#supershort

[zeroducks-2]

trick or treat!

I know this is illegal because it's supposed to be a game for writers and not artists but I'm sure no one will tell--

here have a smooch

[neallo]

finally about to update my fucking masterpost after 2 or 3 months and god knows how many works. if i don't make it out of here alive please know i thought most of you were swag

[modern-inheritance]

Modern Inheritance: Experimental (Supershort)

'What if you fashioned a ward to prevent your brain from knocking around in your skull?' Saphira settled her head down before sending a short snort of air from her nostrils at her Rider. Her mouth opened just slightly, revealing the very tips of ivory teeth in the draconic approximation of a sly grin. 'Help stabilize it in all that empty space.'

"Oh, ha ha, very funny." Eragon retorted, staggered by the warm blast. "It's not a bad idea. I'm not too keen on testing it out on my own brain, though." He shook out his hair, the saltwater feeling tacky as it dried.

"Yeah, I wouldn't recommend it." Eragon looked over to where Arya was wringing out her braid. "We tried that one before. All it did was give me a bloody headache." Despite himself the Rider felt his cheeks blush. He wasn't looking at anything, he had more respect for her than that, but he was distinctly aware of the fact that the elf had yet to dry her soaked fatigues. More importantly, dry them and put them back on.

'We?'

Glenwing scrubbed a spare shirt through his hair, doing his best with one hand to fluff out the silver strands and give them ample airflow to dry. Saltwater and the more intricate parts of his prosthetic did not behave well together, and it was going to be a good hour before he was satisfied with cleaning the mechanical limb. Rhunön would have his head if he fried it. "That was, uh...one of our more experimental spells." He gave an almost sheepish shrug. "It was a bit of a 'you try your idea on me, I'll try my idea on you' sort of deal."

"What was Arya's idea, then?"

Glen paused and looked to his commanding officer. Who took that moment to busy herself with shaking the sand off her sodden pants, suddenly very interested in the task. "The fact that I can't remember says volumes."

Saphira let out another snort of amused laughter. 'Walnut rattling in an empty jar.'

"Rude!"

[heiids]

Check out this super short horror film called The Drawing! Part of it was filmed in my house 😋

[emmettloverde-blog]

Cheer up. Things could be worse.

[neometalpussy]

i did forget writing is fun. maybe i'll write more if i have any ideas or anything

[nosferatuix]

some 1st year sashisu headcanons:

1. They had a horrible first impression of each other because Gojo was way too exciteable, Shoko too apathetic, and Geto seemed like a stick in the mud, and all of them were like god this is going to be a long few years. By the end of the month they were practically fused together.

2. Shoko's the oldest so her birthday was the first time Satoru had the chance to celebrate a friend's birthday. Suguru asked him like the week before what he was planning on getting her and then immediately had to reign Gojo in from going totally overboard.

3. I know the official art disagrees with me but I saw a fanart of 1st year Shoko with a pixiecut on twitter and she looked really cute so I think it should be canon that she had a pixie cut when she started school, alongside Gojo's super short hair. Geto's already Found His Style

yesyesyes. i actually have a very specific set of ideas about their first interactions. my personal headcanon was that shoko and satoru met each other first because shoko was the first one to move into the dorms, but gege cracked my headcanon by having suguru be the first one to move in so i'm not gonna go into a lot of detail. what i was initially thinking was that shoko and satoru actually got along fine at first sight, with both of them thinking the other was weird but having the consensus that their weirdness was a tolerable amount, which made them at least accept each other as human beings. it was satoru's first time seeing someone who could do rct on others and shoko was trying her best to test the waters first before even thinking about making friends, so they were fine.

