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#we're talking about dad names because i asked what the worst name is and a lot of what people were saying were the names of dads
t4tails ยท 11 months
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I dont know why everyone is talking about dad names but
My dad's name is Medardo ๐Ÿ’€ He has a secret catholic second name though, because some time ago a lot of people used to have a completely different extra name when getting baptized.
i have catholic family and havent heard of that, is it like... an illegal middle name??
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astreids ยท 4 months
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the day you and megumi broke up was the worst day of gojo satoru's life.
now, not only did he have to deal with a moody teenager at home, he also had to deal with you at school.
"what do you mean you both broke up?"
"it means we're no longer together."
"but โ€” but WHY?"
"reasons," megumi deadpanned, not taking his eyes away from the tv in front of him. gojo watched him for a minute and when it became clear that the kid wasn't gonna cry and ask him for help so that he could win you back, he knew exactly what he had to do.
a few blocks away, you had just finished tearing up over a sad song which reminded you of your current predicament when your phone pinged with a new notification.
you reached over to dig your phone up from the pile of pillows thrown on your bed and almost threw it out of the window when the name 'sea urchin๐ŸฅŠ๐Ÿ’' stared back up at you.
you snapped back from your trance when it pinged again โ€” and again and again and again until you couldn't take it anymore and opened the messages, your heartbeat echoing in your ears.
sea urchin๐ŸฅŠ๐Ÿ’
do u care bout me be honest
i am giving you 5 secs pls pls pls
take me back ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ
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if this doesn't work lemme try this
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE
c'mon u have to take me back now it's only being NICE
i am going to sleep now last chance
come onnnnnnnnnn
hello this is his dad do u care about megumi
on the other side, gojo was furiously trying his best to make it seem like it was megumi who was texting you and so far, he was absolutely convinced that he was getting the hang of it. it was only when the phone buzzed with a new notification that his dream of mastering espionage was shattered.
girlfriend
megumi's vocab includes yes, no, fuck off, what the fuck and itadori NO
he will strangle u if u use emojis
nice try tho sensei
tell that mf to talk to me if he wants to
or wtv
is he ok
not that i care
make sure he sleeps early tonight bc he got that training thing tomorrow morning
again i do not care
also delete these messages
(thank u)
gojo looked up grinning from megumi's phone, his eyes locking on his kid. megumi was fast asleep on the couch, his head leaning back against the back of it. even from some distance, gojo could see the tiredness etched on his face and something else that made him so restless. and despite not seeing you, he could bet his entire fortune that you were the same way and it made is heart hurt, seeing the two kids he loved like his own hurt so horribly like this.
looking at the messages you sent and your obvious care of him, he was sure that you'd both be okay.
gojo was there to make sure of it. and if one of the reasons for doing it was because he didn't wanna deal with antsy and moody teenagers for god knows how long, well, that was no one's business but his own.
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lolitaa-17 ยท 10 months
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The Worst
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Toji x Reader | warnings: creampie, breeding, ermmm idk figure it out.
You wipe off all the snow that was on your coat before entering the cabin. It was Christmas eve and months ago you all (Gojo, Geto, Megumi, Nobara, Yuji, and Toji) decided to spend time together at Gojo's cabin.
"Hi." You smiled at everyone as you open the door, revealing Geto and Gojo attempting to make gingerbread houses. Nobara, Yuji and Megumi making hot chocolate. And finally Toji with of course...another women.
You roll your eyes and take off your coat. Gojo and Geto too focused on the gingerbread houses to even notice you, until Yuji yelled out "She's here!!" which caught the attention of everyone. Yuji pulled you into a big hug. Following Nobara and Megumi, and of course Suguru and Satoru. Toji sitting there watching you with his women wrapped around his arms.
You throw him a little awkward wave before walking into the kitchen with the kids. "He just met her yesterday, and he'll probably leave her tomorrow." Megumi whispered quietly as you got closer. You couldn't help but laugh at his comment.
"What took you so long to get here anyway?" Satoru says wrapping his arms around your shoulders. You could feel Toji burning your back with his gaze. "Work, they've been nonstop recently." You sigh taking the hot chocolate that Nobara passed to you. "I say you quit and become Satoru's trophy wife." she says making a heart sign with her hand at you and Satoru.
"Gross, not Sensei." Megumi says softly slapping Nobara's hand. "Let's not bring dating up actually, because someone looks a little..." Suguru says whispering to you and Satoru. You slightly turn to see Toji scrolling on his phone ignoring the women he brought. "Hey um Juliet..right?" Yuji asked.
She looked so happy that we even looked at her, You felt bad for her. She was young and Toji was manipulative. It was the worst combo. She had her life ahead of her. "Yeah!" she tries to get up but Toji grabs her arm "Sit." and so she does.
"Toji, let her go. She looks bored." You say walking towards them. He looks up at your face. He missed it, those doe eyes, those plump lips, they way your hair touched your face. He gets up not taking his eyes off yours "Go ahead then." He pushed passed you making his way out the front door.
"Thank you! I'm Juliet by the way...I haven't gotten your name yet..." She waited and looked at you for to respond. "Y/n.." you smiled and her eyebrows crashed. "Oh so you're the one Toji always talks about." you sighed.
"Let's go join the others...yeah?" You say changing the topic. She followed you with a small smile plastered on her face. She looked happy just to be here.
Time passed and Toji was still outside. You sigh a little worried. "I'm gonna go check on Toji." before you got up from the couch Juliet stops you. "I'll go with you."
"Juliet wait can you be my parnter for the game that we're playing?" Megumi says trying to stop her from going with you. He looked at her with those same manipulative pleading eyes his dad had. So how could she say no.
You walk towards Toji's Tacoma. It was black...the windows were very tinted but you knew he was in there. You knocked on the window and immediately the window opened. "What the hell do ya want now?" it smelled like cigarettes. "I was just checking in on you." you softly said still intimidated by just his presence. "Well here I am? So bye." You rolled your eyes and turned around walking away from his car.
"Actually y/n.." Your stop and turn around. "Go tell the others that we're gonna go buy booze, Satoru and Suguru have been begging me."
So here you are, sitting in his car while the music is blasting, of course Toji lets you put on your music. He secretly has the same playlist you do and plays it in the car only when your not around.
He stops at a rest area and shifts his gaze towards you before tunring the music down, "I miss you." You nod "No Toji you can't keep doing this." You look out the window trying to stop yourself from tearing up. "Doing exactly what?" He raises his voice.
"You fucking tell me you miss me and you treat me the same every time!" You look at him as the tears finally fell. His gaze soften. He sighs "I've fucking changed baby, I try to find you in everyone I meet." He wipes your tears and traces his thumb over your lips.
"Bringing another women to spite tonight was one way to fuck up already." You grab his hand not letting go. "So it worked?" He smirked. You rolled your eyes pushing his hand "I still fucking love you!"
"Come here." he pats his lap. "No." you say wiping your tears. "Take your coat off and c'mere." He was captivating, his dominance was something you definitely missed.
He grabs your waist gripping it tightly. "You have no idea how long i've been waiting to see you today." You just looked at Toji, not saying one word, until he started kissing your neck. "Is this what you want out of me?" He pulled away giving you the most offended look.
"Is that what you fucking think?" He lets go of your waist. "Toji I didn't mean it like that, it's just every time-"
"Get off me." He demanded.
He drove back to the cabin after grabbing the booze for Satoru and Suguru. The car ride was silent the whole time. Til you finally arrived, "Give this to them and get Juliet for me." You snatched the drink from him and slammed the car door.
Megumi and Yuji shared a room, while Nobara had her own. "Y/n we didn't know that you and Toji were gonna, well break up so you're gonna have to share." Gojo says a bit awkwardly.
"Hmm just sleep with Satoru, His bed is massive." Geto says before taking one big sip of the whiskey. "No. I'll just sleep in the living room, the couches are somewhat comfy."
All the lights were off, the only light was coming from the massive Christmas tree. You felt guilty for saying what you said to Toji, but it was partially true. You were anxious, how late it was getting and he hadn't arrived yet.
Just as if he heard your thoughts, you could see the headlights pulling up to the front of the Cabin. You quickly close your eyes as soon as you heard the front door opening. You could hear the rustling of him taking his coat and shoes off. Until it stopped, now all you heard were his steps getting closer and closer.
"Come on lets go to the room." He whispers as he slowly pats your shoulder. "Toj-" he huffed, "Y/n it wasn't a fucking question, cmon." You got up and followed behind him. The doors opened revealing the cozy room with presents all over the bed. "Toji...did you do all this?" you asked looking up at him as he loomed behind you now.
"Mhm" he takes off his shirt leaving him only in his grey sweatpants. You could sense that he was still mad. He pushed a couple presents and laid down on the bed. "My love, look I'm sorry at the unnecessary comment earlier. I was just mad..." You grab his face and make him look at you. "Open the gifts goddamnit."
You kiss him before sitting next to him on the bed. You wore the shortest booty shorts you could find paired with a grey tanks top. You notice Toji glaring at you, "You're really bugging me." He puts one of the decorative pillows on top of his lap.
You rolled your eyes and started opening the gifts, a bunch of different expensive perfumes, Lingerie and expensive jewelry. You move the pillow and stratal him. "I love all of this, but Toji I just really want you, I want to start over."
You could feel his rock hard dick under you. Just the feeling of him already had you soaking. "Then lets start over." He leans in and pecks your lips. You tired pulling away but his started kissing you more aggressively. The small grunts coming out of his mouth as he feels you slowly grinding on his clothed dick.
"Fuck" you pull away from the messy make out session and started removing your shirt. How Toji sat there admiring your breast. Taking one and massaging it as he sucks the other one. You lean you head back and soft moan. "Lay down." You hear Toji whisper. so you listen.
He slides off your panties, he slides down to meet your wet cunt thats been waiting to see him. "Sit on me." he looks up at you. "Toji, No I don't want to hur-" He scoffs "Look at you and look at me...sit on me."
"Fuck." You moan as his tongue constantly makes contact with the little pearl with his tongue. You grab a handful of his hair as you hear the loud slurping noise. You look down and you see how small you are compared to Toji. It turned you on, you loved how big Toji was. It made you feel comfortable and safe yet so scared.
"T-Toji f..fuck me already." You gasp and he fastened his tempo with his tongue. You couldn't help but squirm closing your legs tighter and tighter but you were scared you were gonna suffocate Toji.
"Fuck Toji m'done, i wan you inside me." So he stops and tosses you on your stomach. "I fucking miss this ass." He smacks your ass causing you to moan. He spreads open your wet pussy lips before sliding his sweats down revealing his lengthy fat veiny dick. You were looking back as he was getting ready to fuck you.
"m'gonna fuck you so hard." He whispers before thrusting hard into you. "Fucmm" You dig your head into the pillow as he thrusted in with no warning, its been a while, getting used to his dick. "I fucking needed you.." Toji threw his head back as he kept thrusting into you. He looked at you, how quiet and muffled your moans were. He slid a pillow under your stomach and grabbed your by the neck causing you to look up.
"T-Toji stahh.." you bit your lip as the pleasure kept going constantly. With every grunt you heard coming out of Toji, the faster he went. Slapping your ass occasionally. "f..fuck how about I fucking making your pregnant." He says as he feels himself getting ready to cum.
"Pleasmm Toji." You bite your lips. "I wan..it" you gasp. "M'yeah? You wan hold m'fucking kids?" His thrust getting harder and deeper, his tip constantly hitting the gushy spot in your pussy . "Mmhmm, yes i wan it." You moan.
"Fuck." he says letting his load spill inside your pussy. Finally puling out and dropping right next to you. "Fuck Toji." You try to catch your breath. "I've missed it, you, your scent. I missed all of it. I love you so fucking much. I don't ever want to let you go." You lazily smile at him "Cute...clean me up."
He laughs and gets up to grab a rag to clean you.
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"The Christmas miracle was Toji and Y/n getting back together." Satoru says noticing how touchy Toji had been with you all morning. Nobara rolls her eyes, "Make her a trophy wife, or someone else will." Suguru butts in "I don't think that's gonna be a problem considering they plan on having a-" Toji smacks him on the head. "Shut up."
You embarrassingly walk away from them walking to the Kitchen where Megumi had been making himself a tea. "I'm glad you gave him another chance, the amount of times he would nonstop talk about you was getting annoying, no offense." You laughed, "What are you fucking saying little boy?" Megumi grabbed his mug, "Nothing, I made you a coffee already y/n its on the counter." You grabbed the coffee as Toji wrapped his big arms around your waist.
"He says that about me but he low key misses you too." He chuckles leaning in kissing you passionately. "Mm yeah? Well like father like son." you smile as he gives you that look that you loved, his sly smirk.
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gaasuba ยท 6 months
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Disapproval
please take care of yourself and don't read if you aren't in the headspace to handle a story about abusive parents/cops
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"I'm..." Miles hesitates. He hates how he seems to keep finding himself here, freaking out about a secret he's been keeping from his parents for more than a year and unable to just.... say it already!
"I'm dating... Hobie." He winces, fists clenched in his hoodie pouch, bracing for whatever reactions his parents may have. He had been running countless scenarios in his head, even long before he had decided to tell them, so he's pretty sure he's prepared for whatever.
There's a long, stunned silence from his parents. It gives Miles time to be aware and feel uncomfortable about how they're seated while he's standing, like a performer in the spotlight. The tension he feels growing is finally broken by a single word from his dad.
"No."
His dad's response is.... stupid.
"No? What do you mean 'no?' It's not a question it's what's happening." Even tho he was expecting something like this, it takes a lot to keep his body language polite. It's an effort that is not being reciprocated.
"It's what's about to stop happening." His dad crosses his arms and Miles' heart sinks when his mom frowns and nods along in agreement. No allies. Worst case scenario on that front. That's fine. He can still salvage this.
"Why? What's wrong with Hobie?" he hates that asking this question was necessary and he really wishes Hobie hadn't insisted on being here. Miles thought it would go smoother if he talked to his parents alone, but Hobie was so insistent. They usually backed down so easy the first time that Miles told them 'no' about anything, so how could Miles argue? The compromise was for them to wait in his room, but that means Hobie would be hearing his parents' unwatched words.
His mom rests a placating hand on his dad's shoulder before speaking.
"Miles," saying his name in an attempt at being comforting is infuriating, "we're glad you have other people like you to support you..."
'But...'
"but couldn't you date someone... less... violent?"
'Violent?'
"Hobie's not violent." What else was there to say?
Miles remembers their first kiss, how Hobie had been unable to look at him as they had asked. The words were burned into his mind. "Can I kiss you?" As if they hadn't really been asking 'will you kiss me?' They didn't move after he had said "yes", only looked at him with wide, hopeful eyes, and had waited for Miles to make the first move. It had been the same way for their first time holding hands, their first date, first time sleeping in the same bed, for telling their friends, for being public where the press in each reality could see. They hadn't even looked at his artbooks without permission!
Always asked.
Always waited.
Violent????
"He breaks people's faces with his guitar!" his dad accuses.
"I break people's faces with my fists!" Miles retorts, pulling his hands from his pocket to gesture at one fist with his other hand. But the mention of the guitar makes Hobie's slow cover of Sunflower come to mind and he lets out a heavy sigh, relaxing slightly. He hadn't realize how much his shoulders had risen.
"That's different!" his dad stood, elbows out and fists clenched, causing Miles to take a startled step back. Despite the intimidation, he remains confident when he counters.
"How is it different!?"
"You aren't out there killing cops!" he must have read something different in Miles' confused expression because he adds a condescendingly triumphant, "Yeah!" before crossing his arms again and asking harshly, "You think I don't know what those blue laces mean!?"
"I've told you what their dimension is like! You've seen what injuries Mom's treated them for!" Miles doesn't understand how his dad is struggling with this. He knows how different other realities can be. He knows that cops can be corrupt, even in this reality. He was the one who gave Miles his BLM button!
