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highfunctioningflailgirl · 5 years ago

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Whumptober No. 2

“What is the nature of your medical emergency?”

Rios could imagine the EMH flickering into existence beside him, asking his ridiculous question even while looking at the bone sticking out of Cris’ arm. Of course, the hologram had been programmed to go through a standard catalogue of inquiries, but after several years of service aboard La Sirena, including a variety of medical emergencies (all of them involving Rios, the only crew member with an actual human body), Cris had a feeling the EMH had stuck to that question only to annoy him.

How he wished he’d annoy him now.

Cradling his broken arm, he gingerly shifted to find a better position leaning against the spiky wall of rock that made up his prison cell. Not that there was a lock or even a door. Not even a force-field. The cave-like structure had a roughly triangular shape, its tip opening to a corridor that disappeared into a right turn. It was mocking Rios to get up and run, but even if the pain in his arm didn’t make him gag at the simplest movement, the collar around his neck kept him from even trying.

Oh, he had tried, of course. He’d pushed himself to his feet, breathing through the agony that lit up in his arm, and taken a few unsteady steps to the exit. But, nearing some sort of invisible trigger, he’d felt the thin, cool band around his neck starting to hum in warning. And then the pain had hit him. Not like an electric shock. That was child’s play compared to the searing, all-consuming wave that had travelled through his blood and bones - broken or whole - while refusing to grant him the mercy of unconsciousness. All he’d been able to do was drop to the ground and ride it out, waiting for the agony to pass or for death to please please end it.

It had passed, eventually, after seconds or minutes or hours; he couldn’t be sure. He’d fallen asleep after, right where he’d dropped, and dragged himself back to the furthest wall of his cell when he’d woken again, shaking and with his arm pounding as he tried not to move it. Whatever technology was behind that fucking collar - he was not going to test it again.

Thus, he’d resorted to waiting. Waiting for his crew (he had a crew now, he reminded himself) to either break him out or get the Hul’t’arah what they wanted: six tons of Anthysium, a rare mineral from a small planet in the Delta Quadrant. Rios had no clue what the fuck the Hul’t’arah were planning on doing with it - it was mainly used as a medicinal ingredient - and, honestly, he didn’t care right now. All he wanted was to get out of here before his arm could fester and fall off.

Stupid enough of him to let himself get captured in the first place. Even more stupid to put up a fight when two hairy, six-eyed, seven-foot tall humanoids with the strength of an ox had you by the arms. He’d paid for his resistance with a casual twist of his wrist that had snapped his ulna and radius like twigs, one jagged bone end sickeningly penetrating his skin. He’d screamed. He’d thrown up. He’d become used to the sight and the pain in the last… what? Two days? Three?

But he had a crew now, he kept telling himself as his stomach churned from hunger and pain and the open wound on his arm wept suspiciously milky fluid onto his dirt-encrusted pants. A crew that consisted mainly of holograms, but with the recent addition of a little blonde doctor who’d stuck around, an old former Star Fleet Admiral who frequently booked him as a pilot and a recovering addict who sometimes came along for the ride.

They weren’t exactly the cavalry, but they were on board of La Sirena, and he was pretty certain they would not just let him rot down here.

And they didn’t. Later, when he’d curled up into a ball against the onset of fever chills, his arm throbbing with every heartbeat, he was roused from his haze by noises outside his cell. Animalistic grunts. The hiss of phasers being fired. Bodies dropping to the ground.

Two figures stepped into his cell, and in the murky darkness, Rios recognized the wild curls before Raffi squatted down in front of him, Soji at her side.

Soji?

“Cris, babe, we’ve got to go. Can you stand?”

Raffi helped him uncurl and flinched at the sight of his arm. It was Soji who hooked him under on his good side and easily, gently pulled him to his feet.

Rios gasped a Spanish curse when a wave of pain rolled over him. His head swam.

“I c-can’t get out of here,” he stammered. “I can’t… the collar.” He stretched his neck to display it. “It’s tr-triggered when I-“

But Soji was already on it. Her free hand closed around the thin band, and Rios felt a tickling sensation, then heard a crack, like wood splitting in heat, and the collar fell away.

Raffi kicked its broken halves aside and carefully slung her arm around Rios’ other side. In spite of the women’s support, he felt his knees threatening to buckle.

He shook his head.

“I can’t w-walk.”

“You don’t have to, babe.”

Raffi plucked something rectangular from her belt and attached it to Rios’ chest like a com badge.

A flickering pillar erupted above their heads.

