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Invader Zim-Infinite Pink ch.8

Summary: Selfish Arc, part 1

Past, present and future. A look into Zim and Theron's past. Someone doesn't have the best intentions for Zim. WARNING: This arc will deal with potentially triggering/uncomfortable topics. Please read with caution!

Notes:

DISCLAIMER AND WARNING: PLEASE READ WITH CAUTION! ============================1.) There will be things that will be covered, that could be highly uncomfortable or triggering to some. This fic is intended for a mature audience and will be covering some traumatic topics. The events in this story are entirely fictional and merely done for dramatic effect. However, they are not intended to poke fun or downplay the real-life seriousness of these issues. 2.) It will contain references and implied teacher/student relations and references and implied sexual and physical abuse/assault. Dubious consent. Abuse of power/coercion. Murder/attempted murder. If you or anyone you know is suffering from any kind of abuse or struggling with recovery, please do not be afraid to get help. There is more options than you may think. Contact your local authority or nearest shelter. Here are a few sites that may help you to Identify and Report Abuse or discover resources for recovery: thehotline.org, childhelp.org or victimconnect.org National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 800-273-8255 ================================

Author notes:

I apologize for the late update and want to again thank everyone who has read this story. You guys are great.

I had wanted this arc to be condensed into one chapter, so as to be easily skippable. However I felt that there was a lot more I wanted to add to the story, that unfortunately tied closely around this time period/event. As this does play a large role in the story in regards to the Tallest past and a certain character. Initially it resulted in me wanting to have this arc written out in its entirety before i uploaded as a result. Which is why it's taken me a bit longer to upload then usual. I have quite a bit of the rest of the work finished, but I know i'm bound to add more to it. However since it has been so long already, i said screw it and went ahead and posted this part now.

Because of that, I put warnings on Bid's sections instead. Incase anyone wishes to skip these parts. Bid was intentionally made to be the slimiest creep.

Please be advised.

Most of all, stay safe.

==(WARNING ON!)==

(Bid's office: Undetermined time. Bid's POV)

Bid rested his chin on one hand, tapping the desk with the other.

It turns out that Zim had only been cleaning the archive of his own volition. Bid had investigated nearly every nook and cranny with a feverish mania after Zim had left. There hadn't been anything out of the ordinary. Not a single camera or recording device.

It still left him on edge.

What if he had missed one?

He'd been so paranoid, he hadn't even got to finish the rest of his favorite sweet.

Someone had entered his secret domain. Bid frowned, he still wasn't too pleased that he might have to abandon his favorite spot.

It wasn't as if he cared if Zim came to the archive, now that he'd set his sights on the younger Irken. It would definitely make everything a lot easier...but, that other Irken could be trouble.

Perhaps he should plan around that.

It wasn't like it was that unheard of for students to have...accidents.

Oh, well! He let out a small laugh. It's not like it was his fault, maybe they just needed to be more careful.

He tapped the desk again. A sigh of longing left him.

What a pretty little Irken.

Even in the dark of the archive. Those large magenta eyes had shown brightly, drawing him right in. He'd barely been able to contain himself, still lingering with unspent arousal.

That ridiculous cleaning gear coming off, revealing such an Irken! It had been like a present being unwrapped. Just for him! Zim must have known, maybe that's the real reason the smaller Irken had been down there. Zim had purposely been teasing him, trying to entice him! Bid was sure of it now.

He had been so consumed by thoughts of the other since then.

What else lay hidden beneath the rest of those clothes?

His pants suddenly felt too tight for comfort. He'd been holding back from his sweets since then.

He'd been too careful to slip up now.

Even the control brains hadn't caught onto him. So much time spent subtlety disconnecting the information charge pods(1) on his level. Keeping a careful eye on his selective sweets. Getting rid of any hiccups.

Days passed, then weeks. No one came for him.

He was being ridiculous! Bid had nothing to fear, but of course, why should he? The laws were stupid anyhow. They were all pent up. How was keeping them strict and stiff helping anyone? Obviously, anyone in his position would do the same. Why should he force himself to hold back? They all wanted this too. Bid was sure of it. They just didn't have the backbone to take it.

His hand traveled down to help alleviate his 'problem'. A moan left him.

How sweetly would those magenta eyes look drowned in ecstasy? A few strokes.

How would Zim's skin feel? Would it be as soft as it looked under his touch? His hand moved faster.

How would Zim's voice sound, begging him for more? He was so close!

If it hadn't been for that other Irken...

His eyes narrowed. Mood suddenly ruined.

He could feel himself deflate, after a moment he tucked himself back into his pants with an angry sigh.

Just another thing that other Irken ruined for him!

Zim still hadn't returned to the archive yet.

Bid was becoming impatient.

What of that other Irken? What was their relationship with Zim? What if they already had a taste of what was his? What if they were doing it right now!

One of his hands turned into a fist. He was wasting precious time!

How Zim had flown under his rader was beyond the instructor. It didn't even matter if Zim was apart of another class. He wasn't going to let the smaller Irken out of his sight now.

All it did, was make Zim into a far sweeter, forbidden fruit!

Bid couldn't wait any longer.

A knock to his office door interrupted his thoughts. He quickly made himself presentable.

"Enter."

A young, pretty eyed Irken came into view.

Just his type.

"What did you find out?"

The smaller Irken shifted in nervousness as they approached him, handing over a tablet. Bid couldn't help but grin.

"He has a very small group of friends. Although they seem to only interact during class or lunch periods. An Irken named Skoodge is the only one he seems to regularly hang out with. Which makes sense since their partners and al-" Bid's unimpressed looked had them quickly continuing their report. "Skoodge is a fairly popular Irken and in the top twenty combatants in the academy."

Skoodge? That name sounded familiar. Voot had probably boasted about the Irken at some point. A frown tugged at his lips. Was this that other Irken in the archive? He was popular? That could pose a problem. He'd think about that later though.

Bid swiped through the tablet as pictures of the robust irken appeared. An unimpressed scoff left him.

Top twenty combatants? When had the Academies standards gotten so low?

However, this wasn't the other Irken in the archive. Bid hadn't gotten a good look at them as he watched behind a bookshelf. He only knew that they were a good head or two taller than Zim. This...Skoodge was far too short, only a inch or two taller than Zim.

He made a motion for the younger Irken to continue.

"Recently however, he had been spending more time with one of his other classmates..."

Bid supposed an Irken as pretty as Zim would be the center of attention.

However, that just wouldn't do. It wouldn't do at all.

He needed to cut any unnecessary ties that stood between them. Zim would understand. He would make him understand.

"Who else?"

They hesitated for a moment. This didn't go unnoticed by the older Irken.

"Who?" His patience was thin.

"V-Voel, He is the current highes-"

His fist slammed onto the desk.

Voel! He knew that name. Just another Voot in the making! Voot made it well known his class had the best talents, rubbing it in Bid's face any time he could.

Where did that old qrooza even get off!

Even though he, Bid had been the top of his own year when he had graduated. He nearly made it into the elites for Irk's sake! Before he was so wrongfully snubbed a better position. Forced to waste away teaching ungrateful smeets. He was too good for this!

'You need to learn some humility.' 'You're too reckless.' His old commander had said. 'It'll do you some good.' 'You should be honored." His commander had said.

What a load of Srull shit!

If he ever saw them again!

Why did he need to learn such things? Enemies didn't care about humility! So what if he was a little reckless! He always ended up the victor regardless.

All that mattered in life, was how much stronger you were than those beneath you. Power was everything and he deserved it all.

That's why he had contested Voot at one point in the past. Voot was always mocking him. He was sure of it. He'd never been good enough for the older Irken. Not as a cadet and not as a fellow instructor.

He'd show him! The need to wipe that smug grin off the older Irken's face was all too much. There's no reason for him to lose. Bid was younger and obviously a far better fighter than that that decrepit Irken!

Yet, he'd been humiliated.

Now the old coot had recently been asking him for another rematch. Voot really took him for a fool!

It not like it was even his fault! His students were just terrible. While the control brains gave him plenty of sweets. The rest were all duds. They weren't worth their weight in snacks!

Why did he have to suffer such mistreatment?

"Anyone else" He growled.

The smaller Irken stuttered. "N-No. Z-Zim is not a very social Irken. In Fact, I haven't seen him with Vo-" Bid's eyes narrowed. "...Uh, um with that Irken for a while now."

Bid let out a small hum. That was good then. His sweet was doing their job well. Maybe he was just worrying over nothing.

"What does he do when not interacting with his...friends?" Bid said, an edge still to his voice.

"He often spends most of his time studying. Zim is among the top three in educational academics in the entire academy." They continued.

Putting the issue of Voot's prized student aside, Bid focused in on that.

So, Zim was highly intelligent? It definitely put more legitimacy to the young Irken's story. Yet, it also posed its own problem. It might not be as easy as he thought to engage the younger Irken. Zim might be too smart for his own good.

However, what game was fun without a little challenge?

"He likes to study? Where does he spend most of this time?" Zim hadn't stepped foot back into the archive as far as he knew. There had to be someplace else the smaller Irken went then.

"His room, I think." They wrung their hands.

"You think..."

Void! Voot's dorms were both on the other side and on another level of the academy. It would be difficult to explain why he was wandering another instructor's dormitories and if Voot caught him...

Bid sighed. He needed to find another way to get to Zim.

"Where does he place on combat abilities?"

He needed to at least know how to handle the younger Irken. Just incase Zim decided to be...difficult.

"I-I don't know." They stuttered.

"You don't know." Bid's eyes narrowed.

They wrung their hands together again. Oh, Irk! They were upsetting him. What if he punished them?

"No one I asked seemed to really know. Zim usually avoids fighting. He was in the infirmary recently. For a long time too, I heard." They rushed out.

Bid tapped his fingers. He'd heard about some student's PAK going haywire a few months back. Had that been Zim?

How could he use this?

"...and Instructor Voot has not allowed him to participate in any fights recently as well." They added nervously.

Bid made noise. That didn't seem like Voot. The older Irken had always been an unmoving hardass. Who's entire philosophy seemed to revolve around a sink or swim mentality. Did the older Irken have a soft spot?

Oh, this could be fun!

An idea suddenly comes to him.

As it stood, Zim was out of his reach. Yet, Voot himself had given Bid an opportunity.

What was a tiny loss if he was able to gain something greater?

"Good work my sweet."

They smiled timidly.

Ah, his sweets were so cute!

...and soon he'd have the sweetest.

"Come here, I think you deserve a reward." Bid smirked.

He wasn't going to deny himself any longer.

==(WARNING OFF!)==

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(Planet Irk: First timeline. Capital city: Emperor's palace, Tallest chambers)

Theron hunched over a tablet on the edge of a bed. Purple eyes narrowed as they scrolled through it.

"What do you even hope to find?" Voel asked, crossing his arms as he leaned against a column.

"Something, anything! Ugh!" Theron threw the tablet onto the bed out of frustration. Before throwing himself backwards onto it too, arms stretched out. He let out a huff.

Voel walked over to pick it up.

"There is still so much I don't remember!

"I Know." Voel agreed, scrolling through the device. There was patchs he could recall, then blank spaces in between, far too many, it felt like.

He could understand Theron's frustration.

"The control Brains don't know anything either!"

"You actually asked the control Brains!?" Voel pauses his search in shock.

Was Theron insane! What if the control brains thought they were defective?

Yet, they were still here...then maybe...

"Did they say anything?"

"No!" Theron scowled. "They said they had no record of ever tampering with any of our memories."

Red eyes narrowed.

Theron made a mocking mechanical voice. "It would be highly illogical, for us to reset the rulers of Irk."

"Reset?" Voel's brow scrunched.

"Yeah. I guess..uh..previous memories could be moved to a 'storage', allowing new memories to be made. While the old ones could be kept safe and sound within the core(2)."

Voel nodded, he knew about the importance of their cores. If their organic bodies were merely transportation for a PAK, then the PAK was equally the same for their cores.

Many believed it to be the center of their software. As a PAK's hardware could be replaced, as long as the core remained intact. Others thought it was the true cardiac-spooch of the Irken, the entirety of everything they were. Their soul as some liked to say.

"It's supposed to prevent this exact kind of thing from happening. Vengeful Irken's and corruption and all that, ya know. Unless the core was destroyed, everything would always remain. Apparently it had been some sort of fail safe by the creator."

"Wait, what? Creator?" Voel shook his head in disbelief. "The PAK had a creator? Like, an Irken creator? An actual fleshy Irken? I just thought the control brains had made our PAKs."

Theron waved a hand lazily, he didn't know anything more. The control brains hadn't elaborated. Quickly moving on to a new topic. He'd been too preoccupied with his quest for memories to pay attention to it at the time.

Voel rubbed his chin in thought, other arm crossed below it, still holding the tablet. "Did they say anything else?"

"They just said it would be illegal for anyone other than them to do so." Theron frowned.

Voel frowned as well.

"But, they did say, that our memories had been tampered with....heh" The purple eyed Irken let out an un-amused laugh. "However, since we know that the perpetrator is already dead..." Theron spit out the last part.

"I see..." Voel sighed, tossing the tablet back down. "...so does that mean they knew this entire time?"

"Maybe. I don't know." Theron said softly. "They seemed just as confused as I was about our memory loss. Well, as much as a machine can sound confused." Theron's brow scrunch together.

The Brains had scanned his PAK, searching for these missing memories. A jolt of electric shock had ran through him.

It had hurt.

It had been terrifying.

It had felt...violating.

Had they really put Zim through something like this?

Those bulbous lights of the machines had seemed to glow brighter with each passing second.

One minute had passed, then another.

What were they seeing?

Suddenly he was hoisted higher in the air. A part of him had thought, that this was it! He was going to go out the same way as Zim had.

He'd messed up! He shouldn't have asked them!

"EXPLAIN."

Eventually, they had let him go. Thank the old gods for his silver tongue!

"Isn't there a way to have them just...get our memories back? Like, they still exist, they're just buried, right?"