then they met suguru and shoko was immediately like, okay, wanna-be-atsushi-sakurai over here doesn't talk as much as the other one which makes him easier to exist around, so i can ditch the other one if he gives me a headache. but i don't think satoru and suguru possibly could have clicked the first time they saw each other. i think they probably got into a huge fight just because suguru was already a nervous wreck so he was feeling on-edge and something about him (probably the fact that he was a couple of centimeters taller than satoru since satoru hit his growth spurt later) ticked satoru off and it was basically like putting fire and gunpowder together. shoko was like... i don't know if i can survive the next four years like this. joke's on her.

moving onto part two here, i love that one fanart of stsg snooping through the student files to figure out more information about shoko because she was a bit secretive and they found out there was only a week left to her birthday. suguru mumbled something about what to get for her and satoru was like, WE'RE SUPPOSED TO GIVE HER A GIFT? and he freaked the fuck out i mean my man was stressed out. suguru had to give him a basic run-down on how these things work in the world of normal people, which was what him and shoko were used to, and they probably put their stipend together to get her something nice. maybe a nice necklace that she never wears except for fancy occasions. or something cute that she could place on her desk in the infirmary to personalize the place a bit since she was starting to spend so much time holed up in there.

PIXIE CUT SHOKO IS APPROVED BY ME. i personally think she had longer hair when she first started the school, i'm thinking shoulder-length and whatever, then she got a borderline-pixie cut that felt inspired to get because she watched hong kong express by wong kar-wai and felt moved by the pretty lady from there even though romantic movies don't do much for her. she eventually grew it out into a bob because it was too high-maintenance and tying her hair up became kind of a necessity the more time she spent in the infirmary, but i'm a firm believer in shoko being really into the nu-metal scene of the 2000s so do with that what you will.

on the topic of gojo's supershort hair, it has always been canon to me ever since i saw nibeul's fanarts about first year sashisu and i actually used to think he cut it himself in the bathroom of the train from kyoto to tokyo the moment he got on it and that's why it's such a choppy and shitty haircut. (it was his first time being unsupervised and equipped with a pair of scissors and he had to perform yet another act of rebellion for the gojo clan elders, excuse you.)

and suguru had already been exposed to buck-tick and the 1993 music video for dress a couple of years back so he was in the middle of growing his hair out to look like the pretty dude with makeup from the music video, so i do agree that he had found his style way earlier than these two. explains the piercings he already had at 15, i bet he begged his mom for months to let him get them lol.

[cassi-misc-art]

Hey kiddos! I'm trying to revitalize my writing group on deviantArt, so if you like words and know how to keep it short (200 word maximum) please check it out!

SuperShorts

[mapsthewanderer]

Caleb’s myth -

The Vermillion bird

AU: You are at The Vermillion Bird’s court. Captive? (Doesnt really apply, supershort fluff heeeh)

A Taste of Heat

A warm breeze drifts through the open window, carrying the scent of ginger, crisp cucumber, and bright citrus.

You pick up salt, Baijiu, Sichuan peppercorns, and a fragrant slice of yuzu, the ingredients cool beneath your fingertips. Behind you, Caleb’s knife moves in a steady rhythm—chop, chop, chop—precise, effortless.

He hums—a tune you’ve heard before… though you can't quite remember where. It weaves through the steady chop of his knife, lingering in the air like warmth from the stove. As you both move, reaching and turning, your backs brush in quiet, familiar touches—like a dance you’ve always known.

You smile, finishing the sauce, dipping your pinky in to taste—

Before it reaches your lips, the chopping stops. Caleb’s hand catches yours, firm yet unhurried. He guides your finger to his mouth, tasting slow and indulgent. His lashes flutter—hmm—a quiet approval deep in his chest. Then his eyes open, half-lidded, smirking, utterly pleased. A soft pop as he releases your finger, mischief flickering in his gaze, savoring far more than just the flavor.

"Mhm… you’re getting there," he murmurs, a lopsided grin creeping onto his face. "The sweetness is overpowering." A pause. "Try adding… more heat."

And just like that, he turns back to his cutting board. The knife resumes its rhythm—chop, chop, chop—while your pinky burns, tingling from more than just spice.

