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hopelikethemoon · 4 years

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Mr. Mom (Javier x Reader) {MTMF}

Title: Mr. Mom Rating: PG-13 Length: 2800 Warnings: Mild Angst, but mostly FLUFF. Notes: You can find the Maybe Today, Maybe Forever Timeline here. Javier POV set in late March 1997. My Javier muse is yelling at me for the title of this chapter. It’ll make sense. Shoutout to @absurdthirst for this one and tomorrow’s. Summary: Javier goes to the grocery store.

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“What’s his name, daddy?” Josie questioned as she held up the stuffed dog that Javier had given her to occupy her interests while he tried to shop for groceries. If she didn’t have something to do she was prone to ask a million questions about everything he bought.

The first trip to the grocery store had not been a success. He was used to going alone or having both of them there to play interference with her.

“Let me see.” Javier said as he took the toy from her, he flipped open the red heart ear tag, “Doby. Doby the Doberman.” He passed the toy back to her. “If you behave for me, I’ll let you take him home.”

“Did you know mommy wants a puppy? I can give it to her!” She cheered a little, pretending to walk the dog along the handle.

He chuckled. “Ah, she’s gotten to you as well.”

Javier couldn’t blame her. She was stuck at home all day while he was at the university. Josie was a handful to keep entertained, but she had to be lonely. He’d never known her to just sit around and do nothing and now she had to.

Shit.

He still remembered how despondent she had been in the short period of time after she’d been let go by the DEA. Numb. That was the best way to describe her. She hadn’t really snapped out of it until Danny’s wedding.

Javier pushed the cart down the aisle, eyeing the shelves as he looked for some of their favorite easy-to-make meals. He didn’t want her having to stress about what she was going to make them for lunch or dinner. He didn’t want her to stress at all.

That guilt weighed heavily on his shoulders.

“Do you like Spaghetti-O's, JoJo?” Javier questioned, brushing his fingers over her hair to get her attention.

She looked up, scrunching her nose as she looked at the cans to her left. “Dinosaurs!” Josie squealed as she spotted the set of cans that had a dinosaur on them. “Daddy, please!” She stuck out her bottom lip.

“I hear you.” He assured her, reaching down to pick up a couple cans. “You’re going to eat all of these and spare your mother having to make you mac and cheese for lunch every day.”

“Okay!” She clapped, before her attention went back to the toy. “Doby says he loves you, daddy.”

“Does he now?”

She nodded empathically.

“Well tell him I love him too, princesa.” He smiled adoringly at her, before he started pushing the cart further down the aisle. Javier paused, grabbing a few cans of diced tomatoes off the shelf.

“No licey beans.” Josie warned him.

“I’m not getting lima beans, Josie.” He assured her, even as he put two cans in the cart. She hated almost all things bean-related if they were green. It was a problem.

“Okay daddy.” She smiled at him before she started whispering to the stuffed animal. “He’s gonna get them still, Doby.”

Javier rolled his eyes and started further down the cart. She had certainly acquired her mother’s keen sense of observation. Did that mean the next one would be more like him? Saints preserve the kid that ended up like him.

He grabbed two boxes of donuts off the end of an aisle as he made his way towards the cold food section to grab a few pizzas. They could just throw them in the oven and make them without much fuss. And she could always reheat the leftovers for lunch the next day.

“Oh, Javier!”

Fuck.

He recognized that shrill tone from dance class. Could he not have one moment of peace?

“It’s Miss Missy!” Josie pointed, rather dramatically, before lowering her voice to a conspiratorial whisper for Doby. “Mommy doesn’t like her.”

“Josie.” Javier gave her a warning look and she scrunched up her nose.

“Sorry daddy!”

“Look at you, playing Mr. Mom.” Missy remarked as she approached his cart. He noted the way she put a little extra sway in her step. Ever since it had been pointed out to him that the mother’s at ballet had it out for him, he noticed how they often acted around him. Well, most of the time, otherwise he tried to avoid them.

Javier arched a brow, “I’m fairly certain I’m just being a father.” He opened the freezer door up, grabbing a box of pizza bites out. He hated when people made comments like that. Or that he was ‘babysitting’ his own kid. “How are you, Missy?” He questioned, realizing that the woman had no intention of leaving yet.

“Oh, you know... “ She offered with an attempt at a charming grin. “We’ve missed seeing Josie at ballet.” Missy looked at him then, looking him up and down. “And more importantly, we’ve missed seeing you.”

“Yeah,” Javier shrugged a shoulder. “We’ve had a lot going on with the move and everything.” He tried to move the cart forward, but she had a rather tight grip on the side of the cart.

“How is the new house? Coconut Grove, right?”

He nodded stiffly. “It’s great. We’re excited about finally having a place that’s our own.”

Missy tossed her hair over her shoulder, before looking around cautiously. “I heard about what you are going through at the university and I just wanted to let you know that I… understand.” She tilted her head and smiled sweetly. “And it’s okay… it’s not like the two of you are married. If you ever need to blow off steam—”

How dare she.

“This conversation is over.” He snapped, pushing the cart forward with enough force that Missy had to let go of it.

“Javier, wait! I didn’t mean any offense by it. Really. I was just trying to commiserate with you.”

“Commiserate.” He exhaled heavily, fingers gripping at the cart handle until they turned white. “Look.” He started with a sharp tone, turning around to face the woman. “The woman I love is laid up in bed with a high-risk pregnancy right now… and you’re going to stand here — in front of my daughter, mind you — and say this shit? You’ve got some fucking nerve lady.”

“Swear jar!” Josie called out, before descending into giggles.

It was hard not to laugh at Josie. She was rather committed to the bit she and her mother had started.

But Javier was pissed off and not in the mood.

“Don’t get me wrong… It really is sad, what she’s going through.” Missy offered with little to no actual sympathy. “Which is why I would understand… if the stress got to you.”

He pressed his tongue to the inside of his cheek, rocking his jaw. “Are you fucking kidding me?” Javier shook his head. “You live in a glasshouse, don’t you? Judging my relationship because we aren’t married. When you and the other bitc— mothers are married and trying to get in my pants. Don’t speak to me again.”

Missy opened and closed her mouth twice, before she took a step backwards. “Oh. I’m…”

“I don’t want to hear it.” He snarled, before he turned back to Josie and attempted to compose himself. “Tell Miss Missy bye.” Javier told her, brushing his fingers over her curls.

“I’m okay.” Josie shrugged, her attention solely focused on Doby.

———

“We’re home!” Javier called out as he pushed the door open, letting Josie in ahead of him as he hauled the grocery bags into the house. It was still surreal to come home — to a place that didn’t have a flight of stairs or a parking lot filled with other people. To a house with a “Welcome Home” mat out front and a mailbox.

“I’m watching Romeo + Juliet. Don’t interrupt.” She called out from the family room, but Josie was already on her way to interrupt.

“I got a dog!”

“That is a stuffed animal.”

Josie blew a raspberry. “I got him for you.”

Javier laughed as he listened to the conversation, heading into the kitchen.

“You got him for me?”

“Uh-hu.” Josie answered. “He will keep you safe while you’re in bed.”

“That’s very sweet of you, sweetheart.”

Javier sat the groceries down before he looked around the corner into the family room. “How are you feeling?”

Josie was showering her in kisses, via Doby.

“I’ve been better. I had a headache for a little while.” She offered a faint smile, pulling Josie onto her lap. “I think it’s the Lamictal.”

“I’m sorry.” Javier wished there was something he could do to help her. The most he could do was handle things with Josie when he was home. At least they had Monica to help when she wasn’t in class, but he knew she was still under a lot of stress.

“Did you get me Poptarts?”

“Yeah, you want one?”

She smiled at him, “Two, please.”

“Is she an angel?” Josie questioned, pointing at the tv screen.

“No.” She answered, kissing the top of her head. “Her name’s Juliet.”

“Who’s he?”

“That’s Romeo.”

“Romeo-Sphagettio.” Josie giggled, flopping onto the sofa beside her mother. “We saw Miss Missy at the store.”

Javier folded his arms across his chest and frowned. “I owe the swear jar a few quarters.”

“Three.”

She laughed, looking between the two of them. “What the heck happened?”

He shrugged. “Apparently the rumor has got around at ballet. I’m honestly surprised the DEA hasn’t cooked up a story that I’m sleeping with one of them.” He rolled his eyes and shook his head. “Missy was running her mouth and I went off on her. Enough said.”

“Oh, Javi.” She laughed softly, settling back on the sofa with a sigh. “Put up the groceries, make me a Poptart, and come join me.”

“So bossy.” Javier arched a brow at her. “Maybe I will take Missy up on her offer.” He would never.

“Are you trying to stress me out?” She stuck out her bottom lip, doing her best attempt at a pout.

“I think Josie could teach you a thing or two about that look.” Javier chuckled, pushing off the wall and heading back into the kitchen. He enjoyed listening to Josie asking her mother a dozen questions about the movie, while he put up the groceries.

Josie was out like a light by the time he finished putting everything up in the kitchen.

“I’ll put her to bed,” He whispered, passing her the plate of Poptarts before he picked Josie up carefully. She snuffled as she woke up, but she was quick to fall back to sleep when he tucked her in.

“How’s your Poptart, baby?” Javier questioned as he headed back out into the family room.

“Exactly what I wanted.” She grinned at him. He loved the fact that a smile like that could still make his heart skip a beat. “And you remembered that I like the ones without icing.”

Javier leaned down and pressed a kiss to her forehead, before he collapsed onto the sofa beside her. He dragged his hand over his face and down his neck as he sighed. “We’ve got to find her a new dance studio.”

She gave him a look, “What did you say?”

“Not nearly enough. If I hadn’t had Josie…” He shook his head. “I’m glad you’re not like them.”

“I could be.” She teased, giving him a look. “I’ve tried to look elsewhere, but…. for some reason I’m really attracted to you.”

Javier glared at her. “It’s not funny.”

“It’s hilarious.”

“Is it?” He arched a brow.

She shrugged, popping the last of her Poptart into her mouth. “I think it is. I mean… we both had a bit of a reputation back in Colombia.”

He grumbled, “I don’t want to talk about Colombia.”

“I’m just saying…” She narrowed her eyes at him, before gesturing at the tv. “Sometimes you meet someone you’re willing to throw it all away from.”

Javier looked at the screen. “Aren’t they like thirteen?” He looked at her from the corner of his eye. “And they fucking die.”

“You know exactly what I’m saying.” She moved in closer to him, resting her cheek against his shoulder, wedging her arm in between his back and the sofa cushion. “I knew what I was doing, Javi…” She whispered. “I’m just as guilty in this as you are… stop letting the guilt eat at you.”

“It’s hard.” He admitted quietly, swallowing the lump in the back of his throat.

“I know it is. But at this rate you will be grey when our daughter is born.” She told him, reaching up to brush her fingers through his hair. “We can’t both have high blood pressure.”

“I can’t lose you, baby.”

“And I can’t lose you.” She kissed his cheek. “So quit worrying.” She traced her finger up his nose, pressing her fingertip against the line between his brows. “This could be the Mariana Trench.”

“You’re so weird.” He gave her leg a squeeze, before he looked under the pillow for the remote. “Let’s finish watching this. It’s due back tomorrow.”

“I wish there was a way we could just watch these on the TV.”

“How?”

“I don’t know, like… a channel just to watch whatever movie you wanted to watch.”

Javier huffed. “There’d be too many channels.”

“Look, I’m spending a lot of time watching movies. I have ideas.” She rolled her eyes, chewing on her bottom lip. “Can you pick up From Dusk Til Dawn and Desperado tomorrow?”

“Yeah, I’ll look for them. Balto for Josie, right?”

“Yep.” She grabbed one of the sofa pillows and rested it on his lap, before she settled down lengthwise and rested her head on it. “I hate being stuck at home—”

“Baby.”

“— but this is nice.”

He smiled as he brushed his fingers through her hair. “I wish I could be here more often.”

“Someone’s gotta pay the mortgage.” She pointed out. “Ow.” She winced a little, readjusting how she was laying on her side. “Your daughter is kicking again.”

“Yeah?” Javier grinned as he looked down to where she was rubbing her stomach. “May I?”

“Of course you can.” She grinned up at him, though it was tinged with a slight look of discomfort.

He reached down and rubbed his hand over her side, before he slid it around to rest against her stomach. It took a moment before he felt the fluttering movement of the baby beneath his palm.

“She's quite the kicker.”

“It’s hard to stay seated all day when she's kicking at my bladder.”

Javier played with her hair. “You’ll have me all weekend… except when I have lesson planning for next week.”

“I’m really okay.” She promised him. “And it’s nice having Monica to help. I made her unpack my clothes.”

“Yeah?” Javier questioned, half-heartedly watching the movie.

“It’s going to take me forever to get back in shape.” She complained quietly, resting her hand on her stomach. “I feel bigger than I was with Josie.”

“Remember what the doctor mentioned.”

“I know.” She sighed.

“Baby, you’re perfect just like this.” He promised her. “And you'll be perfect after.”

She huffed and laughed. “You just like having proof that you got me knocked up twice.”

Javier chuckled, brushing his fingers over her temple. “Isn’t that what the kids are for?”

“Touché.” She rubbed at her forehead.

“Headache?”

“A little. I’m fine.” She sighed heavily, staring at the TV. “Do you think she’ll look like Josie?”

“Who?”

“The puppy. Obviously, I’m talking about Sofía.” She reached for his hand, bringing it to her lips to kiss her palm. “Speaking of which… I’d prefer a mature dog.”

“You really want one don’t you?”

“I almost adopted one in Colombia.”

“Really?”

She nodded. “It was when I was with Lance. He was super great about it, not being a dog person, but ultimately he drove home the idea that I’d probably have to leave them behind if I ever went back to the states.”

“Are you trying to guilt me into getting you a dog?”

“They’re great for stress relief.” She rolled onto her back, looking up at him. “And we’ve got a fenced in backyard.”

“Maybe.”

“We could get Monica to watch Josie.” She suggested. “The shelter is open on the weekends.”

“Are you sure it won’t add to your stress?”

“That’s why we should get an older dog. They might be more settled with the change.” She smiled hopefully. “We can name the dog Steve and torture him.”

“I like the way you think.” Javier smirked, leaning down to kiss her lips gently. “They’re not sleeping in our bed.”

“Famous last words.”

He rolled his eyes.

How the hell had he become this man so easily? Colombia either felt like a lifetime ago or just yesterday. But it was still hard to fathom how naturally this life had been built up around him.

He was a man with a badass partner, a daughter and another on the way. They had the house with a yard and no white picket fences in sight. A Jeep Grand Cherokee parked in the driveway that had stickers baked onto the inside of the back windows.

And now… he’d been convinced to get a family dog.

Everything he’d once run from.

Now he couldn’t stand the mere thought of losing it. Of losing her.

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bi-makes-pie · 4 years

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"I'm her best enemy" Playlist [ PART ONE - Songs 1 to 30]

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1. Nemeses (feat. John Roderick) – Jonathan Coulton I mostly see this as being in the Master’s POV.

“Could it be that you need me To keep you out, to run you faster Promise me you'll let me be The one, the worst of all your enemies”

2. Crazy – Burn the Ballroom 12 to Missy. This one is quite cute. He does calls her mad, but we all know the Doctor isn’t exactly the perfect picture of sanity either.

“She had problems with my love connections So she bought me bullets and she made corrections (…) I'd say crazy, doll, but you've got something different I'd say complicated but that's your kind of rhythm I'd say lost and you'd say love

But you're crazy not to see That you're crazy just like me...”

3. Silence – Citizen Shade This kinda makes me picture the Doctor trying to give in and settle down with the Master (any version) while dealing with the inner conflict that they’re far too cruel for their taste.

“I found peace in your violence Can't tell me there's no point in trying I'm at one, and I've been silent for too long”

4. Dangerous Man - Little Dume This alternates between the Doctor’s POV and the Master’s. But you can also interpret it as being 100% about any version of the Doctor, since they do have a dark side.

“Every bone in my body's bad Fire's burning, the skies are turning black They say I'm a dangerous man” “Can you hear the storm's a coming I'm a silver in the lining There's a spark in me They say I'm a dangerous man Better run fast as you can Don't you look back”

5. Under Covers – LeRiche A bittersweet song about two people who had this precious friendship and love for each other, and about how distance can keep it all bottled up but once they give it a chance, they immediately go right back to the start. Just fits them very well, if you picture a happy ending to their relationship.

“I don't know why you're looking for a friend I'm right by your side But out here from a distance You won't look me in the eyes Without your love, I think I could die Then you let me in, we go back to beginnings When we were just friends hanging out on the ceiling We'll laugh about love and how we felt for one another And I love the way we make up under covers”

6. The Scientist – Coldplay A song about longing to make things right again and with little analogies involving science? I mean…

“Nobody said it was easy It's such a shame for us to part Nobody said it was easy No one ever said it would be this hard Oh, take me back to the start”

7. Renegades – X Ambassadors The “They actually stole a TARDIS and ran away together from Gallirey” AU we need so much

“Run away with me Lost souls and reverie Running wild and running free Two kids, you and me And I say Hey, hey hey hey Living like we're renegades”

8. Love is War – American Young I like how cute this song is and yet there is a bit of a dark twist. Fits them.

“Sometimes love is all that can save us Sometimes love can kill a man Yeah sometimes love is a soft touch Or a pistol in your hand Sometimes love is a white flag (...) Sometimes a cannon ball But it's worth fighting for Baby, sometimes love is war”

9. Bury a friend – Billie Eilish (Cover by Pomplamoose) Master’s POV. Can apply to any of their regenerations but I think of Simm!Master the most, since Ten tends to run towards him rather than walk away from him.

“What do you want from me? Why don't you run from me? What are you wondering? What do you know? Why aren't you scared of me? Why do you care for me? When we all fall asleep, where do we go?”

10. Come as you are – Nirvana (Cover by Imaginary Future) Best Enemies, everyone. Master’s POV again.

“Come as you are, as you were As I want you to be As a friend, as a friend As an old enemy (…) And I swear that I don't have a gun No, I don't have a gun”

11. Turn – The Wombats Academy!Era, Doctor’s POV. Theta (Doctor) clearly has a crush on Koschei (Master) and they’re both love being chaotic together.