"I asked that." Theron threw a arm over his eyes.

A minute of silence stretched between them.

"Well?" Voel asked after a moment, a note of annoyance in his tone.

Theron moved to sit up, leaning back on his elbows. "They said..." Another huff. "They said if they reprogrammed us, it might be too much for our PAK's to handle. There was a chance it could work. However, the sudden influx could also just overload the PAK. At best, drive us insane or worse, just kill us. It's happened before. It sounded graphic." Theron shivered from the brains retelling.

"Void." Voel plopped down next to the purple eyed Irken.

Theron nodded, an ever deepening frown taking over his face. "We either have to let the memories return naturally...or we could-"

Theron went silent.

"Could what?" Voel asked confused.

"A solution." Theron got up, ignoring Voel's questioning stare.

"A solution? Theron, what's the solution?" Voel watched his fellow Tallest rummage through a wardrobe. Eventually pulling out a ball of purple fabric.

Voel's head tilting to the side uin confusion. He'd seen Theron bring that back onto the massive after a trip to Judgementia, robes oddly torned. He'd still been too upset to ask about it at the time.

Theron walked back over, slowly unraveling the cloth. A small tremor in his hand as he did so.

Red eyes widened in realization.

"Theron...What in the void. Where did you get that!?" Voel jumped from the bed, attempting to snatch the PAK from the other. Theron quickly moved it out of the other's reach.

"Theron." Voel's voice was hard.

"We had spent the most time with him, if what our memories suggest is true. It might jog the rest of them. His data was removed from the collective, but the memory core remains."

"Are you insane? 40 Schmillion errors Theron! Even the control Brains had barely been able to handle it! Why would they even let you have it in the first place?" Voel questioned.

Purple refused to meet red. Theron scratched his cheek.

"They didn't, did they."

"It was just sitting there! They weren't doing anything with it. It was probably just going to be tossed into the trash anyhow."

"You stole it! Theron have you lost your mind!" Voel yelled, taking a step towards his partner who backed away.

"I-I didn't steal it, I just...borrowed it! Besides, we don't have to hook it up to us! We can hook it up to the screen." Theron pointed to a television on the far wall. "It's not like we're trying to reprogram it or anything. We're just looking. It should be fine."

Voel's antenna pressed down in aprehension. Red eyes flicked between the screen, PAK, and Theron's own nervous face. "This is a bad idea."

"If anything goes wrong, we can just disconnect it. The palace is on it's own grid. It'll be fine!" Theron nervously reassured.

A few minutes passed.

There was so much he didn't know. This could be the answer to everything, but was the risk worth taking?

"Fine." Voel finally said, letting out a breath of uneasiness. This was a REALLY bad idea.

Theron's antenna perked and quickly got to setting it up.

"No more secrets."

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(Academy Grounds: A few days later from the confrontation in the terrace.)

Magenta eyes peaked around a corner.

It appeared the coast was clear.

He had so much on his mind lately, that newest memory kept replaying.

What did he even do with this information?

Would anyone even believe him? Even, if they did. The control brains probably wouldn't want it to be spread.

It would throw the Empire into chaos. Everything they knew would be turned upside down.

He, Zim had created the control brains! ...Well, one of them anyway.

Perhaps it had been a prototype? He wondered if it still existed somewhere.

Why had he created a control brain in the first place?

Zim recalls how weak his body had felt in that memory. Even the action of lifting his arms, had seemed far too much at times. The neverending itch in his lungs and burning of his throat. As yet another bodily cough had shaken his frame.

It had felt just like his trial all over. He had been dying. Yet, he hadn't stopped, he had kept moving forward regardless of how much it wore on him. Zim can still taste blood on his tongue.

Why had he gone to such lengths?

The quiet whirl of fans reaches him. He peaked over his shoulder at his PAK. Were they related? It couldn't be...could it?

A dark cloud suddenly overtakes him.

What had been the purpose he had given to that brain? Had he made them to control the Empire? Then why not make himself it's ruler? Had he been betrayed?

Again.

Did all the control brains know that he was their creator? Their parental-unit?

Did they know that, when they had killed him?

What had he done to them to deserve that! Was it revenge for the overload days or maybe something in a prior life? All those PAK errors. Were those the control Brains doing? Had they knowing let him suffer all those cycles?

Too many questions and not enough answers!

Maybe his silent suffering had been their retaliation or maybe, they just didn't care at all. He supposed they were nothing but machines at the end of the day.

He grips the corner of the wall tightly.

That couldn't be true though! Even his base's computer had seemed to have it's own personality. It couldn't have been just wires and circuits! And Gir! His poor, sweet, slightly insane Gir. His pseudo-smeet was far more than just nuts and bolts!

There had to be more to it...there just had to be.

A sad noise leaves him.

Should he really be surprised though? How many of inventions and creations had turned against him in the past?

Perhaps that was just his fate.

Maybe...He thinks. It would be better if he just kept this to himself. He was sure the control brains must know, but probably assumed his memories were still dormant and thus, wasn't a threat to their authority. He feels, that it would be best to keep it that way then. No need to be called crazy by his fellow Irkens or for his oldest creations, to label him defective in order to silence him.

Even if it made his cardiac-spooch hurt.

If he created the brains, then wasn't it also his fault they were forced to live in such a strict society. To be labeled a deviant was a high offense. Sometimes, even resulting in a death sentence.

Why, oh why did he create such machines!

It was a miracle he had managed to hide such a thing in the past.

Voel had been piloting a ship on another mission at the time.

Their recon team had been exploring uncharted space for potential expansion, when they had been surprised by pirates. Their small crew had ultimately won, but suffered heavily under the sudden onslaught. Their spacecraft had barely been able to hold together after entering the atmosphere. Resulting in a crash landing on some deserted, primal planet. They could only hope their distress beacon had survived somewhere.

Bruised and battered but alive. Theron and him had wound up as the only survivors of their crew. A third, Pim he thinks her name was, had survived the crash as well. However she was an Irken with low healing capabilities(3) and had succumbed to her wounds not long after. Despite Theron's desperate attempts to keep her alive.

He remembers the look of failure in purple eyes. They had both been eternally grateful for having such high regeneration abilities.

They had made a base out of the remains of their ship. Burying Pim and keeping her PAK tucked safe within it, as they waiting for rescue.

One cycle had passed, the another and another. No help was coming. They had been abandoned, left to waste away.

Alone with just the two of them. It had been an especially cold night, the planet was in the midst of its winter. They had sat as close as they dared, around a small fire. A mixture of desperation and curiosity had taken hold.

No superiors.

No control Brains.

No rules.

Who would even punish them? What consequences did they need to fear? They wouldn't be connecting to any information station anytime soon. There was no one but them. No one to label them deviants or defective.

All of this had been their silent thoughts.

To one another, it had merely been an excuse for survival. They couldn't have let one another freeze to death.

There had been nothing said, no sweet words or confessions.

Only raw, passionate urges.

The heat of the other against his own, had been enough for him.

To their surprise...and horror. A nearby ship had gotten their distress call not long after.

A promise of mutual destruction had sealed their lips, not even Voel had known.

Theron and Voel had been selected for Tallest candacy not even half a cycle later. 'Don't worry! We'll be back before you know it. Promise.' The taller Irkens had never looked at him with the same eyes after that.

He'd been abandoned. The well of shame and paranoia within him had grown even deeper. Always wondering; Would this be the day he was found out? Everytime he connected to the collective, would the control brains discover his indignity at last?

The fear he had felt on the day of the trial. Horror at his crimes being played out for everyone to see. Terror at the idea that all of Irk would witness his crime. It had been a secret he was forever grateful, he had taken to the grave.

He'd made a mistake.

Let his desperation turn him into a fool.

That was the reason he was hiding behind every corner he could. Ever since Theron had found Voel and him in the terrace.

A part of him knew he was being foolish. They hadn't been doing anything illegal! It had just been friends doing perfectly, normal, totally platonic hand holding!

It wasn't nearly as shameless as Theron and he had once done.

Yet, he hadn't talked to Theron. Too terrified of the prospect.

What if the taller Irken held this against him? Used it to blackmailed him?

No. No. He shook his head.

Theron wasn't that type of Irken.

Thoughts about his 'mission' to Urth sprung to the forefront of his mind. Tallest Purple had been vindictive or cruel to him nearly every time they interactive.

...or maybe he was.

They weren't bound by the same secretive promise anymore.

Theron wasn't his. Theron didn't know him, he wasn't sure he even knew the taller Irken anymore. If he ever did in the first place.

Who knows what this...stranger would do.

What if the purple eyed Irken let it slip?

Even if he managed to talk some sense into the taller Irken. What would happen if someone overheard them?

Rumors spread fast.

Zim had been avoiding Voel as well. If rumors did get out, it'd be easier to dispel them if they weren't seen together.

Voel would understand...he hoped.

He thumped his head against the wall. Zim tried to reason to himself. Maybe he was just being foolish for nothing!

Voel must've already talked to Theron. They were the best of friends, smeetmates! They would one day rule the Empire together, like they had done in the past.

Surely whatever tension he had seen, had been his ima-

"You're so annoying!"

"So are you!"

Zim ducked further around the corner in order to avoid the spectacle that had appeared down an adjacent corridor.

They had been like this the last few days. It had been getting progressively worse as time went on.

He had tried to ignore it. Surely it was just his mind playing tricks! Overthinking things as usual. This was just a little spat. Friends could have arguments.

Magenta eyes flinched at a crash and the shouts of encouragement from gathering bystanders.

This was his fault wasn't it? He had gotten in the way of their friendship. Theron probably hated him and was taking it out on Voel.

Irk! What should he do?

"That's enough! Break it up! Break it up!" Instructor Voot's voice boomed. "Voel! Theron! You're both on cleaning duty for the next month!"

Zim stayed rooted to his spot, clenching the edge of his tunic tightly. He chanced a peak around the corner. Catching glimpse of matching bruised faces. A grimace appeared, he ducked back before he could be seen.

Voel was a vicious fighter, yet Theron didn't hold his punches either.

Eventually, the commotion grew distant.

His squeedlyspooch twisted uncomfortably.

He didn't like seeing them fight. Not now, not then, not ever. It just wasn't right.

"Are you Zim?"

He was grateful he managed to hide his shock.

Magenta eyes turned to a meek looking Irken about his height with bright ruby eyes. How long had they been there?

Zim had memorized all the names of his classmates. He had thought they deserved that much respect from him at the very least. However, he can't recall this Irken's name. Were they from another class? What could they want with him?

His fingers twisted his tunic tighter in terror.

Was it about Voel and him? Had Theron told!

He lets go his tunic, smoothing it out before putting his hands behind him to hide his tremor.

"I am." He says with as much confidence as he can muster. Face not portraying the storm of emotions underneath.

If they brought up his supposed relationship, he would just play dumb. They couldn't prove anything! Just a bunch of hearsay!

"Hi! I'm Rig! Umm...I was wondering..."

His eyes narrowed.

Here it was!

Deny! Deny! Deny!

Rig must have seen his scepticism. The red eyed Irken immediately rushed out his request.

"I-It's just that I heard you're the best in the academy! I am not very good with tests. I was...just hoping you would be willing to teach me. But...if you don't want to...I understand." A sad sigh left Rig.

The other Irken looked pitiful. Voice growing softer with each word. It tugged at Zim's cardiac-spooch strings.

So that's what this was about. Rig just needed help...

A weight started to lift from his shoulders.

...and he had came to Zim!

He'd be lying if he said it didn't stroke his dead ego a little.

"You need a mentor?" He asked.

It was like a lightswitch. "Oh! You'll do it! That's fantastic!" Rig said excitedly. Getting a little too close for his personal comfort.

Zim was in too much of shock to properly rebuff the happy Irken.

Although he supposed it did give him a proper excuse to avoid those two now.

======================= (Planet Irk: First timeline. Capital city: Emperor's palace, Tallest chambers)

Theron ducked behind a sofa. "You're overreacting!"

"I'll show you overreacting you little blasnit! Smeet of a glazzo! Qrooza!"

Theron poked up. "Wow, that's harsh Voel, even for you. I'm hurt." He said with a nervous smile, trying to diffuse the situation. "What if the servants here you? What kind of example are you sho-Argh!" The purple tallest quickly ducked back down to avoid a laser shot.

======================= (Academy dormatries: Voel and Theron's Dorm, Theron's POV)

He poked at a particularly nasty bruise. "Stupid Voel!" Theron hissed over the sound of water. At Least it was already starting to heal.

"That idiot just won't listen to reason." He whispered to himself, shutting the sink off. Theron huffed as he stepped out of the cleansing room. Purple eyes scanned their dorm.

Voel hadn't returned yet. Probably at one of the training room, blowing off steam.

Another huff left him. They were on cleaning duty for the next month. He hated cleaning!

He didn't want to deal with this. If Voel would just listen to him for one second! "Ugh!" His hands turned to claws.

Constant fighting day in, day out. He knew Voel was stubborn, but this younger one made him want to rip his antenna out.

Why couldn't Voel just understand! Theron wanted to move forward too, but they had to be careful. One wrong move and they'd just wind up back on the same track as before. He refused to let that happen again.

This chance was worth too much to get ruined by recklessness.

They were getting closer to danger with every cycle. Graduation was so close. It wouldn't be long after that...they would meet them for the first time. Theron couldn't let any of them go through that again. He might even need to do the unthinkable...

His partner was becoming far too transparent with his feelings.

What if the control brains noticed?

What if someone else had been the ones to catch Voel and Zim that day?

If they figured it out again- No! He didn't even want to think of that.

Both of them had been so careful in the past to keep it hidden. He had thought they had been anyway. Until Theron had slipped up, letting his selfish desires take over.

At Least Zim was doing a good job at keeping his distance. Although he wasn't sure if he should be greatful or not.

It made his squeedlyspooch twist.

Theron had glimpsed the smaller Irken peeking around corners. Always being the first to rush out of whatever room they walked into. Magenta eyes once again filling with panic when they met. Whatever trust Voel had built up was now ruined for both of them.

