Hey! I've just read your defiant leader x confident villain story and HOLY SHIT is it good. I love the personalities that you've given the characters, and how the villain doesn't really want to hurt the leader and is trying to ignore all of their feeling. Ugh!
I would love it if you could write more of the story. I have a feeling there's a lot more twists and turns on the horizon 👀✨
Defiant Leader x Confident Villain (5)
Read part one here
Continued from here
Guys… i am so sorry to everyone who has requested more parts for this series… it has taken literally months, I am only finished now because I queued it when I discovered it again! I am very sorry, it is an active WIP again!! I hope you enjoy!
TW: NEEDLES
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Leader woke to the door of his room opening. He was still sitting in the chair in the room where Supervillain left him. The last thing he remembered was staring at the wall to pass the time, limbs still tied down tightly. Sometimes, when he was feeling adventurous, he’d glare down at the hammer that mangled his hand, but even that got boring. He didn’t realise he fell to sleep until he was waking up with the click of the lock in the door.
He didn’t have time to wake up, so his mind shot alert, clearing the fog that usually came with waking suddenly. He felt his body come alive at the thoughts of Supervillain coming to destroy his other hand. His limbs were asleep but still Leader made a fist with his free hand trying to get feeling back into it just in case.
What he could do to fight against Supervillain he didn’t know, but… but who was he kidding?! Supervillain seemed to smash every bone in his good hand, his strong hand, his punching hand.
Leader wanted to cry out as he tried to make a fist with his hand on instinct, but swallowed the cry to a sharp hiss as loud, quick footsteps thundered behind Leader’s chair and they froze.
Those footsteps were unmistakable, and there was only one set. A swift slap to the back of the head and Leader let out a startled: “ow!”
“You deserve more than that, you fucking idiot!” Villain hissed, coming to stand in front of Leader, setting a doctor’s bag down on the floor in front of Leader and dropping to one knee, unzipping it. “What were you thinking, pissing Supervillain off, Leader? Do you know how difficult you are making everything for me?”
“How about you just let me go and I’ll be out of your hair.”
Villain jerked their head up, piercing gaze furious and accusing. “Would you? Be out of my hair?” Villain challenged. Leader was the first to look away, and Villain scoffed, before dipping their head again and searching through the bag beside him. “Yeah. Thought so.”
“Villain… I…” Leader began, searching for the words to express themselves, but none came, and Villain didn’t seem to be in the mood to hear them even if they did somehow miraculously find the words to defend themselves. “Look, you don’t have to keep coming to my rescue.”
“Clearly I do,” Villain ground out, accusing eyes finding Leader’s again. “If you keep riling Supervillain up, Leader, he will kill you. I’m not fucking around. He will murder you, but you won’t die quickly. It will be long, drawn out, torturous.”
Leader’s brows lowered over their eyes, hooding the sockets in shadow. “I know that, Vil.”
“I don’t think you do!”
Leader’s eyes widened at the intensity colouring Villain’s voice, the slight fear in their eyes as they spoke. It was almost… desperate, almost helpless. Villain scoffed and looked away, running a hand through their hair, pulling slightly at the end of the strands.
Leader frowned. “Villain… what’s that look?”
Villain didn’t answer right away but a million different thoughts seemed to flash across his expression— doubt, fear, disgust anxiety. Every time Villain opened their mouth to speak they seemed to pause, chew their words, search for a better way to say what they wanted to tell Leader.
Eventually a grim resolution moulded their features and they looked at Leader again instead of through them.
“Supervillain,” Villain began hesitantly not quite meeting Leader’s gaze, and instead running a nervous hand through their hair. “He didn’t exactly trust me when I wanted to join his side so he devised a sort of… test, or trial run and he gave me the job he thought I would run away scared from.”
Villain risked a glance at Leader’s expression, then let out a long sigh and pinched the bridge of their nose, rocking back on their heels.
“It’s not something I’m proud of but I had to prove myself and if I didn’t do it someone else would have—”
“It’s okay, Vil,” Leader told them. Startled eyes found Leader’s and Villain’s expression softened slightly, shoulders losing tension. “Go on.”