“I like the way your brain works, I like the way you try To run with the wolf pack when your legs are tired I like the way you turn me inside and out I like the way you turn I like the way your brain works Baby, it's the crazy I like I think I saw the world turn in your eyes”

12. Run – Snow Patrol Master’s POV if he was ever able to be honest about his feelings. Some parts can easily be read as the Doctor’s POV too.

“You've been the only thing that's right In all I've done And I can barely look at you But every single time I do I know we'll make it anywhere Away from here”

13. Maps - The Front Bottoms The Doctor’s POV as their relationship deteriorates after the Academy and he plans to steal the TARDIS and leave Gallifrey and his friend behind. I had to help myself from quoting the whole song because IT REALLY FITS SO WELL.

“There is a map in my room, on the wall of my room And I've got big, big plans (…) You say 'I hate you', you mean it And 'I love you' sounds fake It's taken me so long to figure that out I used to love the taste, I would do anything for it Now I would do anything to get the taste out of my mouth (…) "And what about your friends, Don't you love them enough to stay?" And I say, "If I don't leave now, Then I will never get away." Let me be a blue raft on the blue sea, I'll blend right in”

14. Old College – The Mountain Goats This fits the tiresome, sad, manipulative and draining part of their relationship.

“The warning signs have all been bright and garish Far too great in number to ignore (…) Our love has never had a leg to stand on From the aspirins to the cross-tops to the Elavils

But I will walk down to the end with you If you will come all the way down with me”

15. Like a Staring Contest – The Future Kings of Nowhere Covers the end of their friendship and start of the new enemies dynamic.

“I'm so tired of open warfare When the point of this was to be best of friends (…) When you fall in love as hard And recklessly as you and I do It seems that the final act should have The same intensity as the first scene”

16. Poison and Wine – The Civil Wars Reminds me of 12 and Missy but before Series 10.

“You only know what I want you to I know everything you don't want me to Oh your mouth is poison, your mouth is wine You think your dreams are the same as mine Oh I don't love you but I always will”

17. Genesis 30:3 – The Mountain Goats The mentions of a past relationship and the following lines followed by drums really make me picture this as Simm!Master and Ten getting a happy but bittersweet ending.

“For several hours we lay there, last ones of our kind Harder days coming, maybe I don't mind Sounds kind of dumb when I say it, but it's true I would do anything for you”

18. Blood Under The Bridge – Frightened Rabbit Could literally be any version, but I picture Dhawan!Master and 13 making amends here, mostly because he might be crazy and frenetic but behind that façade he’s clearly way more tired than she ever will be.

“And it's alright, it's alright It's just blood under the bridge And I'm too tired to fight And you're sick of feeling sick And so am I It's alright It's just blood under the bridge”

19. Even Though Our Love is Doomed – Garbage Missy’s POV. You can interpret this like her train of thoughts and reflections starting from early Vault days to the last time we see her on-screen. Reluctance, guilt and then the resolution.

“Come a little bit closer I need to understand Why we kill the things we love the most (…) Can you love me for what I've become Love me for what I Said that I would not become 'Cause they don't burn like I do (…) And even though our love is doomed And even though we're all messed up You're the only thing worth fighting for” You're the only thing worth dying for”

20. Starlight – Muse 12 and Missy during the episodes World Enough and Time and The Doctor Falls.

“Now I'll never let you go If you promised not to fade away Never fade away Our hopes and expectations Black holes and revelations”

21. Control – Halsey This screams Missy to me, especially since she literally incorporates the character of the evil nanny in her book (The Missy Chronicles) and in Big Finish’s audio dramas.

“I'm bigger than my body I'm colder than this home I'm meaner than my demons I'm bigger than these bones

And all the kids cried out, "Please stop, you're scaring me" I can't help this awful energy God damn right, you should be scared of me Who is in control?”

22. Enemy – Woodlock End of Academy!Era. Yet another song which reminds me about their early fighting days and the end of their friendship.

This is where it begins At the start of an end I could no longer pretend No more, you walked out the door You’re my enemy

23. Why Can't We Be Friends? – The Academic The title says it all. The lyrics also mention how the relationship is always turning into something new, so I had to associate with the longest friends to lovers to enemies we’ve ever seen on television.

“This world is pointless If you're not here This world is pointless If we're not self-destructing love And it falls and it breaks and it turns into something new And it falls and it breaks and it turns into something”

24. Wish That You Were Here – Florence + The Machine Doctor’s POV, in the days when he regrets leaving Gallifrey for a couple of seconds before turning to occupy his with something else. Because he knows that even if he went back, things aren’t the same and everyone has changed – including him.

“And I never minded being on my own Then something broke in me and I wanted to go home To be where you are But even closer to you, you seem so very far

And it's beautiful but there's that tug in the sight I must stop time traveling, you're always on my mind”

25. No Light, No Light – Florence + The Machine This one makes me picture the first moment the Doctor realized his friend had changed too much and had to choose between his own feelings and standing for what’s right. This happens A LOT in the show, but I imagine realizing that for the first time was the hardest.

“But would you leave me If I told you what I've done And would you leave me If I told you what I've become No light, no light in your bright blue eyes I never knew daylight could be so violent A revelation in the light of day”

26. Dancing with the Devil – Wolf Gang This alternates between the Master’s POV and the Doctor’s POV.

“If you're the chosen one How does it feel to be loved by no one? If you're the number one Where do you run to? Can you hide behind the sun? You say that there's no oxygen again You're forcing down the lies but you always get your way Something tells me that this was all arranged You tricked me once again”

27. Skeleton Park – Kasador Master’s POV. “You know, back in the day, I'd burn an entire city to the ground just to see the pretty shapes the smoke made” (Missy, in The Lie of the Land, Series 10, Episode 8)

“When the house is on fire Air fills my lungs I satisfy desire From watching all you run Yeah the house is on fire Hear the sirens scream My hands hold the lighter It fits so naturally”

28. Elastic Heart – Longfellow What I love the most about the Doctor (all versions) is how they keep fighting for what is right despite their own feelings being hurt or despite how much it may cause them pain. I love what this character represents, and those lyrics reminds me so much of them.

“Oh why can I not conquer love? And I might have thought that we were one Wanted to fight this war without weapons And I wanted it, I wanted it bad But there were so many red flags (…) Yeah, let's be clear, I'll trust no one You did not break in here I'm still fighting for peace”

29. Bite Back – The All-American Rejects “You think you've broken me? You'll have to try harder than that” (The Doctor, in The Timeless Children Series 12, Episode 10). Same unbreakable side of the Doctor, but this time she definitively resents it a little more than usual.

“You couldn't break me in the end And such a freedom I enjoy When you're deaf to the sounds you trust If that was all you've got, my friend Then set yourself to disappoint”

30. No Children – The Mountain Goats Listen to me here: this covers the whole “They were married way before they started to hate each other back on Gallifrey” fan theory.

“I am drowning There is no sign of land You are coming down with me Hand in unlovable hand”

[ PART TWO TO BE ADDED SOON ]

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yeonchi · 3 years

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Doctor Who 2021 New Year’s Special Review: Revolution of the Daleks

Air date: 1 January 2021

New Year’s Day is the new Christmas Day for Doctor Who. Two years ago, I was writing the review for the 2019 New Year’s Special, Resolution. One year ago, I was writing the review for the first episode of Series 12, Spyfall Part One (which essentially served as the 2020 New Year’s Special). Today, I'm writing this review for the 2021 New Year’s Special. Whether the change was because of political correctness, low ratings or just to change up the status quo, I think we should be glad that we even have a festive special, unlike the English dubs on Koei Tecmo’s Warriors games.

Amazingly, this special was filmed alongside Series 12 last year and kept on hold to today, meaning that production was largely unaffected by the coronavirus. Even with the anticipation and uncertainty for Series 13, which has already been reduced to eight episodes (with festive special status unknown), this episode serves as a good icebreaker given everything that’s happened in 2020 and the Timeless Child arc of Series 12.

Here is my spoiler-free thought for this episode: “It’s epic, heartbreaking and ridiculous at the same time.”

Spoilers continue after the break. Also, please don’t forget to check out my look at Doctor Who: Lockdown and the hiatusbreaker update for some post-Series 12 review thoughts.

Introduction

Chibnall mentioned that the recon scout Dalek from Resolution give birth to the new Dalek variant that was seen in this episode, thus making this episode a sequel to said episode. As such, this was the case.

367 minutes (about 6 hours) after the Doctor and her extended fam fought the recon scout Dalek at GCHQ, its shell was recovered. Jo Patterson, then Technology Secretary, tipped Jack Robertson (he will be referred to by his surname hereafter to differentiate him from Jack Harkness) off about it and managed to acquire it. After acquiring the plants of car firms that had abandoned Patterson and Rugazzi Technologies, Leo’s company, Robertson had defence drones developed (and 3D printed) based on the design of the Dalek’s shell.

The production of this episode was concluded by April 2020, with Chibnall stating that post-production work was continuing during the lockdown. This was before the death of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter protests, meaning that the scene showing the testing of the defence drones was likely inspired from the Hong Kong protests. We see people throwing bricks and molotov cocktails, and the Dalek is shown to be fitted with a water cannon, CS gas sprayer and a sonic deterrent. That’s about all the allusion we get - if we had any more then we would have had a serious problem.

Doctor and companions separated

At the end of The Timeless Children, the Doctor was sentenced to life imprisonment in a maximum-security prison, while Graham, Ryan and Yaz were brought back to Earth along with Ravio, Yedlarmi and Ethan. We don’t get to see those three in the episode, sadly.

Over the next ten months, Graham and Ryan had moved on with their lives while Yaz became obsessed with finding the Doctor (yeah, just forget that you have a family and a job as a policewoman lol). Graham shows Yaz some leaked footage of Robertson at the defence drone testing. They go to confront Robertson, but are turned away by his security guards.

Meanwhile, the Doctor had been in prison for decades, accompanied by a Weeping Angel, an Ood, a Sycorax, a Silent and even a Pting. Unbeknownst to her, Captain Jack Harkness had managed to get into the same prison as her, spending 19 years just to get the cell next to her, before making himself known and breaking out of the prison together. The Doctor and Jack head to Graham’s house, where they catch up and set out to find Jack Robertson.

There are a couple of one-to-one scenes that really got me thinking. When Jack and Yaz investigate traces of Dalek DNA in Osaka, they talk about their separation from the Doctor and what their time with the Doctor has changed them into. Jack tells Yaz, “Being with the Doctor, you don’t get to choose when it stops. Whether you leave her, or she leaves you.”

Let’s break that line down with information from the TARDIS Wiki page on companions. There are several ways that a companion can join the Doctor - they stow away on the TARDIS, they were “kidnapped”, or were assigned by higher powers, like UNIT, the Time Lords or the White Guardian. Just like that, there are several ways that companions leave the Doctor - they might choose to leave, the Doctor decides or is forced to leave them behind, or they die.

The interesting thing is that Jack says that they don’t get to choose when they leave. In the case of companions who decided to leave of their own will, you might think it was an easy decision for them, but in truth, there is context behind their motivation to leave. In Series 2, Mickey Smith stayed on Pete’s World to help defeat the Cybermen after that world’s counterpart of himself (Ricky) died and he became increasingly disillusioned with Rose favouring the Doctor over himself. In Series 3, Martha Jones decided to leave the Doctor after seeing her family enslaved by the Master for a year, travelling around the world to get people to think of the Doctor, and realising that her feelings for him would never be reciprocated. In the classic series, Tegan Jovanka left the Fifth Doctor after being sickened by the death and destruction she witnessed. From this, I can deduce that what Jack meant to say isn’t that the companions don’t get to choose when they leave, but that they don’t get to choose the circumstances that lead to them leaving. In some cases, that also applies to the companions who get left behind by the Doctor or killed.

The other one-to-one is between Ryan and the Doctor in the TARDIS. The Doctor apologises to Ryan for leaving him, Graham and Yaz behind for ten months and Ryan tells him that during this time his relationship with his father has improved and that he got to catch up with friends. Ryan asks the Doctor what has changed with her since they last met and the Doctor tells her that she isn’t who she thought she was (that storyline’s never going to go away, isn’t it? Hope to learn about the full story of the Timeless Child in Series 13). This scene really highlights how the companions can be a source of support for the Doctor, just as the Doctor is a source of support for them.

Ryan tells the Doctor that she is the same as she has always been. The Doctor comforts herself by saying that nothing’s changed, but Ryan says that it wasn’t what he meant; things change all the time and we might be scared of the new, but in the end, we have to confront the new, or the old. This bit was definitely made with the Timeless Child twist in mind. Yes, things change (particularly when it comes to Doctor Who), but some changes can be good or bad; just as there are people who saw the Timeless Child twist as good, there are people who saw it as bad (including myself). It’s like what I said in the hiatusbreaker update about The Timeless Children pulling an Ultraman Orb and trying to lessen the impact of the twist when it didn’t make sense and caused more damage than expected.

Human-created Daleks (sort of)

When the recon Dalek’s shell was salvaged, some traces of its DNA remained in it. Since, according to Missy in The Witch’s Familiar, every cell of a Dalek is genetically hardwired to survive, their consciousness can live within the tiniest fragment of their DNA. Leo managed to clone the recon scout Dalek out of those traces and hooked it into the neural network. Disgusted after being shown the creature, Robertson tells Leo to incinerate it, but when he tries to do so, it escapes and takes possession of him. In a way, the recon scout Dalek was resurrected in this episode, but it didn’t feel like the same character.

While hooked into the neural network, the Dalek managed to make more clones of itself using Robertson’s resources, feeding them with the liquefied remains of the people who worked on them. After being confronted by the Doctor and the others, the Dalek uses the UV light to activate the Daleks, transport themselves into the shells that it augmented, then kills Rob and begins subjugating Earth.

Just as Jo Patterson introduces the defence drones in her first speech as Prime Minister, she gets exterminated by them quickly after they are activated. If Jack Robertson is an expy of Donald Trump, then Jo Patterson is an expy of Theresa May - a forgettable Prime Minister whose claim to fame (defence drones for the former, Brexit for the latter) backfired on them. To be honest, when I heard that they would be in this special, I almost thought that they got married or something.

There was a similar situation like this in the Series 3 two-parter, Daleks in Manhattan and Evolution of the Daleks, only this time, the Daleks were more involved. In that story, the Cult of Skaro were attempting to find a way to survive beyond the Dalek shell, to the point of creating Dalek-human hybrids, a new race with the intelligence of Daleks but with the emotions of humans. In both cases, the new Dalek variants were considered impure due to the human elements within them.

I’ve compared this episode to Victory of the Daleks when the trailer came out. With the addition of the conflict between the two Daleks (as I will outline below), there are additional contrasts to the Seventh Doctor story Remembrance of the Daleks and the Big Finish Eighth Doctor audio story Blood of the Daleks.

The nuclear option

With thousands of defence drone Daleks on the move and no weapons to deal with them, the Doctor seems to do the only thing she can think of that doesn’t involve destroying the Earth ala the Moment (which was what I was thinking) - signal a ship of Death Squad Daleks (SAS Daleks, but more brutal) to Earth to deal with the impure defence drones.

The two groups of Daleks confront each other on a bridge (specifically the Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol). After seeing his Daleks get exterminated, Robertson takes his nuclear option - part with the Doctor and side with the Daleks. That’s right, Jack Robertson does an Utsumi (Nariaki Utsumi from Build, if you didn’t know) and sides with a race that would kill him the first chance they got. Give him a cane to break and we would have gotten the first tokusatsu meme in Doctor Who.

For someone who seems to be so obsessed with protecting himself (normally by using other people), I must say that this was a strange step for Robertson to take. Given that Robertson is an expy of Trump, one can only wonder what Chibnall and people like him think of Trump. Would Trump sell himself or humanity out to invading aliens? Personally, I don’t think he’d be stupid enough to do so. I think he’d bomb them with everything he has.

Robertson convinces the Daleks to take them aboard their ship and meet their commander. Meanwhile, Jack, Graham and Ryan board the ship and plant explosives on it. Graham tries to get Ryan to fistbump him, but he just tells him to “stop talking weird”. We’re back, fellow kids. Missed us?

Robertson tells the Daleks that the Doctor summoned them. The original Dalek returns and offers to be purified, only to be exterminated. Graham, Ryan and Jack find Robertson and they get off the ship together just as it is destroyed.

The Doctor floats her TARDIS in the sky among the Daleks and lures them inside, which would normally be an impossible feat if it weren’t for the fact that it isn’t actually the Doctor’s TARDIS, but the other TARDIS from earlier. She sets it to fold in on itself and send itself to the heart of the Void, thereby destroying them.

Soon after that, Robertson claims that he was acting as a decoy and so, he is lauded as the saviour of humanity. A honorary knighthood and a revived presidential run is mentioned after the toxic waste scandal (Arachnids in the UK) ruined his previous attempt. This is where my comparison to Utsumi weakens - Utsumi pledged himself to Evolto so that he could find a way to bring him down, but there doesn’t seem to be any ulterior motive in Robertson’s actions. Frankly, I’m surprised that he wasn’t exterminated at all.

Parting ways (for now)

By the time Graham and Ryan return to the TARDIS, Jack has left and is on his way to see Gwen Cooper, who has apparently had another child, a son. Honestly, his departure feels quite lackluster.

The Doctor offers to take the fam to a restaurant apparently named the Meringue Galaxy, but Ryan decides to leave the Doctor since he believes that his friends and planet need him. Graham struggles to decide, but in the end, he decides to leave with Ryan, leaving the Doctor and Yaz on the TARDIS. The Doctor gives them some psychic paper as a parting gift.

The final scene is a throwback to the beginning of The Woman Who Fell to Earth. Graham is helping Ryan ride his bike when they bring up some strange incidents around the world, like a troll invasion in Finland or gravel creatures in Korea. Ryan begins riding his bike one more time when they see Grace looking back at them in the distance. This is the last episode where Ryan’s dyspraxia is explored. Shame Chibnall never managed to do a lot with it.

We’ve known that Graham and Ryan would be leaving the series for months now, and we’ve also known that there would be opportunities for them to return. Let’s hope we see them again in Series 13.

