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mkmgwrites · 11 months
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Draco and Potter lock eyes across the battered courtyard. A single point of contact in a mirage of shattered innocence and war.
Ah fuck.
Wails of grief echo off blood splattered walls, mingling with the cheers of victory to form a choir of human emotion. Draco and Potter stood still in the middle of the spectrum. Emotionless.
Merlin’s Mothers tits-
As The Dark Lord’s body grows cold, Draco feels a warmth bloom in his chest. His shoulders lighten. And for the first time in years he realises he is free.
Thank Fuck…Oh shit.
He struggles to find the words as Potter approaches. To remember what he had forgotten. His childhood nemesis, now saviour closes in fast, and it isn’t until he sees the cracked lenses of his glasses that Draco realises his feet are carrying him closer too.
Shit. Shitshitshitshit.
Green meets silver. Two faces on a double sided coin. Spectators gather to watch it flip.
Harry stops in front of him. “Malfoy,” he states, though it isn’t filled with its usual malice. It almost sounded like a question.
Shit. What do I do? What do I say?
“Potter” Malfoy replies, surprised by the steadiness of his own voice.
He wanted to say more but he couldn’t get the words out. How do you thank someone for saving the world? How to you say sorry for the years of teasing and torment? How does one say, “I am happy you killed him. Please don’t kill me too. I can be better. I will be better.”
I can’t fucking breathe. Oh fuck. I think I’m having a panic attack. Can he tell? Do I look cool? Fuck I hope I look cool. Mum spent ages designing this robe.
Potter remained silent, and somehow that rung louder than all the cries and the cheers. Draco waited.
Shitshitshitshitshitfuckingshit.
Potter stuck out his hand. It was muddy and bleeding and oh for Salazars Sake is he missing a nail- but it was stretched towards him.
Wandless. Open.
A peace offering. A new beginning. That feeling he had forgotten.
Hope.
Seven years later and Harry Potter finally wanted to shake his hand.
Draco didn’t know what to do.
Oh fuck I don’t know what to do.
He had never thought this would happen.
I never thought-
Had never dreamed.
What the fuck-
Dracos mind spiralled. He couldn’t even remember how to shake a hand.
Do I go in with the right? Shit, no I’m left-handed. Wait I can’t use my left hand cause he’s using his right hand. Is he? If I stood where Potter is which hand am I using?
He paused. The crowed held its breath.
Right. It’s my right hand.
Draco jerked his hand forward and clasped their palms together.
Oh fuck it’s happening. It’s finally happening.
Relief and elation flooded his bloodstream, his brain filled with fog. Harry Potter began to raise his arm up. A minuscule movement one did to begin the shaking motion. So minuscule in fact, that one wouldn’t even notice it.
Though Draco, in his heightened state, sensed this adjustment. And with his addled brain and pureblood breeding- he reacted purely on instinct.
Draco Malfoy bent down and kissed the hand of Harry Potter.
The moment his lips touched his skin, Draco knew he made a mistake.
WHAT THE F-
His mothers endless lessons on social etiquette had etched itself into his muscle memory. And for a moment he wished she had never given birth to him.
I’M GOING TO KILL MYSE-
The crowed laughed. Malfoy’s face turned beet red.
He stood and ripped his hand away. Furious at himself for ruining his moment-
SHITSHITSHITFUCKINGSHITSHITFUCKITYFUCKSHIT!
-missing the faint blush that had began to spread across Potter’s cheeks, and the gentle swipe of his thumb as it traced the outline of Draco’s lips.
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blacknovelist · 2 years
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hot cocoa (ffxiv fic)
you can really tell I gave up on titling my fic huh
Anyway this has been living rent free in my brain literally since the moment I reached Heavensward so now I inflict upon the world. Warning for spoilers for the very end of the ARR patches.
Consider this a combination character study for after that moment and a precursor to however it is I eventually shoehorn the DRK stuff into my WOL's story because I am not a tank main but man this shit compels me
(Feri'um uses he/they pronouns!)
cross posted on ao3 but I can't recall if links are still busted or not so it can go unlinked for now
After the banquet, after the flight, after reaching Coerthas and their comrades' open doors... it has been a long, long night indeed.
For lack of better things to do, Feri'um contemplates.
Feri'um wraps their hands around the mug and marvels at it, for a moment. For all that Ishgard touts itself cold as the land they dwell, they clearly nonetheless take even a good drink and its vessel seriously— his fingertips barely brush when wrapped around it in full, liquid sloshing against but not over the rim.
They had had drinks this large precisely once on a rarity of a night in Mor Dhona, Riol and Laurentius chortling on one side while Hoary Boulder laughed on the other. The children whining for hate of curfew, Braves drifting to and fro with drinks or meals of their own, Scions bustling and laughing like they hadn't since before the Waking Sands—
After a moment, they strip their gloves and lay them aside. Without the fabric between mug and skin, the porcelain nearly burns. Vivid heat within, bitter cold without.
Tataru hums softly as she drinks, steam wafting and nearly engulfing her face entirely. It's a contrast to Alphinaud, who has all but collapsed to lean on the table around his cup— and G'avan, next to him, one hand on the handle of her own and the other resting on the teen's back as she murmurs to him. Or to Arkham, arms crossed as he slouches in his seat, chest rising and falling with deep sleep, mug on the floor beside his seat safely out of kicking range. Kai and Fletcher aren't here to compare, yet, but neither are they in the thick of danger. A quick quiet linkshell call made sure of that.
The hot chocolate is thin when Feri takes a sip, any hint of sugar and cocoa barely afloat. But it warms from the inside out and runs pins and needles through the lingering numb, melting further the last phantom fringes of frost that had stuck so vehemently to skin and clothes alike. Any metal has long since been shed to defrost and warm near the fire, and in the dim he can't tell if the red of his skin is the tint flames or his blood learning to circulate again.
Are the lines on his arm chillbitten marks or late-bloomed bruises? It could be neither. It could be both. Hands linger like ghosts over his shoulders.
They'd flown together. Fought together. Ilberd had been someone they'd call a friend, but swinging blade and impact upon the ground alongside bitterspat words did not lie.
He should have struck back. Said something, done something, let indignation and grief lend motion to his bones. Like Av, seeking out Alphinaud from wherever the Braves had tried to spirit him away, righteous in rage. Like Arkham, possessed with clarity as he cleaved through the ranks and bought them all precious time and space needed to slip away. Even Alisaie, half the land away, found a way to act. Where had the determination that so often pushed him to stand between people and danger gone? The surety and knowledge of what he knows is right, the will to act on it?
Nanamo is dead. Raubahn, imprisoned and crippled. The Scions, exiled or murdered by their own, branded criminals for things not done, scattered now to the wind. What had Feri' done but ran?
A touch to their arm, gentle against their scales and skin. Haurchefant looms, worry and empathy in equal measure that makes space for relief as their eyes meet his. He slides down onto the bench beside them, feet flat on the ground, elbows braced on his knees as he leans toward in a facsimile of Feri'um's slouch.
His voice is soft, quiet over the low undefined murmur of the rest of the room. "How are you holding up over here?" He asks. "Must be some heavy thoughts to bow your head so low when those horns of yours can't do the job on their own."
Their huff of laughter sends ripples across what's left of their cocoa and pulls a faint smile into the Lord's eyes. Feri' does their best to match it.
"Ah, wait, but there he is. I see my fears that your spirit had been left behind in your flight were unfounded."
"I wouldn't be certain," Feri'um mutters, then sighs. "Maybe it is I lost it long before that. Twelve know I fought back little enough, back there. They told me it was our fault, and I couldn't even..."
"Couldn't take on a small army? A whole city? Those you thought were your allies?" The interruption isn't unkind, but there's a firmness in his voice that brooks no argument. "Just as in Master Alphinaud, I see it in you too, my friend. In all of you. When it matters most, you act. The fires of your souls that once blazed so bright as to chase away the deceptions that might have been our end... dampened they may be, for now. But this will not be your end, either."
Their lips twitch and twist for a moment, tail shifting on the wood as they unfurl just slightly to give the other a look. "Says who?"
"You do," Haurchefant says simply. "As does Lady G'avan and Master Arkham... the spark I see in your eyes even now speaks all that need be said. After all, I am plenty familiar with righteous indignance on behalf of my dearest friends." He lays one hand on their shoulder through the phantoms dwelling there, shifts the other to brace against their two, still wrapped around hot drink. "Feel your pain, Feri'um. Know you have all been hurt, for you cannot heal without. But know too that yours are hearts that blaze like few others, noble and true, and when your strength might wane that same heart brings true friends who stand with you 'till the last."
Feri'um says nothing, for a moment. Has nothing they can say, through the lump resting in their throat. Instead they breathe out, just shy of a sigh, lean down and lifts the mug to rest their lips near the rim, and let their eyes slide shut. The lord lingers for a moment longer, hands warm, before shifting to rise.
"Haurchefant." When he turns to look, Feri'um peers back from beneath their mussed fringe, eyes wet and bright. "Thank you. If you... if you need anything..."
"I believe that is my line." Haurchefant grins. "Rest, all of you. Naught of your worries will reach you here. Not while I have anything to say for it."
With one last shoulder pat he stands. Feri' watches as he traces about the room, bidding each he passes greetings and kind words. Then they sigh, sip their hot chocolate, and settle back. Deep in their chest, through the dripping grief, they search for dry kindling and wonder if it's a lie to tell themself that striking once-friends down will bring satisfaction over pain.
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silvaswiftcast · 6 months
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Fluffvember Prompt #21 Bite
Characters: Silva Cataracta, Ricmorn Cataracta, and Hien Rijin
Rating: General
Notes: The scene takes place sometime between Shadowbringers 5.0 and Patch 5.3! There is no mention of anything from MSQ/Story, so no spoilers here! Words contained in [brackets] are in another language, in this case, it's Doman.
Content Warnings/Additional Tags: Polyamory Relationship (V Relationship), M/F/M Relationship, Playful Banter/Teasing, Mildly Suggestive Themes, Food, Alcohol/Drinking, Domestic Fluff.
It was rare Silva, Ricmorn, and Hien found time to spend together as of late — no matter how brief or long it was. The two Warriors of Light constantly traveled back and forth from the Source to the First to check on their fellow Scions. When they returned, they ran around Eorzea and the Far East, providing aid where possible. There seemed to be little time for rest, for either of them to catch their breath for a moment. And while they were busy with their duties, the young lord remained at the Doman Enclave. Rarely left his home as he drowned in an endless sea of paperwork and back-to-back meetings with his advisors and ambassadors from other nations.
And when he wasn’t chained to his desk by invisible shackles, he was at the palace in Ala Mhigo. Stuck in more meetings with the rest of the Alliance leaders about the affairs of the world and the happenings within the Garlean Empire.
All of it was so tiring after a while.
So when the chance came up, they took it. Seized it without a second thought. Time was forever fleeting, after all.
And there were no discussions about their duties unless absolutely necessary.
Thankfully, today’s schedule wasn’t packed to the brim for any of them. Silva and Ricmorn were free after checking on their selling stalls in Ul’dah and Kugane. While Hien only had one more meeting — one that was quick, hopefully. He couldn’t see it lasting longer than a bell or two, considering it was going over some last minute changes to a few trade agreements before signing off on them.
But before the meeting, he decided to treat them to a late lunch with one of their favorite cooks in the Enclave. It was also a great excuse to convince them, or at least Silva, to spend the night.
(As if she would need much convincing to stay and warm his bed while stealing hungry kisses and teasing touches. He knew the answer would be yes if she or both of them were free.)
“I can’t believe the stars aligned for us for once!” Silva sighed, the sound turning into a laugh. “I feel like it’s been ages since we’ve done this. It’s a nice change of pace — a welcoming one.” She flashed Hien a smile when she felt him reach under the table to squeeze one of her hands with his, sparks of levin dancing along her skin.
Oh, how she missed this — missed him. She knew he longed for time together just as much. There was no doubt in her mind.
“It has been a while,” the young lord agreed. And he was so glad to see them after nearly a month of only speaking through letters and short linkpearl calls.
“I blame the weird time bullshit between here and the First,” Ricmorn rumbled after sipping his chilled sake. “I don’t think I’ll ever get used to it, no matter how often we venture to the First. All I know is that it's bizarre and hurts my brain the more I think about it.”
Hien couldn’t help but laugh at his friend. Even Silva was giggling.
“You’re rather grumpy today, my dear,” she teased, leaning over to kiss his cheek. He relaxed at the affectionate gesture, but only slightly. The tension in his shoulders was still there. “And here I thought I would be the grumpy one out of the two of us. I know we’ve been up since sunrise, but you’re much more of a morning person than I am.”
“Waking up at sunrise and “early” are two very different things, Silv.”
“Perhaps a bite of some really good food will cheer your husband up, my lady!”
Unzan crossed over to their side of their somewhat private seating, holding two trays filled with fresh, hot food. The mood instantly lifted. Ricmorn seemed to perk up at the sight of food as he scrambled for his chopsticks. Silva and Hien didn’t think he would be patient and let their favorite cook lay out all their food before digging in, but the white mage held himself back.
Once the trays were empty, though, he quickly took a serving off each of the plates of dumplings, steamed buns, and meat skewers the three always shared between them to his plate.
“Or a nap after he stuffs his face,” Silva snorted, earning herself a small growl from her husband. She fought the urge to roll her eyes, knowing it was better to ignore it. "Thank you so much, Unzan
Which was easy to do the moment Unzan set a plate of her favorite chicken and vegetable gyoza in front of her, a happy trill rumbling in her throat. Hien must have ordered an extra serving just for her so she wouldn’t be tempted to steal any from Ricmorn’s plate when he wasn’t looking.
“Naps do wonders for those of us who rise with the sun,” the Roegadyn joked, grinning from ear to ear. Silva and Hien laughed, murmuring their agreement to the statement. Ricmorn would have agreed along with them if it wasn’t for the fact his mouth was full of food. “We’ve missed having the two of you around here, my lady. Even our young lord here seemed to be a tad mopey some days,” he added, speaking in hushed tones so the other patrons couldn’t hear. “The Enclave is always brighter and more lively when you and Ricmorn are here.”
She raised an eyebrow at the news, turning her head to see Hien blushing. “Did he now?” Trying to picture Hien in such a state was both impossible and a little funny.
The young lord sighed. “It’s nothing for you to worry about,” he promised, lowering his voice. There was no need to explain further — his beloved knew and understood. He gave her hand one last tender squeeze when her gaze softened before letting it go. “You’re here now, and that’s what matters, [wildflower.]”
And one day, their duties wouldn’t keep them separated for long periods of time.
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Part 1. Part 3
Here is part two of my story
Two
Rosie stood in front of the old building, eyes widened in awe and jittery with nerves. She had imagined this moment for years: her first day of college, the day when she would finally be free from her town, from the same group of kids she’s known her whole life. And now it was here, her future ready to be made. The building stood in front of her, with ivy creeping up the walls and covering a few windows. She would have thought it would make it look unmaintained, but it just added to its beauty.
She shook herself out of her daze, the cliché she had just fallen into making her cringe. She was not a cheesy coming of age character hallmark movies. She really ought to stop watching all those movies, but they were her guilty pleasure. She liked the idea of romance, even if she would never admit it. Those movies where the small town girl moved to the big city were fun, if cringy and unrealistic.
Rosie made her way into the building, desperate to make it on time to class. Who picks an 8 am class of their own volition! Who even wakes up that early with a fully functioning brain, not her! Which is exactly why she ended up in this situation, sleeping in and not realizing that they could pick their classes now, leaving the less desirable times up for her. She was lucky to be able to have most of the times she wanted, except for this stupid 8 am class. She already knew that getting up on time would be a struggle for the rest of the semester.
As she hurried into the classroom, rushing around the doorway, Rosie bumped into another person. Both girls had dropped their bags in the collison, and she scrambled to help, cheeks reddening with embarrassment and apologized tumbling from her mouth. She’s not just falling into the cliché, she is the cliché.
“I’m so sorry, I wasn’t watching where I was going, sorry-”
“Sorry, sorry, here, let me help-”
They made eye contact, and for a second she swore that those startlingly vibrant eyes looked oddly familiar, a strong sense of déjà vu enveloping her. Her words died in her throat, the apologies coming to an abrupt stop. But just as quick as it happened, the moment was over, disappearing as they burst into laughter at the absurdity of the moment.
“How about we have a do over? I’m Andi” Andi held out her hand to shake Rosie’s, smiling widely and her laughter winding down. Rosie took her hand, face bright with a smile identical to Andi’s. “That would be great. Call me Rosie!” Only then did she realize that she was still holding Andi’s hand, dropping it as her cheeks once again came alight in embarrassment. Andi luckily only laughed, still smiling.
After the exchanging of bags, they both went to find a seat. Rosie choose a seat near the back of the class, eager to not be stuck in the front. Once she settled down, she saw Andi picked a seat near the middle of the class. As though sensing her stare, she turned and their gazes met, Andi sending her a bright smile, and Rosie found herself reciprocating. Maybe taking the 8 am class wasn’t such a bad thing after all, she thought to herself as they both focused their attention on the arrival of the professor, just as he started to speak.
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call-me-lemon · 1 year
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My oopsies make me sad
If I do mean things, most of the time they aren't on purpose. I'm just stupid and I struggle with changing habits.
