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toadstool32 · 2 months ago
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mythiccheroacademia · 5 years ago
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The whole time traveling children has me feelin some type of way tbh. Imagine Mirio, Kaminari, and Tamaki walking into their respective rooms and there are just small children vibing. Mirio with his daughter, Kaminari with a daughter and Tamaki with a son. 😭
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as i said, parent!bnha is SUPERIOR
A/N: So, instead of making these separate asks, I’m just going to make it one giant post. I thought it would be easier that way. Probably the only post that’ll have more than three characters lol
Warnings: none
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Kaminari Denki:
when kaminari walked into his room, he didn't expect to see two children on his bed fighting like wild animals
the younger girl was totally beating the boy’s ass tho
kinda embarrassing bc she’s gotta be like, seven, at most
as if it’s not the weirdest thing he’s seen (bc it’s not) he rushes in to break them apart
he manages to separate them with his arms 
the boy with yellow hair snaps his jaws at his sister’s fingers
“hey! bad! no biting!” he scolds
the little girl blows a raspberry and taunts “yeah! papa says no biting!”
the older sibling just rolls his eyes “rat”
meanwhile, denki is literally malfunctioning
papa?
PAPA? HUH???
the only person’s pants (and heart) he’s been trying to get in to for the past three months was y/n’s and he sure as hell would remember if he did
he didn't have kids
especially one that was his age
“sorry! you two are cute, but i’m not your pops”
thus, they begin to tell denki about how they mayhaps followed him and their mother into a dangerous mission and got hit with a time travel quirk
denki just nods his head
tbh, he’s not that weirded out
weirder things have happened
but, he does have one question
“who’s the lucky woman?”
coincidentally, you bust into his dorm room, wet from a recent prank and head steaming with anger
“Kaminari Denki!”
his son juts a thumb over to you
“the woman that’s about to murder you”
“oh say less”
his life literally couldn't get any better
before you get the chance to throttle him, the little girl jumps in your arms and your anger is immediately quelled 
“hey mommy! i just wanna let you know that it was [son’s name]’s fault that we followed you when you told us not to”
“WHAT!?”
you’re to busy trying to get them from killing each other to comprehend anything that’s going on
kaminari is in a love-struck gaze bc hot damn, he won the jackpot, huh?
if he wasn't in love with you before, he’s in love with you now
you and your feral children
it was nice being God’s favorite
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Kirishima Eijirou: 
funny thing was
kirishima woke up from his afternoon nap with his mini-me in his arms!
at first, he was really confused as to why there was an 8 yr old boy with spiky teeth and (your hair texture) black hair on his bed
he thought he was dreaming
then the little boy bit his nose and grinned like he had done the funniest thing in the world 
“WAKE UP DADDY! WE GOTTA GET SWOL TODAY”
did he get hit with some duplication quirk?
and what was that he said...daddy?
as in, father?
kirishima is wide awake now, but before he can ask the kid what’s going on, the boy is up and making use of his punching bag
he decides it wouldn't hurt to get a morning work out in, so he decides to humor the kid
after a mini workout, kirishima is in near tears as the boy tries to flex the little muscles he has 
eventually, he gets the kid to tell him what happened and finds out he was hit with a time travel quirk of some sort
instead of being weirded out, kirishima is ESCTATIC 
he has a family in the future 
he’s so excited and proud that he just has to show his son off to his friends!
the first thing he does is go and bother bakusquad in the common room
he’s bragging like shit to them and his ego swells as they all swoon over how cute and handsome the kid is 
you and bakugo come out of the kitchen to see what all the commotion is about and the little boy excitedly runs to you and jumps into your arms 
“momma! you’re here! you’re so pretty! why’d you marry daddy when he looks so unswol?”
it’s silent before bakugo fucking dies of laughter 
“y-you finally let shitty hair hit it? and got knocked up?? LMAO”
everyone’s dying and kirishima wants to die
he can’t believe this was how his long-term crush on you was getting outted
by an 8 yr old boy
so not manly
you look confused before you put the pieces together
the kid did look like you and kirishima
you want to console kirishima about the crush that you lowkey knew he had on you, but your son was one step ahead of you
with a gracious smile, he hits bakugo’s head
hard
“what the fuck kid!?”
“don’t make fun of daddy, uncle bakugo! at least daddy didn’t faint at his wedding″
Bakugo’s contemplating murder and everyone’s rolling on the floor
“WE BEEN KNEW YOU WERE THE BIGGEST SIMP”
even ten years later, bakugo still holds a grudge against your son
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Togata Mirio:
i’m about to kill y’all w this one
since year one, mirio has been feigning over you 
but 1) you were too dumb to notice 2) you both were really busy with, y’know, school and 3) he lowkey gave up bc he thought you deserved better
so imagine his surprise when he sees this four year old girl on his bed
and she looks like you with his features
mirio might not be the brightest crayon in the crayon box
but he’s got eyes
and it wasn't like he’s memorized your features to the T
the tiny girl is swinging her legs absent-mindedly before exploding with happiness when he sees him
she runs to mirio and he catches her with open arms 
“daddy! daddy! i got hit with the coolest quirk at school today!”
proceeds to tell him about her best friend discovered her quirk and it was a teleportation quirk 
mirio can’t help but giggle along with her even tho he knew it was a scary situation for the parents
speaking of which...
he innocently asks her who’s the mom
“mommy is the prettiest mommy in the world! she has e/c eyes, hair like me, and the most beautiful s/c skin! her name is togata y/n!”
if he wasn't geeking before, he’s geeking now
not only did he manage to marry you, but you let him be your baby daddy?
him?
big bet
mirio doesn't even care at this point
he’s parading around UA with the fattest smile as he introduces his daughter to damn near everyone 
everyone’s freaking out bc wtf when did mirio get someone pregnant??
maybe he should've explained himself, but he sees you at your locker and makes a b-line for you
“good morning, y/n!”
he doesn't notice that you slam your locker close and hide the confession letter you wrote to him behind your back
you’re a stuttering mess and he’s too busy basking in the fact that he’s holding y’alls child 
y’all look like a mess
but he’s ready to lay it on thick when the little girl kisses your nose and cheers,
“mommy, i missed you”
he explains the situation 
you cant help but smile, “you know this could potentially ruin the timeline?”
and you feel like melting as he gives you the softest smile 
“there’s no way I’m letting that happen. not when i end up with the woman i’m in love with. we’ll just have to twist fate together”
and twist it you did
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Tamaki Amajiki:
tamaki wasn't the bravest person ever 
and he knew his crippling anxiety got in the way of a lot
but he had never been more proud of himself for managing to invite you to his room
it was supposed to be a study date
despite how bold you normally were, he took comfort in how nervous you seemed 
now, you two were leaning in, about to kiss
and then a voice from behind interrupts 
“uh, am i interrupting something?”
you two let out the ugliest squeal and jump 50 feet away from each other 
you’re all over the place, trying to explain the situation
tamaki’s heart is barely beating at this point
it takes the kid, who looks about 16, about thirty minutes to calm you down and revive tamaki
explains that he’s from the future and a descendant of tamaki’s family
decides to leave out that you two are his parents so he doesn't risk possibly erasing himself from the space continuum 
that would be bad
despite how surprised you two were, you two take it rather well 
you three spend the day together bc you and tamaki feel this weird sense of responsibility for the guy even though he’s only two years younger
the boy is trying his hardest not to expose himself, but it’s so hard
you two are asking him everything from his favorite food to if he has any siblings
he’s good at pretending that he’s cool, calm, and collected, but he wants nothing more than to jump into his parents’ arms and cry about how scared he is of messing up
but he won’t 
bc he’s a strong boy
but he slips up
“how far are you down the future?” tamaki asks
“uh, about like 100 years or so--”
“you’re lying”
the kid nearly chokes on his food as his father blinks at him
you try and scold tamaki but he continues
“i don’t mean to be mean, but your nose twitches when you lie. y/n does the same thing”
that’s when the jazz record stops and everyone is staring at one another
“....wait”
this time, you nearly pass out
y’all had a kid together???
THE HELL??
the boy, coincidentally, starts fading and he thinks he fucked up
now he’s full out sobbing into the both of your chests, scared that he’s disappearing
despite the news, you and tamaki calm down, look at each other, and hold your son
“don’t you worry, baby” you coo, kissing his fading hair
“i have a feeling we’ll see you quite soon” tamaki comforts, closing his eyes
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Bakugo Katsuki:
bakugo finally understood when his mom said
“the meaner you are to your parents, the nastier your kids will be to you”
he regretted being such a demon bc his kid was literally the spawn of satan
katsuki didn’t need an explanation to know that that...thing was his kid
he looked damn near identical to him with features that he couldn't quite place
but anyways, that wasn't the focus rn
rn, he was trying to figure out a way to keep that animal caged
as soon as katsuki took his eyes off him, the six yr old ran out the door as fast as his little legs could carry him
“catch me if you can, you old bastard!”
yup, it was his kid
“GET BACK HERE YOU LITTLE FUCKER”
his son is blasting his way through the halls, skillfully evading Katsuki’s grabbing hands 
he’s wildly laughing as he flips and turns through the doors, watching with glee as his father falls on his face
multiple times
the small boy latches on to a cupboard and smirks
“no wonder mom always beats your ass! you weak!”
katsuki nearly looks like the devil, eyes white, and face red with fury
his pride suffering by the second
he’s about to cuss the kids to hell when you come out of the kitchen, confused
you were about to ask why katsuki looked like a rat with rabies before you caught sight of a basket of fruit teetering on the edge of the cabinet, above the little boy’s head
“look out--”
the basket falls on the kid’s head and he’s on the floor, reeling from the hit
katsuki would've normally laughed his ass off, but he felt kind of...concerned?
he watches you run towards the child who’s trying his hardest not to cry
the boy holds his head, fat tears in his eyes as you pick him up and coddle over him 
“i’m sorry, baby. I'm sorry i didnt get there in time” 
cue the waterworks 
the boy is full-on sobbing into your chest about how his head hurts
you bounce him and kiss his forehead as katsuki checks over the red bump 
“you’ll be okay, brat” he comforts, voice softer than usual
in that moment, katsuki can’t help but notice how much a family y’all look like rn
then the dots start connecting and he goes 
oh shit 
so, maybe, he’s had a tiny crush on you
and it didn’t help that you two were friends with benefits bc yall were horny teenagers
but who knew he’d get the balls to ask you out on a proper date one day
he was such a simp for you gosh it was ugly
“you have to be more careful from now on,”  you say to the boy 
the brat suddenly looks innocent and katsuki wants to throw him
“sorry, mommy. i’ll be gooder”
the look on your face is priceless 
bakugo uses it as a chance to kiss you 
“huh?”
“i guess now’s a good time to tell you that i want to be your dick on demand but with feelings and shit, dumbass”
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sofreddie · 4 years ago
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Nanny No More
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Summary: Reader is The Ackles' nanny. She comes home to quite the surprise. It changes everything.
Characters: Jensen x Nanny!Reader
Warnings: Fluff, Smut
Word Count: 1,816
A/N: Written for @jerkbitchidjitassbutt. Thanks for the inspiration! GIF above is closest I could find to match the story, though it's not a shower really. 😉 And just in case - this is a work of fiction. No harm or hate intended towards any persons.
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Y/N had just returned from dropping the kids off at a sleepover. She was their live-in nanny and had been for years since Jensen's wife had passed giving birth. Jensen was home on hiatus and his restlessness was driving everyone up the walls.
Her attention was drawn to the other room as she heard Jensen muttering and grunting. She curiously moved forward, worried for what she might find, only to be stopped dead in her tracks.
For one thing, there was a terrible leak in the ceiling. A pipe must have burst. But that wasn't what caught and held her attention.
Jensen was stood on a footstool, arms stretched above him as he was attempting to repair the leak. His t-shirt rode up, exposing a bit of his stomach and buckled jeans. His t-shirt clung to him like a second skin, the water leaking from the pipe having gradually soaked through his clothing.
He lowered his arms, grunting in frustration. He quickly removed the soaked t-shirt, using it to wipe off his face, before tossing it aside and getting back to work.
Y/N's jaw dropped open as she watched the muscles in his arms and back flexing and glistening. She reflexively squeezed her thighs together, feeling a sudden, overwhelming swell of desire.
She'd always found him attractive. She'd be blind not to. But even though she had lived with him for so long, it was like a respectful roommate sort of situation. She was the nanny after all.
Seeing him like this…well, this was new.
Suddenly, bits of the ceiling fell down upon Jensen as the hole opened wider, more water spilling forth in a gush. Jensen was drenched head-to-toe. He managed to reach up and find the shut off, stopping the flood of water, albeit a bit late.
He looked like he just got out of the shower, jeans and all. He was literally dripping with water, strands of his hair hanging down into his face. He huffed before finally noticing Y/N standing there.
"Oh, hey," he smiled, that charming and bright smile that was now making her flutter, "Sorry about the mess," he laughed, gesturing around himself.
She still couldn't move, couldn't speak. Her eyes were trailing over every inch of him as she bit her lip, squeezing her thighs once more, tighter than before.
Jensen's eyes shot over her movements, catching her wandering gaze, her bitten lips, and the not-so-subtle neediness she was emanating. He wasn't a fool. He knew exactly what she was thinking.
He'd been thinking about this very thing for a while now. Jared had encouraged him. But Y/N was a good friend and the nanny and she never showed an interest in all the time she had been with them.
He wasn't about to let this opportunity slip.
He took several slow steps towards her, his eyes trained on hers, "See something you like?" he teased. Her breath hitched. The tension between them filled the room. She wanted to jump his bones right then and there. When he licked that plump bottom lip of his into his mouth she just about sprung on him.
Then she remembered why she hadn't let herself do anything before. She was the nanny. If things went wrong...she loved the kids and didn't want to see them hurt or confused. In the end, she chickened out.
"Y-you should probably go shower," she cleared her throat, breaking the gaze between them and gesturing with her thumb over her shoulder as she took slow retreating steps, "I'll go call a plumber."
She turned and dashed so quick. Jensen was cursing himself under his breath. He knew she wanted him. There was no question about that now. But something was holding her back.
He took himself upstairs to shower. He stripped out of the remaining wet clothes and dropped them in a heap to the floor with a squelch. The hot water soothed his aching muscles and washed away the grime.
It wasn't long before his mind wandered back to Y/N downstairs, staring at him hungrily, clenching her thighs. Gen had told him to ask her out on a date, Jared said just go for it. But her body and reaction was making it hard to think straight.
His hand wandered down his body, wrapping around his fully erect cock. He sighed a little in relief at the pressure, before he began stroking himself. This had become routine at this point, jerking off in the shower with Y/N's image in his mind and her name on his lips.
After he came, he quickly finished his shower, feeling less tense than before. He was formulating a way to ask her out and gauge her interest as he made his way back downstairs.
Much like Y/N earlier, he was stopped in his tracks. Y/N was bent over on the floor, her ass in the air as she cleaned up the mess on the floor. He was instantly hard again, as if the shower never even happened.
A groan punched past his lips, catching her attention. She looked over her shoulder at him, smiling sweetly, before rising from her spot on the floor, tossing away some of the mess.
She's a little dirty and her clothes are a little damp in spots, but he's wound so tight and he thinks she only looks even better. He'd love to help her out of those filthy clothes. Maybe with his teeth.
"Can I kiss you?" he suddenly blurted out as he took several steps to stand directly in front of her. He hadn't meant to say it, but in that moment it was all he could think or want.
All his plans flew out the window.
His eyes looked her over fondly as he brushed the hair back from her face, "Can I kiss you?" he asked again. She stood in dumbfounded silence, heart racing. She tried to speak but her throat was closed. Instead, she nodded minutely. He smirked slightly before leaning in pressing his lips to hers.
He instantly felt fireworks explode between them, like nothing he had ever felt before. He tugged her closer to him, his hands finding her lower back. She too was feeling the intensity, swooning under his command.
Everything began to work up quickly, their bodies demanding more from each other. Jensen turned and backed her against the closest wall. His knee found its way between her legs, his thigh pressing against her core.
She moaned loudly into the kiss and Jensen eagerly swallowed it down. Their bodies ground together, their kisses and hands growing desperate. It had been ages since either one of them had been with someone.
"I want you," he breathed out against her lips, barely parting from her and hating even the minute distance required to speak, "Want you in my bed. Wanted you there forever," his lips grazed down her jaw and neck as he pressed himself tightly against her.
"Yes," she hissed out in a breath. He moaned loudly, before scooping her up, wrapping her legs around his waist. He dashed up the stairs with her in his arms, surprising her with his strength.
His muscles were more than just show.
He took her directly to his bedroom, closing the door shut behind them. He didn't let her down until they were standing at the foot of his bed.
"You sure this is what you want?" he checked with her again. He had to be sure. If she didn't want this, or might regret it later, then he'd rather not do it.
"Are you?" she blurts out hesitantly.
He grinned broadly, his eyes sparkling, "If I could have it my way, you'd never leave my bed again."
She crashed into him, stealing his breath with her kisses. The urgency picked up once more and they were quickly naked and lying on the bed together.
Then his words truly settled in her mind. Her breath hitched as she met his eyes. Without words he could feel things shift between them. Everything slowed as the mood shifted.
She could feel his passion and want with every kiss laid to her bare skin. She could feel him laying claim with every moan she gave to every mark he left.
When his head sank between her legs, she thought she'd died and gone to Heaven. It took him no time at all to quickly learn her spots and he proceeded to slowly work her into a frenzy.
Just as she was about to reach her peak, he stopped. She groaned and looked down at him. He wiped the back of his hand across his mouth. His lips were swollen and wet, his hair a mess from her fingers tugging on it.
"Wanna feel it the first time I make you come," he breathed out, working his way up her body. At some point he had slipped a condom on. She was too out of her mind to have noticed. He ground himself against her wet and twitching folds and she nearly screamed.
"Please, Jen, please," she nearly sobbed, desperate for her release, desperate for him. She had dreamed of this moment for so long. Her want and desire had morphed into utter need.
He locked away the sounds of her sweet pleading for another time. He was ready to give her what she needed. What they both needed.
He kissed her deep, letting her taste herself on his tongue as he slowly entered her. When he finally reached the hilt, pressed as deep as he could go, they both gasped.
Jensen moved slow and languidly, making them both savor every movement, every touch, every thrust like a fine meal. There was nothing but pleasure, but he was skillfully keeping them both back from that edge, drawing out the connection between them.
He paused from his ministrations of marking her neck with his mouth to look her in the eyes. He cupped her face, adjusted his hips, and began to thrust a little faster and harder while holding her gaze.
She could feel herself cresting, the edge just out of reach. Jensen felt amazing inside her, around her. Better than any dream she could have conjured.
She was pretty sure she was in love with him.
At the realization, she climaxed hard. Her eyes clenched shut in sync with her walls clenching around his cock. Jensen cried out her name, following her over the edge.
He continued to pump into her, working them both through their highs. After catching their breath, Jensen slowly pulled out and discarded the condom, before returning to the bed.
He laid on his back and scooped an arm around Y/N's shoulders, bringing her to half lay across him.
Tomorrow they'd deal with the plumber, the mess and the kids returning from their sleepover. They'd figure everything out. But for now, there was this and the start of something amazing.
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Forevers:
@sis-tafics
@lyarr24
@calaofnoldor
@hobby27
@spnbaby-67
RPF:
@smoothdogsgirl
JENSEN TAGS:
@akshi8278
@jerkbitchidjitassbutt
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gildedmuse · 5 years ago
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ZoAce talking about devotion (to Luffy, whitebeard etc). If you feel like it, of course
So I realize this doesn't feel the brief at all. I'm really sorry guys, I just got to spend five days in hospital (yay genetics!) And so the plan is for there to be a second part follow up soon.
Also, not gonna lie, I cut a very much R rated scene where Zoro and Ace have sex while Law watches because I realized that wasn't even CLOSE to the request. I'm sorry for this new OT3 I'm just way too in to. However, keep your eyes peeled for part two: the actual conversation, rated g for everyone.
I Couldn't Lose Him, Part One
"You could come with me, you know?"
You ever say something stupid, and before the words are even out of your mouth you know how stupid it is, but you end up saying it all the same?
Ace is always saying those kind of things. Especially since the failed execution when he almost died without saying some of the most important stuff. Now a days, these things would just flare up inside him, and he either had to spit them out or they would burn his throat all the way down as he swallowed them. Even then they didn't disappear, they just turned into flickering embers, not hot enough to explode outward but too hot to finally die down to nothing. He felt them all the time.
Like all those things he never had a chance to say to his captain.
But this... This was really stupid, because Ace knew what the answer would be before he even says anything.
Zoro rolls over in bed and smiles at him. Well, not exactly a smile smile. But a nice enough look. It said that he knows that Ace already knows his answer.
You could come with me. Shit. It really had been a stupid thing to say.