They were right back to square one.

Zim was afraid of him, that much was obvious.

It hurt.

Voel wasn't pleased about it either. Furthering the divide between them. The red eyed Irken's resolve only seemed to grow stronger.

A small part of him was jealous. Voel could always hold his head up so high, unlike him. Theron could never say what was lay within his cardiac-spooch.

Just like he couldn't in the past.

Voel on the other hand was so unafraid. Quick to rush into whatever danger lay ahead without hesitation.

Maybe that's why Zim liked Voel more than him. But, Theron had always been selfish. Waiting until the time was right, for him to make a move.

He'd been among the cosmos once.

If only he had said something then. Would it have made a difference? What would Voel have done?

If hadn't been for them...if they could've stayed right where they were at...maybe Zim could have been...

He sighed.

It doesn't matter anymore. He has a goal, he intends to see through. Even they won't be able to stand above him.

Voel and him had been the tallest rulers in nearly 10,000 cycles. He would change the rules this time.

He could've changed the rules.

If they hadn't messed with-

Theron took a deep breath to calm himself.

His body suddenly felt heavy.

The weight of exhaustion was finally catching up to him. Constant paranoia and fighting was doing a number on him.

He hadn't been eating like normal either. It was taking a toll. A nap sounded good right about now.

He scrubbed at one eye.

Why couldn't things just go back to normal?

He just wanted to be friends with Voel again...and Zim too.

A yawn threatened to leave him.

Sure it was a bit early, but class was over and most were enjoying leisure activities right now. It would be the perfect time to enjoy the peace. Before Voel came back and they invetably got into another fight.

He flopped onto his bed without care. Hissing in pain as something poked him sharply in the side side.

Theron shifted enough to pull it out. "Oh right." He flipped the book over.

He hadn't yet returned Zim's book.

A finger ran over the lettering of the book.

He'd read it cover to back. It was pretty boring, but it interested Zim. He had thought he had known everything about the magenta eyed Irken.

Maybe he didn't know anything about Zim at all.

The differences had been jarring when he had come to. It still felt unbelievable. Anyday here, he would wake up. Back on the massive. Back before he'd been...

He rubbed at his eye from phantom pain. ---------

As a future medic, he had been able to go to the med-ward for training. Only patients were allowed to enter. All other access had been limited or outright denied. It was like it was on lock-down. Not that it was his business. He was still learning the ropes. Maybe this was just normal procedure.

There was only one thing he wanted to really know anyway.

Theron didn't know why he cared so much. Sure Zim was probably the prettiest Irken he'd ever seen, with deep magenta eyes that looked light pink when the light hit them just right and an infectious laugh and-

He leaned over an Irken trying to focus on the task at hand.

It was just the nature of Zim's injury. That's why he was worried. It was normal for a future medic to care. It's not that he was worried if Zim had di-

Don't think about it Theron. Focus!

"Now Theron, to perform a dressing, clean the wound with the Ns-3400 and gauze, apply the med-gel 9000 and secu- Yes, just like that. You're getting the hang of it already!” Mill congratulated.

"Does this mean I can leave now?" A smaller irken asked. Inspecting their new bandages on their forearm.

"Make sure to check out with Kit at the front desk."

The smaller Irken nodded as they jumped down from the examination chair and skipped away.

Theron watched them go before he turned to the head medic. "Medic Mill-"

"Just Mill is fine." Theron bit his tongue, there was no way he could call a superior by just their name!

He needed to know.

"Umm...Zim...is he okay?" Nobody had heard anything since that day.

Mill's smile twitched.

His antenna flattened. "So it's true-"

"No! No." A heavy sigh left her as a pained expression appeared. "Zim is...alive."

"He is! Then can I see him! We're..uh...classmates." He quickly added.

Mill held up her hands. "It would be best if you didn't. Zim is in a...delicate condition right now. For his recovery its best if he isn't overwhelmed."

"Delicate? His PAK, how bad was it?" Irken's that had been disconnected with their PAK for more then ten minutes would die. Zim's had not only come off, but had severely injured him as well.

"You needn't worry! The control Brains themselves have called a PAK technician from the Capital." Mill tried to comfort.

He blinked at the explanation. The control Brains were helping! "Then Zim will be fine. Do you know wh-"

"MILL! Were going to need your help here!" Gig ran into the training room. A few distant screams could be heard.

"What happened?"

"Smeets and mines." Was Gig's only explanation.

Theron followed after the two veteran medics towards the entrance of the reception room. A group of smallers awaited them. All in various states of disaster.

Kit was already dressing the wounds of some. Gig quickly joining in.

"Is there anything i can do to help?" Theron asked, standing awkwardly to the side. He grimaced as Sig, another of Mill's medics reattached an arm of one of the worst off smeets.

"I appreciate it, but we should have it handled. Go back to the training room for now dear. We'll continue in a moment." Mill replied, attention already turning to her newest patients.

It was going to be a long day.

Theron headed back into the med-ward towards the training room. When an idea hit him.

He looked back in the direction of the reception room. The sounds were distant. Mill and the others would be occupied for awhile.

It wouldn't hurt to take a peak. Just enough to calm his aching cardiac-spooch.

Finding the room had been a bit difficult. It had been all the way in the back of the ward. One last look around to make sure he was alone. He slipped into the room without a second thought.

A single patient room. It was far too dark and quiet. Only the small blinking and dull whirl of machinery filled the room. A pink glow, brightened and dull slowly behind a curtain.

He stepped carefully into the room further. Catching what sounded like breathing. A low and slow, slight raspy noise. As if they were struggling to breath. It made his antenna stand straight up.

A bed lay against the center of one wall. Wires and small tubes coming out from underneath a curtain that surrounded it.

He gulped. Why are you hesitating? Just go for it, Theron!

He'd been unprepared for what lay behind the curtain.

Wires and tubing everywhere. He could just barely make out Zim's form underneath it all. Once bright green skin was almost completely grey. Dark circles and slightly gaunt face. Zim's breath was ragged, as if he'd stop any second.

He looked like when Voel and him had sentenced him to death.

Wait, what? When had he sent-

"Ah!" He clutched his head in pain, dropping to his knees.

The influx of memories from his past life had quickly overwhelmed him.

Wide eyed and gasping for breath. He rested his forehead against the cool tile of the floor as everything eventually returned to focus.

Theron got to his feet with a blank look, walking up to Zim's bedside.

A surge of anger overtaking him briefly. He grabbed at the cord to life support.

Zim! Greatest defective of the Empire. Murder! Killer of tallest! One of his best friends. His first lo ...Stop!

what are you doing!

Theron covered his face with his hands in horror. What was he doing? What in the void was he doing!?

He stepped back from the bed, his legs starting to feel weak.

Zim, the one he'd fallen for twice. The one he had been forced to forget. Zim wasn't at fault. No, no! It had been...

Chaos vs order, loud vs quiet, willful vs docile. This wasn't even the same Zim as his past. Zim hadn't done anything wrong.

What was wrong with him? Theron felt sick with himself.

The curtain was pulled back into place. Mill's kind face appeared before him. She wrapped an arm around his shoulders, leading him from the room.

"This is what I didn't want you to see..." -------

He'd thought Zim was holding back at first. That the other had known about their shared past as well.

However, with each passing day. He wasn't so sure. They were strangers and it seemed Zim wanted to keep it that way.

Perhaps, this was just how Zim was always meant to be. It was odd to think about.

He missed Zim's energy.

Theron wanted to bring it up. A part of him had to know. To know that he wasn't the only one. That he wasn't crazy.

Most of all, that he had a chance to make amends.

What if the spell was broken though? He didn't want Zim to hurt anyone.

What if everything just went back to before? He didn't want to hurt Zim either.

The way those magenta eyes looked at him with fear.

Did Zim really hate him so much in this time? Maybe Zim really did remember their past and still held a grudge?

If he was someone else would Zim like him better?

Sometimes he didn't even feel like himself. He wasn't sure if he even knew who he was anymore.

Theron, the medical elite? The one so deeply in love.

Theron, the Almighty Tallest Purple? The one so numb to the world.

Theron, the smeet starting out in life? The one so new and wide eyed to the possibilities.

Who was even in control anymore?

It was like a never ending tug of war. Sometimes he felt a thousand different ways about something or someone. His reaction that day after the influx, still haunted him. Tallest Purple had never been known for his kindness. It sent shivers up his spine. While a different part of him felt he had been justified. How cruel of an Irken he had been turned into.

Maybe, an entirely new Theron had been born that day. A combination of all that that he had ever been. He's knows his paranoia for one had been amplified

A sigh left him. He rolled onto his back, throwing an arm over his eyes as he let himself sink further into the bedding.

Stop thinking about it, Theron! This won't solve any of your problems!

The past is the past.

The arm over his eyes drops to his side.

Purple eyes look with determination up at the ceiling as a thought comes to him.

He wanted to move forward. By the gods in all of the cosmos did he want it.

Purple eyes flicker back to the book by his side.

If Zim wasn't going to come to him. He'd go to Zim.

------------------------------- (Academy- Science classroom: Undetermined time)

Zim leaned back in his chair. Letting out a small sigh as he moved away from the microscope. He scrubbed at his eyes. Thankful, that no one else was able to see his frustration.

Instructor Piek had been all too happy to let him use the room after hours.

'I'm so glad you're thinking of being a scientist Zim! We need more bright minds like you.' Zim still blushes at the compliment.

Despite his determines not to go down this road again, that didn't mean he'd given up on finding a way to deal with his PAK. It just so happened that his best solution at the moment involved science.

There was only so much coding fixes he could do, being so limited on time.

It still wasn't nearly enough. 40 schmillion errors was not smeets play.

Although, he'd be lying if he said a part of him wasn't overjoyed to be behind a microscope again. Just a teeny tiny part though, he tried to convince himself.

Don't let yourself slip up now, Zim!

His oldest memories had shown a time before Irken's had needed a PAK.

That sickness, whatever it was, did it play a role? If he could find a way to combat it, maybe he wouldn't need to worry about fixing his PAK at all.

Sure being PAK-less would be difficult to adjust to, but he thinks he can manage.

He looked over a tablet he'd been putting his findings. Some observation and records of previous medics or scientist. Who had tried their own hands at discovering a cure. However, those records were often brief and lacked the information he wanted. Often consisting of theories more than actual research.

Perhaps the archive may hold what he was looking for. However, he hadn't had the time to go down. Between classes, coding fixes and his new prodigy. He hadn't had much time to himself.

Although he had a mighty need to go down there again! It was calling him!

A small beep from a nearby machine. A few more of his samples were ready.

Later then, he supposed.

There was still so much he had to do.

He was close, he could smell it!

----------------- (Planet Irk: First timeline. Docking station for The Massive)

Theron looked over the crew of The Massive from their private deck. He pulled at the collar of his robes, it was so uncomfortable! Who decided to make the official robes so constrictive anyway? He could barely move, let alone breath in them. If it wasn't for their hover-belts, he'd never be able to move.

He looked over to Voel, who has his arms folded behind his back. Red eyes observing the loading of The Massive for its next voyage with sharp eyes. He could see the tension in the other's jaw.

"You still mad?" He whisper asks.

"Don't talk to me."

"I'll take that as a yes."

Red eyes snap over to him. Voel's antenna folded flat in anger. "You-"

"My Tallest?" Rarl Kove interrupts from the doorway. "The Massive is ready to board at your leisure."

"Oh right! Of course, we'll be down there shortly. Thank you Rarl." Theron says quickly. They needed to maintain a united front.

Rarl's antenna perked. The adviser wasn't sure what had gotten into his Tallest, especially Tallest Purple. Who was...how should Rarl say this...not very nice. Perhaps it was treason to think, but Rarl much preferred his liege like this.

The advisor leaves the room with a small bounce in his step. A purple eye twitched. Their workers had been acting so weird lately.

"We'll talk about this later." Voel hisses as he passes his partner. ----------------- (Academy dormitories: hallway outside Zim's dorm. Weeks later, evening)

Purple eyes peaked around a corner. They narrowed at that unfamiliar Irken from another class.

They had been glued to Zim's side for weeks now. Supposedly they were taking extra lesson from Zim.

Rig, he had learned their name was.

Why did it have to be Zim? Couldn't Rig have chosen someone else. Yeah, Zim was in the top for academics. But, Theron definitely felt that there was more to it.

Rig's behavior was odd. No one save Voel and himself seemed to notice it. As soon as Zim left his dorm in the morning, there was Rig. As soon as Zim left a class, there was Rig. Even as Zim returned to his dorm in the evening, there was Rig. Just like now.

He frowned.

Where did the Irken even find the time? Were they skipping class? It was probably the reason they had such poor test scores. Should he report it?

It's not that he was jealous or anything.

They were just mentor and student. Friends most likely. It's not as if Rig had feelings for Zim, right? Ah! Who was he kidding? It was so obvious.

His frown deepened. Go away!

Rig continued talking to Zim. Asking him the most useless or oddest questions.

How did Zim do this? How did Zim do that? What kind of sweets did Zim like?

What did Zim think of instructor Bid?

huh?

DING!

The first bell signaling curfew cut Rig off.

They would have about thirty minutes until they needed to be back in their dorms.

Between classes, then punishment, arguments with Voel and Zim's own avoidance. He hadn't had a chance to talk to the smaller Irken. He was grateful his punishment was nearing an end at least.

He was glad Voel was occupied right now. He might try to interfere with Theron's plans otherwise. He needed to talk to Zim alone.

The red eyed Irken was in the self training rooms, blowing off steam again. Despite the bad blood between them right now. Voel hadn't hesitated to rant about Rig to Theron for hours. He hadn't minded. It was nice to have Voel talking to him again. Getting his opinion, even if it was just about how to get the other Irken away from Zim.

It was better than them fighting. He missed having his friend. Progress was progress. Smeet steps, he told himself.

Theron figured it would be easiest to catch Zim right before curfew would go into effect. Even if they could only talk for a few minutes.