If I meet someone and sometime after we’ve already gotten comfortable they come out as trans I probably will mess up their pronouns on accident, because I have. I said the wrong one, flipped to the opposite end of the gender spectrum as a reflex, then screamed in frustration before finally referring to them as the them they are. They just laughed it off because I did it on accident and I got it in the end so no harm no foul I suppose but I still feel guilty about it, and this happened like a year or two ago now. I don't want to make anyone feel dysphoric just because my brain is too small that once something is set in stone its just stuck there forever even if I'm actively trying to take it out. Like half of my friend group has come out as some form of not cis and I love them for being their true and honest selves but there's so many of them and sometimes they change preferred pronouns a second time because they're still figuring it out but I get overwhelmed in large calls or groups so I don't hear the new ones said out loud often enough to realize there even is a new one until I forget who in the server is named “The big cement mixer” And go to check and realize that them p-nouns in the bio are different so now I have to fix that in my brain immediately even though we haven't spoken one on one on a call for several months and will probably not speak for several more months but if I don't get that fixed now then I cant refer to them in my head by those pronouns and if I don't change the ones in my head then how am I supposed to change the ones I say out loud? My brain is the size of a kernel of corn, I am one big empty balloon with a single piece of glitter stuck to the side, all the empty space in my brain is filled up with remembering Pokémon names, sea shanties, and at what time I need to get up to talk to my gf as soon as she's home from school, I try so hard to get it right but I'm the big dumb stupid and sometimes I fuck up and I don't want anyone else to suffer from my mistakes. Its gotten to the point where I have to convince myself that the inauthentic birth-aligned version of my friends are dead now, they've been gutted and split in twain and what has emerged from the flesh cocoon, free of whatever arbitrary standards were weighing down the original, is my actual friend, my real friend being their happiest selves and living their best lives being who they were always meant to be. That process is the only reliable way to get the old pronouns out of my brain. It wasn't that hard with Pluto. I grew up with Pluto the planet, but when I was told it was actually a dwarf planet the whole time I just accepted it and referred to it as a dwarf planet from that moment on, why is it so much more difficult with people whos emotions are on the line? Pluto wont feel dysphoria if I call it a planet on accident, why is that one my free pass? Let me say the right words god damn it. thank you for coming to my ted talk.
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messengerhermes · 1 year
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If you're lost, get loster
This is a coping skill I don't even notice I'm doing usually until I'm picking brambles out of my clothes about a mile away from anything that could be identified as a road. I know it sounds like nonsense but hear me out on this. When I feel like I've gone and driven myself into a corner in my life, particularly in the complicated world of emotions, connections, socializing, work, etc. sometimes the answer is to go walking and get myself into manageable trouble. The formula for this is simple: Get dressed and walk out the door without any particular destination in mind. I'm staying along a harbor at the moment and today I decided to see how far along it I could walk before hitting a dead end. This included at one point, scrabbling along the narrow shelf jutting out of a wall amongst a string of private piers, and at another, managing to step into some kind of sinkhole revealed by low tide and jump back just in time to keep my shoe from getting completely flooded. All in all this roughly seven mile journey took me about five hours including a pitstop for food and a grocery run for my dinner. If this is where you're hoping I'll say I had a grand revelation and life suddenly made sense again, I'm going to disappoint you. I thought a lot about what's going on in my life right now. The places I feel annoyed and frustrated with myself for fumbling, the places I feel confused and out of my depth, the places I feel lonely and sullen. The hard shit. But I also thought about the places I've felt loved, the bits that give me hope, things that have made me laugh, moments I've felt impressed with myself. Here's the secret of the Get Lost Walk for me: 1. There's no time for self flagellation or self pity when you've gotten yourself into a physical pickle. 2. Putting myself in situations where I am forced to confront my own abilities both to make dumb choices and to get myself out of those dumb choices physically helps me remember that I'm capable of that in other arenas too. There's only so long you can ruminate on the bad shit when you're preoccupied with the very physical reality of "Do not fall into the sulfurous bog pit, you are hours from home and will stink like wet dog the whole way." Posing myself a physical challenge takes up the room that "Woe is Me" and "Boo I'm a Bastard" thoughts would usually occupy. So when I find my brain yowling like a cat with its head stuck in a box, unable to figure out how to free myself from my cardboard prison (which, let's face it, I probably partially walked myself into), that's usually my cue to go take my troubles on a hike until I can get out of my own way. Maybe your answer isn't to get lost, but here are some questions to ask yourself to try and figure out what might get you out of a brain jam next time you're in one: 1. What are the common themes in my negative thoughts? As in, if you boiled down the repeating thoughts in your head, what are the messages about you, the world, or others? 2. How do those messages make you feel about yourself and your situation? Ie, do you see yourself as helpless? Are you the victim, the bad guy, or both? How do you feel about yourself in terms of confidence, ability, smarts, etc?
3. What do you notice your body needing? Do you want silence? Noise? Do you want to stomp around and move in ways that require effort from your muscles? Do you want to feel deep pressure on your body? Do you want to make words? Do you want to make noise? 4. What is a small scale thing, unrelated to the troubles your facing, that you can do to disprove that narrative while also meeting some of those body needs? In other words, if you're feeling dumb and like you can't do things right, what's something you *can do* that requires effort but is still fully within your ability to succeed at.
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happyandticklish · 2 years
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Me: It’s so nice how when you’re tickled you can laugh freely and just be yourself ^^
Also me while getting tickled: If I laugh I will get a bad grade in getting tickled, something that is both normal to fear and possible to achieve. 
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"Kiss me more" - TASM!Peter Parker x Reader
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SUMMARY: A collection of small moments when you and Peter share various kisses. Cute stuff, 'tis all.
I am ✨soft✨ for this boy
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Kisses on the head
"Can we have a break?" you mumbled. It was the fourth hour of you and Peter doing chemistry exam-style questions. Your brain was evaporating.
"Come on, it's just three more," he answered in an absent tone, already reading the next one. The excitement science incited inside him was adorable, although now you couldn't help but hate it.
Tired, you let your head fall on his shoulder. It wasn't a conscious movement that he rested his head against yours. Peter has done this so many times it was, quite literally, muscle memory. Maybe he hasn't even noticed his little habit.
"Peter, my brain is a smoothie."
He laughed at your serious statement and your head lightly bounced on his shoulder.
"Then go take a nap," he whispered before kissing the top of your head.
"Only if you're coming with me."
To your pleasure, Peter didn't need much convincing.
Forehead kisses
"My God, Peter, it's like you're trying to get yourself killed," you mumbled under your nose as you measured the good length of bandage to cut.
"I have it all under control."
"You surely do, babe," you answered unconvinced and put the bandage over the cut on the back of his shoulder, running your hand over the adhesive edges to make sure it's stuck well.
You got up from the bed and Peter was about to longingly grab your hand and ask about where you were going, when you gently grabbed his bruised face and gave his forehead a long, affectionate kiss.
"I'll get you something to eat," you whispered against his forehead before kissing it again and leaving your bedroom.
Cheek kisses
Only when Peter sat down across from you, did you look up from your book. The dining hall was filled with students, their loud voices and laughs nearly drowning out any coherent thought your mind produced.
With a bright smile on his face, Peter set a small paper bag down on the table.
"What's that?"
"For stitching up my arm."
"I'm taking care of my boyfriend for free."
Sometimes he still got giddy hearing you call him "your boyfriend".
"I know."
You got up from your seat, leaned across the table and kissed Peter on the cheek. Then you opened the small paper bag only to see a few of your favorite French pastries.
He really knew you like the back of his own hand.
Finger kisses
You opened your mouth to tease Peter back when the police radio in his pocket buzzed and rustled before a female voice quickly spoke:
"All units, we have a report of a 499b in upper Midtown. Suspects are driving a black sedan on Michigan numbers."
"I think you're needed, Spider-Man."
Peter looked at you with an apologetic expression, his eyes somehow wider and eyebrows slanted. You could tell he wanted to say something, let out a waterfall of words that would, hopefully, earn your forgiveness. The last thing he wanted was to make you feel neglected as if his spandex alter-ego was more important to him than you.
He brought your hand, which he was already holding, up to his lips and whispered before kissing your fingers and disappearing into the night:
"Wait for me."
Pecks on lips
You heard a soft knocking on your bedroom window and almost tripped over your own feet running into the room. Peter was, as you expected, on the other side of the glass, waiting for you with a grin on his face.
The cold night air hit your face when you opened the window. It felt refreshing. A police siren wailed in the distance and you could only suspect Peter had something to do with it.
"Hey," he said quietly and kissed your lips.
"Hey," you answered, smiling into another kiss. Without a problem, Peter crawled through the window into your bedroom, still exchanging pecks with you. His hands went into your hair and around your waist. "How's your night?" you asked.
It took Peter a few deeper kisses to finally answer:
"A lot better now."
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mellowyandere · 3 years
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You’re Ours to Protect
Had a weird dream last night. Thought you might enjoy it. 
Reader: F
Characters: Toshinori Yagi (All Might), Aizawa Shouta (Eraserhead), Yamada Hizashi (Present Mic)
Summary: Your time as an anti-hero might finally be coming to an end. With three pros on your tail it’s a miracle this didn't happen sooner. (Reader has a quirk but it’s not very important to the smut.)
Length: 4.5 K (I have come to the conclusion that I am incapable of writing below 4 K)
Warnings: non-con, yandere themes, slight bondage/restraints, voyeurism, vaginal fingering, vaginal sex, anal fingering, anal sex, M/M/F, mostly clothed male, naked reader, slight cum swallowing, Eraserhead and Present Mic are in an established relationship in this fic. 
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Hands were on your body, hands that shouldn’t be there. Your mind was stuck in a fog, your limbs so heavy you could barely move them. What was going on? You strained to remember, thinking long and hard about what might have led you here as calloused fingers blazed trails along your exposed thighs. You managed to wiggle your limbs a bit, shaking off the haze that muddled your brain.
You groaned, trying to open your eyes so you can get a better understanding of your surroundings. Your hands were restrained behind your back but it seemed your legs were free. You'd murder who ever had their fucking hands on you. As your eyes adjusted to the light you couldn't help but groan again as the figure in front of you came into view. You tried and failed to subtly use your quirk, this didn’t look good.
“Eraserhead. Didn’t realize you were still wasting your time looking for me. Not my fault I beat you to that criminal. Hero’s leaving trash like him alive is such a stupid concept. He was a murderer you know.” 
You looked around to the best of your ability as you spoke, you were sitting on a plush dark green couch in what appeared to be a relatively empty basement. You had been stripped of your gear, leaving you in your underwear and an oversized t-shirt. Two men were flanking you on the couch. The one to your left you didn't recognize. He was ridiculously tall, as well as skinny. Blond hair a mess as two long bangs hid his eyes from view. To your right was a pro you did recognize. His emerald green eyes sparkled in delight behind his civilian glasses as he grinned down at you. So it was their hands on your body currently. They’d die first then. 
“So, what does that make you?” the dark haired pro murmured, leaning forwards and somewhat regaining your attention. 
You ignored his question, opting to look about some more. There wasn't a one-way mirror or any recording device in sight. Were they interrogating you off the books? This whole situation seemed off, these were heroes right? They’d convict you and leave you to rot in a dingy jail cell somewhere.. but this didn't look like a normal interrogation room. 
“I know this is my first time getting caught and all but this doesn’t really seem up to protocol. Gonna haul me away after having fun or something?” You shifted your gaze to the obsidian eyes in front of you, leaning forwards to mimic his posture. 
Present Mic barked out a laugh, hand squeezing harder on you thigh much to your annoyance. “Sorry babe but prison won’t be your final destination! I mean after all y’aint evil, just a lil misguided is all, nothin’ three pros can’t fix.” He ended his sentence with a pinch to your leg. 
“If you don’t get your fucking hands off me I’ll kill you!” You snarled, turning and getting up in Present Mic’s face. The tall blond to your left pulled his hands back, scooting away as Present Mic continued to leer down at you. 
“HAH little girls got some bite, but we already knew that. Don’t think I didn’t notice you trying to use that quirk. I’m hurt now! You really would try to kill me huh?” he mocked with a fake pout, but you could see the amusement in his eyes. 
“I’m sure you’ve already realized by now you can’t use your quirk. It wasn’t easy making a device to cancel it out, but thanks to our newest colleague here the hardest part was collecting your DNA and picking what color collar we wanted.” Eraserhead leaned forward, fingers tugging on the collar you only now just realized was around your neck.
You tried to bite him, but he pulled back. If only you could wipe that stupid smirk off his face with a heart attack. Your quirk was the ability to clot blood after all. A handy trick if you found yourself injured, but even more so for killing once you learned how to properly control it. No one really batted an eye at an ischemic stroke due to the clotting of an artery to the brain. Well.. almost nobody.. 
“You have a very impressive ability,” the tall blond stated, “in all honesty we probably wouldn’t have caught on if we hadn’t watched you kill. You’ve induced countless of natural looking deaths, but upon closer inspection you target people whose crimes would have landed them in jail. Noble, but very misguided. You’re pretty reckless though, what if you had gotten hurt?” 
“So fucking what if I did.” You kept your eyes glued to Present Mic as you responded, trusting him a lot less than the man behind you. His eyes narrowed dangerously at your snarky rebuttal.
“Language young lady, and that’s no way to talk! What would compel you to risk your life, why don’t you trust your hero’s more?” 
You clenched your teeth in frustration but didn’t respond. You were done cooperating, not like you were doing much to begin with though.
The scrapping of a metal chair on concrete drew your gaze as Eraserhead stood up. 
“Back up Zashi, I’ll take over from here. Toshinori you’re fine where you are.” 
You couldn’t help but struggle a bit at his words. “What do you mean, what the hell are you going to do!? You insane or something? Just turn me in to the police!”
“You really don't pay attention do you. Hizashi already said you’re not going to the police. I don’t know what skeletons you have in your closet, or why you started killing people, but that will come out in due time. For now you don’t have to kill anymore. The three of us will take care of you, without the law sentencing you to life. We’ve been hunting you down for so long. We’ve been very patient, but right now you need us to help show you what you’ve been missing. Running around all by yourself, you must have been so lonely.” Eraserhead finished up his little spiel as he stalked forwards, looming over your sitting frame. 
“Don’t fucking TOUC-gah!” You had been so focused on Eraserhead’s approach you hadn’t noticed Present Mic coming at you with a gag until it was too late. 
“Yagi already asked you to watch that dirty mouth of yours, don’t worry though babe once you simmer down a bit we’ll take it out.”
“Ple-please Hizashi call me Toshinori we’ve been over this.”
You gave Eraserhead your best glare as he stopped in front of you. He smiled softly at your defiance before wedging his knee in between your legs and slamming his hands onto the couch, caging you in. Wait by show you what you were missing.. these hero's were going to..?
You tried to talk reason, but all that came out were muffled pleas. None of it coherent. 
“We’ve been watching over you for 5 months now kitten. Trying to find the best way to approach you but in the end taking you somewhere safe seemed to be the only logical solution. While getting this house ready for your arrival we all started to feel as if you belonged here all along. I know it’s not fair, we’ve had so much longer to get to know you, but you’ll know us just as well soon enough.”
It was official. These pros had lost their damn minds. They actually figured out how to justify what they were about to do to you. Your promise to only kill criminals was really coming back to bite you on the ass. 
You brought your legs up and tried to kick him off, but were quickly thwarted by two pairs of hands grabbing them and pinning you down. 
“Now now sweetheart none of that, Shouta here is just going to show you our conviction. No one will ever hurt you again now that we are here. Now that I am here” The last part was mumbled more to himself than the group. 
Something must have happened to these men to cause their hero complex to grow into something so twisted. But that was no fucking excuse for their actions. They needed therapy, not someone to play damsel in distress with.
Shouta lowered himself between your legs until he was kneeling on the floor in front of you. You tried to plead with your eyes, beg him to stop, but he met your gaze with something bordering love. That wasn’t good. Breaking eye contact he looked down at your underwear, bringing a hand up you held your breath as he gently brushed against your core. 
“You can’t even begin to imagine how much I’ve dreamed of this moment. You truly are something special, and yet you treat your life with such little regard it’s maddening.” He trailed his knuckles against the thin fabric as he spoke, your traitorous body sparking heat in your lower abdomen in anticipation. 
Pulling your underwear to the side he slowly began to slide his fingers up and down your progressively wetting folds. 
“Well now, someone secretly enjoyin’ themselves baby,” Hizashi all but purred, his hand squeezing your flesh while his gaze was transfixed on where his partner was violating you. You couldn’t help but let out a pitiful whine. It was absolutely humiliating being spread out before these three men. 
The noises your wet cunt were making were no help to your embarrassment, and they only got worse once the dark haired pro rid you of your last line of defense and began to insert two of his fingers. 
“H-how does she feel?” Toshinori couldn’t help but ask. His face was flushed red, along with the tips of his ears as his vibrant blue eyes watched Shouta’s fingers slowly sink inside you. 
“Tight, shit she’s tight. She’s perfect, so fucking wet for her hero's. I’ll work you open kitten don’t worry.” You couldn’t help but clamp down on his fingers at his words, earning a deep chuckle in response. 
“See now, such a good girl aren’t you. Prison is no place for you kitten, though if you want we can always role-play your wardens.”
Role-play my ass we’re already living it, was all you could think bitterly. 
As if he read your mind Shouta couldn’t help but continue to antagonize you, thumb beginning to make light circles against your clit as he pumped his fingers, adding a third and quickly burying them knuckle deep. Soft whimpers slipped from your mouth as you tried in vain to wiggle away from Eraserhead’s deft fingers. 
