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#when in reality both places were meant to house all four of them
pinkseas · 2 years
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wondering how c!karl would feel if he were to remember quackity. wondering about everything coming back in bits and pieces as he learns more and more about the inbetween and other side and how to split his time between them.
at first there’s unease and a vague sense of horror because why is he remembering such sweet, loving moments with his murderer? and then he’s angrier (more afraid) than ever before because things were good. he has such incredible memories with quackity and quackity still somehow turned around and killed him, what the fuck? but the more that come back the less certain he is of that. because all of them are good. there are so many, coming back piece by piece, and only the memory of his death stands out as something truly awful. he stops being mad that quackity would betray him like that and starts wondering why.
and then one day he remembers agreeing to it, remembers the plan. quackity murdering him slots seamlessly into place with the context behind it and it’s terrifying because it makes perfect sense. he can remember the terror associated with seeing quackity that day and his murder but he cant feel it anymore. of course quackity killed him. that was the plan. they all agreed on it. hell, quackity was the one who was most vocally against it happening.
it still doesnt add up. because if they were engaged and things were so good and quackity didnt betray him, why arent they together? why isnt quackity in kinoko? what drove them apart, what has he still forgotten? he remembers building kinoko. he remembers planning to invite sapnap and george and quackity. he remembers weeks and then months spent with only one half of his heart.
no matter how much time goes by, he does not remember inviting quackity to kinoko. the pit in his stomach grows, and grows, and grows.
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gyeomsweetgyeom · 5 months
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[7:09 pm]
(cw: parents!au)
Every parent knew what silence meant. Silence meant some huge mess was being made, someone was hiding, being mischievous, general mayhem being had. This was especially true in your home with your daughter and 3 cats. It was never this quiet in your house with the four—five troublemakers in your house. It couldn’t be the main troublemaker because he was sitting right next to you, fully invested in a a reality tv show.
“Jaemin, listen,” You said quietly while you muted the tv.
He looked at you quizzically, “I don’t hear anything… what could she be doing now?”
“It’s not her nap time yet, I have a very bad feeling about this,” you replied nervously.
Your daughter had a sweet face, she was nice and friendly in public. She always waved at strangers with a huge smile on her face. She knew to stay by your side when she wasn’t sitting in a shopping cart. She very rarely threw tantrums, a perfect little angel. People had even told you so.
In the comfort of your home on the other hand, she was hyperactive and loud. She wreaked havoc on the daily. And the cats were either right her side or far, far away from her. There was no in between. When the cats decided she was being too much your daughter would try to climb their scratching posts to reach them or pull on their tails. The poor animals. When they decided to help her the house was loud, something got destroyed, scratched, or simply broken.
The last time the 4 of them had joined forces you needed to buy a new bookshelf for the living room with all new frames for the pictures that filled up some empty spaces on the shelves.
“Rock, paper, scissors to see who goes,” Jaemin offered. You rolled your eyes but complied. Softly hitting your fist against the palm of your hand. One paper and one rock, you lost.
“Wish me luck please, and have your credit card ready to shop. Oh my god, I think I’m gonna be sick,” you muttered, standing from the couch and walking toward your daughter’s room, but not without pouting and sending pleasing looks to your husband.
You tiptoed quietly to her open door and took a peek inside. Oh good, she was playing with her baby dolls. Wait, since when were they covered in fur?
You ran back to the living room whisper yelling, “Honey, you have to come see what your daughter is doing!”
Jaemin tilted his head back and shut his eyes, “why is she only my daughter when she’s being naughty?”
“It’s not even that bad, no new furniture. Just come see!” You tugged on his arm until he was up and quietly sneaking behind you.
You both peeked into the open door and watched as your daughter swaddled up one of the cats, Luke. And he liked it! He was purring and nuzzling into your daughters small and unusually gentle hands. “Ok baby! It’s time for a nap!” She told the cat before placing him in her toy bassinet. The poor doll who it belonged to could be seen face down under her bed.
“And for the other baby, it’s lunch! Time for your bottle,” she told Luna, picking up the cat and holding her like a newborn while holding a toy bottle to the cat��s mouth. And poor Lucy was sitting on a doll bed with a bonnet tied below her chin, but she looked unbothered.
“I think the cats… like it?” Jaemin whispered in confusion.
You looked at him, “weirdly enough, I think they do too.”
You and Jaemin continued to watch the four of them play and interact. They were all calm and playing happily, until, she turned and caught sight of you.
She bounded over to you and jumped into your arms, knocking the wind out of you.
“I’m practicing!” She smiled brightly.
“What are you practicing for, baby?” You asked her, moving some hair out of her face.
“Daddy said he’s going to get me a baby brother! So I have to practice being a good big sister!” She smiled, stating it like it was obvious.
Your fave dropped, looking at Jaemin with a raised eyebrow, “did your dad say that? That’s news to me. What else did he tell you, baby?”
Jaemin’s face dropped and your daughter began spilling all their secrets. How he always bought her candy before ballet, they sometimes snuck some ice cream together after you were asleep, Jaemin put sugar in her cereal, and how he promised her new toys if she didn’t mention anything about a new sibling. “Do I still get my toys daddy?”
“Uh! No! She would not be getting any new toys!”Jaemin yelled in his mind.
“You can ask daddy later, he’s about to be in very big trouble.”
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luci-in-trenchcoats · 4 months
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Summary: The reader has just moved to Montana to live with her estranged father and out of a place where she no longer feels welcome. But it's been a long time since the pair have lived together and while Beau might think things can slip back to normal, it's not quite that easy...
Pairing: dad!Beau x daughter!reader
Word Count: 5,000ish
Warnings: language, family angst, divorce, mention of murder case
A/N: Here's a little Beau and daughter!reader for the first time!
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“Hey, kiddo,” said your dad as you tossed your backpack in the backseat. “How was school?”
“Fine,” you forced out, pilling into the front, glaring out the windshield. You felt his heated stare but he dropped it, pulling out of the line of cars at pick up and heading for home. He tapped his fingers against the wheel, words clearly on the tip of his tongue. But once again he didn’t say anything. 
Sometimes it was like living with a damn stranger.
Two years ago, life was normal. Your parents were married. Dad had a good job as a cop. Mom was doing her consulting. Every day you went home to two parents. You had the same friends you had your whole life. You got a starbucks with your mom every Saturday morning and you made homemade pizzas for dinner. You watched trash reality shows with your dad and you’d both get way too invested in the petty drama. It was all perfectly normal.
Until he went to work one day and it went to hell. Dad’s partner was killed and he blamed himself for not stopping it. He was…strange after that. He still asked about school and your day, still watched your shitty shows with you. But there was no joy in him. He felt guilty and dad wasn’t much of one for sharing his own feelings. You knew he’d get better with time. 
That’s when things got strange with mom too. She started to pick fights with him. She kept trying to force him to go to some expensive trauma therapist. All three of you knew he was hurting but she was the only one that said he was broken. You’d never forget the look on his face when she barked it at him in a fight. 
Watching one parent fall out of love with another in front of your own eyes was your own strange experience. You knew in that moment she’d left a mark on him, one that’d make him shutdown even more, hold even more feelings back from her. There’d be more fights. More snide comments. She’d get fed up and divorce him.
Four months after the shootout, she handed him the divorce papers and a flip switched in him. He started to fight back, the both of them bickering and arguing so much you found yourself storming downstairs and yelling at them both to act like adults. Dad moved out not long after that and within a month mom had a new boyfriend.
You stuck it out until last week before you knew you’d go crazy if you stayed in that house, your house, with her and that guy for one more second. 
Which meant moving halfway across the country to fucking Montana to live with a guy you hadn’t seen in person in six months.
“Mom’s marrying her boyfriend,” you said when he stopped at a red light. You didn’t look at him, sure he once again didn’t know what to say. “That’s why I wanted to move here. He doesn’t give two shits about me but he fakes it real good when she’s around.”
“Your mother should know-”
“She doesn’t listen to me when I try to talk and I’m sick of it. I know you know she’s like that,” you said, turning your head. He glanced down, gaze back on the road. “She’s a bitch.”
“Hey. Don’t talk about your mother like that.”
“Why not?” you scoffed. “She is one. You of all people know she is.”
“Mom is not a bitch,” he said, hitting the gas when the light turned, getting you off a busy street and heading for the outskirts of town. “Y/N, we raised you better than to call people names.”
“You’re defending her? You? She only drove you out of your own home, own family.” He gripped the wheel tighter, clenching his jaw. “Jesus christ. You still love her, don’t you. Why the hell would-”
“I am the reason…I moved out and I left. I refused to acknowledge the shit going on in my head and all mom tried to do was get me help. Do not blame her for-”
“Bullshit,” you scoffed. “I’d get out of her ass if I were you. Some other guy is fucking it now and she’s never taking you back.”
He pulled over fast, shaking his head at you. His green eyes narrowed, mouth opening just as his car radio crackled to life.
“Arlen,” he growled into the radio, frowning at you, a clear message to not say another word right now. 
“Chief we got reports of a murder-suicide at the Breckenridge Ranch. Jenny and Pop are taking lead but are requesting your presence,” said a woman’s voice on the other end. 
“I’ll be there in twenty.” He clipped the radio back in, taking a deep breath. “Y/N you are going to listen to me and I mean listen to me because I am about to have a very long night and we are not dropping this discussion. I don’t care for the way you speak and I do not like the way you talk about your mom. You don’t like her boyfriend, fiance, fine. But you’ll at least respect him. You don’t like you mother? Then at a minimum you will respect her. You do not call people bitch. You are grounded until further notice.”
“Wow,” you said, rolling your eyes. “I’m on your side and I’m the asshole. My old dad would have understood that but you? I don’t know who the fuck you are. Go ahead and ground me. I literally don’t care. You’re a fucking stranger.”
He was pissed. Very pissed. He turned back on the road and did a u-turn, heading back into town. You raised an eyebrow but he held up a finger. “No. You want to swear at me? Call me a stranger? Fine. I’m going to work. You’re a big enough girl to have a potty mouth then you don’t mind a little murder scene, hmm? You want to know what the fuck I do all day? Well now’s your chance to see, maybe I’ll be less of a damn stranger that way.”
You kept quiet, staring out the window for the next twenty minutes. You swallowed when he drove past a cruiser at the ranch entrance and yellow tape, driving silently down the dirt road. 
“Stay in the truck,” he said when he parked behind another cruiser outside a nearby barn. You bit the inside of your lip, hearing him shift around behind you. A few seconds later you had your backpack in your lap. “Do your homework.”
“I thought you wanted me to see dead bodies,” you mumbled, fisting one of the straps. His heavy sigh filled the space, a twinge of guilt in your gut.
“I never want that for you. We’ll get dinner out somewhere in a few hours. We need to talk. Not fight. Talk,” he said, pausing a beat before opening his door.
“Why didn’t you take me home?” you asked. He slid out, his shoulders sagging with his back to you.
“Because I’m scared you won’t be there when I get back.” He turned around, plucking his hat from the center console. You stared at him as he frowned. “I know you ran away from home two weeks ago, kid. We are not letting that happen again. Understand?”
You gave a small nod, the door closing loudly in the small space before you shut your eyes.
Maybe you should have just stayed in Texas.
Three Hours Later
You’d finished your homework awhile ago and were watching videos on your phone when you saw your dad approach the truck. He said something to a blonde cop lady and another guy, giving them a quick wave.
“Sorry it took so long,” he said, back in the truck, tossing his hat in the back.
“S’fine.” He was backed out and heading for the road quickly, rubbing his hand against his jaw. “Are you okay?”
“Me? Yeah. Why?”
“You were at a murder scene…” you said, catching a quick twitch of his lip. “Do dead bodies not scare you?”
“Not really. Sometimes you see bad things but a vast majority of the time, murders are…” he bit his bottom lip, shaking his head. “There are scenes that are gruesome but most murders are not something out of a horror film, at least to me. You get desensitized to it somewhat. Even the bad ones, it doesn’t tend to bother me. They were a person and unfortunately they lost their life in a violent way. My job is to act on their behalf and get them the justice they deserve. They aren’t scary bodies. It’s a soul that’s gone that I can help is the way I look at it.”
He cleared his throat as he pulled back onto the road.
“But Helena is much safer than Houston. Not as many murders or any of that.” You hummed, glancing out the window. “Y/N, I know you’re upset with me right now but I want you to be careful. Something is…happening. I don’t know what it is but be careful. No going out at night alone. Keep the doors and windows locked all the time. Be smart, alright?”
“Ok,” you said quietly. “That wasn’t a murder-suicide, was it.”
“It was a very good attempt at making it look like one. If my officers weren’t as good at their jobs, they would have written it up as one instead of what it was. A double murder. My gut says it wasn’t random though which means it’s less likely anyone else winds up hurt.” 
“S’good,” you mumbled before the air went quiet. He only tapped the steering wheel, no rhythm to it. Tap tap. Tap tap. 
He had no problem talking about work since you’d moved in a week ago. God, the first day he’d talked too much, trying to fill the awkward silences. Maybe he’d been gone too long and this is what your relationship was now.
You closed your eyes, resting your head on the glass, wishing he’d never left in the first place. 
You jerked and flashed open your eyes when he shook your shoulder. The inside of the truck smelled like grease and the brown bag on the dash confirmed your suspicions. He nodded out the window and you turned, finding you were at a fairly deserted park. You left your backpack behind and crawled out, walking over to the nearest picnic table. A moment later he was sat across from you, pulling out a box of chicken nuggets, fries and two packets of sauce.
“Thanks,” you said quietly, taking the food from him as he took out a bigger box and more fries for himself.
“Well, I figured your McDonald’s go to hadn’t changed at least.” You shrugged, the two of you eating without saying another word. But it didn’t last, the food soon gone, the trash bundled up and tossed in a nearby can. 
Your dad sighed when he returned to his seat, resting his forearms against the faded wood top.
“Y/N. I…I left you and mom. If there’s anyone you should hate-”
“Why do you keep lying for her?” you interrupted. He swallowed thickly, breathing out a slow breath. “You left because she tossed you out. You didn’t leave because you wanted to.”
“...She had every right to.” You rolled your eyes, his hand raising. “Please. Just listen. Mom tried to get me help and I was the one that was an asshole about it. I blamed myself, I still do. She did what you’re supposed to for a partner. I pushed her away and us not being together anymore is because of me.”
You shook your head, a frown forming on his face. “I lived in that house too. I know you or at least I used to. I knew you were hurting and we couldn’t fix it. But I got that. It was something you had to go through, at your pace. You did the same thing when grandpa died. You got all quiet and pushed it down. And mom…she was a bitch back then too and tried to force you to get better faster all because she didn’t like having a grieving husband. You are supposed to help your partner, not hurt them more. Your problem has always been that you’re too in love with her to see that she hurts you. Just for one second imagine that was my husband that did that to me. Imagine he tried to force me into therapy less than a week after my best friend died because I was fucking sad and didn’t want to talk about it. Imagine my partner made me feel even worse and like I was the problem during one of the lowest moments of my life. Imagine that he was the one that made me feel like all of it was my fault when I was grieving. You’d tell me to leave his ass so I’m asking you to please, please stop defending her. I’m not a little kid anymore, dad.”
“No, you’re clearly not,” he said quietly, staring down at his lap. “I just don’t want you to hate your mother. Her heart was in the right place, even if that’s not how I process things.”
“I don’t hate her. I just don’t like her anymore. I told her so many times I didn’t like her boyfriend and she wouldn’t listen to me. You would have listened to me. S’why I ran away. I was trying to come here.” 
He pursed his lips and you waited, giving him time to respond the way he wanted to. 
“I wish…I wish mom and I had handled things differently. But what happened, happened. I would like to see you attempt to reconcile with your mom but I won’t force it.”
“Thank you,” you said, a quick nod coming from him.
“But…you are also a bit thick headed.” You frowned. “I know you are a teenager and dad isn’t the cool guy anymore but I reached out every single day and you definitely didn’t answer. I invited you to visit so many times and you never would. So cut your mom some slack because if you’re giving me that treatment, I can only imagine it’s the same for her.”
“Fine,” you grit out, trying to ignore how he may have had a point about why your relationship had soured. You sort of started ignoring him but you’d been busy and he needed space to work through his crap, hadn’t he?
“And for the record, it’s possible to still love someone but not want to be married to them ever again.” You stared at him, his shoulders sagging. “I don’t want to deal with an attitude all the time and you don’t want me to be a grump that hounds you every day. Can we try a clean slate? Pretend this afternoon didn’t happen?”
“Alright. We can try.”
The Next Day
You rubbed your jaw as you sat on the hard bench outside of the principal’s office. You had to hand it to Mara Hoyt. The little bitch knew how to throw a right hook. You guess that’s what happened when the star softball pitcher decided she hated your guts all because her boyfriend said hi to you on your first day.
On her own, you could have handled that. But this school was cliche central and the mean popular girl got all her mean popular friends to start bullying you after that. You were honestly surprised it took a whole eight days for things to get physical.
She was already in the office with her parents, crying the blues about how awful you were and bullshit, bullshit, bullshit. Shit, you hadn’t even touched the girl yet you were the one the school resource officer threw a pair of cuffs on. 
The sharp skid of a rubber sole against linoleum made both you and the officer turn your heads, your dad staring at you both wide eyed.
“Todd, get those cuffs of her or so help me,” growled your dad, storming over. 
“Sir? What are you-”
“How many Arlen’s do you think there are in this town? That’s my daughter,” he grit out. Todd moved at lightning speed the second he had the keys out of his pocket, apologizing to his boss and not you. You had to fight to not roll your eyes. You had a feeling with the way your dad’s face looked murderous that wouldn’t go over well.
“Excuse me,” said the vice principal, coming out to the hall with a stern expression. “Why is she uncuffed? She attacked-”
“Sheriff Beau Arlen,” said your dad with a scary undertone in his voice, neglecting to offer his hand. “Y/N’s father and Chief of police over at the station. We don’t cuff seventeen year old girls unless they’ve committed a crime. Now, if after our discussion and I hear all the facts it turns out she did, I’ll cuff her myself and take her down for booking. Am I clear?”
The vice principal narrowed his eyes but said nothing, holding the door open. You trudged inside, your dad hot on your heels. You sat in the empty chair in front of the desk, Mara doing a good job of looking like a sobbing mess in the one nearby.
“Mr. Arlen?” the principal asked. He hummed, finding a spot along the wall and leaning against it with crossed arms, his eyes shooting to Mara. “I’m afraid we’ll have to suspend Y/N for attacking Mara for five days out of school.”
“And we’re pressing charges, even if you are the sheriff,” said a snotty woman. 
God were you working hard to not flip that whole family off. You were about to open your mouth and try to give your side of the story when you saw your dad’s face and his finger wag at you.
Uh oh. 
“Where do we want to begin? The way this school only got one students side of the story-”
“There are witnesses,” cut in the vice principal, your dad holding up a hand.
“Let me guess, Mara’s friends?” he shot back, clenching his jaw, returning his focus to the principal. “Now I know for a fact my daughter is getting bullied by this girl and her friends every single day since she started last week.”
You swallowed. You hadn’t told him that. How had he known?
He stepped forward, putting his hands on the back of your chair, leaning over it so you felt his chest against the top of your head.
“Do we want to start with the blatant bullying? Or perhaps with Mara?” he asked, turning his head to her, shooting her parents a glare. “You know, the one who actually did the attacking.”
“My daughter did no such thing,” snapped her dad. You felt your dad reach an arm around, gently grasping your forearm and holding it up.
“One girl has only defensive injuries. Bruises, nail marks. The other has scrapped knuckles, two broken fingernails and can’t look me in the eye. Guess which one is which,” growled your dad, his hand still gentle as he lowered your arm to your lap. Mara’s parents didn’t look like they were about to backdown though.
“There are witnesses. This is ridiculous. Mara acted in self-defense then,” said her mom. You glanced at the principal, his words caught in his throat and you couldn’t help but smile for a moment.
“Oh so now her story is changing?” poked your dad.
“No!” said her mom. “Your daughter said something so vile and threatening-”
“To her bully? Did Y/N say something like that to you Mara? Did she say something because her bully’s been so mean to her?”
“Don’t speak to our daughter!” shouted her dad. Mara glanced at you, as if you’d somehow help her. Meanwhile this was turning out to be the best day of your new school yet.
“I don’t hear her denying she was bullying Y/N? In fact, I don’t hear her saying anything. If it’s so abhorrent and you felt in so much danger, why don’t you tell us all what it was that made you act in self-defense, hm?” said your dad, his focus narrowed in on Mara. 
She was so fucked and she knew it. 
“I said don’t-”
“Alec,” interrupted the vice principal, his focus turned onto Mara as well. “Mara. Answer the question.”
But she couldn’t. She was floundering, face turning red under the interrogation. 
“Tell the truth and the Arlen family,” growled your dad, pointed straight back at her parents, “Will not press any charges.”
Mara contorted her face before throwing her hands up. “She called me insecure and said I should get help for that so I got mad and punched and kicked her.”
“And why did she call you that?” cut in your dad, laser focused on Mara. She closed her eyes, lowering her head. “Mara.”
“Because I’ve been bullying her because my boyfriend said hi to her and said we should get to know her because she’s new but I know he just wants to get in her pants so I told all my friends to keep her away from him no matter what.”
“I expect an apology,” he said. She looked up, eyes full of unshed tears. “Oh, not to me.”
“I’m sorry,” she said quietly, barely looking at you.
“Thanks. I don’t accept it and that is perfectly within my rights,” you said. 
“Regardless, Mara you’re suspended for five days out of school. Y/N, you’re suspended for two. We have a zero tolerance policy on fighting,” said the principal.
“She didn’t fight,” said your dad, his voice stern. 
“It’s a rule,” said the principal.
“Fine,” said your dad, grabbing your bicep and pulling you to your feet. “Let’s go get lunch out, maybe catch a movie.”
You couldn’t hide the smile on your face as he led you out, his hand falling away when he looked over his shoulder. “Three more things. One, I fully expect punishments for the students that lied about what they saw. Two, I hear of anymore bullying happening at this school to any kid, I will make it my personal mission in life to get you fired and three? You people get your daughter in therapy sooner than later because that’s the sort of thing that gets her tossed in jail when she’s older.”
He tossed your backpack over his shoulder as he led you out to the hall, hand on your back leading you towards the front doors. You grinned as you stared, his face blank when he opened the door to fresh air.
“That was fucking awesome,” you said, jogging down the steps and over to the truck. “You went full cop mode and scared the shit of her! That was-”
“Are you okay?” he asked when you sat in the passenger seat. You tilted your head when he cupped your cheeks, running his thumb over the scuffed up skin on the left. “We need to clean that.”
He pushed up your short sleeves, finding more bruises, a few older ones, before trailing down to your nicked up arms.
“Y/N, I know you’re a good kid that doesn’t like to get in trouble but promise me something?” You nodded when he fixed your braid behind your ear. “Next time someone touches you without permission, you lay their ass out.”
“You told me I shouldn’t hit people.”
“Yeah, well the little bitch would have deserved it.” Your jaw dropped into a grin, his attempt at holding a blank face faltering, a smile creeping up. “Yeah, I know I said not to call people that but that kid’s a psycho waiting to happen. Promise me?”
“I promise,” you said, getting a kiss on the forehead. “How’d you know I didn’t start the fight?”
“I know you. I also know there would have been no fight because if you had thrown the first punch, that girl would be knocked out.” He stroked your cheek again and sighed. “No headache? Anything like that?”
“She punches like a pussy.” He closed his eyes, shaking his head. “Too far?”
“Just a tad. Come on. Let’s go enjoy your suspension.”
Later That Evening
“Alec’s my second cousin, such a dickhead,” said one of dad’s officer’s, the blonde woman named Jenny you’d seen last night. “Mara’s always been awful.”
“Jenny,” chided your dad in his office, chowing down on some chinese takeout from behind his desk. You gave her a smile, eating from your carton as she set a file down in front of him. “Don’t be a bad influence.”
“If I were her, I would have decked the little shit,” said Jenny. Your dad rolled his eyes and read through the file, Jenny stealing a fortune cookie for herself. She leaned against his desk and offered you a smile. “So besides the school being crap thing and your dad dragging you to murder scenes, how do you like Montana so far?”
“Jenny,” he said again, glancing over the top of the file at her.
“It’s a lot less boring than I thought it’d be,” you said, offering her one of your egg rolls. 
“Thank you,” she said, popping it in her mouth, returning her attention to your dad. “Both vics had traces of a yellow substance in their air passages.”
“Rat poison?” you asked, both of them slowly turning their heads towards you. They stared blankly as you chewed. “It was in that new hunger games movie, they killed a guy with it.”
“Wow,” said Jenny as your dad closed his eyes. “That’s impressive.”
“I don’t even…” he sighed, rubbing his jaw as he flashed open his eyes. “So rat poison killed them. Why make it look like a murder suicide then? This person must have known we’d do autopsies.”
“Unless they didn’t,” you said, earning a glare from him. “Hey, people are dumb. You taught me that when I was like eight.”
“Y/N-”
“No, she has a point,” said Jenny, picking up her copy of the file and glancing through it. “Who is smart enough to use rat poison but dumb enough to not realize we’d find it and try to cover it up?”
“No one, that’s who,” said your dad. You bit into another eggroll and shrugged. He threw his hand back and groaned. “Fine. What’s your theory?”
“Well, a kid is dumb enough,” you said. “Maybe they watched that movie too.”
“Genius plan except that couple had no kids,” he said. You finished your bite and shrugged. “What?”
“Weren’t you the one that also told me people aren’t always what they seem and not to trust someone just because they were nice? They could have been whackjobs.”
Jenny cocked her head, glancing at your dad. “Kid has a point, Arlen. It was a large property. Entirely possible we missed something.”
“Fine. We’ll check it out first thing,” he said, nodding to you. “You might as well come along Ms. Detective, since you’re out ot school for a few days.”
“Good with me. As long as it’s not early. I don’t do early,” you said, a tiny smirk on his face that told you you’d be up at dawn.
The Next Afternoon
“What’s going to happen to him?” you asked as your dad drove you both home after a long morning. He was quiet for a beat. “Will he go to juvie?”
“Maybe. Maybe a hospital for people like him. Either way, it’s a better situation than he was in,” he said. He tapped the wheel, his lips pursed. “You know I don’t want you to be a cop right?”
“I know. It’s just…it’s easy to talk to you about your work,” you said. He nodded, turning off to the road just a minute drive from the house. 
“So can you rent this movie with the rat poison?” he asked. You stared, his eyes flickering over for just a moment. “I thought Katniss took out the capital. How can they have another movie?”
“It’s a prequel, about Snow.” 
“Whoa, Donald Sutherland Snow? They made a movie about that jackass?” 
“Well, she wrote another book and then they made it into a movie. It was really good cause you can see how he’s a complete narcissist and he goes from this actually mostly likable guy to the jackass in the other movies.”
“Okay, I definitely have to see this.” He pulled into the driveway, your gaze fixed on him when he turned the car off. “Unless you don’t want to watch it?”
“No I just…I miss when I’d make you watch the hunger games and you’d make me watch the dirty dozen and that was our thing.”
“Still our thing,” he said, brushing his thumb over the healing scrape on your cheek. “How’s that feeling today?”
“I told you, I’m fine.”
“I know, I know. I worry.” He opened the door and smiled as he popped out. “Alright little criminal. Go do that homework you ignored all day while I make us something to eat before our movie.”
“Really? Come on. I’m still suspended tomorrow. Can’t I do it over the weekend?” He looked up like he was thinking about it, a small smile crossing his face. “Thank you!”
“You’re helping me with dinner, missy.” You didn’t really mind that fact though. Making dinner together and watching a movie? That was normal for the two of you. 
A few hours later when you were bundled up under a blanket together on the couch and pressing start, you finally felt like it was a normal thursday night, no more tension or awkwardness in the air. And while murder investigations and school fights were certainly interesting, a little slice of normal again felt damn good.
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Razor’s Edge
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Summary; Reader moves to Woodsboro for her senior year of high school. This story take place in the setting of the Scream 4 movie. This story is dedicated to all of the girls living through the current Rory Culkin revival. I love and see you. <3
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It's imperative for me to mention MAJOR trigger warnings for this story; blood, violence, sexual content, alcohol usage, and mentions of abusive situations. I will add and edit tw's as needed.