"And how are we supposed to know any of those stories are true?" His dad's tone had softened, assured that he was close to ending this discussion with a win. But Miles could think of several ways they could know already. They could have gotten footage of the violence against protesters. The propaganda against Hobie. Could have let them visit the community center. But they had never asked!
"If you wanted proof why didn't you ask!?" Miles throws out his arms in exasperation.
"Okay, Okay, Okay," his mom interjects, standing and pointing a placating palm towards each of them, "Let's all calm down." Of course she stepped in before his dad had to respond. God forbid Miles get a win here. He looks away in annoyance, knowing he can't control his expression, no matter what she says next. "We thought you were dating that nice blond girl."
Miles feels like he's losing his entire mind. If he wasn't watchless and glitchless, he would suspect he's in the wrong universe. Since when did they think Gwen was nice? And how did they still not know her name after almost two years!? He doesn't dare look back at them but he manages to stay mostly calm when he replies.
"I've literally never dated Gwen." The thought of dating her had made him uncomfortable ever since that day at Spider Society HQ. He had expected her to have his back, instead she had joined everyone in the chase. She even got close to catching him! The only person who had never been against him, always had his back, was always there for him.... had been Hobie. He thought he had made that clear to his parents every time he talked about it.
"You've never dated and yet we keep finding her sweaters in your room?" his dad escalates again. Miles sighs and isn't able to keep the exasperation from his voice.
"She forgets things at everyone's houses, Dad." But of course that's a wrong answer....
"How many boys' rooms is she sneaking into!?"
"Jeff, please. Focus on Miles," his mom places a comforting hand on her husband's chest before looking back to Miles. "So then, how long have you been together?" Miles sighs again and drops his gaze to the floor, her previous words taking on new meanings. 'Focus on Miles.' 'Focus on what we can be mad at.' 'Focus on blaming him for being afraid to tell us.'
"Since right after... you know. Everything." They hadn't really put a name on it but they understood. And of course it wasn't acceptable.
"That's more than a year!" his dad yells the obvious while his mom gasps.
"Sixteen months," Miles says quietly. It was going to be a bit embarrassing if Hobie had been able to hear that.
"We've let you alone together in your room with the door closed!" his mom says, sounding scandalized.
"So then, why now? What finally got you feeling guilty enough to tell us?" Miles glares at his shoes as if they can change his father's words. Throwing the reason of guilt out is going to make anything Miles says next sound selfish. But he does have a reason, and he isn't going to lie about it.
"You think we're letting you invite him after this!?" His mom asks incredulously.
"My birthday is soon, and I don't want to have to pretend we aren't together like last year." It had been torture. How Hobie had been afraid to touch him too much or for too long. The sad look Hobie would give as a warning when they caught him smiling at them too fondly. They had even brought a single, half-assed combination birthday/xmas gift as a kind of decoy and Miles had to wait days before they could meet up again for them to give him the real things.
.... How he wasn't able to kiss them goodbye.
"What?" he snaps his head back up to stare in confusion. He's about to correct her misgendering when his dad adds,
"We're not letting him back in the house! You'll be lucky if we even let you have a birthday party!" he sounds surprised that Miles didn't know all this already.
"Dad! That's crazy! Do you even hear yourself!?"
"Oh and you're grounded!"
"For how long!?"
"A year!"
"A whole year!? What does that even do!? What suddenly changes after a year of isolation!?" Miles is trying to not cry. How is this happening? Why are they acting like this!?
"That's as long as we can protect you from that pervert!" His father snaps.
"Pervert!?!?"
"Yeah! How old is he anyway!? He looks 30!"
"Thir-" Miles feels like he's going to get a headache. "They're only thirteen months older than me!"
"An adult!"
"Gwen is fourteen months older! And you were fine with me dating her just a minute ago!"
"Whatever! Whatever!" Miles suddenly realizes why they hate when he uses that word. Miles uses it to try and give up.... but they use it to force a win. All this time they've been getting mad at him, grounding him, for something he wasn't even saying!
"I can't believe this. We're going to have to put bars on all the windows." His father rubs his head, exasperated, As he paces around the room, Miles struggles to hold back tears. "But those portal things! We'll have to restrict your watch use. And we'll need to take your door off it's hinges!" Jeff raises and drops his arms, like this is the biggest inconvenience he's ever had. He stops pacing to point stiffly at Miles, "Tell that spider society of yours whatever it is you tell them to get a replacement for you."
Miles feels the tears spill and he can't stop himself from turning invisible. Jeff grabs for him.
"Don't you dare," he shouts, managing to get a firm grip on Miles' arm.
"I wasn't doing anything!"
"Jeff!"
"Let go!" Miles pleads, desperate to not use his spider strength.
"No!"
"Please stop!" Miles turns to his mom with pleading eyes she can't see. "Mom!"
"Mi amor, please!"
"Not until you turn back visible!"
"Oi!" Miles' bedroom door bursts open with the word. A printed shockwave from the door's collision with Miles' dresser clashes against the style of 1610.
"Hobie," Miles breathes. He isn't sure if he means to say it as a warning or a plea, but he's so relieved to see them that he turns back visible.
"Oh come on! What the heck are you doing here!?" Jeff snaps as Hobie steps towards him, a pink border flaring behind their mostly yellow form. It's one of their least threatening color sets to people unfamiliar with them, but Miles recognizes it for what it is: Radioactive.
"Miles loves you too much to hurt you." they grip the wrist of Jeff's hand that's still holding onto Miles, "I don't." They squeeze, the action causing them to shift to their printed style and their border's edges to spike.
Jeff yells as he releases his grip to try and free himself.
"Hobie! Stop!" Miles yells.
They do.
"See how easy it is to stop being a git?" they sneer at Jeff, their border disappearing and their colors chilling out into their neutral look. Miles clings to them, hugging them tight, and speaks quickly.
"I'm so glad you're here. I'm sorry. You were right. I love you. I'm sorry."
"S'ok, love." They wrap their arms around him firmly, "This ain't on you, you hear?" Their deep voice is comforting, and their hold is so familiar that Miles can almost feel the gentle rocking of Hobie's home where it usually happens. There had been so many missions that ended like this and Miles finds himself desperately craving all the comforts that usually come next.
"I want to leave," Miles barely keeps steady as he says it. He wonders where he even found the strength to speak.
"Whatever you need, love." It was exactly what Miles wanted to hear, what he needed to hear. He's stopped crying and he wipes his cheeks on their shirt with a pitiful laugh.
"Take me home." Just saying the words made him feel so much better. It didn't feel like a request or pleading, it felt like casting a spell, because he knows Hobie will make it happen.
Both their spider sense is suddenly triggered with the sound of radio static.
"Is anyone there?" Rio pleads. "This is the wife of Captain Morales! A spiderman just attacked my husband and is planning to kidnap my son!"
Miles barely has time to process the words he just heard before Hobie is speaking.
"I've already packed for you. Let's go."
"What?" Miles is too lost to keep up and Hobie can see it. They take his hand and retreat back to his room, ignoring Jeff's protests. Miles half notices his partially packed room before a bag is shoved into his arms and a portal opens. His parents are screaming but he can't process anything that they're saying. So he listens to the only word screaming in his mind.
'Leave!'
He lunges through the portal, not even landing gracefully, laying on his back and staring at Hobie's patched ceiling. He manages to comprehend the thuds that follow him as more of his stuff being flung from the portal. Forcing himself to stand, he watches as Hobie lands more gracefully than he had, their arms wrapped securely around a box of records. Their radioactive colors look more pink in the lamplight of their livingroom.
The portal closes.
Hobie sets the box of records down with care and a huff.
"How someones like them turned out someone as wonderful as you I'll never-" their words die at the sight of Miles; stiff, his eyes wide, still clinging to this duffle as if it was the only thing holding him together. The sight is so jarring that they shift to monochrome. They snatch the bag and throw it across the room, replacing the empty space by pulling him into a tight hug.
Miles instantly shatters, clinging at the back of their vest as he sobs into their chest.
"I've got you," they promise, holding him tighter and pressing their lips to the top of his head and speaking softer, "I got you, love."
Miles feels something unexpected on the back of Hobie's vest when he grips them tighter, and gasps when he recognizes it. He pushes them back to look up at them with wide eyes.
"He tased you!?" and he hadn't been there to redirect the charge....
"Shit." Hobie swears as they toss their vest to the side. "Didn't mean for you to notice that. I'm fine. Don't think about that now."
"Well I don't want to think about it later! I should have been there to protect you!" Instead he was running away like a coward. Left Hobie alone. Hobie would have never done that to him!
"Tasers is nothin, love," they say with a chuckle, "I'd been fine even if it had made it through my jacket."
"How do you know that??"
"Your playful shocks are more powerful than those mosquito bites." They pinch his side, teasing. It tickles and Miles can't help but yelp out a laugh. "I keep sayin you need to start thinkin with volts more." They were right. They were always right. Miles presses his face into their chest again and, finally feeling safe, all his strength leaves him. Hobie catches him and guides him to the couch.
"Sorry," Miles mumbles.
"Nothin to be sorry for," Hobie assures, kneeling to pull off Miles' shoes.
"Mi amor, no," Miles complains, "You don't need to do that...."
"But I'm gonna anyhow." They toss his shoes to the side before thwipping over the bag they had thrown from Miles. Catching the bag causes them to turn their neutral colors. They must finally be feeling safe too. "Now stop fussin and let me take care of you," they scold as they rummage in the duffle. They find what they're looking for quickly and toss the pajama pants at Miles' face. Exhausted as he is, he isn't quick enough to catch them and Hobie laughs at his fumble. Miles loves that sound. So the embarrassment was worth it.
"You get changed while I put us on a cuppa," they say, standing, but they hesitate with a worried look, "You alright alone?" Miles nods but Hobie still doesn't move, wanting him to say it.
"I'm fine. Promise. Make it peach tea?" his reassurance makes Hobie smile again.
"Of course, Sunflower." They lean down and place a gentle kiss on Miles' cheek before turning to leave across the deck of the boat. "Whatever you want."
Once they're gone, Miles is left with only the sounds of the boat creaking and the lapping of the water. He takes a moment to close his eyes and enjoy the gentle swaying caused by the waves. Unfortunately, it gives him time to become aware of his own body. He still feels so weak, his stomach hurts, and his head is starting to ache.
He changes clothes and starts to look through what Hobie had packed to distract himself. He starts by shifting the crate of Uncle Aaron's records onto the shelf with Hobie's so they would be secure. Next, he gathers all of the duffels against the end of the couch: the clothes from his clean bin with a few of his figures tucked between, the clothes from his dirty bin, his spider gear, drums, markers, and empty sketch books.
Miles can't help but smile to himself. Of course Hobie would think to grab his supplies before grabbing his older works. He wonders what his parents will do with what he left behind. They wouldn't throw it out.... right?
He bites his lip, trying not to cry again.
"Hope I got the most important stuff," Hobie says, snapping him out of his thoughts. They're carrying a full tea tray. "I would have packed more but...." They stop themself. "Sorry." As if they have anything to be sorry for.
"I didn't expect you to pack anything," Miles says, sitting back on the couch while Hobie sits the tray on the table in front of it. "Thank you. You're amazing."
Hobie smiles and turns pink, the pink they only turn for him, the one covered in scribbled hearts and hand written lyrics. "Back at ya, love," they say as they pour the tea. They prep Miles' cup without asking him what he wants, already knowing, and sit heavily next to him. They take off their shoes and toss them aside before kicking their legs over his lap and passing him his cup. Miles breathes in the steam as he waits for it to cool and it helps with the headache.
"After this we should get some shut eye," Hobie says, eyes closed, enjoying the steam from their own cup. "You want the top or bottom bunk?"
Miles snorts into his tea at being teased for his question from the first time he spent the night here.
"Come on, man!" he laughs, "Aren't you ever gonna let me forget that?"
"Never," they say before taking a sip of their tea, the warmth and comfort turning them back to neutral. Miles tries to take a sip of his own but it's still too hot. "I'll stop teasing you about it when you stop wearin logos and brand names."
"And what can I do to make you come up with a different trade option when I want you to do something?"
They shrug, "Probly nothin."
Miles rolls his eyes and shakes his head. He tries another sip of his tea and is thankful it's cool enough. The warmth in his stomach helps with some of the ache. Hobie picks up a couple of pills from a sauce cup on the tray and holds them out to him.
"Figured you'd need some pain killers," they explain. Miles wants to tell them that they're amazing again, but decides he doesn't want to be that repetitive. He settles for a simple "thank you" and takes the pills, swallowing them with a sip of his tea.
They stay that way, cozy and playful, until Miles starts to feel like it's becoming impossible to keep his eyes open.
"Bed time?" Hobie asks and Miles nods lazily, setting his cup back on the tray. They kick their feet back off Miles' lap, turning neutral, to stand and pick up the tray. They set it in a bin next to the deck door before returning to Miles and lifting him cradle style.
"I can walk," he says, but there's no bite to his words. He wraps his arms around Hobie's neck and nuzzles against it. The cool, smooth metal of their collar feels good against his hot face.
"Mmhmm," is their only reply as they carry him to the lower deck. They set him on the bottom bunk and start changing into their own sleep clothes. Miles takes off his hoodie and socks before checking the bedside drawer for bonnets, tossing one to Hobie once they've changed into their sleep pants.
"Skootch," Hobie says, sitting on the bed next to him. He does, taking his usual place closer to the wall, tucked under the narrower top bunk. He pulls the covers up to his chin and breathes in deeply, comforted by the familiar smell. When he feels Hobie's arm wrap around his waist, he takes their hand to replace the blanket, kissing their fingers and hugging their arm.
"I love you so much," he whispers, briefly worried he'll cry again.
Hobie hugs him tight and tangles their legs. "I love you," they place a firm kiss against the back of his neck, "Whatever happens."
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Bringing Home Brisket
Relationship: Jake "Hangman" Seresin/OC!Carter
Rating: General Audiences
Summary: Jake surprises Carter with a puppy.
Author's Note: Brisket Seresin played by Brisket Powell because I have never had a dog and don't know good dog names. Alex Diaz is a completely original character from a past one-shot.
Words: 679
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Jake walked into the apartment, a small puppy cradled in his arms. Carter and Alex sat on the couch, laughing about something.
"Hey, sweetheart, I've got-" Jake stopped as soon as he saw Alex. "Diaz."
"Seresin."
"What are you doing in my home?" Jake asked, straightening his posture.
"Don't start!" Carter groaned, she looked at Jake, not noticing the bundle of fur in his arms. "I invited him over. He is a guest -ย my guest. You're gonna have to get over whatever bullshit you both refuse to tell me."
"Are you guys even allowed to have dogs in here?" Alex asked.
"No. Why?" Carter asked. Alex nodded towards Jake. She saw the puppy and gasped. "Jacob Thomas Seresin, that better not be a dog!"
"Your middle name is Thomas?" Alex asked.
"This is Brisket." Jake smiled, holding up the puppy.
"You're gonna get us evicted," Carter replied.
"Then we'll have an excuse to finally find our dream house." He was still smiling wider than ever.
"We can't keep him, Jake."
"Yes, we can. As long as Jeff never finds out. Look at that face. Where else is he gonna go? He's a stray and he's just a pup," Jake explained. Carter took a deep breath.
"I'm sorry to kick you out, Alex. But I have to speak to my boyfriend in private." She looked at Alex.
"I get it. I'll talk to you later. Good luck, Seresin." Carter walked Alex out of the apartment. As soon as she closed the door, she turned back to Jake.
"What are you thinking?"
"He was all alone. I couldn't leave him.
"We can't have a dog. Not here. Not yet."
"Come on, babe. Look at that wittle face?" He held the puppy up to his cheek. Carter rolled her eyes. "Look at Brisket."
"That is the worst name for a dog." She softened as she began petting the puppy. "He is cute."
