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morality-or-chains · 2 months ago
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---- Test Muses
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Nash Conium | aged 29+ | AMAB, male | Pansexual, masc leaning | Werewolf Face Claim: Kit Harrington Tone: werewolves (not abo affiliated), found family, dealing with anger, drifter, love of self, natural instinct
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Buck Deerfield | aged 24+ | AMAB, male | Pansexual, fem leaning | Human or something other Face Claim: Kyle Gallner Tone: small town, trailer trash, hunting, horror, unusual behavior, cannibalism, possession, midwest hopelessness
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lostwcnderlands · 5 months ago
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maybe i should join a cult at least they'll tell me it's not my fault that the world's a fucking circus that my life feels fucking worthless when it all comes crashing down we'll see who's laughing now now.
𝕝𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕟 𝕟𝕠𝕨
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mybusinessmusings · 4 months ago
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My Business Musings: Insights, Challenges, and Growth in the World of Entrepreneurship
As an entrepreneur, the journey is both exciting and challenging. Over the years, I’ve learned that running a business isn’t just about profits and products; it’s about evolving, adapting, and continuously finding new ways to grow and serve customers. Reflecting on my experiences, I want to share some of my musings on the business world—what I’ve learned, the obstacles I've overcome, and what I continue to explore as my business evolves.
The Early Days: A Dream and a Plan
Like many entrepreneurs, I started with a dream. It was a simple idea, one that seemed like it could fill a gap in the market and offer something valuable. However, I quickly realized that having a business idea was only the first step. Turning that idea into a sustainable and profitable business required a lot more than I initially anticipated.
The first major lesson I learned was the importance of a solid plan. I had to refine my business model, understand my target market, and determine how to differentiate myself from the competition. Without a clear vision, it was easy to get lost in the myriad of options and strategies available. The business plan served as my compass, guiding me through the initial stages of building my company.
Building a Strong Foundation: The Importance of Team and Culture
As my business began to grow, I quickly realized that I couldn’t do it all alone. The importance of building a strong team became glaringly clear. Early on, I was hesitant to delegate, thinking I had to handle everything myself. But over time, I recognized that surrounding myself with talented, driven individuals was essential for scaling my business.
Hiring the right people is critical, but so is cultivating the right culture. From the beginning, I wanted to foster a work environment where creativity, innovation, and mutual respect were encouraged. A positive company culture boosts morale, increases productivity, and ensures that employees are invested in the company’s success. It also makes your business more attractive to potential hires who align with your values and goals.
The Roller Coaster of Challenges: Overcoming Setbacks
No business journey is without its bumps in the road. I’ve faced plenty of setbacks—some small, some large—that at times made me question if I was on the right path. The most difficult challenge was navigating the inevitable financial pressures that come with running a business. Cash flow management, securing funding, and handling unexpected expenses often tested my resolve.
However, each challenge taught me valuable lessons. I learned to be more resilient and to view obstacles as opportunities to innovate. For example, when faced with supply chain disruptions, I became more resourceful, seeking out alternative suppliers and renegotiating terms to ensure continuity. It was during these tough times that I developed a deeper appreciation for adaptability and problem-solving.
Learning to Adapt: Embracing Change and Technology
One of the most important musings I’ve had throughout my entrepreneurial journey is the need to constantly adapt. The business world is always changing, and staying ahead of the curve is crucial. Whether it’s consumer preferences, new technologies, or shifts in market trends, understanding and embracing change is essential.
When I first started, I wasn’t fully aware of how much technology would impact my business. However, I quickly saw how it could streamline operations, improve customer experience, and enhance marketing efforts. From adopting cloud-based tools for collaboration to integrating automation into my processes, I’ve learned that leveraging technology isn’t just a luxury—it’s a necessity.
Staying updated with industry trends is another critical aspect of adapting. Over the years, I’ve made it a priority to attend conferences, read industry reports, and network with other entrepreneurs. This has helped me stay informed and inspired, allowing me to spot opportunities before they become mainstream.
Marketing and Branding: Connecting with the Right Audience
One area that often consumed my attention was marketing and branding. Attracting customers and building a loyal following isn’t always straightforward, and it requires ongoing effort. Early on, I struggled with finding the right marketing strategies that resonated with my audience. It wasn’t just about creating content or running ads—it was about understanding what my customers valued and how my business could address their needs.
Over time, I realized the power of storytelling in building a brand. Sharing the story behind my business—why I started, the challenges I faced, and how my products or services could make a difference—created a deeper connection with customers. Authenticity became my brand’s hallmark, and I’ve noticed that consumers appreciate businesses that are genuine and transparent.
Digital marketing, especially social media, has played a huge role in my business’s growth. Platforms like Instagram, LinkedIn, and Facebook have allowed me to engage directly with my audience, showcase my products, and share my expertise. However, I also learned that successful marketing requires patience and consistency. Building brand recognition takes time, and it’s crucial not to get discouraged by short-term fluctuations.
Financial Management: The Key to Longevity
Another vital aspect of running a business is understanding financial management. In the early days, I struggled with tracking expenses, understanding taxes, and projecting profits. As a result, I learned that seeking professional advice from accountants and financial advisors was necessary for maintaining healthy finances. Balancing reinvestment in the business with paying myself and covering operational costs was tricky, but over time, I’ve learned how to forecast better and make data-driven financial decisions.
Cash flow management remains a key priority. Having adequate reserves for unexpected events or market downturns has saved my business from going under during tough times. I also invested in financial education, taking courses and reading up on topics like business credit, tax deductions, and financial forecasting. This knowledge has helped me make informed decisions that ensure my business’s long-term success.
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Conclusion: The Journey Is Just Beginning
As I reflect on my business musings, it’s clear that the road ahead is just as exciting as the path I’ve already traveled. Entrepreneurship is a continuous journey of learning and growth. The lessons I’ve learned along the way have shaped me into a better leader, decision-maker, and problem-solver. Every setback, every success, and every challenge has contributed to the person I am today.
In the end, my business is not just a means to make a living—it’s an extension of my values, passions, and aspirations. As I continue to evolve and adapt, I remain excited about what the future holds. After all, the best is yet to come.
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pierreism · 6 months ago
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My Top 10+ of 2024
My #1: a multi-tentacled road movie about a contractor who travels door to door, iPhone in hand, to film screen tests of injured workers, each one hoping to land a starring role (and a big payout) in a corporate film about workplace safety. In between gigs she uses the same phone to broadcast homophobic and misogynistic rants in-character as a mock-manosphere influencer named Bobita, clearly modelled after the Andrew Tates of this world currently in ascension. The workers beg to go viral for financial compensation. Bobita goes viral for free.
There will never be a more fun, flippant or wryly seething critique of our modern moral psychosis than this. And if you weren't already convinced of this state of collective brainrot, Uwe Boll shows up to beknight our new disreality. Jude's mordant eye surveils a world of economic vagrants capitulating to the conmen of capitalism, our dehumanization mediated and micromanaged through the digital smokescreen of social media and zoom filters. The world hasn't quite yet reached its end, but it's getting later than you think. And yes, we all expected so much more.
#2. How do you follow up a ten year hiatus after making one of the landmark films of the decade? You make Eureka. Cinema, like time, has no limits except those which we impose upon it. The very best films of the year, or any year for that matter, play with those limits in a way that reminds us what's beyond the scope of the possible.
Throughout his recent work, Alonso crafts obsessively close-up character studies with forensic detail, but then pulls back the magnifying glass again and again to reveal so much more: a web of interconnections and fables that chain together centuries, cultures and genres, all in search of some mysterious, ineffable universalis.
In one key scene that has become my favourite of the year, a group of Amazonians enter a hut to sleep. When they come out, each member explains to the group what they dreamt, while others muse upon what it may mean, much in the manner of a group psychoanalysis session that Jung would've loved. The scene is set in a remote jungle village sometime in the 50s, far from Western civilization, but it embodies the idealized function of cinema, as a dreamspace where one experiences visions and brings them back to the community to decode. These are the kinds of films I hope will inspire dreams and discussion for years to come.
Previously: 2023, 2022, 2021
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chaoticgeminate · 3 years ago
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Never Really Over - Sparks Fly (i)
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Pairing: Francisco Morales x Female Reader x Dieter Bravo Rating: E (Explicit, Minors DNI) Warnings/Possible Triggers: Vague mentions of past/present substance use (coke and alcohol), Dom/Sub elements, M/M/F, SHAMELESS smut
Word Count: 10.6K Notes: This started out as angst (which I hate to write) and then the lovely @ezrasbirdie and @wordsnwhiskey let me talk it out to them and woke up the whore brain who ended up writing this instead so now you get shameless self-indulgent smut.
Other conspirators and spectators to my whore brain at work include @pagannightwitch, @coastielaceispunk, @musings-of-a-rose, and @daddydindjarin who all requested a tag when this was finished so if you enjoyed this please thank them for their hard work in encouraging me. Also throwing a tag out for @lowlights, @iamskyereads, @mandoblowmybackout, and @javierpinme because I have NO DOUBT they were paying attention to my screaming.
I tried really hard not to use any sort of descriptions to code the reader any way other than female but if I did somewhere please let me know kindly. Not beta read at all, ya'll get this raw as hell and I'm still kind of new to writing smut so please be gentle 💙 I have not ever done, nor have the intention of doing, hard drugs and if you or a loved one or friend has a history of use and addiction problems please remember that help is out there for you both for the user and their support system and that even if it's hard and scary to confront it that at least I will be proud of you for taking steps to be the best you that you can be.
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“I can’t do this anymore, Frankie. You lied to me about getting help, you lied to me that you were doing better, and I’m done. I deserve better than this, than to be strung along as you spiral out of control no matter how much I try to do anything.”
It was over, you knew there was no other way, you couldn’t keep doing this time and time again and it hurt so badly that tears were stinging at your eyes and your chest burned. You’d found him therapists, you’d made appointments for him, you had Benny and Will help you get him to a medical professional to discuss rehab for his coke and despite all your attempts he stopped therapy and used when you weren’t home.
No matter how hard it hurt, how badly you wanted to stay, nothing would change and you couldn’t allow yourself to crash and burn with him. Frankie wasn’t ready to get help and you had to do what was right for you.
“Firecracker-”
His big brown eyes were gentle and apologetic, so sincerely expressive that you knew you’d break if you didn’t walk away now. That you’d end up right back here the next time you found out he was high, demanding he do better and nothing happening.
Thanks to you his superiors had ignored the first failed drug test, because you had proof he was getting help, they were willing to delay the next one and let him keep his license even if he was flying supervised so long as the next test came back positive.
Coming home to him using had been your final straw.
“Don’t, I’m here to give you this back. I took all of the things I brought with me when I moved into yours and nothing else. I hope that one day you do get help and get better, Frankie, you deserve to be happy and healthy even if you don’t think so.”
 You snapped awake at the harsh sound of a door opening, stretching as you looked at your phone while Fleetwood Mac played through the speaker, and Dieter chuckled as he leaned on the door frame of the closet-turned-trailer you had been assigned. Somehow you’d landed a background role in a low budget film (a series of insane events, really, starting with getting the wrong order at a coffee shop and you’d never been able to follow the chain entirely without getting lost) and Dieter had immediately singled you out as the other… single of the group.
Even with your refusals of sleeping with him the man was like a needy baby bird that imprinted on you, seeking you out to talk about the film and practice lines with or ask how he looked when they called cut, and aside from his drug problems he wasn’t all that bad a friend to have on set. Sure he slept with anyone that said yes regardless of their relationship status, being the reason for a number of break-ups (or he ended up in a threesome), but when he wasn’t high the man was actually quite brilliant.
It didn’t help matters that he looked a little like Frankie, though Dieter’s hair was much more unruly and you didn’t think Frankie would ever be caught dead with piercings, but Dieter was also more lean built muscle and more visible softness than Frankie’s broader build and trained muscle that wasn’t completely hidden by the softness of age yet.
It was similar enough that your brain decided to punish you with reminders of Frankie almost every night since meeting Dieter even though it had been five years since you’d walked away.
Blaring sirens echoing in your head warning you about getting tangled with someone like Dieter.
“Hey Newbie, come on I got a party to go to and you’re coming with.” Dieter’s idea of parties was the furthest from yours, something he already knew since you’d argued vehemently in favor of staying back at the hotel with a good book instead of hitting up the local clubs several times now. You weren’t even remotely local to the city, not wanting to end up in some shitty club or shady hole-the-the-wall with a bunch of drunk or high strangers, and he always laughed off your concerns.
Dieter’s lips pursed together and his brows angling in and up, head tucking just enough into the perfect pout, it made your insides churn because even if the color wasn’t right and his eyes had a few less smile lines it was enough of a reminder of your haunting memories that your chest ached much in the same way it used to back then.
Suddenly you just weren’t sober enough to deal with any of this right now.
The memories of the man you’d thought was the one, the presence of Dieter-fucking-Bravo pouting at you in a way that made you think of Frankie, or the fact that your life felt so out of control that you’d be here at all. It was too much to deal with and even if it meant braving some party the idea of just one strong drink was too tempting to pass up.
“Fine.”
Your answer made Dieter’s pout lift into the biggest, smuggest, shit-eating grin as he went through the racks of clothes that had gone unused since your attire kept changing so drastically. He threw a breezy romper at you, one you’d tried on and genuinely liked but wasn’t going to be used in the film, it was comfortable and cute and matched well with your favorite sneakers.
After changing and grabbing your things Dieter nagged at you about falling asleep on set, since he had gone to your hotel room to find you first, and after reminding him that the scenes he was in with you were already filmed and that you were on a different film schedule now the actor gave you a sly grin and said something about fixing it.
“Why am I not surprised?” Your whispered question went ignored as Dieter greeted a majority of the post crew who hadn’t been shy about taking advantage of his Oscar-winning status to party big, Beth and Renee from makeup snagging you between the two of them with a shriek of delight as the rented van drove you to the club Dieter had chosen.
Watching Dieter use his clout to get all of you into the venue, some snazzy casino and night club, would have been impressive if he didn’t flirt with the bouncer and nearly get that same offer rescinded almost immediately.
It was a whirlwind of a place, the pounding music and flashing lights and writhing bodies making the room feel like a furnace, and only the crowd parting for Dieter like some sort of club-Moses got you near the bar in a timely manner. You ordered the strongest drink you could tolerate, ready to find some dark corner and avoid everyone, but Beth and Renee practically dragged you to one of the many small tables scattered around the outskirts.
“Have you fucked Dieter yet? He won’t go near us since our boyfriends are local and he already got Haley and Rose into trouble with their partners.”
“You- you’d cheat on your boyfriends… For Dieter?”
Shouting was necessary over the music and both women nodded without any scrap of hesitation. Before you could ask why the fuck that was a thing Beth downed her drink in two large mouthfuls and scampered off to the dancefloor as the song changed. Renee left her cup with you and your hand covered the top almost right away, dragging the half full beverage to right in front of you and watching the two melt into the crowd of bodies.
“Are you done yet? I want to dance.” Dieter’s presence at your side was so sudden you almost spilled both drinks, glaring at him a little, and the actor only winked behind his ridiculous shades. You stared across the crowd again and for the fraction of a second you could have sworn you saw a standard oil cap in the throng of bodies and flashing lights.
You were not dealing with this tonight.
Dieter whooped as you downed your drink and he finished off Renee’s without a care in the world, you let the actor drag you out to the dance floor hoping that maybe you’d get tired enough to just sleep like the dead tonight. No memories of Frankie, no reminders of what you’d left behind haunting you, and a clearer head after dreamless sleep.
Moving around Dieter’s flailing wasn’t too hard, he was mainly bobbing his head and chest forward and back while swaying side to side with his arms flying like wet noodles, your two-step with raised arms and light swaying was passable evidently since the bodies around you hadn’t immediately started laughing.
But you hadn’t counted on the strength of the alcohol, the heat from the overhead lights and elevated heart rate from dancing making it hit faster, and the world began to blur like out-of-focus Christmas lights. It became easier to laugh more, to not care about moving closer to Dieter when the crowd pressed in tighter, easier to accept another drink because you felt like your mouth was way too dry.
Easier to forget.
You giggled when Dieter disappeared into the crowd after leaving you at a table, since he spotted someone he knew apparently, and your footing was unsteady as you finished off your new drink quickly. Nobody could roofie you if you didn’t have a drink, right? You felt like a right genius in that moment, now you could brag that even drunk you were smart as fuck.
Something knocked your elbow a few minutes later, at least, and the guy that bumped you apologized over the music. His friends were rubbing something on their gums but you couldn’t tell what, too busy talking with Oliver as you forgave him and reassured him that you hadn’t been hurt. You knew him from post and the other two were from lighting, people you had worked with before, so it wasn’t as bad as you thought.
“You here alone?”
“No I jus’ dunno where they all went.”
“C’mere then, we’ll keep an eye on you. Want some snow?”
“Some- where’d ya get snow in the summer?”
Oliver’s laugh was deep and buttery smooth at your question and his friends were grinning too, you wondered what you’d said wrong but the man nudged you and dipped his fingers into a baggie before he smeared the white powder along his gums. “Just a little on your gums, cutie. Like this. I can do it for you if you’d like.”
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His phone was ringing but Frankie ignored it in favor of finishing up the car he was working on, he had finally managed to open a garage of his own doing repairs and detailing, and he was busy on one of his last jobs before he’d be closing up to visit the Millers for a week. Adelia was with her mother, he was still struggling with custody issues after Columbia, but he decided to just be patient.
His risk taking had lost him a lot in life.
The machine chimed that the voicemail was coming in and he paused to make sure it wasn’t Paulette asking him to take Adelia or something. He didn’t mind the random requests and here there, if anything it was something that worked in his favor, so he wanted to be hopeful that maybe she’d changed her mind about letting Adelia come with him.
“Fr-Frankie ‘s me.”
Your voice was distorted from loud bass music in the background and you were slurring heavily. Drunk, his brain whispered, no matter how much he wished it wasn’t like that; you were his biggest regret, not that he’d known you but that he hadn’t gotten the help he needed to be what you deserved.
“I need to’pologize for leavin’ya, miss you so much all th’time. S’like I’m stuck on you.”
He couldn’t help but stop to listen, it wasn’t right but he never knew he needed to hear your voice again until just now. You leaving him had led him to Paulette, another coke user from rehab, and she had reported him for the coke after he refused to marry her when she got pregnant with Adelia.
All because she knew he wouldn’t pass his drug tests and that he was already on thin ice.
You had been the best thing in his life and he’d fucked that up because he refused to get help.
“You’re probly happy ‘n doin better now, ‘s how you should be! You deserve t’be better ‘n happy with th’family y’wanted.”
Even drunk out of your damn mind all you wanted was him to be happy and have the things he’d confessed he wanted with you four years ago before he started using, you still thought he was deserving of those things despite the things he had done, and it hurt to sit here listening to this.
A reminder that he’d lost you and you still wanted good things for him. That even after leaving you still thought of him as a good person.
You sniffled loudly into the phone before uttering a soft curse.
“Now I thing I ged’it.”
You had to have shoved something in your nose or pinched the bridge of it with how your speech pattern changed.
“I feel like I cand feel bad ad’all. Even wid’a runny nose I feel uns’doppable.”
High. You were high on cocaine. Now he understood what you meant with your lead in and his hands shook slightly as he felt every ugly rush of anger burn out like a scrap of paper in a bonfire.
Instead of anger his heart sank in his chest and Frankie all but rocketed himself out from under the Toyota to race for the phone before you hung up. He knew you, he knew that you would never have done coke if you were lucid, and he knew that if you were doing this that there was a high chance you weren’t anywhere safe.
“Firecracker?”
“Frangie?”
“Where the fuck are you?”
“I don’d- I don’d know.”
His heart felt like it was going to fall out of his body, your breathing becoming harsher as you responded to his sharp tone. He knew it was the drugs, that his sharp anger was causing you to become paranoid, but there was no helping it. If anything happened to you he wasn’t sure he could stop himself from doing something stupid and drastic.
“Calm the fuck down, Firecracker. Let’s try that again. Where are you?”
You sniffled again into the receiver and he imagined you had a runny nose, there was no chance you’d done enough to cause nosebleeds already.
“I don’d- I don’d know Frangie.”
He couldn’t fight the way he drummed his fingers on the tabletop where he did his bookwork, mentally calculating how long this car would take and trying to remember if you had blocked any of the guys on Facebook or not. He wasn’t liking this situation at all, if you’d come with anyone they either hadn’t been with you or they had been the ones to convince you to even do coke and that pissed him off.
“Then find someone who does. Now.”
You whimpered into the device and he hated the way his body responded to the sound, hated that you needed his help to get you safe and his damn libido was reminded of all the times he’d ripped that sound out of you in bed. It wasn’t the fucking time, he needed to make sure you were safe, and only after that would he reach out to make sure you were okay.
The music got louder and a door closed, shouting and talking echoing everywhere as he tried to listen for anything familiar.
“Oliver was’a name of this place?”
“Hm? Lucky Sevens, it’s the club portion of the Casino. You leaving already cutie? One more line before you go?”
“No I god’a leave ‘for I ged’in trouble.”
Frankie had to bite back a growl, you already were in trouble but he didn’t need you panicking any worse. Instead he tapped away at his laptop, looking up Lucky Sevens Casino and Night Club, and he raked in the details of the city while also opening your Facebook in a new tab.
You hadn’t blocked him and instead he saw the updates linked to your Instagram, that you were a background role in a film shooting in the city, and the picture of the swanky hotel you were staying in was all he needed to book you a Lyft once he confirmed the distance between the two places.
“I booked you a Lyft back to your hotel, Firecracker, you’re going to stay on the phone with me.”
“Bud Frangie y’probly busy-“
“I don't give a fuck about that right now, you need to get back to your hotel and get fucking cleaned up.”
“Frangie- ‘m sorry.”
You sniffled but not because of your potential runny nose or nose bleed, instead you were starting to cry, and he pinched the bridge of his nose as his temper spiked. He wanted to be there so he could just get you back himself, so he didn’t have to rely on the chance that your Lyft driver wasn’t a creep, and to comfort you so that he could make sure your come down wasn’t bad.
He was worried as fuck about you, he still loved you and only his own fear had stopped him from reaching out to apologize, and now you were basically telling him something he wanted to hear. You were telling him that you missed him too.
“Don’t cry. I’m only angry because I’m fucking worried about you, Firecracker.”
You sniffled again and filled the silence by humming, something you’d always done when you were upset or stressed or it was just too quiet for you, and Frankie couldn’t find it in him to ask you anything or talk to you when he knew he would only be gruff and risk making you cry worse.
He sat there watching the map, watching the car show up and talking to the Lyft driver himself with the reminder that he would know if something happened to you, and he was lucky because the sweet Abuela promised she’d get you safe to your hotel and put the phone on speaker so she could keep him updated on your condition.
It was a runny nose, not a bloody nose, and he was thankful to all that was holy for that.
Luck was not something he was used to swinging in his favor, you were the lucky one and this was just part of that, and it didn’t take long to hear Juana hand you off to a hotel staff member who proceeded to get a medic to check on you and make sure you didn’t need to go to the hospital.
“Frankie?”
Your voice sounded small, tired and scared, and he grunted softly as he worked to rebook his entire vacation. Was it risky? Yes. But if there was anything worth taking a risk for in his life it was you.
“Are you happy?”
“No. But we’ll talk about that after you sober up and sleep.”
“I miss you-“
“Don’t. You need to sleep.”
He ignored your crying. For now.
“Drink your water and sleep, Firecracker. I’ll call you in the morning.”
He hung up with his jaw tight and chest burning, dialing up Benny and Will in a group call.
“Fish? What’s going on-“
“Firecracker needs me, I’m rebooking my trip.”
