#pretty Crack-ish AU again
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chickenkurage · 9 months ago
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Possible new AU? (Duck Alan AU?????)
Where in canon happens, except around Showdown, Alan got extremely worried that Second and the others hadn't come back yet. So he uses his brand new VR headset that he had bought (was planned to use it so he could finally meet and talk with the stick figures, but forgot)
He hadn't set a model for his VR so he used his ROBLOX character as his model, except the VR had twisted it and turned his whole model as a Duck. (His ROBLOX model is a duck head XD). So he sets his way towards the portal and was able to stop Second before he could kill Dark.
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What he thought he would look like.
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Versus what he turned into.
Second was confused when he saw Alan, cause why was there a random Duck trying to get his attention?
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Alan is swimming through the water so he could get to Second and the others (He still has not noticed he was a duck, he thought he was just extremely good at swimming, and awfully small for some reason)
Now onto some doodles! Duck Alan with his kids!
VICTIM
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Here Victim discovers Alan was in the outernet and kidnapped him, and instead he was disappointed to find Alan looking like a Duck instead of the "Scary Cursor" form he had. So now his revenge was in shambles and forgotten since Alan had disappointed him so much in such a short time.
(Alan bothers Victim frequently by sneaking inside Rocket Corp)
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Alan sad mode because he got kicked out of Rocket Corp again.
CHOSEN
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Alan also fell asleep behind the VR as well (thank goodness he was laying on his bed) He totally did not sneak around and carefully laid himself down on top of Chosen.
DARK
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Initially, after the Showdown and Alan saving Dark from Second (by distracting him for looking like a duck). Alan has now fixed Dark's code, and he is much more chill now, since he has no voices telling him to destroy everything.
Though he is still mad at Alan (It's just hard to be mad at a cute looking duck, even if that duck is Alan himself, or so he tells himself that)
Alan is secretly very happy to see them all in person, so he cant help but stare at them in awe.
SECOND
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Alan has no legs, i like to think he just glides around the place since that's just a VR model XDDD.
In the end, Alan had the chance to change his model, but he kept it because the others are much more kinder to him in that form XDDD
Where did i get this AU idea? Uhh *looks at the AvG roblox gameplays* i don't know either tbh. - S
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rosiebbydoll · 29 days ago
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The Right Time - Sukuna x Reader - Chp. 4
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Chp. 3 - Chp. 4 - Chp. 5
summary: Your life was blissfully chaotic. Being a single mom and raising a daughter with a bigger attitude than yours was a challenge, but you love every second of it. You decided to move to the city to be closer to work. You’ve been at your new apartment for about three weeks now and everything has been great. Until, your annoyingly hot neighbor decided to open his mouth.
cw: female reader, modern au (no curses), 18+, enemies(ish) to friends to lovers, mechanic!sukuna x librarian!reader, slow burn, fluff, smut, crack, angst, toxicity, Sukuna is emotionally constipated, Nobora is readers daughter, Choso and Yuji are Sukuna’s nephews, Toji is a present father in this, LOTS of family fluff, manga spoilers? (more tags will be added)
wc: 7.2k
chp warning: fluff, tension, angst, crack, toxic traits, mentions of violence, the kids being cute, not accurate car lingo (I’m only just a girl), did I mention tension???
a/n: hello my lovelies! I don’t have anything to say right now. I’ll see you at the end of this chapter. enjoy! <3
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The buzzing of your phone drags you out of a dead sleep. You blink, slow and bleary, trying to assess the damage from last night. Beer bottles are scattered everywhere, mixing with a deck of Uno cards that look like they lost a fight. At some point the electricity must have kicked back on, because the harsh light from your lamp does nothing for the throbbing in your skull.
I am never drinking again.
You push yourself upright, wincing, and your eyes land on Sukuna. He’s passed out on the floor, slumped against the couch with his arms folded across his chest. Did he stay here all night? For a minute you just watch him breathe, chest rising and falling in a slow rhythm. He actually looks peaceful like that—probably because he can’t run his mouth while he’s unconscious. You snort, barely holding back a laugh, and nudge his side with your foot. His eyes flutter open, unfocused, and he hits you with a frown.
“Well, good morning to you too,” you joke, hauling yourself to your feet. “You’re helping me clean this up.” You wave a hand at the chaos, and Sukuna just nods, still groggy and barely awake.
Suddenly, there’s a noise from your bedroom. Toji emerges, wearing nothing but one of your towels slung low around his waist. You groan. “That’s my towel.���
“I know,” he says, completely unfazed, and heads straight for your fridge, poking around for breakfast. You can feel your eye start to twitch as you watch him. There’s also this underlying irritation radiating off him—you’ve known him long enough to recognize when his mood is off.
“You good?” you ask, trying to keep it casual.
Toji grabs the carton of eggs and drops them on the counter. “I’m fine, pretty,” he mutters, not even glancing in your direction.
Yeah, he’s definitely not fine.
You frown, watching him crack eggs into a bowl and start to make scrambled eggs, feeling the tension simmering in the kitchen.
“Ryomen, we gotta lay that carpet today,” Toji says, still whisking the eggs with more force than necessary. The clinking of the fork against the bowl is the only thing keeping you tethered to the present.
You were so caught up worrying about Toji that you didn’t even notice Sukuna had already cleaned up the entire living room. The Uno cards are stacked in a perfect pile on the coffee table, beer bottles and empty boxes lined up by the door, and every throw pillow and blanket is back in its rightful place, like last night never happened.
“Where’re your trash bags, drunky?” Sukuna asks, voice gruff but faintly amused. You point to the cabinet under the sink, and he digs one out without missing a beat, tying it off with practiced hands.
“I’m gonna take this trash out and grab a shower at my place. I’ll meet you over there to do the carpet,” Sukuna says, already gathering up the bag.
“You don’t want breakfast?” you ask, settling onto a stool at the counter, watching Toji beat the eggs with even more aggression.
Before Sukuna can reply, Toji jumps in, “Oh, these weren’t for sharing. These are all mine.” He grins, half-mocking, and you roll your eyes.
Sukuna sighs and gives you a crooked smile. “I’ll take a rain check on that breakfast.” He heads out, and you find yourself staring at the door a second too long after it shuts.
“Thought you hated him,” Toji says, sliding two plates across the counter—one for each of you.
You blink, pulled from your thoughts. “Huh?”
“For the past month, you’ve done nothing but complain about the guy. Every chance you get, you say how much you hate him.” Toji sits beside you, his gaze sharp but not unkind.
You shovel eggs into your mouth, chewing quickly. “Oh, I do,” you say, voice muffled.
Toji just snorts. “Bullshit.” He digs into his own food, shaking his head. Before you can come up with a comeback, your phone buzzes again.
It’s Hiromi.
He’s left you about fifteen messages, all recapping last night in painful detail. Nobara and his girlfriend apparently hit it off—thank god. They played a marathon of board games and watched Ponyo. You smile, relieved things went smoothly, but then your stomach twists as you remember Hiromi and his girlfriend together. You try not to dwell.
Fuck.
“I’m gonna shower. Please put on some fucking clothes while I’m gone,” you mutter to Toji as you get up.
He just nods, barely acknowledging you.
The hot water is bliss as it hits your skin, washing away the grime from last night. You close your eyes and let yourself drift, thinking about how comfortable you felt with Sukuna. How right it seemed, just for a moment. It’s weird—you almost forgot about all the times he’s pissed you off. No, he’s still a dick. It could all just be another one of his games. Either way, you remind yourself to keep your guard up.
Right next door, Sukuna is scrubbing away the grime too, but there’s no washing the thought of you out of his head. The water is nearly scalding, his skin turning red, but it’s nothing compared to how hot he felt standing next to you last night. The way you smiled, the sharpness of your comebacks—god, you’re everything he ever wanted in a woman. Which he’s never thougt about it until he met you. And it’s driving him insane.
You hate him. You have every reason to. He’s an ass and doesn’t deserve even half your attention. Maybe it’s better this way. He can admire you from a distance, deal with his own shit quietly. He knows he’s no good for you. Being your friend is the best he can hope for, because ignoring you? That’s impossible. Maybe friendship will take the edge off his feelings, at least a little.
Toji pulls on his clothes in record time. He calls out a quick goodbye, saying he’ll see you later, and slips out. He knows you’re probably overthinking his mood, and that’s fair. He’s trying to hide it, but he doesn’t want to admit that this is getting under his skin- the way you and Sukuna seem to be getting along lately.
Sure, Toji’s been with more women than Sukuna ever will, but he’s seen the way Sukuna treats Yarozu. He’d kill him if he ever treated you that way. You deserve so the world, and Toji doubts Sukuna could ever give that to you—but really, what right does he have to say anything? You’ve never tried to control his love life. You tease him, sure, but you’re always there for him, always supportive. What kind of friend would he be if he told you who you could and couldn’t see?
He lets out an agitated sigh as he steps into the empty apartment, tools in hand, ready to lay down the new carpet and try to forget about it all.
Not long after, Sukuna shows up, hair still damp from his shower. He steps inside to find Toji blasting Daughtry on his speaker, already halfway through rolling out the carpet. Sukuna drops his stuff and silently starts to help. They hardly speak, but it’s obvious something’s shifted.
Once you’re out of the shower, you throw on a grey half-zip, black leggings, and some chunky sneakers. Your hair goes up in a claw clip—quick, efficient, the kind of look that says you’re trying but not too hard. You fire off a text to Hiromi, letting him know you’ll swing by to pick up Nobara, then freeze mid-thumb.
Damn it. My car is still at the shop. Sukuna’s shop.
With pure annoyance, you groan and make your way downstairs to the bottom-floor apartments where Toji and Sukuna are supposed to be working. Honestly, these apartments look way nicer than yours—newer appliances, fresh paint, actual nice carpet instead of the weird stained flooring in your unit. You knock, but the only answer is the thud of bass from inside. You sigh, twist the knob, and step into a sauna of sweat, smoke, and Daughtry.
Both Toji and Sukuna are shirtless, tanned skin slick with sweat as they wrestle with the carpet. The air is thick with the sharp scent of cigarettes. You pull your face into a mask of indifference, pretending you don’t notice the way Sukuna’s muscles flex as he lifts a roll of carpet. You stalk over to Toji, who’s got one ear turned toward the music and the other toward you.
“I need to use your car!” you shout, but Toji keeps working, completely oblivious, head bobbing in time with the music.
You huff, march over to the speaker, and crank the volume down. “Can I use your car to pick up Nobara?” you repeat, more measured this time.
Toji wipes his brow, grabs his battered pack of Marlboros from the window ledge, and lights up. “Sure, but you gotta pick Megumi up for me too.” He tosses you the keys, not even looking at you as he does.
You catch them and grin. “Deal. I’ll take them both to the park for a bit.” The thought of some fresh air actually sounds nice.
Sukuna stands and crosses the room, grabbing a rag to wipe the sweat from his forehead. “I’ll be at the shop in about an hour. I’ll make sure your car’s ready for pickup.” It’s Saturday, and even though he could’ve taken the day off, he promised he’d get your car done. He’s determined not to give you another reason to hate him.
“You’re a lifesaver!” you tell him, slinging your arm around his shoulders in a quick, playful side hug.
Toji’s eyes flick over, jaw tightening just a bit as he steps between the two of you. “You can leave my car at the shop when you pick yours up. I’ll get it later,” he says, voice low and clipped.
You nod and turn to leave, but Sukuna calls after you. “Hey, I’ll need your number to call when it’s ready.” The smirk on his face is hard to miss.
There’s a beat of silence. Toji’s eye twitches as he takes another drag, but he doesn’t say anything. You hesitate just long enough to feel the shift in the room, then take Sukuna’s phone and punch in your number. Just for fun, you save your contact as “Drunky” before handing it back.
Sukuna chuckles at the name, grinning as he turns away to hide the flush creeping up his neck.
“Alright, I’m out of here. Thanks you guys!!” you call, tossing the keys in the air as you head for the door. You don’t miss the way both men watch you leave, something sparking between them that you don’t have time to untangle.
The second you’re gone, the air in the apartment changes. Toji rounds on Sukuna, voice low and tense. “I thought I told you no.”
Sukuna lets out a heavy sigh. “What the fuck do you think I’m doing, man?”
“Don’t play dumb, boy,” Toji snaps, flicking ash into the half-empty coffee cup on the windowsill.
Sukuna shakes his head, his patience fraying. “Look at you, trying to act your age. I’m not doing anything, alright? And last I checked, you’re Megumi's dad, not hers.” He drops a handful of tools onto the floor with a messy clatter.
“Ryomen—” Tojj starts, but Sukuna cuts him off.
“You need to chill the fuck out. I’m just being nice. That’s all.” Sukuna’s tone is sharp, but there’s something softer underneath it, a line he won’t cross.
Suddenly, the door swings open and a woman steps in—the same one you saw with Toji in his office. Sukuna recognizes her immediately, one of Toji’s long-time tenants, always popping by with a smile and a question.
She beams, batting her lashes. “Hey Toji, just wanted to check on the renovations!”
Sukuna snorts, shaking his head as he heads for the door. “Yeah, Fushiguro, looks like you’ve got your hands full.” He lets the door slam behind him, leaving Toji alone with his cigarette and the woman’s syrupy smile.
The woman looks momentarily confused by Sukuna’s abrupt exit, but Toji recovers fast, smoothing his expression into something easy and charming. “Hey, doll. Wanna spend my break with me in my office?” he says, voice low and inviting.
She giggles, letting him draw her in for a kiss. “Only if you lock your door this time,” she teases, her laughter echoing in the hall as the two of them disappear into his office.
Meanwhile, you’re trying not to swear as you slide behind the wheel of Toji’s Camaro. The car is loud as hell—everyone on the block knows when you’re coming and going—and the seat won’t adjust, so you have to awkwardly sit forward just to reach the gas pedal. Still, you’re grateful he let you borrow it, even if you feel like a kid trying to drive her dad’s car.
You pull up to Hiromi’s place—calling it a mansion is a stretch, but it’s by far the biggest, nicest house you’ve ever set foot in. Nobara is playing on the porch, her laughter cutting through the morning air while Hiromi sips coffee from a mug that probably cost more than your rent.
“Hey, you two!” you shout, stepping out into the carport.
“MOMMY!” Nobara shrieks and barrels off the porch toward you.
“Careful, baby!” you call, quickening your pace to meet her halfway. Higuruma stands up, instantly alert, ready to intercept if she trips.
“Mommy! I missed you!” Nobara flings herself into your arms and you squeeze her tight, breathing in the scent of her hair.
“I think I missed you more! Did you have fun with Daddy?” you ask, brushing hair from her forehead.
She nods vigorously. “I met his girlfriend!” she announces. Your stomach somersaults, but you force a smile.
“Oh, you did?” you say, doing your best to sound surprised and not unsettled.
Nobara wriggles out of your arms and bounces in place. “She’s awesome! She danced with me, played games, and watched movies all night.” Hiromi smiles as he joins you both.
“You should be her friend, Mommy,” Nobara says, eyes wide and earnest.
You blink, caught off guard. “Okay… but you’ll have to introduce me,” you say, glancing at Hiromi as you stand and give him a quick side hug.
“Where’s this famous woman, anyway?” you ask, scanning the driveway as Hiromi scoops Nobara up.
“She had some errands to run, but she wants to meet you. This little firecracker wouldn’t stop talking about you all night,” he says, tickling Nobara until she squeals and sticks her tongue out at him.
“Just let me know when. I can stop by—”
“Want to have dinner with me and her later this week?” Hiromi asks, voice suddenly careful.
You freeze, keeping your expression neutral. “Just the three of us?” Your voice comes out a little shaky, and Hiromi gives your arm a gentle squeeze.
“Yeah. That okay? I’d like you to get to know her without this one stealing the show for once.”
“Oh, uh, yeah! I’d love to. I’ll see if Toji or your mom can watch Nobara.” Hiromi nods, pressing a kiss to Nobara’s cheek.
“I love you, baby. I’ll see you in a couple days.”
“Bye, Daddy! I love you lots!” she sings, hugging him tight and blowing a raspberry on his cheek.
He helps you buckle her into Toji’s Camaro, then pauses, eyeing the car with a nostalgic grin. “I always liked Toji’s Camaro,” he chuckles. “But where’s the Honda?”
You sigh, pausing with your hand on the door. “In the shop. The starter finally died.”
Hiromi raises an eyebrow. “You’ve got money—just get a new car,” he scolds lightly.
“Don’t tell me what to do,” you shoot back with a smirk. “Sukuna’s fixing it right now, so it’s fine.”
“Sukuna?” He cocks his head.
“My neighbor,” you mutter, turning away to hide the heat rising in your cheeks.
“Oh, so now the neighbor is fixing your car? He’s in love,” Hiromi teases.
You roll your eyes, swatting his arm. “He’s a mechanic! He owns the shop! It’s not like that at all.”
Hiromi just laughs and nudges you with his elbow. “I knew I recognized him. I take my car there for oil changes all the time. You should keep him around—he might just buy you a car.”
You glare, pinching his side. “Not funny,” you protest, but you’re laughing as you give him a quick hug. “I gotta go get Megumi. I’ll see you later… this week, I guess.”
Hiromi waves as you slide into the driver’s seat. “Bring your neighbor, make it a double date!” he calls, winking.
You scowl and flip him off as you pull away.
From the back seat, Nobara watches with wide, curious eyes. “Mommy, what did you just do to Daddy?” she asks, head cocked to the side.
Your stomach drops. “That’s just me and Daddy’s secret way of saying goodbye,” you say, forcing a nervous laugh.
“Oh. Uncle Toji said that’s called ‘giving someone the bird.’” Then, with perfect imitation, she tries to copy your hand gesture.
You groan. I’m going to kill Toji.
“Remember how I told you there are things that only grown-ups can do, but kids can’t?” you say gently.
She nods, watching you seriously in the rearview mirror.
“That’s one of them, baby.” She ponders for a moment, then loses interest, turning her attention to the beeping of her Tamagotchi.
The rest of the drive is filled with digital chirps and the low hum of the radio. Before you know it, you’re pulling up to Megumi’s grandparents’ house.
They’re Toji’s wife’s parents. Every time you see them, they greet you with warmth and insist you take home leftovers, no matter how much you protest. Sure enough, as you pull up, Megumi is out front with his grandma, who’s already clutching several sealed bowls of something delicious. Called it.
She wraps you in a gentle hug, her embrace somehow both comforting and bittersweet. Together, you load the food into the car. She waves to the kids, her eyes lingering on Megumi with that special kind of love only grandparents have, and you wave back as you pull out of the driveway. Every time you see her, your heart squeezes. Her daughter was your best friend. It’s still strange, this gap in your life that no one else can fill. You feel her absence in every quiet moment, especially on days like this.
Megumi doesn’t seem to notice your mood. He’s immediately chattering from the back seat, launching into a play-by-play of his time with his grandparents—how they went fishing, how he caught the “biggest fish ever,” and how dinner at the restaurant was apparently life-changing. You nod and try to keep up, offering the right noises at the right times, but mostly you’re just happy to hear their voices again.
You pull into the McDonald’s drive-thru, the car filling with the familiar smell of fries and car exhaust. You order two Happy Meals and something for yourself, then hear Nobara’s hopeful voice: “Momma, can we eat inside?”
“Yeah, they have a slide!” Megumi chimes in, eyes bright.
You shake your head, keeping your tone light. “We’re gonna eat at the park today,” you say, pulling around to pay. The kids erupt with excitement, and you immediately regret telling them in advance because now they can’t stop yapping and squealing. Not that you mind—you missed them, even if it was barely a day since they were gone.
At the park, it’s surprisingly quiet for a Saturday. A handful of kids dart across the playground, and a few joggers wind their way along the trails. You help Megumi and Nobara out of the car, grabbing the food and watch as they sprint to claim a picnic table.
You spread out the food, poking straws into juice boxes, unboxing nuggets, and distributing fries. “After you eat, you can go play,” you tell them, and they nod with wide, eager eyes, already shoveling food into their mouths.
“Slow down, you two,” you chide, taking a bite of your own chicken nugget.
But they finish in record time anyway, dashing off toward the jungle gym the second their fingers are wiped clean. Megumi and Nobara immediately fall into their new favorite game—knights and dragons—chasing each other across the playground, shrieking with laughter. You watch from the table, smiling. That book about the brave knight must’ve left an impression on Nobara; she’s brandishing a stick like a sword, her imagination in overdrive.
You text Toji, letting him know you’re at the park with the kids. He just sends back a thumbs-up emoji. Typical.
You put your phone away and soak in the moment—sunlight filtering through the trees, the sound of happy kids, the hum of the world moving just a little slower.
Suddenly, two familiar voices break through the peace. “Hey, neighbor!” Yuji and Choso come barreling up to you, nearly tripping over each other in their rush.
“Hi, boys!” you say, genuinely happy to see them. You pull them both into a quick hug. “How are you? I’ve missed you!”
They hug you back, then launch into a rapid recap of their day, talking over each other and giggling.
A moment later, an older man appears behind them, wearing a deep frown. “Sorry about them,” he says, bowing slightly. “They insisted they had to come see you.”
You stand, extending your hand with a welcoming smile. “Oh, don’t worry about it! I’m their neighbor. My daughter’s in Yuji’s class,” you add, gesturing toward Nobara on the slide.
“Wasuke,” he introduces himself. “I’m the boys grandfather.” He chuckles, the frown melting into something almost fond. So this is Sukuna’s dad?
“Is that Megumi?” Yuji shouts, already bolting toward the jungle gym.
“Slow down, Yuji!” Choso yells, chasing after him.
You and Wasuke watch the kids for a moment in companionable silence.
“Mind if I sit?” he asks, nodding to the spot beside you.
“Not at all,” you say, patting the bench. There’s something about him that reminds you of Sukuna—gruff, intimidating, but not in an unfriendly way. You’re not scared of him. Actually, he seems nice. And honestly, after dealing with Sukuna, no one could faze you.
The next hour passes in a blur. Wasuke, it turns out, is nothing like his son in one key way—he’s a talker. Where Sukuna is all brooding silences and clipped responses, Wasuke fills every gap with stories: how he lost his wife, how hard it was raising Sukuna and Jin- his son who also passed away, and how grateful he is to have Yuji and Choso around. You listen, genuinely moved. It’s refreshing, hearing someone open up like this, and you find yourself laughing more than you have in a while.
You also file away every funny story and embarrassing detail he shares about Sukuna, knowing full well you’ll use it as ammunition the next time your neighbor decides to be an ass.
Honestly, you’re loving every second of it.
Suddenly, your phone rings. The number is unfamiliar. You raise a brow and glance at Wasuke. “One second, let me see who this is,” you say, stepping away as he nods and strolls over to check on what the kids are doing.
“Hello?” you answer, your tone cautious.
“Hey, Drunky.” That rough, familiar voice hits you in the gut—Sukuna.
Your stomach does an involuntary flip. “Sukuna?”
“Did you already forget you gave me your number?” He laughs, the sound low and teasing.
“No, I just got a little distracted listening to your dad,” you shoot back, grinning. “He’s been telling me all about what a pain in the ass you were as a kid.”
There’s a long pause on the other end. “My dad?” You can practically see Sukuna’s face twist into a scowl. “How the fuck did you meet him?”
You chuckle, glancing across the playground at Wasuke, who’s now being pushed on the swings by the kids, looking happier than you’ve ever seen Sukuna look. “I took Megumi and Nobara to the park. Turns out he had the same idea with Yuji and Choso.” The sight of Wasuke, a grown man being launched skyward by four tiny hands, almost makes you laugh out loud. “He’s a lot nicer than you, by the way.”
Sukuna sighs, sounding half-exasperated, half-amused. “Don’t let the old fart fool you. He’s only being nice because you’re pretty.”
You raise an eyebrow, even though he can’t see it. “Only because I’m pretty, huh?”
Instant regret colors his silence. “Whatever. I just called to tell you your car’s ready. Get over here or I’m leaving and you won’t see it until Monday.” He’s lying, of course. He’d wait all night for you, even if he’d never admit it.
You smirk. “I’ll be there in fifteen. Thank you, Sukuna.” You hang up before he can say anything else, your heart thumping a little too hard. You stare at your phone for a beat, the echo of his voice lingering, then tuck it away and head back to the group.
The kids are still ganging up on Wasuke, who’s pretending to be terrified as they try to push him higher. “Alright! Time to go pick up my car!” you call. Instantly, a chorus of groans and protests erupts.
“Nooo! Five more minutes!” Megumi begs.
“Sorry, guys. I’m sure you’ll see each other again soon,” you reassure, though you’re already bracing yourself for more whining.
Wasuke stands and brushes off his pants. “It was nice meeting you,” he says, giving you a warm, genuine smile. “You as well! I actually am heading to pick up my car from your son’s shop!” You grin and motion for Megumi and Nobora to come on.
“You’re going to Uncle Sukuna’s?” Yuji asks, eyes wide.
“Can we go? Please!” Choso bursts out, practically vibrating with anticipation.
You blink, suddenly realizing what you’ve gotten yourself into. Four kids at once. Your pulse speeds up, but you try to play it cool. “Uh, if it’s okay with Sukuna, I can bring them along.” You turn to Wasuke and he can see the glint of fear in your eyes.
Wasuke laughs, clearly enjoying your panic. “Let me call him.” He pulls out his phone and steps aside for a quick conversation. The kids huddle around, arguing over who gets to sit where.
Within minutes, Wasuke returns, grinning. “Alright, you brats, Uncle Sukuna says he’s ready for ya.” He ruffles their hair as they cheer and race for the car.
“Last one to the car is a rotten egg!” Nobara shrieks, and the kids take off, tripping over each other.
You sigh, watching the chaos. Wasuke falls into step beside you, his stride easy and confident. “Can I steal your car seat for Yuji? I’ll make sure Sukuna gives it back.” you ask.