"If I let you name him can we keep him?" He asked.
"We cannot have a dog here."
"Yes, we can."
"This is something we needed to discuss before you brought him home. Dogs are a lot of responsibility. I'm going to be stuck picking up after him and training him because if you get called off again, which you will-" Carter sighed, taking the puppy from him. "Where are we going to go if Jeff kicks us out? Hm?"
"It's not going to happen."
"I love you, but can we put your hopeful optimism on the shelf for two seconds? Let's be realistic for a minute, alright. Where are we going to go?"
"I understand your worries. I get it. But- we keep putting off looking for a place. We keep making excuses. No more excuses. We can start looking at houses tomorrow if it'll make you feel better," he told them. The smile crept back as he watched Carter mindlessly pet Brisket. "See, you love him already."
"Wha-" Carter looked down at the dog. "He is cute and we can't possibly surrender him to a shelter. He's just a baby." They glared at Jake. "I hate you."
"I know and I accept it. So we're keeping him?"
"We can keep Brisket." She sighed. "I'll talk to Jeff so he's not blindsided. Ask him to give us two months tops to find a new place."
"See! i knew you'd come around to the idea."
"I'm still mad at you." She carried Brisket to the couch. "Your dad is an idiot, Brisket."
"You keep calling him Brisket which means you don't hate the name."
"Shut up. We gotta pick him up some stuff for tonight. A bed, toys, food, lots of pee pads, a collar, some treats. How does that sound, Brisket?" She asked. "You better tell your dad to wipe that smile off his lips or he's sleeping on the couch with you tonight." Jake couldn't help but laugh. "Don't test me, Jacob."
"Pulling out the government name twice. Ouch."
"Next time, warn me before you bring a dog home." Carter looked at him.
"I'll keep that in mind."
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teddy bear | i want you pt. 2
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pairings: dadโ€™s best friend!natasha x fem!reader
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summary: your father doesnโ€™t know it yet, but youโ€™re in love with his best friend. and what makes it better is that youโ€™re sure enough that she feels the same way. the sad part is, neither of you canโ€™t word out your love for each other properly.
warnings: natasha fucking a toy, porn video mentioned, blowjob (natasha receiving), dirty talking, praising, slight angst, and a tension between bucky and natashaย  - minors dni
notes: it gets real trust me. enjoy!
โ€œNatasha?โ€ Bucky says her name from the tip of his tongue, as if foreign. โ€œIs she like yourโ€ฆ godmother?โ€
The way he said Natasha was my "Godmother" was the worst thing I'd ever heard - the name made my entire body shiver. I turned away from him and stared at the daisies that my father had planted.
โ€œSomethinโ€™ wrong?โ€ he asked; I shook my head in response. โ€œAnyway, are you two close?โ€
I shrugged, pretending not to notice or care. Because showing him how much I cared about her would be suspicious - he'd know how much I cared about her.
โ€œYeah, she has been my Dadโ€™s friend ever since.โ€
He smiled at my reply and licked his lips, continuing to drink from the rim of the beer that my father gave me when he was still around the house. โ€œShe sounds nice,โ€ he brought my hand to his and laid them on his lap. I felt nothing. โ€œIs it okay if we hold hands?โ€
โ€œWell, you are already holding it.โ€ he chuckles. I asked, โ€œDo you think sheโ€™s okay?โ€
โ€œWhat do you mean?โ€
โ€œLikeโ€ฆโ€ my words trailed off; I suddenly didnโ€™t know what to say or do. My mouth felt dry at this point. โ€œUm, do you think sheโ€™s a good person?โ€
He snickers in response. โ€œHow would I suppose to know that? Natasha and I never met, Y/n.โ€
I was finding a compliment from him that would make me feel better whenever I was alone with Natasha or I needed to know his opinions about her. But he was right; how could he possibly know Natasha? My Natasha.
It feels good to say that in my head.
โ€œYouโ€™re right,โ€ I chuckled lightly, scratching the back of my neck. โ€œAnyway, are we still going to thatโ€“โ€
โ€œWould you marry me?โ€ he cuts me off with his eyes gazing down at mine. What did he just ask?! I pondered in my head. How could he say such a thing, especially since we're not even in our twenties? Is he out of his mind? Or is he just drunk? He couldn't possibly be. He despises alcohol and would only consume it with friends. I let go of his hand, watching his face scrunch up.
โ€œWhat?โ€ I asked, wholly obliviated from the situation. His smile fell, and he shrugged, wanting to get out of the subject, knowing I would reject him.
โ€œForget I asked.โ€
โ€œIโ€™m just confused,โ€ I ventured. โ€œLike, we are best friends. And arenโ€™t we too young to marry each other?โ€
Bucky shrugged again and drank his beer, his eyes averting to the ground. If thereโ€™s one thing to know about Bucky is that he hates to admit or confess anything that would put him in a tight situation โ€“ like right now, for example. He knows that I might reject him, but I also want to see the context of why he asked me that.
โ€œCome on,โ€ I nudged his shoulder on mine, chuckling. โ€œWhy did you ask me that?โ€
โ€œIt feels like no one would want me except you.โ€
โ€œOf course, Iโ€™d want you,โ€ I responded, unsure if I was telling a lie. Either way, if I was more interested in him and if there were a spark โ€“ I wouldnโ€™t see why not. โ€œBuck, I donโ€™t think weโ€™d be happy together if we got married.โ€
โ€œBut weโ€™re close!โ€ he exclaims, whining as he covers his entire face with his hands. โ€œWeโ€™d be perfect together, and your Dad would even approve of us.โ€
โ€œYou arenโ€™t wrong there, but I just canโ€™t. It wonโ€™t work out.โ€
I let our deep silence sink in and waited for his response, growing anxious as the minutes ticked away because he hadn't said anything to relieve me. He sighed and held my hand together as he brought it to his rough lips, and I shuddered. Not in a good way.
"One day," he said, as if marking his word, "I'll ask you again; you'll be happy with me, I promise you."
It was preferable to upsetting him, so I simply nodded and smiled.
"Sure," I said innocently as I rested my head on his shoulder.
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NATASHAโ€™S POV:
โ€œYeah baby, fuck me harder!โ€
I couldnโ€™t take my eyes off of my computer as I fuck into Y/nโ€™s teddy bear, using it as my fleshlight since I donโ€™t have all of my toys in this house. I shut my eyes tightly and grip the teddy harder as I fuck into it, which reminds me to stitch up the toy once I come inside of it.
"Do you like it, princess?" In the pornographic video I'm watching, the man cooed as he fucked the woman in a missionary position. I sighed heavily, imagining the teddy bear's walls to be Y/n's instead; she was always tight. Tighter, I've never fucked a woman so tightly. Slowly, I pulled away from the hole and rammed back in with a loud moan โ€“ hopefully, Steve wouldnโ€™t hear me.
โ€œFeel so good,โ€ I muttered, fucking the toy harder against the mattress. I'd hide under my covers if Y/n saw me right now. It would be embarrassing enough for a young girl to see an older woman this aroused, sexual, and desperate. Though, could I blame myself? With those skimpy shorts and batting eyes, I could not resist. โ€œSo tight around me, want to cum in youโ€ฆโ€
โ€œWant to breed you, slut. Want this dick far up your cunt.โ€
I wish it had been Y/n and me in that video instead. I wouldn't call her a slut, at least not without her permission. However, she appears to be the type who would enjoy a lot of dirty talking, including a lot of naughty words. I prefer calling her my little girl or bunny because I enjoy seeing her so small that I can comfortably fit my hand around her throat. I leaned into my pillow and tried to smell her scent as I got closer to my orgasm while fucking her teddy bear. I want you, I need you. Iโ€™ve never needed a woman like this in my life. Please be good for me. Let me use you. Let me teach you. I want you so much, baby. I want to be inside you and make you mineโ€“
โ€œTasha, itโ€™s time forโ€“โ€ my head turns quickly only to see a shocked Y/n standing between the doorframe, her mouth completely agape. I looked away from her out of embarrassment and pulled out my dick from the teddy bear, still hard from the images in my head. โ€œOh, I didnโ€™t know you were doing thatโ€ฆ with my teddy.โ€
โ€œSorry,โ€ I mumbled, which I was very much. How could she find it out this way? Now, I have no good explanation for her. โ€œI justโ€“I saw you with Bucky a while ago and got jealous.โ€
โ€œOver him?โ€ she asked with her tiny voice, which made my head spin, especially when she was on her tippy-toes. โ€œAnd with my bear?โ€
I nodded, the shame beginning to drain from my veins. She smiled lightly at my confession and walked towards me, her slight belly protruding.
โ€œIโ€™m sorry,โ€ I said as I was about to cover my hardened dick with a pillow, but she stopped my motions with her hand wrapped around my wrist. I was shocked at first, but suddenly I watched her kneeling on the ground with my legs prided for her to get scooted into. โ€œY/n, what are you doing? You know you donโ€™t have to.โ€
โ€œBut I want to,โ€ she offers, her eyes looking up at mine, and I could see how much she needed this moment. All I could imagine now was her mouth wrapped around the length of my cock, gagging and begging me to stop thrusting into her throat.
โ€œDo you want me to do this, Tash?โ€
โ€œBut your dadโ€“โ€
โ€œHeโ€™s still cooking,โ€ she cuts me off and looks at my dick, letting out a quiet gasp. I watch her intently, not knowing whether sheโ€™ll touch my penis. โ€œD-Do you want this?โ€
I smiled as I ruffled the back of her hair and assured her, "Of course. I want this more than anything, and itโ€™s just thatโ€ฆ Iโ€™m huge.โ€ both of you chuckled in the air as it did slowly, my cock twitching from her presence. โ€œY/n, if you donโ€™t do anything now, I willโ€“โ€
I threw my head back in the air as her lips encircled my tip and silenced me. I whispered, "F-Fuck baby, slow down," as I placed my hand over her head and groaned effortlessly.
โ€œMmph,โ€ the vibrations from her mouth drive me insane. It was a wonderful feeling to feel like I had gained an additional inch. She licks the length of my dick at the slowest pace before whispering: โ€œDoes it feel good, Daddy?โ€
I muttered, "Uh-huh," and moved up to face her. Come on, baby, wrap your mouth around my dick. Make me feel good, please.โ€
She makes a loud pop! Sound and slowly pumps my dick while stretching my foreskin with her hand on my pelvis. After a short while, she wrapped her mouth back around my cock and resumed sucking it while simultaneously whining and gurgling. As I visualized ropes of my cum shooting into her throat while she begged for mercy, my eyes rolled back in my head. Oh, how sheโ€™d look so beautiful coated with my cum โ€“ all of me, truly me.
And not some man who would take advantage of my girl.
"That's it," I murmured, slowly raising my hips, hoping she wouldn't push me away. โ€œFuck, there you go, baby girlโ€ฆ "Do you like my cock in your mouth?" she asked, her eyes welling up with tears. "Do you want to choke on this dick?"
Another nod, another whimper from her โ€“ which makes me grin.
โ€œYeah?โ€ I pushed her head into my mouth, her mouth engulfing my length, choking on my cock, and causing my abs to clench as her saliva coated me. โ€œFuck, your mouth feels so good, babyโ€ฆ makes me wanna fuck it.โ€
I secured my hands on both sides of her head and thrust upwards into her mouth, causing her to gag around my length.
"Yeah, what a little girl you are for me..." I muttered. โ€œHave you got anything special? Baby, gag on my dick." she closed her eyes and allowed her throat to sink deeper into my dick, causing her to gag and sputter saliva on my stomach.
"This is some hot porno shit," I said, returning my gaze to the door to check for Steve. That wouldnโ€™t be a good image. I use her head as my fleshlight, my fucktoy, and cry myself to oblivion, utterly dependent on her. โ€œOh, Iโ€™m fucking close, baby... Youโ€™ve never taken anything this big, huh? Take all of my cum, okay? Promise wonโ€™t hurt youโ€ฆ Itโ€™ll taste good, I swear.โ€
Perhaps I was becoming desperate because my sperm could never be that delicious. Though, that would be her decision on that because I've had a taste of mine, which isn't too bad.
I yanked her head out of her mouth and pressed my cock furiously, edging myself closer to my orgasm. I locked my gaze on her and imagined how often I would do this with her, and only with her. I can't even imagine how angry I'd be if I saw her fleeing with Bucky, the boy I despise. How could he possibly take her away from me? I went for her first; I saw her first. So, what gives him the right to be with her instead of me?
I realized I was envious and that I wanted Y/n all for myself.
โ€œIโ€™m cumming, baby! Take all of itโ€“Fuckโ€ฆโ€ As I jerked myself off, I dropped ropes of cum into her mouth and more on her face. I bit my lip, drawing blood, but I didn't care. I was in heaven and felt that no one, not even Bucky, would intrude on my private session with Y/n. I relaxed as I entered her mouth, sighing heavily and collapsing against the bed.
Y/n walked to my bathroom and washed her mouth, which made my heart feel heavy.
Did she not like it? Did I do something wrong? Did I hurt her? I jumped off the mattress and followed her, my eyes searching for her lost ones.
โ€œA-Are you okay?โ€ I asked, unsure if I'd gotten the words right. This was terrifying because I'd never seen a woman walk out on me before. โ€œY-Y/n, have I hurt you?โ€
She smiled at me tearfully and kissed my left cheek, whispering: โ€œIโ€™m okay, I promise.โ€ before she could walk out on me again, I pulled her into a hug and kissed her lips passionately โ€“ Iโ€™m even shocked myself. She leaned into my touch, showing that she wasnโ€™t scared of me; I knew that.
โ€œIโ€™ve never done that,โ€ she quietly admitted, hiding her face into my cleavage as I chuckled.
โ€œI know, baby girl.โ€
She whispers again, โ€œDid I hurt you?โ€ I shook my head. โ€œGood, I only wanted to make you feel good.โ€
I wish you knew how passionate I am about you because you compel me, Y/n. You are the light of my day, the poem of my diary. If you knew how much I liked you, you wouldโ€™ve known how much I starve for you. I hunger for your feelings and want to see if you feel the same way.
Iโ€™m an utter mess.
โ€œWe have to go,โ€ she mumbles, pulling away as she wipes her mouth with a paper towel โ€“ giving me a sheepish smile. โ€œSee you downstairs?โ€
I sighed happily, nodding at her.
โ€œSee you downstairs, darling.โ€
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Y/nโ€™s POV:
The stars were bright at this hour, and I couldn't stop staring at them. But I was distracted by the pool splashing and my friends cheering on my other friend. I didn't realize I was drunk until I felt heavy and needed to go home, but I was too exhausted to do anything about it.
Bucky approached me with a mischievous smile and wrapped his arm around his shoulder; I could smell old whiskey in his mouth, along with a mixture of tuna sandwiches Mj had made for us. โ€œAre you having fun, my daisy?โ€
My Daisy. How much I despise that nickname.
โ€œSwell, if you asked me.โ€
He knew I was already drunk, not even tipsy at this point. But he pulled me closer into his muscular body and brought me back to the table, watching as Peter kissed Mj hard. He wasnโ€™t usually like that, which was strange for me to witness.
โ€œWow, you must be that drunk, huh?โ€ I asked goofily, sitting beside him. Peter smiled like a proud horndog and screamed, โ€œThis is the best party ever! So happy that Iโ€™m with my best buds, including you, Y/n.โ€
โ€œHa-Ha,โ€ I let out a fake laugh and chugged down another beer that Bucky owned, which made me realize how much I had drunk in the last four hours. I imagine what Natashaโ€™s messages would look like, a statement that goes: Iโ€™m going to kill Bucky if he hurts you or Please let me pick you up at least.
I opened my phone, and I was right.
Natasha (1:05 am) - Baby? Are you okay? Where are you?
Natasha (1:15 am) - Is Bucky there? How are you? Please respond to my text.