“He made me the interrogator… or that’s what he called it, he made me his torturer,” Villain said quietly and it was as if all the oxygen had been sucked from the room. Leader stared at Villain, studying their face. Villain let out a shaky breath. “Every Hero we captured, or enemy someone brought in I would take care of them. Get information, work the confessions out of them, or just make them suffer— whatever Supervillain told me to do.”
Villain licked their lips, their eyes looking down to their hands before continuing.
“That’s not even the worst part, Leader,” Villain continued, tightening their hands into fists. They raised their head, gaze steeled and said: “The worst part was that I was good at it.”
Leader would rather Villain pick up the hammer and smash their other hand, or every single bone in their body rather than tell them this. Rather than this be true, because Villain wasn’t… Villain couldn’t— Villain… it felt like all air was robbed from their chest as they stared at Villain and for the first time since they came, Leader finally saw Villain.
They saw how much Villain changed. The little moments that were shining through of the old Villain were only that. Fleeting moments. Villain looked the same, although they had a new haircut and a crueller smirk. They carried themselves a little taller, but they looked like Leader’s Villain, but there was something now that seemed to finally let Leader see the real Villain.
The new Villain.
As if a blindfold had just been taken off Leader’s eyes.
Villain looked older, not by much but they had a less innocence in their eyes. Instead they were hard, certain kernels of experience. They didn’t just carry themselves taller, Villain had a new confidence about them as if they had finally found their calling. As if they were born to be a Villain, to be an… interrogator.
Villain’s expression softened and they turned away, letting out a shaky laugh. “You hate me now, don’t you?”
“Not even a little bit,” Leader said without hesitation. Villain let the shock show across their face as they met Leader’s eyes again.
Leader forced their resolve to show on their face, as sure as anything. “You did what you felt you had to do, Vil,” Leader continued softly. “You did what I always knew you could: you survived everything that life threw at you. How could I hate you for that?”
Villain looked so vulnerable in that moment, and Leader wished that they had seen it sooner. They wished they noticed how lost Villain was within the team, how sad they were. Always lashing out, always a little more distant and reserved.
“I should have done more, Vil,” Leader said and Villain rocked back on their heels, shaking their head side to side. They opened their mouth to reply but Leader beat them to it. “No, I should’ve, I’m sorry you felt like you had to leave the team. I’m sorry about the way things ended… I— I miss you, if I’m honest. But sometimes…”
The words were rushing out of Leader’s mouth now, all emotion. “Sometimes when we start out life presents us with opportunities and we just go along with them because, well, what other option do we have? But you… I’ve never seen you more alive, more at peace. You really seem to have found your place in the world Villain and I couldn’t be more happy for you.”
“You can’t say that, Leader,” Villain whispered.
Leader laughed. “Says who?”
Villain frowned. “We are enemies, we’re on the opposing sides. We can’t— there is no world where we’re friends.”
“Just because I don’t agree with you, Villain, doesn’t mean I don’t know you. I don’t still care for you, that the years we shared mean nothing.”
“It does,” Villain protested. “It has too.”
Leader leaned forward in their chair. “If it does, then what the hell are you here for, Villain?”
The question was like a slap of reality that stunned Villain for a moment before they sighed. They glanced down to the bag they brought in and rummaged through it, pulling out a small black case and flicking it open.
Inside was a needle and a small bottle of something. Villain reached in and grabbed the needle. Villain reached into the bag and drew out two medical gloves and slide them onto their hands, snapping the band at the end of one and grinning up at Leader.
It unnerved Leader a little as they stared down at the bottle, trying to read whatever it was Villain was so happy about showing them. Now with the knowledge that Villain was the resident torturer.
Not that it was particularly news to Leader. When rumours started circulating about Supervillain’s new vicious agony agent it was Rogue who brought the idea of Villain to Leader’s attention. Rogue ran with other people before Leader; heroes, vigilantes, villains… probably the one with the most contacts across the city.
“How certain are you?” Leader asked them.