WC; 4146
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The next part should be out relatively soon. Not sure quite yet how many parts will be made and posted. Thank you for any and all support! It truly means the world to me.
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It had been an astonishingly warm night when you returned to the town of Woodsboro. The air around you felt slick with familiar August humidity as you stepped out of the car that once belonged to your father. You stood for a moment, inhaling deeply as if attempting to swallow in the sight around you.
It had been nearly a decade since you had seen the quiet street where your aunt Irina resided. The moon was nearly full, casting a gold tinted glow that rivaled the street lamps near the surrounding homes. Memories of your childhood summers spent rolling in the grass of your aunt’s front yard as she sunbathed beside you flashed through your mind as you stared across the lawn.
A sad smile crept across your lips as you popped the trunk, compiling boxes in an unstable stack within your arms.
You suddenly felt a nervous sting in your stomach as you walked towards the door. Reality seemingly sinking in slowly. You had just turned eighteen only days prior. You dreamt of that birthday for years. It meant that you were now an adult and that in some ways; you were free. Free to leave home and go no contact with your parents. Your parents had plucked you from a town not far from Woodsboro and moved you across the country at the age of nine. They isolated you from the support of any sort of extended family or potential friends. Your mother and father psychically and emotionally tormented you and did so in such a calculating manner that they would never be caught or reprimanded.
You had tried to run away to your aunts once before at the age of fourteen, but your parents had the police bring you back to the home before you could cross the county’s boundary. It was even more difficult to keep in contact with your lovely aunt after that. Your parents monitored the communication between the two of you like a hawk. Your aunt still did what she could to support you and you both knew that when the time came, she would become your safe haven.
You weren’t sure how you’d make your escape, how you would go about hiding the things you were carefully packing away. But it seemed your parents had, by this point, completely checked out. It was as if they quietly understood that you’d all be better off if you parted ways. The final confirmation you needed that this was true was when your dad passed the title of the old car he had kept in the garage and worked on rebuilding over the past years to you just days before your birthday. He committed this action wordlessly, dropping the paperwork in front of your bedroom door to find. You said nothing in return. You knew what it all meant. An action like that from him would never come from a place of love or kindness.
It didn’t take you long after to finish gathering the last of your things. You debated on leaving your parents a note, debated the possibility of initiating a final conversation with them. Using your better judgment, you decided against it. They didn’t deserve anything from you, you knew you’d never receive the closure from them you deserved. Better to just try and forget it all.
You left in the night after hours of pacing your bedroom floor, waiting and listening anxiously until the house grew silent and you could assume your parents were fast asleep. You grabbed your bag containing your phone, wallet, and keys and made your way out to your car that sat adjacent to the curb in front of the Connecticut home that served as your personal hell for nearly a decade.
You started the engine, feeling the car shake as it warmed up. Your hands trembled as they gripped the steering wheel. You were ready, had to be.
Taking a single look back at your home, you felt your heart skip out of step as you caught your mother’s frame looking down at you from her second-story bedroom window. You took your foot off the gas as you met her eyes. You couldn’t have but certain, but by the way her sullen cheeks glinted in the dim night lighting, she appeared to be crying. Her mouth remained pierced and straight, her shoulders and head rigid and stiff in their usual form. Even if she truly were crying, you wouldn’t have been able to bring yourself to care. Too late and far too little, you thought. You snapped your head back to the road and pulled forward down the street, refusing to look back again.
You held your shoulders and back straight, attempting to keep your face stuck in shrewd control. You couldn’t explain the wet, sickly feeling that built and spilled from the corner of your eyes. Couldn’t stop it if you tried.
It wasn’t until you caught a glimpse of yourself in the rearview as you entered the highway that you realized you saw your mother’s face staring back at you. A sudden terrible thought crossed your mind. Could your parents have made you just as cruel and horrible as they were?
You took a deep breath, wiping away the tears that clung to your cold skin. You let your body slack slightly, relaxing the muscles in your face and shoulders. You glanced back up at your reflection once more. No, you thought, there was still a sense of softness in you. You would never be like them. You were going to heal, move forward.
A smile spread across your lips then as another car shot past you. This felt like the first real moment of your life. You reached over, digging in your bag for your phone. You only had one person to call. The phone rang twice before your aunt’s soft-spoken voice answered on the returning line. As if she could read your mind, she asked quietly, “Are you on your way?”
Your smile widened as you answered her, “Yes, yes! I’ll be there in just a few days. I have all my things. I’ll let you know if I run into any trouble.”
The line was silent, you held your breath as you waited for a response. You suddenly felt nervous in those quiet moments. You hadn’t told her that this would be the night you would be leaving. It had all happened so quickly.
Your aunt then exhaled a heavy sigh of relief and your smile returned once more.
“Be safe darling, I’ll speak to you soon. I love you.” Irina spoke.
“Okay, promise I will be. I love you too.” You replied before pressing the button to end the call.
The long drive passed in what now felt like an instant as you stood in Irina’s driveway, boxes in hand, looking up at what would become your new home.
Your aunt Irina greeted you on her front porch, promptly taking one of the small stacked boxes from your arms that hid your face. You sighed in relief at the lightened load.
“Ah dochka, come inside quickly.” Your aunt said over her shoulder as she propped the front door open with foot.
You nodded and followed her, placing the heavy boxes that contained the most important of your belongings on the entryway table beside the stairs. Your aunt carefully placed the box she held on top of the stack as well before turning to face you. You held your arms awkwardly at your side, your fingers twitched as you met your aunt’s gaze. She was all the natural beauty and poise that your mother -her older sister- had without the cutting and sunken look that came from years of contempt and cruelty. You hoped you favored your aunt in that way.
There was a moment of silence shared between the two of you as you took in the sight and presence of one another. Irina’s expression was filled with something indiscernible as she looked you over. You suddenly felt self-conscious in that moment. The last time she had seen you, you were only a child.
“I-“ You began to speak, unsure what your next words would be. You were promptly interrupted as Irina took you into her arms.
“Oh sweet girl, I’ve missed you so much.” Your aunt spoke softly. Her hand slid over your hair, holding your head closer to her own.
You tried your best to get a hold the overwhelming emotions building up inside you as you wrapped your arms tighter around her.
“Listen, don’t worry about any of it right now,” Irina pulled away, holding your shoulders in her hands. “I’ll show you to your bedroom. It’s late. We’ll catch up in all the days to come. As you’re ready, of course.”
She understood you so perfectly. It felt as though no time had passed between the two of you at all. You nodded, wiping away the single tear that slipped past your waterline. “Thank you.” You replied earnestly.
She showed you to your room, helping you carry your things up the stairs. The room was warm and soft, perfectly polished and eclectic, in the style that perfectly encapsulated Irina. You absolutely adored it all.
Your aunt didn’t linger as you swiftly unpacked the essentials you needed for the night. It was nearly reaching the hours of the early morning and you were both physically and mentally well exhausted. You’d let yourself begin to process it all in the morning. For now, you were safe, even happy. It was going to be alright.
The next morning had come and gone. Your aunt woke you with breakfast and the two of you exchanged small pleasantries. In the afternoon Irina stopped you as she caught you on the stairs, a laundry basket stuck to her hip. “We can go tomorrow to enroll you at the high school if you’d like. I have a gap in meetings around noon.”
You picked at your fingernails, tossing up the idea in your head. “It’s okay, I can run by the school on my own tomorrow. I imagine It shouldn’t take me very long.”
Irina furrowed her brow, nodding. “Oh okay then, just shoot me a text when you get everything sorted, will you?”
You smiled and nodded before the two of you resumed your paths apart.
Finding your way to the school the next morning wasn’t too difficult of a task to accomplish. Classes began in a week and to your relief, there were no students hanging near campus yet to be found. Aside from a few members of faculty, the school was entirely deserted.
It didn’t take you much time to locate the staff required to complete your enrollment. The secretary had even exclaimed she knew your aunt quite well. You supposed that everyone must be at least partially acquainted in this town, given its size.
You suddenly felt hesitant as you made your way across the parking lot back to your car. A silver sedan caught your eye as it sped past you. All four windows were rolled down and you could tell the car was full of people that looked just about your age. It seemed you had caught their attention too as you met the eyeline of the driver. She was too far away to make out much detail beyond her short cropped hair and frame.
The thought hadn’t yet occurred to you how difficult it would be to make new friends in a place where nearly everyone grew up with one another. You wished in that moment that you had made more of an effort as a child during your summers spent here to make any friends. But you had always been shy, horribly and painfully shy, as a child. It was just easier to play on your own. In all honesty, you weren’t sure how to make real close friends, let alone keep them.
Still, you shrugged, it would have made this whole transition much easier if you had at least one person near your age in Woodsboro who might have remembered your name.
You tried to keep your mind occupied in the days that followed. It wasn’t much of a hard task to follow. In the afternoon, you mainly kept to your bedroom, flipping mindlessly through a book you had been attempting to finish for the better part of a month. In the mornings you sat in the window bay, hot coffee in hand, remembering the neighborhood boys you used to watch ride by in circles on their bikes. Occasionally, your aunt invited you to eat lunch at the law firm she worked at in town. She’d tell you endlessly how quickly you’d adjust to things once the school year started, reminded you how the home was always open to guests, talked about the possible colleges you could apply to. It was a strange feeling to have someone show so much interest in the day-to-day doings of your life. You figured you’d learn to truly welcome and reciprocate the sentiment in time.
Your nerves had seemed kept safely under control until you began to turn into the Woodsboro High parking lot on the first day of class. Your fingers tapped the steering wheel in anticipation as you pulled into an open parking spot near the back of the lot. Placing the car in the park, you flipped your visor, giving yourself a once over before biting the bullet and getting the worst part of the day on with it. You scolded yourself for unknowingly chewing your lip nearly raw on the drive there, but other than that, you seemed just about alright.
Irina had been so excited to help you get ready for your first day. You knew she had always thought of you as her own daughter. She never had the opportunity to have any children of her own. You gladly let her fuss over your hair and clothing without once interjecting that the curling iron was burning your neck, and the constant outfit changes were exhausting your limited wardrobe. It gave you a sense of confidence, though, knowing that you at least looked your absolute best, regardless of how you felt inside.
You said a silent prayer as you approached the building’s front doors. Groups of students passed by in small droves. Each step felt like sinking through sludge as you noticed the quizzical looks from your new found peers that read ‘outsider.’ Even though your rational brain knew it couldn’t be true, it felt as though everyone in the halls was craning their heads to catch a glimpse. You dug your thumbnail into the palm of your hand as you dropped into an empty chair near the back of your first period homeroom class.
“There’s that new face.” A friendly female voice spoke beside you as she dropped her things on the desk to your right.
You turned to face her and were met by an inquiring smile and a familiar short blonde haircut. You immediately recognized her as the girl you had seen in the school parking lot the day you had registered.
You held out your hand, giving her your name.
She shook your hand in return, “Kirby.” She replied, giving you her own. As the two of you waited for the first bell to ring, you exchanged the usual first introduction sentiments. She introduced you to another girl who sat in the seat in front of you.
“Jill Roberts.” The new girl had stated more matter-of-factly.
“Good to meet you, Jill.” You replied in the same cadence. She gave you a half smile as she onced you over.
You spent the majority of your first few periods staring out of classroom windows or drawing endless little circles on your notebook as your teachers passed around syllabi and gave the same spiel on classroom expectation for the semester. You had learned so many names in just a few hours; you were already struggling to remember even just a handful. You assured yourself it wouldn’t matter much in the grand scheme of things. In a matter of days, most people would lose interest in the new girl thing and you’d slip comfortably by as a nameless face in the considerably smaller student body.
The bell rang for lunch and you were on your feet with your things thrown over your shoulder in a matter of seconds. You carefully squeezed your way through the buzzing hallway and made a direct line to your car, hoping to decompress and catch your breath for a moment.
Just as you planted your first foot on the paved parking lot, you heard your name called, no- shouted, from behind you.
‘Fuck,’ you mumbled to yourself, pivoting in place. It took a moment to locate the person who had called after you. A curly-haired boy awkwardly jogged to catch up, his long-haired counterpart feigned a cooler stepped approach behind him. You couldn’t remember an introduction with either of them.
The curly-haired boy noticing the confused look on your face interjected, halfway catching his breath, “We already got your name from Kirby.” He began, noticing the way your brows furrowed he quickly continued, “I’m Robbie, this is Charlie.” He motioned to the man that stood beside him.
You looked up between the pair, catching Charlie’s line of sight. His eyes dropped just as quickly to his shoes below him, kicking his laces at the ground.
“... Right.” you stated questioningly, dragging your eyes away from the frayed aglet on Charlie’s left shoe to look back up at Robbie.
“Right, yeah,” Robbie stumbled over his next words, “We run the film club. We meet every day after school.” You sucked in your bottom lip, trying to conceal your now amused half smile.
You noticed Charlie now glancing between you and Robbie with dread in his expression at the awkward mess Robbie was attempting to make his way through. Just before Charlie could begin to speak, Robbie rushed to spit out the point he was trying to get to.
“Well, we’d- I’d.” Robbie met Charlie’s eyes for a moment before continuing. “No- we’d love for you to, if you ‘d want to… You should come check it out. After school. Today.”
You rolled the idea over in your head for a moment. You didn’t really believe you belonged anywhere near a film club; you considered yourself an average movie-goer at best. It couldn’t necessarily hurt to go, either. If you really felt out of place, you could just not go back the next day. You squinted up at the pair. Neither of them could meet your eyes. Your aunt would be ecstatic to learn you’d even made an attempt to put yourself out there a bit more. The short contemplative silence hadn’t been a thought that had crossed your mind, but you could tell it was now starting to make them squirm.
“Come on dude, I told you she wouldn’t want to come.” Charlie broke the silence with a quiet plea to Robbie.
Charlie now turned back to face you, “I’m sorry, don’t stress about trying to make it.” The look of defeat in the pair’s expressions brought a pit of sudden guilt in your chest. Just as Charlie grabbed Robbie’s shoulder to drag him back inside the school, you interjected without a second thought.
“I’ll go. I’d love to go. Thank you for the invite.” You drug as much sincerity into your face as you could muster. Both boys stopped in their tracks, exclaiming in unison, “Really?”
Charlie’s eyebrow raised in suspecting confusion.
“Okay, cool! Classroom 120A, right after the last bell.” Robbie called over his shoulder, a wide grin plastered across his face.
You stood for a moment, one foot on the curb, watching the pair make their way back to school. Fixating on the way, Charlie ran his hand through the mess of his long hair.
“See, I told you dude, you just have to make the first move.” You could hear Robbie say, almost out of earshot now. His arm reached out to fall over Charlie’s shoulder, shaking him slightly. Charlie pushed the boy off him. You imagined him rolling his eyes as he brushed off his shoulder.
You laughed to yourself, turning on your heel, heading back to your car to spend the time left of lunch you had in much needed solitude.
The remainder of the school day passed by just about the same way the first half had. In your last class of the day, you took the time counting the heads of the students around you, trying to recount the names of each one you could remember. Once you made your way to the back corner of the room, you noticed Charlie staring down at his lap. He was crumpling, unfolding, then crumpling up the same piece of paper over and over again. You wondered what he could’ve written on that paper, if there was anything written on it at all.
You hadn’t realized how long you sat watching his repetitive movements until he looked up, catching your gaze. His eyes were piercing, deep set, his hair half-way covering the features of his face.
Your face burned hot as you quickly snapped your head back towards the whiteboard in the front of the room.
‘Idiot.’ You groaned in silence to yourself. Out of the very corner of your peripherals, you could feel his eyes still fixated on you from just a row behind. You picked at your nails anxiously, watching the minute hand spin on the classroom clock.
The last bell of the day rang out shortly after and you relaxed into your seat. You slowly gathered your things into your bag on the desk.
“Hey.” A familiar voice spoke beside you. You jumped in your seat at the quiet and sudden proximity. You looked up to meet Charlie’s gaze. He was messing with the loop on the strap of his backpack that rested on his left shoulder. “I can show you to the room we use for film club, if that’d be cool with you.”
You nodded your head up at him. “Yeah, that’s cool.” In all honesty, you had almost completely forgotten about even going.
“Cool.” He said, grabbing your bag off the desk and throwing it over his other shoulder. He began walking to the door, motioning over his shoulder for you to follow him.
You followed closely beside him as you both pushed your way through the hallways packed with students exiting the building. The would-be awkward silence between the pair of you was graciously filled by the loud chatter of people passing by.
“When’d you move back?” You barely caught Charlie’s question. His face was fixed on the wall in front of him.
“Back? I’m sorry, I’ve never lived here.” You replied, “I moved in with my aunt about a week ago.”
He looked over at you, studying your face for a second before turning away again. He nodded his head.
“What about you? How long have you lived here?” You asked, keeping your gaze directed forward as well.
“Born and raised.” He replied. You nodded in response as the two turned a corner. You could see a plaque that read 120A just ahead.
A trio of guys in football garb made their way past, headed in the opposite direction. The closest of the group carried a large bag of equipment at his side that nearly knocked your knee from under you as you crossed paths.
“Ouch,” you mumbled, missing a step. You were alright, truly fine after shaking it off a bit.
Charlie stopped in his tracks beside you. Turning to face the group. “Watch your shit, Anderson.” He called after them.
The carrier of the bag didn’t bother to stop walking, only looking over his shoulder to seemingly size Charlie up. He laughed, “Yeah, alright Walker. You’re not gonna do shit about it.”
You could nearly feel Charlie tense up beside you. Men and their silly egos.
“I’m alright, let’s go please.” You grabbed Charlie’s forearm and pulled him forward towards the room, letting go once you could feel his resistance lessen.
Once in the room, you let out a sigh and took a seat next to Kirby near the center of the room. The meeting, to your surprise, went by well. Charlie and Robbie both seemed much more sure of themselves when they were talking about things they were passionate about. Although you had to admit it was all pretty dorky, you’d never fault them for the devotion in their interests.
You were practically lost throughout the hourlong meeting, but you believed it wouldn’t be too much of a challenge to pick up on things, eventually. It was all sort of interesting, fun even.
You decided on the car ride home that day you’d make sure to attend the next one.
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sanctuaire | sanctuary
sanctuary | noun your safe and peaceful haven a comforting place of refuge and rest in a noisy, chaotic world
{brother's best friend | fem!reader x james potter} ⪼ warnings: mentions of abuse, eating disorder, mentions of suicide ⪼ word count: 2k
part four: troubles playlist
story: sanctuaire | sanctuary
“y/n” My mother spoke to me. I had to suppress a shudder trying to rock my body. Her stone cold voice made the hair on my skin stand up. My poster got a little straighter, though that was hardly possible anymore. 
Regulus was standing beside me, we were home and Maman looked as displeased and frightening as always. 
“Yes, Maman.” I answered her. Putting on my best blood supremacist voice. Careful to not smile or frown. Neither were accepted by her. As a Black you had to look flawless and superior to everybody all the time. Making sure everyone knew your status. 
“Come and let me inspect you.” My mothers voice tore through the otherwise silent house. My Papa is nowhere to be seen or heard. He was probably in his office. Not wanting to disrupt mother welcoming us. Beside my siblings he was always an alliance in the house. Though a silent one. Only helping when mother didn’t notice. I knew that even though he meant well it was toxic. He was the man of the house, he was Lord Black and still didn’t dare to stand up to his wife. If angered you didn’t want to cross paths with Lady Walburga Black.
Her cold fingers raked my body and I tried hard to stand as still as possible. Letting my mind wander to think about Sirius, about happiness. Anything but my reality. “Regulus Arcturus you are dismissed for now. y/n and I will try on her ballgown.” A pained expression flicked over Reggies face, but was gone by the blink of an eye.
My mother flicked her finger motioning me to follow her and I obliged. My dark green dress lay on my bed and with the help of my personal house elf Amélie I put it on. My whole world shattered when Amélie whispered a quiet “I’m so sorry Mistress”. Before I could even register what was happening my mother stood before me. 
“y/n it looks like you’ve gained some weight. What are we going to do about that? You need to fit in your dress.” Before I could react she pulled her wand, shouted ‘Crucio’ and I screamed. Loudly. The name of my brothers. Anything. I was trying to fight the spell but had no chance.
“y/n. y/n. Come on, wake up!”
Suddenly I was even colder than before and my eyes shot open. A pitcher of cold water had been dumped over my body. It was all just a dream. I was in the infirmary and both of my brothers looked at me. The same scared expressions mirroring their faces.
“I’m sorry. Did I bother anyone? Oh Merlin, did anyone besides the two of you hear?” It was then that I noticed James and Remus standing behind Sirius. How embarrassing. 
“y/n, you can’t be for fucking real. I thought you were dying and you’re worried that anybody heard you. I haven’t been that scared for a long time.” Sirius raised his voice slightly, I winced remembering our mother shouting at me. He looked at me with a painful expression and took one of my hands in his. “Do you want to talk?” He nearly whispered now. I shook my head but didn’t let go of his hand. Regulus took my other hand and James and Remus looked visibly uncomfortable. Not wanting to disrupt our sibling bonding moment. With a nod and some wandless magic I let some chairs appear and the both of them broke out in a grin sitting down in a split second.
Sirius was sitting on Regulus’ bed and me still in my chair, in the same position I fell asleep in. I only now noticed how my whole body hurts. Sleeping in a chair does that to you.
Suddenly the doors to the infirmary were pushed open and three familiar faces ran inside. Florence, Theo and Adam were sprinting towards me. Relieve filling them as they spotted me. “By Merlin's balls, y/n don’t ever just leave without telling me where you’re going. For a second I thought you jumped off the Astronomy tower, since you left this there.” Florence held up the letter from my mother. 
“She wouldn’t die in winter.” Sirius and Regulus said at the same time as I said “I wouldn’t kill myself, it’s winter.” And the three of us broke out in laughter, even though it’s not something regular people would laugh about. We Blacks were a bit strange about sensitive topics. Our friends had puzzled expressions on their faces and looked like we were completely insane. 
“You wouldn’t get it, Prongs.” Sirius told James who just opened his mouth, so he closed it again. Reminding me of a fish and sending me in another fit of giggles. When I calmed down I was reminded of the seriousness of the situation. 
The doors opened and Madam Pomfrey walked in. I took a deep breath and put on my ‘Black face’ again. A face of coldness and superiority. I loved Poppy Pomfrey, but I wouldn’t let a teacher see me vulnerable. Madam Pomfrey was shocked to see so many students in the infirmary at the crack of dawn.
“Everybody who isn’t the young Mister Black out now!” She ordered. I shot Reggie a small smile, squeezed his hand and all of us left the infirmary. While Poppy Pomfrey was the nicest human in the whole wide world, you didn’t want to get on their bad side. Remus stayed back for a second to pass a few words with her, she had a soft spot for him. I knew about Remus’ condition. When Remus was sick after two full moons in a row I had gotten suspicious. 
The first few months of first year had been hard on me. I had never spent so much time apart from Sirius and when I wanted to talk to him he was always with stupid James Potter. The first three years at Hogwarts I had resented James with all my heart. But he was hard to hate, after three years he weasled himself into my heart and now I was proud to call him my friend. Still in first year we couldn’t quite get along. That’s why Sirius didn’t talk to me as much anymore. I didn’t like his new best friend and he hated it.
I found myself spending lots of time in the Astronomy Tower. A side effect of that being always aware of the moon cycle. When I noticed Remus getting sicker towards the full moon and looking horrible a few days after. I spent a whole day researching in the library and finally got to the conclusion that he was a werewolf. I didn’t tell anyone of course. While I resented Sirius some days I couldn’t do that to his friend. So on the third full moon I faked an injury so I could spend the night in the infirmary. I heard Remus talking to Madam Pomfrey, heard her fussing over him and when the word wolf fell I knew I was right.
“Hey y/n what’re you thinking about?” Theo bumped his hip into mine and snapped me out of my thoughts. He knew the troubles of growing up with strict pureblood parents, nearly every child of the Sacred 28 knew how hard it was. Some were better than mine, but all Pureblood supremacist parents were a handful to deal with.
“My mother.” I answered with a half lie. I couldn’t tell my Slytherin friends about Remus. Theo and I shared a look of deep understanding. His mother was quite sweet, but his father was bloodcurdling. My Slytherin friends knew that about the relationship I had with my parents. They didn’t know about the torture and abuse. I made sure to hide it from them, since even though I trusted them I wouldn’t want their parents and the whole pureblood world to find out. My mother would explode.
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The Great Hall was filled with chatter and I plopped down besides Flo. My thoughts on my family. Regulus, who was still in the infirmary. My mother, who cared more about my looks than my health. My father, who never showed up at the right time. Sirius, who was sitting a few tables away, yet seemed unreachable sometimes. 
I pushed the food on my plate around and took some bites, but my stomach and mind were at war. I constantly heard my mothers voice inside my head. Do you really want to eat that? And even though she wasn’t here I could feel her sitting next to me constantly, judging my every move. 
I glanced over to the Gryffindor table. My brother and his friends were all deep in conversation. James was trying to woo Lily Evans again. Remus and Sirius looked so deep into each other's eyes, it seemed they didn’t notice anybody else. Pete was talking to Mary and Alice and they all had smiles on their faces. Their happiness radiating off and bouncing around the whole Hall.
I ignored the way my heart clenched. I wanted to sit with them, to share laughs, to feel so completely pressureless. But I couldn’t. Ignoring the pointed stares of my friends I got up and made my way to the dorms. Not standing another second of being in the Great Hall. 
Back in my room I grabbed my skates and bundled myself up in warm clothes. Since I was a small child I was enamoured with figure skating. Luckily my mother had a good year when she let me start doing the sport. Lots of Purebloods approved of it, so I didn’t need to be ashamed of it. Still to this day I spend lots of my free time skating. Next to reading it’s the only thing that gets my mind to stop overthinking. 
The Black Lake froze until mid March every year since scottish winters were bitter cold. I put my skates on, with a flick of my wand music was playing and I drove some circles to warm myself up. Spins and jumps seemed to clear my mind of every problem. And only after an hour I noticed I had gathered a small crowd. It was mostly Slytherin and Hufflepuff first years and when I went and drove to them some broke out in an applaud. I smiled a content smile. And Adelaide Greengrass, younger sister of Lucinda Greengrass, ran over to me.
“Wow Ms Black that was incredible.” I smiled at the name she chose, we had talked lots of times, but sometimes she used to call me Ms Black referring to our Pureblood ways of courtesy. “Hey Addy, thank you. Do you want me to teach you sometime?” I asked her as I removed my skates and could swear they were sparks in my eyes. I took that as a yes.
In the back of the small crowd stood Regulus. I ran over to him and could barely contain myself from wrapping him in a tight hug. Physical affection in public was a big no-go to my mother and most Pureblood families. With the events of the past few days I wouldn’t want to stir any rumours. “Reggie” I breathed out. The relief and joy of seeing him healed washed over me.
“y/n you needn’t worry about me. I’m fine. Did Maman send you a letter too?” He asked as we made our way back to the dormitory. “Yes. She did. It was as unpleasant as one can imagine.” Reg shot me a pained look. He knew about the strict ‘dietary plan’ Mother expected me to follow. 
He opened his mouth but I held my hand up, to stop him. “Reg, I know you worry about me. You mustn’t. Please. We’ll survive the next few weeks and after the ball we’ll be fine again. Just make sure to not get too close to Sirius. Narcissa and Bella are watching and I know a handful of other people who would love to report every “wrong” step of us to Maman.”
“I know y/n. Still be careful I can’t risk losing you to her.” He took my hand and I squeezed it with a silent promise. I knew I couldn’t make any promises aloud, they were just going to be broken anyway.
a/n: hey guys i'm sorry it took foreveeever to finish this chapter. it's not a 100% proof-read, but i'm way to tired today to proof-read it. next chapter is already halfway done and i'm hoping to be able to upload it as soon as possible.
lot's of love to wherever you are <3 xoxo ellie
p.s. as always: my inbox is alway open for feeback and requests. more james action next time. i just enjoy writing slow burns. sorryyy :)
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The Release 15🟢
“-so that’s their plan…bring back Gaia to defeat me? Hah! And what about it? What are they going to do to the literal god of death itself?”
Narinder said. Baal had to comment after that statement.