Natasha (1:30 am) - I canโ€™t sleep without knowing youโ€™re okay. Please open your messages.
*4 missed calls from Natasha*
Did I decide to respond to her? Yes, but my phone suddenly died, making me groan out of frustration. MJ asked, โ€œWhatโ€™s in your reckless mind right now, Y/n?โ€
โ€œMy phone died.โ€ I muttered, causing everyone to laugh.
โ€œIs it her?โ€ he asked. I turned away from MJ and looked at Bucky with my heavy-lid eyes instead. โ€œNatashaโ€ฆ is she the one texting you?โ€ could he possibly see my texts? That would be embarrassing enough.
โ€œY-Yeah,โ€ I said, shaking my head in response. โ€œSheโ€™s just worried, thatโ€™s all.โ€
Peter cuts in, โ€œIs she like your girlfriend or something?โ€
โ€œThatโ€™s her aunt,โ€ Bucky said, his arms still wrapped around my shoulder uncomfortably. โ€œPlus, why does she care so much? Itโ€™s not like sheโ€™s your mother.โ€
โ€œYeah, b-but thatโ€™s been my aunt since I was just a kid.โ€
โ€œStill,โ€ he shrugs, rolling his eyes. Was he jealous? โ€œThatโ€™s your aunt, nothinโ€™ special, you know?โ€
Possibly, heโ€™s right. Perhaps my feelings for Natasha were never unique in the first place, and it's just unfortunate that they've been revealed. The question is, does Natasha feel the same way about me? Could we have feelings for each other but not express them?
Is it better to speak or to die?
I rested my forehead against the table and muttered a few words, โ€œI wanna go home, Mโ€™really wanna go home.โ€
โ€œSheโ€™s a lightweight,โ€ Mj snickered, taking a photo of me and saving it to her gallery. โ€œBucky, why donโ€™t you take her home? Too bad we didnโ€™t dance and grinded up against each other. Wouldโ€™ve loved that, especially with Y/n.โ€
Bucky glared at her and tightened his arm around me, saying: โ€œYou better watch your mouth, Jones.โ€
โ€œWhat? Iโ€™m just sayingโ€“โ€
โ€œIโ€™m taking you home,โ€ he helped me onto my feet and walked out of the gate, with my other arm slung around his shoulder as we slowly treaded back into his car. โ€œGlad youโ€™re with me instead of her; you donโ€™t know what she could do toโ€“โ€
โ€œI think I should be taking her home.โ€
I looked up from my chin and saw Natasha leaning against her car with her arms folded, looking mysterious and nonchalant. I couldn't stop approaching Natasha with open arms, nuzzling my head into her neck. She strokes my back with her hand, her gaze fixed on him.
It was going to be a rough night.
โ€œWhat happened?โ€ she asked with a deep, unfiltered voice โ€“ her hand stroking my hair now. Bucky sighed and scratched his head, unsure if he could escape this situation.
โ€œWe got pretty drunk, okay? You must be Natasha?โ€
โ€œYeah,โ€ she mutters, almost giving him a death glare. โ€œAnd you are?โ€
โ€œYou should know me by now, but Iโ€™m Bucky. But, call me James, though.โ€
โ€œI donโ€™t really plan to, son.โ€
I could hear what they were talking about, but I was too tired to speak. I whispered to her, โ€œCan we please go home, Tash?โ€
โ€œTash?โ€ he repeated, almost in mockery. โ€œWhat is this, high school?โ€
โ€œLook whoโ€™s talking,โ€ Natasha said, hugging me tighter. โ€œYou should go home, James. Your parents must be worried about you.โ€
โ€œYou donโ€™t have to care much about me, Ms. Natasha. I can take care of myself.โ€
โ€œYet, you did not take care of Y/n. Arenโ€™t you responsible for her? You know, since youโ€™re her best friend and all that.โ€
Things were heating up, and Natasha, knowing herself, was about to unleash her unnecessary rage on the boy, which she did not want to happen. Instead, she forced me to sleep in the backseat of her car while giving Bucky a hard pat on the shoulder and looking at him with cold eyes. "Drive safely, James," she says as soon as she gets into her car.
โ€œYou too, Ms. Natasha.โ€
Natasha didn't say anything to me the entire night, and I understood why. I didn't give her a heads-up that I was going to have a drink with my friends, which was my first drink with them. She was now involved in my mess, but she took care of me and brought me safely to my bedroom.
I only remembered her kissing my shoulders while forcing me to wear a new shirt and pants, whispering things like, I don't want you getting into trouble. My heart beats faster whenever she mentions her feelings for me.
โ€œAre you mad at me?โ€ I slurred as she shook her head, tucking me in. โ€œTash, are you mad at B-Buck?โ€
Natasha looked at me for a minute and nodded slowly, kissing my forehead as her hand soothed my right upper arm.
โ€œDonโ€™t worry about it, sweetheart. Itโ€™s nothing.โ€
โ€œBut itโ€™sโ€“โ€
โ€œShh,โ€ she presses her index finger against my lip as she smiles, turning off the lamp on my bedside table. โ€œGo to bed, little girl. We will talk tomorrow.โ€
I wish I could shout my affection for you, Y/n.
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Sitting down in an Italian restaurant not far from the airport I'm so conscious of time. I want to spend as much time as I can with Lando but I know we're limited.
"I can't wait until I have you all weekend next week in Monza"
"Well you have me Saturday and Sunday. I could probably bring my laptop and work from Monza on the Monday to have a bit longer with you" I explain trying to work out how we can spend more time together.
"I'll arrange for a private jet if it means I get longer with you" Lando says holding my hand over the table. Things already seem so different to how it was in Miami, I want this to work with Lando and I'm willing to put in every ounce of effort.
"You don't need to arrange a private jet. I'm on a really late flight home so we have all day. However that's next weekend, I want to focus on this weekend" I don't want to spend the full week stressing about leaving Lando next Sunday when we already have so little time together. "I noticed instagram and everywhere going crazy that I was stood with your parents. People are still trying to guess if we're together or not"
"I know I said it but seeing you stood there with my parents was the best feeling ever. When you went to talk to your dad they kept telling me how nice you are. I think because you actually stood having a conversation with them rather than standing saying nothing" Lando tells me with the sweetest smile on his face and I can see how much it means to him.
"Your parents really mean a lot to you don't they?"
"You have no idea. They're the best" seeing a man openly admit his love for his parents and family is such an attractive trait for me "I noticed the fan girls going crazy that you were there. I don't want them to turn on you because you're my girl Lu"
"Lando they can do what they want, honestly they don't bother me. You're my priority not them. Right favourite holiday you've been on?" I ask completely changing the subject.
"What?" Lando asks confused at my sudden shift in conversation.
"We need to lighten the mood. So come on favourite holiday ever?" I ask again.
"Probably Croatia with my family. I hired us a yacht and everyone came out my parents, my sisters, my brother and his wife with the kids. It was just nice to have us all in one place and no one bothering me" the more Lando tells me about his family the more I love the relationship they seem to have "what about you?"
"Don't think I'm just saying this but I think Miami. There was so many people there who mean so much to me it was nice to just take time away from life with everyone. Your turn ask me anything" I say not knowing what I'm getting myself into.
"I already know about the worst date you've had so what about the worst sex you've ever had?"
"Fucking hell Lando you're straight in with controversial questions!" I could easily give Lando an answer but I don't think he wants to hear it. "Do you actually want to know about me having sex with someone else?"
"If it's bad sex then I absolutely want the story then I'll know my competition"
"Weirdo" I laugh deciding to tell Lando the story "me and the girls were in Leeds for a night out and I spotted this lad near us in the club who was quite good looking. Next thing I knew we were kissing in a Photo Booth because it was the closest thing to us. We'd barely had a conversation at this point but decided to leave together and go back to my hotel. He tried to have sex with me in a church yard on the way to the hotel but I point blank said no. It wasn't until we were walking to the hotel I found out his name but once we got there it was basically straight to sex, there was no foreplay or anything, so he's trying to have sex with me and he was so high on cocaine he couldn't stay hard his dick just kept falling out. He asked me to get in the shower with him and I said no considering he couldn't stay hard for more than a few seconds then his words were along the lines of do you want to wait there while I go and get viagra. At this point I was completely done. I said no, got dressed and went back out to find my friends"
"Wow" Lando says laughing uncontrollably to the point he's crying "that is horrific! You're so fricking sexy you could make a saint hard and this idiot couldn't keep his dick hard long enough to get you off?"
"Basically" I can't help join in with Lando laughing at how bad the experience was.
"Why did he not at least finger you or eat you out to get you off. It would've been the least he could've done"
"Lando! Any one could hear what you're saying. Once it got to that point I was over it, I was drier than the Sahara Desert I just wanted to meet my friends in popworld for another drink. What about you? Worst experience you've had?" I ask wanting to even the playing field.
"I was seeing a girl once, nothing official but the first time we had sex she just kind of lay there like a corpse. She didn't make any noise or anything it was so off putting then she tried to give me a blow job and it was all teeth. The worst experience ever. I never saw her again after that night" laughing at Lando's equally bad experience I realise I don't have to ever experience bad sex with Lando.
"Well at least I know I give a good blow job" I say with a shrug.
"That you do" moving to sit next to Lando in the booth I lean in and kiss him softly "what was that for?"
"Because I felt like it. You're my race winner and I can kiss you whenever I want" kissing Lando again I run my fingers along his jaw. This evening has been perfect. I would've loved to be staying with Lando but this has been the next best thing. We've sat talking and no one has bothered us. I don't know if it's the cap Lando's wearing to hide his face to prying eyes or if people are just being respectful but it's nice to be left alone.
Leaving Lando at the airport departures I actually feel really teary. I don't want to leave him. I would love nothing more than to change my plans and fly back to Monaco with him tonight so I could have that time away from formula one to see him in his home environment and not a hotel or rented villa. I have no doubt what I see is the real Lando but there's a certain vulnerability that comes with seeing someone at home without any barriers up. My feelings for him are already growing stronger by the second I know for a fact seeing him at home would make me fall in love with him but I need to have my wits about me. Life within formula one is very unpredictable and can change at the drop of a hat.
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esmelucia Zandvoort you were amazing and completely worth the 2:30 am alarm! Flying home the proudest girlfriend tonight ๐Ÿงก
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fernandoalonso this old man is passed his sell by date now there's a boyfriend ๐Ÿ’”
โ†ช๏ธ esmelucia people wonder why I'm dramatic ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚ te amo papรก
landonorris the best surprise ๐Ÿงก (thanks fernandoalonso)
โ†ช๏ธ esmelucia missing you already ๐Ÿงก
user53 omg Fernando helped her to surprise Lando!
โ†ช๏ธ user92 they're actually really cute together! She was even at the podium with Lando's mum and dad!
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Wrong On The Money (48)
part 48 of ?? | 1013 words | Teen+
Blackmail fic on Ao3 | on tumblr
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โ€œI have to tell her,โ€ Steve groans, rubbing his hands over his face and slumping onto the couch next to Eddie. โ€œI canโ€™t keep this up.โ€
We're nearing the end and I'm slowing down on posting because I'm still working on it, but y'all can have some fidgety Eddie and an insecure Steve Harrington as a treat.
48.
โ€œSo whatโ€™s the deal, Steve?โ€ Robin huffs the next day. โ€œYou and Eddie totally blew us off last night, what the hell was up with that?โ€
โ€œItโ€™s not like you watched it alone,โ€ Steve points out. Heโ€™s trying to pretend that bustling a stack of returned tapes back to their correct places on the shelves of Family Video is too important a task to look away from, unprepared to meet her gaze. โ€œYou had Nancy and Jonathan and . . . that sweater guy.โ€ย 
It feels as though as soon as she looks him in the eye sheโ€™s gonna know he asked Eddie if he could be Eddieโ€™s boyfriend, and Eddie said yes. But heโ€™s not sure if theyโ€™re telling people, because they havenโ€™t gotten around to talking about that part yet. Kind of got distracted by . . . other things.ย 
โ€œArgyle.โ€ Robin rolls her eyes, despairing. โ€œThat sweater guy, unbelievable. You should know his name by now.โ€
โ€œRobs. You know we end up smoking any time we hang out with that guy. I ask every time, and then I just forget it again because Iโ€™m all high!โ€
Eventually Steve manages to turn the conversation in enough circles that Robin loses the original thread. Sheโ€™ll pick it up again, but at least heโ€™s bought himself some time.ย 
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โ€œI have to tell her,โ€ Steve groans, rubbing his hands over his face and slumping onto the couch next to Eddie. โ€œI canโ€™t keep this up.โ€
โ€œI canโ€™t believe you havenโ€™t yet,โ€ Eddie admits. Heโ€™s still wide-eyed and strangely fidgety from the revelation. โ€œBecause, yeah, obviously sheโ€™s a force to be reckoned with, Iโ€™m kind of worried about my chances of survival, but . . . itโ€™s you and Robin. You two share a brain.โ€
Steve groans into his hands. โ€œGod, I know. I mean . . . she knows I like you. Thatโ€™s most of it, right? I told her nothing was ever going to happen, butโ€”โ€
โ€œNothing?โ€ Eddie interrupts, zeroing in on the word. โ€œWhy not?โ€
He peeks at Eddieโ€”at his boyfriendโ€”through his fingers. โ€œUh, because I didnโ€™t think you liked me?โ€ย 
And he can feel his face warming under his palms as he says it, so heโ€™ll keep his hands right where they are, thanks. At best he was being stupid and at worst heโ€™ll turn out to be somehow right, neither of which sound good. Not that this is helping. . . . Trying to pussy out of being honest with his best friend isnโ€™t a good look. (His dad would say that itโ€™s pussying out to feel obligated to be honest about the relationship in the first place. Even to owe them the truth, because โ€˜you donโ€™t come out on top by owing, Steven.โ€™)
Eddieโ€™s mouth forms a few different, interesting shapes, starting with O and morphing into something that shows off his dimples. โ€œOf course I like you. Youโ€™re you, whatโ€™s not to like? Wheeler mustโ€™ve been crazy to let you get away.โ€
Itโ€™s nice to hear. Still, Steve notices, heโ€™s chewing on his bottom lip like thereโ€™s something serious on his mind. Fuck, is Eddie about to break up with him after one measly day? Because that would be soโ€”
โ€œJeff knows,โ€ Eddie blurts out.ย 
And that. Is. So far from what Steve was expecting that his hands drop to his lap and he goes still, even stops breathing for a second. Theyโ€™re sitting close enough that their sides touch; Eddie must feel the way he freezes, because he starts babbling to fill the sudden vacuum in the conversation.ย 
โ€œHe figured out something was up about a month after I started blackmailing you, and he asked, and I justโ€”I cracked, man, Iโ€”โ€
โ€œEddie.โ€ Steve turns to him, tugging on the far side of his denim vest. (Not the one Eddie had thrown at him in the Upsides Down. That one is still tucked into the back of Steveโ€™s closet, too embarrassed to give it back because no amount of cleaning seems able to work the bloodstains out.) โ€œEddie, breathe, okay? Give me a second.โ€
Eddie settles, relaxing a tiny bit when Steve keeps their sides pressed together on the couch. In the following lull, Steve thinks hard.ย 
Does it bother him that Eddie told Jeff?