Writer’s note: I love these two dorks. This is definitely after the steamy scene.

[howlingday]

Penny: (wearing lingerie and laying on a bed with Rose petals) Sorry, I missed your birthday, Ruby, my love. Allow me to make it up to you~❤️

Ruby: Sorry, Penny. But I can't make love to you for another month.

Penny: What?! Why?!

Ruby: (holds up a calendar showing November 1st) There will be No Nuts N Dolts until December.

Penny: Buh-buh-buh-buh-💔

Ruby: Don’t worry! It'll fly by! In the meantime, I'm going to hang out with Weiss or Jaune. Love you~! (Leaves)

Penny: ... FUUUUUUUU-!

Nuts N Dolts December

A set of supershort Ruby x Penny stories to warm your heart this holiday season.

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Ludus - Playful Love

"Your hair looks really pretty today."

"My hair appears the same as the day we first met."

"Yeah, but it looks like you polished it, so it's really shiny."

"Oh!" Penny jumped a bit. "I did not think anyone would notice."

"We're friends, Penny. Of course I'm going to notice something different about you. Like how your shoes look brand new."

"I see." Penny thought for a moment, scanning up and down Ruby's form. "I see you have lost 1.28 pounds since we last spoke."

"I dunno if that's really a change you want to talk about." Ruby grimaced.

"I see you have also chosen to extend your hair by 2.3 centimeters on your left side."

"That wasn't really a choice, Penny."

"And your fingers are coated in a different weapon grease than before. Have you done something new with Crescent Rose?"

"Oh! You noticed!" Ruby grinned. "Yeah, I was trying something different by..."

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Storge - Familial Love

"Are you certain this is not illegal?"

"Do you see any cops in here?" Penny's eyes lit up. Yang waved her hand. "Ah, d-don't answer that..."

"Yang and I come here all the time." Ruby admitted. "We get some food, and so long as Dad doesn't find out about me being here, we don't tell him about Yang ordering from the adult's menu."

"Is that why she does not have the mark on her wrist?" Penny asked.

"Yeah. And if anyone asks, you're our cousin."

"But I am not."

"Well, just pretend you are."

"I would rather not." Penny held Ruby's hand. "I would much rather be Ruby's friend than her directly related peer." Ruby gave a blush.

"Eh, fine." Yang waved. "She's my cousin, and you're her friend."

"But you are sisters."

"Not right now."

"Can you disown a sibling?"

Yang glared, her anger only growing as Ruby put a finger to her lips and replied. "Can you?"

"Really wish I could..." She muttered under her breath.

"What was that?" Ruby asked.

"Nothin', nothin'." Yang waved.

"Hey." The trio looked up to see a burly man glare down at them. "You've been wavin' all day. You tryna say somethin'? There a problem?"

"Nope!"

"Nuh-uh!"

"There is nothing illegal going on here." Penny hiccuped.

The man's eyes narrowed. "Gonna need some ID."

"We already got checked on the way in." Yang rolled her eyes.

"ID." His nostrils flared. "Now."

"Fine." Yang reached for her wallet, giving a wink to Ruby. She rolled her eyes. "Here ya GO!"

Yang's leg shot up from her seat, nailing the bouncer between the legs. More were on their way as Ruby dragged Penny out of her seat, the latter still holding onto her chicken tenders. Yang chugged her strawberry sunrise before tossing it to one of the charging men. He caught it in his hands, only to have a basket thrown into his face.

Kicking through the door, the trio made their way down the street and into the back-alley, stealing away from there into a hiding spot. Finding an old slingshot, Ruby fired as pebble down one alley, making their pursuers charge after their assumed quarry. Moving in deeper, the girls smiled at one another.

"Guess we can't go back there anymore." Ruby chuckled.

"Ah, they never had anything good." Yang waved off.

"Except their chicken." Ruby sighed.

"Like this?" Penny produced the three chicken tenders she carried on the way out. "Would you care to join me?"

