falling in love with him. (Set around 07x01 - It Takes a Village but canon divergent by a lot.)

Warnings: rehab, depression. mention of seizures

Words: 3.5k

Pairings: Hotch/Morgan

Notes: This is for @tobias-hankel’ s Spencer Whump Challenge. My assigned prompts to do my evil with were Derek Morgan & Betrayal. We did it. We got here. It's the END! Sorry it took me so damn long, but I hope it was worth it. We have here a tearful reunion, a wedding and some other fun things...finally a little reprieve from the shit show.

CHAPTER LIST

Read on AO3: Running Toward Nothing

Derek was a stress eater.

Hotch knew that about him before he knew anything else for certain. It really didn't take a profiler to pick that up. It was how he figured Derek out long before he realized he was interested in figuring Derek out. When he was flown home from Pakistan, the first thing he remembered smelling was something sweet...a donut Derek had been given from the nurse's station that he was pacing and eating, dropping tiny sprinkles on the floor. Somehow he knew, long before he opened his eyes and made contact, that it had to be Derek.

The donut was followed by a barrage of snacks, sweet and savory, as he sat by the bed side and willed Hotch to get better, to come home. And once he was home? Their kitchen became a convenience store. Because Derek Morgan was a stress eater and no one could stand in his way.

So when he picked Emily up from the airport at 8pm after a long flight from London and asked where she wanted to eat, she knew better than to give him anything too specific. He had that look about him. “Tacos,” was all she said. It had been months since she'd had a really good taco. Of course, Derek didn't get the memo on the “good” part...only taco. She would much rather have found a food truck that would throw six street tacos in styrofoam for her and a gallon of hot sauce to drench them in but Derek clearly had other plans.

It really pissed him off when Emily pointed out that it was his tell, too. Hotch was one thing. They lived together, they woke up to one another's morning breath and went to bed next to the other's sweaty body, of course Hotch would pick up on the food thing. But Emily? Unfair.

“Nope,” he replied to her rather rude comment about him eating his feelings, crumpling up the wrapper for his third crunchy taco. Shreds of cheese and iceberg lettuce fell to his lap like delicious confetti and he would let it collect there and brush it off once he was ready to get out of the car. He had more eating to do. “Not even close. I just had a craving. Yo quiero Taco Bell and shit, you know.”

“Yeah?” Emily asked, handing him the next from the bag. He was driving, she was navigating, though he didn't really need a navigator. She was nitpicking every road he chose to get to their destination, and the only reason he let it slide was that she was holding all of the food. It wasn't like she wasn't eating her fair share, either. A bad taco was still a taco, and she was still starving. Maybe also a little drunk from the in flight wine she'd consumed a little too boldly.

She'd disappeared after that night in the hospital, taken her ass right to Strauss to let her know she was returning to Interpol and that Clyde had already worked up her transfer. It was a done deal. Sure, she'd intended to stick around but seeing Hotch like that had almost broken her heart. She really did want to see him again...she planned to go see him in his room...but she couldn't. Instead she found herself on a red eye flight out of Virginia, no looking back.

Well, not exactly.

The idiots, her idiots, had to go and make a life changing decision and she couldn't very well miss it. So now she's got a party size bag of tacos in her lap and Derek telling her he was glad to see her and that Hotch wasn't mad at her for leaving. No one was, in fact. Somehow after everything happened, they all understood.

“You sure this has nothing to do with...”

“Woman. Taco me.” He smiled at her and waggled his finger, ready for another. He avoided her question which was enough to tell her that it was exactly the problem. He was nervous. Getting married in the morning. Real, official married.

Derek Morgan, the man she once referred to as a dog on the dance floor, was going to stand before a judge and...she was about to cry about it. She loved to call them wusses, but she was just as bad.

Right now he was taking Emily back to his place, into a house full of Hotch and Jack and Fran and Jessica and Sean. His sisters would fly in the next day, just in time for the party. Everyone who he loved under one roof, give or take one or two. Penelope was across the country visiting Spencer in Las Vegas, he'd opted to do his inpatient rehab stay there closer to his mother, and now he was finishing his leave there while the Bureau decided what stance it would take on his reinstatement. JJ had visited him once, but it was Penelope who was keeping those lines open. Penelope who pushed for them to mend what was broken.