Going back to my discussion about companions leaving, the major factor in Ryan and Graham’s decision to leave was that they had spent ten months away from the Doctor and unlike Yaz, they had already moved on with their lives. Additionally, for Graham, he doesn’t want to leave Ryan given the relationship they built up during their time with Doctor and possibly also for fear of abandoning Ryan, given how his father wasn’t there for him previously. This doesn’t feel as deep compared to other companions’ motives for leaving the Doctor, but it’s still quite deep.

At the end of Can You Hear Me?, we see Ryan talking to Yaz about spending their lives with the Doctor and forgetting everyone back home. I’d always thought that the human element of being a companion was annoying, but we have to remember that companions are people too and they had their own lives before they met the Doctor.

Other general thoughts

I know this is kind of irrelevant given that this episode was produced at the end of 2019, but could Leo be considered an Uncle Tom for inventing something designed to suppress protesters? By the way, don’t let China know about this or we’re all screwed, even in Hong Kong or Taiwan.

Jack gets a gold star for rescuing the Doctor. That puts Jack and Graham at 10 points and Yaz and Ryan at 20.

Jack also has his sonic blaster back as well. Will Jack also be back for Series 13? We’ll just have to see it to believe it.

The title cards are jarring again. Can the production team not be inconsistent with their fonts?

I swear, all the Yaz favouritism in the last two series must have given her Stockholm syndrome. Who’s to say that Mandip Gill wanted to leave, but Chibnall asked her to stay?

Taking a look at the designs for the Daleks, the defence drones are alright. They glow a bluish-white colour normally, but they glow red and shoot red beams when the Dalek creatures took control of them. You could probably mistake them for being red in the dark, which is highlighted when they are shown shooting people in the streets. As for the Death Squad Daleks, they’re basically just the basic bronze Daleks, including their leader. They should’ve brought back the multicoloured New Paradigm Daleks just so the Death Squad Daleks could be differentiated from ordinary Daleks.

Following the premiere of this episode, a new companion was announced for Series 13, with John Bishop playing the role of Dan. Honestly, with the Timeless Child mystery still looming and the lack of character development for Yaz, a new companion is the last thing this series needs, particularly since Series 13 would be Jodie Whittaker’s third series and possibly, her final one (if we’re going by previous Doctors). At the moment, Bishop is currently isolating after being tested positive for the coronavirus. I wish him well and look forward to seeing him in Series 13.

The reduced number of episodes in Series 11 or 12 may have contributed to the lack of focus on Ryan’s dyspraxia or character development on Yaz, but that’s no excuse. Chibnall had plenty of opportunities to factor them in, but he was too focused on not having a story arc in Series 11 and destroying canon in Series 12 to even think about it (Graham and Ryan got more character development in those two series than Yaz did). Now that Series 13 has been reduced to eight episodes (not counting the possibility of a split series or another New Year’s Special out of the eight), I fear that Chibnall won’t have enough opportunity to factor in Dan’s character development with Yaz’s character development, the Timeless Child, Ruth and/or the Master, particularly when he delegates half of the series to other writers and does very few good things in the remaining episodes he writes (or co-writes). Honestly, Series 11 and 12 felt like a waste of time in some aspects.

Summary and verdict

Like I said at the start, this episode acted as a good icebreaker in the long break between series. However, ever since my red-pilling in The Timeless Children, I’ve started to see this series in a new light, particularly with the help of YouTubers like Bowlestrek or Nerdrotic. Despite this, I’m reluctant to hop on the #RIPDoctorWho bandwagon because we still don’t have the full details for the Timeless Child arc, so I’m reserving most of my judgement until we get it.

Most of the episode was good, but the ridiculous part for me was when Robertson Utsumi’d himself and somehow managed to survive. Jack’s departure felt lackluster, Ryan and Graham’s departure felt lackluster to other companions’ departures and Jo Patterson was just... ehh. Let’s not forget that we didn’t see or hear a mention of the surviving humans from the previous episode because Chibnall just forgot about them.

Rating: 6/10 Series 12 total: 77/100 (77%) Series 12 total with Revolution of the Daleks: 83/110 (75%)

Overall, this special brought down my total score for Series 12, but it still did slightly better compared to Series 11. If it weren’t for Jack Harkness, my score for the episode would have been lower. Robertson, being a Trump expy, essentially represented all the SJW red flags in this episode; pointing them out is unnecessary at this point given my red-pilling.

That’s it for my review of the New Year’s Special. There is a certainty that Series 13 will premiere this year, so the next time I return with another review will presumably be in late 2021. As long as Jodie Whittaker is the Doctor, my mission to review her episodes will continue. Follow me on Facebook and/or Tumblr and keep an eye out for my future posts, Doctor Who-related or otherwise, such as the Kisekae Insights series where I give insights on my personal project, which was heavily influenced by Doctor Who.

Stay safe and I’ll see you then.

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A Generous Donation [14]

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Even if Will was a hair taller than him, he looked small and fragile, curled up in his hospital bed, surrounded by lights that never faded and mechanical sentinels, keeping watch over him 24/7. Does that bring comfort to him? Knowledge that a little piece of plastic stuck to his chest will know that something's wrong and call for help. Does he fear something bad might happen when he sleeps? Probably not, he was always surrounded by love. Maybe that's something for parents to feel. Maybe that's what being a parent fells like. The beanie on Will's head was grey, with huge, black, almond shaped eyes embroidered over his forehead. Aliens' face, Mulder thought and the boy stirred.

"Hey kid," Mulder said when the boy looked up. "They made you ware the hat," he mumbled sleepily. "I'm man enough for it." "Yeah, you make it look real good." "How are you doing?" "Less like dying than this time last week." Mulder grinned, even if the boy couldn't see it behind the mask. "That's good." "Yeah, I feel so too." "Your mom says your results are improving." "Thanks to you." Will smiled faintly trying to sit and took Mulder's offered hand, pulling himself up a little higher on the pillows. "Thank you." "No problem." Mulder said casually. "No, I mean, for the thing," Will said, looking down, worrying his cuticles, then up again stopping himself and meeting Mulder's gaze, "thank you." "Don't," Mulder said, covering the boy's hands with one of his, "don't thank me, just get well, okay?" "I'll do my best." "I'm sure you will." "So," Will cleared his throat, "about you and mom." "Will," Mulder rolled his eyes. "No, c'mon, don't give me that," he laughed, "I just want you to know, that now, with me staying around for a while." "A long while." "Yes, that," he chuckled, "I'm still okay with that, you two, together." "Why do you keep saying that?" "Because I know my mom!" He laughed harder. "You better watch out, she might try to wriggle out of this, using me as an excuse. She's done it before so don't let her." "What? How?""My family comes first, my son needs stability, I need to focus on work." "She said that?" "Okay, I eavesdropped when I was younger, I'm not proud," Mulder laughed, "though, I didn't like those guys much, so yeah, I kinda agree with her, but I like you, so, you know, man to man, take my advice." "What do you wanna do, when you get out of here?" Mulder asked, wiping his eyes. "Major in psychology, obviously." Will grinned and pulled his knees up. "Now, tell me about working for the FBI."

"Kiss me again," she said, turning beneath him, soft and sleep warm, hair a mess and eyes still closed. Leaning in, he framed her lip gently and this time she gave back the kiss, a faint pressure, soft acknowledgement, like hands reaching, touching fingertips. Her lips curled, arms closed around him. "Good morning." "You just made my Monday." "I can make your week," she grinned, hand traveling down his back and under the waistband of his PJ's. "And what will we do tomorrow?" "So much for seduction." "You don't have to seduce me," he chuckled and flipped them over, pulling her on top and making her laugh. "You had me at hello." "Movie quotes?" "Are we doing this or not?" She caught the last word, pushing it back into his mouth, wiping it out with a bold sweep of her tongue. Fingernails scraped over his scalp waking his whole body up, sensation rippling through nerve endings, all the way to his toes. He grabbed her ass and searched for skin. "We need to talk about these," he mumbled when she let go. "I like being warm," she said, tracing kisses down his neck. When she slipped past his collarbone and he felt her tongue on his nipple, he asked, "Where are you going?" "I'll be right back," she teased and vanished under the sheet. She made his year.

It was almost lunch time and Mulder was walking down the hall to his office, returning greetings from passing students and looking through mail that stacked up over the week. "Professor Mulder," said a cheerful voice, making him pause. He turned and smiled, taking the man's hand. "Dean Harris." "Professor Mulder, this is Mrs. Margaret Scully, one of our most generous donors." "Pleased to meet you, Mrs. Scully," Mulder smiled, shaking the woman's hand and when their eyes met, he knew that she knew. An assistant caught up to them and said something to the Dean, under her breath. "Yes, thank you Clair," he said then turned to Mrs. Scully. "I'm so sorry, a small emergency is calling, can I leave you with my colleague for a minute?" "Of course, I don't want to pull you away from your duties, thank you for the tour." "Oh no, Mrs Scully, it is us who's thankful for your contribution," he said, shaking her hand, then nodded to Mulder. "Professor." "Dean Harris," Mulder nodded back then looked at the small, elegant, dark haired woman. Her eyes were soft and kind, set in a small face marked with as many worry lines as laugh lines. "Can we find someplace quiet to talk, mr. Mulder?" "Of course," Mulder said, and showed her to his office.

"The school is very grateful for your donation, Mrs. Scully," Mulder said, taking her coat and hanging it by the door. "As am I for yours," she replied, warm, but straight to the point. “I’m sorry for coming to you like this, but I had to thank you in person, for everything you’ve done for my family.” He guided her to the chair in front of his desk, feeling his ears burn. "You don't have to thank me," he said, taking his own chair to her side. "Be proud of them." "I am, Dana was always the strongest one, strong and stubborn." "But also kind," he finished for her gently. Though there was no reproach in her tone, he sensed old tension between mother and daughter. "Yes, of course." She smiled and took his hands in hers. "I know you've been a friend to her these past few weeks and I'm grateful for that too." "Mrs. Scully, this really isn't necessary." "But it is," she said, looking up, her eyes tearing up, "I wish she met you sooner, I wish you were there for her always. I'm proud of my daughter, the work she'd done, the way she raised William on her own, but what mother wants to see her child alone. When she called me and told me you agreed to be the donor, I felt as if a miracle had happened. As if God had put you in their path, exactly when they needed your help." "Mrs. Scully, please." Tears spilled over, rolling down her cheeks and he handed her his handkerchief. "I'm sorry, I know I shouldn't put this on you." She sighed, wiping her eyes, careful not to smear the light makeup. Another breath and she sounded almost calm. "What I'm trying to say is that, I don't know what your plans are, but if you ever need help, our family will be there for you." "Thank you." Mulder said simply, patting her hands. "Would you a glass of water?" That made her laugh. "Yes please, thank you." "I'll be right back." He took the pitcher he kept in the office, made sure his phone was in his pocket and the minute he was out the door, called Scully. "Hi," she said, her voice sounding a little muffled. "Hey, it's me," he said under his breath, "your mother is here." "My Mom? Why?" "I don't know, I bumped into her and Dean Harris and he said something about donations and she just cried in my office." "I'm so sorry, I'll call her right away." "No, don't, it's okay, I just wanted to give you a heads up," he said, amused by her embarrassment. "Should I expect anyone else?" "I don't think so," Scully sighed, "Missy and Bill left town, and he's the only one I'd be worried about." Mulder laughed, "Okay." "Will says hi," she added. "Hi Will," he said, and suddenly the sound cracked and popped. "Just nod and agree to whatever grandma wants," said Will, laughing, "or you'll never get rid of her." "What?" Mulder chuckled, and the sound cracked again. "Sorry," Scully said, laughing now, "a little hostile takeover took place." "He's better?" "Much better." "That's good," he said and glanced at his watch, "okay, this starts to look conspicuous, I have to get back." "Let me know and I'll send the cavalry." "Thanks, love you." The words rolled off his tongue before he realised, what he'd done and with heart in his throat, he waited for her to speak. "Love you, too," she said, very, very softly.

"Hi mom." "Hello Dana, how is Will." "Better, listen, I heard you went to see Mulder." "I didn't, I went to talk to Dean Harris. Meeting Fox was completely coincidental." "Then why does this coincidence feels so contrived?" "Dana, honey, I did what I felt was right." "Putting him on the spot like that?" "When were you planning to let us meet him?" Scully froze for a second, which Maggie noticed immediately. "I thought so." "Mom, this was probably the craziest week of my life." "I know sweetheart." "And I think it's still too early to celebrate." "Have some faith." Maggie said, completely unconcerned and Scully began to lose her temper. "Will you listen to me?!" "I am listening and I have the same worries as you, but I'm happy that things are finally working out for the both of you and felt like I had to express my gratitude." Scully sat in her office stunned into silence, which her mother took for victory. Will was right, it was useless to resist. "I don't know why you keep him a secret," she said finally, "he's a very nice man."

Having let herself in, Scully found the living room and kitchen empty. "Mulder?" "Downstairs!" His voice came from the direction of doors, that usually stayed closed. She left her coat on the rack and followed the sound down a couple of steep steps. The basement was filled with warmth and light, almost half the size of the room above, with hardwood floors and high set windows. Bookshelves took up three of the walls, while the fourth was turned into one, huge message board, wallpapered with newspaper clippings and blurry photos. There was a couch against the wall and a large, beat up desk in the middle of the room. "So this is your den?" Scully said, rounding the desk and stepping into his open arms. "Office," he said, pulling her into his lap. "And the tour didn't involve this place because?" She teased, leaning for her kiss. "It's only for the inner-most crowd." "In that case, I'm honoured," she sighed and rested her head on his shoulder. "Tired?" "I feel like I could shower and sleep for a week." "And it's only Monday." "That's what worries me." She said and took his hand, lacing their fingers together. "I'm sorry about my mom." "Don't be," Mulder chuckled, "it wasn't that bad." "I didn't think she'd go looking for you, at work." "You had other plans?" Mulder asked, swivelling the chair, amused. "I don't know, it's not exactly like introducing a new boyfriend to the family." "Isn't that what I am?" He nudged her lightly. "You know what I mean." "No, I don't think I do." Scully sighed and sat up, taking the warmth with her. "I'm too tired for bantering, I'm going to bed." "Hey, wait," Mulder said, holding on to her hand, "I'm sorry, don't be mad." "I'm not mad, I'm exhausted," she replied, kissing his forehead before getting up. "You coming?" "I have to finish this first." "Okay, you know where to find me." “Scully?” Mulder tugged on her fingers gently, making her turn and look at him before she slipped away. “I love you.” He said, holding her gaze until question on her face turned into a smile. “Love you too,” she said, leaning in and brushing his lips one more time. “Goodnight.” “Night.” Twenty minutes later Mulder climbed in behind her, careful not to jostle the bed, convinced she was already asleep. But when he gently put his arm around her, she leaned into his embrace. “I didn’t plan anything,” she sighed, taking his hand. “There just wasn’t enough time to think.” “I know.” “I wanted you to meet my family, but it doesn't feel right without Will." "Scully, there's no reason for you to worry about this," he breathed, gathering her closer into his arms. "I met your mom, your brother, even your niece, the rest can wait, it's done, try to sleep." "So you don't mind my pushy family?" "Not at all." "Okay." She murmured, feeling tension leaving her body as silence stretched and her eyelids grew heavy. "By the way," Mulder mumbled half asleep, after a long minute, "your mom invited us to dinner on Friday." "I knew it," Scully laughed and accepted the kiss he pressed to her neck. "'Night Scully." He murmured. "'Night Mulder."

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#13 “I really don’t care. You still look hot and I’m trying not to kiss/fuck you senseless right now.”

Bucky X Chubby Female Reader

Bucky had watched the way Y/N hips swayed as she walked. She was new around the tower. He was drawn to her curves. He wanted nothing more than to find out how to get close to her. He wanted to make her feel like the goddess he thought she was. Bucky didn’t believe he could have happiness though. He would watch from afar and if she got to close, he would avoid her.

Y/N noticed how Bucky would avoid her. Everyone was telling her to give him time to adjust to her since she was new. Every time she entered a room when he was in its Bucky left. Y/N knew that Bucky had to hate the way she looked and even hated her. Why would he want to be around her? Y/N became even more withdrawn from interacting with the rest of the team.

Bucky had noticed that Y/N was spending more time by herself. He also noticed that her clothes had changed she went from wearing cute tops, jeans, fitted dresses to sweatpants, baggy shirts with a hoodie. Y/N was covering herself up. Bucky was frustrated at that. He wanted her to be proud to be herself and show off her beautiful curves. She was beautiful and didn’t need to hide. What he didn’t know is when he was drunk off of Asgardian mead that Thor brought over, he was over heard by Y/N talking about her curves.

Y/N had started to feel less comfortable in her skin. It was getting to the point when missions came around, she wouldn’t even try to get into her battle gear. She tried to fight in the sweats. Nat was fed up with the moping.

“Y/N, have you been doing okay,” Nat asked firmly.

Y/N shocked by the curtness, “I am good Nat.”

“That is bullshit and you know it. What the fuck happened,” Nat came closer.

“I don’t want to talk about it,” Y/n tried to avoid the question.

“Well, I am not going to let you mope any longer. We have a party that is being thrown tonight and you missy are going. I am going to help you get ready and make sure you are drop dead gorgeous,” Nat forced.

Y/N rolled her eyes, “I have a date with my bed.”

“No, you don’t. Plus, this sweatpants shit has got to go. What happened to make you feel like you need to hide,” Nat genuinely asked.

Y/N shook her head. Nat didn’t press any further. Nat led Y/n back to her room where they started to get ready for the evening. Nat had picked out the most form fitting red dress for Y/n to wear. While they were getting ready Y/N had opened up and admitted to why she was hiding her body. She had told Nat what she had overheard Bucky saying about her curves and she figured if he didn’t like it, she would just hide her body. Nat smacked her arm.

“You know for someone so smart. You really are stupid sometimes,” Nat laughed. Y/n quirked her brow. “Bucky has a crush on you. I mean he wants to grab those hips and…” Nat trailed off.

Y/N shook her head, “No he doesn’t. If he did, he wouldn’t keep avoiding me.”

“Ever think the reason he avoids you is because he has to deal with an erection that won’t go away,” Nat asked.