Still, Theron didn't have much time. Skoodge would surely be back soon. He didn't feel like explaining himself to the more robust Irken. It would still be a few minutes for Skoodge to get back here. He needed to be quick. Then he'd need to rush back to his room before Voot caught him. The last thing he wanted wanted was to draw more of instructor's ire.

No more running. He tucked the book further into his side.

Once Rig is out of sight, he makes his move.

He slipped in the dorm without issue. His eyes scanned the dark of room for Zim. A light tucked into a corner draws his attention. He makes his way over to it. Various shades of pinks, purples and reds sat within a glass box. Plants? They looked like some of the ones in the book.

Where had Zim found those?

His brow scrunched.

The low sound of a sink running, finally reaches him.

Nervousness started to set in.

Maybe he should leave the book here. It was getting late. He can always talk to Zim another day.

The whoosh of the cleansing room door opens.

Zim's startled eyes meet his. He can see fear build in those magenta eyes.

Void!!

Alone in the dark of someone else's room. He probably looked like a creep!

"Wait!" He says as Zim back away from him as he moves forward.

He quickly held out the book. "I..ah...I meant to return this earlier. It's yours, isn't it?"

Zim hesitantly nodded, but did not reach out to take it. Hands gripped tightly in their owner's clothes.

A sign he knew of Zim's own stress.

His antenna flattened. Zim really did hate him.

Setting the book with slow movements onto what he thought was Zim's desk. He couldn't hide his disgust at the uncleanly state of the other one, Skoodge's without a doubt.

Magenta eyes watching him intently all the while.

"I should leave."

-----------

(Zim's pov)

He thought for a moment. "No." Zim needed to know what the other planned. "Why are you here?"

"I just thought I would return your book." Theron rubbed at the back of his neck. Eyes looking anywhere but at Zim.

Magenta eyes narrowed. His hands clenched his sleeping gown tighter. Those were signs of Theron lying.

"That's all?" Zim questioned. He straightened his back.

Be confident Zim! This had gone on long enough.

He wasn't entirely pleased Theron was in his room. Yet, maybe this was for the best.

No one would hear them here.

Skoodge was in the study hall with his friends, they usually waited until last minute to return back to the dorms.

Zim had time.

"Uh...well actually-"

"Whatever you saw in the terrace wasn't what you think!" Zim quickly explained. He didn't want a misunderstanding. Neither was he going to let himself be blackmailed.

"What? That not..."

"I know what you saw was very concerning. What with us holding hands and all...and being alone and...you..you see w-what was actually happening was..." Zim trailed off.

Oh Irk, how did he explain this! He was just digging a deeper hole for himself at this point.

"You think i'm going to report you?" Theron's face was blank, his voice low.

Zim gulped but otherwise didn't respond.

A small disbelieving laugh left the taller Irken. "You both really think of me so little."

Theron took a step forward. His back hit the wall.

Purple eyes widen before a hurt expression quickly took over the taller Irken's face.

"I don't want to hurt you." Theron whispered. Taking a few steps back.

"Why are you here then?" He asked again.

"I..." Purple eyes looked conflicted. "Voel likes you..."

Both are shocked by the statement.

"Wh- I mean...it's just." Theron tried to explain. "I like you too."

"W-What?" This was some kind of trick right? Anger starts to boil within him.

---------------

(Theron Pov)

What in the void was he saying!

Magenta eyes are wide as they look at him.

"I just want what you two have." He can't stop! He's sure his face must be entirely blue from blushing so hard.

Theron! You're making a fool of yourself. Stop!

"You're lying." Zim's low voice says.

"I'm not! It's true, for the longest time I ha-"

"You're lying!" Zim says louder. A look of anger taking over the smaller Irken's face.

Theron comes to the sudden realization.

He's messed up.

What did he do now?

"Zim..."

"Do you think this is a game! Is that what you're doing? Both of you...You're both in on it aren't you! You're trying to make a fool out of ZIM!" The magenta Irken had taken a more aggressive stance. Hands balled into tight fists. Eyes blazing a bright pink with fury.

"No! That not how it is!" His defense falls on deaf ears.

"You're lying! Liar!" The other's rage was too much, he had to defend himself as Zim rushed at him.

Theron knew despite the other's small stature, how much damage he could inflict. Zim was a deadly fighter.

Yet, Theron held the smaller Irken's sharp claws away from his face with little effort as they struggled.

The shorter Irken's wrists felt so small. Had Zim always been this frail? Or maybe his training was actually paying off! He thinks happily on that last bit.

His smile is misinterpreted by the smaller Irken. Magenta eyes flashing.

"I won't let you use me again!"

He grunted at a harsh kick to his shin, letting go of the other as he faltered from it. Before he could regain his balance, Zim had tackled him.

Thankfully his back had found the softness of a bed.

They wrestled further on it. Zim wouldn't listen to reason. Only calling Theron a liar and a host of other things that made him blush from the root of his antenna.

Finally he was able to flipped them for the last time, managing to pin the other down. At least Zim hadn't started using his PAK, he's not sure he'd survive that.

Zim continued to buckle beneath him.

"Let me go!"

"Just, just let me explain!" He said desperately. A bead of sweat running down his face.

Why won't anyone just listen to him!

Magenta eyes narrowed.

"Ugh!" He grunted as the other's only loose leg, kneed him in the side. Luckily the odd angle didn't loosen his grip, but void!

Zim may have not been as strong as he remembered, but the other wasn't as frail as he looked either.

That still hurt!

"By the gods, Zim! Would you just listen to me for one second!" He throws his other leg over Zim's, pinning all of the smaller Irken.

Eventually Zim stopped struggling. Sounds of both their heavy breathing filled the room.

"L-Let me go." Magenta eyes were wet.

Purple eyes suddenly widened as they realized their position.

Theron immediately released the other's hands, moving off of the smaller Irken to give him some space.

Zim moved up to the head of the bed, curling into himself. Magenta eyes never moving from his form. Zim rubbed at his wrists.

Void, didn't that make him feel like a blisnit

"I'm sorry." Was the quiet apology. Zim twitched.

Void! He really...really messed up now.

"I'm not lying." Zim opened his mouth, most likely to call him a foul name yet again. "I'm not, really!"

Was it such a hard thing for Zim to believe? Yes, their society looked down on relationships. Yes, it was risky, but Theron was willing to take that chance. Wanted to take the chance, that he had denied himself, so long ago. Would things have turned out differently?

Afterall, Zim and him had once...

Consequences to the void! Soon he'd be the one in charge, he could make the rules!

If he could just take out that Irken first...

Yet, the smaller Irken seemed to respond to Voel's advances well. It was just Theron then, that Zim just didn't like. That seemed to be the ever growing case. They didn't know each other here. Zim wasn't his. They were strangers. He'd thought they had something in the past. Maybe the only reason why, was because Zim had been broken.

That was the only way he'd ever give Theron a chance.

The thought makes his cardiac-spooch clench painfully.

A deep breath left the magenta eyed Irken. Drawing Theron's attention back to the other.

"How do I know what you're saying is true? How do i know you're not just trying to get me labeled a deviant, or even a defective!" Zim hissed.

"You're not defective! I wouldn't do anything to get you sentenced a-!"

Theron quickly bit his tongue.

Wide magenta eyes met his. "Ther-"

The whoosh of a door. Both heads snapped to it.

"Uhhh?" Skoodge said as he entered the room. They could hear the ding of the curfew bell behind him.

Theron wasted no time in tactifully retreating.

Notes:

Information dock/charging station: The control Brains do not actually know what happens 24/7 for every Irken.

-Thus they use these pods, under the guise of software updates/charging station for PAKs to tell them of any important information. They mostly rely on Irken's themselves to keep one another in line.

Core/Memory Core: The heart/soul of an Irken, buried deep within a PAK. No one is entirely sure what it is, beyond that it is essential for Irken's to live and PAKs to function.

-Paks after death are often collected and reset/reprogrammed for the next iteration. Destroying the core is considered the ultimate death sentence. -Tampering with another's core is the highest offense, resulting in death of both biological Irken and their core and complete wipe of their legacy from the collective. -Damage to the core may result in insanity.

Healing/regeneration: An Irken's ability to bounce back from dire wounds varies between each Irken.

-(Uncommon/Rare)

They heal incredibly fast from bruises and minor wounds. Sometimes within a day. Some are capable of attaching or regrowing limbs and organs (Not including brain or heart). So long as it wasn't a lethal kill or extreme damage. They may regain complete control of these limbs/organs without any scaring. However they may sometimes suffer nerve damage if the wound was extensive enough. Removing their Pak, or destroying their heart or brain is usually the best way to take them out. They can often be found in combatant roles to make the best use of their abilities.

-(Bulk of the species) Other Irken may likewise do all of the above, to various lesser extents. They are a bit more susceptible to damage. The same wound may kill them, but the above may walk away from it. For bruises or minor wounds, it may take only a few (1-3) day(s) to heal. They scar, but typically only when they receive extensive damage. It is rare for them to lose a limb completely, but not entirely unheard of.

-(Uncommon/Rare) The ones with the least amount of this ability, are most similar to humans. For bruises and minor wounds it can take anywhere between days to weeks to heal. If they lose a limb or organ, that's about it. They scar way easier than the rest of their species. They are typically delegated to non-combatant roles due to this fragility.

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BLIND AU PT SIX THE REWRITE PT1

(Notes: I call Flug , Acylius Flug I named him that way before I knew his name was Kenning.

Black Hat’s first name is Amadeus and White hat’s name is Thaddeus and Acylius when he was in the collage was actually 300 years old.

There is mention of substance abuse but it is none of the main characters.

In flash backs I will make characters think back on things so it’s kinda flash back within a flash back I will state when the flash back has actually finished.

Extra note, Hat and Acylius are both demons, neither of them are weak, they throw each other around but that’s somewhat more their nature for when their species is like pissed off and to get Acylius to give in to that part of himself you have to rly make him mad.

These are your warnings)

“Ohhhh boy.”

Demencia was pressed against the window in Hat’s office, the view outside was certainly interesting and not exactly for the better, glancing back at her boss, she could see him shifting, surely he could sense the being outside, her own hair was bristling at the sight of their visitor, what was he even doing here!

The old demon hunched over petting 505, soft fur between fingers, soothing, comforting warmth, it as much as it pained him to admit it even to himself he could understand Flug’s fondness for the creature.

A beast feeling a connection with something so sweet and soft…their animal instincts had connected as a pack to say the least after the bear had been the first one to approach, to figure out what had been wrong that day when he’d been hunched over in his room, towering over them all…no one must ever know he’d now accepted the bear as…family.

Claws scratching lightly, antennae twitching, usually mistaken for eyebrows, he never bothered to correct anyone considering they seemed to serve the same expressive purpose.

In all honesty , he’d rather have his Doctor under his hand…or perhaps to even sit on the Acylius’s lap and be pamper…to have his attention.

“Pits below what is he doing here, there was no arrangement for meeting until the year three thousand!”

Hat’s tone a harsh whisper, going to his feet so suddenly he nearly tripped on the bear who had been frantically trying to move, Black Hat only made a disgruntled grunt before making his way to the window, blind or not he knew the way around his office off by heart.

Though you know, if Flug wanted to lay around so he could trip on him he wouldn’t say no.

Fives let out a sigh of relief, fully expecting to have his guts rearranged like the one time when he tried to clean Hat’s office.

Beneath Amadeus’s Hat , feline ears twitched, yes indeed , what was Shite Hat doing here, a ridiculous thought skittered across Black Hat’s mind, what if his brother was poking around, trying to entice Acylius to join him at that disgustingly cheery home, full of hearts and…urgh rainbows, that place was made more of saccharin than the obnoxious candy story that resided next to White’s home.

Shaking his head and sighing , no that was silly, his Doctor would hate it there just as much as he would and well he showed usually as much contempt for Thaddeus as he did.

Flug was under contract to him, in his grasp, he’d never find work elsewhere if he dared to try and leave.

So the question was why was he here?

Well, if he stopped fretting and actually listened he might find out something, feeling 505 settle beside him, oh so Flug’s son wanted to be petted more…well…rolling his eye he continued lightly scratching behind the bear’s ears and listened to what was occurring at his own front door.

“So, how long have you been working here Flug, Acylius if I am right?”

White was all charm as he leaned on the door frame , one arm above his head, fingertips rubbing together in thought as the brim of his hat shadowed his eyes, other hand resting lazily in his pocket.

He had that sort of grin which left you unsettled if you knew him, knew those pearly white blunt teeth were actually sharp fangs that could tear through flesh like you were nothing.

As Acylius sipped his morning coffee he couldn’t help but wonder if he was staring at some nightmare toothpaste commercial, where was the stock sound of something dinging with sparkles, he himself was currently in his own disguise of someone with high cheek bones, hair that was fading from brown to sandy silver blonde, slick back…yeah he just pretty much looks like Mads Mikkelsen Hannibal >.>…

(He uses his own shape shifting abilities with a watch called a Hologuise which is pretty much like the thing megamind used in Megamind to look like Bernard, a convenient device for those who are perhaps too exhausted to shape shift or don’t feel like it.)

As Flug watched him he tried to think where he’d seen similar teeth…ah yes…Kaonashi …as he looked him over it only just dawned on him, wait was …Thaddeus’s trying to look appealing…to him…how utterly sad.

“Do not play games Thaddeus you are older than me and should act as such, as for my name you know not to speak it publicly.”

Flug retorted, pulling out a cigarette, the end igniting the moment it was placed between his lips, taking a drag he savoured the taste of lavender and other unworldly assortments that a human system would crumble under, though his ones were not full of poisons like theirs, his ones were made to relax him still all the same.

Heh it would be a lie if the doctor said he’d never offered his victims one to watch the results.

“You were the one who stalked me at Black Hat’s collage hmm, I would have figured you knew outside this place my name is Kenning, you make for a poor stalker White.”