“Of course,” he says, and you follow him over to his car—a sleek, spotless Mercedes that looks more at home in a showroom than a playground parking lot. You can’t help but wonder about his story, but you keep your questions to yourself for now. You’re sure he would tell you eventually.
It takes way too long to wrestle the car seat into Toji’s Camaro. The seatbelt doesn’t quite line up, and there are no extra anchors, so Wasuke improvises, strapping it down like he’s securing precious cargo for a cross-country haul. “That kid’s not going anywhere,” he declares, giving the seat a final tug. He claps you on the shoulder as if sealing the deal.
Once everyone is finally buckled in, Choso claims shotgun, legs swinging, while the three younger kids pile into the back, already arguing over juice boxes and window space.
You grin at Wasuke. “It was great meeting you. Hope to see you around.”
“Likewise,” he says, giving you a sly smile. “You’d better tell my son to keep you around.”
You laugh, cheeks warm, and wave as he heads back to his car.
You climb into Toji’s Camaro, adjust the mirror, and start the engine. Choso immediately commands the radio, flipping through stations until he finds something loud and bouncy. The kids start singing along—off-key, but with wild enthusiasm.
Honestly, it’s not so bad.
You pull up to Sukuna’s shop and actually take it in for the first time. It’s way nicer than you expected—a sleek, remodeled building tucked just off one of downtown’s busiest streets, with spotless windows and a row of polished cars parked out front. You wonder how you’ve passed it a dozen times and never really noticed it. Maybe you never thought to look.
You park Toji’s Camaro, turn off the engine, and glance in the mirror at the circus in your backseat. Choso helps you unbuckle the little ones, and as soon as everyone’s free, they explode out of the car, sprinting straight for Sukuna.
“Hey, boys!” Sukuna calls, spreading his arms wide. He looks like he just stepped out of a magazine ad for mechanics—grease-streaked arms, tattoos peeking from his sleeves, and that cocky grin you’re starting to crave more and more.
Choso stops a few feet away, eyeing him warily. “Uncle, you’re greasy,” he protests.
Sukuna just rolls his eyes, grabs Choso in a bear hug anyway. For half a second, Choso pretends to hate it, then cracks up, laughter echoing through the lot.
Sukuna waves at Megumi, who nods but is already distracted, eyes glued to the heavy-duty tools scattered on a nearby workbench.
Nobara darts up behind Yuji, both of them waving. “Hey, pretty girl,” Sukuna teases, ruffling Nobara’s hair. She giggles and takes off running, Yuji hot on her heels.
“Oi! Play in the office, not out here!” Sukuna’s voice booms across the lot, freezing all four kids in their tracks. They scramble inside, the door swinging shut behind them. Within seconds, you hear the faint sounds of typing and squealing as they pretend to be busy office workers.
You and Sukuna hang back for a moment, watching through the doorway. You can’t decide if you want to punch him, hug him, or just stand here and soak in the weird sense of comfort he brings.
“So, how was the old man?” Sukuna asks, wiping sweat and grease from his brow with a rag.
You smirk, “He’s nice. Told me you should keep me around.” You shoot him a teasing look.
Sukuna frowns, trying to hide the way your words get to him. “He’s senile.”
You laugh, “I think he’s kinda cute.”
He raises an eyebrow, smirking. “Well, they say I look just like him.”
That smirk makes your heart skip, and for a split second you have the urge to kiss him. But obviously don’t because that would be crazy. And you hate him.
I hate him. Right?
The silence stretches, heavy with everything you’re both not saying. Sukuna clears his throat and heads inside, returning with your keys dangling from his fingers.
“Alright, Drunky. She’s all fixed. Changed your spark plugs, too. Should run better than ever.” He drops the keys into your hand, and you can’t help but smile.
“Thanks! How much do I owe you?”
Sukuna lets out a little huff, shaking his head. “Don’t worry about it.”
You narrow your eyes, stubborn. “What? No. Let me pay you. Seriously, Sukuna.”
The way you say his name sends a jolt through him. He sighs, frustrated. “Don’t worry about it, Drunky.”
You plant your hands on your hips, refusing to back down. “What, you don’t think I can pay?”
His eyes widen, caught off guard. “What? No, I—look. This is what friends do, right? I was trying to be nice. How about you just… owe me?”
Friends.
You arch an eyebrow. “Are we just gonna keep owing each other forever then?”
He shrugs, that lopsided grin making a return. “Guess you’re stuck with me, then.”
He starts to turn away, heading back toward the office, but you call after him, “Wait—I need another favor.”
Sukuna turns, cocky as ever, but there’s something softer in his eyes. “And what’s that?”
“Help me move all the car seats?”
The way you tilt your head and smile at him almost makes him lose his composure completely. God, you’re perfect to him.
He shakes his head, laughing, and strolls over to the car. “Yeah, alright. But you definitely owe me for this one, Drunky.”
You roll your eyes, but you’re grinning like an idiot as you both get to work.
It takes the better part of fifteen minutes to wrangle all the car seats into place. Sukuna works beside you, sleeves rolled up, hair falling over his forehead, barking the occasional sarcastic comment—though his hands are gentle when it comes to making sure each buckle is secure. The kids hover around, offering “help” that mostly amounts to dropping buckles or arguing over which window seat is best.
Finally, with everyone strapped in and Sukuna’s hands still smudged with grease, you shut the door and lean against the car, catching your breath. “You know, you’re that bad,” you say, shooting him a smirk.
“Don’t let that get around,” he grins, wiping his hands on a rag. “I got a reputation to keep.”
You thank him again. He just shrugs it off, but there’s something in his eyes. You tell the kids to say goodbye, and they all wave with sticky hands and wide grins. Choso and Yuji are staying behind with Sukuna, but Megumi and Nobara pile in for the ride home, already plotting their next adventure.
The drive back is quieter than expected, both kids worn out from the excitement. Megumi leans his head against the window, eyes half-lidded, while Nobara hums to herself, clutching a plastic knight she won out of the Happy Meal box.
You pull into the apartment complex, the familiar sight of your building strangely comforting. The sun is starting to dip, painting the parking lot in gold.
“Alright, you two—let’s get inside,” you say, grabbing the leftover containers Megumi’s grandma packed for you. Nobara grabs your hand, and Megumi trails behind.
As you round the corner of the complex, you spot Toji locking up his office. The metal click echoes a little too loud in the quiet evening air. He looks up just as Megumi spots him.
“Dad!” Megumi yells, breaking into a run. Toji kneels down, catching him in his arms. For a moment, the tough-guy facade slips, but as his eyes meet yours, he offers a soft smile, but it feels off.
You arch an eyebrow but bite back any comment. You would never argue in front of the kids.
“Hey, squirt,” Toji says, hefting Megumi onto his hip. Megumi immediately wraps his arms around his father’s neck, head resting on his shoulder. He’s already half-asleep, his eyelids fluttering as he melts into the comfort of Toji’s hold.
You brush a gentle kiss across Megumi’s forehead, smoothing his hair back. Toji’s hand finds Nobara’s head, giving her hair a quick ruffle as she trudges up the steps, looking just as tired as the rest of you.
You and Toji watch her for a moment in silence—a rare, fragile peace. Then you glance sideways at him, searching his face for some clue as to what’s going on behind that mask.
“Your car’s still at Sukuna’s,” you say, keeping your voice low. “How are you gonna get it?”
Nobara lets out a dramatic huff and plops down on the stairs, arms crossed, eyes fixed on you with the patience of a five-year-old who’s already over it.
Toji doesn’t meet your eyes. “I’ll ride over with Ryomen in the morning,” he mutters. He shifts Megumi’s weight on his shoulder and starts to turn away.
You take a step after him, frowning. “How are you getting home tonight?”
He shrugs, still not looking at you. “The house isn’t that far. I’ll walk. I’ll text you when I’m home.” His voice is flat, almost mechanical. He glances at Nobara. “Night, Nobara. Love you.”
Nobara waves, mumbling a sleepy “Night Uncle Toji, night Megumi.” You just stand there, stunned, the tension thick between you. Toji doesn’t even bother to say goodbye to you. He just walks off into the dark, Megumi’s small form slumped against him, the two of them swallowed by the shadows at the edge of the street.
Now what the fuck was that?
Toji’s a master at hiding his feelings, but even you can tell he’s pissed—at you, most likely. Normally you’d hash it out, or let it sit and fester until it somehow blows over on its own. But this silence feels colder, heavier. It gnaws at your chest, the unspoken words crackling in the air between you.
You watch Toji’s figure disappear, your mind racing with questions you’re too tired to face. Nobara tugs at your shirt, pulling you back to the present.
You scoop her up, pressing her close, and carry her up the stairs to your apartment. The warmth of her weight in your arms is the only thing grounding you as the door closes softly behind you, shutting out the night and everything left unsaid.
Inside the apartment, the strange heaviness of the night lingers. Nobara is quiet, rubbing her eyes with the back of her hand as you set down the leftovers and scoop her up again. You carry her to the bathroom, starting the tub and tossing in a splash of her favorite bubble bath. The familiar scent fills the small space, and for a moment, things feel normal—just the two of you, winding down from a long, chaotic day.
You kneel by the tub, gently washing the dirt and playground grit from her arms and legs. Nobara chatters sleepily about Megumi, about knights and dragons, about Yuji and Choso and how Wasuke was the “funniest grandpa ever.” Her words drift in and out, her eyelids drooping as the warmth soothes her. You rinse her hair, careful not to let the water get in her eyes.
When she’s clean and wrapped in a soft towel, you help her into pajamas—her favorite set, the ones with little dinosaurs all over them. She yawns and curls up on her bed, clutching her plushie to her chest. You tuck her in, brushing a stray lock of hair from her face. Nobara blinks up at you, suddenly serious.
“Mommy? You’re not sad, right?”
Your heart twists, but you smile for her. “No, baby. I’m just tired. But I’m okay. I promise.”
She nods, seeming satisfied, and within minutes her breathing evens out, soft and steady. You linger for a moment, watching her sleep, the ache in your chest a mix of gratitude and exhaustion.
You turn off the lights and head to your own room, feeling the weight of the day pressing down on your shoulders. You’re just about to collapse onto your bed when there’s a knock at the door—sharp, unexpected, way too late for anyone normal to be visiting.
Your heart jumps. For a split second you consider ignoring it, but curiosity wins. You pad quietly to the door, peeking through the peephole. It’s Sukuna, standing in the hallway, hair damp and face shadowed in the golden light from the hallway fixtures. He’s holding something small and brightly colored in his palm.
You open the door just enough to see him fully. “You stalking me or somthing?”
He gives you a lazy smirk. “Your gremlin left this at my shop. Didn’t want her waking up and going Godzilla on your apartment because her digital pet starved overnight.”
You roll your eyes, but you can’t help the way your mouth quirks up at the corners. “You walked over here after your shower just to give me this?”
He shrugs, leaning a shoulder into your doorjamb. “It’s what, like ten steps? I figured you’d want it back before she notices.”
You take the Tamagotchi from him, fingers brushing his for just a second—warm, calloused, lingering a moment longer than necessary.
“Thanks, Sukuna.” He tilts his head, eyes meeting yours. For a second, it looks like he might say something more, but instead he just nods, pushing his hands in his pockets.
“Night, Drunky. Tell her I expect a thank-you drawing or something.”
You laugh under your breath and start to close the door, but for some reason, your mouth betrays you. The words slip out before you can stop them.
“Wanna go to dinner with me this Friday?”
As soon as you hear yourself, you freeze—heart stuttering, breath caught. What the fuck did I just do? The silence is thick, almost humming with mutual shock.
You and Sukuna stare at each other, identical looks of disbelief painted across your faces. For a split second, neither of you says a word, both waiting for the other to call it a joke or a mistake.
Then, Sukuna’s expression shifts. His mouth curls into a slow, mischievous grin, the kind that always makes you wary. “Oh, is this our first date?” He leans a little closer, eyes glittering with something you can’t quite name.
Your cheeks flush hot, but you force a frown, refusing to give him the satisfaction. “No! God, no. I need someone to come with me when I have dinner with Hiromi and his girlfriend. I cannot sit there as the world’s saddest third wheel.” Your voice is rushed, defensive—like you’re trying to cover up a crack in your armor.
Sukuna’s grin doesn’t fade. If anything, it gets wider, more dangerous. “So you’re saying you need me to be your fake boyfriend for the night?”
You roll your eyes. “Don’t make it weird. I just need backup. Hiromi’s girlfriend is apparently amazing and perfect and I’m not about to sit through two hours of their googly eyes by myself.”
Sukuna arches an eyebrow, his grin turning sly. “Why don’t ya bring Toji?”
You let out a frustrated huff. “Because every time Toji and Hiromi are together, they get shitfaced. I do not need to babysit two drunks all night.” The truth is, the thought of bringing Toji crossed your mind, but with the way he’s been lately—cold, distant, and pissed at you or maybe just the universe. So, he’s not even an option.
Sukuna laughs, a real one, deep and warm. The sound rolls down the hallway and settles somewhere under your skin. “Alright, alright. I’ll be your emotional support. But you’re buying me dinner after. And drinks. And dessert.”
You roll your eyes, but you can’t keep the smile from tugging at your lips. “Deal. But you have to swear you won’t be a dickhead.”
He raises his hand in mock solemnity, eyes dancing. “Scout’s honor. I’ll be a perfect gentleman.”
You snort. “Oh, that will be a sight to see.”
Sukuna steps back, looking entirely too pleased with himself. “It’s a date then. Fake or not.”
You open your mouth to fire something back, but the words tangle up in your throat. So you just shake your head and close the door, pressing your back against it as your heart pounds and adrenaline buzzes through your veins. You let out a shaky breath, trying to steady yourself.
On the other side, you hear Sukuna’s footsteps fading into the quiet. You stand there for a long moment, unsure if you’re dreading Friday… or looking forward to it more than you want to admit.
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beefboyandbabygirl · 2 years ago
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Pup Code (18+)
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(SEQUEL TO GIRL CODE. Y/N IS NOT THE SAME PERSON)
pairing: college!mingyu x college!reader
genre: college au, smut (MDNI), fluff, crack
description: mingyu doesn't have crushes. he likes avril lavigne and sometimes he fucks pretty girls. but you seem to stir something in him that no one else can. without the trusty girl code, mingyu makes his own code to help you fall in love with him.
warnings: kindddaaa bad writing tihi, service top!mingyu, dom!mingyu, sub!reader ish, size kink (reader is mentioned several times to be smaller than mingyu and several key interactions are based on this fact), oral (f. receiving), unprotected sex (dont do it guys...), praise (f. receiving), slight possessiveness?, mingu is soooo in love with y/n, he just wants to make her cum forever :( hes a total dork
quotes from my creative director (@joshibambi): "fuck realistic portrayals of sex with men. im very content with getting exposed to this", "men like this DONT exist",
wordcount: 5.7k
a/n: im back and i think ive regained my ability to write. thank u 2 @ryusha-rose for the amazing name for this fic, it ended up becoming a bigger part of the plot, so thank u sm to them tihihihi
This could not be happening.
Forever boring and bland, his friends had opted out of the party, and Mingyu stayed behind alone. Or not alone. He almost wished he were alone, because almost any company (even none!) was better than sitting across from the two idiots before him.
“Truth or dare, Mingyu!” Josh laughed smugly, and Jeonghan held his hand over his mouth, leaning into him. “Ohhhh, truth or dare!” 
Mingyu had been down this road before. There was no winning in this scenario, Josh and Jeonghan always attempting to pry embarrassing information from him. 
The party had settled down into a low hum. Most people were going home, either humping against another anonymous body as they stumbled out, or walking alone, jacket slung over their arm. There was no reason to stay, really, and torture himself with this circle of hell. Except, of course, for you.
“I don’t wanna do the chicken dance again, so I’m gonna go with truth,” Mingyu pursed his lips, determined to not act a fool in front of you.
He’d always been vaguely aware of you, but tonight had been his first time really sitting down with you. Contrary to your two best friends, you were cool and charming, and you didn’t seem like you wanted to embarrass him. This was already gaining you Mingyu-points, but he was absolutely taken aback by your humor and your smile and he, giddily, found himself liking you. 
Mingyu didn’t usually like people - not like he had always liked Avril Lavigne (there was a poster commemorating that crush in his dorm room) - so this felt big. He was nervous, hands clammy as they slid down his jeans. 
“Tell us about your first time,” Joshua asked innocently, mischief given away by how the older man cackled and slapped his arm. You watched in amusement, eyes flickering over to him, lashes coming over them in long, black lengths. He struggled to breathe when you held his eyes, so he sucked in a breath and looked at the floor, blushing. Damn it, he was already making a fool of himself.
“That’s so rude, Josh!” you said and threw a random chip at him. It hit him on the cheek and he groaned, face scrunching up in disgust. “Ask him something nicer.” 
“You’re so boring, Y/n.” 
Mingyu looked at you gratefully and you returned a warm smile to him.
“Yuck!” Jeonghan quacked from his seat between you and Josh. “You guys get a room! I can’t believe I let this stupid kids’ game take away from my boning.” 
“You’re so gross!” you groaned. 
“Josh was gonna hook me up with this girl from his class, dude,” Jeonghan continued complaining, forever going on about his ‘sexual conquests’. “Now I’m sitting with you dorks and you won’t even let us bully Mingyu.”
“Mingyu’s nice, you guys are just assholes,” you said, gesturing towards Mingyu with your beer. Mingyu was horrified.
Now was the time. Now was the moment to return the compliment; to say anything that might flatter you and defend you from the crooks that you apparently spent your time with. 
Now, this was a bit embarrassing for Mingyu. He had recently been adopted by a female friend group - some might even call him one of the girls, but alas! - so one would think he knew all about girls and how to approach them. The truth was, Mingyu was clueless. Beyond his daydreams of Avril Lavigne, and a few casual flings here and there, he had never actually been put in this situation. 
Mingyu thought about his girl-friends, thought about their advice and their critiques, and he knew. He knew it would frankly disappoint them if he came to them with no expertise, nothing learned from the countless girls’ nights. Therefore, he had to take matters into his own hands. 
“T-Thanks,” Mingu stuttered, lisping across the word. “Y-You’re also great.” 
Fuck, he was an idiot. 
You grinned at him and the sight of your beautiful smile, your shining skin and your gently falling hair was almost enough for him to miss how Josh and Jeonghan were lifting themselves off the floor in disgusted groans. 
“Alright, time to go. Shoo now, back to your dorms. Peasants.”  _____________________________
Mingyu didn’t need his girl-friends. 
He repeated this in his head for days, like a spiritual mantra, and maybe, he hoped, maybe he would start believing it. You and him had one mutual class and he counted down the days before he could swoop in and talk to you casually, flirtatiously, and seductively. 
With the absence of the very helpful girl code (it had certainly helped his friend, Jihoon, with his crush!) Mingyu discovered and consulted a new code. Mingyu code. 
He spent his days diligently writing down his own best advice. Some rules were more helpful than others.
“Mingyu code rule 3: always wash your hands after a shower,” he hummed to himself with a small, satisfied smile, while scrubbing his hands in the steamed up bathroom. 
“Mingyu code rule 12: go on bike rides frequently for a better jawline!” he panted, hunched over his bike, and pedalling through the nearby park in the beating sun. 
Now, Mingyu was mumbling all of his new-found rules to himself, books pressed into his chest, while he approached you in class. It was the middle of the day, and the class hadn’t started yet, people still filing in from the halls. Thankfully, you were sitting alone on your phone, both Jeonghan and Joshua nowhere to be seen. The universe was working with him.
But he was still sweaty and nervous and breathing unevenly when he finally reached you. Remember the code, he reminded himself, remember to be cool and calm.
“Hey...” he whispered, and then, louder: “Hey.” 
You looked up from your phone, smiling brightly when you saw him. For such a huge man, you realized he could look quite small. 
“Hey, Mingyu!” you said cheerfully, settling your phone down on the table before you. He shuffled to sit down next to you, jacket rustling against the wood. Your seat was near the back, so the hall felt great and wide, and a little bit like an audience to his fumbling. 
Rule 14, he remembered sneakily, always wear a jacket, so girls (Y/n) will marvel at your muscles when you take it off! 
Mingyu moved to take off his jacket, eyeing you as he did so, in what he certainly thought was a sultry and sexy look. You blinked back up at him, smiling.
Oh shit. 
Something was caught on- on something! Stuck with the jacket halfway down his arm, Mingyu began struggling and writhing in it, warmth spreading across his cheeks. You smiled at him fondly, biting back a chuckle. 
“Do you need help?” you asked. “No- No, I got it, uh-”
You moved to help anyway, tugging a corner of the jacket off the design of the chair, and he stared at you widely, because you were suddenly so close to him and so cool and calm and pretty, and your fingers danced along his skin. He breathed out a heavy sigh when it finally slid off his arms, furrowing his brows in embarrassment.
“You’re clumsy, huh?” you teased, settling back in your seat and Mingyu chuckled dryly. 
“You don’t know the half of it,” he murmured, and to his delight and surprise, you laughed. You had a loud laugh. It ripped itself from your throat and bounced off the walls of the classroom. He smiled proudly at how your face contorted in joy. 
“You’re funny, Gyu,” you said, stilling finally and he swore his heart galloped in his chest at the nickname. You were so pretty and so sweet, and he wanted to hug you so bad. He grinned, then looked around the room.
“Where are Joshua and Jeonghan?” 
“God knows,” you snorted. “I think they’re poisoning the water supply of some third world country, but I could be wrong.” 
It was Mingyu’s turn to laugh, and how couldn’t he? Because you were so smart and so gorgeous, and he truly didn’t understand how he was smitten by you so fast. There was something humbling about spending all his freetime scrolling through Instagram photos and giggling when you smiled prettily at the camera. 
Next step in Mingyu code was a little tip he’d borrowed from the countless renditions and repeats of the “Jihoon story”; a heartfelt confession.
Wait a minute. Was he skipping a few steps? Surely- Oh yeah, he definitely was. He couldn’t help but want to skip to cuddling, but going from step one to seven was maybe a bit of a stretch. Jogging his brain for his ultimate “confession for Y/n” gameplan, Mingyu didn’t even notice the lull in the conversation, while he stared at you with furrowed brows and a pout.
“So, uh,” you began awkwardly, and Mingyu finally snapped out of his daze. Shit, he was being a dork again. “You coming to the party on Friday?” 
“Oh, yeah. Yeah, I’ll be there. Jus’.. Love partying.”
There was no salvaging this.
“Alright,” you giggled, confused, and finally turned your eyes to the board when the professor began speaking.
Friday, he thought, gulping down the shame. Friday I make some serious moves. _____________________________
Mingyu was not making serious moves. In fact, he wasn’t making any moves at all.
He’d never felt more strange, standing on the edge of the dancefloor and bending his knees awkwardly to the rhythm of the music. His limbs were mile long stretches and they swung uselessly around him. He looked almost lost, but, of course, it was only Soonyoung’s house. 
“You okay, man?” Wonwoo, his roommate, padded up beside him, eyeing him warily through the lens of his glasses. “Are you on something?” 
“No, I’m not on something!” Mingyu huffed, stopping his frankly pathetic dance moves and looking directly at the man before him. “I just… You know that girl Josh and Jeonghan are always hanging out with?” 
Wonwoo nodded.
“I kind of.. Really.. Like her.”
“What?!” Wonwoo exclaimed, completely forgoing his drink to look at Mingyu in bewilderment. “You haven’t liked anyone since Avril Lavigne!” 
“I know! But this girl’s just really smart and cool and funny,” Mingyu smiled shyly, eyeing you where you sat with Josh and Jeonghan, as well as two girls he didn’t recognize  - oh, wait, no, Jeonghan and one of the girls were leaving together. Just you, Josh and the blonde then. Wait, no, now Josh was leaving with the blonde. Just you.
Wonwoo saw how Mingyu’s eyes brightened with opportunity and he smiled beneath the rim of his plastic cup.
“Wait! Wonwoo! You can wingman me!” Mingyu exclaimed suddenly, hoping the older man’s presence might ease the interaction. 
“What? No!” Wonwoo grimaced.
“Why not?”
“You don’t deserve my services, Mingyu! Not after what you did to me!” 
“We’ve talked about this, the Jihoon-story is a very sweet thing and you should be happy to have been a part of it-” 
“I’m talking about the other time. Or the other-other time!”
Mingyu slumped, a pout on his pink lips. Wonwoo softened, but stayed steadfast nonetheless.
“Listen, just go talk to her. I have a girl waiting for me upstairs, I just wanted to see if you were okay,” the older man said softly, patting his shoulder while a drink was clutched in his other hand, liquid dancing against the cup-walls when he wafted his hand.
“I would be more okay if you wing-manned me-” 
“Alright, that’s enough,” Wonwoo murmured, walking away towards the stairs. Mingyu sighed and looked over at you. You were chewing your lip, face lit by the screen of your phone. 
“Mingyu code rule 17: Confidence is key. Confidence is sexy,” Mingyu reminded himself, squeezing his eyes shut and beginning to walk over to you. “You’re hot, Mingyu. You have big muscles and a pretty face.”
Mingyu could’ve almost convinced himself, but when he opened his eyes, legs mindlessly padding closer to you, you were so pretty and so intoxicating, he faltered completely. 
“H-Hi,” he stammered, brows immediately pulling up in disdain at himself. You looked up and smiled immediately, face shining bright. “Hi, Gyu! Come sit down with me!” 
He nodded dumbly, and squeezed in beside you. His muscly arms were pressed into himself and leaning on his thighs, and he tried to compose his features into something sexy and sultry, when he turned to look at you. You smiled in a sort of knowing way that had Mingyu dropping his face immediately. 
“You enjoying the party?” he rasped, turning to look out at the crowd. You pursed your lips and looked at it with him. “Not sure. It’s kind of boring and Josh and Jeonghan just left.” 