Zoro isn't going to leave his crew, his captain. Not until Luffy reaches the end of the Grand Line and can declare himself pirate king. Maybe not even after that. No, Zoro is a believer. He's steadfast, he's resolved, he's determined, he's loyal and committed and unfaltering in his trust and faith he places in Ace's crybaby little brother. He's unwavering in his support no matter how crazy the plan, because he has no doubt Luffy will carry through on his word.
Zoro is above all else devoted.
Ace had spotted it almost immediately in Alabaster. When Luffy said that he had to face this fight alone. Nami and Usopp were both practical - in a way Luffy needs to balance him out - and immediately pointed out that he in no way had to do it himself, they had numbers on their side, why not use that advantage? Sanji approached it a little more subtly, which Ace thinks is very much his style but will never work on Luffy. "They might be expecting us, they'll probably try to thin the herd to just Luffy regardless. Of course, if just Luffy goes than he'll have to face down whatever security forces they have in place by himself."
Chopper just wants to be helpful. "I know I'm not much of a fighter, but I'll happily guard Luffy against whoever they send after him!"
Zoro picks up the panting, overheated reindeer. He looks at Luffy, studying him for a mere second before nodding. A dangerous, toothy grin pulls at his lips. "Good. I wanted a second chance at that swordsman," Zoro says, as if he had planned to go off and fight the other kenshi regardless of what Luffy was planning on. As though if Luffy had said, "Zoro, come with me," Zoro wouldn't immediately forget about the other swordsman and follow Luffy anywhere he went.
Ace had noticed more than that, of course. Come on, the kid was cute. With spikey green hair and skin that looked like golden sand soaking in the heat of the sun. With his smile that tried to be hard and yet there was still so much shine to it, a sort of untainted joy that he couldn't hold back.
So, yeah, Ace had noticed, but he is also noticed all that loyalty, all that faith; it was all for Luffy. Poor kid. He didn't know that while Luffy loves his crew and adores his friends, his real loves will always be adventure and freedom and following his dreams.
Still, Ace isn't about to get between his brother and his first mate. Zoro could never compete with the promise of endless freedom, Luffy's general love of adventure, but what was the point of saying anything? He could already sense the resolve radiating off the swordsman. He'd already swore an oath to his captain, and it seemed clear to Ace his conviction was something deeper than a first mate's to their superior officer. Nothing Ace could have said would have changed that.
Besides, back then, he had his own mission to accomplish. Something entrusted to him by his own captain, and that was far more important than hopelessly flirting with some kid.
Of course, Zoro's not really a kid anymore.
-♠️-
When they met again in the new world, a whole lot had changed. Ace is captainless, crewless, mission less, sailing out on his own unsure where he's headed or what he is searching for. He stops by an island for a few days, partly to restock and partly because, well, it's not like he has anywhere else to be.
The ship docked nearby isn't at all familiar to him, but the loud shouting about meat and exploring and the new world certainly are.
Luffy hasn't changed a bit, Ace thinks with a light chuckle as he casually sneaks onboard this huge new ship to surprise his little brother.
Then there is Zoro.
As in, no, there - suddenly and far more sneakily than Ace remembers any of this crew being - is Zoro. He has Ace backed against a wall, sword at the other man's throat and a mean expression.
Ace finds himself having trouble swallowing, and it's not because of the sword.
"Oh," Zoro cocks his head and gives Ace a crooked smile, as though Ace can't hear that note of disappointment in his voice as lowers his weapon. So Zoro hasn't entirely changed. "Luf-Mmph!"
Ace gives Zoro a mischievous smile, holding a finger to his lips to signal he needs the swordsman's silence. He leaves his hand over Zoro's mouth as the strawhat vice captain arches an eyebrow, clearly wondering what the hell the older pirate thinks he's doing.
"Shh." Ace leans in to whisper into the swordsman's ear, pressing up against him maybe a little more than strictly necessary. Well, that's not entirly true. It's very much necessary in order to feel all those gorgeous new muscles. And Ace is really enjoying this new loose-fitting-kimono-practically-falling-off-his-shoulders-if-his-shoulders-weren't-now-as-broad-as-their-new-ship look.
Ace had heard rumours Zoro had spent the last two years training with Dracule Mohawk, and Ace could definitely see the influence, what with his robe hanging open practically to his waist.
"I want to surprise him," Ace whispers, his hand slowly dropping from Zoro's mouth. It takes a slight detour to his shoulder, broad and strong and just was well muscled as the rest of him. Ace can't help but give a firm squeeze, delighting at the play of strength he can feel flex in response.
Zoro crosses his arms over his chest and shakes his head, but Ace can see the hint of a smile tugging at his lips. He still can't hide it completely. "It doesn't matter of you surprise him or not, he's going to be excited either way," Zoro points out which is fair, but Ace's way is more fun. "Don't expect me to jump in after you if he knocks you off the ship."
Ace has to stifle his laugh. Luffy's definitely gotten stronger, Ace saw that for himself at Marinefird. Still, he's not about to be knocked out by his baby brother. Like that could happen.
-♠️-
Zoro does jump in after him.
Of course he does. His other option is to let his captain's idiot brother drown.
Luffy must have knocked him pretty far, too, because by the time Zoro breaks back up to the surface, Ace is nearly unconscious, with Zoro's grasp on his hands and the arm pushing him up the other man's (also very finely muscled) back being just about the only thing keeping Ace on his back.
"ZORO!" Luffy yells from the side of the ship even though he could just stretch his neck out to them. Ace wonders if the crew understands the sort of people that could be tracking them through the Grand Line. Ace hadn't had the slightest clue either the first time he's arrived, but then again, despite being a super rookie himself Ace hasn't caused nearly as much trouble for the world government not too mention countless others by the time he reached the second half.
Luffy could probably stand to learn to announce his entrance a little less loudly.
"TELL ACE I'M SORRY!" Luffy continues to shout, in case someone at the port hadn't already worked out who they were.
Ace couldn't help but notice there is no question that Zoro had recovered Ace just fine. Luffy seemed to instinctually know that Zoro wouldn't fail him.
Ace use to have that.
Of course, what Zoro actually said was, "I did warn you."
"Yeah," Ace draws, ends up sputtering up a bunch of water still in his lungs. "But you also said you wouldn't jump in after me, yet here you are."
"Don't make me drop you."
"You wouldn't do that." Zoro was kicking them back to the boat, paddling with one arm, with Ace draped over his back. Ace vaguely remembers what it had been like to get in the water and not immediately feel drained, and he's pretty sure that this still isn't fun or easy. Especially with all this wet clothes weighing him down.
"Wh-what are you doing?" It's the most Zoro has reminded him of the same kid back in Alabaster, and Ace snickers at the slight stutter in his voice.
"Helping you out if this wet kimono," Ace purrs against Zoro's ear, which gets him swatted at like a particularly annoying fly before Zoro quickly snakes his hand back under Ace's leg, sure not to drop him. Ace doesn't let himself get distracted from distracting Zoro. He dips his hands bellow the sash, fingers sprawled out over the taunt muscles of Zoro's lower stomach. "Don't you think it's be easier t-"
Zoro does the last leg of the swim underwater, where Ace can barely stay conscious, much less mess around with the young vice captain.
-♠️-
Ace hits the deck with a wet thud.
"Why were you under water so long, idiot marimo? He could have drowned!"
"It got us here faster, didn't it erocook?"
"Back up, let me see! .... It's okay, he still has a pulse."
There's a great sigh of relief.
Ace pops open one eye, staring directly up at Zoro. "Does that mean you won't be giving me the kiss of life?"
"Ace!" Next thing Ace knows, he's losing all his air gain, this time due to the rubber ball that's been thrown directly into his stomach aka his little brother.
Luffy squeezes him so tight, Ace might actually pass out, or would have if he weren't practically made of fire. Instead he just laughs, knocking that ridiculous hat off his head just to ruffle up his hair before setting it back. "I didn't know it was you!"
"That's because the idiot wanted to sneak up on you," Zoro informs Luffy, but he's expression is less severe than his words. If anything he looks down at the two brothers with fondness.
Luffy laughs at this, pulling his cheeks wide to stick his tongue out at Ace. "Not anymore! Rayleigh showed me how to never get snuck up on - Owe!"
Luffy rubbed his head after Nani's hand connected with his skull in a hard smack. "Then what was with those pirates the other night!?" She asks, clearly still upset about some event Ace hadn't witnessed.
"That was marimo's fault. He was on watch. He should have told us!"
"I took care of it."
"They almost blasted a whole in the side of The Sunny!"
"Yeah, Zoro bro, you could have been a little more careful."
"The Sunny is fine, and I took care of it."
"Yeah, Nami, Zoro took care of us. That's why Zoro makes the best watch!"
For as much as the crew looks to have changed, it's good to see they're not so different.
Ace just starts laughing, enjoying the nostalgia of their little argument, and that seems to get everyone's attention off whatever happened a few nights ago and back on their more recent visitor.
The Straw hats stopped their argument, turning to stare at Ace like he is the crazy one on the ship.
Their last argument seemingly forgotten, Sanji lights up another cigarette. "What are you doing way out here on the Grand Line by yourself, anyway?"
"Oh, you know, just trying to get the old crew back together," Ace lies casually. He'd met his old crew, but without whiteboard there it all felt so..
Empty.
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Show Your Teeth
Characters: Fiona, Winter, May, Robyn, Joanna Rating: Explicit (tagged as thoorist) Tags: slice of life, sexual tension Word Count: almost 6k
Second Draft of ch 10. I tossed out almost 20k words to find an ending that was the right amount of tension and bittersweet. I think this one was too angsty. honestly i don't remember
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Dr. Pietro was too valuable to be in the middle of Grimm infested fields, thousands of miles away from the Kingdom. He was constantly wrangling in both the Watts and a few other scientist for his current project. It would explain Author Watts’ sour mood, his eagerness to experiment on Glade.  
But Glade was Glade, May realized with a smile. The stray that manipulated the military, the stray that outsmarted two fucking kingdoms! Being able to improvise and make the best out of being an illegal experiment…  
Glade did a double take, those glowing white pupils dilating like a cat. Ears flicking in confused circles as plume of fire they were blowing onto the metal faded to the embers died on their lips. Fire Dust glowed across their skin, high-lighting the fullness of their cheeks and hard planes of muscles beautifully.  
May only understood a few signs but she knew the sign “What?”  
She continued staring and grinning. “Nothing.”  
Glade crosses their arms and leans against the workbench. They’re posturing. With the military feeding them, they didn’t even need to flex to show off their muscles. That calm and confident grin echoing Joanna and Robyn’s. There isn’t enough raw arrogance to compete with Winter, maybe in a few years after the tuffs of curls grow out. But right now they look too adorable.  
Silvio looks up from his Scroll. His face starts at confused, slides down to contempt then utter disgusted as he looks between Glade and May. He takes a deep breath and Glade is already rolling those glowing blue eyes, “Gaaay! Oh wait…” He stares at Glade. There’s an analytically rude way his silver eyes flick up and down their body.  
They’re not in uniform. Too much grease, too much molten metal, Dust, and various other things that would permanently damage the thick fabric. Instead it’s a simple broiler suit, arms tied at the waste because fuck safety and stand in the raw Solitas air in their binder.  
“Would that still be considered Gay? How would that work with… y’know?”  
“That’s a stupid question for a genius,” May scoffs with a small smirk.  
“If I wasn’t freezing my balls off I’d pelt you snow,” Silvio glowers. He pouts, turning his chair and continues playing with Marrow’s weapon schematics. May’s Scroll pings.  
G.O.A.T: Fi and Win stares a lot too G.O.A.T: yall can admit im hot  
If they weren’t working on Winter’s weapon she’d throw her Scroll at that smug face. “Literally hot. I think I can see you steaming,” May says with a small frown. It doesn’t stay though. She’s far too happy.  
Things were getting better.  
It took till fucking mid-terms but it was fucking getting better. Glade sticks out their tongue, the Dust infused tongue piercing glowing brightly. Then they blow a kiss with embers and a wink- and the warm stutters her heartbeat. Glade chuckles silently and goes back to work. She can’t help but continue watching.  
Blacksmiths had all but died in Atlas. They have machines and factories and there was something captivating about watching the kiln from the fire and Dust dance against their skin. Something about watching someone’s passion in action.  
And yes. May wouldn’t feed that ego but Glade was hot.  
And criminal or not, they were a genius. They pulled the saber out of the kiln, setting it against the anvil and hammering it into shape. Glade may have been a pacifist but they were a fighter. There was no one else more qualified to make weapons than Aurora Glade-  
“They’re a good kisser you know.”  
May screamed turned around. They saw white wiggling ears and looked down to see Fiona smiling. She’d be laughing if she wasn’t breathing so hard. Face flushed adorably, even tinting her ears lightly- Gloveless fingers engulfed her vision.  
“Cold!” Fi’s hands cups her cheeks. May sends them tumbling backwards trying to escape but Fiona laughs and follows. She tries to find footing but its all snow out in the tundra and they fall deep into it.  
“Gay!” Silvio’s yell is swallowed by the emptiness and snow.  
Fiona manages a laugh and needs to gasp for breath again. May hisses, body shivering as snow melts against her thick Atlesian clothes. Then she’s too hot, Fi’s breath warm against her lips. Still too far.  
“I wish I could kiss you…” Fiona whispers.  
May was about to pull her into one but Marrow and Harriet shouting stops them. Thousands of miles away from the Kingdom and it’s eyes and ears still follows. Fiona sighs, ears flicking in frustration. The Junior Ops were rather far for safety reasons, testing out upgrades and smoothing out kinks as the geniuses upgrade them. There were some pros to being in this ‘Accelerated Program.’  
But stealing small moments right in under Atlas of them gives a certain thrill. May’s hands manages to slide into Fiona’s and she brings it to their lips. Fi sputters, that blush running deeper, lower down that lovely neck.  
“Nice to see you two being productive.” The drawl is both familiar and unfamiliar. Fiona gasp out another bubble of giggles and May laughs. The Glyph is actually warmer than the snow as it pulses under them. It gently pulses and lifts May and Fiona off the ground.  
The pair is meet with more than Winter’s eyes. Robyn and Joanna are grinning down at them, far to amused to play stoic like the Specialist. All three of them are flushed and panting slightly. But… for some reason no matter how deep Winter’s breath were, it wasn’t fulfilling. She was fighting in a binder again-  
“May isn’t your partner anymore,” Fiona teases with a grin. May ignores the small sting in her chest. “Your not allowed to be jealous if I top her-”  
“I don’t need to hear this!” Silvio yells a little more aggressively. He stands up, hugging his thick coat tight to his body. The civilian snow gear almost makes him penguin walk to the Junior Ops. “Marrow! Give me your gun!”  
“I thought you said-”  
“Give it!” Marrow yips and immediately surrenders his weapons. Silvio then retreats deep into the airship. Leaving Marrow confused, unarmed and pouting.  
Glade gives RMJT (Ramjet) and their supervising officer a side-ways glance and a smirk but continues to work on Winter’s weapon. With some steam and wind Dust, they cool it down sharpen the blade in long arching fluid motion. The muscle on their arms on full display and almost as nice as Joanna’s. May would need to feel them to get a fair evaluation though-  
"Kitten."  
“Stop calling me that!” May swats Joanna’s handsome face on reflex. Joanna laughs and gently pushes her hands off.  
“But you even paw,” Joanna hums low and playfully. She worse than Fiona when she feels like it and judging from the light in her eyes, she felt like it. “We still have a bet. If I win you finally start using my crossbow staff.”  
“We never decided on what I’ll get if I win,” May argues. There were so many ideas she had. A date night with just Joanna was always fun and calm. She did promise to take her around to show off the glowing street art in Mantle.  
“Why bother? That’s never going to happen,” Joanna winks and is already walking a little ways from the airship. May finds herself following, staring at that broad back and the muscles testing the fabric of her coat. She huffs in frustration but reaches for her staff and extends it. A quick double to confirm that all the Dust chambers are full.  
May nods.  
Joanna doesn’t fire her crossbow bolts. She splits that staff into two axes and charges. May’s mind fire scenario after scenario, the smile still on her face. Joanna is stronger and has a longer reach. She doesn’t need a two handed weapon to over power her and her long arms is enough for the axes.  
May smirks. Two weapons makes it harder for May to block so she’ll just dodge- Joanna fires a bolt at her feet. It glows purple and the pull of gravity nearly drops May to her knees. Instead she tucks and rolls left, then scrambles back to avoid the an axe head. The other end is loaded and May barely hits it away to avoid it. Only this time the bolt explodes far to close behind her and topples the two.  
The Marigold scowls. She vaguely remembers that Joanna was a cop, one of the best in Mantle. She’s older, has more experience fighting people than Grimm. She also has stronger Aura and more reserves. That explosions does nothing to her while May’s ears are ringing and the snow crunches unevenly under her feet.  
Joanna lets her blink the world back to focus. She’s grinning, tapping an axe bladed crossbow on her shoulder. "Gonna call it kitten?" Her partner taunts playfully. If this was last semester May might have thrown her staff or go invisible. Then throw her staff.  
She only grins. “Not even in your dreams.” May does go invisible. Joanna immediately couches down, grabbing a handful of snow and flies it into the air. May grins. Smart, resourceful. Gullible. Chambering fire dust, she melts the snow. Solitas is cold enough that water instantly freezes again, leaving a mist that blankets the field. May throws the gravity bolt back with enough Aura to pull Joanna to the ground.  
She was going to follow up with lightning but May always underestimates how strong Joanna is. The gravity bolt doesn’t pin her, barely hinders her as she charges towards May again. For a moment they were in the Field.  
For a moment, Joanna doesn’t attack and just presses her lips to May’s. She surrenders into it almost instantly. Joanna’s kiss was always slow burning. There’s a lingering sense of power and control. Like a beast in hibernation. It’s one of those things that is given to you.  
That moment passes as Joanna continues to shove May out. Their lips part far to soon. It’s worth being pinned into the snow by her girlfriend though. Hidden in the snow, Joanna breaths hot against the back of her neck.  
“I win.”  
“I don’t exactly call this a lose…” May mumbled. Joanna easily lifts them both up and May’s blushing to hard and staring at the ground. Heart beating too fast for something so simple. Maybe she did like being handled… Her teammates laugh. The Ice Queen can’t. Winter does relax, the barest hint of a smile on her face.  
Then she’s looking at Glade. The saber is finished and sings as it cuts through the air. With a press of a button the secondary splits from the handle and drops into their free hand. They test the pair out, feeling the balance, checking the sharpness. After a little more teasing and a small impatient frown from Winter, the weaponsmith finally surrenders it.  
“An adequate display,” Winter hums, keeping her expression and voice void of the pride in the eyes. Glade was amazing and they knew it. They frowned deeply at the insult and May laughed with Fiona. They were adorable. Even with the eerie glowing eyes. “Would you like to prove me wrong? I believe Watts is still trying to get combative readings from your neural augments.”  
There was an interruption from the Junior Ops. Of course it was Harriet who scoffs, “Stop playing with your pet,” Harriet said. "We’re here on business, Specialist Schnee."  
… Pet. May grits her teeth. She takes a deep breath trying to let the comment wash off. Winter’s constant reminder floats through her head. The need to play nice and play up Robyn’s image.  
It was Robyn’s fame that saved Fiona’s scholarships when the public learned Winter was promoted. It was Winter’s image that lets her be around Glade so much that their sign language was second nature in just a few months.  
Atlesian 101. Public opinion is everything. At the end of the day, they were all social creatures. All victims to a mindless and easily fooled community.  
But Robyn was a Mantle Rat. She doesn’t see the manipulative threads. She heard a bitch insult a friend who’s been stripped of everything and leaps into action.  
“What did you call Glade?” Robyn hisses. Fiona is standing by their leaders side. It wasn’t that Fiona was sweet and kind and without spite. It was that she didn’t have the protection May had, couldn’t act on her anger without a family name and money.  
So Fiona practically snarl and bare her fangs stuns May for a moment. The pair make the face of RMJT. They’re charming and cute smiles were plastered all over the net and zines. If a photo of them got leaked right now, Fi would lose her scholarships. They both looked ready to throttle the hare.  
“Get over yourself, Hill,” Harriet sneered in that Atlesian tone. May scowls. She’s faster than Robyn so she’ll be second in line to beat the asshole up. "Maybe if you were a real Atlasian Huntress you’d realize Glade is just a toy." May’s heart is in her ears. Roaring. Angry. Two years till freedom. May desperately reminds herself. Two years till they can finally bring Atlas down-  
Fiona moves first so Robyn follows her partner. Joanna’s long arms catch Fiona in a bear hug while May struggles with Robyn.  
"You called them Winter’s pet!" Fiona angrily yelled, thrashing in Joanna’s arms. Somehow May managed to shove Robyn her way. Joanna’s strong arms easily pinned the two in a bear hug. Fiona looked at the only other Faunus. Marrow had wandered over, no doubt to stop all the yelling. “Marrow! You can’t be okay with that!”  
“I- I’m not!” the underclassmen stuttered, tail low between his legs.  
"Then fucking do something!"  