“Where is she, I’ll change our tickets out too.”
He had almost forgotten that, like they had for Pope, the guys would rally to his cause too. Having Will volunteer to change their entire trip made Frankie feel a flood of relief that he’d have his brothers at his back, especially if you refused to answer his call when you were sober again.
“Swanky place near Vegas but not quite in the Vegas strip, she’s going to be in some low-budget movie.”
“Are you going to call Pope?”
Benny’s question left him staring at the wall for a second, his eyes distant as he debated it, he knew that Pope was in Australia with Yovanna but it would certainly help since Pope had friends in high places still. If Frankie did get into some sort of trouble he wanted to know that it wouldn’t affect his custody of Adelia and Pope could make it happen.
“Yea.”
Once the group booked their new plane tickets he ended the call and exhaled as he called up his best friend.
“Fish? What’s goin’ on pendejo?”
“I’m flying out to the Vegas area with Will and Benny, I’d like to have you at my back.”
“Is everything okay, Fish?”
“Firecracker needs me, Pope.”
“She left you.”
Frankie well and truly loved the man and was flooded with this sense of mixed emotions at the anger in Pope’s voice, knowing that he was angry on his behalf about you leaving, but everyone knew it was Frankie’s refusal to get better that drove her away.
“Firecracker called me, she was drunk and high on coke and you know she doesn’t do that shit. Besides, you owe me pendejo.”
“Fish-“
“Columbia.”
Frankie heard the tapping of keys in the quiet on the line, it was definitely a weird hour for Pope with the time zone difference but he knew the sound of that man’s ridiculously loud keyboard.
“Fuck, man. I’m booking a flight now, where am I going?”
Was it excessive? Sure.
Was it risky? Absolutely. Were you worth it? Always.
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You felt stupid but you’d been avoiding Dieter, Oliver, the two from lighting whose names you’d never gotten, Beth and Renee like the plague. They weren’t the only ones you had gone out with but they were the ones that appeared most in your memories of your colossal fuck up. Waking up to your phone going off and seeing Frankie calling you had made you terrified you’d gotten sloppy and drunk dialed him (you had, of course) and you had refused to answer the call and let it go to voicemail.
He’d left you three.
You hadn’t listened to a single one of them yet.
All you needed to see was the nearly three hour phone call on your history to the landline in his old workshop he had rented as a storage space. It was damning evidence that you’d royally fucked up and you didn’t know the extent until Oliver had found you on set asking how you felt; hearing him tell you what you’d done made you feel sick to your stomach worse than when you’d first woken up.
Everything you’d learned about that night made you feel shittier and shittier, especially knowing you’d called Frankie, and it was way too easy to run from all of the people involved than to confront any of them. You had chosen to go out and drink, you had been the one to accept fucking coke from Oliver, and you had been the one to call your ex. It didn’t feel right trying to blame them for what you’d done and you felt like a big, fat, fucking hypocrite.
Like it was hung on a neon sign above your head.
Tears welled up in your eyes as you leaned against an exterior wall of the hotel garden, trying not to cry again as the reality set in that you weren’t over Frankie at all. Five years and you were that person pining, regretting, and wishing you’d stayed when the result might’ve even been worse.
“Hey there, you look like you could use a pick-me-up.” Oliver peeked around the wall and it was impossible not to flinch as he patted the pocket of his jacket, you knew what was likely there and had no doubt it was Dieter that replenished his supply. It didn’t take a genius to track where the coke had come from, everyone knew about Dieter Bravo’s drug issues after the TikTok fiasco when Krystal Kris leaked his OD on accident.
You shook your head and looked around for anywhere else you could go to get away.
“No, I’m fine, I don’t- I don’t know what even possessed me to do that in the first place. I don’t want to do that again.” Even vaguely talking about it made the feelings of self-loathing bubble back up to the surface and Oliver’s expression fell as he moved closer.
“We don’t have to do that; we can just have some drinks then, cutie.”
You shook your head and moved away from him, feeling the verge of panic when Oliver only tried to close the gap between you again. A very large hand settled on your lower back in such a familiar way, the slight press of fingertips in your skin and the warmth feeling like it spanned the whole of your lower back even if it didn’t, and you only had to tilt your head to see the familiar patchy beard and dark blue ball cap.
Frankie’s expression was calm fury.
“I believe you were told no and she was trying to get away from you.” He was pissed, his voice was low and growly and dangerous, you’d only ever heard him like this once and that was when someone grabbed your ass during trivia night when you’d gone to get another drink. He’d torn into the man, nearly broken the dude’s hand, and then railed you when you got home in a fit of possessive fury.
Your body responded very enthusiastically to that reminder and you squirmed as the tempo of your pulse kicked up.
“What’re you going to do about -“
“Oliver, go harass someone else.”
Your tone was sharp and it felt good, like you’d finally been able to rekindle that spark of personality you’d left behind in Florida. Oliver looked at you, Frankie, and then behind Frankie and you had no doubt you’d see the guys lurking behind him looking like a wall of ex-military muscle and grit. Watching Oliver slink away, leaving you to look up at Frankie fully, his eyes searched your face before he was crushing you against him in a hug.
The guilt and self-loathing broke and you burst into heaving sobs, smothering yourself in his jacket as you gripped the fabric tight enough to hurt, trying to articulate apologies through the slurring of tears and snot and heaving breaths. Three other hands settled on your arms, making you peek up to look at Santiago and the Millers, and you hated how you could only feel the need to apologize over and over again.
“Easy, Firecracker, easy- that’s it, go ahead and cry. It’s alright, you’re okay and we’re here.” Frankie’s soothing was the only thing that helped you stem the flow of tears, helped ground you, and when you managed to stop crying and he let you go long enough to stand on your own two feet you were engulfed in tight hugs from Will and Benny before Pope was dragging you into his arms too.
“Why- not that I’m upset to see you buy why are you… why are you here?”
Frankie looked at you blankly.
“Did you listen to your voicemails?”
Yikes.
“N-no I was, uh, actually really nervous since I didn’t remember anything about the three hour phone call and I was worried I’d been really out of bounds and that you were calling to yell at me.” Your confession earned a longer moment of his blank stare before Frankie sighed and shook his head, reaching out to cup your face gently and press his forehead to yours.
You couldn’t help the way you nuzzled into his hand, relishing in being this close to him again.
“I was telling you that I was coming out to you, even if you hated me, just to make sure you were okay.”
“Newbie? You out here? Oh, there you are.” Dieter leaned against a wall and eyed Frankie, looking past him as the others no doubt hurried over at the sight of someone else possibly causing problems, and you could have cursed the actor for showing up now of all times.
“What, Dieter?” When the man smiled, walking closer with a swagger to his steps, you realized that was his walk and his eyes were on Frankie. The fact that Dieter Bravo was prancing for your ex left you rendered speechless for a second, trying to comprehend just what the hell was going on.
“Wanted to find out if you were okay, you’ve been avoiding most of us on set since I invited you out-“
“You invited her out? It was your responsibility to make sure she was fucking safe, Hollywood.”
As someone who knew Frankie you knew that tone, his ‘danger’ tone, and Dieter did not. You attempted to intervene before it could get ugly but Pope grabbed your arm gently and tugged you out of the line of fire, shaking his head gently when you tried to get out of his light hold.
“She’s a big girl, ball cap, she can-“
Frankie was too quick, his fist lashed out, and your cavewoman brain purred at the protective display. You squirmed as your body reacted enthusiastically, again, to the punch; it was like you’d been Pavlov’d into getting turned on by Frankie’s aggressive side. Though to be fair you were equally entranced when he was gentle too and when he was needy, it was just Frankie in general.
“I don’t give a damn what excuse you’re thinking of making, Firecracker wouldn’t have done coke if she was sober and you know it.” Frankie’s voice wasn’t loud but you weren’t within the confines of the barriers and your eyes darted around, it was pretty empty out for now but that could change in a heartbeat.
You broke out of Santi’s hold to inspect Dieter’s face, tugging off his stupid RayBans and tilting his head to look at the start of what you suspected would be a nasty bruise and the busted lip. Frankie had also caught his glasses wrong and Dieter was rocking the start to a bad nosebleed, likely sensitive to them already from the coke use doing residual damage to his nasal cavity.
It was without much thought you pinched the bridge of Dieter’s nose and used your sleeve to stop the blood from running down his face.
“Frankie, fuck, you just- Dieter are you okay?” The man blinked twice, like he was disoriented, and looked between you and Frankie as his head bobbed in response to your question. You tapped his undamaged cheek with your ring finger and Dieter’s skin took on a heated hue as Frankie stood back with a scowl on his face.
“Uh, yes, fuck I’m okay. Uh, you uh- you punch… good. You punch good.”
Dieter’s voice was soft and breathy, off tone because you were pinching his nose but understandable, and your throat bobbed as you stared at him while Bunny muttered a soft ‘what the fuck?’ from somewhere behind you.
This was not good, you panicked a little, Dieter hadn’t gone down or hit his head but you were immediately terrified that he’d gotten concussed somehow and was going to retaliate legally the moment his head was clear.
“Shit, Dieter, are you concussed?” You leaned up more into the man’s space to inspect his eyes, the way his skin took on a brighter hue didn’t even register with you as you let go of his nose to see if he was just suffocating because of you.
“No, not concussed-“
“Fucking- are you serious Hollywood?”
Frankie was looking down and you blinked before following his gaze, the baggy sweatpants Dieter favored outside of filming and clubbing were obviously stretched at the crotch and your face was suddenly hotter then hell as you realized Dieter was rocking a boner.
“I like- look man it’s the protective-“
“Shut the fuck up.”
Your eyes darted to Frankie’s face as you squirmed, very aware of the fact that Frankie was watching you right now, and his already dark eyes were practically black with that intense look you knew usually resulted in walking funny for three days.
He liked this.
“I’m shutting up.”
Dieter’s voice was breathy, needy, and closer to a whine than speech; you had no doubts you’d be the same way if you attempted to talk. Frankie pinched the bridge of his nose and looked over at the guys, the three men watching the exchange silently.
“Pope, think you can make sure none of that went public? Hollywood needs to get cleaned up and I’m going to be a while.” You watched the ex-military men exchange significant looks before they waved merrily, with Benny giving you the address to their hotel and a promise that you were going to be eating dinner with them tomorrow, and Will only caught your hand and squeezed it before following Pope and Benny toward the main street.
Your eyes settled back on Frankie.
“Security is going to block you from getting into the hotel, since there’ve been a lot of people trying to get to Dieter.”
The actor snorted and nudged you.
“No they won’t.”
“Dieter you can’t just-“
“I’m an Oscar winner, I can do whatever I want Newbie.”
Before you could respond Frankie settled his hand on your lower back again, his eyes focused intently on Dieter as the actor abruptly went quiet and swallowed loudly.
“Curb the arrogance, Hollywood. Let’s get you cleaned up.” Frankie steered you all around the wall toward the main entrance, you removed your sweater at this point leaving you in the comfortable graphic tee you’d chosen to wear under it and were using the sweater sleeve to fuss over the blood starting to crust up in Dieter’s mustache.
“My goodness what happened? Are you alright, Mr. Bravo?” The doorman’s eyed darted between all of you and landed on Frankie, who had been smart enough to hide the knuckles of his left hand behind your back this entire time.
“Yea, I came out to find the Newbie and turns out I was just in time to get clocked by some creep hitting on her; if it wasn’t for Frankie here we both might’ve gotten into trouble. He’s with me, and I’d like to get cleaned up.” The doorman abruptly lost that suspicious expression and ushered you all inside, not one person in the lobby stopped you and Dieter grinned as you stood outside the elevator doors.
“See, Newbie? One day you’ll-“
Frankie ushered Dieter in first and then you as soon as the doors slid open to the empty elevator.
“That’s enough of that, Firecracker you haven’t blown up on him yet?” The question made you shake your head and kick the carpeted floor as you pressed the button for the cast floor.
“It’s been- it’s been a while since I’ve lost my temper with anyone. Hasn’t been easy without you, Frankie.”
Dieter looked between the two of you as you stepped back from the panel and his jaw dropped a little.
“Oooohhhhhh, you two were a thing.”
“Yes.”
Your answer was immediate, you felt a bit of a possessive claim over Frankie seeing the actor mooning over him, you wanted Dieter to know that Frankie was yours first. Even if he didn’t want you romantically again and hooked up with Dieter it would be you who had Frankie first out of the two of you.
“Are we going to be a thing?”
The doors closed and you heard the slight yelp from Dieter, gaze lifting to see Frankie gripping the back of his neck, and the stern look on Frankie’s face made your breath shorten and you could feel the wetness starting to make itself known between your legs.
“You are going to have to come up with a good fucking apology to Firecracker first, Hollywood. You want this?” Frankie’s eyes were on you, darting down to Dieter only briefly and then back up, and you nodded as your eyes blew wide realizing he meant to have both of you.
“Words, Firecracker, if you want something you have to tell me. Do I need to remind you about the rules?” You shook your head and then instantly fumbled to answer verbally.
“No, you don’t need to remind me, Frankie. I want this.”
“Good, what about you Hollywood?”
“Is my hard on not enough- yes! Yes I want this.”
Frankie’s grip had tightened and your chest heaved at the casual display of that assertive nature, watching someone else fall apart because of it was making your knees weak and Dieter’s eyes met yours mirroring your own wide-eyed needy look well.
Fuck what a pair the two of you made.
The doors opened and Frankie let go, his hand resting just between Dieter’s shoulders carefully as the actor led you all to his suite, rather than your room, and your eyes darted to the side table where you spotted Dieter’s drug supply just sitting out on display.
You couldn’t help the way your eyes darted to Frankie, who’s jaw had tightened at the sight, and Dieter stepped further into the suite and tossed your stained sweater into the laundry pile.
“You two want any co-“
“If we do this we’re doing it sober. Have you used recently?” Dieter shook his head and leaned against the side of the couch with an almost rueful expression.
“No, I was going to since I just finished up four days of straight filming for ten hours though.”
Somehow you didn’t think Dieter would have stayed sober for filming, you’d thought he was using daily, and you wanted to whisper and apology for assuming but Frankie was already walking over to the other man and catching Dieter’s chin in his grip.
You could tell he was studying Dieter’s face, looking for signs of recent use, and he must’ve been satisfied by what he saw.
“Don’t touch that shit if you want to go anywhere near Firecracker after today, she’ll tell me if you do.” Dieter’s eyes slid to look at you and you nodded, it was an easy choice knowing that Frankie clearly wanted to be back in your life somehow even if it was just sex.
“We have the same taste in men, Newbie.”
His comment had a bit of bite to it and you couldn’t help the way your cheeks heated, couldn’t stop the quick retort that you fired back with. The touch of bratty edge in your tone wasn’t intentional but you weren’t going to let Dieter get away with snipping at you.
“And somehow the media thinks you’re a top, who’d you pay to run that article Dieter?”
“Firecracker.”
You froze at the sharpness in Frankie’s voice, the bite and growl to it making you stare at the back of his head as he turned just enough to look at you, and fuck if you weren’t getting wetter by the second.
“You’re still in trouble for all the worry you’ve caused me, and you didn’t trust me enough to listen to my voicemails. Are you going to be good for me, take your punishment like a good girl? Or do I have to remind you what happens when you’re being a brat?” You almost wheezed since it had been so long since you’d been here, in a place where Frankie was going to wreck you, and your voice was much softer and gentler when you did answer.
“I’ll be good. I’m sorry-“
“Strip down and get on the bed, I’m going to help Hollywood clean up. No touching yourself, legs open for me.”
Frankie led Dieter toward the bathroom and you made a beeline for the large bed just through the fancy glass doors, taking off your clothes only after you got into the room and climbing onto the plush mattress that smelled like Dieter’s hair products. You knew he used natural stuff only, barely used a cell phone, and didn’t trust most advanced tech as far as he could throw it so you’d half expected it to reek of sweat and body odor.
It wasn’t as bad as you thought though, pleasant under the warm spicy scent that followed Dieter around, and you planted your hands on the bed beside your hips as you laid with your legs open. Since he hadn’t told you what to do with your hands aside from not touching yourself you played it safe, keeping your palms down on the sheets and staring at the ceiling.
You were slick and wet and the air was cool on your heated skin, making your nipples pebble, but the soft sound of Frankie talking with Dieter was too distant to hear what they were saying. Part of you wondered if Frankie saw a bit of himself in Dieter, outside of the look-alike thing, and part of you wondered if Frankie was clean.
He had to be if he was demanding this to happen sober.
“Look at you.”
The heat and desire in his voice drew your attention, Frankie had pulled off his flannel and was in his Fleetwood Mac tee-shirt that you often kidnapped to sleep in or make breakfast in, and his eyes were on you. It was like you were transported into the past and nothing had changed, you clenched on nothing at the way he watched you and you could feel the slick pooling and threatening to drip out of you.
Frankie walked into the room and turned away briefly, making you look at Dieter as he paused in the doorway and licked his lips at the sight of you, the sensation of fingertips on your thighs making you look at Frankie again, and those familiar lips lifted into a pleased smile when he ran one finger through your folds to feel the wetness that was still pooling there.
“My good girl.” You clenched around nothing, breath hitching and a needy whine stifled into a soft squeak because you knew he’d think you were being a brat and you couldn’t handle the thought that he’d stop if you didn’t behave for him, you were almost hurting with how bad you wanted him to just fuck you already.
His other hand lifted to cup your cheek, thumb brushing under your eye, and Frankie leaned down to capture your mouth in a soft kiss that you leaned into almost desperately. He tutted against your lips, circling your clit almost too gently, and you knew he could feel the trembling in your limbs as you struggled to stay still for him.
“You’re being so well behaved for me, my lucecita.” Frankie pulled away when your eyes welled over with tears, hearing your pet name after so long from him was making you way too emotional and his lips kissed away the tears forming on your lashes.
Frankie looked over at Dieter, still holding your cheek, but now he was dragging your slick down your inner thigh in a teasing swirl of random patterns on the plush skin.
“I want you to sit in the arm chair with your plug in, no touching your cock and no squirming; you don’t get to cum until I say so. Once I’m done punishing Firecracker you’re going to work on apologizing to her, Hollywood.” Dieter’s throat bobbed and he nodded rapidly, fishing out a small box of carefully stored toys from his drawers, and Frankie circled your clit again as you both watched Dieter carefully lube up the chosen plug.
You were practically mesmerized watching the man’s hand glide along the toy to liberally coat it, sucking in a breath when Frankie’s fingers danced along your seam, and Dieter shifted more as his sweatpants dropped to show off he’d been going commando for however long in order to brace one knee on the bed.
“Do you trust Firecracker to put that in you, Hollywood?”
Dieter’s eyes shot up to Frankie’s face and then down to yours, matching your wide-eyed stare and making your fingers twitch, and finally Dieter nodded and murmured a soft ‘yes’ that made you smile.
“Go ahead, Firecracker.”
Dieter moved up onto the bed, bracing himself on his knees for you as he handed you the bottle of lube, and Frankie’s hum of approval as you coated your fingers and began to work Dieter open with first made you respond with a soft sigh while Dieter whined at the sensation of you sliding one finger into him slowly. He rocked back against your touch and moaned when you slid a second finger into him and scissored gently, carefully to avoid hurting him, and Frankie’s finger continued to alternate between circling your clit and working you up before he’d draw away and trace patterns on your thighs.
“I’m going to fill you up now Dieter, tell me if there’s any discomfort?”
“Y-yes.”
Gently you pressed the slick toy into him, free hand cupping his cheek and tracing the skin gently with your thumb, it helped you hold him open enough to see the toy slowly sink into his body. Precum dribbled from his head and onto the sheets as he squeezed his thighs, head hanging forward before you finished seating the toy into him, and Dieter’s long moan as Frankie reached over to press on the base of the plug made you shiver.
“You’re so gentle with him, lucecita. You’re on your best behavior tonight.” His thumb traced your lower lip as he leaned back, staring down into your eyes, and you let your lips part for him to press the digit into your mouth where you circled it with your tongue like a promise and reminder.
“Hollywood, go get settled.”
“Yes sir.”
Dieter’s voice was pitched high as he replied; easing himself off the bed and crossing the room to sit in the chair, and you watched him fight the urge to squirm as he sat back in the seat with his hands on the arm rests. You felt bad for him, it was one of Frankie’s favorite forms of teasing, and you were honestly glad that you were here and he had no access to your bullet vibrator.
Being forced to walk around the house with that in, for being a brat, and at his mercy had always been an overwhelming punishment with how many times he’d edge you before giving in and letting you cum.
Frankie’s touch grew firmer against your clit, drawing your attention back to him instead of Dieter, and he dragged his thumb to the corner of your mouth before he leaned down and pressed his forehead to yours. “You’re already so wet for me, I wonder if I can spank you until you drip wet spots on my lap.” You clenched around his fingers as he thrust two into you, the combination of his words and the sensation of him pressing those calloused fingertips deep into your pussy making you exhale a breathy moan.
“Oh, someone wants me to spank her pretty ass? It’s not that much of a punishment if you want it now is it? What should I do instead, hm?” He nipped at the skin of your neck and simply held his hand inside you, unmoving and making you whimper around his thumb, his hold on your mouth making it impossible not to drool slightly.
He pulled his fingers out of your pussy and smirked at the viscous trail of slick that coated them, the slight trail where he parted them making your face feel incredibly overheated, and you could have wept with relief when he took his thumb out of your mouth and reached for his belt buckle. The belt was tossed aside, his pants unbuttoned before they joined his flannel on the floor, and soon he was bare in front of you.
“I wouldn’t get too excited, lucecita. Hollywood, come lay on the bed.”
Dieter whimpered as he hurried to obey, already worked up from watching, and you could tell his face was definitely going to get bad now that the swelling was starting to show. It was almost instinctive to reach up and gently trace the edges of where the bruise was going to be with the hand that hadn’t stretched him open, after kissing your fingertips gently like an indirect kiss to apologize, and Dieter caught your hand to press a return kiss to your palm.
“You two are so fucking precious. Lucecita, you’re going to keep his cock nice and warm while I make up for the punch. No moving, no cumming, and no trying to grind this pretty little clit on those curls of his because I’ll know.” You hoped your pout wasn’t noticeable, prayed he didn’t catch the tilt of your brows before you could school your face, and Frankie nudged your hips to make you straddle Dieter’s body.
A condom was slipped into your hand and you couldn’t help the shiver that started at the base of your spine, or the way you leaked slick at the foil packet you were holding. As you got to work putting the condom on Frankie’s large hands pressed into the skin of your hips, pressing into the pillowy flesh.
“You remember, don’t you, what I said about this cunt? This is mine, only I get to fill it.” He cupped you for emphasis, fingers dragging through your folds as you nodded rapidly and bit down on your lower lip to silence the whine that bubbled up in your chest, and Dieter’s head fell back when Frankie teased the base of the plug with that slick coated hand. As soon as the condom was seated Frankie began guiding you forward and down, sinking you onto Dieter’s cock slowly, and while he wasn’t as thick as Frankie you could still feel the drag of him against your walls.
The fact that Frankie was going slow, mindful of how sensitive you could be to penetration with something bigger than two of his fingers, was just another reminder that he hadn’t forgotten and it made it so easy to remember why you still loved him.
You paused when the stretch began to hurt, even with you being as wet as you were, and Frankie eased you up off Dieter a bit and pressed a gentle kiss to the back of your ear.
“Easy now, that’s a good girl, thank you for listening to your body’s limits lucecita.” In the past, when you’d first gotten with him, it had taken a bit to finally confess that it could still hurt no matter how much he worked you open. That sometimes you just couldn’t handle penetrative sex. Frankie hadn’t made fun of you or thought you weird, he took those days to simply spending hours between your legs with his mouth, and he thanked you for talking to him about it every time.