“My lord, shouldn’t this be something to be concerned about? You haven’t acquired the lambs yet, the Bishops acquired Fernilla, and you still haven’t appeared above ground in a long time. We actually might be running out of time, and if they successfully bring back Gaia…"
Ayn trailed off. Narinder leans back.he didn’t want to say this but this is a HUGE setback. Remmembering their past, Gaia, his mother, was one of the best, if not one of the only, mentors of Magic left in existence. She is quite literally one of the most powerful magic wielders and when she is paired with his Eldest sibling’s brute strength, they are unstoppable…if this was in the past.
“It won’t happen. The bishops are all handicapped, remember? I destroyed a part of them before they sealed me. There is nothing to fret. I will simply re-emerge when they return Fernilla to the forest…or when she calls me.”
He gets up. Remembering that Fernilla is still tethered to him. It’s been 5 days now. The sixth day will be upon them.
“Once I emerge and she is with them for merely a few days, She’ll beg me to take her under my wing again…and then I can finish her off, finish off the bishops, take her lambs as my personal slaves and the whole kingdom will be mine!”
Narinder laughs. If only he knew that Fernilla and Moses were getting three meals a day and a warm bed to sleep in by the SAME PEOPLE WHO SEALED HIM!
Days have passed as the others collected the materials and the “sacrifices” to make her revival a reality. Only close members knew about this, in the event that it backfires. Leshy and Noelle have been spending some time together as it looked like it was going to be very soon.
“Bishop Leshy, Noelle is here”
“Let her in.”
Noelle walked into Leshy’s private greenhouse. A huge greenhouse with its own sprawling garden and full of flowers. Clearly Co-Owned and inherited from his sister as pumpkins, Corn, and other assorted vegetables and fruit grow plentiful in the area year round.
“Bishop Leshy? You called me?”
“Noelle, you know better! Just call me Leshy! I know elder sibling is hard on formalities, but we’re alone now. Come, I have some snacks we can share!”
He said as he lead her to a more private area of the greenhouse. To Noelle’s surprise, it wasn’t a table but a little picnic. Some of the glass panes were opened to let the breeze in. Noelle was amazed! They nibbled on their snacks and Noelle laid down. Leshy laid down next to her and asked her a question.
“Noelle? Do you like me?”
“Of course! You are very kind, Leshy”
“No, that’s not what I meant. I mean…do you want to stay with me? “
Noelle gets up.
“Stay? Like…forever?”
She asked. Leshy takes her hands in his. Her small hands in his made them look huge. He then places his hand over both of them. She believes she understands what the bagworm is talking about.
“Yeah, will you stay in the kingdom forever? I can ask Mom! She can go through Shamura and we can find you a house! You’ll have a royal title and you can do whatever you want! Wouldn’t that be great?”
Noelle looked at their hands intertwined with each other. Staying in the Old Faith? Is that even an option? There is no home for her to return to, and that Narinder guy still wants her and Moses. That’s right, Moses and Fernilla. Can she just leave them to their own devices? Will they need help?
“I…”
Noelle couldn’t answer because then she felt that aura again. Shamura and Gaia
“Sorry for interrupting your little date, Dear!”
“Ah!”
“Mom! Shamura! I swear no one knows anything about privacy What is it?”
He said. Noelle looked away. Gaia cleared her throat.
“It’s time. And we only have one shot”
Leshy and Noelle perk up. Leshy helps Noelle up.
“Let’s go, Noelle”
“Right”
All four of them were being led into a room. This room was Gaia’s old room that had the door seal removed from the entrance. There was the old statue over the area cleared for the ritual.
“How long until the next day comes?”
“We still have time but we have to worry about sunset. If what Fernilla said was true, we are in day 5.”
Kallamar said as Heket was ordering the blood to be drawn in these exact patterns.
“Do not screw this up! We only have one chance to bring back Gaia!”
Kallamar looks out the window and the sun has moved. It could be the afternoon, but once sunset comes, that’s when HE will return from wherever he is. Plus, he’s behind their gate so everyone in the Clan is vulnerable.
“How are the preparations?”
“We are almost done, we should take our places now.”
Kallamar said. Shamura is handed the book with the ritual inside.
“Alright, are we ready?”
Shamura said. Fernilla and Moses had arrived and were waiting for the ritual.
“Forgive my goddess, she’s not feeling her best. Her stomache isn’t cooperating”
He said. Gaia nodded as Shamura steps forward.
“The last thing we need is for her to pass out. Here, suck on this during the ritual, it will keep you focused”
They handed her a mint. She plops it in her mouth. Whatever was in this mint really did the trick. Her stomache ceased doing somersaults. Shamura gave off a small smile.
“Good. Everyone is here, shall we begin Gaia?”
Shamura takes Gaia’s crown and places her in the middle of the circle.
“If this is the last time I see you, I love you so dearly”
“And I you, but I don’t think this will be the last time”
And Shamura steps back. Everyone stood in a circle engraved out for them. The lambs hid behind a Marble pole for safety.
“We only got one shot! Everyone, thank you so much for your effort! Let’s do our best!”
She said. Everyone took their places. Moses taps Noelle as she turns
“After all of this, when they are successful…will you come with us?”
Moses asked. Noelle looked away.
“Honestly? I don’t know, Moses. Leshy just asked me this morning if I will stay within the walls of the Clan. Even I don’t know who to choose”
She said. Moses didn’t really like that answer. Fernilla was her original god. Pairing up with the bishops was for survival, but maybe it’s deeper.
“Ah!”
It all makes sense now! He has to ask her!
“Are you in love with him or something?”
Noelle’s face turned bright red
“Wha- what are you-“
He stops her for a moment. Then he looked outside.
“They need to hurry, the sun can set any time now. It’s going further west”
He said. Thankfully, they started the ritual just then. It was a long ritual, bringing a soul from not the dead, but from another dimension was extremely hard on the body, bodies that weren’t strong enough. No one expected that it would take so much to bring her back.
“Gak!”
Someone coughed.
“Big Sister! Are you alright?”
Leshy said. His eye was hurting but it wasn’t that severe. Fernilla was fine, but the other three…they weren’t looking good.
“Mom! The others don’t look good!”
“Miss Gaia! What do we do?”
Gaia’s crown was silent. Gaia was slowly making her way there, she couldn’t hear them or see them, she just needed to reach the light, and fast! The clutches of death aren’t that far behind. Narinder noticed this rift in the atmosphere
“Is that-“
“My lord! Gaia is trying to get back!”
Ayn and Baal said. Narinder began to follow her close behind. Gaia can’t see him due to the darkness. She only had one goal, to return to her family
“Even if she gets out. I’ll be coming to get her! I’m going out too!”
He said. As Gaia continued her way out of this realm, Kallamar collapsed
“Kallamar!”
Leshy shouted. Noelle and Moses looked on, scared that he just died right in front of them
“Do not break your concentration! Kallamar is fine!”
Heket said. Leshy began to feel the effects of the ritual. Fernilla kept looking at the outside. The sun was setting.
“Please Gaia…hurry!”
Noelle pleaded. Another hour goes by and another bishop goes down, this time it was Heket. Shamura might be next at this point, with their condition, they are even shocked that they are still up. Pure stubbornness at this point.
“Gaia…please…”
Shamura pleaded. The pain and the fatigue was too great for his older siblings…Leshy is going to go down soon…but Fernilla…she’s holding on. Using every ounce of her ability. She’s compensating for two crown now.
“Fernilla…your doing great…stay focused…”
“Yeah Shamura…”
She said. Then another this was heard. Leshy went down. Shamura couldn’t keep the extra strength and Fernilla was already comping 2 extra powers…will Gaia even make it across?
“Forgive me for being so weak! I’d sorry!”
Fernilla said. Tears rolled down her face. And in that moment, they thought about Narinder…how they felt that way a lot. A weakness they cannot control, they soothe the lower goddess.
“You’re doing great. It’s alot for someone who’s not used to it. Just keep holding on, okay?”
Shamura lifts himself and takes over the other part of Leshy’s energy so she dies t have to.
Badump!
“!”
They both look at each other. Then it happened again. Gaia.
“Bishop Shamura! Is that!-“
TBC
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Chapter 15: Other Storms {Reprise} || KTH
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Title: What Was Hidden (Masterpost)
Rating: explicit, minors DNI pls
Genre: college!au, angst, eventual smut, strangers -> friends -> lovers -> idiots -> lovers
Pairings: Taehyung x female reader, MYG x OC
Summary:  This is how it all starts: Taehyung is flunking Western Lit. You’re assigned to tutor him. His paper on Strindberg’s The Ghost Sonata could pass or fail him for the semester. As you and Taehyung slowly become friends, then more, you learn that there’s a lot more to him than you originally assumed. Together, you navigate your own experiences with the play’s themes: one’s “true self” versus one’s “shown self”, darkness behind the facade, and how people can be quite literally haunted - and it has nothing to do with ghosts.
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In which you overhear something you weren't meant to, and find solace in your safe place.
Chapter Warnings: language, drinking, soooooo many feelings like don’t say I didn’t warn you, the angst continues, explicit sex including: unprotected sex (this is fiction, your life is not), penetrative sex
Word Count: 4.5k
I saw the sun and thought I saw what was hidden The Ghost Sonata | Scene III August Strindberg
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Chapter 15: Other Storms {Reprise}
Sunday, March 17th
You wake up before dawn, the light in Taehyung’s room a dim blue. 
Taehyung’s room.
Fuck.
You roll to look at him. He’s asleep, peaceful, one arm stretched towards you as he breathes in and out with the slightest whistle. He’s beautiful. You want to press yourself against him again, reassure yourself that he’s real and solid. If you were to reach out and touch him right now, it would probably wake him up a little. He would probably wrap his arms around you, pull you in close, make you feel safe, and loved.
You had woken up feeling happy for the first time in months and now you’re faced with reality so quickly: nothing has changed. Nothing is different now than twenty-four hours ago.
You’re aching, suddenly, the urge to touch him overwhelming. You can't do it; it will only crack your heart open even more.
You're sobbing without warning. It's the kind of crying that you can't control; the sobs crawl up your throat, your ribs heave and shudder, fingers tear at the sheets. You're trying to muffle the gasps and shuddering exhales that escape your open mouth by pressing your face into the mattress. Your eyes squeeze shut and your knees instinctively come up to curl you into a protective fetal position.
Get it together, you think, frantically, even as you gasp against the sudden onslaught of tears, get it together or you’ll wake him up.
You manage to breathe, the tears slowing, and when you're able you lift your face from the mattress, looking at him again. What are your options right now? Wake him up, or wait until he wakes up in the morning? What would happen then? Would he think that sleeping with him meant you wanted to try to get back together? Would he regret giving in, would he go back to being hateful? You can’t decide which would be worse. 
Besides, you think, as tears continue to leak from the corners of your eyes, dripping silently down onto the sheets beneath you, what’s different now? Even if he woke up and stayed perfectly neutral and wanted to have a reasonable conversation - a fantasy scenario if you’ve ever had one - what’s different now than when you broke up? 
You still think it can only end in pain - isn’t this proof of that, right now? Being together will only hurt you both. You still can’t promise him anything, still can’t agree to be his girlfriend, still can’t get over yourself enough to give him what he deserves. 
So what’s the point.
You slide out of the bed and start hunting for your clothes on the ground as quietly as possible. You slide open the drawers of his bureau and take a pair of sweatpants and a hoodie; you’ll send them back to the house with Kiko next time she goes to visit Yoongi. You’ll even wash them first, as an apology. But now you won’t have to walk home, alone, through a frigid March morning, in a dress that your father would have never approved of.
The heels might be a bit of a problem.
You stop in the bathroom and change into the stolen clothes, pulling your hair into a ponytail and using hot water and soap to wash the makeup from under your eyes. When you feel like you look human, if not like a functional human, you head downstairs. You check your phone on the way and find that Bridget had texted you around 2:30 in the morning that she was going back to campus with some girls from school. “Hope ur ok up there,” she wrote.
Your plan is to hang out in the living room until it’s light enough to start walking. But to your surprise, the living room isn’t empty. 
You stop dead in your tracks when you see Jimin standing at the front window, his arms crossed. He turns when he hears you on the stairs, and then his face goes stony. 
“Taehyung’s not awake?” he asks, his voice deceptively light. 
You shake your head. “Still asleep.”
He eyes the bundle of last night’s dress and your high heels that you’re carrying. “You leaving?”
“I was going to wait for it to get a little lighter out,” you say. Your voice sounds fucked up. You’re sure your face is puffy, too.
Jimin takes all of this in silently. You know he’s protective of Taehyung, nearly to a fault. You’re sure there’s a lot he wants to say to you right now.
Carefully, Jimin says, “Don’t you think you owe him a conversation?”
“I can’t do this right now,” you tell him. “I can’t do the lecture. I’m hungover, I’m running on maybe three hours of sleep, and my fucking heart is broken, okay? If you have something to say to me about this, I need you to do it another day.”
You’re already crying again. You want to go home and sleep for thirteen hours so you can function like a person again. 
Jimin considers this. “Come on,” he says, reaching for his keys on the hook by the door.
“What?” you utter, completely lost.
“You’re not walking home in those,” he says, nodding at the shoes in your hand. “If you promise me you’ll talk to Taehyung later, when you’re rested, I’ll drive you home.”
“You don’t need to do that,” you say immediately. “I walked here in them, I can do it again.”
“Y/N,” he says patiently. “It’s like four in the morning. Let me drive you home.”
In the end, you do, sniffling silently in his passenger seat like a fool the whole way to campus. 
“I’m sorry,” you finally tell him, as he pulls up in front of your dorm. “I’m not trying to hurt him more. I’m trying not to do that.”
“Just talk to him,” Jimin says. “You promised.”
Inside, you head straight to the shower, letting the hot water wash away last night’s makeup, the smell of alcohol, and the feeling of Taehyung’s hands on your body. You braid your wet hair and change into your own pajamas and climb into bed.
Before you go to sleep, you send -
[4:41 AM] You: Taehyung, I’m so sorry for leaving
[4:41 AM] You: It just felt like the least complicated option
[4:42 AM] You: if you want to talk later… i’m willing
When you wake back up around two in the afternoon, he hasn’t answered.
He never does.
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Friday, March 22nd
Bridget comes down with a cold and Kiko’s with Yoongi, so you find yourself on your own for Friday night.
“Are you sure you’ll be okay?” you ask her as you get dressed to go out. “I can stay in. We could watch movies.”
“I just want to sleep,” she tells you. “Go have fun. Talk to someone. Be nice.”
“I don’t want to be nice,” you pretend to pout.
You decide to go into town and have just a drink and then come home again. That’s the plan, you tell yourself on your ride out to the bar.
You’re a little earlier than the rowdier crowd - which, yes, mostly comes from your campus - so you actually find a seat at the bar, which is a nice change. You’re ordered something you can sip on when you notice a familiar face on the other side. It’s not Taehyung, thank god.
It’s Jungkook. And he looks fucking pissed.
You pick up your drink and head over there without thinking, sliding into the seat next to him.
“Jungkook, hi,” you say, nudging his knee to get his attention. “Are you okay?”
He turns to look at you, brows knitted together. “Hi,” he says flatly. 
You’re taken aback by this, but you have a pretty good guess why he’s so worked up. “Did you fight with Tae again?” you ask.
He shakes his head. “It’s nothing.” But you can tell by the tapping of his foot under his seat, the tension in his shoulders, the tightness in his jaw: whatever happened before he got here, he’s mad.
You gesture around the mostly empty bar. “Now’s a good time to talk about it, if you want to. I’m here by myself, too.”
He considers this. Then he says, “Fine, fuck it. I’ve had just enough to drink that I’ll give in. We can be mad at him together!”
You decide not to mention that Taehyung is mad at you, not the other way around. 
“He’s such a child. I’m just so fucking tired of having to hide the parts of my life that are a result of the crash,” he says. “I can’t talk about it when my leg hurts. I can’t talk about it when I don’t feel like going to physical therapy after classes. I can’t talk about it when my dance crew wins without me and gets on television. It’s such bullshit.”
“Everyone’s really protective of him,” you agree quietly. 
Jungkook makes a noise of frustration. “I get it,” he tells you. “I know he blames himself for everything, and everyone is trying to keep that in check. But I’m allowed to be mad that it happened, and I’m allowed to be mad at the consequences. It doesn’t mean I’m mad at him. I made the choice to get in that car. We all knew the road conditions that night.”
“That’s fair,” you say.
“When Taehyung takes it so personally every time,” he tries to explain, “it keeps the rest of us walking on eggshells and pretending nothing’s wrong when I’m fucking furious.”
“It stops you from processing it, too, to deny it like that,” you say quietly. “That’s not good for anyone.”
Jungkook slumps with relief, like even through his whole tirade, part of him expected you to take Taehyung’s side. And in your own way, you still are.
“Jungkook,” you say gently, “have you ever said this to Taehyung?”
“Of course I have,” he blusters.
“No,” you say. “Not when you’re in the middle of fighting, not when either of you have been drinking, not when you’re worked up or in passing. Have you ever sat down together with him and told him the things you just told me?”
“No,” he mutters.
“I think Taehyung needs to hear you say it,” you say. “That you don’t blame him - that you made your own choices. He probably needs to hear you say that your anger can exist without it meaning you hold anything against him. And he might need to hear it more than once, Jungkook. Imagine if you had been driving that night - would you really forgive yourself?”
He swirls his drink around his glass. His silence answers you for him.
“Cool down - give him time to cool down,” you advise. “Then talk to him. He’s a pretty understanding person.”
Jungkook looks sideways at you. “Yeah, he’s a pretty forgiving person, too, I’ve heard.”
You flush. You liked this better when you weren’t talking about your issues. 
“Why are you even helping us, anyway?” he asks as an afterthought. “Aren’t you two not speaking?”
You flop backwards in your seat dramatically. “He’s not speaking to me,” you say. “That’s not the same as ‘we aren’t speaking’.”
“That doesn’t answer my question,” he points out.
“Because,” you say with a sigh. “That’s what you do for the people you care about.”
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Saturday, March 23rd 
[10:11 AM] Taehyung: hey
[10:12 AM] Taehyung: apparently i owe you a thank you for talking to Jungkook
You stare at the screen in shock. Then you type quickly.
[10:14 AM] You: omg im so happy he actually talked to you
[10:15 AM] You: are you two all good now? did you work a lot of it out?
Your phone buzzes in your hand - a facetime call. You take a second to remove the goofy-ass smile that takes over your face, trying to look more chill. Your heart is singing in your chest. 
“Hey,” he says. “Thanks for picking up. It’s just a lot to type.”
“Sure,” you say. “No problem. So you guys talked it out?”
“Yeah,” he says. It looks like he’s home, in his bed still. “We talked at breakfast this morning. He said a lot of stuff that… I guess I knew, but I think it still needed to come from him, not from the other guys talking for him, you know?”
“That makes sense,” you say.
Taehyung sighs. “Anyway, he told me he ran into you last night and that you told him he should just talk to me about it. So… thanks. Thanks for telling him that - it was the right call.”
“I’m glad he listened,” you say. 
“Y/N,” he says, kind of uneasily, and the singing in your chest shuts up fast, “The thing is, I don’t understand why you’re helping us when you clearly still hate me.”
“What do you mean I hate you?” you demand. Nothing could be further from the truth.
“You walked out on me,” he says, as if this is the most obvious thing in the world. “You fucked me and then left me. Do you have any idea how fucking small I felt when I woke up and you weren’t there?”
There it is. 
Your heart breaks, as it has again and again since February. You feel like a monster whose only skill is to destroy. 
But now you have the chance to make it at least a little right. 
“I’m so sorry, Taehyung,” you tell him. You get up, slipping on a pair of shoes and grabbing your key-card. You want some privacy for this part. Out in the hallway, which is empty, you say, “I feel like… I feel like I owe you the truth, after everything I’ve put you through. Even if it sucks for me to say it.”
You make your way to the staircase at the end of the hall; everyone on your floor takes the elevator, so you’re guaranteed some privacy here. You sit down on the very top concrete step. Taehyung watches you from your screen, waiting. 
You take a deep breath. “I woke up next to you, and I just couldn’t stop crying. Like, I couldn’t get it together, to the point I was scared I’d wake you up,” you admit. 
He frowns, but you push on. “I was just laying there looking at you and getting slammed with how much… how much I still feel everything for you, and the knowledge that I still can’t give you what you want - what you deserve. And the guilt, too, that I had hurt you - that no matter what I did right then, even if I stayed until you woke up - I would just hurt you more.”
Taehyung is silent, eyes steady on you, just listening.
“I couldn’t calm down,” you explain. “I needed to…. I needed to not be laying next to you, you know? I couldn’t do it, it hurt too bad. I’m sorry - I’m so sorry I hurt you again. If you want me to leave you alone, I will, if that’s how I can prove I won’t do it again.”
Your eyes are full again, and you think Taehyung’s blinking an awful lot too, but you don’t call him out on it. “I’m sorry,” you repeat weakly. It’s all you have to offer. 
“Okay,” he says finally, voice a little tight. “Thanks for the explanation, I guess. And thanks for talking to Jungkook.”
“You’re welcome,” you whisper, but somehow it still feels like I’m sorry as it comes off your tongue.
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Saturday, April 14th
You don’t hear from Taehyung again over the next two weeks. You go to class, you go to tutoring, you go out with Bridget when she asks. It all seems rather rote. 
When she asks you and Kiko to go with her to a party in the Suites - apartment-style dorms with kitchenettes, exclusively for seniors - you actually don’t argue. Part of you hopes you will see Taehyung there. Your last conversation left you hopeful that maybe you could coexist on campus without any ugliness.
You don’t let yourself hope for a single thing more.
Upon arriving, sometime before midnight, a quick scan of the kitchen and living room space tells you that no one is here that you even recognize. You let Bridget lead you into one of the three bedrooms, where you join a drinking game called Thumper. It’s a funny game, meant to be silly, so when you make your way back to the kitchen for another beer after three rounds, you’ve still got a smile on your face, a remnant of laughter not yet melted away.
It’s gotten a lot busier since you girls arrived, and people come in and out of the adjoining bedrooms in groups and clusters. You pause by a group of girls you know, and get pulled into their conversation - some drama with their neighbors down the hall. You’re standing there when your phone buzzes in your pocket. Still listening to the girl speaking, you slip it out of your pocket and glance at it. It’s not a text - it’s a notification from your weather app.
“Oh,” you say, surprised. “Is it supposed to storm? I just got an alert.”
“Yeah,” one of the girls tells you. “We’re supposed to have some bad storms roll through tonight. My parents’ house actually has a tornado watch.”
“Shit,” you murmur, putting your phone away. That’s when you see Taehyung, on the couch next to his friend Namjoon. They’re playing a video game, and Taehyung is holding a beer between his knees while his hands work the controller. He notices you too, and when you make eye contact, he gives you a friendly nod.
Coexistence.
You head back in to find Bridget and Kiko. They’re sitting next to each other on the end of someone’s bed, so you join them. Someone is telling the story of an unpleasant email exchange they had with their Professor over a missing assignment, and you lean against Kiko’s shoulder, listening. 
Beside you, Kiko glances at her phone and tries to shrug out from under you. “I think I’m gonna go…” she murmurs.
You frown at her, exaggerated. “Are you leaving us?” you cry, pretending to be devastated. “For Yoongi?”
“Obviously,” she teases, standing.
“Unacceptable,” you tell her. She’s starting to head towards the kitchen, which has the door to the hallway, so you follow her, intent on annoying her until she’s completely out of your sight. As you two pass through the doorway back into the kitchen, you hear a voice you recognize. You freeze on instinct, and Kiko pauses beside you.
Taehyung’s back is to you and beyond him, facing you, is Davis.
“Heard you finally dumped Y/N,” Davis is saying to him. You feel your entire body go hot and cold at the same time, your pulse suddenly roaring in your ears. You can’t feel your feet. You aren’t sure they’re still there. You feel like time has frozen, like no one else is in the room, as he continues speaking. “Congrats, bro. She’s a good lay, but beyond that, she’s just not worth it.”
Davis meets your eyes then, over Taehyung’s shoulder. His face gives you nothing - no remorse, no embarrassment, not even a flicker of surprise. 
She’s just not worth it.
You’re moving without making the decision to move, pushing past everyone in the kitchen and flying through the front door. There’s a cacophony of noise behind you as the door slams shut, but you ignore it, heading for the stairs at the end of the hall. You can’t even hold still long enough to wait for an elevator. 
Your feet are moving, but your mind is blank. 
Just not worth it.
The night presses in around you as you walk. The clouds hang low and heavy, but you don’t notice them at all. You don’t make a decision on where to go or what to do, but somehow you find yourself on the paved trail that leads to your spot. You don’t care that it’s night, you don’t care that it’s threatening to rain, you don’t care that the trails are technically closed.
Not worth it.
As you make the left to leave the paved path and onto the dirt walking trails, stepping over the barrier that gets locked at night, your phone is buzzing incessantly in your pocket. You glance at the screen - you’ve got missed calls and texts from both Kiko and Bridget, texts from two of the girls you’d been talking to earlier that night, and four missed calls from Taehyung.
[1:22 AM] Kiko✌️: where did you go?????
[1:22 AM] Kiko✌️: are you okay
[1:25 AM] Kiko✌️: pls answer us, we’ll sit with u
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[1:23 AM] Briiiiig: baaaabe holy shit!!!!!
[1:26 AM] Briiiiig: kiks and i r looking 4 u where r u??
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[1:31 AM] Maria: Y/N are you okay?? Did you get hurt?
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[1:44 AM] Ava: Campo are looking for Taehyung so if u see him tell him to stay off campus
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You put your phone away without answering any of them. You barely register what they say. 
She’s just not worth it.
This is the truth, and someone finally said it. 
Your phone buzzes again - Kiko, calling - and you turn it off. You sit on your bench, legs bouncing with adrenaline, your face in your hands. The wind blows strongly around you, shaking the branches of the trees above you, the tall grass of the shoreline, making the pond slosh with waves. Far in the distance, there’s a rumble of thunder, so faint it might just be a truck passing on the road.
This is the truth you’d been toying with, something you were afraid to give credence to. You are leaveable. You’re not worth - any of it: not worth staying for, not worth sacrificing for, not worth fighting for, not worth loving. 
You know it, Davis knows it, and he made sure Taehyung knew it too. 
That hurts; you’ve already done so much to push Taehyung away, you’ve already hurt him more than once. You kept him at a distance so he’d never see it himself, but Davis took care of it for you. Now Taehyung will know, despite all your efforts: you’re not worth it.
You hear two things at once - thunder, closer, insistent. And your name being shouted, further down the path, the way you came from.
You turn, and a figure forms out of the darkness. Who the fuck would even know to look for you here? You hear your name again, closer, and this time you recognize the voice. 
Taehyung approaches you, lit by his phone’s flashlight. He turns it off and lets his eyes adjust, seeming relieved to have found you. He’s a little out of breath. You just look at him. You don’t even feel happy to see him, or hopeful, or anything. You just feel empty.
He reaches out a hand wordlessly and you take it, letting him pull you to your feet. He uses his thumbs to wipe away the tears under your eyes, then the palms of his hands to dry the tracks left on your cheeks.
“Don’t cry over him,” he says gruffly. “He’s a fucking piece of shit, he’s not worth it.”
“It’s not about him,” you try to say, but your voice cracks pathetically. You take a shuddering breath, but it doesn’t help at all. “It’s the fact that he’s right.”
“Are you kidding me?” He sounds pissed. You look up at him, surprised. It’s the first thing you’ve felt since you left the party. “You? Not worth it?” He stops, shakes his head. “That’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard, and I live with Jungkook.”
You can’t laugh. Part of you wants to, but you just aren’t there yet.
“How did you know to come here?” you ask. Taehyung takes your hand and pulls you after him, starting to head back up the trail.
“You said it’s your thinking spot,” he reminds you. Above you, there’s a flash of lightning. “We’d better hurry,” he warns you, and you both hustle a little faster towards the end of the trail, where he must have parked his car.
You get to the car before the first raindrops fall, hitting the windshield with fat plops, before the deluge starts. While Taehyung drives, you turn your phone back on. You answer Bridget and Kiko with, “I’m with Taehyung.” That’s all they need to know; they’ll know you’re safe, with him. 
You don’t answer anyone else.
Taehyung’s energy changes noticeably as he drives. He taps the steering wheel anxiously, and the energy between you feels anxious, too.
“Taehyung?” you ask gently. “You okay?”
He looks at you, then back at the road. He doesn’t look like he’s okay, suddenly. He looks scared.