“Oh I could do so much more if you were not cooped up like a pretty bird singing for Amadeus, my apologies Kenning, I just enjoy saying your name it makes my mouth tingle to do so…it, oh it’s been a while since we last spoke.”

“Yes, well I did put a restraining order against you.”

White bit his lip, damn, did Amadeus ever get to see that stern look, last he heard, Flug liked to wear a paper bag around the Manor.

“I know, pesky thing really, however it was you who invited me, so the barriers will not activate until you say my presence is no longer welcomed, you were always were all games and no work make Flug a dumb boy.”

Waving his hand wistfully a mischievous gleam in his eye, he could not help but preen, being stared down by a creature younger than himself with such power, so much potential, that sharp glare ohhh the tingles it sent down his spine, it would send most into a giddy state, even if it was not always expressed by others on the outside.

Acylius would be so much fun to play with given the chance.

“Well due to my dedication, it is why I was chosen and others were not, as much as I know my master will bed his students, he is not so imbecilic as to pick a pretty pair of legs without a brain.”

Flug answered shortly.

“I am not so sure about that, you are a pretty pair of legs with a brain attached, you would have to be a fool not to enjoy looking at your stilts.”

White Hat’s grin only widened as Acylius stared at him.

Taking another drag on his cigarette, the weight of the world felt as if it had just rested itself on Flugs shoulders with another to top it, he was not in the mood for this, he was upset and disappointed in himself, so many experiments and still nothing, White Hat was a last resort option, perhaps he could find information from him...maybe he knew a way to help cure Black Hat’s blindness.

Why he was putting in so much effort for someone who slept with anything that had a pulse with the pretence that it would up their grade then tried to still flirt with him was beyond his understanding.

Hat would laugh behind their backs how easy it had been to make them throw out their morals let them sing they slept with him but the symphony in their hearts fell when they realised it gained them nothing but being a notch in the demons bed…

No, Black Hat would never see him as anything more than to add to the sea of marks in his victory post.

“You know word is, Amadeus is still trying to get into your breeches, wondering how you resist such a dark creature and some question how he resists you…if he resists you, I know I would have done everything to have you in my sheets and at least been honest about it, you at least deserve that.”

Clearly Thaddeus knew Amadeus’s antics all too well or he himself had been readable enough himself because the white demon seemed to be looking through him like an open book.

Both of them heard something breaking at that comment, neither of them surprised that the old demon was listening…well let him.

It wasn’t exactly as if they were meeting in some dark street corner after all.

Wood splintered under Black Hat’s palms, claws dug in as spines raised on his back tearing through his coat, plaster littering the ebony carpets, 505 and Demencia taking a step back, just incase he decided to full on lose his shit.

“Boss, you gotta keep calm, you know I’m all up for seeing you go bat shit crazy but we need to find out why he is here and we can’t risk him finding out-“

“What that I am-“

Demencia clapped a hand over his mouth, Amadeus was so taken back by that he didn’t even react.

“If his hearing is anything like yours he knows we’re spying on him as well as Flug, unless our doctor is just that charming, to distract him.”

Hat cursed dejectedly behind her hand , reaching up to gently push her away…there was a silence in the room, he’d not thought about where his hands were going to land until now…when he gave a small squeeze.

505 stared a moment and wondered if this was about to turn into grown up time and if he should just leave, paws immediately covering his eyes.

The lizard woman couldn’t help but chuckle at the expression on Hat’s face, hand dropping back by her side.

“Those are not your shoulders are they.”

He stated having a very good idea on what he was holding.

“No, but I don’t mind, you can keep them there if you want.”

The demon almost considered it, mostly for the soft texture, but with the way Thaddeus was talking he might accidently crush them and as much as Demencia could vex him, she did not deserve that, letting go he continued to listen to the nightmare occurring outside.

“Please tell me at least that Flug looks like he is considering giving my brother a thrashing for being so disrespectful.”

“Honestly boss you both kinda hit on the Doc, he’s from a time of romance, you know flowers, words with real meaning, thought you would have figured that out, honestly it’s no wonder neither of you can court him…what was it he said, oh yeah he can smell a cad a mile off.”

She couldn’t see Acylius at the moment though as the archway outside was blocking her view of him

“They’re just talking; White’s smiling a little too much though.”

Well that was insight on his Doctor he’d not expected from Demencia, but certainly food for thought, but hearing that Thaddeus was actually smiling just made him curl his top lip in disgust.

(Back to those down stairs)

Acylius who’d placed his coffee cup down a few minutes ago was now running a hand through his hair, a dreamy look on his features

“Resist…that word…in the right situation is…oh it’s so pleasant, so wonderful, I love to see my victims resist, laid out across the slab, squirming, struggling against the straps that hold them down…”

White watched him, listening to that blissful contentment in his voice was making him a little hot under the collar

“You know they beg, they plead with whatever they have, tears down their cheeks, you find out how quickly heroes are monsters when they have everything stripped from them, another needle, another blade, blood and agony, such sweet whimpering from those pathetic creatures and to watch the light fade from their eyes…leaving behind meat for a feast.”

As Amadeus listened to Acylius, hearing that delight in his voice, sensual enjoyment as he recalled past killings, it excited him, made his fingers itch all the more to reach out to Flug and plead for him to go on , press up against his body and listen to every word he had to say.

The moment was soiled only because he could smell White, he was clearly not the only one affected by Flug’s poetic bloodlust.

Acylius Flug belonged to him. No other creature could have Flug and live.

Eye turning black and blue, the colour change from its usual red due to the blindness as fang grew in places that were unnatural.

“My, someone doe enjoy their job here, you must get to do all kinds of things hmm?”

Thaddeus leered, leaning in closer, not even flinching as Acylius blew smoke in his face, the white demon inhaled only to let it softly puff out in swirling clouds past his lips.

“Indeed, despite your glamour White Hat I can see your true face under that guise you wear so humans do not fear you.”

Oh Acylius felt satisfaction in seeing Hat’s face falter; it was fun to remind him that his power could be seen through with the eyes of a Legion demon such as himself.

This however was something he did not bother doing with Black Hat, his master had put so much effort and magic into his disguises that it was sometimes fascinating to watch and sense the age of them, old magic that few still knew how to do, only putting a stop to it when Amadeus thought he was getting away with coming on to him.

What the doctor never told him was, it wasn’t through using his own abilities he could see through his masks, it was because he knew his little quirks, his twitches, which were so subtle only the observant eye of someone who lived with him would know and you had to be…very…very observant to notice them.

“You know you could have so many flocking to you if you wanted, fulfil so many fantasies, humans just love the idea of a monster slithering into their beds and yet you want to crawl into mine…I am not that sort of beastie White…”

Flug leaned his back on the door frame

“ -and maybe that is what intrigues you and Black…there is no love…no I think you are incapable of it personally…some sense of it perhaps exists in your kind and Edward Slug just accepts you as you are, but perhaps a dinner date could not go amiss, if only for science.”

Demencia’s eyes widened, oh no, oh deary dear and shit on a stick.

A shadow was now looming over both 505 and her, Hat’s rage was festering, building and swelling and he could barely contain it, he wasn’t just furious, he was hurt, how dare Flug assume he was incapable…incapable of…love…he loved him he was his! Why had he not asked him for a date even if to explore his body for scientific reasons he’d have let him if only to have his attention to have him touch him, all this time and he just whimsically asked his BROTHER!

To say he was insanely jealous was an understatement, clouds of green smoke leaving his maw as saliva dripped from his maw, only barely registering what Demencia was now saying to him

“Hat, he’s probably got some plan up his sleeve you need to relax.”

White paused a moment and glanced up, too assume his kind couldn’t love not in the typical sense of it was not exactly far from the truth, Amadeus had always been different, the exception…it was strange with their race, usually starting at White…people called him White…but if they saw the starting point of colouration…he would look murky in comparison…Black Hat was the only one of their kind really…the family line reaching to that shade had been astounding, no other family of his breed made it that far, usually wiped out by arrogance and other such things.

No Hat was just far enough along to actually feel that emotion only to deny that he did…White sometimes wondered if he envied him for it or was grateful he could not feel it on such a scale.

Demencia placed a hand on Amadeus’s shoulder as 505 nuzzled his leg, the bear was currently loafing on the floor like a cat and was trying to help her calm their boss, while his monstrous appearance did not change he did relax a little, maybe she was right…to his knowledge Flug really was not fond of White.

Ears , laid back he was supposed to be listening to them, why could Flug talk around White like that, so casually and yet was so ridged with him…did his Doctor despise him more than Thaddeus?

“Well there is no point beating about the bush, Legion demons , their power is highly attractive to our kind, it makes us more eager to impress and to have your good fortune bless us…so how could I resist such a tempting offer of a dinner date even if it’s only to play.”

“I see, so after all these years I am still viewed as an object…well at least you are honest about it, surprisingly I am appreciative of the fact.”

Well then, that explained a lot, such as why Black Hat always made sure he had everything he needed, right down to his favourite brand of fucking tea, yes let’s just please the Legion demon, make sure he has everything he wants and maybe I’ll get his blessing and even more fortune…

Why did he care anyway, he knew what Black Hat was like and yet still he hoped…maybe somewhere…in that little dark heart of his…forget it what was the point of hoping.

“So besides my inviting you here, what else brings you to Hat Island?”

Acylius was now more to the point, offering his cigarette to let White Hat share it with him, this idiot had stalked him during his college days, he at least now with the explanation understood why.

Watching as Thaddeus licked his silver tongue along the butt of the cigarette, doing his best to look alluring to Flug, savouring the taste, the doctor inwardly cringed hard.

Of course he smiled at the sight, he had to play nice after all, it was he who’d called him here.

“Trying to tempt me, it will take a little more than tongue play to impress me Thaddeus.”

“Oh and what does impress you?”

Demencia on reflex grabbed the back of Black Hats collar before he turned into a rabid beast and pulled him back, Thaddeus had all but asked to fuck Flug without actually saying it.

Well his employee was full of surprises today wasn’t she, just pulling him about like that! He couldn’t help but stare at her in disbelief at least he hoped he was staring at her, was she mad…well more so than usual!

“Woman, I may not be able to see, but when my brother asks that question he’s full on intending to climb into your bed, I should know I taught him that.”

Letting him go, she rolled her eyes, arms folded

“Just so you know, I am giving you my annoyed face.”

“Why?”

The old demon asked dumbly.

Having her irritated at him was certainly a new experience.

“You like the tree, but you’re a player, that’s literally not the type he’d settle with, how are you so smart and yet so stupid!”

She was only answered with silence, but it left him with something to think about that’s for sure…but he wanted Acylius to romance him, try and change him from his ways like in those silly Earth movies, not that he wouldn’t immediately drop everyone else just to be with him, if the doctor showed any inkling he had a interest in him like that…

Leaning on 505 who dare not move lest he anger the very temperamental Demon who was barely holding his jealously together.

“What are they doing now?”

The lizard woman was already watching them and froze, rubbing her eyes, did Flug just give White Hat his digits, how was she gonna explain that, she still believed this was for Black’s sake but her boss was gonna take that the wrong way all the way to the deep end.

“Well you are certainly forward Thaddeus, I do have a few things I wish to discuss on said date, but first, will Slug mind and two what do you keep under your hat, your stubborn brother has never told me.”

Ohhhhh White knew his brother was snooping on them, watching them (Doesn’t know Black Hat’s blind), his smile grew into a smug wide spread grin.

“No, Slug doesn’t mind, my outgoing ways give him time to work, so long as I come back home to him which I always will as you know, now as for what’s under my Hat.”

During this time Demencia had devised a plan, probably not the best one, but it was a desperate one and Black was going to take it at this point, because if anyone was going to show Acylius what they had under their Hat it was HIM!

The doctor had genuinely curious, focusing on Thaddeus’s hand, now resting at the brim of his hat.

Black Hat followed the shadows that shied away from him, for even darkness feared this beast as he slithered on by, Amadeus was worse than the serpent of Eden or perhaps he was the same creature.

Using Acylius’s scent as a guide, his shadow caressing against Flugs, while he doctor would not feel it , a shadow cast had just as much texture as a body to him…it would be a lie to say he did not steal caresses in the same way from his doctors shadow.

Rising up from the ground, transforming from a solid black mass, Hat could feel the warmth of Flug’s body, aching to press into the contours, kiss the back of his neck, lingering and soft, even if it meant climbing him to reach it, he wanted Acylius to touch him willingly, to come to him and be his master…he wanted him to claim that role between them.

To care for him, to feel those hands on his body, he was hesitant for only a moment, any longer and he knew White would show him that they had cat ears under their hats, The doctor was supposed to find that out one day when he would finally kiss him and take it off for him.

Acylius groaned, pinching the bridge of his nose

“My boss has arrived it seems.”

White hat paused a moment, letting his hand fall back down, well it’d be no fun showing Flug if Black was right there.

Hat froze…so his doctor was disappointed he was there, in his mind saving him from White Hat, well then let’s just lay it on thick shall we, after all he could have at least shown some pretence of admiration in front of his sibling, nostrils flaring, his hands snaking around the Legions waist.

“My boy, you need not be so coy, you love being splayed out for me, begging , pleading for me…but then again who would not beg for me…”

With his powers he forced the doctor to his knees, knelt now between both Hat’s, Black’s claws now running through his hair as fangs nipped at his neck.

“You see as much as he loves tongue, he loves teeth that do not look like were placed in a cheap tv commercial.”

(so found out tumblr won't let me post this in one post so I'll need to do it in sections link will be provided to part 2 below)

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ourlady-ofsorrows · 4 years

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Against All Odds

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Chapter Fifteen

Masterlist

Pairing: Daryl Dixon x OFC Word Count: 2,067 Warnings: language, blood, killing zombies, giving birth, woman in labor, water breaking A/N: I’m gonna be posting the rest of the parts to this story today, it might be a little slow moving since I’ve got 38 parts written so please bare with me lol. If You want to be tagged, let me know. Also, feedback is cool :)

Daryl’s POV

We were double and triple checking everything we were walking past on our double back toward the interstate. Everyone was beginning to get frustrated when a single gunshot rang out through the woods. Everyone began to panic and start talking about who shot it and what it was and I could see that Carol thought the worst, that the found Sophia, she was bit, and they had to do what needed to be done. Lori and Andrea were trying to console her and tell her that there was still hope and I was getting real fed up with them and their bullshit.