Hizashi was getting impatient, removing one of his hands to grasp your breast through the t-shirt you had on. His slim fingers began to pinch and rub your nipple, though his eyes never left your cunt. 
Toshinori was struggling in his own way. Raspy breaths with slight coughs as he grew more and more aroused. He too removed a hand from your leg, but instead made quick work of the zipper on his pants. Taking his semi hard cock in his hand he began gently stroke himself while watching your display. 
You truly were everything they had ever wanted. But you didn’t want this, despite your bodies responses to their ministrations. You could feel it, Shouta seemed to know exactly where to stroke as he worked you up tighter and tighter, velvety walls clamping down at your approaching climax. 
You found each man murmuring their own words of praise, anywhere from “That’s it baby girl, take all of Sho now,” to “Such a perfect princess, do you want to finish?” The man between your legs even adding to the mantra of soft words spoken to you. “So close kitten, see what good girls get. You’re going to cum for me okay?” 
He posed it like a question but you knew it was far from it. It was a statement, a matter of fact statement that you couldn’t deny even if you had tried. Your back arched, moans and mewls intercepted but not completely blocked out by your gag as you rocked against his hand. He gladly continued to finger you, watching as you came down from your high and only then removed his hand. 
You were panting hard, shame quickly washing away the pleasure from your orgasm. Sensing the shift in your demeanor Hizashi was quick to pounce, peppering your face in kisses despite your shifty protests and groans of despair. “None of that now babe, after all we’re just gettin’ this show started!” 
Shouta stood and moved out from between your legs, licking some of your slick off his hand before he wiped the rest on his black pants leg. “You got lube Zashi?” Hizashi paused his attack and shot the dark haired pro a million dollar smile. “You bet our babes cute ass I got it! Lemme find it, hold her Toshi.”
Toshinori floundered a bit, cock in hand as Hizashi shoved you closer to him, before jumping up from the couch. Eyes trailing down to his hand you couldn’t help but freeze in shock. Not only was this man stupid tall, his dick was frighteningly large. The older hero noticed your stare and couldn’t help but chuckle a bit at your expression. “Don’t worry princess, Shouta and Hizashi are going to help you today. My sides acting up so I’ll only be watching.” 
As if on cue the man was hit by a coughing fit, and much to your surprise he even coughed up some blood. Eraserhead was still looming over you, leaning over he gently rubbed the older blonds back as he tried to ease him through the pain. You didn’t dare move as all this transpired around you. What good would it have done you anyways? You were effectively quirkiness, and your fighting skills would be severely lacking against the two heroes you knew. You had no idea who this Toshinori guy was, but if he was close to Eraserhead and Present Mic you doubted he was weak. 
You heard Hizashi rummaging behind you through a dresser you hadn’t noticed earlier. Craning your neck, you peered over and cried out in frustration. 
“Tada!” He sung triumphantly, a small bottle of lube in his hand. “Act two can now officially begin!” You could only yell and wiggle about in protest, your arms still tied behind your back. Toshinori’s hand on your thigh moved to gently pat you on the head. 
“Behave now for them okay? If you’re good we can show you the rest of our home after this.” 
You jerked your head out from under his hand and yelled more incoherent nonsense out of frustration. You had expected anger to replace the adoring look in his eyes but you were only met with fond amusement. 
He stood up with a hearty laugh, erection still in hand as he grabbed Shouta’s discarded chair, sitting down facing the couch. Shouta was quick to take Toshinori’s place on the couch while Hizashi took up residence behind you. 
“I have a feelin’ this star ain’t a fan of the spotlight, no need to be camera shy babe.” You watched Shouta roll his eyes at his partner in crime before he began to manhandle you. Hands under your armpits he pulled you up and wrangled you onto your knees facing him on the couch. 
Hizashi slid one knee between your legs so you couldn't close them. Your tied hands couldn’t help but brush up against his clothed hard on, causing him to rut against you a bit in anticipation. 
Without warning he took a solid grip of your t-shirt and ripped it off. You squeaked in surprise, your face heating up as you realized you were the only person fully naked in the room. 
“Was it really necessary to rip my shirt?”
“Sorry about that Toshi! Didn’t want to delay the show with takin’ off her bindings yah dig? You rip them a bunch anyways so what’s another to the pile? But ain’t this just so much better, our baby girl on full display it makes my heart swoon!”
“Just get her ready Hizashi, and no rushing it, you don’t want to hurt her.”
“Aight aight sorry I’ll get to work, you keep her happy.”
Both men moved closer, pressing your body between them. They had propped themselves up on their knees and had you effectively stuck. Shouta gently placed one hand around your neck, giving your collar a tug, while the other trailed down and began to gently work your still wet pussy. 
You stared into his chest, trying your best to space out but jerked back to reality when you heard the pop of a lid behind you. 
“Don’t worry babe I’ll get you ready, I’m somewhat of a pro yah know?” 
That was when you felt his lubed finger gently prodding your other hole. You jolted forwards into Shouta who didn’t even budge in response to your full body weight. Hizashi simply shuffled closer, continuing to push until finally he breached you. You whimpered at the uncomfortable intrusion. 
Shouta's fingers lazily worked your cunt as he rocked his erection against your lower abdomen. Despite the fact that you hated the feeling of his growing arousal you couldn’t help but lean into him to try and get away from Hizashi as he slipped another finger inside. Tears slowly rolled down your face in frustration as the two heroes prepared your body. 
“There we go kitten, you’re doing so well. Just be patient alright and it won’t hurt so bad.” Shouta removed his hand from around your neck and placed it on your head, angling your gaze to the third member of the group you had almost forgotten while pulling you flush to his clothed chest so you couldn’t freely change your field of view. 
Toshinori was leaned back in the metal folding chair, which looked comically small with him sitting on it. His eyes were clouded with lust as he stroked his thick cock. His own pre-cum and spit adding obscene noises to his ministrations. He gave you a lopsided smile as you made eye contact, causing you to quirky avert your gaze. 
By this point Hizashi had worked three fingers knuckle deep into your tight hole, but coupled with Shouta’s work the line between uncomfortable and pleasurable began to mix together. A breathless moan escaped you as the two pros finally got their desired reaction. 
“She’s as good as she’s gonna get Sho, let’s say you and me start the finale I can’t take feelin’ her tight lil hole clamping down on my fingers any longer. Not when I got somethin’ much better for her.”
Your tears flowed a bit faster at your impending fate. This was fucking insane! You might have been a murderer, but you weren't expected to be a good person unlike these men. These heroes who were now violating you.
Since Shouta was in black sweatpants he merely leaned back a bit and pulled them down, cock springing free. He had a solid girth to him, red tip dripping pre down his shaft to his unruly black pubic hair. You heard a zipper behind you as the blond freed himself, though due to being squashed between the two you had no idea what to prepare for. 
Hizashi hummed in contemplation at your tied hands, currently in the way of his objective. “Bonds might have to go Sho, you get her hands?” The sleepy hero merely nodded grasping your wrists as Hizashi swiftly untied them. 
“Ready now primadonna?”
“Ha ha you’re soo funny Sho... but yes, shit, I’m fucking ready.”
You kept quiet this time, head pressed against Shouta’s chest as you listened to his rapidly beating heart. You gave one last pleading look to the lean blond watching intently from the sideline, but all he did was shrug his shoulders with a small smile on his face. 
“You’re going to do great princess don’t worry.” 
You felt the tips of each man at their respective entrance, Shouta's teasing your soaking cunt while Hizashi lightly probed your lubed ass. You closed your eyes and accepted defeat. They gently began to rut their hips, cocks sinking deeper with each thrust. You felt uncomfortably full as they breached you. 
“Oh fuck oh fuck I can feel you through her.” The blond quickly grabbed your breasts, tweaking your nipples like he had earlier. 
“Easy does it kitten, we got you,” Shouta groaned out. 
You weren’t a fan of Hizashi behind you, rocking forward into Shouta as they continued to fuck into you. He squeezed down on your wrists in warning, hot breath fanning the top of your head. It didn’t take much longer before they both had finally bottomed out. You groaned in distress while they groaned in bliss. 
“I’ve got her wrists you help her out alright, and take it easy.”
“Sheesh I heard yah the first time, I’ll help our lil girl out.”
Hizashi snaked a hand in between you and Shouta, finding your clit. 
They both continued fucking into you, Hizashi matching Shouta’s pace as they stimulated your body. You were angry, humiliated, and yet somehow you were so turned on it was embarrassing. You should be thrashing about, snarling into your gag, but instead all you could do was rock your body to their salacious tempo. 
Peeking your eyes open at a particularly hard thrust from Hizashi you saw Toshinori on the edge of the chair. You could just barely make out his raspy breaths and small moans over Shouta and Hizashi’s groaning. His brilliant blue eyes bore into your own. One of his hands worked his long shaft while the other was death gripping his clothed thigh. It almost looked as if steam was pouring off of him. Was he always that muscular?
You didn’t have long to contemplate Toshinori though, with a pinch to your clit Hizashi made sure to regain your attention. He had picked up his pace, throwing Shouta a bit off balance. He leaned down sucking and biting at your neck while rolling your perky nipple. Shouta felt your velvety walls clamp down around his cock, picking up his tempo to match Hizashi’s.
By now you were a mess. Traitorous moans fumbling from your mouth as the two heroes played your body. They had picked up an alternating tempo, never leaving you without a cock inside your body. The pleasure had you throwing your head back, leaving your neck exposed and making room for Shouta to join Hizashi in leaving little claiming bites all along your delicate skin. 
“She’s getting close Hizashi, we’re gonna fuck her through it alright?”
The blond pro behind you only moaned out something that sounded vaguely affirmative, eager to feel your tight walls clamp down on him. 
You were beyond fighting them, on the brink of orgasm all it took was one pointed thrust from Shouta to have you crumbling apart. You pushed back into Hizashi’s chest, his t-shirt sticking to your sweat soaked skin as you clamped down on both of them. Hizashi moaned into your neck, his quirk picking up a bit as he lost his composure. Shouta had released your hands, ripping off your gag so he could grab your face and crash his mouth to yours, swallowing your moans as your newly freed hands grabbed fist fulls of his shirt to stabilize yourself. 
As stated they continued fucking into you, dragging out your orgasm as your walls spasmed around them. Shouta’s tongue delved into your mouth, his own deep moans rumbling into you. 
“Go-gonna fuckin’ cum Sho, n- not much longer.”
In response Eraserhead reached behind you, grabbing a fist full of the blonds hair and giving it a firm tug which was enough to push him over the edge. 
“Sh-shit,” he wheezed, hips stilling as his cum filled your sore ass. “You fu- you fucking dirty cheater makin’ me finish first like that.” In kind Hizashi grabbed some of Shouta’s hair, pulling his mouth away from yours and up to his own. 
“Go ahead and cum in her Sho you know you want to,” Hizashi taunted between kisses. The familiar sound of metal against concrete drew your gaze as the all too familiar symbol of peace stood at his full height. Holy fucking shit it was All Might. 
The two pros ignored his approach, Shouta’s hips becoming a bit more deranged as he fucked into you. All Might reached in between the two and gripped your lower jaw, dazzling smile almost blinding you.
“Be a good girl now and open for me, you don’t have to swallow it all but I’d appreciate the effort.” He didn’t leave you with much of a choice finding it impossible to close your mouth with his grip, which at this point was very sore from the gag. The tip of his large member gently brushed against your lips as he shuttered at the feeling of your soft flesh. 
By this point Shouta was thrusting aggressively against your battered cervix, mouth locked with Hizahi’s as he finally reached his own release. His hips stuttered as warmth filled your cunt. 
Now all that was left was All Might. Your jaw strained to accommodate him, but he seemed to be more than aware of your limitations. He simply pushed the tip in, one hand stroking his shaft while the other gently pet your head. 
“So pretty,” he cooed down at you. “Just like that princess, I’m gonna cum now okay?” 
You simply kept your mouth open, tongue flat against the underside of his still cock as his cum filled your mouth. The bitter taste made you sputter, cum running down your chin as more took its place. After a couple more spurts he gently pulled away, some of the bitter substance sliding down your throat while the majority ended up down your chin and onto the couch below. 
All four of you were panting, frozen in time until finally All Might disappeared in a large cloud of smoke. The man you had originally believed to be some unknown hero named Toshinori now stood in his place, shyly looking down at you. 
“I guess that’s one way to show her huh big guy.” Hizashi jested. 
“I-I know probably not the most ideal but I couldn’t help myself,” he murmured a bit embarrassed. 
Hizashi and Shouta pulled out, their cum immediately running down your legs causing you to cringe a bit at the sensation. 
“You guys.. fucking suck.” was all you could think of at the moment. You waited for the rage, for them to berate or attack you, but instead all that met you was a chorus of soft chuckles.
“Figured you wouldn’t be easy to convince kitten, but don’t worry. Between the three of us you’ll come around.” 
These three men must have some thick fucking skulls to dismiss you so casually, that or their obsession was a lot deeper than you could even begin to comprehend. 
“Some fucking heroes you are,” you grumbled lowly.
“Some fuckin’ heroes we are indeed cutie! HAH get it? Cause we just fucked yah?” Hizashi laughed at his own joke while Toshinori and Shouta groaned. 
“Alright don’t make me gag you next, let’s just get everybody upstairs and clean up. We’ll do the house tour later kitten, for now we’ll just show you to your room.” 
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The Birds & The Bees (S.R. | Pt. 4)
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Summary: Reader has a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day, which her Professor is hellbent on making a little bit better. A/N: If y’all thought you hated Kyle (bathroom bitch boy), just wait until you meet the new antagonist (of the female variety) here... I hope you all enjoy! 😚 Couple: Spencer Reid/Fem!Reader Category: Slow Burn (NSFW, 18+) Content Warning: Sexual themes/fantasies Word Count: 6.3k
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Einstein once attributed his genius to his childlike sense of humor. Studies performed since then have largely proven his point — funny people tend to have higher IQs, which makes sense when you consider the cognitive and emotional intelligence required to produce humor.
Spencer Reid was no exception. The only problem was that his humor was so remarkably niche and impossibly specific that barely anyone could understand the punchline. He insisted to me that he’d gotten better over the years, which I only barely believed… until he told me a joke that hadn’t left my mind since. A joke that he described as ‘just crude enough to make it palatable to the layman.’
"Caffeine and Viagra are both phosphodiesterase inhibitors,” he’d said — a slow start if there had ever been such a thing. But I held on to hope, hanging on the ecstatic, guileless smile he wore. And boy, was I glad I did, because what he’d said next broke me into a frankly embarrassing fit of giggles that returned with the memory every time.
“Which explains why both of these drugs keep you up all night."
The poor barista stuck working the busy early morning shift eyed me like I’d grown two heads when I once again devolved into laughter for no apparent reason. I almost felt embarrassed about it, but then I reassured myself that if she’d heard Dr. Spencer Reid tell a drug-induced-boner joke, she would also laugh about it forever.
I’d been thinking about him a lot lately. Not in a perverse way, either, despite his increasing comfort in breaching such topics in my presence. It was more like I’d started to infuse him into my every day, finding him in whatever way my brain would allow. While I made my way to his office, I breathed in the soothing scent drifting from the cups that were precariously perched in flimsy cardboard.
The smell took me back to quiet moments in his office. The kind of simple serenity that accompanied silence between two people who need not speak to share ideas. Where the second you looked away, you felt their eyes follow you, like the universe couldn’t maintain its structural integrity without one of you looking at the other.
It was intoxicating and alluring; so easy to lose myself in. Something I knew was dangerous for a number of reasons.
For example, when I am not paying the utmost attention to my surroundings, I have a tendency to lose track of where I am and what I’m doing. I also tend to… drop things. Especially hot and otherwise dangerous things.
Things like the two cups of coffee that finally became too much for shallow, defective cardboard.
“Fuck, fuck, fuck!” I screeched as I became acutely aware of every place where scorching hot, drenched clothing hung on angry skin. Normally, I would at least try to sound more dignified while on my way to work, but it hardly seemed like it mattered anymore.
I was too busy hurriedly tearing at my shirt and dropping everything else I was holding. I’d gotten three whole buttons on my shirt popped by the time I remembered it wasn’t technically necessary. I dropped my bag immediately at the thought, tugging on the hem of the shirt and trying to bring it over my head.
Unfortunately, I still hadn’t regained my grace, and in the muddled mess of fabric, I’d also grabbed hold of my undershirt. Which meant that whoever was walking through the empty halls of the early morning in academia would find me, with my stomach exposed and clothing dripping while unintelligible curses flowed freely from my lips.
I expected most people would probably just turn around and leave. I probably would’ve. The giant splatter of coffee and the absolute idiot slipping in it were beyond saving.
But there was at least one person who saw the mess and stayed.
I smelled his cologne before I felt his hand was pressed over the bare skin of my lower back. Despite the fact my skin was burning, it welcomed the warmth of his touch. My body stopped at his command, waiting for him to break me free of the paradoxically frozen state I was in.
He pulled the shirt back down, just enough that I could see him when he wrapped his cardigan around my shoulders and started guiding me into his office, which I’d somehow managed to almost walk straight past in my daze. I wished that I could go back there, to the imaginary world where he hadn’t just seen me half disrobed and cursing while covered in the coffee that I’d meant to give to him.
Spencer’s hands left me once the door was shut, probably trusting, or at least hoping, that I could figure out the mess on my own. Oddly enough, I didn’t notice any signs of him staring at me. Like he only felt comfortable looking when I was clothed.
