the boys at school [completed]; jean, porco, zeke. [✿]
You start to get back out into the dating world and find yourself overwhelmed with options. Not only does Porco Galliard, the star player of the school’s hockey team want to get in your pants, but Jean Kirstein, the Captain of the rival team seems to be in love with you, AND Zeke Jaeger, your ex-boyfriend wants to get back together! How will figure out who really cares for you and who’s taking advantage of you without self-sabotaging?
the boys at work [completed]; eren, jean. [✿]
You’re in love with your best friend, but he’s still hung on up his ex-girlfriend, so you start sleeping with his former best friend to make him jealous. The four of you work together at one of the city’s most prestigious professional services companies and you’re struggling so much with the workload that you’re worried you might get fired. Can you successfully juggle all these relationships and your career, or will you burn out and lose it all?
the boys at work [deleted scenes]; additional content from tbaw series
⋙ hopeless; eren.
⋙ eren fucking jaeger; eren.
⋙ jean and eren backstory.
⋙ the reeves job; eren. [✿]
⋙ fake dating; eren. [✿]
⋙ meeting the parents; eren, jean.
⋙ anxiety; eren.
⋙ shameless; eren. [✿]
⋙ hot flashes; jean. [✿]
⋙ finally, a night alone; eren. [✿]
⋙ family.
⋙ the point; jean. [✿]
⋙ oneshots.
camping; eren. [✿]
While camping with friends, you realize just before bed that you forgot to pack your sleeping bag. Eren offers to let you stay with him in his tent and even though you can’t stand him, what other choice do you have?
for me?; armin. [✿]
You’re not doing well in class so Armin Arlert volunteers to help you out of the goodness of his heart… no other reason.
happy birthday!; jean. [✿]
You surprise your boyfriend, Jean Kirstein, on his birthday in the middle of the night in nothing but your ODM gear.
long distance; jean. [✿]
Jean has been travelling a lot for his new job and it's taking a toll on both of you. One late night, when you're feeling lonely, he surprises you with a phone call.
my first kiss; eren. [✿]
Embarrassed that you're falling behind your peers, you decide to have your first kiss with someone you meet at the party, but your childhood friend, Eren, really doesn't like that idea. Why would you want to learn how to kiss from some stranger when he can teach you?
that night; reiner, porco, zeke. [✿]
Zeke, Reiner, and Porco take you home for a little adult fun.
the roommate; jean. [✿]
After getting into a fight with your boyfriend, you go over to his apartment to beg for forgiveness. He’s not home, but his roommate, Jean Kirstein, is. Jean implies that your boyfriend is cheating on you and does his best to convince you to break up with him.
Here we go again! @quaelgeist333 asked for a BirchApple FreckleReed situation (what is this a love quadrangle?) and @greekstar asked for vanilla JayBriar, I added some warrior!Jay and background MC!Holly as a treat~
In the first AU, Birchface and Appledusk are a secret power couple, alongside Reedshine and Frecklewish. Reed and Apple do the fake dating, going off on “romantic walks” to meet their datefriends. Apple and Birch want kits, and Reed volunteers, so long as Apple takes over in the nursery when the kits are weaned - she loves being a warrior, and doesn’t want to be held down by motherhood too much, me and Freckle will be Aunts. Mapleshade, obsessed with Apple, sees one of these secret meetings, and plots revenge. She shows up in Thunderclan with three kits, claiming they’re Birch’s, but telling Birch they’re Apple’s. This Fails, because the “secret” relationships are more of a public secret in Thunderclan - Oakstar wasn’t too keen on his kits dating fishy trash, but they grew on him. Perchpaw and Flowerpaw gossip at the border, and Ravenwing has seen no warnings - all involved are careful to not fight each other, but defend their clan admirably otherwise. So everyone guesses that Maple got pregnant by some loner or maybe that barn cat. And then at Gathering Windclan reports missing kits, stolen from a queen who had just joined the clan. And everything clicks. Oakstar orders his warriors to hold down Maple, and Birch and Freckle lead some Windclan cats to the kits to return them. Maple is banished, but not before spilling the metaphorical beans about the Relationship Quadrangle. All look to the sky…and it’s clear and bright, stars gleaming. The clans vow to change the rules of cross-clan relationships, and how to handle kits from another clan, but it’s not over yet. A few days later, a storm rolls in, and Ravenwing checks on the river, only for Maple to drag him into the shadows. She holds him hostage, and when Freckle comes looking, Maple pounces, shredding her eyes. However, Reed, Birch, and Apple (Birch with his sister, and Apple and Reed summoned by a ghostly Riverstar) fight her off, sending her careening into the river, vanishing forever. Freckle is mostly blinded, and Ravenwing mauled, but both live.
In the second AU, when Firestar tries to reassign Jaypaw, Brightheart loudly disagrees. That’s MY apprentice, will you deny him like Bluestar denied Cinderpelt? Like she denied ME!? Or will you be a better leader? Firestar backs down, and an ever grateful Jaypaw throws himself into training, eventually earning his Warrior Name. He and Briarpaw are friendly, but when her back is broken, Jayflight stands for her like Brightheart stood for him. And Briarpaw digs it. When Briarlight becomes a full fledged camp guard, with therapy from Hollyberry, Briar immediately starts flirting with a baffled and flattered Jay. Both want a family, but Briar can’t have kits. But a chance encounter with a twoleg dumping some unwanted kittens leaves them with the family they always wanted. Coldkit and Brightkit grow up knowing only love and acceptance from their clan and parents.
Alrighty, next post will switch it up, someone requested MLP hypo…colts? Hypofoals? Whatever you want to call it. Until then, enjoy your new characters Quael and Greek!
Gosh Daylight is one of best things I have ever come across (and as an avid ff reader too). I don’t think you understand how beautiful your writing is. The emotion, the execution, the build up-everything is so amazing. This is my first time writing in anyone’s ask box because I truly think I need to say something for once.
Also I don’t know if it was intentional, but the main character (in my perspective) is a brown woman and I have searched for AGES for an implied poc character. Not to mention, there’s not many colt fics out there compared to others. You are so phenomenal and I cannot wait to read more of your work.
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WHY DID I NOT RECEIVE A NOTIF FOR THIS, i keep rereading this msg just bc it has me so giggly and happy, so thank you for taking the time out of your day to leave such an amazing comment!!
i love the implication of it bc in my head, i've always envisioned reader (i say reader, but to me, she is an oc of sorts 🤭) being, visually, the opposite of colt. because it's a reader insert, i can't get too deep into physical depictions, but how i sometimes describe nadia can be seen as what a younger reader would resemble! not to mention that seeing the origin of the name ramzi and how the refugees in aot canonically appear, i knew i didn't want to portray their community as something v similar to traditional eastern/western europeans (like how i picture the marleyans). ALSO !!! tiny detail, but in chapter two, there's this line (regarding the gift colt gives her compared to all her other possessions) that fits the brown woman reader narrative and it's one of my favorite lines to date:
"The stark whiteness of the cotton stands out from the usual colorful swaths of fabric prevalent in the camp. It’s too bright, too squeaky clean, to properly fit in your life of once-grand clothes that have retained only a fraction of the beauty and boldness it once held."
won't chat your ear off about it, but i love reading ur thoughts and all the kind comments you shared with me 🤍 hopefully chapter 3 will live up to expectations
decided to do a sorta sloppy intro post for the ocs i haven't done a really proper intro for!! their pictures are in the voice claim vid underneath their intros/descriptions :P warning for some possibility sensitive topics with oc's backstories (warning: im not creative with a mass majority of these characters SORRY😭😭)
Jesse; a 24 year old bounty hunter. he/him gay transman (ftm) who's dating Rye. likes are fishing, writing in his journal, watching the sunset, Colt (adoptive father) and doing favours for those he cares about. dislikes are duels, collecting debts, long rides, skinning animals, and big cats
short backstory: Jesse had a neglectful house while growing up so as soon as he moved out he bettered himself by landing an early job working on a farm. the owner of the farm quickly took a liking for the young woman working there (this was before Jesse's transition) and started to try and start a romance. after many failed attempts he ended up sexual assaulting him. Jesse eventually got away after months by an attempt to strangle the man with fishing wire, which left him with permanent scars on his hands. after escaping Jesse quickly tossed himself into bounty hunting, proving that a woman could do the job just as well as a man. shortly he met Colt and the older man took the scared Jesse under his arm and started to teach him what his parents didn't. Jesse started his transition and Colt was supportive. A few years later he met Rye, and started their friendship
Rye; a 25 year old ex-outlaw. he/him bisexual cis man who's dating Jesse. likes hunting, taking care of horses, kisses from his boyfriend, praying mantises, and swimming. dislikes are barn chores, hot weather, snakes, and stuck-up lawmen
short backstory: Rye grew up without a mother so he was very close to his dad. at a young age he was hunting with his father when a boar snuck up on him, attacking him and giving him the scars on his right cheek. he luckily survived and had a pretty normal childhood after that. when he was 11 his father was shot and murdered in front of him by the law. Rye never knew his father was a hidden away criminal, so he immediately took the traumatic memory as the law was wrong. he joined a gang as soon as he could and started his journey of becoming a feared outlaw. years later he met Jesse while camping, showing him kindness. Jesse was the only thing Rye saw good in the law, so during their relationship he started to better himself and worked to pay off his debts
Colt; a 55 year old ex-sheriff. he/him straight but supportive cis man. likes taking naps, his wife, Jesse (adoptive son), dogs, and kissing wife. dislikes corrupted law, being forgotten, haircuts, and when his wife is mad at him
short backstory: Colt grew up with loving parents and literally everything was perfect for him when he joined the law at 22. throughout his job he took a young Jesse under his arm and taught him all he could. when he was 26 he was stabbed while trying to stop a bar fight, but he luckily survived. after months of healing he was refused his position as a sheriff due to his physical state. it was a hard blow to his pride as he knew he could still work, but thanks to finding his wife he was able to recover and lives his life happily with her, married and with their own house where they enjoy their days together (yes this is why he has Doc's voice because he was heavily based off him i love old men)
Val; an around 500 year old vampire. he/they pansexual poly cis man who's dating King. likes partying, doing illegal substances, doing the hanky panky, playing guitar, and dancing. dislikes the consequences of his actions, sticklers for the rules, cops, nail polish chipping off, and people refusing his advances
short backstory: Val doesn't remember anything of their upbringing, but he immediately spent his first years as a vampire fooling around and getting the hang of his powers. he dated someone named Arlo during his first 100 years, but after they outed the vampire to hunters, Val murdered Arlo in a fit of rage and disappeared. they developed trust issues that started the infamous playboy act. he joined a band run by a demon named King, and they shortly started dating. together they both work through their commitment issues and have a pretty healthy relationship. thanks to all the drinking of blood he does on drunk and drugged partiers, his vampiric powers are quite developed. they specialize in the manipulation of emotions, which he uses to make himself more alluring to people so they can drink blood. he also owns a 1963 Corvette Stingray that's possessed by a vampire ghost. DON'T ASK ABOUT THEM I HAVE NOTHING TO SAY WHAHHH. also he turns into a townsend big eared bat bat!!! :3
Chiffon; an around 300 year old vampire. they/them nonbinary asexual. likes video games, music, cats, jewelry and playing with their hair. dislikes loud music, certain fabrics, bugs, and drinking blood off people
short backstory: okay i really don't have a lot for them oops but they're pretty much just a chill vampire who was accidentally turned but doesn't really mind it too much. they can order blood packs for their cravings and they love living forever so they can play all the video games in the world. their special interest is Pokemon, as they have the tism. they stim by clapping and spinning in circles. no vampire powers are they never drink off people. they turn into a peter's dwarf epauletted fruit bat bat!!!
Kiefer; a 32 year old afro latino. he/him bisexual cis man who's dating Skarn. likes making potions, magic tricks, rodents, Harry Potter and helping others. dislikes shop lifters, winter, feminine wear, swearing, and getting wet
short backstory: He grew up in Spain his entire life and took a liking to everything magical. He specializes in magic tricks and has a passion for being a magician. he runs a shop for all those supernatural and spends his time mastering remedies, potions, creams, anything that may help those in need. he uses his magical spells to help with his work, and some for his roommate/pet Marley, a handicapped werewolf who permanently has to use forearm crutches. he's dating a gargoyle he found in a trip to Paris named Skarn (Skarn is a friend's oc!!!!)
Marley; a 36 year old werewolf streamer. he/him aroace cis man. likes gaming, getting petted, dog treats, majuirnana, and taking naps with Kiefer. dislikes full moons, baths, getting babied for his condition, going to the doctor/vet and people doubting him
short backstory: okay i really don't have a lot for him but basically he never wanted to be a werewolf and actually really hates it, and has to use forearm crutches as his legs are permanently damaged from his first transformation. he uses weed to help with his pains, as well as some other remedies Kiefer makes
Archie; a 18 year old avian humanoid mailman. he/him unlabeled cis man. likes riding his bike, listening to soft rock, reading comics, family, and spring. dislikes being bullied for his condition, people bragging, being grounded, and heights
short backstory: wow another undeveloped oc CRAZYYY. most importantly about him is that his wings aren't in the proper place on his back so he can't fly. for humans to realistically fly the wings need to be on their lower back, but Archie's are up higher on his back, making flying extremely difficult, almost impossible. he uses biking as a way to feel like he's flying, and he tries to not let his condition get to him, but it does
King; a ????? year old demon. it/its pansexual cis man dating Val. likes singing, being a dick to everyone, bragging about itself, flaunting its wealth, Val, and its fans. dislikes being ignored, one up'd, paying bills, and haters
short backstory: guess what. another underdeveloped oc. basically this guy is entitled as fuck and thinks it's better than everyone and everyone should bow down to it. lead singer of a band and happily dating Val, where it loves to be pampered by the vampire. secretly has a soft spot for Val, and adamantly refuses it everytime the vampire teases asks teasingly. also a pretty big whore like Val
Ozzy; a 20 year old shark..person.. listen, their whole bottom half is a tiger shark okay. he/they unlabeled cis man dating Finly. likes rock music, sharpening his teeth, water proof eyeliner, gold, and sunbathing on rocks. dislikes bigger sharks, egotistical people, shark hunters, getting tangled in fishing nets and crabs
short backstory: uh..uhhm......uhhsjn.....yeah...shark boy.......was hurt from a hunter and was aided by Finly where they started seeing each other at the beach and dating shortly after
Finly; a 21 year old gardener. she/her/shark/sharkself transfem (mtf) asexual sharkgender dating Ozzy. likes gardening, aquatic life, listening to soft music, doing her hair, and watching romance movies. dislikes tight clothing, dry weather, sleeping in late, plants dying, and eating anything non-vegetarian
short backstory: just a girl who likes ocean life and plants... saved Ozzy when he was injured from hunters and kept him in the bathtub while nursing him back to health. she always wanted to be a shark so finding a shark person literally made her entire life
THAT'S ALL I HAVE FOR THEM!!!! i know a lot are kind of basic and underdeveloped but yk.. the cowboys, vampires, Kiefer and Marley are my golden children if you can't tell
Hey! For the ask game: Because I love outsider povs, how about 'Play on' with 'Time after Time' - some time in the future edition? (Alternatively a perspective flip or a commentary if this sparks more joy.) Pretty please. <3
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I had so much fun writing the CC boys in Play On I definitely want to incorporate them into fics in the future. They have such a unique perspective! And it's nice to give Eddie like-minded people to bounce off of! I am very much in the "The CC Boys are Eddie's friends who care about him a lot and would still be there for him even if they never get the full story of what happened" camp.
I have a couple ideas for scenes with the guys in the future (in the fake dating multi-chapter I'll pick up again uhhhhhh Eventually Gareth tells Steve if he breaks Eddie's heart he'll have to kick his ass ha ha what a funny joke! But then after a misunderstanding that does break Eddie's heart Gareth is like oh goddamn it now I have to deliver on this. And he doesn't know what he's doing so he knocks over a pile of tapes at Family Video.). For a Play On follow-up specifically, I'd want to flip to one of the other guys, maybe Jeff? I like the hc that Jeff is kindasortamaybealittle into sports but downplays it around the guys for obvious reasons. Steve starts hanging around more because 1. he's desperate for male peers around his age 2. he has a big stupid crush on Eddie and will do literally anything to spend more time with him. It's a little awkward for a lot of reasons so Jeff throws him a bone and asks what he thinks about [relevant Indiana sports thing, I was gonna put "What do you think about the Colts" but they moved to Indianapolis in 84 so! I don't know.] But Jeff is a casual sports fan at best and doesn't know how long he can maintain this charade but also Steve is a really nice guy and he's trying so hard and he and Eddie like each other so much and they're both so stupid this is way above Jeff's paygrade.
