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jaylienpotter · 9 months
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From @jegulus-microfic prompt "skirt" | 600 words
Part 1 of Let them be (can be read as a standalone)
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Let boys wear trousers
Regulus Black hated the Hogwarts uniform. Absolute despised it. He could hide his chest with spells or tight bras or bigger clothes - thankfully he had small breasts already. But he couldn't do anything about the bottom part. He had asked Dumbledore himself to wear trousers instead but he was denied, as it was "tradition" and "the school rules" and Ms. Black was probably "confused" - fucking prick.
He wasn't fully out. His friends knew and called him by the name he chose. So did Sirius and his mates. At first people slipped, calling him by his deadname and used she/her pronouns. It didn't last long, though. And thankfully it barely happened at all with his brother. None of their friends had a problem with it, thankfully. But it was still hard to connect to people. Fully connect.
Tears of frustration were running down his cheeks after he left the Headmaster's office.
"Black?" He looked to his left and faced a tanned Gryffindor with round glasses. Potter was Sirius's best friend. "Black, are you okay?" James got closer to the boy, his voice sweet and comforting, dark eyebrows furrowed with worry.
"Dumbledore is a bloody fucking prick!"
"Regulus, what happened?" The people he was out to called him by his last name when in public, but they were close enough that others wouldn't hear.
"He won't let me wear trousers. Transphobe. It doesn't even make sense! Some girls don't like skirts! It's such a fucking stupid rule!"
"Hey…" two big hands rested on his shoulders and he looked up for the first time. "It's okay, we'll fix this somehow. I'll talk to Mcgonagall, she can convince that old man sometimes."
"You can try but it probably won't work…" Closing his eyes and taking a deep breath, Black pulled himself together. Like he was taught. "It doesn't matter. I'll be fine." That was a lie and they both knew it. Still no one said anything as he walked away.
Pandora was lovely. She did her best to cheer him up in the dorm but the fact that he was sharing with a girl brought him dysphoria. Regulus didn't belong there.
It's an understatement saying that he was shocked when he saw James Potter strutting confidently into the Great Hall for breakfast wearing a skirt. What the fuck was he doing?!
"Potter. Why in the name of Merlin are you wearing a skirt?! You're going to get detention!"
"See, Black, I am protesting. Until girls are allowed to wear trousers, I will be breaking the dress code." He blinked. Regulus blinked twice. His heart stopped and the way he saw his brother's best friend suddenly shifted. He was protesting for Regulus. Getting in detention for Regulus. Most likely would face hate, all for Regulus. Yet he was completely unfazed. Potter wasn't stupid. He knew what he got himself into. But still, he did it anyway?
"But… Why? I mean- where did you even get the skirt??"
"It's Mary's. And I felt like it. Occurred to me randomly. Was bored so I thought 'why not start a protest?', you know?" That was a big fat lie and the Gryffindor wasn't even trying to hide it. He wore a wide smirk on his face. Gosh, how Regulus wanted to kiss those lips. Instead he just smiled. His genuine curved down smile, a rarity.
"You're gonna get in trouble, you know that right?"
"Since when do I, James Potter, the king of mischief, care about that?" That grin again. Black could stare for hours, take in every detail of the handsome Gryffindor's face.
"You're an idiot."
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ehlnofay · 11 months
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19 for the worldbuilding prompts + Torr?
the profound quiet of a small settlement at night
North Eastmarch is freezing cold all over, but it wears different outside the city than within.
Torr would never call Windhelm warm – not even in summer months, no matter how used to it they are – but what little heat it has it clings to with great determination. The walls huddle together, trapping the air so that it’s either still and muggy or a howling wind, like each close-knit house is breathing in tandem. The heat of the people run up and down its streets, blood through its knotted stone veins. The city is alive, an ecosystem unto itself; its snow, dark with footprints, runs sludgy down the roads; a fireplace is always burning somewhere.
Outside of the walls, surrounded by nothing but empty air and snow-laden trees, a slow-moving stream running with barely a burble – it feels dead, in contrast. Silent. Branches reach needle-sharp across the blue-black sky, the ground is gleaming white and undisturbed by anyone else’s footprints, and the nearest fire is the barely visible gleam of the Kynesgrove mining camp, up the hill and through the sporadic spindles of the trees. The breeze ghosts past Torr’s neck and whips the mud-stained snow into a flurry.
In the city, Torr’s comfortable sleeping almost anywhere – as comfortable as they ever get, anyway. Some of the buildings have great gaps under the porch where the snow can’t reach and no-one ever finds them; there’s places in the nooks of the walls, and sheds built into the side of the house that people don’t lock, and Torr knows a few people besides who don’t mind him kipping on their floor every now and again, as long as he doesn’t ask too often. The outside isn’t like that. There’s not many places to go. He’s lurking around Kynesgrove tonight – on his way back from a quick venture out to get some things done that pay better than running errands around the markets – and there aren’t many options. The inn, which he can’t afford – the mine, which would be warm but is very guarded – the miner’s encampment or someone’s house, both of which would most likely result in being chased off. Besides, there’s a performative element to meeting people, especially adults, in strange places, and Torr’s not in the mood to play to strangers. So much of his being is caught up in Windhelm’s grimy alleys, tangled in the hair and fingers of its discarded children; he doesn’t know how to be himself away from it all.
But they don’t have to, seeing as there’s the rickety old sawmill on the edge of a stream feeding into the harbour. It’s not bad, as shelter goes; no walls, so the wind rubs its fingers wraithlike down Torr’s cheeks and tangles them in his hair, but at least there’s a roof. It looks newly thatched, too, the floorboards free of rot, the water-wheel still chugging creakily along. There’s no wood to cut here, all the nearby surrounding trees too scraggy to be worth the bother. The only big ones are part of the grove up on the hill. There’s no point in keeping the mill running, but Torr is glad it is; he watches the distant firelight flickering through the scrub, and listens to the splashing of the wheel. It’s proof that people and the things they make do still exist – if not necessarily here.
It really feels dead, out in the cold, with the leafless trees and the wind that doesn’t even whisper. It always does. It’s a bit discomfiting, which is maybe why Torr doesn’t go on out-of-city endeavours as often as perhaps he could; but really, there’s not work out here enough to make it worth it. There’s always problems with bandits on the road, but Torr’s not a good enough fighter for bounty work; there’s collecting plants and things to sell Nurelion, but that’s easy enough to do on a day trip. (And, really, it’s more for Torr’s own enjoyment, besides. They never even venture far south enough to get to the sulphur pools, which is where the more interesting things grow.)
This trip, though, is an outlier. Unusually efficient. Just a quick job for Niranye, scouting a merchant’s cart on the road – almost definitely for something shady, but that’s not Torr’s business, and it was too much money too easy to turn down. And then – just earlier today, foraging out in the wilderness as best as Torr (a distinctly urban animal) knows how – they’d come across a giant’s corpse, stiff and white as the snow it lay in. Torr’s no master alchemist but they know the value of a cadaver when it comes to brewing alloys and admixtures, so they set to with their blunt-edged dagger and now they’ve got a sack full of what may as well be gold. (Long as it doesn’t start to rot before they can get Nurelion to preserve it, anyway.)
Torr’s going to be rolling in it when they get back to Windhelm. They could use that money for nearly anything – pay off a few things they borrowed, new warm things now that winter’s coming back strong, bedrolls, waterskins. Endless options – which, strangely, is more exciting than it is burdensome.
It’s all the sort of decision that would ordinarily feel life-or-death urgent but right now feels – not small. Not insignificant, not at all, but distant. A choice to be made at another time, by another person.
(Torr’s whole being belongs to Windhelm’s back streets. They’re someone else, away from it all.)
That’s the other thing about leaving the city, spending time in the discomfiting slow-paced ghost-world outside. It’s quiet. Torr sits surrounded by the wind in the trees, the lazy murmur of the stream, the creak of the water-wheel, and nothing else.
He’s been called a worrywart (mostly by Griss in a strop) but to tell the truth he doesn’t think that’s true. Torr doesn’t fuss for the sake of fussing, he just doesn’t like to leave things undone; can’t stop until he finds a solution. Out here, alone, in the empty cold, there are no solutions to find – same old problems back home, he knows, but no steps he can take at this time to right them. That’s never true while he’s in the city, so he can never stop thinking about it, every choice and action accompanied by a buzzing background chorus of everything else he really should be doing – that really should have been done by now – that should never have been left undone this long, what was he thinking? Everything is urgent when it’s doable. But here and now, there’s nothing to do.
So Torr sits hunched on the board floor of the ramshackle watermill, huddled among their heaps of bags and blankets, and thinks of nothing at all.
Not strictly true. They think of supper – haven’t eaten since an apple this morning, except for some snowberries they found around noon, and it’s been a long day. They nabbed some turnips from the garden of the Kynesgrove inn on their way to the mill. They’re fresh, if nothing else – also covered in dirt, so Torr rises reluctantly from their pile of stuff to crouch on the banks of the stream and dip the vegetables in to clean them off. It aches like hell, the frozen water turning their joints to ice – they almost drop the turnip they’re washing, so they scrub it as best they can with the frigid pad of their thumb and whip their hands out of the water soon as they’re able. They stick their fingers in their mouth to warm them back up.
Even after all that time spent warming up their hands, arraying all their belongings back around themself to conserve body heat, the turnips are still cold enough to hurt Torr’s teeth when he bites in. He eats them anyway, relishing a little in the unearthly silence and the aching of his lips and palms. They taste delicious.
With nothing else to do after, the gnawing of his stomach sated, he wraps himself in his shawl and stares up the hill at the camp’s fire until it goes out. The stars wink into brighter being. The wind whistles through the whip-thin branches of the trees. The water-wheel creaks.
Torr sleeps, but he feels like he hears it all – a silent observer, an echo, a beginning – until morning.
#I considered doing something with post-questline torr for this#but it would have been so fucking sad#and I didn't want to write something that was so fucking sad!#I'll post about torr after the horrors eventually but Not Today.#this was also initially supposed to be an exercise in writing something short that focused more on a distinctive atmosphere#than a scene or character study as most of my pieces are.#oops.#snowballed into an absolute monster of a ramble.#maybe sometime I'll use these prompts to write Actually Short pieces with more of a focus on the worldbuilding aspect...#would be good practice. everything I've written lately has been a thousand words minimum.#I could write about my minor characters or npcs with it too... yeah I think I'll do that at some stage#but. anyway. I quite like this piece as a sort of study#I fucking love writing characters who are having a nice time. with just a hint. just a whisper. of the problems#I enjoyed putting in the reference to the alchemical giant's toes especially because that is an allusion no-one but me understands#to a line in one of my very bad very early pieces on torr#it's not well written but I loved that bit because it's such a wonderful microcosm of the way torr is even before the murder cult thing#Yes he's the busiest most hardworking caretaking boy in the world taking trips into the wilderness (comparatively) to feed his family#and Yes his first instinct on seeing a corpse is to cut it up and sell it for parts#(he's done this to human bodies too but only in extremely specific circumstances. the risk of legal repercussions is too great otherwise)#I'll make a post rambling sometime about torr's ethical system because I'm so obsessed with them and their unhinged point of view#Anyway#done rambling#my writing#fay writes#oc tag#torr#the elder srolls#tes#skyrim#tesblr
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blackhairedjjun · 1 month
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love flew away - k.th
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pairing: kang taehyun x gn reader | genre / tropes: soft angst, amicable breakup, boxer!taehyun | word count: 1.1k | warnings: mentions of food and alcohol, pet names (love), heartbreak
part of my 300 followers event (event masterlist)
prompts - OVER?: after a mutually reluctant (and unwanted but necessary) break-up, the sender calls/visits the receiver and tells them that they’re still in love with them. + VOICEMAIL: sender leaves a voicemail on the receiver’s phone after failing to get through to them, and reveals their love for them. (requested by @probably-too-obssessed - "Also the prompt says mutual break up for Over but can it be tweaked to Taehyun breaking up with Reader for some unavoidable reason instead? Tysm and I'd be happy with whatever you write! Congrstulations again!")
author's note: hello!! i'm not sure if this is what you had in mind, taehyun is the one who initiates the breakup with the reader but it's still friendly on both ends...? so yeah haha. also i listened to love flew away by laufey & adam melchor as inspiration for this and i got carried away and wrote 1k, oops. but i hope you enjoy!!
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taehyun took you out to dinner on your last day as a couple.
had it not been for the breakup he had decided on a week ago, it would have felt like just another blissful date with him. he ordered all your favorite dishes and asked about your day as you waited for the orders, his wide eyes shining with affection while you chatted on. his hand rested on top of yours on the table, warm and inviting, his slender fingers intertwining with yours halfway through the meal. and when he smiled that adorable little smile of his in between his silly remarks, you felt your heart growing light in your chest. 
the evening finished off with a little wine, and you drank just enough to keep your senses while bathing the rest of the evening in the haze of a dream. and with taehyun squeezing your hand and gazing at you with shining eyes, you really did feel like you were in a dream that you couldn’t wake from.
he wrapped your jacket around your shoulders as you left the restaurant and waited for a cab. he linked his arms around yours and stood close by to keep you from swaying too much, and the warmth of his side kept you grounded. 
“my flight leaves early in the morning,” he said.
“i know…”
you turned to him and were surprised to see tears brimming in his eyes. taehyun didn’t cry much, but he looked at you so solemnly that the gravity of everything began to crash down on you. you met his gaze and when you touched your cheek, you realized that your own tears were starting to fall too.
“y/n…” he grabbed both your hands in his, giving them a firm squeeze. “i’m sorry i had to do this.”
you attempted to croak out another “i know,” but your voice broke before you could get the words out. your tears flowed so much that your vision blurred, and you choked back a sob.
he moved forward and held you close, one hand patting your back gently and the other still grasping onto your hand. you buried your head in his chest and sobbed as you inhaled his scent for the last time. he wore the cologne you had gifted him for his birthday, fresh and musky but a little sweet, and the memory of the gift made you sob harder.
the two of you said nothing for several moments. taehyun repeated another “i’m sorry, love” into your hair and squeezed you a bit tighter. the top of your head felt damp as his own tears fell more freely.
you had remained calm in the week since he announced the breakup; it had been a perfectly rational decision that suited the both of you. taehyun was moving overseas to continue training for his boxing career, and he knew that you had no intentions of moving with him when your own career was starting to take off. he hated the thought of a long-distance relationship that neither of you wanted, and just imagining the loneliness and the arguments that would result from it made him shudder. so when he proposed that you two break up while you were still on good terms, you agreed.
it makes perfect sense, you told yourself; if you had stayed together, you both would have been unhappy. but now, sobbing in his arms and feeling his heartbeat for the last time, a different kind of unhappiness wrapped around you. already you could feel the cold of not having him by your side, the silence from not listening to him chatter about something he had read, the emptiness of losing the man you loved with your whole being for two years. you held onto him tightly, as if doing so would keep the future would coming and let him stay.
when your tears finally subsided, you lifted your head to meet taehyun’s eyes. his forehead rested on yours and he lifted a hand to brush away a lingering tear from your cheek. you closed your eyes, savoring the small act of affection, and he leaned in for one last kiss.
his lips felt gentler on yours than they had ever been.
you barely slept that night, and in the first hours of the morning you and taehyun exchanged your last texts goodbye before he was due for his flight. he had left for the airport with his training team, no outsiders allowed, so you wished him farewell from the solitude of your room. 
your emotions came in waves in those hours. just when you thought you were finally at peace with the end of your relationship, the ache in your heart would start up once again, and the pain filled your senses so much that it would keep you from sleeping. the flood of emotions subsided for good only later that morning; your energy crashed and you fell asleep in an instant despite the bright sun outside. when you awoke it was already well into the afternoon.
you lifted your head from the bed and reached for the phone on your nightstand, barely getting up to do so. taehyun usually sent you a text as soon as he arrived somewhere new, and though it made no sense to expect one from him 一 as of today, he and you were no longer a couple 一 your heart still jumped in expectation out of sheer habit. maybe, just maybe, he had sent one last text... one more “one last”...
what you did not expect was an unread voicemail. 
you pressed to listen, and the sound of taehyun’s voice alone was enough to bring you to tears.
hey, y/n. so i finally landed here... i tried calling you but you didn’t pick up. i just wanted to tell you thank you for these last two years. i wish we had more time together but... (a sigh.) i was happy, i really was. you have no idea how amazing of a person you are... you’re incredibly caring, you brighten people’s days, you always listen to me and you work hard not just for yourself but for the people you care about. including me... and i hope that you, well, you stay the amazing person i fell in love with. no, i know you will be. and i hope you’ll be happy always. um, that’s all... (his voice breaks.) no, that’s not all. i love you, y/n. i love you.