“Channel established! Three ready for transport!” She spoke loudly, locking eyes with Soji.

“Aye, Raffi,” Picard’s voice, distorted, sounded from a distance. “Hold on tight.”

Picard’s warning was justified. This transport was a rough ride that had nothing to do with the seamless blink-of-an-eye relocation of molecules Rios was used to. As Raffi and Soji held him by his belt and around his back, he felt a wrenching sensation travelling through his body. They had to be breaking through some kind of force field. He wasn’t sure if he screamed - there seemed to be no air in his lungs, in the spray of pixels that was his lungs as his body was dissolved and then reassembled in a dizzying whoosh. Every cell in his body burned when he landed on a hard surface, eyes closed against the pain. Hands were on him immediately, and then he finally heard it:

“What is the nature of your- oh, bloody hell!”

It was the permission Rios needed to sink into unconsciousness.

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He woke to the smell of very clean surfaces, humidified oxygen and Agnes. Her hand was at his cheek when he opened his eyes. Her face - tired worry lighting up - appeared above him, haloed by circular ceiling lights.

Sickbay.

“Hey,” Agnes said softly, mouth widening into a grin.

“Hey.” Dios, he sounded awful.

“How are you feeling?”

Rios swallowed, looking down at himself. Most of his body was covered by a medical blanket, but he could see - even if not feel - his injured arm. It was encased in a holographic ossifier that was blinking and whirring away as it knit his bones back together. Underneath the blanket, he felt his skin prickle where the biobed’s micro-injectors fed medication into his system. An oxygen clip tingled under his nose. There was no actual pain, but his whole body felt heavy and flattened to the bed as if coming out from under a serious illness.

Mierda.

“I guess- ” He had to clear his throat. “I guess I’ll be al- “

“You will be perfectly fine, Captain Rios,” the EMH chimed in, materialising by the bed. “Now that the sepsis is abating and the compound fracture in your arm is fusing. Although we did have a bit of a close call when your kidneys were attempting to shut down - a process, which, quite fortunately, I was able to reverse in time.”

Rios rolled his eyes at the hologram’s self-indulgent gloating. Agnes chuckled.

Weakly, Rios lifted his good hand and waved it at the EMH. “Deactiv-”

“THAT won’t work,” the hologram said with barely covered smugness. “Not until your body functions have returned to a satisfactory level. Remember?” He pointed at himself with a tricorder that had appeared in his hand out of thin air. “Emergency hologram. Self-activates until the emergent situation has been fully resolved. It hasn’t.”

He fucking smirked. Rios felt his head beginning to ache.

Frowning convincingly, the EMH looked at Rios’ vitals projected against the wall of the cubicle.

“Your blood pressure and cortisol output are elevated,” the hologram observed, immediately wielding the tricorder to point it at Rios. “Are you experiencing any kind of discomfort?”

Yes, Rios thought, it’s called ‘annoyance’.

“No,” he said as firmly as possible, when Agnes looked at him with new worry. “I’m fine.”

“Still,” The EMH replied, checking the tricorder’s readings with exaggerated concentration. “I would like you to get more rest. Your body has been through a serious trauma and needs to repose.”

Rios would have liked to roll his eyes again, but it hurt his head too much, so instead he merely sighed while Agnes, instinctively, stroked his forehead.

“He’s right,” she said gently. “You should sleep. You look exhausted. And you’re not missing out on anything. Picard, Enoch and Emmett have things under control.”

The old man, his Irish fanboy and the tattoed narcoleptic.

Rios’ headache intensified. He closed his eyes with a groan.

“Rightt, that’s enough.”

Something beeped and, alarmed, Rios tore his eyes back open.

“Oye! You’re not going to inject me with-“

Too late.

He heard the hiss of the hypo spray and felt its cool contents permeate the skin of his neck. The last thing he registered before sleep took him was the EMH’s sorrowful remark:

“He really doesn’t get any nicer.”

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#whumptober 2020 #star trek picard #cristobal rios #agnes jurati #EMH #Raffi Musiker #Soji

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minmotl · 5 years ago

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Chapter 8: Sui Zhou Warms Up to Tang Fan, Gives Him Ointment for His Bruises

Context: Sui Zhou finally accepts Tang Fan’s help for the Marquis Wu An case. Follows Chapter 7 highlights. This is a full chapter XD

Introduction Post | Masterpost

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Tang Fan nods, “Fu Yang Chun is an aphrodisiac meant to increase virility and is recorded in old prescriptions. It’s not rare on its own and can be produced with a brown marmorated stink bug, curculigo, rehmannnia, barrenwort and other herbs. Although over consuming the pill does not have any benefits, Zheng Fu said that Zheng Cheng only took this over a period of two to three months only, so there’s no way it could have caused his death. However, if you add some bupleurum chinense, it’s a different story. On the surface this herb can get rid of heatiness in the body, but it must be used with caution. Aside from losing strength and vitality, the herb can damage both the liver and kidneys if consumed over a long period of time. With the addition of this herb, the aphrodisiac turned from a medicine meant to increase virility to a deadly one.”