“Yeah, I saw,” he sighed, then widened his eyes. Oh God, he thought, what if you thought he was a total creep - a creepster - staring at you from across the room all creepily. “Not that I- I wasn’t- I just saw it, like, casually across the roo-” 
“Mingyu, do you want to take me out on a date?” 
Huh?
“Huh?” 
Mingyu didn’t know if he was hearing that right. The words had come so naturally and so casually from your mouth, and now you were staring at him with furrowed brows and pursed lips, and waiting expectantly for him to answer. 
“Do you want to take me out on a date?” you repeated, shrugging your shoulders, as if it were just the weather. Mingyu stared at you with whole, wide eyes, and swallowed hard. Clammy hands gripped his knees.
“Yeah,” he breathed, laughing awkwardly. His mouth was so dry and his heartbeat was almost painful in his chest, although the tensions were eased when smiled sympathetically. “I mean- if you want to-” 
“I want to go on a date with you too, Mingyu,” you reassured, smiling even wider when his lips mimicked your own. 
“Oh my God, okay, so, I was thinking Olive Garden-” Mingyu giggled, and his pure expression of joy was infectious, genuinely making your heart soar, as this huge, muscly man bounced on the couch cushions. He cut himself off halfway, narrowing his eyes. “Wait, wait, how did you know?” 
“How did I know what?” you frowned.
“That I like you?” 
Your immediate reaction was to snort. This only confused Mingyu further, so you elected to respond truthfully: “Mingyu, you always look at me so longingly, seriously-”
“That- those were sexy faces!” he pouted. 
“No, they were longing and tender. Like pull-apart meat. And then sometimes you do the- the Zoolander face-” 
“I’ve never done the Zoolander face in my life!” 
“And all your moves are so obvious, Gyu,” you watched how he slumped at those comments, a little, pitiful pout on his lips, all deflated like a puppy. You reached a hand over to caress his arm, warm and hard with muscle under your fingertips. Mingyu immediately leaned into your touch, pout being replaced with a small goofy smile. “It was very endearing, though. You’re very cute.” 
“I was going for sexy,” Mingyu said, mood lifted at your compliment, but still a little pouty.
“Then go sexy on our date,” you squeezed his bicep in your hand and he perked up. “Now that you know I like you too.” 
Hearing those words, that admission, Mingyu smiled to himself. 
Mingyu Code; he truly was genius. _____________________________
“So no Olive Garden?” you quipped, standing outside of a more upscale restaurant - candlelit and warm and Italian. Mingyu shook his head. He’d thought Olive Garden would woo any girl, but after triumphantly boasting to his girl-friends (mothers), that he’d gotten a date with a girl he liked, he’d been nothing but scolded by the restaurant choice (“A girl wants to feel pampered! Olive Garden is for post-6-month-relationships!” Yeri had squawked). 
“Not until in six months,” Mingyu said, shrugging when you lifted a brow in question. Cars were bustling past where you were standing on the sidewalk. Grass sprouted from the cracks in the cement and people idled past where the two of you were facing each other, your head craning up to his. “Wanna go inside?” he asked.
Mingyu had become more at ease, following your admission. You liked him too, he tried to remember, whenever the butterflies batting around his curving ribcage became too much. And it was becoming too much now, with how your lips spread in a smile and you nodded at him.
You walked in, hand in hand. The tables were fine, polished wood and there was a slightly-stained, white tablecloth draped over the rounded surface of the table. Sneakily, Mingyu nudged some salt and pepper shakers over the yellow splotches on the fabric, hoping you wouldn’t notice, and that you’d feel pampered. You were busy looking at the menu. 
Mingyu asked about everything - not because of Girl Code or Mingyu Code or whatever other bullshit way to woo a woman. No, he asked because he was sincerely and utterly interested in you, what made you you, what habits you got from your childhood, what made you choose your major, how you knew Josh and Jeonghan. You were so beautiful in the light of the restaurant, but more importantly, you were the most infatuating individual Mingyu had ever laid his eyes on. Maybe even more so than Avril Lavigne. 
You got to talking about Mingyu Code. 
“Well, it was because of my friends. They have Girl Code, right?” 
“Yeah, that’s God’s rules,” you hummed, sipping on a soda. 
“Mhm, and my friend followed Girl Code and he got with this girl he really liked.” 
“Mhm.” 
“But I decided to make Mingyu Code. Which is about being sexy and charming.” 
“You were none of those things,” you teased, but Mingyu had gained confidence and he leaned back in his seat with a smirk, stretching out his arms, as if gesturing to the restaurant. 
“Well, I beg to differ. You’re here now, aren’t you?” 
“I suppose I am,” you smiled, admitting defeat. “Although I don’t think you were following Mingyu Code.” 
“Yes, I was, I made it. I’m the founder of that shit,” Mingyu grimaced.
“Well, if Mingyu Code is about being sexy, then you definitely accidentally followed some other code.”
“Wha-”
“Puppy code. You’re like a big, clumsy puppy. Yeah,” you nodded to yourself, satisfied with your new name for Mingyu’s terrible, horrible guide to wooing you. “Pup Code.” 
“Why does everyone call me that?” Mingyu whined, crossing his arms and pouting. Your plates were empty and streaks of cream sauce sludged up the sides of the porcelain. 
“You give off major himbo vibes,” you said.
“I’m smart, though,” Mingyu huffed. You smiled fondly at his bratty expression. 
“I know you are.” 
Mingyu caught your eye and caught the sincerity in them, and it made his whole body ache and flutter. You liked him too, it was clear and not something Mingyu had to tell himself, it was right there, right behind your retina, twinkling at him. 
“Do you wanna..?” Mingyu trailed off, pointing his thumb to the door. You pursed your lips.
“What if I wanna take it slow?” You asked, and it was almost adorable how Mingyu’s eyes widened and he shook his head vehemently and seriously. 
“That’s okay! We can- we can totally do that,” he said decidedly, as if it weren’t a bother at all (because it wasn’t). 
“Okay,” you nodded, letting go of your now finished drink. “But if I want you to take me to your room right now and fuck me?”
Mingyu whipped his head to yours, the way a door bursts open. You saw him swallow, throat dry and heavy, and biting his lip.
“That- That would be okay, too,” Mingyu said shakily, blushing furiously. Images flashed his mind of you in less-than-sacred scenarios, and he squeezed his eyes shut to ward them away. 
“Okay, then let’s go,” you shrugged nonchalantly. 
“To my room?” He almost couldn’t believe it.
“Yes.” 
“Okay, fuck, let me just pay.”
Mingyu didn’t think he’d ever paid and left a restaurant so fast, and he was enamored with you enough to completely skip the step where he contemplated whether or not the staff secretly hated him. You and him walked hand in hand, as he practically dragged you through the street back to the dorms, his long legs working faster and more efficiently than your own. You half wanted to complain at the brutal pace, but you couldn’t lie. You needed him just as much as he needed you. And he knew that too. 
Thankfully the restaurant wasn’t too far from the dorms, and Mingyu had frantically texted Wonwoo to “get out or he’d be squirted with semen” (a threat that Wonwoo didn’t need to hear twice!), so after ten minutes and some sore legs on your part, Mingyu and you scrambled into his room.
Mingyu liked the privacy, you realized, because it wasn’t until the door was closed, and you both were sealed away in the Mingyu-zone, that he finally walked up to you, hands finding your waist with a confidence you didn’t think possible for him.
“Can I kiss you now?” he whispered, somewhat out of breath from the climb up the stairs. You smiled at him. “I’d be mad if you didn’t.” 
And then he pounced. His plush lips were soft and well-moisturized, and his annoying, perfect nose brushed against yours; in fact his whole stupidly gorgeous face was pressed into yours, as your lips thrummed together, and you were conjoined into one being by the lips. 
His hands ran up and down your sides, finally taking hold firmly, only to pull you into his lap when he settled on the edge of his bed. You straddled his lap, as your lips danced, his tongue peeking out to enter your mouth. You moaned gratefully. Involuntarily, your hips rolled into his, and the jolt reverberated all the way up to his lips where he cried out and panted against your mouth. 
“You’re so pretty,” he said in between heated kisses. 
“So are you,” you said. He pulled away and smiled up at you, and he was truly worthy of the puppy-title, because his grin was so goofy and his eyes twinkled and he was so warm against you, it almost hurt. 
Carefully, he pressed a kiss to the valley of your breasts over your t-shirt, looking up at you with wide, brown eyes. “Can I eat you out?” 
The way he said it like he was completely and totally enamored with you (he was), like it was in this very moment of sitting on his lip and running your hands up his huge arms, that he was falling in love with you (it was), almost made you bashful. Your smile, usually cheeky and teasing, came small and shy. 
“Yeah, I-I wouldn’t mind that at all,” you responded, cursing at yourself for letting your confidence falter. However joy spread on Mingyu’s face like the ever-expanding universe spreads into endless empty space, because for once the tables were turned, and you were right underneath his hands, and he was flustering you. 
It had him pushing you onto his bed, head falling into the depths of his pillow, and working at your skirt to shimmy it down your legs. You lifted your hips in help and soon enough that and your shirt was discarded on the floor. Mingyu, with his black tee and his big arms and his sweetest-hottest face on Earth, settled between your legs with a dumb grin. 
“I can’t believe-” he cut himself off with a satisfied sigh, staring at your pussy. You were pushing yourself up by your arms, looking at the man-child between your legs just staring at your core as if it were his most prized possession. “I-I can’t believe I get to have you like this. I can’t believe you’re mine.”
Mingyu’s face fell (it was almost comical), and his eyes snapped up to yours. “Wait, are you mine? You are mine, right?” 
You giggled fondly. “Yeah, I’m yours, Mingyu.” 
Mingyu’s grin returned immediately and he nodded happily, eyes turning back to your pussy. 
“It’s so pretty,” he sighed, fangs poking out where his smile ended. One finger ran through your folds, wet from the making out and all the heated stares from lovedumb Mingyu. You whined a little at the pressure when his finger reached your clit. He was so close you could feel him panting against it. 
“Mingyu, please, stop staring at it, and do something,” you cried and Mingyu pursed his lips and nodded. “Right, yeah, sorry.” 
And then he dived in. 
His nose pressed into your clit as soon as he pushed his head in, tongue stuck out to lick at your folds. Your hands flew to his hair, a desperate moan leaving you. It was a little embarrassing how loud he was, huffing and puffing at your pussy, but you couldn’t complain when his tongue traced up from your hole to your clit, lips wrapping around it. 
“A-Aah, M-Mingyu-” you cried and pushed his head further into your core, while your hips canted off the mattress. The press of his nose was amazing, and his breaths danced across your nerves. “S-Shit, that feels so good.” 
Mingyu was totally lost in you though. Your taste on his tongue, your soft thighs underneath his hands where he pushed you apart, your moans, and the desperation in your movements. The fact that you were so catty and witty, but with a few flicks of his tongue, your facade fell and you became a whiny, desperate mess, begging for him. And he loved to give it to you. He loved that you felt good, he loved being the one to make you feel good. Lapping and panting into your pussy, Mingyu started to think he didn’t ever need to leave. You could just feel good forever! The logic was flawless.
“Fuck, fuck, fuck!” you cried and you came on his tongue, cum seeping out of your sopping pussy. Mingyu, strong and tan and shiny Mingyu, didn’t stop though. Too enchanted by your soft moans and your nail in his roots, and your juices on his lips, he kept at it, tongue-fucking you to slurp up the cum. 
“M-Mingyu-” you whimpered softly, and his only response was a grunt, and one hand sliding off your thighs to prod at your entrance. “M-Mingyu, I-I already came!” you cried, more insistent. 
“You can cum again,” he mumbled gruffly, two fingers pushing into you. The feeling was so intense your voice became strangled and your chest pushed off his bed.
“Just say if you wanna stop, then I’ll stop,” his tone was almost challenging, as he pulled his face away from your dripping pussy and his fingers stilled inside you to give you a chance to answer. You looked down at him, panting, as he waited expectantly. Your ‘stop’ didn’t come. 
“That’s what I thought,” Mingyu grinned again, and God, this time it was sexy; not endearing, not awkward, not clumsy. It was so incredibly hot and he dived right back to your pussy, tongue swaddling your folds and fingers beginning to pump in and out. 
Your clit grinded against his face, slick smearing all over him, but he didn’t seem to care one bit, your cum on his cheek and two fingers working inside you, curling into your g-spot. “Cum again,” he gasped in between sucking on your clit with pointed lips. “Cum again, I wanna hear it again. You sounded so pretty, please, cum again. On my fingers now.” 
And he was rambling for sure, but it was working for you, because for the second time that night, a knot tightened in your belly and the string were pulled tighter and tighter with each lick and suck, and eventually it snapped, and your whole body spasmed and your pussy pulsated around his thick fingers. 
This time, he did stop. You closed your eyes and heaved for air, lying completely still in the sheets of his bed and panting for air. Mingyu smiled cheekily, pulling his fingers out of your sensitive pussy and licking them clean. As if it was nothing. As if it was juice from a popsicle, his tongue peaked out and he sucked your essence off of them, groaning at its taste. 
“Can you go on again? You taste so good,” he hummed, eyeing your fucked-out state. Your cheeks were flushed and strands of hair stuck to your sweaty face. You shook your head. “No, no, I want your cock now.” 
“Anything for you,” Mingyu agreed, shuffling to take his clothes off while you regrouped. 
It was not long before he was climbing over your body, so fucking huge and covering your entire form in his own, muscles flexing when he lowered himself onto you. As if by nature, Mingyu, tan and glistening in the bedside lamp, grabbed you by under your knees and pushed them to your chest, pressing them into you. 
“Wanna fuck you like this,” he pressed a kiss to one of the knees that was now folded over you. “Can I fuck you like this?” 
“Please!” you sobbed, because the position, and his strong hands holding you there, and your own slick covering his face had your pussy dripping onto his bed, and you could practically feel the heavy presence of his dick, even if it wasn’t touching you yet. 
Mingyu tilted his head as he looked down at you. You were so easy to admire. It was so easy for him to fall into every little jerk and breath and crevice of your face, and you looked so beautiful underneath him, Mingyu started to think he wanted nothing more for the rest of his life than to make you feel this good. 
“Okay,” he whispered, and only then did you notice how he stared at you, because there was something very tender in his voice. Adoration poured directly from his heart and into you.
Before you could get lost in his warm eyes, he moved one hand down to steer his dick into you. You cried out when you felt it pressing against your slit, cried even more when it started pressing into you. 
You had suspected Mingyu might be big, but nothing could’ve prepared you for each inch that seemed to endlessly plunge into your heat. Stretching you out like a rubber band, Mingyu finally bottomed out in you, his hard pelvis resting against your mound. 
“Shit, Gyu, y-you’re so fucking big,” you gasped, and then opened your eyes to see him smirking proudly. It made you giggle. He hummed giddily, looking down at your stomach. 
“You’re just so fucking small,” he said then, pressing one hand to your stomach, and then groaning when he could feel his dick inside you. “Shit.” 
At that, Mingyu started pounding into you. His pace was fucking relentlessly, something seemingly awakened in him at the bulging in your stomach. “Shit, shit, shit, my tiny, pretty baby, fuck, you’re so fucking gorgeous.” 
The praise had you reeling into him, it had you crying out and gripping onto his shoulders for dear life, while he worked up a sweat pistoning in and out of your pussy. You moans were shaken from the impact of his dick in your pussy. “Shit, so fucking tight, can hardly fucking take me.” 
“G-Gyu, f-fuck-” 
“But you’ll take it, hm? Fuck, I wanna make you cum so much more, jus’ have you in my room, making you cum over n’ over again. Shit.” 
You had not pegged Mingyu as a dirty talker, and you weren’t even sure if he was aware of what he was doing. Something about having his dick inside you, warm walls just pulled one dirty slew of words out after another. He’d never fucked a girl like this, never felt compelled to tell her exactly what she was doing to him. Not like with you.
You were so gorgeous to him, the way your chest bounced, and your eyes were screwed shut and how your mouth was opened in continuous, strained moans. It was how your hair bunched up on his pillow, and how your skin felt against his, and how you clenched at every word he spewed, while grinded into you like you were the only other person in the world. 
“F-fuck, my pretty fucking baby, you’re mine, right? Say it and I’ll make you cum forever, jus’-” he groaned, as your pussy clenched down on him extra tight. His pace fell and his hands on your knees dug into the skin. “Jus’ say you’re mine, please, Y/n.” 
“I-I’m yours, Gyu!” you cried out, his pace speeding up again and another orgasm bubbled in your stomach, and you pussy clenched embarrassingly hard for embarrassingly long. “Only yours, fuck.” 
“That’s right. Cum again, let- let me hear it one more time, yeah?” 
You came. Again. Clenching down so hard, and face twisting in pleasure, cum spilled out of you and coated his dick, still inside you.
Your third orgasm was a melodious song, and you moaned to it so loudly, you knew people three halls over would be wondering what was going on. But you could care less, letting his presence, his smell, his being above you drag more bursts of pleasure out of your body. 
Your breathing calmed down again, your soul traveling down from a sky-high mountain, and you started to feel it all again. Your orgasm had been so blinding, you had lost all of your senses but the blinding white explosion in your stomach, and now sighed heavily, pushing yourself up a little.
To your surprise, Mingyu’s hold on your knees didn’t let up, and it took you a moment to realize that his dick was still extremely hard inside you. He hadn’t cum yet.
“Want you to cum again,” Mingyu smiled sheepishly, adjusting his position to be able to pound into you again. You looked at him incredulously, and he chuckled a little, shrugging. “Just say if you want to stop.”
“Safe word is ‘pup’.” 
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thewriterwithnoplan · 1 year ago
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Ferrari's Fairytale (1/3)
Summary: World Championships are the most important part of any Formula One team's history. Except perhaps, Ferrari's. Known for their rabid fans, filthy-rich investors, and pretty boy drivers it shouldn't be a surprise that the team has brought together Soulmates from across the globe. And fate, it seems, is working awfully hard to put all the pieces into place for Ferrari's perfect fairytale - one that's been in the works for decades now.
[Part 1 of Pretty Girls and Ferrari Boys]
Soulmate AU: Soulmates share injuries and pain.
Pairing: Charles Leclerc x Reader (Eventual)
Word Count: 1650
Warnings: Swearing, no Charles in this first part sorry it's his epic love story and those take time ;)
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There was something wrong with your soulmate.
Really there had been something wrong with them since you were eight years old. But right now, there was something particularly wrong with them.
“Just some bruising over the ribcage, but no actual damage internally.” The medic presses a latex covered hand gently against your ribs.
“They feel broken.” You suck in a pained breath and glare over her shoulder, at the little framed picture of her cat, Terror, on her desk. “You’re sure I’m not about to sneeze and puncture a lung?”
“Funny.” Though the look she gives you as she pulls off her gloves is less than amused. “Which one of us went to medical school again?”
“My best friend. You might know her. She’s stunning, generous, gives me free check-ups, did I say stunning? Goes by Sunny.”
“It’s Doctor Sunny to you.” She slingshots one of the gloves at you. “But it’s good to know you only keep me around for the free check-ups.”
“My soulmate would bankrupt me without you.”
Sunny taps at her computer, “The fee isn’t that high.”
“Sure,” You shrug. “If you aren’t in here every other week.”
“Have we ruled out hitman as their profession?”
“Since we were eight?”
“I don’t know much about hitmen, maybe they start them young.”
You lower yourself carefully from the observation table and move stiffly toward her desk. “Give it to me straight Doc. How much longer have I got?”
“I’m afraid you’ll live, ma’am.” Sunny doesn’t even look up. “A tragedy for all, I know. I can give you a moment if you need time to process– Ow! Bitch.”
She rubs at her shoulder and huffs.
“I’m going to have to log that in the database, you know.” She says.
“Good, maybe we can both find our soulmates and be done with it all.”
“Real romantic, dude.”
“Your soulmate hasn’t been terrorising you since you were a kid.”
“I had my fair share of scraped knees,” Sunny wrinkles her nose when you stick your tongue out. “You do know it won’t stop after the two of you meet, right? That’s a schoolyard myth.”
“After the talking to I’m going to give him, you bet your perky ass it’s going to stop.”
“That’s the second instance of workplace harassment I’ve coped from you in the last minute.”
“Fine. Your ass is not perky.”
“Mature.” She hums, “What time did you say the pain started?”
“Ten-thirty-ish?”
“All good then.” Sunny makes a few more clicks before powering down her computer. “Your chest and my arm, all nice and logged.”
“You know, sometimes I think you became a Match Medic specifically so you could put every little thing into the database to make it easier to find your soulmate.”
“Perks of the job.” She scoops up her handbag. “Come on, let’s bounce before the front desk starts scheduling over my lunch break.”
“You remember how I said you were stunning and generous and stunning?”
“I’m not buying you lunch.”
“Could this week get any worse?” You throw your head back dramatically.
Sunny cracks a smile at your antics, “Only a few more hours and we’re free for the weekend.”
“Are we still on for pamper-night tonight?”
“Always. Mine or yours?”
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You end up spending the night in Sunny’s apartment, covered in different rejuvenating oils and masks until you look like low-budget horror movie villains. In your fluffy robes with The Princess Bride on in the background Sunny tries to teach you how to make Hainanese Chicken the way her mother did. Terror cries at your feet when you tell him he can’t have raw chicken. Sunny pops a bottle of cheap champagne that makes you both grimace and promise one another that you would find an excuse to get a nicer bottle soon. You take turns washing the excess from the face, foot, and hair masks off. Then curl up together on the couch, sipping broth, digging into rice and slathering chicken in Sunny’s family’s super-secret chilli sauce. You both fall asleep at a very respectable eleven o’clock.
So, it’s fucking strange when you wake up feeling like you had spent the night inside a paint mixer.
“Are you okay?” Sunny frowns as she stands over a pan of eggs. “You look ill.”
You squint over your coffee cup, “Soulmate is playing up.”
She plates the eggs next to a small stack of bacon before turning to put a hand to your forehead. “They shouldn’t be making you feel sick, illness doesn’t transfer like that. Are you sure it’s coming from them? Could you just be hung over?”
“It’s definitely him, third weekend in a row, like clockwork.” You take your plate gratefully, “It’s like I always tell you. It’s not nausea. It’s more like…”
“Impossible to explain for you and every medical practitioner you’ve ever seen?”
You groan, “It’s like my brain spent the night trying to escape my skull and the muscles in my neck were in on it.”
“It’s not unheard of for soulmates to feel the repercussions of an intense work out. There was this study from four years ago on high performance athletes and their partners that–”
You groan again, “Oh god and now there’s a nerd in my ear!”  
She tosses a gelatinous bit of egg onto your plate. It lands with a splat that makes you fake gag. “Oh, grow up.”
“You should be nice to me,” You lament, “I’m wounded!”
“Your soulmate is wounded.”
“And I’m sure their best friend is taking very good care of them!”
She pulls a face at you but still takes your plate to the dishwasher for you. As she’s rinsing them, she asks, “What’s on for the rest of your weekend?”
“I got a call from my parents on Thursday and guess what?” You sipped at the cold dregs of your coffee, “The dentist finally figured out which one of them the toothache is coming from!”
“That’s great,” Sunny’s smile was genuine. “They’re going in to get it fixed?”
“Tomorrow morning, both going under local anaesthesia.”
You hip checked her lightly out of the way to rinse both your cups. “You want another coffee?”
Sunny propped herself up on the counter, “My caffeine addiction is rubbing off on you I fear.”
“Listen, we have to get through the day somehow.” You coaxed the machine back to life before leaning against the counter to look at Sunny. “Anyway, my parents were supposed to go to this race tomorrow. Dad is particularly devastated and has practically ordered me to represent the family ‘at our home race.’ It’s been tradition for him and mum since they got married. It’s kind of a big deal for him. The man is obsessive.”
“My parents had something similar to say about our family legacy and studying medicine.”
“Speaking of… You remember all the times I sat up with you studying, or brought you food when you forgot to eat, or ran errands for you, or made sure you took breaks, or–”
“Fine, I get it, I’ll go to the stupid race.”
“Oh, how kind of you to offer.” You passed her one of the cups. “It won’t be that bad. Motorsports are supposed to be fun live, right?”
Sunny snorted, “Thank God. Motorsports? I thought you meant like a horse race or a marathon. I was getting war-flashbacks to track-and-field.”
You put a hand to your heart, “You were willing to relive cross country for me?”
“I was willing to ogle fit, sweaty men for you, definitely.”
“Alright, first of all – fuck you. But also same,” You clinked mugs and nodded solemnly at one another, “Maybe we can find some fit, sweaty drivers to ogle instead.”
Sunny hummed, “What do I wear? Is it like sprint cars or more like V8s – ooh is it an illegal drag race?”
“Girl, no.” You swatted at her thigh, “It’s Formula 1, which is perfectly legal and safe and much faster than any of those options.”
“Alright, Miss Daddy’s-Girl, go off.”
“Shut up, I’ve had to hear him go on and on about it my whole life.” You pulled a face at your coffee. “The man has had a hard-on for Ferrari since before he met my mother, and then he met her in the Ferrari hospitality at an F1 race, and he’s fucking worshipped them ever since.”
“Oh my god, why am I only just hearing about this?” She grabbed your face, squishing your cheeks and cooing. “You’re a little Ferrari baby.”
You blew a rather unladylike raspberry at her and knocked her hand away, “Because it’s embarrassing! Dad was only there because he and his friend won tickets. So, when Ferrari marketing caught wind that soulmates had met in their pavilion, they practically fell over themselves.”
“Holy shit!” Sunny practically howled in delight, “Is that where all those baby pictures of you in little Ferrari onesies came from?”
“Ferrari’s own little fairytale, Mr-won-his-way-in and Miss-heir-to-a-real-estate-monopoly. It's like Romeo and Juliet; if Romeo and Juliet survived, had a kid and decided to make it the poster child of their love story.”
“Don’t sound so disgusted, that’s cute as fuck.” Sunny snatches up your empty cup and stacks it next to hers in the dishwasher.