“I highly doubt that is it. He can’t stand to be around me Nat. He wont ever speak to me unless we are on a mission together,” Y/N sighed.

“I can’t guarantee tonight he will talk to you and more,” Nat winked. “Let’s head to the party.” Nat grabbed Y/N’s hand as they headed down in the elevator.

Bucky watched as Y/N entered the party. He was on awe. She was stunning. He had missed seeing her in things other than sweats. Now seeing her in this dress made his cock twitch. Bucky groaned. Not again. This had been the exact reason he avoided her. The things he wanted to do to her.

“Go talk to him Y/N,” Nat pushed.

“Why so he can reject me in front of the entire party,” Y/N interjected.

“He wont and if he does, I will kick his ass. Steve will too,” Nat pointed out. She pushed you to go talk with Bucky. You walked over to where Bucky was at the bar.

“Hi Bucky,” Y/n spoke quietly.

“Hi Y/N,” Bucky responded.

“Pretty boring party right,” Y/n was nervous. Bucky shrugged. Y/N wanted to hide under a rock.

“What brings you out of hiding tonight,” Bucky asked.

Y/N swallowed hard, “You know how Nat gets if she thinks you are moping or wallowing.”

Bucky chuckled, “Yeah she gets pretty determined on making people go then.” Y/N nodded.

“I got roped in. I had not choice. I also didn’t get to pick out my own clothes,” Y/n rambled.

“I thought you looked a little uncomfortable in this dress Y/N,” Bucky said.

Y/N held back the tears, “No, just needed to get back to the right mindset I guess.”

“I thought you enjoyed being in the sweats and hoodies I have seen you in for a few months. At least you were comfortable and looked at peace,” Bucky kept putting his foot into his mouth.

Y/N stood up, “Do you have a problem with me James?”

Bucky was shocked, “What are you getting at Y/N.”

“Well, you seem to hate me. You can’t be in the same room with me. You can’t stand to look at my body. I am pretty sure you find me disgusting and repulsive. I never did anything to you and you never even tried to get to know me,” Y/N ranted.

Bucky’s eyes were wide, “Where is this coming from?”

“You would rather have me hide my body and hide from you. I am so sick of this. I can’t make everyone happy. You can hate the way I look. You can hate on my curves. I am always going to be a bigger girl but I am through with you mentally tormenting me,” Y/N continued.

“I really don’t care. You still look hot and I’m trying not to fuck your senseless right now,” Bucky responded back. “I don’t care that you are a little chubby Y/N I like your curves. I like the way your ass fills out your jeans and that dress.”

Y/N mouth dropped open, “Excuse me, you want to fuck me senseless right now.” You leaned into Bucky. Bucky grabbed your hand and yanked you to his room. He slammed the door shut and was on you. Bucky started to nip at your neck up to your jaw.

“Fuck Y/N, you drive me crazy. I want you so bad,” Buck mentioned as he kissed your mouth ravenously.

“Bucky, please fuck me,” Y/N begged. Bucky pushed Y/n back on his bed and tore off the dress. He stared at you while he made haste with removing his own clothes.

“I want you to ride me pretty girl. I want to see you bounce on my cock Y/N,” Bucky groaned as he laid next to you. Y/N straddled Bucky’s hips and lowered down on his throbbing hard cock.

“Fuck you’re big,” Y/N panted.

Bucky gripped your hips, “You’re tight doll. Ride me beautiful.” Y/N bucked her hips against his before she began to use her thighs to move her up and down his cock. They both moaned. Y/N’s breasts bounced as he rode his hard and fast.

“Bucky, Oh God, Please,” you moaned. Bucky flipped you both and pounded into you with fervor. He wanted you to see stars. He was a man on a mission. He kissed you until you were breathless, eyes squeezed shut as your orgasm caught you by surprise and you spasmed around him.

“Fuck baby girl. You are squeezing me so good. I am going to cum,” Bucky panted. Y/N wrapped her legs tight around Bucky as his thrusts become erratic. Bucky coated her walls collapsing on his side he watched her closely.

“Did that just happen,” Y/N asked unsure.

Bucky cupped Y/N’s face, “Yes it did and I want it to happen more. What do you say, will you be my sugar pie honey bunch?”

Y/N smiled and laughed, “Yes James I will.” Bucky leaned in and kissed her softly.

Tags: @buckmesideways22 @oleanderbat , @buckyzgurl , @scarletsoldierrr , @kombatfather1796

#Bucky Barnes #bucky barnes smut #bucky barnes x reader #chubby reader x bucky #Sebastian Stan #sebastian stan smut #captain america

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thewritewolf · 4 years

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Eating Habits Chapter 7: Surprise Visit

Marinette is starving in class, but thankfully Adrien isn’t about to let that slide.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 (Final)

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Marinette was feeling stretched thin, between hunger and lack of sleep and heaps of work. It was ironic, then, that she was ignoring all that by spending the class period working on an entirely different piece. Maybe it was because this time she wasn’t toiling away in solitude at her apartment but rather standing in the classroom with a half dozen other students while her professor prowled between them.

It was mid-October, which meant that it was just over halfway through the semester. Things had begun mellowing out as she hit a stride with her various activities and class work. Maybe joining all those clubs wasn’t a good idea after all, but she had promised herself she’d at least stick with it for the rest of the semester. Besides, it was all moving smoothly now... even if it came at the cost of non-vending machine food and extra sleep.

She shook her head to focus back on the long winter coat in front of her. The student’s winter show wasn’t nearly as anticipated or important as the spring show, but it was still a good idea to make a strong first impression. And besides, she wanted to make sure that every piece that had her name attached to it was quality work. ‘Start as you mean to go on’, as her maman loved to say.

Hunger pangs made her freeze midway through her measuring. One hand gripped her desk while the other covered her stomach. She closed her eyes and waited for the pain to pass. When she opened them again, she quickly glanced around to make sure no one had caught that. She’d had enough concerned looks to last her the rest of the semester.

The door opened and she risked a glance up to see what poor student was arriving this late into the period. Her eyes widened she realized it was Adrien, looking around the room with a frown as he stood in the doorway. Their eyes locked and his face immediately brightened.

He was about to call out when her professor quickly crossed the room to stand in front of him. “Is there something I can help you with, young man?”

Adrien held up a plastic bag that had a few tupperware containers inside of it. “So sorry, Madam Professor, but my delightful girlfriend hasn’t had a decent meal in two days and she is determined to worry me sick.” He narrowed his eyes at Marinette, but she could still see the twinkle of mischief in them even from this distance. “I promise I won’t disrupt your class for long.”

There were a few scattered giggles from her classmates and Marinette blushed, mortified at her boyfriend’s arrival. Irritation flared as she belated realized he’d just called her out in front of the whole class.

“Good. We’ve all been a little worried about her,” her professor said with a nod and a faint smile, making Marinette blush spread even further. Had it really been that obvious? While she returned to her desk, she added, “Just don’t get too comfortable. This is work time, not flirt time.”

He flashed her a boyish grin and said, “Don’t worry, I’m excellent at multitasking.”

Marinette crossed her arms and glared at him as he walked towards her. When he caught the way she was looking at him, he rolled his eyes.

“Lovebug, you really have no one to blame but yourself here.” He spoke quietly, mindful of the other students still working in the room.

Her hands shifted to her hips. “You barge into my classes-”

“-and feed you after you starve yourself for at least two days, yes. Unless you are about to admit that you’ve been ignoring the lunches I make for you to take to university?”

Her glare intensified and she took a deep breath to argue, but then another wave of hunger pangs struck. Her stomach growled, likely sensing the food so close as hand. A couple of the students closest to her glanced in her direction, turning her face scarlet again.

She clenched her jaw in defeat and looked up at his eyes, expecting him to be smug. Instead, he was frowning, his eyes regarding her sadly. It sent a spear of hurt through her heart. After a few more moments of silence, she sighed.

“You didn’t have to do this, you know.”

“And I think you know that I did have to,” Adrien replied without missing a beat. He set the bag on her desk and walked over to stand next to her. His eyes roamed her coat. “I see this is coming along well. How are you feeling about it?”

She gratefully accepted the change in topic and talked fashion with him for a few minutes. While Adrien had never been huge into fashion, his perspective from the modeling side of things was often indispensable. Not to mention the things he’d absorbed just by being surrounded by high fashion from a very young age.

Still, there was a lot more that she needed to do and her professor was starting to look annoyed.

“Okay, Adrien. Time for you to go,” she said, gently nudging him away.

“Are you sure?” He spoke with the teasing tone of voice that never failed to annoy her to pieces. “Maybe I should stay for a little while longer. Make sure you actually eat the food I made this time, hm?” He smirked at her as she scowled.

“Get out of here, centerfold. I’ve got work to do and you’re being a menace.”

“Oh, alright.” He put a hand on her head as he kissed her temple. “See you soon, lovebug.”

She maintained her scowl even after he left. All the way until her stomach growled again and curiosity overcame her work ethic. She set down her tools and pulled a tupperware container out of the plastic bag. Her scowl melted away the moment she took off the lid and the delicious smell of chicken stirfry hit her nose.

Maybe Adrien had a point, Marinette thought as she nearly fell over thanks to the smell of sauteed veggies and mixed spices. If this was her reaction to an actual meal, perhaps she had been overdoing it on the vending machine crackers. And if her boyfriend was determined to cook for her...well, she couldn't let it go to waste, could she?

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“Sorry I’m late guys,” Adrien said as he took a seat at the cafe. “I had to make a stop at the university.”

Alya and Chloe took a break from their glaring at each other to glance at him.

“Why does she need to be here, Adrien?” Alya asked. Her eyes narrowed at Chloe. “Hard to see her caring much about us common people.”

“While it is true that you all are very common...” Chloe began.

“Chlo…” Adrien said in a chastising tone.

“...I want my friends to be happy.”

“Oh, so we’re friends now?” Alya drummed her fingers against the table in an irritated tempo.

“Well, it has been years since I’ve even mocked you and your ridiculous fashion sense.”

“It’s been years since we’ve talked!”

“Hm… you’ve got a point there.” Chloe looked Alya up and down with an appraising eye. “Well, you’ve certainly gotten better with makeup, though I could still give you a few pointers. And your taste in shoes is improving.”

Alya rolled her eyes. “Still the vain, egotistic-”

“Thankfully you make up for it in your journalistic skills. Like when you brought that corruption issue to light last month.”

“You… read my articles?” Alya spoke slowly, wary surprise evident in her voice.

“Of course. I started back when…” Chloe glanced at Adrien and coughed lightly. “Well, after you saved Adrien from the angry mob, I figured you might be worth another look.” She sniffed haughtily. “I suppose I got you all wrong from the start. I’m-” Chloe made a face as if she had bite into a lemon. “I’m sorry. There?”

Alya blinked at Chloe while Adrien sat back and watched it all unfold. While he wasn’t certain that things would pan out like this, he knew that Chloe had at least wanted a chance to make things right with the gang. Marinette and Nino had big hearts and were more than willing to forgive, but Alya wasn’t nearly as trusting. A helpful trait for a reporter, less so when it came to stuff like this. But if she was willing to give it a shot…

“Ugh.” Alya pinched the bridge of her nose. “Alright, fine. We’re cool for now, but you’re on thin ice, missy.” Before Chloe could reply, Alya turned to Adrien. “Anyway - you stopping at the university. I take it that was for our main girl, sunshine?” At his hum of approval, Alya nodded. “Good, I’ll feel better knowing she had something to eat today. Girl has been scaring me.”

“Something up with miss goody-goody pigtails?” Chloe said with a sip of her latte.

“Marinette, my beloved girlfriend,” Adrien said pointedly, looking Chloe in the eye, “is working herself into the ground. We’re here to figure out how to stop her from doing that.”

“I think we’re getting through to her. She’s at least not getting worse, ya know?” Alya took a bite out of her croissant. “With how busy we all are, that might be the best we can do until winter break.”

“So… just keep holding steady and hope she starts listening?”

“Definitely. We don’t want her to feel smothered by us, that’ll just make her double down out of… well, I’d say ‘spite’, but I don’t think that girl has a gram of spite in her. Too much raw sugar and strawberry filling.”

Adrien nodded slowly. That made a certain amount of sense.

“Are you two for real?” Chloe raised her eyebrow. “That is the most ridiculous, non-plan I’ve ever heard of.”

“You don’t know Marinette like we do, girl,” Alya said, narrowing her eyes. “Let us handle our friend.”

“Listen, Adrikins,” Chloe said, leaning forward to put her elbow on the table as she gave her full attention to Adrien. “All this padding around the problem isn’t gonna solve it. You both know Marinette - is she the kind of person to stop throwing herself into her work?”

Alya exchanged a look with Adrien.

“Right,” Chloe continued. “Something bigger needs to be done if you want her to start taking care of herself again.”

“Any ideas about this ‘something bigger’, Chlo?” Adrien asked.

Chloe peered over her sunglasses with a raised eyebrow. “Like you two said, you know her so well. I’m sure you can figure something out. Just be firm with her. It’ll snap her out of this trance she’s probably worked herself into.”

With two wildly different pieces of advice to consider, Adrien turned the conversation to different topics. At least he had achieved the impossible of getting Alya and Chloe to act somewhat civilly with each other. If he could accomplish that, then helping Marinette ought to be a piece of cake.

Right?

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luvneedsnosyt · 5 years

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My Favorite Albums of 2019 (So Far)

Here is my list of my favorite albums half-way through 2019

You can find my list of my favorite albums of 2018 here And my list of my favorite EPs of 2018 here

My Monthly top albums lists from 2019: January, February, March, April, May

Honorable Mention:

Alice Merton - Mint Genre: Pop

Proof: No Roots / Lash Out

Anderson .Paak - Ventura Genre: Hip Hop / R&B

Proof: Chosen On (Feat. Sonya Elise) / Jet Black (Feat. Brandy)

Billie Eilish - WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? Genre: Synth-Pop

Proof: bad guy / you should see me in a crown

blackbear - ANONYMOUS Genre: alt-R&B / Hip Hop

Proof: SWEAR TO GOOD / HIGH1X

Bring Me the Horizon - amo Genre: Rock / Alternative

Proof: in the dark / medicine

Cautious Clay - Table of Context EP Genre: R&B / Soul

Proof: REASONS / HONEST ENOUGH

Circa Waves - What’s It Like Over There? Genre: Alternative / Rock

Proof: Sorry I’m Yours / Be Somebody Good

Dabin - Wild Youth Genre: Electronic / Dance / Future Bass

Proof: In Flames (Feat. Lexi Norton) / Alive (Feat. RUNN)

Dawn Richard - New Breed Genre: alt-R&B / Electronic

Proof: shades / sauce

Dermot Kennedy - Dermot Kennedy Genre: Indie Pop / Soul

Proof: Power Over Me / Moments Passed

GoldLink - Diaspora Genre: Hip Hop / R&B

Proof: Zulu Screams (Feat. Maleek Berry & Babi Bourelly) / More

Hozier - Wasteland, Baby! Genre: Indie Pop / Soul / Folk

Proof: Movement / Dinner & Diatribes

James Blake - Assume Form Genre: Progressive Pop / Electronic / Indie Pop

Proof: Barefoot in the Park (Feat. ROSALÍA) / Where’s the Catch? (Feat. André 3000)

Karen O & Danger Mouse - Lux Prima Genre: Alternative / Indie Rock

Proof: Turn the Light / Woman

Kevin Abstract - ARIZONA BABY Genre: Hip Hop

Proof: Joyride / Use Me

Maverick Sabre - When I Wake Up Genre: Pop / Soul

Proof: Slow Down (Feat. Jorja Smith) / Weakness

The List:

16. Little Simz - GREY Area Genre: Hip Hop

Proof: Offense / Boss / Venom / Pressure (Feat. Little Dragon)

15. Vampire Weekend - Father of the Bride Genre: Indie Rock / Alternative

Proof: Harmony Hall / This Life / How Long? / Sympathy

14. LÉON - LÉON Genre: Pop / Soul

Proof: Lost Time / Falling / Hope Is A Heartache / You And I // Bonus: Grey - Want You Back (Feat. LÉON)

13. Foals - Part 1: Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost Genre: Rock / Alternative

Proof: Exits / White Onions / In Degrees / On The Luna

12. Denzel Curry - ZUU Genre: Hip Hop

Proof: ZUU / RICKY / BIRDZ (Feat. Rick Ross) / CAROLMART (Feat. Ice Billion Berg)

11. G Flip - Drink Too Much EP Genre: Pop

Proof: Drink Too Much / Bring Me Home / Killing My Time / About You // Bonus: I Am Not Afraid

10. Elohim - BRAINDEAD EP Genre: Electronic / Synth Pop

Proof: running / tv / metamorphine / flagpole sitta (Harvey Danger cover w/ ALOWNATION)

9. Sigrid - Sucker Punch Genre: Pop

Proof: Sucker Punch / Basic / Don’t Feel Like Crying / Don’t Kill My Vibe // Bonus: Strangers (R3HAB Remix) / Don’t Kill My Vibe (Gryffin Remix)

8. Lizzo - Cuz I Love You Genre: Hip Hop / R&B

Proof: Cuz I Love You / Soulmate / Tempo (Feat. Feat. Missy Elliott) / Heaven Help Me

7. Seven Lions - Ophelia Volume 1 Genre: Electronic / Dance / Trance

Proof: Start Again (Feat. Fiora) / Ocean (w/ Jason Ross Feat. Jonathon Mendelsohn) / First Time (w/ SLANDER & Dabin Feat. Dylan Mathew) / Dreamin’ (Feat. Fiora) // Bonus: Ocean (Au5 Remix) w/ Jason Ross Feat. Jonothan Mendelson / Dreamin’ (Sunny Lax Remix) Feat. Fiora / Island (Dimibo Remix) (w/ Trivecta & Wooli Feat. Nevve) / Sojourn (w/ Crystal Skies) / Let Go (Festival Mix) Feat. Fiora

6. Maggie Rogers - Heard It In A Past Life Genre: Pop

Proof: Give A Little / The Knife / Alaska / Say It // Bonus: Give A Little (Mokita & GOLDHOUSE Remix) / Alaska (Toby Green Remix) / Alaska (Tycho Remix)