"Heck yeah~!" Yang exclaimed, taking one for herself.

"Wait, I thought we only had two left?" Ruby raised her brow as she plucked a tender. "Did you steal one?"

"I already said that we have done nothing illegal." She hiccuped.

"Ha! You're alright, Penny!" Yang patted her back. She raised her tender to the center. "To... Uh..."

"The Three Chickens?" Ruby offered.

"The Three Tenders?" Penny suggested.

"The Three Chick-Tens~!" Yang laughed, before the trio tapped their fried gains together, enjoying the fond memory they would share for a good long while.

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Pragma - Practical Love

"What's so funny?"

"Nothin', nothin'." Yang waved off. "Just..."

"Just... what?"

"You and Penny."

"What about me and Penny?"

"Well, it's just..." She pused her lips. "How do I put this... You and her seem so different, but somehow you make it work."

"Why, because she's an android?"

"Well, that, and you're also ace."

"Okay... Kind of a weird connection, Sis."

"It's not a bad thing, it's just..." Yang shook her head. "Forget it. I shouldn't have brought it up."

"What?! C'mon! Tell me!" Ruby whined, pushing on her sister. "You can't just say stuff and not expect me to be interested!"

"Alright, alright!" Yang gently pushed her sister away. "So... You and her are basically ace. So you'd think a relationship wouldn't actually happen without a deeper connection, but here you guys are, years later, married, and running your own shop together."

"Why wouldn't it work? She's my girlfriend, and I love her."

"Yeah, but..."

"Yang, sex isn't the only thing that matters in a relationship."

"No, but I still feel like it's at least part of the relationship."

"It is, but it's not something that we get excited for." Ruby shrugged. "She just learns something new and she wants to test it out, so I help her try it out."

Yang went quiet. "Okay, so maybe that's what's weird. Your girlfriend, who doesn't have... parts... is the one who likes sex."

"Yeah, it is kinda weird." Ruby snickered. "But that's kinda why we work so well together. We're both weird, but we're weird in a way that makes sense to us."

"I just wish I had a relationship that sweet." Yang sighed.

"Aw, Yang..." Ruby pat her sister's head. "Someday, when you're older, you'll understand."

"Yeah, yeah." Yang swatted away.

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Philia

"Are you having a good time?"

"Um, y-yeah, totally!" She was not.

But Ruby Rose promised to get into Penny's interests for her. It was only fair, since Penny Poledina read comic books with Ruby, and attended gun shows with her, even if the former was especially predictable for her supercomputer brain and the latter triggered Penny's audio-block function so she couldn't hear Ruby at all, especially her gushing explanations about every gun without looking at the spectacle.

And since Penny was there for her, that meant Ruby would be there with her. In this glass house. Filled entirely with bugs.

Ruby had no problem with bugs, really. But the thought of one of these foreign creatures tickling her skin with any one of their more than four legs made Ruby shiver with anxiety. Thank goodness Penny kept a firm grip on her friend's hand.

"Are you certain?" Penny asked. "Because I detect a 14% increase in your grip strength and 4% increase in your heartrate after observing the Goliath Bird-Eating Spider."

"I... I just didn't know spiders could get so big..." Ruby gulped.

"Yes, although the Giant Huntsman Spider is even lar- OH!" Penny flinched. "Ruby, are you sure you're okay?"

Ruby was sweating bullets and her face was paler than a bedsheet in the snow. "Mhm, yup, totally fine~!"

Penny smiled at the answer. Penny wasn't a very good liar, but she could tell when Ruby was being dishonest just as easily. Dragging her past the exhibits, the android pulled Ruby to the ant and termite colonies. Ruby's pulse slowed by about 48.9%, meaning she felt a lot calmer around the six-legged societies.

"Are you feeling better, Ruby?"

"I wasn't..." Ruby gave a big sigh, giving up the fight. "Yeah, I'm a lot better now. Thank you, Penny."