You frown, “Not everything has to be a love story.”
“I don’t know, girl, I’m pretty sure you just asked me to play out your parents first meeting with you tomorrow.” She winks at you over her shoulder as she heads toward her room.
“Oh, fuck off, Sunny.”
“I think this calls for new outfits!” She emerges from her room, towel over one shoulder. “What was your Mum wearing when she met your dad?”
“We are not reenacting my parents meet-cute.”
“Who knows, maybe you’ll have your own meet-cute with a certain pain-prone soulmate, hm?” In the moment it takes you to reorientate yourself after her comment, she’s breezing past you with a bright, “I’m having first shower!”
You squark in indignation. Like hell, you’ll let either of those things happen to you this weekend.
(Part 2 : Ferrari's Prince - 03.05.24)
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fem-the-artist · 10 months ago
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I don’t know why, but I have just such a specific HeadCanon for Timmy’s dating history as he grows up, technically it’s related to my magic future AU, but it can also just be taken as not
So I guess here’s all his past relationships in order of when I think they happen as well as the reason they broke up and how long they dated for
1. Cindy vortex. I count the times they hung out and went to the dance and all that stuff during the Timmy Jimmy power hours as of them dating. It was long distance, but trust. Anyway, incredibly short-lived. Because even though they were both interested in each other for a little bit they were so young and immature that that interest only lasted for so long A great example is in the third Timmy Jimmy power hour and all interest they pretty much had for each other had dissipated.
2. Chester Mcbadbat, hear me out Chester is gay as fuck especially for Timmy, they dated in late elementary school for only two weeks and then broke up because Timmy forgot they were dating in the first place. and Chester didn’t talk to him for a week after that but they’re cool now.
3. Remy Buxaplenty, the whole relationship was a Yiiikes. I like to think this was around Lake middle school early high school so about 13-ish , they got along. They had a great time but Remy has a pension for jealousy and envy, and the two of them we’re just not good together. They broke up and it was messy.
4. Trixie Tang, started dating around 15. she started to get less dependent on her friends approval at this point which is how this happened. And although Timmy isn’t popular, he does throw awesome parties, so I feel like this is part of the reason she gave him a chance, because like who doesn’t want to be invited to his parties there infamously awesome every time. But aside from that, they got along surprisingly well the reason they broke up is because a trixie realized she was a lesbian and at that point Timmy’s egg hasn’t cracked yet. so no real room for argument he was really happy that she figured this out about herself, but also incredibly heartbroken because he really liked her. He went on a little bit spiral after this because depressed teen angst.
5. Remy again. within the following summer after his break up with Trixie. He would date, break up, get back together with Remy three times. also, Remy has a tendency to love bomb. so whenever a break up was his fault he would pretty much shower Timmy with gifts until he took him back. not at all healthy but they’re teenagers, so what are you gonna do
6. Tootie (I realize she doesn’t have a last name). They’re 17 during this one. dated for five months which to Timmy’s credit is the longest relationship he’s had so far. broke up because they realize they were acting the exact same way they were when they were friends, and they realize neither of them actually have romantic feelings for each other. (cough cough a little bit after this tootie realizes she’s aroace and only thought she had a crush on Timmy because early 2000s if girl like boy it Hass to be romantic cough) They are however, trauma bonded, and stay best friends
7. Jimmy neutron. young adults at this point took forever for them to get together because Jimmy couldn’t except his feelings for the longest time, and Timmy didn’t realize he had any. dated for two years broke up because their lives were going in different directions and work got in the way.
To elaborate a little more this is when Timmy started his training to become a fairy warden, and that took up a lot of time that he couldn’t expand on hopping between dimensions
They mutually agreed to try their relationship again when they have more of their lives figured out
As of within the AU in the current timeline, a.k.a. new wishes taken place
Timmy and Tootie still best friends got platonically married because they both wanted children and they trust each other more than anyone else, and now we have Tommy and Tammy as a result, they’re more like roommates than husband and wife, but they do coparent
(Timmy might be potentially casually seeing Jimmy at this time, but I haven’t fully decided)
Oh yeah also Timmy’s egg officially cracked at 18 and he came out as bi gender he/she pronouns
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fruitmins · 2 years ago
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Agust Dad—Six
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➭ summary: Your a producer from another company that he happened to be collaborating with on his 2nd album D-2. At the release party— one drunk action leads to another, you do the worst thing you can do in the industry and change your fate forever.
➭genre: short series, pregnancy au, idol au, angst, dad au
➭warnings: time jump (don’t hate me for it), twitter, you kinda pee yourself at the end, panic attack/meltdown, angst, don’t worry there’s at least a little fluff in the beginning, fainting, cliffhanger-ish
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note: the storm :)
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3 MONTHS LATER
You shifted and turned in the mirror, studying the slight bump that phased through the expensive flowy red dress that Yoongi had convinced you to let him buy.
You weren’t all that surprised. Over the past months Yoongi had been buying the most ridiculous things for you without blinking an eye. Any weird food you wanted, Yoongi would have it in less than thirty minutes.
What you were surprised about was the main reason you wanted the beautiful dress in the first place. Jin had invited you to a party he and the rest of the boys were throwing a party In celebration of a successful Bang Bang Con.
Then he revealed he was going to propose to Harin who like Yoongi, you’d gotten close to over the months. When though you weren’t Yoongi’s girlfriend (even though it was starting to feel like you were) she still thought it would be nice for the two of you to be close.
It shouldn’t have surprised you that he invited you, but somehow it did. No matter how much time you spent with BTS, you couldn’t help but be insecure about how your connection with Yoongi happened. It weren’t proud of it in the slightest, even though Harin has reassured you many times they didn’t judge you.
But still, you had a frown on your face as you stared at yourself in the mirror. You didn’t want the new bump to be all that visible, and you couldn’t help but feel anxious and nervous.
You hear a small knock on the door before it cracks open slightly, revealing Yoongi who was already ready and in a nice black suit that matches his ridiculous long black hair.
Your heart pounds when you see him all dressed up, thinking back to the night long ago that had gotten you into this mess. You can’t help but feel a flutter in your heart, like when you two first met. The warm feeling that flowed in your blood whenever you saw him.
Unlike first time, the feelings were much stronger now. You tired to push away the fuzzy feeling whenever he looked at you these past few months. The way he had gradually opened up to you and cared for you. You chalked it up to just being hormonal, but a part of you had always liked him a bit more than you are supposed to. And it was only getting stronger the times he was away training and at BangBangCon. You felt ashamed how much relief washed over you when they were finished, just over the fact that he could spend time with you again.
You were starting to get stupid and selfish again. Just like that night where you stupid and selfishly gave into him for your own pleasure and enjoyment.
Seeing that you were fully clothed, he stepped more into the room, a small smile on his face as he did so.
You turn away from the mirror to face him fully, gesturing to your dress. “How do I look?” You let out a nervous chuckle, slightly scared of his answer.
He takes a minute to study you fully, looking from top to bottom before finally responding. "Pretty," Yoongi said quietly, standing in the doorway, a small smile on his face as he looks at you. "You look beautiful."
Your heart flutters as you stare at him. Despite everything that's happened, you can't help but feel excited to be here, with him, in this moment.
“You definitely have a pregnancy glow.” He praises again, this time with a little playful chuckle and you turn away from him, praying that you weren’t blushing. “Thanks.”
You mess with your hair once more before grabbing your high heels and sitting in the edge of the bed to put them on. Yoongi is quick to kneel down on his knee to take them from you.
“Can I?” He trails off softly even though he already took them, getting ready to put them on your foot before pausing for a moment. He tilts his head slightly before staring at you for a moment with his eyes wide. "Are you really planning on wearing those?" He says in realization.
You nod immediately, trying to take the shoes away from him. “They go with the dress.” You state in slight confusion. You weren’t that heavy yet.
"I don't think it's a good idea, Y/N." he says cautiously, the concern for your wellbeing evident in his tone but gentle as always.
“They’re the only shoes I have for the occasion. Well flats would work but I don’t have any good ones.” You mumble, mostly to yourself before looking at him with a slight pout while trying to ignore the butterflies in your stomach. Telling yourself for the millionth time that he was concerned for your baby and not you.
Yoongi can’t help but let out a small amused smile at your pout. "Y/N, I'll buy you the nicest flats you've ever seen, just don't wear those." He says, making a sharp gesture towards the heels he’s holding.
"You're going to be standing for almost the entire night, so wearing heels would be very uncomfortable, and besides, it's dangerous to wear heels when you're this far along in a pregnancy." Yoongi takes a slow breath, his concern for you showing more clearly than back when everything was first happening. Though he was never really hiding it from you.
“You’d buy flats, right now?” You ask, slightly surprised but suspicious. “I don’t want to make us late or have you buy more things for me.”
"Of course.“ he responds without hesitating, even rolling his eyes a little. “I’ll be right back.”
The moment he says this, Yoongi leaves the room and rushes out of the house, leaving you alone in the bedroom as you listen to the door slamming shut.
The moments you wait for him to return are painfully long, and you can hear your own heart beating in your ears. And just as you finish your thoughts, Yoongi walks through the door once again. You immediately look down at his hands, and see two bags in each, with the flats open. You sit up in disbelief. Yoongi really just came back with four new pairs of flats.
"Here they are." he says, handing you bag with a small smile. "I went to a nearby shop and told the shopkeeper to give you all the best ones. I hope they fit." he adds, his tone anxious as he waits for you to put them on.
"Oh my god." you say, shaking your head as you take each pair out. They're all the top design and incredibly stylish, and more importantly, incredibly comfortable looking. You couldn't have asked for a better selection.
Yoongi smiles as you continue to examine the shoes, your heart warmed by his gesture. You try on both on the pairs, both equally as soft and comfy as they looked.
“Thank you so much.” You say, still wide eyed as you picked the best color and design and started to walk around to get a feel. You couldn’t even express how grateful you were for him.
“Alright, let’s go.” You say, catching yourself before you can be overly emotional as the two of you rush out to his car and drive to Jin’s surprise proposal party.
The two of you pile into the car and drive off to the party. Yoongi turns to face you, his eyes filled with concern and worry. "We don't have to stay too late, alright?"
You nod your head, not too upset about it. As long as the two of you end up having a nice evening, you don't mind leaving early.
You arrive at the small spot a moments later. Yoongi does the honors of helping you out of the car as the two of you head inside of the small house that Jin rented.
The two of you walk in and look around the nicely decorated area. As you walk inside, you see that the party is underway. There are streamers hanging from the ceiling, and a table with snacks and drinks set up in the corner. There isn’t a lot of people there either, just BTS and some close family members on both sides.
Jin greets you both with a nervous smile, and you can feel yourself beginning to relax. This seems like it'll be a decent event, and not the tense affair that you were expecting. What helps is that it’s a private party, not a camera in sight and no reporters can see you.
“Yoongi! Y/N! Your here.” He says with a big smile despite being so nervous, giving you each a small hug. “Thank you for coming.”
“Of course Jin.” Yoongi says with a small, putting a hand on his shoulders and to try to calm his nerves. “I wouldn’t miss it for the world.”
“Y/N, honey, you look great.” He says giving you one last night squeezes before leaving you to mingle around.
The rest of BTS come up to greet you and Yoongi as well, feeling slightly nervous when Yoongi leaves to get you and himself something to drink.
The party is lowkey, not upbeat and filled with people speaking on top of each other as everyone mingled.
You happen to spot Harin in the distance from the couch you sat on, so you walk up to greet her. She gasp happily when she sees you, giving you a big hug as the two of you chatted away.
Suddenly, someone touches their glass to get everyone’s attention. You both turn it see all of the members in a small circle. “To a successful BangBangCon. Even though it was online it was still nice to see all of ARMY.” Namjoon started and everyone hummed and nodded in agreement, going along with the facade.
All of the members do a small speech until Jin is the last one. Jin stood up and the lights turn off, leaving the room in darkness.
A few minutes of silence and fake murmuring, Jin's voice cuts through the silence as he now stood in front of his Harin who was next to you. "Harin, we've been through a lot in the past few months. We've been on opposite ends of it all, but one thing remains constant," he says, his voice shaking slightly. “My love for you.”
A faint glow cuts through the darkness as Jin bends down on one knee, holding out a small black box in his hand.
Harin takes a moment to process everything before covering her mouth with her hand.
Jin's eyes sparkle as he looks up at her. "Will you marry me?" he asks, his voice soft yet strong.
Harin is speechless, her eyes widening in shock and surprise. She takes a moment before nodding her head. Tears stream down her face. "Yes, I'll marry you."
The both of them explode into tears, and the room erupts into a joyful celebration. You clap along with everyone else in celebration, your eyes even watering a little as they cried and kissed.
The party after is filled with almost everyone beside you and Yoongi getting tipsy and having fun. Lights now flashing and music now blasting through some speakers.
A little while later you find Yoongi again, happily chatting and congratulating Jin with the rest of the members. You were getting tired and wanted to leave. You were getting a headache from the lights and loud music, and quite frankly your social battery has reached zero quickly after the propose.
You saw him, smiling and laughing with his slightly tipsy younger members and simply didn’t have the heart to interrupt him. You could put up with the party for another hour or two.
But as you walked away from them, Yoongi’s head suddenly turns and meets yours. He takes one look at your face and expression and knows it time leave, so as you walk out you see him excuse and say goodbye to his members before lightly jogging next to you.
“Hey, time to go?” He asked softly, still a small smile on his face from talking with the members.
“No, it’s fine.” You shake your head quickly, wanting him to have more fun. You didn’t want to be selfish once again.
“You look tired. Let’s go home. It’s getting late anyways.” He states nonchalantly before locking your arm and practically dragging you to the car.
He opens the door for you drive home in some comfortable silence, resting your eyes and feeling warm from the nice atmosphere.
The two of you get out of the car, and as soon as you step inside, you go straight to the bedroom. You take off your shoes and lay down in the comfy bed, covering yourself in the fresh blankets.
Moments later you are out like a light but only to wake up in the middle of the night to quickly use the restroom.
You groggily get up, checking your phone to see the time. It’s an hour past midnight and everything in the house is dark and cold.
Your eyes squint as you look at the bright screen, eyes lightly skimming over your notifications. Your eyes brown in confusion when you see a familiar coworker has texted you out of the blue.
‘Y/N, is this you?’
You get a sinking feeling in your stomach looking at the text, slowly opening up your phone to see the attachment with it.
Your face pales and your throat closes in fear when see a screenshot from a video of yourself at the party. Clearly pregnant and stood directly in frame next to Harin who was staring at Jin down on one knee.
Your blood runs cold when you see the screenshot. It's exactly as you guessed it would be: yourself standing next to Harin with a noticeable baby bump.
You freeze in your tracks as an overwhelming sense of panic washes over you. Your heart is soaring at a rapid rate, and you feel like you're going to throw up.
You don't know what to do. You don't know how to handle this situation. But you find your hands shakily downloading twitter again in a heartbeat.
The moment you do the first thing you see is the screenshot had been spreading around the wildfire. You can't believe your eyes when you see the screenshot on Twitter. It's viral, quickly making its way around the platform and receiving an overwhelming amount of attention from both the media and fans.
You feel your heart sinking in your chest as you see your body in the media spotlight in this way, even though it hasn't been confirmed that it's really you.
Sometime after the party, Jin had uploaded his proposal to happily and innocently show his fans, and people had started to notice a pregnant woman in the background.
#RedDress was trending.
WHO IS SHE? was trending.
Thousands of ARMY’s were connecting the dots, putting together that whoever the woman was is Yoongi’s ‘girlfriend’.
Jealous fans are picking apart off every inch of your body, calling you disgusting names all over again just like when the official statement was released. But now ten times worse. Crazy fans were trying to find out your official identity, hoping that it would lead them to Yoongi.
You start to have a breakdown, seeing just how exposed you were now. You were crying, barley even breathing as you felt a sting of pain in your stomach. You felt hot and cold at the same time as your mind got fuzzy and clouded with all types of worry.
Your eyelids start to get heavy, your ability to get out of bed to pee now gone as black dots started to appear.
You glance towards the door, desperately trying to call out to Yoongi who was peacefully asleep in the guest bedroom but you’re so panicked and out of control you can’t even speak.
You start to hyperventilate as the black spots get bigger and your body gives out, the last thing you remember being your head hitting the bed frame as you grew unconscious.
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marvelous-llama · 1 year ago
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NCT recs
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most of the mentioned works is 18+ NSFW, MINORS DNI
pls don´t hesitate to hmu, if any of mentioned links doesn´t work or you have suggestions for more fics... thank you so much for all the love and comments
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Where Angels Fear To Tread by @lisired
Jaehyun x fem!reader (wc - 14.5k) fwb to lovers - fluff, implied smut, angst(ish) Three years ago, you had a summer fling with Jung Jaehyun, and what was simply sex turned into more after you caught feelings for him. Then, you find out he has a girlfriend, and decide to call it quits. Three years later, he’s back in town, trying to come back in your life, and most importantly trying to come back into your heart, but you’re a little hesitant to let him.
Arranged by @smileysuh
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His Love In Her Force by @anashins
Jaehyun x fem!reader (wc - 28k) slowburn, detective!Jaehyun, ballerina!reader, fake marriage AU - angst, fluff, smut, romance, hurt/comfort Fleeing from a ruthless stalker, you are forced to participate in a witness protection program at the other side of the world, pretending to be the wife of a taciturn undercover detective from now on. Despite all differences, you slowly start to settle with your new life as a married couple - until your newfound happiness is stripped away from you all over again.
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wish i never by @lisired
Jaehyun x fem!reader (wc - 27.2k) forbidden love, slowburn - angst, fluff, smut Your brother, Johnny, hates Jaehyun and has never told you why. Although you intend on leaving it alone, unforeseen events thrust you into a forbidden love affair with Jaehyun. In between hookups and stolen kisses, you have to bury your feelings for Jaehyun around your overprotective older brother.
Strawberry Sunday by @babbymochiiii
Dojaejung x fem!reader (wc - 12.6k) friends to lovers - fluff, angst(ish), smut Doyoung, Jungwoo, and Jaehyun each have a crush on you, while you do like 'em as well, but in order to find out if your shy nature with them is because you also feel the same way, they take things to the next level, by themselves and together.
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my313 · 1 year ago
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beautiful stranger ⟡₊ 🚎 ⊹ ࣪ ˖ choi beomgyu
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now playing 𝄞₊ ⊹ beautiful stranger - laufey
⋆ pairing: beomgyu x gn!reader
⋆ summary: what better way to romanticise the commute to class than listening to laufey and re-living that elevator scene from 500 days of summer?
⋆ genre/themes/warnings: slice of life, university au, fluff, love at first sight, strangers to ???, crack-ish lol, also kind of loser simp manic pixie dream boy gyu, lots of laufey mentions and references, 500 days of summer reference (the i love the smiths scene if anyone hasnt watched but has seen it on tiktok)
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a/n: if ur looking for realism this isnt it ... this is me trying to imagine my own romcom. also my bad i think i got too carried away yapping and with too little dialogue. this is definitely self-indulgent but!!!! here’s my first post :) i’m thinking of making this a laufey songfic series for all of txt but depends on my inspo LOL. this was inspired by a girl on the bus who was tryna show me her taehyung lockscreen cuz she probably saw my soobin one HAHAHA. hope u guys enjoy :3
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act i. looked back for a second  didn’t want to be rude i tend to fall in love on the tube
falling in love is simple for choi beomgyu. his eyes sparkle on default, glossy and rose-tinted - at least, on days where he can bring himself out of the university dorms. on most days, he finds that the world has a dull enough filter to put his pink-coloured frames to rest. he definitely thinks so every time he has to begrudgingly work on his assignments.
the universe decides today is not one of those days.
it really should be, though. the bus is overcrowded on a monday morning and he’s running on four hours of sleep after regretfully queueing on league with soobin and kai. he taps his foot impatiently, unable to hide his discomfort from all the squeezing and lack of personal space. his final saving grace is the tune of paramore’s the only exception from his headphones, only slightly distracting him from the screech of the tires and the chatter of freshmen. the public transport announcement for the next stop comes as a breath of fresh air for beomgyu as people rush out the doors. he breathes a sigh of relief and absentmindedly takes the closest unoccupied seat. 
it’s not everyday that beomgyu gets to see the outside world (willingly), so he decides to challenge himself on the remaining half hour he has on the bus. he blinks, once, twice, more. anything to keep him awake. 
the announcer’s voice fills the bus again to call for the next stop, but that’s not what wakes beomgyu up. no. the doors open and he catches a glimpse of someone’s cute plushie strapped on their bag. like a cat follows a laser beam, beomgyu’s gaze is fixed on the plushie until it stops moving. it’s right next to him. he raises his head, trying to be discreet and potentially avoid looking into this stranger’s face. unlucky as he is, beomgyu is met with your eyes almost immediately. his brain freezes in the way it did when he tried yeonjun’s mint chocolate ice cream out of summer heat desperation. it short circuits, and all he can think is so pretty; like it’s the only word in the dictionary, and right next to it is your name (even if he doesn’t know it yet). he swears he almost says it out loud. 
taken aback, beomgyu can only hold your stare for a second before quickly turning away. his cheeks flush as he attempts to appear nonchalant (he is anything but), fishing into the pockets of his leather jacket to find his phone. he aimlessly unlocks it, showcasing his ‘romanticizing & touching grass’ playlist at full brightness. he cringes, thinking how ironic it is to have laufey’s beautiful stranger playing as he quite literally tries to avoid looking at a beautiful stranger in real-time. half of him entertains the thought of you seeing it and sparking up a conversation, a meet-cute that rivaled the quirkiness of the elevator scene in 500 days of summer. the other half of him continues to sink into himself, cringing at the thought.
still, he lifts his head and quickly glances at you, his phone screen lit up in anticipation.
act ii. beautiful stranger catching my stare it’s fate we collided right then back there i wonder if he felt the same thing too innocent crush on the morning commute
the boy next to you has looked up thrice in the ten minutes you’ve boarded the bus. if he wasn’t the prettiest you’d ever seen in your time riding this specific commute, it definitely would have been weird. it’s even more adorable that he’s tilting his phone screen towards you, a laufey song proudly on display as his attempts of appearing casual throw him under the bus. 
you laugh to yourself, lips tugging into an amused smile. lightly nudging him with your elbow, beomgyu’s shoulders jerk as he looks back at you. he has his headphones on, so when you gently say, “i love laufey!” he doesn’t entirely understand. his eyebrows slightly raise in confusion. in the midst of taking his headphones off to hear you better, he stills when you move closer. your lips are too close to his already warm ears, and it certainly doesn’t help that you’re practically whispering “i love laufey” with the most unassuming, goofy yet endearing smile. your excitement must be contagious to beomgyu, because his embarrassment is quick to dissipate. you haven’t moved away. he’s not sure if you’re doing it on purpose - if this was how strangers on buses flirted. if that ever happened at all. 
“oh, um,” he starts off awkwardly, “me too!” beomgyu’s stumbling over words he hasn’t even had a chance to get out yet, they’re all rushing to leave his mind but the damned announcer beats him to it. your gaze flickers from him to the blinking sign ahead. by now, you were back to leaning on your seat and away from beomgyu’s face. you really wished time slowed down, but the next stop was yours. you pursed your lips and contemplate your next words. what are the chances you’ll see this guy again? 
“by the way,” you turn to beomgyu, expression determined like braving getting on a rollercoaster. “you’re really pretty.” 
the announcer cuts through the silence and you’re quick to be up on your feet, ignoring the rising pink on both yours and beomgyu’s cheeks. “it was nice meeting you!” you manage to squeak out. just like that, beomgyu’s lost you.
act iii. but my beautiful stranger will have to remain a stranger until i see them again
beomgyu’s gone delusional over the past week. he’s sure that laufey will be his top artist on spotify this month, all because of you. 
it’s monday again, his classes are canceled and yet he’s seated in the bus hoping to catch a glimpse of you. no, he wants more than a glimpse. this time, he’s certain he can do much better than a bunch of ums and awkward smiles. his posture straightens sharply as the bus makes a gradual stop. it’s yours.
this time, beomgyu’s quick to crane his neck over and look outside the window to make sure you’re there. the universe is kind, because there you are. the corners of his mouth rise on their own accord when you meet eyes, tapping the seat next to him that he totally did not reserve for you the whole ride. 
you’re pleasantly surprised by the pretty boy’s re-appearance, smirking while making yourself comfortable next to him. 
“i should’ve known you were one of the crazy ones. nobody listens to laufey normally…” you sigh, tone satirical and disapproving, but your expression is anything but. it’s obvious you’re glad he found you again. he wasn’t the only one squealing over the past week. 
beomgyu’s voice comes out more confident than last monday, playful yet baritone. “nah, you got it wrong. i’m only crazy over you.” you’re both looking at each other in silence before bursting into fits of laughter. beomgyu tries to keep his giggles polite by covering his mouth with his palm, but you’re flailing and find yourself leaning into his shoulder to muffle your laughs. 
that only makes beomgyu grin wider, lifting his hand from his face and training his eyes on you. he doesn’t wait for you to stop laughing, sneakily capturing your hand together with his. the sudden warmth melting your frigid hands makes you jerk away from the comfort of beomgyu’s sweater. you’re instantly faced with his wide eyes. before uttering a word, beomgyu cuts you off with a silly expression, eyebrows wriggling mischievously, “so that scored me a date, right?” 
“you’re such a freak,” you taunt. “i don’t even know your name!” beomgyu rolls his eyes, brows still raised comically. “you laughed into my sweater, i think we’re so past that.” 
“but since you asked… how about i give you a good deal?” 
“i’m listening.” you play along with his banter, nudging him to go on. beomgyu nods smugly as he lays out his cards, confident you won’t say no. you couldn’t, right?