5. Nick Murphy - Run Fast Sleep Naked Genre: Indie Pop

Proof: Harry Takes Drugs On The Weekend / Sanity / Yeah I Care / Dangerous

4. Tyler, The Creator - IGOR Genre: Hip Hop / alt-R&B

Proof: IGOR’S THEME (Feat. Lil Uzi Vert) / EARFQUAKE (Feat. Playboy Carti, Charlie Wilson & Jessy Wilson) / I THINK (Feat. Solange & Ryan Beatty) / WHAT’S GOOD (Feat. slowthai & Jarrod Carmichael)

3. Khalid - Free Spirit Genre: Pop / R&B / Soul

Proof: Better / Right Back / Outta My Head (w/ John Mayer) / Free Spirit // Bonus: Better (Jayvon Remix) / Better (no clue? Remix) / Talk (Disclosure VIP Mix) / Talk (Jarami Remix) / Talk (Alle Farben Remix)

2. Big Wild - Superdream // Superdream (Remixes) EP Genre: Electronic / Synth Pop / Dance

Proof: Joypunks / 6′ to 9′s (Feat. Rational) / No Words / She Makes Magic // Purple Sand (My Home) (pluko Remix) / City of Sound (Crooked Colours Remix) / Heaven (GG Magree Remix)

1. Nilüfer Yanya - Miss Universe Genre: Pop / R&B / Alterntaive

Proof: In Your Head / Paralysed / Tears / Heavyweight Champion Of The Year

Others:

Good: Adela - On The Line EP, AJ Tracey - AJ Tracey, Aldous Harding - Designer, Alesso - ALESSO MIXTAPE - PROGRESSO Vol. 1 EP, Alina Baraz - The Color Of You (Remixes) EP, Allie X - Super Sunset (Analog), Aly & AJ - Sanctuary EP, The Amazons - Future Dust, Anna Clendening - Waves EP, Ari Lennox - Shea Butter Baby, Anna Lunoe - Right Party EP, Ariana Grande - thank u, next, Ashe - Moral of the Story: Chapter 1 EP, Asiahn - Love Train 2, AURORA - A Different Kind of Human, Autograf - Love & Retrograde EP, Avicii - TIM, A1 - Turbulence, Bad Bunny - X 100PRE, Barrie - Happy to Be Here, Bassnector - Reflective (Part 4) EP, Bastille - Doom Days, BAYNK - Someone’s II EP, Beast Coast - Escape from New York, Beirut - Gallipoli , Better Oblivion Community Center - Better Oblivion Community Center, Betty Who - Betty, Big K.R.I.T. - TDT, Big Thief - U.F.O.F., Blaqk Audio - Only Things We Love, Blu & Oh No - A Long Red Hot Los Angeles Summer Night, Boy Harsher - Careful, Boogie - Everythings for Sale, B00TY - High Art EP, Brasstracks - Before We Go EP, Broken Social Scene - Let’s Try the After (Vol. 1) EP, Broken Social Scene - Let’s Try the After (Vol. 2) EP, Broods - Don’t Feed The Pop Monster, bülow - Crystalline EP, Bun B & Statik Selektah - TrillStatik [Mixtape], Cage The Elephant - Social Cues, Carlie Hanson - Junk EP, Carly Rae Jepsen - Dedicated, Casey Veggies - Organic, Casey Veggies & Rockie Fresh - Fresh Veggies [Mixtape], Cehryl - Slow Motion, Charly Bliss - Young Enough, Chase & Status - RTRN II JUNGLE, The Chemical Brothers - No Geography, Cherry Glazer - Stuffed & Ready, Choosey & Exile - Black Beans, Christelle Bofale - Swim Team EP, Chrome Sparks - Be On Fire EP, Ciara - Beauty Marks, Citizen Cope - Heroin and Helicopters, Clairmont The Second - The Second’s Do You Drive?, Collie Buddz - Hybrid. Crumb - Jinx, Crystal Fighters - Gaia & Friends, Curren$y & Statik Selektah - Gran Turismo, CZARFACE & Ghostface Killa - Czarface Meets Ghostface, David B - BLEU, Deadmau5 - Polar (Music from the Netflix Film), Deante’ Hitchcock - Just A Sample 2 EP, Deerhunter - Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared?, DeJ Loaf - Go DeJ Go Vol. 1 EP, Delta Heavy - Only In My Dreams, Destiny Rogers - Tomboy EP, Devin Morrison - Bussin’, Dijon - Sci Fi 1 EP, Dinah Jane - Dinah Jane 1 EP, Diplo - Europa EP, Diplo - Higher Ground EP, DJ Khaled - Father of Asahd, Dog Blood - Turn Off The Lights EP, Dreezy - Big Dreez, The Drums - Brutalism, Dua Saleh - Nūr EP, DUCKWRTH - THE FALLING MAN, ELHAE - Trouble In Paradise, Emily Wells - The World Is Too ___ For You, Emotional Oranges - The Juice, Vol. I, Eric Bellinger - The Rebirth 2, Eryn Allen Kane - a tree planted by water EP, The Faint - Egowerk, FEELS - Post Earth, FIDLAR - Almost Free, flora cash - Press EP, Flume - Hi This Is Flume [Mixtape], Flying Lotus - Flamagra, Frances Cone - Late Riser, FRENSHIP - Vacation, Freya Riding - You Mean The World To Me EP, Froth - Duress, Gary Clark Jr. - This Land, Gesaffelstein - Hyperion, The Get Up Kids - Problems, Giggs - BIG BAD…, girlpool - What Chaos Is Imaginary, gnash - we, GRiZ - Find My Own Way EP, GRiZ - Ride Waves, Gryffin - Gravity Pt. 1 (Remixes) EP, GTA - La Nueva Clásica (Remixes), Gus Dapperton - Where Polly People Go to Read, HÆLOS - Any Random Kindness, The Hamiltones - Watch the Ton3s EP, Hayden James - Between Us, The Head and the Heart - Living Mirage, Helado Negro - This Is How You Smile, Hello Yello - Love Wins EP, Higher Brothers - Five Stars, Hikaru Utada - Face My Fears EP, Holly Herndon - PROTO, Ida Mae - Chasing Light, ilo ilo - wish i said this to u sooner EP, India.Arie - Worthy, Injury Reserve - Injury Reserve, Intellexual - Intellexual, Interpol - A Fine Mess EP, Izzy Bizu - GLITA EP, Jack & Jack - A Good Friend Is Nice, Jacob Latimore - Connection2, Jade Bird - I Get No Joy EP, Jade Bird - Jade Bird, Jaden - ERYS IS COMING EP, Jai Waetford - Figure It Out EP, Jai Wolf - The Cure To Loneliness, James Bay - One My Messy Mind EP, JAMESDAVIS - MASTERPIECE EP, Jamie Cullum - Taller, Jamila Woods - LEGACY! LEGACY!, The Japanese House - Good At Falling, Jasmine Thompson - colour EP, Jay Prince - WONDER EP, Jayda G - Significant Changes, Jean Deaux - Empathy EP, Jenny Lewis - On The Line, Jeremy Zucker & Chelsea Cutler - brent EP, jesse saint john - don’t stop dancing. life gets sad. EP, J-E-T-S - Zoospa, JOHN.k - if we never met EP, JOHNNYSWIM - Moonlight, JOHKOY - 404, Jonas Brothers - Happiness Begins, Jordan Rakei - Origin, Josephine Wiggs - We Fall, Judah & The Lion - Pep Talks, Juice WRLD - Death Race for Love, Julia Michaels - Inner Monologue, Pt. 1 EP, Kari Faux - CRY 4 HELP EP, Kasbo - Places We Don’t Know Remix EP, Kaskade - Redux 003, KÁRYYN - The Quanta Series, Kehlani - While We Wait EP, Kelsey Lu - Blood, Kerli - Shadow Works, Kevin Abstract - ARIZONA BABY EP, Kevin Abstract - Ghettoboy EP, Kevin Morby - Oh My God, KIAN - BLISS EP, Kiana Lede - Myself EP, Kishi Bashi - Omoiyari, Koffee - Rapture EP, Ladytron - Ladytron, Lafawndah - Ancestor Boy, Lemaitre - Fast Lovers EP, The Lemonheads - Varshons 2, Lexie Liu - 2030, Lil Skies - Shelby, Lissie - When I’m Alone: The Piano Retrospective, Local Natives - Violet Street, Logic - Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Lolo Zouaï - High Highs to Low Lows, Loote - lost EP, Lonas - Youth EP, Lost Kings - Paper Crowns EP, Louis Futon - Way Back When, Loyle Carner - Not Waving, But Drowning, LSD - Labrinth, Sia & Diplo Presents… LSD, Lucky Daye - Painted, Lucy Rose - No Words Left, Mac DeMarco - Here Comes the Cowboy, Mack Keane - Donna Ave EP, Manila Killa - 1993 EP, Malibu Ken (Aesop Rock & TOBACCO) - Malibu Ken, Manatee Commune - PDA, Mansionair - Shadowboxer, Marco McKinnis - E’Merse EP, Maren Morris - GIRL, Maribou State - Kingdoms in Color Remixed, MARINA - LOVE + FEAR, Matt Maeson - Bank on the Funeral, McClenny - I’m Not Here EP, MED & Guilty Simpson - Child of the Jungle, Meg Mac - Hope, Megan Thee Stallion - Fever, Melii - phAses, Mereba - The Jungle Is The Only Way Out, Mickey Kojak - Coming Together EP, Middle Kids - New Songs for Old Problems EP, Mike Posner - A Real Good Kid, Mr. Carmack - Demolish [Mixtape], Mndsgn - Snaxx, MorMor - Some Place Else EP, The National - I Am Easy to Find, Nightly - Talk You Down EP, NIKI - wanna take this downtown? EP, Nina Nesbitt - The Sun Will Come Up, The Seasons Will Change, no rome - Crying In The Prettiest Places EP, Noah Kahan - Busyhead, Norah Jones - Begin Again, Octavian - Endorphins, ODESZA - A Moment Apart Remixes EP, Offset - Father of Four, Oliver Dion - Exposed, Olivia O’Brien - Was It Even Real?, Omar Apollo - Friends EP, Panda Bear - Buoys, Patoranking - Wilmer, P!nk - Hurts 2B Human, Pink Sweat$ - Volume 2 EP, Phonte - Pacific Time EP, Plaid - Polymer, PnB Rock - TrapStar Turnt PopStar, Pond - Tasmania, PRETTYMUCH - Phases EP, Priests - The Seduction of Kansas, Prince - Originals, PUP - Morbid Stuff, Queen Herby - EP 5, Quelled Chris - Guns, Raja Kumari - BLOODLINE EP, Rat Boy - International Unknown, Raveena - Lucid, Rema - Rema EP, Reptaliens - VALIS, Rich The Kid - The World Is Yours 2, Rico Nasty & Kenny Beats - Anger Management, Rhye - Spirit, Rhys Lewis - In Between Minds EP, Rotimi - Walk With Me EP, Rudimental - Test Our Differences, Ruti - Racing Cars EP, Ryan Leslie - Fleurier Flows EP, RY X - Unfurl, RY X - The Water EP, SAFE - STAY, Said The Whale - Cascadia, St. Lucia - Remixed, Sammie - Everlasting, Santana - Africa Speaks, Santi - Mandy & The Jungle, Sara Bareilles - Amidst the Chaos, SASAMI - SASAMI, Saweetie - ICY EP, ScHoolboy Q - CrasH Talk, The Score - Pressure EP, Seasons - American Authors, Set It Off - Midnight, Set Mo - Surrender, Shafiq Husayn - The Loop, Sharon Van Etten - Remind Me Tomorrow, Shlohmo - The End, Shy Girls - Bird on the Wing, Silversun Pickups - Widow’s Weeds , Skepta - Ignorance Is Bliss, slenderbodies - soraya EP, slowthai - Nothing Great About Britain, Smif-N-Wessun - The All, Snake City - Hurts, SNBRN - Solé, SOAK - Grim Town, SOB X RBE & Hit-Boy - Family Not a Group, SOB X RBE & Marshmello - Roll the Dice EP, Sofia Kourtesis - Sofia Kourtesis EP, Solange - When I Get Home, SonReal - The Aaron LP, StayLoose - The City, Stef Chura - Midnight, Steve Lacy - Apollo XXI, Striking Matches - Morning EP, Styles P - S.P. 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Meh: A Boogie wit da Hoodie - Hoodie SZN, Berner - El Chivo, Birdman & Juvenile - Just Another Gangsta, Burna Boy & DJDS - Steel & Copper EP, Calboy - Wildboy, Casilofi - Create, Create, Create EP, DREAMERS - LAUNCH FLY LAND, DJ Muggs & Mach - Hommy: Tuez-Les Tous, Future - Future Hndrexx Presents: The WZRD, Future - SAVE ME EP, HiDoraah & Dolly White - Slimestas EP, Kenny Garrett - Hoax, Kevin Gates - Only The General Gon Understand EP, Logic - Supermarket, Miley Cyrus - SHE IS COMING EP, Night Lovell - GOODNIGHT LOVELL, Pet Shop Boys - Agenda EP, Pi’erre Bourne & Cardo Got WIngs - Pi’erre & Cardo’s WIld Adventure [Mixtape], Rod Wave - PTSD, Shy Glizzy - Covered N Blood, Spellling - Mazy Fly, Tee Grizzley - Scriptures, Tyga - Legendary, Wiz Khalifa & Curren$y - 2009, 03 Greedo - Still Summer in the Projects

Naw: Scarlxrd - INFINITY, Weezer - Weezer (The Black Album), Yung Gravy - Sensational, Zheani - The Line Censored

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mrsjaxtellerfan · 5 years

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Coming Home (Jax x OC)

Chapter one. So sorry for the wait y'all it has been a crazy weekend. I got a lot of writing done with @lookprettyliveclassyplaydirtyyt whom I am writing this series with! On a side note, this is a slow burn!

WARNINGS: None really, bit of cussing

Hope you enjoy!

Chapter 1:

“Mommy, are we almost there?” My baby girl asks from the backseat. We have been driving for hours and she isn’t handling it well.

“Yes, baby. We will be there before you know it.” I replied, glancing in the rear view mirror at her.

“Okay Mommy.” She smiled a loving smile at me, and I smiled back. I begin to say a quiet prayer hoping we make it before sundown with my car having started acting up in Arizona. I looked back in my mirror and saw that Sophia was asleep. I pulled over and looked at my phone, four percent batter, I risked it and looked up tow shops, there has to be one, right? The only one that was listed as open, Teller-Morrow Automotive. I dialed the number and held my breath, an all to familiar voice answered the phone. I hung up as quick as I could, and then let out the breath I was holding. I called back, knowing I would need a tow.

“Teller-Morrow Automotive.”

“Hi, I’m just outside Charming, county road 13, and I need a tow. My car has been rattling since Arizona, and you guys seem to be the only place open.”

“I’ll have someone right out there, can I get a description of your car for the driver?”

“Uhm…. It’s silver, I’m the only one here, if it’ll help, I’ll wait outside.”

“Okay, yeah, someone will be there in about 15 minutes.”

“Alright, thanks Gemma.” I hung up before she could say anything else about my little slip and unbuckled Sophia from her booster seat.

“Mommy, what’s happening? Are we there?” Sophia asks, rubbing her little blue eyes that match her fathers.

“No, baby, don’t worry, just go back to sleep.” I reply.

After about 10 minutes headlights shone in my direction, I was holding my daughter with one hand, and the other was resting on the butt of the gun I had tucked into the waistband of my shorts. I watched as the driver unbuckled his seatbelt, got all the paperwork he needed to fill out, and then opened the door to begin the short walk to my car.

“You call for a tow?” He asked.

“You see anyone else here?” I replied back, sarcastically.

He looked around, “nope just you, and your cute little daughter. My name is Herman Kozik, I work at Teller Morrow Automotive and if you would like to wait in the truck while I finish up here, you can.” He replies with a smile.

He’s kind of cute, no, don’t do this to yourself, he works with Jax, and that makes him a conflict of interest.

“No, I think it’s best I wait here, once you get it all hooked up I’ll get in, but I gotta make sure you’re not a murderer first, ya know?” I reply with a slight laugh.

“I get it. I promise you, I’m not a murderer.”

“Oh, no?”

“Nope, pop the hood. I want to see if I can locate the problem before we get back to T-M, maybe shave a few dollars off your bill.”

“It’s not locked.” I state, glancing down toward my daughter still peacefully sleeping in my arms. He opened the door, got down, pulled the lever, and it popped up, smoke coming out.

“Well, it’s a good thing you pulled over when you did. You guys might have been burnt to a crisp out here. I can’t tell what the problem is right now. We should let it air out a little bit. You should also probably lock your doors” Kozik states working to hook the car up. I sigh, leaning against the beat up old car, that I traded my mercedes in for.

“Alright, all ready to go, just need you to sign this and show proof of ownership.” Kozik states, coming around to hand me the papers.

“Um, I don’t have the proof of ownership.” I state, nervously glancing at my feet.

“Oh, well, why don’t we go back to T-M and you can speak to Gemma about this. I don’t know much about the paperwork side of things.” Kozik replies, shooting me a megawatt smile. I smile in response. He helps me get Sophia’s booster seat into the truck and we are on our way to the one place I was scared to go.

“Alright, the office is over there and I am sure Gemma wouldn’t mind if you laid this sweet girl down in there. Do you need help?” Kozik asks, glancing at me from the driver seat.

“No, I know where I’m going. Thanks.” I reply, pushing open the door. I reach around waking Sophia.

“Soph, baby, wake up.” I state, gently waking the sleeping girl.

“Mommy, where are we?” She asks, looking around

“We’re home, baby, we’re home.” I state, glancing around at the place I once called home.

“I’m hungry, mommy.” Sophia states, pouting slightly, just like Jax does when he wants something.

“We will find you something, but first I have to go talk to someone about the car.” I reply, picking her up and heading into the office.

“Just a minute!” I hear Gemma shout from somewhere in the garage.

“Mommy, can I go play on the swings?”

“No, baby, stay with me. We can see about that here in a bit.” Sophia huffs, rolling her eyes like Jax has done a million times.

“Wow.” Gemma states, returning to the room a look of shock gracing her face.