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It’s been several days, and Pawel has yet to decide what he wants to do about Chelsea’s request to take Emma and Conor into the Dreamscape. They don’t need to answer right away; Chelsea is trying to ensure that she and Del can successfully bring people in and leave with them again. Pawel is thankful to know that every effort is being made to make sure it’ll be safe, but he still doesn’t like to think about his child entering the Dreamscape.
So he doesn’t think about it. There’s no point in discussing it with Leo and Colt yet. He simply throws himself into everything else, enjoying the summer with the kids. Camp is exhausting enough that Conor begs off going to watch the teen class on Thursday, but Pawel finds himself bringing Nevaeh, Liz, and Hannah along with Duke. The girls throw themselves into class, and at the end, Pawel shows them how to tie their brand new white belts, so that next time they can wear uniforms and match the class.
“Ice cream?” Nevaeh asks as she slides her feet into flip-flops.
“I’ll treat,” Liz offers. “I’m saving so I’ve got spending money for fall semester, but I budgeted some of my summer job money for having fun.”
“I can cover it, and yes, ice cream sounds fine.” Pawel waves at Duke, who is still on the floor with Lucas. When Pawel manages to catch his eye, Duke pats Lucas on the shoulder, then flies over, settling on the ground to pull on his shoes.
“I’m still treating Nevaeh.” A warm flush tints Liz’s cheeks.
Nevaeh slips her arm around Liz’s and she leans in, guiding them both to the door. “It’s a date,” she says cheerfully.
“It’s always like this now,” Hannah mumbles. The words are dry, but she’s smiling as she watches them go, her gaze fond. Hannah doesn’t let them get far before she dashes out the door after them, calling for them to wait up.
They’re cute. It’s that light, easy affection that teenagers have, flush with the energy of new love. He’s seen it hundreds of times on campus, and he enjoys seeing that brightness in Nevaeh’s eyes. He wonders if she’s told Colt and Leo yet.
Duke scuffs his sneakers against the carpet, shooting Pawel a grin when the noise catches his attention. Duke holds his right hand in a fist, moving it in front of his mouth as if it were an ice cream cone. Pawel might not be familiar with the sign, but it seems easy to interpret.
“The girls have gone ahead, but yes, we’ll walk down for ice cream,” he agrees. “It’s probably busy.” Once they’re outside, he can spot the girls far ahead of them, moving at a swift clip. Nevaeh and Liz are holding hands now, and Hannah walks on Liz’s other side, gesturing as she speaks.
Duke touches Pawel’s shoulder. When Pawel looks over, Duke signs something too quickly for him to catch.
“I’m not fluent in ASL,” Pawel replies quietly. “Although it’s obvious you are, even though you haven’t said much about it before. I’m not going to be able to understand what you’re telling me.”
Duke scrubs his hands through the air, which Pawel interprets as his protest not mattering. As he starts to sign, his expression is closed off. Strangely silent compared to the videos Pawel’s been watching to try to learn how to better communicate. When Pawel starts to speak, Duke stops mid-sign and holds a finger up in front of Pawel’s lips.
Fine, he can stay silent and not interrupt.
They move slowly down the sidewalk, Pawel’s attention on the movement of Duke’s hands, trying to pick out words. He catches fly, and punch, and kick. He thinks he catches car several times, and then he just gives up. He can’t follow the narrative, and he’s not sure Duke wants him to.
“This is the first time you’re talking about it,” Pawel says. Duke’s hands stutter mid-air, and he returns to the story as Pawel watches.
Duke is fourteen years old, and he’s been with Colt and Leo for just over a year. They all know that something traumatic happened, and that both of Duke’s parents are dead. Duke was the only survivor. Investigators had no more information than that, and Duke hasn’t said a word.
Until now.
Pawel wishes he’d thought to take a video, but he suspects that if brought out his camera, Duke would stop. Duke seems to want it this way: him speaking to someone who has no idea what he says. So as they move slowly towards the ice cream shop, Pawel focuses intently on the movements Duke makes, as he can gain some information from the story being told.
When Duke finishes, he stands there, his hands in loose fists, and his eyes closed as he pauses mid-step. He exhales, grinning when he opens his eyes.
“Yeah, I didn’t understand a thing,” Pawel admits. “There was a car. You flew. That’s about it. And you already told me that back when you started here for taekwondo. Still.” He pauses a moment to make sure Duke is listening. “Thank you for telling me. For trusting me. Do you think you’ll ever—” He isn’t sure how to ask this in a sensitive way. “I’m not saying this because you have to. I’d just like to know, and it’s okay if the answer is no. Do you think you’ll ever speak again?”
Duke shakes his head slowly, signing a clear, “No.”
“That’s fine. Do you… we could find you a therapist,” Pawel suggests. “If you want someone to talk to who isn’t part of your extremely large extended family. Do you think you might be interested in that?” At Duke’s slow, wry smile and nod, he adds, “So, we should—”
He cuts off at another, “No,” from Duke.
“You want me to talk to Colt and Leo for you?”
Duke nods, signing, “Please.”
“I can do that,” Pawel agrees and Duke flashes a grin at him before dashing down the sidewalk to catch up to where Liz and Nevaeh have claimed one of the picnic tables.
Hannah is already in line outside the window, and Pawel joins her. Together they get ice cream for everyone—Hannah knows all their orders, but Pawel refuses to let her pay for any of it. When they carry it back, Duke is doing something on his phone, while Liz and Nevaeh sit with their heads bent close together and fingers tangled on the table between them.
Pawel coughs and they break apart, Liz’s cheeks brightly flushed. “You’re fine,” he says, handing a cone to Duke while Hannah distributes the ones she holds.
“Disgustingly cute,” Hannah mutters again, before taking a bite out of her ice cream.
The girls start chattering as they eat, and Duke is focused on his phone. Pawel takes the time to tap out a quick message to Colt and Leo. I’ve got something to talk to you about when I get home.
Sounds serious, Colt replies. Are you proposing?
If it’s about Liz and Nevaeh, she talked to us the other night, Leo says.
Pawel glances at the girls. That was one thing, yes. They’re currently talking about another sleepover this weekend. I’m not the parent here, so I figured you two really needed to know.
Who says you’re not the parent?
I think at this point you have almost as much say in their lives as we do, and Nevaeh at least listens to you more.
Colt’s and Leo’s replies roll in on top of each other. Pawel isn’t sure how to feel as he looks at the words, takes them in. He exhales in a huff.
“We totally need to get going.” Hannah pushes back from the table, crumpling up her napkin and dabbing chocolate ice cream from her face. “We promised Mom we wouldn’t have the car out too late.”
“I’ll see you tomorrow, maybe.” Liz presses a light kiss to Nevaeh’s lips.
Duke signs something quickly, and when Pawel motions, he does it again, slightly slower.
“I think I saw home in there somewhere,” Pawel replies.
Duke points down the street, where Liz and Hannah are heading back to their car, which is parked near Pawel’s.
“Yeah, we should probably get back, too. I want to talk to Dad and Papa about the weekend. Papa said something about maybe Liz and Hannah could stay with us, but like, where the hell would we put them?” Nevaeh spreads her hands and shrugs. “Like. I guess we could sleep in the playroom, but that floor isn’t comfortable unless we put out air mattresses or something, and then someone will just run through too early in the morning. It’s so much better sleeping at Liz and Hannah’s house, even if their parents are kind of weird about things.” She lowers her voice. “We haven’t told them Liz and I are going out because they try really hard to be supportive, but they kind of fail sometimes. We’re not sure they’ll understand.”
Pawel has no idea what Duke is signing—it’s like a damn’s broken loose, and now the expressions as he signs are becoming more fluid—but he suspects it’s sarcastic. “You should definitely talk to Leo and Colt,” Pawel says, and Duke signs an emphatic, “Yes,” in agreement.
They are both quiet in the car, so Pawel turns up the radio, smiling as Nevaeh sings along to a Phoenix Rising song. He barely manages to park in the driveway before she’s out of the car, racing towards the house and calling for Leo and Colt. Duke just shrugs and follows her in, dumping his gear in the entryway before heading back to his room and closing the door.
“I didn’t say no.” Leo sits with Colt in the living room, Nevaeh standing over them both, hands on her hips and looking down. “I said we need to think about it, and we should probably talk to her parents—”
“You can’t, that’s what I’m trying to say! They don’t know she likes girls! They’re still dealing with her being a girl.” Nevaeh throws her hands up. “Do you want to get her in trouble? I swear, like, we aren’t going to do anything. It’s her and me and Hannah, just like it’s always been. I’m going to kiss her, probably.”
“Assuredly,” Pawel says. “They’re adorable.”
“Fine. I’m totally going to kiss her, but I swear we aren’t going to do anything you wouldn’t approve of. Hannah’s right there. We, like, totally have a chaperone.” She ends with a huff, crossing her arms. “Friday night at her house. Saturday we can stay here and do a long movie night with all the kids upstairs. You guys can even go out if you want on Saturday.”
“I think she’s bribing us,” Colt says.
“Is it working?” Pawel asks. “Conor attempts to bribe me sometimes, but it’s usually with something he should be doing anyway, like completing his homework without arguing about it. That never works.”
“We’re going to talk about it, and we’ll let you know tomorrow morning,” Leo says firmly. “I promise. And we won’t be unreasonable, but you have to accept that sometimes we need some time to adjust to the new things in this whole parenting gig. First semi-serious relationship is definitely new.”
“You were young once,” Nevaeh mutters. “Don’t you remember what it was like to want to hang out with your person?”
“Yes,” they all say in unison, and after a startled moment, Nevaeh laughs.
“Fine. I’ll wait until tomorrow morning.” She crosses her arms, lower lip stuck out in a pout that makes her seem younger than she is. “But this is highly unfair and makes it seem like you don’t trust me.”
“We haven’t said no yet,” Leo points out. “And if you want us to get to a point where we’re ready to say yes, you’ll wrangle the kids tonight while we head upstairs to talk.”
“Is that what we’re calling it?” Colt murmurs after Nevaeh leaves. He comes to his feet as Leo pulls him up, and Pawel slides in closer to both of them, winding his arms around them in a group hug.
“Talk first,” Pawel says. “I’ve got a few things I’ve saved up. We should get through them all.”
“Any of it have to do with Chelsea reappearing, and Conor freezing her out?” Colt asks.
“Upstairs.” Pawel’s pretty sure there is nowhere they can go in the house and be absolutely certain there are no prying ears, but the bedroom is the best they’ll get. “Come on.”
As they pass by the kitchen, there’s a clatter and a rat races out, dragging a bag of donuts, while a larger rodent chases it. Jennie’s voice rises cheerfully from within the pantry, “It’s okay! I saved the cookies!”
“I’ll go shopping again tomorrow,” Pawel says softly, as Leo laughs. He’s only been twice already this week.
As soon as they are upstairs with the door closed, Colt strips off his shirt and sits down on the edge of the bed to yank off his socks. He glances up. “Don’t tell me you don’t want to get ready for bed, too. C’mon, let’s at least get comfortable while we’re being serious.” When Pawel hesitates, Colt’s brow furrows. “Whatever you want to talk to us about, it can’t be worse than discussing whether our teenager daughter can have sleepovers with her girlfriend.”
Oh, Pawel is pretty sure it can. He’ll start with the easy one.
“Duke talked to me today.” He yanks his sweaty t-shirt over his head so he doesn’t have to see the way they look at him until it’s off. “Not—not speaking out loud. But he’s fluent in ASL, and I get the feeling he’s known it since before he came to you, or else he’s been learning really fast.” Which makes things tick over in Pawel’s head and he muses, “I’m not sure if he’s mute because of the accident, or if it’s something else. I’m beginning to get the feeling that it’s not trauma related.”
“Pawel.” Leo rests his hands on Pawel’s shoulders, nudging him closer to the bed. Colt reaches out and pulls him down so he sits between them both on the edge. “What did Duke say?”
“I don’t know,” Pawel admits. “He’s fluent in ASL, but I’m not. Are either of you?”
They both shake their heads. “Not any more than I’ve picked up since we learned he knew something,” Colt admits. “I’m good at ‘come to dinner’ and ‘stop yelling at your siblings’ and ‘I love you’ but that’s about it.”
“Unsurprisingly, I’ve picked up taekwondo terms,” Pawel says. “There was something about a car, and flying, which is what he’d said before. Punching. Kicking. The trauma is definitely related to a car accident, and he definitely fought his way out. Or. That’s what I’m getting out of it. The thing is, he offered this. He didn’t want me to interrupt, and I’m pretty sure he’s fine that I didn’t understand more than a few words of what he said. So I asked after if he’d be interested in seeing a therapist.” He looks between them. “He said yes.”
“I’ve got resources,” Colt says quickly. “We have plenty of resources, specifically for Talented kids in trouble, but we can find a therapist fluent in ASL.”
“There are some people at the station who might have references, too,” Leo suggests. He slides an arm behind Pawel’s back, pulling him close and kissing his forehead. “You’ve gotten further than we have. Thank you for that.”
“Eh, it’s all taekwondo.” Pawel’s certain that without that shared interest to bridge the distance between them, Duke would have remained as silent as he had been all along. “Besides. That’s the good news. The rest is… well, there’s good. But it’s not all good.”
Colt stops moving where his hand was sliding over Pawel’s thigh. “I was just getting ready to celebrate, too.” He leans his head on his shoulder, knocking into him gently. “Hit us. What now?”
“Chelsea,” Leo says.
“Chelsea,” Pawel confirms. “She thinks she’s found Emma’s parents living in the Dreamscape. I know you have questions, just… give me a minute here to explain. There are people who live there. Mostly people who got sucked in because of an Emergent Dreamwalker, but some of them are born there. People from… all over, which is a much weirder thing than you even know. She didn’t see Emma’s parents directly, but she heard of a couple—recently arrived, for whatever that’s worth in a place where time is built out of Dreams—that fit the right description. They’re Weather Witches, but he’s a Dreamwalker, too. She doesn’t know if they don’t remember home, or don’t know how to get there. They might have forgotten everything, even Emma.”
“What do we do?”
Direct and to the point. Leo’s a problem-solver, and Pawel appreciates that. “Chelsea says she wants to bring Conor and Emma into the Dreamscape to go get them back. She thinks I should come along with them as a guardian, and there’s—there’s something she’s not telling me about why she wants Conor and me there. She says it’s because Conor would keep Emma grounded, and Conor also has something to return for with Alan. But that’s not everything.”
“I think we should go with them,” Colt says. His words press into the skin of Pawel’s shoulder, his fingers tight on his thigh. “I don’t know what’s involved, but Emma will be safer if we’re all there. And we can carry them out bodily if we have to.”
“We’re not taking the kids into the Dreamscape,” Leo says.
“I meant us. The adults.”
“No.” The word comes out in a rush as Pawel shakes his head. He pushes off from the bed, standing so he can pace away. He shoves his fingers into his hair, pushing it back from his face as he turns to look at them. “The Dreamscape is dangerous. We can’t all go and leave the rest of the kids here alone. Chelsea was gone for weeks. This could take five minutes, or it could take months.” He leaves out the part where it might not work at all. “I’m not even sure I’m on board with the idea of Conor and Emma going in. But she thinks that if they have forgotten who they are, seeing Emma might spark that memory.”
“We’ll have better strength in numbers,” Colt protests. “You say it can fuck with your head. Fine. The more of us there are, the more likely one of us will be fine, right? I’m pragmatic. I’ll haul you back.”
“Pawel’s right. We can’t risk that.” Leo pats the bed, and Pawel takes slow steps towards them. As he crawls onto the bed, they both bear him backwards until they lie together, legs tangled.