“i propose that you get my name right now.. but only if you take my number too,” he says cheerfully. “great deal, huh? can’t get it anywhere else. a bus 11 exclusive!” 
you pretend to give it a thought, complete with a pondering stance and looking up at the bus ceiling in contemplation. when you look back at beomgyu, you can’t help but smile at his overly-excited puppy-eyed look. it makes you want to tease him even more, but you decide against it. your stop is threatening to cut this short again.
you bring out your phone, unlock it and hand it over to beomgyu. “gimme it then, stranger.” 
“it’s beomgyu,” he says as he types up his number. he locks your phone before returning it into your hands. “i’m saved as love of your life though, so…” 
“weirdo!” you shriek while opening your phone to double check. it’s just beomgyu with a heart. “i thought you actually did that.”
beomgyu laughs. the announcer’s familiar voice fills the bus again and it’s your stop next. swiftly, you open up a new chat with beomgyu, sending him a message before standing up and waving bye. he returns the gesture fondly, watching you get off and walk away.
once the bus starts up again, beomgyu sees the notification from you:
wanna hang tonight? :)
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₊˚ෆ Green Light - l.hs
♡︎ sypnosis: in which you have a staring problem—and lee heeseung notices. the weirdest part? he’s totally into that. he just needs the traffic light to turn green to make a move. did you like him like he’s come to like you? find out next episode! on-
♡ genre: fluff, college au, fem!reader, crack, strangers to lovers
♡ 3.4k word count
♡ warnings: uhh cussing, stalker-ish?, stalking mentioned as a joke, please let me know if you’d like me to add any!
♡︎ nano note: hello lovelies! i’m trying to feed the hee-stans so i really hope u guys like this. feedback is much appreciated! (this may or not have been inspired by the song greenlight by 5sos lmao) may or may not write a part 2 idk lmk. xoxo
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You saw the way the corners of his lips turned up at his friend’s joke. He was so entrancing, and you didn’t know why. Literally every little move would have your breath hitched in your throat. It was actually kind of annoying. You watched him as he blew his hair out of his eyes, leaning back in his chair in a lazy way. He was just so attractive.
But why?
You’re not sure. You let your mind wander in almost anger as you try to compose yourself.
“Yah! Heeseung there she goes again.” Sunghoon whisper yells in a teasing manner.
Heeseung feels his ears turn warm and refuses to look in your direction.
“Ahhh your secret admirer?” Niki leant in, a playful smirk gracing his lips as he put his full trust in the chair he was sitting on, leaning back on the back two legs to support himself in the air. The professor had told him multiple times about not doing the dangerous act.
Did he listen?
No.
“Leave it alone.” Heeseung mumbles, picking up his pen and spinning it throughout his fingers as he looked down at his notebook. It wasn’t like he was taking notes or anything, the professor was late again to the lecture so everyone was conversating about as they waited.
“You should talk to her.” Jay said nonchalantly, a bubble gum lolipop in his mouth.
“Yeah~ You should~” Niki says as he giggles and bumps his shoulder into Heeseung’s. All Heeseung could do was blush further.
It wasn’t like he was new to the attention, he’d always had an admirer or two, but this felt different.
He’d always liked a couple of the people who took interest in him first, but it was always a sort of physical and straight off the back type of attraction. He was just like Jake and Sunghoon; having many girls lurk his way, but only the popular and pretty ones were the one’s they gave actual chances to.
But you?
This was different.
He’d be lying if he said he couldn’t say why. He had taken notice of your stares one day and had thought nothing of it. You were probably just another admirer. Right?
But one day, he decided to meet your eyes and smile at you for once. And low and behold, he wasn’t sure if it was the best or worst thing to ever happen to him because all you did was stare back. You seemed slightly caught off guard for just a moment, but your gaze never relented. It felt like a a couple seconds at most before his friends nudged him out of it, but damn. He felt so entranced through such a little interaction. The boys took notice of this of course, and now they tease him for it, but he didn’t really care. During the stare down, it felt so…
Different.
He’s given a girl the eyes before, but when he stared at you and you stared back unafraid and even unfazed, he suddenly felt as if maybe he’d been caught checking you out. It lit a fire in his stomach and released the butterflies from their cage—sappy enough to say.
From that day on, he had grown interested in the girl who stared. Almost no emotions could be read from your eyes, so Heeseung felt like he’d remember it forever.
What could he say?
He didn’t understand why he suddenly gained fondness for your cold unfaltering eyes.
He just knew it all felt…
Different.
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There he was again.
You sighed as the pretty grey-haired boy had rounded the campus hallway, going in the opposite direction that you were headed out of.
Your breath hitches as you took him and his friends in.
Well, more like just him.
He was tall and lean, but strong within himself and the laugh he let out made you feel weird. He was very attractive. You couldn’t quite place a reason why, but you felt it—the steady feeling of your heartbeat speeding up.
After indulging yourself with a few glances, you decided to place an earphone in your ear and go on with your day.
Maybe the song you were listening to had reminded you of him—you’d never admit it though because by this point in your infatuation you were just trying to seal away any and all ideas of him. If it was up to you, you’d forget the lingering thoughts of him altogether.
You saw the way he looked at you too.
Still.
As far as you were concerned; you had no chance with Heeseung.
That was just reality.
One foot hovering over the gas pedal—yet the red-light never changes.
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“Guess who’s here…” Jake says as he swings his arm around Heeseung.
Heeseung’s eyes go up from his phone as he looked around almost instinctively and found you. You had your headphones in and wore a pretty moonstone necklace around your neck—but this time your eyes weren’t on him. He watched as you wandered the hallway and scrolled through your phone, most likely to pick out a song. He wandered what songs you’d be listening to; what songs would you specifically take the time to seek out? Did they sound pretty and soothing like your demeanor, or were they loud and abrupt like your gaze?
Heeseung cursed himself for thinking of someone this way.
He didn’t know why he did if he was being completely honest. It was like one glance from you and his whole world changed. To this day he refuses to aknowledge where the butterflies came from.
“Bro at this point, you’re the stalker.” Sunghoon joked, gaining a laugh from Niki and an elbow to the stomach from Sunoo.
“Hey, just because she stares at him doesn’t mean she’s a stalker, genius.” Sunoo mutters.
Jake just chuckles.
“I don’t know. I’d say they’re both stalkers.” Jungwon chimes in, running through a bag of mini chocolate chip cookies like he was a thief in a jewelry store.
“Hey, you say all that but I saw you eyeing her sister. She’s a Sophomore right? Like Sunoo?” Jay states, snatching the cookie bag and chomping down.
“Jungwon likes the Noona’s?!?” Jake teases, eyes going wide.
“Y-yah!” Jungwon yelps, eyebrows furrowed fiercely in contrast to his pink puffed up cheeks.
Heeseung’s eyes widened.
So you had family on campus?
Interesting.
He wandered if you two were close; he’d always been close to his brother.
Heeseung pauses as he realizes he’s curious about your family affairs but after scolding himself a bit inwardly, Niki’s voice brings him back to Earth. “Oooh~ Maybe Jungwon-hyung and Hee-hyung can go on a double date.” Niki suggests, a playful look in his eyes as he towers over his hyungs.
He was a big baby at the end of the day—they didn’t know how he skipped a grade and became a Freshman with Jungwon to be honest.
“Okay pipe down, she’s getting closer.” Heeseung mumbles, his large hand going on the back of Niki’s neck threateningly. The boys quieted down with teasing smiles on their faces as they came up on you in the hallway. In an effort to not be obvious, they achieve the opposite as you get closer and closer.
“Watch this.” Sunghoon whispers, before Heeseung’s eyes go wide.
Within a millisecond, Sunghoon’s hands are pulling at the back of Jungwon’s backpack and dragging him along to stand in front of you. The group can’t help but to stare wide-eyed at the sudden and bold interaction.
“Ummm…Y/n, Is it?” Sunghoon mutters out as Jungwon flails around trying to desperately get out of his grip.
You look up from your phone at the sudden presence in front of your walkway as well as because of the close new voice. When you meet eyes with Sunghoon, his handsome and intimidating ones are still no match for your guarded and undesiring ones.
“Hi? can I help you?” You ask, now sparing a glance to the group in front of you, a dozen plus eyes staring back. For a moment you lock eyes with Heeseung as—for what you’d like to say came from your imagination—his brows soften.
“Oh- well uh, you see, this kid right here is Mr. Yang and he was wondering if your sister was single….” Sunghoon says, gathering his confidence as he talked.
You take notice of the boy in his grasp and how he straightens up at the question. He grimaces but still stares at you expectantly. If he had been coerced into this, he seemed to be equally as interested in your response now.
“Uhh…yeah. She’s single. But not for long.” You state.
Truthfully, you had no interest in any of this, but the countless hours your sister would speak of this Jungwon kid had you wanting to stir the pot a bit.
You knew who they all were. You knew all of their names, courtesy of Heeseung—yet you never let your sister know her crush was also your crush’s friend.
“Oh?” Sunghoon asks, getting more and more comfortable being cheeky as the minutes went by.
“What do you mean not for long? Is someone currently talking to her?” He asks. You scoff as you look down to your shoes, and when you look up you let a small smile give way.
Heeseung feels his heart sink to his ass.
He’d never really seen you do that before.
You were very pretty and your smile did things to his stomach. It left him wondering what a laugh or a wide playfull smile from you would do to him.
“Well…I’m not sure…what was the name she keeps talking about?…” You ask out loud and look around as if to gather your thoughts.
“Was it Jungwon?…” You see the dimpled-boys’ eyes light up.
“…Or Sunghoon?” You pause in thought.
All of the boys’ eyes go wide. Sunghoon let’s his grip on Jungwon go as they stand speachless.
“Or was it…a short international name? I’m not sure.” You say wafting your hand in the air nonchalantly and watching as Jay, Jake and even the possible Niki go tense.
Heeseung watches in amazement as he quickly reads up on how you’re speaking and carrying yourself as if you were executing a play of some sort; your theatrics and persuasive words doing just enough to fool his dumbass friends.
You quickly do a scan over the friend group and see shocked faces, along with a grumpy looking Jungwon.
He quickly turns to you.
“Thank you for your time. I apologize for the inconvenience.” Jungwon utters before he’s grabbing Sunghoons arm to lead him back to the group for a nice and easy talking.
You let a giggle slip as they walk away, not realizing how gullible they would be.
Going back to your headphones and playing your music again in order to switch gears to leave, you decide maybe the sad love songs were too melancholy right now. That was quite a fun interaction that just played out, if you do say so yourself. This time, a love song shuffled from your playlist but before you could get far enough away from the group of boys, your music blasts out loud due to your wires not being plugged into your phone correctly.
You panic and start to fidget to fetch your phone back out of your pocket, the lyrics of love ringing through the halls.
“And it feels like oooh~ you don’t know my name~” The woman of the song sings out melodically. The smooth R&B sounds that follow really catch onto the baseboards and walls of the open hallway, and you curse yourself for walking near the music rooms to get to class. When you finally get a grip on the situation and pause the music, your cheeks are red in color and your heartbeat is at a steady and quick pace. It was at this moment you realized how fucked wires really were and that you needed a Bluetooth upgrade.
As if on cue, a tap to your shoulder pulls you into even more embarrassment as you turn around to take a look at the suspect. You lock eyes with him.
Large pupils softly looking into yours; the nerves you take notice of in them are almost overshadowed by a courageous type of interest.
“H-hi.” He utters out, almost like a whisper.
Still, you catch what he says.
“Hi.” You say back, realizing you’re probably doing that thing again with your eyes where you lock onto a target and analyze it carefully.
You were aware of this habit of yours—and man so was Heeseung. But this time, it was different.
He’d never seen you so up close and personal before. He realized you were shorter than he expected up close, his stature peering down at you to connect your eyes with his. Your eyes were back doing the thing again he noted, but my oh my your rosy cheeks accompanied them so prettily, he forgets the whole reason he even walked over.
After hearing your small response back to him, it takes him a bit to respond, snapping out of the hold your gaze held on him as soon as he realizes that you are just waiting for a response; the two of you just staring at each other in the middle of the hall. His cheeks match yours in crimson. His hand goes up to rub the nape of his neck.
He still never breaks eye contact with you.
“I- uh…I know what you did back there.” He says, unable to look away. You tilt your head sideways in confusion, and Heeseung swears his heart is about to jump out of his chest and run away for everyone in eyeshot to see.
“I…My friends? They just asked you about your sister and I wanted to say you were really good at messing with them. It was charming.” He finishes, looking back and forth between your eyes.
You blush further.
Charming?
Was he really talking about you to you right now?
“Oh- I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to lie, just thought I’d stir the pot a bit…” You mutter, and now your eyes are searching in each of his.
He starts to smile when he takes notice of this.
It’s almost as if the words being spoken held no meaning, the real conversation happening between eye contact—words being merely a sad excuse so that you two could watch each other up close; study each others intentions through your eyes.
His smile goes wider as he takes in each of your words and tries to multitask, and he finds himself pulling apart esch of your words so he can understand them—having no time to stop the current conversation happening silently.
“Uhm, can i ask you a question?” He asks after another pause. You stare up at him curiously now.
“Sure…”
He smiles as he continues to locate your soul through your eyes. Heeseung knew how he felt. He knew that what he felt very well might be overflowing admiration and curiosity for you.
He liked you.
And despite that it all started with catching you staring at him first, he still felt like he needed to know your intentions.
Did you really feel the same?
Was he special? Different in any way?
“…What color are my shoes…?” He questions, almost like a whisper again. You hear his words and kind of just stand there as you look up, a little confused for a second.
Heeseung chuckles and looks away for the first time in what feels like hours. When his eyes meet yours again, he’s leaning forward, his hands behind his back as he towers over you.
“I said, what color are my shoes?” He repeats, this time a little more confidently.
You knew this was a challenge by his body language; keep your eyes up top and answer the question.
Without looking down you try to rack your brain for the color of his shoes.
White?
Black?
Fucking red?
You don’t know, you don’t stare at his shoes, you’re too busy looking at-
Oh.
Heeseung watches as the realization pops up on your face. He was asking this because it was a reflection of your attention on him.
Heeseung’s shoes were bright green today.
We’re talking neon-neocity green.
The rest of his outfit was all black because he got ready this morning in a rush out of fear of being late for his morning lectures.
And so when you couldn’t answer despite him catching your glances throughout the day, he knew he had his own answer. No, this didn’t proclaim your love for him—but the interest was there, he could tell by the way you looked away for the first time during this conversation, your blush never settling, eyebrows furrowing.
If he didn’t know better, you were madly in love with him. Or so he’d like to think.
The fact of the matter is, if he’d caught your eyes so many times today, why didn’t you know the color? Don’t people who like someone else capture everything about them? What was Heeseung’s thought process? Simple.
In the many weeks he’s caught you staring it was always at him. His face, the back of his head, his side profile. This sole fact and your reaction right now let him know that you were worried that you wore your heart on your sleeve—that you were too obvious in the feelings you conveyed with your eyes. That maybe you were aware of the fact that he knew you’d been watching him relentlessly.
Your face read that you had been caught.
After quickly looking down at his shoes and seeing the godforsaken brightest color in the universe, you can’t help but grimace even more.
“They’re- they’re green. And they’re just shoes-“ You try to get out, but your words are cut off when you look back up and Heeseung’s eyes are smiling with him. For a second you see them glance at your lips, and just like that, you were done with this conversation.
“It was nice meeting you Heeseung, but i have to go.”
Your heart was pounding in your rib cage and it, accompanied with the empty feeling in your stomach, made you feel like you were going to be sick any minute now.
He was terrible; terribly attractive and he knew it.
Heeseung watches as you leave, a laugh leaving his pretty upturned lips.
“Catch you later!” He yells out, cupping his hands around his mouth to get his voice to carry over to your quickly fading figure.
“I love that song too!” He finishes, smiling like a love-sick idiot puppy, forgetting how to walk, learning how to see and trying to adapt.
He looked like a complete moron, stumbling in the halls and looking past strangers in order to continue to watch you go.
He didn’t know why.
But you lit him on fire and kept him feeling warm.
It was a small interaction—but one he’d never forget.
“Hyu-“
“Hyu!”
“HYUNG!” A loud voice rings out, taking Heeseung out of his love-coma.
He snaps his head back to his friend group and is suddenly aware of their presence altogether. Heesung can’t help his smile from falling as he realizes they just saw him do…well…all of that.
“You should’ve seen yourself-“ Jake laughs, running up to him with the others trailing; all with the most painfully teasing grins painted on their faces.
“Shut up.” Heeseung says pointedly, his blush looking worse on his ears and cheeks and along his nose bridge as he flatlines his face in an attempt to hide any and all emotion.
Safe to say, his deadpan doesn’t work.
“Oh my god! He looked so whipped- it reminds me of that one loser-in-love squidward meme!” Niki jokes, laughing with Sunoo.
Yes, even Sunoo was clowning on him; or at least laughing at the circus.
“Please be quiet.”
“Nah, but did you hear him?? wHaT COLoR aRE mY shOeS?!” Sunghoon mocks, slapping a giggling Jungwon’s shoulder.
As if one cue, Niki and Jake both mimic Heeseung’s lean forward which sends the group into a laughing mess. Jay grabs onto his stomach as he wheezes about, the whole group unable to hide their amusement. Heeseung sighs as he lets himself be ripped apart by his friends.
Whatever.
It wasn’t too serious.
As they continued on and dragged him about as they walked through the halls, he went nonchalantly, tuning them out to the best of his ability. With the way they yelled and loudly laughed, he wouldn’t be surprised if the whole school had learned of his little crush.
Still, he didn’t mind. He trudged along, staring down at his shoes with a slight smile. He liked you, and as far as he was concerned, you did too.
All signs pointed to yes—and they were painted a bright neon green.
The light had finally changed colors after waiting for so long; It was go time.
Heeseung was going to make you his.
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frenchkisstheabyss · 2 years ago
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7 Psychopaths: Wooyoung
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x Summary: You are X, a seasoned assassin, and your boss has just assigned you an unusual task. You have two weeks to gather six men for a top-secret mission that requires their unique brand of psychopathy. The trick is, you've got romantic history with all of them.
A detail that might make this a walk in the park or the fight of your life. Time to find out...
x Pairing: assassin!wooyoung x assassin!chubby!fem!reader
x Genre: angst/crime au/smut
x Word Count: 1.5k-ish
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x Warnings: oral sex (f & m receiving), 69, face riding, deep throating, knives, guns, blood, shooting, stabbing, explosions, strong language, disposable side character deaths, pet names (baby/darling). ya know, fun stuff.
x A/N: This is #3 in a series of 6 stories featuring two members from TXT, two from ATEEZ, and two from Stray Kids. They all follow the same theme and can be read chronologically or you can jump around. I support the chaos.
Previous Psychopath: Lee Know | Next Psychopath: Seonghwa | OR Start From The Beginning
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Oskemen, Kazakhstan. Population 326,498 excluding, of course, one pyromaniac who managed to slip through the cracks. You’re pleasantly surprised that Woo managed to keep himself concealed for so long, especially with his affinity for, in his own words, “Making things go BOOM.” Preferably with the intended target in it but he isn’t above cracking a few eggs to make an omelet.
“Seek fucking help!” was the last thing you remember shouting at him before you went your separate ways. His reaction? That undeniably Woo laugh that earned him the codename Jackal, a wink, and a kiss blown with full sincerity. “See you soon!” he sang, hopping into that godforsaken van you always hated. “Over my dead body, Wooyoung!”
Oskemen, Kazakhstan. Population 326,498 excluding, of course, one pyromaniac who managed to slip through the cracks—and you, riding his face midday with the windows open. You said you’d see him again over your dead body. You never said anything about him being under your living one. The bed frame squeaks as your knees rock back and forth into the mattress. Woo’s arms are locked around the fluffiest part of your thighs, making it easy for him to snatch you up whenever you lean too far forward for his liking.
It’s difficult not to when he’s fucking you with his tongue like his life depends on it, making the most feral, animalistic noises when his lips smack around your clit. “Woo, oh my god. How many tongues do you have?” you whine, collapsing forward as his tongue moves in unpredictable patterns that have you losing the ability to think straight. Your head lands in his lap giving you a rather cinematic view of his cock standing thick, hard, and pretty for you. 
Collecting the perfect amount of spit at the front of your mouth, you lick your way up from the base of it, twining your tongue around his throbbing shaft. Woo’s stomach contracts against yours, the unexpected warmth of your mouth when your lips envelop the head of his cock making him groan between your legs. “No fair,” he chokes, “You can’t do that.” You shrug, fingers wrapping around his cock to pump him slow and sweet. Your thumb rolls over the rim, your tongue busy collecting arousal from the very tip of him, “Then do something about it.”
With your hips eased forward he can see the wetness leaking from between the lips of your pussy onto his chest and he has to have you back on his tongue. What a tasty ‘something’ to do. It’s a playful tug-of-war between the two of you. You leaning forward to deep throat him into next week, him dragging you back to his mouth to stick his tongue far enough inside you that he’s licking your lungs. “Stop running from me, baby” he pouts, tapping at your thighs. You pinch the head a little and he squeaks, “So cute you are.” You want to tease him longer, drag this on forever, but you’re so close and he’s right behind you. Just a little further and—
You're startled by a knock at the front door that's hard enough to splinter the wood of the door frame. You sit up straight, as straight as Woo will let you under the circumstances, hushing your moans to listen for voices. All the while your hand’s still stroking him and he hasn’t missed a beat between your thighs. There are voices. Male. But you can’t make out what they’re saying. The men bang at the door again, shouting in a language you don’t understand.
“Who is it?” you call out in your civilian voice. Forgoing the pleasantries, they begin to kick the door, knowing as well as you do that it won’t hold up to too much force. “Just a second! I’m coming!” Shit, you are. Your hips writhe on Woo’s face, your orgasm sending chills through your body that give you goosebumps. “Me too” he whispers and your lips are around him again, praying that whoever’s outside the door will go away. Maybe they’re just really aggressive bible salesmen.
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The front door flies open, hanging on by one rusted hinge. Three armed men charge through the busted door frame, immediately tearing the apartment apart searching for something or someone. Bible salesmen? Nah. One of the men picks up a chair and sends it crashing through a window. Aggressive? Yes. Another heads straight down the hallway, ripping open closet doors until he reaches the bedroom. He busts it open, his gun aimed dead center at the bed where you sit wrapped in blankets. Alone.
You scream bloody murder, backing into the headboard. You’re tearing up, fingers gripping the blanket, “Please, don’t hurt me.” You aren’t what he expected to see, throwing him off as he approaches the edge of the bed. He hesitates a moment. A moment too long. Two blades dig into his feet, cutting through his thick black boots like butter. Woo slips from under the bed, severing the man’s Achilles tendons and sending blood gushing out onto the carpet.
“I’m never getting my security deposit back now” he whines, sweeping behind the man to slit his throat. The gun goes off in the man’s hand, sending a bullet flying through the lamp in the corner. You race across the bed, still wrapped in blankets, and snatch the gun from his hand, turning into the hallway in enough time to shoot one of the others in the neck. “I need clothes!” you shout, taking cover across the hall in the bathroom.
“Is that really #1 on our list right now?” “You were just bitching about your security deposit! You got sweatpants, I need something!” Woo groans, “Fine!” Bullets fly down the hallway, trapping Woo with the dying man and you with—
Feeling watched, you cut your eyes at the bathtub and spot a man bound and gagged in the bathtub. You roll your eyes. “What the fuck?” you say under your breath, pretending not to see the bound man. That’s a problem for later because the man you shot in the neck has you by yours, throwing you across the bathroom. Your head cracks against the wall, darkening your vision. He grabs a towel, pressing it to his neck. The room’s getting darker for him too but you’ve gotta pay.
He pulls the trigger again, nearly shooting you in the neck. You dodge it, steadying yourself long enough to empty a clip in his chest. Tossing your gun to the side, you crawl over to grab his as he slumps down in a corner. In the hallway gunshots continue. Glass breaks. Walls shake. The last two men standing fighting for their lives with everything they can grab. By the time you get to your feet, gun in hand, they’ve made their way back to the living room.
You take your time getting there, the scent of blood dripping from your nose nauseating, and find Woo beating the last man with the broken leg of a table. He stops only when he feels you by his side, his chest covered in blood, and rises to admire his handiwork. You aim the gun at the man’s head, pulling the trigger for good measure.
Woo frowns, “Excessive, don’t you think?” You glance down at the wooden leg in his hand, raising a judgemental eyebrow. “Right,” he sighs, grabbing a bundle of clothes from the floor, “For you, darling.” 
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Stepping out onto the street hand in hand with Woo, you try to blend in with the locals. An impossible task considering your bloody clothing and his cut-up face. You move as quickly as you can, letting him guide you while you keep an eye out for cops. “Woo, wait. What about that man?” “What man?” “The one in your tub. If anyone finds him—” Woo stops walking, tapping his foot as he stares down at his watch. “5…4…3…2…”
A sudden explosion sends a ball of fire shooting from the side of the building, sending what was left of Woo’s apartment raining down on the street below. “What man?” he smiles, dragging you down a nearby alley where his van awaits at the other end. Approaching the back of the van you notice a dark car pull in behind you. Sleek and vintage, it immediately feels familiar. It is familiar. And the driver—
“Woo—” you begin to say but a sharp pain in your throat cuts you short. “Aww, baby,” Woo coos, easing the needle out of your neck, “I’m really sorry about this.” Tossing the syringe to the side, he cradles you in his arms and carefully lays you on the ground. In seconds your muscles fail you, leaving your body to depend only on involuntary actions to stay alive. The crunching of tires against dirt is deafening as the car comes to a halt inches away from your head.
Woo stands over you, inspecting you for any sign that you might be in pain. “I really want to help you with your little mission. Get the gang back together and all but there’s been a…complication.” Just as you feel yourself getting drowsy, a second figure enters your line of vision, pushing back a pair of dark glasses to take you in. Seonghwa grins, the bottom row of his teeth metallic and shiny, “Hey, Sleeping Beauty. Long time no see.”