Dieter stared up at you like you were some sort of wonder, wide-eyed and awestricken as he reached out to stroke your thighs, and you let Frankie ease you up higher before slowly sinking back down again.
“It’s not a race, we’re not pressed for time, don’t cum but don’t push yourself.”
You whimpered, sinking deeper down onto Dieter’s cock.
“My good girl, doing so well for me, you’re so beautiful like this.”
He drew you back up, watching for any of the signs that it was too much for you, and when you sank down nearly all the way he pressed hard on Dieter’s hip before the man could buck up into you. The last little bit stung but not enough for you to stop everything, settling on Dieter’s lap as Frankie teased the man with the plug, and you swallowed down a moan when Dieter’s hips jerked up as Frankie began removing the plug. The toy was set carefully on a washcloth, no doubt to be cleaned later, and Dieter’s hands captured yours as he trembled beneath you.
Foil ripped and you felt Frankie slot himself behind you a few moments later, felt his broad frame as he pressed close to you, and his hands gripped Dieter’s thighs and lifted both of you so that he could slide his knees under the man’s body. Your thighs trembled as Dieter squeezed your hands, pressing them into his pectorals so you didn’t lose your balance, and the slow glide of Frankie pressing himself into Dieter’s ass made the man whine long and low.
His throat jumped, you could feel Dieter’s heart racing, and his cock throbbed like a reminder that he was there before you felt the full skin contact as Frankie pressed all the way in.
“Remember, lucecita, you aren’t allowed to cum. Be a good girl and keep Hollywood nice and warm.”
He nipped the shell of your ear and you shivered at the light breath against your skin, fingers dragging down to press into the softness of Dieter’s tummy, and the actor’s lips parted before his speech was stolen as Frankie started to fuck him. It was suddenly a far worse punishment than you had thought when Dieter’s hips rolled sporadically, with Frankie’s breath against your skin and alternating with biting and sucking on the skin at the base of your neck.
Fire coursed through your veins and your breathing started to shorten, the sporadic hip rolls from Dieter and the harsh jolt from each of Frankie’s thrusts working in a rhythm that was so out of sync with what you needed, it was enough to ride the edge but you knew it wasn’t going to make you cum on its own. What was ruining you was the harsh grunting from Frankie at your back, his soft praise for you and Dieter about how good you were being for him and how good Dieter felt around him, and the shamelessly loud moans and pleading from Dieter beneath you.
You couldn’t help the way you dug your fingers into Dieter’s skin to make him look at you, watching him fall apart like this was almost making you wetter than the feeling of him inside you.
“Fr-frankie he sounds so pretty like this.”
“Hear that Hollywood? Gonna keep serenading lucecita? I know she feels good around your cock.”
Dieter’s eyes were blown wide as he nodded rapidly, his hands untangling from the sheets to capture yours again and press sloppy kisses to your palms and knuckles. You struggled and clenched around him as he angled you enough that it made his curls tease your clit, working you up faster than ever, thighs pressing tighter around him since he’d nearly thrown your balance with how badly your thighs were starting to tremble.
“Y-yes, fuck you feel amazing. Feels like fucking Nirvana. Shit, shit if you keep clenching like that I’m going to cum. Frankie, fuck please-“
“Since you asked so nicely, you can have it Hollywood. Cum for us.”
Frankie’s hips rolled in a way that made Dieter jerk up into you, with his hold on your hands and the angle of your body you had to fight against the growing orgasm that was now beginning to burn through your body, and each thrust pulled a louder and needier sound from Dieter as you squeezed your eyes shut against the sensations.
“Fuck-!” Dieter went still and you could feel him pulsing thick and hot inside you with Frankie’s hips slowing but not stopping, guiding the man down, and your eyes were wet with tears as your orgasm slowly hovered and ebbed away from you. Frankie leaned forward and pulled you back against him, slotting his mouth over yours in a desperate kiss, and you jolted when he pulled you off Dieter’s cock and rolled you onto your back beside the other man.
“So fucking good for me. You can cum now, lucecita.”
Before you could ask what he was doing Frankie pulled you to the end of the bed and licked a long flat stroke through your folds with his tongue, making you buck against his face, and he banded an arm across your hips as he circled your clit with the tip of his tongue and sucked gently. The scrape of his facial hair, the feeling of his fingers gently pressing into you, and the soft touch of Dieter’s hand drifting down your breast as he shifted to watch made you keen before you broke.
A sob of Frankie’s name as your eyes danced with white spots hung in the air, your chest heaving with each harsh breath as you squirmed against the slow touches and licks that Frankie was still giving you, and Dieter stroked your cheek gently and pet your hair as you trembled and squeezed the sheets in a grip that almost hurt your hands.
“That’s it, shit you’re gorgeous, easy now.”
Dieter’s soft praise made you blink up at him through the shine of your tears and he leaned down, kissing them away and whispering into your skin.
“Thank you for letting me be part of this. Thank you for being gentle with me. I’m sorry I wasn’t there to protect you, I’m so sorry I got you into a situation you never wanted to be in.”
Tears were forming in his eyes and you were gentle in cupping the good side of Dieter’s face to press his forehead to yours, like some sort of wannabe Spiderman kiss scene with how he was curled around your head.
“I’m sorry for blaming you, Dieter, when you just wanted me to let loose and have some fun. I know you didn’t mean for me to get high like that. It’s okay, I forgive you.” Dieter’s smile was tear-filled and you stared up at Frankie as he stood up, his cock was hard and he was holding the base of it, looking between the two of you.
When you opened your mouth, tongue out and ready for him, Frankie groaned before stripping off the condom and using the warm washcloth from the little towel warmer to wipe himself off first and then walked over to kneel over you.
“You’re so good to me, lucecita.”
He jerked himself over you, hand dragging along the skin of his cock, and you almost keened when Dieter leaned down to play with your nipples; the sight made Frankie moan and you watched his hips stutter, the way his balls drew up, and the warm feeling of his cum spilling across your tongue and painting the skin of your face and chest made you smile even as you held your mouth open.
“Eat it, Hollywood, clean her up for me.”
Dieter didn’t hesitate to begin licking the tangy cum from your skin, moving to get the best angles to run his tongue along you and clear it away, and he slotted his mouth to yours last in a kiss that made you whine into his mouth before you felt Dieter whine as Frankie began cleaning him up with a new wash cloth.
Frankie cleaned up your hands too, mindful of where everyone had touched or been touched, and you stroked Dieter’s curly hair gently when he pulled back from your mouth. But Frankie wasn’t done with you, cleaning up Dieter’s cock last before stroking it firmly, and you could see the way he eyed you carefully.
“I can handle it, Frankie, please?”
“Only take what you can, lucecita.”
You smiled and licked a broad stroke up the underside of Dieter’s cock, teasing the base of the head as you moved to your hands and knees, and Frankie pressed a kiss against your back as he ran his hand through your slick and his saliva that he had left alone. The blunt head of him pressed into you and you purposefully slid only the head of Dieter’s cock into your mouth, the actor wheezed your name out into the room when you hollowed your cheeks and teased him with your tongue.
Frankie was slow pressing into you, paying attention to how you sounded around Dieter and the way your body either clenched or stiffened, and when he reached the base and filled you completely you wrapped your hand around the portion of Dieter’s cock you couldn’t fit into your mouth without gagging. Letting saliva dribble down his shaft to make it gentler on him, which made Dieter squirm, and then Frankie started to move.
“Come on lucecita, I know you can match my pace.”
As you sank down and took Dieter’s cock fully into your mouth Frankie thrust into you at an angle that made you see stars, your moan around Dieter made the man whine and only the weight of your arm on his lower abdomen held him still, your hand turning slightly as you hollowed your cheeks and drew your mouth off him to tease the head and sink back down in time with Frankie.
“Oh, shit your mouth feels good.”
“It’s the best, isn’t it Hollywood?”
Frankie’s hands gripped your hips in a way that was so familiar, it felt like being home and you arched your back more into him in a way that made him moan behind you and cup your throat just to feel you take Dieter’s cock. The actor’s hands came up to the side of your head, stroking as he begged you for more, and as Frankie leaned back and pulled your hips harder into him with each thrust you moved your hand in time to sink all the way down until your nose was buried in the dark curls at the base of Dieter’s cock and you could swallow around him.
His hoarse cry of your name turned to a long moan as he came down your throat, holding you in place as you swallowed and fought against the urge to pull away from him, and Frankie’s finger on your clit swirled and pressed until you were moaning and Dieter let you go to breathe as you came. Dribbling saliva and cum down the man’s cock as Frankie spilled into you, the warm flood of his cum making you clench and breath hard against Dieter’s skin as you let your forehead rest against the man’s hip.
Frankie kissed your back and pulled out slow, grabbing new cloths and cleaning everyone up gently, and he pulled you into a tight hug as you shivered slightly from how sensitive you were. Dieter pulled the comforter back and let you settle in the bed, yelping when Frankie grabbed him by the back of the neck and steered him into the sheets too, and both of you curled up against Frankie’s sides and stared at one another across his chest.
You giggled at the almost baffled look on Dieter’s face.
“You okay there Dieter?”
“I don’t really- I mean the cuddling is uh… new.” You reached across Frankie’s chest to capture Dieter’s hand gently and offer him the best smile you could, hoping to calm him since you could see the tension around his eyes. Dieter blinked back at you and squeezed your hand gently.
Frankie’s hand was gentle on the back of your neck, pressing so you would look up at him, and he leaned down to kiss you gently. “We need to talk but that can wait, get some rest lucecita.” You wanted to argue that you weren’t tired but just being in his arms again after so long was comforting, it made you feel like home, and you drifted off to Frankie and Dieter murmuring softly around you and Dieter holding your hand right above Frankie’s heart.
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creweemmaeec11 · 4 years ago
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My favourite prompts:
A list of my favourite prompts that I’ve posted in the past, all curated into a huge list just for you guys!
1
Finally, the day has come. The villain is thought to be dead. The hero has won.
Until suddenly the hero learns the villain left them EVERYTHING in their will. Made them the owner and operator of all their illegal business.
Obviously, the hero plans to shut everything down immediately. But they quickly realize just how many people the villain employed… how many family’s they fed…
2
“You kissed me,”
“I did… and?”
“What-!? What do you mean and!?,”
“What more do you want?”
“An explanation would be a good start!”
“…or I could just do it again…”
*other person turns bright red,*
“Or… or that, I suppose,”
3
“What the hell are you doing here!?”
“I think the better question would be what in the hell are you wearing,” the villain replied, amusement clear on their face, like they were struggling to keep from laughing.
“What- it’s-” the hero blushed, remembering what they were wearing, “their pajamas! What are you-!”
“Oh my god…” the villain replied, like they were struggling to come to terms with what they were seeing, “the hero of the city not only own, but wears a onesie,”
“Excuse me!” The hero snapped in defence, “They’re comfortable!”
“They? You have more??”
4
“I gotta say hero,” The villain mused as they casually moved toward the cell bars, “I’ve been called many things in my life: monster, villain, outcast, loser, scoundrel,” they tilted their head, examining the hero before them, “but ‘our last hope?’” *clicks tongue* “that’s a first,”
5
You live in a world where anyone born with superpowers must become a super hero. It doesn’t matter what the power is, or how small it is, it is mandatory. It was deemed that having anyone with superpowers work alongside regular people was “unsafe” and “unfair.” Every year, dozens of superhero’s with powers useless for fighting are killed. You’ve managed to make it this long with nobody finding out you have a superpower. But how much longer can you hide in plain sight?
6
The city’s villain mysteriously disappears and hasnt been seen in a week. The people are celebrating, but the hero is worried. What if the villain is planning something big? Determined to stop whatever evil plan is brewing, the hero tracks the villain down, but they dont find what they expected. Instead of evil plotting, the villain:
-Has been taking care of a sick pet -Come down with the flu -Been helping arrange a friends wedding -Found out they were pregnant -Is getting married themselves -Mourning the death of a loved one -Has adopted a young pet and been occupied taking care of them -Has been helping one of their lackeys who’s in a desperate situation -Has been feeding the homeless and offering blankets
7
You’re the most wanted villain by all highest ranking authorities, but all the heros “just can’t seem to catch you” (they always let you get away) because all your crimes are things like stealing expensive medication and then donating it to hospitals, robbing toy stores and donating to orphanages, robbing banks and giving to charity, robbing grocery stores and feeding the homeless, ect
8
A hero/villain with the power to materialize their own tattoos. Got a wrench tattoo? Now you’ve got a wrench. Got a tattoo of wings? A bomb? A get away car? Well…
Dragon tattoos have always been popular, havent they?
9
Write about a genius inventor villain who, while watching the news, learns about a sick child in hospital doctors arnt sure they can cure. The villain realizes something theyve invented could cure the child. Now the hard part is convincing them to let the villain help.
10
The villain starts to notice the hero is feeling more down the usual, so they start leaving the hero little notes to cheer them up. All is going well until the hero figures out who is sending them.
11
In a world of magic users where everyone is divided into the 6 eye colours, and the colour of your eyes represents what your powers are. Each colour has an elemental power, can talk to a certain type of creature(Invertebrates, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals), and has 3 other powers. For example, blue eyes control water, can commune with fish, etc. Everyone in the world has either red, orange, yellow, green, blue or purple eyes. Except for you, you were born with black eyes. Everyone is afraid of what your powers will be, but they should be more worried about the kind of creatures you can talk to…
12
A hero and a villain (and maybe their sidekicks, up to you) trapped in a haunted house or haunted location.  
-One is scared so the other comforts them. They are both scared but trying to act like they aren’t. -One doesn’t believe in ghosts, and the other has the power to communicate with them or see them. -Ghosts aren’t real, but one continues to try and freak the other out, who claims they aren’t scared. -Ghost wingman. I need’ d say no more -One gets possessed, so the other has to do the whole ‘kiss to break a curse’ thing to bring them out of it. -The classic Person A thinks ghosts aren’t real so they prank Person B to scare them. Then shit gets real, but person B doesn’t believe person A, thinking its just another prank.
13
“I trusted you! You promised!”
“I kept my promise! I got you your results! Don’t question my methods from a top that high moral horse or yours, especially when the only reason you made a deal with me in the first place was because you were too much of a coward to do what needed to be done!”
14
The local wildfire has been growing out of control, forcing the city to have to evacuate. Suddenly, the villain with water powers shows up to lend a hand to fire fighters.
15
“Tell me hero,” the villain spoke, chains jangling from where they hung on the villains wrists as they walked up to the bars of the jail cell, “If you wanted to skip a press conference, could you?”
“Excuse me?”
“You’re sisters getting married, but your needed for a big event at the hero academy that day. Would you be allowed to attend the wedding? What about if your brother stole a pack of gum. Could you let it slide? Not would you, but could you?”
The hero paused. Could they? They had responsibilities! They had commitments to the city, and to the serving of justice!
The villain laughed at the heros silence, “I may be in jail, but you’re more chained then I’ll ever be,”
16
“So tell me,” the villain drawled, dragging a finger across the heros skin, making them shiver, “what changed your mind?”
17
Hero discovers the villain has a day job. It isnt at all what they expected. (Day care, animal shelter, etc)
18
“What are you going to do if you beat me, and suddenly the city dosent need a hero? What are you going to do if you get hurt and can no longer fight, and the city forgets about you just like all the heros before you? Who will you be when your legacy crumbles under the weight of all those who follow? Will you take up knitting?”
The hero stared unblinking and frozen as the villain took a step forward.
“Sure, your a hero. But what are you without that?”
The villain took another step forward.
“Your nothing, heroism is all you have. That pathetic title you curl up to every night. But without it?” They looked the hero up and down, “Absolutely nothing…”
19
A villain retires from villainy and gets plastic surgery (or simply never showed their face) so they can live a normal life without being recognized. While living their new life, they bump into the hero, and the two start falling for eachother. But the villain is terrified of the hero finding out the truth
20
The hero slammed their front door as quickly as they could, eyes wide, heart pounding.
The villain. The villain was outside their door.
“Well that was rude,”
21
A hero with magic powers, in a world where magic is unheard of. They have always kept their powers a secret, fearing they would be shunned, or tested on. They never use their powers in battle.
One day, while practicing their magic alone in the woods, the villain appears out of nowhere. 
Before the hero can explain, the villain asks, “you have powers too?”
22
A hero dies. Or at least, they think they do. The next thing they know they wake up at their own funeral. And the only person there? Is the villain.
23
“The worst part, is you had the nerve to call it love”
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aerialcedrick · 4 years ago
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PINTEREST | MUSINGS | INTRO | TASKS
[ DA’VINCHI, HE/HIM, CIS MAN ]  —  [ CEDRICK CHANDLER ]  is a grandchild of  [ HERMES & EROS ]  with the power of  [ ENHANCED SPEED & WING MANIFESTATION ] .  they were born in  [ 1998 ]  and have been in nemean lion since  [ 2016 ] .  with the change, they [ ARE TRAINING IN ]  the  [ HERO ]  role which makes sense since they’re usually  [ LIFTING WEIGHTS OR TEACHING YOUNGER NEMEAN LION KIDS SPORTS ] .  if you’d like to meet them try the  [ SUN ]  building .  
GENERAL
Full Name: Cedrick Chandler  Nickname(s): Ricki  Age: 23  Date of Birth: December 13, 1998  Hometown: Baltimore, Maryland
FAMILY
Parents: Jenelle Chandler (mother) & Leroy Chandler Sr. (father, non-biological), Hermes (grandparent) Eros (grandparent) Sibling(s): Leroy “Roy/Junior” Chandler Jr. 16, Zeke “Zee” Chandler 9 (younger brothers, non-demigods)  Pet(s): Female Doberman Pinscher named Kahlúa    Family’s Financial Status: Middle Class
BIOGRAPHY
Ricki’s parents had him young. Jenelle, a child of Hermes, had chosen to live a life separate from her godly relatives. She had the power of omnilingualism and was studying foreign policy in undergrad, keeping the secrets of her skills to herself. College is the time for experimenting, and a threesome with a child of Eros left Jenelle and Leroy with a baby they didn’t know what to do with. Jenelle took a leave of absence from school to carry but never returned and Leroy finished his degree. The couple tried to look at Ricki’s conception as an act of love, something they both took part in, and decided against a paternity test in favor of raising him as their own. 
Ricki was 6 by the time Junior was born and wasn’t showing any signs of being a demigod. His speed felt like a gift and they put him in sports young, having played little league, soccer, and eventually running track in high school. Jenelle had a feeling he’d inherited his speed from her lineage, but never put that pressure on Ricki. Ricki was always a popular, likable guy and is incredibly close to his father. He loves kids and would do anything for his little brothers. He was a gifted athlete and though the Chandlers knew his skills were likely genetic, from Hermes, they chose to keep their kids out of the know.
Junior year of high school was when his wings were discovered. An uncontrollable itching in his back made him claw and scrape at his skin, unaware what the issue was. A few x-rays showed wings growing under his skin. That’s when his parents looked at each other and realized the truth: Ricki was not Leroy’s son. 
It took Ricki a long time to process this but he tried not to be distant, instead spending more time at the gym and hanging out with friends as a distraction. He started cutting class and lingering at the mall with the wrong crowd, even started stealing and getting into trouble. The day his parents told him they were sending him to NL he almost caused a riot. He’d worked hard, and having to admit that work wasn’t his own felt stolen. If it was up to him, he’d ignore the stretch in his back as long as he could.
When he got to NL he finally began embracing his powers out of a need to make an impression and show off. He liked being fast and knew with the right training from the right people he could be faster, better. Something about becoming a hero made him feel strong and important and special and he liked that. He got closer to Hermes, but still struggled to get close to Eros, and didn’t make any immediate efforts to work with his wings.
The growing pains got so bad that half way into coming to Nemean Lion Ricki started taking pain killers to help with the pain, but they made him distant and spacey. He didn’t take them long enough to form any strong reliance, and is going into this year trying to embrace his wings and learn to control them. He hopes to ask to shadow Levi, finally ready to take charge of his power. He wants to be proud, to learn how to soar. Also, he kinda can’t graduate from the hero track until he does.
PHYSICAL APPEARANCE
Face Claim: Da’Vinchi  Height: 6 ft 3 in  Style/Aesthetic: Athletic, track jackets, varsity jacket, jeans, basketball shorts, cleans up nice and always has his chain on. Has his ears pieced and one either has a silver hoop, little diamond, or hanging cross. Always has a fresh fade and always clean shaven.  Extras: Ricki is a HUGE sneaker head, the type to stand in line early when a special pair drops, and has a section in his room where some never worn sneakers are on display. He buys really expensive running shoes and has a few custom pairs he wears on special occasions. He’s serious about his kicks. Also he gets manicures with a clear coat so his nails are always on point/clean and he’s best friends with his manicure lady.
PERSONALITY
Positive Traits: charming, outgoing, approachable, compassionate, understanding, hardworking, optimistic, fair-minded, honest, spontaneous Negative Traits: inconsistent, reckless, overly confident, occasional bursts of anger, forgetful    Hobbies: Collecting sneakers, playing sports, he’s a bit of a show off, going to the gym, hanging out/needs to be around people  Habits: forgetful/will sometimes agree to double plans, has a hard time not moving and has a LOT of energy so if he’s still too long you’ll catch him bouncing his leg or pacing. Has issues with focusing for too long and has a short attention span. Over exerts himself.
EXTRA
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius  Temperament: Sanguine. Sanguines tend to be more extroverted and enjoy being part of a crowd; they find that being social, outgoing, and charismatic is easy to accomplish. Individuals with this personality have a hard time doing nothing and engage in more risk seeking behavior.  Moral Alignment: Neutral Good
WANTED CONNECTIONS:
Hometown friends/family friends 
Best friends/Good friends met at NL. Ricki is really social and definitely rolls with a few crews
A ride-or-die. I imagine Ricki has a lot of friends and is friends with almost everyone because he’ll go up and talk to anyone but he needs at least one day 1. I imagine Ricki has a close main crew that has a group chat and acts up together and would love to get a few chars together (4 or 5) to make that friend group dynamic a thing. Bonus: giant text threads hehe
Someone he’s super protective over, he would pull up in a second.
Additionally, someone who is super protective of him.
Others on the hero track he can train with.
A few enemies. I imagine some people think he’s annoying or a bit of a show off, he’s that kid that’s good at most things. Past friends who are current frenemies! Some friendly or unfriendly competition. Ricki doesn’t always feel the need to prove himself but unfortunately he never backs down from a challenge because he’s not a little bitch so he WILL agree to stupid dangerous shit.
People that were close to him when he was taking a lot of painkillers and would recognize a similar shift in his behavior.
Romances. Past flings or partners, someone who has a crush on him, someone he has a crush on, give me all of it! An almost-something-now-nothing. A friend who wants to use him to make someone else jealous but he’s in on it. Your char is his friend and he doesn’t like their partner/he’s your partners friend but your char doesn’t like him! Past lovers to friends, past lovers to enemies (bad breakup, now it’s all attitude). FWB. ALL OF IT. Ricki isn’t necessarily a player but he’s not that committal. He’s the type that comes off as boyfriend material but then forgets to text back and skips dates to train and then wanna act confused when you’re mad. Then he go and buy you ice cream and flash you his smile and you let him inside anyway.
Roommates/apartment mates in the sun building! 
Anything and everything!! Ricki is super versatile.
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mca-attack21 · 5 years ago
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Words Unsaid
AN: This is loosely based off of The Final Problem and is Sherlock x Reader. There is violence and death, so consider yourself warned. I hope you enjoy and as always feedback is appreciated. 