“Assault isn’t the answer, Ms. Thyme,” That cool commanding voice. May sighs. That mask slips on too easily sometimes. May can’t blame her… She’s a Schnee she was literally born into it. Everyone calms a little. Winter isn’t even looking at RMJT but the airship side door. //Focus in use  
The workbench and kiln are abandoned… Winter clears her throat. Glade pokes their head out.  
Brows knitted up in fear above those glowing blue eyes, their ears a timid low. They looked at Robyn and Harriet, both their shoulders tense and absolutely pissed. Then they looked back at Winter and vigorously shake their head no, trying to hide away again.  
From the corner of her eyes, May saw Marrow bit his lip, tail twitching as he tried not to giggle. May was eager to latch to the lighter mood. Her anger doesn’t melt so easily. But… but Glade was scared. So she takes a deep breath and smiles softly. Not enough to be friendly because Glade was a solo vigilante.  
If they had to keep their relationship a secret they definitely had to keep their history with Glade buried.  
Still Her chest was bubbling at how cute timid Glade was. Marrow cracked laughing softly and May couldn’t help but to snort. Winter gave a sigh, frustration genuine on her face. For a moment even May thought she was irritated at the ‘criminal’ but the twitch in her arms told a different story. Winter fought against her true nature, pushed aside all the comforting gestures she’d learned for Weiss and gave Glade a wary thin look.  
“I assure you, you’re safe… Unless you doubt my ability to beat everyone here?” Winter asked slowly, toeing the line of intimidating and teasing. Glade made more adorable Faunus noises.  
May couldn’t help but to smile. Everyone else, save for Harriet, thought it was adorable so she was allowed to too. Before Winter could try coax them in, someone kicked Glade out of the airship. Silvio scowls glaring hard at the students.  
“Aren’t you fucking assholes suppose to be smart?” He ask. “Do you know how much Grimm you just brought in?! Two hordes of Megoliaths!”  
Winter sighs. She’s had a lot of practice so it comes out natural. It almost convinces May. “Harriet, take the fighter and the others. I need a word with RMJT.” Winter said, glaring hard at Robyn.  
During the short time it takes to load up the workstations and for the Junior Ops to leave, May realizes that Winter might actually be made. As soon as they were gone, Winter tapped a few buttons on her Scroll. May could feel the guarded edge on the back of her mind and in her Aura fade off as the hidden cameras in the room shut down.  
//HH & Winter Rift. White knights flaw. PICKUP HERE Immediately the Schnee exploded, that cool demeanor all fire and frustration.  
“What the fuck were you two thinking?!” Winter yells at Robyn and Fi. Again. At least it was almost two weeks. Still May sighs and tries to find a way to de-escalade the situation. It’s hard when she sides with Fi and Robyn. Fiona’s hackles practically raise, fist balled up tight as she glared at her former leader. Robyn looked ready to throw another punch.  
Before either of them could get a word in, Joanna’s massive figure stepped between them. She only crossed her arms, staring down at all three women. The interruption was enough for them to catch their breath. Mostly Winter who leaned against the table, almost struggling to breath as she rubbing her temples.  
“Fi… you should know you need to pick your battles. There are still people trying to get you expelled and I’m not there to-”  
“We don’t need your protection,” Fiona hissed, ears twitching low. "Focus on Glade, Silvio, Weiss and Whitley." That hit May and cracked Winter. So many emotions she needed to keep under control flashed across her face. May pressed her side into their girlfriend’s, hoping to ground her. Eventually the pain and fear faded to… guilt.  
Then Winter shook it off.  
It was replaced by fustration. “Point is there is a lot of people that don’t want to see you four graduate,” Winter said. RMJT rolled their eyes. They were the under-dogs. An estrange elite, two nontraditional Mantle Rats who said fuck the law and a Faunus that was better than a Schnee in both academic and fighting- Winter was still talking. “They have a lot of power if you give them any kind of leverage you’ll never graduate.”  
“We’ll be fine.” Robyn huffed.  
“No you wont,” Winter hissed at Robyn. She stood up, back straight and shoulders tense. Brittle. May gently put her hand on Win’s shoulder, only to have… her former partner shake it off. Winter soldiers on, “You have no idea, what Atlesians are capable of. You need to do better!”  
“I know!” Robyn yelled back. They were within each other’s melee range now. “I have people swarming me every day reminding me I’m the Hero of Mantle. I know!”  
“You wanted follow my grandfather. Step up and lead by example, Hill.”  
The importance of image finally clicks for Robyn. Realization settles in as her shoulders relax for a moment. Robyn tries to smooth out those hard edges but pitty and fustratin shines through. “So do you,” Robyn nearly hisses. “You’re the only one keeping them prisoner.”  
That makes Winter pause. She looks at Robyn and something filters across her face.  
Pity or envy?  
Before RMJT can say anything the bay doors open and Glade was the first one to jump out. Winter actual held them back. May remembered something Winter said at the beginning of summer. That Glade’s Dust was potent enough to level an entire block. They saw that masterful application during their work and now…  
And now Glade is finally away from civilians.  
Even from the possible safety of the Bullhead, high in the air, May could feel the heat piercing the Solitas cold. A blaze of fire rolled through the snow and ice, leaving the dead rocky ground bare. The weaker Megoliaths burned in the fire.  
The Dust in their boildersuit fade from red to dark orange. The herd was culled again, this time impaled by earthen spikes. A quarter of the herd was cut down in seconds. The Alpha Megoliaths roared, legs shattering the earth spikes under its feet. They could see the ground shaking from the sky. If Glade’s Aura and Dust doesn’t attract the second horde, the small earthquakes would have.  
Glade was skilled enough to avoid capture by Vale’s Glynda Goodwitch. Skilled enough to wrangle Grimm, skilled enough to have the entire Kingdom of Mistral after her and elude them for a year. Skilled enough that violence was a choice for them. And even stripped of everything they bite back in a differnt way.  
Winter crosses her arms. The movement pulls May to the argument that the two leaders could never really settle. What to do with Glade? "Their semblance is similar to General Ironwood’s Mettle." Winter explains. May hates their semblance even more. “Glade can Focus on an aspect, personality, emotions, senses, a task, Dust, lying… acting.” Winter said. There was something at the end of it. It dipped and strained… like she was stabbing her own heart. “Atlesian 102.”  
And suddenly May’s freeze and burns.  
“Give them what they think they want.” May mumbles. Focus on a lie or an act, May grits her teeth. Pretend like nothing is wrong for the sake of your friends or play up the torutred experiment to gain sympathy.  
“Everyone loves to see their hero and knight save someone. And the Faunus experiment is the perfect damsal.” Winter practically growls under her breath. May watches her. Anger deep in her eyes. Winter didn’t ask for the image, for the fame. It followed her from her family now in the military it has grown like steel wires.  
She waits a few moments. When RMJT responds with silence she finally leaps from the aircraft. She landed gracefully next to Glade. She let some of her Ice Queen image chip and crack to give Glade a pat on their head. The Specialist didn’t draw her new saber, fresh from the kiln and anvil. Instead she stepped back and let Glade fight.  
Glade never needed their help.  
Not with the Geist.  
Not after their surrender.  
May and Robyn looked at each other, conflicted and a little confused. How much was an act from their semblance? Robyn groaned into her palm. The look of regreat solid on her face before she leaped out.  
“Sometimes I think she forgets she’s dating Winter,” Joanna whispered to May. It felt like that most days… May blames the distance. The physical one, between Atlas and Mantle. “Come on. Killing Grimm will calm us down and we can’t get showed up by a civilian.”  
"How does adrenaline and hot sweaty women equal calming?" Fiona muttered. It was a half hearted joke. A little real but overall a bad deflect. May takes a breath.  
Glade is okay. Just a manipulative bitch. Hopefully. And if they’ll still be there tomorrow. Things will get better. Hopefully.  
May follows the rest of RMJT out of the airship.  
Joanna was right. Fighting Grimm burnt the argument and fight out of them. Despite all the show, Glade gased out far to quickly to be effective Hunter. They did kill a lot of the first herd and the second was no match for eight nearly qualified Hunters.  
Snow was starting to return to the area where Glade orignally landed. There was a small tent picked up with a few chairs. Fiona waving at them while Joanna gave a broad grin and blowing a kiss. Robyn plays along, a hand over her heart and swooning into May’s arms. Until the estranged Marigold snorts and drops her.  
But just because Joanna was right doesn’t mean Fiona was wrong.  
May stands above Robyn for a second. Admiring the messy plantium locks and the flushed tanned face- Robyn winks. “Ugh-” Instead of sinking down into the snow and kissing her girlfriend she kicks the snow into her face. Joanna and Fiona laugh, loud and joyful. They were all too tired to be guarded. It feels less like a fight, less like a mission watching a ‘criminal.’ Their stupid smiles always made it feel like a date.  
As soon as May took a seat in on the chairs she didn’t want to move. She hiss curses under her breath feeling her body throb. A Sabyr kicked her jaw, a Sulfur Fish stung her calf… but the thob was in her gut and growing lower and lower as she watches her partner.  
Joanna pushed Elm out of the way earlier, taking a hit from a Megoliath. It must have fucked with her shoulder because she’s rolling it, stretching her coat tight against her back muscles. May feels that solid heat ghost under her fingers. She doesn’t have the same hair routine but giving Joanna massages was good in its own way.  
She wasn’t strong enough for a deep massage but that just means May kept on trying. Enjoying warm skin under her hands, the hard shift from muscle to muscle. Every twitch was like Joanna was flexing.  
May feels Marrow’s tail thawt against her leg in a lazy motion. It sped up a little as Joanna slips a sleeve off, brunching up her shirt to push a the knot directly and showing an unfair amount of muscles.  
She wants to kiss her. Fuck public image. Fuck all the pretending, the cold attitutdes. May was tired of all the Atlesian bullshit. She killed dozens of Grimm and at least deserves to kiss her fucking girlfriends. Joanna was barely out of breath and May wanted her gasping.  
“Hey, Robyn,” Marrow called out, breaking her out of her daydream. “You can’t arrest people, can you?”  
“I quit so I could attend Atlas Academy, wags.”  
“Huh… Well that,” He gestured to Joanna. Robyn walked over, quietly observing as Elm walked up and tried to massage the kink gone. Both their muscles flexing and tested Atlesian thick clothing. "That should be illegal."  
“You know what is illegal?” Robyn asked. May could hear that stupid smile in her voice and she was groaning loudly to drown out Robyn but it didn’t work, “Not kissing my girlfriend- Damn it! Look alive, May!"  
May snapped to attention just as a Megoliath roared into view. Everyone switches back into fighting mode. May ran after her leader, twisting the chamber in her staff. It clicks empty, empty, then she felt electricity hum as lightning Dust chambers in.  
“Joanna!”  
“For the record I hate it when any of you do this!” Joanna yells. She still held her out her hands for May to vault off of and May only grins. Blame it on all the times Winter carries her around or all the rush from the Glyphs, or maybe she just likes being handled by Joanna. Her partner only frowns as hearing her thoughts. She still throws May high into the air and barely has time to dodge the Grimm herself.  
Elm jumps in, holding onto the trunk with Roots further anchoring her to the ground. May yells a warning, plunging the staff deep into the Grimm’s eye. It doesn’t bleed, doesn’t smoke, it just… sinks in with a bone shuddering wet noise. The lightning Dust pours into the Megoliath. Joanna helps Elm clear the twitching tunk and stomping legs.  
An explosion throw’s May’s off.  
It wasn’t silent like the crossbow bolts so it had to be something Fiona stole. May’s limbs burns like she’s been fighting for an hour. She sinks deep into the snow and it doesn’t help. It does the opposite. All the blood is pooling between her legs, all the running and fighting had everything rubbing just right. May tries not to think about the last time she had sex. About how the snow feels like Winter’s cool hands crawling into her neck.  
With a shuttering breath she stares up at the bright sky. Focuses on how warm the rare Solitas sun is on her skin because they were in public. Fiona eclipses the sun for a moment. Then a moment longer as her body falls-  
“Fi!” May screams, trying to scrample away. The snow gives and gives under her hands and Fiona finally craches into her. Even the sharp headbutt does nothing for the low arosual in her gut. If anything it just gives her shaft a reason to thob harder. It has everything to do with Fi’s groan and not how her brain was mixing pleasure and pain. With Fiona’s hands firm on her chest. Sweet laughter against her neck.  
May drops her Aura for a few seconds. The idea was that the snow would chill her blood. But so many hours, wrapped around Winter’s fingers… May groaned slamming her Aura back on. She wanted those cool hands on her thighs. Clawing. She wanted Fiona seated higher on her chest.  
Who’s idea was it not fuck? Winter? It has to be Winter’s.  
Fiona’s laugh draws May out of her pout. “Woops,” Fiona mumbled unapologetically. There was something in her voice. The faux innocent tone and sinfully slow drawls. “It’s a good thing Joanna won, you really need something for distance.”  
“Shut up,” May growled. As revenge she hangs limp. Fiona is strong enough to carry her but she just… so tiny. And tired. The snow makes things harder than it should be and they fall back into it. Out of stupid habits May holds Fiona tight, as if they were falling out of another crashing airship. As if Fiona wasn’t already laughing on the way down.  
“This is your fault y’know,” Fiona said with a grin. Looming over her, elbows blocking May. It fucks with her breathing and then more. Fiona’s eyes flicker down. That heated gaze slowly growing intense, like the day in the changing room. She licks her lips, her ears straining forward for more soft noise. She knows Fi can feel her heart race. That innocent smiles grows sweet and beutiful and so far from innocent.  
Her knee slides up.  
Pausing between May’s. That low throb was firmly settled between May’s legs now. She glances away but that only opens her up. Fiona’s lips and nose press into her neck. Her pulse is far to alive against such a soft kiss. Too soft. May wants more. Her body already arching for it.  
“Fi…” May was starting to tremble.  
“We deserve a second,” Fiona says as if it was a warning. Then her teeth digs in hard. May presses her hand against her mouth, breath loud and sharsh as her back arch but Fiona’s hand quickly comes up to pin it down. Her ears flutter pointedly. May wanted hands and teeth, Fiona wanted it all including her moans. She sucks hard and gives May a teaser for what it could feel around her pulsing cock.  
She doesn’t stop until May tugs her hair. After May feels pre-cum sliding down her shaft. Fiona growls and huffs. Teeth teasing the bruise but it was already healing. It still hurts, so Fi tongue sooth the spot. Low and slow like it was May’s shaft- Their Scrolls ping and Fiona looks ready to break it in her hands.  
G.O.A.T: stop. i can SMELL you horny idiots from here happywool: that’s a bad thing?  
She steal a kiss from May. Even burried in the snow, fighting in the cold, the kiss is warm and sweet. Even if Fiona’s sharp teeth nip with fustration.  
Her knee shifts higher. A hand palms May’s chest.  
G.O.A.T: SERIOUSLY. I CAN’T EXACTLY GET LAID foxhot: sounds like a u problem G.O.A.T: just finish the grimm so we can get Win home  
That stops Fiona dead in her tracks.  
mt.spur: what happen angeldust: Nothing important. G.O.A.T: i disagree and stop being a dumb bitch G.O.A.T: she’s fighting with her binder on angeldust: So are you! G.O.A.T: i didnt feint bitch  
May and Fiona rolls their eyes and share another kiss before Fiona pulls her onto her feet. "The sooner we finish the sooner we can finsih," Fiona says with a wink and runs off. May watches her with a small smile and tries to shake the snow out of her hair and clothes.  
The rest of the evening slips into a mix of auto-pilot and a straight up blur. The simple social outing for the ‘criminal’ was an extra hour, almost two. The Grimm was easy but they kept coming. Like every other week. RMJT has been out on so many missions half their classes were online, in the damn airships. The ones that weren’t were Combative Training, Advance Stealth Operations or Body Conditioning.  
Her Scroll kept going off too much to call it a nap and she feels to restless when she finally realizes they’re back in Mantle.  
May sets her back down the table and stretches out the kinks in her back. She groans as a few joints pop back into place. A pair of hands slide onto her shoulders, pressing into areas she didn’t realize were tense.  
The hands were too big to be Fiona’s, too small to be Joanna’s, too warm to be Winter’s. She blinks in surprise. For such a flirt Robyn was actually rather reserved. Most of her advances only happened when Winter was around. And sure enough, somehow the they manage to drag the Specialist.  
Or with Joanna, carry.  
A feint blush is on Winter’s cheeks now and she lets out a sigh. May has gotten used to all the touches and her partner’s casual show of strength. But Winter probably regressed up in Atlas, with only Glade.  
“You can set me down now,” Winter mumbles.  
“Not even a please,” Joanna playfully huffs. Instead she sits down on the couch. Her hands interwined with Winter’s… pressing it against her thighs.  
Just like the changing room.  
The room suddenly feels hotter. May’s blood was already hot from all of Fiona’s teasing and now its rapidly pooling in her shaft- Where’s the lamb. May looks around to see the women walk out of their bedroom, a bag in one hand and twirling the knife in the other.  
Now in the privacy of their home, Fiona is a little calmer. Her grin is still dark, her ears still strained but she doesn’t look like shes ready to pounce.  
Her prey is already caught after all.  
Fiona looks at May and winks. With a touch the coffee table and everything on it gone and she replaces it with the bed in their room. May finds her self menuvered, seated on the edge with Robyn behind her.  
May can only stare dazed at Winter. The women was… she was the image of Atlas perfection. Control, yet she’s trembling with Joanna’s hot breath on her neck. Power, though when that knife slices into her uniform she’s praying Fiona’s name.  
“Fi… fuck,” Winter mutters. Her Aura flares where the knife licks her skin. May whimpers and shifts between Robyn’s legs. Her leader murmers something. Something about how good girls don’t interrupt a show. A hand strokes May thighs, promising a reward for good girls.  
Fiona briefly smiles over her shoulder. The knowledge that this show was also for them… May throbs against her clothes. Whimpers with as Joanna hums, staring at the tent her pants. Winter looks ready to feint. Breathing shallow and eyes clouded. Still Fiona goes slow. Those flexing abs revealed inch by near minute.  
“Hurry, please Fiona… I’m going to pass out-”  
“Oh!” Fiona’s blinks, that dominance replaced by surprised concern. She laughs nervously, knife swiftly gliding through the shirt, coat and binder. Winter’s Aura lights up her skin as the blade tilts her head back.  
Exposed. Volunrable. Submissive.
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spiral-ingoutofcontrol · 5 years ago
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Wiztober Day 2- Shield
A/N: This is for my pod AU and features Cassandra Sandmask and Brahm Dawncaller. I love them so much I am so sorry for treating them like this.
TW: Death
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She should have used the tower shield.
It was such a dumb mistake. The heat had been beating down on them from all sides. She could feel the magic- the sheer power radiating from the presence of the slumbering titan. It was happening so fast and the pressure alone was threatening to make her explode. Everything was riding on this moment. Everyone was riding on this moment. She was Atlas, the world was heavy on her shoulders, and she had made the wrong play. She’d dropped the sky right on her own head and the only person she could blame was herself.
She should have used the tower shield.
She was running out of mana. She was running out of time. The weakness had started in the tips of her fingers so many rounds ago. Now it held tightly onto her very bones, her very soul. If he hit her again she was going to lose. She knew that. He knew that. She could see it in his dark eyes when he looked at her. The pain. The fear. He wasn’t better off himself. His knuckles were white and his fist tightly clenched the remains of his deck. She couldn’t tell if his grimace was from seeing his cards or from the pain. She should have known it was the pain.
She should have used the tower shield.
“I have a-” “No.” He’d told her no. His face had been set with determination and he looked so strong in that moment. She hadn’t noticed all of the sweat on his brow. She hadn’t noticed the way his hands shook as he spoke. “Take a heal. He hasn’t got much let in him.” He’d always known what to do. He was the smart one, she was the muscle. That’s how it had always been. She trusted him. She’d trusted his smile as he looked at her over his shoulder. “We’re gonna be okay, Cass. I promise.”
She should have used the tower shield.
It was so warm when the light of the healing spell washed over her. It was so different from the blistering fires that raged all around them. Her fingers were still stiff but it felt like new air had graced her lungs. She took a deep breath. It was hope renewed. She could do this. They could do this. They were going to be okay. Just like Brahm had said. He hadn’t lied to her before. She knew he wasn’t going to start now. She breathed out, a smile spreading across her face as she watched the green light shine from the sigil next to her. Her smile was cut short when the pixie appeared across from her.
She should have used the tower shield.
“Foolish boy.” His voice would’ve made her blood run cold if her heart hadn’t already stopped beating. “Brahm. Brahm!” The warmth was no wear near as comforting as it had been moments before. Her fingers flexed over her staff. “Brahm! Why?” She could hear him casting his spell from across the sigil but she couldn’t bring herself to look. The tears were already starting to blur her vision as she locked onto his eyes, dark as freshly turned soil. “You’re going to be okay, Cass. I love you.”
She should have used the tower shield.