“The people I sent to Guang Hui Manor sent a response and said that the worker who secretly helped Zheng Cheng to pick the herbs for the pills from Hui Chun Tang, Lin Chao Dong, did not head back to his hometown. His whereabouts are currently unknown in spite of our search,” Sui Zhou says.

Laughing wistfully, Tang Fan replies, “If that’s the case, our leads have once again dried up.”

Sui Zhou is silent for a moment, “That might not be the case. Follow me.”

He gets up and heads outside. Tang Fan locks the doors to his courtyard and follows Sui Zhou.

In the light of the day, the bruises on his neck are truly alarming and not even the collars of his clothes can hide them. He even has an Embroidered Uniform Guard at his side, causing pedestrians to turn around and look at them repeatedly. They look at Tang Fan with strange gazes, as if they are witnessing a prisoner bound for the executioner’s court.

Sui Zhou heads back to the Northern Administrative Court first and grabs Zheng Fu out from the inside, then bringing him along as they head to Hui Chun Tang.

While Shopkeeper Liu and the others were released, their every action and word are still being surveilled. Two Embroidered Uniform Guards are keeping watch at Hui Chun Tang’s door, and as a result, business these few days have declined significantly. Shopkeeper Liu and his two workers are sitting inside with frowns on their faces, and once they see Sui Zhou and Tang Fan, they hurry to get to their feet.

“Sui-daren, look at this, we’re just law-abiding businessmen, and with what happened with Lin Chao Dong, it has nothing to do with Hui Chun Tang either, could you…” Shopkeeper Liu originally wanted to share his woes, but Sui Zhou eyes him coldly in response, so the man can only swallow the rest of the sentence.

Sui Zhou passes the prescription that Tang Fan gave him to Zheng Fu, “Do you recognise the prescription at the top?”

Zhen Fu takes a quick look and nods, “This is the prescription for fu yang chun. Before, when I went to help Young Master to grab the necessary herbs, I often saw this. Huh? But there wasn’t any bupleurum chinense in it!”

Sui Zhou asks, “When was the last time you came here to fill out the prescription?”

“About two to three months ago, I think?”

Coldly, Sui Zhou says, “I need the exact date, think back carefully!”

A human’s potential is limitless, and after Sui Zhou’s terrifying snap, Zheng Fu actually remembers, “It was the 18th of the third month of the year. I recall now, it was that day, because this medicine requires some treatment to become pills every single time and is a little more troublesome, so I always let Lin Chao Dong know two days in advance, and then on the 20th day, I went directly to grab the pills!”

Sui Zhou turns towards Shopkeeper Liu, “You heard him, bring me the purchasing and stock records for Hui Chun Tang during these three days.”

“Yes yes yes, I will get this done immediately!”

The shopkeeper quickly gets the sales man and the physician on duty today to close Hui Chun Tang’s doors and begin searching for the requested records.

Anything to do with providing treatment and medicine concerns the sanctity of human lives, and just a moment of carelessness can lead to death. At the same time, there is no avoiding competition from other medicine halls or apocatheries, and sometimes they may encounter malicious actors using underhanded tricks in the dark, so in order to avoid conflict, older and reputable medicine halls like Hui Chun Tang usually keep pristine records.

The records can be put to use now. With the exact dates available, the corresponding records are quickly found. Sui Zhou and Tang Fan go over to take a look, and it clearly states the amount of herbs and materials the store used and prescribed, and even which prescriptions were given are also recorded.

When they get to the third line, they see the words fu yang chun, and then the names of several herbs behind that, but there is no mention of bupleurum chinense. Then they look at the records of medicine that entered and left the hall in the next two days, but there is still no sign of that single herb. This means that when Lin Chao Dong helped Zheng Cheng to make fu yang chun, the bupleurum chinense used was not taken from Hui Chun Tang.

As it is, Lin Chao Dong is actually a very careful person. To avoid detection by Hui Chun Tang, he decided to buy the herb from somewhere else, but this action has instead turned into a crucial piece of evidence.