Penelope had appealed to Hotch on his behalf, pleading for him to go easy on Spencer when he pressed charges. Settling out of court on things that would help Spencer get better, not punish him. Where Hotch was soft, Derek was hard. He wasn't getting past it.

Derek wasn't speaking to her as often as he used to, unable to figure a way into forgiveness. He loved Spencer still and couldn't just look at him and pretend he felt a certain way when he didn't. It was all or nothing...he would speak to Spencer when he had forgiveness in his heart.

“You're getting married in the morning,” Emily pointed out abruptly and the car jerked beneath her. She smiled. Direct hit. “To Hotch.” A sharp intake of break, another direct hit. Two more and she could sink his battleship. “Are you ready to take that on for real? He's a real pain in the ass...”

“I'm the one that asked.” That much was true. And he hadn't changed his mind, not even a little, but there was so much more to it. He'd already made the commitment years ago, he was just signing his name on a paper in the morning. Putting on a show for everyone else's benefit, so that they knew what he'd known all along.

“What is it then?”

“I'm just...” he started, opening his hand for another taco. Four or five now? She'd lost count. Pulling the car over, into a deserted parking lot, he killed the engine and listened to it tick itself to sleep. “I always figured Spencer would be my best man. Up until a few weeks ago that kid was the best friend I ever had. And now I don't even want him around me.” He paused, and she almost thought he might cry but he just took a bite instead. Half of it spilled in his lap and he barely seemed to notice. “It's weird that he won't be there.”

“You could have invited him.”

He laughed, his mouthful dangerously close to spraying out of his mouth before his hand flew to his face to cover it. How dare she. “Em,” he muttered, chewing furiously and swallowing. “Jerk.”

“What? It's true. There are no rules.”

“Oh yeah. I'm just gonna send him an invite and when Hotch sees him it's gonna be all cool right?”

“Is Hotch still...” She didn't know how to finish that. Mad? Hurt? Broken? Because he was, when she last saw him, sort of just...broken. Like a beloved toy opened on Christmas morning and left in the summer garden, the fun worn on its edges. Beaten, abused, loved but just...broken. Sometimes it could be cleaned up and made new again, but other times it was just...gone.

“He's better, Em.” Like he was reading her mind, he looked at her seriously. “Really. His head's still a little wonky and he uses the cane most days but he's better. Strauss let him come back part time, just desk jockeying and some teaching. We got an Agent out on family leave so Hotch took some of his morning classes and he's home by lunch time. He's just gone the hours Jack is in school...” he sucked in a quiet wistful breath and smiled. “He usually takes a nap while Jack does his homework, and we all have dinner together.” She thought it sounded nice. Like things were good.

“Bet he hates it.”

“You better believe it. But we take walks in the evening and he's been swimming a lot. He lets me work him out...he's gonna get back to it, Em. I know it.”

She was silent for a moment, considering the severity of his injuries. A flash of what he looked like in the hospital, so helpless, and what he sounded like...she couldn't help the words that nipped at her tongue. “And if he doesn't?”

“He will.”

“And...if he doesn't?”

Derek huffed and dug around in the bag for a taco in the crumpled mess of wrappers while he contemplated the complicated answer to that question. “Then we figure it out. If you're asking whether that affects my wanting to marry him, I hope you think higher of me than that.”

She laughed. “I do. It's just...something to consider.” Something she thought about all the time. She'd been so scared, listening to him stutter his way through words, watching him struggle to open his eyes only to give up and keep them closed. He could barely lift his hand. Yeah, they told her it was temporary, a side effect of the seizure and that made sense...but what if there were more seizures? What if this was his life? She'd thought about calling and offering to move in with them for a while. Give Jess and Sean a break. Help Derek. But it made her stomach cramp to think about it and she couldn't make herself dial that damn number. She was here now though right?

“Has he had any more seizures?”

“Em, he's good. You'll see.”

What she saw, she would not exactly classify as good but he was better and she could at least see him this way instead of in that damn hospital bed when she closed her eyes. He leaned heavy on his cane when he walked and his gaze was a little unfocused, so opposite what she was used to out of Hotch and his hawk eyes. He wouldn't be winning any sharpshooter competitions this way, but he was upright and he spoke without the stutter. His hands didn't shake when he pulled her against him for a hug.