“Brahm!” Her voice burned as she screamed his name, watching his dark skin slowly lose it’s rosy warmth, sucked away by the spell. What was the spell? How strong was it? How much life did he have- He dropped to his knees before slumping to the side. “No, no, no.” She couldn’t breath, her voice caught in her throat. The light drained from his circle, dissipating into the energy swirling throughout the dueling sigil. Cass tried to run to him, but the magic of her own circle pushed her back, holding her in place. She choked back a sob.
She should have used the tower shield.
“Stand down or end up like your foolish friend.” The dark wizard was standing a little bit taller. He had regained some energy from his attack. Her teeth pushed against each other, shaking as she held onto her staff for dear life. “No.” His staff struck the ground, the sound echoing throughout the chamber. “Then die.” She could barely see her cards through her blurred vision, but she already knew where the spell sat in her hand. She raised her staff, golden lights flickering against the hard silver of her eyes. “No.”
She should have used the tower shield.
She didn’t watch Malistatire fall. She didn’t care. She ignored the clatter of her staff and the way the stones scraped against her knees as she dropped to the ground next to him. None of it mattered. She pulled Brahm close, whispering pleads over and over into his unhearing ear. “Brahm, Brahm, please say something, Brahm.” “Cassandra.” Cyrus crouched down next to her as he spoke. “Cassandra you have to let him go.” “No- no-” He gently took Brahm out of her arms, laying him back on the cold stone. “I can’t- I should have-” “I know.” Cyrus pulled her into his chest, her tears staining his yellow robes. “I’m so sorry. We both lost someone that we loved today.” He stayed there with her, holding her as the embers died.
She should have used the tower shield.
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thatgoddamnwizard · 5 years ago
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Fic for Amcracchius: Only the Monsters Survive
((First of the fic prompts! This is for @amcracchius​, who asked that Michael give Harry a bear hug. Okay, no bear hug in this part, but it’s going to be a two-parter, and there will be a good, solid bear hug in that. Before the bear hug comes angst. You knew there would be angst. ;)
This is set in the Hell’s Angels, Heaven’s Rejects verse (also to be archived over at @hellsangelsheavensrejects​, though I still need to put up all the threads there), and takes place shortly after The Hidden Things (which yes, still needs to be finished).
Part 2 is coming soon!))
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The world faded in around me like the opening scene of a movie, and the first thing I saw was the empty street I had been standing in. For a minute, I thought I could hear someone shouting my name.
And then everything was silent, eerily so, a conspicuous absence of the usual Chicago din of rumbling motors, blaring horns, roaring jets flying overhead, the pitch and yaw of human movement. It was an absence of sound that wasn't so much like the beats of silence between a breath held and expelled, as it was like the vast emptiness that seems to fill a room after a last breath is exhaled. It was the silence of death.
It was a silence I would never grow fully accustomed to.
I started to walk, because there wasn't anything else to do in this gutted, burned-out wasteland of ruined buildings and crumbling asphalt and slowly rusting automobiles, the decaying remains of human civilization left to the reclamation of nature, and the monsters.
Only the monsters had survived. I tried not to think about what that might mean about my own survival.
I tried not to think about the fact that everyone I loved was dead.
I tried not to think about the things I had done to the people I loved. The suffering I had caused with my choices.
I tried not to think about the fact that those choices were probably why I was here now, alone with the monsters.
I tried not to think about how damned lonely I was. About how long it had been since I had felt the brush of human fingers against my skin, the softness of lips pressed against mine, the warmth of a caring embrace. About how much I missed... everyone. Murphy. Susan. Wynonna. Michael. Maggie. Weatherly. And... someone I couldn't quite remember, though somehow I knew he was still there somewhere, locked away in a hidden place within my mind.
Gone. All of them. I missed them. I missed them so much it felt like an open wound salted with despair.
I could see the monsters, lurking in the periphery, watching from the shadows of abandoned buildings as I shuffled past, figures twisted and grotesque and hungry. Always hungry. Their prey had been hunted into extinction, and now they had no one left to hunt but each other.
And me.
I didn't make it easy for them. I carried loops strung with their teeth and claws on my belt, a warning that I was not and would never be an easy target. They still came after me, though, on a fairly regular basis. I guess instinct wills out. Instince and hunger and sheer, bloodthirsty violence.
Three hunched, deformed figures ventured from their hiding places and approached me, hissing and snarling and slavering, lifting their heads to scent the air as they drew close. I stopped walking, fingers flexing around the rough-carved wood of my staff.
Again, I heard that echo of a familiar voice, as if carried on the wind. I shook my head, frowning, trying to hear, but it was gone as quickly as it came.
I looked back at the ghouls.“Might want to reconsider, fellas.”
The ghouls didn't reconsider.
The first one hurled itself at me with a leonine roar, and I whipped my staff around with a snarled word, expelling a blast of kinetic energy that sent it slamming into a stalled-out car hard enough to crumple the metal and send the vehicle rolling. While I was occupied with that one, the other two closed in fast on either side.
I dove into a forward roll. The two ghouls smacked together like a couple of speeding locomotives, and fell in a tangle of elongated limbs and flashing claws. Spinning low to the ground with staff still in hand, I came up into a crouch facing the thrashing ghoul-tangle, called on Winter, and, with an explosion of indescribably frigid, frost-sharpened air and a shout of “Infriga!” encased the two of them in ice. I then turned and gave the same treatment to the third ghoul.
A couple of kinetic blasts shattered the ice and the ghouls trapped inside. I didn't need a pair of pliers to retrieve my trophies this time.
I found a few teeth that were reasonably intact among the remains. I couldn't quite tell which teeth were from which ghoul, but I figured it didn't really matter. Walking over to an office building that somehow still had a reflective pane of dark glass set in its frame, I leaned my staff against the glass and pulled loose the leather cord that held a variety of fangs and claws dangling from small holes bored into the bone. I started to fold myself into a squat so I could prepare the teeth, but I caught sight of myself in the glass.
There is a moment of disconnect, even panic, when you look into a mirror and see something looking back at you that isn't you, that should never be you. I found myself grabbing for my staff and calling up my power again, my lips pulled back into a snarl that exactly mirrored that of the creature in the window.
The creature was of a height with me. It had the same basic bone structure, the same build. But its eyes were glacial-blue, its skin deathly white and stretched thin over jutting cheekbones, horned joints, and ropy muscle, its fingers tipped with translucent claws, its mouth filled with jagged, shark-like teeth.
It grabbed a staff at exactly the same time that I grabbed mine. It snarled at me in exactly the same way I snarled at it. Its body coiled with tension and barely-restrained violence in exactly the same way mine did.
The disconnect... connected. That figure was me. I was the monster in the mirror.
I could only stand, gaping. Minutes melted past, and I reached up to touch the glass, finger to reflected finger.
I was the monster in the mirror.
The voice returned, and this time I heard it clearly. A terribly, exquisitely familiar battle cry: Lava quod est sordium! In nomine Dei, sana quod est saucium!
Michael? But that was impossible. Michael had...
How had Michael died? I frowned, trying to remember.
I knew it had happened. I knew it had been my fault. I just couldn't remember how.
Was he coming for me? The monster in the mirror?
“No. This isn't happening,” I murmured. Something inside me snapped to awareness at those words.
And then the glass in front of me, and the reflection it held, shattered-- no, exploded, a spray of razor-sharp mirror fragments that swept over me, leaving a thousand tiny lacerations on my skin. I was thrown, landing on my back on the pavement.
And then I woke up. It felt like being hurled from a speeding train. My body shuddered and convulsed, then curled itself into a fetal position, weak and shivering.
“Harry,” a familiar voice said, strained with worry. I felt strong hands on me. “Harry, it's over. You're safe.”
I couldn't answer. The hands shifted on me, calloused warmth pressing against the clammy skin of my forehead, and I heard Michael's voice murmur a prayer for strength and healing. The words ran together like melting wax in my mind as I heard them, but I could feel their meaning. Could feel the power of his faith, the power vested in response to his faith. Not a surge of energy, not a blast of magic flooding through me, but something all made of a boundless, gentle strength. Warm. Reassuring.
The weakness in my body receded slowly like an ebbing tide. I lifted my head and looked around, memories starting to creep back into place. Alerted by the Paranet, we had gone to a nearby town to investigate a number of disappearances, and had encountered... I'm actually not sure what it was we had encountered. It had resembled a spider, but with a vaguely humanoid torso and head-- and I do mean vaguely. Mottled skin, a multitude of gleaming red eyes, and fangs that dripped with venom weren't exactly what I would call human.
The thing had been fast as hell. It had bitten me. And then I had fallen into that nightmare, which I felt fairly certain was part dream, part psychic attack.
And part truth.
I am the monster in the mirror.
“Harry?” Michael was still crouched beside me. Amoracchius was stained black with what I presumed was the spider-thing's blood. I looked around me for any evidence of its lingering presence, but only saw a disturbingly large but rapidly evaporating puddle of ectoplasm about a dozen feet away.
“Yeah,” I croaked. “I'm good.”
Slowly, I started dragging myself to my feet. Michael kept a hand on me, supporting me. I realized my face was wet with tears, and blinked them away, swiping at them with one hand. Dizziness was still playing a lively game of ring-around-the-rosie inside my head, but whatever venom the spider-thing had injected into my nervous system had apparently dissolved as well. I hoped it would evaporate before I had any interesting complications from it.
“Harry,” Michael said, and I recognized that tone of voice. The tone of voice he used when he was determined to get me to talk about something I had absolutely no desire to talk about. “What happened? What did you see?”
“Doesn't matter.” I walked a few paces, retrieved my staff where it had fallen during the battle, and started towards Michael's truck. “We done here? I need to get back to Chicago.”
Michael looked like he was about to press the issue, but then sighed and fell into step beside me.
to be continued...
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theincompetentgenius · 6 years ago
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Waves of Glass (Hideyoshi x Reader)
Anon: Can I get a Hideyoshi IkeSen angst followed by fluff with a savage s/o or mc. I’ll leave the storyline to you. Make me suffer, cause me pain.💜💜 I love your writing style, it’s amazing. Your language is really flowy hehehe
I think this fic is 90% angst and 10% fluff? Actually, I don’t even think it’s fluff (or as fluffy as it should be to balance the darkness of the fic), but silly humor? I tried my best but this turned out to be a lot darker than I expected. Anywho, thanks for the wait and enjoy!
Title: Waves of Glass
Fandom: Ikemen Sengoku
Pairing: Hideyoshi x Reader
Word Count: 2085 
TW: Angst, Blood, Guns, Drowning
“This is the bullet I’ve been saving for you,” the man purrs. He presses the barrel of his gun to my forehead.
The moonlight shines on his slick, pale face. I’m trapped between this psychopath and a wall of glass that veils the glimmering ocean, which sits about 50 feet below me. I have no idea what to do. The objective was to indefinitely borrow something and leave, not sitting as a hostage and having my brains blown. I highly doubt that the warlord would get to since I snuck into their caravan of supplies and slipped out while they were asleep. Maybe I should’ve listened to Hideyoshi.
As my thoughts circle around my head, the small amount of moonlight is hidden behind a veil of clouds. In the momentary cover of darkness, I slip my hand into his pocket and take what I needed. What I came here for in the first place. He shifts slightly, the rustling sound of his jacket masking the sound of soft footsteps. The general turns around, distracted by the sudden thump in the chamber in the other room. He lowers the gun.
I don’t think as I push him to the ground. He fires the gun and the bullet whizzes by my cheek. I grab his hand and he shoots the gun in random directions, trying to gain control of his aim. I slam my other fist into his face at the same time as I bring my knee to his groin. The sound of the gun exploding and the bullet ricocheting off the wall fills my ears. Too close. The man takes advantage of my daze and grabs me by the neck. Instant fills my throat. I gasp for air, but my lungs are frozen and my chest doesn’t move. He flips me over. The gun is once again at my head.
Another bang. This time, it’s not from a bullet but an angry Hideyoshi who looms over the man. His sword is at the general’s neck. “Let her go,”
Hideyoshi slashes the general’s hand. The stranger howls in pain and drops the gun. I run towards the warlord, but my man trips me with his feet and pushes me towards the glass wall. It was covered in bullet holes and completely shattered. The man scrambled to his feet and grabs a chair. He eyed Hideyoshi as he lifts the chair, but he swings his arms in my direction. The chair’s leg hits my stomach and my head smashes against the glass with a loud thud. Hideyoshi tries to run over to me, but the man throws another chair in his direction. I try to lift my head, but a shard of glass cuts my jaw. Blood trickles down my neck.
Another piece of furniture flies in my direction. Although I narrowly avoid it, another shard of glass rips my stomach. Pain sears through my body. If the general didn’t kill me, then the blood loss will. I manage to move from the area of sharp glass and rest against a large crack. My body was in no condition to move. Even if I did, the man was closer and would get to me before Hideyoshi. I sigh and watch the battle before me, pushing my body against the glass to lift myself up. My legs unfold themselves and my back is almost straight. I try to push my back against the wall with a little more force. Just a little further.
The glass behind me makes a final crack before the entire wall falls down. I double over from surprise, my weight pushing me backward. Hideyoshi lifts his head and screams. He rushes to me, trying to grab my hand. I try to lift my hand, but a shard of glass comes between us and slices my finger. My hand coils back and my foot fly in mid-air. The glass follows me as we plummet into the sea. It no longer holds its previous glimmer, it has become an abyss. Dark and lightless.
My head collides with the waves. I try not to scream to prevent the water from clogging my lungs. I dive down, squinting in the dark an opening in the violent waves. A loud clunk has me looking up. Something large comes rushing at me and I barely move aside in time as another piece of glass hits me. It cuts my right shoulder and I scream from the pain. Crimson colors the waters. for a moment, my body floating. His dark hair fans out around him. I paddle closer towards him, this time slower, my energy and air rapidly draining. He rushes toward me, his eyes filled with worry. I realize his armor is weighing him down. He holds one hand out, while the other struggles to unsheathe the sword at his side. It doesn’t budge. He is wasting the remnants of his strength and the surface is still at least fifty feet away.
I reach my hand out to him. My fingertips touch his. My vision grows dark as the last of my energy drains, but the fear is widespread in my chest. His sword finally comes out. He thrusts the hilt in my direction while clutching the blade. Hideyoshi winces and blood floats around his sword. I grab onto it with a shaky arm, my knuckles white against the handle. Lightning flashes and he let go of the sword, causing me to fall. He shoots towards me but stumbles backward from the current’s force. I swim against it, but my injured shoulder strains against the pain. With a force of determination, Hideyoshi grabs my arm. I try to pull myself forward. He seems heavier than he did before, or is my strength fading? I shake my head to clear it and only succeed in making myself dizzy. My throat is closing up. He grabs me with his other arm and pulls me close. 
We crash through to the surface, the storm still raging. The rain makes it hard to see, but there is a ship nearby. Hideyoshi calls out to the sailors on the ship. They don’t hear him. He takes the sword in my hands and waves around, hoping to grab their attention. One sailor points in our direction and the ship steers towards us. Minutes later, he throws us a line. He loops the rope around us and yanks it to signal the sailors. He holds me as we are hoisted up. I cough and sputter as large amounts of water exit my mouth. My chest heaves.
I turn around to face Hideyoshi. “You’re late.”
“Please tell me you’re alright,” He rushes over and hugs me.
“Yes. Three broken ribs, a split spleen, a dislocated foot, and a dismembered limb. They might’ve cut out my kidneys too.”
He scolds me, “Are you really going to joke around after nearly drowning?”
I bring myself nose to nose with him with a wink. “Don’t act like you aren’t enjoying this whole rescue mission.”
His scowl deepens. “Do you understand how worried I was when I found out you weren’t in your room? And the horror when you left a note saying you were breaking into the general’s home? What were you trying to do?”
I pull the object from my pocket and hold it up into the light. A small leather bag. Inside were important documents. Our key to stopping the uprising next month. “The plans for the Southern Uprising. He kept it in his coat pocket. That is the worst place to keep something you don’t want to be stolen. He was practically begging me to take it.” I click my tongue in disappointment. 
His jaw drops and his scowl only deepens. “No one asked you to steal war documents! Mitushide was supposed to retrieve that information. You nearly died.”
“Wow thanks for the gratitude,” I roll my eyes.
Hideyoshi shakes his head. He buries his head in his hands and takes a moment to compose himself before looking at me once more. His mouth opens to tell me something, but his eyes water with tears. He rests his head on my shoulder and tears of my own begin to sprout.
“Stop crying. Aren’t you supposed to be Nobunaga’s second-in-command? You face life-threatening situations all the time. You’re practically a superhero. Why are you crying?” My voice is shaking as I try to keep myself together.
His arms grow tighter around me. “When I’m on the front lines, I have to worry about my own life. I’ve already accepted that I’ll die giving my life for someone, whether it be for you, Nobunaga, or the people. As long as you’re safe, I don’t mind.” Hearing him brings tears of my own. He clears his throat and continues. “Even if you’re away from me, you’re always kept safe at the palace or in the medical tents. But tonight was the first time I had seen you so close to death. Never in my life had I imagined that you would die before me. You can’t die before me or I’ll have nothing left.”
I bring his head to my chest and ruffle his hair. “Well I’m alive and breathing, aren’t I. You call it a careless risk, but I call it a successful mission. Besides, you can’t kill me because I’m a bad bitch.” I give a weak laugh and flash him a stupid grin.
He lifts his head and chuckles. “I’ve never heard anyone use profanity to address themselves positively. What does that even mean?”
I flex my non-existent muscles and make finger-guns. “It means that a slimy, konpeito-looking idiot can’t harm me because I’m a strong and independent woman who can defend myself. The only thing that could send me six feet under is the fact that he smells like the showers with a bar of dung. Also, did you get a look of his eyes? They look more like the nasty wart on his foot than actually human eyes.”
Hideyoshi pushed me away and wrinkles his nose. “Alright, I didn’t need that image in my head.” 
Despite the throbbing pain in my stomach, I laugh and inch closer to him.“I’m pretty sure his pants had stains of urine and fec-”
“Alright, that’s enough. Now let’s go get you cleaned up and bandaged. The pieces of glass wedged into your skin could cause some real problems, so we need to get them removed. You don’t want to lose any blood, even if you’re a ‘bad bitch’.” He shakes his head, but the corners of his mouth curled upward. 
Hearing him say the words “bad bitch” made me erupt with laughter. He sounded so silly that I rolled over, crying tears of laughter. Hideyoshi insists that it wasn’t that funny, but if he had heard himself, he’d probably pee his pants. I roll across the shipboard. 
Out of the corner of my eye, I see the tiny figure swimming upwards, his arms slowing down with the effort. I stop moving, laughter echoing around me. Hideyoshi follows me and grabs my arm to stop me from rolling. When I look at his face, I notice that he’s laughing as well.
“Are you finished?” He sits on the floor and places my head on his lap.
“If you heard how stupid you sounded, you’d understand why I’m laughing so hard.” The last of my laughter fizzles out.
“Then imagine how silly it sounds when you say it,” He chuckles.
For a moment, we sat together, watching the moon illuminate the waves. Something that seemed cold and dark not too long ago is now our source of peace and comfort. That and the fact that we somehow survived this whole debacle. I rock against his lap and bring his hands under my chin. He plants a small kiss on my head. 
“Please don’t ever do that again.”
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jade4813 · 6 years ago
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Stardust
Title: Stardust
Rating: PG
Synopsis: Three months after Barry's disappearance in Crisis on Infinite Earths, Iris looks up at the stars and ponders the destiny that brought him to her...and took him away. Written for @westallenmeetupffe - the Westallen Meet Up Fanfiction Event because I love @backtothestart02 too much to say no.
Chapters: 1/1
“Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics. You are all stardust… The stars died so you could be here today.”
- Lawrence M. Krauss
July 25, 2019
Iris hated the stars, she decided as she threw a fulsome glare at the sky, hoping some errant clouds would get the point and hide the twinkling lights from view.
Well, okay, she admitted to herself on a disgusted sigh. She didn't hate the stars. It wasn't their fault that they made her miss Barry. A light breeze blew across her cheek, as soft as his touch, and she closed her eyes. Her head tilted back towards the sky, she wrapped her arms around her waist and breathed deeply, imagining the arms around her were not her own. If she tried hard enough, she could almost remember the exact smell of his skin, as clearly as she remembered the deep rumble of his voice in his chest when he held her.
"So, Iris? How about it? It’s a beautiful night, and everyone agreed to take over Flash duty for me. I’m all yours. Want to go out and look at the stars?" he suggested with a grin, leaning back against the kitchen island, the movement causing his muscles to flex and shift in a tantalizing fluidity of movement.
He had done this more and more frequently over the past few months, stealing time away for the two of them to be alone together. Neither of them were strong enough to admit why. They didn’t have much time left to enjoy these precious moments, and they knew it. Barry’s disappearance – and apparent death – was foretold in a newspaper from the future. They had resolved not to give in to despair, determined to fight fate. And yet it was a dark cloud that hovered over them, stealing the lives they had dreamt of building together with every second that ticked by.