Sui Zhou immediately orders the two guards at the door, “The both of you get some others and head to all the medicine halls in the city, and see which medicine hall purchased large amounts of bupleurum chinense on the 18th this month!”

The two men take their orders and leave.

Tang Fan asks Sui Zhou, “Sui-zongqi, would you let me take a look at Zheng Cheng’s body?”

“The Northern Administrative Court’s medical examiner has checked the body, there are no suspicious points around the corpse at all.”

in fact, when Zheng Cheng first died, Tang Fan did check the body over as well, and indeed, he did not find anything out of the ordinary, but Tang Fan thinks that it is no loss to be a bit more meticulous. Now that so many days have passed since Zheng Cheng’s death, if he does not take one more look, it’ll be a pity when the corpse rots extensively. And so Tang Fan insists.

“I’ll have to ask Sui-zongqi to make an exception.”

Although Sui Zhou looked down on Shun Tian Prefecture’s people initially and when facing Tang Fan, did not talk to the man with more courtesy than was necessary, but seeing Tang Fan’s persistence and determination at running around with him for the investigation despite his wounded voice and discomfort, Sui Zhou’s attitude towards Tang Fan eases slightly.

“There’s an ice room in the basement of the Northern Administrative Court. We placed Zheng Cheng’s body there and it is safe for now,” Sui Zhou explains, something he rarely does, “His Majesty tasked the court to solve the case within a month. After a month, even if we fail to solve it, the body will have to be returned to Marquis Wu An’s manor. You can find me at the court tomorrow.”

Everyone knows that the Embroidered Uniform Guards were first established by the late Emperor, and in the beginning, they functioned as the Emperor’s guards, and then afterwards was responsible for the safety of the Emperor when he travelled to temples and more. Then after, they helped the late Emperor to eliminate many subjects and corrupt officials, and so aside from being responsible for His Majesty’s safety, the Embroidered Uniform Guards were also in charge of maintaining peace and supervising anti-corruption measures. In the years of Cheng, the Embroidered Uniform Guards then had control over the Imperial Prison, and their fierce and notorious reputation spread far and wide from then on.

In reality, however, their duties do not stop there: During the state’s Imperial Examination, some guards would be sent to help out; when Shun Tian Prefecture hosts village tests, because the test involves a few areas within and around Jing city, if there are any severe cheating cases, then the guards would need to settle the situation; and other rudimentary things, such as repairing the streets, catching and arresting thieves, and the likes.

A lot of these responsibilities should have fallen on Shun Tian Prefecture, but the Embroidered Uniform Guards ended up doing most of it. At the end of the day, there are more elites within the guards and they are highly regarded by the Emperor. The fees they receive annually are substantial as well, and they are staffed with strong men who excel at everything they do. Their efficiency rates are also much higher than regular enforcement departments like Shun Tian Prefecture. For example, this time with arresting the culprits from White Lotus Sect, concluding the ‘Demonic Fox Case’ was meant to be the responsibility of Shun Tian Prefecture, but because the people in charge of arrests weren’t competent enough, the Embroidered Uniform Guards ended up stepping in again.

This is exactly the reason for the Embroidered Uniform Guards’ poor impression of Shun Tian Prefecture. No matter how great Tang Fan’s reputation is, he is seen as no more than a weak civil servant and since he had no interaction with the Embroidered Uniform Guards prior to this, once Tang Fan joined the ‘Useless Camp’ that was Shun Tian Prefecture, in other’s eyes, he is naturally a member of the ‘useless’ group as well.

Tang Fan is well aware that Sui Zhou’s bias against him stems from these reasons. This was caused by the remnants of history and doesn’t actually have anything to do with Shun Tian Prefecture’s current position. It was the first prefecture established under the Emperor’s supervision, and even though they are half a rank higher than other prefectures, local officials can be found in droves everywhere and their criticism can be heard far and wide, so those in Shun Tian Prefecture have to suffer in silence.

Pan Bin and his predecessors were hardly dominant or aggressive in character and with each generation of officials that only wanted to keep peace, asking not for recognition or reward but only for getting by without committing any mistakes, the moment they are faced with a sensitive case, they foisted the case off to someone else, so it’s no wonder that Sui Zhou looks down on them.

Although Tang Fan knows this, it hasn’t been long since he arrived at Shun Tian Prefecture and he is all but a regular prefectural judge. Faced with this situation, his hands are tied and all he can do is rely on the little power he has to proceed.