"Sensational~!" Penny pulled Ruby to an exhibit. "Oh~! It's almost feeding time for the army ants! I've heard it said they can strip a cow's leg in less than a minute~!"

"O-Oh! You... You don't say..." Ruby's heartrate spiked by 15%.

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Eros - Romantic Love

"So... What does this do...?"

"That is a wire that actuates my three-hundred-and-sixty-degree rotation for my carpal connecting shaft." Penny explained, jargon and all.

"Uh..."

"Oh, excuse me..." Penny deflated a bit. She'd gotten too excited again. "It functions similar to how your wrist would. I am sorry; I overdid it again, didn't I?"

"No!" Ruby wrapped her hands around Penny's. "I should be the one who's sorry! You're getting excited about something that's part of who you are and I'm being a dummy and not getting it on the first try!"

"Ruby," Penny curled her fingers around Ruby's hand, "you are not a dummy."

"O-Oh!" Ruby blushed. "Did- Did those wires just move?!" She was avoiding the statement, neither confirming nor denying Penny's thoughts because she didn't agree what she thought of Ruby Rose matched with what her girlfriend thought.

"They did." Penny let it slide for now. Kinda. "You are very observant, Ruby. Flexing my fingers the way I do is very similar to how your flexor digitorum profundus, or FDP, which is located in your forearm, allows you to curl and uncurl your fingers."

"Wow..." Ruby looked at her forearm, still not really getting all of what Penny said, but she was trying. "Wait, is that how Yang's fingers move?"

"It's a much simpler but follows the same principle." Penny shut the case of her forearm, then turned it around to show off all the amazing things her fingers could do, such as becoming a wrench, or spewing an oxyacetylene flame, or extend a welding rod, just to name a few of her additional functions. All the while, Ruby stared in awe...

"Is there anything you can't do?" Ruby asked with a sigh.

"I... cannot create my own warmth." Penny said sadly. It didn't last long as Ruby put her hand over Penny's again.

"But I can." She said with a smile.

"Yes," Penny giggled, "yes, you can."

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Agape - Universal Love

The story of Ruby Rose and Penny Polendina is a unique one. It seems that in every iteration, they are compatible and found to be almost perfectly adapted to match each other. Sometimes, it is just as good friends, other times, they are something more. They are seldom, if ever enemies, and even then it is not for long.

Ruby Rose is a huntress, inspired to step into the unforgiving wilds of the world by her mother and the stories she'd heard as a child. Her preferred method of combat is mid-to-long-range fighting, opting to use a sniper rifle and scythe in her excursions against the Grimm. Despite her social awkwardness, she's often found drawing people closer to her with little effort on her part, simply by offering a hand in friendship and calling them her "friend."

Penny Polendina is an android, perfectly designed to serve the kingdoms in the pursuit of using technology to better humanity. She is equipped with both swords connected by strings for distant and close-quarters combat and can charge static electricity in the air to generate a railgun-esque plasma cannon to eliminate any and all threats to good order that keep the kingdoms safe. Among all of Atlas' creations, only Penny is designed to think, feel, and act as a person, an individual, and though she's unwittingly made many friends, few if any have ever used the word to describe herself to them.

"Perhaps, you could even say..." Penny chuckled from her seat in the crossroads of infinity, "That Ruby and I truly are best friends forever~!"

[tricitymonsters]

DAY 19 - Praise Kink

DAY 19 - Praise Kink

Content Warnings: General Raath Toxicity Warning, mind games/power plays, feral.

Supershort entry today lads, mostly an elaborate Headcanon instead of a real drabble. I'm prepping for Akello's chapter 3 release and some future chapter stuff and it's just kind of a push at this point. >:3

PREVIOUS

Raath has an appetite for a lot of unusual things.  Blood, violence, domination… the list goes on.  But you’re slowly discovering he has an unending hunger for praise and acknowledgement and vindication.  He hates soft words of course, hates being coddled or treated softly, but he loves to be told he’s skilled, that he’s potent, that he’s unlike anyone else.  He eats that shit up with a monstrous fervor even if he vehemently (and childishly) denies it if you bring it up.