“I guess I better just tell you,” he says, deflating. “You’re going to find out anyway.”
Your belly squiggles with anxiety. “What?” you ask. “What happened?”
He sighs heavily. “I… sort of hit him.”
Your jaw drops. “You what?”
He presses his lips tight together. He looks like he’s dripping in shame, like a dog who got caught thieving from a garbage can. “I might have punched him in the mouth.”
“Oh, my god,” you say. You can’t think of anything else to say. “Taehyung!”
“I know!” he cries. “I know. It was just a reaction, I didn’t think. He said that shit and I just saw red.”
You don’t know how to react to this. “Taehyung,” you whisper. “That’s really nice.”
He turns to you, grinning, his whole demeanor changing. “It was nice of me to try and dislocate your ex-boyfriend’s jaw?”
Now, you do laugh. “It was nice of you to defend my honor. I feel like I should swoon or something.”
The rain is coming down hard, the windshield wipers on full speed. “Come back to the house?” he asks. “So I don’t have to drive out to campus and then back in this? You can sleep in my room - I’ll take a couch.”
You look over at him. You can’t believe he punched Davis. Violence is never the answer and all that shit but damn, you wish you had stayed long enough to see that. 
“I’ll go back to the house with you,” you tell him quietly. “We’ll figure out sleeping arrangements once we get there.”
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Back in his room, in the familiar blue-tinted darkness, he faces you silently. You don't know who moves first- him, or you.
It doesn't matter. He presses a palm to your cheek so lightly it's barely there. You take his hand in yours, peel it away from your face. In the dark, in the silence, you press your lips gingerly against each bruised knuckle, one by one.
You press your lips to each new piece of bare skin that becomes available to you; his collarbone, his ribs, the inside of his wrist, anywhere you can find. He kisses you like he did the first time - slow, purposeful, his hands both in your hair.
When he sinks into you, you inhale a sharp breath, but it’s drowned out by the rumble of thunder. He fucks you slowly, eyes on your face as the room goes impossibly bright with flashes of lightning before leaving you both blind in the dark again. You keep your hands on his back, feeling every flexing muscle as you move together, as you meet his every stroke, as rain lashes at the windows like it wants inside. 
It’s intense - the howling wind of the storm, the swell of love you know you’re feeling, your joy at being with him, touching him, holding him again. You lean up to kiss him, a hand on the back of his neck, and you try to tell him everything you can. You think he’s telling you some things, too - in his kiss, in his fingers ghosting along your face, in the way he shelters you between his arms.
As you fall asleep tangled together, the thunder above the house sounds like God is speaking a long-forgotten language; syllable after syllable rolls through the sky, the meaning lost on the likes of man.
This time, you stay until morning. You stay until the sun comes up, bringing light to clear skies and Taehyung’s sleepy smile when he realizes you’re there.
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crownofconvergencerp · 2 months
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𝐀𝐒𝐕𝐀𝐑𝐈 𝐃𝐈𝐄𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐔𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐈𝐒𝐓 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐒𝐀𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐄𝐅
asvari is a refugee of war and being at the wrong place at the wrong time, fleeing to destarin after an accidental struggle with a cult of magicians left him branded as the enemy. His creativity and endurance are the main reason why he’s made it to be thirty-four, while having no idea what happened to those left of his family and town. All he wishes is to live in safety. He is a trans-man and answers to he/him. 
TW: Cult, Death, Slavery.
Asvari was born in the wrong body and in the wrong town. Withermore has its fringes, small towns and scattered hubs for those who don’t have a place in the bigger cities. Border skirmishes are always happening one way or another, and help is always too late. He was five when his town was attacked, the men were all killed, while the women who survived found themselves bound and led away, to be sold for profit over the border. Asvari was saved from the slaughter because he didn’t look how he felt. He and his grandmother managed to escape their capture because of the cunning of a few of the other women, and they fled into the woods.
For years the women attempted to rebuild a life, though heavily reliant on the Illusion magic mastered by Asvari’s grandmother, and his own growing power. Whenever he left the house, he looked like a boy. He managed jobs and feats that were often taken away from the women. The two of them created a ruse that kept people away. Very few were allowed in their trust. Because those who destroyed their town were still out there, and the women lived in constant fear that they might return.
Asvari meanwhile managed to master his skill. His grandmother had told him that their skill was only given to the women in their family, and that the only limitations were one’s endurance and creativity. As long as Asvari nurtured those, he would be capable of tricking people. But to him, it only sounded like he would never truly be a boy. He’d only ever be able to trick people into thinking it. And he was good at it, he was out for hours, and all those hours he kept up the illusion. But he grew wary of it, it wasn’t enough.
He found a witch who could make the illusion reality. For a price, but one that was worth it. She altered him, took hours to get his illusions just right, then told him to rest there in her home until he felt strong again. Which is when things got messy. Another one of the witch’s patrons appeared, scared, bloody, requesting aid. A small cult was after her, magicians with wrong intentions, with beliefs that had gotten muddled and twisted by dark magic. Asvari and the witch offered their help, it was through illusions that they managed to escape, but they both got hurt. The witch didn’t survive, and Asvari could barely walk. The patron brought him to safety, made sure he was looked after, and then disappeared, hoping to lure the cult away from him too. Not aware that the wound inflicted had branded him.
Asvari remained safe for a few days before he had to flee again, chased out of the town he was staying in, finding himself at a royal’s court, where he used his illusions to claim their safety, by pretending to be an artisan apprentice. He didn’t lack the creativity to do so, merely the skill. Almost everything he created within his first few weeks were only illusions, held together by his endurance, until they unravelled. He began to pick up actual skills on the job, even if they were nowhere near as good as what he envisioned. It kept him from leaving the safety of the court. Protected - yet also distrusted - by the court magicians. And he fell in love, with none less than the princess of the court. A love that wasn’t meant to last, because he knew there would come an end to this good thing. A moment where he was once again thrust into danger and forced to flee.
When he was finally found out, Asvari used his illusions once more to create a way out. Faking his own death into the icy waters of a nearby river, while he began his long trek to new opportunities. Landing several months later, in the town of Destarin.
WHAT ARE YOU...?
species: witch of illusions/illusionist. weaknesses: mortal, anything that makes him lose a clear mind (smoke, drugs, lack of sleep). strengths: illusion magic, the ability to convince the minds of others that things are there that aren’t there (this includes all the five senses). physical description: witches of Illusion who aren’t part of any coven aren’t easy to pick out of the crowd. they seem to vibrate slightly when practising their magic, though this is something with time they can learn to control and lighten.. additional info: witches of Illusions are unable to generate any other kind of magic, more often referred to as Illusionists, they have a particular ability to make another mind believe a lie they created, but only as long as they are sound of mind. This ability is only given to the afab members of a line, and sometimes skip a generation.
ashvari dien is played by niek and their fc is leith ashley.
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ilguna · 1 year
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☼ hellbent pt5 (Ellie Williams) ☼
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summary; they should've listened.
warnings; swearing, death mention, lying.
wc; 1.9k
notes; SPOILERS for tlou2.
part one, part two, part three, part four.
When you came back to Jackson, the reaction from everyone wasn’t nearly as bad as it could’ve been. It wasn’t hard either, despite the fact that you and Ellie slipped a few times regarding the story about Abby and how she died. It couldn’t have gone any better than it did.
You were halfway expecting a celebration from the town of Jackson, considering how much Joel meant to them, but they managed to restrain themselves. Especially since the news of Abby’s death only took an hour and a half to travel throughout the entire place. It just goes to show that they’re all starved for new and interesting gossip.
Tommy was ecstatic. He ate every single word, and hadn’t questioned anything. The details you gave him were enough so that he wouldn’t ask for more, only for you to repeat it again, starting from the beginning. From the second you stepped foot on that beach and found the boat that she mistakenly left behind.
And when you and Ellie presented him with Abby’s two petrified fingers, he took them carefully in the palm of his hand, and turned them over. Maria had to leave the room, heaving at the smell and the idea that you’ve carried those for months through heat and cold to deliver back to Tommy.
It didn’t help their marriage at all.
To some degree, you think you ruined yours and Maria’s relationship. She didn’t try to hide her anger at you for feeding Tommy’s thoughts about getting revenge. The more you asked for the map, the more he thought that Ellie would feel the same way. When in reality, she didn’t, and you wanted to do the job alone.
However, it wasn’t solely directed at you. She was pissed at Ellie for aiding you in this mission, for disappearing for months without so much as a warning to where you’ll be. Of course, Tommy and Dina knew, but how were they supposed to swap information about what was about to happen? 
It turns out that Tommy didn’t come looking for you, he left to go back to Jackson, figuring that you were going to catch up with Dina and Ellie as much as possible, and then come back when you had enough of them. It was only when Dina went to Jackson to ask for help to move her belongings back, did he realize that he’d succeeded in getting Ellie to go to California, and you’d gone too.
Maria wasn’t done, though. She was angry at the both of you for leaving Dina like that. She fully believes that it’s your fault that Ellie left Dina in that farmhouse. She won’t accept the fact that Ellie left on her own and you did try—although weakly—to get Ellie to go the fuck away. It was your first instinct. It’s not like you asked Ellie to come, either. You took the map and told them that you were going on your own. Ellie decided to come on her own accord.
Regardless, there’s an uncomfortable silence that comes between you and Maria if you stand near each other for too long. You suppose that she liked it better when Ellie and Dina were dating, and you were miserable and quiet in Jackson, trying to better yourself one day at a time. 
No one knows the truth about what happened in California. You and Ellie swore to keep it between you two, no matter how mad you get at each other. You know better than to let a secret like this get out. If it ever does, it could ruin a lot of people. You and Ellie firstly would get fucked over for not finishing a job that Ellie broke a serious relationship to complete. And you’re fairly sure that Tommy and Maria would cut you out of their life for good, too.
Besides, you’re not sure why you’d ever want to. For the most part, everyone’s happy where they are right now. You and Ellie got right back into it when you came back to Jackson. She moved her belongings from the garage at Joel’s place, to your house on the other side of Jackson, completely out of the way of Dina and her family. 
Maria said that she could see what you two were doing. She’s trying to make it seem like you two are guilty, or at least feel like it, because you’re secluding yourselves on the other side of town, away from them. It has something to do with the fact that you’re dating Ellie again, and Dina surely knows about it. Something about being afraid to face the problems you created.
It’s not necessarily out of guilt, though. It’s out of comfort. Yeah, you feel bad for Dina because you and Ellie rekindled over the months it took to get to California and back to Jackson, but she’s the one that decided she couldn’t wait for Ellie to get back. She’s the one that gave Ellie that ultimatum. It was her own fault for not being patient with Ellie for something so traumatizing. 
On this side of town, you don’t have to worry about running into Dina unless you’re going out to patrol with Ellie.
Speaking of which, that’s the only time you get out of the house, anymore. You spend most of your time sitting around, something that you’d been looking forward to doing for months. You were excited for relaxed silence, and music playing throughout the house. You wouldn’t have to go hungry, wondering when you’d come across the next animal.
However, now that you’re here, watching Ellie reorganizing her art studio for the second time this week, you’re beginning to think that you’re going stir crazy again. It’s taken everything in you to avoid finding an excuse to get out and leave for a few months again. It’s just so tempting.
The trip to California was quick, you hardly had any time to check out the places that you were traveling through because you were fighting against the clock to find Abby before she died or disappeared. And on the way back was nice for a few weeks, up until after Las Vegas, which is when you finally came down with that nasty bug you caught from those travelers. 
You were bedridden, and Ellie was almost sure that she was watching you die and each time you fell asleep, you’d never open your eyes again because of how pale and weak you were. You couldn’t blame her for thinking like that, you vaguely remember being out of your mind and hallucinating half the time. That was a nightmare for her, trying to decipher whether or not you were hearing things. 
There was one time where a small group of bandits had wandered into the house, and Ellie halfway believed you. That’s when they knocked over the glass vase off of one of the tables upstairs, which was loud enough to hear from the basement, where the two of you were hiding. Ellie tucked the blanket all the way up to your chin, and went out the window to sneak and take them out one by one. Needless to say, it was the longest seven minutes of your life.
After that, the two of you were a little too eager to get back home, tired of the close calls. The impatience took over, and you were back in Jackson in a week and a half later. 
You think you miss it though, seeing how nature takes over, fighting for your life, meeting new people. While most don’t want anything to do with the outside life—especially with how dangerous it is—you crave chaos.
You do like the familiarity of home, you could never pass up your house, the life you live here. It is peaceful, and you’d never disrespect the sacrifice your parents made to give you this. The issue is that you’re not sure if you can do this for the rest of your life. You wake up next to Ellie, get ready, patrol outside of the walls with her, come back with little to no injuries, have freetime, cook dinner with her, go to bed, and repeat the process the next day with varying activities. And you’ve been doing that for months at this point.
“Ellie.” You murmur to catch her attention. You’re currently leaned up against the doorframe, watching her clean her brushes. Her latest piece is on an easel, sitting in front of the open window to help it dry quicker. She’s been looking forward to finishing it for weeks, wanting to hang it up on the wall already.
“Hmm?” She hums, not looking up from the towel that she’s ruining.
She calls it her art towel. It was white, and now it’s covered in dry and crusting paint. She’ll wash it every so often, but only because it’s become too stiff and rough on her brushes. She won’t let you touch it. She has to do it herself.
“Would you ever go back to Boston?”
Ellie doesn’t respond right away, fixing the bristles on a brush and then setting it into the cup of clean water with the other brushes to allow it to soak for a second time. She then shrugs, “Maybe, why do you ask?”
“No particular reason.” You say, but Ellie turns to look at you quickly, eyebrows drawn in, waiting for the real answer. “Okay, alright—I’m just bored of Jackson is all.”
“So you want to go to Boston?” There’s a hint of a smile at the corners of her lips, tone judgemental.
“Only if you want to.” You mess with a loose floorboard, pressing on it with the tip of your shoe. “You know, for our next vacation?”
“You’re thinking about that already? We just got back.” She laughs.
“And you cleaned the studio two days ago, and yet here we are.” You motion to the mess on the floor. There’s half-finished canvases she pulled out of the closet, plastic wrap from opening new ones, bottles of paint straight from the package, brand new pencils and erasers, and ripped boxes to get to them. She’s got sketchbooks opened to different pages because she keeps getting distracted. And now here she is, cleaning paint brushes.
Ellie blinks at you, turning away to hide the smile that’s taken over her face. It’s too late, you’ve already seen it, “That was uncalled for.”
“Come on, Ellie. It sounds like fun and you know it.”
“How long is this vacation?”
“However long it takes.” You say, the excitement bubbling.
“When?”
“Whenever you’re ready.” You push off the doorframe, knowing what her answer is going to be. Ellie’s always down for a good adventure, especially if it allows her to take her mind off of things. It’s a refresh of her surroundings.
“Maria and Tommy will never let us.”
“It’s a good thing we can take care of ourselves.”
You come up behind Ellie, wrapping your arms around her shoulders, leaning down on the back of the chair, “We came back alive these past two times, what’s another?”
She sighs, lowering her hands as she tilts her head back to look at you. You smile at her, moving one of the strands of hair off of her forehead.
“I guess it’s a date.” She smiles.
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CHAPTER 2
“Gurl, I wish I fucked them up more!" Caden said angrily, as he slouched over his small kitchen counter. He had just finished updating me on what happened after I left, and what their “punishments” were. Danny and Veronica received final warnings, with a four day suspension. Caden walked out with a three day suspension, and his first warning. Jack wanted to fire me for walking out on a shift, but Ryan decided otherwise. It didn't bother me as much if they did fire me; I don’t plan on working with Danny or Veronica again.
"But besides that bullshit, tell me exactly what you did!” Caden demanded in a drunken slur. He had already finished his fifth glass of Pinot Grigio, and was pouring his sixth. I was slumped over his small couch, trying to keep myself together. The empty gallon of Cookies and Cream ice cream and empty bottle of Jameson meant that I was going to have a “fun” morning tomorrow.
“Cade, you should have seen the mess I made in his apartment!” I exclaimed, my eyes fixed to the floor. For some reason, I couldn’t muster up the strength to lift them. I kept my eyes fixated on the small dent Caden made months ago when he decided to wear red Peep-Toe Mary Janes for Halloween. The cheap floor caved in the second he walked on it with heels.
“Rockey, YOU should have seen Danny's face when he and Veronica left the restaurant! I swear Danny shitted himself when he saw what happened to his car!” Caden rejoiced as he recounted the look of horror Danny had plastered all over his face. “The dumb ass is probably still there crying…”
‘I would have paid money to see Danny’s face…’ I thought to myself. The thought brought a small smile...and tears to my face. I thought I had gotten over the need to cry years ago, after my grandpa died. Guess not…
Caden stumbled over to me, and jumped onto the other side of the couch, landing on my feet. I made some room for him, though it was a bit difficult. After walking for hours, I had lost feeling on both legs. The air became heavy, as if I was being cornered in a hoarder's house. I knew he wanted to “talk”...
“Rockey...babe...I am so sorry this happened…” Caden said, reaching out to grab my hand. I could only squeeze his hand back; I didn’t have the energy to do anything else.
“Why do guys cheat?” I asked, not expecting an answer from Caden. It was mainly a question that I wanted to ask myself. “Like, was I not enough? Did I mean nothing to him?!” Caden remained quiet, allowing my thoughts to run wild outside my mind.
I felt my body lift itself off the couch, and I found myself stumbling across Caden’s living room. Thankfully his roommate was gone for the night; I knew that my little performance would not be quiet to any degree.
“I mean, I work THREE FUCKING JOBS to help pay rent, and put gas in his car! I bought him so many things, including his stupid ass video games! I spent so much money on him, thinking that I was building a future! I lost so many years because of him. What the fuck am I? A 27 year old slob with no degree, and no place to stay!” I was screaming at the top of my voice; the thought of Caden’s neighbor was the last thing on my mind.
“But don’t think I didn’t get even! I fucked up his entire apartment! I sprayed painted EVERYTHING inside. I destroyed all of his appliances and burned his clothes in the park outside. And I smashed his video games and Play Station. I even sold his Macbook to cop weed!” The more I spoke, the stronger the urge was to cry. I didn’t want to...I didn’t want to admit how hard Danny affected me. I didn’t want to give him the satisfaction…
Caden jumped up from the couch, and slowly made his way to me. "FUCK MEN! Men are nothing but dogs! You deserve so much better!” He exclaimed. Caden could care less if his neighbor’s called the cops.
My phone began to ring, bringing me back to reality. Caden and I looked at my phone as if it were a foreign object. I had left my phone on top of the three bags I brought over. There was nothing but clothes, underwear, and my grandpa’s possessions. Whatever I couldn’t carry, I gave away. The walk from Danny’s apartment to Caden’s was two hours that I will never get back. And the walk from one side of Newark to the other was fun.
We looked at it for a few more seconds, before I stumbled over to it. As I neared it, I noticed Danny’s picture. ‘He was calling…?’
“What the fuck does he want!?” Caden demanded as he saw Danny’s picture.
“Maybe to curse my life out after the mess I made?” I said laughing. “The fucker deserved it…” I felt my hands move on their own, and before I could process what was going on, I answered the call.
“What the fuck do you want you lying piece of fucking shit!?” I yelled. Caden was beside me, trying to grab the phone. For some unknown reason, I did what I could to hold onto it.
“Rockey, baby can we please talk?!” Danny pleaded. It sounded like he was crying for hours. It was a neat trick he used before to get me to forgive him. I could feel a heavy feeling growing at the pit of my stomach, and I had this growing urge to hug and comfort him. Thank God he was not here…
“Just tell me Danny...why?” I asked. I could hear my voice crack. I was going to cry. “What have I done to deserve this?!”
Silence. I could barely hear Danny breathing. Caden stopped as well, as if he wanted to know the answer to the question as well.
“Have I not supported you? Was I not attractive anymore…?” My tears began to fall, and my words were getting harder to understand. “Was it because I was always working? Did she give you something that I didn’t? Did she make you feel special?!” I could barely hold myself together. It sounded as if I was choking on a fruit that would not go down my throat.
“Rockey...please I can’t understand you when you’re like this…” Danny said softly. I pulled the phone away from me, trying my hardest to collect myself. I hated how he made me feel like I was acting like a fool.
After a few minutes of silence, I brought the phone back to my ear. “Understand this…In a few years when you are alone, wondering why there is nothing good going on in your life, I want you to think of this moment. I want you to think of what could’ve happened. I want you to ask yourself why you allowed yourself to go astray. I hope that at that moment you understand the pain you put me through. I want you to understand how alone and humiliated I feel right now. I want you to waste years wishing you did not give up on us. I want you to feel this fucking agony. Then, and only then, are you allowed to call me and ask to talk! Until then, go fuck yourself you fucking cock-sucking, dirty ass FUCKWEASEL!” With that, I hung up the phone and threw it against the wall.
I collapsed onto the floor, crying harder than I have ever done. I hated this feeling! I hated feeling vulnerable and low. All I wanted to do was crawl under a rock and die; anything was better than this.
Caden rushed over to me, comforting me as best he could. “Rockey, listen to me… This pain is only temporary.” He brought my eyes to meet him, as he wiped away my tears. “Honey, Life went ahead and showed you that he was not meant for you. Lessons learned are not a waste of time. Feeling this pain, and embracing it, is going to make you stronger. You have a fighting spirit, and at times you are going to have to be tested. It is going to suck, but I know that you are going to pull through. And before long, you are going to look back at this moment and realize that everything you’ve been through has led you to a better future. A future where you learn to love yourself again. Where you learn to let go of your fears and anger. And when you learn that everything is going to be ok, you will find someone who deserves to be with you. Someone who appreciates the little things you do for them. Someone who won’t give you up so easily. Until then, remember you always have me.”
I gave Caden a weak smile, but it was enough for him. He gave me a hug and continued to hold me until I fell asleep. Whether I was ready for it, Life was going to continue pushing forward. I knew at some point, I was going to have to get up and move alongside it.
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🍀Eydis Huldrakin Headcanons🍀
-they’re a very skilled blacksmith. But due to their disability they tend to only use one side of their body (their right hand) to do so.
-they have cerebral palsy/right side hemiplegia
-they’ve creatively found different ways to make adaptive smithing Equipment so smithing is easy for them.
-theyre half Norn, half dwarf
-Leiði, Eydis’ mother is the Norn that presided over “Journey”, and is the twin of Verðandi, (the Norn of “happening”)
-Sindri is technically their bio dad but after their mother Leiði died, Brok took care of them bc Sindri was majorly depressed and could not, even when he tried so it was safer for both of them
-their jotun magic manifested in visions of the past rather than the future, so they had a hard time figuring out exactly what anything meant,
-due to a physical impairment from brain damage after an incident, their visions usually came in the appearence of epileptic seizures,
-they are a crafter at heart and often spend time woodworking toys and other things, outside of smithing
-they met Atreus at around 8
-The best friends used to spend a lot of time playing together in the stave, pre 2018 bc Eydis kept sneaking out and ended up in the stave one day by accident when Faye was still around. Little games to make atreus feel less bad about being sick and Eydis less scared they would get hurt
-They call atreus “little wolf”
-they know they’re a Norn because Sindri never hid that from them when they ha visions, but told Eydis to never say a word about it bc ‘the all father always watches, and it’s not safe’
-Eydis post 2018 vanished for a few months, but in reality they just stepped between realms, the first appearences of this ability for them
-when they stepped out from in between the reams, they were in Freya’s cave, who offered them some warm tea and a place to sleep for the time being. They then returns to her uncle and dad (post Huldra reunion)
-they have a sword! Named Illviðri, Brok and Sindri helped them make it. It harnesses the power of the frozen lightning bolt in Vanaheim, and sometimes takes the spectral form of a snow leopard.
-In terms of ragnarok though, Eydis is not having a good time. They feel trapped in the first few seasons of fimblewinter and ultimately set out on their own to find peace of mind, which leads them to Alfheim, where they spend a few months smithing there alone.
-come Ragnarök, they’re back living in Sindri’s house
-When the father/son + Mimir return with “Tyr”, they are suspicious of his every move, but doesn’t say a word about it in fear of him using it against them.
- this manifests as them being passive aggressive. They’re in their teens. Therefore, snark.
-brok taught them to swear and she’s not afraid to do
-their hair is always in the braid, when not it is very long (down to ankles and very curly.
-when they were a kid, their braid only went down to just below shoulders
-now the braid falls all the way to their chest, but her hair goes to her ankles otherwise
-the clovers in their hair are excess luck magic. It’s a manifestation of their emotions. The clovers droop when sad and seem bigger and brighter when they’re not.
-They use the reforged huldra brand + a four leaf clover in between the two dragon heads as their bramd
-during Ragnarök when Brok was stabbed, Eydis also got stabbed and suffered damage to nerves in their hands, so they has consistent tremors but those usually are chalked up to anxiety,
-they has a specific anxiety med sort of herb that Freya ended up mixing for them. It helps
-they’ve been sort of known as ‘the goddess of luck’ to some Midgardians and Aesir and other races bc they tends to use their luck and nornir magic to help them with prosperous harvests
-the four leaf clover emblem is hers, but also she is associated w the jera rune for harvests and prosperity and the phertho rune bc of the nornir heritage
-they have two hammers, theirs, Heill (Luck/Good Omen, the hammer in all art of Eydis), and Brok’s (formerly Andvari’s) hammer, though the latter they don’t use as often
There’s probably more but I’ll get to those eventually…
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Seen Part VII
Happily Ever After
Mary Sue sat parked in the parent pick up lot waiting for JJ to be dismissed. Her nineteenth wedding anniversary with Joe was rapidly approaching, as was JJ’s sixteenth birthday. Joe had teased him until he was ten that Ol’ Cherry was going to be his first car. Joe finally let the truck go when JJ was going on twelve, even though he hadn’t really driven it further than a quick trip to the store alone in JJ’s entire life. Now he drove a Nissan Leaf that looked identical to Mary Sue’s except his was silver and hers was blue. In reality, they’d probably give one of the Leafs to JJ and get something new; their first car purchase in almost a decade. JJ would almost certainly get the blue car, because Joe would insist on Mary Sue getting the new one. If it weren’t for that environmental tax credit, he wouldn’t have let her talk him into getting two new cars in the first place when they bought them.
Joe was still at Gilford’s, as consistent as the sunrise. He was still driving the forklift. He turned down two offers of a management promotion after talking it over with Mary Sue, because even though it would be a little more money, he didn’t want to be anybody’s boss, responsible for disciplining people or denying time off or something. And because really, he sort of liked driving the forklift. It gave him time to think about what he wanted to think about. Usually Mary Sue and JJ.
Mary Sue taught a five-class per week schedule at Xavier University, fortunate to get tenure four years ago without needing to relocate away from the Disibios and their old friends in Cincinnati. She never taught a class at school pick up time, though. Joe dropped JJ off on his way to work, and she picked him up and drove him to college with her since he began all day school. He stayed with his Nonna and Nonno while she and Joe were working before first grade. And they kept him overnight when Joe and Mary Sue wanted to have date nights; alone time usually still spent at home, just without censorship for JJ.
Now, he hung out in her office until her four o’clock was over on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Sometimes he liked it. A lot of people who were unfamiliar with his mom thought he was a college student when he was there, and he could investigate books. But sometimes he thought it was a drag, waiting for her to leave for home. He definitely counted his mom’s work as ‘work.’ They both preferred the straight shot back to the house from high school pick-up on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Even though they were still local, Mary Sue and Joe and JJ only saw her parents occasionally. Jean had put distance between them when Mary married Joe, and more when they had JJ, Mary figured thinking she was punishing them. But it was actually calm and peaceful with less of her mother’s presence. She was missing out, Mary Sue thought, shifting her perspective purposefully from transgressed to pity. Jean could know Joe; she could know JJ; Mary Sue’s two favorite people in the world, but she chose not to.
Doug came alone to most of JJ’s musical recitals. And Mary Sue still called her brother almost every day. Andy married a girl from Oregon who couldn’t have children. His wife fretted over it, thinking Andy would eventually want kids, but Andy told her he just wanted to be with her. He did, but disclosing the entire truth, it relieved Andy that he’d never have to navigate parenthood, or what his parenthood meant to his own mother the way Mary did. And Jean didn’t like his wife anyway.
When Mary Sue wasn’t teaching or involved in her life outside her work, she wrote some fiction when she had both the time and inspiration. It usually came from Joe and JJ. She found herself unable to write anything but happy endings.