I tried not to think about it. Once I did manage to free myself of one of the shirts — without further flashing my boss — the anxiety brewing inside of me burst out in the form of frantic shouting.
“Hi Professor! I’m so sorry, I spilled the coffee!”
“Yeah, I... saw the puddle,” he mumbled, throwing a cursory glance back at the hallway before his eyes met mine with a terrifying level of compassion, “Are you alright?”
“Besides the boiling liquid on my skin and the horrid embarrassment? I guess,” I mumbled back before shouting, “Shit! This is why that woman sued McDonald’s! Why do stores serve coffee like that?!”
Spencer didn’t really say anything. In fact, he kind of just stood as frozen as I had been, staring at everything around me rather than meeting my eyes again. But while he seemed somewhat cool and composed, I continued to tug at my clothes to try and avoid the friction. It was then that he cleared his throat, covering his face just like he’d done when he saw me in an arguably more provocative position the week before.
Arguably, I said. I should have known that Spencer would win any argument. I should have considered why he was making such a point of not looking at me while I clawed at the white undershirt turned beige. But I didn’t. Not until I looked down to inspect the state of my skin.
I realized then that Spencer had been trying to figure out a way to inform me that not only had the coffee turned my shirt a different shade — it had also eliminated the opacity.
He could see my bra. Spencer Reid, my boss, was trying not to stare at my very clearly visible bra.
“God, this is the worst Monday of all Mondays!” I whined between half-sobs, “and Mondays are already bad, Professor!”
There must have been something else in that cry, too. Something akin to permission. Enough for him to step closer, managing to avoid looking at my chest in the process. I’d entirely forgotten that he’d wrapped me in his cardigan until he pulled it tighter around my shoulders like his own version of an embrace.
“That they are, Bunny.”
If my skin had been heated before, it turned to flames at the use of the nickname. It was honestly a pure work of magic that the liquid on me didn’t turn vaporize the second I’d heard the word.
Bunny?
I pushed the thought away as quick as humanly possible, focusing instead on the way my clothes were going from uncomfortably hot to frigid as a result of the usually refreshing air conditioning. But when I was once again reminded of the obvious undergarment, I sighed.
“I can probably ask a friend to bring me a replacement shirt, or just go to class like this,” I thought aloud, “No one really looks at me, anyway...”
Spencer’s response came immediately, his hands flying up in protest as he shouted, “No!”
I wasn’t quite sure how to reply to that, or even which part of the statement he was objecting to, so he was met with a wide-eyed, slow blinking stare.
“I-I mean, I have a shirt you can borrow. I don’t want to subject you to any further embarrassment,” he explained at a significantly more appropriate volume, “You can just wear my extra shirt.”
He turned away from me before I could respond, shuffling through something hidden beneath his desk that created more questions than answers for me.
“Why do you have an extra shirt?”
“Go bag,” he said in the most nondescript manner. It wasn’t necessarily abnormal, either. The question I’d asked didn’t spark any concerns in his mind, but it also wasn’t the question that I felt needed to be asked.
What I really wanted to say was caught in my throat. My hands clamped together in front of me tighter than my jaw that resisted opening to make way for the thoughts that felt more scandalous than they should’ve been.  
“U-Um, Professor don’t you think—“
“Here you go,” he offered with a smile. I took the large, plain black shirt with a hefty dose of caution, my hands shaking along with my broken voice that still couldn’t finish the sentence from before.
Spencer finally noticed the struggle on my face, and I watched his body move from comfortable to defensive in a matter of seconds. Like he was worried he’d done something wrong in trying to be kind.
He hadn’t, but I felt like I had.
“Won’t people... you know?” I mumbled, motioning a hand between the two of us, “I’m showing up to your class at 8AM wearing your clothes…”
I thought that the words alone would be enough. I thought that the gesture was overkill. But Spencer was still staring at me with his head cocked to the side and his eyes narrowed in thought.
I was going to have to say it.
Won’t they think we’re having sex?
There was no way I was going to be able to say it.
“Aren’t you concerned about people getting… the wrong idea?” I blurted out, instead.
The confusion on his face shifted to a clever little self-assured smirk so fast that I almost missed the transition. My stomach flipped from the sight, but then he spoke again, and what had felt like it was filled with butterflies turned to rocks.
“I’d much rather them gossip about something that’s not happening than watch the young boys ogle you instead of paying attention.”
It wasn’t the words, but the way that he’d said them. Like they were silly, like the idea of us being together was so preposterous it could only be entertained by people he perceived to be children.
I was foolish, too.
“Don’t worry about them,” he said with a wave, “Just worry about making this Monday a little bit better.”
“O-okay. Thanks,” I whispered, turning and running from the room only to be reminded of the mess I’d made. But the pool of tawny liquid on the floor wasn’t the most disastrous thing anymore. That honor was reserved for the state of my heart, begrudgingly continuing to beat despite being broken.
Scooping up my bag that I’d abandoned before, I tried to allow myself to be happy about the little things. For instance, the fact that the shirt Spencer had handed me was probably the softest thing I’d ever felt in my life. It made sense, considering the sensory issues he always described.
Still, I waited until I was in the safety of a bathroom stall before I buried my face in the fabric. It smelled just like him, a mixture of freshly done laundry and vanilla. Much better than the cheap, burnt coffee that covered me. Funny enough, that sort of smelled like him, too.
By the time I slipped into his clothes, I had almost forgotten his joke entirely. I was too lost in the joy of sweater paws from his cardigan and fabric that felt like a hug. Or at least, what I’d imagined a hug from him would be like.
The energy it provided me was a better pick-me-up than any cup of coffee had ever been. I kept my squealing as quietly as I could, bouncing in place just like the nickname he’d chosen to let stick. But before I returned to him, I felt something. A small, noticeable weight in one of the cardigan pockets.
If I’d thought about it for longer than five seconds, if I’d reminded myself that they were his clothes and not mine, I would’ve let it be. I wouldn’t have pulled the little object from its safe hiding spot. It would have stayed locked away, leaving me none the wiser of its presence.
But I didn’t think about it, and then there I was, holding onto the sobriety token I should’ve seen coming.
Not that it was a bad thing; I already knew Spencer had a history with drugs. He’d mentioned it in passing in class and was deeply involved with a number of volunteer programs around the area. At one point, I’d even taken it upon myself to research his history.
That research, while I regretted it now, feeling that it violated his privacy some way or another, led me to a second conclusion. As my thumb ghosted over the embossed number five, I realized that Spencer had been sober since he was released from prison.
My heart swelled with pride and relief that felt shameful. I didn’t want the token to have such a profound effect on the image of him I’d already crafted in my mind. Lord knew I didn’t need any more reasons to idolize him. And, at the end of the day, I’d only discovered this information by happenstance.
Part of respect, I decided, meant ignoring the way that fate seemed to push us together. If Spencer ever wanted my opinion on his sobriety or strength, surely, he would just ask. So, I slipped the chip back into the pocket and made my way back to him without worry for what it meant.
While I had no worries, Spencer was another story. I’d barely even made it through the door when he saw me. All of the papers he’d been holding immediately fell from his hands the same way the coffee had fallen from mine.
“Oh no! My clumsiness was contagious!” I laughed, bolting over to help him only to find his face an unhealthy shade of red. He chuckled back but said nothing else as he scrambled to pick up the loose-leaf that had splayed itself all over the floor.
Once we were back on our feet and as collected as we could be considering the circumstances of the morning thus far, his eyes met mine again. His cheeks were still flushed, unable to focus on anything specific and choosing to traverse my body the same way his hands had on Halloween.
“Sorry,” he mumbled in a way that made me wonder if he knew I could hear him, “I was distracted by how unfair it is that you look better in my clothes than I do.”
It was my turn to be flustered, but Spencer didn’t let the moment drag on. He tore himself away from me in every sense of the word, marching past me and halfway exiting the room before he found the courage to look at me again.
“Are you ready to head to class?” he asked as if it were an option.
I suppose to him, it was. For a second I imagined what the future would hold for us if I’d said no. What would he have done if I begged him to stay with me, instead? What if we rebelled against expectation and remained locked away in his office until we grew tired of one another? What if we never did?
My mind filled with fantasies of Spencer’s hands freely feeling my skin the way his clothes could. I could hear soft, breathy sounds of desire shaped like my name. For all of my inexperience, he would still find me intoxicating. He would grow drunk on me the same way a child finds endless joy in sweets that really ought to make them sick.
Then again, maybe he had grown used to the sugar. Maybe he wanted something more mature, a bitterness like molasses that was only earned from years I hadn’t had yet.
Regardless, I couldn’t really get into any of that. Instead, I just flashed a very awkward thumbs up to the man fifteen years my elder when I droned, “Sure am, Professor man.”
As stupid as it felt to do something so juvenile, the smile he gave was worth it.
“Alright then, Bunny,” he answered with his own little peace sign, “Let’s hop along.”
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It hadn’t even been a week since I saw her, scantily clad in the plush, socially acceptable equivalent of lingerie. It’d been even less time since I admitted my own weakness to her. I’d replayed the memories of her visceral responses to my touch enough times that I should be sick of it. But there was no tiring of her.
I considered deleting the photos she’d sent me, convinced that it was cruel to keep them when she’d only sent them while inebriated and undoubtedly exhausted beyond belief.
But when I woke up in the morning, my stomach still reeling from the knowledge of what I’d done, all that she’d sent was a curious collection of emotes and a very brief note.
“Oops!” she’d written, “Bad bunny?”
I put that phrase out of my mind immediately, unable to handle the way it incited the desire for destruction in my veins.
“I’m always glad to hear that you are safe.”
That was the end of the conversation, and I was grateful for that much. Even the few words we’d exchanged would haunt me until I saw her again. Of course, the torture ended there, but only for a few seconds before it was replaced with other images and words.
It’d been hours since I’d found her flailing about half-naked in the hall while uttering rushed curses that sounded too crude for her lips. It’d been hours since I felt the soft skin of her lower back and became lost in an entirely different set of fantasies.
It’d been even less time since I saw her standing at my door, pulling on the sleeves of my sweater and staring at me with nervous, shifty glances. Completely unaware of just how beautiful she was in her simplicity. How much more torturous it was to see her wearing my clothes than any lustful suffering that lingerie or nudity could elicit.
I thought that it would get better throughout the day, but it didn’t. It only got worse.
I’d stepped out of my office for barely half an hour, but I returned to find her curled up on the plush chair. Her shoes were slipped off, revealing colorful socks that clashed with every other neutral color she wore. It somehow made me want her even more.
I stayed stuck for a few seconds longer, watching her with bated breath and shameless admiration. She was so caught up in the papers on her lap that she didn’t even notice my presence until the door clicked shut. It was then that she turned to see me, allowing a smile to blossom across her face despite eyes narrowed with suspicion.
“What’s all of this?” she asked, gesturing to the collection of bags hanging from my wrists.  
“Did you know…” I started before my heart stopped at how she always leaned forward with excitement whenever I started a sentence that way, “that food is one of the best ways to solve a terrible Monday?”
“Which scientific study did you get that from?”
I paused again, debating telling her the many studies that would support such a theory, but then decided against it. Instead, I sought out her laughter and childlike joy that always brought out the best of her.
“Garfield,” I answered.
Sure enough, the office filled with the melodious sound of her happiness. I moved as quietly as I could, thinking back to when I was younger and thought of how powerful bottled laughter would be if I could capture it. Hers would surely right so many wrongs.
“You don’t have to take it if you don’t want to, but I figure it’s the least I could do.”
She approached me to assist before I’d even made it to my desk, and although I thought her hands were far too soft to be bothered with something like this, I allowed her to help.
“You could do nothing, you know. It was my own fault.”
“Yeah, but I wanted to.”
She laughed again, shier and shrinking into the sweater as she tried to find her place in such a domestic activity as sharing a meal with me in private. I thought of how it was a taste of my dreams.
Because as often as I did fantasize about her, undone, bare-skinned, and defenseless to my desires, I just as often envisioned her just like this. In fact, I found those fantasies more dangerous. They couldn’t be written off as mere lust. They were another, scarier thing.
“Well, lucky you I am an exhausted, broke grad student, so free food will always win me over,” she muttered, half-sarcastically but just sad enough to bother me.  
“Duly noted,” I said.
I hid away the promises I wanted to make. That if she were mine, she would want for nothing. That I would give her everything she needed to bloom. That I would prune away any neighboring flower that dared get in her way or block the sunlight. There would be no need to worry of predators or pollinators intruding, because she would belong to me and only me.
I would be her earth, her rain, and her sun. I would be surely and shamelessly selfish.
Her shoulders rose with a cheeky, excited little giggle once she had collected her food. I wanted nothing more than to let her enjoy it to her heart’s content… but there was a problem.
“Nuh-uh, no way,” I chuckled before she had a chance to return to the chair with her precarious paper plate, “Get in the other chair.”
Her face scrunched up, bouncing back and forth between the two seats in the room like she’d heard something so strange that it must have been a mistake.
“Wh— your chair?”
“I will not have you ruining another shirt today,” I explained. It caused the confusion to quickly shift to an embarrassed frustration within seconds. Just as she opened her mouth to protest my teasing, I continued with something I knew would tie her tongue until she could no longer argue.
“If you’re so worried about what they’ll say when you show up in my shirt, just think of how they’ll talk if they catch you wearing nothing.”
That stubborn little thing still tried. Her mouth floundered, strange sounds of protest starting but never finishing until she gave up. She sulked over to the seat with an odd amount of self-satisfaction. She settled into my space as comfortably as she always did. With an ease that was almost unsettling to my tired, tortured heart.
Swapping places with her for that little bit of time was a good idea. I hadn’t expected that it would bring me as much serenity as it did. My usually busy lips kept their focus on the food, opting to listen to her ramble about any and everything that came to mind.
It wasn’t until she was fifteen minutes into an explanation on her paper that I realized how little I’d tried to learn about her life outside of me. Whether it was self-preservation or narcissism, I’d never decided. But what I was certain of was that it had been a brutal form of self-sabotage.
Because as I sat there, watching her clumsily, excitedly swinging her fork and proving my point that it had been a good decision to give her the desk, I saw her for in a different light than before.
She was not just a beautiful, mysterious flower peeking through the concrete. She was the trembling giant, the clonal colony of thousands of quaking aspen trees. An extravagant network of roots that flowed far beyond the seed that started them.
This sprout might be new, but her soul was ancient and celestial, wise and immortal.
“Who knows?” she sighed, coming to a natural conclusion of a story I had almost missed while lost in daydreams and metaphors, “Maybe one day I’ll be a professor, too.”
“You’d be good at it.”
For once, it felt like she accepted the compliment without a fight. I considered it progress all the way up until she shot back a thinly veiled taunt.
“Thanks. Means a lot from someone who has 4 stars on rate my professor!”
“Don’t forget the chili pepper,” I jokingly returned.
“Not sure I’d get one of those.”
I knew that my disagreement wouldn’t amount to much in the grand scheme of things, so I opted for a slightly-self-centered flattery instead.
“Just show up in that outfit,” I said with a nod that barely hid my actual intention of focusing my eyes on the rest of her, “you’ll be golden.”
“You gonna let me borrow it in ten years?” she hummed.
It was a dangerous proposition, an implication that made the pitter-pattering in my chest unbearable. Rather than chasing her down the rabbit hole of fantasies, I just chuckled before I answered, “You know how to find me.”
Then it happened again. Her face slowly changed, growing from a cautious optimism to a yearning. A subtle hint of words left unsaid. And although she wet her lips and set down her fork, the words never came out. They stayed stalled in her throat, and there was no discernible way for me to drag them out of her without hurting the both of us.
When a loud knock resounded through the room, the thought ended altogether.
“Come in,” I grimly announced, recognizing the intrusive sound as the death rattle for whatever might have been said.
As the door opened, I realized the same time (y/n) did that we had forgotten that the rest of the outside world wasn’t familiar with our dynamic. They didn’t have the backstory of how she’d perched herself on my chair with her shoes off and wearing my clothes.
Torn between scrambling to take more socially acceptable positions and the knowledge that our hurry would make us look even more suspicious, we both opted to remain frozen in place like deer caught in the headlights of an oncoming train.
When the door opened, however, I was somewhat relieved to see someone I found completely unthreatening. My closest colleague, a woman that should really terrify me all things considered, seemed mostly perplexed when she found a young girl in my seat.
She quickly turned to me, drawing out her words as she asked, “Oh. I’m sorry, am I... interrupting something?”
“No, what can I help you with, Candy?”
“I was hoping we could talk about my current paper proposal.”
She paused, and I took the moment to follow her glower to the flower still stationary behind my desk. (Y/n) stared back, seemingly frightened by the presence of the other Professor.  
“If you’re busy with... office hours…” Candy muttered before turning back to me, “we can always set up a meeting for a better time.”
Before I could address the possible tension or implication, the girl at my desk sprung to action, clearing off any sign of her presence as she spoke.
“You know, I actually need to get going.”
“Are you sure?”
She didn’t look at me when she answered, “Yeah, I’m sure your papers are more important.”
If I’d turned back to Candy, I might have seen the condescending scowl that was driving her away. If I’ve had any inclination or desire to look at Candy, I would have realized that (y/n) wasn’t trying to escape from her connection to me. She was just trying to get out of my way.
It didn’t make it any harder to watch her leave. I took solace in the fact that she held tighter to my cardigan, trusting me to keep her warm by proxy as she ventured back into the real world. The world where we couldn’t be in peace.