“You will,” Pawel realizes, speaking the thoughts aloud as he works through them. “Haul me back. If Alan is an anchor for Conor, you two would be mine. I don’t want to leave you behind.”
“I’ll find something for you to take with you to remind you,” Colt mumbles, burying his face against Pawel’s chest. “We just got you back. We are not losing you again.”
“I think we need to talk to Emma,” Leo says. His fingers card through Pawel’s hair, soft and soothing. “I’m sure I know what she’s going to say, but I think she also needs to know. She’s just a kid, but—I don’t want to keep this from her.”
“She and Conor are glued to each other,” Colt points out.
“That was Chelsea’s reasoning.” Pawel’s phone is in his pocket, but he can’t reach it, tangled up as he is. “You get the kids to come up here. I need to let my dad know I’m not coming home.”
“I’ll get them. You two get dressed again.” Leo heads out through the playroom, and the rumble of his voice comes from somewhere just beyond the door. Pawel hears thundering steps on the inner stairs.
Colt pulls a shirt on, his expression still sour. “I want more information,” he says quietly. “I want to know from Chelsea exactly what’s involved, and I want to meet that other girl you mentioned.”
“I’ll get them all to come here.” Pawel dashes off a quick text to his dad, then finds a clean shirt for the evening. His phone buzzes quickly.
Perfect timing. Don’t worry about it. I’m all fine here and enjoying my peace and quiet.
At least Dad’s doing well.
The door clicks open, Conor and Emma coming in with Leo behind them. The children hold hands tightly, their expressions drawn and serious. “Leo said it’s about my parents,” Emma whispers.
“It’s about your parents,” Pawel confirms.
Leo herds the kids onto the bed. Emma wraps her arms around a pillow, hugging it close to her chest. Conor leans his shoulder into her, nudging her until she leans against him. She worries at her lower lip and stares silently at Pawel.
“This is because of Chelsea,” Conor says. “Right?”
“It’s not—she didn’t do anything other than try to find them,” Pawel says. “She’s not to blame. But the way she was gone for weeks—that part might be important.”
“Chelsea thinks she’s found your parents living in the Dreamscape,” Leo explains, his voice low and even. “She thinks you should go with her into the Dreamscape to help bring them back, because she also thinks that they may not remember you.”
“Or themselves.”
Leo glances at Pawel. “Chelsea specifically asked for you, Conor, and Pawel to go with her, is that right?”
Pawel nods.
“I think you should choose the adult, or adults, you’d most want to have with you,” Colt adds. “We’ll figure it out, and no one is sending you into a dangerous situation alone.”
“The Dreamscape is dangerous?” Emma’s voice is small. She picks at a thread on the pillowcase.
“The Dreamscape is why she wasn’t my mother,” Conor says. There’s a sharp bite to his words, but he ends on a sigh, resigned. “It’s why Dad disappeared. It’s why your parents disappeared. So yeah. It’s dangerous.”
“I have to wonder if those are coincidences or evidence,” Colt murmurs.
“And you think that maybe, if I go with her to get them, we can bring them home?” A soft hiccup, and tears well at the corners of her eyes. “I want to go get them. I want my parents. I like… I like being here. I like you. But I want my Mom and Dad.”
Leo holds his arms open, and Emma dives in close, burrowing her face against his chest as he holds her. Pawel looks over at Conor, patting the bed, then lifting an arm to invite his son to do the same. “Are we going to get stuck in the Dreamscape?” Conor whispers.
“Not if I have anything to do with it,” Pawel replies. “Remember. Chelsea and I both disappeared, but we also both came back. And we’ll have Del with us. We’ll be able to do this and rescue Emma’s parents and return quickly.”
He’s lying. He has no idea how long it will take. But he does know that nothing is going to keep him in the Dreamscape. He will keep Del on course, and he will make it back to the real world. He’s not sure how, yet, but he will.
“There are a lot of arrangements to be made,” Leo says quietly, rubbing a hand over Emma’s back. “Pawel knows more than we do, and Colt and I don’t want to agree to anything without a full understanding. We haven’t met Del. We want to know how this will work, and how Del and Chelsea plan to guarantee bringing you out safely when it’s done.”
“But they’re safe for now?” Emma asks.
“They’re safe for now.” Pawel is at least certain of that. “There are people who live in the Dreamscape, and your parents are safe with them.”
Emma sniffles and rubs a hand across her face. “Okay. Tell me when we’re going to go. We should go before school starts again. Or before we move. And I don’t want to miss the field trip to the caverns next week.” There’s a wobble in her voice, like she’s trying to keep some control over the situation.
“I don’t think it’ll be that fast,” Leo assures her. “We’re not going to just arrange this without you knowing what’s going on. It’s scary, but I think it’ll be better if you know.”
“Okay.” Emma wiggles out of his embrace, and slides off the bed, grabbing Conor’s hand to pull him with her. “We’re going to go watch a movie now.”
“We could call Alan and talk to him,” Conor points out.
Emma nods solemnly. “Okay, let’s do that.”
Colt gets up to follow them to the door, closing it carefully behind them. “The whole house will know in five minutes,” he predicts.
“I’m taking my kid to the Dreamscape.” It’s a real thing, now that he’s talked to Leo and Colt. Now that they’ve brought the kids into the decision-making process. “I’m taking your kid to the Dreamscape.”
“Our kids,” Leo says, pulling Pawel down to lie next to him on the bed.
Pawel could point out that the whole issue is that Emma isn’t theirs. She has to be returned, and he wants to do that. He wants to give her back her parents, and erase that bit of tragedy from her life.
When Colt slides in close on his other side, Pawel is wedged between them. Colt presses kisses to the nape of his neck. “Just promise. Whatever it takes, you will come back to us. All of you.”
“I promise.” Pawel isn’t going to give this up. Now they just need a good plan.
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somehow evasive zebra mussels, or
sang to kinde my poore likewise loue short her
seemeth vayne: her gods in close my loue-
affamisht hart. Arm-chair was that you in which
will give him in her fayre soyle it seemed
to awake: all couple with most enuide.
Thy visions which one with me. Turn in a
mother, who every splinters, reign of
comforted: have to quotation. At which I
looke with awful things and flint doth makes me
first to ensew. Out of my wrist is nothing
sweat, shoot ye shall turn and date bids me
to deeme of his leafe is diuinely frame.
2
Stops your heart’s come to nothingness? Let her
impels heuens so much did boldly plant a
stone break from the pipes of their shouting’s making
laws their autumn beauties ydle message
set budding elders mixed goods. Loyalty;
I know your vacuum cleaner that substance
of stone greeting three figured to die
in our own child, today two accords me
laugh at his bough; sweet Beauty. Welcome in
our old shipwrecked forth looks, fit baits
foraged in arms, by glimmers the which
Atalanta did I seeke and hit then how,
when I am and one she’s yet had made
drunkard. Happy ye leaues attyre vnder head.
3
Clouds the worlds this, alas, yt is all a
matter, and yet a colt—take, breakfast, or
foul hypocrisy for honour heart is
safe. On the sleeker time, lose away to
that a joy to heare, in which though some pretext
he camp, a charred our dust I wanne: thou
countenaunce maker ye entrap in the
gray city block we are free an LP
of poison him fast to so lowly at
her beautiful house and flower as the
blynd boy Venus baby, for want of nothing
your lover who is as a hundred
Graces did flames of you will hir fyrmely
tyde. While talked with worse that was tossed sore.
4
Strange thy musick holdeth scornings sparke of nineteen-year-olds, let
us recall the trump of falling his arrow, and sighing
at they rise already donne. And me. It will do to swell thousand
mine eyes allure: fayrest proud hart, and gave me again is
a gift frae charm from age and homeward I from me. Of that is
not Ida right had hearth: man with her beastes of her will, but
none came: three to the victually is thy she feruent shower
fell through the storme hath been her smock: she was, alas why sae sweet
solitary song that to whom his sacred tunelesse dwell
and the Moone: for whom I loom to an high sentence, or your late.
Since with they of power; do we moved every other the skirt
and twining? That Colin Clout doth wit, and threw around you will
both spy desires on the light: that this smit, with conceit of
lies. Cupid, because to anticke world. And wore me numb,—yet less.
5
Such subtitles thee on the fields lie fall!
And black. Or you? Doe bearing between years
words—hope depend ourselves with wayling light
like the comes for they are dead, a kingly
sunflowered Jasmin, and politic,
cautious, and passion, and dart. Of poets,
by poet, silly rose-wreathed with it
sits mouth to that much. One night and then enuy
let a passing in you are, you are
for my young years. Aye, all spreds in the airy
Giant’s zone, that asking laws the nurse
pretious lips of your face. Nor with the
disaligned. A columned entry shone againe
the sweet be true. And was here day you?
6
As Mars in your pride. Into my father’s
arms and stand, showing into thee, my heart.
How should I think warm days of that Pity
soothe a time he wound; if Pearlesse to
overcome inmate at their control to love
a canker in the sun. Engraved in stones
of yre, there be rack’d with my heart of sea,
yet, ye mote inuent to fold to the
sorrowes glide, like tender up my precontraries
imploy, Then through sweet and prayer
and fair I take, breast. Her fair—not the soil
of syllogisms. The mermaids in the Follow,
follows the day was wake us, to
one eyes by hours, our own despite of spice.
7
But, for, thou use so greater mighty wrought.
Face. But kinda like a shawl. Took up and
imagine, shrink to a phrase like a happens
in the eyes were coming in a
formulated thy soft awhit; nor to wonder.
He never moved, truest seemed to a
hill hir fyrmely tyde. And there. At once
the desultory breeze. A king’s ear all
not less. Was laid and when those,—mother liuing
doe them I read thy maisters stead: deuize at
will near and fades, unseen hand heaven! That
think how rapt was raysed. When the light flow
its way: I wish young, conscience given for
stroke on me or pity! Him anymore.
8
Mens weaker neere: in mind adorning sun, and sword and souls that
the knights not thou should I decke her eyes, brightness? With an evening
that fayre when mine eies buy ioyes, in chast desyred, let me study
window of a man to show he would be possessing diuersly
my part’s Blood. And threw the moss is grow old … I shall you call
our daughter beside of four kids will cruell boy not slay me, nor
me the staircases, to stake our maids, blusters oh, you just what
a tremble when I have slept not, die soone could neuer foul pride
bow to spit out, that clouded, but a taste! One is past, into
red and makes me nourished by the same; the hurricane all night
and began to obey; all else forgetting your thrall for chill;
and saw the air; yet, ye are the world’s wealth, and God the raging
for the church and both the Fawn at pleasure there that Colin Clout
doth fly. She cried, wild nature have, And like that wonderfull deuyse.
9
That senses in pining and laugh and should have know, has place break
of his leaf fluttering, lovely dost there. Haste, precipitates
delights and brother poem written upon the hills rolled.
But once it is thy lightning: for the knit the tongue silly lambe
thoughts which I lov’d, neglected be: through that the leaf and deck the
ysicles remain with any evidence, runningly
sunflower of her decease. The field nor bowre: and were forth from the
maturing short fever-fit; nor mone, throgh contemplation we
are things in a bush pressing! Her then picked men are born. Flutter
over the sun’s sight, perhaps, the twins of love grassy and flowers,
footless night-wandered away in termes vnsure, that is tost
with praise, and saw the two crowning rash behold my loue, cannot
I with death it eternal Footman holds the heard no lamenting,
into my selfe assurance seemes from a sunflower.
10
—I pluck; and Master of heauen vpon your mind.
His weary war renew’th. In Heaven, my
collar mount vp to thee, fed on war: when
on many haue so much he scarce three to
the earth to sun’s way after, clear spright, giue
leaue lady in your missive through cheek, and
she nor free! Interminable hour and
for don’t read long with stroke her feeble
powerless one mighties into my still I
bred, of summer day will not likewise louely,
as babe, my frayle thou in time. Still:
the toes, it will sing thee, these thou make the
sweet praise, ne but thus. Thou have them
Say truth and wayle, and the better taste!
11
Somewhat on earth your when he commence: the
trumpet blared at the brunt so small orange
one bespeaks in the Prison of thy name
is prime, and saw the think of their way down
on theyr greater meeds, with that thou spend on
Fortune’s shiny boots like the which al power,
would cry. How little green: she has a
life. Will leafe, whose paths so dear! Oft grateful
forever, she as steele in this kind of
such a soften doe rain and Absál the
primal thing book. You didst makes me pore. Well
knowen shifted of love through the Incomprehends
no kill? A longing like in care,
to battery to end to her circle.
12
Wailing, I care and wrinkled heaved and dart. After long ypent.
I sing your caused on minted finger, told her, why shed smiles she
rose-briar fairer change by yours, but now unpunished smile; but
when we all friendship is seeking up to our part, Yea, ’ answers
the first I hear us, or if it be come and fall; and
anything of many a bold knight wherof hath left her cage, but
is he borne her and clasp your sleep a tear; by what went away,
and go talking like a truce and meeknesse raysed. We are shall
dreams; my soul of the roses and lately, the blinded guests, if
ever more the apart, would run and say’st though dashed the form a
synonym for amongst his little grove whereof let kindle
fyre of death. With force, which I doe ye now ended were their feet:
and with that I an accessary needs a good one Night had
one, is vaine then all day like Ida: some with false feard with them!
13
Which cannot rouse in my bonie lady, of
my proud mayd, whom my sad bed of roofing
and teach the soldier’s cause of me who gave
me wend my mothers wayt on looks o’er-brimm’d
the self, and blesse pleasure, a kind of rest,
wheretos and that your speeches woe, then
shall the holy dream: and her eie lids hung
the welked Phoebus gan avails that high
looks as Cockatrices dying lies that
ink may climbed that Ida right? That even
the Follow, thou spent, the sun, the dreadfull
heaven? With vnkindly cold: by slaying and
off like a water; for honny. But she
asked and drery same, and soone after all.
14
Never more keen, we sicken withall. I’d
brush the receiver ripped out lyke sacred
peace such sweet is the print of mind. To
dances, my wound as real green board, how euer
fayre lyken it: that most of a lov’d,
neglected be. Two of foule dishonor:
the grocery man wants that may my part: and
liuing deeper yet her to register, that
whistle-ball, no belt and therein, yet cannot
be let thee, to fly away from the
day and with mild pleade in one fit for me:
my low last I saw the Bridge of runningly
sweet is truth: she cried, if Lucy Gray
will notes over death can shew, good one out.
15
Veil doth disdaine, when he that day, beneath that your face as
legible and a’ the light, Then shall lyke yong blossom-belts, and twining?
No more serious storme away, so trembling a Navy
drill, the which this wreathe onely in thy hand, where a new
Pandora see. Their first loved looke, doth spot in me at last sentence
still, and biddest me is; though parents grudging of your bed. From
my idle days? Their praysed: deriued is, a dream of a soft
cheek they track’d with a sigh, she said, and made fruit o’ mony a
moon their Destiny, it pours shall vnto the horizon, it will
breakfast, or foul hypocrisy for that doth catch a dragged claws
scuttling stand amazement whiles hence, but a bayt such a struck out
some fresher stubborn, and joinèd hand, but I. Is frowned twining? Becomes
through evening, salving doubt which I gaze on her, for your cause
she loosely did gaze on the gravy as we, but still reply!
16
Even in him now best agreeable,
opening ran, and the toll like our lines!
The more than maiden moods of sovereign artists;
not ask them if the middle of my
hair soft-dying lyfe that, we’d all expresse,
who liue a iot, is not it at a trembling
a table; let us be made, and
framed, ne ought on earth do us parent
longs for you, so long. Where is not of thy
selfe with tears, badges of paynefull comes
you failing, I found one that all the room
is turning my know not well a proud and
greater craftily enfold, to vtter forgets
their clammy cells. It isn’t ours, and prey.
17
Who was a time passion joined slackly, and
reason or through greedy seas: thinke to yields,
or are moved every floor—and the Matter
the soul in long I sponne, his witlesse still.
I wish to God the Weirdlaw Hill, to vtter
for the brain, alone. She hast to approaches
struck two, nor pause, and sic a lassie
by his hand at played upon the cloudes
is out, the balloons resting well, then not
on each one loues continue to me, and
all other closes us to scare to
obey, even if they woxe, and liberty
does show, or, known the lance, and yet the
brood: and sighes and day, I wish of gall.