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Emotional Context. Sherlock had once been able to deny its importance, instead, governing himself with logic and reasoning. However, his connections with his friends and the people who cared about him had started to change his mind on such matters. This came with both benefits and negatives as it had opened him up to new vulnerabilities and pain, especially now. As it was during this time that he discovered that his sister was more than just a suspicion. In fact, Eurus was a secret that scared his dear brother Mycroft more than anything else. 
Sherlock struggled to retrieve any memory of her. That was at least until the name “Redbeard” was brought up. He had loved Redbeard his faithful dog and childhood best friend. He couldn’t remember what had happened to him, at least not until Mycroft filled in the gaps. Since that discovery, he, his brother, and John had left to check in on Eurus’ security. Sherlock and John wanted to prove that she had left multiple times once impersonating as a girl that Sherlock met during a case, and once as John’s new therapist. Mycroft was insistent that this was impossible, so they went to settle the matter once and for all. What they were not expecting was for it all the be a trap.
They were soon captured and forced to complete trials that tested personal morality and will power all centered around Sherlock. It seems that Eurus was fascinated by her brother and wanted to better understand him. It didn’t help that she had previously formed an alliance with Moriarty and knew more about Sherlock than he did her. But that was all Mycroft’s fault now wasn’t it? The first challenge forced Sherlock to choose either John or Mycroft to shoot an innocent man in order to save his wife. Both inevitably refused and the man in a last-ditch effort took his own life in front of them. Eurus didn’t hesitate to kill the wife, questioning the three whether or not keeping their hands clean costing two lives was any better than taking one life and leaving one to survive. She then ordered Sherlock to collect the gun, which now only had one bullet, and continue.
The next trial was equally grim. Sherlock was forced to deduce which of three brothers was a murderer provided only the gun and three pictures. To add to the suspense, she presented the three brothers hanging over the ocean tied up with weights. If they dropped they would inescapably be drowned. Sherlock made the correct deduction much to everyone’s relief, but Eurus dropped all three explaining that the life of an innocent weighs no less than the life of the guilty.
The third trial was where it got personal. There was a small wooden coffin. It was nothing special about it. Sherlock quickly deduced that it was built for a woman, one with no close family, one who was sensible, one that- he was interrupted when Mycroft brought over the lid which had a mere two words on it, “Words unsaid”. 
“Whatever does that mean?” John asked.
But deep down Sherlock knew and he feared what was about to happen next.
“It’s Y/n,” he replied.
“Y/n? What does she have to do with this?”
“Why quite a lot Mr. Watson, and very good Sherlock. Now then, this ought to be fun. In a moment, I am going to give her a ring. She’s alone in her apartment which is hooked up with explosions. Now then brother, you will have two minutes to get her to say the magic words. The catch? You can’t say them yourself, you can’t give her any indication that you or she is in danger. Just play your mind games like you used to,” Eurus grinned.
“What are the magic words?” Mycroft asked.
Sherlock’s face fell into a pained expression as he considered the task at hand.
“He has to get her to tell him that she loves him,” John realized.
“Yay! Now that everyone is on the same page, let’s give her a ring.” Eurus cheered, “Oh and for added fun,” she clicked on the tv showing video of you in your flat.
Sherlock studied the video feed, you looked horrible, something had clearly upset you. He could tell that you had recently been crying. As the phone rang he prayed that you would answer it. The clock seemed to loom over him as it continued to click down. He watched as you slowly retrieved yours and glanced down at the name answering it almost immediately.
1:40
“Sherlock?”
“Ah, Y/n, I-” he started.
“I ought to kill you for giving me such a scare. Baker street exploded it’s all over the news and I’ve been trying to get ahold of you ever since. Are you okay? Is John okay? What happened?”
“We’re fine, just a little accident,” Sherlock replied calmly.
“I thought you were dead, the least you could have done was sent me a text” she whimpered.
“Oh come on now, you know I’m more clever than that, besides I’ve been busy, you know how it is” he mused.
1:20
“Y/n, do you remember the phone call we had just before Reichenbach, right as Moriarty had begun his master plan?” he asked feeling rushed.
“Of course I do, I still have nightmares from that call,”
“Well, I need you to tell me what you said that day,”
“There’s no way in hell,” you replied. Sherlock was able to see how much this upset you and clenched his eyes shut feeling the pressure.
“Please Y/n, I really need to hear it,” he begged softly.
0:60
“Sherlock, is everything alright?” you asked concerned at his unprecedented demeanor.
Eurus warned her brother to remember the rules. 
“Everything is fine, I just need to hear you say it,”
“Why? This better not be one of your experiments,”
“It’s not, I promise. I wouldn’t do that, not to you,”
“I don’t get the big deal,” 
“Please Y/n,” 
0:30
“I-I can’t”
“Why not?”
“Because you didn’t say it back,”
0:25
“If you meant it then, if there is any chance that you mean it now, please say it again,” he begged.
“Sherlock,” you pleaded
“Please Y/n, please tell me what you said that day on the phone, our last call together before the fall,” he said with such sincerity and emotion.
0:18
“You called me to tell me that everything had been a lie, that Moriarty was right. You told me that  you only had one choice left. I begged you to stop, to wait until I could get to you, that together the two of us would figure something out. But you said it was too late,” you recalled tears streaming down your face.
“And then…” he prompted.
0:12
“And then I pleaded with you not to do it,”
“Why? What was your reason?”
0:08
You hesitated for a moment, “ because I cared about you,”
“That’s not what you said Y/n, what exact words did you say?” His own eyes were betraying him at this point.
0:03
“I told you that I loved you, that fake or not, I would still love you” you cried, “And you didn’t say it back.”
Just then the phone clicked off as Eurus ended the call. 
Sherlock redirected his attention to Eurus’ screen, “Okay Eurus, I won. I made her say it. What now, what happens next?”
“Funny isn’t it? I don’t recall her actually saying the words ‘I love you’. She said ‘I loved you’ and ‘I would still love you’ and while close, I just don’t think that cuts it for me.” 
“Wait!” Sherlock screamed launching forward as Eurus hit a button and he was forced to watch your apartment explode. All that Mycroft could manage was staring in shock as the tv quickly cut to black. John went to his friend who had sunk to the ground staring vacantly.
“You didn’t tell her before Reichenbach and now you’ll never be able to, tell me Sherlock, are all those complicated little emotions worth it? Because to me it seems that the emotional context is what destroys you. Now pull yourself together as the next challenge is even more enduring.”
She paused for a moment before adding, “take your time,” and shutting off her screen. 
Sherlock rose to his feet and John and Mycroft hesitantly went towards the next door, turning back when they heard him whisper “no” before aggressively attacking the empty coffin taking out his rage and immediate grief. After annihilating it, he sat back against the wall. 
Regretting that he could not properly console his friend, John forced himself over to Sherlock handing him the gun saying, “I know this is beyond difficult and you are being tortured, but you have to keep it together, we have to keep moving”
“This isn’t torture, it’s vivisection, we are experience science from the perspective of lab rats,”
“Right now, we are soldiers who just need to survive, this is not the time nor place for mourning,” John said firmly.
“Alright,” Sherlock agreed and John helped him up.
The three men continued to the next room where Sherlock was tasked with choosing whether to kill John or Mycroft. He made his decision, Eurus’ game was over, and he pointed the gun under his own chin taking a calculated risk.
When he awoke, he was alone in a small cell plastered with pictures from his childhood. He quickly called out for John and Mycroft. John answered explaining that he was in a well, but otherwise seemingly fine. There was no response from Mycroft.
Sherlock quickly figured out that he was not actually in a cell but rather in a collapsable structure outside his childhood home. Eurus tasked him with discovering the location of Redbeard and upped the stakes as she started filling the well that John was chained to the bottom of. Sherlock racked his brain trying to solve the same problem who’s solution had evaded him as a child. That was at least until in an escape attempt, John solved an important piece of the puzzle.
Redbeard was never a dog.
Sherlock suddenly remembered his childhood best friend Victor Trevor who his brain had so cleverly disguised to help preserve his psyche. With this new information, Sherlock was able to figure out the Eurus’ song corresponded to the gravestones with the weird dates. He quickly deciphered the message and went to free John who was running out of time.
Outside of the well, he discovered his sister, “I’m so sorry Eurus,” he spoke sincerely.
“You needed me and I abandoned you, I could have saved you,” he added.
“I just wanted my brother,” she replied childishly.
“I’m here now, and we can fix this, just free John, don’t make the same mistake you made with Victor,” he pleaded.
“I don’t want to quit playing the game, I don’t want you to leave me again,”
“I’m not going to leave, I’m going to save you,”
Not knowing how to respond she simply stepped back and allowed Sherlock to save his friend. He dove into action turning the water off and then retrieving a key carefully tossing down to John so that he could free his ankles. He searched for a moment to find what Eurus had used to get John down there to begin with and found some rope that he leveraged against a tree and tossed down to his friend. 
It was as John was climbing over the side that the police cars and helicopters arrived. Mycroft’s people were there to collect Eurus, who went with them peacefully. Sherlock and John were both checked over by the EMT’s and given shock blankets. They were informed that Mycroft was safe and simply left back in Sherrinford. Once he regained consciousness, he his people and sent them in helicopters to take care of Eurus. But then? Who called the police?
“William Sherlock Holmes” you yelled slamming the door to Greg’s station car.
John and Sherlock had never turned around so fast in their lives. How were you here? Hadn’t they both watched your apartment go up in smoke? Or, was that merely another one of Eurus’ tricks?
“You’d better have a good explanation for-”
“I love you too,” he interrupted shocking both you and John.
“What?” you asked in disbelief.
“I said I love you too, I wanted to say it during that call two years ago, and I wanted to say it earlier today. I promise I will explain everything, and I understand if you no longer fill the same way, I’m sorry for not saying it before,” he confessed. 
You stared at him in awe, taking a step closer still staring at him. You closed the remaining gap between the two of you and smoothly connected your lips with his allowing them to communicate for you. After an instant of shock, Sherlock reciprocated allowing the blanket to fall off of his shoulders as he pulled you in closer. When he pulled away, both of you were slightly dazed and smiling. 
“You have a lot of explaining to do,” you whispered.
“That I do,” he answered.
From there, Greg dropped John and Sherlock off at John’s place where he happily greeted Molly and wasted no time collecting Rosie. The next day the three of you would meet up at 221B Baker Street and begin cleaning and repairing that flat as Sherlock did as promised and explained everything. After two weeks the renovations were complete and John and Rosie moved back in with Sherlock who had decided to utilize space in 221C for experiments to keep Rosie away from them both for her safety and his sanity.
You became more than a frequent visitor and eventually moved into one of the bedrooms of 221C however you spent far more time in Sherlock’s bed than in your own. You watched Rosie as the boys went out on cases and would occasionally tag in for John. Being in a relationship with Sherlock was interesting to say the least, but you wouldn’t trade a second of it. 
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stvlti · 5 years ago
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Fic Writer Interview
I piped up when @kiseiakhun did theirs so now I gotta pay for my hubris (but also, it's fun! Thanks for going out of your way to re-tag me!)
Name(s): stvlti (tumblr), stultiloquent (ao3)
Fandoms:
Actively writing for: DCU - comics and also related media, by which I mean of course Young Justice the cartoon and somehow also the Titans TV show. I never expected I'd write for a live action TV show series but hey, 2003 Teen Titans were my roots and Titans is a close relative. (Funnily enough I haven't actually seriously written for TT, but it's all about NTT and its derivative works)
Older fandoms on my AO3: Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, Noragami, Death Note
Where you post: AO3 is where I literally archive all my fics that see the light of day, drabbles and crackfics alike, but sometimes they get posted on Tumblr first (especially if it's to fill a prompt) and then make their way over to AO3 for reposting
Most popular one shot (by kudos):
Overall: "the hands that worship you", which is a pwp because I guess y'all love the porn on AO3!
This year: "if you can't summon your own tentacles, store-bought is fine", which is also a pwp because you horny mofos will always pick porn over anything else welp (thanks for leaving kudos though 🤣 and tbf, this one does have the unfair advantage of being literally the second oldest piece posted this year so it's had more time to amass more kudos than my gen / PG rated fics. proportionately though it's definitely not the one I've gotten the highest kudos to hits ratio on)
Most popular multi-chap (by kudos):
Discounting "if you can't summon your own tentacles" (which is more a two-parter that was written as a one-shot), I don't have an answer for either "Overall" or "This year" for this one because I have in fact only ever written one (1) multichap fic since moving to AO3 (we don't talk about the dark days on Deviantart) and said multichap fic isn't even close to within the top 10 most kudos'd fic on my account. That plus it's an RPF from my teenaged years that I really don't wanna plug on main because I don't want y'all to read that shit (it's RPF, come on)
Favourite story you’ve written so far:
I can't answer for "Overall" (cause I feel like I'd be forgetting and therefore neglecting a portion of the stories I've got in my portfolio over the last 8 years), but for "This year" it is in fact my latest entry, "Transference"! I was quite proud of the comfort zones I tested with that one, I pushed myself to write more than 2 character povs for a single piece (my record had always been 2 but in that fic I was juggling 3 - almost 4 character perspectives), plus it gave me an excuse to play around with narrative structure which is always a Thing I'm nerdy about
Fic you were nervous to post:
Cool cool cool so I'm just gonna expose myself with this one, but it was actually the priest kink fic, "When I'm down on my knees you're how I pray". I wanted to contextualise Dick Grayson's guilt issues in a Catholic context as like a what-if, but I've also never been Catholic, wasn't raised Catholic, and it was somehow important to me that I didn't misrepresent the customs and rituals of Catholicism? Even though just writing the fic itself was already fundamentally disrespectful? Idk my brain works on weird logic.
btw if any of you wanna cancel me for this just block me and move on.
How do you choose your titles?:
The title is either based on the central theme / moral of the story, which will come to me as I write and is usually the case for fics I take more seriously, OR, if it's a ficlet I didn't put as much effort into and/or don't intend to show off, I'll usually pull from lyrics for a one liner that hits the emotional notes I'm going for in the story.
Do you outline?:
Almost always. The only fics I haven't outlined are spur of the moment things, stuff that's very focused on a single instance or thought without much plot or coordination needed.
Complete: 26 25 in total
not counting the ones I deleted or orphaned this year (again this number does not include my Deviantart stash shhhh those didn't happen)
In-progress: uh....3 4?
I'm kinda in between the research and planning stage for 3 different fics atm so idk if it's really in-progress in-progress... Those 3 fics aren't even set in stone, I might abandon them again like I did with one of these 3 (the dark academia au) 5 months ago (that I recently picked back up on the research front)
Yeah I forgot my Sladick fic is a 2-parter that I should probably work on and finish at some point 😬
Coming soon/not yet started: I think it's somewhere between 8 and 11
I just added 2 more to the list after Romin Week prompts dropped /sigh. But I really wanna test my comfort zone again and try writing the wilder stories for a change (it'll be fun though if I get around to it! Hopefully something BOP movieverse shaped if I'm lucky)
Prompts:
Sure, send them my way! I accept prompts, just can't guarantee I'll be able to respond speedily though cause I can't chain my muse to me and also real life happens, a lot
Upcoming work you’re most excited about:
Ooof idk if excited is the right word, try trepidation...I'm scared to mischaracterise our faves...but a BOP movieverse fic is probably going to be real fun! Just hope I can finish the research and writing in time for the event though
No-pressure tags:
See this is the real point of me asking to be tagged and filling this tag, cause I wanna pass it on to my writing mutuals in other fandoms. So @trans-l-lawliet @fantomn @mellonearyou @3dnygma , if you're listening,,,,
Also any other writerly friends or followers reading this and curious to try, please go ahead! Have fun with this!
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mavenlockwood · 5 years ago
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 ❝  they told me all of my cages were mental      so I got wasted like all my potential      and my words shoot to kill when I'm mad      I have a lot of regrets about that ❞
CORINTH TASK: HEADCANONS
Andromeda: Talk about your character’s relationship with their siblings (if they have any).
For the longest time Maven thought she was an only child. And as long as she had her mother, that was fine to her. But after her mother died, and it really set in how miserably alone she was, finding out she has a half-sister was like being thrown a lifeline. Because of her trust issues, Maven has a hard time forming deep connections with most people, but family is on a different spectrum for her. She’s got the mindset of “if there’s anybody I can rely on, it’s my family”. She’s honestly kind of built @xrowansmithx up in her mind as the end-all solution to her loneliness, to the point of projecting almost all of her need for affection and love onto the idea of her sister that she has. It makes her absolutely desperate for Rowan’s approval at any given time, and she’s really putting so much more effort into building a relationship there than she ever has anywhere else. But at the same time, that kind of projection is what’s led her to keep from revealing the truth thus far. As long as it just remains Maven’s secret, she can live in the fantasy world of everything good that could be, and doesn’t have to deal with the possibility of being rejected.
Asclepius: Talk about your character’s morality. How do they decide who is morally good and who is not? What does “good” mean to them?
I took an alignment test awhile ago and unsurprisingly (to me), Maven came out as True Neutral, which I feel like is dead on accurate for her. Her morality is honestly pretty flexible and depends on what’s going on in the moment, there’s no specific set of rules someone has to follow other than like, very general things. Like not being a murderer. Or an asshole for no reason. Of course, she breaks her own standard on that last one all the time, and no, Maven does not consider herself to be a good person. But at the same time, she doesn’t really hold being “good” in high regard? It’s not as if she scoffs at them or anything, unless they’re the type that won’t even jaywalk, but also a lot of the time the most fun she has is when around people that are not particularly good, like her. Unless you’re just a straight up evil person, Maven doesn’t really care all that much.
Atlas: Talk about how your character deals with their “responsibility” to either side of the war for the veil, if they are aware of it.
While she isn’t aware of the war right now, Maven would unquestionably be on the side of PRO VEIL, all caps. She cannot imagine her life without magic, and the idea of losing it is one of the scariest things imaginable. Quite frankly, I’m not sure she’d want to live if she couldn’t be a witch. Even just the idea that someone would want to take away the magic from the world is nearly unfathomable to her.
Charon: Talk about your character’s greatest fears.
Like mentioned a bit above, losing her magic is definitely up there. But at the same time, I don’t think she’s really aware that’s a thing that could happen to her? So like, in a theoretical reality it’s a big fear. But in terms of things she’s currently afraid of right now, it would definitely be rejection. Getting attached to people, letting them in, only to have them really get to know her and decide they don’t like what they see. It’s easier to pretend like being alone is her choice, instead of because other people have decided she isn’t worth the time or effort. It’s sort of a vicious cycle of pushing people away out of fear, then getting upset when they take the cues and leave. And the biggest one would be with Rowan, which is why she hasn’t told her about their relation yet. If she gets rejected by who she views as her only chance at family left in the world, Maven might would legitimately die. But @kieratandanu gonna be pretty high on the list too pretty soon enough.  Or, even worse, that it was only a ploy to manipulate her the entire time.
Chronos: Talk about how your character deals with their past.
By ignoring it as much as possible. Her go to method for dealing with things is simply to not, and shove it as far and as deep as possible inside of her. Is this healthy? No. Will it most likely eventually explode from all the pressure? Yes. Does she know both these things? Yes. And yet, that is a problem for future Maven. For current Maven, it usually works well enough, thanks.
Circe: Talk about how your character deals with betrayal.
It really just cements the idea of not trusting people for her. She’s already paranoid by nature of the intentions of others, so to have someone get past all of that, close enough for it to be considered a betrayal and then do exactly what she was afraid of... it wouldn’t be pretty. And probably would end up sabotaging all her other relationships as well in the fallout as a chain reaction. Please don’t do this to her. Or do, and sit back and watch the burning wreckage as she promptly starts throwing matches on all her bridges out of fear and paranoia. Better to kill something by her own hand than let someone else make a fool out of herself again.
Eros: Talk about your character’s love life, and how they see “love.”
Love is a neurochemical con job. But seriously, Maven is not a fan. It’s a pretty terrifying concept to her, which her mother had a pretty heavy hand in influencing. Though she had the best intentions and was only trying to protect her, Maven’s mom was really the one to instill the idea that love is a dangerous thing that can ruin people. She spent years witnessing first hand how much her mom suffered after her dad left, how bitter and broken and resentful it made her, which shaped Maven’s adolescence. And not only that, her mom was always quick to remind her that people were always out to use others, and even when they tell you they love you, they really only love something you can give them. Such lessons have stayed with Maven her entire life, and still effect her to this day and how she approaches relationships. Whenever she feels herself getting too close to someone, warning alarms go off in the back of her head, and she usually begins to either self-sabotage, or simply take off running for the hills and ghost. Because of these habits, she’s never actually been in love before, but she’s ruined things herself several times where she could have been. Which really is ironic, considering how goddamn afraid she is of being alone for the rest of her life. It doesn’t help that she doesn’t really see why someone would want to date her in the first place, which just makes her all the more suspicious of someone’s intentions.
Euryale: Talk about someone’s death that would hit your muse the hardest, or their greatest loss.
Right now it would 100% be Rowan. Not only would she be losing a friend, but idea of a family that she craves so badly. But there are a few that are working their way up that list too. Her greatest lost is undoubtedly her mother.
Hektor: Talk about how your character deals with something that is out of their control.
She very much has an, “alright then, fuck it” attitude when it comes to things she can’t influence. It’s weird, because on one hand she hates the loss of control, but on the other hand it’s almost a get out of jail free card? Like, whatever happens, happens, so she’s not responsible for that. It’s sort of like when you’ve stressed yourself out about something so much, that you just hit a mental wall, and suddenly nothing matters anymore? You just accept whatever your fate is to come, and the idea that it can’t be blamed on you because you had no control. Doesn’t make the outcome any less shitty when it goes poorly, but it’s a small consolation that at least it isn’t her fault specifically. That’s how she deals with it.
Lamia: Talk about what other species your character would be/wants to be.
Nothing, honestly. Maven is glad to be a witch and would not trade it for the world. If she were forced to choose, she would pick perhaps a phoenix or kobalos — not that she’s aware of either of those species right now. They both have different ties to things she already possesses and holds valuable, fire magic and nature manipulation. Also the ability to mess with someone’s head would be pretty cool, don’t judge her. Still, she’s very happy as a witch, and would not willingly change to anything else.
Lethe: Talk about if your character would rather forget certain memories or hold on to them.
It depends on the memories. She’s not one of those people that’s like “even bad memories build character and are worth keeping”, she’s not that philosophical. There are so many things she’d willingly forget if it were possible. But at the same time, there are a handful she would hold onto, if only for bittersweet nostalgia, even if they hurt. It’d definitely be on a case by case basis and not a blanket statement.
Medea: Talk about your characters thoughts on redemption, and if they think they need it or are worthy of it.
Redemption is sort of a joke concept to her, it doesn’t really exist outside of TV shows and books. People are who they are, good or bad, and usually aren’t too interested in changing their nature. It’s more of a fairy tale to Maven. Does she need it? Eh. She could be a better person, certainly. But to be redeemed? That’s a tad dramatic. Besides, being better requires an energy she doesn’t have, so she wouldn’t even really want it regardless. She’d probably laugh in the face of anyone that tried to entice her with the idea of it.
Philotes: Talk about your character’s best friends and what friendship means to them.
Maven does not have many friends, and none that she would call a best friend yet. Honestly just the fact that she’s actually making friends at all is a step in the right direction. Back in New York it was basically just her and her mom. Friendship is... complicated. Less terrifying than romantic relationships, but still not safe. Not to sound like a broken record, but all of her trust issues really do lead back to her mother, who sort of isolated Maven from everyone else to where they really only had each other. It wasn’t a Mother Gothel situation where it was done maliciously, she had good intentions, where she was under the idea that she was the only person she was certain would never act to hurt Maven. So she never really encouraged Maven to seek outside friendships, something that makes it hard for her to reach out and form them nowadays. That all being said, once someone gets past all her walls, there is VERY little she wouldn’t do for those she cares about. Her loyalty and protectiveness are second to none of her other traits, and she really is a Mom Friend. The people she feels that protective closeness with so far would be @eliastaylcr, @avxvidalis, @casperhahn and Kiera, obviously.