“Thanks for the advice, Professor,” she said before she left, “You were right. As usual.”
One last smile was shared, somber but sobering. A necessary break from the intimacy of the moment.
“See you in class.”
The office felt so much duller without her radiance, but my disappointment would have to wait. As much as I actually didn’t mind the world knowing how my heart hurt from her absence, I knew that it was best I didn’t let it impact her academic career.
“Sorry again for the intrusion,” my colleague said in a much happier voice.  
“It’s not a problem at all.”
She must have noticed the way it sounded like a lie, because her tone quickly shifted back to a slightly disgruntled confusion.
“I didn’t realize she was your student, too. What class is she in?”
It was juvenile, really, the way my heart fluttered so ridiculously at the mere mention of her existence. The excuse to discuss her again.
“Oh, did she not tell you?”
Candy just shook her head with a blatantly false smile.
“Unsurprisingly modest,” I laughed, making my way back over to my seat and running my fingers over the wooden armrests like it would be the same as touching her ghost, “She’s my TA.”
“Oh… I see.”
“She was the only one who would put up with me,” I offered with a chuckle. Self-deprecating humor was the only reliable personality trait I had. It was also, unfortunately, one that most women in my life despised and refused to let sit.
“I’m sure that’s not true.”
It sounded less sweet coming from her. I wrote it off as a product of the differences in their species. While the hummingbird of a girl who’d just flittered away was used to only drinking the sweetest, purest nectar, the bird of prey who’d entered relied on the work of others to gather the sweetness before they were devoured.
That wasn’t to say she was cruel; hawks are as much a miracle of nature as hummingbirds. I simply related to one more than the other. I understood one while the other remained a mystery. And I loved mysteries more than myself.
“So, you wanted to talk about your paper?”
“Oh! Yes,” she chirped, passing the packet over to me now that I’d found my way back to what she probably deemed my rightful place. “The conference is coming up so much faster than I anticipated, and I would love to hear your opinions on my first draft.”
I’d already started to read the first page when she spoke again, uncharacteristically bashful and anxious, “Since we’ll be presenting together, I figured...”
“Yeah, no problem at all,” I interrupted, not wanting her to dwell nor expand on the thought of us doing anything together any more than necessary, “I can send you mine.”
It felt curt, blunt, and off putting when I said it, but she didn’t take it as such.
“Wonderful. You have such a unique voice when you’re writing. It’s very refreshing.”
Immediately, a memory appeared at the forefront of my mind and led to a laugh that I couldn’t contain. Candy seemed pleased at the sound, and I felt the need to explain.
“Thanks. (Y/n) likened it to Ray Bradbury at one point, although in different and less flattering words.”
I could hear her clear as day, quoting my words with an overdramatized effect before laughing, ‘Pack it up, Bradbury, you’ve got more science stuff to explain.’
Of course, we both found her laughter-ridden explanation of the ‘meme’ far funnier than the original joke. She was probably the only person in the world who never seemed bothered by explaining everything to me ad nauseam.
“She is... certainly a choice as a TA,” Candy strained upon scrutinizing the smile that had returned to my face for the first time since (y/n)’s departure, “Will she be joining us at the conference?”
But then the guilt returned, wiping the smile from my face and replacing happy memories with deviant thoughts and fears.
“Oh... you know, I haven’t asked her.”
“That’s perfectly alright! I think we’ll do just fine without her.”
“Right...” I whispered, glancing back down at the stack of papers in my hand before setting it in the tray designated for (y/n). “I’ll have her look at your paper just in case.”
A lull in the conversation stretched past the point of comfort for both of us, and I glanced up at the woman I actually felt guilty for ignoring in place of fantasies that would probably never come to be. She hadn’t even done anything to warrant my disregard. She was an attractive woman — as beautiful as she was brilliant, really — she had worked very hard to garner my trust and academic collaboration. At one point, I had considered her one of the few potential candidates for something more than a purely academic partner.
But there was something about the way she looked at the honeyed girl that made my hair stand on end. A defensiveness and instinct that couldn’t be ignored.
“Is there anything else you need?”
“No, that was all,” she said as she broke from what I presumed to be her own daydream, “I hope your semester keeps going well.”
“Thanks, I hope yours does, too.”
I meant it, despite the aforementioned concern. I wished her well in the semester for both selfless and selfish reasons. I wished her well because she deserved it, certainly. But the other reason, the larger one, was that I hoped she would remain distracted. I hoped that she didn’t notice the way I would slip away from her affections to chase those from a more interesting challenge. One that remained mysterious, with hair covered in pollen and lips sweet with ambrosia.
“I’ll talk to you soon, Dr. Reid.”
I failed to respond to her again before the door shut because my hands were already busy with rekindling contact with another.
“I have a proposition for you, Bunny.”
“Sounds ominous. I’m in.”  
The fact that the response came before I could even shut off the display was so characteristic of her that I had to laugh.
“You haven’t even heard it yet,” I observed, to which she once again immediately responded, “Your point being?”
“I’m afraid this is an obligation that does require some expansion before agreement.”
Her response was slower, then, and I could almost see her with a slight panic and overwhelming curiosity that grew stronger by the second.
“Ominous and vaguely unsettling,” she said.  
I considered drawing it out further, letting her imagination truly run wild with the possibilities. But then I realized that if she thought hard enough about it, she might reach the same place that had immediately come to my mind.
“Would you like to attend the upcoming conference with me?” I relented, almost stopping there but then frantically tagging on the conditions I knew would be most likely to cause hesitation. “You’d have your own room, of course. The department and I will help with funds.”
But, as it turned out, I didn’t need to be worried.
“A cheap weekend away from school where I get to be a nerd with you?” she sent with another set of small, smiling faces I was only just starting to understand, “Of course I’m going to say yes, Professor!”
“Perfect. I’ll arrange it.”
“I can’t wait!”
Although I felt the same, I forced myself to end contact again. I put my phone out of reach to prevent myself from spoiling any more of my fantasies than I already had. I didn’t need her to second-guess the possibilities of a weekend away together now that she’d already agreed to it.
The thought alone sparked guilt anew. Through the entire interaction, I’d infused each word with a charge that shouldn’t have been. Each line was far more provocative than it needed to be.
It was just an academic conference. Most people found them terribly dull, not to mention physically exhausting. It would not be a time away like most couples dreamed of because we were not a couple in any sense of the word.
Yet… I couldn’t help but feel that perhaps there weren’t as many differences as one might think. Because while yes, most people would be bored, I didn’t think Bunny would be. Clandestine meetings made between conference meetings sounded exactly like the kind of dreams we would share.
I believed it so strongly that my mind had already drafted several narratives that would suit her. I pictured her and I sharing company in public, unafraid of public displays of affection — innocent, childish kinds, of course — because we were miles away from those who might care.
That drunken, lust-inducing, half-lidded gaze from the week before would return. Except this time, I would taste the wine on her tongue, my hands sliding not over fluffy fabric, but the same skin that I’d felt for the first time that morning.
Behind our door, I would teach her so many things. Things that she would have begged me for. Things that others would see written on her skin in the shape of my fingers and mouth. Things that she would carry with a straighter back and dripping down her legs.
I didn’t just want to destroy her. I wanted to break her so that I could build her back with gold-laced lacquer. She would be my kintsugi creation full of sugar and honey, just imperfect enough that the sticky residue of her sweetness would slip through the cracks to coat everything she touched.
And then she would touch me, and I might finally feel like I deserved anything at all.
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insufferable
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pairing : megumi fushiguro x f!reader {small angst + fluff}
warnings : reader injury, gojo being a perv
word count : 3k
a/n : thank u for requesting! i'm a sucker for enemies to lovers, so this was fun to write, i hope you enjoy !
he’s been your rival for as long as you could remember, it was always some kind of competition between the both of you. although, the feeling you both feel for each other, is it truly as simple as hatred? 
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Insufferable.
It was the only way to describe the dark haired boy standing in front of you, a smug grin playing on his lips.
“Alright, calm down, you two,” your teacher’s voice rang over to where you were standing as he made his way over.
Gojo sighs, running a hand through his hair as he eyes the both of you. 
“What did I say abo-”
“He clearly had a head start!” You huff, crossing your arms over your chest, glaring down your rival across from you.
“Are you accusing me of cheating?” He raises his eyebrows at you tauntingly.
“Anyone could tell that you ran before sensei blew the whistle!” 
“Maybe you should stop focusing on me, and work on bettering your own abilities instead.” He rolls his eyes while starting to walk away, obviously getting bored of the conversation.
“You—!” 
“Okay, okay, come on,” Gojo leads you away before you could tackle the boy with his back turned to you.
Megumi Fushiguro.
Your life-long rival, you guys had been by each other’s side for as long as you could remember.
Not that you wanted to remember, you hated him. And so did he.
Everything was a competition between the both of you, and although you would die before admitting it, your constant battles did improve you as a jujutsu sorcerer.
When you both found out you were going to be attending Jujutsu Tech together, you personally saw it as an opportunity to fight him even more, to prove that you were the stronger one, while Megumi-
Well, he didn’t care. He never cared about anything, anyway.
“Come on, we’re heading to the mission location,” Gojo begins to walk ahead of you, snapping you out of your thoughts.
You let out a sigh, wishing you could be in the safe confines of your room instead of fighting alongside your least favorite person in the whole world.
“Sensei, what are the curses’ grades?” You ask after the tall white-haired man, who was getting into the front passenger seat of a black car.
“They said it would be a couple Grade 3’s, nothing too much,” the older man yawns, stretching his arms over his head before cursing as they bump against the car’s roof.
“They also mentioned a special grade or something, I don’t really remember,” Gojo slams the car door shut, leaving you to roll your eyes at the man’s irresponsibility.
About to make your way to the car as well, you stumble as a force pushed you from behind, turning around as you get ready to attack whoever was-
“Try not to die to a couple Grade 3’s, alright?” Megumi smirks down at your fuming expression, before making his way to the car.
“I mean, I know they can be quite a hassle for you, but take your time.”
Inhaling sharply, you massage your temples with one hand, trying to suppress your frustration and holding back from tackling the boy to the ground.
“He’s so immature.” Nobara, one of your closest friends at Jujutsu Tech, comes up to you, rolling her eyes at the boy.
“Ignore him, let’s have some meat buns when we get back.” She sends you a wink before walking towards the car, to which you respond with a laugh.
There will be meat buns waiting when I get back, you thought to yourself, licking your lips unconsciously. It will be worth it, snuggling up back in your fluffy blankets, binging your newest favorite show that was airing today-
“You coming or not?” A voice breaks you from your daydream, snapping your head up.
“Ah, are you scared? Don’t worry, I’ll protect you.” Megumi smiles at you mockingly, chuckling as he shoves his hands into his pockets and entering the car in the back seats.
Ah.
This was going to be a long day.
-
“We’re here,” Gojo announces, unlocking the car door to get out. 
You all exit the car, stretching as you take note of your surroundings.
The mission assigned this time was to eliminate a couple curses who had sneaked their way into an elementary school. The students were still inside, so you had to be extra careful with fighting.
“Well then, let’s head in.”
Starting to make your way toward the school entrance, a small groan from the side halts you all in your tracks.
A green, slimy creature emerges from the bushes, crawling on its legs as it stares up at all of you.
It leaps forward suddenly, lunging at you, as you raise your sword in time to block it, slicing it in half in one swift motion.
It lets out a final groan as it drops to the ground, melting into a green blob.
“Not too bad, you actually killed it.” Megumi raises an eyebrow in amusement as you clean your sword of any of its remains.
“Thanks for the compliment.” You snarl at him sarcastically, drawing another sigh from Gojo.
You all continue making your way to the school’s front doors, when suddenly your teacher holds an arm out, stopping all of you.
“Shh, listen.”
There was a quiet voice- no, many voices coming from down the hallway of the school. The building was filled with black smoke, restricting your views of where the sounds were coming from.
It sounded as if the many voices were chanting a curse or spell of some sort, and you all knew instantly.
This couldn’t be the doings of a grade 3.
It had to be a special curse.
Gojo steps forward slowly, entering the black smoke as he checks the left hallway, before returning and nodding to you that it was safe.
You nod, slowly making your way into the school as well, turning to check the right hallway. 
The black smoke almost made it hard to breathe, you trying your best to swat away any smoke making your eyes tear up.
The chanting became louder as you entered the hallway, and you saw a figure standing in the middle.
Your breath catches in your throat, ready to turn and tell Gojo what you saw, but could you really describe what it was?
It stood at least two feet above you, with gray skin mixed with red blotches here and there and multiple arms hanging by its side. Horns and unidentifiable liquids stuck to its skin, with its mouth hanging open. It had the sharpest teeth you’d ever seen on a curse- no, you’d ever seen in your life- and drool pooled at the corners of its lips, if you could even call them lips, before dripping down its chin, staining the marble floor.
It continued to chant its spell, however it sounded as if the voices were in your head, in your eardrums, echoing through your brain. 
You could hear your name being called from behind you, probably Gojo, but the chants were getting louder, louder, and louder until the special grade was standing right before you, its tall figure looming over you.
Snap out of it, you thought to yourself, trying to shake its voice out of your head, commanding your legs to move. To turn back. To run.
Finally you felt your legs listening to you, and you turned around and ran. Ignoring the pattering footsteps of the creature following close behind you, you ran as fast as you could.
Finally, you could see the light at the entrance, where you all had been before, and you could almost see their faces, until-
“Y/N—!” 
A sharp pain shot through your stomach.
Ah, that voice.
The voice of your rival who had been competing with you, fighting with you, for your whole life.
It was like it all happened in slow motion, like in the movies.
Megumi and the others stood before you, with a horrified expression as their eyes travelled down, down to your stomach.
You followed their gaze, a dark crimson stain beginning to seep through your uniform, a sharp horn stabbed from the back, right through your body.
Ah, this was it. That jerk was right, huh? I am weak after all.
At that moment, your body went limp. All feelings left your limbs, leaving you to free fall forward, eyes closing as you begin to lose consciousness.
But not before you felt a pair of arms wrap around you, stopping you from the impact.
“Y/N! Wake up, come on, wake up—!”
Why do you keep shouting? You’re so loud, be quiet.
“You can’t do this, wake up— please—“
I told you to be quiet, geez, let me sleep already.
And the last crumb of consciousness left your body.
-
A horrible thumping pain in your head. Hushed voices from next to you. Fingers entangled with yours.
Wait- fingers?
It had never been so hard to open your eyes, wincing as a bright light from above hits you directly. 
Taking a moment to adjust, you finally looked around your surroundings.
It seemed as if you were in a hospital room, long tubes connected to your arms, hands, legs, making it hard for you to move at all.
You notice a doctor and Gojo speaking by the door, but what shocked you was the sleeping boy by your bed.
The sunlight seeping through the window shines on his slender face perfectly, dark strands of hair framing his sleeping face, one you could’ve almost teased him for until you notice his hands. Your hands. 
His fingers entangled with yours by your side, the warmth from his palm radiating through yours as the rise and fall from his breathing caused his hands to move slightly every time.
You wished you could snap a picture of this right now, but the comforting feeling of his hands against yours made you not want to move an inch.
“Ah, you’re awake, Y/N,” You recognized your teacher’s voice as he makes his way over to your bed with a relieved smile.
You feel the boy wake up with a jolt, eyes blinking to focus themselves, before settling on yours and widening. 
It was only then that he became aware of your entangled hands, quickly pulling away and coughing to cover the slight pink spreading across his cheeks.
“How are you feeling?” The doctor next to Gojo asks, holding a clipboard in his hands.
“Just a bit sore in my ribs, but nothing too much.” Megumi glances in your direction, and you would’ve thought it was out of concern before mentally slapping yourself at the absurdity of it.
“Alright, we’ll need to keep you here for a few weeks,” the doctor says, noting something on his clipboard. “I’ll be right back, we still need to give you a check-up.”
He leaves the room, and Gojo takes a seat on the other side of your bed, across from Megumi.
“I’m glad you’re alright, Y/N,” he sighs, before leaning back in his chair, crossing his arms behind his head.
“Good thing you were brought back in time, doc says that any longer and the injury would’ve been more severe.” 
You nod, facing your teacher, “Thank you sensei, I should’ve been more careful.”
He shakes his head, “It was a special grade, my fault for not notifying you all earlier.”
A grin spreads across his face, leaning forward slowly in his seat. 
“But I’m not the one you should be thanking.” He nods his head slightly to your left, making you turn to see a coughing Megumi, who suddenly thought his shoes were the most interesting things in the world.
Gojo chuckles, patting your shoulder as he gets up to leave.
“I’ll leave you two alone, Megumi take care of her, alright?”
Even behind the blindfold, you could sense that he was sending a wink your way.
The boy only grumbles in response, fiddling with his hands nervously.
You stare at him, before bursting out in laughter.
His head shoots up, furrowing his eyebrows as he looks at you still laughing.
“What’s with that gloomy look? Don’t tell me…” 
You tilt your head at him, a smirk spreading across your face.
“Aww, are you worried about me, ‘gumi?” 
The use of the nickname you made for him makes him scoff, turning away from you.
“As if. Just wondering about how stupid you were to get yourself hurt.”
He bites his lips for a moment, as if pondering his next words.
“And stop laughing so hard, what—”
Megumi stops and looks away.
“—what if your wound opens again?” He murmurs quietly, but you managed to catch it.
Your eyebrows raise in surprise, before chuckling at him teasingly, “So you are worried about me, liar.”
“Am not!”
“You totally are.”
“Keep lying to yourself.”