She loved going home to be with them. She anticipated going to bed with Joe every night and how close he held her. He slept every night with his arms wrapped around her, his fingers curled through hers, the same way he held her hands for their first kiss, binding them together. He still brought home Guster’s chicken for date nights, but his mix tapes had evolved into Spotify playlists. He had several titled with the prefix ‘Rice Chex:’
Rice Chex Cheer Up
Rice Chex Go Ahead and Cry
Rice Chex Silly
Rice Chex Classical
Rice Chex Jazz
Rice Chex High School
Rice Chex Remember?
Rice Chex My Love
Rice Chex I Don’t Even Know Why But You Have to Hear It
And he had three for JJ, too. JJ Old Stuff was filled with songs that meant something to him that he wanted his son to know about; JJ New Stuff was filled with songs JJ loved that he wanted Joe to know about. And then there was the one called just ‘JJ.’ Those were the songs Joe couldn’t help but think of his son when he heard them. Some of them made him laugh and some of them made him cry, but he loved all of them. He especially liked the ones Mary Sue added from time to time.
She loved seeing Joe and JJ together. They played music together every day. Joe really did play La Vie En Rose for her on the horn every day. JJ’s repertoire was much more vast than his dad’s, but they always played one of the songs Joe knew together. Sometimes, Ethan and Will still came over to ‘jam,’ another word Mary Sue used that made all of them laugh. When JJ was small, they played They Might Be Giants “I Never Go To Work,” and sometimes now, JJ jammed with them, and they played the same song that taught him the days of the week when he was almost three. He liked to tease Joe. “I can’t believe you used to play ska in public, Dad,” he’d say.
“Hey, it was popular when your mom and I grew up. For like...maybe two years,” Joe would half-heartedly defend himself in a self-deprecating laugh. “And it’s fun to play on the horn.”
“Fair. It is fun to play. I’ll give you that...”
He’d grown up so fast. When he was a baby, Joe never wanted to put him down when he held him. “He’s missing from me when I put him down. I can feel him missing,” he said. “If it’s this bad for me, that I can still feel him here where he should be,” he said, rubbing his chest in the empty place where JJ was snuggled up moments before he laid him sleeping in a bassinet, “it must be excruciating for you. He was actually a part of you for months, and now...”
Joe was right; it was hard for her. She still wanted to hold JJ even though he was taller than her now, and a teenager asserting independence and sometimes rebellion. Almost ready to drive. He was missing from her, but she had to let him go. That was the hard part of parenting for her; letting him go when he was missing from her. She didn’t want to hold him back, but she also refused to push him out. She was grateful that he still came back; wanted to come back; still talked to her and Joe, about things that mattered and things that really didn’t; still played music with his dad and talked about cars; talked about books with her; talked about big future goals and grand plans of world travel. He was so excited about seeing the world.
When JJ was smaller, he loved the local parks; the swings and the slides. And then he graduated to forging ahead hiking nature trails; a brave little explorer on an adventure. They even saved to buy a zoo membership for him. Now he dreamed of oceans and redwood forests and glaciers and coral reefs and climbing Manchu Pichu and the Great Wall of China and Victoria Falls on the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe. He dreamed of photo safaris on the Serengeti (Mary benignly blamed Joe’s mom and her camera for that one; Sofia still took pictures of all three of them virtually every time she saw them, she just did it with her phone now). Mary and Joe used to push JJ in a stroller through the Cincinnati Art Museum (now dropping twenty dollar bills in the donation box), and now he wouldn’t stop talking about MOMA in New York City and the Louvre in Paris. But he was still happy with the local parks and haunts. She awed at how he found joy in his near and limited reality and in his grandiose dreams simultaneously. Seeing the big picture never made him feel small.
As a small boy, he ran to greet Joe at the front door every day when his warehouse shift was over. “Daddy!” He’d never been ashamed of either of his parents, of their little cottage house in a neighborhood not as nice as the ones most of his friends lived in, of his parents dropping him off and picking him up in twelve year old electric cars. He never graded their careers or education or current finances; never seemed to want to escape where he was, probably because he was never taught he should want to. He still saw more and better, but he never felt less and worse. He’d adopted the Disibio definition of ‘American success,’ which was, if you’re alive and not suffering, you’re successful. If you have enough to share; if you can help someone else who’s struggling, you’re really successful. And if you’re suffering, that will eventually pass too, so hang in there, you’re still a success. The version Mary Sue had learned from society at large and her mother in particular was faulty and unattainable. The American success she was trained for meant you had to always push for more, do more, be more, than what you already had and did and were, even if it made you unhappy. Maybe it was worth more if it made you unhappy. Maybe you were never really supposed to be or even allowed to be happy, because when all you see is what you don’t have, you’ll never have enough. Now Mary Sue always had enough. She always had more than enough. Without traveling the world or having a crystal chandelier in her foyer, or even having a foyer.
When Mary Sue closed her eyes, she could still see Joe spinning JJ around, or swinging him in big arcs, or holding him upside-down by the ankles on those gleeful daily homecomings; she could still hear JJ’s cackling belly laughs. Their little family loved each other and had never fallen out of communication or really fought with each other. She saw that snapshot Joe’s mother had printed for her of Joe and JJ on the turfed porch at Nanna D’s house in 2011, about four months after Nanna D had passed and they’d put the house on the market after all those anguished weeks of grief. JJ still remembered Nanna D. He even asked once why they didn’t put turf on their porch. “It was nice to sit on.”
She could see JJ sitting ‘criss-cross applesauce’ inside Joe’s own crossed long legs, reading Harold and the Purple Crayon over and over again. She reminisced about reading Roald Dahl and AA Milne and Beatrix Potter to him out loud herself for him to go to sleep every night. When he stayed over with the Disibios so she and Joe could have a date, she missed reading to him. Joe let her read to him instead a couple times on those date nights.
JJ loved talking about books when Jeremy and Lauren and Emilia filtered back into town around holidays; talking to the poet and the novelist and the Hispanic Literature professor, singing the praises of Mo Willems and EB White and Dr. Seuss. Now JJ read Kafka and Ralph Ellison and George Elliot on his own in his room, but he still let Mary read Mark Twain and Alexander Dumas to him before going to sleep at night. “Goodnight, Mom. Love you,” he said. Every day. Because he heard, ‘I love you,’ every day. All the time. And he gave hugs like Joe.
She wondered how she could have ever believed that a life with Joe and JJ could be a ‘nothing’ life. It was an everything life. She didn’t live in a grand house; she didn’t drive a flashy car; she didn’t wear designer clothes or dine out regularly in high class restaurants. But she had an everything life. She wrote her own life story, and she decided that’s what made a life extraordinary; writing the story yourself. JJ seemed to know that without being told, so she didn’t tell him. She just watched him grow.
Mary Sue finally saw JJ lumbering up the sidewalk with his backpack and his trumpet case, pushing the thick, dark brown curls out of his eyes with his free hand. He hadn’t had a real haircut in more than six months, and she questioned if he was going to stop cutting it altogether. She didn’t care if he did. He was her beautiful boy, no matter what his hair looked like. She often looked at her son and wondered how her mother found it so easy to criticize how she and Andy looked, what they liked, what they were good at, who they loved, all of their choices. JJ was a walking miracle; who cared if his hair fell in his eyes sometimes? Who cared if he made a lot of mistakes? Who cared if he didn’t have a clue what career track he wanted to start down at sixteen? Who cared if he fell in love with the girl down the block and married her? Or the boy across the street? Or someone he met in London or Tokyo someday in the future? Who cared if he couldn’t pick a major right away, or even if he went to college at all? Who cared if he picked playing music on the street?
His shoes were untied; that did drive Mary Sue crazy. Sometimes, she could swear that’s why he didn’t tie them. He looked just like his dad; tall and lanky, but strong and handsome. He was even starting to grow a beard already.
Joe was so proud of him. JJ told them in September that he wasn’t going to take formal music lessons anymore after the winter concert. It was eating up too much of his time for learning everything else he wanted to learn; for doing everything else he wanted to do. The school lessons moved too slowly. He’d been in private music lessons since he was five, the earliest he could be registered for them. He’d begun begging to learn piano and trumpet nearly as soon as he could put a sentence together coherently, and Joe showed him some elementary things to soothe his ache. But he stopped the private lessons in middle school to join the school band. He could sight read music the way most people read words. He learned to play the guitar (acoustic and electric), the drums, the xylophone, the harmonica, the violin, the piano, and, of course, the trumpet. He was frustrated with school’s music education offerings now that he’d definitely outclassed them. ‘AP Music Theory is such a waste. Yeah, it teaches you music theory if you want to focus on maybe twelve specific baroque composers. How do you call a class Advanced Placement Music Theory and only include one music style and genre? No jazz? No bluegrass? No Latin music or Asian music or African music? No rock and roll...no Broadway...not even romantic classical composition! And even if you loved just those twelve guys, nobody writes anything in figured bass anymore,’ he ranted with rolled eyes. Mary Sue and Joe both loved music but didn’t have any idea what some of his technical terms meant, just that he was righteously unhappy. So they supported his decision to stop formal music education. JJ told Joe that band was fun in middle school, and it was ok freshman year, he guessed, but now it was mostly just sitting around, and JJ didn’t have time for just sitting around. He had an insatiable appreciation for the natural world, and human culture and creation, and he wanted to put his foot on the gas instead of coasting, learning about it. He had won a district academic championship for literature and art and musical knowledge as a freshman and had just successfully defended that title, almost purely from self-motivated study outside of school. It was a quiet, dignified competition, but Joe had to bite the insides of his cheeks to keep from yelling, ‘That’s my boy!’ out loud both years. Instead he leaned over Mary Sue’s shoulder as she sat in the seat ahead of him, leaning back on his knees and lowly confided, ‘We made that.’ JJ never did anything to be seen. In fact, he sometimes bristled at being seen. In a way, Mary Sue was glad for that. It meant he never struggled with feeling invisible, with not being enough, with wanting more and better. It meant he felt so purely and wholly seen, with unwavering consistency, that sometimes he wanted to be unnoticed. And it meant that when he did well at things, it was because it brought him joy, not because he was trying to be seen; trying to earn love. He was doubtless that the people who were supposed to love him the most, did.
Today, there was an unusual lightness in JJ’s typical heavy steps; he walked up the sidewalk, smiling brightly, next to Olivia Wainscot, a girl he’d known since kindergarten. His smile today was more charged than the the previous decade of friendship with Olivia, though. Mary Sue filled her lungs with bittersweet air, seeing budding young love in her son’s eyes. “Let them make each other happy. Let them see each other. Let it work, please. But if it doesn’t, don’t let him cause too much hurt or get hurt too badly,” she prayed silently to something. He said goodbye to Olivia at the car, parting with obvious sweet sorrow for her to climb in with her dad. He opened the back door of the Leaf with a jolt, sarcastically disappointed he failed to scare his mother. “Damn. I was hoping you’d jump, and maybe even scream a little like you did last Friday.”
“Sorry to let you down, my charming boy. I saw you coming. You were seen.”
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I Need You (Kakashi x Reader Smut)
A/n: Oh boy do I got some smutty smut for you. This is my first time writing smut and I think I did okay! Please let me know what you think and, as always, feel free to send some requests my way! 🤍
Summary: You find yourself unbelievably horny waiting for Kakashi to get home from work. The night goes exactly as planned.
Word Count: 4200
Warnings: NSFW ( minors, there's the door -> 🚪), fem!reader, vaginal sex, rough sex, doggy style, cunnilingus
Gods, why am I so horny?
Sat in the reading chair in the corner of your and Kakashi’s bedroom, you find yourself unable to focus on the new novel you picked up at the bookstore this morning. Each time you try to focus on the words in front of you, your eyes start to drift off the page and fall on your bed across the room. The bed where Kakashi and you have had sex now maybe a dozen times. You two have been platonic partners for years, but it wasn’t until recently where you both allowed your feelings to blossom into romance. Some would say that your relationship with Kakashi came on fast, but those who say that don’t truly know either of you.
After the war, and after keeping your feelings for each other bottled down for years, Kakashi took you on a vacation to a quaint village on the outskirts of Konoha. During your stay, you two could finally relax and find comfort in each other. The future seemed less uncertain, and you allowed yourself to open up in ways you never had before. You both knew you loved each other, that you were meant for each other, but the stress of war and the lack of knowledge that either of you would come out alive prevented anything from happening. The last thing either of you wanted to do was take the other’s heart six feet under.
It was the third night on the trip when he proposed to you. Kakashi and you were naked together in the natural hot spring, embracing each other in the water. The words he spoke to you that night are etched in your brain, never to be forgotten.
“My whole life I’ve been fighting; fighting for Konoha, fighting for my team, fighting for our friends, fighting my demons, fighting the truth, and fighting the feelings I have for you. I never understood why it was so hard to escape you, but it isn’t until now where I finally understand. Loving you is the easiest thing I’ve ever had to do. Our love is so natural, so pure. It pains me to know that our reality has muddled it for so long. You are the best thing that’s ever come into my life, and the gods only know how thankful I am that you have been by my side through it all. Everything I’ve ever gone through, every challenge I’ve had to overcome, you’ve guided me along the way. I used to think I was undeserving of your love, but now that we both are standing here, bruised and battered by our past, I realize that it was always supposed to be this way. You and me. Forever.”
That was the night you and Kakashi shared your first kiss. The night you first held each other in a naked embrace. The night you touched the skin normally concealed under each other's clothes. The night you trailed kisses down his chest, to his stomach, his hip, and up his shaft. The night you grabbed him in your hand and stroked him while looking into his eyes. The night you felt his tongue draw across your nipples. The night you felt him suck and nibble at your neck. The night you felt his fingers, god his fingers, trace up your wet heat to rub onto your most sensitive spot. The night he held onto your hip and slid into your tenderness. The night you whispered sweet nothings in each other's ears while he pumped into you. The night you made love, four times.
It’s been a week since your mini-vacation of ultimate bliss. Immediately after arriving back to the village, you both moved out of your individual apartments and moved into the Hatake estate, per Kakashi’s request. When you asked him if this is truly what he wanted, he assured you that this was the place he wanted to make a home with you and your future children. He also liked that the estate is largely removed from the Hokage tower, where he will be spending the majority of his time in the future. Renovations are far from over, but your bedroom was the first area of the house to be set up. It’s your shared sanctuary, and to be completely honest, you’ve never felt more at home.
The only word to describe this week between you and Kakashi is passionate. Even with opposite schedules, you both make time for one another every day. You’ve been insanely busy at your new job that you acquired post-war, spearheading the mental health resource center for war veterans and shinobi still in active duty. Kakashi is busy shadowing Tsunade while she sorts out post-war rehabilitation plans for the village. This is your first day off and, unfortunately, Kakashi is out doing future Hokage duties. Though frustrating, both of you are super understanding of each other's roles in this village and you respect that time with each other may be limited in the coming years. That’s why any chance you get, you both check in on each other throughout your day. Whether it’s offering to take his ninken on a walk while he’s in the office, or him bringing you breakfast when you get to work, you find opportunities to be present in each other’s daily lives.
The evenings, however, are a whole other story. Both of you are usually home a little after eight, and you’ve adapted to having late dinners with each other. After cleaning up, the rest of the evening is spent wrapped up in each other. One thing you weren’t expecting about being with Kakashi is that he is constantly touching you when you are alone together. His hands are either on your thighs, wrapped in your hair, caressing your face, squeezing your arms, massaging your shoulders, touching your lips, or any other way he can get them on you. You crave his touch, so to say that you enjoy this side of him is an understatement. Not only does Kakashi adore touching you, he also adores being touched.
Touching leads to caressing, caressing leads to groping, and groping leads to passionate lovemaking.
Well, geez (y/n), maybe if you stopped daydreaming about Kakashi’s hands all over you then you wouldn’t be this goddamn horny.
Here’s the thing with you and Kakashi’s newfound sex life. You are in the early stages. All the sex you have is all about romance, making up for the lost time, and finally expressing your feelings with your body. It’s amazing and you wouldn’t change your lovemaking for the world.
But right now, you don’t desire lovemaking. You desire rough, animalistic, dirty, dirty sex.
The kind of sex that makes you shudder in desire and fear.
The kind of sex that makes in between your legs sore the next day.
Realizing you’ve been daydreaming for the past fifteen minutes, you close your novel shut and toss it aside. You look over at the clock on your nightstand to find that it’s almost time for Kakashi to be home. Usually, you would already be cooking something up for dinner, but you have a feeling that any food you make would just get cold. Eating is not your priority right now, Kakashi is.
A devious smile forms at your lips when you consider what you plan on doing with him when he walks through the front door. Should you take him right there? Get down on your knees and beg for him? Run a warm, candle-lit bath? Put whip cream on your tits and tell him that you’re his dinner? All great options, but none are really representative of how much you need him.
In one swift movement, you are up off your chair and running towards your closet. He could be here any minute and there’s no time to waste. Once there, you take in how disorganized your closet is. You have yet to unpack any of your clothes, as all you’ve worn the past week is your jonin uniform and your pajamas. Rummaging through the boxes sprawled out on the floor, you finally find which box you are looking for. The box looks like any other box, but written on the side in marker is the word intimates.
Bingo.
One might think you are a sex fiend with all the lingerie you own, but that is far from reality. The truth is, lingerie has always made you feel sexy. Most of all, it’s just so pretty. You love the power it gives you. You love the fact that no one knows that some days you are wearing the world’s skimpiest lingerie underneath your uniform. It’s like you have an edge on someone that they don't even realize. Also, when you did happen to end up in bed with a man, you were over-prepared. The look on their faces when you stripped off your clothes was priceless. It was your way of telling them that you expected them to want you.
There are way too many options to choose from, and you find yourself starting to panic as time passes on. You know you’re overthinking this as, honestly, Kakashi would love anything you put on. Some things you know about Kakashi are that his favorite color is blue, he loves your thighs and is obsessed with how soft your skin is. Therefore, you should obviously go for the baby blue lace and silk set. It includes a lace balconette bra, a thong connected to thigh garters, and a silk robe to go over the top. After putting it on and taking a look at yourself in the mirror, you knew you made the right choice.
Before finding a comfortable spot on the bed, you quickly grab some baby oil and rub it all over your body. The oil will allow Kakashi to slide his hands all over you effortlessly, which is exactly what you need. Satisfied, you grab your book and lay on top of your made bed. You weren’t planning on actually reading, but you think your casualness while wearing such a sexy outfit will have Kakashi’s head spinning.
So there you were, belly down, ass out, feet intertwined, book in hand, when you heard the lock click and the front door open. Perfect timing.
You could hear Kakashi kick off his shoes and take off his vest as he walked into your home. Usually, you would be standing in the kitchen where he would come and give you a warm embrace and kiss you until you told him that he has to eat dinner. But, you're not there, and you can sense his confusion.
“Where’s my babygirl?” Kakashi’s voice projects throughout the house, a hint of concern in his voice. You smile at the thought of the pout that’s probably on his face right now.
“Sorry sweetheart, I’ve been caught up in my new book. I’m in the bedroom,” you call back to him.
You hear what sounds like a sigh of relief as his footsteps make their way down your hallway in the direction of your bedroom, the sounds of pieces of his uniform dropping off of him every few steps. You make sure to keep your head turned to the door so you can take in his reaction to your state.
“Oh, the new book you got this morning? How is it? Let me guess, you already finished-”
An indescribable feeling shoots through your whole body as Kakashi enters your bedroom. He just finished pulling his mask down his face, as his hand is still caught to the fabric pooling around his neck. With a smile on your face, you soak in his expression as he’s stood in the entrance of your room, a deep blush forming on his cheeks and his mouth still agape in mid-sentence. His eyes dart back and forth from your face to the bottom of your ass that’s hanging out of your silk robe.
Damn, you really did that (y/n).
“What’s wrong, Kashi?” You say in the most innocent voice you can muster. You bat your eyelashes and flip over to sit up so he can get a good look at you. You let your book drop off the bed and land on the floor.
There’s another pause before Kakashi slowly walks towards you on the bed. Without speaking, he reaches a hand out to you. You take it and he pulls you up so you're kneeling on the bed as he stands in front of you. His dark eyes bore into yours as both of his hands drop to your thighs. Slowly, he grazes them up over your hips, your waist, up the sides of your breasts, to wrap around the back of your neck. You can feel the hairs on your skin stand in anticipation. With his hands still wrapped around you, he brings his head down to you and grazes his mouth on your jawline. From there he plants small kisses up the side of your face until he reaches your ear where he nibbles before speaking to you in a strained, low tone.
“You’re a very dangerous woman, (y/n).”
He must have felt you shudder because you could feel him smile against your cheek. Standing up straight again, Kakashi’s hands drop to the tie of your robe around your waist.
“May I?” he asks, giving you the sexiest look you’ve ever seen. Kakashi has been so effortlessly attractive since you met when you were young. Having these intimate moments with him almost seems surreal.
“Of course, Hatake,” you smile up at him.
Taking the tie in his hands, he starts to unravel the knot keeping your robe together. Once loose, he lets it fall over your shoulders and off your body completely.
After a few moments taking in the sight of you, Kakashi lets out a deep sigh and shakes his head.
“You’re so out of my league,” he confesses to you.
You let out a small giggle.
“Absolutely not,” you protest.
Without missing a beat, Kakashi grabs on to you and tosses you back on the bed so you are laying down underneath him. One of his hands wraps around the back of your head while the other cups your breast. Pulling the fabric of your bra down, he kneads your nipple between his thumb and pointer finger. One of his knees lands in between your legs and he brings it up to press on to you. You can’t help the moan that escapes as you feel him all around you.
“So what’s the deal?” Kakashi teases. “I leave you alone in the house for one day and I come back to this?” He looks down at your body and back up again. “Where did you get this outfit, hm?”
“Oh baby,” you start teasing him back, “I guess one thing you don’t know about me yet is that I wear lingerie like this all the time.”
“Oh really?” he questions.
“Yep, all the time.” You smirk at what you’re about to say next. “Actually, remember that one time we were stationed together in the Earth country for a month for that S-rank assassination mission?”
Kakashi nods, confused where you’re going with this story.
“We let our guards down and almost hooked up the last night before we came back to the village.”
“I remember.”
“Well,” you pause for effect, “guess what I was wearing underneath my uniform that night?”
Kakashi remains silent, brows furrowed waiting for you. You smile at him deviously as you say your answer.
“This.”
Kakashi lets out what can only be described as an aroused, defeated groan when you utter your confession. He quickly comes back down and your mouths crash together in a heated frenzy. It isn’t until now when you realize that his bulge is hard against your leg, asking to be broken free from the confinement of his pants. While making out, you reach down and slip your hand under his waistband and grab onto his throbbing cock, stroking it in your hand. Although rock hard, the skin of his cock is soft and velvety.
Kakashi moans in your mouth when you make contact with him, but quickly escapes your grasp and gets up off of you. Sprawled out on the bed, you watch him strip down naked in front of you, starting with his shirt, then his pants and briefs. His body is truly something to marvel at, as decades of being a ninja have carved his body into perfection. You love the way his member slaps against his lower stomach when he pulls it from its confinement, excited and eager for you. He stands for a moment, contemplating what to do with you.
“I don’t want to take that pretty outfit off of you just yet. I guess I’ll just have to work around it for now,” Kakashi says as he stands at the end of the bed. Grabbing your ankles, he pulls you towards him and bends your legs upward until your knees meet your chest. Holding both of your legs up with one hand, he takes the other and spanks your ass cheek with a loud slap. You whimper from the sting while he rubs the mark he left. Kakashi sucks in another loud breath.
“Ugh, (y/n), you look so good for me.”
Before you can respond, Kakashi takes your thong and slides it over so you are exposed to him. Getting down on his knees, he brings his face to your glistening cunt and flattens his tongue against it. There he gives you one long lick up your slit to taste you. A moan erupts from him as your wetness meets his taste buds.
“You’re already so wet for me baby,” Kakashi breathes before going in to suck on you.
“I’ve been thinking about you all day,” you confess through your moans. “I only get this wet for you.”
“That’s because you're mine and mine only.”
Kakashi takes his time with you, almost as if this is his last meal on earth and he wants to savor it. He’s delicate in some moments and fierce in others. Incorporating his fingers, he slides them into you and curves them up to hit your g-spot repeatedly while eating you. Your hand instinctively cradles his face while the other intertwines with his silver locks. You start to feel tightness in your lower stomach as he brings you close to climax. The sound of his moans muffled inside you is enough to send you over the edge.
“Kakashi, baby, I’m gonna-”
“Come for me, baby,” Kakashi nods, giving you permission to let go.
Letting go of Kakashi, you grip onto the sheets around you, feeling the tightness build and drop out of you. Closing your eyes, the waves of ecstasy ripple throughout your body causing you to scream out in pleasure. Riding with you, Kakashi slowly continues to work you through your climax, cleaning up whatever juices spill over.
“Good girl,” He says to you while bringing your legs back down onto the bed. Slowly, he kisses up your thighs while hooking onto your thong, bringing it down off of them. While he does this, you reach around and unclasp your bra, throwing it aside. Once the thong is thrown aside as well, Kakashi lifts himself off the floor and flips you over so you're laying on your stomach, another smack landing on your ass cheek. The high from your orgasm is immediately replaced with anticipation for what he plans on doing to you next.
You feel Kakashi’s naked body slide on top of you until he's flush against your skin, his body completely enveloping yours. Once his face is level with yours, and his cock is hard against your backside, he brushes your hair away from your face.
“Are you ready for me?” Kakashi whispers into your ear.
You nod into the mattress, chest rising and falling with every strained breath.
“You need to use your words, (y/n),” Kakashi scolds you while tucking your hair behind your ear.
“I need you, Kakashi. Please, I need you.” Your words come out as a plea, not being able to take his absence any longer.
You feel Kakashi’s weight lift off of you as he reaches around your waist and lifts it up so your ass is tilted upwards. From there you can feel him position his tip at your entrance, slowly rubbing it up and down to spread your wetness.
“Please, Kashi, I need your cock inside me,” you beg.
Without further hesitation, you feel every inch of him slide into your folds until he’s bottomed out inside you. The feeling of him deep within you sends you into euphoria and you can feel yourself tighten around him.
“Fuck, you feel so good,” Kakashi whispers.
Starting off slow, he pumps into you with control. You feel pleasure and pain as Kakashi kisses your neck while grabbing onto your hair. After each thrust you feel him going faster and harder, your bodies smacking against each other. To gain more leverage, he lifts off of you and brings you up onto your hands and knees. With his hand gripping your shoulder, he pumps into you with ferocity.
“For years I’ve touched myself thinking about getting to fuck you like this baby. You’re so beautiful and so good to me. Everything about your body draws me to you,” Kakashi says in between moans. You feel him start to twitch inside you, his thrusts getting more out of control. You look over your shoulder and meet his gaze.
“We deserve this baby. You deserve this. Give me everything.” You both know your words mean more than just sex, and Kakashi relishes them.
Lifting you up by your neck, Kakashi brings you toward him so you're both kneeling while he continues thrusting inside of you. He brings one hand around your front to circle your clit and the other cups your breast. Your hands lift up behind you to grab onto his face. Turning your head to him, you kiss him with every ounce of passion you have left. This new position is hitting you at your core and you can feel yourself tighten again. Kakashi must have felt it too, as he broke free from your mouth to tilt his head back in pleasure. Without exchanging words, you know you both are at your limit.
With a few last staggering thrusts, both of you reach climax in unison. Feeling yourself go limp, Kakashi wraps his arms around you to keep you steady. You feel streams of his hot semen pool inside of your contracting walls. With Kakashi’s moans singing in your ear, you can’t help but smirk at his vulnerability. With him still inside, you hold onto each other, trying to catch your breaths. After a few beats, you both begin to laugh at your exasperated states.
“Stay here, I’m going to get a towel,” Kakashi says while shifting out of you. After pulling a towel from the cupboard in your bathroom, Kakashi brings it to you and cleans up between your legs. Before you have time to move, Kakashi picks you up bridal style and spins you around in his arms.
You scream and start to laugh as he plants kisses all over your face. “Kakashi!”
“Hm?” he hums in your ear, pretending he didn’t just lift you with little to no effort.