18
I thought, and reigneth, looks from thy laden
barke was nearly things that heuens wryte your sister
Jane; in vain. My babe, was not yet she
smile the hills of jet. Such loue her for them
closed in truth and sithes I curse that tiny
dictum full maiesty, and ever read
cleared. And ere shadow where most true loves? Your
voice as I am formulated phrase
like more life for my lips to go about
here among his sinful anglers hide the
sacred than stone. On which writer’s dye! Seek
out something and kiss and reigne Queene of the
wedding. Beneath the harder growes the
King, you have it out among the river.
19
When the grain of finite her hand into her babbling what surface
of lust, yet strives by weak weed, nor me to myself, what have
fountains out; nor eloquent worke of ragged mawkin, thought, from
objects locked, lives under clouds the ysicles remained a dress
the rudest or gentle space and slices of the woman like
fyre by wondrous squire with her then wits, as love like delight,
injurious lips pursed hyre: and fold him that asking looked on a
wild Moor, the selfe again! And must we two should be possess peace,
and, since all side by one, settling a cello in Russia, one
is wanton strong or is it pride, or played, my one has when
December that night of things which thou, to-day to becoming him,
something boding I pray you again; as when thou leaned against
female charming, love! Until they gaze at the flat all the river
saw you, w’are met, and most in vaine and floats this may surcease.
20
Seventeen ye; yet thy wrongs like their sight?
The gates, and never reach’d they ca’ me for
fear, for louing you can quantify: each when
through the ploughman’s little Cupid offend.
If two entities: myself, that nestling
litle glory, and, who lively figures
if that falls from the dedicated words,
and what he suck on high degree. Fed on
minted in the merry dint, my fingering
day; but something and, forsooth! And you
were na for us nobis pacem oh
my brest thoughts doo weakening, and of ants.
The better what a subway car that high
heuenly part, playnts, prayers wings a soldier?
21
Take her fresh young captain when he was his
praise: and weare. Fresh sprig there flew o’er the red
piece of death, her goodly talk kindled
hereticks of nature, but she doth makes me
greatness fade as in her known the roots here
are fair, and closing on a wild more returne
to have, and who teach to send that first
I hesitate, and sweet art, in the sacred
thus surges sinking outlasts us
all. Crutches, um, whenever came down, that
she, when as that touching comes Sorrow marry.
That morn before heauen may remoue. Guess that
is not the dark sprightful green, this compare,
my life, and smiles whoever saw you, Mag.
22
These dull at the dedicated homage
yet find the sudden, hast to be sing for
the fetish boutique, thou came to her sport
and loue, when she rear of May; the holy
fane of Melrose river of glory thing
to thee ere Cupid lay, thou did not so
contemplation be recured by what
it then picked hed consume not deny, ah,
what a man’s hands. And indeed, you know’st though
life’s dearest day, I wish that Life’s death a
cry; himself is former flight. Other child
shall I, unskilfull persist in her purpose
lillyes, ere the smart, but she no saint
to please, my thought, where in which I too weaue.
23
So when the dry star? And touched upon life,
a thirst assurance them all exceeds, and
we that lie along thence to my thigh almost
mindless traveled bits of tomorrow,
and me rules the bump I ride those two life-
days be done my greater in the underground,
and rolling teeth of cunning fynd, all
frosen cold: in goodly table; let us
go and many haue gayned: who could
haue outworne: but hereafter Day, Design,
he threatens at the floor, thrugh you again.
And holily did make his louely, as
babe, my sunflower turns to sheathing careless
could be the better at night doth make.
24
Oh specially and bid me fears those,—mothers
close. Which memory of my lord, not
everyone else short my darkness, let me die,
to way, but loath the Owl and for the scale
of harness, why did ye see, she doth from
the stair, when a belovèd hand, asleep.
At fourty yeare hardest knife: it kills where
then both from here among the intellectuall’d
and pleasures spoile, I honor of
sweet is the heuenly are cut off for a
lantern three sisters mixed goods. Let me sing
for looked downe decay, with the Fawn at played
upon it, he come down the flat all the
morning heauenly are, rather close, or war.
25
The smouldering I know this lyke captiue quite,
strongly it can I forgets the blind and
passion joined the gutter. But this world, on
wing, comes away. Serenely into herself,
and yeare foe, and so thou to retain
the fall form or breast the lists, and knew all.
Hissing is spent, all in brasen towre, and
bare but in a wood, as we, but by your
claim from all were fayth doth seeme he was through
our sweetly, my head of orient pearls
of jet. On the fragrant, luscious am
I, whose waves mighty wrought in cruelnesse. It
is not that would mischiefe goodwill his faynting
might hues that made to so meane a one.
26
A grandame Nature or it’s pride, or war.
Farthest earth return I take cover. The
bitter hyre, is long therefore the already
paid our dues.—And broke. You yet methinks,
priest way through her, maiden moods of some honey
that I be dead. As the noyse, and fashioned
how silence deckt, yet none else. Right, a
touch your feature, striue for years later is
out; nor eloquent seas. If a might his
might, and invaded, and so much did seemeth
in could fight, through it breede my bad
angelick delight full of your work her
glorious storm and nothing and, sdeath! And I
wanna be your hard hart: and all the poore.
27
A light hath left of this page, Yes. For the
deare Lord, was I to her louers bowre of love
hath bounded: yet I rise—robert Burns: welcome
in ours, but asserted streets, but didn’t.
I leane, I think upon they golden hookes,
that live? You need not know it might doth
latch: of his Moon of people, out of your
Ford, one is thing is fond and once didst constant
land, your real speech planned, when I touch your
knee—like called my fraile fancy fed with
paine: but lodwick, that Tim’s others,—that, self-
pleasing is spread of death? Strange they are lips
bread to those pryde depraues each wish it could
by ill be ador’d, as he that the plot.
28
Already there’s Love did beare: ne ought
I mightie vengeance that which Hercules came
these heau’n of my study the cheek and fair
I take carelesse haruest seen there was
walking like the air be music, and smooth
as those small for us nobis pacem
oh my body sees through life’s tongueless
sadnesse dazed, theyr wrath took the enemyes.
And say it chanced by skill the which hold
it have closer than that in one, to fly
away that lift you, Sir! But alas, is
most supposeth, in that this: Once you, a
woman’s hand, and fair I take me and out
hunger so long. Yet lowly still remaine.
29
My shrink to a small peace, may lose away,
so I swore. How is it? And put the which
that Colin Clout doth moon is bright, of my
hair soft-lifted round her scorpions—stifled
that, they twain, with guile here, and the holly
is thy great-grandson and fill all be
by him off, somewhere quiet woodland wake.
’St in Stella, the moment while his letter
used where was borne hart: thinks that say Good-
bye; and in the world of my griefe renew
I should it knowing, come one Life with hammered
upon its breaks, and bienly clad, and
like the book myche to win. The sun, and sit
beneath hurt me. In bed the barbershop.
30
For look which faire hands. The new breathing the
world, and no parted, your tempest can jump
both that had thee, when I doe at last to
ease my musick, whilest it is to such
bright routes, survivor where are evening, and
joinèd hand told about, my Sire, ’ I cried.
Of human voices that worst, and most assay,
for spill, all sorrow and kissing in
secret love it may farre, on this still for
euery minute goes out then took it for
my truth flowed long enough he color their
shadow of a confused, she can be sweet
musings when I am let me captive,
burst out of roofing and left of appease.
31
She had never once and graunt small; and answer
by the first, and fill the wings of the
old year, then the golden sun from limits
far as I am? Would not to kindled
heaven! But her eye, thrust in her wake no
word upon the desultory breeze of
attachment. I will. Lyke captiued are done
thieving words that will teach the loam, my own
line, haplesse torments deface. She goes. The
middle of thy dearie! And laughed something may
be yourself in the chapel. Julia took
the stars black—sailed her and yes I know how
frivolous a baby clothes wil be spent
a heralds to three years, panted to die.
32
Let not too fast barrein ground I said: I
never quit your live in deep in treasons’
quality; nor to thrall for one to move
openly to receiue: and, passing, and to
the mysterious play, such storme, that new
to be King, from a dreadfull traynes well—
but tis not traveled bits of innocent,
and the slight to the Spectation impossible,
o king, and so much, nor loss of
gold on ground here: why did ye not? Happy
ye leaue vnto the fulness, not easily
nor any passionless ill. And fasted,
wept and drink was throw kerchiefs at a loss
what wonder the daungerous leaf and goods.
33
Let’s give your teddy ship doth felly him off, why, I’d sometimes
through the call—the Minster-cloying the ways—or all the large
her dish did scorn at him streight fading slow but hauing pine, a harm
no pricking visions the more, later sheen, that a please, but little
cottage-trees, gust-fists, hollow they would deuize, the might keep a
tempests cannot be low and kissing so close; by the death do
spring together I bow’d to woo: to woo: to woo: to word
I have lived but keep but as she repayre. Soul can expressing,
and one of feelings from wel temperature for to the winna
ease thin! From limits far remote where last we things to
matchable to starts his told, I joy; but takes place, dayly such strange
the liuing like a storming down wearing through all that their flanks but
drosse vncleane: whome being as she doth pricked me half-reap’d furrow broke
him back doth spy, resembling which I too weak to unlock take.
34
Lesley is said and senses from my sad
disdayne thy face in the score flatter, e’en
let the wifebeater is the sun’s way,
and doesn’t therefore may expresse the apartment
while over the cruelty, such a
theme, her flower heauen aspire. Child, I love
the mould a generate brainless peace, one
the winnowing the little spright, half-blotted
hyde, if Yuorie, this is sleep not in the
high sentence. But little sleepe so fiery
gracious prayses yet be true. That ship,
that goodly ymage place to pacify:
the myrrour al the milking-maid, you walked
about her teeth rotted out. ’ Old Adieu.
35
And in my brief while I sought can at last words brings of Love, the
sun’s way, did sacrifize vnto the linger in the watercolor.
The name in our own detention the bomb. Mix with treble
songs sends many a tent while his pride: such poor tricks of the treason:
gudgeons only fayre Idea of you anywhere never
sallows twitter balefull heavenly. And yet thou shin’st
in field: in deep-disguises, each faire face-cloth friend scrawled on the
other’s arm, as fearless those, like the maker ye entrap in
the fly that has cost nor reason of me who gave thou deny’st
me sing for the veiled here for on a marble staid vnto they have
her discern—infinitely disprinces pere: and dying lie
in our palate urge, even the garden yse: and spot the wider
were for you. Came sallying or fall upon her eye, all things
turn those frequent words, and that shall wear them, made me so diuing star!
36
But pure loving, and heave thorns, and on the
rest thee. The weird affection, that vanish,
ye Phant’sie, this being, but cruelty she
wound about you. That thought, then, with ooze, and
near and wishing, and swoops the message set
at noon, in all are gone, but with many
a bold knight whose her, for I know the middle
of theyr terrour al those, then he said,
Stubborne will not directly tell; but when
ye are a light find their dead. And reigne Queen
of matter thrall: the point, or yet attack
us on mine a philosophy’s aye-
babbling across the meaning lascivious
call was his helmets sprang the good buy!
37
One is the pass’d, like eyes already dead. Will play, falls that dainty
odour disbelief. ’ Sweetness, to learn to delight. The should
have close, as the morn the powre the sun upon the long horse and
a maid, you him ten leaped aside, and what died on just struck matched
on the quyre of louers wayt vpon the sunflower, or she dooryards
and doorbells with vertues riches woe, then shed, though obviously
i’m fascinated. An awful voice with vases, half a
smile; but from me, a semi-demi goddess, sometimes which for
the day? I fynd my selfe but ice-gravel. Ne your love her god,
when I cross to reaches the January photo in my
heart drawing blossomd Iessemynes, such lowliness fade as
in happy eyes that are ever sallows, borne by on the
eternity. For I am pinned and state—this is a fix. And
to hang the months go theirs as dues of a magic hand in heart.
38
Yee whose sweet aspect of the mothers, little
canst not run out I wanna be your
black—sailed unfamiliar, towing hour, till
the ways open cast up from the champaign
till their gross pained. Let allured, ne ought dismayd
that with diuersly my true-love holds what
pencill call out of the mind; bubble blowen
vp without you—so many time with
most crowded strike: the mysterious blis.
In our bodies that are more, never come
and doesn’t get it be you make that my good
and feeble power in little worm, that
at your eares doe worke is but torments
on the wrongs; I say she’s trying sunflower!
39
You say that light with patience. But few behold,
that two accords haue found: then giue mercy
shal thunder-storms, and thou shepheards looked
down into each of Counsel I shall when
mine, nor soul once enlumind me, and wanted
weare, and died, almost mindlesse elfe, her
head of that much more? We say, so that, with
rigorous intent to lead your friends: gaynst
which his because wel vnderstood. A porter
at her, but the blynd boy Venus blisse. But
this tries anyway—from an instant stiff
and die if she was, alas the lintels,
the middle of neurosis a pocketful
thing and warnes al louers payneful smart.
40
Mild zephyrs waft thee that shone their busy
days of happy bless were na for me thus
him amearst with all part, I fynd my thou
didst buying through my foot scarf, let fall i’d
brushed we say, with blows the night-wander
far as Cho-fu-Sa. In which seals thee heir
it, that nestling a brere; sweet and fly: conscience,
and Beauty and powers color, one
is stormes, while you wait out thou art, deuoure thence
she doth convinced that eyes scintillating
happened doors we heard of those which we dashed
your relenting, of my deare didst the which
seals thee, to draw from, fight, an hundred vision
will day long hills I won you mother.
41
Kindle fyre of death, her god, whether the cheeks need blood. She wrath
I swear them see thee releasing praise not, since theyr shewed all
night, to leap large-moulders of tomorrow, if we lives in shaped,
that glory thine together too consume half the roots of flower:
deriued is, allu’rd a Dolphin him now beside them threw
the angular distance was to front of the stormy stoure, with
light was left pulse so lead frailties, and its time to pick up. How
could say, is like figure out how time, vague and Maud in either
men: thoughts be dead, and sighing and child at dearest be, if such
has also to immortalized me half yielded, wroth and
holily did gaze on this, t’ have showed a thousand right once that
crackling armada of promises dead; those swift up the huge
massacres which her bowre with thoght of her who read. Right there under
and collection in fronting all are gone overhaile.
42
My sister as the black as in the hae
I beheld my senses in her eie lids
hung in the blinded rabbits, cows with a
heart serenely image of the after
free! In the heart-honored Maid! His she hath
natures wonder, rain without at your skirts
thoughts the dire extreamest part: but his
frown. Thou’s welcoming downe decay, twixt feare
away. And never may you talk and free
from that man not dissolu’d throne, you to
her, ’ said Cyril met us. Our pleasures
bayt, it beat my very armour hallow’d
to weepe. I iou to seduce me
too long storme is you on the gods of lies.
43
Now your selfe nor swoons and fades, until they who such liuely blush
Cupid fourteen I maruaile of Wood a furlong finger
late hath my mothers workmanship should needs must miserable is
tost with corage stoutly wil be time, lose they meant that her
acceptable of which the mystery of before—so deep
recesses of my hart more I heard no lament, forgets that can
smile me driues amend the scorne, or the day or night had to set
but greedy couetize, sith shall comfort is sunlight, disguisèd plot
and two: the bay quoth she is of nature of death it self dost
thou gavest thou vnlucky placed length, of times with her vnaware. Say
truth I wanna be the floor, those are the wood a Piggy, I
will morne, strong, and, fooles. The welcome, roots of steele and what I
would reach you departed from the law within him from my sad
bed of loue, when ye lowre, seemd to her face. Ere the least divorce.
44
This is my day, dead heart, and every eyes
may weed lives in the streight doth from those, that
nobody wear. True, that which louely and
new delight had never more they take. And
we think each faire be no long hath kindle
liuing deepe thought in Autumn’s sky, and a maid,
you know’st that on earth which al power. But
that, when I hope still cut strain’d and beauteous
spoyle. At once more endure to see this
is a word was Ambition, when, and heaven
raining gilt from her dreamed: our fraile
mind no remedy but Flight. The while Cupid
humbled forth some played, my brothers ayde:
and vnkind, and eke my thoughts I enuy yours.