He'd never done that before, either. He shifted his bad leg out like a kickstand and lifted the cane so he could wrap entirely around her, and out of the corner of her eye she watched Derek slide around him, there to catch him if anything happened. He didn't know what to say to her, or how to say it. Really he assumed he'd never see her again. That visit in the hospital felt more like a fever dream than reality and if it wasn't for Sean's constant reassurance that it happened, he could easily tell himself it didn't. It also felt incredibly final. Like she'd gone and died again, only this time it was for real.

“You left.”

“I told you I was going to...”

“But you said you'd come see me again.” He knew that much. In the real dream, she'd promised to see him and she didn't. “You didn't.” She sniffled and tried to pretend she wasn't crying into his sweater. The navy blue one she loved on him, the one she'd stolen more than once when they were on the road and sharing a room. The one he'd bought three of just in case one of these times she didn't give it back.

“I couldn't. I'm sorry.” It was the damn truth. The last thing she could do was lie to him, not now. “But I'm here now. Flew halfway around the fucking globe just to watch you say some stupid words in front of a judge.”

She anticipated a snarky reply. Instead, she just felt his tears in her hair. “Thank you.”

The wedding was short, uneventful, simple. No handwritten vows or flowers, just a quiet courtroom and a few witnesses. Fran insisted on seeing her son be married, and Jess and Sean argued the entire way to the courthouse about who got to be the second witness to sign the paper. Sean won by virtue of sharing a last name, though Jess insisted she was a better sister than he was a brother. He didn't argue that point and still won. That turned out alright because she got to stand in the back with Emily and Jack and Derek's sisters who surprised everyone by getting on an earlier flight, each of them crying and pretending they weren't.

The reception at Rossi's was a quiet affair. People shoulder to shoulder, a live band playing jazz, food in every direction you looked but it wasn't a real party. Derek had insisted that it stay quiet, Hotch was still not in a place that he could be overstimulated without consequences and the last thing anyone wanted was for his wedding night to be a disaster.

And it wasn't. He danced with Derek, and then he danced with Emily...and then Jessica nabbed him, then finally Fran. She kept him for a few rounds, slow and peaceful and quiet. Emily had wanted to talk, so had Jessica but Fran only wanted to say one thing: that she was glad Derek found him and she called him son. He spent the next two songs trying to hide the tears everyone knew he'd been crying all day. He stayed with Fran as long as he could stand upright, until Derek insisted he take a break and sit down.

His phone rang against his thigh and Derek planted a kiss to the top of Hotch's head, told him to stay put, and left to go answer the call. It was important, probably the only person who could drag him away from his handsome husband sitting alone at a table with a slice of cake and some sort of goofy half smile permanently fixed on his features. Derek hadn't seen him smile like this in ages, and he hated to leave but the call was important.

It was Penelope.

“Hey sugar,” he said, ducking around the side of the house and standing beside the pool. Its reflective surface glittered under the stars, flickering like blue flame. “What's crackin?”

“I just wanted to call to see how everything went! The pictures Emily sent were...I cried like a baby.”

He smiled and slipped out of his shoes, rolling up his pants to his knees. He hadn't sat down in hours now, just wandering around being congratulated and eating food and drinking probably way too much champagne. He wasn't exactly drunk but he was hovering close. Everyone wanted a toast, everyone wanted a moment with the happy couple. He'd been attached to Hotch for much of the time but then came the dances and those went separate. Dunking his feet into the cold water, he hissed and pulled them up again, next dipping the heels and then slowly easing them in for the second time. It was freezing.

“How's Vegas treatin' ya?”

“No, no, Derek Morgan. You don't get to change the subject and make this about me. Oh hey wait a minute...is it Derek Hotchner now? Or is it Derek Morgan-Hotchner...omigod did you guys hyphenate?”

He laughed and wiggled his toes under the water, watching the way the surface rippled in delight.

“We're not messing around with last names silly girl.”

“Oh.” She scrunched her nose and peered at him through her camera, wishing she was beside him, wishing she was hugging him. “I always thought I'd be at your wedding. Of course I always thought it would be to me, too....”

“Oh sugar.”

“No, no, I made my choices. I expect you to make it up to me at a later date but I'm good with this.” She was staying with Spencer, helping him settle back into life on the outside. He'd really been hit hard after the accident, his entire life went up in flames and he was rebuilding everything. He needed someone in his corner, and no matter what she had to give up, Penelope committed to being that person. No one else seemed willing. “It's on video, right?”