With a sigh of relief, he raises both hands together to Sui Zhou, “Then thank you Sui-zongqi.”

At the side, Shopkeeper Liu attempts to get onto Tang Fan’s good side and so moves forward with a smile, “Tang-daren, this is Qiu Li cream and the hall’s exclusive muscle relaxant cream, you should consume the first and it will relief your throat and get rid of heatiness, while using the second to get rid of the bruises on your neck. i guarantee that on the second day after using both, you’ll have recovered more or less!”

This morning, his breakfast was interrupted, and then Tang Fan had to follow Sui Zhou and ask some questions of people involved in the case, and so he did not even have the time to put some ointment. Now, he has spoken for more than half a day and Tang Fan’s throat is almost entirely hoarse. At Shopkeeper Liu’s words, Tang Fan then realises the muscles in his neck are extremely tensed, and his eyebrows furrow in a frown.

Tang Fan accepts the medicine and thanks the man, then insists on paying Shopkeeper Liu for the goods despite the man’s protests. After that, he follows Sui Zhou out of the medicine hall.

The sunlight outside is radiant, so different from the drizzles they have been getting in the past few days.

Sui Zhou’s eyes unconsciously rove over Tang Fan, looking at the person standing next to him with his dark hair and light-coloured clothes, his beautiful and long neck painting a sharp contrast against the marks of ten finger-shaped bruises painted on his skin. It is a startling sight.

From his sleeves, Sui Zhou retrieves a small bottle and hands it over, saying lightly, “Use it on your skin three times a day.”

Tang Fan takes the bottle and smiles, “A product from the Northern Administrative Court, this must be extraordinary indeed. I will have to try this.”

Sui Zhou nods slightly and doesn’t say anything further. With a hand on his Xiu Chun Sword, he picks up the pace.

Though the nature of the bupleurum chinense is slightly more aggressive, but with appropriate use, it is not considered a rare herb. In a city as big as Jing city, there are too many medicine halls that have prescriptions with the herb in it, but to be able to produce so many pills and reach the point where the herb actually starts to harm a person, the amount used has to be much larger, much more than the common amounts used to treat patients. Also, they managed to narrow it down to the two days around the 18th day of the month, so their search area shrank by quite a bit.

The efficiency of the Embroidered Uniform Guards is truly extraordinary, as after only half a day, the men that Sui Zhou sent out came back with information.

Two medicine halls, San Yuan Tang in the north of the city and Ren Xin Tang in the east, both had a customer who purchased enormous amounts of bupleurum chinense on the 18th. Sui Zhou sends some men to ask more questions, and find out that the person who made both purchases are the same person. However, according to the descriptions from both medicine halls, the person who came to buy the herb was not Hui Chun Tang’s Lin Chao Dong, who disappeared so mysteriously.

The Embroidered Uniform Guards proceed to search for and arrest the man, and Sui Zhou is obviously used to situations like this as he easily requests for a sketch artist to illustrate the person’s features based on the given descriptions.

Shortly after, a man with high cheekbones and a flat nose bridge appears on the paper.

It is an unfamiliar face.

Sui Zhou’s brows furrow. He has an inkling on the direction of the case actually. If they call this case complicated, it is in reality not that complicated. The only sensitive touchpoint is that the victim is the eldest son of Marquis Wu An, and Wu An Manor is not a place where they can enter and leave at will.

Hundreds and thousands of people enter and leave Jing city every day, if they try to look for this person, it is no doubt akin to trying to find a needle in a haystack.

At this moment, Tang Fan who has been silent at his side suddenly speaks, “I’ve seen his person before!”

Sui Zhou turns around to look at him.

“I have an impression of this man, but exactly where I’ve seen him, I can’t remember right at this moment. If I remember, I will tell you immediately.”

Sui Zhou nods, then looks at the sky, “It’s getting late. Let’s stop here. Tang-daren can find me at the Northern Administrative Court tomorrow.”

Tang Fan smiles and gets to his feet, “Alright, we found out plenty today, and I still have to head back and give my report to Fu Tai-daren, I will take my leave.”

Sui Zhou seems like a person that is hard to get close to, but his competence and capabilities are outstanding. Moreover, Tang Fan was able to get a bottle of ointment as a gift, and this indicates a slight change to their relationship. If Shun Tian Prefecture manages to build a good rapport with the Embroidered Uniform Guards, then this will certainly be of help to him in the future.

The man suddenly says, “Pan-daren approaches his duties with cowardice, if Tang-daren wishes to do well but remain at Shun Tian Prefecture, it is a pity.”