“I’ll tell ya what it’s worth, all this hopin’ and prayin’. Nothin’. I’ll tell ya why. Because we are gonna locate that little girl and she’s gonna be jus fine. Am I the only one zen around here? Good lord!” I said and started to walk off in the direction of the interstate.

Everyone begins to follow me and we decide to call off the search for the day and pick it up in the morning because we were losing light. We continued back toward the interstate and Andrea started to veer off from the group. As we continued to walk we heard Andrea scream and ran over to find her. Out of nowhere a woman on a horse wielding a baseball bat came riding up, slammed the walker attacking Andrea in the head and stopped the horse.

“Lori? Lori Grimes?” the woman said, “There’s been an accident. Carl’s been shot. Rick sent me to get you. We have to hurry! Let’s go!”

Lori climbs on the horse with the woman.

“Are you crazy? You can’t go with her? We don’t even know who she is!” I said.

“You have a group on the interstate?” the woman asked.

“Yeah,” Glenn said.

“Back track to Fairbren Road, two miles down there’s a farm. Name’s Greene!” She said and rode off in the direction she came with Lori.

I shot an arrow through the walker’s head because the girl’s hit with the bat didn’t kill it and we headed back to the highway as quickly as we possibly could. When we got there Dale told us the RV was fixed and we told them about Carl and the woman on the horse taking Lori and about the farm she told us to find. Dale told us about T-Dog’s infection and I walked over to the motorcycle and pulled out Merle’s stash. I tossed Dale a bottle of painkillers and Doxycycline for T-Dog.

“Merle got the clap on occasion,” I said with a shrug.

Carol kept going on about how she didn’t want to leave without Sophia and we agreed to stay the night with her and set up supplies and a sign for Sophia in the morning just incase she came back. Dale told Glenn to take T-Dog to the farm tonight to see if there was someone there who could take care of his arm and he agreed. The two of them left and we went about our routine of sorting through the supplies to figure out what to take and what to leave for Sophia. Halfway through our sorting I could see that there was something wrong with Summer. She was sitting next to Andrea and her face went white and she gripped Andrea’s shoulder. From the look on Andrea’s face I could tell she was grabbing pretty hard.

“I’m having contractions,” Summer said barely audible and I could see her look down and sure enough, her water had broken.

I looked at Dale and he immediately got up. I ran over to Summer and helped her into the RV. I got her laid down on the floor because she couldn’t make it to the bed. I grabbed her a pillow and lifted her head up, placing the pillow under it. That’s when she started screaming. I grabbed her hand and she was squeezing.

“It’s ok, it’ll be ok,” I told her, “You’re gonna be fine. We knew this was going to be happening soon.”

“Just shut the fuck up Daryl,” she spat at me, “oh God this hurts.”

The contractions came and went for the rest of the day and they finally subsided enough for her to get some sleep. When she finally fell asleep I grabbed my gun and asked Dale to keep an eye on her because I wanted to walk down the highway a bit to look for Sophia. Andrea said she wanted to come along and we went on a walk down the highway. We went into the woods, staying close enough to the highway so I could hear if something happened to Summer, and I told Andrea about how I was lost in the woods for nine days when I was younger and had to wipe my ass with poison oak. I told her how no one noticed how I was missing and when I finally found my way home first thing I did was make a sandwich. She laughed at my story and then her expression became serious.

“How do you feel about bringing a baby into all of this?” she asked me.

“What do you mean?” I asked.

“The world is hard enough for us to live in, how do you think a baby will make it?” she asked.

“Is that a serious question?” I asked her, “That’s my son. My first child. I don’t give a fuck if the world has gone to shit or not.”

“Fair enough,” she said.

We kept walking and came across a walker hanging in a tree. Andrea said she was going to be sick and I told her to just let it out, I was more than used to vomit from Summer and her morning sickness. She let it all out and we decided to head back to the RV.

Summer’s POV

I woke up to even more contractions and noticed Daryl wasn’t with me. I was beginning to panic and I heard Dale ask Carol to look in on me because Daryl and Andrea weren’t back yet and he wanted to look for them. The contractions came back in full force and I screamed for Carol. She came running into the RV and grabbed a wet towel and began to wipe the sweat off of my forehead.

“I can’t do this, Carol, I can’t do it,” I said crying.

“Yes you can,” she said soothingly, “you can do this. Just breathe. In and out.”

I tried to concentrate on my breathing but I couldn’t do it. Another contraction came and I let out another scream. Daryl came running into the RV. Carol looked at him hopefully and he shook his head. She stood up and walked out leaving me alone with Daryl.

“Get me another pillow, please,” I asked him.

He grabbed me a pillow and I put it over my face and screamed again as another contraction came. The pillow muffled the sound as well as I thought it would. I brought it away from my face and looked at Daryl. My face was covered in sweat and tears and I couldn’t stop myself from crying. Daryl grabbed my hand again.

“Hey, it’s ok,” he said brushing the hair from my face, “it’s almost light. Dale and Andrea have already started to set up the sign and supplies for Sophia. We’re gonna be out of here in no time. And when we get to the farm you can have the baby and everything is gonna be ok.”

“How can you be so sure?” I asked him squeezing his hand as another contraction came through.

“Because I’ve got faith, alright,” he said, “you were always the one telling me to be optimistic.”

I nodded at him and squeezed his hand again as the contractions were getting closer together. We needed to leave now because this baby was coming and would be here within the hour, no doubt. Daryl could tell from the look on my face what I was thinking and he stuck his head out of the RV and shouted that we had to go, now. Before I knew it the RV was being started up and we were heading toward the farm. Daryl was trying to keep me calm as every bump the RV hit made me feel like the baby was just going to pop out. We finally stopped and I sat up to see a farm outside the window and Daryl helped me up. We made our way out of the RV and Daryl was leading me in the direction of the house.

“SOMEONE! WE NEED HELP OUT HERE!” he shouted.

Rick came rushing out with an older man.

“RICK! SHE’S IN LABOR!” Daryl yelled over to Rick and him and the old man came running over.

“Summer, you alright?” Rick asked and I managed a nod gripping Daryl’s hand again, “This is Hershel. He’s a doctor. He can help.”

I looked at Hershel my eyes pleading with him and he led Daryl and I into the house. He laid me down on a bed and called for Maggie. A woman who I didn’t recognize, but Daryl seemed to, walked in and Hershel told her to get Patricia. Maggie walked out and came back a minute later with a blonde woman. Hershel instructed Daryl to get my pants off because he needed to check how dilated I was.

“This baby is coming any minute now,” Hershel said, “Summer? Are you ready? You’re 10 centimeters dilated, you need to be ready to push.”

I nodded.

“And you,” he said looking at Daryl.

“Daryl,” he replied.

“Daryl,” Hershel said, “I’m assuming you’re the father.”

Daryl nodded.

“You need to be ready for this too,” Hershel said, “we don’t have any drugs, and even if we did it would be too late to administer them now. She’s gonna be in pain, a lot of it. I need you to remind her to breathe and hold her hand. She’s gonna need it.”

Daryl nodded again and Hershel looked at me.

“Alright, Summer,” he said, “push.”

I pushed as hard as I could and let out a scream in the process. I was squeezing Daryl’s hand so hard I was sure I would break it. I could hear him telling me to breathe but I could barely register what he was saying.

“I can see it’s head, Summer, push again,” Hershel commanded.

I pushed again letting out another scream.

“Patricia, get the clamp, scissors, and some blankets and a bucket of warm water, this baby is almost here,” Hershel said to the blonde woman, “alright Summer, one more time. Push hard this time, it’s almost over.”

I pushed as hard as I could issuing one more blood curdling scream and then I heard the baby crying. I fell back against the bed breathing heavily. I heard the door open and I heard Hershel ask Daryl if he wanted to cut the cord. Next thing I knew I heard the baby crying, water being moved around, and he was in my arms. He was wrapped tightly in blankets and I looked at his face. It seemed like he was smiling. I looked over at Daryl and he was looking at the baby tears running down his face, smiling. He looked over at me and I smiled at him. He leaned in and kissed me.

“What are you gonna name him?” Maggie asked.

“Harry,” Daryl said.

“Do you have any formula?” Hershel asked, “He’s gonna need to eat. Patricia get the sutures. She tore a little, I need to stitch her up.”

Patricia nodded and walked out of the room.

“There’s some, in my bag in the RV, bottles too, but I don’t think it’s enough,” I said.

“Maggie, get someone from their group to get the formula and make a bottle,” Hershel instructed.

Maggie left the room and Patricia reentered.

“Daryl you’re gonna need to take the baby,” Hershel said, “I have to stitch her up and it’s going to hurt.”

He began to stitch and every prick of the needle felt white hot because I was already so sore. Shortly after Hershel said I was done and needed some rest. Maggie came back in with a bottle and handed it to Daryl. He sat down on the bed next to me feeding the baby and I fell asleep.

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eclipsemidnight · 6 years

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To Do, To Make

She’s seven-hundred seventy-six, and you’re who-knows-what, Rukon rats like you don’t count time except in how long it’s been since you lost someone, or for you how long it’s been since your last meal. It doesn’t really matter how old you are, because seventy-six comes to Seventy-Six and offers you a job. You look between soft hands and a pair of sharp blades behind her, and behind you, and you accept.

Seventy-six years later, you’re no longer bothered by the sharp blades because you have one too, even if she’s locked up too much of the time for you to learn her properly. Your princess croons to you that you can fix them up all pretty in their crimson blood, and you soothe her, ignore her, because in seventy-six years you’ve only seen the sunlight twice that number of times and you want to do it again.

Seventy-six days later, when you present her with your research, you present her with your blade instead, through her neck. She falls. Smiles. Steps out from behind a curtain and moves so quickly that you can’t even see her, only feel the whisper-thin sensation of hair being cut off at your neck, not a touch of steel on skin. As you stand surrounded by your golden declaration of war, your maker laughs, and calls in her daughter and her daughter’s daughter. You’re going off to war, she says, and you don’t know what war is but it has got to be better than here.

You learn to count in seventy-threes instead of seventy-sixes, three days sloughed off like your hair. Seventy-three is a half-term at the Academy, and there are seventy-three days without ostensible obligation in two terms, one day in five when you do not eat. The granddaughter keeps an eye on you, laughing sharply as she steals the hairbands you start wearing the moment your hair grows back long enough to tie. She grins at you the one time you’re bold enough to steal hers back, pretending that there’s nothing more to this game than this.

There’s another you recognize from the labs here, brown hair cut shorter than yours now and glasses he doesn’t need so he doesn’t need to look anyone in the eyes. You’re properly wary around him, because there are no friends in the labs, but it takes him three seventy-threes to act, sabotaging your projects at the last possible minute when the granddaughter you cannot ignore steals you away. Three days pass in an instant, like lightning through mist, and you begin to understand.

Now you’re older than you ever thought you’d live to be, and you’re starting to learn hope. A Rukon rat can disappear into the dark, but a Shinigami manages a place in the light. Your body may never be your own again, but at least your mind can claim a measure of privacy after seven years in the light. Third in your class, because you daren’t threaten the girl who steals all of you away when your hairband isn’t enough without thinking twice, and because the boy will destroy you otherwise, with illusions you can’t tell from the air. Third of seventy-six had to be enough to learn to breathe.

You learn better. Even shinigami work in the shadows sometimes, and that girl was never going to let you go. Seventy-nine years pass, three more as if to make up for the past you can barely touch, and you see the grass only long enough to dirty it with blood. The girl laughs as her grandmother dies. Your crimson princess laughs, and blood drips down your face from the corner of your eyes. You never get the hang of smiling, but you think that’s just fine, and then you don’t think at all.

Seventy-nine more years and Third seat after three promotions sends you deeper into the prisons until you’re not sure whether you’re an inmate in prison keeper’s robes. You disappear. You remake yourself in a corner of your mind, fashioning your hands more and more into lethal weapons. You learn that you cannot stay coherent for more than seventy-six hours at a time, and time rights itself again. Every three days, you sleep.

Time ceases to make sense when she tires of your game and moves back to the other’s. You’re a captain now, skin too tight in the light even with your hair and your manner as protection. There aren’t any hairbands anymore, but neither is there someone to steal them, so it works out. You’ve forgotten what freedom tastes like, even if refusing to submit to those below you is a familiar refrain. You’re a bit obsessed with it, a bit not a good leader, but they call it growing pains and a brown-haired boy smirks in your face.

Barely three threes later, barely a minute to catch your breath, and you’re already lost, looking at a game you didn’t know you were playing. Checkmate, and tip your king. The boy wins.

The boy wins, and your timelines don’t make sense. It’s eighty-one years, three and three and three and three, until you see him again. It’s enough to make a plan. You’re in the light now, more than you’ve ever been, and yet you’re hiding, with no greater job nor purpose nor guiding force except the emptiness above and the death below. But you work in the shadows, and the boy awaits you there, so you use the extra time to live rather than exist, to reset the board and not let on that you’ve got a new queen in play.

Your queen grows into a firebrand with hair to match, and like fire he doesn’t wait for permission. But fire scorches the dark away so you disappear. You enclose yourself in a lab, only coming to see the light when you think you’ve earned it, which is only when it’s useful for you to be there. Maybe it’s penance. It’s not the same, but they rhyme. The first time she mentions the woman whose face you can barely remember, her grandmother who drew you into it all, you laugh. Somehow, she laughs too. You’ve become her, just a little. It’s okay, you think. He sees the sun more than twice a day.