“That was Emily's job.”

He kicked his feet in the water and listened to her tell him about Vegas, about Spencer. It made his stomach hurt but he didn't ask her to stop, he did care. In some hard to reach, distant way he cared.

“Do you want to say hi?” she asked someone off camera and Derek felt his heart stop beating. The world went silent and pressed in on him. “Come on.”

Spencer looked thinner. Dark under the eyes, paler. His hair was longer and unkempt but it seemed to be his desired look, not just a lack of care for his appearance. It looked intentional.

“Hey,” Spencer said, forcing a half smile and a half wave that reminded Derek of the first time they met. Gideon parading DOCTOR Spencer Reid through the BAU like the prize pig of the country fair. “Congratulations.” The sound in his voice was woody and forced, not genuine in the slightest. Penelope elbowed him and he tried to loosen up a little.

“Yeah...thanks...” Derek replied quietly around the painful lump in his throat. “How are you kid?”

Spencer looked down and Penelope stared hard at Derek, like he'd asked the wrong question and he'd be lying if he said it didn't make him bristle. “I'm alright.”

“He's doing well,” Penelope helped. She wanted to believe things could be normal again so badly she was willing to put it all on the line to get there. “Almost back to being the boy genius I know.”

“Yeah? Good for you. I'm glad.”

“Me too,” came a gentle voice from behind Derek. Moments later, through the sounds of shuffling and a painful grunt or two, Hotch's face appeared on the screen beside Derek's. It didn't take long before his head was resting against Derek's shoulder, and then Derek was draping one arm around Hotch's shoulders to pull him closer. Leaning against Derek's chest heavily, he let his own feet dip into the water. They dangled their bare feet side by side, twisting their ankles together, and Penelope thought they looked exactly as happy as she'd ever dreamed. For both of them. “Hi Spencer.”

“Sir! Hi! Congratulations!” Penelope squealed, but Derek never took his eyes off of Spencer and the white hot rage that smoldered in his eyes. He looked more alive now than he had during the entire rest of the conversation.

“Hotch,” Spencer said, both a greeting and a statement. “Congratulations.” He didn't say it convincingly enough that anyone believed it, but he was trying. No one was fooled. It was followed quickly by a half-assed excuse to get off the line before he had to continue to pretend to be happy for them when all he really wanted was for Rossi's house to light on fire and for all of them (except Derek) to perish. Okay, he didn't really want that but the anger was still there and the hurt felt fresher the longer he went without an escape. The longer he had to dwell on things from far away. He had to be off the call before he was asked to join a toast to their life together, built on betrayal and lies, while he was fresh out of rehab. Sleeping on a thin mattress in a white room waiting for his tray of mac n cheese with white bread slightly toasted and mushy broccoli, dessert of some lovely colorful pills in a little white cup. Red and blue and yellow, confetti to make his brain compliant, to make his body too tired to rebel. They'd been planning a wedding while he was rotting alone. Yeah, he could be in prison, this was better...his mother was just down the road and he could go visit her when he wanted. Penelope was coming to visit him every chance she got. All in all, things weren't so bad even if Derek was married now and even if he might not ever be able to come back to the BAU. There was really only one thing that troubled him through the fog of the party pills in his cup. One thing that started about a week into rehab and hadn't let up since.

His headache had come back and it was a real screamer.

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Stained Glass Windows - Chapter Sixty Six

Life was complicated, but they wouldn't have it any other way.

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Hi besties <3

As always, the love for this version of them means the entire world. You're probably going to yell at me for this one too...and again, I deserve it.

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He still wasn’t used to the heat. The humidity was almost oppressive at times, making it almost impossible to concentrate.

Emily had told him he’d struggle, her smile teasing as she bought him linen clothes he’d frowned at, the thin and floaty material a far cry from his usual sharp-edged suits. She’d said that he’d need them, that she knew him well enough to know he wouldn’t cope with the weather in Pakistan, and she’d been right.

Everywhere he went he pictured her, imagined her pale skin slowly tanning, her dedication to sunscreen unlike anything he’d ever known. He imagined her hair curling in the humidity, the volume she hated but he loves slowly getting out of control. She seemed at home everywhere she went, always easily adapting to her surroundings, a hangover of her childhood he knows she hates.