Holding you up with one arm, he grabs a blanket off the bed and carries you to the chair in the corner of your room. There he sits down and places you sideways on his lap so you’re facing each other. He then takes the blanket and wraps it around you both so you can stay warm while cuddling each other. Kakashi has always had a knack for knowing exactly what you want at any given moment.
“I thought we could get some inspiration for our next round,” Kakashi says with a smirk as he pulls out a copy of Icha Icha Tactics from underneath the cushion.
“What? How did that get there?” you laugh.
“Oh, I have multiple copies of these everywhere,” he jokes, waving the book in the air.
You laugh and lightly hit his chest. Tucking the blanket up closer to your face, you lay your head down on Kakashi’s shoulder while he flips open to a page in the book.
Before he starts to read to you, Kakashi lifts your chin to kiss you. Every time your lips touch his, flashes of your joint past enters your mind. Although it was hard, and you faced many difficult trials on the way, you are forever thankful that you were both able to live long enough to experience these moments. You took care of each other, lifted each other up when they were in the dirt, and now you can finally share the love you’ve always held for each other. You wouldn’t change any of it. After your kiss, before pulling away from you, Kakashi looks deep into your eyes.
“I love you, (y/n).”
You smile up at him, tears brimming in your eyes.
“I love you too, Kakashi. Forever.”
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A/n cont.: Well, whattdaya think? :)
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beels-burger-babe · 3 years
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A Pain You'll Soon Regret - Pt. 3
Poly!MC Summary: MC and the demon lords get in a fight resulting in MC leaving. They planned on going to Purgatory Hall until things cool off, but they never quite make it there. TW: Heavy Angst, Violence, I don’t know what to tag this, but there is a pretty nasty verbal fight, Gore/Injury
***I legitimately teared up while writing this. This...This is heavy folks. Please remember to take care of yourselves before, during, and after reading this fic. Be safe lovelies ❤ -B ***
Part 1: HERE, Part 2: HERE, Part 4: HERE
The day had passed by agonizingly slow. The brothers really had no choice but to follow Solomon's orders, so they waited. With every second they could feel the invisible hands grasping their hearts squeeze tighter and tighter.
None of them had left the living room where they had gathered. They were all too frightened that an update on your condition would come in and they wouldn't be there to receive it. At least that's what was silently agreed upon. In reality, they were each taking comfort in being with the only people that could possibly understand what the other was going through.
No one knew what to do or say. There really was nothing to do or say. They had promised to always protect you, and because of a foolish argument, they had failed that in the worst way possible. Finally, after nearly twelve hours of radio silence, Asmodeus's D.D.D. dinged.
Asmodeus had never taken his phone out so quickly before. "Simeon and I are awake. MC is still unconscious. We will let you in and try to get you to see MC. Luke is still adamant about not letting you all in, so be ready for him," Asmo read out loud. Satan huffed as he started towards the door. "I don't care who Luke thinks he is, he's not stopping us from seeing our partner. Let's go."
*** As they arrived at the Hall, all of them were shocked to see a trail of now dried blood leading to the doorway. No matter how long it had been there, the scent still made it glaringly obvious that it was yours. Asmodeus gagged and turned his head away from the sight. "If it's already this bad out here, what are we going to be walking into?" He managed to choke out.
Lucifer swallowed down the lump in his throat and marched ahead. "It doesn't matter. Right now, MC needs us. We failed to be there for them earlier, I refuse to do so again." The eldest lead the charge to the front door of Purgatory Hall. He raised his fist to knock when several voices started shouting from the other side. "You never should've called them here!" "Luke, that's not for you to decide. They're-" "I don't care who they are!!!"
The door suddenly was thrown open just enough to reveal Luke.
You would think that the small angel was the Avatar of Wrath and not Satan. He glared at them with all the fury of the Celestial army. His face was red and his teeth were bared in a snarl. Despite all this anger, however, his eyes were still tinged red with tears.
"Leave now! You're not welcome here!" he barked before going to slam the door; Beel quickly caught it with his hand. "We're not leaving until we see MC." A growl that they had never thought they would hear from sweet little Luke, vibrated from deep within his chest before he began throwing himself at the door, clearly doing everything he could to try and close it.
"NO!!! You don't deserve to see them! You monsters are the reason they're like this! GET OUT! LEAVE!!" Simeon suddenly appeared from within the Hall and pulled Luke against his chest. "Luke, stop it! You're going to hurt yourself!" The young angel screamed and struggled as Simeon softly shushed him. It wasn't long before the screams turned into sobs and Luke broke down in Simeon's arms. The brothers didn't know how to react. Was the state you were in truly so bad to merit such an emotional response from Luke? Dread began to grow more and more within them as guilt kept them frozen in place.
The older angel sighed and gently began to rub Luke's back, before looking at the brothers with an emotionless expression. "As you can see, Luke is greatly concerned with MC's well-being, as we all are," he tightened his hold on Luke before he continued. "You may see them-" "WHA- Simeon, no!!!" Simeon gently shushed him and ran a hand through Luke's hair. "I know. I know you don't want them to, Luke, but they love MC just like you do. At the very least, we should let them see the results of their negligence, don't you think?" The lords winced at the jab and the harsh edges on Simeon's words. It was clear that no one in that house truly wanted them there. Luke pouted. "Fine. But I want to be in the room when they do." Simeon nodded and released the young angel. "Of course. I'm sure MC will be grateful for how attentive you've been to them when they wake up." He ruffled Luke's hair before glancing at the brothers once again. "Follow me." Their footsteps echoed through the quiet halls like a death knell. Each one rang louder and louder in the ears of the worried demons. They hadn't even seen you yet, and even so, each and every one of them were already beginning to wonder how they could ever let this happen to you. Images of you might look like flashed inside their heads. Perhaps you would resemble a mummy from the number of bandages required to heal you. Perhaps you would resemble a corpse, half-dead as you struggled to keep your heartbeat steady. No matter what they imagined, however, nothing prepared them for the real thing. Simeon swung open the doors to the lounge without any word or warning. The brothers' stumbled to a stop and collectively choked at the sight. You were laid out on the table in the middle of the room. Gauze covered a large section of the left side of your cheek and a strip around the circumference of your head. What little skin was visible was sunken in, making you appear dead. If it hadn't been for the shallow rising and falling of your chest, the brothers most certainly would have believed you were. Solomon had been in the process of checking the bandages on your shoulder when they entered, giving each of them a good eye full of the deep bite marks that covered your shoulder, collarbone and neck. There was so much red, that they could barely make out what was an injury and what wasn't. With a nauseous thought, they realized that small chunks of skin had even been torn from the flesh. They must have had to remove your clothes at some point during your healing process, for the only thing that covered you was a thin blanket that was trapped over your torso. All, except Satan, recognized it as one of the blankets from the Celestial realm. Though Satan had put two and two together when he spotted the small tag hanging from a corner with Luke's name written on it in golden cursive. The fact that you were barely covered meant that they could clearly see your bandaged thighs and the small, bandaged, stump of where your leg had been cut off from the knee down. The silence was cut off by a strangled sob from Asmodeus.
Solomon's head snapped as he only now noticed everyone. Rather than moving comfort the demon whom he's had a pact with for centuries, Solomon only narrowed his eyes into a glare and silently went back to work.
Asmodeus moved towards you, shakily reaching out a hand to touch. But he was stopped as Luke quickly slapped the hand away. The angel starred icily at him. "They're still recovering, you idiot. Touch them with your filthy infernal hands and you could infect and kill them."
Asmodeus snarled through his tears, and opened his mouth to shout at Luke, but was stopped when a hand sat on his shoulder. He glanced over to see Satan shaking his head as tears ran down his cheeks.
"He's right," Satan whispered, not bothering to hide the pain in his tone. "They're in an extremely fragile state. We should all, at the very least, wash our hands first." the others looked at him surprised. There wasn't a trace of anger in his voice. Only grief and regret. Satan looked over at Solomon, "Then I'm sure we'd all like to sit with them?"
The others held their breath as they waited for the reply, but Solomon simply remained silent and refused to acknowledge them. "Please," Beelzebub begged through a sob. Belphie held on tightly to his twin's hand. It may have looked as though he had down it to comfort Beel, but in reality, that hand was the only thing keeping him on his feet. Beel took in a stuttered breath before continuing, "W-We messed up last night, and we can't t-take that back, but I-I need to be with them right now. Please. I-I can't leave them again." Again there was only silence, with the exception of Luke grumbling under his breath from where he sat beside you. Mammon huffed and moved towards the basin of water that had been set up on a side table. "Well I'm done waiting for permission," he thoroughly washed his hands and moved towards MC when Simeon moved in front of him. Mammon growled and had to keep himself from bursting into his demon form. "What's the big deal?! You said we could see 'em!" "I said see. Not touch," the angel provided pointedly. Leviathan frowned and came to Mammon's side. "Luke is literally holding their hand right now! He cleaned his hands! There's no reason why Luke should be able to touch them, when we, their significant others can't!" Luke's nostrils flared as he went to lunge at the demon, but was stopped by Solomon putting a hand on his shoulder. The young angel huffed and settled for snarling at them. "I was the one that saved them! I was the one that washed the blood off of their skin after Simeon and Solomon both nearly collapsed from exhaustion after working for four hours straight on keeping them alive. I was there for them! And you weren't!" "We messed up!" Leviathan screamed back, his demon form bursting into existence as he cried. "We messed up and we want to make things better! We want to be there for them now! You can't just keep us from them!" "Leviathan," Lucifer placed a hand on his younger brother's shoulder. "Breathe. Please, I know you're upset. We all are. But we shouldn't forget what caused all of this in the first place." Leviathan ripped himself away from Lucifer's grasp and turned away from everyone. The occasional sob could be heard from him as his shoulders trembled. Lucifer sighed and looked pleadingly at Simeon. "Simeon, please. I know you owe us nothing and that MC may not even want to see them when they awake. But look at them. They're-" he cut himself off as his voice cracked and took a deep breath, "We're a mess. Please, just let us have a moment with them. That's all I ask." For the first time, Simeon's expression softened. He gathered up Luke and nodded at Solomon. The wizard pursed his lips in annoyance and glanced at the brothers once more before leaving the room. Simeon gave Lucifer a hard look as he held on tightly to Luke. "You will notify us immediately should even the slightest thing change from their current condition." Luke gaped at his fellow angel. "Simeon! No! We can't just leave them with those demons! Are you insane?" Simeon gave Luke a small smile. "They won't hurt them. I truly believe they wish to reconcile things and apologize for their words and actions. No matter how upset you may feel, this isn't our relationship Luke. It is not our place to meddle. MC will be safe with them." Luke grumbled under his breath and glowered at the brothers. "If so much as a hair is out of place when I get back, not even Micheal will be able to stop me from the vengeance I will inflict upon you." Mammon opened his mouth make a comeback, but was cut off by Lucifer. "Understood. Thank you for looking after our beloved in our absence." Luke scoffed and shook his head, before leaving with Simeon following behind him. The brothers stood in the room alone. They were with you, and yet they had never felt so far from you. ***To be continued in part 4! Still don't quite know how this will end, but it's bound to hurt. Sorry not sorry. In between uploading parts of this series, I will be doing other fics as well, just since this seems to be quite longer than I
had originally thought 😅 Thank you all for supporting this series! I hope you enjoyed it. Remember to drink water and take care of yourselves! I love you all!***
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Be My Baby
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In which Prince harry and Princess Y/N are set to marry and are more than happy about it. They celebrate in more ways than one.
AHHHH!!! ITS HERE!!! FINALLY! Prince harry is my guilty pleasure. pls treat him with the respect he deserves. these two are officially my favourite people ever.
fluff & FILTHY SMUT!!!!!! feedback is welcome as always! <3
“Princess Y/N is arriving soon, Harry” Anne, the queen of england said putting down her tea. Harry is the prince, next in line for the throne - Marriage is very important to the throne and for the throne. Anne has been very strict about that, preparing Harry for marriage. Princess Y/N of wales, is who Harry is meeting with today. Hopefully, to settle a deal. Harry has never cared for marriage or for a partner. He’s a lone wolf as his family would describe. But if he wants to be king, he needs to marry. And Y/N is looking like the only option at the moment.
Harry nodded putting the paper down and looking up at his mother. He pursed his lips leaning back in his seat.
“Is something the matter, dear?”
Harry shook his head “No, mother. Just tired” he lied, reassuring his mother. Anne didn’t press any further just got one of the servants to pour her more tea. She could read harry very well, she knew her son better than he knew himself. Y/N is perfect for him. Even if they do not marry, she will be a life long friend. But anne is sure they will marry within the year.
And Queen Anne is never wrong.
Y/N was late.
Harry was beginning to become bored, don’t get him wrong he loves his sister and mother. But he can only take so much. All he wanted to do was to be curled up with a book in the abandoned side of the castle - no one except for the young prince had been there. It was locked up for years before harry found the key, it was like a whole new world in there. It was dirty, messy, filthy - just how harry liked it. He decorated a room in there, and it’s like his safe place from all of this. All of these stupidly important responsibilities. His safe haven.
They were meant to be meeting, talking about their futures together. If his mother thought this was what was best for the country, then harry would push through. He hadn’t see Y/N in years, meeting when they were both much younger. No pressure, just the two kids playing in the fields. Y/N was beautiful, so care free. Harry wished he was like Y/N - the only think she seemed to care about were the moon, the sun and the stars. They never saw each other again after that, they have both obviously seen each other in papers and at events. But never talked. Y/N didn’t know why, neither did harry. They weren’t on the same chapter in life. But now, they’re both willing to do what is best for their country.
And maybe it wouldn’t be too bad marrying a soon to be king.
A servant comes into the dining room bowing at the styles family. Harry waits for him to speak - except a tall girl, bumps into him making the servant fall foward. Y/N (the tall girl) giggled, before clearing her throat and bowing at the styles family. Harry smirked and leaned back. Anne was standing a smile on her face as she saw her soon beaming for the first time in months.
“Your highness” Y/N said bowing, nearly falling down again. But she grinned covering it up. Her dress was long and tight - her mother made her wear it. She would much rather be in a nice flowy dress in the woods right now. Maybe reading about the sun. But her mother needed her to do this, so Y/N would.
Y/N’s father died a couple of months back, it was sudden and no one saw it coming. So her mother needed her to marry as Y/N is the oldest of four girls. They needed a man of the house and once Y/N married, harry would be that man. Y/N didn’t like that one bit. She could be the man of the house if she wanted to. She didn’t understand why they needed a man to pay for things, to do stuff for them. Women are just as capable. But there was no fighting with Y/N’s mother. And Y/N knew she was having a rough time without her husband and Y/N’s dad.
“Princess Y/N, it’s good to have you here” Anne said, as a servant helped her back into the seat. Y/N had the same treatment but she looked rather uncomfortable. She was seated infront of harry, which was glad of. It’s a nice view, she’ll admit. He had grown into his baby face, she thought. And that hair. Fuck, that hair.
“Thank you for inviting me, your highness” Y/N said smiling softly. “Your castle is amazing” She said and Anne nodded pointing around at the paintings. “I actually just got these new paintings in from a new artist in rome. Just beautiful, right harry?” Anne said, giving harry the look. His mother is giving him that look a lot recently, Anne just wants what is best for him and harry just doesn’t seem to care at all. It’s like he’s away from reality. In another universe half of the time. Anne was hoping Y/N would be able to bring him back down to earth, but from her entrance in here - Harry and Y/N are a lot more similar than she thought.
“Yeah, they’re beautiful” Harry said staring at the girl infront of him. Y/N blushed under his stare. She had never felt anything like this before for a man. Her stomach was in knots and her cheeks were getting hotter by the second.
The dinner was nice. It was quiet with Y/N trying to keep up the small talk - Anne was impressed with that. Everyone she had invited to the palace would only talk when spoken to, but Y/N had a certain way about her. She had manners of course, the kindest soul, but she talked. She could talk all day if she was allowed. She just never ran out of things to say. But the food was really good, so Y/N was quieter than usual. Harry had one question: did they feed her in the city? The way she was eating was like she had been starved for years.
“This is amazing” Y/N said putting her fork down. Anne grinned at the girl nodding to herself. She had found a keeper.
“Harry, why do you show Y/N around? She’s going to be staying here for the next couple of weeks” Anne announced and Y/N nearly choked on her water, she tapped her chest.
“I am?-“
“she is?”
Harry and Y/N both spoke at the same time, Anne tutted and ordered the servant to fill up her wine.
“Your mother and I have arranged it. Everything you have is here already, you’ll have your own quarters too. Your horse is being transported down here as we speak” Anne said making new room for arguing. “Y/N your mother said she would be happy for us to host you here if the dinner went accordingly. And i think it went more than accordingly” Anne continued sipping her wine.
Harry and Y/N looked to each other their eyes both wide with amusement and shock. Only their parents would do this.
“Now, run along. Gemma and I have some talking to do” Anne ordered, the servants came and helped the princess and prince up following them out of the dinning room. Y/N was rather uncomfortable with the servants being everywhere, she had a lot more freedom at home.
“Hey, you wanna do something fun?” She asked and harry raised an eyebrow in amusement.
“Hey! Intruder” Y/N yelled and the servants looked around quickly, harry was startled when Y/N laughed loudly taking his hand in hers and running down the hallway towards the abandoned part of the castle. Harry grinned and laughed loudly as they ran together.
This girl, he thought.
The door was locked. Harry brought a key out of his pocket and Y/N laughed loudly making harry shush her as he unlocked the door. Quickly they made themselves into the abandoned quarters and giggled to themselves when they heard the servants feet making their way to this side of the castle - but immediately they turned away, knowing that they weren’t allowed on this side of the palace.
Harry was distracted with locking the door, but Y/N was amazed. She looked around at this place and couldn’t help the sigh that escaped her. This place is really fucking amazing, she thought. It’s obviously abandoned, that man she could tell - but it was still so beautiful. Paintings, upon paintings and books at every end. There was high ceilings and stained glass windows giving a nice hew to the room. Y/N brought her hands to her hips and spinned around her dress moving as she did.
“This place is fucking amazing!”
Harry laughed and finally got the door locked popping the key back in his pocket. He moved beside the beautiful girl and didn’t say anything. But Y/N knew.
“You come here often?” She asked and Harry nodded.
“Found it a couple years ago. Think it was my fathers” He said and Y/N sighed looking around.
“It’s beautiful” you’re beautiful, he wanted to say but he bit his lip instead walking in the direction of his safe haven. Y/N quickly caught up placing a hand on his, harry flinched at the touch. This definitely wasn’t allowed. If anyone saw they’d have to marry immediately. But nobody was here, he reminded himself. And with that he squeezed Y/N’s hand a little tighter.
Harry opened the door the room he had been coming to for years now. It had a few chairs, a huge window with curtains on each side, a fire place in the middle and blankets and pillows surrounding the room. Y/N smiled to herself as she saw harry become more himself. It was like this room allowed him to be himself.
“You come in here often?”
Harry nodded making himself comfortable on one of the pillows, Y/N soon followed sitting very close to the prince. Harry had no complaints at all.
“I come here most days. When i need to take a breath, escape my mother and the stupid royal family” Harry said and Y/N giggled leaning in to harry, their lips close.
“I can think of many ways we can escape reality. Why don’t we try one of them?”
Harry let out a sigh and placed his hand on Y/N shoulder, it fell down her arm to her waist. Harry had been with people before, he had kissed and pleasured many, many people. But never did he feel like this. He felt as if she was a goddess, and she would brake it the touch of his finger. She looked almost fragile, like a painting.
“Kiss me, Harry” She ordered and harry wasted no time, placing his lips on hers.
Her lips are soft and gentle, just as harry had expected. He moved his hands up her hips to her shoulders again, Y/N moaned letting harry's tongue into her mouth. Harry groaned and pulled away smirking at that flushed look on her face. He loved it.
Y/N bit her lip standing up, unzipping her dress. She turned around, the only thing she had was a small night dress and corset. Harry cursed under his breath standing up behind her. Everything felt so intimate. They both felt a lot of things, Y/N never wanted this to stop. Harry hugged her from behind, kissing the back of her neck. After a few seconds, Y/N turned around in his hold, holding his gaze. She began to take off her corset and night dress, now bare. She felt confident in Harry's glare, he made her feel good. He sucked in a breath looking down at her perky breasts, her nipples hard from the temperature of the room. He made a mental note to put the fire on after this, Harry knew you two would be in here for as long as you possibly could. He knew his mother would be beyond pissed that they had gone off alone together.
Harry placed a hand on Y/N’s breast, teasing her nipple with his index finger. His rings were cold on her skin making her whimper. Harry smirked at the sound, lowering his head and taking her nipple in his mouth his tongue swirling the nub of it. Y/N’s hands found harrys hair and she tugged on it hard.
“Fuck” She cursed and harry let go with a pop, again he smirked at the sight of the princess. So undone and flustered. Harry absolutely loved it. Holding her gaze, he began to undress unbuttoning his shirt and pants. Heat rushed to his penis, as Y/N watched him undress.
“Want to have you in my mouth” Y/N said, getting on her knees. She knew she would have bruises by the end of this - but she knew it would be worth.
“Don’t make me cum” Harry ordered, Y/N just smirked and pulled his underwear down almost drooling at the sight of his red, cock full of pre-cum. What a sight, she thought. And it’s fucking huge. Bigger than she thought that’s for sure.
She hummed, pumping harry’s rock hard cock. His head flew back, a moan filling the room. Harry wished her hair was pinned back, he needed some to grip. He took both of his hands and gripped the side of her head. Y/N spit on his cock, keeping eye contact with harry.
“Shit”
Y/N licked the tip, running her tongue over the slit, tasting the saltiness of his pre cum. Harry’s eyes rolled to the back of his head.
“You taste so good” She moaned, finally taking his full cock into her mouth. Her hands began pumping the base of the shaft, as she sucked him off. Harry moaned, but tapped the side of her head.
“Need to be in you, no more foreplay” He said and Y/N pouted whipping her lips.
“But i like having you in my mouth” Y/N argued, harry smirked pecking her lips, tasting himself on them. He hummed in agreement. “Next time, let me fuck you” He said kissing her neck, Y/N sighed and placed her lips on his before crawling over to the fireplace - there was a white sheet layed out. Y/N lay down and harry kissed down her stomach, teasingly kissing her thighs. “You’re definitely wet enough for me, aren’t you princess?” Harry said slapping her pussy, Y/N moaned and nodded.
Slowly, harry thrusted into Y/N making them both whimper. “Fuck, you feel so good” Harry said, kissing your lips. Y/N just moaned, gripping his back and putting her legs around his waist. Harry began to move faster, his hands either side of Y/N.
“Faster” Y/N said and harry complied, pounding into her. The moans coming out of the both them were enough to make them both cum within seconds. And that’s basically what happened. They both climaxed, harry falling down into Y/N’s chest. Y/N only felt pleasure and ecstasy.
Shit, her mother picked a good one.
***
“Fuck” Y/N panted into harry’s mouth as he took against the wall. They were left alone for ten minutes, and this happened. They were looking at the new paintings and architecture Anne had got, browsing around the hall. Harry had convinced the servant that his mother was calling and of course the poor servant couldn’t dismiss it, so they had a good ten minutes while the servant searched for the queen.
Harry pounded into her the paintings on the wall knocking loudly, Y/N laughed loudly making harry put a hand over her mouth.
“Don’t want to attract any attention, do we princess?”
They continued their hot and very messy quicky and then made their way to the gardens. Y/N and harry soon found that the gardens would be another safe haven. Beautiful flowers and when the sun is shining a beautiful place to sit and relax.
They couldn’t wait to marry - seen as harry wants Y/N in his bed, all the time. They fuck like bunnies, it’s amazing how they haven’t been caught as of yet. When they get their own palace, harry will christen to the whole place. They’ll fuck in every corner. Every room. Every library and garden.
Y/N looked at harry smiling as he lay on the grass. No one was around as the servant hadn’t arrived back. Y/N quickly looked around before pulling harry into what she could only assume was a place to keep all the fruit and veg away from foxes. It was closed off and you could lock it from the inside.
“Jesus christ Y/N” Harry mumbled kissing your neck as you leaned back on a bench.
“Another round?” You asked with innocent eyes.
“Another round” Harry confirmed lifting up the bottom of her dress and pushing her down so she was flat on the bench. He kissed up her legs, biting down on her thigh.
He pulled up her night gown and saw her bare pussy, wet and glistening just waiting for him. He could cum at the sight. He moaned kissing her thigh, teasing her.
Y/N tugged at harry’s hair, giving him a warning. “Stop, teasing” She pouted and harry smirked finally making his way towards your pussy.
Y/N closed her eyes when she felt harrys breath against her core. “so wet, princess” Harry said, the vibrations going right through her body making her jerk up a little. Harry loved the affect he had on her, the littlest thing would make her jolt with pleasure.
Harry spread her legs a little more, his tongue licking up her slit. Y/N’s tugged on harry’s hair, moaning loudly. Harry watched her unfold becoming so flushed, but Y/N looked so very beautiful in this light.
He pressed his lips to your clit, flicking his tongue up and down. Your hips moved with his tongue movements, harrys hands made their way to your hips trying to get them to stay in place. You wrapped your legs around his shoulders and began to shake and moan.
“Fuck me” You murmured coming down from your high.
“Oh, i will princess”
The days went on and more fucking occurred. Again they fucked like absolute bunnies. They were sure everyone knew by now, but the servants were way too afraid to say anything. Anne would have everyone’s head if she found out what they were doing.
“I can’t wait to marry you” Harry said laying down beside her in their safe haven. Y/N smirked rolling over on her side. He was so beautiful. His eyes, his freckles, that one dimple that came out when he laughed. She was so lucky to call him hers.
“You just want to have me in your bed everyday” She said and harry pretended to think about. “Hmmm, yeah” He said, making Y/N laugh loudly before pecking his lips.
“Can’t believe you’re mine” Harry said pushing her into his chest. Y/N grinned pecking his neck and looking up at him.
“Forever”
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rich!Daichi x fem!reader
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summary: when daichi asks you to go with him to his family’s cabin during spring break, the last thing you expect is to be greeted by a giant mansion. Will the money and social life scare you away or will you be able to find love with daichi, despite being thrown into a world of fast cars and expensive clothing?
cw: rich people, SMUT (daddy, praise, biting, feral daichi, unprotected sex, creampie), pining, racing, one punch, blood (from the punch), alcohol, insecurity, mild jealousy, possessive daichi, side kiyoko x tanaka, probably ooc
a/n: this is for the rich boy collab hosted by @bakugohoex​! be sure to check out all the other submissions! you can find the link to the masterlist here
terushima is an asshole in this and i'm sorry, i love him but i needed a captain to be sleazy and he volunteered. he told me he couldn't resist hitting on a cutie like you, and who am i to stop him.
check out the mood boards i made here and shout out to my beautiful beta reader @winniethepoohloathesyou​ for working so hard on this with me!
minors do not interact. this work contains mature themes and if you continue reading you have agreed you are willing to see such content
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When Daichi sat down next to you in your econ class last week and asked you to come to his family cabin during spring break, this is not what you imagined. 
You thought that you would be able to spend some time alone with him, enjoying nature together in a small house nestled in the forest, spending enough time together to finally put a label on whatever the spark was between the two of you.
But no.
You blink rapidly and take a good look at your new surroundings, trying to make sense of what your eyes see. Before you stands the largest house you have ever seen. But just calling it a house would be an extreme understatement. 
This place is a mansion. Three stories of white brick detailed with elaborate stone embellishments. The gray mansard roof’s steep slope meets at the top with a fenced stone parapet. An elaborate garden extends between you and the house and you swear you can see an Olympic-sized swimming pool nestled into the courtyard. And this isn't even the front of the house. You blink in disbelief when you spot a giant race track off to your left and what looks like a massive, ten-car garage. The scent of sea air assaults your senses and when your gaze flickers to your right, you can see the ocean and the mansion's very own harbor. 
And none of that even includes how you got here: on a private jet, landing on a personal runway where you currently stand. 
The beat-up duffle bag you use for your family’s camping trips that hangs from your shoulder suddenly feels very wrong in a way you can't explain.
You turn to face Daichi as he joins you on the tarmac. “Daichi, this is your family cabin?” you ask wide-eyed, your voice sounding so high-pitched that you barely recognize it. 
He rubs the back of his neck, one of his nervous habits. “Yeah, it's kind of embarrassing. I used to spend all of my summers here with my siblings but now the house barely gets used,” he says sheepishly.