Heโ€™s surprised, but thatโ€™s because heโ€™d known from the start that he couldnโ€™t tell Robin. She wouldโ€™ve been pissed off and protective on his behalf, and she wouldโ€™ve tried to talk him out of giving Eddie money. What would have happened to Wayne then? No, telling Robin had never been an option. The only other person Steve could possibly confide in was Dustin, and that was also an absolute no-go for a lot of reasons. Dustin looked up to Eddie, still does, and Steve hadnโ€™t wanted to fuck with that.ย ย 
Jeff, despite the insider knowledge, hasnโ€™t given him any shit. Heโ€™s actually seemed to give Steve a fairer shake than the rest of Eddieโ€™s friends, going out of his way to interact with him in the D&D game. That takes a lot of the sting out of the surprise.ย 
โ€œDoes Wayne know too?โ€ he asks finally.ย 
Eddie groans and pulls a handful of hair across his face. โ€œYes. I told him everything when I was still drugged up at the hospital. The supernatural shit too, but . . . everything. Jesus, did he say something to you?โ€
โ€œKind of. He said I should let you keep apologizing.โ€ Thinking back, a small smile pulls at Steveโ€™s mouth. โ€œAnd he called me son.โ€
That gets Eddie to peek out at him, and Steve doesnโ€™t know what the look on his face meansโ€”lips slightly parted, a light flush spreading across both cheeks, tilting toward him with big brown eyes open wide and sparkling with something warmโ€”but he likes it. Wants to figure out exactly what caused it and keep doing that forever. For now, he shifts to his side and pulls Eddie in for a kiss. From the way Eddie's lips stay curved under his, it seems to do the trick.
His internal jury is still out on whether he deserves all this, but heโ€™ll do everything in his power to keep it.
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okay, sad ask now.
Henry and William's childhoods!! (plus how they met each other)
Henry:
grew up in a Very rural town in Utah (not Hurricane). like we're talking most people are farmers and there probably isn't more than 100-200 people living here. considering the time period (late 30's-early 40's), makes sense.
this poor guy's bio dad sucked. like he was horrible.
has an older sister named Jen :] (< canonical to the books, i'm sure)
he had only a few stuffed animals growing up: Teddy (bear, obviously), Theodore (rabbit), Dawn (chicken; technically a rooster but Henry didn't give a fuck), and Cooper (fox; fell apart often because it was the oldest of all the toys).
those lil guys would become his inspiration to make the OG Freddy's Gang.
he shipped Teddy and Theodore together, despite growing up heavily religious. he'd just check around to make sure no one was watching them and then he'd go "hehe now Kiss :3"
well. time for a bit of Projection. so like. Henry's Transmasc. now uh while doing some research because i remembered that there are some things that can cause facial hair (or "abnormal hair growth," as some sites call it where women grow hair on places where they either aren't supposed grow much/noticeable hair or any hair at all) in women. did some research, might have PCOS but with more...milder symptoms? idk because some of the symptoms/signs aren't things that i deal with personally. but the hair and the acne stuff matches up and we'll leave it there for now. but anyway, so there's that: Henry starting growing some facial hair (coincidentally a few months before realizing that. he May not be a girl, actually), and because he thought it was cool and because well he's already kind of a social outcast anyway so why not am i right? he decided to keep it.
dad got thrown in jail for fighting and almost killing someone in a bar fight, and his mom remarried. stepdad was much better :]
got his interest in mechanics and robotics from old sci-fi movies and having to fix stuff like his bike and some of the electricity and wiring in the house (mostly 'cause it Sucked).
time for college came around, and well...his stepdad knew some people who were willing to help with his transition as much as they could in like the 50's-60's. got his boy some top surgery, what technically would count as a "fake ID" (Henry and his stepdad would call it an "updated ID," though. which in a way they aren't wrong about), and then sent him off to college!
he 100% gives off the vibes of going down the "weird "girl" who later discovered they weren't a girl at all" to "goofy but Very autistic father" pipeline. i accept no criticism on this, he just Does.
yes he is a furry. Fredbear is in fact his fursona.
William:
hoo fucking BOY did this guy's parents SUCK.
like if you ever wonder why Rewrite!William's Like That as an adult, you've just got to look at his childhood.
his parents were distant and neglectful At Best, and physically + verbally abusive At Worst.
unfortunately for him, something that certainly didn't help matters was that He Was Autistic As Hell. sensory issues, couldn't understand social cues to save his life (still can't, tbh), and just in general was...odd.
some would've called him "eccentric," maybe. had an odd interest in rabbits, in drawing. he was always rather quiet, staring in an almost unnerving way at the walls or just on someone by accident. but mention anything he enjoyed, and he'd talk your ear off.
despite all of this, he was well-loved by teachers. charming lil guy, y'know? not exactly popular with most of the other kids, though...but effectively a Teacher's Pet, pretty much. not that he minded much, either; "If they can tell me something I haven't already heard from my parents, maybe I'll start listening." (< something that concerned the Fuck out of his art teacher once, fun fact!)
used to cry a lot as a kid; got him bullied often :(
parents were rich, and he had a lot of siblings (three sisters and two brothers; loved each other but acted rather distant :().
after a lot of begging from Will, on his 6th birthday, his parents got him a pet rabbit (mostly because they wanted him to shut the fuck up about it) that he named "O'Hare" (familiar sounding name, ain't it?).
and God, did that kid love that rabbit. took the best care of him he could. played with him with whatever spare time he had. he adored O'Hare.
of course...William never had the best luck as a child. when he was eight years old, a couple of friends of one of his older brothers had come over to hang out. they had found William drawing while talking to O'Hare, decided to mess around a bit, and...well, they were a bit too rough with the rabbit, we'll put it that way.
despite his brother getting rightfully pissed at those two for y'know. Killing His Brother's Pet Rabbit, even if it was technically an accident, and trying to comfort his brother, William is inconsolable.
of course, not that his parents understand that this isn't something William's just going to get over in a few days; they're just pissed off and annoyed that their son won't stop crying (to give an example, something his father said, "It's just a stupid rabbit, William! Now stop your whining and bitching!").
of course, William never really got over it that quickly. he practically closed himself off, escaping into doing art to ignore his grief and give himself something to distract himself. and he starts drawing his dead bunny as a new character: this time, as an actual hare. and anthropomorphic. look, William had been watching old Disney cartoons and Looney Tunes, also as a way of comforting himself. and maybe he got inspired a bit...maybe a way to immortalize his old rabbit. heck, who knows, maybe he could become an animator and rival Walt himself!
or, maybe, as he starts drawing and thinking more and more...a way to become his old rabbit? (< aka William is a furry. and a therian. maybe even ockin? well uh....if it works as a coping mechanism, then it works, i guess?)
at least...until his family discovered his sketchbook. and decided that the Best Course Of Action is to send their clearly grieving son to a BOARDING SCHOOL. when he was NINE.
and we ain't talking about a "teachers are kinda strict and you're expected to keep your grades up" boarding school. we're talking a "you will get your ass beat for something as small as accidentally dropping your PENCIL" boarding school.
because their other option is probably taking him to a psychiatrist and having to deal with the public humiliation that having an openly mentally ill family member at that time would cause (which gee guys, I WONDER WHOSE FAULT THAT IS?? I WONDER WHY YOUR SON HAS ISSUES??).
so they send him off, and uh. that goes as well as you'd expect: the letters are practically constant, talking about William's ever-worsening behavior problems. at first, he just clammed up and kept to himself, and anytime it came to corporal punishment, they mention that he hardly ever flinches. then...it got worse. he'd have breakdowns, usually at bedtime, and it would wake other students up. he'd get violent with bullies, not even caring for the consequences. he was always closed off, only ever happy during an art class. even stranger, despite the behavior problems...his grades never suffered. they don't understand it.
eventually, when he's fifteen, they send him home. they decided "yep. we're not dealing with him on the Teenager Hormones. he's Y'all's problem again." (< ignore that this is taking place in England)
his behavior problems? never get any better while he's still at home: his emotions are volatile now. he's sad? everyone in the damn house is gonna hear it from his bedroom. he's angry? hope no one was attached to that glass cup he was holding, because it's broken now.
the family just decides to move over to America (i'd say maybe either Virginia or NY. don't ask why, those are the vibes i'm getting), because i think they're starting to realize They Fucked Up Somewhere and decided maybe a change of scenery would help William. It Really Didn't, But They Tried.
when he turns 18, they just buy him a car, give him a bunch of money, and send him off into the world; "Go to college. Or don't. We don't really care what you do at this point, we just don't want you here."
he just scoffs and decides that he'll go away. far away for college, somewhere where his family isn't breathing down his neck and he can just be himself, and just try things out. see what sticks.
not really like he wants to stay here, anyway.
(this man is also Not cis. probably some flavor of nonbinary. or even some form of rabbit/hare xenogender, purely 'cause it would fit. he'd like it/its pronouns and neopronouns, i'd think)
and now, fucking finally:
College:
they both only really found out that they'd been assigned as roommates when Henry finally arrived at the room. it was. an awkward first couple of hours.
they found out that they had pretty similar schedules, and a lot of the same classes, and. Well, Ain't That Convenient!
William goes back to being his old eccentric self, a rather dramatic man. he and Henry both took a drama class, but for different reasons (William because he could just be himself and Henry so that he could come out of his shell a bit).
they both found out about each other's fursonas and expected the other to go "ew cringe" but. they both found it pretty cool! (it definitely made Will happy, considering he'd been called a weirdo for that his entire life)
then pretty shortly after that they looked at the fact that they both had some. creative ideas with those fursonas and other characters, and while William originally went with the "let's make an animated cartoon show! :D" (which, keep in mind, was his original childhood plan), Henry thought about the fact that they were both in some mechanics/robotics classes and went "actually, I have a better idea-" and that's how the idea for Freddy's/Fredbear's was originally born :]
Henry came out as trans to William and his (at the time) girlfriend, Claire, because he had decided to keep his flannel unbuttoned and Claire saw his top surgery scars. after a couple of minutes of nearly choking on water (because Henry literally decided to start his explanation with "Oh, these are from where I got my breasts cut off-" and it caught Will so off guard), William basically went "HOLY SHIT, THAT'S SO COOL????"
also, final fun fact: these two Have explored each other's bodies before. in college. it's how Henry discovered he was pan and how Will discovered he was bi. just a fun fact for you :]
and there we go!! finally done :] gotta go eat now see ya later bestie enjoy these
AAAHH being like "aw my poor bois :[" and then stumbling upon They Have Explored Each Other's Bodies is maybe the best experience of my life lmaooo. I really like them being early furries. The internet comes out and they join a furry chat room and are like "holy shit chat are you seeing this" (if they had just stayed normal and not. Ya know. Done murder by then)
But yeah ough. My sillies...
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"Y'know, ages ago, when we were still in Georgia, our community had just collapsed, one we spent seven months putting together and defending. Me, Daryl, and our friend, Beth, got out."
"Beth?" Lydia asked.
"Yeah, like Elizabeth, my Bammy's middle name. She was this young kid, about your age, blonde, and she was strong. Anyways, we... we ended up losing her, we got separated. I blamed myself for it, it was over a stupid dog. So It was just me and Daryl, man, we chased that car till the sun rose up, think that was one of the worst stitches I ever had in my life." She chuckled. "Well, we ended up stopping cause we hit a fork in the road, no idea where the car went, so we gave up, layed on the ground and just stayed there in the sun. Until this group approached us, about six men, I don't know about you, but that's a warning sign for danger, and it was. They didn't give us a choice to join their group, well, they initiated Daryl into their group, and I was with Daryl. These people were horrible, horrible people, but they lived by a code, a shitty code, but they had it. One of their people, he kept giving Daryl shit, trying to compete with him, turn the others on him, shit like that, just messing with the new guy, y'know. Our second day with them, Daryl had snuck out to go hunting for the both of us, I hated hunting, but he has always been good at it, even back then. So he was up, even before the sun, hunting this one single rabbit, and just as he was about to hit it, y'know what happened?"
"What?" Lydia asked, hanging off of her every word.
"The guy came in, shot the rabbit from behind him, and "claimed" it, said it belonged to him. It didn't matter how much time and effort Daryl put in, cause he still only ended up with the ass end."
"But that's not fair!" Lydia rebutted.
"No, it wasn't, and I said the same thing, but Daryl didn't react, he just got over it and he continued, I didn't, but that's not the point. Well, we had been outside talking, away from them, planning our departure, and whilst we were outside, the guy had snuck his half of the bunny into Daryl's stuff, yeah, I know, sounds weird and random." She smiled at the confused expression on Lydia's face. "But that's just men for you. Well, it turned out that he did this, so that he could frame Daryl, turn the others against the Newby, why would they believe a stranger over their friend? Besides, according to his story, Daryl had broke a few of their code laws. So, he makes a scene, woke me up, by the way, going on and on about this stupid rabbit, coming up to us trying to initiate a fight, so the leader steps in, and he asks what's going on, and obviously, we deny the whole thing, we're innocent. So then he checks the mans story, and he still confirms it, and as I prepare myself for the attack, he swings round and throws his fist into the mans face, knocks him flat on his back, and then he orders the others to beat this man to death. It turned out, he had watched the man do the whole thing, knew it from the start, he knew the kinda fucker he was, and he allowed that to play out, because he knew he was guilty as charged, and he paid for it, with his life."
"Did you end up leaving the group?" Lydia asked, understanding why Natalia told her that story, so she wouldn't take any blame for Margo, even if she didn't feel it right then.
"Yes and No, something came up, we reunited with Michonne, and RJ's dad, Rick, and Rick's son, Carl, and the group were hunting them down, so we had no choice but to kill them, in complete self defence, by the way."
Lydia swallowed, staring at the ground.
"Are you going to kill my mom?" She asked.
"Lydia..." Natalia sighed, having no idea what to tell the girl. "I don't want to lie to you, your mother, what she put you through, what she did to our people, what she's continuing to do, we can't just let her get away with it, Mich, she doesn't want to cause anyone harm, trying to find a balance, but it won't always work out that way."
"But you didn't kill Negan."
"Yeah, but believe me, we all wanted to, but this, this is a completely different situation, where we all had a united enemy, we haven't got anything on your mother, but she has that herd, that could wipe out all of us, my kids especially, so I have to sit by and wait for a plan, it sucks, but I grew discipline, I wasn't always so patient, but I soon learned my lesson, no matter how much it kills me, and that's probably shitty to hear, but you would've thought the same thing of us, if you didn't get to know us, and just listened to what your mom told you."
After their conversation, the kids were all put to bed, including Lydia, whilst Daryl and Natalia went to go speak to Michonne via the radio.
"Everything alright?" Daryl asked. "We've been tryin' to reach ya."
"Rough day, but things are looking up. I gotta tell you, If Evie didn't come with us, it wouldn't be that way, I'm proud of that kid. What about you guys, what's going on?"
"Something happened." Daryl started.
"That bitch and the little weasel attacked Lydia, attempted to kill her." Natalia dropped the bomb. "You'll never guess who stepped in for her, though."
Michonne let out a long tired sigh before answering.
"Negan..."
"At the expense of Margo's life, he killed her, by accident, but everyone's pissed about it."
"She's a stranger, with everything going on, no one's rooting for her." Daryl added. "Negan's on the right side this time. I don't know if it's gonna make any difference, though."
"Should I come home?" Michonne asked.
Daryl glanced at Natalia before answering.
"Nah, not if Hilltop still needs you." He said.
"We got it handled, Mich, you do what you gotta do, we can't let Hilltop fall."
"How's Lydia?" She asked.
"Not good." Daryl told her.
"Nat, Daryl, you both have to protect her."
"Yeah, well, We're trying." He scoffed.
"No. You have to protect her for all of us." Michonne whispered.
Natalia side eyed Daryl, what the hell was this deeper meaning Michonne was eluding to.
"When we went to the border, we went there to de-escalate the conflict and buy time and strategic advantage. And it was working till Carol took her shot and Natalia punched her. Alpha could have killed us right there. Why didn't she?"
Natalia let out a sigh, dropping her head into her hands.
"You think she won't attack if we got Lydia?" Daryl spoke her thoughts.
"Alpha wanted you to protect her. Look, Lydia's presence might not help us, but if Alpha thinks she isn't safe with us or if Lydia runs off because of all this, it'll definitely hurt us. She has to stay at Alexandria."
"All right. We'll make sure." Daryl answered for the both of them.