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jennicatzies · 9 months ago
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holy shit i absolutely adore your au!!! can other characters ever break from their scripts or will ham and burr suffer alone together?
HELLO I APOLOGIZE FOR THE ROYALLY LATE RESPONSE,,,
Thank you SO much, this au makes me insane 🙏🙏 glad to know other people are interested haha!!!
Alright discussing the question . Unfortunately, Burr and Hamilton r the only AWARE aware ones. Sad times. howEVER there are SOME characters who are a tiiiiny bit aware or at least has cracked a little bit Once. But that's about it. Next run their memories r wiped and they start from 00:00:00 again.
I thiiiink I remember talking ab Jefferson and his faulty script wiring? I'll dive more into it again here tho haha. Yapping about other characters with a drop of awareness under the cut
The main guys we already know are Hamilton, Burr, Seabury and Bullet [ even though SeaBullet are on the side of the stage ]
But what about. Other characters.
Okay I wanna talk ab my favorite scenario/minor ish plot point ever
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Southern mf democratic republicans. STAY WITH ME I'LL ELABORATE
OKAY they're. INFURIATINGly funny. Conceptually. Though not as severely as Burr, they have caught glimpses of stage elements or even the audience at some points, though that's about it and their memories get wiped at the end of each show.
Jefferson's handling/POV: okay uh. You know those lil bits in the musical where he "interacts" with the audience/people off stage. Aka blowing a kiss to the audience in What'd I Miss and handing someone off stage a copy of the Reynolds Pamphlet. Canonized. Ish. These could easily be translated into in universe terms by his script wiring, but sometimes he just. Sees the audience. Ultimately he doesn't give a damn. He's having too much fun to worry about it.
Burr has tried to like, get information out of him about this, but hey since he doesn't know what in the world Burr is tweakinh out about he just goes like, "mann I think you just need sleep. Or water. Or water and sleep. Or you're insane. Good luck" and skips on his way ODHRJJEOR
Madison's handling/POV: Madison time yayy. Sickly. Sickly guy. He's also caught lil glimpses of the audience or stage elements seeping into his scripted vision, but also ultimately doesn't think much further about them. Since he's. Quite aware that hes Sickly he kinda just goes "damn guess we got Mental illnesses now. Fml" and moves along
Burr's also tried to talk to Madison about it, but he insists that he himself is just really tired or Sick.
Unless it's the very off chance of jeff and mads' "error" syncing up, they never really like, acknowledged this that much. Maybe the occasional "hey what's that" "what's what" "nvm I'm just sleepy" but that's pretty much it. The part already broken doesn't develop with each run rkjeorkerk they just kinda get The Visions occasionally and shrug
No illustrations for this but! Washington! My friend and I kinda cooked something with this, but the drabble's theirs n' I don't wanna share w/o their knowledge hfhdjfjd
Not really a loop aware or stage aware thing but. His mind. The way he thinks. Happened in like ONE run and that's. That's all the crumbs we get for Washington. Sorry :(
For Washington, it was during the Meet Me Inside number. He just notices that Hamilton's line delivery isn't as... angry as expected. And so he's like... oh. Oh shit. Wait what.
He still!!! Feels angry!!! Because he's scripted to!!! But he doesn't want to be angry anymore!! But he is!!!! Internal conflict!!!! It confused him because his brain is telling him to be mad because Hamilton upset him. But he. He doesn't want to be upset in that moment. Oh well. Fuck
There MIGHTTT be more crumbs for other characters but. It's the middle of the night and this is all I can rack from my brain. Ask about the state of some character and if you're lucky you Might get crumbs
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tj-dragonblade · 1 year ago
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Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other writers. spread the self-love ❤
Thank you! This is such a hard question! I love most everything I've written, picking favorites is hard, I swear it would be easier to name the ones I'm least thrilled with lol. And just because most of these are Sandman doesn't mean I don't care about my older fandoms either, just that almost always what I'm happiest with writing is going to be the most recent years. Maybe one day I'll go through fandom by fandom to pick a top three from each, or something. But for now! In no particular order, and after much thought, here we go.
When the Chips Are Down from the tail end of my Saiyuki days, published 14 years ago this month. It's comical crack-treated-seriously based on an obscure canon-adjacent factoid and that sort of thing has never been my forte, but I succeeded admirably here if I may say so. It was a joy to write, Jiipu is my favorite and forever under-utilized in fic so centering this around him, around a ridiculous tidbit of info about his counterpart in the original Journey to the West and telling it in his pov was absolutely delightful. I had so much fun writing this one and I'm still so proud of the character voice work I managed in here.
The Thessaly breakup fic from fluffbruary 2023, which I like for having a semblance of plot and because I see lots of talk about what Hob would think of Thessaly but I don't know if I've run into any other actual fics dealing with it. Not that this is the Hob-gives-Thessaly-a-piece-of-his-mind fic that I think we all need, but I'm still very pleased with it. And I just really like the scene of Dream crying on Hob.
Of Cutoff Shorts and Classic Cars. I'm just. So happy with how quickly this one happened, how much it kept growing in the writing and how it turned out in the end. I also laugh at myself for nitpicking over the right British terms for back yard and driveway and such but then I completely spaced using bonnet instead of hood. 😂 Also fun fact this was my first time ever writing oral with a vulva and I'm very pleased with how well it's been received.
The Keeper and the Traveler currently sits pretty high because I've always loved and wanted to write that fairy-tale narrative style and this got pretty close. I don't know if it will still be in my top five by the end of the year but for now, it is.
And lastly will cheat a smidge and say Cruise Ship Boys, because I love both pieces of the 'series' and can't decide which I like better. The porn piece again happened quickly and wrote easily and I'm delighted with how it turned out. The sequel was meant to be one cute-ish little scene to revisit them but snowballed into a whole depressing backstory for Dream and an illuminating look into his everyday life and again, it wrote easily which seems to be a theme with these faves, lol. But yeah. I would love to come back to this AU one day.
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rei-does-stuff · 9 months ago
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Long post rambling abt my SaH continuation au
Might not make tooooo much sense but I’m trying
Ok!!
So, it continues where ep 32 left off, bam in the gas chamber WHOOOOOOO I love child murder!! And it mainly Geum’s mental state during it, how he’s going back at forth between saving bam and keeping his cover, he manages it (how idk yet shhhhh) and he gets Bam and co out of the gas chambers and hides them under the tunnel system of the Wolf Den where people won’t find them
Geum expects to be able to calm down from this, but he can’t, for some reason his heart keeps racing and he can’t focus and he seems to be hearing something, or someone but it’s too faint for him to really make out yet
He ignores it though, it’s PROBABLY nothing right???
Bamsaegi and co wake up and are found by other FH scouts that came as backup, even though Bam doesn’t really wanna leave yet since he hasn’t even really seen Geum yet, but alas he has no choice but to go back home and come back later
For Geum, things go around the same as usual,
The wolves have a new plan!!! They realize that the Flower Hill soldiers are on fucking crack and are willing to die for just about anything and aren’t afraid of them, so they’re using a lil sci-fi…ish machine to use people’s fears against them and what better way to test it out is throw Geum right into the machine!! Aren’t they sooooo nice?
Now the wolves can’t see Geum’s fear, but they can see his reaction so Geum still has to be careful during this. They wanna see Geum overcome whatever it is hes afraid of (if he’s even afraid of anything) so he can fight against flower hill better and also to see how strong the machine even is (and to perhaps see if he’s really a spy according to Vixen!)
Geum goes in, but it’s weird, it’s nothing nightmarish or even scary its honestly pretty nice, a night open field, lots of flowers, reminds him of home. He can even hear someone humming, who is that anyways? He gets closer and sees a squirrel, is it Jul? There’s no way he’s afraid of Jul. Bam? No, he’s not really scary either, even if he was afraid of losing him it’s not something that would stall him really, but it’s neither of those things. It’s…Him. Him before he was a soldier.
Geum is OBVIOUSLY confused, why is he seeing HIMSELF in something that’s supposed to be his biggest fear, it disturbs him, especially since the other Geum keeps trying to talk to him! He’s so nice?? The complete opposite of him! Was this really how he was?? Why was this his biggest fear??
“Who…What are you?!”
“I’m you! Silly! Finally you start talking! I was worried you went deaf or something!”
“You aren’t me! You’re nothing like me!”
“Well not anymore! You’re a soldier now! Funny how people can change so quickly. It hasn’t even been that long and you can’t even recognize yourself.”
“What the hell…?? Is this thing broken this can’t be my biggest fear this-this is…!”
“Are you okay? You don’t look so good…”
Geum with all the questions racing through his head and the machine being very taxing, passes out before he can finish the test so has to be taken to the infirmary
He has a splitting headache when he woke up, Vixen was near him, asking what happened in there. Geum lies and says he doesn’t remember. Vixen is suspicious but just tells him to relax for a bit and that he can finish the test when he’s recovered, making a comment about how she was pleasantly surprised that he was afraid of something.
Geum hates waiting. He hates staring at the ceiling but these damn mice nurses won’t let him leave until he’s “perfectly healed” or whatever!! It’s late, he hears that faint noise in his head again, familiar but he still can’t quite make it out. He falls asleep.
Midnight, or later, he wakes up, it’s like his body jolts awake and moves on its own, he’s so dizzy but he can’t stop, no one seems to be stopping him either for some reason, he’s outside, none of the nurses even tried to stop him this time. He’s on a flower patch and kinda just…Falls on it. “I remember you giving me a bouquet in a place like this!” A familiar voice said, this time it was so clear. It was Goseumdochi!
Geumsaegi feels like hes going insane, he KNOWS goseumdochi is dead but he can hear him and he can see him! He’s RIGHT THERE! But he can’t touch him, it’s like he’s a ghost! He asks questions, a million of them, but with no answers, Goseum just stares at him and smiles.
And thus begins Geum’s slowly breaking! Varies things happen but two things remain consistent, he keeps going into the fear machine (and failing) and he keeps seeing Goseumdochi and failing to talk to him.
For the first arc of the story this is a constant and it eventually ends with him beating the machine by just…Killing the other version of him. After which Goseum finally starts to answer him.
This leads into Geum eventually questioning things about Flower Hill and himself,
But he isn’t the only character going through a revelation, part 1 Juldarami!!!!! Where is he anyways?
Jul was of course, recovering from the bullet he took. But now he’s fully recovered and ready to help and find Geum. And by GOD he is worried because the commanders, NO ONE, has heard anything from him. Radio silence.
Jul is determined to get to the bottom of it. He goes undercover with his only mission being finding Geum. One problem though, Geum is avoiding him HARD. Everytime Jul gets close Geum runs 20 feet away, so basically it’s a game of cat and mouse with Jul losing his MIND trying to find Geum, and eventually listing the help of…Bamsaegi!!!!
Bamsaegi feels absolutely awful for what’s happening and thinks it’s his fault, so he helps Jul try to find Geum whilst learning about the world outside Flower Hill as he goes undercover and getting particularly close with Huin (which causes him to defect later on!)
Through this both of them learn that Geum…Isn’t exactly the greatest, idolization isn’t a fun thing when the person sucks BALLS.
That’s basically the gist of it, few more things tho,
Throughout this Vixen is doing her own plot to overthrow Commander Wolf and eventually does so Geum has to deal with that during his whole crisis,
Mul!!!! I haven’t exactly finished his whole thing but here’s basically what I have so far!
Mulmangcho is still trying to get Geum exposed as the spy, and he’s getting desperate now that Geum has basically ousted his former position. So he needs to reset things, find himself, BEAT any fear he has so he can crush that squirrel and rip that beautiful fluffy tail of his! So he goes into the fear machine when no one is looking,
His fear is…Weird. It’s a maze with seemingly no exit. Every door leads to another door and those door lead to 39 revolving exit doors that lead him back where he started! It’s frustrating! He hates it! And he’s raging HARD!
He keeps hearing something, like someone is laughing at him. He keeps following and following, until he sees…Geum.
Well great his biggest fear is Geum WHAT A SURPRISE! This thing must be Einstein! Except Geum is…Weird, he isn’t talking, he’s just kinda…Standing there, Mul takes a step forward, he takes a step back, he keeps moving, Geum keeps moving, he runs, Geum runs, but to where?
Mul keeps following Geum, he seems to be getting farther in the Maze than he did before, in the background he can hear glimpses of his life but he isn’t really focusing on that. Geum is leading him to an exit! He’s almost done—And his brother pulls him out of it before he can finish.
Great.
Still, he didn’t understand, he wasn’t scared or nervous throughout the entire thing, so why was that his biggest fear?
(I’m thinking it can lead to Geum and Mul slowly understanding each other!)
It all ends with Geum quitting the military tho and seeing that the commanders SUCK so fun!!!
That’s basically everything, I hope to turn this into a fic or comic of some sort eventually <333
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inhvshedwhispers · 11 months ago
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au where everything is the same except arthur survived... & heres how it can happen:
the fight w micah happens,, but arthur manages to hurt micah really badly w a knife to the knee & cracked some of his bones by slamming him against the rocks (they were fighting near a crevice at the mountain top...... arthur couldve literally just slammed micah against the edge of the crevice & made him bleed heavily from his head or smth).
so the fight isnt as one-sided ish as in canon. its now even bc yea arthur can play dirty too during a fight for his very life. he aint above stabbing ppl w a knife, cmon now.
so the fight happens w a whole lot of injuries sustained by both men. everything goes down the exact same as in the game.
arthur doesnt die; he passes out from his injuries. charles & sadie go back for him while tilly stays w the marstons. they got to him & took him to a doctor just in time for the doc to heal his wounds... altho the doc wasnt very optimistic abt arthur's chances of survival, charles & sadie still took the chance anyway.
they move to live in a cabin in the woods, a little far from civilization but not completely secluded bc arthur still needs access to meds & the doctor. charles & sadie tell the marstons + tilly abt this, & only tilly goes over to live w charles sadie & arthur while the marstons wanna start over & keep things on the down low. (john pays off his own bounty w the money arthur gave to the marstons, so now hes federally pardoned.)
several months pass & arthur gets a little better. he still has tb tho... but its more manageable now than it was before. he gets into an argument w tilly charles & sadie bc they wanted to stay w him while he, very self-deprecatingly, told them to just leave him alone in the cabin & go live their new, free lives now.
they, ofc, didnt listen bc "shut tf up arthur. we wanna stay w you bc we care abt you. you did everything for us... allow us to care for you. not that we wouldnt even if you didnt allow it." in sadie's words... more or less.
tilly still gets her happy ending, marrying a lawyer & all tho... it just happens very later on after arthur got better & was federally pardoned too. he attended her wedding as the man who walked her down the aisle & he was definitely, 100% bawling his eyes out bc thats his baby sister getting married!!!
mary & jamie gillis learn of arthur's survival when they saw him, charles, sadie, & tilly in... whichever town they all ended up in. tilly immediately had her guard up while charles & sadie were more welcoming to mary & jamie bc. theyve no fucking idea what the history is. arthur was... equally happy & wary.
mary didnt want his help this time tho!! she was just worried abt him. the two of them talk things out & mary finds out that arthur gave away the proposal ring to john; she was so happy abt that... but also sad.
jamie, on the other hand, was hint hint nudge nudge-ing the two of them—like hell is he gonna let this new opportunity for them go by! not like before. he might as well put matchmaker in his resume after graduating university bc of how he was trying so, so hard to make mary & arthur go on dates. (he just wants his own little family back...)
tilly wasnt happy abt any of that but she just. threatened the gillis w a smile on her face that if they did anything to her older brother, theyll be hearing from her personally :)))) & its not gonna be pretty :)))) so mary better not hurt him again :))))
(it was during that moment that sadie & charles realized how alike tilly & arthur are.)
anyway this is getting long to tl;dr: arthur survived bc of charles & sadie. then mary & arthur do, in fact, end up together again & this time... it works. it finally works. just like arthur promised her.
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echantedtoon · 1 year ago
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Eclipsed Starshine(Yandere Kokushibo x Reader) Ch1 For Which The Heart Darkens With Want
An alternate route for if Kokushibo had given into his yandere tendencies earlier than expected.
(This is an alternate ending for In The Moon's Shadow. What if Kokushibo didn't leave? What if he instead stayed? What if his yandere tendencies had him do more than just slay people that night? It'll be answered here in this short story. But I want to make this clear-
0. THIS WILL BE VERY SHORT. Like at max two maybe three chapters at most.
1. This is a Yandere-ish story. I in NO way support any of that kind of relationship in real life!
2. This is a story with Demons from Demon Slayer so expect there to be some fighting, cussing, blood, mentioned killing, and other such things. Although they WILL be way toned down.
3. Kokushibo isn't going to be much of a yandere and more of having no idea how human relationships work but that's because Im not used to writing full blown yanderes. So the relationship will be non-toxic.
4. This IS an AU. So barely anything will be cannon.
5. If any chapters have warnings please read and heed them.
WARNINGS: Kokushibo is in pretty rough shape with bad wounds and some blood loss, mentioned blood, Kokushibo murders two rivals later, koku gets stabbed, mentioned killing/attempted murder, Y/n gets cut when someone tries to attack Kokushibo, Kokushibo breaks someone's hand, spicy-ish near the end, mentioning of a corpse, someone gets burnt to death in a house fire, yandere possessive themes, etc. Again I don't support toxic relationships this is pure fiction.
The song Y/n sings is A Thousand Years (Lullaby Version) by Christina Perri.)
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Your breath hitched in your throat.
Quietly you stepped closer as and closer and CLOSER to the bush silently. Slowly behind the henhouse you went and stopped right in front of the bush. The wind blew swaying it's branches creepily and looked like thrashing arms. You grabbed a handful and silently and slowly pulled them back.
And you froze at what you saw-
The winds howled as the darkness crept across the skies. The darkness behind the bush shielded your form from the moonlight which cascaded down between the trees and clouds in the sky. The shadows danced and branches creaked as the wind blew them about. Like arms beckoning you closer to grab you away in their rough grip. Drag you into the shadows never to be seen again. You cracked an opening in the branches and looked out. The darkened sky looked out over the entire area. Tree branches swayed and night fell upon the ground. However you froze as your eyes met a sickening sight.
R E D.
The coldness of the air bit down hard on your skin, like painful bee stings pricking your skin. The terror far greater than seeing a thousand wolves sunk in. A hand flew to cover your mouth as a foul urge to vomit rose and a sickening copper smell filtered through the air.
RED!!
That was the color painted everywhere on the ground displayed before you. And there...lying face down slumped over was a man's body. A canvas for the color. Your eyes shrank in terror and your ears gained a ringing sound all on their own drowning out any noise.
A DEAD BODY.
In your backyard and lying right in front of your face. How-...How did this happen?! Where did it come from?! You wretched yourself away from the bush in shock and leaned over slightly. The urge to vomit riding as you did everything you could to keep it down. The bush branches snapping back into place hiding the sight from you. Automatically you gave a few coughs and gulped down air in an attempt to calm yourself head spinning. There was a dead man on your property! Oh gods! What if someone thought you were responsible for this!? You could be tried for murders-
Wait...
How did you know he was actually dead?
That one thought made you freeze in your tracks instantly. That's right...How did you know for certain that he was dead? You just merely saw him covered in blood with a gash on his back. Your head turned back to the bush. He...he could've been hurt and tried reaching your house for help. What if he was laying there suffering?! That thought perked you back up into going back to the bush and cautiously reaching out to slightly pull the branches again. The body was still there unmoving. It...sure LOOKED dead but you couldn't tell in the dark. If he was still alive..you had to help him. You couldn't just leave someone to bleed out. The unmoving form still remained unmoving even as you noisily pushed through the bush and stood right next to the head....It was definitely a man. You could tell by how Large the body was and how muscular the exposed skin was. In the limited moonlight you were able to make out long hair and bangs that mostly covered his face and he laid in a position that suggested that he'd collapsed by himself. But the question still remained...Was he still alive?
You hesitated again ...but slowly you reached over to the face laying on its side and touched the long bangs covering his eyes. It was .. surprisingly soft and silky to the touch and you slowly pulled it away from the face to examine it. The right side of a man's face greeted you. You nearly jumped back at what you saw.
"Oh my gods...KOKUSHIBO!!"
The demon that you had seen many times before, who had been patient despite the stigma and rudeness of the people who hated his kind, was before you. Splayed out on the cold unforgivable ground unmoving. His right eyes exposed from pulling his bangs back was closed obviously either unconscious or dead, and read streaks ran down his face in water dripping patterns from a cut on his forehead. However...that wasn't the strangest bit. Your hand instead went to almost touch his lips and flinched back feeling a weak warm breath blow across your fingertips. You reeled back in shock, hand to your chest, and jumping
HE WAS ALIVE!!
Hands grabbed his right shoulder and HEAVED. Barely moving an inch, but slowly the body turned, and with a thud he was collapsed onto his back. A shocked gasp escaped from your throat upon turquoise eyes seeing his front body. Oh gods...So much blood. His body was practically DRENCHED in the red color! And you found out why. He had the front of his shirt ripped to pieces to where it was barely hanging on over his shoulders. A large gash across his front from his left shoulder and ending just above his right hip was exposed to you. Definitely bigger than the gash along his back. And there was a third smaller gash along his right collar bone ending near his bicep. There was so much blood..How was he even still alive!? Wha-..What happened to him?! What caused him to get like this?! You reached out to touch it his neck for a pulse- But froze as a strong hand snatched you hand.
Six eyes opened up and gazed up at the blurry figure above him. Not making any sense of the blurry, spinning vision. Until the eyes rolled up into the back of his head and the last thing he saw was a glimpse of turquoise.
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Warm.
Everything was warm once feeling returned to his body. Which was odd. He was lying on the cold hard ground last he remembered. Logic was of course the first thing to return to him. His thinking was always faster than his reflexes. Then the feeling of his body settled in. Warmth...but incredible aching, throbbing soreness. It throbbed and pained his body. Hmm..So he wasn't dead after all. It was too painful to be heaven and not painful enough to be hell, and too annoying to be purgatory. So he was still alive but had passed out for a short while. An acceptable fate. Now...where was he?
Eyes slowly opened themselves up to the world blinking rapidly at the light and his vision blurred until he could see...A one roomed house? It was mostly empty. A coffee table square in the middle, a picture frame or two holding a painting of someone on the walls, a basket in the corner, a shelf full of dishes and other small items, a fireplace with a fire currently going, and a few other bland things. Nothing that really stood out as anything important to him. But who lived here? Why was he inside? How did he get here? And who touched him?
Wait...This place looked familiar but his throbbing head couldn't pinpoint why or how.
His question was answered when the door opened and the figure of a woman in a blue kimono walked in. The smell of wood drew his attention to the logs she was carrying. Silently he watched as she slid the sliding door back closed with a foot before continuing on to the fireplace and proceeding to feed the fire the wood. He laid there silently staring at her legs as she worked, feeling too weak to look up just yet and not wanting to give himself away just yet. The sounds of a metal poker scraping against the fire appeared for a little while before it too went away and the legs turned to face him. They didn't move again for a long moment before he felt a hand touch his blanketed shoulder- Faster than either expected his left hand shot up to tightly grip a much smaller wrist and squeezed down just enough to get the other body to freeze.
"Who are you and where am I?"
His eyes turned upwards slowly tilting his head...and he gave pause at the shocked face staring at him. The soft features looking as if sculpted by an angel. Soft, warm, and very beautiful. Definitely a woman.
Wait a minute. He knew this troublesome woman.
You stared at him in shock at how fast the man moved despite the fact that he was still extremely hurt and had blood loss. He was extremely trained if he could react this fast. You jumped as he lightly squeezed your wrist. It didn't hurt, not at all, but you couldn't move. This man was obviously serious and probably still on edge from whatever happened to him. So taking a breath..you exhaled slowly to calm yourself.
"Calm yourself," you spoke holding up your free hand despite his face already being an odd calm, "Relax back. You might reopen your wounds-"
"Must we always meet at such ridiculous times?," he asked annoyed slightly, "How did you even move me?"
"This is my home. I found you unconscious outside last night and brought you in here, and let me tell you it wasn't easy. You're very heavy and I had to drag you foot by foot. I was so scared I'd open your wounds more."
You watched his eyes looking you up and down.. before he slowly let go of your wrist and lowered his arm back down but paused when he saw the white wrapped around his palm and held his hand out to look at the bandages wrapped around it. Before his eyes slowly looked down at his now uncovered torso and saw even more bandages snuggly wrapped around his entire upper body, over his right shoulder, and part of his upper right arm. A hand reached up to feel his head and again found more bandages wrapped around his forehead. The throbbing soreness he's been feeling throbbed from most of the bandaged spots. And a deep inhale made him aware of some kind of ointment or herbal treatment under them.
"...You have treated my wounds."
You nodded finally smiling at him. "I did."
He slowly looked back to you and blinked. "I wasn't aware that you had medical training."
"I don't. I only know so much because I accidentally cut my hands a lot when I carve soaps and candles." You held up your palms displaying the years worth of scars from cuts of all sizes you've gotten over the years from your job.
He hummed. "My sword. Where is it?"
"It's by the table. You were passed out so I didn't know what to do with it otherwise." He looked back to you. "Your shirt was also ruined but I managed to save your other clothes. They're washed and drying outside so you should be able to get them back soon."
"I see." Again he looked back to his body. "What of the state of my injuries?"
"You have a few large gashes across your back, chest, and shoulder here," you gestured to his torso. "But they're not deep at all and should heal rather quickly. You have a few cuts also but they're even smaller and should heal faster." You then frowned. "However I am worried about how much blood you managed to lose. There was so much. I honestly thought you were dead when I first saw you."
"I'll live," he said simply before sighing through his nose. "Is there anyone else that lives here?"
You shook your head. "No. Just me-"
"Where does that door there lead?" He pointed out the Smaller sliding door near the shelf.