“Don’t tell me that Sui-zongqi is trying to poach me from Pan-daren, and invite me to work at the Northern Administrative Court?” Tang Fan laughs.

Sui Zhou says, “If you are willing, of course you can.”

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Notes:

*富阳春 fu yang chun

A well-known aphrodisiac in those times. Fu means rich or abundant, yang means positive energy and in feng shui, yin and yang - yin is usually used to represent female energy while yang for male energy, and lastly, chun means youth.

*柴胡 chai hu

A fennel-like plant. You can see how it looks like on wikipedia here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bupleurum_chinense

*太祖 tai zu

Usually used to refer to an ancestor or founder. In this case, it’s not clearly mentioned which founder they’re referring to, so I’ve translated this loosely as a late Emperor, we’re just not sure which one as he is not named by title.

*诏狱 zhao yu

Refers to the imperial prison where the Emperor’s relatives or most trusted officials who commit unforgiveable crimes are held.

*饭桶大本营 fan tong da ben ying

Literally translated means rice bucket (fan tong) camp (da ben ying). Rice bucket can be understood to refer to a person with a bottomless pit for food, but is also used as a metaphor for a useless person.

*指手画脚 zhi shou hua jiao

It literally means to make a lot of movements when the person is speaking, referring to them speaking out of turn or forgetting their own place as they are speaking.

*秋梨膏 qiu li gao

A medicine made with a white snowpear and is meant to treat lung and throat-related ailments.

*活血膏 huo xue gao

Muscle relaxant that is used to treat rheumatism and athritis in the present.

*绣春刀 xiu chun dao

A special blade that only Embroidered Uniform Guards are given.

*大海捞针 da hai lao zhen

Literally translated, it means to pick up a needle from the big sea, which essentially has the same meaning as trying to search for a needle in a haystack.

#the sleuth of ming dynasty #tsomd #tsomd novel #成化十四年 #fanzhou #sui zhou #tang fan #i love how after one chapter #sui zhou is like #yeah come work for me

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nanakyun0j0 · 5 years ago

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Runaway / Lee Jeno /

AN: HI!! I have another story :)))) I’d like to give a huge thank you to my buddy pal @aplo7619 for the prompt!!! I had a lot of fun with it >< Thanks for your help! <3

Prompt - Jeno: “Your cat runs away and you look all over the city for it until you end up in the park and see your cat in the arms of a cute boy with glasses and a face mask on and even though he gives your cat back to you (after having to convince him its yours) he demands weekly visits.”

This also has lots of swearing so sorry if you're uncomfortable with that!

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Right now, the entire world feels like it’s spinning around you dangerously with each wheezing breath you take. Your shoes quietly skid against the pavements as you turn another corner with the force of a thousand suns, your lungs burning as you open your mouth and scream once again for your cat.

You were both chilling and basking in the evening breeze when your feline friendo had been spooked by a loud sound from the garage of your apartment complex and bolted off your balcony. It scared the shit out of you, and you’d damn near leapt over the railing to save him from his fall before you realised that firstly; you live on the first floor. Secondly, even though he’s a lazy shit, your cat’s not really that old, which means he wouldn’t have died.

Your suspicions were confirmed when you heard a disgruntled hiss below you. As you called for him, he’d let fear get the better of him and sprinted through the gates. You swore really loudly at that moment, luckily too dumbstruck at your cat running away from you to notice the flabbergasted expression of your next-door neighbour who’d come out to check what all the ruckus was about.

So now you were running through Seoul at ass ’o’ clock in the morning to find your dumbass cat. You’d tried to be systematic about your approach in the beginning. Checking his usual hiding places in the park near your complex, or the night market stalls, etc. When you couldn’t find him there, you’d started to panic a little but managed to keep a cool enough head to try looking in one area at a time, furiously cursing yourself for not charging your phone earlier because you still didn’t know the city well and the maps were your only hope.

But surprise surprise, you still hadn’t found him. Which you have to say, is incredible in its own right. Like, he hadn’t even run away for that long, where the fuck did he go?

As you round another corner and peer nervously into an alley that looks more like the abyss, your legs give out a little and you crash haphazardly into the stone wall in front of you. Your hunched figure leans fully onto it as you try to catch your breath and regain feeling in your legs. The breeze wasn’t feeling so enjoyable anymore and you really regretted not wearing thicker clothes.