Rogue shrugged one shoulder. “I trust contact with my life. They’re not the gossiping type.”
Leader didn’t show it then, but the thought, the very possibility that it could have been Villain terrified them. How wrong did they go with Villain to make them want to hurt people? But looking at them now, Leader couldn’t help but see the same Villain they had always known. Maybe just more grown up and sure of themselves. The way they were working so deftly with the needle and vial. Drawing some liquid into the needle and spurting it back out again to re-draw.
They smiled up at Leader once they were satisfied and started rubbing Leader’s hand with cotton balls covered in rubbing alcohol. Leader hissed jerking their arm back, but Villain continued as if Leader was sitting quiet as a mouse.
“I know, but you gotta hurt to get better. No pain no gain, right?” Villain asked with a grin. Leader smothered their anxiety at that grin. Villain’s old reassuring grin, the same one they wore before they ran recklessly from the group to defend them. When they directly disobeyed Leader’s orders to intercept their enemies before it was time.
Now, it wasn’t any of that. It was reassuring and light, so Leader nodded and set their jaw into a tight line as Villain smoothed the skin on Leader’s hand. Leader clenched their teeth as their bone rubbed off bone.
“Okay, this will hurt.”
That was all the warning Leader got before Villain plunged the needle into their hand. Leader jolted forwards, swallowing a scream to a mewling whine in the back of their throat instead.
They felt the liquid being injected into their hand, it was a strange sensation but not one that was unfamiliar. Once Villain had thumbed down the plunger and injected all of the liquid they pulled it out gently. They replaced it with a cotton pad the dab the blood away.
Leader stared at Villain. “Okay. That actually wasn’t that bad,” Leader told them.
Villain grimaced. “Leader, that was the easy part.”
Leader frowned and then the pain came. It was a simmering kind of burning at first and Leader’s wide eyes shot to Villain’s.
“Vil… what is this? What is this?” They rushed out, gasping between the questions.
“It’s okay, Leader. It just resets the bones in your hand.”
“It what?” Leader shrieked, closing their eyes as they felt their bones start to move in their hand.
“Fuck, fuck, fuck!” Leader cried as their hand ignited in agony. They gasped and shot forward as far as the ropes would allow them, their neck muscles straining as they tried to not scream but their hand was on fire.
“Hey, Leader. It’s okay, I know. I know.” Leader only very distantly heard Villain whispering assurances and comforting words to them as they writhed beneath the ropes.
“Villain!” Leader gasped, throwing their head back as a guttural scream was torn from their throat. Leader kicked out and tried to buck themselves out of the chair but the ropes just remained firm as Leader screamed louder than they ever have before. The pain ricocheted from their hand — where their bones were moving and mending under their skin — all the way to their shoulders and then deeper into their chest.
It was too much.
Stars burst behind their eyes as they felt their bones crack into place.
Villain was speaking to them. Lips moving but Leader couldn’t hear a word they said. Villain’s eyes widened as Leader let the blackness swallow them, the last thing they saw was Villain lurching from their crouch.
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Hurt
So, I came across Christina Aguilera's song Hurt, and it made me feel... things.
Isabela will regret every harsh word, every shove, every flick of her hair. Every weaponized word used against her little sister will fill her with a deep seated sense of regret. Because Mirabel is gone now. And one hug won't erase the pain she caused. Isabela will never get another chance. Her little sister's flame was extinguished, like the candle that went with her.
Numb.
Was all Isabela felt.
The kind of numbness that starts at the tips of your toes and slowly creeps up the rest of your body, until it consumes you whole.
It felt as if Isabela had been numb for years.
Numb to everything.
Her gift.
Her abuela's impossible expectations.
Her community's exploitation of her abilities.
The constant cycle of perfection.
"Oh, look! It's Isabela! Isn't she just perfect?"
"That Mariano is a lucky man, to be able to marry someone with such perfection."
"Oh, Isabela! Thank you! Another perfect flower arrangement!"
"Oh, how I wish I could be her! Someone with such effortless perfection surely never has to want for anything!!"
Perfect.
Perfect.
Perfect.
PERFECT.