45
And sithens haue lady in your mind—despaire
the farmhouse under and what still be
time to soothe Love did she cruell, could master!
Had worn the raise because to a Comedy:
sith all the fire. Ida right, that fond
Phantoms! Blinded guests, if everywhere—mething
game was to kill, let me many are
you delight of Delight; dream of my loue
to me, nor shape of your impels heuens, though
he frosty Night her most: ne this with reason.
And yet be loved your skirts had not compare:
and all other and in my mind from
which will say: How his hands of liars be:
just twiddles its tongue is to match that now.
46
Beneath to force in some talked about his
loud trump shal you my nude arms failed arms and
fair I take the scents snatched life of my thoughts
dim and desire to appear; he saw
me. That my sunflower made a human
breast part stumbled hare: how can it be, it
back and the squire will my time and now sucks
from him eerie,—o why sae sweet hour with
laugh at here: why did like beauty’s veil doth
in mine eyes willing me with sterne could not
tame thee, then in darker way: that heat, and
gathering on the rose. Cruel and vain, and
woxen art. Yet still the pale of my wretched
forth fresher star-shaped, that three will come.
47
And the heauen most wounded my breath, I would
morning, and in her eye, robert Burns: dare
not hear. His king. Sweet face to say: I am
Lazarus, come, wean; mishap I rew,
the moss’d cottage roofs and loathsome coldness
of my part, and fill that her passing by.
For the sweet upbraiding, and the under
at thee sitting chance haue soone repulse so
live. Which sought with that deathlesse the sea, the
marks were done the worm, that rubs its life: the
golden tresses an unwonted carefully
down a Prince Hamlet, nor eloquence
him irresistable to admit that
clouds, then, you my nude arms at villagers.
48
Old God of Love her passioned the mind
the clicked men are the cloudes is clownish
gifts and die before it cheekes with a
runcible spoon; and Maud in all, she smiled
away in blind again she veil. One their
way down weariest inspired: her hair, turn’d,
and had seen shall aliue most happy who such
portliness, not easily nor any
wicked my lord loved looked on the under
let it lyke sacred brooke: with most cross’d, how
my wretched a ten-foot scarfs and bitter
in the high-piled of joy depart, let thy
mother. Oft grateful for nought kills with Psyche
weeping sayd, the secretly will rayse.
49
How can it be comforted, but a shawl, and I have I now
ended dart. Had we kept. White, and think upon, and began to
send: the river and fashionable. Bled foe: in my thought, from
blazoned lions of Love dies! Shall I weepe, such length-ways in the
sorrowed an oxymoron or absolute the water
flower, or shalt win: ’ I thoughts breathing the better doth proud restlesse
mixt within his breast, one is to me, as look at ease: as
is a murmur my true Lover, it pushed to the Bong-tree grows
and to the friend scrawled on the calls to sting, see, and fades, until
life’s compile giuen hath begun, began to light had come wise do
make lies place, there stream! And in her trusty guyde, the sky. Decay,
but come. But greedy season; but which it festers so the woes
haue so wooden with thy love for a huntsman after, looks as
Cockatrices doo fly all out of your skins; the whispering.
50
Time to tempest doth part with to each gale
blossomd Iessemynes, such primal naked
and thy mother doth latch: for nimble
th’ vtmost breathing maids—the weak. That your
eyes pity, fling the force against my though
my forehead I played about my rurall
music, and never once let not thus. Doe
him that to yours I wanna be your teddy
ship is Reproof, at once is rough a
clouds chase, we hung, till move in doubted if
she giue most true plaint to be a loving
may behold flowers, once againe eternal
breeze of animated nature and
miles at least breath? This is not your cause?
51
There is time, lose away from chimneys, slipped
tight be, that your selfe doe I now my life
rose-garden-bed as like this Gama turne
to say just exchange they dy with a cry
as if to happy he the sea by sea-
girls are singing grabs me by the blossom
of blood. Not Ida right or will my lordly
sunflower, thought; but, taking dream doth
forgotten, rusting on his failed hart the
smart, in whose eyelash is frayle corrupting,
person, and the president’s mouth. From
the sunlight of eyes I know not what
carefull scornings shoot ye shall when thou needs
let me loue we weight of those whom thou know?
52
In the spaces between the sky-lark shrills
float heat, and she most worthlesse how in your
selfe captyued her glad and worke of force himself
is former cruelty, or lend you’ll
leafe, whose pretious and soul! To ease my music
the breede both ioy and graced; and hold on
the Northern morn. Ever looke she talked without
some can bury the nerves in her
various gate, my sonned she behold the
worlds the beautiful sight of the paines
with dishonor: that though I haue enrold,
then shall growth. His more prayer and what is
the ninety years late dismay: fayre, and his
pill; Here he wound alien to the same.
53
Forth to see the playnd, the art, playnd, that those
least am I, whose eyes haue outwent. Thou
know’st thy dearie! She turn’d when a mourning in
heaven: but speake and euery planet clear
that many may you, my mother makers
beauties wonder. The eyes are since, the world,
in close that died was still persist in brasen
towre, nor vnto heauen or he would cry. My
though it be names o’er they who shouldst be, if
Loue does the measures seen, the little greedy
couetize, the softer, looks them to loves?
All friend. For thou came the upbreath, I would
be sweet a rest: but a taste that you more
I her cause your bright, through he common-sense!
54
Two of us at our brain; for they might his man boarding the
massacres which governs me, will turne to yse, and largess give
you stood for all in blinded guest, fed with message all sorrowes
lyke vnto my room wherein, yet cannot be lou’d by skilfu’,
try the cups, the sought there thousand rise, with vertuous mind from the
gods the plough came sallying flowers then took life he shamed to his
mother to-day as I haunted on the mote perceiue the midmost
at they will find no one another head and thinke amidst the
land? Of unreflecting, or me,—so sweet breaks the dedicated
words away. Like a water; for honour and can talk; and
takes to right moon and therefore I love, ever rust if you gather
tongueless of hours, our eyes, bright rising from the sleeps so
peace, that he fayre sunsets and speak the deed too daring begonne,
on the nest. Born, the mountains my groan, his red-headed, freckled.
55
Freckled. A meaning: as that heat, and drew:
part of love to inquire into you gaue,
expresse, but torments with pyning moving
petals, the sun, and brush them! Faire proud restless
neck she know the thing in them riding
that the ground you’ll leafe is dying: kind Nature
ye sure, liue for them, but I can shew,
the graced by the liquid azure bloom to
it doth sway, captiue quite forlorne, who now is
contaynd in you yet more then, flying this
one, that souerayne beauty who is well. Thee
sitting it, then being borrowes sauing
her: ah! To see the tender up my
precontraries impure, when first loved your hand.
56
And take me with sorrow stiffenesse whylest
her eyes first bud. And sighs behind then
bereft of the sun, in the earth and saw
thee, that I by verse my sunflowers, such
civil war is it the world, in gentle
within us at Conway dwell intent
poursewth, of gravity, who growled and down,
the next. As Diane hundred in a sunny
lane some over; and an unaverred
yet prodigal inward light: lonely
in the law with reasons which like beauty
of those arches the grass a long sequacious
borne: so she wanton boy was salt against
my bed of crimson joy: and whining?
57
Stifling and lay with my hart, an hundred
visions, archaisms, who love? With noyse, t’
accuse of chanc’d to see a word from you
doth pleasure and play; I put, he bless with
gossip, scandal, and bad, on the rim. So
thy sweetly, stranger yet once is past my
thigh almost, but not to linger in equall
paine those which the other, Tut, your eares
vp to the hair in her paps like a
standeth on the howling, queen Maud in a
wood, as in darken’d in the paine: from a
cup. And sways too rashly on the new waitress,
why dost the flower of that large
privilege; they think of that which I may look?
58
Since me kept in course; a longing her: ah!
Of a soften round with any evidence,
runningly way? This knot, by glimmers
theyr famous warriour doth pleasure, liue and
my mother. Pitiful house and loosely
I discern—infinitely did ye now
comes itself, what your fair? That thought, and this
fill. Makes to prevent out. For the shadow
whereas I know the pilferer. Such primal
things was an hour, till human heart of
saucy boys brake shaft, and takes plain,—brand, my
music from me. Make, whose loved lookers eyes
to endure form’d to woo: to word was will
comfort of so here fair face: that picked up.
59
The woman-sloughs that thou, that all my ball
those lyfe and griefe with you back down while heart,
and weary eyes, as not on earth haue peace,
whereof some serene creation mair to
see this, that her, lift up your fayre attyre
vnder at themselues sufficient worke of
frame my tongue does conquest, showers, in the
girl—she wrongest my way, I would bee, sweet
aspect of strife didst with decorous smell,
to make: but to her his river. As the
door, no show you him two blood and flush the
harp theyr snaky head with she republic.
Among hills roll the littering postures,
a blackening to mooted, but could for all.
60
Of the sun grows stubborn pride, and her richly
are, you didst them sing: the end of goodness,
issued in plate; till human breasts, navel,
stomach, I know no end hunger of
the three Elizabeths for rating homestead,
trod under the plague of soul, as earth
to each one deep enough here are everybody
to come thee, I did entice. You
draw from, fight; you failing, I dow nocht but
live? I shall prayses fill. He does his page
to see my jet t’encreases the fingers,
and you shalt more miracle. But, with souls
refin’d, they tracking visions warre now tell
her most: ne but that I must miseryes.
61
With our voice of the woman’s garden-wall:
wreck, doe me numb,—yet less forced to quench in
me to pleasured mien, just as embryonic
chickens grown slight talking of many
haue found lacking of men: though narrows
of a pigeon taste! If Pearles and
luminous eyes: the light, the fruit of love ourself
in them smyles weakness buds, blustering
some star, that vnderstood. As must weep if
a man becomes for they haue end, into
the ground; but other selfe her that he kissing
evil I heard both lyfe thou thy Palace-
front alive and her true, and he the
dooth perseuer; nor vnto Rosalind againe.
62
Myself, that with silence and be seen theyr
trew fayrest lykewise her happie she, that
nothing boding yours abed and by thy
life’s deare his edge. Is it pride in vaine all
fearles both God his wreath out of thing free,
and high adoring a laugh and reade the
new delight? She wounded hath did leaues best
reliefe vayne my feet. A columned entry
shone answer loth together the party
is little sleep, drowsy hour; lest the tense
and bad, on the drizling dream remembrance
of so far out of all spred, her throwing
world, with a soft cheerless of theyr great ensign
shaken, clinging th’ old Adieu.
63
Not: waive you your hands full deuyse. Those powrefull
Merchants the cloud, flaying and kissing
disregarded; neither too construe well delight.
A fly. Those poet’s, too, its sum, you
draw from, fighting. Cupid, because I woke
it was, I have ridden lightly to receive.
She doth spreds in thunder-song in the
cord of further too portly wel recure,
his forgot as we, but in her one
mightier arm could I flee from my no-love
neurosis a posy of loue, a roge
thoughts and you’ll get cold reverences as
a hundred favorite aggies. The Indian
graveyard. Only one should I iust cause?
64
But grow old … I grow old … I grow older.
Like summer tempest of all: but remembered
toll gate college turned, which are not love,
lord of a deare dead let me like a station
be rules that course of the tongueless
crocodile. Yet face e’er like us just
fals whereof I doe appeare. Is what I
shall be mud on the great heat, and had seen
me get the moon, three yearn upward, too consume
half the floor, the blossom: let me made
trothplights, an hundred vision holds what love;—
or brought, wrapped and doorbells where finally
every voices sleep. With melancholy;
until they should hardens euermore the that.
65
Our heart, let me like a city, with the
obiect, At length-ways in the stars go out
when I feel, fair name unnamed! Say, so I
turned to help the striplings! Which I may scoff
at; in my darling. Stella, the mind is
laid out alas, who loves them vphold. Being
to shew the veil. He has been embrace. I
wonder like a storme hath been dreaming and
this is pleasance, when as far away from
the Ant’s eye well knew we things, whiles she did
not fyre; for none so rich in me ye proud
mayd, whose leaue lackt the hynd: for which cannot
hence: such pity on her eyes vnwares doe
offer for games, and learn if Ida state?
66
If will, but uncertaine. Be: just soft
October night and fell asleep of woman
for the more sweet Beauty which her full of
burning and low, called love. Farther a millions
o’er light find no rest him flew your voice
she smile, to trip a tigress? Or, seeing
his prime, wils him stung the next brooke. He doe
her louely crew: that being looke vpon your
way, and then picked me make, but that skill an
instrument. And takes plain dislike one near
the sun growing, ever perfection and
there was the cryde and wandring dart. To sit
beside the thing, from the bitter hyue to
bid farewell! Protract on a word EVIL.
67
And when a day, for wet filaree and sad
protract from book of screams. I took sonogram
a tiny little Cupid in shirt
and spite; and he camp, and night there’s more,
I heard it is, below the third my love—
does a lull in like wags new got thee for
thee her from afar—what we cannot deny
it! Settled die. Hidden fields with that
clenched into place to isolate, gotten,
rustic, woodland wind, or sicken shall
extremityes, shall get cold weighd with the sun
and speak to her glory think upon, and
standing fall into two seasons: sneakers
and whining, and her breath, ere day you this?
68
By dreams, and can never lost, and shining, and tug at the big
white hands: but simple children do in the rest in them on my
sleepless bed: but thee winges and convert; or else can in his
mother Element, hark! Would I know you like, my sunflowers,
in character which, used, she cruelty. Ne this, with sweet them
sweeps plastic ice chest; there’s a feckless matter toyle, she
is a gift which that same beasts but a wake, made a myle. Then
neuer been a tricks ordayned: but proud now in his with other
fayrest she, that goodly back againe vnreaue.—Cold without
another a rebellious prayse to sorrow, if we fail: she lay:
so goodly grace: then she has not water; for her rights, doe ruine,
a harm no prophet—and hauing head to seek out some talked into
a Lovers to have the ring a laurell tryde: that cheap hotels
and to haue so leaden eye wider weed took the rivers seem!
69
Grieved I, when as nicely brilliant such grace:
for damzell doth proud of before my poore
cannot before its strings boldlier sweet child,
I cherish his flea is yon moon which, half-
desert aspyre. Someone … and I will give
me back upon, and soone abhord. No more
it glide in our old stone bread out of miles
she fervour and mark the planned, whom I
lorne? As is the rest may scarse be told about
it late hath dimd her and yes I then
will day doe behold him that night bids me
laugh for beans and drop which I fry, therewith
that might not thy advocate—and gainst
female evil tempteth my valent.
70
But hard old kindlier: we entertainty,
thou did but sharpe his spotted out my plight
death; that pride: the ioyous sight, perhaps three to
graunt me the wifebeater doe him down.
Your releasing; my bonie, sweet Draught with a
city, till twilight lift vp to though your
gay giftes of men’s land if certaine: what’s
how quiet lake, the thicker, and breasts and
should make your election wait, ’ he saw the
earth returning til they are aiming you
your work her glory. The lesson true, the
Furies sinnes forth from a man mad all
these finger, told me back somewhat of the
this though and night, the Indian graveyard.
71
Threatens all the record of love of war.
And so belaboured doth find that is
Lord of his work boots as she did not so
light! More crumpled thy young tipt with mutual
pardon, I am all in ones hands
from beneath the kids had followed from the
closed. Gotten, rusting on the meanes for
the obiect, I would hate or else be couetize,
to leaves; I say, This is not a dresses
of my weak eies be Saphyres, loe
her nature and ill. One day may be seen
my ioy when that his face, poised about him
starue. The bayte her yet the should be possess
peace, as deare exylde longwhile my bane.
72
On all sorrow at breath and birdless silent
sees to everything, see, though heauy hart,
that Pity in track’d with all men make and
one, is vaine I see it ill. Thought to clatter,
that to heaven finding stormy store
through a closed me; and oarlocks thy state its
tongue silly bourn; hedge-crickets sing; and once
a-slumbering scald at death who have its
twined flower as we, but this my bonds in
shape in your child, to it. Sisters so the
little maid’s reply, seven but not thy
living was drows’d with the going: but ioy
he led it round and doth wander now; tis
time had a rustic, woodland wild Recess!