Before you can ask any more questions, the loud rumbling of car engines interrupts your conversation and you see two sports cars taking two corners on the track before barreling down the straight of the runway towards you at top speed. 
“Ah, those two are here already, I see,” Daichi grins. He takes your duffle bag from you, throwing the strap over his shoulder and pulling you closer to him while wrapping his arm around your waist. 
The cars roar to a stop right behind the jet, creating the perfect image, an Instagram influencer’s wet dream. 
Daichi leans over to whisper in your ear as they both get out of the cars, “The one in the red Ferrari LaFerrari is Kuroo Tetsuro and the one in the white Lamborghini Aventador is Bokuto Kotaro.”
The two are pointing fingers at each other as they get out of their cars bickering and you can see the wealth dripping off them. The man with the spiky black hair, that Daichi told you was Kuroo, is pointing back in the direction they came from as he closes his car door, while Bokuto, with his spiky gray hair, pouts, throwing his hands up in mock innocence. Both of them grab a bag from the trunks of their cars, still arguing with each other before Kuroo places his arm around Bokuto in a show of faux peace before they start walking towards you and Daichi.
“They're both idiots,” he pauses to watch Bokuto swat at Kuroo’s arm, “but they are actually really good guys.”
The two of them are still heated, poking at each other's chests as they reach you and Daichi, only stopping when he coughs to grab their attention.
“Are you two done yet?” he questions with a raised eyebrow.
“Daichi, I was faster, wasn't I?” whined Bokuto, giving Daichi and you a small pout as Kuroo pats his shoulder, leaning slightly closer to you.
“This must be Y/N. She’s cuter than you said Dai,” Kuroo says with a laugh.
You miss the way that Daichi’s cheeks start to turn pink because you were so taken aback at his statement. Daichi told his friends about you? His apparently super rich friends?
Daichi’s grip around your waist tightens slightly before he responds, “Guys this is Y/N L/N. Please, don't annoy her too much.”
Both of their heads perk up at that.
“Oh yeah Daichi, we will be perfect saints,” Kuroo smirks.
Bokuto matches Kuroo’s playfully devious look, suddenly over his apparent loss on the track. “Oh yeah, nothing but angels.”
Before Daichi has time to wipe the smiles off their faces, you hear the sound of helicopter blades whirring above.
You look around until you see it fly directly overhead. The sound fills the air as the helicopter starts its descent onto the helipad next to the parked jet.
The helicopter blades whip up the grass and plants all around, and you have to place your hand on your head to prevent your own hair from being messed up by the whirlwind. 
You look over to Bokuto and Kuroo to see them fiercely trying to protect their hair spikes from the wind and failing. Daichi follows your gaze and when he sees them, he lets out a laugh in full force.
The helicopter makes a soft landing and the blades slow down when the engine turns off and two people step out. 
The most beautiful girl you have ever seen in your life hops out from the operator's seat, throwing her gorgeous black hair over her shoulder as she walks over to the man holding his hand out for her, hoisting their designer bags over his shoulder.
“Kiyoko, Tanaka, I'm so glad that you guys could make it,” Daichi smiles at the couple as they approach.
Daichi lets go of your waist so he can give the two of them a proper hug, before introducing you.
“This is Y/N.”
Kiyoko walks up to you and grabs your hands in hers and smiles at you, “Finally another girl. It's about time.”
Tanaka laughs, “What, babe? Are you getting tired of us?”
She lets go of your hands so she can give Tanaka a playful slap to the chest, “You know that's not what I meant, Ryu. It'll be nice to have someone to get ready for the gala with!”
You feel Daichi slightly flinch next to you at the mention of a gala.
Your brows furrow as you ask, “A what now? Daichi never mentioned anything about a gala.”
You turn to him, questioningly, and he moves his hand to the back of his neck for the second time in ten minutes. 
“It's nothing really, just this huge party my family has hosted for years. We really wouldn't even have to go if you don't want to…” the last few words trail off before he is interrupted by Kiyoko.
“What are you saying Daichi, you have to go! It's your family's gala.” Her brows are furrowed and she is looking at him suspiciously.
Daichi lets out an exasperated sigh, “Well that's a discussion for the future. Let’s go settle into our rooms.”
Daichi puts his arm around your shoulders as he leads the group up to the back porch, walking through the garden and around the giant swimming pool and fire pit area. 
“I assume you four are taking your normal rooms?” Daichi asks the group.
They all nod before splitting in different directions, obviously understanding the intricate layout of the house after what you assume is years of friendship. 
Daichi leads you through the first floor, pointing out various rooms and points of interest as you take in the vastness of your new surroundings. Most of the rooms have white or cream-colored walls with very intricate crown molding. Some have very distinct and uncomfortable furniture that looks like it has never been used, while others look like they are ready for a full day of lounging. He even takes you past the bowling alley and the in-home movie theater.
Eventually, he leads you to a huge staircase that circles around the main entryway to the house. The whole room looks like it's made out of marble and you take a twirling step to bask in the grandness of the space. 
Daichi calls out to you, pulling you back into reality. He has one foot on the first step and his hand is outstretched for you to take.
“You coming?” he smiles at you, wiggling his fingers, waiting for you to take his hand. 
When you do, you hold on to it like it's your lifeline, the only anchor you have in this unfamiliar territory. He leads you up two flights of stairs to the third floor and then down a large hallway filled with doors and golden crown molding.
He stops in front of a door before saying, “Well, this is you,” and moving your duffle bag back to your shoulder, letting his hand linger on your skin until he forces himself to pull away. 
“I’m right here across the hall if you need anything, alright?” he reassures you with a smile.
You nod at him, trying to process all of the new information you've just taken in, before putting your hand on the doorknob and turning away from him.
He calls out to you before you go inside, “Why don't you take an hour or so — take a shower, there's a bathroom attached to the suite — and then when you come down to the kitchen, we can get some snacks?”
You turn to face him again, narrowing your eyes at him with a pout, “Is this your way of telling me I smell?”
His laughter fills the hallway. “No, I just want you to relax. This is your vacation too, ya know?” His smile is contagious and you can't help but smile back at him, really hoping that a shower will help as he says.
“Okay Daichi, I'll try.”
With that you enter the bedroom, closing the door behind you before resting your head on the wood, letting out a very small sigh.
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You try to relax like Daichi said by taking a warm shower, but everything was way too nice. The grand marble shower and the elegant tile tub just serve to remind you that you are in a world different than your own, giving you more anxiety than relaxation. 
You manage to get through your shower: fiddling with all of the button options to turn the water off, grabbing a plush towel to dry off, and then changing into some of the clothes that you packed.
You head back out to the bedroom in a huff and take another look around, half expecting the room to have transformed into a new one completely, but you are glad that it's just as you left it. 
The massive four-poster bed sits against one wall next to the room's giant floor-to-ceiling windows that let in the afternoon light, casting long shadows on the fireplace gracing the opposite wall and the plush sitting area in front of it.
You flop yourself on the bed, arms stretching out and you curse at how comfortable the mattress is. 
Who would have guessed the handsome boy you met in your econ class was this filthy rich.
You don't want your brain to fantasize but your thoughts drift there anyways as you sit up to sort through your clothes; it dreams of a future where this could be all yours. It's not like you weren't dreaming about a future with Daichi before, but now you’re imagining paying off your student loans, using some money to help your struggling friends and family, or maybe going even bigger than that, like starting a business or a charity to really help people. 
You have to stop yourself from going too far. You shouldn’t spiral with these thoughts because that's the big issue: you and Daichi, what are you really?
You were instantly infatuated with him when he smiled at you during your first economics lecture together just a few months ago. Sitting next to each other, passing a notebook back and forth drawing little doodles together when you should have been paying attention. The chemistry between the two of you only grew when you started studying together and he invited you out to party with some of his friends. 
The two of you have even shared a few make-out sessions together at said parties, but the next day when you expected things to be awkward or to at least have a discussion about what it meant, Daichi always acted like everything was normal, like the two of you hadn't had your tongues down each other throats the night before. 
And that's not to mention how he always seems to be holding your hand, or hooking his arm around you, giving you butterflies at every turn. He always seems to be more touchy when other guys are around, but you can say that you do the same. Hugging him back tighter when other girls look his way.
In the beginning, the small touches and longing glances you shared in class slowly turned to long hugs and holding hands. You thought that maybe Daichi was this way with all of his friends, but when he introduced you to his roommates, Asahi and Sugawara, you noticed that he isn’t that touchy with them. It seems to be something only reserved for you.
You think of all the shared touches that you've had just today and your heart flutters. It's like when the two of you touch, your heart is instantly filled with happiness that calms your soul. His touch just feels right and being with him feels as easy as breathing.
If soulmates do exist, you can imagine that this is what it feels like. 
You let out a deep sigh, shaking away your thoughts, before you decide to make your way down to the kitchen to meet up with the others.
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You follow the voices through the maze of corridors and staircases to the kitchen, thank god they are a noisy bunch. 
Everyone is gathering around the huge kitchen island, with bowls of chips, candy, and other snacks scattered around, and there seem to be two different conversations going on.
Daichi has his back to you, and you walk up next to him, putting your head on his shoulder. He looks down, throwing his arm around you, pulling you into his space more before whispering, “How was your shower?”
You wrap your arms around his waist before shrugging your shoulders, choosing to instead focus on the conversation that Tanaka and Kuroo are having. Daichi grabs a few of the bowls of snacks and pulls them closer to you, taking a big handful of food for himself.
Kuroo lets out a loud annoyed groan before explaining, “Oikawa just texted me that he’s going to dock here for the night.”
You sense the mounting tension in the air and take a handful of snacks, ready to take in whatever drama that was about to unfold.
The mention of the name you are unfamiliar with seems to bring the other conversation to a close as everyone focuses their attention on Kuroo and his phone. 
Daichi lets out an exasperated sigh. “I could have sworn I told him to keep that thing away from here,” he says, rubbing his hand down his face in annoyance. 
“He's bringing that party boat here? During gala week?” Kiyoko adds, blowing hair out of her face with a huff. 
“Eh, I'm not going to complain, it's always full of hot babes,” Tanaka says right before a smack lands on his chest from Kiyoko. He pulls her into him, playfully kissing her cheeks, “No one is hotter than you babe, you know that.”
She rolls her eyes at his response but seems to accept his apology.
Not having any idea about who or what they are talking about you pipe up, “Who’s coming?”
Daichi lets out a big sigh before explaining, “Oikawa is this guy we grew up with, he’s a big flirt with an even bigger yacht. It's pretty much a giant party boat that he fills with supermodels.” You can practically feel the way Daichi’s eyes roll at the notion of a party boat stacked to the nines with supermodels.
Bokuto moves to Daichi’s other side, leaning over the island looking around him at you with a wide smile and adds, “Not to mention the alcohol and drugs.”
“Yes, yes, Bokuto, we all know why you enjoy Oikawa’s visits,” Daichi retorts, shaking his head and laughing.
“He just texted again,” Kuroo says with an annoyed groan. “Says he's going to be docking in three hours.”
“Well, what do you guys want to do until he gets here?” Daichi asks, taking a big handful of pretzels from a bowl close to him.
“We could go for a race around the track,” Kuroo says with a devilish smile.
Bokuto lets out an excited yell before pointing at Kuroo and exclaiming, “Hell yeah, lets go!”
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Everyone heads outside into the evening sun. The warmth that the sun provided during the afternoon seems to be fading, giving the air a slight chill. 
Kuroo and Bokuto run with their hands in the air from the house to their cars before starting them and speeding off towards the track while Daichi leads you, Tanaka, and Kiyoko to the large ten-car garage that spans the side of the house.
He opens a side door leading everyone into the garage, pressing a big button on the wall causing all of the garage doors to begin opening, filling the space with light.
Your eyes widen when you look at the millions of dollars worth of vehicles equally spaced with precision in front of you. While you recognize some brands: Lamborghini, Ferrari, Bugatti, and Mercedes, there are more that you don't, and your eyes glaze over at the pure wealth displayed in the garage.
Tanaka's excited voice pulls you from your haze as he practically jumps up and down in place, “Can we take the Bugatti?” he shouts questioningly, making you jump.
“Sure thing,” Daichi replies as he takes the keys to the Bugatti Veyron SS off the hook and tosses them to Kiyoko.
You watch her unlock the car and climb into the driver's seat as Tanaka jumps into the passenger seat next to her. The engine roars to life and she carefully pulls it out of the garage before she peels off towards the track, leaving you and Daichi alone in the garage. 
“So, do you see a car you like?” he questions, his eyes following the car as it barrels around a corner.
The first real time alone with him since landing here and he decides to ignore the elephant in the room? You wouldn’t be surprised if there was actually an elephant around here somewhere.
You ignore his question and turn to face him, “Dai, what the fuck. What is this place? How are you so rich?” 
“I'm not rich, my parents are,” he quickly retorts, turning to face you.
“That's exactly what a rich person would say,” you roll your eyes at him.
“I know you must feel pretty deceived right now; it was so nice when I was just Daichi to you, not the heir to this big conglomerate worth millions of dollars,” he walks close to you, moving to place his hands on your shoulders but stopping himself, and lets his hands fall to the side almost in defeat. 
“My dad is this huge businessman and he has all these women who throw themselves at him because of his money. He's never been in love, even when he was with my Mom, and I didn’t want that. I don't want that. I want to be in love. I want to marry someone I'm in love with and not because it is what has been decided for me.” 
Of course, he would have a real reason that you couldn't get mad at. And of course, it’s romantic as hell. At least he’s being open about it now.
You look up at him, and you realize that this is the same Daichi that he's always been. Those are the same eyes that you've been looking at for months, the same hands that have held you so many times, the same Daichi as always, just a different setting.
“You know I'm not like that Dai, you could have told me,” you reply, your voice softer than it was earlier.
He takes a step closer, his hands reaching out and rubbing away at the stress in your shoulders.
“I know, I know, I’m sorry that I kept this hidden from you. I should have told you.” He sighs, closing the remaining space between the two of you and moving his hands to cup your face. “I just want you to understand what getting into a full relationship with me would mean.”
The way Daichi is looking at you makes your heart melt. His eyes reach your face in desperation, half expecting you to push him away but you just lean into his hands, closing your eyes and savoring his touch before you match his vulnerable gaze.
“What would a full relationship mean then, Daichi?” you practically purr at him.
“It means all this,” he says before kissing you lightly. “All the fun stuff, the cars, the houses, the private jets,” he kisses you again. “But it also comes with a lot of not fun stuff too.”
You take a deep breath before responding, heart pounding from the intimacy of the moment. “And what would happen if I said that I still wanted a relationship with you? Even with the not-fun stuff.”
His breath hitches before he smiles. “I'd give you everything,” he whispers, eyes searching yours again, thumbs caressing your lips softly as he still cradles your face in his hands. “I'd buy you the moon if you wanted it.”
“Good thing I don't want the moon then.” You grab his shirt, closing the gap between the two of you before kissing him.
His hands fall to your hips before he starts to push you backwards towards the Ferrari behind you, until your ass hits the car, never disconnecting from the kiss.  
His lips feel warm on yours as you get swept away into the moment with him. Your lips moving in tandem before his tongue expertly sweeps out at your bottom lip. You let out a moan, allowing his tongue to slip into your mouth. 
His grip on your waist only gets harder when he starts to move his body against yours, rutting his hips against yours, letting out a small moan into your mouth.
If the two of you weren't so caught up in each other, you would have heard Kuroo pull up to the garage and step out of his car before just staring at the two of you locked in each other's embrace. He rests his cheek on his short car door before he reaches a hand inside his car to honk the horn. You and Daichi startle at the sound, pulling apart as Daichi sends Kuroo a death glare.
Kuroo lets out a loud laugh unaffected by Daichi’s glare. “Thanks for the show, but are we going to race or what?”
Daichi waves him off, looking back down at you, his eyes bouncing from your lips to your eyes, with a smirk, “Do you want to drive?”
You hear Kuroo drive away as you playfully smack Daichi’s chest before you exclaim, “God no!”
His eyes close as he chuckles at you, “Okay, fair. But which one do you want to take?”
You look around at the cars not really knowing too much about them, so you ask, “Which one is the fastest?”
He smirks at you and says, “That’s my girl,” before throwing an arm around your shoulder and grabbing the key for the white Koenigsegg Regera off the hook.
He walks you over to the passenger side of the car, opening the scissor door for you and watching you take a seat before pulling it closed and jogging to his side, getting in the car. 
The brown leather of the interior is a stark contrast to the white of the outside paint, and you find your body being cradled in the expensive bucket seat. Daichi leans over you, grabbing your seat belt and buckling it for you, bringing his face inches away from yours, teasing you before he buckles his own seat.
He pulls out of the garage slowly before putting the pedal to the floor and driving off towards the airstrip, racing around a few tight corners before he drives towards the runway where the other three cars are already lined up. 
Bokuto jumps off of his side fender when he sees you and Daichi approach and makes his way inside his car with an excited spring in his step. Kiyoko kisses Tanaka before making her way into her borrowed car and Kuroo, who was sitting cross-legged on the roof of his car watches the two of you pull up before jumping down and walking towards you.
Daichi meticulously lines up the front wheels with the other cars, before letting the engine idle, rolling down the window to talk to Kuroo.
When the rooster-haired man leans down to talk into the window, you don't miss his glance at you, before his eyes dart back to Daichi, and a small dusting of pink appears on his cheeks.
“We've decided we're doing a mile drag, first to cross the line wins, the loser has to make dinner and wash the dishes,” Kuroo announces.
Daichi looks over to you, intertwining your fingers and bringing them up to lips, kissing your knuckles, and a determined look crosses his face, his mouth turning up on the corner in a smirk. “Winner gets to pick what's for dinner, so you better decide what you want.”
His competitive side is something that you rarely see, usually only coming out when he's challenged, and the charged air around him has heat pooling between your legs. 
Daichi lets your hand go and starts going through the settings of the car, setting up the launch control, mumbling to himself as he remembers how to set it up, as Kuroo heads back to his car.
You hear the roar of the other engines as they come to life and look through Daichi’s window at the other drivers, all giving thumbs up, ready to start.
Before Daichi gives his thumbs-up, he turns to you, “Just keep your head back, alright?”
You give him a worried look, but comply, placing the back of your head on the headrest behind you. You're concerned about what to do with your hands so you decide to place them in your lap.
Daichi gives the thumbs up and rolls his window up, giving the engine a few revs before hovering his foot over the gas in wait.
You watch as a now shirtless Tanaka walks out in between the cars. You can barely hear him as he starts to count down from five, but when he gets to one, he starts waving his shirt in the air wildly and Daichi slams on the gas.
The world starts to blur as the car accelerates. The loud roar of the engine assaults your ears as your heart starts to beat faster from the sudden adrenaline rush. 
Time seems to slow as you go faster. You watch the speedometer increase: 60, 80,100, 120 and it’s still climbing.
The noise of the air rushes past as the car seamlessly cuts through and you feel your heart beating in your throat. 
You look over at Daichi to see a big smile on his face; he knows he’s winning and you take the time to look back as Kuroo is being passed by Kiyoko, and she's getting closer to Daichi.
You let out a laugh: the crazy speeds and all the adrenaline pumping through making your body seem like it's on fire.
You glance at the speedometer and watch it hit 240 mph before you and Daichi cross the finish line first and he slams on the brakes. You are very glad you listened to him about keeping your head back, or else you're sure you would have whiplash.
Daichi stops the car, putting it in park before turning to look at you, your eyes full of bewilderment as your body tries to process the fact that you're in one piece after such a rush. 
“Holy shit Dai! You won! We won! That was amazing!” you exclaim frantically to a smiling Daichi, laughing along with you as you stammer on about how fast it was. 
The other cars form a circle with the hoods facing each other, and you watch as everyone starts to get out.
Daichi nods his head towards the others, “Come on, let’s go gloat.”
Everyone sits or leans against the hood of their cars, and Daichi once again has you tucked under his arm. You laugh along with the group and their antics as they argue over the standings. The official decision was that Daichi won, which was unanimous, with Kiyoko taking second, followed by Kuroo and Bokuto. 
Bokuto said something about his launch control was being finicky before all of you hear whooping and yelling coming from a very out-of-breath Tanaka. He had apparently started running after the cars had left and was just now reaching the group.
Everyone is in high spirits as you talk for a bit and you seem to mesh seamlessly with them, throwing out a few quips that make Bokuto and Kuroo snort, teaming up with Kiyoko when the boys get too rowdy. It almost seems like you're not the new person in the group, that you’ve known them forever, and you are really happy that Daichi has surrounded himself with great people.
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The rest of the evening was spent driving the cars and having long chats afterwards, about nothing and everything all at once. 
When it came time for dinner, since you and Dai were the winners, you got to decide what Bokuto was making for everyone. His attempt at your favorite dish left the kitchen filled with smoke and Daichi surprised everyone with pizza, even before talks of a back up plan for was discussed.
Then you heard the horn of a ship, followed by mixed reactions as the five of you clear up dinner and get ready to leave the mansion for the ‘sex ferry,’ as Bokuto called it.
Daichi gets closer to you and murmurs into your hair, “Watch out for pervs on the boat, stay close to me, yeah?” You nod, as you wrap your arm around his ready to leave.
That is, until Kiyoko stops Daichi before the two of you make it out the door, “I’m stealing her for a second, she can't go on a yacht dressed like that!”
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You look yourself over in the mirror and you have to admit, Kiyoko did an excellent job dressing you up.
Your hair is perfectly styled and your face has just the right amount of makeup. Kiyoko crosses in front of the mirror applying the finishing touch: a shimmering lip gloss that is the perfect shade for you. The oversized, white knit sweater that she had you put on hangs loosely over your curves, tucked in perfectly into the brown skirt that she picked out for you. It's not a look that you would usually go for, but you have to give her credit, she did a good job, you look stunning.
On the way up to this ginormous closet, she had explained to you that Daichi’s sisters had this closet stocked with every size and designer label known to man, just in case any of their friends needed a last minute change of clothes. 
At first, you didn't believe her, but when you saw the enormous room with a rainbow of color-coordinated clothes hanging from floor to ceiling you changed your tune. You were even more shocked to find that all of the clothes still had their price tags on, wincing at the $1,000 price of one pair of pants.
Kiyoko gives you one last glance over before she starts to get herself ready, dressing in a black long-sleeved dress, the hem of the skirt falling just at her thighs and fishnet stockings, the exact opposite of the aesthetic she chose for you. 
She applies her red lipstick with a pop before turning to you, “Well, what do you think?’
She takes your hand and twirls you around so that you are facing the mirror before she rests her chin on your shoulder.
You laugh at her antics, before replying, “I think we look hot!”
The two of you make your way down to the boat, exiting the mansion through a side door and make your way down to the dock.
Now that you are up close to the boat, you can see the massive amount of people on board. The four decks are filled to the brim with people dancing, talking, and making out, all with various drinks in their hands, and you can see Aoba Johsai written in cursive on the side of the boat.
The two of you step onboard and you hear him before you see him, “Kiyoko, over here!”
Tanaka is calling out for her through the crowd of people, leaning along the railing of the boat, dressed in all black and holding two beers.
She makes her way through the crowd with you close behind. Tanaka wraps her in his arms, kissing her on the cheek.
“Looking good babe,” he growls into her ear as she takes one of the beers from his hand.
The two of them look like they are about to start making out with all of their flirty touches, and you would like to find Daichi as soon as possible so you clear your throat and ask, “Do you know where Daichi is?”
“He's usually in the second-floor pool room; it’s up the stairs, second door on the right,” Tanaka replies while gesturing toward the stairway back by where you just came from.
You nod and take your leave, making your way to the stairs, bumping into people on the crowded deck. After the first few steps, you look back at Kiyoko, wondering if she’s coming with you. Too late, you think as you watch Tanaka pull her hips closer to his, whisper into her ear, and start kissing down her neck.
You shake your head and continue on, happy that she's having fun, but wishing you still had her company by your side. 
At the top of the stairs, you only see one door that opens to an empty hallway. You decide to take your luck with it, even if this isn't the right place, it's a nice space to take a breather from all the people. 
You open the door and what you thought was a quiet hallway turns out to be an echo chamber for the bass echoing off the walls. Where is the music even coming from; you barely heard it outside?
Leaning against the wall, you take a few deep breaths, which are immediately interrupted by the smell of cigar smoke wafting towards you. Part of you wants to leave but the other part of you says stay, stay for him. 
This is so much to process, you can already feel a migraine coming on. The smell of cigar smoke and the thumping bass echoing off the walls of the ship isn't helping your stress levels. Where is Daichi? This would be so much easier if he would just appear by your side magically.
The door you just came through opens and shuts with a squeak, and you hope that your prayers have been answered, but when you turn to look at the person who just joined your space, it is very much not Daichi.
His blonde hair and very noticeable tongue ring are the farthest from Daichi as you can get, and you really wish that you weren't in this hallway alone with him right now.
He makes his way closer to you, getting in your personal space, leaning one arm against the wall next to your head to look you up and down, before licking his lips.
“Hey baby girl, are you lost?”  
You start to look for an exit as he moves closer to you. “No, I'm just looking for someone,” you reply.
His arms cage you in, not giving you any room to move away. “Aw, don't be like that, I can show you a good time too,” he insists. “The name's Yūji Terushima, you'll need to know it when you're screaming it out later.”
You try to move away from him but he won't let you pass, until you hear a door open. 
Daichi comes out of one of the side rooms and the instant he sees you trapped by this man, his eyes turn red with anger.
He rushes over to the two of you, yelling out, “Hey! Get off of her!”
Terushima isn't quick enough to respond, turning to face Daichi, but Daichi is already at his side sending his fist flying towards the blond's nose with a mean right hook. 
Your body sags with relief as Daichi pulls you into his arms and Terushima is on the floor withering in pain, gasping at his probably broken nose.
Daichi is frantically looking over you, checking your arms and face for any sort of harm, “Did he touch you? Are you okay?” he questions you rapidly.
You bury your face in his chest and nod, “Yeah, I'm ok.”
He puts his arms around you before pulling you away towards the door he just came from.  “We're down here,” he says, glaring at Terushima covered in his blood on the floor, leading you away from him.
The room that Daichi was in is stuffed full of people. People line the walls, getting very personal with each other, while others sit on the couches in the center of the room with people pulled onto their laps or under their arms. There are two pool tables on either side of the couches and you spot Kuroo and Bokuto playing what looks like a game of strip pool with four girls, and, from the looks of it, they are losing badly. On the other end of the room is a large bar, with glass bottles lining shelves behind it and a few empty bar stools.
Daichi chooses to ignore his almost naked friends and heads towards the bar, pulling out a stool for you before taking the seat next to you.
The bartender has very fluffy brown hair with matching brown eyes and once he's done serving up drinks to the couple down the bar, he makes his way over to you.
He starts to gather a glass for Daichi without even asking him what he wanted and then looks at you expectantly, “Well cutie, what can I get for you?”
Daichi levels his gaze at the man, and you can feel the deep grumble vibrate from his chest before he turns to you, “This,” he gestures to the bartender, “is Oikawa.”
Oikawa gives you a wink before scurrying out of Daichi’s reach as he playfully tries to grab him, causing Daichi to let out a huff. 
With the weird environment you're in, you think it's best to forgo alcohol, at least for now, so you ask Oikawa for water.
He hands you a glass with lots of ice in it and you watch the way the two of them interact. Their friendship looks to be built on a bed of mutual annoyance, but you can see how they care about each other hidden in the undertones of their speech. 
The night goes on and you spend a lot of it with Oikawa and Daichi at the bar. Oikawa asks you lots of personal questions, some of which you choose to ignore, and some of them you indulge him a little. If Daichi trusts him, it's okay for you too, right?
Just as your ass is starting to hurt from the barstool, a younger man comes up to Daichi, his orange hair bouncing in the wind as he practically vibrates in place. You catch his name, Hinata, and some of what he's trying to explain. There seems to be trouble between him and another guy, and he came to Daichi to be the mediator. 
You can't blame him; in fact, if you were having any sort of trouble, Daichi's the first person that you would seek out. Daichi is so strong and dependable, he makes the rest of the world feel safe and easy. It's not that he makes problems go away but he seems to take in the situation for what it is and find a solution that seems so blatantly obvious you can't believe that no one else thought of it first.