"Let's just keep this between us for now." She paused for a moment, before changing the subject. "How's RJ?"
"He's great. He won't eat his vegetables, so I'm a little afraid for him. And Amelia want's ta speak with you when you get back, been causing trouble at school... with the twins." Daryl told her.
"Other than that, he's been a delight, he tried to be the voice of reason within the three of them, but you know mine are too headstrong, they get it from their father." Natalia joined in, earning a scoff and an nudge from her husband.
"And if that isn't the biggest lie I've ever heard from the mouth of Natalia Isabelle Dixon." Michonne laughed. "Remember when I had to drag your ass away from chasing after a dog, after you'd been shot, or... or-"
"Okay, we get it, you've had your moments, too."
Daryl covered Natalia's mouth, so that he could have the microphone again.
"Hey, the council's meeting right now. An' Nat's an key witness."
"Daryl... I want you to be my proxy when they vote. I know that Nat will do the right thing, too."
"All right." He agreed. "We should go."
"I know you'll both do the right thing." She finished.
They had left the building, making their wayย  to the town hall, where the meeting was still going on, Aaron was the one talking, when they had entered.
"I get why people might think Negan's been redeemed. I've... I've wondered it myself. Hell, he... maybe he has changed. But a man like that, who's done the things he's done, killed the people he's killed, something inside him is broken. We need to face that fact." He looked to the pair, noticing their arrival.
"Yes, but killing him now over this undermines the civilization that we have built." Siddiq countered.
"What about the people who never got to witness that civilization because of him?"
"And what the hell are you even talking about? The Whisperers are attacking us."
"Okay, let's take a break." Gabriel intervened.
"No. Let me finish." Siddiq stood up. "Look at what's going on at Hilltop. We're taking our eyes off the ball."
"The council wasn't make for this, deciding on a man's life in the dead of night because people are carrying pitchforks and torches."
"If I could so politely give my imput." Natalia stepped forward. "As the person who was actually there and witnessed what happened.
"Yes, Natalia." Gabriel waved her to continue.
"If we are here to discuss the execution of Negan Smith for the murder of Margo, whatever her name is... we'd also have to be discussing the execution of Gage and that other guy."
"Uh..." Nora looked at the others, confused at the woman's "Speech."
"Tonight, those three had formed a plan and tried to take the life of an innocent young girl, a child of this community, our people did that, we are all aware of what Negan has done, and as you may remember, Laura, I am very aware of how low that man can stoop, but what he did tonight, he saved her life, I could tell his intention was never to kill her, that was merely done in the crossfire of saving another's life, now, if Margo had never initiated the attack, she would still be here, wallowing in her self pity, picking on a girl half her age like she was sat in the canteen at the local high school. If we punish him for this, man, that would just be the biggest, and I mean the most fucked up, slap in the face to everyone who had suffered even the tiniest bit, by that man, all those years ago, when his sweet death was taken from us." She then stepped back.
"Thank you, Natalia." Gabriel cleared his throat. "...What did Michonne say?"
"She wants me to be her vote." Daryl answered, placing his hand on Natalia's back, rubbing it in slow circles.
"Lydia said Negan saved her, and Natalia saw Negan save her, so he saved her. I'm a "no."
"So we're tied." Aaron grumbled.
"Oh, I'm not sure if I was clear enough, but I'm a no, too."
"Yeah, we got that." Laura rolled her eyes.
It was early in the morning when an banging had woken the couple.
"Daryl, door." Natalia grumbled, rolling off her husband and tightening the blanket around herself.
"Probably just the girls playing." He followed her, stretching as he wrapped his arms around her waist, again.
"Daddy, door!" Daisy screamed at the top of her lungs, from downstairs. "It's the one eyed guy!"
"It's Gabriel!" Bambi shouted up.
"Oh, god!" Natalia jumped up, grabbing the nearest sweater and throwing it on, whilst Daryl scrambled for his own clothes.
"We gotta tell them 'bout answering the door."
"The hell were they doing to get to it so quickly?" Natalia looked at him, as she rushed to pull up a pair of jeans.
"Mommy! Daddy, now!" Daisy continued to scream.
"Coming!" Natalia shouted down.
The banging on the door, had also alerted the youngest Dixon, waking him in a fit of tears.
"I'll get him." Natalia sighed, changing course and heading for Archies room whilst Daryl continued down the stairs.
"Girl's, RJ, go in there, go play." Natalia heard Daryl almost growl at the kids, as she left Archies room, bouncing him on her hip to stop his crying.
"What's going on?" She asked, when she was close enough.
"Negan, he's gone." Daryl relayed the information given.
"Oh, fuck sake." She clenched her jaw.
"Fuck." Archie shook his head.
"Yeah, that's right, buddy." Daryl grumbled, leaving the house to go investigate.
Whilst Natalia was preoccupied with making breakfast for the kids, Lydia had managed to catch word of what had happened, slipping out, right past the woman, to take blame for whoever let Negan out of his cell.
Daryl had also been recruited to go looking for the man of the hour, causing an ruckus in the house, the girls getting upset that he was leaving, again, that Natalia was left to take care of.
Before he had left, though, he had tried convincing Lydia to leave her cell, but had failed miserably.
"Mommy, why does Daddy always have to go?" Bambi asked, refusing to touch her lunch, later in the day.
"'Cause people need his help, honey."
"There's sooo many people here, though, so why does Daddy have to go? He has kids, he should be taking care of us." Daisy told her.
"He's good at his job." She sighed.
"My Mommy's always away, too." RJ sighed, his face supported by his knuckles.
"And she's gonna be back soon, so will He, but we all have jobs to do, okay?" Natalia told them, taking Archie's spoon away from him to wipe his oats from around his mouth.
The front door opened, alerting them.
"Hey, where are my favourite fighters?" The voice of Rosita called, walking into the kitchen.
"Auntie Ro!" The three cheered, their glum expressions disappearing, almost instantly.
"Did I come at a good time?" She asked Natalia, giving all three kids an kiss on the head before sitting next to Archie's highchair.
"You always do." She nodded, brushing Archie's hair away from his face. "Hm..." She rolled up her sleeve, placing her wrist against his forehead. "Ro... he feel a little hot to you?"
Rosita copied her, feeling the baby's head.
"Uhm, I'll get him some water, sure it's just the food." She said, a millisecond before the coughing started.
"Mommy, I'm not feeling too good." Bambi told her, after taking a sip from her own water.
Rosita got up, feeling the girl's head, nodding at Natalia before feeling the others.
"I feel fine." Daisy leaned away from Rosita's touch.
"Are they okay?" RJ asked.
"Yeah, fine, uhm, I'm just gonna take them on a little walk, to get fresh air, Auntie Ro is gonna..."
"We are gonna... learn how to throw knives." She finished.
"We are?"
"Since it was the first thing I could think of" She smiled, ignoring the heated stare from Natalia.
"Yay, okay!" Daisy cheered.
"I wanna colour." RJ groaned.
"Yeah, that sounds like a cooler idea." Natalia gritted through her teeth, picking Archie up from his high chair. "Bam, baby, come on, get your shoes on." She waved her daughter over, who was coughing into her elbow. "That's a good girl, keep your mouth covered."
"Momma, I'm gonna-" The poor girl couldn't hold it in as she vomited on the floor, her eyes filling with tears almost instantly.
"Oh, god, it's okay, we're gonna go see Dante, and make it all better."
"I got this, go get our lil deer fixed up." Rosita told her, reaching for some supplies to clean up the puke.
"Is BeBe gonna be okay?" Daisy asked, worry in her voice.
"She's gonna be fine, so will your brother." RJ was quick to assure her, hugging the girl. "They're only poorly a little bit, but my mommy says that being sick makes you stronger, 'cause you will never be sick again."
Natalia rushed towards the infirmary, bursting in just as Bambi was about to blow again, but luckily for her, Dante was quick to grab the trash can, holding it under the little girls chin.
"Stomach bug?" He asked.
"Guess so, they were fine like not even ten minutes ago." She answered. "First Archie's head started burning up, then she was coughing, now... this."
"Yeah, this lil fella is turning green, go get these guys seated on the bed, we'll give 'em a check up, get them better than ever."
"Thanks, Dante." Natalia politely smiled at him, leading Bambi over to one of the beds, sitting down beside her whilst holding Archie in her lap, the trash can balanced between them.ย 
"Mommy, I don't feel good." Bambi groaned, feeling sorry for herself as she latched on to Natalia's arm, leaning her head against her shoulder.
"I know, baby, but that's why we're at the doctors, so they can make you and Archie feel better." Natalia soothed
"When is Daddy gonna come back?" She pouted, looking up at her mother.
"Soon, honey, he just had to do something, then he'll be here."
"He's out looking for Negan, isn't he?" Bambi sighed, rubbing her tummy.
"How do you know that, Bam?" Natalia asked her.
"Daddy's loud when he's mad, and I know he doesn't like Negan, he told us that he was mean to you and that we shouldn't go near mean people, that's why he doesn't live in a house, and isn't allowed to walk around without Brandon."
"Alright, then, time for a check up." Dante clapped his hands together, grinning at the three.
"No! Mama." Archie yelped, a tight fist around Natalia's curls as he hid his face in her chest.
"Baby, it's okay." Natalia pulled him away, adjusting him on her lap so that Dante could get a better look at him, but he still clung to her, as though he was trying to get as far away from the man as he can. "Doctor Dante is gonna fix you up all brand new, he's not gonna hurt you."
"I'm scared." Bambi admitted.
"Oh, it's nothing to worry about, I won't even ask to take blood." He tried to comfort them, but that seemed to make it worse. "Alright, fine, how 'bout I give your ma a check up first, then you can see it's not so bad."
"Where's Siddiq, I want him to be my doctor."
"Honey, Siddiq's gone with Daddy, but Dante's a good doctor." Natalia assured her children, though, she still didn't like the man, she didn't know what it was about him, maybe the constant flirting, the weird tongue clicking tic, or just the stupid smirk he always had on his face, like he managed to pull off the greatest prank yet, and was patiently waiting for everyone to find out what it is.
Dante had managed to bribe the kids with a lolliepop, in exchange of letting him give them a check up, but ended up putting it down to just a sickness bug that would soon pass, and for the meantime should have plenty of rest and lots of fluids.
"Sorry about earlier, Siddiq took care of the twins when they were new born's, could be why they trust him so much, without barely knowing him, either." Natalia opened up to the man, as the two children napped, snuggled up together.
"And by that you mean?" He asked.
"Oh, uhm, me and Daryl used to live here since, uh, had to have been about a couple years in, but when the girls were two, we moved into the woods, lived there for the past three years? Where Archie was born, y'know, kinda surprised we hadn't run into those mask freaks, before all this." She chuckled.
"I just wanna let you know, that if-"
"I'm happily married, nothing's changing that." She held up her left hand, refusing to take her eyes of her kids.
"Alright, then." He held up his hands in surrender.
The pair turned around when the door of the infirmary opened, Rosita came trudging in.
"Oh, Ro, you caught it too?" Natalia asked, wrapping an arm around her friend, helping the pale and sweaty looking woman.
"No, no I'm fine, Daryl he's back, so is Siddiq and Evie."
"Oh, perfect, let's get the kids home, have Eve's look over them, is she alright?"
Dante shrugged off the obvious "hidden" insult in Natalia's sentence.
"She's... fine, yeah, uh, they didn't find him, though." Rosita shook her head, seeming to breath a little harsher, struggling to catch her breath.
"Rosita, you sure you're alright?" Natalia asked, putting the back of her hand to her friend's forehead, feeling heat.
"Hey, stop Momming me, kid's want their dad." She reminded.
"Oh, right, they'd be better off resting in their beds, anyway, I don't wanna get this bug out in the air, if I can help it, you're coming back with us, too."
"No, no, that's alright, I'm gonna go talk to Eugene, he's still at Hilltop, fixing things up, apparently. Give the kids my love and wishes, specially, my lil Archie."
"I will, go sit down, before you fall down."
"Yes, Ma'am." Rosita rolled her eyes, going back out the infirmary.
"Thanks for your care, Dante, but I'm taking the kids back home." Natalia told him, as though he wasn't stood there, listening to their whole conversation.
"Are you sure, I don't mind stopping by later, giving them another check up, or you, preferably whilst Daryl's out doing whatever he-"
"Not a chance." She smiled, politely, gently stirring her kids awake. "Babies, Daddy and Doctor Evie are back home."
Archie yawned whilst Natalia picked him up, sitting him on her hip as she helped Bambi off the bench.
"Really, when?" The small girl asked.
"Aunt Rosita just come and let me know, quick, let's go tell Daddy how poorly you are, so he can tuck you back into bed."
"Okay, Mommy." Bambi held her hand, wiping her nose with the back of her own free hand as they left, crossing the road and down the street to their home.
As Natalia opened the door, she was met with the sight of Daryl walking down the hallway, Daisy clinging to his leg as she sat around his foot, him practically dragging her across the floor as he paced.
"What's... going on?" Natalia asked as he looked up at her.
"Where you guys been?" Daryl avoided her question to ask his own.
"I don't feel good." Bambi told him, her voice still whiny as she gave the puppy dog eyes.
"We were at the Infirmary, these two caught an nasty bug, what's Daisy doing?"
"Showing off her clingy problems." He grumbled.
"I missed you, Daddy, and Mommy doesn't love me anymore." Daisy's own expression was an pout, the same as her sisters.
"Yeah, an' yer pulling Daddy's jeans down." He told her, bending down to lift the girl off him. "Swap." He told his wife, taking the baby out of her arms as Bambi let go of her mother to go to her father, whilst Daisy did the opposite.
"Mommy still loves you, angel." Natalia told her.
"But you've been with them for the whole day, what about me?"
"Honey, they're poorly, and need to be taken to bed, with their bottles." She hinted to Daryl, as he nodded, picking up Bambi as well, as he moved towards the stairs, his fingers touching their foreheads, feeling the heat radiating off of them. "But, as long as you're healthy, you got me all to yourself, why don't we find the ingredients to make your siblings some soup? Where's RJ?"
"Evie, yer mom's back, but I need ya in here." Daryl called from upstairs.
"He's busy, come on, Mommy, I love cooking with you, just the two of us." She pulled Natalia towards the kitchen, attempting to distract her from the five year old colouring in the living room, or the seventeen year old emerging from the basement.
"You got your father's jealousy issues, too." Natalia sighed.
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Sleepover weekend - Tell me about your favorite person
Oh gosh, I have so many people that are my "favorite" (I'm very blessed with incredible friends, two amazing kids, and my love is very big), but I suppose that my husband is probably top of the list -- but shh, don't tell him, he'll tease me because he's also the worst, lol.
So. What to say about my K...
He is an incredible friend -- to me, and to everyone in his life. He also loves big, and I feel lucky everyday to be included in that love. He is funny, and endlessly kind, and is very good at reminding me that I am loved and worthy and capable and good.
Since I got sick in 2020, he has taken such good care of me. He has to remind me often that I'm not a burden, and he does it without prompting when he sees me struggling.
He's very smart, in several ways that I am not, and he doesn't always understand some of the academic rants I go on, but he always listens and asks questions. When I get confused about the bonkers math he talks about, he explains it patiently until I do (or until I give up, because I am genuinely only good at math in a class). I think we balance each other out really well, because we sort of fill in the gaps in ability/knowledge/logical approaches on each other.
He has a habit of purposely ruining sweet and romantic moments with awful jokes, but it's usually charming in a very ugh you're the worst let me smush your face about it way.
He's a wonderful dad, and he works hard to make sure we're all taken care of and encouraged and supported. He's supportive of anything I want to accomplish, and my biggest cheerleader. He helps me keep my calm and talk through issues when I need it. He tells me how important I am to him (especially when I feel like I'm not doing enough).
He has a crazy good sense of place -- like "I looked at a map once, and now I can get us around", but cannot tell you street names when giving directions.