Oh right. You never told him that whenever he was here. "Oh. That leads into my bathroom." You blinked before looking at him. "My house isn't that-"
You blinked at the man who was sitting up. ... Kokushibo was .. sitting up. The man was sitting up despite his blood loss- He sighed through his nose before pulling the blanket to drap around his shoulders and slowly struggled to stand up. Your jaw dropped in disbelief as he was able to stand up and turned keeping the blanket draped over himself. Eventually you shook you head and snapped after him.
"Hey! W-Wait a minute!" He stopped when you grabbed the blanket around him and tugged back. "Where do you think you're going?!"
"To bathe." He turned his head back to you. "Please bring me my clothes." He then tugged the blanket out of your hands and continued on his way. Grabbing a towel from the shelf and entering your bathroom.
You stood there stunned for a very long time opening and closing your mouth like a fish before you looked at the empty futon and then back to the door as the faint sounds of running water started up. ....HOW WAS HE ABLE TO STAND AND WALK RIGHT NOW?! HE SHOUDN'T EVEN BE ABLE TO SIT UP!! But there he was. You were absolutely stunned to say the least, but did as he asked and got the clothes you cleaned from the line. You ended up just quickly shoving them inside closing your eyes and slamming the door back shut to give him respect of privacy. He still took his sweet time however and the next time he opened the door he was fully clothed minus a shirt. Steam escaped from the room behind him as he approached your sitting form at the table but he didn't even acknowledge you. Just reaching out to grab the sword off the table. He stood there examining the sheath of the blade with a calm face... before he paused. His eyes went wide as his arm flew to clutch his stomach as a wave of pain and dizzying nausea came over him. He stumbled two steps to the right before something grabbed onto him barely able to lift him up.
"I TOLD you! You're body's too weak to stand yet. C'mon. Come lay back down." You some how managed to hold up his heavy body just enough to make it back to the futon and help him sit down but he refused to lay down no matter how hard you pushed him to lay back so you gave up and just looked at him breathing heavily. "There. Now don't try that again. You need to recover."
His hair was down now completely cascading down his body and slightly wet covering most of his back but he still turned to you peeking through his hair. "It seems...so. I must take some time to recover."
"I also need you to remove your coat." He raised a brow at you. "To replace the bandages you removed. It'd be better if I treated them properly."
He remained silent but placed the sword on his lap and reached up to silently remove his black and purple checkered coat. You blinked but quickly looked away with red rising to your cheeks. Right! You'd better get those bandages. You were surprised at how silent and calm he was. Not once did he flinch or make a hurt face when you retreated his injuries. Only silently raising his arms and moving his hair when you wrapped new clean bandages around his torso red faced. He was...very physically fit. When you were finished he just silently pulled the coat back over his shoulders.
"You should be fine now but you should rest." He hummed in response. ".... Why were you behind my house?"
"Why do you need to know?"
You rose a brow. "Well considering I found a demon bleeding near my home and treated him without asking for payment in return I think an explanation would be the least you could give me."
"I owe nothing."
"Maybe not but it would be polite."
There was silence again before he said one word. "Fine."
You blinked before smiling. "Well good. Now-..Would you tell me what you were doing outside my home?''
He hummed again cracking an eye open at you. "Nosey aren't you?"
"Concerned is more like it. You'd be too if you found a bloodied man outside your home." You then glanced at the sword on his lap. "...Were you fighting?"
A large hand clasped around the sword in an instant. "....Yes." He settled on saying carefully after studying your face for a long moment. "I was engaged in battle before coming here."
Your brow rose. "Combat in the middle of the woods?"
"I prefer traveling without trouble following. The forest provides a peaceful cover. However I miscalculated an ambush. I will not make the same mistake."
Who attacked him? Other samurai? You've seen these men a few times while in town from the waring clans but never spoke to one until Kokushibo. "....But do I have to worry about trouble coming here?"
"...No. I have already assured that I wouldn't be dealing with them again."
You decided not to delve further into that. Wasn't your business anyways. At least you didn't have to worry about trouble showing up on your doorstep. You slowly closed the box containing your medical kit. "I'll have to buy some more supplies in town. ...Are you hungry? A full stomach would help you feel better."
He hummed again. " You're cooking beef stew in the fireplace." He nodded. "I will take it."
"And water." He again looked at you. "You lost a lot of blood. You need fluids and get rehydrated fast or else something bad might happen." You stood up and turned away from him. "I'd rather not have my guest collapsing on me again." Walking over to the shelf, you placed the box back. "You can stay here until you recover, but I think it might be a good idea if I had the village's doctor come look at you-"
"NO." You turned around blinking at him as he narrowed his eyes at you. "I won't have anyone else seeing me or knowing I am here. I will stay until I am well enough to walk within a week but until then no one else will know I'm here."
The intensity of the state he was giving you reminded you of a wolf staring at a rabbit. ..And you suddenly had a thought that perhaps you had better stay out of whatever business Kokushkbo had. So you nodded and he relaxed back but still stared at you. Watching as you set about getting him a plate stuffed full of rice and beef and whatever else you decided to give him.
"Thank you." He said plainly before just grabbing a pair of chopsticks to start eating.
"I hope you don't mind such a meager meal. I don't have exactly have access to top meat."
"This will be enough for now but I will need more later to fuel my body's regeneration rate." He said before just silently putting a chunk of the food in his mouth...and pausing before just looking at the food.
You noticed that and tilted your head. "Is something wrong? It's too hot isn't it?"
He was slow to respond. "No... It's quite good. I rarely have home cooked foods." Mostly he feasted on prey he caught these last few months between the battle fields and missions and home cooked meals like this were rare these days.
You smiled at him. "Thank you. If you're still hungry later then you're welcome to take more of it. If you can't move just ask me and I'll get you more." A jug full of water and a cup was placed next to him. "Here's some water. Drink some. I'm going to clean up the mess you made of my bathroom. Next time don't leave your old bandages next to the tub."
"My apologies."
He did not say anything else as you left to clean up the bathroom and dispose of the old slightly bloodied bandages he had wrapped around himself.
"Burn them."
You paused in the middle of carrying the small pile of bloodied bandages in your hands. "What?"
"Burn them in the fireplace." His eyes glanced to the fire. "It'll better for any trace of me to be cloaked for now." He took another sip of his tea before looking at your face calmly but seriously. "When you are finished, I want you to take the ashes from the fire pit and go outside. Cover any pools of blood I might've left behind with them. It'll mask the scent until the dirt fully absorbs the blood away."
"Mask the scent from who?"
"Anyone wishing to find me and finish what the others failed to do. Try not to let anyone see you do it."
You weren't exactly sure who these 'people' were, but you'd rather not risk it considering the spike of fear from his words. So you did what he asked with an approving hum from him. Throwing the old bandages into the fire until they burnt into ash and collecting the burnt out ashes and logs in a metal bucket nearby. He only watched silently still eating as you heaved the heavy bucket out of your house, around back, and where you found his collapsed body. Sure enough there was some red blood stained there from where he laid for who knows how long before you found him. Taking the still hot ashes, you made quick work of it looking around yourself to be sure no one else was watching you before all the red ground was covered up. Leaving you to scurry back inside to him.
He seemed pleased with your work and just finished eating silent before you began collecting the dishes he set aside once he was finished with it. He stayed like that for the rest of the day, just silently sitting there and looking like he was in deep meditation. You didn't disturb him still feeling strange from the intense look he gave you earlier. However you did comply with him when he asked for more food before retiring to the futon you set up. Not wanting to disturb him, you just pulled out a spare set of blankets from the shelf and curled up near the front door just in case you needed to jump out for whatever reason. However you woke up the next morning in surprise to find him sound asleep still.
Seeing as you still had a quiet morning to yourself, you quietly made your way out to go to work which wasn't too long a job but you thought that the man would've been awake by the time you came back. You were surprised to see that he wasn't. Instead he remained there in the same position you saw him in when you first got up. Long hair splayed all around him. But what caught your attention towards him was the twitching of his eyelids. He looked incredibly bothered by something. So when a hand touched his forehead, his eyes snapped open immediately to look at you.
"You're running a fever...It doesn't feel too high thankfully. I have some fever medicine in my kit. I'll give you some and you should feel fine later."
He merely hummed before closing his eyes back shut. "Do what you must."
You smiled and made to move..but paused. Removing your hand you stared at his bare forehead in confusion. ".... That's strange. Didn't you have a cut on your forehead?"
"You're mistaken." He didn't bother opening his eyes.
You stared at him before opening your mouth. That's not true. You DID treat a cut on his forehead but again you decided not to bother fighting him and again treat him with a herbal tea infused with the medicine. He opened his eyes and would've sat up to take the drink from you, but blinked as all of a sudden a hand pushed itself under his head and lifted him with extreme gentleness he'd never felt before. As if he was cracked glass and at any moment could shatter. Something warm and herbal smelling wafted over his lips as you cradled his head and held the cup to his lips.
"Here. Drink."
The eyes stared up at yours and how soft your features were... before they glanced at the cup, and slowly opened his mouth. It was enough for you to tilt the cup for him to drink taking great care to not spill any on him. Making sure to also give him breaks between gulps to allow him to breath until it was empty. He'll also need something solid in his stomach. Good thing you still had leftovers from dinner last night. He didn't make any moves to stop you from cradling his head and feeding him until he seemed to be full enough and you gently encouraged him to sit back up. You needed to treat his wounds again. He seemed to struggle to sit up by himself so you had to push him up into a sitting position before you could again treat him. He just remained silent and compliant throughout the entire process until he was laying back down and a cool wet towel was being pressed against his forehead.
"There you go. You should feel better soon. Is there anything else you want?"
"No. This should suffice."
You smiled at him again. "Well you should be well for now. I'll come back later and get you some more water after I finish cleaning the house. For now rest."
He looked at you closely. "You're doing your duties even while caring for someone else fully?"
"Well ..Yes. You're my guest, and I should be a good hostess but I shouldn't neglect my chores either."
"Hm. The markings of a devoted housewife." He nodded. "Your future husband will be pleased."
You paused blinking.. before slowly looking at him with a look. "I'm not seeing anyone for the last time.." His eyes looked back to you. "Really. I'm not. I clean my home and provide for my own person because I like independence."
His brow rose higher than before. "A woman living alone and supporting herself?" The eyes scanned you up and down. That was unheard of. "With how young and beautiful you are? A woman by your age is usually married or engaged to be married soon. It's unheard of to hear that you're not."
You paused. Before your face lit up a light pink at his words but despite that you shook your head with a frown. "No. I like living by myself and providing for just me. It's simpler and more peaceful."
"You do not want to be married? Or start a family?"
You gave a thoughtful look. "Well..I think it would be nice to settle down eventually, but it shouldn't be forced. Marriage is supposed to be about love for one another, not just what I look like."
"You haven't gotten any suitors?.. Outside of the man calling himself Sabo."
You shook your head picking up a bucket. "No. I have but most of the ones I've gotten have always been pushy or only wanted to marry me because they thought I was pretty or for some other selfish reason. Living on the edge of town helps but sometimes someone still comes here and try their luck. Some more pushy than others. A lot of the time they don't like hearing no."
Kokushibo silently seemed to be giving a thoughtful, considerate look to what you had to say. "I see."
He said nothing else as his eyes closed once again and you left to fetch a pail of water from your bathroom. If he wanted to rest then you wouldn't disturb him. Only rolling up your sleeves/bottom of your kimono before starting to scrub the floors. He remained still as you worked even as you moved furniture and pushed him and the futon over at one point to clean under him. He merely perked an eye open, before immediately closing it again unbothered by anything. Made no difference to you. You just continued to go about your business dusting, sweeping, mopping, etc. You again changed the towel on his forehead and fed him more later in the day but it wasn't anything special. However come the third morning he was there you started to think maybe demons were more supernatural than you thought. You had woken up as usual and gotten up but froze when you found the back door open and he was just sitting there already helping himself to what must've been the last of the large pot of stew and rice you made. How the heck was he able to eat so much? He noticed you before you could even say something.
"Apologies for devouring your food. If I wish to regenerate fully faster, I need more sustenance to sustain the energy my body uses to generate the healing process. But rest assured this only means I won't be a bother for you sooner."
You blinked looking at where he had been resting the day before then at him opening your mouth.. before just closing it. "It's..not a problem. You must be really hungry. I'll cook you a few eggs."
He only tilted his head slightly as you silently went over to make his bed, without complaining about it to him, before exciting the home to begin your work. A woman who didn't complain about things he did and just offered him more food without a second thought. The markings of a good woman who'd take good care of her husband and the home when he was away. However she seemed very stubborn minded about remaining single. She'd most likely die alone. He'd just finished the food you'd given him and you took his plate away with a smile when a knocking noise from the front door caught your attention. Kokushibo merely cracked an eye open from his meditative state. Neither of you moved and then the knocking came back again but louder.
"Who could that be?," you mumbled putting the plates to the side.
"A man." From the presence he sensed and by the smell, it was a male around the same age as you and from the smell of animals, he was either a hunter or was wearing some kind of animal pelts.
You hesitated looking at him both wondering how he knew that and a bit concerned. He said he didn't want anyone to know that he was here, but he didn't make any moves to hide or move out of sight...You supposed it would just be ok to answer the door, you just had to make sure to not accidentally show Kokushibo was there. So with a sigh you steeled yourself with a smile and walked on over to the front door, just sliding it open enough to peek your head out... before you blinked and your face frowned.
"What are you doing here?" Kokushibo's head perked up at the heavy distaste in your tone.
"I came to see the love of my life.~ Isn't it obvious?~ I missed you so much.~", came a gruff but young male's voice he'd never heard before.
Behind the door you placed a hand on your hip. "You're not allowed back in town. You were banned after you almost killed that elder a year ago."
"It was an honest mistake-"
"You got drunk and picked a fight with that poor old man for no reason! On top of that you dishonored your family and that was on top of the pile of horrible things you've done!"
"You don't live in town. This is just outside it, so I'm not breaking any laws." Kokushibo's head turned to the side and rose a brow seeing a hand caress the side of your head through the doorway. "I missed you.~"
SLAP!
The hand was harshly slapped away from your face. "GET OFF MY PROPERTY!!" You bellowed out at him in a tone that surprised Kokushibo could come from such a soft lady especially since he's never heard such a tone come from you. ''I don't know who you think you are but you're not welcome here! You're NEVER welcome here! You disgust me to no end! Now get off my property! I don't want to see you again!"
There was an instant reaction to your words. One of which being that you were shoved back harshly. Enough to send you stumbling back and falling to the floor as the sliding door slammed open and someone stepped inside. The someone was a man about her age maybe a year or two older with a few scars and clothing made from animal skins. Ah. That explained the smell of animals. He walked in initially with a smirk on his face but paused upon seeing the face of another man staring back at him calmly and silently. Except Kokushibo made sure that he kept his eyes under his hair, concealing his true identity. You shook your head scooting back from the new man entering your home and glared at him. The two men silently stared at one another before finally the first one sneered in anger and pointed at Kokushibo.
"Who the hell are you?!", he demanded.
"Who I am is not important for you to know," he responded back calmly only making the newcomer angrier.
"What?! Did you get married or something while I was gone?!" He snapped to you in question.
"So what if I did?!"
"SO YOU GOT MARRIED!?"
"Again that's none of your business! I don't owe you any explanation on what goes on in my life! GET OUT OF MY HOUSE!!"
The man didn't. Instead he snarled at Kokushibo who took his sweet time standing up and turning to face him. His calm expression beyond repair making him even more so.
"I believe she had asked you to leave this house," he spoke more calmly half lidded eyes staring at him. You looked up at him. Holy crap...he was a lot taller than he looked.
"Tch. And what right do you have to it?," he asked silently sizing the samurai up.
"None. I am nothing but a mere guest to this household however you are not. Now you had best be on your way. I would find it improper for you to stay any longer."
Perhaps it was the previous blood loss that had dulled his senses or the fact he didn't take this man as a threat (and to be perfectly honest he wasn't a threat at all) but when a hand shot out he stiffened awaiting the blow- However it-...Never came?
The smell of blood filled his nose after a body flew up and something metallic and shiny slashed across your face. A cut formed on your cheek. Pain exploded as you yelled out stumbling back until you collided with a body. Kokushibo blinked as you fell against him easily catching you in one strong arm as you gritted your teeth and clutched your cheek as a cut bled out on. Kokushibo slowly blinked as you felt tests start to stream down your face. Kokushibo slowly let his eyes grow wide before looking at the man who also seemed surprised as he held up a dagger.
"Leave him alone!," you bellowed out at the other man, "He's hurt enough! Just leave us alone! GET OUT! GET OUT!! GET OUT!!"
Well..that escalated rather quickly. He stared at the woman starting to cry in his arms then back to the man holding the knife. Her body was slowly slid until she was gently placed on the floor. Turquoise eyes blinked as he easily stepped over and placed himself between her and the other man. An unusual feeling of anger bubbling from his surface and he found himself wanting to do nothing more than smash this man's head open like a walnut. ..The sobbing continued behind him which made him give pause. Hmm. That would possibly escalate the situation to a much worse scale. Kokushibo decided he wouldn't be ending any lives.
Not now. Not today at least.
He chillingly looked back to the man. "You have been told to leave. If you don't wish bodily harm upon you, you'll honor the request."
The other man stared at him before daring to growl. "Who's gonna make me? You?"
"Obviously. Normally I wouldn't care of what business or purpose you have with her, but you attacked my hostess. I can't simply let that slide."
"I'm not going to let a woman order me around like a weakling. And I'm sure as hell not going to let you get between me and my business!"
An arm was raised up high and the dagger was raised only to be swiped down- And grabbed by a large fist faster than either could comprehend. Shocked eyes stared into the calm face, eyes hidden by burgundy hair.
CRACK-
Your body curled up on itself as a man's shriek echoed throughout the home. Pain wailing through his hand and up his arm shooting off like fireworks. The knife fell to the ground with a clatter by their feet as Kokushibo effortlessly and calmly crushed the man's hand. It was all a quick blur. His hand swiping from the hand to his neck, grabbing him by the throat and lifting up. You watched shocked as Kokushibo was able to effortlessly lift up the dangling man like he was nothing and walk him to the open front door struggling and wheezing for air grabbing at the calloused hand clamped around his throat. Until the samurai stopped just in the doorway.
"A man's place is to protect and provide for the woman he devotes his life to. Your proclamations of love are as empty as your threats. You are neither a man nor a worthy lover. It's only because I'm being courteous to my hostess that you live. She just cleaned last night and I'd hate to make a mess and ruin all her hard work. But make no mistakes. Should our paths cross again for whatever reason..." The calm eyes narrowed as the grip increased. "I will be the last thing you see before death claims you."
The man's body dropped like a ragdoll with a thud and a large gasp left his mouth followed by a current of coughs as sweet oxygen filled his lungs. He simply watched him wriggle and struggle like the pathetic worm he was before he was able to scowl and struggle himself away. He stood there until he was no longer in sight and then some before closing the door in front of him. Silence resumed for a long moment.
"...That was incredibly stupid of you." You blinked as he turned to look at you. "I didn't ask you to defend me and if you do it again I'll be sure it's the last time you do."
You ...just blinked. Staring at him as tears continued to roll down your cheeks before you scowled. "I-"
"Should be the one protected," he stated bluntly, "It's a man's job to protect the women not the other way around. You've already done me a great deed by feeding me, giving me shelter, and treating my wounds without a thing in return. I owe your safety at least in return." You said nothing as he walked on over to the shelf and grabbed the box you kept your medical supplies in. "Now treat the wound. It will be better if you did."
You wiped at your face before nodding. "F-Fine. But remove your coat so I can care for your wounds in return.''
"There is no need. They will be fully healed by tomorrow anyways."
That wasn't true. The gashes on him weren't deep but they'd take a long time to heal fully. "Even still, it'd be better to treat the wounds until they heal fully and I said I'd take care of you until you healed fully."
He regarded you for a long moment. "A woman who insists on treating others before herself...You would be an ideal wife if the right man wished to court you." You deadpanned at him. "Nevertheless I agree but treat your cheek first."
You didn't argue against that or when he suddenly pressed a cloth to your face to wipe off the tears and blood from your cut. Your eyes just widened as a hand tilted your head up to look at him and he continued working...a redness spreading across your face much to his inner amusement.
"Who was that man?" His voice made you jump.
"W-What?"
"He seemed to know you. Was he a past lover?"
You scowled in his hold. "He wishes. No. Not even remotely."
He hummed. "He seems to think otherwise."
"His family owns a successful fur trading business in town. Because of that he's very spoiled. He thinks he can get away with anything but last year he was exiled from town because he almost killed an elderly man after he got drunk and picked a fight with him for no reason. Everyone was tired of his selfishness."
"What is his business with you?"
"Nothing. His parents tried to convince me to make an arranged marriage between us as children and I guess since I've told him no he can't seem to get over it. But I'm afraid he might make good on that loophole." He hummed wiping around your cut. "Technically I don't live in town. I live just on the outskirts of it. So if he comes back here then he wouldn't be breaking the law.''
"And they never asked your parents for that?"
"I don't have any parents." He paused giving you a look of interest. "Years ago there was a wild fire in the area that burnt down a quarter of the town. A few people were killed in the flames. My parents were two of them." He watched as her eyes sadly looked back down to her work. "I was taken in and raised by a very nice older couple who didn't have any children. I'm forever grateful for their kindness especially concerning my boundaries. However now Nori has returned-"
"If he returns, he dies." You blinked as he seriously spoke. "I warned him. If he so chooses to not listen to that warning then he'll face the consequences of his own actions. I never go back on my word."
You blinked at him before pulling away red faced. "Y-You didn't have to do that."
"I did what my role entails." The rustling of clothing had you look over and freeze as his purple and black checkered coat dropped to his feet and exposed his torso to you. "Now you may treat me like you wanted." Your eyes stared at his toned chest- "It's rude to stare."
Jumping you scrambled grabbing your medical kit as he just calmly raised an arm to allow you to quickly pull away the old bandages and trying (and failing-) to not stare at his torso and his scars-...Wait. The bandages fell away from his skin and you froze staring at his wounds. Except..they weren't wounds. They weren't even scars! They were just light markings that looked extremely faded to the point that they were barely present. You just...stared at them.
Wounds don't heal that fast.
Staring silently you slowly looked up at his eyes. "Is something the matter?"
You opened and closed your mouth but quickly shook your head no. "N-No! You're healing up quite nicely! You were right when you said you'd be better in a week!" You offered a smile. "After this I'll make you some more food and drink. Do you like tea?"
"That's fine....You mentioned that you had no lover?"
You shook your head busing yourself by just removing his old bandages trying not to think too much about the mysterious scars. He... probably just had a rare healing rate. Or the wounds weren't as serious as you thought at first
"No. Nori was very selfish and any others weren't really what I was looking for. I'd rather make my own way."
"Would you ever accept a courtship?"
"Well...Yes. I might if the man wasn't interested in my looks or any other selfish reason. Like you for example. You don't seem to care much about those things. If someone as materialistic as you proposed to me or if I asked I would hope he said yes.Uh...N-No offense."
"None taken." He raised his arm higher looking over you carefully before closing his eyes with a hum. "Like me?"
"Y-Yes. But that's rare to happen-"
"I see."
Kokushibo did not leave when he stayed an entire week.
Your shock of seeing Nori near sun down left you just finishing bandaging him and cleaning up the small mess Nori left behind. Kokushibo took the dagger Nori left, but you had no idea what he did with it. He only returned to what he had been doing before Nori showed up, which was meditate for the rest of the day until it was finally nighttime. Kokushibo insisted on you taking back your futon and you still bring in shock just laid down staring at the ceiling until you fell asleep. You awoke the next morning to once again finding Kokushibo silently meditating in the corner helping himself to what must've been a full jug of water. Yesterday's events shot through your mind and you got up sitting up immediately.
"I see you're awake," he stared plainly, "I was beginning to wonder if you were going to sleep in the entire morning. I'm quite hungry."
You only gave him a look of annoyance before nodding with a sigh. "Alright but then I need to head for work."
"Is that wise?" He asked watching you stretch and get up. "Your cheek is still wounded. Someone might ask questions."
"I'll just say that I accidentally made a wild fox angry or something." You yawned again and he couldn't help but blink at your figure stretching out gracefully. "It would be more suspicious if I didn't show up to work."
"Hm. Understandable. Will you be cooking me a meal?"
You deflated only looking at him before sighing and moving to get him the food he asked for. If he was still recovering from the blood loss then he shouldn't push himself until he was fully recovered. He mentioned it would take him a week to recover right? Today was the fourth day so he'll only be here for another three days at most. Maybe he'd forget about you once he left. But for now you'd keep your promise and care for him. It was the least you could do after he drove Nori away. Hopefully that would keep him away too...
Oh how wrong you were about that.
You ended up serving him more eggs and fruit from the wild trees. He didn't seem to mind however and thanked you before taking it. Leaving you to just go about your work until retiring that night. As suspected your boss asked about the cut on your cheek, but she only scoffed and called you clumsy when you told her you had just fallen on sharp rocks. The next two days were relatively the same. He'd meditate or watch as you went about your own chores after you got back from work or to ask you to cook for him which you obliged. You also checked over his injuries only to find they had healed to the point that there wasn't even any scars left behind. You'd never seen anything like in on another man. Even your had small scars from burning himself on a stove or cutting himself on a carving tool. Perhaps he was born with fast metabolism that fueled his body's healing? Would be why he ate so much. You didn't bring it up. You were feeling relief on the seventh day. It'd be his last day here before he left apparently and you wouldn't stop him. However you weren't expecting him to ask you for a brush for his hair. Huh... come to think of it his hair had been worn down outside of the ponytail he had when you found it.
"I'll fix your hair for you if you'd like me to," you offered which caught him off guard as he blinked at you in light surprise, "I can style hair a little bit. My mother showed me how to, so I can put your hair back up if you want."