“Hey, Gem. How ya been?” I state, smiling at the woman I thought of as Mom.

“Ari. You’re back? Who is this little beauty?” Gemma questions, giving me and Sophia a once over.

“I’m Sophia.” Sophia states, giving Gemma her megawatt smile.

“Hi, Miss Sophia. I’m Gemma.” Gemma states, getting a better look at Sophia before sending a questioning glance toward me. I pray she doesn’t figure out who the father is.

“Mommy, I’m still hungry.” Sophia, glances up at me.

“I think Chucky has some food in the kitchen. Why don’t I have him come get you some food.” Gemma replies, yelling for this Chucky character.

“Gemma, you don’t have to do that, we aren’t gonna be here too much longer, hopefully.”

“Oh, baby. You and I have some things we need to discuss.” Gemma states, glancing down at Sophia.

“Gemma, we were going to stay with a friend of mine in Stockton, we really were just passing through. What are you gonna do, hold us hostage?”

“If I have to, to get the answers I need, then yes.”

“Alright, Soph go with Chadwick he will get you some food.” I sigh giving in.

“Hello, Gemma you called, and I came.” The person I am assuming is Chucky said, coming to stand next to me.

“Take this little doll to get some food while me and her mama have a nice chat.” Gemma gestures to Soph.

“My pleasure.” Chucky states.

“What’s wrong with his hands?” I ask Gemma after he walks away, Sophia following behind him.

“He couldn’t keep ‘em outta his pants.”

“Ew, who did that? The Oakies? Don’t pretend I don’t know what SAMCRO does.”

“I don’t care about Chucky and his hands at the moment. You owe me some answers, Missy. Where did you go? I was going to ask why you left but I think I know the answer to that one.”

“Gemma, I don’t really know, I was kind of everywhere. Wilmington, Delaware, Canada, New York, I never could stay anywhere for too long. I guess I got that from my mom.”

“Why did you leave?” Gemma asks, reaching a hand out for me.

“I was pregnant, Gemma. I wasn’t sure if the truth would have been good. Ja- I mean the dad and I weren’t together at the time, and there wasn’t a shortage of pussy, he never really wanted anything to do with me and it was a one time thing. I couldn’t ruin his life over a one night stand. He was too hung up on screwing anything that moved because his ex fucked him up and I couldn’t raise a baby with a person like that. I couldn’t handle if he rejected me and Soph either, so I did what I had to. And honestly, Gemma, it worked out so well for me. I own my own business now and it’s doing really well. I can provide for my baby and give her what I didn’t have growing up.”

“Baby, you know I would have been here for you…. Wait, Jax!?” Gemma exclaims, eyes widening at the realization.

“It’s about Sophia’s DAD being there for her, not you. She has never seen a good guy, Gemma, this place, being here, it’s the last thing she needs. Yes, I admit, I probably should have told you and Jax but I couldn’t, not if I wanted to get her out of Charming.”

“Ari, Jax needs to know about his child.”

“I know. But you can’t tell him. Not yet, I need some time to figure things out. Sophia doesn’t know about him and I am not ready for the questions about why he wasn’t there. Plus we both know Jax wasn’t and probably isn’t ready to have a child.” “Well, actually, Jax is having a baby.”

“Great, now I really can’t tell him, he can barely feed himself, and now he has not one but TWO kids. Who’s the mother?”

“Why? Ya jealous?”

“Jealous, Gemma? I want to warn her!” I replied jokingly.

“She’s some drug addict whore my son decided to marry so he wouldn’t be lonely.”

“Jax is married? With another kid?” I ask, glancing down at my feet. “Does he not know how to use a condom?”

“Baby, y’all are grown now. Having kids is normal.”

“Gemma, we are grown now, maybe, but we weren’t then. Look what happened. Anyway, I don’t have proof of ownership on my car, is there anything I can do? We really need to get to Stockton tonight. I really don’t want my friend sending out a search party, and my phone is dead.” I said looking down at my dark screen.

“Nonsense, you can stay with Clay and I for the night.” Gemma says, waving me off.

“No Gemma, I really can’t. I told her we would be there tonight, and Sophia has never even been to your house. If I remember right, you have birds, and she is TERRIFIED of birds, I’m sure you wouldn’t want your granddaughter to be uncomfortable, would you?”I replied, with my serious face.

“Wait a minute. Why don’t you have proof of ownership? Did you steal this car?” Gemma asks, glancing at the paperwork.

“No, I bought it, and I was in a hurry to get out of Hershey, it must’ve slipped my mind. Gemma I’m not like you were at my age, I don’t steal things.”

“Why were you in a hurry? Are you in some kind of trouble?” Gemma questions.

“It’s nothing you need to worry about, Gemma. Sophia and I are safe here, that’s what is most important.”

“Babydoll, if you are in trouble, you know the guys can help. I can talk to Jax and Clay. They can do something and whoever you are running from can be taken care of.” Gemma states, watching for my reaction.

I sigh leaning towards her, “Do you really want to know why I left Hershey?” before I get the chance to tell her Jax pops in.

“Hey, Ma, do you know where the keys to the ‘stang are?” Jax asks, popping his head

through the door.

“I am going to go check on Sophia. See how she’s doing with, Charles.”

“Ari, you back for good? Wait, who is Sophia? You swinging for the other team now?”

Jax asks, blocking my way out of the room.

“No Jax, just passing through, now if you’ll excuse me, I really need to check on my

daughter, and it doesn’t matter what team I swing for.”

“Daughter?” Jax questions, raising his brows at me. “How old is she? I didn’t know

you had a kid, although you kind of bailed and never spoke to any of us after you left so I guess we wouldn’t know about you having a kid, would we?” Jax sneers, allowing me to push him out of my way.

“Gemma knows, Gemma knows everything, Jax.” I say, stepping around him and

leaving the office. I find Sophia giggling at an attractive man with a mohawk and tribal tattoos.

“Mommy! This is Juicy, he taught me how to spit out sunflower seeds, see watch!” Sophia squeals with utter excitement.

“Sunflower seeds, huh? Hi, I’m Ariana, this little monster’s mother.” I state, reaching my hand out to shake his.

“Juan Carlos Ortiz but everyone calls me Juice.” He replies, shaking my hand, with a smile that makes my knees weak. I have to remind myself that he is in the club and presumably friends with Jax.

“Wait, where’s Charles? Did she eat something?”

“Juice let me eat his sandwich, mommy! It was my favorite. Peanut butter and jelly.” Sophia exclaims throwing her arms around Juices neck.

“That’s great baby, but Juice needs to eat too, he has to work, you get to watch cartoons and play on swings.”

“It’s all good, honestly.” Juice states, hugging Sophia back.

“Well, thanks for watching her. We should get going.” I state, pulling Sophia’s hand.

“Mommy we can’t go, the car is broken, remember?” Sophia replies, giggling.

“Fuck.” “Mommy said a bad word!” Sophia giggles, whispering to Juice.

“She did, didn’t she?” Juice replies with a laugh.

“I did, but you can’t repeat it, Sophia.”

“Ariana!” Jax yells, anger pouring off of him, pushing his way through the room.

“Alright, we really have to go. Juice is there a grocery store around here somewhere, or a phone I can use? Anything? I am begging you.” I ask, holding Sophie in my arms.

“You can use mine.” A tall man says stepping forward, putting himself between myself and Jax.

“Opie, I need to talk to her. Move.” Jax gruffs, pushing Opie from behind.

“You can talk to her when you calm down.” Opie replies gruffly. I sigh in relief knowing my best friend won’t allow Jax to confront me.

“Come on Ari, you can use my phone, it’s in my dorm.”

“Thanks, Ope.” I reply, making my way toward the dorm, Opie and Jax trailing behind.

“Ariana, you owe me an explanation. You aren’t leaving here until I get one.” Jax yells, grabbing my arm and turning me toward him, scaring Sophia in the process.

“I DON’T OWE YOU ANYTHING JAX!!” I yell, getting in his face after hand Sophia to Opie. I didn’t want to scare her.

“Mommy, is he going to hurt us?” Sophia whispers, tears beginning to form in her eyes. My anger vanishes, leaving worry in its place.

“No baby, Jax is leaving, and Opie won’t hurt you either, he’s mommy’s friend.” I say looking in her eyes and wiping her tears, knowing I am gonna hear about this later, and when Gemma finds out, there’s gonna be a shitstorm because ‘no one hurts her baby girl.’

“Ari...” Jax sighs, running his hands through his hair, feeling guilty at his outburst and how much he scared his daughter.

“Not now, Jax. We will talk about everything later. Right now I need to get Sophia home and into bed.” I state, entering the room Opie went in with Sophia.

“Hey Ope, is it cool if I shower? I smell like, REALLY bad.” I remembered that my suitcase full of our clothes is in my car. “Fuck, okay, nevermind that.” I trail off glancing at the giant holding my baby girl.

“How about you guys stay at my house tonight and tomorrow we can figure out what’s wrong with your car.” Opie states, glancing down at the almost asleep Sophia.

“Okay, that would be great, Ope, really.” I sigh, smiling at my best friend.

“Good, now that is settled. Let’s get some of your stuff out of your car and get going. You can shower at mine.” Opie replies, making his way toward the door, Sophia still in his arms.

“You want me to take her?” I ask, reaching out for her.

“No, I got her.” Opie replies with a smile.

“Harry, how’s your dad doing? Piney was it? Does he still hate when I call him Piermont?” I ask, giggling.

“Yes, he still very much hates it. I’ll see if he wants to come by tomorrow, maybe say hi to this little monster.” He says gesturing to the sleeping girl in his arms.

“How’s Donna?” I ask, glancing up at him as we make our way out of the clubhouse.

“Oh, we got divorced. She’s good though. So are the kids.” Opie replies, rubbing at the back of his neck with his free hand.

“How old are they now, close to Sophia’s age if I’m remembering right.”

“Yeah, Ellie is 7, and Kenny is 6.” Opie replies, leading me to a truck in the parking lot.

“Wow, no bike? I’m shook.” I grin, Opie lets out a small laugh bumping his hip into mine, well into my waist because he is so much taller than me.

“I had to drop the kids off with Donna this morning.” Opie replies, opening the door.

“Oh, shit. I left her booster in the truck. I’ll go grab it.” I reply, making my way toward the garage to find Kozik.

“Hey, her booster is in here.” Jax states, gesturing toward the office. I sigh following him in. “I’m sorry for snapping at you and scaring Sophia. I just… I don’t... why didn’t you tell me?”

“Jax, it wasn’t a good time for either of us. You were still hung up on Tara and I was a mess, can you believe I actually thought I was in love with you? I was so crushed when you tossed me aside after it all happened, and I couldn’t go back and tell you after it was all said and done, I would have looked like some pathetic croweater. So I left, and honestly, I’m glad I did.”

“I didn’t mean to make you feel bad but can you seriously stand here and tell me that I was better off not knowing I had a daughter in this world? Can you seriously stand there and tell me that I didn’t deserve to know because you were mad at me? I can’t believe you’d be so selfish. I mean, yeah, we shouldn’t have slept together but we did. You should have told me about her the minute you found out. You shouldn’t have ran from it. You robbed me of 5 years with my daughter. How can you even live with yourself?” Jax asks, turning away from me.

“Jax.” I cry, trying to get him to turn around and talk to me, the love I feel for him still present.

“No, I can’t do this right now. I need to go check on Wendy.” He murmurs, leaving me standing there, tears running down my face. Gemma joins me in the office with a look of pity.

“Gem, what did I do?” I cry, throwing myself at her.

“Oh, baby, he will come around.” Gemma soothes, rubbing my hair like she used to when I was a child.

“What if he doesn’t? I never meant to hurt him.”

“Baby, he’s fine, he just needs time to come around.”

“Hey.” Opie said walking over to me, booster seat in hand. “You ready to get her home?”

I sniffle and wipe at my eyes. “Yeah, I am ready.”

We walked to his truck, in a comfortable silence. I buckled Sophia into her booster seat, and he helped me up into my seat.

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ikesenlemonadestandstories · 6 years

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Five Star Restaurant

Hey everyone! How’s it hangin? I feel like it’s been 800 years since I’ve posted anything. Life has been a mess lately and I’ve been chugging along through those ‘Trick or Treats’ and sort of just forgot that I write other things lol (whoops).

Anyways~ here is the next installment of ‘The Part Timer Series’ which is the tag you can use to look up the other parts of the story. You can also slide on over to my Master List for a comprehensive catalog of my Ikesen works.

Like I said earlier the Trick or Treat’s will start rolling out on October 18th and you’ll get a post every day, twice a day, for 13 fright-tastic days!

WARNINGS: Harassment in the work place. A large majority of this situation stems from a real life ass I dealt with a work. I won’t go into a great amount of detail but be forewarned that there’s some uncomfy stuff peppered in here.

Continuing with the lovely give-away cameos, in this and all subsequent chapters you are going to see @elievalentine‘s OC - Akiharu Natsuyuki and @one-eyed-captain-kinky ‘s OC - Zhari joining the gang.

This series is the food baby of @ikesenhell and I. We had an in depth discussion over this concept while sharing a meal, though it happened before the release of the most recent Gatcha event, so most of this AU is now Non-Canon...but oh well..

Story under the cut to avoid dash clutter!

Happy reading everyone!

Five Star Restaurant - p4

[YN]

You had been working at Azuchi long enough that you could tell when something was going on outside of the typical day-to-day. The only tip there might be an issue came from a very frantic Zhari and Hideyoshi pulling the host aside to chide him for placing a group of men in your section.

“Is something the matter?” You inserted yourself between the bickering pair.

“Not necessarily, The guys that were just seated in your section are a bit difficult. We usually have them sit at the bar and let Ieyasu take care of them.” Hideyoshi looked on apologetically “I wasn’t at the stand to help the new host, so they were accidentally given to you.”

“Oh, well, I’m okay to wait on them.” You paused, waiting for objections “If that’s alright with both of you?”

“May as well. If you have any problems, give a holler, and either Hideyoshi or I will come running.” Zhari patted you hard on the back. “Good luck!”

She skipped off, leaving you alone with Hideyoshi, his brow crinkled showing his displeasure and without thinking you poked him between his eyebrows. “You’re thinking too hard. If you’re not careful your face’ll get stuck like that. Don’t worry, I’ll come get you if I need help.”

His eyes widened in surprise before his face fell into a calm smile. “Alright.” Smoothing the stray hairs that had made their way out of your elastic hair tie “I’ll be right up front if you need anything at all.”

You were readying a tray of waters for the table in question when Nobunaga came up to the counter beside you. “They’re grabby, watch their hands and let Hideyoshi know the moment something happens.”

He didn’t give you time to respond before walking back through the door to the kitchen calling after Akiharu.

“Good afternoon. My name is (YN), and I’ll be the one taking care of you today. Can I start everyone off with something to drink?” Six sets of beady eyes turned, giving you a one over.

“Well hello there, never seen you here before, Missy.” The man directly to your right spoke up.

“Ah and for a good reason, I’ve not been here before. So drinks?” You turned with a smile trying to get them to put in an order.

These men, not that they deserved to be called that, were infuriating, but it takes all kinds of people. Digging deep into your patience reserves you continued giving service with a smile. Between all of the garbage on the floor, the throwing of straws, ‘accidental’ drink spills, incorrect food orders, dropped utensils, and don’t even get you started on all the attempted groping you barely managed to evade. You were nearly at your wit's end.

It was near time to bring out their checks, not that that task had been any more comfortable. They kept switching back and forth between single, split, and group checks, you had half a mind to give them one and tell them to take it up with Ieyasu on their way out, but you were determined to see this one through.

“Missy if you would?” The man who seemed to be the ringleader of the group snapped, literally snapped at you, finally earning your ire.

“Yes, how might I help you?” You tried to keep your eye from twitching as you forced a cheerful smile.

“You see, we feel like the service today has been pretty questionable. We know you’re new so we’re willing to cut you a break.” He grabbed your free hand as he stood. “Such soft hands.”

Hello, creepy. Alarm bells were sounding in your mind as you tugged, trying to free yourself from his grip. “Excuse me, I’m uncomfortable. I need you to let go of my hand now,” You said with finality in your voice.

“And see there’s the problem sweetie. You’re not very friendly.” He let go of your hand stepping forward. As you backed away, he grabbed a strand from your ponytail bringing it to his face as he kissed it openly.

“Hideyoshi” You screamed. Hand drawing back poised to strike as you brought it around quickly. It connected but not with the intended target.

Hideyoshi stood in front of you protectively, glaring openly at the customers as your hand laid flat against his face where you had walloped him. “I think it best you boys pay and be on your way.”

“I don’t think so. The lady was gonna hit me. I’m not paying for anything until you do something about your staff.” He smirked as the entire table chuckled menacingly, moving to step around Hideyoshi towards you again. In seconds the advancing male was on the ground before you.

“Hey! You okay man!” Two of his friends leaped over to him as the looked up in horror.

“Excuse me, sir, if you could, please refrain from such harassment and violence while you’re here.” Nobunaga came up behind you placing a protective hand on your shoulder as he offered you a tense smile. All the while the men looked on in shock, as the rest stood abruptly from their seats.

“What kind of employee roundhouse kicks a customer! I want to speak to the manager!” the man on the ground screamed as his friends helped him up.

“Present.” Hideyoshi stepped forward glowering at the group of them. They jerked back.

“Not you, bring us the owner! Call them if you have to.” he shrieked again.

“How can I be of assistance?” Nobunaga smirked as he squared his shoulders to them.

Jumping back they screamed at the group of you. “What kind of place is this that the employees attack the customers! We’re never coming back here again you damn geezer!” You saw Nobunaga’s eye twitch as Akiharu scurried over handing him his phone while they fled from the restaurant.

“Wait! They didn’t pay their bill!” You started to chase after only to be grabbed around the wrist by Hideyoshi.

“Hello, Mitsuhide.” You stopped, turning in Nobunaga’s direction. “I need you to take all of the money from the customers that just left here.” he snickered as he hung up the phone. “Would you help Hideyoshi ice that? We can’t have the face of the restaurant sporting a black eye.”

You looked down taking a sudden interest in your shoes before you stalked off to the kitchen with Hideyoshi.