But you can see what the words do to him.  The manic glint in his unnaturally red eyes, the way his fingers tighten on you possessively.  There’s Need in that grip and he can deny it with his mouth all he wants but his body always tells the truth.  His blunt nails dig into flesh like he wants to burrow inside you while his panting takes on a cadence that wild and unhinged.  The domination, the praise for being the most dangerous thing around and the most potent fuck you’ve ever had ignites a possessive storm in him and he hisses and snarls like a wild animal while he exuberantly thrusts into you.

Half the time, he gets pushed to the edge like this (because he’s way easier to manipulate than he’d ever concede to) and you know with a couple of wanton noises, some well placed, doe-eyed eye contact, and another word of praise to his talents and he cums on cue almost every single time.  Not that it satisfies him enough to call it after a single round, however.

[ennysimmer]

Judith had postponed moving her father's grave to the graveyard for a very long time now. Something about it made it feel very final, and she never felt quite ready to take that step.

But now it was finally time. Her father had been a complicated man after her mother passed, but she did love him and he deserved a better resting place then their backyard.

And that's it for this supershort rotation. If I rolled for a random event this rotation, I can't remember what it was now. I'll try to remember it next time. This household could definitely use some help to spice up the gameplay x)

Next up is the Rivers household.

[neallo]

honestly since i can't seem to finish anything for real right now i should focus on supershort fic prompts & getting down thoughts about writing. should is the key word here because in all likelihood i'll start yet another oneshot today, get 30% of the way through, and then become abruptly unhappy with what i have written & discouraged by the task of getting through the rest

[artinandwritin]

I'm back on my chronicled of the kingdom of fantasy bullshit yippeee yippeeeee i love it when my brain does that

Some redesigns of two of the main characters, Saturno/Ombroso and Spica!! I think they deserved some cool designs bc they are very cool and very baby to me

Added some info abt them underneath the cut!!

I think. Saturno should be short in the main series cuz hes literally 15, kid has yet to grow into his full height!!! So his inherited armor doesn't fit him yet but eventually he'll grow into it and it'll make both him and his dad cry

Bc of his mixed heritage i gave him a darker skintone, seeing as the original illustrations in the books seem to be giving the forest elves darker skintones and i wanted to extend that to the boi

I think its also funny his dad says he looks like his mom but everyone else says he looks like his dad, so i gave him a softer face to match his mother’s, but once he grows up he'll probably get sharper like his dad me thinks

Hes a canonical rambunctious lil tree climber, so his cape and boots got some mudstreaks <333

I love him so very much my baby boi <333

As for Spica, i changed her colour palette from purple to blue cuz. That purple tone wasnt doing her any favours and also!!! Colour coding. Smt smt the rose knights connection smt smt blue dragon connection

Her bow and arrows got magic in them so i made them all white!! The bow and arrowholder got some purple in them cuz maybe thats like. Her favourite colour

I like to think her hair didnt grow from supershort to superlong in one month, so i decided to let her keep her hair short and slowly grow it out over the course of the series. By the time she's an adult in the sequel series it might be back to their original length!!

And also i was. Wondering if she was really the Bow from the prophecy or if it was just right place right time. She basically did declare herself a prophecy girlie at the end of book one (classic spica move) and so i got to thinking, was she really meant to be or was her declaration enough to change the fate to herself? Interesting point to me personally

Spica you will forever be famous to me

[modern-inheritance]

Modern Inheritance: Bad Reaction (Eldest Supershort)

(A/N: I have had this in my head for a while, but Arya showing Iz her scars and revealing the curse Durza left finally gave me a bit of a push for this. Again, Arya and Glen are Platonic Soulmates, Fyrn Breol, and have fought together for 50-60 years, a majority of those without Fäolin. And they just learned like two to three weeks ago that their best friend is alive, only for them both to start going through massive trauma recovery 'it gets way worse before it gets better' type deals. For even further context, Arya is very, very out of it here and just knows that Glen seems to be hurt and is singleminded on fixing that.)