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desceros · 3 months
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me: [looks at calendar, gets a wicked idea, looks into the camera] happy springtime, turtle fam! who's ready to celebrate the season?
...mating season, that is. hehe. [dodges the tomatoes]
so! i had the idea that it would be super fun to have a community-wide event where we all have a prompt and then everyone fills it in their own way.
...i then decided all the prompts i came up with were too good not to use, but also none of them were Good Enough to use exclusively, so i changed my mind and the prompt is now just MATING SEASON. with a few suggestions at the bottom of this post if you're looking for some.
since spring is coming upon us, i hereby invite everyone to join in the vernal festivities... which in turtle parlance, of course, means only one thing: write, draw, whatever your version of "mating season", then join me on march 1 to post it with the tag #TMNTSpringShellebration. we then shall browse the fine selection of our mutual artistic efforts, and basically just have a good time as a community.
here are the prompts i came up with as starters-slash-things-to-include if you're looking for a place to get started. feel free to use these at will, or use them to come up with something of your own:
“Please don’t make me explain this. It’s humiliating as is.”
Oops, Looks Like Mating Season Came A Week Early This Year
“…In all of my mating seasons, this has never happened before.”
“I told you not to come by! It’s mating season!”
Probably should have expected it to be different now that he’s not going through it alone.
Because of Shenanigans, you have to wait. Wait… Wait… ok now.
They’re not the right person for mating season… but they’re the one who’s here, so…
“Show me where it hurts."
so yeah! see you all on march 1 for the, uh, spring shellebration. party popper emoji
questions i imagine will be popping up and i hope will clear up here before my askbox swells beyond capacity under the cut to keep this post from being Way Too Long. also it's really not that serious it's just an excuse to write slash draw for everyone Please Don't Take This Thing Too Seriously It's Not That Serious:
"can i participate?" yes! it's literally just an invitation to do something. nothing fancier than that. no need to be following me or in my friend group or whatever.
"can i write (insert fic idea here)?" yep! so long as it's related to the idea of mating seasons, it flies. reader insert? hell yea. oc? hell yeah. solo turtle and his favorite pillow? go for it.
"can i draw (insert art idea here)?" yep! uh. i know tumblr has the cops watching for sin bin material, but you art people know how to deal with that. and if you don't, uh, ask the other art people. im just a feral cat in a trench coat
"how do i participate?" write/draw/collect songs for/whatever. then, on march 1, post it and tag it #TMNTSpringShellebration. also, for funsies, keep it hush hush what you're working on so we can all be super shocked when the day comes! except, y'know, that you're planning on joining in. totally do that.
"when do i post it?" march 1. whenever on that day. waves hands around in a vague gesture at time zones not mattering. seriously don't take this so seriously it's just me wanting to create cool shit with my friends with a little more structure to it
"does it have to be horny?" i mean. it's an event about mating season. so by definition it's going to be at least a little horny. but however you interpret it is cool. even if it's just. idk. leo sitting sweatily in a chair looking longingly at a glass of water bc he's thirstier than usual. be smart about things, people. i'm not your dad.
"which tmnt verse is this for?" whichever one you want it to be for!! rise! bayverse! 2007! your fan iteration! your friend's fan iteration! your mortal enemy's fan iteration! yes!
"will you be reblogging everything?" absolutely not, but this isn't an event About Me. i am incidental to the thing. it's about Us. coming together as a community. for horny turtles. puts my hands on your shoulders. do it for you. for your friends. for the community.
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skepsiss · 17 days
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Post season 4 steddie fic with Steve helping Eddie recover? Like after hospital and he's technically "healed" but he's having trouble. Learning to walk again, shaky hands, sharp pains, things like that
I love them sm
I love them too, anon. This premise is like so many of my story premises for them, so I will try my best to keep it short cause I can see this getting way out of hand, oops. Lol. **Note, you can send me steddie prompts too! Anyone can** (tumblr keeps messing with this post and putting the read more WAY farther down. Forgive me) The idea behind this is they're not together, and neither of them quite knows that they have feelings for the other. Sort of... the blooming of a crush. Early, early stages of Steddie. -- "I can do it," Eddie said harshly as he attempted to pull himself out of the chair he had been lounging in. Steve stood there, arms hovering around the perimeter of the armchair, as Eddie struggled to stand. Maybe Steve had been a bit too attentive as of late, but Eddie had only been home from the hospital for a little over a week. After the accident, recovery hadn't been easy for Eddie--or Max for that matter, but while Max was still in hospital recovering, Eddie had been discharged back to the care of his uncle. Of course, Wayne was ecstatic to have Eddie back home, but with hospital bills and having to replace half of their trailer, Wayne didn't have a lot of time to spend at home. The Party had been volunteering around the clock to check in and help Eddie, but Steve had noticed that Eddie allowed very few of them to actually help him. Steve was one of those people, and even then, it was a fight. Eddie did not in fact 'do it,' as he tried to support his weight on his arms and stand. Instead, he managed to get up and then promptly collapse to the side, clinging to the armrest to stop himself from hitting the floor.
"Hey, woah--" Steve breathed, hunching to catch Eddie by one of his elbows.
Eddie snatched his arm away, looking frustrated and embarrassed as he kneeled on the ground. "Eddie, just let me help," Steve encouraged, sounding a bit exasperated as he tried to look Eddie in the face. "Don't mother-hen me," Eddie huffed, obviously trying to contain his emotions. He sounded on the verge of yelling, or like he was about to start weeping, but Steve tried to ignore that. He didn't need to embarrass Eddie any further. "Can I at least grab your cane for you?" Steve asked, sighing as he stood back up. Eddie took a moment, and then nodded, breathing out a gruff 'yeah,' without looking up. Steve moved to the door and grabbed the cane that Dustin had brought over a few days ago--one The Party had decorated and glued a dragon's head to the top of to make it 'cool.' Eddie had liked it, but he still didn't seem keen to use it.
Steve handed Eddie his walking stick and he grumbled before attempting to get his feet under himself again. "Just let me help," Steve said quietly, not stepping forward like he had before, but still standing there expectantly. "I need to be able to do it myself--" Eddie grouched, barely managing to get up onto wobbly knees and stand. "No you don't," Steve scolded, "not this early on---Eddie, you were in a hospital bed for over a month, you don't have the strength to do it by yourself." "Elaborate way to call me an uncoordinated nerd," Eddie huffed, obviously trying to inject some levity into the conversation.
"That's not what I'm saying," Steve sighed, keeping close attention to Eddie as he slowly started to pivot. "Just let me---" Eddie started as he tried to take a step forward and wobbled terribly. Steve was at his side instantly, catching Eddie around the waist and arm, stopping him from hitting the ground again. Eddie stilled in Steve's arms before Steve heard a small whine escaping him, that eventually turned into an angry snarl. "Don't---just--" Eddie complained, trying to pull away again, but not having the footing or the strength to break Steve's grip as he jerked back. "Just let me do it--" The threat of tears was evident again as Steve saw the frustration well up in Eddie's eyes. He didn't want to force Eddie, but this was getting ridiculous. "Why is it so important that you do it? I can help, Eddie. That's why I'm here, just let---" "Because you're not always going to be here!" Eddie snapped angrily, cutting Steve off. He looked away again but stopped struggling against Steve's grip, instead standing there with his face turned toward the ground like a dejected child. "What're you..." Steve trailed off, trying to grasp at Eddie's meaning. He didn't like how emotional this was making Eddie, and he didn't like that he wasn't able to help him. Whether that was with walking or feeling better. "You're not always going to be here..." Eddie repeated, his tone much softer as he continued to hold onto Steve, still unable to stand on his own.
"We'll... I'll be here for as long as you need," Steve tried, still not understanding what Eddie meant. "No--you... how long is it going to take for me to be normal again? A month? Five? What if it's never? What if I don't get better? You're not always---I'm not going to make any of you put your lives on hold so I can stand up and go take a fucking piss," Eddie gritted out, his voice getting tight at the end, his emotions obviously raw. Steve quieted as he stood there, understanding what Eddie meant, but not agreeing. He had to imagine that being immobilized by an injury would drive him insane too, and he understood to a degree how deregulating it was not to be able to do everything he demanded of his own body. Recovery was slow, and hard, and Eddie wasn't going to have an easy go of it, but pushing himself wasn't going to help.
"That's stupid," Steve said bluntly, watching as Eddie looked up at him, completely surprised by his words. "You almost died, Eddie. No one other than some action hero from a bad B-movie is going to recover that fast. You're just going to make it worse. You have to rebuild the muscles, man. Learn to walk properly; there isn't a point in doing it if you're going to teach yourself to do it wrong, and then have to correct yourself over and over. You'll probably hurt yourself. It'll be painful, man." Eddie seemed shocked silent by Steve's words, still hanging there as he stared. "Isn't it the same with music? You practice and practice the same string over and over again until you get it right? And then you have to practice the right way or you're never going to do it?" Steve asked, watching Eddie inhale unevenly. "Eddie... none of us are going to abandon you, that's not what we do. I'm not going to make you do this by yourself." Eddie looked away again, a choked-sounding laugh escaping him as he let his hair tumble in front of his face to hide his emotions. Steve didn't stare, instead trying to look across the room to give Eddie a bit of privacy. He knew this wasn't easy, and the emasculation of being unable to do anything by yourself had to suck, so Steve tried to preserve as much of Eddie's dignity as he could manage. "Yeah... like learning a new chord," Eddie swallowed, his voice sounding rough.
He took another beat before trying to stand up on his own again, leaning heavily on his cane, but not letting go of Steve's arm either. "Going to ruin your summer--I don't want to be a burden," Eddie breathed, obviously trying to sound a little jokey, despite his words. "You're not a burden," Steve replied easily, shifting to stand beside Eddie to help him walk toward the hall of the trailer. "What else am I doing with my summer? Swim? Actually, might be good to get you to swim. Low impact, but great muscle strengthening. Probably be good for you to swim." "I can't swim," Eddie laughed, his tone bittersweet and laced with a much deeper emotion. "I'll teach you," Steve offered, not putting too much stock in his own words. "I used to teach kids to swim all the time during the summer back in '83 and '84. It's easy." Eddie went quiet again as he took careful step after careful step down the hall toward the washroom. "Yeah... okay," Eddie mumbled quietly as he leaned on the door handle and breathed hard from the effort of walking just that short distance.
"Okay?" Steve repeated, "Hallelujah, he compromises." Steve said sarcastically as he helped Eddie slide the door aside. "Man, shut up," Eddie grouched, but he sounded charmed by the gentle tease. "What're you going to get mad about now? Not holding my dick while I piss?" "Grow up," Steve retorted, trying to sound friendly. Eddie laughed and Steve helped him as far as the sink before letting go. "Don't fall over, and don't try and stand. Just sit down, you're still recovering, man." "Don't tell me how to use the toilet, Harrington. You're not my nurse-maid," Eddie grouched, able to wobble from the sink edge to brace on the back of the toilet. "You're lucky I'm not, probably would have sedated you by now if that was the case," Steve teased again, getting another small laugh from Eddie before he turned to leave the room. "Holler if you need something." "Harrington..." Eddie mumbled, and Steve paused at the door as he held it open. "Don't... thanks... thank you." "Don't worry about it," Steve smiled, "any time man... really. Any time, I don't mind hanging out with you at all." Eddie glanced over at him, and Steve flashed him another smile before sliding the door shut and walking back down the hall. He leaned there, waiting for Eddie to call him back over when he needed him. None of this was easy, and he didn't blame Eddie for having a hard time with it. He wanted Eddie to get his freedom back as soon as possible, but he truly didn't mind hanging around with Eddie whenever he wanted him there. He liked it, actually. He liked feeling needed and helpful, and Steve liked the idea of teaching Eddie to swim. He owed a lot to Eddie, and he had meant it when he said he wasn't going to abandon him. A month, five, forever... Steve didn't plan on abandoning Eddie for anything.
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da-proti-toku-grem · 5 days
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17 Jance mayhaps (if you already did it I'm sorry, I love ur style and reading your prompts!!)
Thank you so much 🥰. I think I've officially lost the battle with my “I'm keeping these short” thoughts because this is almost 1.8k oops 😅.
As always, ao3 link at the bottom if you prefer to read it there <3
(Rating: Mature)
Send me a Ship and a Number and I will Write a Kiss
17. … to distract.
“Please, Nacko,” Jan begged from his place on the couch.
Knowing that they had an interview the next morning, Nace had offered Jan to stay at his house. After all, it was no secret that the guitarist was by no means a morning person and, being the one who lived closest to where the interview would take place, it seemed only reasonable to offer him a place to sleep without the need to drive from Vrhnika to Ljubljana in the early morning.
And maybe – and just maybe – something inside his chest was also tickling under the pretext of seeing Jan's gorgeous face when Nace inevitably woke up before him, his features relaxed and his hair tousled. No one needed to know that, though. He was more than willing to take the secret to his grave. It wasn't like someone like Jan would ever look at him that way, anyways.
Once they arrived at the apartment, Nace offered Jan a glass of wine. The bassist himself didn't drink anymore, but he liked to always have something to offer to his guests – in this case, a bottle of red wine.
And that's how they had gotten to this situation, Jan sitting cross-legged on the couch, an empty glass on the small table in front of him and looking up in the direction of Nace, who was standing on the other side of the table, with his pajamas already on and holding the bottle in his hand.