She was numb to it.
All of it.
She'd become numb to the feelings of others, too.
But no one bore the brunt of her wrath more than her youngest hermana, Mirabel.
Mirabel. Poor, sweet Mirabel.
Mirabel, who sang with pride, sweet, loving melodies about her gifted familia. Mirabel, who could pick up any and every instrument, and play it with ease. Mirabel, who had begun to outdo even Agustín, with her stitching and embroidery. Mirabel, who was effortlessly, and unapologetically herself.
Mirabel, who greeted each day with a smile, despite the cards she'd been dealt.
Giftless Mirabel, who hid her pain behind her smile, who silently begged for scraps of affection from her abuela, only to be left with nothing but harsh words and cold glares. She was almost always rebutted by Isabela.
Isabela hated to admit it, but she'd begun to take great pride in verbally eviscerating her sister. It made her feel a little more normal, a little less perfect.
But not any less numb.
Truth be told, Isabela was jealous of her youngest sister. She was free. Free to do whatever she wanted, wear whatever she wanted, go wherever she wanted. She could be a normal kid. What purpose did she have, other than to stay out of the way?
"The only thing you have to do is stay out of the way, and you can't even do that!? No wonder you didn't get a gift!"
"If you weren't always trying so hard, you wouldn't be in the way."
She'd used her youngest hermanita as a verbal punching bag. She'd become so numb to everyone else's pain, she failed to recognize that Mirabel was suffering too.
And Mirabel was suffering. Perhaps more so than everyone else.
Because in one last desperate attempt to prove herself, Mirabel ran into their crumbling house for a damn candle.
A candle.
Mirabel had placed a candle above her own life.
And she didn't come out.
Isabela had spent years resenting her sister. Jealousy slowly suffocated their relationship, tightening like vines on a tree, sucking the life out of her, turning her soul black.
And what for?
Mirabel restored color to her life.
But one hug wouldn't erase ten years worth of lost time.
One hug wouldn't erase venomous words, cold glares, or years of blame over things that Isabela just couldn't do.
It had taken ten years for Isabela to hug her sister again.
Ten minutes later, she was gone.
"Isa, Isa!! Give me one last hug before I walk to my door!"
She'd never get another one.
She'd never get another chance.
She was too late.
Always too late.
And she'd never forgive herself either.
I'm sorry for blaming you, for everything I just couldn't do.
And I've hurt myself, by hurting you.
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* ◞ 𝗦𝗣𝗢𝗧𝗧𝗘𝗗 : — 𝒂𝒊𝒚𝒍𝒂 𝒔𝒐̈𝒛𝒆𝒓𝒊 !
excuse me did you see HANDE ERCEL hanging around palmwood studios ? oh no, that was 𝐀𝐈𝐘𝐋𝐀 𝐒𝐎̈𝐙𝐄𝐑𝐈 , the 𝚃𝚆𝙴𝙽𝚃𝚈 𝙴𝙸𝙶𝙷𝚃 year old 𝙰𝙲𝚃𝚁𝙴𝚂𝚂 who plays 𝙷𝙰𝙽𝙽𝙰𝙷 𝙼𝙰𝚁𝚃𝙸𝙰 on 𝚃𝙷𝙴 𝚅𝙰𝙼𝙿𝙸𝚁𝙴 𝙱𝙾𝙾𝙺𝚂 . yeah , you know rumour has it they're - 𝚂𝚃𝚄𝙱���𝙾𝚁𝙽 , and - 𝚁𝙴𝙲𝙺𝙻𝙴𝚂𝚂 , but their fans all say they’re + 𝚁𝙴𝚂𝙸𝙻𝙸𝙴𝙽𝚃 , and + 𝙱𝙴𝙶𝚄𝙸𝙻𝙸𝙽𝙶 . around palmwood studios they’re known as 𝚃𝙷𝙴 𝙲𝙰𝚃𝙰𝙲𝙻𝚈𝚂𝙼𝙸𝙲 . ( 𝖼𝗂𝗌 𝖿𝖾𝗆𝖺𝗅𝖾 , 𝗌𝗁𝖾 / 𝗁𝖾𝗋 )
* ◞ ( 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐒 )
full name : aiyla zehra sözeri .
nickname(s) : aiylie , lala .
birthday / age : july 9th , twenty - eight .
orientation : bisexual & biromantic .
current project : the vampire books - hannah martia .
place of birth : istanbul , turkey .
relationship status : single .