(The) Phonoi: Talk about your character’s view on murder.
Uhhh bad? Which would legitimately be her response if someone were to ask her that question. It’s really not something she’s thought much about, because she’s never been in a position where it’s been particularly relevant to her. That being said, it is something I could see her being pushed towards for the right reasons. Not sure she knows if she’s capable of it, but she definitely is under the right circumstances.
Ponos: Talk about what would make your character emotionally break.
Honestly too much. She prides herself on being tough but really she’s just like,,,,, 10 different emotional traumas and mental illness stacked in a trench coat that is one bad day from crumbling at any given time. Her goal is to project that she’s handling her shit better than that though.
Tartarus: Talk about your character’s view on retribution.
Not going to lie, Maven is petty. Most of the time it’s just low level theatrics, like being purposefully annoying such as she is with Alarick. Let the punishment fit the crime, and all that. But greater offenses absolutely require greater retribution, and I think it’d honestly fester inside her like an infection until she felt the situation was rectified. She’s kind of like a fury, in that regard. Except to Maven it’s less about justice and more about getting even. It doesn’t matter to her on whether it was technically “justified”, or if she was actually the one in the wrong, if it was a strike against her or someone she cares about, she will not just let it rest. She’s very stubborn and singular about what details are relevant to the story at hand. In example: it doesn’t matter that her friend is the one who started the fight, if you punch them in the face, she’s going to hit you back with a right hook. And maybe a kick.
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ignite-the-fires-far · 6 years ago
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[New Muse]: Aeliana & Vakko the Generals for Hire
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Vakko promised to set whole landmasses aflame before he was defeated. And so, when the time of his decline was announced, he took matters in his own hands and prepared to kill millions if not tens of millions of innocent lives just to have his petty revenge over his would-be attackers. Yet, however, the heroes managed to outsmart him and defeat him at one final climatic battle in which the Hero took Vakko’s own flaming sword and cut him in half.  Or… so the story would say.
Truth was that Vakko was far stronger than their rightgeous enemies would have thought, and he managed to linger in this world. One shape or another. Using dark arts, using unspeakable means, from parasiting indiviudals, possetion or even dark rituals of summoning, the manged to outlast those who merried and prospered under his apprarent demise, and the sons and the daughters of such and their after them. It wasn’t until thousands of years later, that his chance would come again.
Loyals, hidden from modern society, managed to locate one of his descendants by one of his old mistresses. A promising girl with a knack for the game and of sharp mind, surely a sign of her heritage. They tested the girl, and once it was deemed to be a useful vessel, she was taken from her parents, and carried of to a secret ritual, where her mind and body were supposed to be splintered, discarded the wheat from the chaff, and to make room for Vakko’s ressurection in this new body. Yet, something they hadn’t realized is that the girl, was trully the living proof that blood runs thick, and her will proved to be as unbreakable and as stubborn as her forebearer, remained clinging at her body, holding the seams of her mind toghether through a process no human should’ve survived. So, when the ritual completed they found out, they hadn’t effecitvely inserted Vakko into a new, young and fresh body, but merely sown his counsciousness, binding and chaining his life and mind to that of a little girls, crippling the overlord forever. In his rage, Vakko took control over the body of the little girl and made every single cultist in the room commit suicide.
Vakko decided to take the girl as his apprentice, and meanwhile, throughout her childhood he proved himself to be some sort of harsh parent and teacher, he would soon realize that his prision was forever, and his sad existance was at an end. With this realization, his approach changed, letting Aeliana discover herself, merely relegating himself as a consulting power to be called at any time, or to appear at his own whim.
Aeliana would prove a worthy successor to Vakko, if not by submitting whole swatsh of people under a cruel rule like her ancestor, but by excelling at what was the family business: Conquest. Not only her guidance and teaching by one of the worlds most prominent conquerors proved to be unchallenged in quality, but also some genuine talent and skill came from within, as Aeliana proved to have a sort of gift drawing battle plans and assiting nations, armies, warlords and rebels all throughout the world to fight their battles, so long they provided the challenge she sought and paid the toll she asked for. So efficient she was, that she became hunted, not only by the law, but also by the same descentants of the so called Heroes that once beat Vakko, and now claimed on her life, despite her morally grey businesses not being even on the same level as her ancestor.
BIO // MUSE LIST
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son-of-the-omega-blog · 6 years ago
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#SL #BlindedByTheDark
Written by @Son_OfThe_Omega and @ToTheGrahve. Mentions @Qhuinn_BDBFM and @Dehstruction.
#TriggerWarning #Abuse #Sexual #GraphicViolence
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Grahve: Good behaviour was rewarded. It was the fastest lesson I had to learn. Maybe even faster than I learnt anything from the Brotherhood. After all, they didn’t punish failure with bloody screaming torture. They didn’t rip you down for having a moral compass by murdering innocents.
I still didn’t know that female’s name, and I suspected I never would. Her blood had covered me like a crimson baptism. I couldn’t remember much after it either. I knew there’d been Lash. I knew there’d been pain. I knew I’d wanted to die in her place.
Sitting up on the bed, I put my back to the wall, shifting to place a pillow there to keep the mesh of the cage from cutting into my flesh. Absently, I rubbed at the shackle wounds and scabs around one wrist, then reached for the book off to the side. Setting the book in my lap forced me to look down my bare chest, and the litany of new scars, wounds and bruises made my stomach flip slightly. With a huff I shifted, laying across the bed and propping myself up with one elbow.
The wounds weren’t the only thing. Lash wasn’t a fool by any stretch - in fact, I could admire his cunning, albeit reluctantly. Keeping me alive was clearly an art he’d perfected. Just enough food so I wouldn’t die but couldn’t fight back. Just enough blood to let the worst of his afflictions on my body heal. The result was I’d lost weight. The tattered black sweats I was granted as some semblance of modesty hung dangerously low on my hips, the bones becoming more prominent every day.
Those days had felt impossibly long in the first week. And the second. Each moment of fight back, every snarled curse I’d tried to hurl at him… and for what? The Brothers weren’t coming. They didn’t know where I was. Fuck, they didn’t even know if I was alive. I’d been a nomad before arriving at the compound; me up and vanishing after being rejected by the only two lovers I’d taken probably looked like I’d hit the road. I couldn’t hold out for a rescue that wasn’t coming. And I couldn’t force Lash’s hand to end me either. I’d tried. And every time he’d just gotten more creative in his ways to make me regret it.
Staring at the page for a minute, I gave up trying to read the words and closed my eyes, letting out a sigh. Thinking of Crhis, or Qhuinn, didn’t hurt so much anymore. In the beginning thinking about them had been like a knife wound, another wound that Lash could poke at and hurt. While I hadn’t given them up to him - hadn’t forsaken the last morsels of my morality by betraying them to the demon, I had let whatever other feelings I had die.
There was only so much of me I could keep alive anyway.
‘Another time, another place, you could’ve been /my/ brother.’
My jaw locked at Lash’s voice in my head, at the memory of him sitting beside me to stare out the window as we sipped a beer. Together. It hurt more because some tiny, desperate part of me wanted it. Craved it. Any family I’d had had died long ago. I’d wandered the world alone. Lash musing about how nice it would’ve been to have a real partner, a real ally in the world, tore at some part of me I wanted to cut out and throw away. And yet I couldn’t forget it. I couldn’t forget the look on his face, the smile he’d flashed me that had been less malice and more amusement. The fact he’d clicked his bottle to mine, and left me alone that night.
The door burst in, but I didn’t flinch. Instead I opened my eyes and looked up, maintaining my spot on the bed as Lash strolled in, clearly irritated. Anxiety shot through my chest, even as I kept a cool facade. Any sign of weakness and he’d be on me, taking out his frustrations on my body, or in my body. Instead I adopted a drawl as he ripped off his jacket and flung it aside.
“S’matter? Brotherhood finally lift the lockdown and start breaking all your toys again?”
Lash: [The stifling wind ruffled the tails of my coat; even the hideyhole I’d concealed my presence in did little to buffer the weather. Add to that King Wrath, son of Wrath, sire of Wrath, had lifted lockdown protocol. Low growls and curses floated up as the Brotherhood wiped the alley with a half dozen new recruits.
Fucking fools. The only bene that would come from that was I didn’t need to mete out the only punishment they truly feared. Being sent back to the Omega. The Dehstroyer wasn’t among the bulk of the males below, the pack consisting of Tohrment, son of Hharm, Rhage, son of Tohrture and Zsadist, first born son of Aghony, blooded twin to the Primale Phury. Such a cast. The males below moved with astonishing efficiency, the entire encounter from the first sighting to the fading light of the last Lesser being sent back to the Omega lasted less than fifteen minutes.
Movement a block over caught my senses, my scattered molecules ghosted to materialize feet away from one of the last few Primes left in my army and held a hand up.]
Let the fuckers go for now. Meet back here at dusk and don’t fucking disappoint me of you’ll be that fucking purple dragon’s appetizer on your way to the Omega.
[On that snarl and string of curses I chose to ignore from the lead male, I ghosted back to the warehouse. I was pissed to say the very least, but the thought of the trainee still chained up waiting for me eased my mood only a little. The male proved worthy enough of keeping alive despite his efforts to try and force me to end him. While that had been my ultimate plan, he had earned a grudging piece of respect in that will of his just prior to his breaking.
Materializing back at the warehouse hadn’t done much to calm down the fury that still boiled beneath the surface of my thinly veiled control, the door slamming closed didn’t even elicit a jump from the trainee on the bed across the room. He’d learned early on that quick moves brought swifter interception. Throwing my jacket into a chair with a low growl, I pinned the male with a look that said I wasn’t in the mood to fuck with at the point of his words. Truthfully, yeah, the fuckers did. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves.]
Matter of fact, it seems King Wrath set the whole bunch loose on my troops. And wiped the alley with them. Fucking pathetic wastes of skin.
[Pacing toward the work table, I picked up a long bladed knife when I paused, the thin metal honed sharper than a scalpel, glinting in the light.]
Six of them gone just like that. As fast as the Omega can crank them out, the fucking Brothers take them out. [Looking over my shoulder at the male, I could scent his anxiety, and a minute hint of fear. I’d be lying if I said I didn’t enjoy the way he’d squirmed and screamed, begged for the life of others with his own in their place. But the now, I was the slightest disappointed. Just the slightest. Slowly setting the blade down and turning, with a firm grip on my spontaneous desire to hurt, I walked over to the cage and with a flick of a key, unlocked the door, letting it swing open.]
Grahve: The open door was a test in itself, and one I’d learned to pass. Rather than eye it like the gateway to freedom I knew it wasn’t, I instead closed the book, sat up and swung my legs off the side of the bed. There I remained, hands loose in my lap, until Lash indicated otherwise. Thankfully, there was no steel collar in his hand - but the night was young. I had to play my cards carefully.
“I could point out that that was the reason for this war, wasn’t it? Besides, the Brothers have had centuries to perfect the art of being a killer or a soldier,” I point out calmly, watching him. “Whereas you only had a few weeks of their lockdown to do it with your… troops.”
Word used very loosely there. Lash’s Lessers (say that five times fast) were about as capable as a headless chicken, with the upside for the chicken that it would at least smell good once it was cooked.
Finally tearing my gaze away from the male, I let my mind consider who, realistically, could pose a threat to the Brotherhood. Lessers gained strength by handing over their souls to the Omega, but if you didn’t know how to use strength, you were fucking useless, just really strong about it.
“There’s almost something to be said for narrowing the field of humans,” I muttered to myself, then realised I’d spoken aloud. Regret flared, immediate and sharp, but Lash’s eyes had narrowed on me now, clearly curious, and I couldn’t pull back. To do so would be to incite his wrath, and I’d barely healed enough from the last beating. Another round of torture and the demon spawn would be bringing another female in. I had to heal on my own, or someone would pay the price for me...
“Picking drug dealers and street thugs gives you pawns on a chessboard, but pawns are only good for one thing; sacrifice. You need Bishops. Rooks. Knights.”
I held off saying ‘Queen’. Cause barf. If it was true that Lash was hung up on having that Lassiter back here too, then I could just about picture that poor angelic fuck being some equivalent of a queen too. He had enough glitter and sparkles for it. I actually missed the shit…
“Why not take your sights higher?” I continue, every word tasting like bile in my mouth as I forced them out. “Imagine politicians, senators, businessmen. What was it they said about human CEO’s? Half of them are borderline psychopaths already? Imagine giving them power. Immortality. Then they give you money. Men. Or prison wardens,” I add, trying my hardest not to clench my hands into fists. “They can then refer more pawns. More options that aren’t just… cannon fodder.”
Scribe, forgive me. Please forgive me…
Lash: [Casually watching the male, I didn’t miss the fact that he’d learned well. He didn’t bolt as he had the first handful of times I’d left the door open, in fact, he waited properly. Like a good pet. That wasn’t all that caught my attention. The seed he’d planted made sense if I could cultivate it to my own needs.
Humans were needed for the Omega to turn into Lessers, that was a given. Generally, /any/ human would do. But those that had a propensity to more questionable morals, no family to speak of, were full of evil and vindictiveness, /those/ were the ones that made more desirable lessers. Less mess in the human world to deal with such as ‘missing person’ reports and human law enforcement poking their noses where it didn’t belong. Not that I had issues with dispatching my own clean up crews to deal, it was just more convenient.]
Prison wardens, huh. [If the crap spewed on TV even remotely portrayed that class of rat adequately, then I had a new solid lead on replenishing my troops. Tossing the male a slow grin and a nod, a flick of a few fingers, his cue that he was given permission to get up and move about freely, I turned and walked to the small refrigerator.
Being half Lesser didn’t mean I couldn’t eat, but I saw no need to withhold nourishment from my pet for a good idea. Keeping the small unit stocked still miffed the Lessers assigned to the duty, but no less derelict in their choices. Removing two bottles of beer and a plate that held a decent meal of meat and vegetables, I set one bottle and the plate on the makeshift table, the other I twisted the top off and downed a swallow. The male moved slowly, but I could see the hunger in his body, the way he moved. And it wasn’t just for food.
Facing facts, the male was going to have to have another feed soon. His clothing hung off him like tattered rags. If this idea of Grahve’s panned out, I’d reward him with something that was fitting for a male of his worth. Sending a Prime squad out for a female would be priority.]
So. Where’s the nearest human prison?
Grahve: Leaving the cage felt like I was a bird finally allowed to stretch my wings. It felt like breathing again after spending hours holding my breath. Shuffling over to the table, I sat before the meal and took my time taking up the fork, even as my stomach snarled. At Lash’s question I glanced sideways at the male, brutally aware of how he watched me.
“Upstate, I believe,” I answered automatically. Sure, I’d probably been the one vampire in the whole manse that had chosen to live among humans, but that didn’t mean I kept track of where they were incarcerated. Like, c’mon…
Taking several mouthfuls, I chewed slowly to savor it, hoping against hope that I wouldn’t see it again soon and could, in fact, digest something. When I felt the monster that’d been growling in my stomach was distracted enough by the morsels it could munch on, I grabbed the beer and took a long, generous swig.
Fuck me that was brilliant. Honestly, when you were living on scraps and from moment to moment, every single thing became so much more. One beer was god damn ambrosia.
“Having authority figures on your team within the system would mean they could notify you as inmates are going to be released, or even intervene on sentence lengths and commuting sentences if they want them out early,” I continue, pushing a bit of meat around with the fork then piercing it to put it to my lips.
The idea that Lash had essentially got me dinner and a drink like this was a date passed through my stupid and sarcastic brain, and I shoved it away. Besides, it wasn’t like I could say ‘no’ if Lash got me drunk and stuck his hand up my skirt. The male was going to take whatever he wanted from me. Just like he already had…
“The Brotherhood expects you to be in places like this,” I said instead, turning my head to watch him. “Imagine if you had a benefactor that could put you in a high rise? A condo? Somewhere the Brothers would never expect and letting you live the luxury life you deserve?”
Lash: Upstate. [I repeated, toying with the bottle as I watched the male intently consume his food. He had manners worthy of sitting at any table, even with his shabby clothes and scruffy beard growing in he still made quite a good looking piece. Yes, the male was definitely due a good feeding. Maybe this female would last longer than a few days before another was needed. It had been at least a week since the last one was brought in, fewer of the weaker sex were tracked alone between clubs and their homes. Time to step up the hunt for blood, and in that end a good fucking.
In the meantime, I was quite eager to work on this idea that Grahve had set to my mind.]
Sounds very lucrative, and highly promising. To hide right under the Brotherhood’s noses and they be none the wiser. So tell me. [Leaning forward, elbows on my knees and eyes fully on the male, I was cataloging every move he made from here until I was satisfied, and took another drink from my bottle.]
How do you know all this, how the human’s authority system works? How do I know you’re not just feeding me a few good sounding lines so I’ll send a squad on a wild chase that will end in a trap? [It occured to me that while the idea was definitely appealing, it also held the lurking questionable danger that the Brotherhood would be there, set up to ambush the squadron. If that held true, Grahve would be sent back to Wrath in pieces, each part gift wrapped and addressed to the children. Gifts from the glymera to their wellbeing.
But, in the chance that what the trainee was saying bore fruit, he would live longer, and maybe even be partially inducted as the once human Brian O’Neil. Either way, Grahve was mine to do with as I pleased.]
Grahve: The panic I had worked so hard to hide reared its head at Lash’s question; at the implication I was setting him or his minions up for an ass whooping. The fork clattered to the plate as my hand shook, and I clenched it into a fist to control the tremor. Somehow keeping my voice even, I spoke.
“I lived among humans. For over fifty years. I trained with their masters, their best. I know how they function, what they like.” I looked to Lash now, and I hated that he would see the fear in my eyes, but it was there, and I couldn’t stop it. “And I wouldn’t feed you anything. I have no contact with the Brotherhood now. How would they know? And why would I give you a reason to…”
I didn’t need to finish the sentence, because I was sure both of us were thinking of /exactly/ what Lash could do to me if I lied or deceived him. The fact I held out on giving up more information on the Brothers or Qhuinn and Crhis was no doubt a sore point he hoped to remedy as soon as I was physically able to withstand it and not die. In the meantime, he made a point of finding other ways, and he was creative.
In my younger, more naive years, I’d thought I could survive or withstand anything. I’d never be broken. I’d never surrender. I would /die/ before I became something I hated. Turns out pain is a great motivator for just about anything. Being broken by Lash… was never something I could have anticipated, and as each piece of my soul was sold to him, I realised I had no idea who I was, or what I could withstand.
Dropping my head in a bow, like a bad fucking dog, I closed my eyes.
“I have not lied. Did you smell a lie on me?” I whispered. “I will do as you ask.”
Lash: Good boy. [Grahve spoke the truth as he knew it; he neither smelled of lie or deceit, but I still needed to feel him out all the same. Even if his reaction was indicative of a lie, there was absolutely nothing I sensed that told me otherwise.]
I figured you would do as I asked. But I needed to be sure in asking, you understand. [Had I sensed a lie coming off the male, he’d have at least enjoyed his last First Meal.
The new building had a similar set up last the last persuasion center, the usual tables, benches and work spaces. And the remote skylight, with one little detail adjusted. I could will it open as easily as I could turn off lights with hardly a thought. Four deep set posts appeared only as stabilizing columns, that doubled as a four post rack. A body would be strung from all four corners by long cables just under the roof’s opening, which was angled to catch the first of the sun’s rays. And if the weatherman couldn’t get the forecast correct, large mirrors were erected in strategic spots around the main space in the event cloud cover was an issue. Just open the skylight, let the sun shine in, bounce a few beams around like a dancefloor party and, poof! Clean up would be a breeze.
Leaning back in my chair, fingers toying with the bottle in my hand, I gave more thought to the idea of hiding in plain sight. It would certainly help with bringing in females to feed the trainee, less distance to move them, and more opportunities to watch the Brotherhood, engage from a shorter distance with the males being none the wiser. And didn’t that give me a hard on. A chance to take those fuckers out was that much closer.]
Finish eating, you’re going to need your strength. [Tipping the bottle to my lips and taking a long drink, I watched the male’s reaction. Relief. Shock that I believed him. Wary that I didn’t beat him with his fork or fuck him into submission. Though the latter I’d do just for the sheer enjoyment.]
Grahve: My relief was short lived. The phrase ‘need your strength’ sapped at my will to live and any appetite I’d had left. But he wasn’t kidding. If I didn’t eat it now, it’d probably be pureed into a mix that could be put in an IV, threaded through my nose and down my throat. Ask me how I know. I dare you.
Forcing myself to take the last mouthfuls and chew slowly, savoring this moment before whatever hell had to come next, I finally swallowed and sat back. Reaching for what was left of the beer, I felt no measure of pride that my hand didn’t shake. It had in the beginning, but now it wasn’t courage or bravery that held me steadfast - it was the knowledge that nothing I did would change it, and there was no escaping it. What level was that in the stages of grief? Acceptance?
Downing the bottle, I put it beside the empty plate and rose from the chair, turning to face Lash and wait. His eyes ran over me, examining his last marks, looking for where to make new ones. When his eyes ghosted over the dangerously low waistline of the sweats, the jut of my hip bones, I knew he was considering me naked.
What did it mean when I could anticipate the look on his face with the kind of pain, humiliation or torture that would come next? I knew people that played cards had a tell, so maybe expert torturers did too.
“...what do you want, sunshine?” I asked tiredly, glancing down at myself. “What’s it gonna be today?”
Lash: What’s it to be, what’s my choice of the night… I think.. [Lustful eyes glanced over the male with dark interest, a deeper hunger of my own boiled under the surface, a near insatiable hunger that I’d not deny myself, just not yet. I’d branded this male in ways he never thought possible, each scar a visual reminder that I owned him, and with good behavior, he’d been guardedly rewarded.]
Why do you protect them? They haven’t come looking for you, I’d have eyes and ears all over Caldwell, yet not a peep from the Brotherhood. [The big burning question had yet to be answered, kudos to the trainee for keeping such a tight lid on the info.
That information I needed, it was vital in a way to hit the Brotherhood where it counted most: their hearts. Hit the heart and weaken it, then the rest was easy pickings. And what better way to shred a male’s heart than to target the one person, or persons as in the case of Wrath, his shellan and his only heir, that said male would give his life to protect at all costs. Take loved ones out of the equation and everything else crumbled. Just look at what my little shopping trip with the Queen brought on. And that was just a test.
Two fingers gripping the neck of the bottle tipped it to my lips, the less-than ice cold amber liquid sliding down my throat without a taste, eyes never leaving the male in front of me.]
You chose me that night when you sought to ease your wounded heart, not one of them. So why not choose me now?
Grahve: I felt my lips part in stunned surprise. Of all the questions, all the interrogations, I’d never expected that. Choose Lash?
My gaze slid away from him, like I could hide the myriad of emotions running through me, but it was one of the few defense mechanisms I had left. His observation that the Brotherhood hadn’t looked for me, hadn’t cared enough to try and find me, struck at my core. I thought of Crhis, of standing beside him in battle and lying beneath him on a bed. I thought of Qhuinn, dropping down in an alley after I’d dispatched Lessers and bringing me into the Brotherhood, kissing me. I thought of every Brother, of Doc Jane and hell, even fucking Murhder, and it /hurt/. A chasm opened up in my chest where I’d put those new feelings, those new loves and admirations and friendships, and it ached.