“I've already told you, Jan,” he said, a hint of tiredness in his voice. “You know that on any other occasion I wouldn't mind you drinking more, but we have an interview tomorrow and we can't risk you having a raging hangover because you drank the whole bottle of wine by yourself.”
“...Please?” Jan asked again, pouting and looking up at him with those beautiful dark puppy eyes that had no right to be so adorable. That, combined with the fact that his improvised pajamas were his boxer shorts and one of Nace's old t-shirts that was definitely too big on him – the length reaching almost halfway down his thighs and the collar being so wide that it left one of his shoulders exposed, as well as a bit of his chest hair – was definitely not helping Nace keep his thoughts pure.
He thought about how his hands would feel exploring the skin under the t-shirt or pulling on those gorgeous black locks, how he'd look up at him with his big brown eyes just like that while Nace fucked his mouth, taking it all like the good boy he knew he could be; how he’d love to kiss and bite and mark that exposed skin on his shoulder and neck until everyone knew who he belonged to, how he'd beg even prettier for Nace to touch him, to make him feel good; how he'd look all sweaty and ruined with his head thrown back, moaning Nace's name at the peak of his pleasure as he pounded into that sweet spot inside him over and over and-
Nace really needed to stop his train of thoughts right there before this ended in a terribly embarrassing situation.
“I'm sorry, okay?” He smiled at him apologetically, setting the bottle down on the table as he took a seat on the other side of the couch, hoping the other didn't notice the slight blush he felt creeping up his cheeks. “I know you probably don't want to go to sleep yet so… anything else you want to-”
The question died on the bassist's lips as he suddenly felt Jan straddle his thighs, resting his hands gently on his chest.
Nace simply remained still, his body a bit tense and his eyes wide open in surprise. He still didn't look at the guitarist's face, a million questions running through his mind when all of a sudden the weight of the younger man in his lap and the burning touch of his hands on his chest clouded his senses.
Eventually, he dared to look up, finding Jan's eyes, those eyes that made Nace's knees go weak and that accompanied him in his most sinful fantasies, looking back at him with that smirk he always had plastered on his face when he had an idea. He knew exactly what he was doing and Nace had fallen right into his trap.
“Hello there, Mr. Jordan,” Jan said, his deep voice reverberating in Nace's brain, as his hands went up to cup his cheeks.
He didn't respond, his own hands moving to Jan's thighs, over his t-shirt, while his eyes were flicking from the other's eyes to his lips and then up again and oh how much he'd like to send it all to hell and close the distance between them and-
Before he knew it, Jan's lips were on his.
Nace didn't move his hands, the uncertainty of not knowing how far Jan was willing to take this surpassing the urge to touch every single part of the other's body; but he started to reciprocate the kiss, taking everything Jan had to give him and trying to burn it into his memory, almost as if he was afraid that it was all a dream product of his treacherous imagination and he might wake up at any moment.
Their lips moved slowly against each other, his mouth opening in a silent invitation that Jan didn't hesitate to take, tongues dancing together in a rhythm known only to them.
Everything was so sultry, so sensual, so… Jan. It was intoxicating. And Nace didn't think he would ever get enough of this.
All too soon, the guitarist broke the kiss, pulling away completely and taking his place back on the couch. Nace immediately missed the warmth of his body pressing against his own.
“W-what was that for?” he asked after a few seconds, trying to sound nonchalant despite the deep blush he felt covering his face.
“Nothing,” Jan shrugged. “Can't I just kiss my really hot friend?”
At that, Nace looked up, meeting that mischievous grin before his gaze finally fell on the bottle that had somehow ended up in Jan's hands. Little shit.
“Oh hell no, come here,” he tugged at his arm and in one swift motion took the bottle from him, setting it safely on the table, and took him back into his lap, making him let out a surprised gasp.
“Well, I guess this will do too,” Jan smirked, moving his arms up to wrap them around Nace's neck, tangling his hands in the soft curls at the nape of his neck and drawing him into another kiss.
Nace didn't hold back this time, all the blood he had been trying to suppress from traveling south now rushed to his cock as his hands began to caress the body of the man on top of him.
The touch of his cold hands against the warm skin of his thighs sent a shiver down Jan's spine. Nace's hands traveled up his thighs, slowly slipping under his shirt until they reached his waist, grabbing it and moving his body so they could start grinding against each other.
Deep groans escaped their mouths the moment both of their already half-hard dicks brushed against each other, making them break the kiss, their foreheads pressed against one another as they breathed heavily into each other's mouths.
Without halting his movements, Nace leaned close to his ear and whispered: “Did you just want to distract me so you could get another glass or are you just a horny little slut, baby?”, catching the lobe between his teeth to emphasize his words before starting a trail of open-mouthed kisses and little nibbles along his jaw and neck.
The sound the younger man let out and the way Jan's hips jerked forward of their own accord, beginning to grind down more desperately, told Nace everything he needed to know.
It was still fun to tease him, though.
“I need words, honey. Or do you want me to stop?” he said teasingly. As if you'd be able to stop now that you finally have what you've been dreaming about for so long, the rational part of his brain told him.
“Please don’t stop.” Jan whined. “F-fuck, God knows how long I've been waiting for this.”
That sound, that plea, the meaning those words entailed all sent an electric jolt straight to Nace's cock. He sounded so beautifully desperate and– God. Jan Peteh was going to be the death of him.
“Oh yeah? Do I make you hard, baby?” he punctuated his words with a particularly hard thrust of his hips.
“So damn much, you have no idea. Fuck, have you seen yourself?”
Jan buried his face in Nace's neck, exploring his skin with his lips and teeth, careful not to leave marks in a place that would be visible during the interview and paying special attention to discover the bassist's most sensitive spots. Nace tilted his head to the side to grant him more access.
Neither of them could stop the soft little noises escaping their mouths, getting increasingly louder as Nace's hands started to roam all over the younger's back. They came to a stop at his ass, cupping Jan's cheeks over his boxers and pulling him even closer.
The increased pressure on his crotch caused the guitarist to pull away from Nace's neck, throwing his head back and exposing his throat as a sinful moan escaped his lips. It was probably the most erotic thing Nace had ever seen in his entire life.
However, as heavenly as the dry humping felt, Nace wanted – needed – more. He needed to feel skin on skin with the man that had been occupying his every thought ever since he officially joined the band.
He slowly licked a strip up his deliciously exposed throat, a smug smile spreading across his face at the shudder that ran through Jan's body.
“Shall we take this to the bedroom, kitten?” he asked, his deep voice accompanied with a little squeeze on his ass making Jan blush furiously.
Instead of answering, Jan smashed their lips together in a hungry, passionate kiss.
Nace took that as a yes, placing his hands under Jan's thighs and lifting them both off the couch to start the short walk to his room, grinning into the kiss when he felt Jan's dick twitch at the casual demonstration of strength as he wrapped his legs around his waist.
As he closed the bedroom door and threw a very flushed and now fully hard Jan unceremoniously on his bed, Nace made a mental note to treat him to all the red wine he wished for the days to come.
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callofdudes · 10 months
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Not the one that requested, but I think for the ace reader request’s wording, they meant the reader views the guys romantically but doesn’t confess as they are ace(not aroace) in fear of future rejection
Ooooh, oh that makes sense. Oops.... Well I might just write it all over again 🫣😬 that's my bad folks. That's my bad. So I'll just rewrite the prompt here and figure it out?? Same thing with the right prompt this time. I think I've got it this time.
It's literally almost the same writing of course I changed things, I just wasn't feeling trying to get creative all over again I'm sorry-
Telling them you love them... (Again)
Summary: Ace!Reader struggling to confess to the boys out of fear of not being sexually attracted to them.
Ghost 💀
You knew Ghost wasn't keen on love. He wasn't really keen on anything. So attempting to tell him you loved and appreciated him without being given a glare and a smack in the face was hard.
You usually kept to buying him gifts on the occasion, aiming to finish the paperwork he gave you early. But it all never felt like real appreciation.
You didn't want Ghost thinking that you were into him sexually. Yes you could admit he was attractive but it wasn't like that. That's where the struggles of your confessions lay... You were into him, so romantically swooned over him. And yet you wouldn't see him sexually if you were paid a million bucks. Because that just wasn't it.
It was easier just to write him a note, put down all your complicated emotions on paper and hope he would understand. And you dropped it in his office, worried he would freak out and yell at you for everything you said.
You were looking at documents on your computer when Ghost came into your office, completely unannounced.
"Sergeant."
"Oh- lieutenant!"
He holds up the note, placing it gently on your desk. You look down, immediately feeling ashamed of what you wrote. You wanted to cower away, not knowing how he would react. Would he be mad?? He obviously thought you liked him by the way he came in.
"I'm not mad, I'd just like to talk."
You flick your eyes back up, still feeling ashamed of the things you'd written.
"But I don't... Well, y'know."
"It's not like that..." You mutter, suddenly afraid to look up at him. Ghost's stance softens, voice getting a bit calmer.
"I hope it's not." He steps forward.
You frown, looking up at him. "I love you... Just romantically. I just didn't know how to tell you..."
He nods a little, piecing everything together again.
"And don't think its because of you, no no, I just-" Ghost stepped forward, his eyes locking with yours and he nodded. " I think I understand."
You smile, feeling relief fill you. "You gonna say it back??"
He huffs. "Maybe one day."
"I'll take that." You smiled and squeezed his hand.
The man hummed and nodded, squeezing your hand back. "Thank you I guess... You're not too bad yourself."
You chuckle and stand, eagerly embracing him. "I love you, Simon."
He tensed, but patted your back gently. "I know." He smiled softly. Embracing you firmer than before, resting the fabric of his mask against your forehead where you could feel the warm breaths against your skin. You knew this would work out. You weren't scared anymore.
Gaz 🧢
Gaz was quiet and reserved. Not like Ghost, but he was a private person. He preferred most of his time alone and you often wondered how Soap managed to drag him into such a tight knit friendship.
But you'd also grown close to Gaz. He wasn't as good with expressing his feelings in words he thought fit, so he just tried not to.
But you knew him for him. The music he liked, the movies and the bands. You two would spend hours just laughing and talking together in the quietness of the base, the best of friends.
You have wanted to express to Gaz how much you love him for a while now. Because you truly had fallen in love with him. But considering both of you couldn't get a grasp for proper words, you were afraid he would misunderstand.
Especially since you only saw him romantically. Funny little thing, but all you wanted was that soft, gentle affection and to finally be able to wrap your arms around him without fear. And yet you could never say it.
You were waiting by the cargo station, knee bouncing as you waited for the plane to open. Their mission had been met with problems and there was a slim chance they'd all come back alive.
When you saw Gaz you immediately ran to him, pulling him into your arms and hugging him tightly. "Oh thank goodness."
Gaz was a little surprised but hugged you back. You both stood there like that for a bit until you said it, you didn't care. You'd bottled it in in fear for so long, and you'd almost lost him. You almost lost your best friend. "I love you so much."
Gaz didn't question it. Didn't dig into it. He only held you tighter, reassuring you he loved you back, and he wasn't going anywhere. There wasn't any need for clarification, there just was. You pulled away enough to look into his eyes, and the relief filled you both to the brim, you'd sort it out later, go through the details later. For now, you were here and he was alive.
"You should get cleaned up. I'll make you some tea as well."
Gaz smiles. "You're awesome, thank you." He leans forward and presses a soft, almost feather light kiss to your cheek.
"Don't worry, I know." He whispered, squeezing your shoulder reassuringly. You didn't have to worry, he knew about your sexuality. And he was perfectly ok with it.
And without a second thought you both parted ways for a time.
Sure, you'd sort the fine details out later, but right now there wasn't a question about where this was headed.
Price 🥃
Price was a warm yet harsh soul. You'd known him for a couple years and he'd been amazing guidance for you. Always a light you could follow. In the darkest of times you could always reach for his hand and be assured you'd find it.
You'd recently found yourself swooning over him. You wanted to be in his embrace, feel those reassuring and firm hugs. His beard against your forehead when he kissed your head while talking softly.
And yet. Because of your ranks the scandelousness of a relationship was a bit tedious in the work forece. Sexual or not. But you didn't have sexual feelings for him. You were swimming in the ocean of love. But that was it.
After a recent mission you'd come back a little scratched up. You thought you were going to die and were in tears when you walked over to Price, feeling his arms wrap around you to comfort you.
He hadn't been there with you that time. But you were relieved to be back. Even when he pulled you into his office to clean your face you were still softly crying.
"It's alright sergeant, I've got you..." Price reassured as he pressed the alcohol pad to your chin.
You sniffled, wiping a tear from your cheek. "Price??"
"Yes sergeant. I'm right here."
You sniffle. "You know I love you right?"
He looks deep into your eyes, taking a moment to process your body language and fully understand. "I love you too sergeant. I'm glad you're ok."
You nodded a little. "You... You know it's not sexual right? I'm sorry if..." You said weakly. The earlier regret of the mission had made you slip your tongue, and now you felt more anxiety.
"I know kid, I know." He patted your shoulder. "Come here, you're still a little shaken up aren'tcha?"
You nod and crawl into his arms, feeling him hug you tightly. "It's alright. I'm here." He runs his hand up to the your nape of your neck, reassuring you, pressing a soft kiss to your forehead. "This alright?"
You nod, clinging to him.
"Alright. We'll sort all these feelings out together in the morning ok? But I understand, and its ok."
"I love you Price." You choked out again. He softly shushed you, keeping you in his arms. "I know Y/n, I know."
Soap 🧼
Johnny was not unfamiliar with your secrets. He knew you very well and had come to learn of your lack of sexual attraction to others. Didn't change how he saw you, you were still his bestie.
He himself was conflicted in if he should tell you that he loves you. He didn't know how you might take it and wanted to remain respectful of you and your boundaries.
You laid on his bed with him, listening and joking as he told you a story about setting off a small bomb near the recruit bathrooms.
He was laughing so hard his face turned red, smiling wide as his hand brushed across yours while trying to find air.
You smiled back, gently taking his hand in yours. You watched his cheeks tint red and it makes your heart flutter. You were so in love with him. But knowing Soap... You were so scared to confess to him. Especially with your lack of sexual attracion and knowing he wanted kids in he future.
You'd bothed talked about your ideal future relatonship, and though you were almot perfect for each other, the differences were staggering to say the least.
But the way he was looking at you. With tha lost look of utter happiness as he talked to you...
"Soap??" You look up at him with a slightly less whimsy gaze, contemplating the heaviness of your next words.
"Soap, I just want you to know... You're my best friend and.." you squeeze his hand. "I love you."
He slowly calmed down and looked at you. "Oh... you do?" He could see the look in your eye and shuffled closer, getting slightly into your bubble without realizing.
You felt comfortable with him. So incredibly comfortable. All those years fretting and worrying what he'd think. All you saw right now was the smile of your best friend and how much you were in love with him...
Soap is a little quiet for a moment. "Not sexual right?"
His frown makes you worry as you rush to explain as best you could all over again. You just really love him and everything about him. Just not sexually.
It makes a smile spread across his face. He takes your hand and places it against his chest. "You are the most amazing person in the whole world y/n. I don't know what I'd ever do without you. I love you too."
"You're sure... but, our futures?"