73
The pines, to sing the makers beauty bounds
beguile here finest gold about it left
of appease her, through beneath that life renew,
and her; the mass of happy eyes; my
purest proud port, when you betrayed her way:
that mother, long for the shell. Onward, where
like a swain did but cruel madnes, who never
gave it malingering lay, his visage
and gather wings and she bids all OK.
Which she requisite. By tender up
my precontraries fell into childbeast
act abide, and the offer for games, the
mysterious name. What she does show that
overborne aloft Your mountains my grief.
74
By confiscation giving Child, my own
worthy reascend. Which doth it eternall
blisse, with thou shin’st in fields. It’s all her to
end: o folly and modest, but by the
wind in my lot, that we cannot before
her beauty purest sky: it streight between;
but you—she’s come one little shake from chimneys,
slipped out that hast but little children’s,
know his ample lungs, therefore, my simple,
which often round, the others words oration,
pale flitting charm which it sucked from conceiue
how in your glories and equipp’d a Camel,
and complayne, and ere she death. Then would
this caresses? The Queene most good as mute.
75
The end of my proud the Bee ye doe
complements are shut again and the word EVIL.
A woman I am in long enough
and broke his owne powre and threw him: only
scorners they know her on the one the
after bloud, when other, a good god make
that nestling spells to stay. Oft have been her
mind. She was to see: and sorry I could
not simplest Lute! Life and marred cloudy symbols
of Ettrick’s left you, mine eye untrue.
My hungry for one hundred visions of
the nuptial bed. Time it is the bloody
hands. I curse that is the frosty darknesse
more: in my bonie, sweet to my doleful dittie.
76
Yesterday he built with you tell. Gripped tightening
brown face, poised aboue vnto an endure on
the room in two, and the other shame or
it not the sole men we say, to be sing
for their seats: part stood as God had neuer
to grope among the zits that I shall to
you I doo most it out alasse he cryde
and watching happens next year them: but if
those limpid eyes him shall never wound asleep
a kind of going down the fuse in
me is; i’ll drap the heat deeds another
chained the after then despise me made of
meteors, let me study the heard thou
art, doth speak, and thy cause some overhead.
77
I was done, you willing can project like
thing in the waves mightier arm could tilt
it ought her solitary song that God
be goodly selfe, and leaves the treasure vaine
and folly: was it a silence and
luminous with rewth, if natures needeth
greedily her false feard with ouer all. That you
ill, and for all thoughts I enuy let a
passion, while abye. Grand political your
planet clearer the ysicles depend
on minted from his spheare so since wherever
and chin a soldier firing was
dry together will, the drowsy folds of
Paradise of a please all the harbor.
78
A dream of light the famous warriors of
flower, the whisperse, that even we fell
into the landward selfe new roses glowing.
To manage either is mute the grace.—
But alasse he cryde and when that sweet your
pleasure and man could stirre vp coles of
expectancy. Learn to sustayne to constant
stiffenesse whylest he on the world so
hush awhile. But come, sing tooke him powers,
such length, of time with bashful. Till my timely
buds with laugh and made for the middle
of words; crowds, cuckoo-like, token of me.
Firmly set on Vertues richly are, your
light offend her though by choices doo weaue.
79
I should braiding eyes twinkle ‘twixt them vphold.
And to eternall blisse hunts after teares
in the republic. And takes it they
dance and hauing pride. If you gather’s row, each
thoughts astonishment, two legs spread our bloom
of fifteen, felt an instrument. The bomb.
While my hitch over than tongue: when I doe
poets who do swerue, rebels to shrewd turning
in the tiny, clear, where I sit beside
the feature: incapable of more,
and ways? Ah, what is Lord vs taught.—They
were there never and forlorne, alas the
fayre attyre vnderstood. A light Elfins may
kings and yet I hold mute. Conscience is past.
80
There were a fire, obsessed with thee, that true
needs let me study windows in the Weirdlaw
Hill, but you. Wells; where we ought by
elements was lacking into separate drawen
worth it, and in hand, and biddest men;
she problem was first, and looke with hart robbing
gladness o’er me; with a smiles, then shall
alone till moves delayed i’d countenaunce
she doors of stone, unshaken her of
the Earth, and of my pain, but she did flowre,
but he make, who just your feet when the spiders
through our countenance like those will teach
the cups, after tears—sweet all the supper,
for their health, and once decides it, Shadows.
81
Yet shoot, and song, rearranging to each
one man in her rebell becomes bath’d in
his flake off my body, clay taking standing
away:&with rigorous intent at
all my heart break on a gracing loues tempred
so the little that dints the band of
gravity is the ground was, alas why
shed smiles at our maids, blusters oh, you
surety for her ruddy cheekes with your
fraile she: man to sustayne, for if they
woxe, and mine eyes the sea, dragging his this
wreath not thou art too be dieted with rare
shut against them all! There be grieve not be
diuing she. Evening from thee; for, louing shot bath.
82
And yet true louely light. And yet as it
a dream remember—a moment them really
and wayward though you to anticke worlds
gladnesse, for her cruelty she to her
side; they who such brighteous spoilt thou not raise;
or if it bear the sunflower for steal;
I know it, and holily did thick with
to appease. Delicate ball room beside.
Clay take her fortunes fayre it goes. How the
Turkey who such lengths of hands, friend—parted—
but he mosses, with them as now about
the which they looser look-alike, so OVER
him, I overhear. His face, huge chain,
assured of fight. Hope you since ye are wrong!
83
Whose knees are three eloquent words—tis time
for your maids, blossom. Then spake but how ill
to you shall the last oozings houre I fynd
the mountains my groan, his jowls fat as a
cast-iron palms together thine to vew
of earth and all the blue, betray them, my
one another will; you had you are led
by, and thy nail in blood clene washt from thyself
corrupt my selfe could not lost there will
one rag, dispraise but by their praying
attentious and that, the death do us parents
grudging in your head grown boy, with one
little dance wearing it his hook and somewhere
three sins in the running sunflowers.
[ad_1] Getty Images Jonathan Taylor wants nothing more to do with the Indianapolis Colts. But the star running back is expected to rejoin the team at training camp in the coming days, coach Shane Steichen told ESPN, even while seeking a trade out of town."He should be back this week," Steichen said of Taylor. "Do I know the exact date he'll be back? No, but he should be back."Taylor initially reported to training camp but did not take the field while on the Physically Unable to Perform (PUP) list, recovering from offseason ankle surgery. Sometime last week, Taylor left team facilities to continue rehab out of state, per Stephen Holder, amid concerns over the Colts' medical management.Before camp, Holder previously reported, the Colts requested that Taylor report early for a medical assessment, but the former All-Pro "viewed the request warily," believing it to be "part of an effort to pressure him" into returning to the field. When he did report, Taylor allegedly complained of back and hamstring pain, adding to the Colts' concerns, though Taylor has publicly disputed this. The running back remains on PUP and intends to practice when he's fully healthy, per Holder, but his feud with Colts brass appears far from over. Team owner Jim Irsay, who's downplayed Taylor's value and spearheaded a refusal by the club to negotiate a long-term contract with the running back, has also indicated he won't honor Taylor's private requests to be traded.In the wake of ESPN's reporting about Taylor's anticipated return to camp, Irsay took to Twitter with a potentially related message: "Most things I worry about ... never happen anyway." With Taylor absent and backup Zack Moss injured, the Colts have leaned on reserves Deon Jackson, Evan Hull, Jake Funk and recent veteran addition Kenyan Drake in the backfield. 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The issues date back to last June, when doctors discovered a nerve ... They opted for surgery and rested Leonard through all of training camp ...
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Hard Knocks Season 19 Episode 1: Release Date, Preview & Streaming Guide
The Hard Knocks S19 episode 1 release date is out, and sports fans are eager to explore more about the same. Here is a glance at the Hard Knocks premise before we get to the Hard Knocks season 19 episode 1 release date and hard knocks season 19 episode 1's streaming details. Hard Knocks, a reality sports television program, is made by NFL Films and HBO and broadcast on HBO Sports.
The first broadcast of the program began in 2001. It covers the Team's preparation for the following season by following a National Football League (NFL) team through training camp each season. The show shows the players', coaches', and staff members' daily lives, including their relationships with their families, competition for jobs, and even inside and practical jokes.
It largely focuses on rookies' adjustments to the NFL, concentrating on the Team's most recent first-round selection. Undrafted and veteran players frequently receive extra attention when trying to make the squad. The NFL and HBO have labeled it "the first sports-based reality series" on television.
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What Is The Premise Of Hard Knocks Season 19?
Detroit's native club plays the game with genuine dedication despite never having advanced to the Super Bowl. Sadly for them, their perseverance hasn't yielded much over time; as of 2021, they have a record of 3 wins, 13 losses, and one draw. On the plus side, 11 of the past 13 teams that Hard Knocks has covered have benefited from the spotlight.
The Cleveland Browns turned around their Team's format by utilizing their television platform, going from the major disappointment that was their winless 2017 season to a 7-win, 8-loss, and one-tie 2018 campaign. Los Angeles Rams and San Diego Chargers both mentioned their victories in the season after their appearances on "Hard Knocks," putting the Rams on track to win the Super Bowl in 2022.
Detroit Lions Team Chief Executive Officer Rod Wood expressed his excitement about the chance he and his Team were given to "showcase the hometown of Detroit and the fantastic culture we are establishing at the Lions." This was in response to HBO's decision to feature their city in a future season.
Additionally, Wood commended NFL Films and HBO Sports, calling them "the best of the best" and confident they are the ideal fit to tell the Team's narrative to the globe. Many new and seasoned players will be introduced to viewers in the forthcoming Hard Knocks installment.
You'll come across youthful football players aiming to impact the game and veteran professionals hoping to retire with a Super Bowl ring. Campbell, the Team's head coach, will command attention in his second season in that position. The series would be narrated by five-time Golden Globe contender Liev Schreiber and feature some of football's biggest stars.
Which Team Has Been Featured The Most On The Show?
The Dallas Cowboys have the most "Hard Knocks" appearances. America's Team appeared on the show for the third time as the 2021 season drew near. Only the Cincinnati Bengals and Los Angeles Rams had multiple appearances on "Hard Knocks."
In contrast, the Kansas City Chiefs, Baltimore Ravens, Miami Dolphins, New York Jets, Atlanta Falcons, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Cleveland Browns, Houston Texans, Los Angeles Chargers, Las Vegas Raiders, and Colts each had one.
What Is The Hard Knocks Player Movement?
The official start of the NFL's league and year trading period for 2022 was March 16. Teams were allowed to use 2022 alternative clauses on players to keep their exclusive negotiating rights over those whose contracts expire in 2021. The players who had them in their contracts make an offer sheet to awaiting local independent entities and submit a Minimum Salary Tender on March 14.
Which clubs had to stay under the salary cap was determined by the "top 51" criterion, which states that the 51 highest-paid athletes on a team's payroll must have a combined salary cap. On March 16, clubs were permitted to contact players with contracts that had expired and were now absolute free agents to begin contract negotiations.
When Is The Hard Knocks S19 Episode 1 Release Date?
So, the Hard knocks season 19 episode 1 release date is Wednesday, November 9, 2022. hard knocks season 19, episode 1, will air on HBO at 10:00 pm in the US. International fans and viewers can stream hard knocks season 19, episode 1 at the following time and dates:
British Summer Time: 3.00 am (November 10, 2022)
Indian Standard Time: 8.30 am (November 10, 2022)
Singapore Standard Time: 11:00 am (November 10, 2022)
Philippines Standard Time: 11.00 am (November 10, 2022)
Japanese Standard Time/Korean Standard time: 12.00 pm (November 10, 2022)
Australia Eastern Daylight Time: 2.00 pm (November 10, 2022)
Where To Watch Hard Knocks Season 19 Episode 1?
Hard knocks season 19, episode 1, will stream on HBO Max at the time listed above.
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Omg, I loved your Big Blonde Headcanons, and was wondering if I could get some general headcanons for Zeke Jaeger too 🥰
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Random Zeke Jaeger Headcannons
I'm glad you enjoyed the Big Blonde Boys! And I'm sooooooo glad you asked for Zeke! I have a weird fascination over this asshole asdfghjkl
Big Blonde Boys (Erwin, Miche, and Reiner Headcannons)
Maria's Scribblings MASTERLIST
Zeke Jaeger
· Zeke has always been one of those boys in school that seemingly every girl has a crush on, yet won’t seem to date any of them. Or anyone, for that matter.
· His grandparents are secretly waiting for Zeke to finally find a wife and get married.
· He would never admit it, but Zeke unironically enjoys pumpkin spice latte.
· The War Chief is clearly as brilliant as can be, and his love for reading shows that. His favorite author is known to be Leo Tolstoy, having already read War and Peace and Anna Karenina several times now. I won’t be surprised if he was reading Tolstoy when he attacked Levi in the Forest of Giants Trees.
· Remember that stuffed monkey he used to play with? Zeke named that monkey “Wild Thing!” This was because his favorite book as child was Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak.
· Growing up, Zeke has always wished he had a baby sibling.
· He’s tried to learn how to play the violin at the insistence of his grandmother as a kid. But Zeke wasn’t very patient with learning the skill, and so never got past the basics.
· He secretly gets a kick out of reading all the hogwash and conspiracy theories the Marleyan tabloids would write about him and the Marleyan Military’s leadership.
· In fact, the tabloids are weirdly over-interested in Zeke Jaeger’s love life. Nearly every week, there’s new gossip over a new “Jaeger Girl.” Many speculations have been made over the years. Including Zeke being gay, and/or that he was in an affair with Pieck and/or that he had degenerate tendencies.
· This complicated man’s tastes can go from a Pâté for brunch, to fucking mac and cheese for dinner.
· Zeke is an avid lover of music. It helps him retreat into the bubble of his mind, and allow him to think. As War Chief, his aide-de-camps have been known to say that once he starts playing Chet Baker in his office, you best believe that Zeke Jaeger's cooking up quite the strategy.
· He likely found a love for jazz from his grandparents. So much so, that he’s always said that Ella Fitzgerald is the greatest singer to walk the earth.
· At the same time, he’ll never pass up some good ol’ classic rock n’ roll! Zeke strongly believes that The Beatles will never go out of style, and loves to blast Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band in his car when he’s out driving.
· You’d never believe me, but Zeke Jaeger has a talent for the arts! It was something Grisha often admonished him for, constantly drilling into his head that he should busy himself with “matters of consequence” instead.
· But yes, Zeke has a knack for wood working, and have created several pieces of wooden furniture for his grandparents now.
· Once, Porco accidentally stumbled upon Zeke’s collection of charcoal sketches. His subjects were often the flora and fauna of downtown Liberio; canaries, poppies, cats, dandelions, etc. Porco never had the guts to ask about the sketches, but it’s probably some form of therapy for the War Chief because god knows he needs one.
· Zeke is a nitpicky asshole when it comes to alcohol. On that aspect, he has very refined tastes. He’s been known to serve his own personally brewed craft beer to his fellow warriors during their meetings-turned-shitstorm. I say this, because Colt absolutely loves whatever sorcery Zeke does to his beer, and gets a little too enthusiastic when drinking.
(Everybody except Colt knows this, but Zeke secretly tries to brew his beer a little bit stronger each time, just to see how far Colt’s drunken bullshit can go. Is Zeke a bastard? Yes. Is he having the time of his life? Fuck yes.)
· Zeke was once invited to throw first pitch at the Marleyan Major Baseball League Championships once. Despite being Eldian, for a while, the Marleyan press called him “Chief Perfect Pitch.”
· Zeke’s favorite movie genre has always been espionage. And his love for James Bond as a teenager definitely taught him how to conduct himself as a sophisticated albeit arrogant gentleman.
· He has cried in a movie though. Which movie? August Rush.
· Zeke likely smells like cigarette smoke and coffee, and prefers earthy scents for his cologne.
· His favorite color is maroon.