After a few blinks and gulping breaths that are so erratic they could pass as a trap beat, you feel yourself losing confidence and really let the panic settle in your veins. The thoughts of what could happen to your cat throb deeply in you like the pulsing blood around your body and your mouth curls down in fear. Your eyes begin to water and you softly choke out a whimper, hunching further and half falling into a squat while resting a hand on the wall. Your free hand pinches the bridge of your nose and you bite your lip harshly, the area now feeling sensitive and raw. You try calming yourself down but it’s not working.

You’ve been running around the city for a while now and your phone’s dead. Night life in Seoul is always bustling and there hasn’t been a street where you haven’t seen cars racing past or people chattering. Some had even asked what you were running so desperately for, offering their help when you told them about your cat. You’d really appreciated that, always in awe at the kindness others could show a mere stranger, but you didn’t want to bother anyone. Which in retrospect was a stupid idea. Then again, you were full of those.

So as you squat in the middle of a fairly well-lit street near a convenience store, trying as hard as you can to start breathing properly, you force yourself to take a step back from the rushing thoughts in your head and think about everything again. Easier said than done, but you’re feeling pretty determined to get that damn cat back. He’s too precious to you for you not to care. Also, the amount of money you spent on him was fucking ridiculous.

A few more moments of reflection lead you to conjure something out of your ass/brain, which causes you to believe that your cat had gone to the park after all. But you must’ve narrowly missed him. He’d always loved the little playground there, and you are willing to bet your kidney that he is there after all. And even if you’re wrong, don’t you need only one functioning kidney anyway? So with that stellar reasoning, you slowly rise from your position and stretch your aching legs, taking a few more breaths for good luck. Then you turn back the way you think you came (fingers crossed), and run like hell to the park.

When you get there you give yourself a pat on the back for remembering the right directions for once, and you’re also really glad the park’s still brightly lit up. The lamps almost blindingly stare back at you when you venture past the entrance. After a few familiar turns you spy the playground and scan the area. A lone figure catches your attention and your guard goes up, before you hear a soft but familiar meow coming from the bench the stranger is sitting on. A flood of relief encompasses your senses before you realise something.

Shit.

Leave it to your cat to get picked up by a fucking stranger at like, 3 in the damn morning.

A stranger who looks pretty well-built, if you look closely. Oh God, what if he’s a weirdo?? A muscular weirdo?

The thought won’t leave your head and you try to shove the fear down. Deep down though, you know you’re screwed. And you are, just not in the way you think.

You steel your nerves and approach the bench as carefully as you can from behind, but all is for naught because the man’s head whips around and you halt in your steps, anxiety at an all time high, despite the pretty face of the man in front of you. His styled blonde hair and round glasses do nothing to lower your guard. You notice he’s wearing a mask but ignore it for the main part. It’s just common practice in Eastern Asia.

You both have a staring match for a while, before his voice slices through the veil of silence.

“Hello?” His voice is somewhat gravelly, but still kind. He looks kind of suspicious of you, and you shove down the urge to say, ‘Me too, pal.’ Instead, you stand stiffly and wave shyly. Damn his beautiful voice, it’s made you a different kind of nervous.

“H-hello. Um, That cat you’re holding? I’ve actually been looking everywhere for him. I’d like to take him back home now, because he kinda ran away earlier.” The words tumble out quickly, not allowing a moment’s hesitation.

The man perks up slightly at your words but deflates again when you mention he ran away. He stands up and faces you fully now, and boy is he tall. But you can think of his legs later. Your cat takes first priority.

“I’m sorry but I don’t think I should give him back to you if he ran away.” The man starts off warily. His expression is cautious but at the same time apologetic.

Yikes. He thinks you abused him. His excessive care for your fluff ball would usually be appreciated, and you still are thankful he’s being careful, but you’ve just had a really stressful few hours, and all you want is to collapse on your bed and die for a bit. So since your emotions are a bit jumbled, your next words are sharper than you’d usually speak out.

“Look guy, it’s real nice that you’re looking out for my cat but I haven’t abused him. He ran away because of a loud sound in my apartment complex and I’ve been practically tearing this whole fucking city down trying to find him.” You take a deep breath,

“So, if you wouldn’t mind, I’d like my fucking cat back. Now” You grit out.

The pretty blonde man looks surprised at your outburst at first, and then guilty. Which makes you feel horrible because he looks like a sad Samoyed. But before you can apologise for being a moody bitch (rightfully so but still), he approaches you and holds out your cat, unwilling to meet your eyes.

You gently take him from the man’s arms, giving the little squirt an unimpressed look but snuggling him closer to you before focusing your attention on the blonde man. A few minutes of trying to make eye contact later, you clear your throat dramatically.