He appreciates a pun as much as I do, and we laugh together a lot.
And oh boy did I ramble.
Anyways, thanks for this chance to hype my husband; he's pretty neat.
Who's your favorite person?
Let's have a sleepover!
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I saw you tagged Ellery Wiseman on that poem and am dropping into your inbox to ask for anything you'd like to share about your Button!! (Do you have more than one? Who do they romance? How is their relationship with Nick?) -wayhavenots
omg pd tysm for asking!! ๐Ÿ’•๐Ÿ’• there is absolutely nothing in the world i love more than having an excuse to talk about my ocs
i (with some rare exceptions) am the kind of if player that makes a new oc for every romance route i play, so i actually have 5 buttons ๐Ÿซฃ (technically 6, rip elliot wiseman who was from my very first mind blind playthrough, when i just wanted to see if i liked the game. you were very depressed and never became a fully-realized button, but your sacrifice is remembered and your name is retired out of respect). i have a page with very, very brief details on my buttons (and also my detectives for wayhaven) and links to their tags here, but if you use tumblr mobile you've probably never had the opportunity to see it.
this got so very, very long, so the rest is under the cut
my 5 buttons are: ella, ellie, elle, ellis, and ellery (can you guess what naming convention i lifted from the game's default names? lol). what's universally true for all 5 of them (though with some nuance, they all have slightly different feelings about their relationships) is that they're as close as they can be with their parents (because i like john and hope as characters and i find "i really love these people but our relationship became incredibly complicated and we now have to find ways to reconcile our disappointment/anger/etc. with our love for them" to be really compelling. i love mess) and with nick (because i'm a middle child and i accidentally projected my feelings about my siblings (and especially my older sister) onto the button&nick relationship. i physically can't be mean to nick because i cried for about 45 minutes the first time i read the end of chapter 3/chapter 4 and for the first time really considered my sister's mortality, and that changes you).
for a (not really that brief, whoops) rundown of my buttons' whole deals:
ella: equally humorous and confident, very high insightful stat, romancing ambrose. she's independent, intelligent, ambitious, loyal, great at compartmentalizing, and, quite frankly, arrogant. she can be really abrasive sometimes (while she can be a kind and compassionate person, most people don't get to see that side of her and so she can come off as really rather unpleasant - think that know-it-all kid in your class that everyone kind of hates). ella naturally is rather funny/confident/intelligent/etc., but i think, after the incident with hope, she ended up amplifying these inherent traits of hers and making them into a sort of armour that keeps her safe, but also isolates her. i think she's afraid of showing weakness and i think she feels this subconscious need to prove to everyone (including herself) that she's capable. her relationship with nick is the worst out of all of my buttons (but is still incredibly high, think 160/170-ish approval), mainly because she and nick clash the most. she's very independent and knows what she wants and will pursue it (even if it's a boyfriend her brother doesn't like or a career her parents don't want for her) no matter what anyone else thinks, and nick can be a little hover-y (though this improves over the events of the game). she does really love nick (and does actually care about his approval, even if it won't stop her from doing things she knows he won't like), even if she finds him kind of annoying sometimes. she views the incident with hope as a horrible accident that wasn't anyone's fault, and i think she sees better than my other buttons how everyone in the family was affected by the fallout. fun fact: several years post-game, she and ambrose have identical twin girls (ella jokes that she wanted two kids so she and ambrose had twins because "we're efficient". they have girls because ambrose is a girl dad. i am not accepting notes) that share a birthday with nick (because i need ambrose to be forced to participate in a large yearly party that at least partially involves celebrating nick. do you know how many years nick rented a bouncy castle and then proceeded to bounce on the bouncy castle with the girls? it's every year until they decided they're too cool for it. nick's heart broke that day)
eleanor/ellie: more humorous than confident (with confident stat increasing through the game), but has a decent morbid stat too, very high insightful stat, romancing grayson. ellie fulfills my need in every if game/rpg i play to have at least one character who is so, so nice to everyone (my detective alina fulfills this need in wayhaven). she's kind, considerate, forgiving, has a strong sense of morals (except at work, where she's very expedient), and tends to blame herself when things go wrong. she really feels just unbearably guilty about most things: the incident with hope (if she'd acted differently, if she'd been different, etc., maybe it wouldn't have happened), nick's accident in chapter 3, nick having to take care of her through high school... she really struggled after the incident with hope because she needed nick and depended on him so much, but then hated herself for how much she needed him and feeling like she ruined his life (she did project this onto gray when he started hanging around, which is why she didn't like him at first, but over time she realized it wasn't his fault and moved on. and then she got goopy feelings for him). she's not blind to nick's faults, but she adores him (200 approval easily). i think a lot of her growth over the course of the game comes from learning to trust herself and to believe in herself. fun fact: she once made a joke to gray after they started dating (in front of nick and sally too ๐Ÿ˜ฌ) without thinking about how there'd be "no kids or dog until we have a house". it was way too early in the relationship to be making a joke about having kids or a house. they didn't even live together yet. she's still a little mortified that she said that
elle: confident, very high insightful stat, romancing kent. i love elle because she's kind of relentlessly forward-thinking. she doesn't really dwell on the past except to figure out how to improve the future. she believes strongly that it's what someone does that matters. she's my button who's the most interested in trying to get herself into the npo program. like ella, i think she views the incident with hope as a horrible accident that isn't really anyone's fault, and i think she really makes an effort not to dwell on it or assign blame for what happened. she also has terminal foot-in-mouth disease (talking about bondage with kent in front of your brother, best friend, and instructor after revealing that you'll probably get tortured together, anyone?), which is the bane of her existence. while i think all my buttons struggled with some agoraphobia post-the incident with hope, i think elle really struggled with it: she loves dogs and used to volunteer at an animal shelter, but had to stop because she couldn't handle being outside of her home without sally or nick (she could go to school if she spent the entire day with sally, and then would go straight home) and it took several months for her to feel like she could go places without one or both of them again. once she was able to leave her home independently, she started volunteering at the animal shelter again, and is still there. fun fact: post-game and further into their relationship, she ends up accidentally moving in with kent. it starts by just spending a lot of time at his place because it's so close to nick's (i think a lot of her and kent's dates just involve hanging out together), then more and more of her stuff migrates over, until one day she realizes she's been there for two weeks and all of her clothes are in kent's laundry. she formally moves in after that. she's also my button who's most likely to elope!
ellis: humorous-morbid (slightly more morbid than humorous), tentatively more innovative than insightful (i keep swapping the stats), romancing sally. he's "just some guy" (affectionate) to me, if "just some guy" had gallows' humour. he's been kind of desperately in love with sally since he was 13 and figured out what love was. ellis is the kind of person who looks fine on the surface but really isn't. whereas elle doesn't dwell on the incident with hope because she wants to move forward with her life and not have this one event define her, ellis doesn't dwell on it because doing so will wreck him. he was the closest with hope growing up, since they shared a sense of humour and he felt that she really understood him, and it profoundly hurt when she started to pull away as he got older. he trusted her more than anyone growing up and it hurts a lot now to think about how the people he relies on most now are nick and sally instead. he's not as forward about the guilt he feels and how it affects him as ellie or ellery are, but it's still there. he's also very close with nick and really admires him: nick is ellis's model for what it means to "be a man" (more so than john, but i don't think ellis is really aware of this). ellis also views gray as a sort of quasi-older brother figure and is actually more likely to ask gray for relationship or life advice than nick (mainly because he'd feel a little awkward talking to nick about stuff like relationship advice - also look at nick's relationship track record, gray's probably the safer bet). fun fact: ellis is either the same height as nick or one inch shorter than nick (i can never remember), so if they're out together and the topic of height comes up, he tells people that he's at least two inches shorter than he actually is. this is because nick will lie about his height to make himself taller if given the chance, so ellis gets there first and forces nick to be 5ft9 for an evening (nick hates this).
ellery: humorous, higher insightful stat than interpersonal stat, romancing (m!)glitch. she's such a smartass. she's all jokes and has a quip ready for any situation, but, like ella, i think these are inherent characteristics of hers that get amplified as a defense mechanism. i think it's in chapter 1 of the demo that there's the line that says it's better to have people laughing with you than at you, and that really fits ellery. ellery blames herself for really everything to do with hope and nick, but if she brushes it off with a joke she can pretend to be fine (she's incredibly not - her guilt defines a lot of her relationships with other people and how she views herself). she's also incredibly devoted to her family (to the point where she can't listen to someone criticize them professionally because like. that's her dad. this sometimes causes issues in her and glitch's relationship, because glitch is unafraid to criticize unity when appropriate, but they figure out how to manage it over time). speaking of glitch: she is such a loverrrrrrr ๐Ÿ’•๐Ÿ’•๐Ÿ’• they really are intolerable together because they're that couple that's just all over each other. everyone around them hopes they'll tone it down after the honeymoon stage ends but they do not ๐Ÿ’• i imagine them moving in together incredibly quickly too. i don't know the exact timeline of the game so far, but even this early on, ellery knows that he's it for her. ellery makes me think the most about what it would actually be like to not only grow up with people who are able to hear your every thought but to never live with someone who can't read your mind. i always imagine ellery as being very comfortable communicating telepathically when she chooses to (she almost got held back from preschool because she didn't speak until she was 3/4 - not because she had speech or language delays, but because why would she speak out loud when she could communicate telepathically? eventually telepathic communication had to be (temporarily) banned in the house to get ellery to speak verbally, and once she did the ban was lifted). telepathic communication also means an entirely different way of communicating between people: visual jokes, jokes where the comedy isn't in the punchline but in the way the joke is constructed before it's been told, being able to rely on the person you're talking to picking up subtleties from your thoughts if you're having trouble expressing yourself in words, etc. and glitch is the first person she's ever lived with who can't read her mind (sometimes she'll be in another room half way through a conversation with glitch in her head and she'll ask him for his opinion on something she thought, only for him to have to remind her that he cannot hear her. luckily glitch finds this funny when it happens and lightly ribs her about it). she gets incredibly frustrated with herself sometimes because she doesn't know how to explain to him how much he means to her or how much she loves him. she tries, but she never feels like it really encompasses the depth of the feeling (it's the one time she wishes he was a ment, so he could hear it). fun fact: about a year into their relationship, ellery wrote glitch a really bad love poem to try and express her feelings for glitch in a way that's meaningful to him. glitch loved it and insisted that it was beautiful, but she thinks it's amateur and is kind of embarrassed about it because he quotes actual love poetry to her all the time. this poem does actually exist because i wrote it to try and get in her head space and figure out what she'd say, and it's mid at best (i am not a poet)
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kurisus ยท 1 year
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Chapter 107 thoughts
[downing a bottle of tequila]
Ummm, so this was fun! Not!
Silly goofy me for thinking since we're wrapping up the manga they were out of opportunities to hurt me further. I let my guard down and got bamboozled so that's on me. Well, one last time to let them twist the knife, I suppose.
Soooo after waiting 5 years for Yato and Hiyori to so much as be on the same fucking page together, Father drops in out of nowhere and snaps Hiyori's cord, leaving her to crumple lifelessly on the ground while the Sakura quote about death repeats in the background. This was really so fucking rude to me personally. It's like Adachitoka reached into my greatest fears and decided to make the reunion happen in the way that would cause me specifically the most possible pain. Did they have to put the reminder of the hospital arc there?! I hate it here.
Anyway, while that part made me feel absolutely horrible, I've been talking to a lot of people and we all agree we don't think Hiyori is permadead. A conflict spanning the entire manga wouldn't be resolved in three pages, it would make no sense for either Yato or Hiyori's development to end her life, Father is able to manipulate the appearance of his surroundings but couldn't actually bring back Kaya from the dead, and Hiyori's unusual condition meant no one really knew quite how to fix it or what ripping the cord would entail. The official translation wrote it as "if it gets cut, you're dead" which reads to me like "you're as good as dead" rather than "you will die."
I may just be grasping at straws here, but my guess is that this scare will just be the push Yato needs to finally cut ties with Hiyori, as much as she's helped him out in ways he'll never be able to repay. Perhaps she will be very weak, or my personal guess is comatose, but I don't think that was it. If it was, well...that would be a very sour note to leave the manga on.
Could Yato name Hiyori and make her his shinki? Sure, probably, but that would also be antithetical to the themes of this manga, which are that change is inevitable while not always a bad thing; and relationships between the living and dead, while necessary, are tenuous. I wrote a 100k canon divergence fic about Yato making Hiyori his shinki back in 2016, because I didn't want it to happen in canon then and I don't want it to happen in canon now. Bringing them both over to the far shore wouldn't properly resolve the conflict that drives this manga, the single human involved with the gods and spirits.
Anyway, here's my prediction: Hiyori will be in a coma, Yato will cut her ties while she's asleep, and she'll wake up with only vague memories of their time together. I want to say she'll be able to give a proper goodbye to him and Yukine, but we're also living in the worst timeline so I won't get my hopes too far up.
I admit I didn't pay much attention to the rest of the chapter after that happened, but let's continue: ohhh Yato you wanna kill trash dad soooo badly <3 throttle him with your bare hands before I do <3
Kiun talking about how it's the younger generation's turn to lead makes me a bit more optimistic for the ending. In this sense, heaven's "kill first, ask questions later" attitude is not justified, and the newer shinki will slowly change the minds of the gods, and a more just heaven will emerge.
All the gods seem to be blighted, however. Kofuku and Take are shown holding hands to their necks, and Ebisu, Tenjin, and Arahabaki seem to have a faint cloud arising from that area too. Judging by Take's line following, the shinki seem to be uneasy about their choice to change the status quo, because the world is heading into a new, uncertain time. Kiun doubts his choice as well, since his determination not to kill anyone caused a fellow shinki to die.
"Weak gods will die, while only the strong gods remain, and this world shall witness the advent of gods without mercy" sounds kinda like a cull of heaven aka what Father wants...except in this case I think it refers to the gods who are willing to change and be more just being the ones who survive into this new age.
So, to recap, the status quo is changing, heaven seems to be heading for a marked improvement, as an indirect result of Hiyori's involvement. Thus, her impact will have a lasting, positive effect on their culture, and she'll be able to live her life knowing she made a very big difference in a few people's lives, and a smaller difference in more people's lives. Make it happen.
Small side note: I'm going to be starting a reread of the manga soonish, and since Twitter is going down the toilet I've decided to switch back over to liveblogging on Tumblr. I'm thinking of doing thoughts posts per volume similar to this format, but I'll see how I feel once I actually begin. I'll be tagging everything as #Noragami reread, which will also be my tag for future rereads after it ends! Hope to see you there :]
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Daughter of Olympus (Leo Valdez xFem!Oc)
A/N: Three chapters left! We take a break from sad and I give you fluffy instead -Danny Words: 2,187 Series' Masterlist Previous Chapter / Next Chapter Listen to: 'Hardwired' -by Hailey Knox
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XL: Teenage Boy Experiences Worst Nightmare (Meeting His Girlfriend's Dad)
Leo doesn't see Ara as much as he would want to. He's working nonstop, and Ara's responsibilities go beyond just overseeing the Argo II's progress.
She handles disputes, trains the campers, holds meetings... That's why, when she asks a second time if he'd like to visit her on Valentine's Day, Leo doesn't think twice before giving her an answer.
He's scared shitless, though. Annabeth says Ara's parents are the best, but Lily says Ara's dad is protective of her, and he's only half-sure she's trying to scare him. Leo is on the verge of having a heart attack now, as he's dropped outside Ara's building.
"Thanks, man," he dryly says to Argus, not even able to crack a joke. "Wish me luck."ย 
Argus winks and half of his body looks normal for a moment, then he encourages Leo to press the coms so Ara knows he's there.
The visit cost Leo a lot of pledges to Chiron, the centaur only agreed after he held a conversation over the phone with Sally Jackson, who somehow convinced him Leo is old enough to behave on his own.