Kokushibo just slowly blinked again before closing his eyes with an exhale through his nose. "Do as you wish."
You smiled in return at him and went to fetch your brush. He didn't move but did lightly open his eyes when he heard you return and grab a strand of his long soft hair. It was soft to the touch and you took gently care in pulling apart the small knots you felt before even pulling the brush through the very bottom of the long fall of hair. He found the treatment acceptable so allowed it to continue. There was silence for a while as you hesitated until you spoke again.
"You have beautiful hair... You're a very handsome man."
He froze. Something soft and gentle touched his head which automatically made him freeze. His body instinctively standing on end and a thumb and finger curiously tugged gently at a strand of hair....But no hard metal comb yanked through his scalp. Instead two gentle hands caressed the strands and gently began to weave out the tangled big and small so slowly it didn't even pinch. A hum of a woman's patient voice sneaking through as she worked. The murmurs of a lullaby echoed and gentleness wafted with it.
Silence. Other than the lulling memories of melodies and the soft touch that was left behind.
"Heart. Beats. Fast. Colors and promises. How to be brave? How can I love when I'm afraid to fall? But watching you stand alone?" You gently pried apart two strands of burgundy hair as Kokushibo remained still. "But watching you stand alone, all of my doubts suddenly go away some how."
hands gripped into the fabric. He fell silent and didn't make any moves to stop her. When was the last time he ever felt such a gentle touch? He couldn't remember? Perhaps when he was a babe still in his mother's arms before he was snatched away into the harsh care of his father. Perhaps whenever His brother insisted on being kind to him. Maybe when he even indulged himself for the company of a woman when nights were particularly cold and hard. But this?..No. Never this. Never something so...intimate. A thing to share between lovers. His body went into absolute shock as tears weld up in those eyes and freely flowed down his face from the gentle treatment.
"One step closer. I have died everyday waiting for you. Darling don't be afraid I have loved you for a thousand years. I'll love you for a thousand more. " You continued working through the hair which was surprisingly easy to brush through. "Time stands still. Beauty in all she is. I will be brave. I will not let anything anything take away what's right in front of me. Every breath. Every hour has come to this."
Arms lightly shook as she nearly completed her work and red eyes watery glanced at the blankets that covered him.
Pathetic.
That's what his father would call him if he saw this. The state he was in. The emotions his body shook and caved into. Stop it, stop it! Regain control of your body!! Do not allow your useless emotions to conquer your mind!
"One step closer. I have died everyday waiting for you. Darling don't be afraid I have loved you for a thousand years. I'll love you for a thousand more. And all along I believed I would find you. Time has brought your heart to me. I have loved you for a thousand years. I'll love you for a thousand more."
You finished up and leaned back to look at your handy work. However he just slammed his eyes shut from view and snapped his head away so you didn't have any clue he was even crying. Instead you rose a brow. Wow. You weren't expecting a thank you but that was a bit rude of him.
"I'm finished," you told him even though he probably already knew that by now, "But I would like to get your bangs too if that's ok?" You leaned over more causing his body to visibly stiffen. "Oh. Are you alright?"
"..I am fine." He forced his body to relax with a sigh through his nose. Quickly picking up his haori he had taken off earlier and slipped it back on over his shoulders, briefly wiping his face off to cleanse himself of the proof of his weakness. "You may proceed and finish but do so quickly. I intend to leave tonight as per my plans."
"Do you think you'll be ready? I mean you were so hurt just days ago," you mumbled in concern shuffling to sit in front of him and gently grabbed the hair framing his face before running your brush through it too. "Why don't you stay one more night? You might feel better."
"No. I will leave once it's sun down. It's almost time anyways." She sighed and he cracked his eyes up at her. She was sitting in front of him now but looked at him once he grabbed your hand gently. "I have a question to ask you." She blinked her big shiny eyes at him. "That man from earlier this week, he wanted to marry you. I can see why you haven't accepted him, but why not anyone else? Why not just give someone your companionship already?"
You gave him a look before sighing. "Because there's no one who's shown me respect or at least interest in an equal partnership."
"And you would let that stop you how? I would see no benefits in waiting so long."
"Respect is earned not given." You firmly stated reaching out to again brush aside his bangs. "I hope for someone can get me to respect them not by intimidation, but by mutual respect. I want a good man. A strong man who doesn't see me as just a woman or a wife or something just to give him children. I want a man who sees me as an equal. As a person with my own mind. Someone to share our lives together. Not to put one above the other. I want someone better than what I was offered before."
"... Interesting. What would you say would make someone better?"
"I don't think anyone is better than anyone else unless they chose to be a bad person." You rose a brow. Why was he asking you this? "I don't think I'm better than you or anyone else. It's not that simple either however."
His gaze on you intensified. "Explain."
"I just said it's not easy to explain. You may have a higher position than someone like a homeless person but I would still treat you as an equal and with respect as long as I see you treating others with the same respect and equality. If you believe something like strength or wealth makes you better then that's your own flaw." What would be a good way to explain this in a way a demon could understand a human? "...A painter may not have the strength of a blacksmith but that doesn't mean they both can't create beautiful masterpieces. A florist may not know how to till the land like a farmer but that doesn't mean they can't grow beautiful plants. A teacher may not be able to win against the strength of a samurai but that doesn't mean their different skills makes one more important than the other.," You explained making him look up in awe at you. "You can lose skills, you can gain skills. There's always going to be people that do things better than you, and there's always going to be people that do things way worse than you. But that shouldn't define the worth of a person. Whether it be a man, woman, child, or even a demon."
He regarded you for a silent second before humming. "Then how do you define who is a good person?"
"That isn't as simple either."
"What do you mean?"
"Some people are just good. Some people are just bad....But a lot of times it's subjective to different people. Good people can do bad things especially if they think what they're doing justifies the greater good. Bad people can do good things if they want to, whether that's because they still have some kindness or because it's to get what they want I can't say. ...But most people I believe aren't inherently bad or good. Most fall in a place between."
"Then....What traits do you use to judge others if you yourself have done wrong?," he spoke to you.
You blinked surprised at all the sudden questions from Kokushibo but it was interesting to know that he wanted to know your opinion. "Well...Firstly Id admit what I did was wrong and not deny it. Secondly, I would judge someone else by what makes up that person." You gestured at him. "Their actions, their words, their morals, their personalities, and how they apply all of those things when interacting with me or anyone else. I'd also think about their point of view if I thought it would help me know how or why they would treat someone in a way."
There was silence afterwards for a long, long moment. You could feel him looking directly at you calculating, as he was trying to figure out how he felt about what you just said to him. You wordlessly went back to brushing through his bangs silently. That was another thing about Kokushibo you liked. From all of your interactions he never really pushed anything when you said no. He never yelled at you the way your boss did calling you foolish and naive. He never did anything Nori did. Oh definitely not. Sure he called you troublesome but it seemed more because of the strange ways you both kept meeting up. Ironic. The first and only demon you've ever met and he treated you better than a lot of people already did by being silent and just listening.
Your eyes gazed over at his still observing you and you really took a moment to really look at him closely. He really was rather handsome. If it wasn't for the fangs and extra eyes, he would've been no different than any other man. It's sad these simple features were ridiculed by everyone else. His eyelids closed on instinct when a hand reached up to touch his face but he stiffened shocked. Her delicate fingertips soothing over the soft skin, reaching over to trace the mark on his forehead. His open eyes instinctively darting to your hands caressing his features.
".... You're different from all the others." He visibly stiffened at your words. "Your structure is beautiful that way."
He stopped fully just ... looking at you yellow irises expanding wider.
You smiled. "Just by looking at you, you're very strong. I guess that's why you're so power-" You stopped once as two large hands just grabbed yours within their grip. The brush dropping to the floor with a thud. "-ful. Uh..K-Kokushibo?"
"Your eyes." He mumbled leaning closer holding your hands within his grip. "I have..never seen such color before on any woman."
You stopped in front of the lights shining on you just the right way to give him the impression you were an angel. A sight he was hesitant to leave when he bent down. Huh. And you were both closer than he remembered. Just a few inches from one another twinkling under the fire pit 's lights. And you blinked at the sudden closeness too. Face going a dim pink and a few chuckles from the moment escaping you. No one was here too. So it was just you two. Alone out here with nothing but each other for company. His mind felt completely blank and numb but in a good way, compelling him to reach his hands up and cup a cheek of yours something his rational brain wouldn't allow himself to do. Inches away now. You didn't move away.
He stared at the woman in front of him, this strange, strange woman with the beautifully flowing hair and the cute smile. If he was watching this as an outsider, he would've laughed at how they were literally just strangers less than a while ago, but right now it didn't seem any of that or anything else mattered. Not even the topic they had been discussing just a few seconds ago. The draft blew some and blowing some of that pretty hair into his face, which she immediately reached to pull away and Kokushibo made no move to stop her from doing that. Or removing the hand that now cupped his cheek. Maybe it really was a mutual madness they both shared or some form of chaos in their lives, but right now....With them being so close...And so vulnerable. It was only natural of course-.. It's what soulmates do-.. Of course they would since-...
Your lips just pressed for a few wonderful seconds before Kokushibo suddenly pulled himself away looking at you and breathing heavily. His grip on you tightening and untightening in waves as if restraining himself. His warm breath ghost over your lips and face warning them as he stared half lidded.
"I need to know that you want this," his usual monotone voice whispered out, "I need to know that you know fully what the implications of being with a demon will do to your reputation if they found out you let me stay here let alone kiss me. If anyone found out... You'll be exiled. Ridiculed. Shamed wherever you go if they know-"
His answer was her death gripping his head and pulling him close. Soft lips collided with his as he was again taken off guard.
"How many times is this woman going to surprise me?"
He made no comment back. Embracing the woman against his chest tightly and deepening the kiss. Yes. He could stay for one more night.
His eyes opened slightly half lidded. His embrace increasing slightly.
Yes. Then he had a few more things to take care of after.
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Beware of things that go bump in the night.
Moonlight peeked out through clouds chasing the darkness away a little. Enough for someone to have a little sense of sight in the somber darkness. Most living creatures hiding away from view all warm and snug in their homes inside dens and hollowed out trees. Or if you were a human, you'd be found safe and sound in your house. Snug cozy and warm inside their soft beds in slumber until the safety of the sun next morning.
However one would not survive this night.
The walls didn't provide a sleeping man shelter. A door didn't stop the Moon's Shadow from sliding it open and stepping inside. Blankets couldn't hide the identity of the person within it's grip. The darkness didn't stop six eyes of hatred from seeing his form.
Oh look. He wasn't fast asleep like he expected to be in fact he was barely asleep at all. He was moving around in his sheets. Stacking two extra blankets on him for extra warmth against the cold. Even moving the futon ... dangerously close to the fireplace. The fire was small enough that it'd be out before morning but if it was even slightly bigger than it would surely catch the whole bed and eventually the house on fire.
Six orbs maneuvered to the stack of many logs by the fire pit.
Yes. Truly it would be a tragedy if the fire was bigger.
The shadow loomed over the now terrified looking man. Too shocked to speak out of fear, but not scared enough to grab a nearby pen and thrust it at the approaching abyss. The item successfully sank into flesh but the shadow hardly flinched. No screams or noises were had when a clawed hand wrapped itself around the terrified man's throat and squeezed.
"Quiet. You have no say in what you've brought upon yourself."
Hands uselessly grabbed at the clasp around his neck. Legs uselessly kicking out.
"Between us both, I was actually going to spare your life. Only place you outside and burn everything you hold dear to the ground and watch you have to struggle to actually work for it back like she had to do since your entire bloodline treated her so vile...but then you attacked me-"
Again the pen was sunk into him. This time the eyes did widened as pain fell from the still timid flesh that just finished healing.
"R-Rot in hell!" A hoarse voice wheezed out from under the fist. "She deserved everything that happened to her. If you weren't here I'd have her doing-"
A tighter squeeze ceased all air from his lungs. A different hand slowly reached down to pull the pen from his chest. "The moment you dared to get in my way, was the moment that sealed your fate."
Struggling was useless. Futile even. No matter. His fate would be the same as the other then. A hand brought him closer by the neck. This man disgusted him. His claims of having her to himself only furthered that disgust. He remembered her soft hands holding him, the same soft hands THIS PIG harmed.
"H E R L O V E B E L O N G S T O M E."
A warmth spread throughout the entire home as fireflies flickered around growing flames slowly moving from a futon to other parts of the home. Step after step a shadow took disappearing entirely from view. Their sights already focusing on another important fire burning brightly as the first scream of the town's people awoke.
A fire crackled in a bit of rocks. Feasting upon wood that melted into ashes in its grip. A sloshing of liquid heard as a gourd was passed exchanged from one hand to another. Warm skin of a hand warmed by the fire brought the sickly sweetened alcoholic drink to his lips. It burnt his throat in a good way that left him licking the burning sweetness from his lips with a snack, a sleeve wiping at his face as he did so.
"We shouldn't be out here," one man out of the six gathered around the fire commented. His face illuminated by its flames casting dancing shadows among them. "I don't like how quiet it is tonight. Listen...Not a bird. Not any beast. Not even the crickets sing their tunes tonight. I tell you it is a bad omen."
The man with the burning sweetness on his tongue sneered at his comrade. "Don't start giving me that talk about devils and inhuman monsters. I've hunted and camped in woods more silent than this since I was a child. The only danger you'll face out here is nothing but the usual teeth and claws of a wolf or a bear if you're really unlucky. I don't believe in such things."
The rest of the men only muttered in agreement with him or gave glances of weary. "Then we all share in your incompetent thinking by being out her while the moon wanes ordering bloodlust. And for what? A couple of measly game that hasn't even shown themselves." A stick was tossed in frustration to the fire. "I tell you the beasts were scared off by something far scarier. I say we take their warning and head home while we still have light to see by."
Another scoff. "A single fat deer would fetch more gold than two giant grizzlies on a good day! Are you really letting your fear blind you from what you could have?!"
"Perhaps he's right, Nori." Heads turned to the second oldest man of the group whom was staring at him with a thoughtful expression. "We haven't seen any hide or tail of the herd. Not even a footprint since we got here this morning. Even if there's no monstrous beast, it's obvious that the herd has moved out of the area. We should be home comforting our wives' worries and protecting our families from the dangers of others this night. We'll not be seeing anything here."
"BAH!!" The fire hissed in protest as liquid was spilt on thrown from the gourd splashing it as hot the ground. "You all are nothing but a lot of whimpering dogs catering to a woman's stupid fears! We should be looking more instead of lazing around where nothing is happening!!"
"You're lucky your parents hired us to tolerate hunting with you! After you got yourself exiled last year, you've done nothing but lust for a woman and then act like an ass when she rejected you!," the second youngest man sneered
The older man sighed once more. "Alright...We will give one last look around the area-" He said defusing the situation between the angry men. "-but afterwards we go home. I would rather have the warmth of my wife than that of the fire."
Grumbled were had. Murmurs were said. Footsteps crashed through the otherwise silent night. The light of the moon distorting everything with an eerie red hue as different men headed different directions. Splitting up to widen the search and make it back to dose the fire faster. Perhaps an unwise choice they would make.
Bushes and branches of the trees did not stop the ambition of one man whom stepped his way forward to a direction where the beasts drank their full of water. And the place he'd find a strong stallion or beautiful mare to take for his own. A good horse would put quite a good amount of gold in his pocket. Bushes and leaves scrapped against his body clinging for the briefest of seconds before letting go. No match for the body that marched onwards and onwards and onwards through the dark. Until he got nearer to his destination. A small sound reached his ears. The calming sounds of a running river. A few yards further away from was a break in the brush. Ah. A good place to hunt for the beasts. Lower now his body crawled along and closer towards the edge of the water. A clear view of the entire area.
The moonlight shown up on the deep moving water. Water so deep that the blackness cloaked how deep it was. There he sat as still as a rock. As quiet as a mouse. No noise but the water moving along to break the silence. No beasts could be seen however on the bankside. Irritation made a curse stir from his throat.
To hell with this! He'd get no prize tonight. The only prize he'd get was the woman in the morning. He made to move but a single sound stopped him in his tracks. A pair of eyes looked over and widened in manic glee.
"There you are."
The bushes rustled slightly making his eyes widen and approach. Surely there was a deer in there. A big juicy fat one he could sell for money. Oh the juicy meat and tender fur that would make a fine coat. Antlers big to decorate his wall with. Gold in his pockets. Food in his stomach. He finally stood just in front of the wriggling brush. Knife in hand ready to pounce. The bushes rustled. Eyes turned. His body froze. A torso of a man arose from the bush. Tall and strong looking and a mane of burgundy cascading down over his shoulders. A head turned with an eerie bone crackling noise as a frown embedded itself on its face. The moon illuminating deadly eye as horror beyond belief sat in.
"Spare the comments."
He watched the man's face contort into one of horror as he realized his mistake and became trapped as a large hand made quick work of grabbing the injured hand sti wrapped around in bandages, squeezing tightly making him cry out. In a panic the hand holding the knife struck out, the monster didn't even try to get away. The knife sank into his chest, and the monster didn't even flinch. The man stared in horror as a large hand reached up to yank out the knife without even a flinch. His breathing became more irratic as his body struggled harder to free his hands. He chuckled at the useless endeavors.
"W-What the hell?!"
"I'm afraid that won't work. I don't feel pain easily." The knife was tossed to the side. Useless.
"W-What are you?!" A voice of horror yelled out. "WHAT ARE YOU?!"
"Oh. There's no need to explain to you who I am. It's of no importance. However you do know of my location and for my safety I cannot allow you to live." The pressure increased on his hand making him cry out. "And I despise how you treated my hostess earlier in the week. With your meddling in my affairs...I can't chance you taking her away from me like you threatened."
Horrific realization flooded the pale figure. Blood freezing in his veins. "Y-You..."
"Yes. Gaze upon me for it'll be the last thing you see tonight. For tonight you're life is m I n e."
A metallic noise rang out as a glimmering sword of moonlight was unsheathed. Six eyes glaring at them with an unmatched burning hatred.
He still remembered how she looked when he had woken up. Still early in the night. Curled up sleeping against him tired and snug under the blanket. The warmth he felt when he pressed a single kiss to her forehead and slipped out without her even stirring. It would be the last time he would see her for a good while. She was weak, kind, and so so so vulnerable. How easily she was hurt by this pathetic worm of a man. Veins bunched up as a raged face of eyes bulged out at him.
"S H E I S M I N E."
A man shrieked alongside the deadly cry. Minutes later there was a rush of footsteps as bodies crashed through the brush. Five men eventually made their way to the river bank where the deadly cries rang from. But not a trace of a beast was seen. Nothing but a discarded corpse with his face twisted in horror.
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Writing Goals 2025!
(since it worked well last year (👉゚ヮ゚)👉)
To keep my motivation for writing, here's a list of fics I want to write/post over the year; hopefully I'll do better than last year, where I left everything pretty much last minute, so below you can see the list and a little preview of the chapter to be posted!
TOTAL: 4 / 15
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Things I would like to update:
To begin with, the Re:Zero stuff, which is as usual my jam:
1) Start, From Minus
‘Citizens of the empire, be strong’—that was the only and most important teaching in Vollachia. And Subaru was. That is, a citizen of the empire and, thus, in his own, cowardly, revolting, tenacious way, strong.
Fifth and final chapter of this thing!! ( •̀ ω •́ )y
2) I’ll find you believing I’ll be found
At any rate, he was worried, it would have been impossible not to be, but Subaru knew that Felt would become Queen; because the only other option was that she’d die, and Subaru wouldn’t let that happen. Weapons or elements or poisons, the only way anything that meant to harm Felt would get anywhere near her would be over Subaru’s dead body.
I want to go back to my weird, not-quite crossover series; these two chapters, though, are going to be much shorter than the fate and fe:3h ones
3) Coins in a Wishing Well
The boy was beautiful, or at least he was on his way of becoming so, and he was only a child. He’d have the kind of beauty that gods coveted. Subaru quietly prayed for puberty to spoil him. The attention from a god, any god, led only to tragedy for mortals.
a tiny bit of hollywood greek mythology, maybeee? also, I just want to get this chapter out of the way bc the next one is going to be super ✨funfunfun✨
4) just a little bit of blood in your hands [ON AO3!]
Of course, at first everything seems to go according to plan. Subaru breaks into the museum without problems, disables the security system with a little help from his accomplice, and proceeds to fulfill his childhood dream of filling a burlap sack with priceless artifacts and other shiny things.
Well, this one is crack; also, completely unrelated to the previous chapters ♪(´▽`)
5) with all the pieces of the broken-hearted [ON AO3!]
So Subaru was going to go to school, and he was going to go to class, and he was going to get through the day without running into Reinhard because otherwise he’d probably combust out of sheer embarrassment for overreacting the way he did the day before! Alas, this was Subaru and Subaru was not destined to have an easy school life.
Right, so this is also crack. I'm going to be honest, this idea is like super old, and I had pretty much discarded it because it was high school AU-ish thing, but then April Fools happened and I decided to just publish this thing. It's probably another 'I don't want to have look at this WIP anymore or ever again' case (´・ω・`)
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Other stuff from various other fandoms:
6) a constellation of blood drops [Gundam:IBO]
Now, Gaelio might be in feelings with Mikazuki, but he’d like to think he isn’t completely brain-dead. He knows Mikazuki is a deeply flawed, troubled, damaged human being. But, as his friendship with McGillis can attest to, that’s apparently kind of his type.
The last chapter of my super self-indulgent fix-it fic! Please, please let me finish this thing this year so I can clean it up and move the nice version to AO3 (;´༎ຶД༎ຶ`)
7) A Superscription [Persona 5]
Ren wonders, in that second before he throws his own heart against the ground, an instant that lasts forever, like a mosquito trapped in amber, suspended in the time just before the strike hits and the glass shatters, if he had loved Akechi after all.
The second and last chapter of this tiny thing, that hopefully I will be able to upload on february to celebrate the third semester
8) these brilliant-hued hibiscus [Multifandom]
He hadn't meant to trust L’arc, but he had wanted to. In spite of his history, in spite of himself, because this world had already chewed him up and spat him out and he should have known better. And yet.
The second chapter of my little rarepair self-challenge! This one is for The rising of the hero of the shield, a series I only know bc one of my siblings likes the LN, but I dislike pretty much the entire cast
This is the only thing I'm ever going to write for that fandom, haha
9) remember me (but forget my fate) [LCF]
Rosé is so startled he almost jumps, and when he whirls around to see who had so rudely interrupted him, he almost trips and falls face-first into the mysterious, gluttonous hole he just fed his own lunch to.
The third chapter of my TCF/LCF time loop suffering thing that's going to become an entirely different thing the moment we change POV characters, yay o(*≧▽≦)ツ
10) our wishes are the right lure [Pokemon]
“What the hell kind of game is this?” “It’s a stress management assistant,” Ingo says, straight-faced. “It’s a gacha game. You poke the characters and they speak,” Emmet informs you, conspiratorially. “It’s a waifu game,” you conclude.
Second chapter for the pokemon submas reader-insert I owe the Pokemon Masters Ex gods, since I got both the twins sygna suits; as you can probably tell, I'm not going tot ake this seriously, like, at all
11) Home Is Where the Smoothies Are [Ben 10]
So many dimensions, so many universes, so many Bens. So many ways in which he could fail, in which he already has failed in some other world, in some other time, in some other way. All the versions of himself that had grown rotten, corrupted, tainted. Each one weirder and crazier than the last.
... I keep forgetting this series isn't finished; I'm literally missing the very last chapter, but I just keep f o r g e t t i n g about it! it's been so long!!
12) second chances (derogatory) [Persona 3]
Ichor runs down his knuckles, staining his hands, and marks his bloody path. The one he chose to traverse just to have a god, any god, grant this wish.
still haven't played P3 Reload so it's still on hold, but like I said, there are a couple of chapters that are 100% finished (and others that have only the title, but let's ignore those)
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Things I would like to start:
13) (we’ve gone) to the dogs [BSD]
His life ends with a bullet between his eyes, no hope for Yosano to do anything at all. Just a bang and then darkness; a shimmering instant of relief before he opens his eyes again in a place and time that hadn’t been his for years. And that’s where it all begins (again).
the thing that I did not post last year, despite the fact that, like I said, there's a whole snippet ready to be posted; mostly bc my favorite character is Oda and the fandom seems pretty intense (in a bad way) when it comes to him, so I am kinda avoiding it. Honestly, I might just end up posting this series here rather than on AO3 :/
14) The Souls of Starfishes [Normal Me and Abnormal Friends]
They’ve gotten better at not flinching whenever they hear the name, but they’ve never quite managed to stomp out the hope that inevitably rises in them whenever they do. ‘Hajime’, it echoes with the beat of their hearts, discordant as they may be.
Normal Me and Abnormal Friends is one of my favorite android visual novels ever, and I really, really want to finally upload something for it this year; this year for sure இ௰இ
15) The Bridegroom’s Hedgehog [LCF]
It was probably a terrible, unsanitary idea to eat something a hedgehog had picked up from god-knows-where, and had put his little, dirty paws all over, and even had taken a tiny bite of, but dying of berry-poisoning (or even hedgehog-poisoning) could not possibly be any worse than whatever awaited Cale at the end of the road.
The fairy tale retelling for TCF/LCF that I was working on!!
16) sing us a song to move the stones [Persona 3]
Minato didn’t want a rerun of last time, though. He wanted to do much better; he wanted to go for broke. Minato turned around in the direction of the alley behind Port Island Station. This was just another choice he’d have to take responsibility for.
my attempt at a New Game+ fic that's still also on hold until i play Reload, sorry.
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Other things I wish I could get around writing, but that have added complications:
with all the pieces of the broken-hearted
we'll build a bridge
Even the best laid plans
Arrested for Attempted Romance
from issues with the fandom to being pretty much abandoned by the author to just not wanting to write it and everything in between; I hope to finish some of these some day, but, yeah... (。﹏。*)
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