With a sigh, you close your eyes, refusing to argue with the boy any longer.
“By the way, what did sensei mean before? That you were the one I should be thanking?”
You open your eyes, waiting for his answer.
His eyes widen the slightest bit, before looking away once again.
“...s’nothing, don’t worry about it.”
“What’s that supposed to mean?” You raise your eyebrows at him, confused.
He shakes his head, showing that he wasn’t going to answer.
Groaning, you roll your eyes at his childish behavior, “God- you’re so infuriating sometimes, why—”
“When you fainted, I carried you all the way to the hospital, okay?! On my own damn legs, I ran all the way here, I don’t know why I did, but I did so stop asking—!”
Megumi shouts, panting as he finishes talking with an unreadable look in his eyes.
You gape at him slightly, still trying to register his words.
“You...carried me here? Why didn’t you just take the car?”
He scoffs, “The car is way too slow, I would be faster. Plus, your injury would’ve gotten worse so you should thank me.”
He eyes you, searching for any emotions on your face, but all you felt was confusion at the moment.
A few beats of silence pass, and Megumi sighs, running a hand through his hair.
“Well? At least say something.” He mumbles, shifting his feet on the floor.
You just look at him, not believing what he said, before laughing softly.
“Man, ‘gumi, if I didn’t know better, I would’ve thought you liked me so much that you were scared that I would die.” 
You teased him, expecting a scoff or an insult thrown back of some sort, but he just rolls his bottom teeth in between his teeth, not making eye contact.
“...so what if I do?” He finally says, so softly that you wouldn’t have heard if he wasn’t so close to you.
Wait, why was he so close to you—
The distance between you two closed as he leaned forward to meet your lips with his. The kiss was slow, inexperienced, but honest and passionate. 
Your eyes widened in shock, while his were screwed tight, afraid to open and meet yours.
A contrast to his appearance and personality, his lips were soft, fitting snugly against yours, the taste of him sweet, like cherries.
After a few seconds, he pulls away hesitantly, sitting back down in the chair.
The tension was so thick in the room, not even a knife could cut through it.
It was awkward for a few beats before he spoke.
“I-uh, sorry, I don’t know why I did that,” he rubs the back of his neck, a heavy pink dusting his cheeks.
“It..it’s fine, it was nice,” you spoke softly, almost whispering.
His head shot up, facing you. “You liked it?” 
You bit the inside of your cheeks, before nodding, slowly meeting his gaze. 
“Thank you, for saving me.” 
A small smile spreads across his lips. Not a teasing one he would use when he was making fun of you, not a fake one, no. This was different.
Megumi was genuinely smiling at you like you were the most amazing thing he’s ever seen before.
“No problem,” he speaks, before slowly reaching for your hand.
Watching you with a careful gaze for any signs of discomfort, he intertwines his fingers with yours, giving it a small squeeze.
“... I was scared, you know?” He sighs, eyes never leaving your face.
“Scared that… I would lose the one person I care about.” You flush at his words.
“I know, I treat you like you’re below me all the time, like you’re weak, but I-“ He clears his throat, not wanting to mess this up. He only had one chance after all.
“-I do care about you, and I get happy whenever we fight against each other, or with each other. I was scared that- that I would lose the most important person in my life.”
You couldn’t stop the smile spreading across your face, one part of you wanting to tease him like usual, but the other part of you, wanted to do something else.
You tug on his hand that was still holding yours, making him lean forward as you met his lips halfway.
The kiss was a little longer this time, you didn’t have to use words to convey your feelings. He knew. And you knew, too.
Pulling away at last, you lightly flicked his forehead, causing him to pout and rub the sore spot.
You giggle, looking down at your intertwined hands.
“I care about you too, Megumi. A lot. I always have.”
You smile.
“And I always will.”
He smiles widely, leaning forward once again until you hear muffled voices on the other side of the door.
“Do you think they’re having s-”
“Sensei! Stop being so loud, they might hear you—“
The door suddenly slams open with Nobara and Gojo tumbling onto the floor. 
Silence.
Laughing awkwardly, they finally stand up, nudging the other to speak.
“I- she- uh, we- woah—!” Gojo gasps dramatically at the sight of your hands together.
“So you were having s-”
Both of you flush at the same time, shouting at him.
“We weren’t—!”
You all burst out laughing, feeling Megumi squeeze your hand softly.
Gosh, making you feel butterflies in your stomach like this?
Megumi Fushiguro was truly insufferable.
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dirt-cup-draco · 3 years
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Tethered- Fred x Reader
‘Don’t ever scare me like that again’ kiss with Fred where he lives (I’ve been crying about it lately) xoxo @starofthedawn
Your chest was tied up in knots, eyes burning and bile rising in your throat. The dust that permeated the air felt like gravel in your airways and you couldn’t help the wet cough that slipped past cracked lips. Even as you blinked away the tears that were running out, the world remained blurry and unfocused. 
After all, how could anything make sense when Fred was face down on the cobblestone. Pieces of the castle you two had called home burying him. 
“Lost in my eyes again, Y/N?” Fred asked, a playful tilt to his mouth. You were in the library, head buried in a book and not at all gazing into Fred’s honeyed eyes. You must’ve not heard him come in so when you looked up and saw him you couldn’t help the warmth that blossomed in your chest. 
You liked the way his lips were pulled up by an invisible thread as you finally took notice of him.  It wasn’t quite a smile, but a familiar expression that you held dear to your heart. It was understated, especially for Fred Weasley, but the expression was one of his most sincere. 
“Can’t help the fact you’ve got dreamy eyes, George,” 
“Sod off,” Fred said with no real venom, sitting in the chair beside yours and kicking his feet up onto the table. He was lucky Madam Pince didn’t often come to this corner of the library, otherwise she’d have his head.
You stuck your tongue out at him, even daring to toss a quill at his head- but before you could he caught your hand and held on tight. Your bright grin wavered at the edges but that joy was still blooming in your chest. Suffocation was a sure thing. 
“Everything okay, Freddie?” Voice soft, slow. You understood sometimes he just needed a hand to hold and you wouldn’t let yourself believe it was more than that. What it was, was Fred trusting you and needing you as a friend and that was more than enough. 
He nodded, his eyelids heavy and his demeanor sluggish. He almost seemed like a sleepy cat but you could see the way his shoulders dipped as you posed your question. 
Fred squeezed your hand as he sank down into his chair, knees now drawn to his chest in a protective ball. “Course I am, nothing could ever be wrong when I’ve got you to tether me to what’s good,” 
--
Your knees buckled as you stumbled the last foot to where Fred lay. Unmoving, broken, probably not breathing- You shook your head wildly even as the tears burned and your brain ached. Just like every other wizard, every other soldier at Hogwarts today, you had your fair share of injuries but you felt the pain dull to nothing; Your vision tunneled to the familiar hand that stuck out from the rubble, the feather soft shock of red hair that was visible under all the grey, lifeless stone. 
With a flick of your hand, some of the rubble broke loose and found themselves discarded on the burned and torn up grass ten feet from you. The panic pounding at your ribcage was only eased by the determination you felt to get Fred out of there, alive. There was no other option. 
Waves would stand still without the moon, plants would dry up without water, and you would cease to be anything but a shell without Fred Weasley. 
--
It had been an honest mistake at the time, George had tugged you away after class one day to an empty corridor and nearly begged you to ask Fred and put the both of you out of your “self sabotaging misery”. Problem was, all Katie Bell saw was George whisking you away somewhere private a week before the ball was to commence, both of you dateless. 
By the time you had both gone to the great hall for lunch, your group of friends were deep into speculations. 
“Going to the ball with Y/N then?” Fred fixed George with a look you couldn’t quite decipher but the shock of him thinking such a thing had you missing that usual twitch of his eye when he was aggravated. 
George whipped his head to you in confusion but it went unnoticed when Lee said, “Great! Of course you two got dates before me,” gesturing wildly to the twins. 
All of the confusion had your head spinning but hearing that Fred had a date to the ball made you steady again, the lead pit in your stomach anchoring you. Anyone would be a fool to not want to go with Fred. 
“You’ve got a date?” You said a bit too loudly, eyes narrowed at Fred. 
“Asked Angie,” 
“Yeah, two minutes ago,” She snorted. “Guess he didn’t want George to beat him by too much of a landslide,”  
George let out a too-loud laugh and tossed his arm back over your shoulders. “Take that Lee, we got two of the hottest girls in school to be our dates,” 
“Go with me instead and I’ll buy you as many sugar quills as your heart desires, Y/N” Lee bargained and George swatted him on the back of a head with a faux glare. 
You couldn’t help but snort at Lee’s antics, looking at George with gratitude. You could tell he was trying to talk you up, keep your heart from falling too far. However, his efforts couldn’t completely ease the ache in your chest. You were tethered to Fred and you didn’t think anything could change that. 
--
You’d done your best to completely immobilize Fred when most of the rubble was removed, only some of the smaller chunks of wall now littered over his legs and back. The immobulus charm had to be enough to keep him stable. If he was still alive. 
It was the uncertainty that kept you going in this moment. If there was even a slim chance Fred could be alive, you would do all you could to save him. You refused to lose him and that was that. You wished you could see his chest moving, or any sign of life but he was still too buried and the dust that settled over the battlefield made your eyes unfocused. 
Even though the final battle had ended an hour or more ago, how long had it been since you’d found Fred?, you were shut off from any of the joy that the win could have brought you. If Fred wasn’t going to be there to celebrate then how could you? 
“We’ve got to fix up the shop a-and get butterbeers,” You sniffled, trying to keep your hands from shaking as you worked your way through the rubble. You kept speaking as if holding Fred to his promises would bring him over the threshold and into your waiting arms. 
“You’ve got to give me that birthday present you’ve been bragging about for months, and you’ve got to help me prank Lee for singeing my favorite sweater with one of your fireworks,”
And on and on you went, all of the promises Fred had ever made you falling from your lips as you pulled the last of the rubble from his body. One of his legs and all of the fingers on his right hand were bent at grotesque angles. There was a line of blood that started somewhere behind his hairline and trailed down his temple, dripping off of his jaw and onto the ruins he had nearly become a permanent part of. 
You wouldn’t permit your legs to shake as you stood, the sun being further down in the sky than you remembered. The wave of your wand was light and methodical even as every step towards help weighed you down. 
Time passed you without you taking note, the sun sank beneath the horizon and you stumbled your way through the dark. Eventually, you were taken off guard by the light of someone’s wand. Time caught up to you then as you stared with bleary eyes, trying to recognize the face before you but having a hard time sorting anything in your over exhausted brain. 
“Help him,” Was all you had energy for, before darkness took over. 
--
“...understand how she did it,” 
“...miracle, really,” 
“Poor girl must’ve....” 
Conversations floated around your head as you lay cemented underneath the sheets that you had been securely wrapped in. You wanted nothing more than to swat them away like pesky flies, the voices weren’t loud but to you it was as if someone had put a speaker in the empty space of your skull and turned the volume up as high as it could go. Everything ached. 
“Am I dead?” You croaked, eyelids still too heavy to even attempt opening. 
Immediately, a woman nearly screamed and a cacophony of other voices rose up- both familiar and not. 
“You look like you wish you were,” Someone joked to your left and your eyes snapped open so quickly you became dizzy. You felt frozen in place as honey eyes swept over you from the top of your head to the tips of your toes. Despite being covered from the chin down you felt as if you were being looked through. A shiver ran down your spine and it was followed by a deep ache that had you groaning despite the emotions bubbling up within you. 
“Damn you Fred,” Was all you had to say before everyone else around you was clearing out. For a split second you felt guilt when you realized your parents as well as the Weasleys had come to stand beside you as you healed. 
“I’ve come back from the brink of death and that’s what you have to say to me?” He teased but his voice was torn to shreds and you had the terrible image in your mind of him screaming for help until he lost consciousness. The blood drained from your face. 
Fred seemed to take notice as he shuffled out of his bed that was right next to yours. He paused at the edge, fumbling for the crutches that were at his bedside. It felt like years the time it took for him to fall into the chair nearest you, his hand stretching for yours. 
You moved pathetically against the sheets but in your weakened state you couldn’t grasp his hand. “Freddie,” You croaked, eyes filling with tears in frustration. You’d thought him dead and now you couldn’t even move a damn blanket to touch him, to make sure this wasn’t a dream. 
“I’m here,” He reassured, moving the sheets on your side gently until your hand was free and you could tangle your fingers with his non-broken hand. 
“How?” 
“I’ve been telling you for years now, you’re my tether. Just when I thought I was going to cross over, I heard you. All the promises we made, and all the chaos we have yet to make, all the things I haven’t said,” Fred’s bottom lip trembled as he brushed his thumb over your scabbed knuckles. You were faintly aware of a needle in your forearm, attached to an IV but all that mattered was the warmth you felt from Fred. 
“You could break them all and I’d still be counting my lucky stars that you’re here,” You cried, falling into a coughing fit. Fred was quick to press a still cold glass of water into your hands and help you sit up even from his place on his chair. 
“I’m not going anywhere,” He promised, hand remaining at the back of your neck as he settled you against your pillows. That genuine not-smile was back and you chewed on your lip to keep from crying again. You still weren’t sure he was here so any reminder that it was really him had you at a breaking point. 
“Can you make me one more promise then?” You caught his gaze but found you couldn’t hold it, the intensity making your stomach swoop and your heart pound against your rattled ribcage. 
Fred had yet to move, his hand steady behind you and his face close. Your noses were nearly touching as he said, “Anything.” 
“Don’t scare me like that ever again,” 
You chanced one more look at him, eyes wide and pleading. You were going to make him promise on everything in him but the rest of your words were lost when you stumbled over the loud adoration in his eyes. As if on autopilot, you removed your hand from his to brush your fingertips against a gash on his cheek. 
“Never again,” He whispered, frozen in place. He didn’t dare move when you let your movements wander over his lips, taking your time before you let your hand fall against the junction of where his shoulder met his neck. Beneath the collar of the hospital gown you could see garish bruising that only served as another reminder you’d almost lost him. 
That was enough to remind you that there was much unsaid between you and the man you loved. You could feel his shaky breath, his hand squeezing yours just enough that you felt the reassuring pressure. When you took your third look at those eyes, you knew. 
You moved at the same time, in tune to one another in a way you always have been. It was with a sigh that your lips met, frightened and curious and wonderful. You were careful of his head would as you played with the hair at the back of his neck and he made sure not to move you anymore than tilting your head to slot your lips against his at a better angle. 
Fred pulled away when his smile dared to take over his face but you couldn’t complain about the loss when you could feel his pulse beating strongly against your fingers, his chest moving steadily with life. 
“I’m just as tied to you as you are to me,” You laughed softly, in disbelief. 
Fred looked surprised for all but a second before he was placing his lips against yours, cautious but deliriously happy. 
Waves swayed with the moon, plants flourished with water, and you were never far from Fred Weasley. Each were tethered to their counterpart and nothing could change it. 
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peachiimilquetea · 3 years
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heyyy peachii ☺️ can i order a peach flavoured cake with a vanilla base and powdered sugar toppings for my boy iida pls? 🙇‍♀️
i'm thinking it could be something like tenya seeing the reader when he has a crush... like a one-shot with him seeing us and reacting how you think he would, maybe he's trying to act all cool and sauve but ends up getting flustered and embarrassed 🥺😖🥺
thank you for opening this event up and happy 150 followers!! here's to many more ❤
“𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝 𝚞𝚙!”
vanilla peach cake with powdered sugar + tenya iida
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a/n: am i completely happy with this??? not really i cant lie BUT ive been working on it for so long and i just cant keep you guys waiting anymore its not fair. i hope you like it even if i feel like its a lil funky!
length: 535 words
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“iida! im here! im so sorry im late!” you called, jogging up to where he was standing.
the UA library had just recently been renovated and the two of you agreed to meet at one of the new outdoor tables to study. unfortunately you miscalculated how long it would take you to help kaminari and kirishima get their hands un-superglued (don't ask), and so here you were, mildly late for your study session with everyone's favorite class rep.
your cheeks and ribs burned as you knelt down to catch your breath. you were so embarrassed, hands on your knees trying to get your ears to stop pounding, but iida didn't seem to mind too much, offering to take your bag and set up while you got yourself together.
“thank you so much for waiting for me!” you sighed and lent him a small smile. suddenly the response he had for you was caught in his throat.
you looked so… gorgeous.
your cheeks were ruddy from the jog as you pulled your hair out of your face. the slight sheen of sweat on your face made you glisten in the light as you adjusted your skirt and shimmied out of your school blazer.
he blinked hard, snapping out of his trance, quickly sitting down and getting his books spread out all over the table, “n-not a problem, ____. i heard about the incident with kirishima, it was very kind of you to help them out.”
“aww thank you iida, im sure you would’ve done the same if it was you. you’ve always been helpful like that.”
is it possible to die while still being alive? tenya didn't know but he was sure he was close based on how fast his heart was beating, and how hot his ears felt. could you notice? god, he hoped you wouldn't notice.
by the time the two of you had finished, the sun was beginning to set, and the janitors had begun to do their evening sweep of the school. both you and iida were exhausted, working your asses off to do well on the next exam, and frying your brains in the process.
“do you... want to grab something to eat? i'm famished and there's a really good spot i know not too far from here...”
tenya was stuck and you didn't even notice, rambling on about the menu and how “they've even got gluten free noodles- if you want them of course!”
at that moment all iida could do was watch you go, telling him about the menu and your favorite things to get. he was completely enamored with you, thinking the way you excitedly grabbed his arm was the cutest thing he had ever seen. it didn't even occur to him that he wasn't saying anything until you snapped your fingers in his face, making him jump.