Daichi is that and so much more. His playfulness and competitiveness are something that you saw today when he was driving that car. Not to mention how hot he looked behind the wheel, his arms muscles were on full display and you barely even got the chance to stare at them. You think about going back in time just so that you could watch them flex as he gripped the steering wheel.
You shake your head, trying to pull your brain away from the horny thoughts, but all that manages to do is send you back to the memories of your hot makeout session in the garage earlier. How his hands were all over your body, his lips pressed to yours...
Daichi’s laugh pulls you from your daydream and you realize that he, Hinata and Oikawa are all staring at you. His hand is waving in front of your face, “Earth to Y/N.”
Your shocked expression tells you everything he needs to know so he repeats himself, putting his hand on your knee, “You good here for a minute? I gotta help Hinata with something.” You nod at him and the two walk off together.
Oikawa talks to you in between serving people drinks and you manage to have a decent conversation about your university studies. Turns out, he is studying a major very similar to yours.
Oikawa pulls his phone out and answers it, before putting it down on his shoulder, turning to you, “I have to take this, I’ll have one of my boys take you to Daichi.”
He turns to one of the nearby couches close to the bar before barking out, “Mattsun, take her out to where Daichi is. I have some shit to deal with.”
The man he called out to kisses the blonde sitting on his lap before moving her off of him so that he can help you find Daichi. His tall body leads you out onto the deck of the boat through hordes of drunk people dancing and making out until you spot an orange mess of hair and Daichi standing next to him.
As you get closer you notice a small, but rather important detail that you couldn't see when you were farther away, Daichi is surrounded by tall, skinny, gorgeous-looking supermodels, and all of them seem to have their hands on him.
Daichi seems not to notice the touches, he's too focused on a boy with black hair laying upside down on a lounge chair, his hair softly caressing the wooden deck with every small gust of wind. 
You notice another woman start to touch his hair before Daichi swats her away like she’s a fly before he's kneeling to look at the chair guy again. 
Mattsun leads you closer to Daichi, announcing your arrival before saying his goodbyes and heading back where he came from. You yell out thanks as he is leaving and he waves his hand in the air as he walks away.
Daichi stands from his kneeling position and moves to your side. He has to get closer to your ear to talk as you are now closer to wherever the loud music is coming from but you don't mind, wrapping your arms around his waist possessively, eyeing the other girls.
“Kageyama had too much to drink, he's absolutely wasted,” Daichi says loudly, making sure you can hear him over the bumping bass.
You wished you would have grabbed your water before you left the bar. Just when you're about to suggest someone go get him some water, Oikawa bursts out onto the deck from a side door, exclaiming, “That little shit!” before running off towards the upper decks. You see that he's being followed by Mattsun, the guy who just helped you, and two other men, one with spiky black hair and the other with short pink hair. They all look extremely pissed.
You hear the sound of helicopter blades before you feel a blast of wind, causing the water to start rippling around the boat. You look curiously up at Daichi before he's turning and barking orders to Hinata to get the drunk guy some water and crackers before he's grabbing your hand.
“There's only one man that could be, and we better go make sure Oikawa doesn't kill him.”
By the time you two make it to the upper deck where the helipad is, there already seems to be a standoff in place. A tall man with dark olive hair stands with a large briefcase tucked under the arm of his suit coat. He does not look like he's dressed for a party, but instead like he's about to go into a courtroom.
This new man's face is void of emotion as Oikawa is practically snarling at him, lip upturned like an angry dog.
Daichi runs between the two warring factions, putting up his hands to Oikawa before turning to the tall man.
But before Daichi can say anything Oikawa is yelling over his head, “Who said you could land here, get lost!”
The tall man completely ignores Oikawa, walking up to Daichi, “Ah, Sawamura, just the man I was hoping to see.”
Oikawa's face turns red with anger, if this was an anime you are sure that there would be steam coming out of his head.
Daichi looks at him quizzically, “All this just to see me? Should we go talk in private?”
Ushijima gives him a confirming grunt, nodding his head and Daichi leads him around Oikawa and his men, stopping to whisper something in Oikawa's ear, looking at you, before making his way over to you.
His hand cups your face and you nuzzle into them as he speaks, “I have to go talk to Ushijima. Oikawa said he'll watch out for you so stay here until I get back alright?”
You don't want to leave his side again, but this must be important if a guy is willing to land on what seems to be his mortal enemy's boat only to talk to Daichi. You give him a small pout before you nod, and he kisses you before turning and jogging after the mysterious Ushijima.
Oikawa throws his hands up into the air making his way over to a bar. Damn, he really has these things on every level, doesn't he?
This bar is smaller than the one in the pool room, and only has two stools, but there is a long couch next to it where his men sit down. He motions for you to take a seat at the bar as he starts pouring drinks for the other three, before offering to do the same for you. Taking him up on his offer this time he makes you both matching fruity drinks with cute umbrellas before he joins you, sitting at the barstool next to you.
Oikawa still seems to be on edge from his confrontation with Ushijima, or the lack of one, so the two of you sit in comfortable silence for a bit. You watch some of the party-goers stumble around on the lower decks, and you see women and men come up to talk to the three sitting on the couches. You pick up their names after a bit — Iwaizumi, Makki, and Mattsun, are what everyone calls them — and you eventually watch Mattsun get pulled away by the busty blonde you saw him with earlier.
Oikawa seems to pull himself out of his mental slump when he finishes his drink while you've only been sipping on yours, so you are nowhere near close to finishing it. He makes his way back over to the bar side and washes his cup before he starts making another concoction for himself.
He breaks his silence, “So, you and Daichi are pretty cute together.”
You hum at him in agreement, taking another small sip of your drink.
He continues, “He must be pretty serious about you if he's bringing you all the way out here. He's never brought a girl here before.”
Daichi and you haven't talked about your past relationships, but you aren't really surprised to hear that with what he told you earlier about wanting to be in love.
You don't want to pry, but you do want to know more. This side of Daichi’s life is still a mystery to you. 
“Not even one girl?” you ask him in all sincerity.
Oikawa smirks, glad that he caught your attention with that one. “Well, he did date a girl from our neck of the woods, if that's what you want to call us rich shits. She was hot and smart but they never really seemed to mesh.”
You give him a curious look so he continues, “She was all business, no heart. And you know Daichi, his heart is ten times too big. They just didn't work.”
You nod taking in your new information before you feel someone next to you, the man with the pink hair, Makki. 
He opens his mouth before he leans on the bar to stabilize himself, the alcohol apparently starting to kick in. His words are slurred together. “Are you two talking about Daichi? I heard some models say they would pay $10,000 to lick one of his thigh muscles!”
Oikawa pushes the drunken Makki off the bar and he stumbles back to the couch before slumping over into a woman's cleavage.
“Don't mind him,” Oikawa says, trying to bring back the lighter mood from earlier. “He doesn't know what he's talking about.”
Oh, but you do know what he’s talking about. You've been avoiding the thoughts since you landed, but now there's no holding back the dark thoughts you've been trying to suppress. 
How are you supposed to be good enough for him? For Daichi and his big heart? You've seen it so much tonight, the way he laughs and takes care of his friends, like it’s second nature, coming easier than breathing for him. He's so caring, compassionate, fun and you're just you. 
How are you supposed to compete for his attention when you are up against literal supermodels? 
You swipe at frustrated tears forming in the corner of your eyes before speaking to Oikawa, “Can you tell Daichi I’m gonna go back to the house, I'm tired. But it was nice to meet you.”
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You were very much not tired. This was the most wide-awake you have felt in quite some time. Your mind races with all the things that are wrong about the situation you find yourself in. You would laugh at how being on a billionaire’s floating sex boat is what made you feel this insecure if you weren’t feeling so pathetic.
You find your way off the boat with ease, pushing past people grinding on each other to get back to the dock so you can make your way to the safety of your bedroom. 
As you get to the house’s side door you hear a familiar voice calling out your name.
Turning around, you see Daichi running up the path you just took, before he stops next to you, out of breath. 
“Did you sprint all the way up here?” you ask him.
“Yeah…” he pants out in between breaths. “I wanted ... to catch you.”
“I told Oikawa I was going to bed, it’s been a long day and —,” you try to explain but he interrupts you. 
“Are you actually tired?”
You are fidgeting with your hands, not wanting to lie to him, “Well, not exactly...”
“Come somewhere with me.” It flows out of his mouth like a demand but you can see the question in his eyes as they gleam in the darkness. You look at him quizzically before he continues, “Don't worry, no one else is gonna be there.”
Your lips turn in a small smile at his statement, “Just us?”
He takes your hands, placing them both between his own and brings them to his lips, giving your knuckles a light kiss. He keeps them there when he replies, “Yes, just us. I promise.”
You think for a minute, and then give him a hesitant yes. 
His face lights up, “Okay, let's get some supplies.”
He takes your hand, pulling you into the kitchen, grabbing the snacks you like, and a nice chilled glass of water along with two glasses before motioning to a cupboard, telling you to grab the best blankets. 
When you rub the blankets on your skin to test which ones are softer, Daichi smirks at you. 
“Cute,” he says before making his way over to you, “but make sure you grab one of the big sturdy ones too.”
He grabs a basket for all the stuff and wraps you in one of the soft blankets before heading to the elevator that was tucked away in the corner of the kitchen.
“An elevator, really?” you grin at him, your earlier frustration easing away the more time you spend with him and his smile.
“To be fair, it was installed before we bought the house, but my grandma does use it a lot.”
The two of you ride the elevator to the top floor where Daichi starts running a hand along the wall looking for something. When a secret door pops open, he laughs at your shocked expression before motioning you to follow him inside.  
A hidden staircase leads the two of you up to the roof and you take in the sight of the grounds. You can see the race track where you spent your evening, the large yacht floating below filled with people still bumping away to the music, and the stars... You swear that you've never seen the stars shine so bright before. You can see them weaving patterns in the night sky, their stories unknown to you but you enjoy their beauty nonetheless.
When you look over at Daichi, his eyes are soft as they trace your features, and you love the way his gaze makes you feel.
He leads you out to a small section of the roof near the middle of the house where he lays the thick blanket on the ground, setting out the snacks and taking off his shoes before sitting down on the blanket, patting the spot next to him as you take off your shoes and join him.
The two of you sit together, eating snacks, sharing stories for a while, staring up at the night sky together, before he turns to you with a playful glint in his eyes. 
“Let's play a game,” he proposes.
You look him over and nod, waiting for him to explain the game.
“It's easy, just ask me anything, whatever you need answered and I won't hold anything back.” He seems very confident, obviously wanting to make himself an open book after keeping this big secret from you. There are so many things you could ask, you don’t know where to start. 
You raise an eyebrow at him before asking, “What is the worst decision you've ever made?”
He rolls his head to look you in the eyes, before raising his eyebrows at you, “Going right for the hard-hitting questions then?”
“You said you'd answer Daichi, are you gonna take that back?” you say with a little smirk.
He thinks for a moment before replying. “Fine,” He says before rolling his eyes, “I let Bokuto give me a tattoo once when we were both drunk.”
He sees your quizzical eyes as you try to suppress your laughter, “It’s on my ass and it’s a smiley face. Stop laughing!”
You can't stop the laughter that comes from you as you imagine your big strong Daichi with a funky little tattoo on his ass cheek. You are wiping the tears out of your eyes as he takes his opportunity for revenge.
“Okay, my turn!” he exclaims, rubbing his hands together.
You have to stop laughing so hard so that you can retort, “Wait, wait, you never said that I would have to answer too!”
He smiles and shakes his head, laughing. “Yeah, I guess you're right. How about I get to ask you a question for every two questions you ask me? And you don't have to answer if you don't want to.”
You look at him questioningly and you are very curious as to what Daichi would want to know about you so badly he’s willing to put himself on the line first. “Sounds fun,” you smile. 
“Good, what's your second question?”
“What were you talking about with that guy, Ushijima?”
He looks uncomfortable as he tries to think about how to answer you. “Well, he mostly just saw Oikawa's boat and wanted to annoy him,” he chuckles before continuing. “But he also wanted to talk about a deal that our fathers are trying to make to secure our family ties. It's something that we both are very against.”
His answer leaves you with more questions, “What do you mean, ‘family ties’?”
He smoothly switches from his uncomfortable state and offers you a coy smile, “Do you want that to be your next question, sweetheart?”
Rolling your eyes at him you respond, “Ugh, no.”
“Okay, good because I really don't want to think about it. My turn then.” He thinks for a second before asking, “Do you think this,” he gestures into the air, “is too much for you? You know, the cars, boats, houses, money?”
You pause to gather your thoughts, staring up at the night sky again.
“I think that it's a lot to take in all at once,” you say slowly, calculating each word before it comes out of your mouth. “Especially the sex party boat,” you chuckle, “But I could get used to it.” You let the ‘for you’ hang in the air unspoken. 
He grabs your hand, looking up to the stars, “I’m glad. Okay, what's your next question?”
You don't want to ruin the mood and ask about the ‘family ties’ between his and Ushijima’s families, so instead, you choose a safer route. 
“What was it like growing up?”
He seems taken aback at first before a simple smile adorns his face, “My parents didn't love each other, not really. They had me, and then my brothers and sisters, but when times got hard they didn't support each other. They divorced pretty early in my life, I was still a kid when it happened.”
He pauses when you squeeze his hand in reassurance, but he's still smiling as he continues, “They split the companies between them, got us a nanny, and we bounced back and forth between houses every few months. I eventually just ended up as the caretaker for my siblings, making sure they didn't turn into spoiled brats.”
His laugh at the last part is so genuine it makes your heart flutter, but even so, his life has been far from perfect. “Wow, Daichi, I’m sorry you had to go through that.”
“It wasn't that bad, I got to have a lot of fun.” He shakes off your concerned look before he gets to ask his question, “My turn again. What was it like for you growing up?”
You explain to him about your family dynamic, watching how his eyes seem to light up when you make jokes and then fall when you mention your hardships. He squeezes your hand like he never wants to let go when you finish telling him your stories, a playful smile returning to his lips before he tells you to ask your next set of questions. 
You think of what to ask next, and your face grows hot as your brain churns up a question that you have never talked about with Daichi before. 
Your tongue stumbles as the words flow from your mouth, “Have you had sex before?”
He tries to suppress his smile, “Yeah a few times, not with anyone really special though.”
Your lips part in surprise and you find yourself asking in a breathless tone, “What’s your number?”
Daichi leans closer to you, erasing the distance between your bodies as his hands move up the skin on your exposed thigh, leaving goosebumps in their wake, “Is that your next question?”
You're breathless, the heat from his fingers distracting you from the fire brewing inside you,  “Yeah, it is.”
Daichi’s lips are so close to your own you can feel his breath on your soft skin, his voice dipping an octave when he asks, “Why, do you want to be one of them?”
You clear your mind enough to retort back at him. “Is that your next question?” you say, brushing your nose against his teasingly.
“Yes,” he answers before his breath hitches in his throat as you move your hands to his thighs.
“You first,” you giggle as his cheeks turn a bright shade of pink.
He answers as quickly as possible, his words almost too fast to hear but his tone is so low it sends shockwaves straight to your core. “It’s four, Laney in high school, this girl Kay at a party, Hime my ex and then Jackie in college a year ago. Your turn.”
Your mind clouds with his scent as you bring your hands up to his chest. Why is he so hot when talking about other people he's fucked, and why aren't you more jealous? 
“I- uh, yeah. I would love to be your number five,” you stammer out. 
He smirks at you, both of you are very obviously in need of each other's touch, more than you were getting and you can't deny how good it feels to have his undivided attention like this. Something about Daichi makes you forget your sense of self, and his touch instantly sends your heart racing.
“Do you have any more questions, sweetheart?”
You nod, biting your lip, “Are you going to kiss me, Dai?”
He nods before his eyes search yours. The stars tonight are reflected in his dark irises and you swear that you could get lost in him if you looked long enough. 
Daichi moves closer to you at an agonizingly slow pace, and you savor the electricity that is simmering in the distance. It's enough to have your heart skip a beat before he closes the gap.
His lips meet yours and it's slow at first. His touch and kiss are reminiscent of the way that stars seemingly burn for eons until they can't take any more heat and explode in a fury of passion.
You grab the collar of his shirt, bringing him impossibly closer to you, wanting to erase any remaining space between the two of you. You seemingly throw him off his balance as he almost falls on top of you. You can feel him smile into the kiss before he starts to reposition your body with his big, strong hands. 
Daichi sits back, before pulling your body into his lap, wrapping your legs around his waist before continuing the kiss. His tongue swipes at your bottom lip and you moan at the contact, allowing him access, while you snake your hands into his hair, giving his roots a slight tug to get him to kiss you harder.
More. You need more.
His hands move up your body from your hips with a slow drag of his fingertips up to your neck, cradling your head in his hands, angling your head to kiss you deeper. 
Your body burns at the contact with him, your soul reaching out for his through your kiss. Hearts melting and colliding into one supernova as your lips push and pull against each other. This heat that ignites within you that only he can seem to control, grows and grows until you feel like you're going to go insane if you don't touch him more soon. 
Grinding your hips down on him, you can feel how much he is enjoying this, and you can't help but smile when he lets out a small whine into your mouth. Kissing him harder you start to move your hips against his as he ruts up into you at the same time. The delicious friction you've been craving but it's not enough, you need more.
His mind must have melded with yours because he stops kissing you, pulling away with your bottom lip caught between his teeth until you let out a small gasp. 
“Pretty girl, tell me you want this,” he asks breathlessly.
You feel your cunt clench at his praise, needing more from him, needing everything. 
“Dai, I want all of you.”
His breath hitches in his throat, and his eyes take in the sight of you on top of him with the endless backdrop of stars above you. 
The look he's giving you melts any remaining pieces of your heart into a giant puddle, his eyes are soft and a small smile is on his lips as he whispers, “I think I’m falling in love with you.”
You rest your forehead on his, looking him in the eyes and reply, “me too.”
He smiles at you bigger and you can't imagine feeling any happier than you are right now, his eyes crinkle in happiness before he buries his face into your chest, wrapping around you and hugging you with a huge amount of strength. 
You let him hold you like that for a few seconds before the need growing in your stomach becomes unbearable.
You move your hands to cradle his head, pulling him from your chest so that you can look at him. His eyes are half-lidded looking up at you in awe, like he can’t believe that you're here with him on his lap.
“Daichi,” you practically purr, “please, fuck me.”
His eyes flutter at your words, and he bites his lip. He looks like he's fighting some sort of internal battle.
Before you can register his movement, the world is tilting on its axis, and your back is now on the soft blanket. His strong arms caging you under him and your legs are around his waist as he leans over you.
You can see why he was staring up at you earlier, he looks heavenly with the night sky as his backdrop. The soft glow from the house illuminating his features and he looks beautiful and so fucking sexy. 
His eyes land on your lips and you watch as one corner of his mouth tilts up in satisfaction at your reaction to him. 
“Aw, my girl thinks I'm sexy,” he says, nuzzling his nose against yours as he taunts you.
You can't believe you said that out loud, but it's true so you nod, worried what else will come out of your mouth if you choose to open it. 
He leans down so that he is right next to your ear and he growls, “I think she’s fucking sexy too.” 
He gives your earlobe a small nip before he starts kissing your neck. You turn your head, giving him more room, and he takes full advantage of it, tracing his tongue along your pulse before moving his lips against your skin. His lips search your neck until he finds that spot that makes you gasp, and then he focuses all his attention there, biting it lightly before his tongue swipes away the sting. 
You moan for him, moving your hand to his hair, gathering some between your fingers before he sucks hard. Your hips jut up, grinding on him in pleasure, and both of you moan into each other as your clothed cunt brushes against his hard cock.
“I’ve been so fucking hard for you since our kiss earlier.” His mouth kisses down to your shoulder which is still covered by your sweater. “Do you want my mouth or my fingers?”
His hands make their way under your sweater and over the skin of your stomach, before teasing your nipples through your bra and you let out a gasp when he gives one of them a squeeze, a warning for you not answering him.
“I asked you a question, answer me,” he says in a stern voice that sends shivers down your spine and makes your eyes flutter.
Your mind tries to calculate a response, as the assault on your nipples increases, sending shocks of pleasure right to your core.
Unable to focus on anything but how his fingers feel on your skin as he trails a hand down your body, “your fingers, please” you moan out for him.
He leans back and pushes your skirt up around your hips before he starts to tease his fingers along the cloth covering your core. 
His gaze on you makes you want to cover yourself up, but when you move to close your legs, his hand grabs your knee and pushes you back open for him.
He uses both of his hands to pull your underwear down, staring at the string of slick that connects them and your soaked folds. He tosses them somewhere over his shoulder, before taking in the sight before him. The cold night air meets your warm cunt and sends shivers up your spine, but the cold is quickly replaced with the heat of Daichi’s warm hands on your thighs.
“God, you're beautiful,” he groans, as he watches your cunt flutter around nothing at the depth of his voice. Fingers moving back to your slit, teasing your folds before he moves his fingers up to circle your clit.
You let out a gasp when he finally touches you where you've been needing him. Your hips jut up in search of more contact. 
He teases his fingers through your folds before sliding one into you. You can feel how wet you are and it makes your face heat up but he feels so good inside you, you don't care.
He thrusts his finger into you a few times before adding a second, watching your face morph into pleasured bliss before focusing his attention on the way your walls are trying to suck him inside.
Your hands move to your chest, kneading the flesh there as he increases his pace, finger-fucking you until he finds the spot that makes you scream.
The pleasure in your body continues to build as he focuses all his attention on that one spot. Your nerves are all on fire and you can feel the building pressure, just waiting to be released. Daichi is making you feel so alive, his fingers working magic on your body, weaving their way into your soul and imprinting his mark there where it can never leave.
All of the muscles in your body tense and you hear Daichi say, “cum for me,” before the coil inside you snaps and your body convulses in pleasure, singing out his name in praise as he sends you to the stars. His voice and fingers still work you over, sending more pleasure into your system before you feel yourself gush around his fingers, your body almost folding in on itself as you grab at his wrist to hold him still inside of you. 
Your breath comes out in short bursts as you relax onto the blanket with him still kneeling between your legs. When you look up at him, he has the cockiest smile on his face, obviously proud of himself.
You weakly smile and nod at him, hoping that he understands that he just sent you into orbit before you stretch out your hands for him. 
He reaches out, and you pull him down on top of you. You kiss him roughly and he eagerly ruts his hips into you, moaning into your mouth when he can feel your wetness seeping through his pants.
You reach down between your bodies, unbuckling his belt and undoing the button on his pants. You try to get to his cock, but with the angle you're at and his boxers getting in the way, you can't seem to reach, and you let out a small whine. 
Daichi seems to understand, and he pushes his pants and boxers down past his thighs, giving you the perfect view of his cock. 
It makes your mouth water and you want to taste him so bad. Your hands move to stroke him, gathering the precum that leaks onto your fingers before you pop them into your mouth, lapping up the flavor eagerly.
You moan at the taste, sucking on your fingers, wishing they were his cock. You vow to yourself to take him down your throat and have him at your mercy before the end of this trip.
Daichi’s hand pumps his shaft a few times before he runs the tip through your folds, gathering your slick, before circling your clit with the head of his cock. 
You moan at how thick and heavy he feels against your soft folds. “Please Dai. I need you so bad, please, fuck me.”
He lets out a groan. “When you ask so nicely, how can I say no?”
He lets go of his cock, and moves his hands up to hold yours, interlocking your fingers together before his lips connect to yours in a hungry kiss. He holds eye contact with you as he slowly moves his hips into position as the head of his cock slowly presses into you.
You watch him bite his lip as he fights the urge to buck into you, his half-lidded eyes concentrating on your face, watching your mouth form into a beautiful ‘o’ and your eyes flutter as he pushes more of himself inside you. 
When his hips are flush against yours, he stills, wanting to give you time to get used to his girth. He can't help but savor the way your walls are squeezing him and sucking him into you. You give him a slow nod before he starts moving again, slowly pulling out of you and before pushing back in with more power.
You can't help but dig your nails into the back of his hands, forming crescent-shaped indents. The way his cock hits all of the spots inside of you perfectly has you questioning if this is a dream, but the way he sounds and looks as he moves above you is something so hot that your brain could never imagine it this perfectly.
His lips scatter kisses along your jaw until he's at your neck again, savoring the feel of your still tender flesh against his tongue. He’s taking his time focusing on leaving his mark at the top of your collarbone, sucking and nipping at your skin.
His head falls to your shoulder and his breath turns uneven as he pants out, “if you keep squeezing me like that I'm not gonna last,” in between thrusts.
You aren't going to last either, the coil in your stomach is already dangerously close to snapping again.
“Da-Daddy,” you moan, completely lost in your pleasure.
He pauses above you with his cock still fully sheathed in your dripping cunt, his head snapping up off your shoulder to look into your eyes, his brow furrowing. “What did you just call me?”
It takes a second for your mind to process what you just said. His hips being completely still as his cock continues to stretch you is not helping your brain processes. 
And then it hits you, why did you just say that, oh no. “I’m sorry it slipped out — I’m so —” you panic, stopping when you realize he is shaking his head with a gleam in his eyes you haven’t seen before.
Daichi angles his hips before thrusting into you at an even harder and rougher pace. “Say it again,” he commands, each word accentuated by a heavy thrust.
You bite your lip as the pleasure takes over you once again as he pounds into you. The sheer strength he has is evident in the power behind each thrust.
You can't help yourself when you start babbling out a mixture of his name and new nickname, the two words becoming interchangeable on your tongue and streaming together. 
Daichi releases your hands so that he can get a better grip on your hips, pounding into you without abandon. His eyes go dark as he loses himself in the feeling of your cunt, so soft and pliant and warm all around him. All his.
He can feel you tensing around him, squeezing his soul out of his body as his cock begs for release.
He speaks through his teeth as his whole body is clenching, hold out his orgasm for you, "Fucking cum on my cock baby girl. I need to feel it."
He lets out a primal growl as you feel the pressure inside you release as your pussy milks his cock. Your orgasm crashing through you, forcing you to grip onto his strong shoulders, leaving dark circles that will eventually turn into bruises into his perfect skin. 
You cry out for him, chanting his name as your vision clouds over, and you swear you can see the universe unfolding and refolding in on itself as your body is propelled through time and space.
Your mind is hazy as your muscles twitch. Daichi is still pounding into you, babbling about how much of a good girl you are and how much he's going to fill you up, claim you as his. 
Your body is still shaking with pleasure when you feel Daichi’s thrusts start to waver, your pulsating walls still pulling him even deeper until he lets out a moan of your name above you. His eyes lock with yours as he spills his cum inside you, filling you up completely until it seeps out around his cock.
You both are panting as Daichi leans down to kiss you, his soft lips a stark contrast to the pounding your cunt just received. 
You wrap your arms around his neck, pulling his weight on top of you and keeping him sheathed inside you. 
The stars shine down on you in their infinite beauty and you wish you could stay in this moment forever with him, breathing in his scent, the two of your souls merged into one, with your breathing in sync. All you need is him, you think, only him and you could be happy forever.
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Daichi wakes up to the sound of his phone buzzing on the nightstand. He looks down at your sleeping form on his chest and debates on whether or not he should move you to turn the assault of buzzing off. 
When his phone quiets down, he lets out a small sigh of relief.
After last night on the roof, the two of you managed to sneak to his room without anyone seeing you. Kuroo and Bokuto almost caught the two of you, but with women on each of their arms, they were a little too preoccupied trying to navigate through the mansion to pay attention to you and Daichi hiding in the shadows, giggling at their antics. 
After the two of you got cleaned up, you both got comfortable under the covers, talking the night away, exchanging small kisses and playful jabs before you fell asleep on his chest.
He looks back down at you, and you look so cute sleeping in one of his shirts, the little bit of drool pooling on his chest is adorable and he wishes his phone was closer so he could take a photo.
The incessant buzzing starts again and he lets out a small curse. 
Whoever is calling him must really need him. He takes a deep breath, inhaling your shampoo before he very slowly moves your sleeping body off him.
He grabs his phone off the nightstand before heading to the bathroom, not wanting to disturb your sleep with whatever this phone call is.
Finally looking down at the caller ID, he wishes he would have just thrown his phone out the window but nevertheless, he answers after letting out a big sigh. 
“Dad, what do you need?”
His father talks to him through the phone before Daichi has heard enough. He says one phrase to his dad before hanging up the phone and turning his phone off and slamming it on the counter.
“Drop it, I am not meeting with Hime.”
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