[Nobunaga]

It was clear Hideyoshi was troubled over the fact that a particular group of men had been placed in (YN)’s section. I was on my way over to give counsel, but it would appear you were much better at quelling his misgivings than myself. An interesting development. I watched on from my window above the dining area, making sure that everyone was behaving accordingly. You were a hard worker, and I didn’t need you being scared away by seedy guests. Especially ones we actively try to intercept and keep from female staff.

So far you were killing them with kindness, I had never seen someone deal with such rude guests with such a bright smile before. Between all of the thrown straws, spilled drinks, and dropped silverware you had done a marvelous job troubleshooting and dealing with their antics, though it was admittedly hard to watch. I think it was about time someone else took over. I was almost down the stairs when I heard you call for Hideyoshi and a large crack echoed through the otherwise empty restaurant.

I rushed around the corner as Masamune, Akiharu, and Zhari nervously poked their heads from the back. “That didn’t sound good.” Akiharu lamented

“I knew she was feisty, but I didn’t realize our lass was that spirited,” Masamune whispered to the group of them staring to gather.

“Akiharu,” I turned looking at her “Can you get some bags of ice ready. It appears our fireball may need a little help cooling off.”

It didn’t take long before Hideyoshi’s voice filled the quiet space. “I think it best your boys pay and leave.”

The men audibly scoffed or clicked their tongues at Hideyoshi “I don’t think so. The lady was gonna hit me. I’m not paying for anything until you do something about your staff.” You could tell he wanted to dispute it but the bright red mark on his cheek and her quickly shrinking figure was enough to keep him silent.

Now felt like the appropriate time to swing in. Literally. I kicked the young man who was advancing on (YN) quickly as a means to get him away.

“Hey! You okay man!” The scums henchmen leaped over to him as the looked upon me, to my sheer delight, in horror.

“Excuse me, sir, if you could, please refrain from such harassment and violence while you’re here.” I walked up beside you placing a protective hand on your shoulder trying to reassure you with a smile as best I could. Though I found it hard to manage through my general anger over the situation.

If they had been sitting before they were all out of their chairs now. You could see each of the man’s underlings weighing how they would fair against us in an all-out offensive. The thought of it was amusing.

“What kind of employee roundhouse kicks a customer! I want to speak to the manager!” the man I had kicked yelled from his place on the ground as his friends helped him up.

“Present.” Hideyoshi stepped forward glowering at the group of them. The surprise was clear as day on their faces, but they composed themselves again asking for me.

“Not you, bring us the owner! Call them if you have to.” He shrieked again. This grew more amusing by the minute.

“How can I be of assistance?” I smirked as and squared his shoulders to the group asserting my dominance over the situation as best I could.

“What kind of place is this that the employees attack the customers! We’re never coming back here again you damn geezer!”

‘Geezer’? That’s it. I would teach them to mess with my employees. I fumbled for my phone only to remember I had left it back in the kitchens with Akiharu. Damn. I felt a familiar tap on my shoulder and swiveled to find the very same girl innocently holding my phone out to me. I would say she’s an angel, but Akiharu knew full well who I was about to call, the mischief and anger in her eyes told me that much.

“Wait! They didn’t pay their bill!” Your cry brought my attention back to the situation at hand. Fortunately, Hideyoshi grabbed hold of you before you could chase after the group of ruffians. Quickly I punched his number into my phone, and he picked up after a single ring.

“Hello, Mitsuhide. I need you to take all of the money from the customers that just left here.”

“You mean the group of six men that came flying out the door a moment ago who always harass out female staff and guests? I thought you would never ask.”

I laughed knowing the situation would be sufficiently taken care of for now and turned my attention back to my employees.

“Would you help Hideyoshi ice that? We can’t have the face of the restaurant sporting a black eye.” It was evident you were embarrassed over the whole incident, but I was no longer sure how to reassure you.

I watched as you led Hideyoshi back to the kitchen to hopefully take care of the swelling, that had been quite the swing after all.

#ikemen sengoku #ikesen #ikésen #ikémen sengoku #The Part Timer Series #short story #my story #in conjunction with Yesha #cybird #ikesen reader insert #ikesen nobunaga #ikesen hideyoshi #cameos from one-eyed-captian-kinky and elievalentine #fan fic #this is a half true story #say something if you're being harassed

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Psycho-Pass (21)

Episode 21 - Blood-stained reward

Masaoka, "is it that easy to adjust the Uka-no-Mitama virus?" Kunizuka, "The process itself should be pretty much automated, so as long as the equipment still works, yes. They chose Uka-no-Mitama precisely because of how easy it is to update." Ginoza, "To think that a good virus ends up becoming a real disease...We thought it was an iron wall that protected our food self-sufficiency, but it turned out to be a double-edged sword."

Team division 1 on board a helicopter.

Makishima sat in front of the machines, reading the Parable of the Weeds of Matthew 13:24-33.

"'The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field. But while everyone was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and went away.'"

The security system of the facility remained active, Kogami still looking for a way in. Then, he heard and saw the helicopter approaching

And it flew right in.

Ginoza was immediately annoyed that the facility was big.

Tsunemori, "it's a factory that centrally manages the defense virus in order to distribute it to the entire Hokuriku area, so..." Masaoka, "to think that such a large-scale facility can continue to operate in a fully automated manner..." Tsunemori, "the bigger the prey, the easier it is to target. Especially when you're using a poisoned needle that could kill a whale. This sort of tactic is just like Makishima." And Tsunemori got a call.

Kogami, "I didn't expect you to get here so soon." Tsunemori, "don't underestimate the PSB. You're not the only one who can drive Makishima into a corner." Kogami, "he's already inside the facility, using the equipment Kudama left in the lab, he must be already adjusting the Uka-no-Mitama virus by now, or he might even be done." Tsunemori, "we're not going to let him have his way." Kogami, "then we've got to be quick. Before he distributes the Uka-no-Mitama that he tempered with, we have to shut down the entire facility. Using the authority of the PSB, you should be able to cut off the power to this facility, right?" Tsunemori, "if we do that, it will shut down not only the center's functions, but the security system as well. That's what you want, isn't it? You're trying to use us to lift the security so that you can beat us to Makishima and kill him, aren't you? We'll never allow you to do that." Kogami, "Makishima is trying to destroy this country. The PSB has only one choice right now. Cut the power. Then this country will be saved."

Tsunemori, "I will not let Kogami Shinya be a murderer." Kogami, "then, I guess the early bird gets the worm." Conversation ended.

Tsunemori to other agents, "Can't we have the authority for just the security system transferred to us from the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry?" Ginoza, "the process will take time. Makishima might put us in check while we're working on it. We have no other choice but to stop the facility itself, like Kogami said. Kunizuka?" Kunizuka, "I've already disabled the command to switch to the secondary power supply. All we have to do now is to stop the power from the power plant." Tsunemori to Ginoza, "there's one thing I'd like to ask of you. When you encounter Mr. Kogami, if his Crime Coefficient is over 300 and the Eliminator is activated, please refrain from shooting him and call me in."

Ginoza, "What's the point of calling you in?" Tsunemori, "I've got a trump card I can use against Mr. Kogami. Don't worry. Please leave it to me."

Flashback of dialog between Tsunemori and the system. Tsunemori, "now we'll go after Makishima. You'll help us, right?" Sibyl, "of course." Tsunemori, "then...lock this gun in Paralyzer mode with the safety unlocked. You can do it, right?" Sibyl, "the Dominator decides its enforcement mode based on the measured Crime Coefficients. This is the basis for the system that maintains the current public safety and is inviolable. " Tsunemori, "in order to fight Makishima, we need suitable strong weapons. We do have to protect ourselves, too. If we can't use the dominators, we have no choice but to depend on more primitive weapons. In the worst case, we may end up killing Makishima with those weapons." Sibyl, "if that happens, that would be because you lack resourcefulness. Our abilities are limited and the likelihood that we will capture Makishima alive without problems falls short of 100%. If you guys grant an exception here, that likelihood can be improved a little. Think what the best decision is. You're good at calculating risk and reward, right?" Sibyl, "from now until Makishima Shogo is captured, we will grant an exception on the applicable terminal device. The safety will stay unlocked. Mode is Non-lethal Paralyzer. However, please pay close attention to how you use it so that the other detectives will not find out." "Understood." Masaoka, "missy..."

"I don't know what happened, but isn't the burden too much for you to carry alone?" Tsunemori. "are you worried?" Masaoka, "yeah, you're acting the same way Kogami did. I don't wanna see the end of an Inspector who pushed too hard, too often." Ginoza turned away, made a sound but said nothing. Tsunemori, "then would you like to check my Crime Coefficient?" Masaoka, "hey..." Tsunemori, "it's okay. Please point the Dominator at me." Masaoka pointed his dominator at Tsunemori

Tsunemori then ordered Kunizuka to cut off the power to the facility.

Kogami finally had a chance to get in.

Makashima took out a bomb, and Kogami got his revolver and folding knife ready.

Masaoka said Makishima's bio-terrorism had failed and he should start thinking about escape. Tsunemori, however, figured Makishima would try to get power back on to carry out his plan. Ginoza said it was possible that Makishima would just decide to run. So, Tsunemori decided the agents split in two teams, Tsunemori and Kunizuka headed for the control room, where Makishima would go if he wanted to get the facility running; and Masaoka and Ginoza were asked to check the lab.

Alone with Tsunemori, Kunizuka asked her if something happened at the Ministry of Welfare. Kunizuka, "You're being the most constructive person right now, and yet you look the most depressed of all of us." Tsunemori spoke to herself, "stopping here wouldn't resolve anything. I just have to move forward. No matter how small it may be, there's still hope. As long as I don't give up on it, I can continue to be a detective until the end." The two moved on. Kunizuka, "When you joined us as a new Inspector, at first I thought you were a naive little girl and that you couldn't possibly be fit for the job. But my impression back then was completely wrong. I'm sure of that now. I can entrust my life to you, Miss Tsunemori." Tsunemori, "you overestimate my ability."

They reached the control room to find no one in there. And right away Kunizuka asked if Makishima would really head to the control room, and Tsunemori, finding it strange that no one was in there, not even Kogami, started making a new deduction. "He would foresee Makishima's actions more accurately than me. If this was the correct answer, I'd expect Mr. Kogami to have made it here before us. Why...? I feel like I'm overlooking something."

Ginoza, "I have to check something with you." Masaoka, "What's bothering you at a time like this?" Ginoza, "You helped Kogami escape, didn't you?" Masaoka, "would you try not to be hard on an old man?" Ginoza, "you think that by Kogami taking the crime upon himself, evil will be defeated as a result. That's the savage, selfish justice of an old-fashioned hunting dog like yourself. Am I wrong?' Masaoka gave no answer. Ginoza, "Kogami really is the one you rely on. You don't expect anything from me. You think that there's no chance I can capture Makishima, don't you?" Masaoka, "Kogami is a latent criminal and Enforcer. He and I are two of a kind. But you're still taking a different path than we do. I think that's for the best from the bottom of my heart." Ginoza, "How could you make a justification like that?"

Tsunemori strolled away from Kunizuka as she analyzed the situation, "a culprit runs and detectives go after him...That's our assumption. But Makishima looks at things differently. He understands how much of a bind we are than we do."

Then Tsunemori started running. Kunizuka warned her that it would be dangerous to act on her own, Tsunemori told Kunizuka to stay in the control room to prevent Makishima from touching the emergency power supply if he showed up. "If push comes to shove, you can even destroy the whole console!"

With that, she ran off.

Explosion.

Makishima appeared with a nail gun as Masaoka tried to help Ginoza.

Makishima, outmatched, reached for the bomb and set it off.

Makishima, "you think I'd do a stupid thing like that?" Masaoka realized what Makishima intended to do and was at a loss. Ginoza, "don't let that man go at any cost, Enforcer!"

Seeing Makishima threw the bomb at Ginoza, Masaoka let go of him and ran to pick up the bomb. But before he could throw it away, the bomb exploded.

Ginoza struggled to free himself. He managed it, at a cost of losing his left hand. And as he stumbled to Masaoka and dropped on his knee, Makishima got up, grinning. Then a gunshot fired at him, from Kogami.

The shots missed the target, and Makishima ran off. Kogami gave chase, and passed by Ginoza and the mortally wounded Masaoka. Pained by what he saw, Kogami nonetheless moved on. Ginoza, "Y...you idiot! Why did you let the culprit get away?! Why...?! You're a detective, aren't you?!" Masaoka, "I'm not fit to be called a detective."

"You eyes...look just the same as mine...when I was young."

Ginoza, "it's too late!"

Kogami fired another shot at Makishima and missed again. Seeing Kogami tried to locate him, Makishima laughed, "So you finally ditched that fake justice and now you've got some real bloodlust, huh? You are everything I hoped you would be after all." Kogami, "Really? I have no hopes for you at all, though." Makishima, "Don't be so indifferent after coming this far." Kogami, "Don't be so arrogant. You're not a special person or anything. You're just trash that's been ignored by society all this time. You feel bitter for having been rejected and left out of the community, don't you? You just couldn't bear solitude, that's all. You're no different from a kid whining about not wanting to be left out." Makishima, holding back his laughter, said, "You sure say some funny things. Solitudes? Does that apply only only to me? Who isn't alone in this society? The time when our connection to others was the basis of our selves is long gone. In this world where everyone is watched over by the system and live within the system's standards, a community isn't necessary. Everyone just lives in their own little cell, and the system tames them by giving them each their own personal serenity." Kogami fired another shot at where he thought Makishima stood. Turned out it was a mirror. Then, Makishima crept up on Kogami and kicked the pistol away from his hands. Both men then took out their knives, preparing for another round.

Tsunemori was shown running.

End of episode 21

Comment: Already it's the second last episode of season one, and to me one theme about this episode was salvation. Masaoka, a father who tried to save his son: Tsunemori, a person who tried to save a friend; and Kogami, a person who tried to bring justice to those killed by Makishima and to save the country from chaos and destruction. The aim of each of these people meant something more important than their own life, and sadly for Masaoka, he managed to save his son from death, but he couldn’t save him from the lasting effect of this incident. The same would go for Tsunemori, as hard as she tried, it was unlikely that she could stop Makishima and Kogami killing each other. And with failure came regrets and sadness.

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Melted

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Ch.15: Going back

Illia tried to clear her mind. It was rather difficult, worrying had been part of her since she had been a child. She worried about her father, about Link, about the children, about the village. It felt natural, and it had been easy. Her father had given in after her mother's death, if Illia voiced an opinion it was immediately heeded. The children saw her as a caring and scary big sister, they loved and feared Illia enough to follow her orders. The village saw her as the Mayor's daughter, always thinking about the village, always working for their betterment, they loved Illia as much as she loved Ordon.

But Link had always given her headaches. Lonely, proud, resourceful, sly. He wouldn't go to her if he was troubled, he wouldn't ask for advices, he wouldn't ask for help, he wouldn't let her worry. He only went to her after he was beaten, or he had failed, or he had realized that he needed someone else for his plan to work.

Illia felt the cold water of the spring as she moved around Epona. Manual work cleared her mind, brushing Epona had always been a peaceful and relaxing time. But now she couldn't help but remember that Link was leaving.

Illia could only hope that he didn't come back defeated.

Illia asked Epona to bring him unharmed, or at least alive. She tried to remind herself that Link was an adventurer, the most prepared person to face the outside world. He had saved the world, for Hylia's sake. But all Illia could see was his dirty, tattered clothes as he ran up to her, screaming that he had finally been able to control an Ordon goat.

Epona nudged Illia. They had been away for too long now, even Epona could get tired of being pampered. Illia let the brush fall and shrugged. Link had replaced all of his silences with silly talks and naive questions. He had, by all means, stopped his self-imposed silence, but now Illia had the urge to shut his mouth.

He was saying nothing. He talked and talked. And he said nothing.

He hadn't recovered. His nightmares persisted, loud noises woud startle him, he would train day in and day out, and the mention of even the tiniest of nuisance would make Link grab his sword and take care of the problem immediately.

Illia could also sense his eagerness to leave. Nothing too over the top, it just wasn't his style. But he had made sure to prepare his gear, resupply his stock, leave Illia in charge of his house, and made sure that Uli accepted the money he had given her, even though it had been a hundred rupees more than what Uli would need.

Illia had laughed about his preparations, asked him if he really meant it when he had promised to come back for his birthday.

Link had looked at her, almost pained, "Of course I meant it, I'm coming back," and Illia had shut her mouth.

Link had never lied before.

Epona neighed, and Illia started the way back to Link's home. It was no use worrying when the other person didn't want to share his troubles. I was just no use.

If Illia kept on pressing him to share his troubles, she would only end up being the last person he would trust to tell said problems. It was like starting a frienship from scratch.

Illia heard laughs before she could see Link's house. Beth, Colin and Talo were trying to poke Link with wooden swords.

Trying.

Link moved with grace and blocked every move that looked as if it had a chance to succeed. He tickled them whenever they got close to him.

He was smiling. Laughing.

When Illia came into Link's field of view, he blocked Talo's sword with his hand - while Talo whined that that wasn't fair -, and let himself fall, arms raised.

"I yield!"

"No, you don't!" Beth flung herself at his neck.

Colin and Talo started to celebrate their victory, hands in the air and dancing around Link.

Link rose with Beth on his arms and thanked Illia for taking care of Epona. The boys went around tidying up, they had been all invited to Uli's to have lunch. Before they could take the road that led to the village, Talo started to run towards it, making fun of Colin and Beth. Beth wiggled out of Link's arms and started to run after Talo, screaming at him to treat her like a lady. Colin looked vexed, and looked at Link as if to ask for advise. Link's smile was all he needed, and he went after his friends screaming for them to wait for him.

Link wiped the sweat off his forehead and muttered something about being left with leftovers. Illia got in pace with him.

"Nervous?" asked Illia. They had been talking about nothing else but Link's journey to the Castle.

Link shrugged, "Halfway there, should I be?"

Illia cocked her head, "I mean, you are friends with the princess of Hyrule, so I don't think you should be that worried? But then again, you are friends with the princess of Hyrule, which means that you should be."

Link smirked, "Yeah, exactly, I don't know how to feel."

"But you are happy."