{Glen and Arya tried to test the curse Durza left in her scars. Just a little nick with a scalpel over one of them, just enough to draw blood, and Glen would heal the cut to test if the curse allowed full healing of new wounds over the old.

It didn't...she had warned him that it would be bad, but...for a moment, he lost her again and he didn't know....}

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BAD REACTION (SHORT)

Arya had seen Glenwing cry before. She had seen him cry at funerals, when he saw newly hatched little birds, when he was angry and sad all at once. She’d seen him ugly cry about the good things and the bad, little hiccups escaping him while he laughed at his outburst of emotion or as he tried to hide the tears streaming down his face as he packed up bloodied medical instruments beside the body of a fallen innocent. 

So she couldn’t pinpoint why hearing him crying, body damn near convulsing with the strength of his ragged, gasped sobs, felt so different this time. Maybe it was because she had never heard him cry like this, nothing so pained, so visceral. It sounded like it was being dragged out from his very core, the deepest parts of himself. 

Arya blinked and tried to raise a hand to touch her cheek. They were wet. His tears had fallen on her face, slid down her cheek and splashed on her forehead. For some reason her movement had Glenwing redoubling his sobs, and it was only when he tightened his grip did Arya realize the man was holding her cradled against his chest, arms wrapped tight around her body, the left one unyielding in places where there should have been some softness yet still so warm. 

Her throat hurt. So instead of speaking she reached out to him and managed to brush fingertips on his neck, unable to raise her hand any higher. Fuck, she felt so, ridiculously weak, weak and sore and like there were thunderclouds arguing in her skull. 

But Glen was crying. Glen was crying and he could be hurt so he had to come first, he was hurting and hurting bad, so she could wait. Fyrn Breol takes care of each other. Pick up the pieces, bring each other back. And Glen was crying and whatever had her muscles aching and body encased in lightning, that could wait until Glen…until Glen was okay because fuck, he was all she had left, and she couldn’t let him get hurt–

“Spirits, I thought I killed you!” If it were even possible, Glen held his friend closer and buried his face into her neck, his words nearly lost to the choked sounds of his tears. He rocked them both back and forth, trying to find some way to breathe. He knew he had to calm down but it had been so…so much worse than he thought, and it had lasted longer even when he had ripped away from the magic–

Head snapping back, a ragged, unimaginable sound of agony, of a soul torn to shreds in an instant. The force of the scream or the body remembering, he didn’t know but blood had already filled her mouth before she convulsed to the ground. Tearing away from the magic felt as though it took eons but in reality it was only three seconds of healing, of attempted healing, crimson still trickling from the tiny cut they had made to test it. The seizures didn’t stop when the link was broken, a handful more seconds until she stilled and her eyes were still open–

“Ari, your heart stopped.” Glen forced it out with a ragged gasp, and, unable to stop himself, his sobbing began anew, curling around her as if to try and protect her from his own memories. “I thought I killed you, I killed you, I didn’t know if I could get you back, and I–I thought–”

A hand settled on the back of his neck. 

“Got me back, though.” Oh, her voice. It was rough and barely above a croak, but he could hear the gentle smile there. “You didn’t kill me, birdbrain.” Arya rested her cheek on the top of his head. “He did. A couple times. But hey…I’m here now. You brought me back.”

“I thought I killed you.”

“I know.” 

“I thought I killed you!"

“Shades can…can eat a bag of the fattest of dicks.”

When he pulled back and saw her cracked, wild smile, tired and sore and teeth stained with blood but very, very much alive and very much still the Arya he knew…

Glenwing broke out in a tearstained laugh and pressed his forehead to hers. “Don’t…don’t do that to me again!” 

“Yeah, I’d…like to avoid that too.”

[gaytimestories]