* ◞ ( 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐏𝐎𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐒 )
born in istanbul , aiyla was the daughter to two very successful people . her father , malik , was a former business tycoon who made his way onto the political circuit and her mother , yasemin , used to model for high end designers but is now running her own charity organisations .
moving to the united states was a decision malik made in order to further his political career as well as strengthen ties for his business .
initially aiyla disliked her new home , missing the comforts of istanbul and her extended family there . but determination to make it in a foreign country was all that drove her , she wasn’t concerned with fame or fortune or prestige that her parents had . instead aiyla wanted to do what she felt passionate about , regardless of whether or not it’d gain her notoriety .
aiyla grew up watching her older brothers vying for her father’s attention , each of them undertaking studies that they thought would look promising in his eyes and gain them praise and adoration . more than often malik was cold , harsh and uncaring , most of it directed at his youngest daughter aiyla . he felt disappointed that she didn’t aim for the same as her brothers did .
malik and yasemin sözeri died while on their way to venice , malik had just gotten elected as his states governor and was joining his wife on her trip to italy for a celebration for her charity . their plane had a systems malfunction and crashed into the ocean , leaving no survivors .
aiyla was eleven when her parents died , being left to be raised by her brothers and parents friends . the last interactions she had with her parents weren’t the greatest , her father and her arguing , him telling her she’d never amount to anything and that she was a disappointment . while her mother pleaded with aiyla to stop angering her father and to walk away to lessen the damage to their relationship , promising they’d sort it out when they returned .
after the accident her brothers started to grow distant , each focusing on their own careers . aiyla decided to give acting a go , her grandmother sending words of encouragement via their many letters and phone calls . her grandmother gave her tips seeing as she was a famous turkish movie actress .
aiyla slowly began land auditions and take on guest appearances on tv shows ( i’ll be making a filmography post later .
* ◞ ( 𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑 )
aiyla’s current role on the vampire books is only one of the projects she’s working on currently . she adores her cast mates and always makes a habit to hang out with them outside of their shooting schedule .
recently she’s started partying more , staying out all night , getting caught by paparazzi drunk and / or seemingly high .
she’s had a few public relationships , former costars or other people in the same industry . a few have ended badly and rather publicly .
she’s known to be very charismatic , fun to be around and rather flirtatious .
she’s recently walked in milan fashion week , creating quite a buzz because she was taking after her mother .
doesn’t care about her fame all that much , you’ll one hundred percent find her out and about doing mundane things . but it’s also because she doesn’t quite understand the level of her popularity either .
her filmography
* ◞ ( 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐍𝐄𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐀𝐒 )
𝙿𝚁 𝚁𝙴𝙻𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽𝚂𝙷𝙸𝙿 : i’m a sucker for a pr relationship , maybe one is putting in more effort than the other , maybe they dislike each other to start off with but eventually become quite fond of one another , whether it results in a romance or them becoming good friends .
𝙿𝙰𝚁𝚃𝚈𝙸𝙽𝙶 𝙰𝙲𝙲𝙾𝙼𝙿𝙻𝙸𝙰𝙲𝙴𝚂 : these two ( or a group idm ) are always seen together on a night out , there’s always rumours and chaos flying whenever they spend the night hopping from clubs to other celebs houses .
𝚆𝙸𝙻𝙻 𝚃𝙷𝙴𝚈 𝚆𝙾𝙽'𝚃 𝚃𝙷𝙴𝚈 : they’ve worked together in the past and have always had amazing chemistry , fans have made multiple edits of them and their moments during interviews or press panels . it seems every one around them knows they’d be good together but them .
𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐚 𝐟𝐞𝐰 𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐭𝐦 , 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐢’𝐦 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 !!!
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