You’ve stepped into the light, put yourself on the board, and the boy loses. Your hands shake, for this is not your place. If you’d become the woman who made you, you wouldn’t flinch to think of the firebrand who you burned out, or the captains you bound to him, or the others you’ve used until you’ve used them up. The numbers run together, the people run together, and it’s for the best that no one goes after you, because you’re too broken in the light to fix anything anymore. The shadows are welcoming, and hide the cracks in your bones.

You only apologize to the one, bowing from your knees and hoping it’s enough. The boy, your opponent, is dead. Your princess hasn’t spoken since you chose to fight him without her. Your maker is dead, and her granddaughter dead to you. The fire is dead, and that one is as meant for the dark as you are for the light, but it is to that one you bow. You count three seconds, then nine, then at seventy-six he sighs, and accepts. He’s seventeen and you’re who-knows-what, Rukon rats don’t count their ages except in the months it’s been since you lost someone, and he laughs, and pulls your hat back onto your head and over your eyes until you’re back in the darkness you can’t live without. You smile and present him with your research.

Okay, so incase it’s not clear: You is Kisuke, the boy is Aizen, the granddaughter is Yoruichi, her grandma is an oc, the firebrand is Ichigo, and the princess is Benihime.

I wrote this over a couple days, i was in a weird mood to start it so i hope it came out okay? Doesn’t really feel like the kind of thing to post on AO3 so I might just leave it here but it may as well get out of my notes.

#eclipse writes #My writing #my fanfic #bleach #urahara kisuke

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Chapter 1: first you get close, then you get worried…

can’t believe I actually finished a chapter of a fic and i’m posting it?? amazing, huge shoutout to @kentvparsin for reading this over & not blocking me after the millions of texts i sent them

title is from “first” by the Cold War Kids

disclaimer: all emails & numbers in this fic were completely made up by me

read on ao3 here!

When Alexei’s roommate moves out to live with his girlfriend, he quickly finds out that he can’t afford is apartment by himself for very long. So, when he puts an ad out in the paper, his highest expectations are a roommate that leaves him with a messy home but still pays rent on time. What he gets is Kent Parson. Kent emailed him about his ad almost right as he posted it. Now, Alexei isn’t dumb, he likes hockey and he watches it often. He lives in Providence, for god sakes, if he wasn’t into hockey, he’d be run out of town. He heard about Kent’s injury when he was watching ESPN after work one night, he didn’t watch the Aces game the night before but they kept playing replays of Kent’s injury over and over again. Kent though, was back on the ice within a few weeks and Aces management and Kent himself assured everyone that he was fine to play. Then, one night during a Aces v. Kings game, Kent just collapsed on the ice. No one was around him, he was barely on the ice for a minute at the start of the second period. The refs blew the whistle, players and staff rushed over to him. Alexei was on the edge of his seat, waiting to see if Parson got up by himself. With the help of players and trainers, Kent eventually was able to stand up, even if he was using Troy for support the whole time off the ice. It was announced a few weeks later through Aces PR that Kent would be retiring due to an injury. Even though Alexei was never a big Aces fan, he was still crushed for the team and Kent. After the announcement, there was radio silence from Kent on all of his social media, even his cat’s instagram. So when Kent emailed him about his apartment, Alexei was surprised to say the least, mainly because the email he received did not sound like how he thought Kent would:

Kent Parson < [email protected] >

to me:

Alexei-

I saw your ad about needing a roommate. I’m clean, wouldn’t be in your way or anything. I’m capable of giving you rent money for months well in advance. I need a place to stay to try and get back on my feet. I do have a cat, though, so if that is a problem, please let me know. Please contact me by either email or phone, either is fine by me.

Thanks,

Kent Parson

598-2679

[email protected]

Alexei read the email over and over again, he thought that maybe it was a prank, but then again why would it be? It would be a weird prank to pull on someone who has no connection to Parson at all. After a few minutes of thinking, he decided to email back.:

Alexei Mashkov < [email protected] >

to Kent Parson:

Hello Kent!

The cat is no problem, I’m not allergic but is smaller apartment so she might not have a lot of room to run around ((, but if that is no problem, then we can meetup to talk about rent and moving in!

Have good day! ))

Alexei

After sending the email, he debated taking down the ad, but decided to leave it up incase this was just some person messing with others. He closed the tab that had his email open so he wasn’t tempted to keep refreshing it as he was waiting for a response. He opened his school email instead, he had a few parents to email about their students performance in class and decided to get the drafts done now so he can send them out on Monday. Even though many friends and family thought his choice to move to America and become a high school teacher, of all things, was silly and stupid, he still did it. As soon as he got his degree, he moved out to America and got his teaching certificate at the first university that would let him. Alexei moved from state to state, trying to find a high school that would hire him. He eventually found a job at a high school in Providence that would pay him a decent amount for being a first time teacher. He loved teaching and he loved teaching history to his students, he loved when they got interested and asked questions. He loved his job even when he had problem students, like Jeremy from his fifth period class, he never paid attention or handed in his homework. The email he was typing out would be the third one to his parents, this time he’s hoping that they can get together for a parent-teacher conference. Alexei sighed, he finished his emails up pretty quickly, he was lucky that he didn’t have too many problem students. He shut his laptop and stretched, he looked over at the pile of ungraded papers from his senior history class and groaned, he really did not want to touch those yet. He was saved when his phone rang and was able to talk to his mother for a little.

Once he was off the phone, it was nearing late-lunch time, he talked to his mother for longer than he thought but it felt good to talk to her again. Deciding he can’t grade on a empty stomach, he gathers the ingredients for his lunch. As Alexei let his food cook, he checked his phone, scrolling through all his social media. He checked his email too and found a reply from Kent in his inbox:

Kent Parson <[email protected]>

to me:

Alexei-

My cat will be fine, she’s older so she doesn’t run as much as she used to and if she wants to, she’ll find a way. Want to meet up at Bittle’s Bakery on fourth street around 3:30pm? Sorry it’s such short notice, I can work around your schedule.

Let me know,

Kent

Alexei flicks his eyes up to the time on his phone, it was almost two now and Kent sent the email around noon. He quickly typed a reply and hit send:

Alexei Mashkov <[email protected]>

to Kent Parson:

Yes! Works for me, here is my number so we can message faster ))

325-2498

See you soon!

Alexei

He finishes up what was cooking of his lunch and packs it up, he figures he can eat it at another time. He freshens up and changes, Bittle’s Bakery was in center city and would take Alexei about fifteen minutes to walk there, he would drive but it’s a weekend and Alexei would like to save himself some frustration. He tries to clean up the apartment before he leaves, incase Kent wants to come back and see it in person. Alexei gets distracted in cleaning that he doesn’t realize that it’s almost 3:20 and he’s rushing out the door.

It’s about 3:35 by the time he gets to the bakery, he checks his phone seeing that Kent texted him four minutes ago, telling him where he’s sitting. He scans the bakery, it’s pretty crowded, but Alexei was able to spot Kent sitting in the back towards the kitchen and Alexei rushes over to him.

“Hello, sorry I’m late, got distracted cleaning and not realize time. I’m Alexei.” He sits down in the chair across from Kent, giving him a soft smile.

Kent gives him a small smile back, “It’s alright, man. I’m Kent, nice to meet you.” Kent fiddles with his phone in his hand, spinning it and flipping it around different ways while looking around the bakery, like he’s waiting for someone to pop out.

Alexei doesn’t mention it. “So with splitting rent, it will be seven-hundred and fifty each month, is that okay? I’m pay directly to landlord so you give me the money each month.”

Kent nods, “Yeah, that’s fine, what do I have to sign?”

Alexei gives Kent the run down on the forms and things he’ll have to send to the landlord of his apartment. “Do you want to see apartment? Is not far from here.”

Kent shook his head, “Nah it’s alright, you seem like a cool guy and I doubt it’s gross. I got the idea from the pictures you had.” Alexei wasn’t going to argue with him, so he gave Kent the landlord’s name and email. Before he left, he told Kent to call him if he needed help and when he got everything settled. Kent said his thanks and smiled as Alexei left.

About a week later, Kent was moving in the last of his stuff into the apartment. It was a little crazy moving him, since the first thing he did was move his cat in, making sure she was comfortable. Kent didn’t have as much stuff as Alexei thought he would, he had his own mattress and furniture but not many personal items, he figured he would have more being Kent Parson, but Alexei realized you can’t judge someone based off how they appear in the media.

The first night Kent is officially moved in and settled, Alexei tries to make him feel welcome. He asked him if he wanted to get take out with him and watch a movie, but Kent declined, saying he was tired and still had more boxes to unpack in his room. Alexei smiled and told him if he needed help to come get him. Kent retreated to his new room in response, Kit following him and Kent closed the door once Kit was in.

Alexei got take out for himself and graded papers while he ate, he was worried about Kent but it wasn’t his place to, maybe Kent had just wanted to be roommates and didn’t want to be friends with Alexei. His worrying didn’t stop when he was getting ready for bed and heard Kent on the phone, obviously upset and crying to whoever he was on the phone with. Alexei tried to keep to himself and not worry, but it was hard when the next morning, Kent looked like he never went to bed and just gave Alexei a weak smile as he passed his room when he went to the bathroom.

Alexei tried not to worry, but he’s never been very good at it.

#patater #alexei mashkov #kent parson #angst //#but it will eventually be happy!!#eventually #erika writes #first

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I'm interested in purchasing cheap parts bikes directly from the insurance companies after a wreck. I am mostly interested in Harleys and I don't have any interest in these gimmicky websites where you pay a fee and there are not a lot of bikes. I've looked at ebay but these are usually bikes being sold from the person who bought it from the insurance company (ie premium). There are some public auto auctions, but these are usually only limited to dealers. But maybe that is my only choice?""

Does anyone knows which insurance company is better? Great eastern or prudential?

How much would it be to have my car repainted the factory color and remove some pretty good scratches/dents?

my car was recently scraped by a post and mccdonalds and put some pretty good sracthes in my car with a good size dent and also completely ruined my running board how much do u think it would cost do have all this fixed at macco or if i claimed it as a hit and run would my insurance cover that and repaint my car or atleast half of it the side that was messed up and have ever thing else fixed

Is what my car insurance company doing legal?

I am in the process of purchasing a house. I received a quote from the insurance company I picked. And they said they could lower it even more if we add our 2 cars on. So they checked, and their offer for insurance on our cars was lower then what we are paying now. So saving us even more money. I went in, signed the papers for both auto's and the homeowners and was happy. They cancelled my previous auto insurance policies, and charged me my first month. Now, a week later, they are saying due to my previous car being stolen two years ago they can no longer offer me my 100 comprehensive deductible. They can only offer me a 1000 dollar deductible and if I choose not to accept they will cancel my auto insurance. This if frustrating considering my other insurance which wasn't bad to begin with has already been cancelled and I have already been charged my first month so if I don't accept I will have no insurance and my homeowners policy will go up in price. Sorry for the long explanation. I just don't think they should be able to get you in then change things up on you. Is there any law against that? Thanks for your help!!!""

Is there some kind of insurance I can buy for my pit bull while renting a home/apt?

I'm not looking for housing, but I know how difficult it is to get while owning a dog over 25 lbs and a pit bull mix to boot! Is there a type of insurance that I can get that will over-ride or cover whatever it is in the commerical insurance that makes people reject me for my dog breed? I have read somewhere there might be, but I don't know what it is and what was the experience with using it? I'm wondering if it's something I should get now and have a history of having or just get when I need it.""

Where can I find affordable life insurance for sr citizen in-laws?

I read a previous thread suggesting MediCare, but I am not talking about HEALTH insurance. They only have term life insurance tied to current job, and they need to retire. They have ...show more""

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Do you pay for motorcycle insurance all year round?

I have my M1 and am taking the m2 course in may but I will not be riding by myself until June. The insurance companies want 4600$ a year (18 male,Ontario). Do I still pay 4600$ for the remaining few months I can ride or does that cover me until June o next year? Someone please explain. Thanks""

How much is car insurance for a 16 year old?

I am turning 16 next month. I'm getting my liscense then too. I'm a girl... Ahah. I've heard insurance is cheaper for females. I live in henderson, nevada (pretty much las vegas). And my first car is going to be a 1999 porsche 911 carrera. It's in mint condition also. My dad barely used it. I know it will be high-ish since it's a sports car :/ About how much would my insurance be on it a month? THAN YOU! <3""

What will happen with my car insurance?

ok so i was driving my brothers car and i have my g1 i went to money mart and back home about an hour later police came knocking on my door asking if my brother was in a car accident so we went down to the station and the officer asked if i was driving his car i said yes , he then said that the other man that was sitting in the station got my plates and said i hit his car and cracked his bumper (very minor crack) so i said no and then officer assumed i was lying and made me write up an accident report. after when i was leaving the station the other guy asked if we could solving this without going through insurance so we exchanged numbers (their was no damage at all to my brothers car & no paint or anything on their car to prove i hit it) the next day they called and said the want a whole new bumper they dont want it patched up and they would get me a price quote they then got me a quote for $1475 for a while new bumper from ford i told them im not paying that much the only way im replacing the bumper is if my mechanic does it he said ok so i went to my mechanic told him the whole situation and he said i shouldnt be replacing the whole bumper for somthing that small but he still ordered the bumper for me i had to put a $400 down payment for the bumper and $300 after its put on. the bumper came in 2 days later and they brought their car for it to be put on when we got there they got pissed off and said this isnt a bumper straight from ford and they dont want it and left ( the bumper was brand new for the same model car and had the exact paint coat match just that it wasnt from ford) they then call me threating to take it through insurance if we dont get it from ford so i lost the $400 down payment for the bumper because they cant return it after its painted so i told my mechanic to order it from ford. but when he called for they said the dont have bumpers for that model anymore, i then call the people back and told them to take it through insurance because my mechanic cant get that bumper. So what will happen to my brothers insurance hes under 25 with his g2, and i had my g1 but it was on private property where they said the incident occurred the officer even said he cant charged me because its private property PLEASE HELP!""

How much does Adderall cost?

Per pill? per prescription bottle ?

Cheapest Car Insurance Nineteen Year Old?