Iris pursed her lips. “All right,” she conceded. In all honesty, she’d accompany Barry anywhere. To another planet, another world, another time, another reality. Anywhere he wanted to go, just for the chance to hoard these precious seconds with him.
Kicking off her shoes, she dug her toes into the soft, muddy ground at the edge of the water. Night after night, she was drawn to the lake where Barry had once told her they’d shared their first kiss, before he accidentally travelled through time and erased it. Where they’d finally exchanged their wedding vows after their planned ceremony was interrupted.
Her eyes stung, and Iris told herself it must have been due to the wind as she dropped her arms and pulled her gaze away from the sky. She heard laughter behind her, and turned to find a couple strolling by on the street. In response, she scooted a little further down the riverbank, not wanting to relinquish her moment of privacy just yet.
There were so many memories of herself and Barry, just the two of them. She couldn’t count the number of nights that she’d laid in bed, her mind reliving every detail of their time together. Sometimes those memories brought her comfort. Sometimes – like tonight – her memories of the past were an open wound that bled and ached with every beat of her heart.
Not long ago, Cisco had asked her if she regretted loving Barry, knowing she would one day lose him. They had been through so much together, and the truth was, it wasn’t the first time she’d lost him. Still, this was different, and Iris understood what Cisco meant but refused to say. Every time she lost Barry in the past – even when he sacrificed himself to the speed force – there had been a sliver of hope that he would come back to her. Even when that hope hurt too much to hold on to, it was there. But now? Barry had disappeared, just like the newspaper had foretold. Nora, their erased daughter from the future, had once revealed that he would never return. If the newspaper headline – the headline Iris herself wrote – was true, then didn’t that mean all of it was true?
Iris would never regret knowing Barry. Loving Barry. She treasured every single second he had been a part of her life. He used to talk about destiny as something to treasure, because it always brought him to her. For her, destiny had become something to hate, because it always took him away. Still, she could remember his voice in her ear the night before he disappeared.
“Promise me this isn’t the end, Barry,” she murmured, listening to the steady beat of his heart as they laid there in the dark. “Whatever happens tomorrow, promise you’ll come back to me.”
“I’ll come back to you, Iris. I’ll always come back to you,” he breathed into her hair, his voice cracking slightly from his sorrow. It made his attempts to comfort her even more heartbreaking. “What that newspaper says…it doesn’t have to be our destiny.”
Her fingers dug into his side as she pulled him even closer, as though she could protect him from the future if she only held him tight enough. “Don’t say that word. I don’t want to hear it ever again!” she swore vehemently. “I hate it! It seems every time we talk about destiny, it’s our destiny to lose each other. There’s no such thing as destiny, Barry! I don’t believe in it, and you shouldn’t either! We’ve changed the future before and we’ll do it again tomorrow.”
Barry shifted, and when she looked up at him, he pressed a kiss against her lips. “I don’t hate destiny. It was my destiny to love you. How could I hate anything that brought me to you?”
But she didn’t have his appreciation for destiny. Particularly when she thought about the nights they had curled up in each other’s arms and talk about the future they envisioned sharing in a lifetime of tomorrows. Tomorrows that would never come.
“He would love this,” she sighed as she stared back up at the sky. Like she had on that night, when he carried her out here to show her the stars. Had it really only been three months since she’d lost him? It felt somehow both like a fraction of an instant and an endless eternity.
“Come on, just a little bit further,” Barry urged, grabbing her by the hand as he led her to the edge of the water.
“You know, we could have gone anywhere. Somewhere we could see more than six stars, even,” she pointed out with a laugh. She loved the city she called home, but its bright lights drowned out most of the visible stars.
He shrugged and threw her an unrepentant grin. “I know. But this place has a special place in my heart. Can you blame me?”
The sun would be rising soon, but when Barry slid behind her and looped his arms around her waist, Iris decided it could take its time. She leaned back against his chest and sighed, feeling more at peace than she’d ever found herself to be with anyone else. As they stood in silence, he bowed his head and brushed a soft kiss against her shoulder, and she snuggled deeper into his embrace.
It was such a perfect moment, and Iris had reiterated her determination right then that nothing would ever change between them. That nothing could take him away. Even after everything that had happened between them over the years – secret identities, evil speedsters, time travel, death and disappearances and even imprisonment – she still had that feeling of peace and contentment when she was with him. Perhaps she always would.
There was something about Barry that had always come so easily to her. Which was probably why she couldn’t help but love him for most of her life. Even though she’d tried to deny her feelings for years because the very thought of loving someone that much scared her more than she could say.
A young Iris stared as the car lights disappeared around the corner. Her mommy had promised that her daddy would be home soon, before her voice cracked as she swore fiercely that she loved her very much. But now she was gone, and Iris was alone. Somehow, even at six years old, she knew deep down that her mommy wasn’t coming back. Her fingers pressed against the windowsill, and her breath fogged the window. Her little nose pressed against the glass, and she strained her eyes, trying to catch one last sight of the car.
When she could no longer see even a faint red glow, her eyes drifted to the sky. Her mommy used to sit with her beside this windowsill at night while she read her a bedtime story. And then, every once and a while, her mommy would point up at the stars and tell her to make a wish. She used to say that sometimes people got their wishes, but Iris was beginning to suspect that was just one of those things grownups told little kids, even though it wasn’t true.
But maybe it was worth one last try. Iris nibbled on the inside of her lip as her eyes scanned the sky, looking for a star that looked like it had promising wish-granting potential. She finally picked one that seemed to twinkle just a little bit more than the rest, and then she scrunched up her face and wished with all her might.
“Star light, star bright, first star I see tonight…” she dutifully recited, lisping a little through the brand new gap left behind by a missing tooth. Technically, this wasn’t the first star she’d spotted tonight, but she hoped the stars wouldn’t mind. “I wish I may, I wish I might, have the wish I wish tonight.”
A little crease formed between her brows as she concentrated as hard as she could. She wanted her mommy to come back. She wanted her daddy to not have to work all the time, getting called away even on her birthday. She wanted someone to love her too much to leave her behind. Pressing her palms hard against the glass, she squeezed her eyes shut and whispered her deepest wish towards the sky.
For years, Iris had built defenses around her heart, had from the very thought of being in love. She’d accepted that love was great in theory, but it was terrifying in practice. To love someone and lose them…? She couldn’t think of anything worse. So when Barry had come along, she’d been his friend for years while telling herself she didn’t want anything more. And then…well, everything had changed. He was struck by lightning, spending months in a coma. It was the worst kind of heartache because he wasn’t even hers, and she’d lost him anyway.
When he awoke, she didn’t realize her feelings for him right away. But it wouldn’t be long before she did, and perhaps it was inevitable that she would. Her love for Barry had only grown year by year, until it was deeper than she ever could have dreamed possible. Loving him was both more wonderful and more painful than she’d ever imagined.
She’d been compelled to drive out to see the stars tonight after hours spent thinking about all the singular, insignificant events that, combined, led to the two of them meeting. Becoming friends. Becoming…something more. Falling in love. Finding each other again and again and again.
It was almost enough to make her wonder if it he was right, no matter how much she wanted to rail against the thought now. It wasn’t an accident that the two of them had found each other. That, perhaps, he was right about destiny.
“Why the sudden desire to see the stars tonight?” she asked, leaning against his solid warmth.
In reply, Barry grabbed her hand, linking his fingers in hers. Then he held them up so she could see. “Carl Sagan once said that every part of the world around us – every part of us – is made from the remnants of collapsing stars. That we’re made of starstuff, flung across the universe until eventually – miraculously – coming together to make us who we are.”
“That’s…kind of beautiful,” she breathed, turning in his arms and wrapping her arms around his waist.
“But think about it, Iris. The atoms that make up who we are came from hundreds of thousands of stars that died billions, maybe trillions, of light years away. They came all this way to create me and create you. And everything that we’ve gone through together, we’ve found each other again and again and again. If I lived a hundred lifetimes, I’d love you in every one of them.”
“I’d love you too, Barry,” she said with a puzzled frown. “But I’m not sure what that has to do with why you wanted to come out here tonight.”
He smiled, stroking her cheek with the back of his fingers. “Because if all those atoms travelled all that way to be part of me and part of you, then I can’t help but feel like it couldn’t have been for nothing. I was born to love you, Iris, and no matter what we face in the future, I’ll find you again. Whatever happens, when you look up at the stars, I want you to remember that.”
With a sigh, tilted her head back to look up at the sky one last time. She thought of fate. Of stardust. And of all the moments that had to fall into place for the two of them to find each other. Again and again. It was almost enough to make her want to believe in fate. And maybe even a little bit in magic.
“Star light, star bright, first star I see tonight. I wish I may, I wish I might, have the wish I wish tonight,” she murmured. Then she closed her eyes and wished, as hard as she could, that if the stars brought Barry to her once, they could do it again. That they could bring Barry back to her. 
Hoping that, this time, her wish would come true.
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bobbichoicesfeedback · 5 years ago
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Okay, so Bloodbound is over. Unsurprisingly, I wasn’t a big fan of the ending, but to be fair it wasn’t as bad as I expected it to be. I have an alternative ending I wrote to it.
It’s dark, but no darker than the ending you got if you chose to absorb Rheya’s goddess abilities. I hope people enjoy this alternative telling. Please give me feedback if you like it or if you don’t like it. It’s just a different perspective for the story, I guess.
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Life force drained from Rheya, her blood pouring out of her body and floating into the air like DNA helix. I stared at it, the power inside me almost intoxicating, as the life force of The First was absorbed into my veins.
“Wow,” was all I could say, sensing every heartbeat in the huge room. Adrien, Kamilah, and Lily were staring at me in horror - I could tell without even having to turn - and the cattle… the humans in the auditorium were coming out of the trance Rheya had put them under. The screaming started immediately.
“Bobbi!” Lily’s voice was suddenly all I could hear. Her hand was on my wrist, “You’re scaring me.”
“Do you know what I can do, now, Lily?” I asked, pouring sardonic contempt into my words. I could sense everything Rheya had been planning, all the good sense her aspirations to godhood represented. I felt fangs digging into my lips as I grinned.
“No, Bobbi,” Lily sounded terrified, but more upset. Saddened by what the woman she loved appeared to be turning into, “I don’t know what you can do now, and it scares me. But I know you’re still in there. The girl who cries when dogs die in movies, the girl who always tries to save everyone- urk.”
She stopped talking as my hand gripped her throat and I lifted her as though she were made of paper.
“It’s sweet that you think you know me,” I purred, pouring as much as I could into sounding seductive, knowing I was sounding like my great-et-cetera-grandmother who I’d just killed, “But you proved you didn’t two months ago, when he killed me.”
I hurled Lily across the stage, where she collided with Gaius. Both vampires crumbled to the floor in pain. Kamilah attempted to step towards me, but Rheya’s memories were in my mind now. I stopped her and Adrien with a simple thought.
“Bobbi,” Kamilah’s voice sounded hard and brittle. She’d always known what to say when I was alive, but had struggled to get through to me after I was resurrected. She didn’t know why. She was jealous of Lily for having my love, but had decided to back away gracefully, “You sound like Rheya now. You don’t want to do this…”
“Rheya was a fool,” I snarled, “She wanted a world where humans and vampires wouldn’t be a threat to each other anymore? She overlooked the obvious. I can’t do it yet…”
I turned to the auditorium. None of the humans or vampires had been able to escape, the doors would not open for them.
“I need more power…”
I heard gasps of shock, horror, disgust… Lily, Gaius, Kamilah, and Adrien had worked out what I meant at the same time. I didn’t blame them. What I had to do now sickened me. But there was no choice. I could save the world.
“I wonder if Machiavelli was a vampire,” I mused aloud, deliberately putting a childish, sing-song cadence into my voice, “The ends really do justify the means.”
I forced myself to keep my eyes open. I needed to know every death I caused. I could not absolve myself of this guilt, even if my actions were necessary. Every human in the room screamed as the blood was drawn from them, merging and vaporising into some ethereal energy which merged with my undead body, elevating my power even closer to godhood. I reached out with the psychic powers granted by my Bloodkeeper heritage.
“Not enough, yet,” I said. In an instant, I realised what needed to be done. I released the vampires in the hall from my power - the four who had accompanied me surged forwards. Lily plunged a stake into my heart. I just smiled, reached out, and booped her on the nose as the stake evaporated and I flew through the roof without blinking.
Flying was incredible. I’d reluctantly enjoyed the sensations my vampire body had given me when I’d been able to leap from building to building in single jumps, but this made that look… pedestrian.
I soared high into the air, above the peaks of New York’s skyscrapers and looked down at the city below me. The most densely populated area in the United States - more than eight million people had lived here before Gaius’ ill-thought-out war. The population hadn’t all returned, but there were still millions of humans down there.
Eyes wide open, I began to feed. For the first time since I’d become a vampire I truly enjoyed the sensation, instead of my body just lusting for more. Men, women, children. Evil as it was, I couldn’t spare anyone. The screaming reached my hyper-sensitive hearing even up here. Then it fell silent. The only heartbeats coming from the whole of New York City were from baffled vampires, reeling from the loss of their goddess and now the sudden emptiness of their home.
I reached out with my mind. It had worked. I was now psychically aware of every living being on Earth - Vampire, human, other supernatural beings - even Ferals were now in my mind, thanks to my great-umpteenth-grandfather. I clenched my fists and allowed a burst of power to soar west.
A woman in Los Angeles ran down an alleyway. Her taser hadn’t worked, the man following her had just laughed and then his teeth had grown. She was sure he was toying with her.
“You can’t run any more,” he growled, eyes glowing red. The woman, out of options, plunged the spikes of her taser into his chest again and pulled the trigger. At first, the monster seemed to shrug it off. Then his eyes went wide, fading from the red to a much more ordinary blue. His teeth retracted. He convulsed as the electricity pumped into his human body.
On an island, lost in the south Pacific, feral vampires in every form of twisted mutation, ran around in panic. One-by-one, in an east-to-west wave, they exploded into ash.
A malformed tree in the centre of the island spontaneously ignited and inside the spirit of Demetrius was finally freed. He smiled sadly, but accepted the end of his days.
“Well done, grand-daughter,” he said, as he dissolved into the aether.
The four survivors of Japan’s vampire council were gathered around in their cyberpunk nightclub, watching whatever news was coming out of New York in horror. Kano, the young, gifted psychic was there, unusually. He screamed and dropped to his knees.
“I can’t believe she’s done that,” was all he whimpered to himself, as his heartbeat slowly accelerated back to normal human levels.
Three of the four felt their bodies warming, returning to the humanity they’d lost so many years ago. They didn’t notice much, though, because the screams coming from The Evolved drowned out every thought. Her once-again human body was rejecting the mechanical augmentation she’d put herself through. There was no chance to save her now.
In Outer Mongolia, a vampire was running as fast as he could. Dusk was coming and he’d had to abandon his hiding place early.. Suddenly he felt dizzy, tripping and falling. He screamed in terror as the light of the sun shone down on his body but, to his surprise, it just felt warm.
He stood up, blinking in the unaccustomed light. He tried to flex his muscles but no longer had the unlimited strength he was used to. In a moment, he realised. He wasn’t a vampire. The sunlight wouldn’t kill him anymore. Now he just had to get back to civilisation…
Three of Dracula’s brides, imprisoned in the dungeons of his castle, dropped to their knees. The irresistible compulsion to seek out the blood of the living had passed from them. They clutched each other, weeping tears of mixed regret, relief, and horror, as they finally understood their lives were human again.
Across Berlin, Paris, and London, dozens of vampires who had been trying to work out how to live in a world without The Order suddenly felt their supernatural powers fading. A world without The Order had suddenly become a world without vampires.
In the opera house below the blazing goddess, Kamilah, Lily, and Adrien held each other closely, gazing up in horror at the shape of what had once been their friend. Gaius screamed in pain - when they turned to look, the mortal wounds that Rheya had inflicted on him started bleeding again.
Lily realised first.
“I can’t smell his blood,” she said, waving a hand in front of her face, “Why can’t I smell his blood?”
All three of them tried to draw on their senses. The terrific truth dawned on them with awe.
“She didn’t,” Adrien said, quietly, realising that his teeth were now immobile, “Surely, she couldn’t…”
Simultaneously around the world every former vampire heard a psychic scream, the last utterance of the vampire goddess. Bobbi. The last Bloodkeeper.
“I am become Death. The creator of worlds…”
At Rheya’s mansion outside the city, the last example of the tree of blood caught fire, burning into ash. The sap flared like burning oil, evaporating and removing any chance of a vampiric bloodline being reborn.
I gasped as the power withdrew from me. I had felt every moment. Every vampire who had died because they weren’t safe when they lost their abilities, their pain was my pain. Every sensation of rage at becoming human again, I knew. Every feeling of relief, mostly from older vampires who had learned the price of immortality, was a mild balm.
Gravity reasserted its authority over me. It would have been interesting to say that I hadn’t thought of this part. But it would also have been a lie. The small part of the dead goddess that had still been me knew I’d be returning to my human life more than two thousand feet above the ground.
I had accepted it. Even without the mind-perverting influence of the power I had absorbed, I felt I had done the right thing, but that didn’t change the fact that I had just become the most prolific mass-murderer in history.
I hugged myself closely and closed my eyes. I sacrificed an entire city, to save a world. I had made a world where humans and vampires would never threaten each other again. I assumed I would never know if it had been worth the appalling cost.
The sun was rising over New York. Kamilah, Adrien, and Lily blinked owlishly as they stepped out into the eerily silent streets. Drawn by some sense they didn’t understand, all three stumbled through the daylight towards Fifth Avenue.
Lily began to sob uncontrollably as they saw the crater. Just in front of the Empire State Building lay a crumpled heap that no-one would have been able to identify, if they hadn’t instinctively known who it was.
“Why did she do that?” Adrien asked, aghast, “She could have landed before relinquishing the power.”
The thought on all their minds went unspoken - why had she killed so many and then cured the vampires?
“She hated being a vampire,” the voice was Serafine’s, but it sounded hazy, “When she knocked me out, our minds met for a moment…”
Kamilah caught Lily clumsily - she had thrown herself forwards with hatred in her eyes, hands extended to punch the psychic woman who had just arrived on the scene.
“Why would you lie about that, now?” Lily screamed, struggling against Kailah’s grip. Both women were unused to the weakness in their muscles without vampiric blood, “She didn’t hate it, she would have said!”
“I don’t want to hurt you, Lily,” Serafine replied, calmly, although tears were running down her face, “The past three months, she’s loathed herself. Every second of life as a vampire. Every drop of blood she had to drink. Every tale from a vampire elder about how they regretted their elongated lives…”
At that last line, Serafine made eye-contact with Kamilah who trembled. Sadness was writ large on every face.
“She’s been harbouring resentment since the moment she woke in that coffin,” Serafine continued, slowly walking up to the pulverised mass in the street. Her breath caught as she saw the extent of the damage, then she swept off her scarf and covered Bobbi’s remains as best she could, “Her hatred of becoming one of us twisted and perverted Rheya’s goal. She wanted to make a world where humans and vampires wouldn’t threaten each other any more. I guess she managed…”
“Has she killed all the humans?” Adrien asked, his voice croaking, “I can’t hear anything in the city…”
“There’s news coming from outside…” Lily said, robotically looking at her ‘phone, “I think it was just New York… but… she killed every man, woman, and child in the city…”
“Good god,” Adrien sat on the hood of an abandoned taxi, dropping his head into his hands, “What did we create?”
“Why didn’t she tell us she was unhappy?” Kamilah asked, stalking in paces out of habit, “Why didn’t she say that this was hurting her?”
“She… ah…” Serafine suddenly looked nervous and stepped away from Lily again, “She didn’t want to hurt Lily. Since Lily admitted she Turned Bobbi, Bobbi had been lying to her. I saw… painful amounts of sadness and hatred. She couldn’t forgive your Turning her, but she couldn’t admit that because the love she’d once felt meant she couldn’t hurt you either.”
Former vampires were coming out into the sunlight. There had been a few hundred left after Gaius and Rheya’s purges. Lulu had been following Serafine. Kamilah realised just in time and caught the little girl in an awkward hug before she could see the mess in the crater.
Adrien managed to rally some assistance to remove Bobbi. Kamilah reverted to type and began to wrangle the survivors into bands to find all the former vampires left in the city.
Lily and Serafine remained at the crater’s edge, not talking. Instinctively, people left them alone. It was almost midday before Lily finally spoke.
“So…” her voice was firm, despite the tears still flowing down her cheeks, “Bobbi told you all that in the moments she knocked you out?”
Serafine smiled enigmatically.
“Even though she didn’t know that she could absorb Rheya’s power before it happened?” Lily glared at Serafine, accusingly. Serafine chuckled sadly.
“I knew you’d work it out,” she said, running a hand through her hair, “Serafine was the only psychic nearby. She was the only one who could help me. Let her link minds with you? I need to say goodbye.”
Lily gasped as the world blurred into an ethereal mindscape. She looked around and her imagined breath caught when she realised that the projections of Serafine and herself had been joined by a projection of me. Still, she wouldn’t be Lily Spencer if she didn’t have a facetious comment.