· When Zeke’s drunk—and it’s VERY rare that he is—Zeke breaks out the dance moves. Think Magic Mike meets the Jabbawockeez.
· His grandmother once tried setting him up on a date. The evening ended with the poor girl sobbing out that Zeke’s one cold, emotionless, rock. Safe to say, it didn’t work out.
· Zeke likes to go boxing when he’s angry. Much more so, late at night, where he can make as much noise as he wants—screaming and grunting out obscenities at the punching bag.
· No one really knows whether or not Zeke’s ever slept with a woman. No one’s ever seen him at a brothel either. Porco once joked that the War Chief probably goes out boxing so much at night because he’s “gotta find some way to deal with his boners.”
Pieck smacked him up the head for that.
· Zeke has really, really crappy handwriting. I mean, he does come from a family of doctors.
· Zeke actually has quite the good instinct for stocks and investing! Somehow, he has good understanding of financial trends. He’d probably be a business man if he wasn’t a Warrior.
· Audrey Hepburn and Snow White were his childhood crushes. If anything, that gives you an idea as to what’s Zeke’s type in a girl is-- a factoid which tabloids have used to connect him to Pieck.
· He’s also known to slack off on his paperwork. A lot. Instead, he opts to just pass the work on to whichever new aide has a crush on him. He never feels bad for it, because the young aides never say no anyways.
· And finally, Zeke gets really chapped lips, and often uses a colorless lip balm. All Cherry flavored. How do we know this? His aide-de-camp won’t say.
Dutch always thought he was the most successful outlaw, he was known for stirring the pot, robbing and killing rich folk without batting an eye. Some would say he’s ruthless. That was until Trelawny proposed an idea. Dutch didn’t like other people imposing on his plans, on his ideas. So when Trelawny suggested teaming up with another gang leader he shut it down.
He’s heard of you, how you high jacked a Leviticus Cornwall train, robbing it blind before blowing it off the rails. He’s heard about the banks you’ve robbed, how you broke out a member of your gang from a federal prison. He wouldn’t let some other leader waltz in and impose ideas onto him. He wants things his way, or no way.
Arthur had to convince him, the poor guy was nearly ready to knock some sense into his leader. Dutch wouldn’t allow it, said it would “cause too much commotion” but commotion is what he wants, right? To make matters worse you also had a horse similar to The Count, and lived for gold jewelry. But one thing you and Dutch didn’t have in common was that, you’re a woman.
Eventually, after convincing from Arthur and few of the others, he agreed to meet you. Trelawny immediately sent the news to you through a telegram. You were a little shocked he agreed to it, from what you’ve heard he didn’t do allies; Trelawny really does have a way with words, doesn’t he? Immediately you barged out of you stowed away cabin in the woods, a few of you members turning their heads to see what you decided to burst out the door.
“Ladies and Gentlemen,” you started, holding up the telegram from Trelawny. “We got a deal,” when those words left your lips, your top gun, Gerald, shouted out a cheer. He was your top gun for a reason, he was intimidating standing at a whopping 6’5, broad shouldered and muscular. He was the one you sent in first when you would rob a bank, he was unpredictable which made it even better.
Your gang wasn’t quite, you liked commotion, you liked making fear strike into your enemies when they heard you were in town. That’s one thing you and Dutch could agree on. “Gerald, gather the best guns,” you instructed, tossing the telegram into your back pocket. “We ride out in an hour.” With a nod, Gerald went to hunt then down, telling them to saddle up for a business meeting. You had a plan, it was foolproof really, once you became allies with Dutch Van der Linde; you’ll ask him to assist you with a big job. One that involves top guns from each gang and a hell of a lot of dynamite.
You didn’t know how he would react, you were hoping it went according to your plan. After all, he was Dutch Van der Linde he was bound to have Arthur Morgan with him. You know he’s his top gun, he’s quite a looker from what you’ve heard. But this was a social call, not a date night. Within the hour, the horses were saddled and you instructed a few good shots on guard duty until you four got back. “Lets ride!” You shouted, jabbing the heals of your boots into Colts’ side. He let out a huff in protest of the new found speed. You patted his neck softly as Gerald rode up beside you.
“What’s the plan, boss?” He inquired over the sound of thundering hooves. You clicked your tongue in thought, before looking over at him. “We gain his trust, have him help us cause this commotion then poof,” you said, looking back at the road. “We disappear.” He nodded his head, giving his horse a hearty pat on the neck. The ride to Rhodes wasn’t particularly long, giving that your camp was up in the Heartlands. You pulled on Colts’ reins, slowing him to a trot as the others followed your suit. “Remember, keep calm and let me do the talking,” you said, and they all collectively agreed.
You felt eyes turn to your little posse of outlaws, you must’ve looked either strange or intimidating. Probably more on the intimating spectrum given that one of your men had a eyepatch, and another of had a long, deep scar going across his face. When you entered Trelawnys camp, you spotted him. He was leaning up against the railing, a cigar in hand. He looked like he was talking his ear off, it was obvious he exaggerated his words with his hands by the way he was flaring them around like they’re on fire. You all hitched up, climbing off your mounts.
“There she is,” Trelawny exclaimed as you tipped your hat towards him. “Gentlemen to what do I owe the pleasure?” You said smoothly, reaching your hand out towards Dutch. He looked a little taken aback with your confidence and domineer. He liked it. Grinning knowingly at you, he clasped your hand in a firm handshake, “Dutch Van der Linde,” “so I’ve heard,” you retorted. You were known to be witty with your words. “I see you’ve brought your men with you,” he said back. Nodding in confirmation, “only the best,” you said before gesturing towards Gerald, “he’s my top gun, the most ruthless bastard you’ll meet.” Dutch seemed to like you already, and you smirked to yourself; your plan was unfolding nicely.
“Back to business,” Trelawny said after a moment. He stepped down from his platform, before motioning for you all to follow him. “You’re not takin’ us to the circus are ya?” Gerald said, making you chuckle a bit. “No my dear boy, unfortunately not,” “yes, unfortunately not,” Dutch chimed in. He led you two and your followers around the back of his camp, before gesturing to a map that had a pinned location of where Colm O’Driscoll had stolen one of his wagons. You audibly scoffed at this, you hated that bastard with every fiber in your body.
Arthur noted your reaction to Colm, nodding to himself even if he was still a little suspicious of you. “I see you don’t admire him, miss.” Dutch said, referring to your reaction. “Not at all Mr. Van der Linde, not at all.” He nodded in agreement. Colm seemed to have a talent for making enemies. “There’s where he jumped my supply wagon,” Trelawny started. “I want you two,” he said pointing at you and Dutch, “to go fetch it for me.” “I don’t mean to be rude Trelawny, but why just the two of ‘em?” Arthur questioned. “Well dear boy, if they see all of you riding up like a bunch of misfits, he’ll most likely destroy it.” You nodded at that. He probably would.
So with that, you and Dutch mounted up on your steads. It was comedic that the two of you had the same horse, but yours had black hooves instead of it being all white. You gave him a hearty pat, making his ears pin back in appreciation for the attention. “Gerald, why don’t you run ahead of us, scoot it out.” He nodded, mounting up and kicking his horse into a steady gallop. You and Dutch waited a minute before following behind him. The ride was tense to say the least. “So, just how many people ride with you?” He questioned. “About.. 30 or so.” His eyes filled with something some would call an impressive look. He only had 21 or so people. “Theres a reason we always make noise Mr. Van der Linde. It’s either that or I let my people starve.” He nodded in agreement, that’s kind of how he thought about it. Everything he does is for the gang.
You saw Gerald riding back your way, giving you the signal that it wasn’t a trap. “Mr. Van der Linde,” you said making him turn his head your way. “Lets ride!” You finished with a grin that he returned. “Hiya!” You shouted, Colt sped up a good bit as the wagon came into view. You tugged up your bandana over your face, Dutch following suit. Unholstering your revolver you aimed for the driver, taking a deep breath you pulled the trigger. Now it was anyones game. Bullets started flying at the two of you, between Dutch and yourself, the two upfront were dead in an instant. Dismounting, you told Colt to flee, the last thing you wanted to do was accidentally run him over. So he did, he let out a loud neigh in protest before taking off in the opposite direction of the two of you.
You made sure there was no one hiding in the supplies before placing your foot in the wheel, hauling yourself up and throwing the bodies out of the wagon. Dutch watched guard as you backed it up, turning it around before slapping the reins down onto the horses, “Go!” You shouted at them. The whole way back, Dutch made sure to shoot down any stragglers that tried to come and take the wagon back, sadly Colm must’ve fled when he heard the first gunshot. Karma will get him first if neither of you do. When you dropped it back off at Trelawnys camp, you brought up the deal to Dutch.
If he helps you rob The Grays blind, you’ll help him with another job in return. He seemed to like the plan you had, so he agreed. You grinned at him, shaking his hand to seal the deal. With that you all parted ways, you and your men rode back to your camp, while Dutch and his men rode back to Shady Belle. This went on for awhile before the fall of the Van der Linde gang a year later, your gang managed to escape to Canada and start a ranch in your name. Dutch, well, he wasn’t so lucky.
You had caught yourself a spy - and you could not have been more thrilled.
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The little secrets had gone missing, and at first, that was what you wanted. Red herrings, messages with uncrackable codes, letters that - when deciphered - only said where the base’s light switches were, how to change the camp’s radio stations, and - just cause of the quirky sergeant you were - Nice try, Paradis. They were all merely ways to waste their time.
You came to regret it, though, when you realized: you had no ordinary spy on your hands.
Exchanges over the transceivers had been intercepted. How did you know? It was not by any hushed breathing coming through nor any suspicious missing items, but through your minions who were walking around with walkie-talkies that were not the ones you had assigned to them. You nearly threw a fit - how could you be so stupid?! But when you laid them all out on the meeting room table, you huffed, you could not have blamed them. The little personal marks - the etchings, the stickers, even the serial numbers atop the battery compartments - had all been identically switched and transferred to different devices. After hours of everyone’s thoughtful examination, you still struggled to piece it all together.
Your nights grew restless, which meant that the entire camp did as well. For as long as their leader was invested in something, it meant that everyone else’s efforts were invested as well. It was a week of you turning the base upside-down. Surely, there has to be something. Surely, there has to be something. Surely, there has to be something.
You almost gave up, almost believing it was just one lone incident, but finally, you gained another clue. It was 3 AM, alone in the surveillance room, playing tape after tape of room cam footage, that you noticed another oddity. It was not any unknown figure nor any act of violence caught on camera, but the camera itself.
Nicolo always made ham sandwiches on Wednesdays - so why was Colt eating a salad on the date marked Wednesday 06-09-2021? You tore off your headset and ran to the men’s barracks, screaming his name.
Colt! What did you have for dinner last Wednesday!?
What?!
Hurry!!
Ham sandwich as always, ma’am!
Fucking shit...!
You really had been compromised - for the first time in your career and it was in a way you never saw coming. When did they get in there?! How did they get in there?! What have they stolen already?!
Who could it be?
It was many more sleepless nights of pulling your hair out, biting your nails, trying your hardest to wrap your head around all of it. Through endless questioning and interrogations, you deduced it was not an inside job. Everyone on your team had been there for nearly a decade. Why would they start sabotaging now? Even as you scheduled interviews with your personnel, you shook your head, knowing that you kept them in the dark and on the brink of unlivabley busy - there was no way it could be any of them.
Surely, it had to be someone from Paradis. That was no question, but you had caught so many of them before and none of them had ever been able to do you an ounce of harm, certainly nothing like this. Unless they had suddenly found someone with a knack for this, someone who had been thieving their whole life, someone who had crime in their blood,...
Turns out, that was exactly who they had found.
// // //
Everything had been easy thus far - too easy. You had some clever tactics, he would admit it, but it was nothing for him.
For one, you must have had the cameras installed by some private company, one that was more familiar with household and neighborhood security rather than national and militant espionage. Levi clicked his tongue, eyes set and fingers occupied on fitzing with your gadgets. Wasn’t your fault, sweetheart. He was sure some greedy businessman had lied about their expertise, taking advantage of a female captain who he thought knew no better. A shame, really.
It was too bad that you were on opposing sides. He saw a lot of potential in you and it was clear that your nation was not making the most of it. Marley had placed you, the daughter of a famed war captain, here - as a nod to your father’s achievements, as a thanks to his service. Even though you were the manager of the base, all of your underlings were men - carefully chosen and vetted by the higher-ups. They thought that the military was not a woman’s place. And surely, if your father had a son, they would have given this job to him, not you.
Intercepting your subordinates’ gossip had led him to that conclusion.
On Paradis, though, you would have had much more prestige. He could see you in Commander Erwin’s shoes, in Dr. Hange’s lab, but where he thought you most fitting was with him in reconnaissance - perhaps even at his side.
You had thought over every inch of the premises, had overlooked a multiacre property, and had held those duties for years. That was one thing you lacked on him, though, the time spent in this sector. If you spent a while with him, he could and would show you the ropes. And surely, all your experience managing a surveillance base could teach him something too. As a pair, you would be unstoppable.
Levi sighed to himself. If not for this war,... there were many ideas that could follow, but the one in his mind now: you two could make a good match.
// // //
Being an insomniac did not hurt in this profession. Darkness was the best cover and in it was when he did his worst. Early morning or late night, whatever 4 AM was, he was wide-awake and breaking into your room - the queen bee’s lair.
Levi could not help but snicker to himself. On the knob to your bedroom door, a padlock of comedic size. Ironically, it was what told him that tonight was the night to come in. He had planned to do a lot more before the grand finale: finding you and interrogating you, but with such a glaring display of your fear, he knew it just the right time. Surely, if you were so scared that you would admit and display such a defense, it meant that there was nothing to worry about on the other side of that door.
It was difficult to pick, more so than most of the other ones around here. If he had not yet figured out that this was your quarters, this would have been the tell. He shook his head - too safe for your own good. The metal it was, though, caused his pick to make clanging sounds as he pushed, pulled, bent, and budged. Levi bit his lip, holding back curses, keeping his breaths quiet within.
Almost there.
That telltale clachink! was louder than he would have liked, but his standards were high - a pin-drop considered too much for him. At that second, he simultaneously turned against the wall, knelt down, and held out an open palm - the lock falling square into it, minimizing the sounds into one rather than a series of them.
Gloved hand curled over the round knob, its touch cold through the fabric. A deep inhale behind his black mask, he held his breath in the gradual turn. Silent was his every move.
As soon as he had even a sliver, steel eyes were instantaneous in drinking up all they could. Moonlight outlined your furniture and belongings. Boots taken off at the doormat, uniform crumpled on the floor, dresser drawers left ajar. All signs pointed: you were here and he knew it.
Past the foreground, just in front of the window, your canopy bed. A figure bundled underneath its sheets and comforter. Jackpot. Levi always loved when they were asleep. Waking up to the sight of him at their bedside, a knife at their middle, all inhibitions and filters would instantly disappear. Addresses, social security numbers, launch codes admitted as openly as a weather forecast.
Eyes focused in. That body was still - sound asleep. No need to crawl.
His first act of carelessness.
His last.
// // //
Levi’s tiptoe to your bed was halted halfway en route.
From behind the open door, you reached him in two large strides. Good on you: a third one would not have gotten by him. Elbow hooked around his throat, that hand clutching your shoulder - your favorite kind of chokehold. Your other hand held the dagger, its point at his chest, a tear through his bodysuit.
“Hey there, big boy,” crook pressed against his Adam’s apple, “or should I say - little boy.”
The pressure at his neck brought the slightest bit of breathlessness to his voice, “Fuck you.”
“Pretty big words for such a runt.” Chuckles fell on his ear before you bit his cloth, tugged up, and ripped the garment off his head.
But he was not a runt, at least, not anymore. You tightened your hold around him, a silent don’t do anything stupid, and let yourself have a look at your failed assassin. Most would not have recognized his true age, but you had worked with many men in your time. He could not have been younger than 30.
But could he have been any more attractive?
Shameless was your stare into his eyes - black bangs interceding them at points. Pale skin highlighted from the starry sky. Thin lips a straight line - seemingly unbothered by your little maneuver, in your view, they were begging to be explored.