“you looked like you were on another planet,” you hummrf, slinging your backpack over your shoulder, “so? do you want to come with? we can get mochiiii~”
“what? y-yes of course we can go. absolutely. i would love to. yes,” his words tumbled out, face red as he watched you laugh at his reaction.
“alright big guy, lets get going.”
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ragingbookdragon · 3 years
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Dancing With Danger
Batboys x Meta!Reader HC/Imagines
Word Count: 3.5K Warnings: Explicit Language, Suggestive Themes
Author's Note: Edited another story for y'all! Enjoy! -Thorne
Dick:
His feet hit the fire escape, and he cursed himself at his carelessness. He shifted, trying to pick his feet up before it happened, but he was too late; he thrashed, pulling away from the metal railing that was curling around his ankles, but the second they wrapped around his thighs, he knew he was done. Still, he struggled, fighting even as the railing wrapped around his wrists and waist, effectively pinning him to the wall. He grunted, heaving with all his might, hoping that he could find some slack within the metal, but he couldn’t, then he heard an amused chuckle from above.
“You sure fell for that one, didn’t you, Nightwig?”
He craned his neck up to see her on the ledge he’d just jumped from. His eyes narrowed into a glare and she lowered down; her feet hit the metal platform and she sashayed over to him.
He rolled his eyes and deadpanned, “Nightwing.”
She put a hand to her ear, a smartass smirk playing her lips. “Sorry, Nightwig? What was that?”
He growled at her. “Wing. Night. Wing.”
She put her hand to her chest in mock apology, nodding. “Right, right. Nightwing.” She grinned and stepped up to him, reaching out a hand and tracing at the raised symbol on his chest. “But back to my original question…you really did fall for that one.” She cocked her head to the side as she leaned against the railing. “I thought you were supposed to be the smart one out of the family?”
“I am.”
“Really? From the way you leaped without looking first, you could’ve fooled me.”
He tugged at the metal around his wrists. “It was an accident, it won’t happen again—” He stopped, glowering at her. “When I get out of here, I’m going to—” His words stuttered as she pressed herself up against him, draping her arms around his neck, slipping one of her legs between his hips until her thigh was nestled against his front.
One of her hands fell away and twirled the hair that brushed his cheekbones as she repeated, “When you get out of this?” She waved the hand, and he felt the metal tighten, then a piece came up and circled his neck; it wasn’t tight enough to cut off the air, but just enough to feel the pressure and he gasped despite himself.
Her eyes narrowed in amusement and she whispered, “I’m afraid you’re not going to get out of this one, Nightwing.”
She hummed and leaned close, lips brushing against his cheek as she said, “You’re stuck.” He raised his head a little, swallowing thickly, as he tried to get comfortable with the metal around his neck. “Man, you look like a lost puppy.”
“And why’s that?”
“Because you don’t know what to do.” He opened his mouth to retort but shut it when he realized that she was right—he didn’t have anything, his mind was blank, and it must’ve shown on his face because she grinned and murmured, “And there we go…you know I’m right.”
He inhaled deeply before clearing his throat. “So, what are you gonna do to me?”
She reached up and traced his jaw. “Hot man in a skintight black and blue suit, helplessly pinned to a wall? I could think of a few things.” The finger she was using to trace his jaw shifted slightly and traced his bottom lip. “You and I could break a sweat for a few hours.” Her head dipped towards his ear and she smirked as he shivered. “Ravish each other’s bodies until we’re slick with sweat and collapsed chest to chest.”
When he gave her no response she pulled back and peered at him a moment before huffing and bopping his nose. “But you really don’t look all that into what we’ve got going on.”
She pulled away, leaving him missing her warmth, and she waved a hand, the metal around him uncurled, freeing him. “So, I’m just gonna go on my merry way.” She slipped over the railing and climbed up to the ledge.
Before he could stop himself, he stepped forward, a hand reaching out as he called, “Wait!”
She stopped, turning around, a smirk on her face. “Yes, Nightwing?”
“What if I was?” he asked.
“Was what?”
He swallowed thickly, suit suddenly feeling skintight. “Into it. You know…you and me…breaking a sweat…ravishing each other?”
She hummed and winked at him. “I guess we’ll just have to wait for the next time you get careless.” She pulled something from her pocket and waved it around. “Thanks for the souvenir, cutie. It’ll go great on my wall.”
His eyes widened at the sight of the Batarang in her hand and he patted his pockets. “How did you—”
She winked again. “If you can catch me…I’ll tell you.” She mock saluted him as she took off. “See you later, pretty boy!” He huffed a laugh, feeling the grin work onto his lips as he jumped the railing, climbing the ledge, and taking off after her.
Jason:
His feet sunk as he sprinted in the gravel of the electric station. His hood had been lost a few moments before, cast off somewhere in the forest he’d been chasing her through, but he didn’t care; he was too focused on catching her and bringing her to GCPD.
He saw her up ahead, simply standing still, face directed towards the sky, and he skidded to a stop, pulling out his guns. “Look doll, I don’t want to hurt you. But if you wanna dance? I can dance.”
She turned around, and the grin she wore made his stomach clench, and he wasn’t sure if it was from apprehension…or arousal. “Really? Because I don’t think it’ll be much of a dance between us, Red Hood.”
He narrowed his eyes as he thumbed the hammer back on his pistols. “Why’s that?”
She motioned around him. “Look around you, Casanova…you don’t realize where you’ve just run into, do you?”
He looked around for a second, then his eyes widened, and he muttered, “Oh shit.” His eyes darted back to her, and he raised the guns, but it was too late.
She waved her hand, and they went flying off somewhere he couldn’t get to. He stepped back, intent on fleeing when something hard hit his back. There wasn’t even time to glance behind him as hands moved involuntarily over his head.
She tutted as she walked towards him. “And that, Casanova, is why you don’t where gloves with metal plates in them.” She paused, tipping her head to the side. “Well, I could control you even if you didn’t have metal gloves.”
He paused, staring at her as she stood up in front of him. “…The iron in my blood.”
Her eyes widened in mild surprise and she smiled. “Not many people can get that one. Well done.” She reached into her pocket and pulled something out, raising it and shoving it into his mouth. “Have a cookie.” His eyes narrowed, and he tried to spit it out, but she placed a hand over his mouth and laughed at the glare. “Relax, Casanova, it’s a chocolate chip cookie…not poison.” His eyes were still narrowed, but he chewed slowly, and she snorted as she pulled her hand away. “You’re kinda stubborn.”
He swallowed and bit out, “It’s one of my charms.”
She smiled at him and lifted her hands, rifling through his pockets; he let out a grunt and tried to pull away, but a metal cord wrapped around his strong arms and broad chest, stopping him. “Good news for me then.” She stopped, pulling out whatever it was she was looking for. “I like stubbornness.” She winked. “Makes sex fun.”
His eyes widened and he stopped struggling in favor of gaping like a fish. “I…What?”
She snorted and looked down at the tracker, tapping a few buttons before crushing it in her hand. “I like stubborn men because it makes sex fun.” She looked at him and tapped his forehead. “Did I get through the central brain function this time?”
He blinked and leaned as far as he could. “You…want to have sex…with me?”
She nodded, eying his body with no shame whatsoever, and he felt his body flush with desire under her gaze. “With a body and thighs like yours? Who wouldn’t want to have sex with you?”
He smirked at her answer and cocked his head up. “You let me out of this, and we can take this to a hotel. I promise I won’t disappoint you, doll.”
She huffed a laugh and reached up, running her hands up his suited stomach as she quipped, “Is this before or after you hand me over to GCPD?”
His muscles flexed at the feel of the pressure and he murmured, “Before, of course. I wouldn’t be a gentleman if I left a woman unsatisfied.”
Her eyes narrowed and she tipped her head up, resting her chin on his chest; he gazed down at her, their faces inches apart. “Sounds hot. But as much as I’d love to roll around with you all night…I have no plans of sitting in a jail cell.” She paused; her hands splayed along his chest as she asked, “You gotta S.O.S. button I can activate for you, Casanova? I’d hate to leave you defenseless.”
He scoffed at her ‘concern’ and nodded. “Device in my left thigh pocket.” Her eyes never left his as she reached down, unbuttoning the pocket before pulling it out and clicking the button. She dropped it on the ground and brought her hand up, ‘accidently’ brushing the inside of his thigh with her hand; he sucked in a breath that sounded distinctly like a groan and she let out an amused hum.
“Sorry Casanova, my hand slipped there.”
He chuckled and murmured, “Oh, I’m sure it did, doll.”
For a moment he was sure she was gonna hit him, then she gripped his chin in her hand and pulled him into a searing kiss. His eyes went wide then she shut, just as she grinned and stepped away from him.
She cast him a wink and turned, walking off, but stopped when he breathed heavily, “So, just out of curiosity…if we happen to do this tango again…can we do it in a bed next time?”
She glanced at him over her shoulder. “Only if I get to top.”
He smirked at her. “I’d love to see you above me, doll.”
She winked at him before turning back around, swaying her hips as she walked off; she waved, calling out, “I’ll see you the next time we dance, Casanova.”
Tim:
He fumbled with the change the barista had given him before he finally grunted exasperatedly and shoved it into the tip jar; she blinked, stunned at the action. “Um, Red Robin? You just put all that change in the tip jar.”
He nodded, handing her the thermos. “I know.” He motioned to the can. “Put the java chip Frappuccino in the cup and we’re square.”
She nodded, taking it from him. “But are you sure you don’t want your change? You literally gave us like eighty dollars in tips.”
“I just want my coffee. I really don’t need the money.”
She shrugged, but made his drink, and a few moments later he was stepping out of the Starbucks and moving down the alley. He brought the cup to his lips when the sound of someone coughing behind him made him whirl around, his Bo staff already clicked and extended. He only had it in his hand for a split second when it whipped out of his grip, flying against the wall.
It dropped and he capped the thermos, setting it down before he raised his hands, ready to fight. “You.”
He barely had a second to react before his back hit the alley wall, his staff pinning shoved into his chest, holding his back against it. He struggled, trying to push it out of the way. When it didn’t budge, he tried to crawl out from underneath, but it curled, digging each end into the wall underneath his arms. He stopped struggling and sighed, realizing that he was caged and not able to slip out.
She stepped towards him and picked up the thermos, winking at him. “Me.”
He grunted, trying to reach for the cup. “That’s mine.”
She snorted at his vain attempt and uncapped it. “Mine now, Red.”
He groaned as he watched her take a sip. “Why would you hurt me like this? You know my weakness is my coffee.”
She nodded as she swallowed and brought the cup down. “And pretty girls who manipulate metal.” She winked. “Don’t forget that one too.”
He grumbled in annoyance but acquiesced. “Yes, yes. Coffee and pretty girls who manipulate metal make me weak in my knees.” He glared at her as she took another sip. “Happy now?”
She nodded. “I’m getting there.” She shook the cup. “When I finish this, I’ll be very happy.”
He whined at her. “C’mon…don’t do me like this.”
“You’re so cute when you whimper.”
“I’m not whimpering.”
“Alright puppy. You keep telling yourself that.”
He whined once more when she took another sip. “I’ll do anything if you stop drinking my coffee.”
She raised an eyebrow at him and capped the thermos before lowering it and walking up to him. “Anything?”
He nodded frantically his hand reached out to grab it. “Anything. Just let me have my coffee.” She kept it out of his grip, only letting his fingers brush it and he groaned, looking at her. “Please?”
She smirked and reached up, taking his chin in her hand; she leaned close and pressed her lips to his. She laughed internally as he groaned against her, his hands no longer reaching for the cup, this time trying to get a grip on her suit to yank her against him. She felt his tongue dart against her lips, and she opened her mouth for him, letting him slip his tongue inside. She let him have his way for a few seconds before she pulled back; he chased her lips until she rested her pointer finger against them, effectively stopping him.
His breath was hot against her finger and she tapped his mouth quipping, “For someone who wants coffee so badly, it seems to me like you want to make out a helluva lot more.”
He grinned, giving her full view of his pearly white teeth. “Would it help more if I told you I wanted to drink my coffee, then make out with you in the movie theater balconies?”
Her eyes narrowed in amusement and she twirled away, uncapping his thermos once more. “It probably would.” She gestured to him. “You get outta that and find me in the balconies and we can continue where we left off.” She waved as she stepped off, sipping his coffee. “Bye Red.”
After a few moments, the bent Bo staff dropped to the ground and he jerked forward, taking off in the direction of the movie theater, his heart hammering in his chest as a face-splitting grin crossed his lips.
Bruce:
She collapsed into the lawn chair on the roof, tugging off the pants and overshirt she wore until she was left in her underwear and bra. She groaned, feeling the heat crawl over her body, and she raised a hand, making a piece of metal spin like a ceiling fan until it blew a breeze.
The air it gave off barely staved the sweltering humidity and she groaned once more. “It’s. Too. Fucking. Hot.”
She heard an amused hum beside her, and she cracked an eye open, seeing him standing above her; she grunted and waved him away from her. “Oh, go shove it, Batman. You know I love playing two-person-push-ups, but it’s too hot to play right now.” Another amused hum followed and she rolled over onto her stomach.
She turned her face to the side and glared up at him. “How are you not dying of a goddamn heatstroke right now? I know you’ve gotta be sweating under all those titanium plates.”
He shrugged. “Suit has a built-in cool layer. I’m in the middle between starting to sweat and not.” He paused, looking around, then added, “It’s about a good seventy-five out here.”
She groaned, reaching down to grab her glass; sipping it, she motioned to the pitcher and empty glass. “I figured you’d show up sometime tonight…have a drink if you want.”
Surprisingly, he poured himself a glass and sat beside her. “Why are you out on the roof?”
“‘Cause my fucking AC broke.”
“You can’t fix it?”
She glared at him. “I manipulate metal, Batman. I don’t fix things.” The corners of his mouth turned up and she closed her eyes, whining, “It’s so hotttttt!”
A few seconds later, she felt a cool breeze run up her body and her she moaned, digging her face into the chair. “Whatever you’ve got going, Batman…it feels great.” She received a chuckle in return, and she mumbled, “If you even think about trying to arrest me, I’ll crush your head in that metal helmet you’ve got on. You hear me, Batman?”
He hummed at her. “Mhm. Don’t worry. I’ll take pity on you simply because you’re hot.”
She opened her eyes and grinned at him. “Well, thanks for saying.” She winked. “Is that the reason you like sleeping with me?”
He huffed a laugh and tipped his head. “I like sleeping with you because you like sleeping with me.” He peered at her. “And you’re a mystery I can’t figure out.”
She flipped over onto her back and propped herself up on her elbows, raising an eyebrow. “What do you mean by that?”
“You have the ability to manipulate metal and magnetic fields…I like to know what makes people the way they are, but I can’t figure out why you have the ability.”
She shrugged at his answer. “I can’t answer the question either…as far as I know, I’m the only one in my family who can do this.”
He was silent a moment, then inquired, “Why don’t you use your abilities for the good of society? Why do you do the things you do?” She met his eyes and stared at him.
“Why not?” He blinked, a little stunned at her answer as she continued, “Not everyone wants to be a hero, Batman.”
“You want to be an anti-hero then?”
“I kinda have the same mentality as Red Hood. Fucking with criminals is so much more fun than working with them. Except I’m not trying to save everyone.” She paused. “And I mean that in a pranking sense not a sexual one.” She huffed and dropped her head back. “I really don’t feel like discussing our moral ambiguities right now, Batman.”
“What do you want to discuss?”
“How you’re planning on fixing my AC for me.”
“Why would I do that?”
“Because if you don’t, I’ll stop sleeping with you.” She raised her head back up and grinned at him. “And I really don’t think you want to stop sleeping with me.” He stood up from his position and stared down at her, then held out a hand; she glanced at it before looking back at him. “What?”
“Want to get out of the heat?”
“And where is ‘out of the heat’?”
“My apartment in the city.” He flashed her a smile. “AC keeps the place a solid sixty-five.”
She arched an eyebrow at that. “We’ve never tangoed in anyone’s apartment other than mine.” She peered at him, suspiciously. “What’s your game, Batman? You gonna tell me who you are or something?”
He said nothing, just kept the hand out until she rolled her eyes and reached out, taking it. His hand curled around hers and he tugged her up; she hit his chest, her other palm going flat against it.
His arm wound around her waist holding her close and he murmured, “If I told you who I was right now, without taking off my cowl, would you believe me?”
She gaped at him before recovering and flirted, “Hold onto your secret for a little while longer, Batman…I like the game we have going.” He smirked and she wiggled in his grip. “Either get me somewhere cold or let go. I’m starting to sweat again.”
He released her, stepping away and motioning to the apartment complex off in the distance. “Blue building with the neon billboard on top.”
She nodded and leaned down, slipping on her clothes, then slipping on the metal cuffs around her wrists. She walked beside him, letting her hand come up the back of his thigh as she murmured, “I’ll see you there, Batman.”
He watched as she rose from the building, making her way across the city before he huffed and jumped down the alley, sliding into the Batmobile and starting his drive towards a pleasure filled night.
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noteguk · 4 years
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Taehyung fingering u while ur in zoom class,,,,this came to me as i spaced out in class
— contents and warnings: small praising kink, fingering, boyfriend!taehyung, pwp
— words; 1.6k
Thank you for your request, baby!!