“So, is this like Doctor Strange?” she asked, raising an eyebrow, “Astral projecting?”
“Just telepathy,” I said, smiling sadly. I turned to the projection of Serafine, who looked shell-shocked and a little angry, “I’m sorry Serafine. I will be gone soon. I needed to explain why I did it…”
“What did you do?” Lily asked, drawing back a little, “We’re trying to look, but there don’t seem to be any humans left…”
“I…” I closed my eyes. Admitting this to myself had been easier than admitting it to the woman I’d once loved, “The whole city… I needed the power to make sure there was never a chance of vampires coming back… I know I’ve become a monster. Everything we were fighting against. But I wanted to make sure you could all have true lives, lives you deserve.”
“Why did you get to make that decision for me?” Lily snapped.
“The same reason you made the decision to Turn me and start all this in motion,” I said, and quickly continued before she could bring up her perfectly valid objection, “The same reason that I asked Adrien to Turn you last year. Because I love you.”
“Don’t tell me you committed genocide because you love me,” Lily recoiled, in horror, “You do realise that’s not a good thing, right?”
“I know. But, for a moment, I knew everything any vampire knew,” I closed my ethereal eyes, but could still sense every molecule of Lily’s astral projection, “All the older ones were unhappy. Eternal life is not a gift. The powers you all had were not repayment enough for the suffering you would eventually experience. Just ask Kamilah. She told me once, how only the memories she made while she was a human felt truly hers. I wanted to give that back to her. I didn’t want you to suffer the way she did. The way Takeshi did. The way even Gaius did.”
“I loved being a vampire,” Lily groused, but there was a tone to her voice, a sensation of understanding, “You killed children to take it away.”
“Lily, if there had been any other way, I would have done it,” I admitted, honestly. I realised that I was being one-hundred per cent truthful, “When I was a vampire I couldn’t love you anymore. Why do you think we never made love? I didn’t sleep with anyone else either. But, when the tree burned, and I became human again… I could feel the love. I wish we could have had more time. But I need to let Serafine have her body back.”
Finally, Lily stepped towards me. We reached out and held hands for the last time.
“You have the chance for a normal life now,” I said, feeling phantom tears stream down my face, “You, Kamilah, Serafine you could all have children if you wanted. Adrien can eventually rejoin his family.”
“Without condoning, or condemning, I understand,” Lily quoted to me, reaching up and brushing the tears away, although they were streaming down her face now, “I will miss you, Bobbi. I love you, even now…”
“Please, promise me…” I choked on the words, knowing this would be the last time I ever spoke to Lily in this life, “Take my ashes and spread them in Greece. Go to those beautiful ruins, see them in daylight. I wanted nothing more than to go back there with you one day.”
“I promise,” she said. I felt a lightness in my heart, although it would never efface the guilt I deservedly felt.
“I love you, Lily.” I said, leaning forwards to kiss her. Then my soul dissipated as I truly died.
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joiedecombat · 6 years ago
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Maia/pyrrhic? :D
SO THIS ONE KIND OF EXPLODED, THANKS
It is suitably angsty.
pyrrhic - won at too great a cost
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“Commander?”
Blinking her way out of the downward spiral of her thoughts felt like stepping out of a dark tunnel. Odessen’s daylight fell softly over the wooded mountainside and the familiar outlines of the Alliance base, with none of the uneasy quality of the artificial light of Iokath, but just now to Maia even this much seemed too bright.
Pushing back the impulse to rub her eyes, she turned to find Lana standing expectantly at her elbow. Behind her, the landing had gone quiet; a handful of people moved outside the base, techs going about their work, a pair of troopers speaking to one another in voices muted by distance, but the noise and bustle of personnel offloading supplies and equipment from the Gravestone had at some point ceased.
With sudden chagrin, Maia realized just how long she’d been standing there lost in thought.
If Lana was at all perturbed by her inattention, she had the grace not to let on. Lana, Maia thought ruefully, could give more than a few Jedi lessons on patience - present company included. 
The Sith-gold eyes regarding her held only polite concern. “Are you all right?”
“I’m fine.” Maia offered the other woman an apologetic look. “Sorry. I was just a little preoccupied.” 
“I’d imagine so. The events on Iokath have given all of us a lot to process.” 
Maia smiled wanly at the understatement.
“I’ve made inquiries,” Lana went on, “and so far it seems like nothing out of the ordinary occurred while we were away. I took the liberty of beginning an in-depth sweep of the base for surveillance devices - we were nearly due for a routine check in any case, but given our information leak, a more in-depth search is clearly needed.”
She paused for a moment, seeming to wait for Maia to reply, but when no reply came she added, “All of your command staff will also be thoroughly investigated, as we discussed.”
“…Right.” The word left Maia in a sigh. “So much for giving trust to receive trust, I guess.”
Lana’s voice softened. “It’s unfortunate,” she said. “But we can’t afford to sit idle.”
“No, you’re right. I hate to think of anyone in the Alliance turning traitor, but…”
(“BLINDED BY DUTY. DISTRACTED BY TRUST. YOU DID NOT SEE THE BLADE TO YOUR NECK. THE RAGE IN YOUR SHADOW.”)
The metallic voice reverberated unbidden in her memory. Maia flexed her fingers, opening and closing her hand at her side as she remembered the painful jolt of energy coursing through muscle and nerve, the moments before consciousness had fled.
The evidence of Iokath spoke for itself.
(“YOU ARE BETRAYED.”)
Meeting Lana’s eyes squarely, she said, “I need to know how this happened.”
“We’ll find the one responsible,” Lana promised. “The moment I know anything, you’ll know.”
“Thanks, Lana.” Subsiding into quiet for a moment, Maia looked away across the canyon, watching the haze of mist curl amidst the distant trees. “Has there been any news out of the Republic?”
She felt rather than saw Lana start beside her at the abrupt change of topic, could picture without having to see the faint surprise flash over her face before shifting into a look of understanding. “Not yet. I expect the chain of command in disarray at the moment.”
That happens when you kill the Supreme Commander of the entire armed forces. She exhaled, a fruitless effort to expel the bleak thought from her mind.
“Theron would have more direct sources of information on the current state of affairs,” Lana said, ”but…”
Maia shook her head, forestalling the rest of what Lana was going to say. “No, it’s all right. The boot’s bound to drop soon enough anyway.” 
And for all that Theron was doing his best to bury himself in work, asking him to investigate the response to his father’s death seemed like nothing but adding insult to injury. She’d done enough damage as it was. There was no sense in piling needless cruelty on top of it.
“We have our own house to get in order before that happens. Commander–”
She closed her aching eyes against the Odessen sunlight, brought up both hands to press her fingertips against her eyelids.
“Maia.” At the gentle press of a touch settling on her shoulder, she let her hands drop from her face and looked up to find Lana regarding her with concern. “If you need to talk…”
“What’s your evaluation of how things went on Iokath?”
This time she saw Lana’s eyes widen, her expression faltering into uncertainty.
“Your honest evaluation,” Maia pressed. “Please, Lana.”
Lana let out a slow breath, seeming to gather her thoughts. “We were at a disadvantage before we landed,” she began at last. “If we - if I had been more vigilant, we might have recognized the trap sooner, perhaps even avoided it altogether.”
“…you know I’m not blaming you.” It came out in a murmur, almost carried away by the breeze.
“I know.” No hesitation. The burnished gold of Lana’s eyes held her gaze, direct and unwavering. “Regardless, once the Empire and the Republic had both established a military presence, escalation was unavoidable. You succeeded in neutralizing the Tyth superweapon before either side could claim it, almost certainly preventing incalculable loss of life. In that sense, I believe we can consider Iokath a win. Not an unqualified victory,” she allowed, “but a win nonetheless.”
Maia stood very still, digesting what Lana had said. There was no denying any of the facts as they’d been stated, and yet…
She looked away over the canyon again, trying to ignore the searing echo of lightsaber against lightsaber that buzzed in her ears. “I think the cost might have been too high.”
“Jace Malcom’s death was his own doing. Not yours.”
The air hitched out of her, almost a laugh. “It’s not that simple.”
“You can’t hold yourself responsible for his choices.”
“Choices he made because of the decision I made, when I chose the Empire over the Republic.” Maia shook her head in a short, vehement jerk. “I might not have pulled the trigger myself, but how can I possibly pretend I’m not responsible for his death? To say nothing of the lives I did take - Republic soldiers, Jedi–!”
“You were in an impossible position,” Lana interrupted her, quiet but firm. “Whatever you chose meant breaking faith with someone. If the ultimate fault lies anywhere, it’s with the one who created the situation in the first place by luring all of us into confrontation.”
Maia could find no response to that, caught between the sense that Lana’s reasoning wasn’t entirely wrong, and the conviction that she was, at the same time, very much not right.
“It may not be any consolation, but…” That ‘but’ hung in the air, gently prompting, until Maia lifted her head to meet Lana’s eyes again. “I, for one, appreciate that you don’t allow old grudges to guide your decisions. I always have.”
She swallowed, managed a halfhearted smile. “I try, anyway.”
“You do more than most.”
There should’ve been some comfort in it, however cold. The more Maia tried to reassure herself, though, the more the cynical voice in the back of her thoughts began to sound like Theron’s: So, how’s the view from the high ground?
Lana must have read something of it on her face, because she grasped Maia’s upper arms as though to hold her steady. “I know all of this has been difficult,” she said. “I wish I could tell you that you made the right call, but I’m afraid only time can truly judge any of our actions. The full scope of the consequences may never be clear in our lifetimes.”
“…Remind me in the future not to ask for your honest evaluation unless I’m sure I’m ready to hear it.”
“However,” Lana continued sternly. “What I do know for certain is this: your decision on Iokath wasn’t reached lightly. Like every other decision you’ve made as commander of the Alliance, you chose thinking of what would do the most good. It’s why I’ve followed you all this time. And it’s why there’s no one I’d have trusted more to make that call.”
She meant it only as reassurance, Maia knew, but even so the pressure of Lana’s faith in her came down on her shoulders like a physical weight. It took all her effort not to shudder.
“Thanks, Lana,” she managed to say.
The grip on her upper arms squeezed gently before Lana released her and took a step back. “For now,” she said, “you should try to get some rest.”
Before the next crisis hits. She didn’t say it; she didn’t have to. “Probably,” Maia agreed, and drew in a slow breath. “If there are any new developments in the next few hours…”
“I’ll let you know at once.”
Maia nodded. There didn’t seem to be much else to say. With Lana’s somber gaze upon her, she cast one more look off across the canyon, searching the distant wilderness for answers she knew it couldn’t possibly hold.
Then she turned and made her way inside.
She’d meant to make for her quarters, but as the lift descended slowly farther into the base, the idea of closing herself in alone with her thoughts filled Maia with growing dread. Halfway across the War Room she changed her course, turning for the corridor that would lead her to the Force-users’ enclave instead. Maybe in that sanctuary, she’d be able to find some clarity in meditation - and if she couldn’t, at least she could find distraction.
With this thought occupying her mind, she rounded the corner and nearly plowed headlong into someone coming the other way.
He bit off a curse, fumbling the datapad he’d been reading. Entirely on reflex, Maia caught it just as it slipped from his hands entirely. 
“I’m so sorry–”
Halfway through blurting out the apology, she finally looked up. The rest of the words died unspoken in her throat, conscious thought abandoning her completely as she found herself eye to eye with the one person she wanted most and least to see.
Theron made a quiet noise, shifting his weight from one foot to the other. “…hey.”
He looked awful. It was the first thought that surfaced in her mind as she stood there struggling to recover some kind of equilibrium - even in the diffuse light of the underground hallway, she could see far too clearly the fatigue that lined his face. His fascinating eyes, normally so keen, had gone dim and full of shadows, and he couldn’t seem to meet her gaze. 
(“Your dreams are almost as bad as mine.”)
Belatedly, Maia realized she was still holding his datapad. “Ah,” she said lamely, offering it back to him. “This–”
“–Yeah.” Just as awkwardly, he gripped the datapad between both hands. “Thanks.”
Then silence. The air between them felt thick enough to suffocate on.
How had things ended up like this?, she wondered helplessly. She’d never found talking to Theron difficult before. If anything, in those early days on Rishi and Yavin 4 it had been almost too easy, so much that she’d found it a little unsettling at times how natural it felt to work with him, to just talk to him about anything or about nothing at all.
Yet now the silence stretched like a gulf between them. Iokath, the Republic, the Empire, Jace Malcom’s death… all of it combined into a gaping wound Maia had no idea how to mend. She had to make it right somehow, but try as she might the words wouldn’t come.
Anything she could think to say just seemed hollow. A bandage for her own feelings, not his.
Even so, she had to do something before the distance grew too wide to bridge. “Theron,” she began, only for the shrilling of a holocom to split the air and send both of them grabbing reflexively for their personal comm units.
“Sorry.” Theron mumbled it, his eyes turned downward to the blinking holocom in his hand. “I’ve been waiting for this contact.”
Maia let out a breath, accepted that the moment was lost. “Of course,” she said. “Don’t let me keep you.”
He nodded and turned away. For the space between one breath and the next, he seemed to hesitate - but then the comm shrilled again and Theron lengthened his stride, hurrying off down the hall until he was lost to sight.
I have to fix this, Maia thought as she stared after him, alone in the empty corridor.
The problem was, she wasn’t at all sure that she could.
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antivancoffeelover · 6 years ago
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i’m gonna end up expanding this and posting it to ao3, but have this lol. happy birthday to me ;]
“You’re so good for me, daddy.” Loki’s voice was spun sugar, so decadent and sweet Thor could taste it on his tongue.
He licked the inside of his teeth and felt the muzzle dig into his cheeks. Loki sank down on his cock, swallowed him up in unending heat. The fireplace was roaring but it paled in comparison to Loki. Nothing was ever so good as his baby brother. His fingers grasped at nothing as rope dug into his forearms. They were reinforced with magic, unbreakable unless Loki’s tongue bade it. Thor was being tortured, pushed to the limit of what he could withstand and he loved it, he craved more, needed Loki to break him apart and leave him in shattered pieces.
Loki kissed his eyelids and started riding him faster. Thor hoped Loki would cum, mark him again, leave him dripping and blessed by it.
Gentle hands on his shoulders pushed and Thor went easily, falling onto his back on the plush furs and pillows. His forearms were trapped beneath him, making his spine arch over them with the way they were tied one on top of the other. It wasn’t comfortable and he was glad for it. He wanted the reminder of what Loki had done to him, what he’d let Loki do. 
He was so happy that Loki hadn’t blindfolded him this time. The beauty of his brother’s body was a gift and every time he prayed he said his proper thanks. Sweet, milky skin glistening with sweat, the lean lines of his body highlighted by golden firelight. The peaks of his nipples made Thor’s mouth water and his tongue squirm. He wanted to suck them until they were red and swollen, until Loki was crying and cumming, until Loki shoved him away.
Loki’s eyes were so dark they looked black. He’d always said he was made of shadows, now it seemed true, no green to be found as they watched Thor struggle against his own pleasure. Thor’s cock throbbed, swelled harder and he grit his teeth to keep from cumming.
Loki smiled at him and did that little twirl with his hips that Thor loved, the one that almost always pushed him over. Thor growled and his stomach jumped, pressure in his gut wound so tight, he was so close. His balls were drawing up but he didn’t want to cum, even if Loki seemed determined to make it happen. He flexed against the rope and made it dig into his skin, sharp enough that it was chafing him, rubbing him raw.
A little laugh from Loki, too sweet for the tricks he was playing. “It’s okay, daddy, you can cum if you want.”
Thor shook his head, thrashing as he tried to hold off.
Loki grinned too wide, eyes bright, a little manic. He leaned further forward, let his fingers dig into Thor’s muscles until the force was bruising. Gods but he was so fucking beautiful.
“Not yet?” Loki asked, “it doesn’t hurt enough yet?”
Thor grunted and shook his head again, relaxing a bit when the need died off a bit and the ache began settling in. He hated how much he loved it.
Loki sat up straight and smirked. Thor’s eyes went wide, his heart pounded. He was in trouble.
His cock was flushed so dark it was nearly purple, inch after inch exposed to the air as Loki lifted himself up. Then dropped back down hard. Their skin smacked and Thor groaned. He spread his legs and relaxed as Loki repeated the motion. Metal bit into his skin as he smiled, felt that heavy tension building again and welcomed it this time. The pain was so bright, his cock too hard and too sensitive for how rough Loki was with him.
Loki cussed under his breath and moved faster. His eyes slipped shut and Thor watched as Loki dropped his mask and his pretense, pleasure clear on his face as he chased it down. Thor was nothing more than a toy like this, a tool, just some hard thing that hit the right spots.
“Oh, daddy, yes!” Loki moaned and rubbed his own nipples, pinched and rolled them, then rubbed over his stomach.
He pressed his hands into his abdomen and leaned back. Thor shook, felt the pressure of Loki’s hands and didn’t care if it was real or imagined. His home was there, deep inside Loki’s beautiful body, swallowed whole to be used, to be good. Loki’s cock leaked precum all over him, left streaks and splashes all across his belly. Thor wanted to taste it. He wanted to consume anything Loki felt he deserved.
Fire licked at Thor’s skin, starting in his feet as his toes curled and moving on up his legs. His balls felt so heavy, so full, his hips twitched and moved with Loki, his body taking over and seeking relief.
The ropes disappeared from his arms and Thor threw them out to the side, let the pins and needles flood him as sensation returned.
Loki gasped and groaned deep in his chest, a velvet-smooth sound that Thor worshiped.
“I’m going to cum on you, daddy,” Loki panted.
Thor nodded and moaned from behind the muzzle. He could take it off, but he didn’t want to. Loki wanted him like this and he wanted himself however Loki would have him.
He fucked up into his little brother’s body and growled when he felt the first splash of Loki’s cum land on his stomach. Loki cried out and made the most beautifully broken sounds. His hands wandered all over his chest and stomach, rubbing himself and looking every inch a prince as he came. Thor’s chest exploded with warmth, he felt so light, so proud, he did that for Loki. That pleasure was his doing, he was so good, Loki said he was so good—
Thor stopped breathing as he came. His back arched and his cock jerked and throbbed in Loki’s body, his balls pulling up tight as they emptied. He panted and sobbed. It hurt, gods it fucking hurt but it was so good. He let his eyes slip shut and sank into the furs. The ache faded as he relaxed and the last pulses of his orgasm were pumped into Loki’s ass.
They stayed as they were, breathing together, coming down from their shared high. The clasp on the back the muzzle came undone by itself and Thor lifted his head so Loki could take it off. His face was sweaty, but Loki kissed him anyway.
He could barely move, his arms were still spread out at his sides and his legs felt like they were chained to the floor. All he could do was kiss Loki back, pour himself into it and accept the love and praise that was spelled out for him in every press of Loki’s lips and tongue against his.
The kiss ended and Loki rubbed their noses together, giggling quietly. “How long until you’re ready to go again?”
Thor hummed. “You can always sit on my face until my cock is hard again.”
Loki nipped his lower lip and smiled wide, dangerous. “So good, daddy, always taking care of me.”
Thor nodded and pressed a kiss to Loki’s chin. Always.
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loviswriting · 6 years ago
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Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: Bizarre Beach! Torn Between Scylla and Charybdis!
JJBA part 4 fan fic. Chapter 9: Finale! Operation Clean the Beach (and Bite the dust)!
Summary: During his stay in Morioh, Jotaro needs to come up with a subject for his doctoral thesis in marine biology! Strange happenings in the waters of Morioh beach piques Jotaros interest, making him investigate strange sightings of a mermaid, followed by injured surfers! In hopes of finding a subject for his thesis he teams up with Kishibe Rohan and Joseph Joestar to solve the mysterious happenings! Is it the work of an actual mermaid or is there a Stand user lurking around the corner?!
Number of chapters: 9
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Total word count for all chapters: 12 749.