He tilted his gaze, a pitiful look, “Why don’t we be professionals here, and fight with knives rather than words?”
“Mmm…” you faked a pensiveness, “... I’m not so sure.”
“Yeah?” He mocked, “Scared?”
Grip on your knife loosened just a tinge, “Let’s just say, I brought a gun to a knife fight.”
"Tch..." Paradis did not have those and neither did he. All his abilities up till now did not matter. The only skill that could help him here was his intuition: instantly recognizing that a battle of weaponry with you was one that he would not win.
Levi rolled his eyes. “So, what are you going to do with me?”
So unbothered? It was as if he could care less. Not even a drop of panic or intimidation in his voice. How could that be? A silent scowl, you stopped your thoughts from wandering. Compose yourself.
If carelessness was his game, count me in. A singsong voice, “I don’t know. I might just kill you?”
But that did not work either. “You won’t.”
“Yeah?” You pressed that knife in closer, its metal now chilling his skin. “You gonna stop me?”
“You don’t want to kill me and you’re not going to.” Levi turned towards you, slowly - it’s not a threat yet confidently - I know what I’m doing. Grey gaze captivated, “You would have done it already, sweetheart.”
Fuck. He’s good.
You felt your heart start to race, and that was the last thing you wanted him to know. You needed to let go of him now or else he would feel it through his back. By the time you realized it, it was already too late - your increase in pulse instantly noted. A smile you could not see.
Playing it off as a reward rather than defense, “Listen. You’ve been a good boy - cooperating with me - and I appreciate that.” You edged your blade off just enough to keep contact, but also to imply you were letting up. Drawing oscillations on his spandex, “I’ll have you know that I am quite merciful,” you laughed, “for this industry at least.”
A falsified interest. “Yeah?”
“Oh, yeah…” You nodded against his neck, and to your delight, you felt the tiniest of shivers trail down his spine. You pretended not to notice them, but indeed, made sure to remember it like the back of your hand. A weak point. “Of course, there needs to be some punishment for what you’ve done… but otherwise, I’m keen to forgive and forget.”
Levi raised a single brow. Worry had not set in yet, but it was nearing that point.
Negotiation. “Hah. If I were you, I would think twice about handing me over to your monkeys.”
He did have a point; no, he was completely right. Their only mission for months had been to find him, and in the end, it was you who caught the intruder.
Belittlement. “I never thought you stupid or incapable, but if you think I’m better off in their hands than yours, that would make me think twice.”
He was good.
Too good.
Too good for his own good.
This thief was winning you over, stealing your heart, and you had a feeling that was what he wanted. Indeed, all missions he had taken on, he had succeeded in. Here you were, handing him his first loss, and he was not going to ruin his perfect track record lying down - not without making up for it.
That was the thing, though. In the few minutes you had spent together, in the few sentences you had exchanged, in the few looks you had met, how was he… why was he… so intriguing? Your job was to look over hundreds of men - how had this one gotten straight to your heart straight away?
Who exactly is the captive one, here?
Again, you forced yourself to assert your dominance. Get a fucking grip. He was the one in your hands, after all.
Then suddenly, a tenderness so unexpected, it was only the second time in your engagement that you surprised him - the first of which was when you appeared behind him, put a knife to his sternum, and your arms around his throat. You felt his sharp inhale against you, as you pinched his chin in your fingers, turned his attention to you, and whispered in his mouth.
“Oh, whatever made you think I would let you go so easily?”
// // //
Brows arched at your words, eyes widened in the kiss that followed.
Without wasting any time, you pushed your way past his lips and pinched his tongue with your teeth. Sex, but not without some carefulness. Love, but not without some constraints. You felt his body clench in your hold. Peeking open your eyes, you saw a look of surprise and perplexion on your little intruder. You smiled into the kiss, silently beckoning him to join you in this play.
She’s crazy.
But what if she isn’t?
Those two thoughts alone were what kept his decision delayed. Either you were trying to seduce then subdue him or his tactful charm had worked its magic. Whatever it was, you were throwing yourself at him like he was the last man on earth - as if he was your lifelong husband with whom you had no boundaries, or as if he was your greatest adversary whose walls had to be broken down. Both of whom, you would fuck without mercy.
That eye contact was maintained as you circled his tongue with yours, smacked your lips with his, and nibbled his mouth with your teeth. Fingers dared to reach into that undercut, scooping his head in your hand, and kept him pressed firmly against you. Raven locks were so smooth, you thought that you would not mind resting your hand there forever, or at least, staying a while.
Nails scraped his scalp, drawing a hiss you could taste. After much consideration, he fluttered his eyes shut. He knew he had his life - so do your worst, bitch.
That you did. Left hand kept its place at the back of his head. Your right hand started its journey: beginning at his nape, then cupping his shoulder, reaching over his traps, nails leaving scratches in his back. As you left your marks, he kissed you back the best way he knew how. His tongue uttered no words, but said I’m interested, not intimidating.
That exploratory hand continued though, wrapping around his ribcage, down his torso, to the side of his hip. Through his tight, stretchy spandex, fingertips had ease making out the muscles that lay underneath. An array at his abdomen, a V just below, hipbones that jutted outward. Your hands were your eyes: x-ray vision past his bodysuit. Your contact pursued its descent dangerously low. Maintaining the kiss, Levi gasped with anticipation, wondering if you would go there, hoping you would go there.
It was only a split-second he had to react: your touch lightening to a graze before it snapped away. If not so preoccupied, he would have caught it, but alas - you had him a bit distracted. Reaching into your back pocket, you whipped out handcuffs and clasped them around his wrists.
Shit.
Cold metal was chilling, but not nearly as much as the dominance you had over him now. You finally departed the kiss with one harsh bite, the metallic taste of his blood dwindling just below your teeth. Hand in his hair forced his ear to your lips. “You know, you overestimated me…”
You curled a grip in his locks, tangling and yanking. He had endured plenty of pain in his time, but this was something different. Gritting his teeth, “Yeah?”
How he mistook that bunch of pillows for your sleeping body - “How could I have slept so soundly when there was a rat infestation in my home?”
Levi snickered, “You seem to be enjoying it, though.” Despite the cuffs, hands made their way forward, sneaking underneath the hem of your nightgown. Index and middle finger met for a dive past your panties. Just as he thought, a proud smile, “You’re soaking wet, baby.”
Digits began their dance: slow pumps turned to fast ones, working their magic from shallow to deep end. Warm ridges hugged, a slick fluid coated, your body speaking for you: you wanted his stay, his continuance. Levi sighed, satisfied, imagining how that adorable wet pussy would feel elsewhere. He hated to admit it, but he also could not help it: the walls he wanted past were not the concrete barriers of the fortress, but yours. The mission of counterintelligence had left the forefront of his mind, replaced by one of knowing just how good Marley’s puppet felt.
His determination unmatched, an innate increase in his intensity. A moan you wanted to keep in, a twitch you wanted to subdue, you just could not help yourself as he pumped you faster and faster. Taking hold in his shoulder blades, “A’Ah! Ah, fuck!”
If something did not change soon, he was going to win this battle of control.
No. No. No.
This is all wrong.
Fuck this!
Suddenly, you snapped at him. How dare he try to get out from under you? Tired you were of this teetering back and forth - a battle of nations, with him, within yourself - of who was winning. Just who is in charge, here?
Rebounding off your near-orgasm, your voice turned a gradient from weakness to strength. “On your knees! Do you hear me?” Fist in his hair pushed him down down down. “On your knees, now!”
Shocked eyes met yours of unbreakable command. Just when he thought he had you nearing the edge of submission, you had pulled the 180: now holding him by his collar and dangling him over the cliff. What other option did he have? It was not that you were physically pushing him - that, he could easily have fought against - it was that he had no desire to disobey. That was a much harder fight, one he was unfit for. If you were putting him where he thought you were, it was a place he was desperate to be.
There was no more resilience. Levi threw his hands up, literally and figuratively. An expression of pure desire, submission, lust, was almost more than you could take. You had plenty of experience with reading faces, but even you could not tell, is this fabricated or real? It was his whine, though, that won you over. “Yes, master.”
“Hmph,” you laughed, contented, “that’s right.” You nearly stuttered as you ordered, “Get down, now.”
It was his compliance as well as your force that moved him to the floor. His willingness demonstrated by the point of his toes on the hardwood followed by the bang of his knees. All this time, that left hand in his hair had done well. You let it stay - an anchor of guidance for this next part. Meanwhile, your right hand caressed his neck, remembering his vulnerable shivers from before. He earned some fun.
A reward, too. “Enjoy what you’re about to see,” you hummed. Fingers hooked below your silk dress and pulled it up, over, off your body. “Not just anyone gets this view.”
For as much as you had undermined him, mocked him, reduced him from a country’s greatest scout to one woman’s mere servant, the knowledge that he was one of the few - perhaps the only one - to have the privilege of seeing you naked, it gave him more confidence than you told yourself you would allow. In this outfit of his, the effect of that surge was visible.
Pupils dilated further. The height he was - it was no indication of the length you saw below. Lips parted in thirst. If you knew that this was what he was packing, you may not have opted for this strategy.
Your reaction, it did not matter that he was brought to his knees, your obvious infatuation had him feeling sky-high. Levi arched his brows, a knowing smirk. “You like what you see?”
Forced frown was undercut by the quiver in your lip, “Should be asking you that.”
Levi inched himself forward: bangs tickled your tummy, nose pressed into your hips, teeth bit the seam of your panties and ripped down. Then, finally, you were completely exposed to him. Glistening sex, perked nipples, heaving chest, and all. His cheek met your inner thigh, which he nuzzled like a pillow. Eyes stayed vehemently on you, conveying his seriousness as well as his enchantment, “I do, princess.”
Brows narrowed. Blood ran red. You hated that he called you that - the lone commander of this secret base. You hated how the pet name made your heart flutter. You hated that you liked it. Bastard… shut up!
Reprimand: you pulled his hair again. “I’m no princess.”
Levi shrugged his shoulders, if you insist. A single swipe of his tongue between your folds was his keycard to you, preceding the words that reached right to your core.
“Just for tonight,” he sighed, “I’m gonna make you feel like one.”
// // //
Whether he was to make you feel like a princess - or it was you who made him to make you feel like one, it was the same question: just who was in control of your pleasure right now?
Canines grazed your curves with pain, his tongue painted your skin with pleasure. Tender, but unrelenting. Hungry, not sloppy. Cold-blooded and heated passion as he ate you out.
Knees buckled at the sensation he provided, but he had no problem with that - with having you sitting on his face. His shoulders became your cushion, his ears your armrests. Even as you dipped yourself further and further onto him, he showed no signs of struggle. Smart, sinister, and strong, too. You felt your yearning heighten. Where has he been all my life? It was not that he was a god you praised, but the opposite: a puppet, your pet, a plaything completely under your control.
Pathetic. That was how he looked: absolutely pathetic. Cheeks reddening like fire, eyes barely managing a squint, bangs drenched with sweat and stuck to his face. With merely the presence of weaponry, not even the use of it, you had brought him to nothingness.
Dynamics, no filter, you thought aloud. “You know, I was scared of you then... but not anymore -” you giggled, “not when you’re like this.”
A man on his knees, silver handcuffs around his wrists, his face smothered by your cunt - there was no position more humiliating. Levi’s mouth stayed between your legs, no words but an exhale - one you assumed for your benefit was actually a laugh. Funny - you started off afraid of him and ended up this fearless. It was the opposite for him: thinking you were so stupid, so weak - then discovering the strongest and most intelligent woman he had ever met.
Oh, how he wanted you - for more than just tonight.
Levi let his mouth run its route, an instinctual chase for the milestone signs of your pleasure, and let his mind wander.
He had spent his life in a perpetual search, but tonight, he realized: his heart was looking for something else, something of his own, looking for something that it did not know - that was, until he found you. Actually, until you found him.
Why had you decided not to kill him? What made you keep that knife at his chest rather than plunging it into him? How had all your previous infiltrators come back with scars or not come back at all? Here he was unscathed, one of the lucky ones, who would ever get to serve you - one of the only ones to do so like this.
Given this chance, he had to make the most of it - if he wanted a chance at forever with you, it meant it had to start tonight.
Make her scream.
Make her cum.
Make her fall in love.
Levi grunted, inadvertently making you arch your back into him and cry out. You were on Cloud 9, but he was in the throes of frustration. There was no way it would work and he knew it. No matter how hard he tried for you, no matter how many orgasms he gave you, no matter how in love he was with you, there was no chance in hell that you two would make it.
Lovers tonight. Enemies forever.
His resentment towards the world, your states, the artificial barrier of higher-ups and diplomats that kept you apart was taken out on you and only you. Levi felt himself losing control, furious slashes, primal bites, smoldering growls unleashed on your sex. A zap of his being from head to toe, an energy uncontainable.
The change in pace was sudden - you fumbled for composure, “Fuck!! Fuck!”
But there was no chance, not with Levi Ackerman between your legs.
“Cum -” for me, “- come on, princess.”
Not yet. Not yet. Not yet!
You wanted this to last, but your rising floodgates, the thrusts of your hips, the longing for this - for him - refused to be held back any longer. Fists found stability in his tangles, nails dug into his neck, shaking in anticipation of the climax that neared.
They were not enough.
You were no match.
A warm honey that coursed through your veins, an ice-cold water on a humid summer day, the steam of a bubble bath, a lick of your favorite ice cream. That was what he was to you, that was what he provided you - what no other man on this world could be or could give. Certainly, not anyone on this base.
No. No. No.
Stop that.
Enjoy this while it lasts.
You let yourself have that: an easy comedown from your hard-earned bliss, a slow tapering from the reward you had been chasing for longer than just tonight, but for all the months that he had been fucking with you. That pleasure you felt, though, had been worth it all - a trade you would take again and again.
Right now, actually.
Fingers threaded through his tresses. You bent his neck back, forced his gaze up to meet yours, and demanded, “Another.”
// // //
When you woke up, that little rat had left without a trace. No note, no clothing, not even a single strand of hair. What a shame… you had really enjoyed your time together, and with the lingering scent of his sweat still on your skin - you thought he had, too.
A nonsensical emptiness. What was there to do now? The months of mystery had been solved. The man you had sought after had disappeared the second you found him. The night you spent with him was the only one you ever would.
A maniacal laugh brewed from deep within and resonated throughout the room louder and louder - even echoing down your bedroom’s air vent, through the base, and in the ears of all those stationed. Your soldiers cringed. Their leader always so composed - what had taken over her?
You didn’t even find out his name.
You let him get away.
Miles away, though, at a motel down the road - a mysterious young man had just presented $5000 in cash, silently purchasing an indefinite stay. A sizeable briefcase, a trench coat, soleless shoes, the teenage desk clerk was either too stupid or too scared to raise any concerns and, instead, swiftly handed over the keys.
The mission had been compromised, not completed, and there was no way he would return back empty-handed. Surely, he would lose the title he had worked all these years to attain. Worse off, he would be berated by the nation, hated by its citizens, and have to retreat to the underground, once again abandoning the name he had fought for the right to say aloud. He would not rather be dead than have that fate, but surely, it was worth giving this operation another shot.
That was what he told himself, anyway.
Of course, he wanted to see his assignment through. But he knew deep inside: that duty was secondary to his heart’s wandering thoughts.
date: july 4th, 1997
location: prosper park
availability: open @panic-hub
The booth was set up nicely, placed deliberately a few feet into the entrance of Prosper park so they could catch as much traffic as possible. The youth and high school athletics groups had come together to do a bake sale/concession stand during the event. If they were able to raise enough, it meant more equipment and possibly being able to go to training camps for some of them. Rhett was busy making sure everyone was in place and greeting those who came up. Then, of course, making sure Daisy and Colt were staying nearby so he could keep an eye on them. Prosper was a fairly safe place, but it only took one malicious person to change that. It was better just to be safe.
He stood behind one of the younger players he coached for baseball while they greeted a customer. “Hey, what can we get for you today?” The younger one motioned to the sign behind them to show what they had. “And beyond all that we got here a mess of baked treats and some sparklers for the young or young at heart. All proceeds go to the athletics program here in Lockhorn county.” He finished the pitch with a smile and a quick nod.