He leaned in, cupping your chin. "We'll figure it out, promise?''
You smile softly, happy to have said it. He leaned in, warm breath drifting over your lips. "Can I kiss you?" He asked. You nod, and before you know it, his lips are sinking against yours.
König 🐙
You sighed, bouncing your knee in agitation. The thought of your first solo mission... You'd be lying if you said it wasn't daunting. You'd always gone on missions with König or different members from KorTac. But you'd never been assigned your own mission.
You started to question if you'd be good enough and could get home ok. It made you worry, if you'd ever come back.
You were wrapped up in your thoughts, not noticing the large figure who sat down next to you, leaning over to look at your face. "What has you looking like that y/n?"
You looked up at the sound of his voice and sighed. "I'm just nervous about the mission..."
He nodded understandingly and took your hand in his. "You'll be alright. I do not doubt your abilities one bit you know. You'll do it."
You chuckle softly. "You say that now but... What if I get hurt??"
"Then I'll come find you." He squeezes your hand. "But you will be alright."
Your heart clenches hearing him say that. You'd found yourself falling in love with Konig after a bit of time working with him. And now you were contemplating telling him. The only thing keeping you nack was well... You weren't sexually attracted to him. And you didn't want Koing to take it the wrong way.
You squeeze his hand a little tighter.
"König? You know... You've really been a good friend. And you've helped me grow so much since I've been here... I really don't know what I'd do without you here with me."
He tutted softly. "Do not start writing the words for your obituary, y/n."
You sigh, leaning against his shoulder, relishing the last hours you have with him before you'll be sent off. "I... I love you König... You know that? You're everything to me. I know it hasn't been two years but-"
"Shh" he squeezes your hand. "Take some deep breaths." He smiles softly. "I love you too, but do not expect you to be going anywhere soon. Ok?"
You relax, seeing how it wasn't a big deal. "It's not... sexual though, but It doesn't mean I dont love you, I'm very attracted to you, but it's not... Like that."
He hummed again. "We'll talk about all this in detail when you get back. And you will return, alright?''
You nod once more. "Thank you König. Thank you."
He squeezes your hand again gently. For reassurance. To tell you no matter what he was there. No matter what.
Alejandro & Rudy.
Alejandro sighed loudly, flopping down on the couch next to you and Rodolfo.
"Well well, welcome back Mr. Vargas." You chuckle, putting down your phone to see his tired expression. "How did it go?" Rodolfo asked lazily, eyes still trained on his book, curled up on the couch, his thigh against yours.
"I'm so glad to be off my feet." Alejandro sighed, grabbing the tv remote and turned it on, flipping through the shows before finding something to play.
He gets back up again and wanders into the kitchen, grabbing three ice cold drinks, tossing the other two to you guys who eagerly catch them and crack them open.
Alejandro huffs when he sits back down, taking a swig and finally relaxing. "Glad to be back with my two favorite people."
You and the boys were close enough and comfortable enough that you were ok with their physical touch, so you were used to Alejandro wrapping a respectful arm around your shoulder and you'd usually end up snuggled up, giving Rodolfo the room to join when he wanted.
Today was no different as you snuggled up to his side and felt his warmth. "Geez, maybe you need a bath. And you smell fuckin' awful." You snort.
Rodolfo chuckles and nods. "I can smell you from here Ale."
The man only rolled his eyes. "Whatever. Ya both better appreciate my presence. It's a gift."
"We do appreicate you Ale."
Considering how romantically fallen down the stairs you were for these two you were surprised you hadn't confessed yet. Always relishing the times you got loving physical contact with them. But knowing Ale as the flirt you always hesitate confessing your romantic attraction. Especially as it wasn't backed by sexual attraction.
You snuggled closer. "You work really hard for us Alejandro. You deserve all the rest today." You smile and hug his waist. You really did appreciate him. The fear and the worry of what he might think, of how he'd feel if you ever expressed it... But you went for it. You wanted him to know how much you appreciated him. You really did.
"You know... I love you, Ale. Like I said, you're amazing and you support us so much. Working your butt off like this just so we get a few hours off."
But they both were aware of your sexual preferences. That being none, so hearing this from you, they knew it was nothing but soft affection you had in your heart for them...
Alejandro smiled softly, his arm wrapping a little tighter around you. "Is that so??" He chuckled. "Not even you could resist falling in love with this eh?"
You roll your eyes playfully as he pulls you closer by the shoulder and kisses the top of your head. "I love you too y/n."
You stick out your foot, bumping your feet against Rodolfo's. "You too mister!" He looks up and smiles. "You are good y/n, it's a blessing to have you with us."
"Then come here you, get in on the cuddles."
Rodolfo huffs and puts down his book, but curls up with you two as you all watch the show. He leans in and nuzzles his nose against your neck, kissing your jaw briefly. Soft affection. Nothing better than spending time with your two favorite people.
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siriuslystarbucks · 18 days
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Midnight
Written for @prongsfoot-microfic prompt April 12, 2023: Midnight
Sirius checks the clock and holds back a sigh. It's only midnight, which means he got around an hour of sleep.
He looks at his boyfriend to see if he can chance getting up, but there's no way to do it without waking him. James is content in sleep, relaxed and loose, and laying half on top of him. It's a miracle he didn't wake up at the same time that Sirius did. 
He closes his eyes and tries to will himself back to sleep. He's exhausted, so it should be easy, but what keeps him awake now is the same thing that made it difficult for him to get to sleep in the first place. And it kept James up too, because he was trying to make Sirius feel better; the last thing he wants is to wake him up because of it.
Unfortunately, Sirius's plan to suffer alone doesn't last for long. He glances at the clock every two minutes for half an hour until he needs to use the loo, and when he squirms, James wakes up. Oops.
Sirius presses a kiss to James's head and extricates himself from under him as smoothly as he can. "Go back to sleep," he whispers.
"Where you goin'?" James mumbles.
"The loo."
He grumbles a little but doesn't seem to think twice about the excuse.
Sirius leaves the room, uses the toilet, then pads into the kitchen and starts a cuppa. He's surprised when, a minute later, James stumbles out of their room, rubbing at his eyes. "What are you doing up? Go back to bed," Sirius says, and even though his voice is quiet, it feels too loud.
"You didn't come back," James replies. His eyes are barely open as he makes his way over and practically falls on Sirius.
"You're tired. Go to sleep."
James brings his arms up and lopes them around Sirius's waist. "You're in here."
Sirius kisses his head, touched that James still does this after all their years together, but also worried. "You've got to get up early tomorrow for-"
"Don't care," he interrupts. "You're up, so I'm up."
It's on the tip of his tongue to argue, to insist that they don't have to do everything together, but James knows that. If it were simply a case of feeling restless, James would go back to sleep; but it's not that, and he knows it, so he's staying awake. For him.
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reidsaurora · 2 years
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"The Alphabet Game" ~ S. Reid
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Summary: When Reader ends up in the hospital for an emergency surgery, Spencer finds any way he can to distract her—cue the alphabet game.
Pairing: Husband!Spencer Reid x Fem!Wife!Reader
Word Count: 1,421
Content Warning: takes place in a hospital, sexual humor, very mild swearing, not explicitly stated but I like to imagine reader has HS because this is a v self indulgent fic
Genre: idrk so i'm gonna say Comedic Fluff
Extra Notes: y'all idk what this is, i just hope y'all enjoy it regardless
Based On the Prompt: "Oops I Did It Again" - Hospital and Flare-Ups (from 2021 Whumptober Prompts)
Originally Written: 10/04/2022
Beta Read By: @dungeons-are-too-cold and @reidsbookclub (love u my darlings ❤️)
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"Babe, don't you think that's a little much?" I giggled from my bed, watching Spencer as he struggled to make it through the door with three suitcases, a duffel bag, and his messenger bag.
"You never know how long we're gonna be here," he commented.
"Do not curse me like that!" I held up a playfully scolding finger. "We're here for antibiotics and antibiotics only. This time tomorrow, we'll be signing discharge papers."
His lips pressed into a tight smile as he kissed me quickly. "I hope so," he replied, placing the duffel bag and his messenger bag on the end of my bed.
My eyes watched as he turned back to the suitcases, scooting them into the corner neatly. This man and his organization.
After a moment, I finally spoke up again, guilt filling my voice. "Hey, I'm sorry I made you come back early."
He laughed, sitting down lightly near my feet. "Are you kidding me? I'd much rather be here with you than in Chicago mapping out a geographical profile."
My lips curved into a small pout. "I don't wanna let the team down by taking you away from them."
"Love," he said, placing a hand gently on my leg, "your health and your wellbeing matters way more to me than the team. They've worked without me before. I have no doubt they'll be able to do it again."
In true "turn that frown upside down" fashion, my pout quickly contorted into a small smile. My voice was light as I told him, "That is one of the many reasons I love you."
He gave me a grin to match the one I'd given him. "For better or for worse, right?"
Leave it to the universe to pick worse…
Twenty-four hours later, instead of signing discharge papers, I found myself signing consent papers for surgery.
"Dr. Summers will be in shortly with your anesthesia," the nurse smiled, taking the clipboard from my hands.
I gave her a smile as best I could, my leg beginning to nervously bounce as soon as she pulled the curtain closed. My mind was racing. Anxious thought after anxious thought filled every crevice of my brain.
Spencer must've caught onto my anxiety, seeing as he pulled his chair closer to my bedside. "You've got this," he said, like a declaration that everything would be OK.
Still, my mind couldn't possibly compute the idea of me being fine after finding out I'd need emergency surgery. My hands trembled as they made their way to his, continuing to shake as I held on tight to his hands.
"Atrium."
My brows creased as I finally made eye contact with him. "What?"
"When I get nervous, I list my favorite word for each letter of the alphabet. I call it 'The Alphabet Game.' Atrium is my favorite 'A' word," he explained. "I just think it's a fun word to say."
My eyebrows un-ruffled as I let out a huff. "We've been together for how long and you've never told me that?"
In what I assumed was an attempt to distract me, he turned our attention back to his game. "Come on, try it. It's fun," he said. "What's your favorite 'A' word?"
"Uh…" my voice trailed as I racked my brain. "Apple?"
He scoffed playfully. "That's a boring one. Surely, you have a better one."
I attempted to brainstorm more words, coming up mostly empty. "Um, authentic."
"That's a good one," he told me. "Alright, B… bibliophile."
For the first time in over twenty-four hours, I finally cracked a grin. "I should've known," I commented, reaching up to run a hand through his slightly messy hair. "Hmmm, I like badass."
"Does that count?" he inquired, "Isn't that technically two words?"
My mouth fell agape in playful disbelief. "Now, Spencer Reid, you didn't tell me there were rules to this game."
He chuckled once more, leaning over to peck my forehead. "You're right, I'm sorry.
"Besides, badass is one word. You just don't use your sentence enhancers enough to know."
He shook his head playfully. "Alright, for C, I'll say cacomistle."
"What the hell is that?"
"It's kind of like a raccoon. They live in Central America. Really anywhere between Mexico and Panama."
My eyebrows raised in curiosity. "Interesting," I commented, slightly amused at his nerdiness. "Cauliflower."
"Why cauliflower?" he inquired, a laugh threatening to spill off his tongue.
"I just think it's a fun word to say."
This game went on for quite some time, the two of us tossing random words at each other. Just an innocent game between two lovers… until it wasn't innocent anymore.
"Hmmm, I can't think of anything for K. You got anything?" he asked.
"Hmmm," I hummed, considering all the possibilities. "Koala? That one's kinda boring though."
Just then, he let out a small string of snickers. "Sorry," he managed, followed by another quiet laugh.
My eyebrows furrowed once again. "What?"
"I, uh… I thought of a slightly inappropriate word," he said through a fit of chuckles.
My arms crossed tightly in front of my chest as I rebutted, "Well, now you have to tell me."
He snickered once more, covering his mouth in what I assumed was embarrassment. "I am ashamed to say I thought of the word knockers."
My eyes nearly bugged out of their sockets in disbelief as I laughed so hard. I was surprised when the nurses didn't show up to shush me. "Spencer Reid!" I scolded through my laughter.
He laughed right back as he added, "This game went in a much different direction than I'd expected."
"OK, moving on," I giggled. "What about L?"
His mouth scrunched as he began to hold in another laugh. "Lube."
I rolled my eyes, holding in a simper of my own. "We're getting a divorce," I joked. "I can't believe you right now."
"OK, do you have a better one?"
I thought for a moment before my brain drew a blank. "I suppose not. I think you fried my brain," I giggled. "OK, let's move on. The next letter is M, and I swear if you say mas-"
"I'm not gonna say it," he said, almost like a dare to himself. "I can do better than that."
The room stayed silent for a beat, save for the light sound of snickers as we both attempted to think of a new word.
I could've sworn I actually saw Spencer's eyes light up as he exclaimed, "I got it! Missionary."
"You know I can't have sex for at least two weeks after I have these setons placed, right?"
"Damn, that long?" he pouted. "I guess the other word works better after all, huh?"
"I'm going to kill you," I said, letting out a short string of tickled huffs.
As both a nurse and the anesthesiologist slipped past the curtain, Spencer and I found ourselves struggling to act casually.
"OK, Mrs. Reid, are you ready?" Dr. Summers greeted me with a small smile.
I could tell from Spencer's breaths that he was struggling not to burst out laughing right there.
Spencer had one of the most contagious laughs I'd ever come across. So, it was no surprise that I found myself struggling to hold back a string of giggles. I felt tears brimming my eyes as I managed to answer, "Mhm."
"Now, unfortunately this is when you have to part with your husband," she said with a half-frown.
Spencer leaned over, leaving a long kiss on my lips. I took in his familiar scent one last time, trying to remind myself that it would be the first thing I smelled when I woke up.
Once our lips had parted, he leaned in close to my ear, a smirk almost audible in his tone as he whispered, "Nuts."
As if the floodgates of laughter had finally been opened, the chain of snickers I'd been holding back finally fell from my lips. Through my giggles, I managed to apologize. "I'm sorry."
"No, it's perfectly OK," the nurse from before smiled. "It's nice to see someone with a happy spirit in conditions like these," she commented as she began to wheel me off.
Spencer walked behind us for a few feet, until he reached the point where he couldn't follow anymore.
"I love you," he made sure I heard. "You've got this."
I watched as the double doors closed behind us, shaking my head in both pure disbelief and pure love for my husband. "I love you too, you big nut."
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OK so I clearly have to address the elephant in the room
This idea came to me when I was lying in my own hospital bed waiting for my own setons to be placed. I just randomly started listing words and I was like, "This is so Spencer Reid of me." And then my brain just kinda spiraled and at some point, I started thinking of less NSFW words and then this idea came about. It's very special to me, it's definitely helped me cope with everything that happened.
Anyway, I hope you guys enjoyed part two of Whumptober! i look forward to seeing you guys again on Saturday for part three! 🫶🏻
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PRIDE MONTH PROMPTS 2024
They are here!!
Last year I released them in May, and I asked you when I should release it this year. You agreed I should release it early/mid april. And I think the perfect time is now! You have plenty of time to prepare your things for June!