Chapter 9 word count: 1713
Authors note: this is my first fan fic, I tried my best and hope you will enjoy it! You may also read it on my Ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/20937995/chapters/49778429
Jotaro spent the following day, together with his chil-, I mean, companion Koichi to formulate a plan for helping not only the starfish but all of Morioh beach. After a good night's rest, Jotaro went to the beach and met up with Koichi, awaiting the rest of the team to show up. The festival was still ongoing, with a lot of buzz and people there, which was to their advantage for setting the plan in motion. After about fifteen minutes everyone was there; Jotaros nephew Josuke, Josuke's bro Okuyasu, Koichi's date-mate Yukako, the local Italian delight Tonio, old man Joseph and of course Rohan the guy who can not speak Italian. Jotaro took tone, “Okay everyone, as I mentioned yesterday over the phone, we’re here today to take care of all the littering and trash that has been piling up at Morioh beach. It’s endangering the wildlife in the sea, making a couple of Stand user starfish attacking people recently, you’ve probably read the headlines… so today we’re putting a stop to that and making the environment better. Koichi hit it,” he passed over to Koichi. “Ah, yes, Jotaro-san! So, we have come up with a plan where we have tried to utilize everyone's abilities as much as we can to make the beach and the waters cleaner! You will work in teams with different tasks. The first team is the seafloor team, Okuyasu and Josuke. Rohan will use his Heaven's Door to make you able to breathe underwater. Then Okuyasu, you will erase any trash at the seafloor with your Stand, The Hand,” Koichi did not have time to finish his sentence before Okuyasu had ripped his clothes off and showing off a pair of swimming trunks underneath his clothes, bright blue with golden dollar signs on them, proceeding to flex his muscles along with his Stand The Hand behind him. “Hell yeah let’s go! I’m great at erasing things, hehehe! Leave it to me!” he boasted with confidence. “Uhm, that’s great Okuyasu-kun, but please try to not erase any actual sea life or plants down there.. and that is why you have Josuke with you! Josuke, your task is to use Crazy Diamond to heal any unhealthy or damaged sea life down there.” “Okay, got it, count on me,” Josuke nodded, not ripping his clothes off in excitement. Koichi leaned towards him and whispered, “Also please make sure that Okuyasu doesn’t do anything that’s, well... too Okuyasu, you know?” Josuke nodded with a grin and gave thumbs up. “Ahem, next team will be me, Yukako and Tonio, we’re team boat,” Koichi could once again not finish his sentence, due to Yukako bursting out in happiness. “Ooo!h I will get to be with my beloved Koichi! And the chef! Is this a romantic lunch date in a boat, with locally produced environmental friendly food?!” she jumped of joy and fiercely hugged Koichi. “DI MOLTO! I will prepare an exquisite romant-” Tonio burst out in agreement leaping forward into the hug but could not finish. At the same time, a voice muttered tiredly, “For fucks… Za Warudo,” and suddenly Tonio and Yukako stood some meters away from Koichi, with Jotaro behind them with a hand on each of their shoulders, “Continue Koichi.” Koichi felt naive not seeing this coming, but continued although being a bit startled from the sudden hugs, “Ah, yes, thanks Jotaro-san… As I was saying, we’re team boat and we are taking a boat out into the waters. Yukako, you will use your Stand Love Deluxe to form your hair into a net to collect trash from the water and try to filter out any fish that gets stuck. We will then put the trash in the boat. Don’t worry I have already made an appointment at a local beauty shop to  make your hair look fresh and amazing and afterwards I have made an appointment at Tonios for that romantic exquisite meal...” Yukako and Tonio swooned a bit and Koichi continued, “Tonio, your task will be to use your Stand Pearl Jam to prepare a delicious nutritious fertilizer that we can drop into the ocean to heal it and make the water cleaner. I have supplies loaded up in the boat. I will drive the boat and use my Echoes to locate trash in the water and also calculate a path so we cover everything.” “How fun, Bellissimo!” Tonio was happy, “Such a culinary challenge!” “Good. Now, the last team will be team beach, composed of Rohan and Joseph,” this time Koichi paused, having a feeling he would be interrupted otherwise. “Hey, I have to be with that old geezer?” Rohan said in chock, pointing to a half-asleep Joseph. “Yeah we figured it was the best choice to just have Joseph at the beach, with you.. but it won’t be that bad!” Koichi reassured the sweating mangaka, “Rohan, you’re an important spearhead in preventing further littering. You and Joseph will go around and inform people about not littering. Use your Heaven's Door to write into people that they will throw their trash in trash cans instead of littering and that they will pick up any trash they see and throw it. Joseph will then hand them a flyer about information about how important Morioh’s sealife is and the importance of throwing your trash where it belongs and to recycle. With your ability written in them, they won’t simply throw the flyer away!” Rohan nodded in approval, “That’s is a very clever idea! And I guess I will just...” he summoned Heavens Door and opened a book in Joseph, pen eagerly writing, “... write into him to do his task properly...” “OH MY GOD!” Joseph gasped after Rohan had finished writing the commands in him, “I feel a sudden urge to hand out flyers after Rohan has talked with people!” “And that just leaves Jotaro, who will communicate with everyone through walkie talkies and organize the whole operation and be where needed. He will also communicate with Morioh’s environmental committee to keep them informed about the needs of the beach and garbage disposal,” Koichi nodded to Jotaro who nodded back and then proceeded to hand out walkie talkies and items to respective teams. “Alright then,” Jotaro said when everyone had got what they needed, “Let’s commence “Operation Clean Morioh Beach! Go!” he pointed towards the water and all the teams spread out to their respective assigned area. “Oi Josuke! There will be turtles huh?! Watch out so you won’t get snapped by one of them, hehehehe!” Okuyasu teased with his friend. “Ugh, turtles!!! The worst! I’m heading to the changing room to get into my swimwear…” Josuke replied bitterly and walked away. “Yare yare…” Jotaro said and proceeded to meet up with the committee. Meanwhile in the bushes a few meters from where the gang had assembled, a certain serial killer sat hidden and had overheard the whole operation. “And here I thought they had met up to track me down today, and I just wanted to have a nice day at the festival… Can’t take any risks, I will do that another day I guess,” Kira said and walked out of the shadows, away from the beach and back towards town. “But they do have a point about caring for the environment and keeping the beach clean, don’t they, Killer Queen?” he said as a newspaper fluttered about in the wind on the ground and his ripped pink wrestler cat Stand showed up and poked the newspaper, making it explode in a tiny boom and turning it into dust, “Nyaa~” Killer Queen meowed. “I guess it's not as good as recycling it, but I don't want to soil my beautiful hands with something as dirty as that…” he scoffed, “But I guess the town too might be kind of dirty, and since my plans for the day got cancelled, I might as well…” he looked his Stand in its eyes and gave off a small smile, “Let’s go Killer Queen, we have some litter in town that needs to bite the dust,” he said and walked off into town for a better cause.
And so the evening came. The festival had quieted down and most of the people had dispersed from the beach beside a few citizens enjoying the evening sunset and the glittering ocean view. The gang had assembled at the beach once more. Bags of trash had been taken away by the garbage truck. Flyers had been handed out. Signs had been put up with the message to not litter. The water was clean. The corals and seaweed on the seafloor were healthy and healed. Yukako's hair had been brushed by Koichi. A certain punks fingers had been bitten by turtles and a certain other punk had laughed his ass off. The starfish Scylla and Charybdis had given their thanks to Jotaro and could rest easy. All was well in Morioh beach and waters. Jotaro stood in front of the gang. “Everyone… Good job today. We have helped the sealife of Morioh beach to start recovering and to spread a culture among the citizens of taking responsibility for our actions, for the sake of the environment. A single person may not be able to do much, but together we can keep our world and planet in good shape. To make it a place for both humans and animals and nature, without the expense of another. And this is a responsibility we all have, especially adults like me, who will leave this planet to further generations, like several of you. Keep up the good work everyone. Thank you,” he started to clap his hands and everyone else joined in. The operation was over and successful and the gang went out to have a lovely dinner at Tonio's. And remember, as long as we all try to do our best and take responsibility for our actions, there will always be a shining hope for the future.
This was the story of how bizarre happenings at Morioh beach led to the beach being a better place. But this was also the story of how Jotaro Kujo found the perfect subject for his doctoral thesis in marine biology; the intriguing starfish of Morioh!
Bizarre Beach! Torn Between Scylla and Charybdis! END.
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kilyra · 7 years ago
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A Problem Following
Special Agent Benjamin Poindexter/Bullseye (Daredevil) One-Shot
A/N: I got an anon request from “List A: 100 Prompts of Angst” (which you can find from my Request OPEN post linked in my bio) with the prompts: 11 - “I will never forgive you for this”, 15 - "I can’t believe I really believed you”,  and 45 - “Why do you think you’re the only one who gets to sacrifice themselves around here?”
You are going through a training exercise with your department and are teamed up with Dex. You run into problems when he can’t seem to follow your orders. 
Warnings: None - This is a spoiler-free Pre-S3 story and is completely unrelated to the anything happening in the show. It ended up not being as angsty as I think Anon was hoping for, so I apologize in advance for that!!
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Sitting at the table, you stared out the window and let out a long sigh. It was going to be an exhausting day and all the training facility offered was stale doughnuts and burnt coffee. Silently, you cursed yourself for not grabbing any breakfast on the way. Why did it have to be so early?
“Morning, Agent L/n. Did you save any for me?” Dex nodded to the box of doughnuts as he came into the break room.
Rubbing your eyes, you stifled a yawn. “Yeah, there was a few left.”
Lifting the lid, Dex loudly clicked his tongue. “Wow. I can't believe I really believed you.”
Turning on the bench seat, you saw the empty box. “What? Shit, sorry Dex. There were a couple left after I grabbed mine.”
He narrowed his eyes at you as a smirk grew on his face. “Your story's changing already, huh? From a few to a couple? I think we all know what happened here.”
“Right. I came in here and cleaned out the whole box, just to spite you.”
Flicking his fingers, he let the lid drop while keeping his stare levelled at you. “I will never forgive you for this.”
Rolling your eyes, you shoved your doughnut at him. “Yeah well, have at it. I took one bite and that's about all I can handle of that.”
“That's not enough to earn my forgiveness, L/n, but it's a start,” he said before grabbing your breakfast and taking a bite.
He was in a surprisingly good mood for being apparently pre-coffee. You had to wonder how long would last – according to the training schedule you were set to be lead in your pairing with Dex. Getting him to listen to you had become somewhat of a challenge in the last few months. But all you could do was wait and see how it would go today.
The waiting always seems to be the worst. Since there was more than one unit at the facility, you not only had to wait for their runs to finish but then the course had to be re-set. Even though the morning was mostly sitting around, the team meeting seemed to come up quickly and soon you were standing in full gear, just waiting for the go-ahead.
“Alright team listen up," SAC Hattley raised her hand to grab everyone's attention. Flipping through the papers on her clipboard, she continued to go through the scenario. "There has been a bomb reported the building but we have no specific details on its location at this time. The building was evacuated, but we have reason to believe there are suspects still inside and they may have taken hostages. I'll be in the control room to feed you any new information should it arise. Otherwise, Agent Nadeem, you're in charge."
Hattley left as Nadeem gave the rundown. You were a lead and paired with Dex.
The rest was a blur. Soon, you were all charging up the stairwell in formation as teams split off on their assigned floors.
As a team, you were a cohesive group. But you and Dex? That was a well-oiled machine. As you turned onto your floor, your team of four broke into pairs and went opposite directions.
You and Dex cleared room after room swiftly and with precision. Gone was the light-hearted joking of the morning instead replaced with an intense air of focus.
At the end of the hall was the final room – so large it took up the entire far corner of the floor. There was an entrance for it along both sides of the adjoining hall. After clearing the area, you briefly huddled.
“If we're going to face anything, it's going to be here,” you whispered to Dex.
Continually glancing down the hall, he nodded while keeping watch.
“I'm going in the main door and you enter from the side.”
Looking past you, he shook his head. “No. We need to stick to how we've been doing this.”
You felt a flare of irritation but kept your voice neutral. "This is a different situation. You're a good shot and you'll have a better chance to subdue anyone in there if you're not the focus."
Dropping watch, Dex frowned as he turned his focus on you. “With all due respect, our leapfrog entrance works well and we can clear out the room from the same entrance safely.”
“Show me your respect by following my order. I'm lead in this. Wait until I'm in before you come in and flank,” you said, forcing as much confidence in your tone as you could. You had seen Dex in action enough times to know it would be far more effective overall to give him more freedom to move.
The muscles along Dex's cheek flexed as he clenched his jaw. “Understood.”
“Good. Move out,” you said, already heading to the door in crouched steps.
Dex's soft growl still made its way to your ears. What the hell was his problem? Not that you really cared, not right now. He just had to listen, that's all that mattered.
Counting down from five, you gave him enough time to get into position. After taking a few quick huffs of air, you threw open the door, propping it with your foot in case there was immediate gunfire. Seconds later, you stormed in with your weapon drawn. “FBI!”
One suspect stood in the middle of the room with a hostage held in front of him. As soon as you entered, the suspect turned his paintball gun at you. Swiftly, you moved to the side, forcing him to direct his attention further away from the side door.
“Seriously, you came all by yourself?” He asked before firing.
You dove into a roll, landing behind a desk as you sprang back up to your feet. “We can talk about this. You don't need to do anything drastic here.”
Sneaking a glance from around the side of the table, you saw Dex slip in.
“Put your hands up and step away from the hostage.” Dex's booming voice commanded the room.
As you watched, the suspect paused for a second before spinning quickly on his heel. Dex shot his helmet before he could finish the turn. With a sigh, the suspect dropped to his knees and laid on the floor.
Nodding to Dex, you activated your mic. "We have one suspect down in the corner room of the northeast end of the hall on the third floor. There is one civilian unharmed. Sweeping for the potential explosive device now."
After guiding the civilian to sit near the entrance, you looked over the room. It was long rows of counter-style desks, almost like a science lab in a high school. You weren't sure what the room was for but it left plenty of places for something to be hidden.
Walking in formation side by side, each of you took measured looked between the spaces of the desks before moving on to the next row. With two rows left, you were starting to feel confident that the room was clear.
And that's when it happened.
From behind the final row, a second suspect stood up. You saw the movement from the corner of your eye. “Get down!”
Your side of the row gave you a poor angle for any return fire to the gunman but you dove towards it anyhow.
Or rather you tried. Without warning, you found yourself shoved into the row ahead, on the opposite side. In the perfect position to take the perp out.
He threw you.
As your indignation internally exploded, you rolled up to one knee and took your shot. But not before the suspect took his.
It was over within seconds – the second suspect had orange splattered on his chest and Dex's shoulder was covered with bright red paint.
Turning on him, you shoved him back a step. “What the hell was that?!”
His eyebrows shot up as he glanced at his chest where you shoved him before looking back at you. “Why do you think you’re the only one who gets to sacrifice themselves around here?”
Clenching your jaw, you took a step back. With your weapon drawn, you looked down the last couple rows of desks before tapping back into your mic. “Officer and second suspect down. Repeat, officer and second suspect down in the corner room on the northeast end of the hall on the third floor. No sign of explosives. Civilian secured."
You refused to speak to Dex after that. It wasn't until the locker room that you even spared a glance his direction.
“You're going to have to talk to me sometime, L/n.”
Silently, you glared.
“It's been a tough day. I get that, but-”
Was he trying to counsel you? Seriously? Your heart pounded so hard, you heard a rush in your ears. “A tough day? Is that what you call it? You defied my direct order. Because of you, we lost an officer. I told you to get down.”
Letting out a long sigh, he closed his mouth and swallowed heavily before he replied. “I fail to see how that makes me a bad partner. How was it any different from when you were coming in the front and having me flank?”
“That's not the point, Dex. The point is, I told you to get down, and you didn't. Do you have some a problem following my orders?”
“No,” he said without hesitation.
You had to talk past your gritting teeth. “Yeah, well, your actions prove otherwise.”
His gaze trailed to the side of the room before snapping back to you. “I have a problem watching you die.”
Already opening your mouth to retort, you paused.
Blinking and looking away, he shrugged. “I have no problems following your orders. You are a good person, Y/n. A really good person, you always know what's right. The sort of person I strive to be. When I get into a tough spot and I don't know what to do, I literally ask myself, what would Y/n do here?”
“I...don't...” Your voice died away. What do you say to that?
His fingers tapped against the side of his leg as he continued to avoid your stare. “You always know where you stand, you're like the North Star. The lost can follow you and at least know they're going the right direction.”
The anger that nearly overwhelmed you melted away into...you weren't sure what. But your heart didn't slow.
Looking back at you, his eyes intensely captured yours as he continued. “So I mean no disrespect with my actions. But I can't...”
He took a steadying breath before finishing. “If a situation like that happens in the field, I can't promise I wouldn't do it again.”
You narrowed your eyes, trying to absorb what he was saying.
Before you could answer, the sound of Nadeem loudly banging on a locker stopped you entirely. “Debrief with Hattley in the break room, five minutes.”
Flashing a soft half-smile, Dex turned away. "See you in there, L/n."
And he left. He just turned stiffly and walked out of the room without giving you a chance to ask any of the million questions you were left with.
The nerve of that man.
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2:00 am ✧ peter parker au.
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warnings / language, college roommate!peter, peter being so cute it's almost unbearable, FLUFF.
word count / 3330.
@bucky-at-bedtime's writing challenge / "you're my roommate who's super cute and it's the middle of the night and you're cramming for your exams in your flannel pajamas and disheveled hair and it's becoming increasingly hard for me not to kiss you." AU.
(gif is mine)
masterlist.
⠀⠀⠀⠀THE WIND was knocked from Peter's lungs in a quiet huff as he all but gracefully slammed himself into the side of his apartment building and he took a moment to catch his breath, his forehead briefly pressing against the brick, before he began slowly shimmying downwards toward his bedroom window. When he was a few feet from the railing of his rickety fire escape, he attempted to drop down, oh-so-quietly, onto the metal bar. He winced as the structure clattered, squeezing his eyes shut as it scraped against the wall of the building under the sudden presence of his weight. When all was silent—you know, aside from the beeping cars and the various shouting voices somewhere below���and right with the world, he very gently dismounted the railing and tiptoed towards his open window.
He slid into his bedroom, feet first, holding his breath as he pulled himself through the small space. It was just his luck that as he did, he kicked over the LEGO Millennium Falcon—the one that came with over seven thousand five hundred individual pieces—and the model slid off of his desk, falling to the floor with a horrific crash and breaking into thousands of tiny pieces. "You're shitting me," Peter whisper-hissed, ripping his Spider-Man mask angrily off of his head and dropping into a crouch. He tossed his mask aside and carded his gloved fingers through his sweaty hair, staring with aggravation down at the disassembled ship. "Man, that took thirteen hours," he groaned quietly in annoyance, throwing his head back and rolling his eyes at his own clumsiness.
Before he had the chance to at least pick up the pieces, his roommate, Y/N's, voice, like a heavenly choir, sounded through the halls of their shared apartment. "Pete, is that you?" Instead of feeling the usual butterflies that exploded in his stomach at the sound of her voice, he could feel every drop of blood drain from his body. He stood up slowly with wide eyes and panic-stricken features.
He'd woken Y/N up. Despite his terrible, terrible efforts at keeping quiet, he'd woken the beast and, now, she was going to rip his head off, he was sure. Peter swallowed thickly, frozen where he stood in front of the shattered masterpiece that used to be his LEGO Millennium Falcon. "Y-Yeah, it's me," he called as loud as his voice would permit. "Look, I know not waking you up is like your number one thing, and, usually, I'm pretty good about that, but I've kind of been having an off night. I-I didn't mean to wake you up, I swear," he added, making all of these hand gestures even though there was no way in hell she was looking at him in that moment.
He was so nervous, so undeniably nervous, because he was almost one hundred percent sure that Y/N was pissed at him. She hadn't been pissed at him in a while and he knew it was bound to happen again eventually, but he just didn't expect— Wait, was that laughter?
A surge of alleviation cleansed Peter's entire body and a sigh expelled the tension in his muscles as Y/N's amused giggle floated like a fluffy cloud to his ears. He'd never been so happy to hear that sound, like angels strumming on their harps, and he pressed his palm to his chest, almost slumping to the floor in relief. "You didn't wake me, Peter," she reassured him. "I need to ask you a question, though, so if you could come in here, please."
Peter left his bedroom without another worry, opening his door and kicking it shut behind him, and he stepped to Y/N's room, which was directly across the hallway.
He stepped across the threshold of her doorway and into the peaceful, desk-light-lit atmosphere that she'd set up for herself and his heart stopped in his chest at the sight of her. She was sitting criss-cross applesauce on top of her comforter in a pair of lightsaber-patterned pajama pants and one of his old t-shirts which she so rightfully wrongfully stole, staring down at a textbook for God knows what subject with gently furrowed eyebrows and locks of beautifully messy hair falling into her face. He could feel the blush rising to his cheeks almost instantly and, before he could think, he was tugging at the collar of his Spider-Man suit because it was suddenly so hot in there. Maybe, it's just her, Peter thought to himself, clearing his throat awkwardly and leaning a little less than nonchalantly against her wall. "What did, uh, what'd you need to ask me?" He asked. Various parts of his face—eyebrows, nose, eyes, mouth—scrunched and unscrunched as he gave a measly attempt at finding a facial expression that Y/N might maybe, possibly, hopefully find somewhat attractive.
"I know you're good with math and I wanted some help with this problem." Peter felt his lips twitch upwards into a smile. She said he was good at math. He knew he was, of course, but hearing it come from Y/N made him understand completely why Tony Stark was so cocky all the time. He watched her shift her position on her mattress, eyes never leaving her textbook as she pulled one of her knees up towards her chest and wrapped an arm around it. She fumbled with her pencil between her hands, shaking her head down at her notes. "So, if the tangent of theta is equal to five over twelve and zero degrees is less than or..." The moment she looked up from her textbook to make eye contact with him, she trailed off, the pencil falling from her hand and her lips parting. Peter's eyebrows quirked in her direction, before he glanced down at his body. The only thing unusual about him was the suit, but Y/N had known his secret almost as long as Ned had.