He missed her. He missed his family. The short phone calls and emails he exchanged with his wife were not enough. The pictures of the kids that she would send would make him ache, guilt and irritation he could only aim inwards blooming in his gut every time.

He’d already been here for two months, and was already closing in on the original deadline he’d given his superiors on when he’d like to go home, but he knew that they wanted him here longer. Any conversation he had about him leaving, about the handover he’d already written up, was skirted around, his boss waving him off like they had months to go.

He just wanted to go home, to kiss his wife, to hug his children. And he was close to just doing it anyway, consequences be damned.

He blows out a breath when he hears his satellite phone ring and he lifts it from its holster on his belt, pulling up the antenna as he answers it, “Hotchner.”

“Hotch, it’s JJ.”

His heart drops into his stomach the moment he hears her voice, worst-case stealing the breath from his lungs. No one other than Emily had called him since he’d come here, the number was need to know, but he knew his wife had given it to her friend for emergencies.

“JJ, what’s wrong?” He demands, his grip on the phone tight, his jaw clenched as he tries to reason with himself, trying to assure himself that he’s overreacting.

JJ sighs, her voice soft, almost too kind as it comes down the line, “It’s Emily. There’s been an accident.”

___

Two Days Earlier

Emily carefully pulls the door to the nursery shut behind her, grateful when she’s met with silence afterwards, Lily having finally fallen asleep.

She yawns as she walks down the hall and towards the stairs, rolling her neck as she goes. Once she gets to the living room she frowns when Jack isn’t where she’d left him when she took Lily to bed, the TV paused on the movie she’d put on for him and his toys abandoned.

She feels a moment of panic flash through her, the reality of balancing two young children by herself something she felt like she was constantly failing at. Before Aaron left for Pakistan, they’d take it in turns putting Lily to bed. When it was her turn, Aaron would make her a snack, a habit that had stuck from when she was still breastfeeding, and he’d watch a cartoon with Jack. When it was Aaron’s turn to put Lily to bed, Emily would snuggle with the little boy, her arm wrapped around him as she made sure he got some of her undivided attention.

She missed having a partner in all of this, the reality of doing this herself wearing her down, her patience for her husband’s absence almost non-existent. She wanted him home, wanted to go back in time and tell herself to not let him go, to have him quit rather than deal with this.

She knew she could cope without him, she had done for years before they met, but she didn’t want to. She loved having him with her, having his reassurance and love as her cornerstones, her already strong foundations she’d built alone made stronger by him, by their family. By the life they were building together.

She had no interest in living life without him.

“Jack,” she calls out, turning and leaving the living room as she looks for her stepson, “Where are you?”

“In the kitchen,” he replies, and she frowns curiously as she follows his voice, relief washing over her when he sounds unharmed..

“What are you doing, honey? Are you okay…” she trails off as she walks into the kitchen, surprised by what she finds.

Jack is sitting on the counter, one of the stools from the breakfast bar he’d clearly climbed on dragged over. There's a plastic Spiderman plate next to him with a peeled banana on it, the skin abandoned on the surface behind it. The banana has been torn into chunks, and she could picture him pulling it apart with his hands, the sticky residue he’d wiped onto his shirt the only evidence she needs.

She smiles as she walks over to him and ruffles his hair, her smile getting wider as he leans into it, “I could have made you a snack if you wanted one.”

“It’s not for me,” he says as he frowns, looking so much like Aaron it makes her ache, “It’s for you.”

She feels her heart clench in her chest, the love she feels for this little boy wrapped tight around it like a vice, “What have you made me a snack for?”

He shrugs, “Daddy always makes you a snack when you take Lily to bed,” he says as if it’s obvious, like it’s not the sweetest thing anyone has done for her in a long time, “I also made you some tea.”

She snaps her head to where he’s pointing, panic that he’d somehow used the kettle overwhelming her until she sees the cup he’s talking about next to the fridge. There was no steam coming from it, and the tea bag was floating at the bottom, no hint that it had brewed at all, and she’d put money on him having used ice water from the fridge dispenser.

She looks back at him and pulls him into a hug, adjusting her hold on him so she can lift him, placing him on her hip as she kisses his forehead, breathing in the scent of his shampoo, something that had become even more comforting to her since Aaron had left. She saw more and more of him everyday in Jack and Lily, their facial expressions and personalities giving her flashes of her husband. Tiny pieces of him that weren’t enough.