So, here are 30 prompts, 1 prompt per day, for all of June! Use them for writing, or for art, or why not for something else creative you can come up with?
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I will now write all the prompts in the list if it's hard to read, plus some explanations/suggestion what you can do for them.
Day 1. Actually, I'm not straight. Someone kicking off pride month by telling their nearest and dearest that they aren't straight, like everyone seems to think!
Day 2. Surprise! We're dating! A couple comes out to their friends ;)
Day 3. Early signs. Early signs someone was not straight, or not cis. Or both!
Day 4. Gender euphoria. Euphoooooriaaaaa forever to end of time /j Ok no but yeah, someone experiencing gender euphoria :) It's great :)
Day 5. Surprise! We're engaged! Surprise engagement! Did people even know they were dating?
Day 6. Proposal. You can choose to show the proposal for the couple at day 5... or a brand new couple! :D
Day 7. Pride flags. Are they making pride flags? Buying pride flags? Identifying pride flags? So much you can do! :)
Day 8. Prideful baking. A return from last year! Who's baking? Are they doing it with pride? Are they making rainbow cakes? This is also a way to make some ships be cute together as they bake.
Day 9. Wedding. To quote Sam from Glee: "YEAH! COME ON GUYS! GAY MARRIAGE GOOD!"
Day 10. Shenanigans at the Pride Parade. Time to let those characters run wild at the pride parade!
Day 11. Coming out as trans. Pretty self explanatory I think ;)
Day 12. Planning for a child. Two women, two men, maybe a trans couple... any not-cishet couple are planning for a child <3 Are they adopting? IVF? However they're doing it, they're gonna get that child :)
Day 13. Two moms. Two mommies thriving with their kiddos!
Day 14. Are they dating or not? People are speculating the relationship of some people.
Day 15. First crush. Aww, someone's first crush! Have they ever felt this before?
Day 16. Alternate universe. Go crazy with this! This could mean anything from "a universe in which this ship is canon" to "they live in a fantasy world". Do whatever!
Day 17. Realizing they're ace. Self explanatory ;)
Day 18. Two dads. Two daddies on request (Sorry I've watched too much of Papás por encargo (Daddies on request) to not make that joke). They'll do anything for the kids!
Day 19. I thought everyone liked both? What??? They don't?????
Day 20. Fruity sleepover. Anything and everything can happen at a sleepover!
Day 21. Pining. They pine so hard and yet... will their crush ever notice?
Day 22. Secret dating. Or are they as they secret as they think? How much chaos do they end up in to keep this?
Day 23. Dinner. Maybe just a normal dinner in a queer friendgroup. Or maybe someone coming out at dinner. Maybe the first dinner at their partner's house. Or maybe someone's making dinner for their loved one.
Day 24. Confession. Coming out confession? Confession to your crush? Just a confession about your favorite food in the middle of a pride parade? Yeah, you decide!
Day 25. Date. THEY'RE ON A DATE THE BABIES!!! Is it a good date? I hope so!
Day 26. Gender is a construct. Not everything is binary.
Day 27. Queer group meeting. You can toy around with this a lot. A group meeting with closeted gays? A group meeting with every character from your different fandoms that you headcanon as bi that you want to interact in the group meeting for disaster bi's? A group meeting for aces just vibing? Maybe we'll meet a lot of different groups!
Day 28. Accidental coming out. Oops!
Day 29. Alternate time period. You want to play out a little love story but instead they live in the 1950s? Or maybe they live in the future! Maybe they live in the medieval times! Woah!
Day 30. Growing old together. Look at them now. Who knew they'd find each other in the world and now they're here?
I hope I'm gonna see some of you in pride month! It's always a pleasure! Also, when the time comes in June, and you want to use one of these prompts, don't forget to tag me ;)
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illicit affairs
credit to my bestie @rowanaelinn who gave me the prompt and encouraged this whole story ily bb 🫶
Word count: 3.3k (oops)
CW: swearing, alcohol, infidelity (cheating), smut. it's NSFW y'all, minors please stay away for your own sanity, it's...dirty dirty. i'm gonna go bleach my eyes now.
enjoy! (i hope...)
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Aelin didn’t know when the spark had gone out, only that it had. She woke up that July morning to an empty bed, an empty house, and her hopeful half-smile faltered and crumbled, all her illusions of the fairytale marriage she’d dreamed of since childhood splintering into dust and ashes.
She really should have been anticipating this day. It's not like anything about the situation was unexpected--it was so painfully obvious that Chaol wasn't interested in her anymore that they really should have just ended the marriage already. But both he and Aelin were stubborn-minded, unwilling to just let their marriage die when they could still look back on their honeymoon phase and see sparks of something that might be theirs again.
Chaol was Aelin's high school sweetheart; they'd met during their sophomore year, instantly hit it off, and had been inseparable ever since. They'd gone to university together, and he had proposed to her when they were only 19, just after freshman year. Not wanting to wait forever, they'd decided to get married when they were both 21--looking back, Aelin knew that had been their first mistake. They were so young, so full of hopes and dreams.
Real adult life wasn't yet reality to them.
And here they were now, at 24, married for three years and drifting apart for a year and a half. She'd noticed the shift in their marriage when Chaol got his first promotion at his job and started spending longer hours in the office, coming home later and later. Back then, he still came home to her, not to his work. He'd push open their front door, dump his laptop bag on the floor, and come to her. She'd smile and welcome him, kiss him, ask him how his day was and listen to his stories, always eager to help him destress however she could.
Not quite a month later, he stopped sharing every story from his work day. She didn't mind--didn't really notice. She was busy with her own graduate studies, which were getting more intense, and as much as she loved her husband and wanted to be there for him however she could, he had to reciprocate the feeling for anything to work. He started working even longer hours, claiming the new projects his bosses kept shoving onto his desk were eating his time.
She believed everything he said. Stupid, foolish, stupid Aelin.
Months passed, then a year. By then, Aelin was going to bed alone, leaving Chaol's dinner in the fridge or on the stove, not bothering to wait up for him when she didn't even know when he'd be home. Besides, with the thesis she was writing, she didn't have the time or the energy to devote to spectacular meals. She hardly even woke up when he finally slipped into bed beside her--when he still slept beside her.
It was only a month or two ago when the fragile peace they still maintained cracked. When Chaol came home early--for once!--and found her buried in her work, with books and documents spread across the table, her long-since-empty coffee cup abandoned beside her, typing furiously away on her thesis. When he called a hello that she didn't return, because she didn't hear him. He snapped at her that evening, said that he felt like he couldn't talk to her anymore.
He slept in the spare bedroom that night. And Aelin didn't even feel any difference--she was asleep as soon as she dragged herself into bed, worn out from the day, her work, and the argument.
~
The morning it all shattered, she woke up to a silent, empty bedroom. She'd grown used to the emptiness, the quietude of having her own room, but this was different. Silent. Too silent.
Yawning, she rolled herself out of bed, washed her face, and tucked her feet into her favorite beat-up old slippers before heading downstairs. "Chaol?"
No response.
Her forehead crinkled. "Chaol? You home?" she called, heading into the kitchen. Still nothing.
Not until she'd gone through the motions of making coffee did she realize that certain things were missing--his favorite coffee cup, namely. That was when it hit her. He was gone. Probably for good.
Aelin expected to feel shocked, numb, angry, empty--anything but what she felt. Instead, she just shrugged and poured her coffee. It was always going to happen, a little voice in the back of her mind whispered. You've known so for months.
Yeah, she had.
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That night, Aelin came home from a rather tiring session with her advisor, left her backpack on the floor, and reached for her phone, tapping Lysandra's contact.
<<bitch, get ready, we're going out
>>when?
<<now. soon. as soon as we're ready.
>>meet you at stag's? with shots ofc
<<you're the best, babes
Aelin showered quickly, dried off, and put on her little gold dress, the metallic material still molding to her body as perfectly as it had the first time she'd tried it on. She'd been shopping with Lys and Elide, who'd all but ordered her to get the dress, thinking it might lead to a night of fun with her husband.
Chaol hadn't even seen the dress. And, Aelin realized, giving herself a once-over in the mirror, he didn't deserve to.
She did her makeup heavier than usual, lining her eyes in bold, sharp flicks of liquid black and dusting her eyelids with gold. She painted her lips crimson, holding them apart for a few minutes to let the lipstick dry so it would be smudge-proof. When she looked in the mirror for one last check, she was caught off-guard. She looked...different.
She looked alive.
She looked fucking hot, and she was ready to go meet her best friend at their favorite club and forget her failed marriage.
The last thing Aelin did before leaving the house was tug her wedding ring off her finger and drop it into the shallow jewelry dish atop her dresser. She'd stopped wearing it in public months ago--if Chaol was going to act like they weren't married, then why should she keep up the farce? She kept it on at home, though, still clinging to the last threads of their union.
No longer.
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Lysandra whistled when she saw Aelin. "Hot damn, girl!"
"Stop," Aelin laughed, stiletto heels clicking as she headed across to Lysandra's seat. Four shot glasses were ready and waiting, two of them filled with clear liquid and the other two with something colorful and sweet-smelling.
Lys wiggled her perfectly threaded eyebrows. "Someone's gonna catch a man tonight, hmm?"
Aelin winked. "That's the idea." She picked up one of the shots. "Cheers, bitch!" Tapping her glass against Lys's, she downed the shot. Then the next. With the alcohol warming her blood, she glanced over to the dance floor, her foot tapping along to the music.
Lys grinned like the wickedly clever woman she was. "C'mon, bitch, we're dancing!"
Aelin swept her gaze across the crowded floor, searching. "Lys, babes, I don't see anyone worth--" Her sentence cut off as her best friend all but dragged her out among the dancers.
"Just enjoy yourself!" the brunette yelled, tipping her head back and grinning.
Quickly, Aelin list herself in the thumping bass, the pounding melody, the near-indecent rhythm of the dancing. She'd only been dancing for a few minutes when she felt someone's hands slip around her waist and tug her back against a chiseled, decidedly male body. And gods fucking burn her, his body felt divine against hers, moving in perfect sync with her and the music, coaxing her hips to slide against his. She wound one arm up behind his neck, sliding her manicured nails into his cropped, silky hair, and leaned in closer, catching the scent of pine forests and icy mountain breezes.
"What's your name, gorgeous?" he purred into her ear, his breath fanning against her skin.
Smoothly, she spun to face him, which conveniently aligned her breasts with his chest. Fuck, he was gorgeous--at least six foot four, chiseled muscles, a tattoo snaking up the length of his left arm and flicking onto his cheekbone. Eyes the color of the Oakwald Forest captured hers, smoky promise burning in their depths.
"Don't make me ask again, princess," he warned, the hint of command in his tone sending fire racing down her spine.
She hooded her eyes. "Aelin."
"Aelin," he repeated, rolling her name like fine wine on his tongue.
She wouldn't mind that tone rolling in other places, hell no she would not.
"What's your name," she asked in return, letting the pause drag on before she added, "sir?"
He sucked in a sharp breath, and she could have sworn his hands slipped closer to the hem of that little golden dress. "Since you asked so nicely, I'm Rowan." His lips brushed the side of her neck, a bare hint of a touch. "But you can call me sir," he murmured, splaying one broad hand against the bare skin of her back, exposed by the cut of her dress.
Burning hell.
"Rowan," she whispered, her voice dropping to a throaty purr, turning the two syllables into something borderline explicit.
His hands flexed against her skin, pulling her even closer, fingertips brushing her thigh--just under the hem of her dress. "You're going to keep quiet for me, princess." Not a request, an order. An order that sent sparks dancing through her blood. That damn hand inched farther up her skirt. "Answer me."
"Yes, sir," she breathed, eyes fluttering closed in anticipation.
His smug, dark little chuckle rumbled deep in his chest. "Remember, princess, we're on a public dancefloor. Nobody gets to know that you're--fuck--soaking wet for me." He'd found her lacy little scrap of underwear, which was indeed soaked with arousal.
"Yes sir." Her vocabulary was apparently reduced to those words.
Rowan kissed her neck, a teasingly light peck of his lips. "Good girl." The endearment sent a new rush of arousal pooling between her thighs--which, of course, he felt. His smug smirk only grew. "Turn around, princess, keep grinding on me. I know how wet it made you." Keeping that hand under her skirt, he spun her around, splaying his free one across her stomach, pinning her in place.
She sucked back a gasp at the power of the maneuver, forcing her legs to stay strong, not to waver and collapse like they wanted to. "Sir," she breathed, body a little tense with the waiting.
He kissed the side of her neck. "Relax, princess. Dance for me." He guided her into motion, swaying with the pulsing thump of the music blaring all around them. She closed her eyes, letting the rhythm take over, leading her body. "Good girl," Rowan whispered into her ear.
As a reward, his finger dragged up the seam of her panties, landing squarely on her needy clit. Her mouth dropped open, head falling back against his shoulder, hips rocking against the pressure of his hand.
Though she couldn't see his face, she knew full well that smug male smirk of his was firmly in place. "Look at you all dripping wet for a stranger, and I've barely even touched you." Shoving her panties aside, he teased her sex for a few seconds before sliding one thick finger into her, pulling a faint moan from her throat. He clicked his tongue. "Uh-uh, princess. Quiet."
She pressed her lips together, forcing the sounds she wanted to make to be silent. "Please," she breathed, her dancing smoothly slipping into time with the pumping of his fingers.
He chuckled darkly. "Such pretty manners." Another finger slid in beside the first, those two fingers stretching her more, filling her deeper than Chaol ever had. She banished the stray thought--no need to think about him when this moment was already so good. Rowan's hand sped up, working her higher, keeping her moving so nobody around them would be able to tell he had his fingers buried into her in the middle of the very public dancefloor.
Aelin felt herself getting closer, blood singing with the pleasure shooting through her veins. Subconsciously, she gripped Rowan's forearm, sweat beading on her forehead from the effort of keeping quiet. "Please, sir," she begged, practically thrusting herself onto his hand. "So close, please--oh!" A moan tore out of her as he crooked his fingers, brushing that sensitive ridge inside of her.
In a heartbeat, his fingers were gone, and she'd spun around to face him again, meeting the darkness in his gaze. He shook his head, laughing smokily at the shock and arousal mingled on her face. "You disobeyed, princess."
"I--"
"I told you to keep quiet." He caressed the curve of her ass, the gold material of her dress molding to her like a second skin. "What happens when you disobey, princess?"
Aelin's breath shuddered out in a long gasp, all coherent speech failing her.
Rowan's lips quirked up. "Open your mouth." She did. He placed his fingers at her lips. "Taste yourself, princess." Not really waiting for her to move, he slid his fingers into her mouth. She wrapped her crimson-stained lips around his fingers, tongue flicking around the digits in a way that could only be described as explicit.
He chuckled, knowing she'd behave. "That's right, princess, be a good girl and clean me up." When he'd all but choked her with his fingers for long enough, he withdrew, sinful promise lighting his eyes. "Can you stay quiet for me now?" She nodded. "Words, princess."
"Yes, sir," she whispered, clenching her thighs together.