They hadn’t looked for me. Had they even cared? Could Lash ever replace that? Ever fill the void that existed now that I’d known those emotions?
Clenching my jaw, I closed my eyes.
“I chose Ahrmour. I chose a male that was a flirt and kind and… and not a fucking demon,” I managed, drawing a ragged breath in through my nose. “I was looking for someone that wasn’t going to hurt me…” I actually let out a snort, my laugh bitter. “Look how fucking well that worked out for me…”
Lash: [Here it came. The tide of emotions the male carried with him made him sway in his shackles. In a lightning quick move with no warning, I stood and pulled the male against me, caging his thin frame in my arms. Hindbrain said he was dangerously thin, I felt his bones jutting from under his skin as I pressed him to me. Keeping him weak was beneficial for the both of us; he wasn’t strong enough to fight his way free, and that in turn kept him alive.]
Contrary to popular belief, I wasn’t born this way. [Nor did I have a choice with what the Omega turned me into. It didn’t matter to me one way or the other when it occurred, I was just as eager to put a blade in Qhuinn’s chest now as he did to me back then. All for a damn joke that mute John Mathew took too fucking seriously. Qhuinn was the one who needed putting down, even the glymera had failed at that attempt.
The cyclone of emotions Grahve kept locked down lurked under the surface, his grunt of surprise and tensing muscles gleaned of fear and wariness, filling my nose with their telltale scents.]
Grahve: I didn’t fight the lock of Lash’s embrace; it was the only warmth I knew anymore. There was nothing cruel or painful in it either, other than the fact it wasn’t who I wished was holding me. I stood in the brace of his arms and felt my body lean into him, against him, some pathetic part of me grateful for the support.
It was true - he hadn’t been born the way he was now. He’d been broken and shaped, same as any weapon, as any tool. A part of me sympathized with that. When forged in fire and blood most things ended up lethal and dangerous. But there was always choice.
“And if I say no… again…” I whispered, dropping my forehead until it rested on the curve of his shoulder, “will you hurt me… again? You’re making your choices… and I made mine…”
I’d chosen the Brotherhood. I’d chosen to fight for the race and protect people. Even if I couldn’t do that anymore, even if I was helpless to do nothing else but suffer and die, I could hold on to that. To the idea.
“What do you want from me, Lash?”
Lash: [No verbal answer would satisfy either of us, and as it was in the moment, my desire to hurt and kill was admonishingly overwhelmed by another more basic need. Lips brushed the column of his neck from ear to base, hands spreading fingers wide to devour a meal of touch that was wasn't full of fight. Yet.
Shifting gears and turning the pair of us to back step by step until the the male was within inches of the bed he'd been given; Grahve knew better than to resist, though I'd have had no problem had he been unwilling. Hands tore at his pants, my fangs, teeth and lips now scraping along the male's flesh as the growing scent of arousal thickened the air.]
Grahve: His lips were gentle. His hands were gentle. And far be it for me to complain when I knew what the alternative was. I could resist all I liked, but it wouldn’t change anything other than how broken I’d feel after. Maybe, just maybe, I could pretend the fangs grazing my skin belonged to Ahrmour, the bright eyed, sassy male I’d met at that bar. Maybe then I wouldn’t hate myself for the way my body reacted, the way a part of me yearned for something as simple as a kind caress.
As the pants were ripped away to leave me bare, and with the bed behind me, I lifted my head to look at Ahrmour. He was all energy and arousal and need, and I let myself be swept away in that as my hands stroked up under his shirt, shackles clinking as I ran them across the smooth, taut flesh. I kissed him if he wanted to be kissed, I touched him only when he wanted to be touched.
I could feel my body growing hard with every kiss, every lick and nip of his fangs. My own fangs slid down as I groaned softly, half dropping back onto the bed and staring up at him, waiting.
Lash: [Fangs long and throbbing with hunger, I glanced down at the display before me: male worthy of feasting on spread below, ready, nacht, /willing/ to bed a viper. Willing the cage door closed and the thick shackles unlocked, the metal sheaths dropping with a thick metal-to-concrete sound to leave the male completely unencumbered, the tingle of the male’s touch still echoing through my every nerve. The immediate image of the male laying out under me, those dark eyes of his filled with utter devotion of free will, however grudgingly, with a collar of shiny steel filled my mind. And made me harder than I’d been since juicing up on Angel blood.
I could see this male, in a haze of a possible future moment, fighting beside me against the Brotherhood. The same males that, ironically, did not come looking for one of their own. Gripping Gravhe’s thighs and pulling him to the edge of the bed, I lent over him and took his mouth in a heated, messy lip lock as my hands pushed his thighs up and wide. The tip of my hard cock brushed against the underside of his, probing along his rim as I caged the male under me, my hips shunting for a brief moment until finding home and sinking balls deep.
Fangs dig into his lip and tongue as my hips pounded hard into his. I could keep this male, bring him into the fold and use his years of experience among the humans to my advantage in destroying the Brotherhood. My hand slid between us to wrap around his cock, tugging in strokes designed to bring the male as much pleasure as did the idea I could make him fully mine.]
Grahve: The shackles clicked and fell away, the last article of ‘clothing’ I’d been wearing gone to leave me totally bare for the male above. I barely noticed the cage door close behind him, too intent on the feel of his hands as he seized my hips to pull me forward. The kiss was hot and wet, and I battled his tongue with my own even as his cock pressed against me, then into me.
I gasped into his mouth at the intrusion, the hardness of him and the sudden stretch and tear of my body. There was a twinge of pain, then the wash of pleasure as he moved. The relief that ran through me was almost as sweet; the proof that this wasn’t about torture or hurt in the stroke of his hands, the lick of his tongue.
This was a reward, my mind supplied, my eyes locking with Ahrmour’s as he moved inside me, the head of his cock brushing against that bundle of nerves and making me gasp, moan. Without shackles my hands moved to clutch at his back, my nails half biting into the strong wings of his shoulder blades as he rode me harder, faster.
There was another kiss and I tasted blood, his fang nicking my lip. The smell only seemed to heighten the moment, my own length impossibly hard in his hand as he pumped me in time with every thrust. I whimpered as the pressure inside me built toward a crescendo, some pathetic, miserable part of me /grateful/ for the pleasure if it meant there was no pain.
Lash: [The look of adoration, the sounds the male was making under me, was a boost to my ego after the failed night out hunting the Brotherhood. Taking the male, as I often felt the need to, was something I saved for. Other captives that had been housed herein, I had no desire to fuck. Fuck /with/ and torture, yes. But getting this male to bend and break had been easier than I thought, and with the intel he provided earlier, it would make keeping him alive and healthy a benefit I needed to keep.
Breaking from his mouth, my fangs drug a path down the column of his throat, each pounding thrust into the male’s ass cementing my growing plan. The lingering taste of his blood and the raking of his nails down my back fueled everything right now; the need to make him cum, the need to mark him inside and out with bites and my own scent, the need to keep him mine and keep him willingly obeying me was driving every move. Growling darkly, my hand kept steady pace with each impaling punch of my hips, urging the male to come undone beneath me.
Not something I was used to commanding of others, the mental grasp that this male needed the release tickled the knowledge that it would serve to increase the pliability of his willingness. And lock his devotion to me.]
Cum for me, Grahve. [Words purred in a panting growl as I worked the male, my own balls burning and aching from being unaccustomed to holding back and filling my spine with a raw tingling sensation I’d not felt since my transition.]
Grahve: My back bowed off the bed as one hard thrust pushed me closer to the edge, a starburst of pleasure going off that filled me up and had me panting, moaning. This pleasure was so much more exquisite with the knowledge it could have easily been pain, and having known great agony now, great suffering, it seemed fair that this was ecstasy.
As my nails dragged at him, my fingers clutching for purchase, his words penetrated the haze. Ahrmour had given me permission, wanted my release. I looked up into his eyes and saw no guile, no lie, only need. The need to see me satisfied and satiated. The desire for ‘me’.
I stopped holding on, relaxing those last muscles that had clung to self control and kept me from teetering into a climax. Which came with his next thrust, the head of his cock nailing my prostate and launching me into another fucking world.
I cried out, back arching, cock throbbing as thick, hot spurts of cum released over his hand onto my stomach. My body clenched around him, my vision fading as I rode the wave into a bliss I rarely knew any more.
Lash: [The heat of his release, the pulsing jerk of his cock in my hand as he spilled his cum triggered my own barely held-back orgasm. The pace I’d maintained became furious and raw with primal need, the bone jarring slap of skin on skin echoing only slightly louder than the groans, grunts, and the growled curses that colored the air added to the scent of my marking Grahve.
A final driving thrust in, my head tipped back with a roar and my balls released, coating the male deep with my scent. It didn’t matter that I’d not “bonded” with him, he’d smell like me regardless of that ancient act. Chest heaving with each breath, my body oddly trembling with postcoital aftershocks and the occasional hip jerk as the waning waves of pleasure rocked through me. I dropped low to cage the body under me and brushed a faint whisper of a kiss to the male’s mouth and grinned breathlessly.]
I want you to fight by my side.
Grahve: Ahrmour’s release filled me, his body hunched over mine as he slowed and finally stilled inside me. Every breath was a shallow pant as the high faded, my hands lightly stroking at his back in an absent fashion - a small affection that didn’t seem out of place in the moment. The brush of his lips to mine earned a faint smile, my eyes half closed as I basked in the afterglow.
‘Fight by my side…’
The words took a second to register, and my eyes opened fully as they did. I stared up at him, at Ahrmour, only… it wasn’t Ahrmour. And despite the fading glow of the orgasm colouring my view of this tiny caged world, it wasn’t the only other lovers I’d taken since coming here either. It wasn’t Qhuinn and his quick smile, his dual coloured eyes. It wasn’t Crhis and his protectiveness, his sarcasm and humour.
It was Lash. Lash, who’d do anything to hurt them. To end them. Lash, who had ripped away parts of me that were beyond redemption or salvation. Lash, who hurt me just as often if not more than he cared for me. And while I wanted to believe the look in his eyes, the idea that I could stand at his side and never feel his wrath again, I knew it to be a lie.
‘Better to be the right hand of the devil than in his path’? Sure, but that was only if you weren’t leaving others to be consumed in that fiery path as well.
I shocked myself with the fact I wanted to want him. I wanted to help him. But I couldn’t help him hurt them. As much of me was shaped by them as it now was by him.
“I’m sorry…” I whispered, and a part of me truly meant it. “But I would rather see myself dead than betray Qhuinn or the others to the fate you have consigned to them.”
Lash: [Grahve’s words sliced through the miazma I’d allowed in so short a time to fill my desire to destroy the Brotherhood, pissing me off instantly. All that had happened in the last few hours faded, all the gratitude I’d felt, the twinges of all the ‘feel-good’ vibes? Vanished in less than a heartbeat.
A deadly growl replaced my gorged, sated state as I gripped the male’s face with both hands, fangs bared in lethal rage, smoky gray eyes locked on his, the trainee’s widened with shock.]
You will be sorry, sorry you can’t watch those you love die by my hand one by one! And to think I had great plans for you...
[The gall this male had to deny what only I could offer him, just to ‘save’ those who couldn’t be put off enough to even organize a search party for the trainee. No skin off my nose, as it were. But for the male below me to flaunt it after all this time? How stupid.
Hand shaking, I ignored the male’s gasp of surprise as the thick musk of his fear perfumed the air, his body beginning to jerk under me as he grabbed my wrists. Nails dug into my flesh the harder I squeezed but I neither felt it nor would I let go had I the inkling. No. This male didn’t want to watch me take down the Brotherhood?
His screams mixed with the scents of sex, blood pungent fear, the skin giving way to the tender tissues underneath the hard pressure of my thumbs. Another idea formed, and my sadistic side took over.]
You don’t want to watch? [The shriek of pain and flailing of the male under me scored points as his eyes bulged, bloodied and messy down the side of his face. Laughter scorched the air as I leaned back, plucking both eyeballs out with a sucking, flesh-tearing sound.]
Now you don’t have to.
#BondedBrothers #BlindedByTheDark
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MEET THE MUSE  .
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BASICS  !
NAME .     Brian Green NICKNAME(S) .    Bri // zomdork  ALIAS(ES) .    none AGE .    21 ?  BIRTHDATE .      Feburary 20th BIRTHPLACE .     Mesa, Arizona GENDER .     Male. ORIENTATION .    Pansexual / Demiromantic  OCCUPATION .      student at Spooky High / cashier at the local small fast food chain  SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS .      working class. he’s been supporting himself for years now, and has a hard time relying on others for money, even though he lives paycheck to paycheck.  CURRENT RESIDENCE.      A kinda shitty, and small apartment in a more rough side of town. rent is cheap and the landlord is pretty cool. 
FAMILY  !
PARENTS .      he doesn’t... remember his birth parents. he knows he had them, cause he eists but he doesn’t know who they are. But he considers Jan [ his landlord ] to be pretty close. seeing as she took him in when he first turned.  UPBRINGING .      pretty okay. he’s had to take care of himself for the most part, with Jan sometimes stepping in to check on him and thankfully letting him live somewhere rent free until he was old enough to get a job.  BIRTH ORDER .     unknown SIBLINGS .      none that he knows of, sadly. PETS .      his apartment doesn’t allow pets but he really wants a dog of some kind. 
PERSONAL  !
MORAL ALIGNMENT .      lawful good    /   neutral good   /   chaotic good    /    lawful neutral    /    true neutral    /    chaotic neutral  /    lawful evil    /    neutral evil   /   chaotic evil    . RELIGION .      he honestly... just doesn’t care for religion? you do you, just don’t force it down his throat.  PHILOSOPHY .      cynicism    /    idealism    /    realism    /   apathy . SINS .      greed    /    gluttony    /    sloth    /    lust    /    pride    /    envy    /    wrath . VIRTUES .      chastity    /    charity    /    diligence    /    humility     /    kindness    /    patience    /   justice . SECRETS .       Mostly his insecurities of his lack of feeling and how he will physically pur himself in harms way just to feel like he isn’t some strange walking dead thing. He mostly does it so he doesn’t worry about burdening people with his problems.  STRENGTHS .      laid-back, pretty loyal, understnading, tries to be approachable  WEAKNESSES .      pretty emotionally closed off, sends to harm self in order to feel sommething physical, not the best person when drunk 
MENTAL  !
KNOWN LANGUAGES .       English EDUCATION .      Spooky High, Spooky Middle  MENTOR(S) .      Jan , the minotaur that lives across from him who always gives the best life advice INTERESTS .      Gardening ( surprisngly ) , drumming, baking
PHYSICAL  !
FACECLAIM(S) .      only his canon appearance.  HAIR .     naturally his hair is black, but due  o some phases in middle school, he’s been putting green in it. The green can only be seen in certain lights though.  EYES .    the sclera is black, while the iris has turned glazed and white.  SKIN .    green, but with pink patches where the skin is missing or gone.  BUILD .   scrawny    /    bony    /    slender    /    fit    /    athletic    /    curvy    /    full - figured    / herculean    /    pudgy    /    average . HEIGHT .    6′4 WEIGHT .   195 lbs SCARS  /  BIRTHMARKS .    He has quite a few scars. from torn skin sewn together, to the marks left over from.. an episode where he as to cause himself pain. he isn’t super bbroud of them, eeping most of his scars he mades beneath his clothes to make it much asier to hide as he really does not want to draw attention to them.  CONSTITUTION  /  FITNESS .     He’s fit. he tends to walk most places, and likes to be kind of physically active. 
FAVORITES !
DISH(ES) .     blue rare steak or burger DRINK(S) .      cheap beer, cider, grape juice PIZZA TOPPING(S) .     anything. pizza is pizza COLOR(S) .     if it wasn’t obvious,.. he actually enjoys more greens and reds.  MUSIC GENRE(S) .    he is very much a rock, or more fun. enjoys jazz and swing too.  BOOK GENRE(S) .    Fantasy Adventure MOVIE GENRE(S) .       B-movie Horror films. or any bad cheesy movie he will adore.  CURSE WORD(S) .       …All of them. SCENT(S) .      fresh rain, coffee, campfire smoke QUOTE(S) .      “Feeeeeeeed me ”
FUN STUFF  !
TOP , BOTTOM , OR SWITCH .      generally a switch. it all depends on his mood or the person he is with.  SINGS IN THE SHOWER .     from time to time yes  LIKES PUNS .    god yes. he loves making puns and gets a sick satisfaction out of people’s reactions.  HOGWARTS HOUSE .     Hufflepuff.While rather intelligent, brave ad even ambitious when he wants to be, Brian is ndeniably loyal, dedicated and obviously not afraid of death. seeing as he’s already kind of dead. He might not be that hardworking, not as much as other hufflepuffs might be, but he does try sometimes.  MBTI .     INFP TEMPERAMENT.       Brian usually keeps his emotions to himelf unless they come off as laid-back or approachable. he doesn’t enjoy showing off his more sad or angry side, keeping those emotions swallowed down when he is around people. He definitely is ore of a quiet angry person.  ENNEAGRAM .     Couldn’t find the test anywhere. ABILITIES  /  POWERS .     There isn’t much he has power wise. Like some zombies, he’s very attrached to noise, and the smell of blood. He has pretty good darkvision to, but very had hand-eye co-odination. Brian is mostly numb to physical touching and feelings if not pain ( something he isn’t too proud off ) and he has the abiity to remove his limbs. though he has to sew them back on, he still had minor control over them when detached. Which makes for some funny pranks. 
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Forever and Never Apart, 39/42
Summary: After taking a year to recover from the Master, the Doctor and Rose are ready to travel again. But Time keeps pushing them forward, and instead of going back to their old life, they slowly realise that they’re stepping into a new life. Friends new and old are meeting on the TARDIS, and when the stars start going out, the Doctor and Rose face the biggest change of all: the return of Bad Wolf.
Series 4 with Rose, part 7 of Being to Timelessness; sequel to Taking Time (AO3 | FF.NET | TSP)
Betaed by @lastbluetardis, @rudennotgingr, @jabber-who-key, and @pellaaearien. Thank you so much!
This fills several Bad Wolf prompts on @doctorroseprompts
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Guys. You have no idea how excited I am for this chapter. I loved coming up with a solution to the Daleks that was original and fit the restrictions I'd placed on the story--Bad Wolf, but not with the Vortex power. I can't wait to hear what you think!
Chapter Thirty-nine: Time and Relative Dimension in Space
When Jack had first started crawling through the ventilation ducts, his wrist comp had indicated a large group of humans gathered together in the Crucible. A moment ago, the device had beeped, and he’d watched those dots—those indicators of life—flicker out.
Before helpless rage could set in, he realised there were still three human dots left outside the Vault, and they were close by. “Right,” he muttered to himself as he shimmied through the shaft to the closest access point. “You three are about to become my new best friends.”
He popped the access panel open and rolled out onto the floor. Flat on his back, he blinked a few times, then shot a cheeky grin at the familiar woman smirking down at him. Jack leapt to his feet and snapped a salute. “We meet at last, Miss Smith.”
He glanced at the couple standing behind Sarah Jane, and his eyes widened. “Jackie Tyler! You are honestly the last person I ever expected to meet onboard a Dalek stronghold.”
Rose’s mum frowned at him for a moment, then her expression cleared. “Oh, I remember you! You visited with Rose and the Doctor once, back before he changed his face.” She gestured to the man at her side. “This is my husband, Pete.”
Jack quickly shook Pete’s hand, then scanned the small group. “We’ve got to do something to help the Doctor.”  
Sarah Jane nodded. “There is something we can do.”
She took a shuddering breath, and Jack had a feeling that whatever she was about to suggest was of the last resort variety.
“You’ve got to understand,” she said hurriedly. “I have a son down there on Earth. He’s only fourteen years old.”
Pete put a hand on her shoulder and nodded when Sarah Jane turned to look at him. “You don’t need to explain to us, Sarah Jane. We have a son, too. Whatever you want to do, if it will save the people down there on Earth, and on our Earth… we’re in.”
Jackie nodded in agreement.
Sarah Jane’s jaw tightened, and any hesitation she’d displayed disappeared. “I’ve brought this.” She pulled something out of her pocket, and when she unclenched her fist, a sparkling gem fell from her hand, dangling from a chain. “It was given to me by a Verron Soothsayer. He said, ‘This is for the End of Days.’”
She handed it to Jack, and he looked from the stone to Sarah Jane and back again. “Is that a Warp Star?” he asked, hardly daring to believe what he was holding. She nodded quickly, and Jack sucked in a breath. They might just have a chance, after all.
Jackie Tyler crossed her arms over her chest. “Someone mind telling the rest of us what a Warp Star is?” she snarked.
Jack couldn’t take his eyes off the weapon as it spun and sparkled in his hands. “A warpfold conjugation trapped in a carbonised shell. It’s an explosion, Jackie.” Reluctantly, he looked at Sarah Jane again. “An explosion waiting to happen.”
Blowing up the Crucible was a last resort, as he’d suspected. But compared to some extreme measures he’d been forced to employ over the years, there was very little moral ambiguity in this plan. Destroy the Daleks, save reality. It was as simple as that.
His conscience pricked at him, and he knew there was one more thing the Doctor would want him to do before he blew up the space station. They had to give the Daleks a chance—a chance to leave and let them all live.
oOoOoOoOo
Martha fidgeted with a pen she’d found on the desk. Osterhagen Station Four had come online only a few minutes after she’d sent out the call, but the bloke manning the station was tight-lipped and grim-faced.
She tapped the pen on the desk while she waited for a third station to come online. She had a plan, but since the Osterhagen Keys only worked when three of them were activated, she couldn’t implement it until another operative joined them.
A burst of static caught her attention, and she looked up as the feed from China went live. “This is Osterhagen Station Five. Are you receiving, Station One?”
“I’ve got you.” Martha glanced at the two live screens. “That makes three of us, and three is all we need.”
“My name is Anna Zhou. What’s yours?”
“Martha Jones.” She looked right. “What about you, Station Four? You never said.”
The officer in Liberia shook his head. “I don’t want my name on this, given what we’re about to do.”
“So what happens now?” Anna asked, filling in the awkward silence following that grave pronouncement. “Do we do it?”
Martha shook her head. With three keys in place, they had the leverage they needed to possibly convince the Daleks to leave. They might have to use the Osterhagen Key in the end, but first…
She turned the square key over in her hands. “No. Not yet.”
Anna frowned. “UNIT instructions say, once three Osterhagen Stations are online—”
“Yeah, but I’ve got a higher authority, way above UNIT,” Martha cut in. She looked at the disk that would activate the nuclear warheads. “And there’s one more thing the Doctor would do.”
She’d thought of a way to give the Daleks a chance. Whether or not they took it would be up to them.
oOoOoOoOo
Bad Wolf felt like she was floating as she danced around the TARDIS console. Each movement she made was so automatic and sure, it was like she’d practised it a hundred times over.
“Davros gave us the key to his own downfall,” she mused. The timelines she’d sensed when he showed them his own skeletal body made sense now.
The TARDIS hummed in agreement as Rose keyed the carefully chosen coordinates into the navigation panel.
“He created the Daleks out of his own genetic material, which means…” She tapped a few buttons to test her theory and grinned when the TARDIS confirmed that genetically, every Dalek on that station was identical to each other and their creator. This plan would work.
Bad Wolf jolted slightly when she felt another mind connect with hers. She’d become so completely connected with the TARDIS as they’d worked on their plan to defeat the Daleks that every other telepathic connection had been almost forgotten.
Rose?
The name felt… wrong, somehow. Incomplete. But before she could correct the Doctor, the part of her being that belonged to Rose Tyler asserted herself. Bad Wolf remembered that while she was Bad Wolf, she was also Rose and the TARDIS, individually.
Yes, Doctor?