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You were quick to check if your microphone was still off when your boyfriend walked into the bedroom.
“I’m in class,” you mumbled, your voice a bit more bitter than you’d like. You were sprawled on the bed with your laptop heated and resting against your stomach, the screen lowered so you could pretend to pay attention to whatever it was that your professor was saying. You were in class, yes, but it certainly didn’t look like it.
Taehyung laughed at your position, and started walking towards the other side of the bed. “That explains your delightful mood.”
You hummed, eyes still stuck to the small squares on your screen. Every once in a while, you sat up on the bed and turned your camera back on (since your professor almost popped a vein every time he saw that someone had turned it off) but, for the time being, he was too focused on his explanation to care about that. You were off the hook for maybe twenty more minutes, and no one had to see your zombified face for now.
Your sleeping schedule had been absolute chaos since the beginning of the pandemic and the responsibility of an early class wouldn’t make a difference at that point — so, that night, you went to sleep at four knowing fully well that you’d have to be up at seven, and it worked just as well as anyone with a half functioning brain cell would expect. You were awake, but only physically.
The voice of your professor was a monotone, flat and repetitive melody to your ears. Absent-minded, your eyes darted from the screen and towards your boyfriend when Taehyung threw himself on the bed next to you. With interest, he placed his head on your shoulder and looked at the screen, trying to piece together the information on the slideshow.
“This looks really boring,” he commented, fumbling close to you. If your camera had been on, everyone else would think you were in an earthquake, from how much the bed was shaking under his movements. He turned to you. “And you look really annoyed.”
You sneered. “I’m glad it’s obvious. Too much emotional energy is wasted in these calls,” you complained. You did not know how your colleges managed to keep such neutral faces during online classes, it seemed like it took everything in you to look remotely pleasant and fight against your resting bitch face. “I’ll be free in twenty minutes, then I’ll help you with lunch.”
“I was thinking that maybe today we could order something,” Taehyung said, his hand finding its place on your hip bone. A bit of sleep left your body at the contact, his warmth radiating through your thin sweatshorts. “From that restaurant you like from down the street.”
Your mouth salivated at the thought. “That’d be wonderful, actually.”
He hummed, burying his face on your neck. His hot breath sent shivers up and down your skin, his voice vibrating against your flesh as he spoke. “I don’t like when you’re down,” he told you. “I’m just trying to cheer you up.”
It took everything in you not to moan at the feeling. Taehyung knew very well how much your neck was sensitive, and the little demon was doing it on purpose. “I appreciate it,” you managed to say, even if your voice wasn’t as firm as you’d like.
“There’s other ways that I could try and make you feel better.” His hand slithered closer to your center, and stopped right underneath your belly button. With your computer placed in front of you, you could only feel as he made his way down, brushing against the thick fabric of your shorts. “If you want, of course.”
Another glimpse to check if the camera and the microphone were off and you already had your answer. “I’d love that.”
With a wicked smirk, Taehyung shuffled closer so he could place kisses on your neck — hot, wet, open-mouthed kisses that made your legs weak. You bit your lip as his hand moved underneath the hem of your pants, placing itself between your shorts and your underwear.
A wave of heat ran through your body when his middle finger pressed down against your clit and started to trace small circles on it, faint motions that made your head spin. The fabric numbed the sensation a bit, but it was enough to make the first shocks of pleasure and anticipation appear.
“Don’t tease,” you asked, already a bit breathless.
You were a bit embarrassed to say it out loud — even though you were sure that your boyfriend already knew it — but you were already wet just by having his mouth on your neck, reddening your skin with every tender suck. He didn’t need much effort down there.
You made a mental note to cover your neck with your hair if you had to turn the camera back on.
Taehyung chuckled, his breath coming out hot against your neck. “Baby, I already am. Sorry.” His finger worked at a turtle pace, pressing down just right to make your hips buckle up, fighting for more contact. “Do you want me to keep going?”
You swallowed hard. “Yes, please.”
Since Taehyung wasn’t planning to make you even more irritated with his prolonged provocations, he was merciful and pulled your panties to the side, his digits traveling downwards. He moaned in delight when his index found your entrance, soaking him with your juices.
“Such a good girl, always so wet for me,” he praised, his voice deep and velvety. It was driving you crazy. “Pay attention to class while I finger you, baby.”
You had almost forgotten you even were in a zoom class and, when Taehyung sunk two of his fingers inside you, you forgot about it all over again. Overwhelmed, your eyes fluttered shut at the feeling of his long, slender feelings spreading you open, digging inside you and curving just at the right spot that made you see stars. Taehyung had done that enough times to know where your body reacted the most, where he had to touch and press to have you a whining mess beneath him.
A hoarse grunt vibrated in his throat as he started pumping his fingers in and out of you, imagining how it would feel to have you clenching around his cock instead. But that morning wasn’t about him, and Taehyung was patient enough to wait until after lunch to have you bent over and crying to be fucked. That morning, he only wanted to make you cum.
“Feels good, baby?” He asked, merciless with his movements. His hands were so big that his thumb didn’t have any problem finding your clit, putting some pressure on it as he continued to finger your pussy.
You whimpered and moaned, rolling your hips against his hand in a faithless prayer for more. At his question, you only found the force within you to desperately nod.
“You’re so pretty… and you feel so good, baby…” he mumbled to himself, his eyes closing at the feeling of your walls tightening around him. Inside his pants, his cock was hard and aching to be surrounded by your wetness; throbbing and leaking. “You’re such a good girl. Such a pretty little thing.”
“Taehyung,” you called his name and, for a moment, you didn’t know what you wanted to say. The pressure on your lower back was building up at every new thrust of his fingers inside you, and the sounds of your wetness erased your thoughts for a second. “I’m so close.”
“Wanna cum around my fingers, baby?” Taehyung’s voice was hoarse, vibrating against your skin as his mouth relentlessly marked your neck. Your class had long been forgotten, and you couldn’t even open your eyes and look at the screen. Not that you wanted to. You wanted to succumb to him. “Uh? Want to make a pretty mess on my fingers for me?”
You gasped at his words, your thighs already shaking with your upcoming release. His fingers were so big, they felt so good inside you that you could barely think straight. “Yes, please, Taehyung.”
“That’s my girl,” he said, adding a bit more pressure against your clit. The movement made your hips perk up, and your computer almost fell from your chest. “Let it go, baby. Relax. I got you.”
And you did as he said. You came around his fingers as your hand flew to your mouth, muffling your blissful cries as your pussy clenched around him, lower body buckling up and rolling against his final pumps in an attempt to prolong your pleasure. Taehyung grunted in satisfaction, his cock throbbing at the feeling of you soaking his fingers, and he waited for your breaths to settle before he spoke up.
“Better?” He asked, placing a final pec against the skin of your neck, which now blossomed in purples and reds after his attack.
Your eyes opened lazily and for a second you didn’t find your voice. “So much better. That was great.”
Taehyung leaned in and placed a soft kiss against your lips. “I like to see my girl happy,” he said tenderly. His hand slithered out of your underwear, making you feel awfully empty, and he sat up in bed. “Now, you enjoy those final minutes of your class. I’m gonna get us some food.”
“Thanks, baby,” you said, like you would ever be able to think about any subject after that. “You know my order, right?”
He rolled out of the bed with a swift movement. “Yes, Miss.” Taehyung pointed at your computer. “Now, pay attention. Your tuition isn’t cheap.”
You giggled, and your eyes followed him as he left the bedroom.
When Taehyung arrived at the corridor, he looked down at the tent in his pants and realized he might need to make a quick stop in the bathroom before he could even think about ordering food.
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Chapter 16: An Understanding
Warnings: this one really isn’t bad, just a droid death and sappiness.
Author’s Note: Thank you to anyone who has supported this. We are almost there!
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The sweet moment between the three of you was quickly ruined by a distant explosion, so the Mandalorian woman quickly rushed you all out after she quickly gave Mando a gift.
A Mandalorian jet-pack.
You had seen other Mandalorians use them in the past, and Mando seemed incredibly honored to have one, so if Mando was happy, you were happy.
The team followed the tunnel towards the smell of sulfur, trying your best to track the lava flats. You didn’t have much of choice. That was the only way out.
As you walked down the tunnels, you held the sleeping child in your arms, keeping him close to you. Mando walked next to you, stealing glances at you as you walked. You would glance back, but he would always face forward once more, trying to make it seem like he wasn’t starring. You would always smile at him when he would turn away, obviously embarrassed.
Who knew you could make a beskar covered warrior like that be embarrassed?
You felt at peace. At home. For once you actually had one. You didn’t even know how to describe the feeling. It’s like your anxious brain and beating heart finally subsided. Like your body relaxed, and you had nothing to fear. Sure, the team was still stuck in these tunnels and the exit would be swarming with stormtroopers, but you had backup. A team. A clan.
It felt like a new start.
Once you finally made it to the river’s edge, a boat was leaned up against the land. It had obviously seen better days and the droid inside hadn’t been used in a long time.
Great.
Mando and Karga tried pushing the boat, but that did no use, so Cara raised her rifle and shot the boat free from the hardened lava.
You smiled at her and chuckled, thinking about the fact she had outsmarted a Mandalorian and a well known Guild member. You were not surprised in the slightest.
You could’ve sworn she laughed back.
Everyone climbed into the boat, and by some miracle, the droid inside sputtered to life. It stood up, raising its paddle and dropping it into the orange liquid beside it. It then said some droid gibberish, which IG-11 presumed was a request.
“I believe he is asking where we would like to go,” IG said.
“Downriver. To the lava flats,” Karga said, and the droid set to paddling.
Mando was to your left, while Cara was at your right. The child had woken up once more, using his energy to chew on your thumb. Mando brought his hand up to his helmet, activating the thermal scanners.
“That’s it,” Karga yelled, pointing to the growing light coming from the end of the tunnel.
“We’re free!”
It had been a long time since you had heard something like that.
“No,” Mando said, squashing your elated mood.
“Stormtroopers. They’re flanking the mouth of the tunnel. They must know we are coming.”
“Stop the boat,” you said sternly to the ferry droid. The droid, however, gave no sign that he actually heard you.
“Hey,” Cara said firmly, walking up to the droid.
“She said stop the boat,” she said before shooting the droid’s head off.
You appreciated Cara’s act of defense for you, you really did, but it didn’t do any good. The boat kept moving.
There was no other way. You had to stand and fight.
You pulled your longspear from your back and tucked the child deeper into your arms. You had fought stormtroopers before, why would this time be any different?
“They will not be satisfied with anything less than the child,” IG said, and you turned your head to look back at him. Your confused expression accurately represented the feelings of the rest of the group as well.
“This is unacceptable. I will eliminate the enemy, and you will escape.”
“You don’t have that kind of firepower pal,” Mando said in reply.
“You wouldn’t even get to daylight.”
“That is not my objective,” said the droid. “I still have the security protocols from my manufacturer. If my designs are compromised, I must self-destruct.”
“What?” you asked the droid.
“I am not permitted to be captured. I must be destroyed.”
The droid looked at Mando and said, “Sadly, there is no scenario where the child is saved in which I survive.”
“No,” Mando said, moving closer to the droid.
“You’re not going anywhere. We need you.”
“Please tell me the child will be safe in your care,” the droid said, now looking at both you and Mando.
“But you will be destroyed-” you began to say.
“And you will live,” IG said. “I will have served my purpose.”
He looked to Mando and said, “There is nothing to be sad about.”
“I’m not…. sad,” Mando said, but you were no where near convinced. His voice was the only way for you to humanize him, and emotions were very easily traced on the voice. When you can’t see someone’s face, the voice is all they have. You had gotten good at that.
It seemed IG had gotten good at it too.
“Yes, you are. I’m a nurse droid. I have analyzed your voice,” IG said before coming to the child and brushing his hand along his forehead.
No matter how little Mando wanted to deny it, the droid was your saving grace.
The droid then stepped into the boiling lava, and started making its way down towards the exit.
You watched the droid with wide and curious eyes. You had never seen a droid be so… selfless. You had always seen droids as mindless robots who only acted out of survival, but this one gave its life for you.
You wished you could repay him somehow.
When the detonator on the droid finally exploded, the child in your arms lifted his ears and watched. Even though the droid had been there for a small time, he was still the reason you and the child were alive. It seemed like the kid was loosing a friend.
You could see the pain in his eyes, and you wished you could take it all away from him and put it into your own.
Once the boat finally drifted into the tunnel, you saw the bodies of the stormtroopers on either side of the bank.
Maybe this actually… worked?
But, like many… many… times before, the scream of a tie fighter ruined all chances of an easy departure.
“Moff Gideon!” Cara shouted before raising her blaster and shooting at the aircraft. Mando and Karga immediately joined her, while you used your longspear to shield you and the child from any blaster fire.
The ship’s canons rained fire on the group for a couple seconds before the ship went roaring completely over your heads.
“He missed,” Karga said in relief.
“He won’t next time,” Mando said. The ship was already starting to turn back around.
“He mentioned he knew you,” Mando said to you, referring to when he was trapped in the town not even an hour before this.
“Yeah….” you said.
“I’ve pissed him off,” you chuckled out, and Mando looked at you with a breathy laugh as well.
“Hey,” Karga said suddenly. “Let’s have the kid do the magic hand thing.”
Oh great, you thought to yourself.
“Come on baby! Do the magic hand thing,” Karga said to the kid while wiggling his fingers.
The child only giggled in your arms and waved back, and you let a light chuckle come out of your nose.
“I’m out of ideas,” Karga said.
“I’m not,” Mando said, turning around to get the jet-pack from the boat.
You watched him walk away with a slight smirk on your face. You believed in Mando more than anyone, and you prayed he had enough training to know how to use that thing.
You saw the tie fighter making its way back to you through the corner of your eye, but you continued to watch Mando. He attached the pack to his back and then locked eyes with you before shooting into the sky like a rocket.
You watched him with a beating heart as he flew right in front of the tie fighter, allowing it to go under his feet. He then hooked his grappling cable onto the wing and used the jet pack to propel himself onto the cockpit window.
Even though you were scared out of your mind, you still managed to smile at the sight above you.
Your Mandalorian was incredible.
Mando’s blaster did almost no damage to the cockpit door before Moff Gideon jerked the ship to the left. The ship was starting to spiral, and your awe quickly turned into worry.
Mando was holding on with everything he had.
He all of a sudden let go and went soaring through the air. The left side of the ship completely exploded, which sent the ship careening to the ground. It burst into smoke on impact.
Barely a second later, your Mandalorian landed before you in a slight crouch, before standing to his full height.
The smile on your face said it all.
He chuckled slightly at your shocked and happy expression before taking the child from you and holding him in his arms. You walked to stand beside him and stare up to his face, proud and joyful.
You got a Mandalorian.
Karga and Cara stood before you two with equally shocked expressions
“That was impressive Mando,” Karga said. “It looks like your Guild rates have just gone up.”
You grinned at Karga, enjoying his little tease.
“Any more stormtroopers?” Mando asked.
“I think we cleared the town,” Cara said with a laugh. “I’m thinking of staying around just to be sure.”
“You’re staying here?” Mando asked, equally confused as you were.
“Well, why not?” Karga asked. “Nevarro is a very fine planet, and now that the scum and villainy have been washed away, it’s very respectable again.”
“As a bounty hunter hive?” Mando asked, and you once again giggled at his bluntness.
“Some of my favorite people are bounty hunters,” Karga said with a bit of a chuckle.
“And perhaps”- he said while placing a hand on Cara’s shoulder- “this specimen of a soldier might consider joining our ranks.”
“And you, my friend”- he said while turning his attention back to Mando -“will be welcomed back into the Guild with open arms.”
Mando looked to the child in his arms, beaming up at him with utter adoration. He then looked to you at his side, and you gave him a smile that said I’m with you. With whatever you choose.
“I’m afraid I have more pressing mattors at hand,” he said, turning his head back to the child.
“Well you better keep watch of this one,” Karga said to Mando while gesturing to you.
“She could take your place at the Guild in a second,” he says, while snapping his fingers for emphasis.
“And she would do a damn good job,” he says, and you laugh in reply.
Mando gives a slight nod in agreement which only makes you laugh harder.
You can’t recall ever laughing this hard.
“Y/n,” Cara says, and you divert your attention back to her.
She is trying to look at you, but she just can’t meet your gaze.
“Listen… I… I’m really sorry. The Empire hurt me a lot and I just couldn’t…” she chokes out.
You could tell she was trying to apologize to you. For when your identity got revealed, for doubting your loyalty, or anything in between. She was obviously struggling, so you decided to help her along.
“Cara,” you said, and her eyes met yours.
“Your reaction was perfectly understandable. Truly. There is nothing to be sorry for,” you say, and a flash of relief skates over her eyes.
“I just saw how you were with Mando and the kid today and I…. I owed you an apology,” she said, and you smiled at her.
“Thank you, Cara. I’m glad we could come to an understanding,” you respond, and she smiles back at you. A genuine, relieved smile.
“As am I,” she says while leaning forward to caress the child’s ear.
“Take care of this little one,” Cara said to you and Mando. You gave her a respectful nod, acting as a promise that you would.
“Or maybe,” Karga added, “it will take care of you.”
You looked to Mando with a light smile, and you could tell he was grinning too.
The weight of guilt and shame had been lifted off of you. The people you cared for most forgave you. They looked at what you did right in the eyes, but looked past it, and saw you. You were sure it would take some time for them to completely trust you, but they were willing to try.
You couldn’t ask for anything more.
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