He tracked the movement. "Mmm, perhaps we should take this somewhere else." A soft, teasing kiss against her pulse point. "I don't think the whole club should see your pretty little cunt, hmm?"
Aelin could barely think through the heady rush of arousal that washed over her senses at Rowan's filthy words. In a single blurred moment, they were in the club's bathroom, the door locked behind them, and he'd lifted her onto the countertop. She loosed a little squeak at the unexpected cold of the marble, the sound rapidly turning into a groan as he shoved her skirt up around her waist, exposing the completely soaked scrap of black lace she called panties.
"I don't think we need these anymore," he hummed, yanking the lace off of her. And burying his face in her sex.
Aelin moaned deeply, gripping the edge of the countertop to keep herself upright. "Fuck!"
Rowan pulled away, making a tsking sound. "What did I tell you, princess?"
"I--quiet, sir," she panted, just about ready to beg for his touch.
"Seems you need a little help with that." Rising, he stuffed her panties into her mouth, the essence of her arousal exploding on her tongue. "Now hold. Fucking. Still."
She didn't even have time to nod before his tongue was back in her sex, licking a long, rough line up her folds. She arched into his touch, gasping at the way he grasped her hips, both to support her and to angle her better for the devouring. His tongue--gods, she'd never felt the way he made her feel. He alternated long, rough strokes with teasing little flicks, plunging his tongue into her sex and then flicking it around her clit, keeping her just teetering on the edge of orgasm.
Desperate, she gripped the countertop harder, using all of her might not to scream as Rowan raised his eyes to hers, unchecked hunger in their depths, and sucked her clit into his mouth. The scrape of his teeth was enough to set her off--but she held on, knowing that he'd punish her if she came without his command.
"Good fucking girl," he groaned into her sex. "Come for me, princess."
She didn't need encouragement--the way he nibbled at her throbbing clit was more than enough to send her into orgasm, her body shuddering with the force of her climax. He latched his mouth onto her and lapped up everything she gave him, letting out a moan himself at the taste of her, thick and sweet on his tongue.
"So fucking gorgeous when you come," he groaned, lifting himself up to pull her panties out and claim her lips, his kiss just as dominating as the rest of him. He swept his tongue through her mouth, angling her head to meet his.
Aelin groaned into his kiss, her body already throbbing with need for him again. "Please," she panted, grasping his shoulders to keep herself stable. "Please, sir."
"Please what?" he asked, knowing full well what she wanted but needing to hear her beg.
Her chest heaved. "Please fuck me, sir, I need you."
"Good girl." He kissed her again, all tongue and dominance. "Spread your legs for me, princess."
She did.
Slotting his hips between her legs, Rowan shoved his pants down just enough for his cock to spring free, smirking at the way Aelin's bright eyes widened at the sight of him. "Think you can stay quiet now, princess?"
"I might need a little instruction, sir," she purred, lowering her lashes and peeking up at him. Fuck, she was impossible.
"If you say so," he smirked, pumping himself a few times. "Hold still, princess." She nodded, and he moved forward, pushing into her. Fucking hell, she was perfect. Tight and warm around him, her walls squeezing his cock. "Loosen up, princess," he whispered, stroking her clit to help her ease up. Her jaw fell open as he shoved the rest of the way in, grunting.
"Sir," she groaned, gripping his shoulders, her lovely face screwing up with pleasure.
"Quiet, princess," he warned, practically shaking with the effort of not slamming into her until she couldn't even think. She panted, hips rocking just enough to let him know how much she needed him. "Want me to move?"
"Please," she whispered.
"Good girl." He pulled back and slammed back in, setting a near-frantic, heavy pace. She moaned, unable to keep the sound back, and he clicked his tongue, sliding one hand up her body. "Tap my thigh twice if it's too much, okay?" She nodded. He kissed her hard, swallowing her groan, and wrapped his hand around her throat, keeping his grip light.
Aelin felt fire racing through her nerves at the pressure of Rowan's hand around her throat. She gripped his shoulders tighter and matched the frenetic pace of his thrusts, leaning into his grip enough that he tightened his hold, hand flexing against her throat, muttering filthy promises and praises into her ear. So quickly, she felt herself hurtling toward climax, and if the way his hips stuttered was any indication, he was close as well.
"Come for me, princess," he commanded, squeezing her throat in time with the way his hips pounded into hers, his cock deeper in her than anything she'd ever felt.
She exploded, mouth open in a silent scream as she came around his dick. He groaned her name into her neck, his control snapping as he spilled into her.
Slowly, they both came down, Rowan removing his hand from Aelin's neck and stroking her back as he pulled out. He reached for some paper towels, wet them, and carefully cleaned her up--an oddly gentle contrast to the domineering man who'd fingered her in the middle of the club dancefloor and then fucked her into oblivion in the bathroom.
Not until her dress was back in place and she was strolling onto the dancefloor--albeit a little shakily--did the realization of what she'd just done hit Aelin. Swiftly, she dropped Rowan's hand and ran, weaving through the throngs of dancing bodies until she was out of the club, out in the bracing cool of the night air.
That night, Aelin Galathynius cheated on her husband with a man she’d just met.
And gods burn her, it was the most alive she’d ever felt.
What the fuck had she just done?
~~~
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MTV Yearbook Challenge Pt. 1
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Jack Champion X Reader
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Word count: 6,125 (oops 😬 I got a little carried away…) 
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Post Date: August 29th 2023
Post Time: 11:07 PM
Summary: The young cast of Avatar play MTVs yearbook challenge and some very interesting questions get debated between them, as well as Jack and the Reader’s relationship being made fun of. 
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Third Person Pov:
“Y/n!” You hear a voice shout, making you turn around and the person who was doing your makeup sighs. 
“I guess that means she's done,” the makeup person mutters as she walks off, shaking her head. 
“Trini girl!” you shout back when you see Trinity run into the room. 
She runs into your arms and you quickly wrap your arms around her. You squeeze her tightly and hold onto her for a moment before letting go. 
“Look how much you’ve grown. How have you grown so much in a year?” You ask in bewilderment as you look over the younger girl and she grins. 
“I know, right. Where’s Jack, did you guys come together?” she wonders as she looks around for him. 
“He is, he just had to run to the bathroom. He drank way too much water on the way here,” You explain to her, rolling your eyes and she laughs. 
“Well hello, you two. Haven’t seen you guys in some time,” comes another voice and you turn to see Bailey smiling. 
“Bailey!” Trinity shouts when she sees her. 
“Hi, Trinity. My, how big you’ve grown,” Bailey parrots you without knowing and you laugh along with Trinity.  
“What?” Bailey asks as she gives you both a questioning look. 
“I just said that. It’s crazy, right? I feel like she’s grown so much since we last saw her,” You tell her and she nods in agreement. 
“She definitely has. Trinity, stop growing so fast,” Bailey jokes, making Trinity laugh. 
“I would if I could,” Trinity tells her, making both older girls laugh. 
“Hello, ladies,” another voice breaks through the laughter and you all look to see Jamie walk in. 
“Am I the only guy today?” Jamie asks as he looks at all of you. 
“No. Jack’s here, too. Y/n said he just had to run to the bathroom. Apparently he drank too much water on the way here,” Trinity explains though her own giggles and Jamie’s face shows relief. 
“Sounds like something Jack would do…” Jamie comments and you giggle, nodding. 
“Right?” You playfully ask like you're shocked. 
“Would it have been so bad being around just us girls?” Bailey asks in a joking tone and Jamie shakes his head. 
“No. It just would have been a little lonely being the only boy. You guys know I love you,” Jamie tells you and you all hum at him as you each give him a side eye. 
“Sorry to interrupt, I’m Roger, I'm the one running the interview today,” A man who looks like he’s in his late twenties, maybe early thirties, introduces himself. 
“We’re just about ready to start. You all have been microphoned, right?” he asks and you all smile, nodding. 
“Ok. Then if we can all take a seat, we can get started in a few minutes,” Roger tells you and you all nod before heading over to the chairs. 
“Umm, sir, we are missing one person actually. He went to the bathroom,” You tell him as you sit down and he nods. 
“We can wait for another minute and if he is not back yet, we can send someone to find him,” Roger explains and you nod. 
“So y/n, how’s life?” Bailey asks and you smile. 
“It’s good. Really good. You?” You ask her and she smiles back. 
“I mean, it’s a little crazy right now, but I wouldn’t change it for the world,” Bailey tells you and you smile. 
“I’m glad to hear that, Bay,” You tell her and she reaches across Trinity to squeeze your hand. 
“Hey, babe,” Jack greets as he walks back into the room and kisses your cheek lightly before he takes the seat to the left of you. 
“Hi, honey,” you reply with a smile when you see him. 
“Ok. Everyone here now?” Roger asks from his seat behind the monitor. 
“Yes. We can start now if you’re ready?” You politely question and he smiles, giving a small nod. 
“Ok. Let’s start left to right, just introducing ourselves and who you play in the movie,” Roger informs you all and everyone nods. 
“Hello everyone, I’m Jamie Flatters. I play Neteyam,” Jamie introduces himself with a smile. 
“Hi. I’m Trinity Jo-Li Bliss, I play Tuk,” Trinity introduces herself next with a small wave. 
“Hello. I’m Bailey Bass and I play Tsireya,” Bailey introduces herself with a smile. 
“Hi. I’m y/n Dayton, or as some fans like to call me, I’m y/n Champion. I play Chickadee or Sietsla Te which is her official Navi name, even though she’s like Spider,” You introduce yourself with a smile and a small wave. 
“And I’m Jack Champion, I play Spider,” Jack introduces himself with a smirk that makes you shake your head at him. 
“Ok. I’m going to ask you all a series of ‘who’s most likely to’ questions. You just answer who you think would out of your cast members,” Roger explains and we all nod. 
“Do you mean like the whole cast or just the younger cast?” You question for clarity and Roger looks up at you. 
“Either one. I’d say out of the cast that’s here, but you can say anyone if you’d like,” Roger clarifies and you nod in understanding. 
“Ok, first question. Who’s most likely to have everyone laughing on set?” Roger asks and you smile. 
“Jack…” Bailey says before you can say anything and you turn to her. 
“No, cause I was going to say the same thing,” You retort at her and she grins. 
“Great minds think alike,” she comments with a small shrug and you giggle before sitting back. 
“I was gonna say Trinity,” Jack adds his thoughts as he leans forward to look at her. 
“Wait, huh?” Trinity asks as she looks at him. 
“Jack…” Bailey adds on again to make her point known as she points at him with her thumb. 
“Me?” Jack asks in confusion and you laugh, looking at him. 
“Yes, babe. You,” You tell him as you pat his arm and he just looks even more confused. 
“I laughed more at… you just… you make, like you…” Bailey struggles to explain.
“That’s actually beautiful that you're shocked at it, man. It shows that you're a very humble comedian,” Jamie jumps in as he looks at Jack. 
“Yeah, it’s good. I really go you know, it’s just, you know,” Jack tells Jamie with a playful shrug and roll of his eyes as you laugh. 
“Babe, what does that even mean?” You ask Jack and he just shrugs. 
“It’s either of you guys,” Trinity adds on, pointing at both Jack and Jamie. 
“I literally two minutes ago go ‘hey,’ to Jack,” Bailey speaks up, starting to explain what she means. 
“Oh my gosh…” Jack says as he puts his hand up to his mouth and leans away as if he’s embarrassed.  
“You see, he doesn’t even want me to say it, but like I laughed. And he goes, ‘hay is for horses,’” Bailey explains, doing a perfect impression of Jack. 
“No, stop! He uses that on me all the time!” You tell her as you smack her arm and she looks at you with a shocked look. 
“No. He does not. Does he?” she asks and you laugh harder. 
“I swear he does. I’ll just text him out of the blue one day after we haven’t been able to talk for a few days, and I kid you not I say ‘hey.’ What’s his response only a few minutes later? ‘Hay is for horses.’ I think it’s his favorite joke without realizing it,” You tell her and she rolls her eyes. 
“Jaaaaack!” Bailey cries out, carrying out the sound of his name as she laughs at him. 
“Yeah, but that- That’s so overused,” Jack tries to defend himself, but gets cut off as Bailey laughs as she notices Jaime. 
“Jamie’s like, yeah ok!” Bailey shouts as she points at Jamie. 
“I’m using that, man. I’m using it,” Jamie pointedly tells Jack while moving his hand away from his face for a moment.
“You’ve never heard that?” Jack asks and you roll your eyes. 
“I know I have,” you comment and Jack playfully rolls his eyes. 
“Of course you have, babe,” Jack replies and you giggle. 
“But really, you’ve never heard that?” he asks again as he looks past you to Jamie and Bailey. 
“No,” Bailey tells him in a straight tone. 
“You’ve never heard that one?” Jack asks again as he points at Jamie. 
“My dad says that all the time,” Trinity adds into the conversation. 
“You’ve never heard that?” Jack asks again, clearly shocked. 
“No. I’ve never heard that,” Bailey tells him as she points to herself and he turns. 
“Bull!” Jack exaggerates as he leans his head back in disbelief. “Bull!” he repeats again as he looks at her. 
“Bull,” he exclaims again in disbelief as he turns in his chair to look at the camera. 
“Ok. Ok. Next question. Most likely to be singing on set?” Roger quickly segways to the next question and you all quiet down to listen to him. 
“Trinity,” Bailey says with no hesitation. 
“Yeah. That’s right,” Jack comments before Jamie cuts him off. 
“Yeah. You do. I like that,” Jamie adds his thoughts as he looks at her and she just giggles shyly. 
“She’s a singer, yeah,” Jack adds as he too looks over at her. 
“It’s rare for you not to find y/n singing with her, though,” Jack again adds on as he points to you. 
“It’s not my fault she pulls me in!” You exclaim and Jack snickers at you as you shrug. 
“Yeah. Trinity’s a singer,” Bailey agrees as she points with her thumb at Trinity. 
“Trini girl is a great singer,” you comment and Trinity blushes. 
“Although, I will say earlier you were singing that Bon Jovi song,” Jack brings up as he points at Bailey. 
“What are you talking about…?” Bailey asks, giving Jack a confused look. 
“It’s… I’m not gonna vote for myself! If it’s something like really obvious, I’m not gonna vote for myself, but me, Trinity and y/n would sing together,” Bailey defends herself as she points at Trinity, then you. 
“And we would- yeah,” Trinity adds on as Bailey laughs and claps her hands together. 
“Ok. Ready for the next question?” Roger asks as you all sit forward again, giving a small hum of agreement. 
“Ok. Who’s most likely to fall asleep on set?” Roger asks and Jack immediately starts getting antsy in his seat. 
“Definitely y/n. It’s kinda how we got together,” he explains and everyone else laughs. 
“I’m still mad they wouldn’t let me in on the game anymore after that,” Jack comments as he crosses his arms with a pout. 
“It wasn’t fair with you dating her!” Jamie exclaims and you laugh. 
“What game?” Roger asks and Jack perks up. 
“At the beginning of filming, we’d find y/n asleep in the craziest places and so we made a challenge. Whoever could get the most videos-” Jack starts to explain the game. 
“Or pictures,” Trinity adds in excitement. 