He looked back up, opening his mouth to ask if something was wrong, but before he could, she was shoving her books and papers away from herself carelessly. His eyes widened as he watched her move, following her as she clambered off of her bed at record speeds to get to him. "You're hurt," she pointed out quietly when she stood in front of him, her hands suspended in the air like she wanted to touch him and, God, she did, but she was hesitating.
"What?" Peter asked and he raised an eyebrow, his cheeks searing with heat because she was so close to him. She's even prettier up close, holy fuck, he thought to himself and he was sweating. And not the sweating that's so light that it just makes you look sparkly, it was the kind of sweating where droplets were rolling down his forehead, his hands were clammy and his suit was sticking to his body, even more than usual. If Y/N wasn't standing in front of him, all beautiful and elegant, he wouldn't taken it off right then and there.
She looked at Peter like he was stupid and he smiled slightly because of it. Then, her hands were on his face.
He inhaled sharply at the contact, his neck tensing up and his body going completely rigid. Y/N was touching his face. Oh, my God. Oh, God, can I kiss her? He tried his best to stay calm, to keep his breathing steady, to not turn into a stuttering and shaking mess, but it was just so damn hard when he was around someone so breathtaking. "You're hurt," she repeated in a motherly tone, her right hand moving to cup his left cheek and the fingers of her free hand flexing just barely so she could trace a delicate circle around his right eye. "You've got a massive bruise, Peter," Y/N pointed out softly, her voice barely above a whisper and her tone a bit throaty, like she was hurting for him and his heart just screamed for her right in that moment. Peter jumped slightly when a gasp left her lips and both of his cheeks were enveloped in her soft hands. He let her turn his face away from her and he let his eyelids flutter shut, just wanting to feel her fingertips and her presence undisturbed.  "Oh, God, and you're bleeding," she whispered, her words saturated with concern, and Peter nearly died of happiness right there.
He settled for a quiet chuckle at her words, but he stopped it the instant she ran her thumb in a slant from a spot near the bottom of his ear to his jawline. "Peter Benjamin Parker, you are so careless," she chided, and even then her voice was soft like silk. Peter couldn't help but smile at her as she turned his face so tenderly to look at her once more and she didn't move her hands. They stayed planted right on his face.
"Are you in pain?" She whispered, like it was the only thing that mattered to her in the entire world. Like Peter was the only thing that mattered to her in the entire world.
Oh, God, when she said that, Peter just melted like putty in her hands. He was a gooey, sticky, gummy, lovestruck mess, but he wouldn't complain. He'd never complain as long as it was Y/N. "No, I'm not in pain," he reassured her, his hands taking their gentle places around her wrists and he thought about moving her hands away, but he couldn't, so he just held them there. Peter slid his hands up to hers and made sure they stayed against his cheeks, even though he was pretty sure he was on fire at this point. He wondered what would happen if he just leaned forward and kissed her. He didn't do it, though. Chicken. "It's just a bruise and a little scratch, I'm fine," he promised her and the look on her face when he did was everything to him.
She looked so relieved, so happy, so thankful that he wasn't hurting and he barely had time to blink before her arms were around his neck and her cheek was pressed against his. His senses, heightened and all, were overwhelmed with the smell of Y/N and he didn't mind one bit. His arms wrapped around her as fast as he could move them and he buried his face in the crook of her neck, because he'd rather go all in than wait God knows how long until he got to hug her again. He felt so safe with her arms around him, feeling the warmth of her body radiate to his and the scent of lavender flood his nose. "When have– When have you cared so much?" Peter asked, wondering if maybe he should've thought that through a little better because she pulled away from him as soon as he said it.
She gave him another look that told him he was dumb for even asking, but it didn't matter, because it still made him feel like he was soaring. "I always care about you, you idiot," Y/N answered him and he'd never been happier to be called an idiot in his life. "I hear about robberies on the radio and I care. You leave every time and I care. I see you in the headlines of newspapers and I see you in the morning and I care, Parker. Even when you're not Spider-Man and you're just Peter, I care, okay? I always care about you," she told him. "And I could show you more if you didn't get back at two in the morning and go off trying to fix yourself up."
"But didn't you say to never—" Peter stopped, his eyebrows furrowing because he could see tears in her eyes and he never knew she cared like this. His heart was longing for her, yearning for her, begging for her more than ever, because just when he thought he couldn't fall any more in love with her, he did. Peter wanted nothing more than to kiss her, right there, but he knew he shouldn't and it was taking everything he had to hold back.
"Peter, if you're hurt, it doesn't matter," she pointed out, her hands falling from his cheeks and resting softly against his chest as she looked up at him. "Anyways, you are coming with me so I can get you a Band-Aid and an ice pack," she ordered, stepping back to take his hand in hers.
Peter cleared his throat awkwardly and he pulled his hand out of hers, which took just as much effort as stopping a bus with his bare hands, it felt like. He grimaced after he did. "Uh, I can't," he blurted, before he even knew what he was saying.
Y/N's face scrunched up as she stared at him incredulously. "Why not?" She asked him. "If your legs hurt, you can sit and I'll drag you," she offered, half serious it seemed. She ran a hand through her hair, tucking a tuft of it behind her ear as she did.
He laughed at her words, but he shook his head regardless. "It's just– I don't know, you're my roommate," he admitted, averting his eyes from her unwavering stare and reaching towards the back of his neck uncomfortably.
Her arms crossed over her chest as she looked at him. "Yeah, and?" She asked, a crooked smile on her perfectly kissable lips.
Peter shrugged his shoulders, holding his arms up in the air so he very much resembled the emoji, and a nervous laugh toppled from his lips. "I don't know!" He protested and another laugh fell from his lips. "Nothing bad, it's just, you're you," he told her. "Y-You're you and you're my roommate and you look so cute in your stupid Star Wars pants and my shirt with your adorably crazy hair and you're, you know," he paused, running his hands over his face and groaning. "You're studying and it's, like, two in the morning," he finished, throwing his hands up in the air and trying to fight off his nervous chuckles.
It was a good thing he failed because, unbeknownst to him, Y/N found them to be in her 'top five cutest things Peter Parker does' list.
And yeah, she has a list, but don't we all?
Y/N couldn't help but laugh along with him, sputtering when she tried to hold her giggles back, so she just let them loose. "What else, Peter?" She asked him, with a smile on her face that lit up his whole world. Gosh, she was his whole world and she didn't even know. "I know you're hiding something, you big child, or you wouldn't be laughing so hard," she told him, hoping he would finally just spit it out.
Peter threw his head back, trying to quit laughing, but he couldn't, so he settled for talking through a smaller fit of laughter. Luckily, it died down as he started to speak. "I can't because—" He stopped. Did he want to say it? Maybe it was that sudden surge of confidence or maybe it was just because he was so tired—the loopy kind—that he was more open to daring decisions, but either way, he knew he wanted to. "Because it's getting really hard not to kiss you right now," he confessed and his blood ran cold.
He watched her cheeks turn as red as he's ever seen them and a smile, so bright that he almost had to cover his eyes, spread across her face. "So, do it, Peter," she said. "Kiss me."
For once in his life, he wasted no time getting what he wanted. He took a quick step forward, placing his hands where he always knew they belonged on her waist, and when Peter kissed Y/N, it felt like absolute magic. Peter's lips caressed hers, moved against hers, in a way that was so hot, passionate, demanding, fiery and his mind barely even registered his movements as he took the few steps to back her against her door. The door, unfortunately, wasn't opened all the way, so the second Y/N's back hit the door, she crashed into the wall.
"Oh, shit, I'm sorry," Peter apologized quickly, disconnecting his lips from hers so he could check if she was hurt. God, it would really suck if he'd finally, finally, finally gotten to kiss the girl of his dreams and she started bleeding.
Y/N just giggled, grabbing him by the back of his neck, and she shook her head up at him. "I'm fine, Pete, just kiss me again," she pleaded and he listened to her, pressing his lips back against hers and laughing slightly against them because that was the last thing he'd ever expected her to say to him when he slipped through his window that night. A few seconds later, he'd laughed all the breath from his lungs and his chest was aflame with a raging fire, but even with the pain, he refused to pull away. He moved his right arm from her waist, resting his forearm on the space of the door above her head, because he was so mesmerized by the taste of her lips and the way it made him feel that he didn't think he could hold himself up on his own. He could feel her hands, sliding down his chest and leaving trails of tingles in their wake until she let them rest on his stomach.
Peter panted into the kiss, sliding his hand from her waist to the small of her back. He could feel her shudder under his touch and he smiled against her lips, slowly brushing his fingers up her spine and his tongue hesitantly grazed the seam of her lips. His kiss grew unsure as her lips parted but she urged him on with a swipe of her thumb across his jawline. He continued to lose himself on her lips, scratching the itch he's had every day for the past two years that he'd lived with her and sending his mind reeling.
The taste of her lips, the feeling in the pit of his stomach, the kiss in general was everything he'd ever dreamed of. It was the kiss he'd always wanted, the one that people talk about in the books and in the movies. There were fireworks and smoke bombs and explosions of purples and blues and reds and he could feel every spark throughout his entire body. He wasn't sure if it was the lack of oxygen or something magical, but he felt like he was spinning.
Before Peter could find out, he reluctantly separated his lips from Y/N's, the hint of a smile on his lips while she was full-on grinning. Their chests heaved as they simultaneously gasped for air, both trying not to laugh again because who would've thought that they'd end up kissing at two in the morning?
"Oh," Peter exclaimed when he'd caught his breath a few moments later. "I broke the Millennium Falcon," he confided in her, like they hadn't just had the makeout of a lifetime.
He watched her jaw drop at the news. He loved that she cared about his stupid LEGO toy when anyone else would just laugh and tell him to step on it. "Oh, no, that's what that crash was earlier?" She asked and he nodded sadly. "Didn't that take you thirteen hours?"
Peter huffed amusedly at that and he nodded again. "Unfortunately, yeah," he admitted, running his fingers through his hair and sighing.
"Tell you what, Peter," Y/N started with the sweetest smile on her lips. "I'll help you rebuild it tomorrow, and, since there's two of us, it'll only take six and a half," she promised.
Breaking the LEGO Millennium Falcon? Totally worth it.
author's note / i'm actually really proud of this & i'm really proud of myself for finishing it in a day and for learning how to make a gif for the sole purpose of this imagine. thank you, @bucky-at-bedtime, for creating this challenge, it gave me so much inspo!
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Happier Part 11
Summary: After another fight with his girlfriend of five years, Sebastian needs to make a tough decision. But after the breakup, things get even messier
Chapter Summary: Someone from Tegan’s past arrives and all hell breaks loose
Warnings: Arguing
Thanks to @what-the-buckybarnes for helping me through my writer's block. She’s the true MVP 
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           It was around dinner when Gemma, Tegan’s twenty-year-old sister arrived home with a guest. Sebastian and Tegan were helping Shannon in the kitchen. Tegan’s twenty-six-year-old sister, Kirsty was also home for the holidays and sitting at the counter. Alongside her was the youngest sister, seventeen-year-old Phoebe.
           “He’s an only child, he doesn’t know what it was like to have to share a room with Tee. She was so messy.”
           “Yeah, well I had to share mum and dad’s attention with you,” Tegan replied wittily.
           Shannon chuckled. “Oh, I’ve missed you girls bickering with one another.”
           Sebastian grinned. “Well, soon you’ll have a baby visiting too.” He pointed out.
           “It’s too quiet with just Pheebs and I. It’s too big of a house for just the two of us.”
           “It’s peaceful.” The teenager replied with an eye roll.
           “You miss your sisters more than you’ll admit.” Her mother gave her a look and pointed a wooden spoon at her. “You were so happy when I told you Tegan was coming.”
           “Mmf.”
           “I love you the most, Tegan, so you should make me the godmother of your baby.” Kirsty batted her eyelashes. “I’ll buy you anything you want.”
           “Money can’t buy me love, babe,” Tegan replied. “But I’ll think about it.” She promised. “Speaking of godmother candidates, where is Gem?” She asked her mother.
           “She was out most of the day. I thought she’d be back by now.” Shannon checked the time. “I’m sure she’ll be around soon.”
           Almost on cue, Gemma arrived through the front door. “Mum?” She called.
           “In the kitchen, dear, look who’s here!”
           The young woman walked into the kitchen and smiled when she saw her eldest sister. But the joy didn’t last long when she saw Sebastian beside her. The smile dropped off her face. “What is he doing here?” She asked in an accusing voice.
           “Gemma, that’s rude.” Shannon scolded. “Sebastian is a guest.”            
           “I told you he was coming,” Tegan said firmly. “The least you can do is say hello.”
           Before she could protest, a man walked in behind her. “Hey, Cross family.” He smiled and looked hopeful. “Happy holidays.”
           Tegan’s eyes widened. “Kieran?” She sucked in a sharp breath and looked to her sister. “What the hell are you trying to pull?” She demanded.
           “Shush, don’t speak to your sister like that.” Shannon walked over to stand between her daughters.
           “Gem…” Kirsty looked visibly uncomfortable with the guest.
           Sebastian initially thought he was a cousin, although Tegan had never mentioned him. But the way the mood changed in the room, he suspected that wasn’t the case.
           “Hey, Tegan, it’s been a while,” Kieran said breathlessly. His eyes were fixed on her, barely acknowledging Sebastian’s presence next to her. “I was so happy to hear you were in town. Gemma sent me a message and asked me to come over.” He explained. “I hope that’s alright. We could catch up.”
           “Uh…hey.” Sebastian’s body locked up when he felt a huge wave of envy crash against him. The way the man looked at Tegan made him grit his teeth and his arm muscles flex. “I’m Sebastian.”
           “My boyfriend,” Tegan spoke up in a tense voice.
           Kieran’s eyes flicked to Sebastian then back to her. His eyebrows furrowed in confusion and his smile fell. “Oh, I didn’t know…”
           “I need to talk to you outside.” She cut him off sharply. “Alone.” She walked to the back sliding door to go out to the patio. Kieran followed giving Sebastian a side-glance as he passed by him. Tegan shut the door forcefully behind them.
           He couldn’t hear the conversation, but she looked livid as she began to speak with agitated hand gestures. Kieran looked bewildered as she chewed him out.
           Sebastian made sure to keep an eye on them but Gemma pulled his attention away.
           “You must have the biggest nerve in the world.” She crossed her arms over her chest. “To think you can come here and think everything will be okay.”
           “Gemma Cross!” Shannon put her hands on her hips. “That’s quite enough.”
           “What? I’m supposed to just welcome him into our house like he’s a part of the family?” She demanded. “That’s ridiculous, mum!”
           “He apologized to us, you just weren’t here like always.” Phoebe snapped at her sister.
           “You’ve done enough, just leave him alone,” Kirsty added.
           Sebastian swallowed. “Gemma, I’m sorry. I’m aware of what I did and we’re working through it. Tegan and I…”
           “I know you can pull the wool over her eyes and pretend as if you care about her. I don’t care if you’re the father you gave up the right to be with her.” Gemma replied standoffishly.
           “You don’t have a right to say that.” Kirsty stood up. “Tegan’s older than you, she can make her own choices. She’s not daft. You need to respect them.”
           “Oh I’m sorry, is this not the same guy who didn’t come to dad’s funeral?” Gemma exploded. “The same person who abandoned our sister. Don’t you remember how we stayed up for nights comforting her while she cried? We were there for her and he wasn’t!” She pointed at Sebastian. “He toyed with her and oh now he’s changed because she’s pregnant?”
           Sebastian’s stomach tied up in knots and it was something he’d expected to happen. He thought Tegan’s family wouldn’t accept him again but it seemed Gemma was the only one still holding grudges. He understood her fury. She had to step in and comfort her sister when he wasn’t there. “I messed up big time and I’m making amends…”
           “No, I don’t want to even hear you speak!” She shouted at him. “You think you’re some big shot who can do whatever he wants because he’s in a few fucking movies. Newsflash, you’re a selfish, egotistical, careless, narcissist who never gave two shits about my sister. She deserves better than you!”
           A moment later, Tegan stepped back inside after she heard her sister screaming at him. She grabbed Sebastian’s arm, a furious look still on her face. “Don’t you dare yell at him! You don’t know what kind of person he is.” She stepped in.
           “I know exactly what kind of person he is. I know the way he’s treated you!” Gemma was ready to fight with anyone who argued with her.
           “You’re still a baby, you have no idea what you’re talking about.”
           “I’m not a baby! You’re an idiot if you think being back with him is a good idea.” She stepped up to her sister.
           “You know what’s best for me? You think Kieran is really the best for me?”
           “Yes! His a million times better than him!”
           “We dated in college, Gemma, you need to keep your nose out of my relationship.”
           “Okay, that’s it.” Shannon stepped in to break them apart. “Sweetheart, you need to keep your stress down.” She reminded her pregnant daughter. “Gemma, you’ve been very nasty to Sebastian. I expect you to apologize.”
           “I’ll apologize when Hell freezes over.” She hissed and glared at him.
           “You go cool off in your room and think about what you’ve said,” Shannon ordered. “Think about what your father would think about your behavior.”
           A fire ignited in Gemma’s eyes. “You can’t use him against me whenever you want!” She shouted with tears falling down her cheeks. She stormed upstairs to her room, ending the argument with a loud door slam.
           Shannon sighed and rubbed her eyes. “I’m very sorry.” She said to Sebastian and Tegan. “She’s been upset ever since Charlie passed. She doesn’t hate you, she’s misplacing her grief.”
           Sebastian nodded. “No, I understand.” He said quietly. He was a little shook up after being torn apart by someone fifteen years younger than he was and nearly half his height. But no matter what Shannon said, he felt like he deserved it.
           “We’re going to take a drive,” Tegan said. “Kieran, you should be gone before I get back.” She said frostily.
           “Tee…” The man looked devastated but she ignored him. She took Sebastian’s hand and left the house.
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           They drove aimlessly around the town as the sunset. Tegan was still fuming behind the wheel.
           Sebastian rested a hand on her knee to hopefully soothe her. But he wasn’t sure how to say Gemma might be right. He knew he cared for Tegan and his unborn son, but maybe he didn’t deserve to be forgiven. It would certainly be something to talk to Liz about when they returned to New York.
           “She’s such a little brat.” She snarled. “I can’t believe she pulled that little stunt thinking it would work.”
           “She’s obviously hurt.” Sebastian tried to reason with her. “But it seems like she cares about you enough to try to do what she thinks is best for you.” He shrugged.
           She glanced at him for a moment in disbelief. “Why are you on her side? She was so disrespectful. How can you agree with her?”
           “Well, because she’s twenty and her father passed away when she was seventeen. And obviously, I caused you pain which she had to witness.”
           “Yeah, Phoebe was fourteen when my dad died. We all went through losing him. She doesn’t get to act that way just because he’s gone.” She disagreed adamantly.
           “Everyone grieves differently.” He replied softly.
           Tegan gripped the steering wheel before letting out a heavy sigh. “You’re not the kind of man she’s making you out to be.”
           “I was.”
           “No.”
           “Tegan, she’s right about what happened. She gets to make assumptions about me based on what she saw. I think that’s only fair.”  
           She let out a noise of displeasure. “She brought my ex-boyfriend.”
           “That’s not the worse thing she could’ve done.”
           “God, can you just agree with me?” She whined.
           He smiled weakly and squeezed her knee gently. “I know you’re hurt too. You want everything to be normal and perfect. Family isn’t easy though especially after a loss.”      
           She pulled onto the shoulder of the road and parked. She rested her hands on the steering wheel and stared at the road lit up by the car’s headlights. “I don’t want to bring our son into a family like that. I want things to be happier. I want people to be excited about the family that we’re starting or they won’t be a part of it.”
           “Tee…that’s not fair.”
           She threw her hands up in frustration. “Why? She deserves to be around our child and act like that? What if she talks shit about you when he’s old enough to understand?”
           “She won’t.”
           “You don’t know her like I do.” She retorted.
           He reached for her hand. “Do you know her as well as you think you do? When was the last time you two spent time together? You live so far away.”
           Tegan swallowed. “I don’t know.” She admitted quietly.
           “Maybe you two should spend tomorrow together. I’ll stay at your house by the pool.” He smiled.
           “She would never go for that.”
           “You don’t know until you ask.” He murmured. “Be honest with her about how you feel and maybe she’ll open up. Use what Liz taught us.”
           She looked doubtful but nodded. “Yeah, I guess I could try.”
           They sat in silence, holding each other’s hands for comfort. The sky darkened and the nocturnal animals stirred outside.
           “So…you said, boyfriend?”
           Tegan laughed quietly. “Well, might as well label it. I dunno what else to call you. Besides, I wanted Kieran to leave me alone. I don’t think he’ll mess with you.”
           “Can I call you my girlfriend?”
           She turned her head. “I love you.” She whispered and leaned over to kiss him.
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