He hesitated for a second. Am I talking to Rose, right now? Or to Bad Wolf? I mean. I know Bad Wolf is Rose, but they’re also not Rose and I would like…
His ramble and frustrated sigh brought a smile to Rose’s face, and she reached for the bond. Bad Wolf watched as she gave the Doctor an affectionate telepathic caress that seemed so familiar. A moment later, they felt the Doctor relax under the soft touch.
If you have a plan, love, now would be an excellent time to set it in motion.
The obvious indication that they were on borrowed time brought Bad Wolf back to the front of Rose’s mind. Davros and the Daleks were threatening her Doctor. A glint of gold filled her vision as she typed the final command into the TARDIS terminal, and a moment later, her sonic screwdriver beeped as it received the software update.
She slid the device into her pocket, then pulled his sonic out of his coat on impulse and put that in her pocket as well. We’ll be there soon, she promised the Doctor. I’ll keep you safe, my Doctor.
oOoOoOoOo
The Doctor’s eyes widened when he recognised the voice of Bad Wolf. Rose still used that endearment, but he’d never heard it spoken with quite the same intonation as she’d used that first time—until now.
She was still Rose; that hadn’t been a lie. But her typical pink and gold telepathic aura was now shot through with a deeper gold as the TARDIS connected her to Time.
He’d worried before that Rose’s… well, Roseness—the essence of what made her Rose—would be subsumed if she ever merged with the TARDIS again. But in that brief conversation with her, she’d felt just as much like Rose has she had in four years of telepathic conversation. And then the reminder of the imminent danger had brought Bad Wolf to the fore, and Bad Wolf had been completely Bad Wolf while still being completely Rose.
The dynamic state of being two things at once had flummoxed Christian theologians for millennia. And now, having experienced it, he couldn’t explain her dual nature, not even with his big Time Lord brain. He could only shrug and say, as theologians did, that it just was.
The view screen turned back on, interrupting his existential musings. The Doctor straightened up when he saw Martha’s face onscreen.
“This message is for the Dalek Crucible. Repeat. Can you hear me?”
“Put me through,” the Doctor ordered the Daleks.
“It begins, as Dalek Caan foretold,” Davros said.
Propped up in his open casing, Caan giggled softly. “The Children of Time will gather once the Wolf has been silenced.”
Even though he knew Rose was fine, those words still aggravated a wound that was too fresh to be picked at. “Stop saying that.” He looked at Davros and made his demand again. “Put me through!”
“Doctor!” Martha said, and the Doctor felt a rush of relief that they could see each other. Her eyes shifted from right to left, and he tensed in anticipation of her next words. “Where’s Rose?”
Davros rolled forward. “We took the TARDIS and Rose Tyler, and we destroyed them together.” He rubbed his hands together gleefully. “The Doctor was powerless to help her.”
Martha blinked rapidly and opened and closed her mouth a few times. Then she tilted her head and looked at the Doctor. “She was with the TARDIS?”
He nodded, and he hoped he was the only one who could read the relief in Martha’s posture. Like Jack and Mickey, Martha knew enough to find a grain of hope in that fact.
“Enough chatter,” Davros interrupted. “State your intent.”
Martha held up something, and another rock landed in the pit of the Doctor’s stomach when he recognised an authorisation key for a missile.
“I’ve got the Osterhagen Key,” Martha said grimly. “Leave this planet and its people alone or I’ll use it.”
“Osterhagen what?” the Doctor sputtered. “What’s an Osterhagen Key?”
Martha’s shoulders lifted and fell as she drew a breath. “There’s a chain of twenty-five nuclear warheads placed in strategic points beneath the Earth’s crust,” she explained. “If I use the key, they detonate and… the Earth gets ripped apart.”
It was exactly the kind of ridiculous last resort weapon humans would invent. And of course UNIT wouldn’t tell him about it, because they knew exactly what his response would be.
“What? Who invented that?” The Doctor shook his head. “Well, someone called Osterhagen, I suppose. Martha, are you insane?” He regretted the words as soon as he said them, but this just sounded so un-Martha like that he couldn’t even comprehend what she was saying.
She set her jaw. “The Osterhagen Key is to be used if the suffering of the human race is so great, so without hope”—she nodded a few times, because they were almost to that point, and they both knew it—“that this becomes the final option.”
The Doctor shook his head violently. “That’s never an option.” He’d destroyed his own planet—he knew the weight of that choice. Even though he knew it had been a choice between Gallifrey and the universe, he still wondered if he could have found a way to save them all.
“Don’t argue with me, Doctor!” Martha shouted. “Because it’s more than that. Now, I reckon the Daleks need these twenty-seven planets for something. But what if it becomes twenty-six?” She held the key up, a feral smile on her face. “What happens then? Daleks?” She looked over at Davros. “Would you risk it?”
The Doctor blinked; now that sounded more like Martha.
“She’s good,” Mickey said, and the Doctor raised an eyebrow at the blatant admiration in the other man’s voice.  
A second screen suddenly split off from the first, this one showing Jack, Sarah Jane, and—the Doctor gaped—Pete and Jackie. “What?” he mumbled, though really, by this point in the day, he should be beyond feeling shocked by anything.
“Captain Jack Harkness, calling all Dalek boys and girls.” Jack was holding a bundle of wires up in front of the camera. “Are you receiving me? Don’t send in your goons, or I’ll set this thing off.”
“He’s still alive?” Jenny gasped, staring at Jack. “And… Who’s that, behind Sarah Jane?”
The Doctor glanced over at his daughter, then at his mother-in-law onscreen. “Well. That’s… that’s your gran and granddad.”
He winced when Jackie shrieked, silenced almost immediately by Pete’s hand over her mouth. Off to the side in his own holding cell, Mickey chortled.
“Captain, what are you doing?” he asked Jack, choosing to focus on the universe ending and not the fact that he’d just given Jackie the biggest shock of her life. At least, he assumed meeting your alien grandchild trumped learning aliens existed.
“I’ve got a Warp Star wired into the mainframe,” Jack said, and the Doctor finally recognised what was holding the tangle of wires together. “I break this shell, the entire Crucible goes up.”
“You can’t—where did you get a Warp Star?” the Doctor asked, momentarily distracted by that curiosity.
“From me,” Sarah Jane interrupted, shaking her head behind Jack. “We had no choice. We saw what happened to the prisoners.”
Davros wheeled closer to the screen. “Impossible. That face. After all these years.”
Sarah Jane moved to stand in front of Jack. “Davros. It’s been quite a while. Sarah Jane Smith. Remember?”
��Oh, this is meant to be,” Davros breathed rapturously, and a muscle in Sarah’s jaw twitched. “The circle of Time is closing. You were there on Skaro at the very beginning of my creation.”
“And I’ve learnt how to fight since then.”
There was a bite to Sarah’s words that caught the Doctor by surprise. He looked from her to Martha, and he started to understand. They were making a stand, all of them.
Sarah Jane pressed her lips into a thin line, and when she spoke, every word was measured and sharp. “You let the Doctor go, or this Warp Star gets opened.”
“I’ll do it,” Jack promised. “Don’t imagine I wouldn’t.”
“Now that is what I call a ransom!” Donna crowed.
The Doctor pressed his tongue to the back of his teeth. This wasn’t how he would have chosen to challenge the Daleks, but he couldn’t help but be proud that none of his friends were cowering at home. They were all doing something, whatever they could.
“And the prophecy unfolds,” Davros gloated.
The Doctor blinked. “Prophecy?” he repeated. “What prophecy?”
“The Doctor’s soul is revealed,” Caan sang. “See him. See the heart of him.”
Davros leaned back in his chair and tapped his fingers together, a vengeful smile creasing his sunken cheeks. “The man who abhors violence, never carrying a gun. But this is the truth, Doctor. You take ordinary people and you fashion them into weapons. Behold your Children of Time transformed into murderers. I made the Daleks, Doctor. You made this.”
The Doctor watched some of the fire go out of Martha, Jack, and Sarah Jane, and he shook his head quickly. “Not murderers, Davros. Defenders. Defenders of the Earth.” He nodded at Dalek Caan. “Caan was right. This shows you who I am. Not one of my friends was willing to just sit at home when you tried to take over the Earth.” A memory Rose had shared with him once came back to him, giving him the words to explain. “They didn’t give up or let things happen. They’re making a stand.”
He looked at all of his friends, now standing straight. “Would I have done things differently?” He shrugged. “Possibly. But I’m proud of all of them.”
Davros paused for a moment, and the Doctor knew his response hadn’t been what was expected. And not too long ago, he would have been lost to guilt.
“Would you still be proud of them if they gave their lives for you?” Davros challenged. “Your wife is not the only one who has sacrificed herself today, for their beloved Doctor. The Earth woman who fell opening the Subwave Network.”
“Who was that?” the Doctor asked, his stomach knotting as he braced for the answer.
“Harriet Jones,” Mickey told him.
The Doctor sucked in a breath. He’d barely thought about Harriet Jones of Flydale North since he’d had her removed from office almost four years ago.
“She gave her life to get you here,” Mickey added.
“How many more?” Davros goaded. “Just think. How many have died in your name?”
The Doctor looked at his friends, and he could see the truth in their eyes. They loved him, and they were here because of him, but not for him. They were here for the Earth, for their families, for all the people who didn’t have anyone to defend them.
And there were so many people who had made the same choice in his travels, the choice to put themselves in the path of danger to save a life or a planet. Their loss hurt, as it always did, but he couldn’t remember them without also remembering the people they’d saved. He wouldn’t cheapen their sacrifices by letting the guilt overwhelm him.
But Davros took his silence for guilty agreement, and he cackled. “The Doctor. The man who keeps running, never looking back because he dare not, out of shame. This is my final victory, Doctor. I have shown you yourself.”
Over the bond, Rose pulled him close. He felt a comforting warmth envelope him, as if she’d wrapped her arms around his waist and held him tight. For a moment, they both remembered the friends they had lost—Anita, Morvin and Foon and Banakafalata, Solomon, and so many others who had sacrificed their lives to save others.
But Davros is right, love, Rose agreed. He’s shown you how you change people, how you give them the strength to be the best people they can be. She pressed a kiss to his cheek. And he’s shown me how much you’ve changed. I’m so proud of you for understanding the truth.
The silence hanging in the Vault was heavy with emotion, but the Supreme Dalek didn’t let it sit long. “Enough. Engage defence mechanism zero five,” he ordered abruptly.
The Doctor’s eyes widened. He knew what that meant, even if his friends didn’t.
Onscreen, Martha stood up, holding the missile key in her hand. “It’s the Crucible or the Earth,” she said, delivering her ultimatum.
“Transmat engaged,” a Dalek said, and blue light engulfed Martha.
“No!” she shouted. The Osterhagen Key fell useless to the ground as she was transmatted to the Crucible.
On the other screen, Jack, Sarah Jane, Jackie, and Pete disappeared as well. They reached the Vault at the same time and almost the same place as Martha, and when Martha stumbled into a rolling landing, Jack helped her to her feet.
“I’ve got you. It’s all right.”
“Don’t move, all of you,” the Doctor warned his friends. “Stay still.” He reached for them, then silently cursed the containment field that was in his way.
“Guard them!” Davros cried, pointing at the newcomers. “On your knees, all of you. Surrender!”
Martha, Sarah Jane, Jack, Jackie, and Pete all looked to him for guidance, and the Doctor nodded his head quickly. “Do as he says.”
A Dalek slowly rolled towards them, and Jackie was the first to get on her knees with her hands behind her head. Pete was right behind her.
Mickey put his hands on his hips and glared at Pete. “I can’t believe you brought Jackie.”
Pete rolled his eyes, and the Doctor could guess the truth before he said it. “She came on her own.”
Jackie tilted her head back and scowled at the Doctor. “Good thing I did, or I wouldn’t know I had a granddaughter.”
“The final prophecy is in place,” Davros purred as he rolled towards them. “The Doctor and his children, all gathered as witnesses.”
Jack and the Doctor exchanged a glance—Jack questioning, the Doctor trying to reassure him without words that there was a plan in place.
Davros looked up at the main level of the Crucible above them. “Supreme Dalek, the time has come.” He pointed victoriously at the ceiling. “Now, detonate the Reality Bomb!” he shrieked, the words echoing through the Vault.
The floor vibrated as the mechanism was set in motion. At the same time, the Doctor felt the TARDIS shift into the Time Vortex.
“You can’t, Davros!” he insisted, continuing to play his part. “Just listen to me! Just stop!”
Davros threw his head back and laughed, sounding every bit like the mad scientist he was. “Nothing can stop the detonation. Nothing and no one!”
The Doctor couldn’t hide his smirk when he heard the first hint of the familiar sound of the TARDIS engines, a second before anyone else caught it. Dalek Caan giggled, and the Doctor shot him a quick glance, still unsure exactly what role the insane Dalek had played in the events of the day.
Wind rushed around them as the outline of the TARDIS appeared. “But that’s the TARDIS,” Donna said. “I thought… and Rose…”
Mickey shook his head. “Rose Tyler in the TARDIS? That’s a hard combination to beat.”
Jenny’s blue eyes sparkled with excitement. “Oh, I knew it!” she crowed, clapping happily and bouncing lightly on her toes.
The TARDIS materialised on the edge of the room, and Davros rolled back a few feet. “Impossible,” he whispered.
The Doctor rocked back on his heels, with his hands stuck in his pockets. “Oh… I learned a long time ago that nothing’s impossible for Rose Tyler.”
oOoOoOoOo
After kissing the Doctor’s cheek and letting him know how proud she was of him, Rose pulled back enough from the bond to focus on the details of her rescue. That moment with the Doctor had served a second purpose. She’d been able to see the Vault through his eyes—important, because the success of the next part of the plan was largely dependent on the selection of her hiding place.
She’d just settled on a small corner tucked away behind a computer terminal when the image on the monitor flickered and then changed to show the arrangement of planets glowing again. Her eyes widened, and she took a deep breath and looked at the time rotor.
“Are you ready, old girl?” Out of everything they’d planned, this was the part that seemed the most incredible to Rose. Bad Wolf knew it would work; Rose Tyler thought it was almost impossible.
I am part of you, my Wolf, just as you are part of me, the TARDIS reminded her. We don’t need the power of infinite Time to travel through time and space.
Rose nodded. “All right then. Let’s do it.” The time rotor moved up and down, and at the same time, the console room faded from Rose’s sight as she sent herself separately into the Vault.
Rose had used a Vortex Manipulator before, but that was nothing like travelling through the Vortex as one who belonged there. Time whipped around her as she crossed the short distance, until she rematerialised behind the computer terminal, exactly as she’d planned.
The gold haze was still clearing from her vision when Rose peeked around the edge of the computer terminal to assess the situation. In addition to everyone who had been in the TARDIS, Martha and Sarah Jane were there along with—Rose had to press her hand to her mouth to stifle her gasp—her mum and Pete.
Every eye was focused on the TARDIS, who had positioned herself on the edge of the room. Hidden safely from view, Rose watched the Doctor. He was rocking back on his heels with a smug grin on his face.
“Oh… I learned a long time ago that nothing’s impossible for Rose Tyler,” he told Davros, in response to a comment Rose hadn’t heard.
For a moment, Rose’s grin matched his. Then a mad glint entered Davros’ eyes and he pointed a shaking hand at the Doctor. “Exterminate him!” he shrieked, angry spittle gathering on his chin.
Daleks rolled towards the Doctor, chanting, “Exterminate. Exterminate. Exterminate.”
With the threat to their Doctor, Bad Wolf once more moved to the front of Rose’s mind. Her fingers danced over the controls on the terminal until she found the ones she needed and pressed them gleefully.  
A low hum echoed around the room as every single Dalek weapon was rendered useless. The Daleks circling the Doctor looked down at their death rays, like children whose favourite toys had been taken away.
“Weapons non-functional,” they croaked morosely.
Rose straightened up so they could see her. Gasps echoed around the Vault and her mum cried her name, but Rose focused on Davros, whose hollow eyes glared at her balefully.
“Yeah, did you really think I was going to let you kill him?” she demanded. “I might not be able to stop your laser bolts in midair anymore, but I can still shut all your weapons off thanks to this handy terminal that lets me into your mainframe. So you might as well just point those egg beaters somewhere else, because they aren’t going to do you any good.”
The Doctor blinked rapidly. “How did you get over there?” he asked, looking from her to the TARDIS and back again.
Rose winked at him. “Bad Wolf means I’m both me and I’m the TARDIS. Anything the TARDIS can do, I can do. Such as disappearing from one place and reappearing in another.”
The Doctor opened and shut his mouth a few times before finally shaking his head. “Of course you can,” he said, a smile stretching across his face.
Flush with the success of her first task, Rose jumped when the Supreme Dalek started the final countdown to detonation. She’d almost forgotten about the Reality Bomb. Davros turned the view screen back on, and they all watched the energy being channelled through the twenty-seven planets.
Davros steepled his hands together and a malicious grin stretched his face unnaturally. “Your mate is alive, your TARDIS is here, and yet you are still helpless, Doctor.”
“Detonation in twenty rels,” the Supreme Dalek announced over the tannoy.
“Stand witness, Time Lords,” Davros whispered as the Supreme Dalek continued the countdown. “Stand witness, humans. Your strategies have failed, your weapons are useless, and—Oh.” His lips twisted into a mocking smile. “The end of the universe has come,” he said as they all watched the glowing planets.
Rose rolled her eyes. “Or, I don’t know.” She pushed another button on the terminal, and the ominous buzz of energy building in the weapon faded as the Z-neutrino relays were shut down. “Maybe not?” she said nonchalantly when the view screen turned off.
The Doctor laughed as an alarm sounded through the Vault. Davros and the Daleks were rolling around, completely baffled, but he knew exactly what had happened.
“System in shutdown,” said one Dalek.
“Detonation negative,” another announced.
“Explain. Explain. Explain!” the Supreme Dalek demanded.
“You’ll suffer for this,” Davros cried and pointed his finger at Rose.
The Doctor frowned; what exactly did Davros think he was going to do by just pointing a finger at Rose? Then he saw the bolt of energy travelling down the scientist’s arm, and his gaze flew to Rose.
Rose just smirked and pushed a button on her computer terminal, and the electrical bolt that was travelling down Davros’ finger reversed and he electrocuted himself, instead of Rose.
Davros shrieked in pain when the electricity engulfed him, and the Doctor laughed again. “Hoisted by your own petard, Davros.”
“Seemed fitting,” Rose said, her tongue peeking out behind her teeth.
“Oh, I absolutely agree,” the Doctor said. “Bad Wolf, saving the day single-handedly.”
Rose raised an eyebrow at him. “Well, you could help if you wanted. Why’re you just standing over there?” she asked. The Doctor tapped the side of the holding cell, and she nodded quickly. “Oops! Sorry, Doctor.” She bent over the terminal for a moment, then smiled up at him. “That should do it.”
He saw the containment field shut off and ran over to her while she pressed another button that sealed the Vault off from the rest of the Crucible. “Rose Tyler,” he breathed as he pulled her into his arms, unable to resist a quick hug. The golden energy he could see fluctuating beneath her skin sent a charge through him when he touched her. “You are so impressive, love.”
She spun out of his arms and shot him a cheeky grin. “Oh, I know,” she promised him. “And now I think it’s time to send some planets home. We’ve stopped the bomb—let’s completely dismantle it.”  
“Stop them!” Davros ordered hysterically. “Get them away from the controls.”
Rose rolled her eyes and worked quickly at the terminal. “You’re so fond of those holding cells; why don’t you spend some time in one yourself?”
The Doctor rubbed his hands together gleefully as the blue energy walls of the containment fields lowered. A large wall separated Davros and the bulk of the Daleks in the other half of the room, where they couldn’t do any damage. The rest she trapped in groups of two or three.
I don’t know why you wanted my help, Rose. You seem to be handling them by yourself just fine.
Rose looked back at him over her shoulder, one eyebrow arched seductively. There are lots of things I can handle by myself that are more fun with your help.
The Doctor choked on his laughter and tugged on his tie. You’ll have to show me later.
Oh, I will.
He laughed when Rose winked outrageously before bending over the computer terminal. Her lips moved as she muttered to herself, and he rocked back on his heels to watch her work. All teasing aside, she really did have things nicely handled all by herself.
The sound of Daleks spinning in helpless circles caught his attention, and when he looked away from Rose, he saw their entire family watching them. Jenny, Donna, Jack, Martha, Mickey, Sarah Jane, and Pete and Jackie—all alive because of Rose.
The Doctor frowned when Jack broke away from the group and ran into the TARDIS. What is he up to?
Jack had to hand it to Rose; so far, every one of her plans had been flawless. She’d arrived at the perfect moment, eliminated the Dalek threat, stopped Davros from blowing up all of reality… He scanned the Vault, his eyes never settling in one place for long. Things were going perfectly, and it was his job to make sure there were no hidden surprises.
Unlike everyone else, he hadn’t laughed when Rose trapped the Daleks behind the containment fields. Rose had taken care of the Dalek threat in the Vault… for now. But these weren’t the only Daleks around, and he was under no illusion that the Supreme Dalek and his pals upstairs would let them ruin all their hard work.
He shook his head and ran into the TARDIS. The guns he and Mickey had brought with them were just inside the door, and he grabbed them and ran back out.  
“Mickey!” His friend spun around, and Jack tossed the second weapon to him.
“What are you doing, Jack?” the Doctor demanded as Mickey caught the gun handily.
Jack shook his head. “Just being prepared for the worst,” he explained. “Rosie here seems to have everything well in hand, but… well, I’d rather not be caught off-guard.”
Bad Wolf felt a wave of affection and appreciation for this human she had condemned to eternity. There were reasons for that, reasons that he wouldn’t fully understand until he used his last breath to offer the Doctor and Rose a warning they wouldn’t understand until it was too late. But despite the fact that Time had insisted on this path, her humanness deeply regretted the pain it had caused him.
The Doctor opened his mouth to protest, and Rose put her hand on his arm and smiled up at him. “It’s fine, Doctor. Now. We’ve got twenty-seven planets to send home. Activate magnetron.”
“Stop this at once!” Davros cried futilely from the other side of the containment field.
She snorted. “You’re not really in a position to be making demands,” she pointed out. Then she turned and looked at the Doctor, one eyebrow raised. “Ready to finish this?” she murmured.
The Doctor caught her hand and pressed a kiss to her fingers. “I’m always ready to save the universe at your side.”
He took his place on the other side of the terminal. They each reached for a pair of rods that would demagnetise the planets and send them home where they belonged.
“Off you go, Clom,” the Doctor said. “And back home, Adipose Three.”
Rose’s fingers tingled as she pulled on her controls. “Shallacatop, Pyrovillia, and the Lost Moon of Poosh. All back where you belong.”
The power meter dipped, and Rose tossed the Doctor his sonic screwdriver. “Can you take care of that?”
He caught the tool handily, with a toothy grin on his face. “I’m on it.” He bent down and shifted a few settings on the terminal, letting them reroute power from areas of the Crucible that didn’t need it.
During the brief lull in activity, Jenny jogged over and wrapped Rose in a hug from behind. “I thought you were dead for a little bit,” she whispered.
Rose squeezed Jenny’s hands, then pulled her around to stand beside her. “But I’m here now,” she said softly.
“Yeah, about that,” Donna started. Then she stared at Rose and blinked a few times. “You’re… glowing,” she said. “I mean, never mind the rest of it—how you survived the Z-neuron energy or whatever it’s called, and how you even got here… Your skin is glowing, Rose.”
Jackie left Pete standing with Mickey and walked over to them. Rose winked at her over Donna’s shoulder, then said, “I get my youthful glow from my mum.”