So im nineteen and am hoping to pass my test friday, i have been looking on comparison websites and cant find any quotes for a low litre car under lets say 2500. I was just wondering if anyone out there knows of any specific insurers which could offer a much better deal, i would be very very grateful""

Is there any major medical insurance for pre-exsiting conditions???

I take care of my 50 year old mother, who is on COBRA, which went up to 700.00 monthly. We cannot afford this, but she needs medical insurance due to her pace maker. We've tried medi-cal, SSI, ect. Her ex-husband will not help her. He actually left her because she is sick, with the woman he was cheating on her with. Then he married her a year later. I am out of options and she needs help. Someone, anyone, everyone....please help. If she doesn't get medical care for her conditions and medicines for her heart, she eventually will die.""

How much would insurance cost in Australia?

Hi, i'm thinking about buying a car a month after i get my P's and i want to be the registered owner and have the title of the car. I was wondering in Australia how much car insurance i would have to pay each month, if i have a car under my name. The car would be a Toyota Prado GXL. Also would it just be better to leave it under my parent's name so the insurance would cost less? Oh and I'll be 17 when i get my car. thank you.""

How much is the insurance for a ford mustang?

for a teen girl driver thats 15 with a permit

Cheapest car insurance in florida?

i am looking for a good and cheapest car insurance in Florida...Help plz

What is the average deductable on car insurance?

Can a person get insurance on a car when the tag is in someones name?

can a person get insurance on a car if the tag is in someones elses name?

Dmv california insurance online?

i want to renew my tags online. but it says my insurance needs to be on dmv file. so i want to know do i have to go to the dmv and wait in the miseriable line or is there a way to show my proof of insurance online to them?

How can i get my insurance company (Infinity) fix my car ?

Hey i just got into a car crash last month and i've been calling my insurance company to come fix the car.. but all they'v been doin is taking pictures and asking questions about how i crashed.. and its been a month already and they haven't done nothing all they say is that they'r gona let me know whats gona happen later on, thats it... Any ideas ?""

Primary and Secondary Health Insurance?

I would like to know what health insurance company is my primary. I had health insurance through my previous employer. I worked until the 6th of the month and I was told I had coverage through them until the end of the moth. My new job health insurance went into effect on the 1st of that month so for one month I had 2 coverages. One health insurance company is saying the job I was at first would be primary until the coverage ended. The other insurance company (the one I had the longest) says they would be primary up until my last day at my first job. Then even though I had two coverages my active employers health insurance would be primary. I will find out from my health insurance company tomorrow what is primary but since there office is now closed does anyon know the answer to this.

Does anybody have any info about insurance licsences in arizona?

classes, test, etc. i passed my real estate exam a little over a year ago. man talk about a tough business! well i think its almost time to move on to something else....""

Is it true that in America there are people who get jobs they may hate simply for affordable health insurance?

I am planning on emigrating to the United States within the next three years if I can get a visa for educators or an actual Green card. The thing is that people on this forum have been telling me that health insurance comes primarily from your employer in the States, and that if you have a pre-existing condition, you may end up not able to change to the job you want as you might not be able to get coverage or, if you do get covered, be charged more than your salary. Is this correct? Someone a few weeks ago was writing about how she was angry because she has Crohn's Disease and works a part-time job with full benefits in kind (insurance) and her husband teaches five adult education classes at a community college and a state university without benefits. She said that they have no kids (no intention of having any), but she was extremely cross with her husband as he loves teaching and doesn't want to leave it for a full-time office job with benefits even though he is putting aside $1,500 per month for any possible emergencies. Is it really like that in the States. I love America, love its literature, its people, its values and so many other things, but this sounds like a big deterrent if one doesn't have total job mobility. Would a husband end up quitting a job he loves doing and taking on something he might not like simply because the less appealing job offers affordable health insurance for someone with a pre-existing condition.""

Insurance information for young drivers?

Im 22 years old. I currently on my mom's insurance so that it's cheaper and I recently traded in my other car and got a new one. How much do You think insurnace would cost if I got it on my own. I pay 130.00 now for full coverage? I don't get along with her and I wold perfer not to have her on my title. I was told I needed to have her on my title in order to be under her insurnace?

""California, pregnant, No medical insurance. What next?""

I am currently in England where I have medical coverage (NHS). I am an American and from California. I am having to move back to California, but obviously will not have medical insurance. What do I do? Can I still get insurance when I'm already pregnant? Can I qualify for medicare? How much am I looking at needing to pay? If anyone knows what happens when your pregnant in california with out insurance, that would be super. This is a family emergency which is making me need to move back. So please do not judge me because I am having to go somewhere with out insurance. Thank you.""

How do I cancel California Blue Cross insurance?

I have been trying to cancel my policy for 3 months. I even tried to stop payment at my bank, but they keep getting around the stop payments by charging different amounts each month. (This month they decided to charge me $50 more than last month) When I call them, I am on hold for over 30 minutes before I finally just give up. On their website, there is NO information about how to cancel your policy whatsoever. Why is it that they don't have ANY information on their California Blue Cross website about how to cancel??? Does anyone know of an address or fax number or wherever I am supposed to send written cancellation to or how do I go about cancelling????""

Was Obama's health care/college system comparison valid?

Tonight President Obama compared the public health care option to the public system of Universities and colleges. He said the public option will work the same way public colleges and Universities without inhibiting a vibrant system of private colleges and Universities. This is a fool's argument and a total apples to oranges comparison. Let me explain, first almost all private universities receive funding from the federal government. The federal government is not going to provide funding for private insurance. The second reason is it's common knowledge that the best Universities in the U.S. are private schools such as Duke, Stanford, and the Ivy League. These universities fill most of the highest paying jobs in the country. Some jobs even go as far as to require a degree from one of these schools (Stock Brokers on NYC Stock Exchange.) These highly paid graduates can donate larger amounts of money back to their respective colleges than the average Joe who graduated from a generic state funded university. No one is going to donate money to the private insurance companies. We can't even get all the people who qualify for insurance to sign up and that's the problem! Look, I have no way of knowing whether the public option will work or won't but when faulty logic is used to support it I become concerned. When most of the people supporting the public option are from California (a state where the middle class is few and far between) I become more concerned. When most of the Senators and Representatives who support the public option say they would prefer the U.S. had a single payer system (that's total government control of health care if you didn't know) I become very concerned. The reality is no one knows what the effects of public option will be. Also, the success of FedEx is not any proof that public option won't hurt private companies because an independent council regulates the mail industry. No independent council is mentioned in any of the plans in the House or Senate. yes or no""

Car rental insurance necessary?

I don't own a car (so I don't have my own car insurance). I am going to a small town in Upstate New York for a couple of days. Do I need to buy the car rental insurance? It is obscenely expensive (usually close to the price of the car itself).

What's the cheapest and best company for car insurance/home insurance/life?

We are moving out of our current state and need to switch companies. I was just wondering what the cheapest company (also with good service) for all types of insurance would be. Thanks!

Advice on car insurance after having an accident?

I only passed my test 5 weeks ago, and 2 weeks after getting my car I had a crash and my car was wrote off (I know I'm the reason its so expensive for young drivers :S) Just wondering if anyone knows of any insurance companies that won't rip me off. (I know this is a long-shot! but it's worth a try) Thanks in advance :)""

If an insurance company estimated the damage on my car at $800 and I later find out it is way more can I go ba?

My car got hit, their insurance company sent me to a mechanic shop to get an estimate, they said $823 and the insurance sent me the check. I just took the car to the dealership and they said the damage was $3100, can I go back to the insurance and ask for the difference?""

Best insurance company for a 16 year old driving a v6 or v8 camaro?

best insurance company for a 16 year old driving a v6 or v8 camaro? my thought is that while a v6 camaro might be reasonable to insure a 16 year old driver with, the v8 wouldbe some unuearthly figure in the 8 digits. i know its based on SO many things, but im just asking if anyone has a HUNCH about what insurance company is the best/cheapest for a teen driving a camaro? assume its a v8, ad it cant get any worse if it ended up being a v6, if you know what i mean. btw dont say american faimily. they wont even insure a person with less than 5 years driving experience driving a v8 camaro AT ALL, let alone at a huge rate. finally, do you think there is any way on earth for insurance for a 16year old driving a (2000 lets just say for example) camaro v8? including all the little bonuses like good grades, clean record, etc. all of which i have. thanks so much for your answers! they REALLY help!""

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What questions can I expect if I want to get a car insurance?

Also how can I lower my insurance rate. Currently I have IP only (not the actual driver's license) but have recently purchased the car. I live in OH.

""Insurance rates in California to rise 147% under Obamacare,was obama lying or does he just not know?

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Are jeep wranglers expensive to insure?

are jeep wranglers more expensive to insure than other cars? and how much is the average insurance rate of one?

Could somebody give me what they pay on average for insurance on a 2001 ford explorer sport?

i am looking to buy a 2001 ford explorer sport and was wondering if someboy wouldnt mind telling me their average yearly insurance payments?

How much will insurance go up?

I backed into to my friends car in our driveway and where i hit it it made is back door screw up pretty bad the door closes but anyways he went and got it estimated and they said approx. 3500 in damage about how much will this make my insurance go up i havent had any prior accidents and im 19.

What is the best website to reseach and compare auto insurance quotes?

What is a good website to use when researching auto insurance. One where I can get numerous rates from various insurers and compare them with each other?

Insurance for a first time motorcycle driver?

is insurance cheaper for a pickup truck or motorcycle for a first time driver? either would be pre 1990 the motorcycle would be a 250cc honda

""New Car, Driver's Test, Proof of Insurance?""

My Dad bought me a car about three days ago and the dealership said they will insure the car for 14 days while my dad gets insurance through his company. I might take my driver's test tomorrow and I want to use this car for it. If I show the dmv the insurance papers the dealership gave me, will that count as proof of insurance for my road test? Thank you.""

Is financial indemnity a good insurance carrier?

Can i get a california health access card if my mom has me under her insurance?

I want to get it so i can get on birth control but my mom has me under her insurance and i cannot let her know. I am 19, a college student and part time worker.""

Looking for a health insurance coop in California.?

Anyone know of one not related to working at a company or for the government?

My mother added her car to my insurance policy without telling me?

i jus got a letter in the mail informing me of changes made to my insurance on my car, changes i didnt make and apparently my mother did, without telling me. what should i say to her?""

Will I be able to buy car insurance?Thanks?

Im 19 and I was on my dads Metropolitan insurance company. I had 2004 Honda Civic but my dad had the car title in his name. I crashed my car and I was at fault so now we're waiting for the case to settle. My dad wants to wait for the case to settle before I buy another car. The case might take another year or more before its settled. I would like to buy my own insurance and my own car. How will the insurance work out or whats the cheapest insurance? Thanks

Where is the best place to find cheap Jeep insurance?

I just bought a new Jeep and need to find some decent insurance as cheap as humanly possible. Who has the best rates?

Car insurance needed to fix car?

I got a scratch on my car and I think I just need a paint job and for them to sand it. Do I need to inform my car insurance or anything to get it fixed and will they inform my car insurance if i went to get it fixed? The problem is my car is under my mom's name as well as the insurance if she found out i scratched the car she might flip.

Was in a car accident without insurance?

So last June I was in a car accident. The car does have insurance as its my dad's car. I was driving that car when a truck hit me. The police officer put the other driver at fault. My car was totaled and I had to go to the hospital. Now after many medical treatments (chiro) and long wait, I decided to get a lawyer. He is telling me that I'm not entitled to receive any settlement money because I wasn't insured. I mean how is it my fault that I got hit though? He is telling me that I could get my drivers license suspended, and such. I know I didn't have insurance, but the car I was driving was insured. My question is should I get a second opinion on my case? or is what he saying correct? By the way I'm in the state of California.""

I Need Health Insurance?

I am currently 19years of age and a full time college student. I am not working but I need to find affordable health coverage. My insurance ran out as soon as i turned 19 and what i paid before was about 10 dollars a month because i was a orphan or something like that of the state. what should i do? even if i get a job now i cannot afford to pay 200 dollars and upwards a month.

How can i get very cheap car insurance?

im 17 and i want to buy a small hatchback. ive been considering adding a family member as first driver but i would like ideas on how to make it cheaper with me as a main driver, pleaseeeeee help!!""

Why is Obamacare called the Affordable Insurance Act if it provides health care?

State farm wont stop calling me about a car insurance quote?

I did this stupid offer on the web about some car insurance quotes and I didnt think that anybody would call me or anything but I was wrong. I had calls from Allstate, State Farm, Progressive, you name it! I didnt answer them because I would have no clue what i was talking about because Im not good when it comes to car insurance knowledge or any of that stuff, Im only 16! Most of them had stopped calling me except State Farm and Allstate, mainly just to talk about the car insurance quote that I requested . Do they eventually stop calling you or will they just keep bugging you for life until you change your phone number or whatever? They are really beginning to get annoying, especially State Farm!!""

15; might be pregnant without insurance?

Okay yeah i know i asked this already but i didnt get enough answers. please if yu reading this answer me and NO HATEFUL COMMENTS. how much would it cost for a blodd test in florida? and would the teen clinic help me?

Mega life and health insurance?

What is the location of Mega Life and Health Insurance?

Insurance help please?

hi, does anyone recommend an insurance company for 18 year olds? the quotes i keep getting are around 2000 quid. my mate has a 1.4 corsa and his is 1400 - am i missing something? thanks in advance. additional: i have a 1.4 golf, it has the same bhp as a corsa.""

Car insurance?

Your Open QuestionShow me another Car insurance? I have comp ins from kwik-fit ,my car was reduced to cinders at the w/end and they have told me i dont get a replacement car [apparently because it is criminal and malicious damage],does anyone know the ins/outs of this, its the first ins claim in 20 years""

Which auto insurance is the cheapest? HELP PLEASE?

I'm 16 years old and I want insurance on my moms car. What is the cheapest company to have? help please! I really want to drive and moneys a big problem in my family.

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