That finally seems to snap him out of his guilty stupor, and you allow a small grin to creep onto your face when he shyly stares into your eyes. You notice his glasses have slightly slid down. He looks really adorable, is the next thought that pops into your head.

“Thanks for finding my cat. I’m sorry for being so rude earlier, I was just so stressed, you know?” You mumble. He quickly shakes his head and hands in front of his face, animatedly telling you that ‘no, I should be the one apologising. I just jumped to conclusions even though I didn’t know the full story!’

It makes your smile wider and you just tell him you both did something stupid so you’re even. He finally breaks into a smile at that, and you find yourself beaming with as much force as him. His smile does wonders to your heart and you feel it bloom in joy.

Before you can stop yourself, you’re asking him what he’s even doing at the park at this hour. To that he sheepishly replies, “I just like taking quiet walks at this time.” Which you find kinda strange but, as long as he’s not gonna murder you you don’t really care.

You then notice that you’ve made your way to the benches and move to sit down, asking for his name.

“I’m Jeno” He replies.

“What’s yours?”

You tell him and he lights up, telling you it’s a great name. You only shrug, replying that it’s nothing special.

After that the conversation flows and Jeno and you have been chatting for so long, the tendrils of dawn peak through the horizon. You didn’t even realise how early in the morning it must be and you feel guilty for keeping Jeno for so long. He feels equal guilt and asks if he can walk you home. You crinkle your nose at his suggestion, not liking what he’s implying but knowing he has a point. Besides, you liked talking to him and you want to chat longer, so you agree and tell him your address. He does a double take then and, while giggling, tells you that he lives in the same complex. You smile at that and ask him to visit sometime, and he agrees,

“Do you mind if I come over every week? I just. I just really like your cat.” He asks quietly and a little lovestruck as he stares at your squishy ball of fluff. At your raised eyebrows, he nervously stutters out that, of course, he’s really fond of you too.

Your smile morphs into a lop-sided grin and you stay quiet about how red his ears have gone. With that you both stand up and exit the park together, sniggering and chatting in the early morning light.

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I was trying to get to sleep last night but my brain is a jerk and I was thinking.

Two big realizations.

For the first time in my life, I’ve wanted to live. And it’s because of my son. I want to see how things turn out for him. I’m mad I won’t be around forever.

I actually can, for the first time, imagine the future, getting old, turning grey, maybe grandbabies, maybe not, living.

I actually do, for the first time, want to get to a couple doctors to get some problems checked out (gyno, dermatologist, take care of these kidney problems), so I have a better chance of living long enough to meet the man my son will be and whatever future family he finds or forms.

Which also brought the small realization that I’ve basically not moved for a decade. Once my old PC was set up, that was it. I’m sure sitting in one spot for the past 11 years does make that a little easier to imagine, since I’d likely just keep doing the same thing forever.

But I guess that’s inevitable, considering my body doesn’t function.

He does not and never did love me.

I was thinking that I should try to push myself to be more affectionate with That Guy (the Little Things, like making him food without notably hating cooking, or washing his hair now and then, or just touching him casually, or even smiling at him) if nothing else than to show appreciation for keeping me in a house and not starving on the street, and maybe then he’d reciprocate, but no.

He wouldn’t. I know this.

He never wanted to hold my hand. Even early on, when I was in the puppy love phase and constantly doting on him, I was only allowed to hang off his arm like a trophy. After a while, I stopped bothering. He didn’t like that.

He never cared for me. When I was put on bed rest while pregnant, he made me a sandwich once a day for four days, and then stopped doing that. He wouldn’t clean so I could have a healthy environment to rest in. No amount of begging got him to start making me food or taking care of me. I would get up and make something easy for myself but not a full meal because I wasn’t supposed to get up for anything other than to use the toilet and bathe. He didn’t like that.

He never respected me. He scoffs and sneers when I set boundaries to help me feel safe and comfortable in my own home. Like saying “No, I don’t want to watch TV shows with sex scenes, I don’t like that.” He says I’m too sensitive and childish. I stuck to my boundaries instead of caving and doing what he wants regardless of how miserable it makes me feel, or how much physical pain it causes me. He didn’t like that.

He never wants to do those Little Things for me. Right after the cesarean, I needed a shower and he didn’t even think to help until my mom basically shoved him into the shower with me. I couldn’t even stand up. Over time I stopped pushing myself to meet him all the way, then stopped trying for halfway, and eventually stopped reaching out at all. He didn’t like that.

And I don’t care anymore.

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