“Yes, or pictures of her asleep then we’d all give that person twenty dollars,” Jack explains and Roger looks intrigued. 
“Why’d you get kicked off the game, then?” Roger asks and Jack chuckles as he scratches at the back of his neck. 
“Well you see, one day Jack found me in his trailer, which wasn’t rare. It was one of my favorite places to sleep because Jack and I were close as soon as we met. Plus it was a good place to just bask in the quietness of,” you take over explaining and he smiles at you. 
“It wasn’t rare to find one of them in the other’s trailer at some point in the day if they weren’t filming with each other that day,” Bailey adds on with a light giggle and shake of her head. 
“Anyway, Jack found me in his trailer. I had finished my scenes for the day and he still had like three to go, but we had decided that morning that we’d get dinner together so I decided to wait in his trailer and ended up falling asleep,” you explain more and everyone laughs. 
“She’d literally fall asleep anywhere during downtime. It was fascinating how fast she’d be out,” Jamie comments and you shrug. 
“Yes, but you guys fail to remember the movie took three years to film and I was still going to real school and taking AP classes, might I add,” You defend yourself as you hold up a finger to silence your castmates. 
“Anyway, I found her little 16, almost 17-year-old self in my trailer, sleeping on the couch. I didn’t wanna wake her, she looked so peaceful. So I went over after changing out of my clothes and started to put a blanket over her,” Jack explains as everyone starts to snicker. 
“Wait, how old were you guys when it all started?” Roger asks, motioning between you and Jack, who grins. 
“I was twelve when I started auditioning, but when I actually met her I was fourteen and she was sixteen. We didn’t really start dating till I was sixteen, making her eighteen,” Jack explains the timeline and you grin, reaching for his hand. 
“But ask anyone and they’ll tell you we were the closest on set. We were like the best of friends,” You add on and Bailey scoffs. 
“Saying best friends is an understatement, y/n. You two were probably closer than that,” she comments and you blush. 
“I mean, she’s not wrong,” Trinity adds, making you and Jack smile at each other. 
“Anyways!” Jack cuts back in with a roll of his eyes at your castmates. “I was going to take a picture after putting the blanket over her, but she surprised me by pulling me down with her. I tried getting up, but I kid you not, this girl has an iron grip so I gave up and fell asleep with her,” Jack explains with a shrug and Bailey laughs. 
“That’s where I come in. I found them that way and took a picture. That was the first of many times we started finding him and her asleep cuddling somewhere,” Bailey explains through her laughter. 
“It wasn’t until about maybe a third of the way through filming we found out they’d started dating, so we told Jack he was out of the game because he’d have it too easy to get the pictures,” Jamie adds on and the rest of you all laugh. 
“I think they shoulda let me keep playing, really,” Jack says with a frown and Trinity laughs. 
“But you already have a whole bunch and we’re not even playing anymore! You have a whole album dedicated to her sleeping,” Trinity comments and you smirk at him. 
“She’s got you there,” You tell him with a giggle. 
“Yeah. Yeah. It’s not my fault my girlfriend sleeping is cute,” he deflects and you all laugh more at him. 
“It’s actually so well documented that there’s a behind the scenes video of it. James thought it was so funny, he decided to put it in the behind the scenes,” Trinity adds on and everyone agrees, nodding.  
“So if you get it on DvD you can see just how much fun we all had,” Bailey adds and Roger smiles. 
“Ok. Next question,” Roger tells you before pausing to look down at his note card. 
“Most likely to mess up a stunt,” Roger reads out and you all take a moment to think about it. 
“Jack…” Bailey speaks up first again as she holds back a laugh and he slowly grins. 
“Really?!” Trinity asks as Jamie starts saying “Whoa… whoa.” 
“So call him out, why don’t you,” Jamie comments with a playful roll of his eyes. 
“But not like messing up! Messing up sounds… bad, like, I don’t think messing up a stunt is necessarily a bad thing. Like I have literally… I…” she starts to explain her reasoning, but Trinity cuts her off. 
“And you have like really hard stunts, too,” Trinity comments as she looks at Bailey. 
“Yeah. Thank— who, me?” Bailey asks as she points to herself while looking at Trinity. 
“Oh, Jack,” Trinity clarifies as she points at him and he hums at her. 
“Y/n had some pretty hard ones too,” Jack comments as he looks at you. 
“That I did,” you agree as you nod. 
“Well who injured themselves the worst during that process?” Jamie asks as he leans back in his chair to look at Jack.
“Filming?” Bailey asks for clarification. 
“I mean I probably got the most scraps and bruises, but like, I film longer, so,” Jack explains, using his hands as he talks.
“That is true!” Jamie agrees as he looks away from Jack now. 
“Exactly, you did harder stunts. It’s fair, but listen I’ve got a face full of like those white balls—” Bailey talks with Jack about it and you snort when Jamie grimaces. 
“What?” Bailey asks, pausing as she looks at you and turning beet red from holding in a laugh. 
“Jamie totally got where my brain went…” you comment, laughing and Jack’s eyes widen. 
“Babe! You had them, too!” he shouts when he understands and you fight to hold back another laugh. 
“No. I didn’t mean that!” he shouts and now you bust out laughing alongside Jamie. 
“Ok… anyway I had them on my face because of a stunt, so… stunts go wrong,” Bailey goes right back to what she was saying.
“They really do go wrong. I think I may beat Jack in who got hurt worse, remember?” You question and Jack's eyes widen as he looks at you. 
“Oh my gosh, I completely forgot about that. Please don’t make me relive it,” he groans, covering his face. 
“What stunt? I don’t remember a stunt going wrong?” Bailey asks and you nod. 
“You wouldn’t. It was just Spider, Neteyam, Tuk, Lo’ak, Kiri, and Chickadee,” You inform her with a shake of your head. 
“Jack absolutely freaked out,” You tell her and she gives an ‘ahhh’. 
“Wait, are we talking about the one where you and Spider go flying?” Trinity asks and you nod. 
“Yeah. Without giving too much away, I was originally supposed to land safely on the pad next to Jack, but got caught on something and just landed wrong,” you explain and Bailey sits up in her seat. 
“Was that why you sat out for four weeks in Jack's trailer that one time?” she asks and you nod. 
“Yeah. I wasn’t allowed to do much with a freshly broken arm. So I just stayed in. Plus my pain meds were in his trailer. I was just going to stay in the rental house, but someone didn’t want that,” you explain with a playful eye roll. 
“I wanted to make sure my best friend -at the time- who had a habit of not taking her meds when she’s supposed to, did. Is that so bad?” he asks and you giggle, shaking your head. 
“No, I suppose not. You were just making sure I was ok,” you agree softly with him and he smirks. 
“Well I guess I did that job like a champion,” he slyly comments, making both you and Bailey groan. 
“Jack, honey. That was so cringe, my love,” you tell him while laughing with Bailey, who lets out a ‘see!’ while pointing to him. 
“Well, you like my cringe, so…” Jack trails off while crossing his arms playfully and you laugh some more. 
“I mean, you’re not wrong,” you agree with him and he smiles at the camera, bouncing his eyebrows. 
“See guys, she loves me,” he comments with a smirk and you shake your head. 
“That I do,” you tell him before leaning over just ever so slightly to kiss his cheek. 
“Awe thanks, babe!” he shouts out in a happy, high-pitched tone, making you and Bailey laugh even harder. 
“Goodness, your mom’s right, sweetheart. You are a dork,” you tell him and he only smirks again. 
“Yeah, but I’m your dork,” he cheekily states, making you and Bailey burst out laughing. 
“Jaaaack, you did not. You cheese ball!” Bailey yells out, only making you laugh harder. 
“Anyway, stunts go wrong!” she finally finishes her point and everyone agrees.
“Alright, onto the next question, then?” Roger asks when all of you calm down and you nod at him.
“Most likely to be swearing too much on set?” Roger asks as he reads off the card.
“Jack…” Bailey comments first again, laughing and you start laughing with her. 
“What?!” Trinity shouts as she looks at Bailey. 
“No. Definitely not me,” Jack denies as he points at himself. 
“Wait, NO! This has to be the adult cast,” Bailey amends what she said as she looks at Roger. 
“This is so easily…!” Jack shouts, trailing off as he leans back and rubs his leg.  
“This is Slang…” Bailey adds as she looks at Jack and pauses. 
“Sam!” Trinity yells out in shock as she looks at Bailey in disbelief. 
“I was gonna say Sam!” Jack agrees with Trinity as he sits up in his seat. 
“You had more scenes with Sam then I did,” Bailey adds and Jack nods. 
“Good point, good point,” Jack agrees with a shrug. 
“Because going around with the swear jar, you and me. Sam was our primary contributor,” Trinity explains as she points between herself and Jack as you just sink back in your chair while Jamie looks at you. 
“I mean, he’s Australian, ya know. Like, but yeah,” Jack adds while shrugging before relaxing his hands on his legs again and Bailey laughs. 
“There’s going to be Australians who are like, I do not cuss,” Bailey casually jokes as she lays her arms on the armrests of her chair. 
“Sam would try really hard in front of us. He put in a good effort. I remember one time he came up to me and he’s just like, ‘I’m sorry, Trinity. Colorful language comes naturally to Australians’,” Trinity explains as she does a perfect impression of Sam, making everyone laugh. 
Jack leans forward as he laughs and rubs his eyes before sitting back in his chair with a grin on his face. Jamie continues to eye you and you shake your head at him. 
“That’s funny,” Bailey comments before it all settles down again. 
“Ok. But who out of the kids?” Roger asks and Jamie smirks as you roll your eyes at him. 
“What? What are you thinking over there?” Bailey asks Jamie and he only smirks more. 
“Oh, nothing…” he comments with a light chuckle when he sees you avoiding him. 
“No, what?” Bailey asks again and he chuckles. 
“I was just thinking out of all us kids, the one who swore most was Y/n,” he commends and Jack’s eyes widen. 
“Nooooo! That’s so true!” Jack adds before letting out a small ‘oww’ as you smack his arm. 
“It is not,” you add as he rubs the spot and chuckles. 
“Oh, it so is. What about that time in my trailer huh?” he asks and you blush, making him chuckle again. 
“She was doing homework and she got very frustrated. She shoved her books off the table and yelled the f-word,” Jack explains and Trinity’s eyes widen. 
“I remember that!” Trinity adds as she points at Jack, who nods. 
“Ok. So I’d get a little frustrated sometimes, so what?” You shrug and try to play it cool, making them all laugh. 
“Ok. Ok. Can we move on from making fun of me please! School was very hard for me, ok?!” You shout, feeling embarrassed as you hide your face and everyone laughs. 
“Ok. Moving on. Most likely to forget their lines?” Roger reads off the cards in his hands. 
“Ohhh…” Jamie says as it goes quiet for a moment. 
“This is not a nice one,” Bailey comments as she plays with her fingers. 
“I feel like we’ve all… we’ve… done a pretty good job,” Trinity speaks up and trails off a bit. 
“Yeah,” Bailey agrees as Trinity turns to Jamie. 
“Have we?” she asks as she continues to look at Jamie. 
“I think everyone is pretty genuinely good at their lines,” Jack comments as he touches his chin in compilation. 
“I can’t remember what times when we…” Trinity comments before Jack cuts her off. 
“I can’t think of anyone that consistently…” Jack starts, but this time Bailey cuts him off. 
“Also you and y/n have some fun improv as well,” Bailey comments as she uses her thumb to point to you and Jack, who scratches at his ear as he turns to talk to her. 
“Yeah,” both you and Jack agree at the same time. 
“You guys are so good,” Trinity adds and you smile over at her. 
“You guys just go off and either one of them will be doing a scene where they’re walking out and one of them will just start cursing,” Bailey starts to explain and Jack laughs but you stop her for a moment. 
“No. No. Those ones were all Jack, all I did was act along with what he was doing,” you comment and Bailey rolls her eyes. 
“Yeah, but like you did so good at just falling into whatever he’d do. It was so fun to watch,” Bailey expresses with a small eye roll. 
“Yeah…” Jack agrees with her as Trinity laughs. 
“The one where I was roasting you,” Jack comments as he sits up and points at Jamie. 
“Yeah and y/n just joins right on in…” Jamie comments with a roll of his eyes like he’s annoyed and you giggle. 
“Jack started it! I just went along for the ride!” You defend yourself and you all laugh. 
“I’m not gonna say the specific scene, but there’s a scene where I-” Jack starts to try explaining, but Jamie cuts him off. 
“That wasn’t even a scene. That was just in the trailer, man,” Jamie comments and everyone starts laughing. 
Jack bends over and puts his head on top of his crossed arms as you lean your head back. You both simultaneously sit straight again, but still have grins on your faces. 
“It’s everyday life,” Trinity comments with a nod of her head. 
“Look at your… look at your big feet,” Jamie imitates with a comical tone as he playfully rolls his eyes. 
“Everyday… the one scene aside from the lunch breaks,” Jack explains as Jamie goes on with the funny imitation, ‘look at your big blue head.’”
“Yeah. The lunch breaks, yeah. Yeah,” Jaime agrees before Jack sits back in his chair. 
“And y/n would always join in,” Trinity adds and you roll your eyes. 
“What can I say, it was fun,” you playfully admit with a shrug and everyone laughs. 
“We do get to do a lot of improv which is really fun. We created our own- the reef kids created— which is me, Duane and Filip— we created our own, like, rock paper scissors,” Bailey starts to explain, using her hand to motion out a half attempted rock move. 
“It’s like crocodile, akula, something else, like it’s really weird,” she explains with a shake of her head. 
“I have my own thing for that,” Jack comments as he points to himself. “I know how to win every rock paper scissors.”
“He does and he does it every single time!” You exclaim and Bailey laughs. 
“What? You make eye contact?” Bailey asks him and you perk up. 
“No. Do one right this second,” Jack tells her as he lifts his hands into position and so does she, making you watch your boyfriend intently with a smirk. 
“Rock, paper-” they both start to chant, but get thrown off. 
“Ok, rock, paper, scissors,” they both chant as they both do the hand motions. 
“Black hole!” Jack shouts, lifting his hands and making a circle and Bailey makes a funny sound in her shock. 
“I win,” Jack adds on as he grins proudly. 
“But the thing is, just in the airport the other day I beat you like four rounds in rock paper scissors,” Trinity comments with a grin and you gasp. 
“No, he didn’t. He told me he won!” You tell her and her eyes widen. 
“Jack. You lied to y/n?! How could you?!” she playfully jokes as he sits up. 
“We don’t have to talk about that!” Jack shouts as he puts his hand on his cheek. 
“Until I did the black hole and I won, so clearly black hole sucks everything, transports it to another dimension and I win. So no, I didn’t lie,” Jack shouts as he uses his hands to get his point across. 
“You know you become spaghetti if you go into a black hole?” Bailey calmly asks Jack and you giggle, already knowing what Jack’ll say. 
“Spaghettify,” Jack adds as he points at her, making you laugh harder when he says exactly what you knew he’d say. 
“O…k… whatever…” Bailey comments, unimpressed as she turns away from him. 
“Next question,” Bailey adds, trying to move on. 