“That’s so sweet of you, honey,” she says, kissing the side of his head again as she picks up the plate with the banana on it, “Why don’t you hold this and I’ll get my tea,” she says and he nods, carefully taking the plate from her, “And we’ll watch that cartoon together before you go to bed and we’ll share my snack.”

He frowns at her, tilting his head at her as she walks them back to the living room, “But I made it for you.”

She kisses his head again, hoping she hides her wavering smile in the action, his endless empathy enough to tip her over the edge when she was at her best.

“I know, but you can’t possibly expect me to eat all of this,” she says, smiling when he nods in agreement as she settles down on the couch.

She drinks the freezing cold, flavourless tea and eats the half-mashed banana as Jack falls asleep against her, and she thinks it’s the best snack she’s ever had in her life.

___

She was running late.

She curses herself as she dumps her purse on the passenger seat of her car, and she groans when she sees the time.

“Shit,” she mumbles to herself, pulling her seatbelt on as she dials the daycares number and turns on the engine, her phone on speaker as she abandons it on the seat next to her, impatient as she waits for the call to connect as she drives out of the Quantico parking lot.

“Sunnyside Daycare, this is Alice.”

“Alice, hi,” Emily says, breathing a sigh of relief, “It’s Lily Hotchner’s mom. I’m so sorry, a meeting overran and I’m only just leaving work, so I’m going to be late-”

“Mrs Hotchner, it’s fine,” Alice says kindly as she cuts her off, “Lily is currently playing happily and we’re here for another couple of hours. You’re fine.”

Emily chuckles wryly and nods to herself, pulling the car to a stop at an intersection, the red light almost mocking her as it changes just as she approaches, “Thank you,” she replies, feeling calmer, “I always feel terrible when I’m late.”

The meeting had been with Strauss of all people. She’d pulled her into her office just before she was due to leave, an expression on her face that let Emily know there was no arguing with her. At first, Strauss had simply asked her how she was doing, enquiring about Aaron’s absence in a way that felt almost uncharacteristically kind, although Emily was sure it was because the other women missed having Aaron as a buffer between herself and Dave.

Then the conversation had taken a turn she really hadn’t expected. They’d had an interim Unit Chief of the Counterterrorism unit since Carson had been fired, but it had always been made clear that it was temporary until they found a suitable replacement.

Strauss had asked Emily if she’d be interested in taking over the unit, citing both her specialism in linguistics, her work ethic and her robust record at the bureau. It had taken her by surprise, wondering how the woman who had once told her she’d never advance in the FBI was now offering her a promotion over people who’d been in the team longer than she had.

She’d left without giving Strauss an answer, citing that she’d need to talk to Aaron, whenever she was next able to, before she could make any decisions.

“No need to feel bad, Mrs Hotchner,” Alice assures her, “Lily is adorable, so we’ll never say no to a little extra time with her.”

Emily laughs, her eyes flicking up to the red light as it changes to amber, “She is pretty cute, even if I do say so myself,” she says, smiling when the other woman laughs, “I’ll be about 30 minutes depending on traffic.”

“See you soon,” Alice says and the call ends as the light turns green.

Emily starts to drive, excited to see her little girl after a strange day at work, and wondering to herself if she’d get to call Aaron that night, if she could discuss the potential step forward in her career with the person whose opinion she valued the most.

She doesn’t notice the car that runs a red light on the other intersection until a second before it hits her. Time slows down as the metal of the car groans as it crumbles, loud scraping sounds as the passenger side where the other car hit disappears, taking the force of the other driver’s speed. She tries her best to control it, her hands tight on the steering wheel as the car spins. It must last only a matter of seconds, her head hitting the dashboard as she’s flung back and forth, held tightly in place by her seatbelt.

When the car finally stops, she feels dizzy, the shouting outside the car, onlookers running over to help, sounds out of focus. Like it’s far away, trapped behind glass as she tries to move, a sharp pain from her right shoulder pinning her in place just as much as the crumpled metal around her. She places her left hand on her forehead and winces when she feels blood, her stomach churning as she pulls back and sees the grim red pattern against her skin, sinking into her finger tips and into the cracks of her nails, the cuticles torn open from anxiety caused by the absense of her husband.

She starts to lose consciousness, shock setting in as people start to approach her car, and the last thing she thinks of is her family.

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