Jackie snorted. “Oh, don’t even try it. There’s no beauty creme that can do that.” She took Rose’s hand and held her arm up. “You can see the light shifting, look. So, come on then—what’s this mean, you’re part you and part TARDIS?”
The Doctor straightened up from the terminal and exchanged a grin with Rose. “Well, for one thing,” the Doctor drawled as they continued sending planets back where they belonged. “You know how you and Donna are always teasing me about Rose being a better driver than I am, Jenny?”
“That’s because she is, Dad,” Jenny said frankly.
“Oi!”
Rose giggled as she sent Woman Wept back to its home system. “And this is why. I promise we’ll explain it better later when we have more time, but the short version is that I can… merge with the TARDIS.”
“My daughter is part spaceship,” Jackie said faintly.
Donna looked from the ship back to Rose, who nodded, encouraging her to continue. “And while the ship was landing, you materialised over here, just like she does.”
“Exactly!” Rose bobbed her head. “You’re brilliant, Donna.”
For once, Donna didn’t argue.  
Just as the Doctor was congratulating himself and Rose for handling that complicated explanation, Jackie narrowed her eyes at him. The Doctor stared back at her with a sinking feeling in the pit of his stomach.
“Well, that’s one question answered,” she said. “But I’ve got another one. How long has it been for you two, if this is my granddaughter?” She pointed to Jenny and lifted her chin in challenge.
The Doctor winced when Rose looked up at him, her eyes wide. “You told her?” she hissed.
“It just slipped out!” He pulled his rods again and sent Callufrax Minor and Jahoo back. “And Jackie, it’s not like that,” he continued. “Jenny is…”
Don’t you dare tell my mum your daughter isn’t mine! Rose ordered.
And just in time. The Doctor snapped his mouth shut when he realised exactly how that would have sounded to Jackie. “Um… it’s complicated,” he said, his voice weak.
Thankfully, Davros started talking again, interrupting any other questions Jackie might have had. “But you promised me, Dalek Caan.” He spun in his chair to look at Dalek Caan. “Why did you not foresee this?”
Dalek Caan cackled, confirming the Doctor’s suspicions. “Oh, I think he did. Because someone was there the whole time, making sure we got the information we needed. Who made sure that fortune teller on Shan Shen would target Rose, so she’d get the glimpse of the alternate timelines and dream of Mickey telling her the stars were going out?”
“This would always have happened.” Caan waved his tentacles. “I only helped, Doctor.”
“You betrayed the Daleks?” Davros asked incredulously.
Caan’s single eye glared at Davros. “I saw the Daleks,” he corrected hotly. “What we have done, throughout time and space—I saw the truth of us, Creator, and I decreed, ‘no more!’”
A shudder ran through the Doctor. He had used those words once too, to declare an end to the Time War. They’d beat a steady rhythm in his head through those final days of the war—no more.
He felt a hand slip into his, and he looked over at Rose, who’d left her side of the console to offer him this little bit of comfort.
A hatch opened in the ceiling, and Jack lifted his weapon when the Supreme Dalek slowly lowered himself into the Vault. “Heads up!” he called out.
“Davros, you have betrayed us,” the Supreme Dalek said ominously.  
“It was Dalek Caan,” Davros protested.
“The Vault will be purged. You will all be exterminated,” the Supreme Dalek said, then fired a laser bolt at the control panel, sending Donna and Jenny to the floor.  
Jack shook his head and primed his weapon. “Like I was saying, feel this!”  
He’d turned the energy blast up all the way, and the broad beam was powerful enough to blow the top off the heavily armoured Dalek.
The Doctor barely noticed Jack dispatching the Supreme Dalek. As soon as the blast had sent Jenny and Donna flying, he’d ducked around the computer terminal to check on them.
“You all right?” he asked in a low voice as he helped them to their feet.
Donna put a hand to her forehead and shook her head slowly. “Fine, Spaceman. I think I might have a bit of a headache later, though.” She gestured at the terminal. “Go on, finish up here so we can go home.”
“Easier said than done,” Rose said. “That blast destroyed the magnetron. We managed to get every planet back where it belonged first… except one. And guess which one that is.”
The Doctor turned and looked at her. “If the Earth is the only one left, we can use the TARDIS to take it home.”
Rose stood up from where she’d crouched behind the terminal, and for a moment, the Doctor thought he saw a glint of gold in her eyes. “You take care of the Earth, my Doctor. I will take care of the Daleks.”
The Doctor looked at her, then at Davros. “I’m on it,” he promised. Then he reached up into the mass of wires dangling over the computer terminal. Rose could see the plans in his mind as easily as those in her own, and she knew he was stabilising the atmospheric shell around the Earth so it would remain in place while they pulled the planet back to the solar system.
Bad Wolf looked at Davros, who was now cowering in his chair after seeing the amount of firepower Jack carried. The TARDIS had nearly lost her Thief and her Wolf to this race too many times to count. She knew this would not be the last time they were a threat, but it was time to end this round.
“The prophecy must complete,” Dalek Caan said.
Bad Wolf nodded and pulled her sonic screwdriver out of her pocket, then carefully checked the setting.
“Don’t listen to him,” Davros ordered.
At the same time, the Doctor pushed a wave of confidence and trust towards her. Do what needs to be done, Rose, he said as he jogged into the TARDIS.
Dalek Caan didn’t seem to be bothered by the Doctor’s sudden disappearance. “I have seen the end of everything Dalek, and you must make it happen, Bad Wolf.”
The sympathy Rose felt for this one Dalek brought her mind to the forefront. She nodded. “You’ll be alone,” she warned him. Well. At least until the station breaks down completely from the pressure of having a wormhole open up in the centre of it.
Dalek Caan waved a tentacle at her, and she knew he understood his fate. “I will die, Bad Wolf. And I am ready. Are you?”
In answer, Rose flipped the switch on the computer terminal that turned off the containment fields. Then she held up her sonic screwdriver and depressed the button. The air rippled at the centre of the Vault, then like a curtain on a play, it parted to reveal a shimmering wormhole.  
Davros was the first to be pulled into the wormhole. His chair skidded over the floor as he worked with his joystick frantically, trying to stay on the Crucible.
“You, Bad Wolf!” he shrieked as he reached the event horizon. “Never forget that you did this!”
Rose crossed her arms and watched as the Daleks were pulled into the wormhole one by one. She wouldn’t forget she’d done this, but she wouldn’t regret it either—not if it meant saving the Doctor and the Earth and all of reality.
A loud cracking sound warned her that the power of the wormhole was already damaging the integrity of the station, and she turned to her family. “Get into the TARDIS,” she hollered as the computer terminal caught on fire.
When everyone else faltered, too confused and overwhelmed to move, Jack pushed Donna and Jenny towards the door. “Come on, you heard the lady.” His words prodded the rest of them into motion, and less than a minute later, they were all safely on the ship.
Alone on the Crucible, Rose watched the steady stream of Daleks flowing towards the black hole. No Daleks escaped the trap. Just like what had happened at Canary Wharf, the pull was powerful enough to draw in every Dalek on every Dalek ship and from anywhere on Earth.
The Doctor came up beside her and took her hand, and together they watched in silence as the last of the Daleks was sucked through the wormhole. There was no manic energy this time, no joyful, “Pulling them all in!” Instead, they shared the quiet conviction that they’d done what had been necessary to save the universe.
The air rippled again as the wormhole closed, leaving the Vault in silence. “You must go,” Dalek Caan ordered, his voice warbling. “You must go, and I must die.”
The TARDIS knew to the second how much longer the Crucible would remain intact, which meant Rose did too. She nodded at Dalek Caan and turned to go back to the TARDIS. When the Doctor remained stationary, she paused and frowned up at him.
He squeezed her hand once, then let go. I’ll be right behind you, love, he promised. Rose nodded, then spun around and ran into the TARDIS.
The Doctor looked at the naked form of the Dalek, struggling to reconcile his ingrained hatred with his gratitude for what had just happened.
“Thank you,” he finally told the Dalek in a low voice.
The Dalek simply waved his tentacles at him. “This was what time foretold, Time Lord. Now go!”
A beam fell from the ceiling right in front of the Doctor. He stumbled back a few steps, then turned and ran for the ship. As soon as he shut the doors behind him, Rose threw the lever and took them off the Crucible, less than a minute before the explosion they both knew was coming. The time rotor started moving with a loud churning noise, and they held their breath until they felt the ship slide through the Vortex, then materialise on the other side of the Earth, safely away from the explosion.
Rose blew out a loud breath. “Well, that was cutting it a bit closer than I anticipated.”
“What exactly did you do?” Martha asked. “You just… pressed a button on your screwdriver, and suddenly a giant hole opened up in the middle of the room.”
Rose rocked back on her heels and put her hands in her pockets, and the Doctor knew he was the only one who could see the melancholy lurking behind her confidence. “We just opened a wormhole between the Crucible and the heart of a black hole.”
The Doctor sucked in a breath at the perfection of the plan, and Rose flashed him a smile before continuing.
“And we set it to lock onto their shared genetic structure—kinda like the black hole was the positive side of a magnet, and their DNA was the negative side. They couldn’t escape getting pulled in.”
Their friends stared at her, and Rose’s eyes glinted. “It’s the perfect prison,” she stated confidently. “They’ll never be able to get out of a black hole.”
The Doctor squeezed her hand. “And a perfect prison, even an endless one, is better than genocide. You found a way to remove them from reality without killing them.”
His thumb brushed against hers. I’m proud of you.
Thank you, Doctor.
Mickey shook his head. “Yeah, it’s a brilliant plan. That’s not why we’re all looking at you like you grew another head. You opened a wormhole?” he repeated.
“You heard me say Bad Wolf is part TARDIS, yeah?” Mickey nodded, and Rose raised an eyebrow. “Well, what does a TARDIS do?”
His confused frown smoothed out. “They open wormholes.”
“Anyway!” the Doctor said, before their family could bury Rose under the deluge of questions he imagined they had. “I think we still have a planet to get home, don’t we?”
“That’s right!” Sarah Jane exclaimed. “The Earth is still in the wrong part of space.”
He grinned at her and pressed a button on the terminal, calling Torchwood. “I’m on it. Torchwood Hub, this is the Doctor. Are you receiving me?”
The TARDIS monitor turned on, showing an industrial-looking room and a frightened but determined woman. “Loud and clear,” she said. “What did you do to the Daleks? One of them had almost gotten into the Hub, and then suddenly it went flying through the air and disappeared.”
The Doctor glanced up at Rose. “Let’s just say Rose sent them packing on a one-way trip.” Rose rolled her eyes at his Aladdin quote, and he giggled happily.
“Oi!”
The sharp retort came from the Welsh woman, and the Doctor felt his ears get hot. “Yes. Sorry.” She seemed awfully familiar, to both him and to Rose. “Jack, what’s her name?”
“Gwen Cooper.”
An idea tickled the edges of the Doctor’s mind. “Tell me, Gwen Cooper, are you from an old Cardiff family?”
She blinked and nodded. “Yes, all the way back to the eighteen hundreds.”
“Ah, thought so.” He looked at Rose and they shared a grin. “Spatial genetic multiplicity.”
“Oh, yeah,” Rose agreed, sharing the memory of another Gwyneth from Cardiff with him.
“Yeah, it’s a funny old world,” the Doctor said, then forced himself back on track. He’d arranged for the atmospheric shell around the Earth to hold for little bit longer, but it wouldn’t stay forever. “Now, Torchwood, I want you to open up that rift manipulator. Send all the power to me.”
A sharply dressed man stuck his head in front of the monitor. “Doing it now, sir.”
“What’s that for?” Donna asked.  
The Doctor looked up at her as he placed another call. “It’s a tow rope. Now then, Sarah, what was your son’s name?”
A bright smile crossed his old friend’s face. “Luke. He’s called Luke. And the computer’s called Mr. Smith.”
“Calling Luke and Mr. Smith. This is the Doctor. Come on, Luke. Shake a leg.” Sarah Jane had her hands clasped in front of her, and he could easily understand her anxiety.
But there was no need to worry. Luke ran into the video frame, a wide, hopeful smile on his face. “Is Mum there?”
“Oh yeah, she’s brilliant,” Rose assured him.
The Doctor enjoyed the matching smiles that lit up mother and son’s faces. Sarah Jane danced in place and cried out “Yes!” a few times as he explained what he needed to Luke.
“Yeah, we all made it out,” he told Luke. “Now, Mr. Smith, I want you to harness the rift power and loop it around the TARDIS. You got that?”
“I regret I will need remote access to TARDIS base code numerals,” the computer answered, his voice smooth and unemotional.
The Doctor straightened and raked his hand through his hair. “Oh, blimey, that’s going to take a while.”
“No, no, no,” Sarah Jane said, pushing him away from the monitor to talk to her family. “Let me. K9, out you come!
K9 teleported into the room beside Luke. “Affirmative, Mistress.”
The Doctor laughed gleefully. “Oh! Oh ho! Oh, good dog!” he praised. “K9, give Mr. Smith the base code.”
“Master.” The antenna probe in K9’s forehead extended as he rolled towards Mr. Smith. “TARDIS base code now being transferred,” he said as he pressed the probe to a port in the computer. “The process is simple.”
While everyone else was distracted by the robot dog and the activity at Sarah Jane’s house, Rose pressed her hands to the console. The Doctor watched her carefully and realised almost immediately what she was doing. The two strands of his bonds with Rose and the TARDIS separated, and the golden light pulsing under her skin flowed out of her hands and back into the TARDIS.
When Rose was alone in her body again, he wrapped an arm around her waist so no one else would notice the way she slumped. She leaned into him and took a few deep breaths, then she straightened and smiled up at him. Thank you, love.
For a moment, the Doctor got lost in the gold flecks still glittering in her eyes. The reminder of the power she could wield—the power that came most readily to keep him safe—awed and humbled him. He returned her smile. Anything for my Bad Wolf.
“We’re ready,” Luke said.
The Doctor blinked, then looked at the monitor. “All right Luke, thank you. I’m going to end the call for now. Your mum should be home in less than an hour, all right?” Luke nodded, and the Doctor turned the monitor off.
“What now, Dad?” Jenny asked.
The Doctor pushed back from the console. “Well, now we fly the Earth home.” He hustled Sarah Jane back to her earlier position and pointed at a lever. “Sarah, hold that down. Mickey, you hold that,” he added, pointing to a dial. “Because you know why this TARDIS always is always rattling about the place?”
On the other side of the console, Rose was showing Martha, Donna, and Jenny which controls they could use. Then she took the last place, one hand resting the velocity dial and the other on the dematerialisation lever. She looked up and winked at the Doctor, and he grinned back at her before finishing his rambling lesson on TARDIS flight.
“It’s designed to have six pilots, and Rose and I do it with just two. But not any more. Look at you, flying her like she’s meant to be flown.” He patted a strut. “We’ve got the Torchwood rift looped around the TARDIS by Mr. Smith, and we’re going to fly Planet Earth back home.”
Rose picked up on her cue and threw the lever. The time rotor moved slowly, with the weight of an entire planet behind the ship, but without the clunky chugging sound that usually accompanied their flight. Mickey was doing his job then with the stabiliser. That was a nonessential step in the flight manual that the Doctor simply didn’t have hands to handle, but feeling the smoothness of their flight, he was starting to think he ought to find a way.
Pete and Jackie were standing behind the jump seat, looking uncomfortable and out of place. The Doctor circled the console and smiled awkwardly at them. “No room for us at the console, though.”
Jackie stared at Rose. “That’s my daughter.”
The Doctor nodded. “Yes, it is.”
“And she’s… She just looks like she belongs here.”
Pride beat through the Doctor’s hearts as he watched Rose operate her own controls, while also helping Jenny and Donna, who stood on either side of her. He stepped forward quickly to adjust Sarah Jane’s hold on her lever, then looked back at Jackie.
“I know this isn’t the life you imagined for Rose when she was a girl, but I’ve never met anyone in a thousand years who belonged on the TARDIS as much as she does.” He rubbed his thumb over his wedding band. “I lived this life without her for centuries, and she just makes everything so much better.”
To his surprise, Jackie suddenly threw herself into his arms. “Thank you,” she whispered into his suit jacket.
The Doctor blinked at Pete over her head, then shrugged and hugged her back. He could feel Rose gaping at them from the other side of the console.
“What are you thanking me for?” he asked his mother-in-law.
Jackie pulled back and wiped her eyes.“I knew you loved Rose, but I still thought she was just your assistant. Regular Rose, I mean—when she’s not all glow-y and getting rid of Daleks. But the golden light is gone, and you’re still treating her like your partner.”  
Ah.
The Doctor shook his head. “Bad Wolf is Rose’s story, so I’ll let her explain when she’s ready. But for me…” He looked over his shoulder. Rose was leaning over Jenny’s controls, reaching for another dial. She felt him watching her, and the tongue-touched smile she gave him in reply made his hearts skip a beat. “Rose has always been my partner.”
The TARDIS hummed in his mind, and he realised they were almost to the end of the line. “Excuse me, Jackie.”
Rose already had her hand on the lever when he joined her at the console, and she arched her eyebrow when he purposely wrapped his hand around hers. The Doctor returned her smirk with one of his own.
What was it you said earlier, love? There are lots of things I can handle by myself that are more fun with your help.
Their laughter echoed around the console room as they threw the lever together, putting the Earth back right where she belonged.
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Dust to dust
    Ash to Ash.
    One to Infinite.
    Past to Future.
    A single path
    Relative to the Present.
    A perspective as distant
    As stars
    no space for difference
or room to forget bigger pictures
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to
proteins
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    armor
robes
alpha
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inheritance
one child born king
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other dreamer
one child weaker
other apex
one child schemer
other loyal
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as far as we allow
bare minimum to bear bare extremities.
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   possess Wisdom as infinite
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    Breathe and
    Just let go.
    Let go of Deliberation.
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    Women that
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    People tryna sheep”
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privilege
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 so many words..
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    A Realization;
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    People Uniting.
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    Passion everywhere
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    Of Rebellion,
    Of Emancipation.
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  The Life of Life.
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through distinguishable eyes
    Inter-woven waves of light braid Kinds similar.
    Together to spread light like Feathers of shared flight
    to Shed on those Under, like rays of summer sun
    Hails like rain pelts.
    Inspires pain felt to refrain refrains
    And brain to study fine lines like Violinists
    And Painters.
    All eyes focused on insides.
    To show
    Experience is vital
    To feel hatred, feel vile
    To feeling Blank
    Undeserving of anything.
    To being in love
    To fight for peace of mind
    And keep a smile
    To conquer denial
    Slay doubt
    And
    Know what it’s like to Stand back up.
    Fin. Godt Damn
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YOUR GENERAL DISPOSITION.
             At the present time, your behavior is characterized by your need to have your dreams come true. You apply a great deal of cleverness, time and energy in the realization of your promising plans. The satisfaction of your desire for material wellbeing and sensual pleasure is of particular importance to you because you believe these will bring you a special feeling of happiness. The longer this fantasy remains unfulfilled, the greater and more lasting is your disappointment.
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of great importance to you now is… …relaxing favorite pastime.     ( #C7DBFE :  Periwinkle )            When the difficulties of daily life or human interaction become too much, you prefer to retreat to your favorite pastime, a quiet hobby or into the world of your thoughts, dreams and fantasies. If you try to achieve the necessary balance to daily routine through a regular practice of meditation, you will find what you have actually been looking for: inner detachedness and peace. It would also be ideal if you could occasionally spend time in the great outdoors. You believe a particular help in achieving the inner peace you desire is...
You believe a particular help in achieving the inner peace you desire is... …objective assessment of the situation     ( #B0E9D6 :  Cruise )            Whatever you perceive – people, things or information – you analyze it, both critically and with a certain amount of skepticism, because you want to be certain whether it is beneficial to you or not. You are not easily misled, and in line with the motto “once bitten, twice shy”, you keep your distance from everything that could damage your wallet, your reputation, your well-being or your peace of mind. 
One thing is utterly clear to you: your present situation requires... …alert self-protection.   ( #007F8E   :  Blue Lagoon )           You carefully scrutinize everything that crosses your path, and you don't say yes to it until it has passed your acid test. You decidedly and resolutely fend off everything that could hinder your personal development, and you keep your distance from unpleasant people who try to manipulate, define or influence you. The thing you have consciously planned is...
The thing you have consciously planned is... …obtaining sufficient funds    ( #BCC0C3   :  Silver Sand )            It is very important to you to have enough money at your disposal so that you can afford whatever you wish to have or do. For this reason, you are currently spending more time thinking about your finances, and you anxiously deliberate on how you could obtain the necessary money. The certainty that you have sufficient funds strengthens your sense of self-worth and helps you to meet other people with confidence. 
You have unrealistic expectations regarding your... …nurturing useful relationships  ( #FBFFBE   :  Shalimar )            Due to the fact that you are stuck in a genuinely unpleasant situation, you seek contact with helpful people you hope will show you understanding and provide you with moral support. It could be that you receive the necessary encouragement, but in the end, you have to solve your personal problems yourself. Your common sense will help you in this. You believe that right now two things can help: your intelligence and...
You believe that right now two things can help: your intelligence and... …freeing yourself through an easier life  ( #F8F8F8 :  Alabaster )            You would like to finally rid yourself of personal problems which oppress you, and you hope you could somehow make your life easier. Your ideal is to be free of all things unpleasant, to never get upset over anything or anyone and to move through life unburdened. For this reason, you do what you can to avoid contact with people who cause you problems. It is to your disadvantage, though, that in doing this, you also avoid examining your problems, mistakes and weaknesses.
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at the moment, you feel most anxious due to your… …inhibiting limitations   ( #666701 :  Verdun Green )             Difficult circumstances limit your opportunities for experience and your freedom of action. You feel deprived because you have to do without some of the things that would make life pleasant. You expect far too much understanding for your needs from other people, and as a result, you often feel disappointed. You might ask yourself how much understanding and empathy you extend to others. 
You would like to be free of your... … uncomfortable immobility.      ( #4D2816   :  Brown Derby )            There are times at which you feel as if you were chained to people or circumstances which restrict your personal freedom to act and move. You can get itchy when your affairs move slowly as a result or when you have to wait so long for the fulfillment of your wishes out of consideration for others.
You also feel very uneasy due to your... …grueling test of nerves    ( #7B2901 :  Red Beech )           Your sense of well-being is negatively affected by stressful circumstances. You often feel misunderstood, unfairly treated or left at the mercy of the unacceptable behavior of a person who is important to you. You don't want to let on that you are aggravated by this, and you keep your irritation to yourself. Inside you, though, the accumulated resentment strains your nerves. For this reason, you are not very emotionally resilient at this time.
You assume an air of exaggerated superiority despite your... … burdensome situation of suffering.     ( #FF6501 :  Blaze Orange )            You believe people should behave correctly, considerately and kindly towards you so that your interactions run pleasantly and without friction. Since this is frequently not the case, you often become indignant over their incorrect behavior and views or their lack of kindness. You easily get the feeling of being someone's innocent victim and believe you have every right to be outraged.
You also suffer quite a bit due to your... … unpleasant contentiousness.   ( #B47525 :  Bourbon )             The behavior of certain other people is a thorn in your side. You don't feel like putting up with just anything without objection, and because of this, you can give no guarantee you won't end up in an argument with the person in question. Your stubborn attitude could easily provoke confrontations.
At the moment, your mood is somewhat gloomy due to your... ...heavy burden of problems.     ( #010101:  Black )            You feel burdened by personal problems that are not easy to solve. Your biggest problem, however, is the one you create through your belief that the source of your problems lies outside yourself. In truth, it is your conscious mind with its convictions, desires and fears which generates the problems and conflicts and what is more, claims it can't do anything about this, but is nonetheless willing to solve them.
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