“I love you, Neil Degrasse Tyson!” Jack shouts as he points to the camera and you start to laugh again. 
“He may even love him more than me. He made me watch that Cosmos one that came out in 2014 like once a month,” you comment though your laughter and Jack rolls his eyes. 
“I do not…” Jack plays coy, making you laugh harder. 
“Babe. I love you, but you totally do. At this point I can quote the 2014 and the 2020 one by heart,” you joke and he shrugs.
“But it’s so interesting, isn’t it?” he asks you and you stop laughing to look at him. 
“I mean, yeah actually, you got me there. It really is,” you agree with a shrug and Bailey rolls her eyes at the two of you. 
“Ok. Really, next question,” Bailey jokes as she motions for Roger to move on and he chuckles. 
“Ok. Who’s most likely to give the best life advice?” Roger reads off his cards again and you smile. 
“Kate Winslet,” Bailey says again without hesitation and you nod. 
“I totally agree. When I was stressed and struggling, she came over to me and was all like, ‘Look honey, you’re gonna struggle through life, it's just a part of it. What matters is how you fight back.’ I don’t know, it stuck with me,” you explain with a shrug after imitating her and sitting back in your chair. 
“I want to say Slang,” Jack comments and you grin at him as Bailey gasps. 
“Oh my God, I love Slang. He does,” Bailey whines out as she holds her hands to her chest. 
“He gives us- also ok, so Kate came for two weeks to film and then she came back to do reshoots and in that little time she impacted all of us so much,” Bailey explains with her hands.
“I think she impacted y/n most, though,” Jack comments as he points at you and you nod. 
“She really did! Like when I see her I just see stars around her. She’s so awesome. I have loved her since first seeing Titanic when I was younger, so meeting her was like a dream come true really,” you explain while grinning and Jack smiles at you. 
“She’s such a hopeless romantic. Titanic is her favorite romance movie,” Jack explains and you nod. 
“Well, how isn’t it yours?! Jack literally died to save her. That’s romantic right there!” You defend your reasons and Jack smirks. 
“It’s definitely not because his name is Jack, right?” he jokingly prods at your side and you blush. 
“I mean, it’s definitely a plus that I can imagine that it’s my Jack just because of the name,” you coyly state as you bounce your eyebrows at the camera and Jack groans, rubbing his face. 
“She literally pushes all her hopeless romantic energy on to me,” he jokes and you grin at him. 
“And you love it,” you state with a mischievous grin and he shrugs. 
“Can’t say I don’t,” he adds and you giggle softly at his little shrug. 
“Anyway, back to what I was saying,” Bailey cuts in again with a playful eye roll and you laugh, reaching for her hand to give it a squeeze as an apology for interrupting her monologue of thoughts. 
“But then Slang who was with us for the year and a half just- he’s just, like, the sweetest,” Bailey finishes off as she puts her hands together. 
“He’s the nicest guy you’ll ever meet, unless he’s in character,” Trinity adds on with a grin. 
“That’s true!” Bailey calls out, pointing at Trinity as you and her start to laugh. 
“Oh, yeah, that is so true,” Jack agrees as he sits forward in his chair and points at them.
“Cause like when Slang goes into that character, it’s just…” Jack tries to explain.
“Hardcore?” Trinity adds in for him. 
“Just rage and all that… stuff. But Kate, I was gonna say I only met Kate like a couple times, but the couple times I did, like she’s one of the most genuine people that you’ll meet,” Jack explains.
“You say that ‘cause she’s the only one that was able to calm y/n’s panic that one day,” Bailey comments and Jack's eyes widen. 
“No, I mean, it was definitely a sweet moment to watch her calm her when it was a rare moment that I couldn’t, but genuinely Kate was just all around nice and sweet,” Jack defends himself and you giggle. 
“Babe, I think Bailey’s just joking with you about it,” you tell him and he sighs. 
“Of course she is,” he comments with a roll of his eyes. 
“Ok. Ready for the next question?” Roger asks and you all nod. “Ok. Most likely to be the mother of the group?” 
“Trinity,” Jamie comments, pointing at her. 
“Yeah. Well, I have… yeah… that’s hard,” Bailey comments while agreeing with Jamie. 
“Well, yeah, Bailey— ok I will say Trinity is very like… like ya know, she cares a lot, but Bailey is also the type of person that will be like ‘Oh! You have something on your face!’”, Jack explains as he motions someone licking their thumb and cleaning the other person's face. 
“You know what I mean?” he asks as he sits back nonchalantly and Bailey starts to laugh. 
“No, like, cause the other day she’s like, ‘your mascara’s smudged’, and like—,” Trinity adds as she shows the motion of someone fixing it. 
“I literally have like a trapped survivor kit in my bag, so like I have bandaids, I have like multiple types of lip balm—” Bailey starts to try explaining and Jack laughs. 
“You do? So does y/n. Literally carries it everywhere with us. One time I cut myself and she just pulls a bandaid out of her pocket all like, ‘oh, here babe’,” Jack jokes and you roll your eyes. 
“It never hurts to be prepared,” you comment with a shrug. 
“I literally have gas x— which comes in handy more times than you think. I have mints, like all the things,” Bailey finishes.
“Yeah…” both Trinity and Jack add on. 
“But then yes, when it comes to press especially, I’m on it. We did like three reels today,” she adds on and Trinity laughs. 
“Yeah! She’s- she’s- she- We were having a social media internship right now from Bailey,” Trinity jokes and Bailey starts to laugh. 
“We, yeah…but no. I was gonna say y/n is the mother hen of the group, she’s like me and Bailey combined,” Trinity explains and Jack snaps, pointing at her. 
“It’s so true. She’s always prepared for any situation with snacks or even just like water and when she does check in on you it’s like super caring and sweet,” Jack comments and you laugh. 
“Jack, honey. You have to say that, you're my boyfriend,” you tell him, patting his arm. 
“No, but it’s so true though, you're like the perfect mix of caring and understanding, yet totally obsessive that everyone around you is doing ok,” he tells you and you just shake your head. 
“It’s actually so true, y/n,” Bailey tells you as she nods, grinning. 
“Ok, ok. I’m the mother hen of the group, I guess,” you agree with a shrug. 
“Ok, well, that’s all the questions we have for you all today,” Roger tells you guys as he stands from his chair and you all smile, nodding. 
Together we all get our mics taken off before separating to head to our cars and head to the next interview of the day. 
The End…
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almost-a-class-act · 2 months
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Fic Writer Interview
Thank you for the tag @eoinmcgonigal, @softguarnere, and @onehelluvamarine!
How many works do you have on AO3?
79! What a fun non-round whimsical number.
What's your total AO3 word count?
795,246
What are your top 5 fics by kudos?
The One Direction fic where I killed half the band, plus three more One Direction fics and a Shameless fic. Fun right?
Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?
Yes! Special props to those comments where you guys say something cool that I hadn't thought of, which prompts me to go off on a tangent with my character thoughts. I hope that's fun for you, but if not then at least you delayed me having to call the exorcist for one more day.
What's the fic you've written with the angstiest ending?
This one, maybe? It's one of the top five One Direction fics I mentioned earlier. "Louis is the medical android tasked with taking care of Liam in a world after nuclear war."
Honourable mention to my Roe/Spina based on the PTSD-as-time-travel aspect of Slaughterhouse Five.
Could also be the canon-era Cobb/Hoobler.
Or, gosh. Is it sadder if nobody dies but it doesn't work out? Then I have the Liebgott/Tipper for you!
Sorry team. It would seem I write a lot of angsty endings.
What the fic you've written with the happiest ending?
It's the SidMaryEugene y'all.
Do you write crossovers?
No, but I'm not like, opposed on principle.
Have you ever received hate on a fic?
I wrote one fic in the Shameless fandom and had to turn off anonymous commenting. But by and large I've been lucky!
Do you write smut? If so, what kind?
Yes - the odd PWP if I am in a super specific mood, but otherwise just whenever it works in a story. I wouldn't say I'm, you know, wildly adventurous or anything. Lmao.
Have you ever had a fic stolen?
I don't think so?
Have you ever had a fic translated?
Yes!
Have you ever co-written a fic before?
Yep, the Shameless fic was a co-writing endeavour.
What's your all-time favorite ship?
Luztoye. I just identify pretty strongly with both.
What's a WIP that you want to finish but don't think you ever will?
Tough one, genuinely. I don't like to write off my WIPs!
What are your writing strengths?
Dialogue and ghost stories.
What are your writing weaknesses?
World-building probably. I get too excited about the characters and I don't really care about what's going on around them, oops.
What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?
I try to keep it to a word or two here and there. I haven't figured out how to string whole exchanges in and have it feel organic.
What was the first fandom you wrote for?
Lord of the Rings or the boy wizard who shall not be named, probably. Actually. I did write some Four Brothers fic early on? Yes the 2005 action thriller starring Mark Wahlberg and Andre 3000.
What's a fandom/ship you haven't written for yet but want to?
Once I'm not busy with school I want to get weird in the Justified fandom. Obscure pairings here I come!
What's your favorite fic you've written?
I've got a soft spot for Where the Pieces Go, my Chuck/Lieb friendship fic. I dedicated it "to good friends everywhere" because friendship is kind of a big deal y'all. It's kinda the whole point.
Tagging (I'm sure you've all been tagged like 25 times because this fandom is a tiny circle but anyway): @frstcorinthians @terresdebrume @sonsofmahal @heystovepipeboys @blood-mocha-latte
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purplephloxpress · 1 year
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God of Arepo my beloved 💜
My first book is officially bound! (I actually finished it in early November but I forgot to post it) Pamphlet bind with cereal box cover and too-thin cover paper that wrinkled (oops I've learned my lesson) but I'm really happy with how it turned out! Especially for a first book! Definitely a good learning process.
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If you've never read God of Arepo, you should check it out! It's a lovely story based on a writing prompt that was group written by several users, and then turned into a graphic novel by another. (Another artist did a graphic novel recently and it's also quite lovely, tho not included in this particular binding)
Original text - sadoeuphemist/ ciiriianan/ stu-pot (link here)
Graphic novel - slightly-awkward-sunshine (link here)
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sweaterstatic · 14 days
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@heropartnerweek
EDIT: OOPS MISREAD THE DATE AND POSTED TOO EARLY consider this a preview
Finally gonna (try) to get around to doing Hero-Partner week! First prompt was "first meeting", I used my team from a fanfic I'm writing! ...Syro and Emri did not have a very good first meeting
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scoundrels-in-love · 6 months
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20 Question Fic Writer Game
Thank you for @needle-noggins for tagging me! Using my limited energy right now to respond, because otherwise I never will, oops.
How many works do you have on AO3? 65. One of them is a collection of prompts with 14 different chapters so, technically, 78 fics total.
What is your AO3 word count? 169,932. Nice. (Almost half of them are written in last 7 months for Trigun.)
What fandoms do you write for? Currently, only Trigun, but there are chances I might drop a fic or two in JJK fandom for Chosoyuki and then disappear. I would also like to finish some WIPs for Braime from GOT, but I don't know if my brain will let me. Never say never, though.
What are your top five fics by kudos? What can I give that is all for you? These arms are all I have (But I hold you like I do love you) (396, Trigun, Mashwood) Everything about you is on the tip of my tongue (312, Trigun, Mashwood, my first finished proper multichapter and explicit monsterfucking) You hold me for a little (Curtains closed to the end of the world) (260, Trigun, Mashwood) If I'm gonna (lose) love someone, (don't) let it be you (258, GOT, Braime) this fucking fic that took me a week instead of day or two to write, ENJOY FUCKERS (or don't, I'm not a cop) (234, Trigun, Mashwood, Explicit monsterfucking) Really fascinating to see how much kudos my Trigun fics used to get when I now often only get 30-50 at best. But, alas. Such is the ups and downs of fandom and I hope it's not reflection of my writing quality vaning as well.
Do you respond to comments? Why or why not? Yes, I do. When I first started using to AO3, a writer I admired had the stance that it inflates the comment number and is 'cheating' when it comes to the statistics, but I realized that, at least for me, comments aren't any parameters I search fics by and also I really wanted to feel community and connect with my readers and writers, so I wholly threw myself in responding later on.
What's the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? Oh, that's a good question. Several WIPs come to mind, but as for actual published ones... I suppose Before you leave, Remember I was with you (You must know you are beloved) could count because it follows canon ending of the Rogue One which means all of the characters die. But it is more of a bittersweet one. In similar vein, If this is communication, I disconnect (I need you, you want me, but I don't know how to connect) I think You taught me the courage of stars before you left (How light carries on endlessly even after death) overall might win, because it ends on open wound of grief, though it is also canonical death.
What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? I don't think there is a singular one that is more happy than others. There are so many shades and nuances of happiness, who am I to judge which one is the most valid, the biggest?
Do you get hate on fics? I once joked in author notes that maybe the fic did contain traces of early polyam if you squint and someone was very upset about it, though in text it was just close mutual friendship and some teasing and only the tagged main couple was openly romantically involved. I've gotten some weird comments overall through the years, but thankfully nothing more hateful than that.
Do you write smut? If so, what kind? Much to my own horror, yes, I do now. And apparently mostly the monsterfucking kind. I don't know what else might be meant by 'kind'.
Do you write crossovers? No, that's not something that really comes to my mind. I am too engrossed in exploring every nook and cranny of the canon and characters that are my focus at the time.
Have you ever had a fic stolen? Not fic, as far as I know, but I have had my poetry and RP stories and plots stolen by people I trusted, such as my teacher and close friends at the time.
Have you ever had a fic translated? No, but I've had one podficced!
Have you ever cowritten a fic before? No, but I'd really like to give it a try, I and @bienchanter have a lovely Rancher/Western Mashwood AU we'd like to cowrite, we just can't quite figure how to go about it. I've also had the pleasure of having them write a companion piece to my fic (theirs and mine) and had the joy of writing companion pieces to @needle-noggins and @frappeflamingo stories.
What's your all-time favourite ship? I am a person who cannot pick just one. I'd say some of the most Rainy defining ones have been Han x Leia, Braime and Mashwood.
What's a WIP you'd like to finish but doubt you ever will? So, so many Braime ones. Especially the ones that are multichapter for fic exchanges. Their recipients deserve better.
What are your writing strengths? Emotions, evocative descriptions.
What are your writing weaknesses? Everything else. Okay, okay, before I get bonked from every direction - I struggle with dialogues and action descriptions and easily get overwhelmed when tackling larger, tightly packed plot.
Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic? I think it is perfectly valid and even good for characters that would actually mix the languages naturally. I've definitely thrown in some Brazilian words for my Wolfwood, for this reason.
First fandom you wrote for? The Labyrinth on ff.net in 2008 or about there.
Favourite fic you've ever written? I don't have a singular favorite, there is something that I love, something unique that makes me appreciate it in almost all of my bigger stories, even if it's just a joke that was made in conversations with my friends.
Whew, this was long, but fun. Tagging @bienchanter @it-may-be-dull-but-im-determined @firesign23 @sdwolfpup @chickiefoo and @tardisready as well as anyone else who might just want to. But no pressure to, on anyone.
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