It's kind of annoying to be treated like a child, but at the same time, it's nice to be looked after for a change, and it's almost like having a parent. Leo looks for the family's name on the coms, and when he presses the right button, Ara answers right away.ย 
"Going!"
Leo gives Argus a thumbs up, he's only moved an inch when the front door of the building opens and he jumps, Ara saves him from tripping down the steps.
"Hi," she smiles at the driver and waves. "Thanks, Argus!"
The man turns on the engine and waves back before driving away. Ara pulls Leo inside the building and closes the door. "Hโ€”" The girl doesn't give him even a second to speak before she kisses him.ย 
It's short but intense, enough to erase all the thoughts from Leo's mind, which is a remarkable achievement. "I baked you cupcakes," she says giddily. "Come on!"
Leo gets dragged up the stairs, and by the time they reach her floor, he's having trouble breathing, not necessarily because of the amount of stairs they just ran through.ย 
She's about to enter her apartment when Leo pulls her back. "Wait! Are both your parents inside?"
"Yeah, they'll drop us off at the movie theater. We're having dinner first, though."
Leo clears his throat. "Okay. Cool."
"Are you nervous?" Ara grins. "They'll love you, just be yourself!"
"Are you sure that's a good idea?" He teases her.
She opens the door. "Leo's here!"
He's half-expecting Ara's apartment to look like a fancy castle, but this is just a regular New York flat, cozy and simple. Her parents are in the living room, and they're the nicest-looking adults Leo's ever seen, which only increases his anxiety. He does not get along with sane people.
"This is my mom and dad," Ara holds Leo's hand and guides him in, he suspects she's also using her empath touch, cause his heart slows down instantly. "Mom and Dad, this is Leo Valdez, my boyfriend."
"Nice to meet you, Leo! Are you thirsty?" Ara's mom shakes his free hand, he likes her instantly.ย 
"Er... no, Mrs. Jackson, but thanks," his eyes move to Ara's dad, who's not smiling, but it's not giving him the stink eye either, which is a relief.
"Leo," Paul Blofis shakes his hand firmly. "Our daughter talks a lot about you."
"Every day!" Ara adds happily.
Paul nods and pats his shoulder. Leo wishes he had empath touch. "You're not hungry?"
"Uhm..." he hesitates, unsure of what to answer.ย 
Ara's dad shows the smallest hint of a smile. He pats Leo's shoulder again and guides him to the kitchen. "You'll be once you smell what Sally and I cooked today. C'mon, help me set the table."
Leo gives Ara one last pleading look before Paul takes him away, Ara grins and gives him a thumbs up.ย 
When they reach the kitchen, Paul looks around with both hands on his hips, he takes a deep breath as if pondering. The boy braces himself, Paul looks like a good guy, but if Leo had a daughter like Ara, and she brought home a guy like him, he would lose his mind a little.
"I have a question for you," Paul turns around smiling.ย "ยฟTe gusta el picante?"
Leo blinks. "ยฟQuรฉ?"
"Picante,"ย the man continues with a thick accent.ย "A Sally le gusta, pero no mucho. Ara no come, pero ella dijo que si te gusta... hicimos salsa."
Leo stares at the man blankly. Is he having a stroke, or is Ara's dad talking to him in Spanish? The man interprets his silence as a bad sign and he gets a little mortified.
"Did I say something wrong? I'm sorry, Ara said youโ€”"
"No, no!" Leo stops him. "Sorry, I just... I wasn't expecting that."
"But you understood me?" The man smiles again. "I've been learning on my own for two years, but I'm too shy to practice with strangers. Sally practices with meโ€”she's as lost as I am, frankly. But you can't make fun of me if I mess up, 'cause I'm your girlfriend's dad!"
Leo tries to hold back, but he ends up bursting into chortles. Annabeth was right, Ara's parents are amazing.
"Wow," he continues, still laughing. "Smart move. But there was no need, your Spanish is good! Pretty good, actually. I appreciate the salsa-making too."
Paul beams, patting Leo's shoulder in a fatherly way. "Come try it! Maybe you can tell us if it's missing something!"
"Okay," Leo agrees, feeling much better now. "But I'll give you my notes in Spanish, so get ready."
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Ara doesn't know what happened when Paul and Leo were left alone, but the boy has turned into her father's best friend in less than an hour, and he has him doubling over the table with laughter.
Her mother looks at her with a knowing smile, and Ara feels her cheeks warming up. She's got a mix of emotions, something like embarrassment but also lots of pride, and tons of happiness. This is the first time her parents look happy since Percy's went missing.
"Look at the time!" Paul glances at the watch around his wrist when Leo's gone to the bathroom. "Gotta go now if the kids want to catch that movie, Sally."
"Yes, I think Ara would like to have her boyfriend back as well," the woman muses.
Paul clears his throat. "Right. Sorry, sweetheart," he looks at Ara with an embarrassed grin. "I got carried away."
"It's alright," she smiles. "I'm glad you like him."
"Hey, Mr. Blofis?" Leo walks back into the room. "Hope you don't mind, I fixed the water pressure in your sink. And the toilet was leaking so I fixed that too."
"Oh, Leo, you didn't have to," Sally replies bashfully.
"It wasn't a problem," he insists, standing behind Ara's chair. "Took me less than a minute."
"Did I mention he's a son of Hephaestus?" Ara grins.
"Just about ten thousand times," her mother replies in the same tone.
"Leo, next time you visit, I'll get those hinges you told me aboutโ€”we can install them on the kitchen cabinets!"
"Dad," Ara intervenes. "You can't use my boyfriend as a handyman, he comes here to spend time with me! I can fix the kitchen cabinetsโ€”"
"No, it's fine," Leo replies. He looks slightly flustered, but happy. "I'll help. Doesn't take that long."
Paul's smile widens. "Good catch, Ara."
She blushes. "Let's go, it's getting late for our movie."
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It's weird seeing Ara like this. Here she acts relaxed and like an actual teenager. She's not wearing a camp shirt or her cloak. Next to her, for the first time ever, Leo feels perfectly normal and like a decent match. It makes his heart flutter with joy.
"Why didn't you tell me your dad speaks Spanish? He's hilariousโ€”"
"Leo, do you want to go out with my dad instead? I'm fine on my own, been a while since I had time for myself..."
He laughs, wrapping an arm around her shoulders. "I'm just happy it went well! I was so stressed..."
"I know," she kisses his cheek. "But now that's out of the way. All that's left is to introduce you to my..."
Her voice dies out as she thinks of Percy. He'd missed so many milestones already, all the blessings she'd gained, and he'd always looked forward to seeing her date a guy she actually liked... not to mention he didn't get to throw her into the lake as she'd done to him.
Leo nudges her shoulder, sensing the shift in her mood. "Thank you for inviting me over."
"You're thanking me for forcing you to meet my parents?" Ara muses. "Maybe you really are insane."
"Hey, I mean it!" He frowns. "I'm over the moon! I met my girlfriend's parents and they love me," he lowers his voice, eyes turning playful. "And I'm definitely making out with you for the next hour."
Ara pushes him away, giving him a look. Leo gives her a shit-eating grin, raising his hands in surrender. "Anyway," the girl sighs. "Let's buy nachos!"
Leo steps in her way again, holding her by the waist. "Being real, sunshine, I'm down bad. I'm so happy that it makes me stupid."
"Oh, I thought you were born stupid."
He frowns. "Jerk."
"Go splash your face with cold water," Ara looks away, blushing. "I'll buy our food."
He holds her face. "You look so cute when you're flustered," he laughs, stopping Ara from going away. "Don't get mad, I just... I can't believe this is happening. My girlfriend is an Aphrodite, I've won in life."
Ara groans, burying her face on his shoulder. "Stooop!"
"Aw, you're adorable," he pulls her face up, kissing it all over. "You're a squishy, flustered, super pretty doll..."
The more she blushes, the more Leo teases her; right now he's nothing but a teen in love. It had been so long since he'd felt like maybe life didn't suck so much... Probably since he was eight years old.
Even the nightmares had stopped since he'd gotten together with Ara, perhaps she was like a shield to him, somehow she was keeping all the bad stuff away.
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Ara leans against Leo's shoulder and yawns.ย 
Leo glances at her and grins. "Sleepy already? You're old."
"Shut up," she yawns again, sinking further on the couch. "Couldn't sleep... I prayed to my mother the whole time so we could have a nice day... I'm glad she listened."
He doesn't deserve to be loved like she loves him, he didn't do anything to get Ara, and yet she always goes beyond his expectations.
You don't get the things you deserve, you get the things you ask for, and then do what you can to keep them.
But he didn't ask for Ara in the first place! She just showed up and turned his world upside down.ย  Leo had a vague idea of what love was before meeting Ara, he thought it was meant to be confusing, upsetting, and most of all unfair. Now...
"I don't know why..." She mumbles after a moment. "But I feel that we won't get to do this in the future. I can't shake it off since we started dating."
"Geez, I wonder why," he replies. "Can't be PTSD, right? That's too obvious, there's gotta be bad juju involved."
"What are you talking about? You're my first boyfriend ever," Ara frowns.
"Your first and last," he adds casually. "But I didn't mean it like that. I meant all the people you lost in less than a year, you didn't get to have more time with them."
"I don't have PTSD. I'm alright."
"Didn't look like it when you told me about Michael..."
"Don't," Ara scowls. "You're sounding like Lily."
"That's because we both care about you," Leo tilts her chin up. "Ara, I promiseโ€”"
"Don't promise things!" She covers his mouth, awake and annoyed. "How many times do I have to tell you?"
He moves her hand away. "Fine! Look... I'm not great with words, but it's... like your fear of maths. You don't use them because you kept exploding things when you tried to, right? But youย canย do math, you do it every day at school, yet you still go to camp and refuse to use it. It's the same."
Ara looks at him, kind of understanding what he's saying. "Maybe we are like math a little bit, in my head," she admits. "I can't help it!"
"Keep telling me your story," he suggests. "You need to talk it out, and I want to hear it."
"It's going to ruin our night."
"If you cry I'll cuddle and comfort you. Maybe it'll ruin your night, but it would make mine ten times better," he jokes.
"Leรณnidas!" Ara scolds him. "That's not funny!"
The boy freezes and looks at her with shock. "What did you call me?"
She stares at him. "What?" Ara frowns. "Oh, gods, did I guess your name right?"
Leo looks at her annoyed. "How?"
She eyes him intently. "Leรณnidas like the Spartan guy... Yeah, that one feels right."
Ara places the accent exactly where his mother used to, and suddenly he gets transported to better times. "Waitโ€”feels right? What does that mean?"
She laughs and kisses him briefly. "Nothing, I just like how it sounds."
Leo stares at her intently. "I like how Arae sounds."
She grins. "We both have weird and ancient names. We were clearly meant to be together."
"Yeah," he replies quietly. "I'm starting to believe that."
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do you tell people irl you have aspd?
Hahahaha. No.
Listen. Most people don't know what the fuck ASPD is. But they do know what a sociopath isโ€”or at least have their own idea of what one is, an idea which is practically always incorrect.
So me having to tell someone I have ASPD has always gone "Hey, I want you to know something about me. We're good mates and I figure you got a right to know. I have ASPD." And they always ask what ASPD is. "Antisocial personality disorder." And if I leave it at that I get dropped, cause people always look it up when they get home and I get dropped for lying by omission and not calling myself a sociopath and thinking I could "get away with hiding what it really is" or something. And if I do explain cuz they don't know what ASPD is, it goes "Aka sociopathy. I'm a sociopath." And then I usually get dropped cuz Things Start Making Sense and people have seen too many horror movies.
Or, y'know, I get fired from a job I really enjoyed cuz they consider me a liability. Cheers, M*lbourne.
So I just. I don't fucken tell people. I've got comorbidities and most of my ASPD symptoms/traits I can brush off on those conditions as traits of them. I have low empathy cuz I'm autistic. I'm aggressive because I have trauma and haven't learnt how to cope with it. I'm impulsive cuz of ADHD, I use aliases because of my job, I'm hypersexual because of the CSA I experienced, I do crime cuz I like money and I'm fucken gay, I don't know. I don't tell people about the conduct disorder I had as a kid preceding my trauma, or that I've used aliases long before I started my job, or that I was medicated for my ADHD and certain traits just never changed regardless of how high the dose was until we puzzled out it was because they just weren't the result of ADHD at all.
(Like run-on sentences. Unfortunately that's just how I talk. What's a semicolon?)
So yeah, I just. Don't fucken tell people. I was diagnosed in early February of 2019 at 18 years old as ASPD nomadic subtype with secondary paranoid traits (there's assumed to be a convergent type between malevolent and nomadic but I don't know the name of it and it's not a confirmed subtype, but there's suspicion that's my ACTUAL subtype if it's real), found out I'm also a psychopath when I went to a therapist in M*lbourne a few weeks, and I just. Don't fucking tell people.
My dad knows. Mum knows. My biological brothers don't, but my adoptive brother does. I've confided in mates from high school and I guess 2 years ain't shit cuz they'd all ghosted me after. I told my ex after we'd been dating 4 months and got an earbashing and she very briefly dumped me for a week to "figure things out". And I didn't talk to her a week, and there's nothing quite like desperately wanting to tell someone you're sorry and not being able to because you know you can be really intense sometimes and there's no way for you to approach someone to apologise without them being afraid. And that's hardโ€”she knew about every symptom I had. It wasn't new. But you slap the label of sociopath on it, and now when she looks at you there's a fear in her eyes what wasn't there before. And she wasn't afraid before, when she thought it was just anxiety or autism or OCD or trauma. But "sociopath" is a scary word.
So no, I don't tell people. I let them get to know me first and learn that despite how weird or creepy or unsettling I can come off as, I'm actually harmless. And then if I feel I can trust them to not be ableist about it or turn on a dime and assume the worst of meโ€”and only thenโ€”maybe I'll sit them down and be honest.
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-After you've posted, people can send you an ask with one of your file names. You must then write 3 sentences in that file. If the filename is one you can't share from (for example, an even or a gift fic), write 3 sentences on it anyway, and then three more on another to share.
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File Names:
Frat boy!Steve
Sugar baby Eddie
Stripper!Steve
5+1 Lovers fic
Snippet:
Taken from the Frat boy!Steve fic:
There was a thought. The little gay bar just on the other side of campus was one of Steveโ€™s favorite places in the world. It was everything heโ€™s not; itโ€™s loud and bright and unapologetically itself. Steve would give anything to be like that. The people he meets there are unlike any other and it makes him a little sick that heโ€™s still too scared to be like that. His silence must speak for itself because the next thing he knows, Robin is draped across his back, her weight a pleasant push into the mattress. He loves that he can be so physical with her, knowing thereโ€™s no expectation and neither of them are interested in anything more than the deep friendship they have (no matter what his stupid frat brothers have to say about it). โ€œTalk to me. Whatโ€™s going on under that atrocious hat of yours?โ€ย  He huffs out a laugh. โ€œJustโ€ฆ I donโ€™t know, Robs. Graduation is coming, I hate the idea of going to work for my dad. I hate how my entire life has been planned out for me since I was born and all Iโ€™ve done is justโ€ฆ let it be.โ€ He swallows around the lump growing in his throat. โ€œItโ€™s just all kind of sinking in, you know? Maybe I donโ€™t want to wear a suit to work. Maybe I donโ€™t want to marry some yuppy girl or guy and churn out 2.5 kids in my bland house in the suburbs.โ€ โ€œThen donโ€™t,โ€ she says simply, resting her chin on his shoulder. โ€œLook, I know itโ€™s easier said than done, considering you belong to some kind of weird ass dynasty, but!โ€ She pauses when he shoves her shoulder, sending her rolling off of him. โ€œBut what Iโ€™m saying is that you can be the master of your own destiny. Would it really be the worst thing if your parents cut you off?โ€
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