Link huffed, "Guess so."

"Guess so," Illia mocked, "you are brimming with excitement, Link, don't lie."

"Fine. I'm eager, nervous, and positively excited."

Illia hummed, "Can I know why?"

Link remembered the cloaked figure he met as a wolf; Midna's horrified expression as she realized Zelda had given her her light; the dread that had filled his guts when Zelda had attacked him; the rage that overtook him when he realized Ganondorf had possessed her body; the tear Zelda had tried to clear away before he saw it when Midna had shattered the Mirror of Twilight.

"The princess of Hyrule wants to honor my work by rewarding me with a title and land, I'm a little bit proud."

Illia laughed, "A little bit proud, you are hilarious. Be proud, I'm fighting with myself here, a little. Sure, I don't want you to look dumb so I'd advise you to not engage too much with them, but then again, if they're mean and dumb, be as obnoxious as you can and have Zelda protect you, I don't know. Don't let them trample over you, that's all."

"Careful there, I might take it to heart," but Illia was still laughing with worry filling her face, "Illia, don't worry, if I have to punch someone in the face, I will. What will they have me do? Exile me? We kind of live in exile."

It was meant to be a joke, as they lived in the farthest place from the Castle, but Illia grabbed her arm in silence, and Link let out a breath.

"If you can't get used to life there, there is no shame in coming back," Illia said.

"I know."

"If you feel burdened, or sad, overwhelmed, or, or-"

"I'll come back, promise," Link bit down his 'It's only a month, Illia' because it was a serious issue for her. And there was no way in the Sacred Realm he was going to tell her that he was going there even if some nobles were to make fun of him because all he wanted was to see Zelda.

Illia looked at him, "I'm serious, Link, you have done more than enough."

Link snickered, "Thanks. And, uhm," he scratched his nose, "It's not that I don't appreciate what you're saying, It's just-"

"That you feel you can do more, I know. You are too good for this world."

He nodded, not too sure about that.

"Link, what you did made a difference. You saved countless lives, a kingdom. Princess Zelda knows it, too."

He shrugged.

"Link, the world is not your burden to carry."

"I know."

Link found it hard to tell Uli that his nightmares were still happening. He found it hard to accept that even though he had tried to help himself, he had failed. Link knew, with the same sixth sense that Uli had for him, that Uli was three steps away to ask him the question Link had come to dread.

Step one had been Uli giving birth to Lily, it was as if the baby had heightened Uli's senses. Link would be playing with Colin and he would feel Uli's eyes on him, and then he would laugh too hard, or worry too much over Colin, be too conscious of himself. He would feel chills run down his spine, because she knew. Uli knew.

Step two had been Link not asking more questions about his childhood, and forgetting about his nightmares. Too many smiles, too much talking filled with nothing. Too much of taking care of Lily just as an excuse to get away from Uli's glares.

Step three had been Illia's concerned look, again. And Link smiling and filling the silences with innocent questions. Sure, he wasn't clamming up now, but the only thing that had changed was his way of covering his pain.

So when Uli sat down next to him after the meal was over, and she stayed there in silence, even though he was still chewing, Link knew this was it.

It was coming.

"What are you so scared of?"

And he had to make an answer about what she meant, and about how he didn't really understand her question.

He left with smiles and hugs and promises to Uli he wasn't sure he could really keep up.

He was terrified to put his burdens on his family.

He was terrified they would realize he was not the same as before.

Zelda... Zelda... Zelda could take care of it.

He had little luggage.

"Link, are you sure you are all set?"

"Yes, ma'am."

Illia gave him a look, "Well, sir," she marked the word, "I think you are a little underbaggaged."

Link snorted, "No, really, I'm all set. It's only a week? At most a month if Zelda wants me there longer," he patted his bags, "necessities only."

Illia sighed, "First, Link, please refrain from calling princess Zelda Eugenia Harkinian Hyrule by her given name alone," Link scrunched his face, mumbled an apology, "and also, I know you'll be there for a short period of time, but really?" Illia eyed his bags with worry.

"Come on, I can take care of myself. I travelled long and wide, and I'm alive."

"Yeah, well, I have come to question how you did it."

Link raised a finger, "Careful, missy, I may forget to bring presents your way."

Illia swatted his finger away and smiled, "Be careful."

"You too."

She sticked out her tongue, "It's not me who's going into the wolf's mouth."

"So dramatic. I'm going there as a guest of honor, they'll ruin their reputations by disrespecting me."

Illia shook her head, "Make sure to bring me a gift, you doofus."

He mounted Epona, nodded to Illia.

"See you later."

She waved to him till she could no longer see his back.

#the legend of zelda #twilight princess #fanfic #zelink #melted #ch.15

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jj-lynn21 · 5 years

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VEE Chapter 16

ch 1, ch 2, ch 3 ch 4 ch 5 ch 6 ch 7 ch 8 ch 9 ch 10 ch11 ch 12 CH 13

ch 14 ch 15 ch 17

warnings: blood drinking, angst,

Jen reached over to take Bill’s hand as a group of women were brought into the ballroom. Bill pulled away. She looked at him surprise. He looked away.

Eric announces, “These women have offered their services to the Princess. Whoever she chooses, will work for her in the Castle. Please come up one by one to meet with us. The Princess will make her decisions before you are dismissed.” He looks to Jen, “Is that fair Princess?”

“That sounds fair.” Jen touches Bill’s arm. “Does that sound fair to you My Prince?”

Bill dismisses her, “Its fine. Whatever you want.”

Eric grinned, “I have a gift for you Princess. Whether you choose to keep her as a slave or throw her out is up to you, but I think you will like to see her beg you to stay.” He snapped his fingers twice, “Bring Brenda here first.” Brenda rushes up smiling and happy which Jen has never seen on her face before. Eric demands “Kneel in front of your Princess. Offer her your wrist and don’t look at her unless she allows it.”

Bill yelled, “What the Fuck Eric?”

Eric just grinned as Brenda got on her knees in front of Jen.

Lifting Brenda’s arm up Jen laughed, “Come on my Prince share her with me.” She looked over to Eric, “This was a nice gesture my King. Thank you.”

Bill took Brenda’s other wrist. He was only doing this because he was hungry. He was sure the attention his Brother was paying to Jen, getting her this person who tormented her to be her slave, was just a ploy to woo her. And by Jen’s laughter and willingness to accept the gift Bill thought Eric could win her over.

“I know what he is doing. You can’t fall for this Jen.” Bill pleaded.

“I’m not falling for anything, but I am damn well enjoying this moment.” She huffed. “Now let us have a few snacks and move on. Please, my Prince.”

She smiled at him lovingly. He nodded and they both bit into Brenda.

Brenda didn’t scream or move. “Take it all. My life for you Princess.”

Bill stopped, healed Brenda and looked to Eric who was grinning with pride from his temptation game. “Stop Princess. Don’t do this…”

Jen had stopped before Bill said don’t. She did wait an extra millisecond before healing Brenda but not nearly long enough to kill her. “I’m fine my Prince. I could have gone a little longer I think.”

Eric laughed. He was enjoying pissing off his brother more than tempting Jen to Kill someone.

Brenda begged, “Have some more my Princess, please. Keep me here with you and I will do anything you want.”

Jen smirked, “Anything I want, you say?”

Brenda said, “Yes of course my Princess.”

Bill cried out, “Enough already Eric. Let Brenda go back to her new life.”

Eric leered, “It’s not up to me Bill. It’s up to the Princess.”

Jen waved her hand, “She is dismissed. I never want to see her anywhere near me again.” Brenda starts begging and pleading more. Jen expelled her, “I said you are not good enough to be near me. Take her out of my site.”

Eric snapped, “You heard the Princess. Take her out. Wipe her memory of this place and send her home after she rests. Bring up Brenda’s wife Erica.”

Bill growled, “Why can’t you just let the people be happy when I help them.”

Jen tried to assure her Prince, “My Prince I will let her go but can we drink first?”

Bill scowls, “You want to let her go to Brenda or you think that is what will please me.”

Jen hesitates just long enough to push Bill to his limits.

“Fuck You two.” He got up storming away. “Be all sadistic with people all you want. I want no part of it. Before you know it, he will have you turning your friends into us to wait on your every need.”

Jen gets up to follow him.

Eric puts his hand up to stop her. “I would never tell you to make your friends join us. Now, you still have work to do Princess. Let him cool off. You have lady’s in waiting to choose. Now would you like to taste Erica before sending her along or move on to the others?”

Jen sat reluctantly, “Let’s move on with this.”

“Would you like to sit over by me since we are so far apart and the only two here?” Eric offered.

Jen glared, “Not happening my King.”

Eric grinned, “As you wish Princess.”

Jen quickly chooses the next three women to be her maidens barely drinking from each. She looks to Eric in anger. He likes the fire in her eyes but showed nothing.

“Are we done here?” She grumbled.

“For now I suppose we are done unless there is any else you want?” He releases her.

She gets up and runs off to discuss things with Bill. She knows damn well what Eric was doing and Bill should know better than to think she can be easily manipulated. She pushes open the door. “What the fuck was that all about?”

Bill was shirtless and drinking. The girl didn’t budge or make a sound when Jen came in yelling. Bill licked her wound healing it, kissed her cheek and smiled as he caressed her cheek to make Jen feel some of the jealousy he was feeling. Jen stood with her arms crossed waiting for him to excuse his food source.

Bill dismissed her, “That will be all Missy. You may go.” The girl left. He moved quickly to loom over Jen. “You want to Fuck my brother, go.”

Jen scowled, “I repeat, what the Fuck? I don’t want to fuck your brother. When the hell did you even feel that I did. Oh, I forgot you turn everything off in there and let your inner turmoil eat you alive.”

“You loved everything he got for you.” Bill screamed, “You were fine torturing those women. You enjoyed it. It made you happy for Brenda to be humiliated and begging you. You would break her and her wife apart for some pay back for the person she…”

Jen pushed him back from her, her hands on his chest. She didn’t use any force she just didn’t like the way he was looking down at her. “If you would have stayed you would have known I didn’t touch Erica. She deserves better. Brenda on the other hand deserved that humiliation. I did enjoy it. I enjoyed it a lot. You have no idea what she was like to me. She had no problem laughing and humiliating me. I did control myself which was quite difficult with her begging. But it also made it easier in a way. Maybe she will feel a little like how she has made others feel. Your brother was enjoying himself…”

“It was wrong.” He pushed her up against the wall getting in her face.“Did he offer you the seat beside him. I bet he did. I bet you can’t resist the thought of being a Queen.”

Bill pinned her to the wall. He turned into Eric.

Jen looked away. Tears started running down her face.

He nuzzled her neck and whispered in her ear. “Come on you know you want it all. You were born to be Queen.” He slid his hand up her skirt. “You can have whoever you want brought here to humiliate and torture if you wish it my Queen. You want this so bad…”

As Jen pushes him clear across the room on to the bed she screams, “No I don’t want you. I don’t want to be Queen. I’m the Mother Fucking Princess and I love Bill.”

She jumps on to the bed over Bill who has turned back to himself. “You are going to have to accept me for who I am completely, or I’ll just leave.I will figure something out. I love you and I thought you loved me. I think others may have banged your brother. Maybe right in front of you to cause this issue you have but I’m not like anyone else. You already know that. So, what is it going to be? Am I your Princess or do you want me gone?”

Bill breathed heavily, “Your fucking hot when you are angry.”

Jen glared, “shut up and answer my question.”

She grinds into him and kisses his neck. He groans. She has him pinned down to the bed.

He couldn’t get up even if he wanted to, which he doesn’t. “I’m sorry my Princess. I accept you. I love you. Now let me go so I can touch you and show you.”

Jen grins.

#royalty #blood #blood drinking #mind control #revenge #anger #jealousy #prince #princess #king #lol #ball #writing #creative writing #story #romance #vee

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yeonchi · 4 years

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Doctor Who Series 12 Review Part 2/10: Spyfall Part Two

Air date: 5 January 2020

If the last episode didn’t raise enough questions for me already, this episode raises more questions and doesn’t bother to answer the questions I had last time. It’s like Dark Water/Death in Heaven all over again. We’re definitely going back to where Doctor Who should be.

Here’s this week’s spoiler-free thought: “Will some of them be coming back later?”

Spoilers continue after the break. Once again, please make sure you have watched both last week and this week’s episode before you proceed.

I’m putting this at the top now - I’ll be away for the next two episodes, so the reviews for them and the fifth episode will be delayed to the week of 27 January.

Oh, and just before I start - this review was sponsored by ZAIA Enterprise.

Where we last left off

A quick summary of Part One - the Doctor and her friends are enlisted by MI6 to investigate the deaths of spies across the world who had their DNA rewritten. While the Doctor and Graham meet with an old friend of the former named “O”, Ryan and Yaz were sent to investigate Daniel Barton and his company, VOR, where they learn that Barton is 93% human. They then head to a party Barton invited them to and chased him to his plane, where “O” reveals himself to be the Master just as a bomb destroys the cockpit of the plane, Barton nowhere in sight. The Doctor is seemingly sent to an unknown realm, the same one that Yaz was sent to earlier.

The villains that became overshadowed (for a while)

So in this episode, the Kasaavin are finally mentioned and revealed to be beings from another dimension spying throughout time. They apparently also had a connection with Ada Lovelace (Gordon), which is later revealed to be because of her links to the history of the computer, which the Kasaavin were studying. I can’t help but feel that the Master and Barton overshadowed them once we got to Part Two, but they do still have some relevance. The Kasaavin’s goal is to assimilate humanity and use their DNA as a storage medium. Daniel Barton allowed himself to be used as a test subject, explaining the 93% human DNA in him. The Master wanted to facilitate Barton and the Kasaavin’s plans before getting rid of them, which backfired on him and left him trapped in the Kasaavin’s realm.

Back to O, the elephant in the room

In the review for the last episode, I didn’t believe that Sacha Dhawan was the Master because of two main things; assuming that this incarnation comes after Missy, how would she have survived getting the full blast from Saxon’s laser screwdriver and even if she did, how would she have escaped the Mondasian ship without a TARDIS? Following this, the official Doctor Who Facebook and YouTube pages posted a video of Dhawan describing a brief history of the Master which seemed to cement the fact that O was in fact another incarnation of said Time Lord.

That being said, some thoughts did come to me over the past week, while looking at other people’s comments and opinions about the episode. The Master is an archnemesis of the Doctor and during their confrontations, his main goal is to gain moral and tactical dominance over the Doctor. Therefore, I don’t think the Master would have any reason to die unless it was to spite the Doctor, which he did at the end of the Series 3 finale, The Last of the Time Lords. Had it not been for Missy’s trick with her vortex manipulator, she would have died after spiting the Doctor again at the end of Death in Heaven.

Now that I’ve watched the episode, I guess I can accept that Sacha Dhawan is the Master, but the problem now remains as to which point in his timeline this incarnation is. Information from the Doctor Who Wiki presumes that he comes after Missy, but there are still people out there who are saying that he comes between Saxon and Missy. If the former is the case, then I guess my theory is that Saxon lied and didn’t actually give Missy the full blast, because again, I don’t think he would want to rob his future self of chances to spite the Doctor again. We don’t have any further information about this, so I guess we’ll just have to see... or maybe we won’t get an answer for a very long time. I still would have liked to see the Rani return, or I wish Moffat didn’t kill Missy off and rather just left her to regenerate.

Some people have said that O is a Master from another timeline or universe, but I don’t buy it; there’s barely any indication of him being as such, even after the “multiple Earths” seen in his hut (or rather, TARDIS) were revealed to represent multiple time periods, and even if it were so, how do we know the Doctor in this universe is the same as the Doctor from whatever universe he’s from?

Gallifrey, the next elephant in the room

So with the issue of the Master barely answered, we have another issue raised - what is going on with Gallifrey? When I heard the Master mention Gallifrey being destroyed “in its little bubble universe”, I thought he was talking about the Time War, but it turned out that he destroyed it because he discovered that the Time Lords’ existence was built on “the lie of the Timeless Child”, something which was brought up back in The Ghost Monument. We still don’t know when in Gallifrey’s history that was and this complicates the Master’s timeline even further, because the last time we knew the Master was on Gallifrey was Saxon in The End of Time.

If you’ve followed Doctor Who for a while, then you’ll probably know that the Doctor hasn’t always had the best working relationship with the Time Lords and nor has the Master, hence their classification as renegade Time Lords. A lot of Gallifreyans revere the Doctor for his actions during the Time War, but it seems that the Doctor doesn’t have a lot of respect for certain Time Lords, such as Rassilon.

Let’s just hope the Timeless Child mystery doesn’t end up being a rehash of the Hybrid arc with no answer.

Other general thoughts

I wasn’t able to find any tokusatsu parallels last week, but now that the second part is out (along with the 17th episode of Kamen Rider Zero-One), I managed to spot one. Daniel Barton strikes me as a hybrid between Gai Amatsu of Zero-One (ZAIA reference at the start is purely coincidental and memetic) and Adel of Ghost. Amatsu only started coming to the spotlight in the 16th episode, but I’ve got a feeling that he has more sinister plans in store. Adel killed his father, Adonis, (twice) because their views of a perfect world didn’t match.

Connecting with the comparison to Adel, Barton’s conflict with his mother seems to stem from him moving to the US and not recognising his power. If it weren’t for that fact that he was going to start unleashing the Kasaavin on everyone, then that’s a pretty shallow reason to kill his mother, specially given that we don’t hear a lot about what their conflict was.

Noor Inayat Khan was stationed in Paris in 1943. On 13 October 1943, she was arrested after being betrayed to the Germans. She attempted to escape twice, but was taken to Germany and imprisoned in solitary confinement. Ten months after, she was abruptly transferred to Dachau concentration camp and was executed at dawn on the following morning, 13 September 1944, along with three other female agents. You’re welcome.

There are a couple of throwbacks to the RTD and Moffat eras, namely the companions going on the run inspired from The Sound of Drums and the whole timey-wimey “facilitating something in the past” thing from multiple Moffat episodes.

The Master used a perception filter to blend himself in with the Nazis, but when it got jammed by the Doctor, he was left to survive the next 77 years without his TARDIS. Let that sink in.

Some people mentioned that the Doctor wiping Ada and Noor’s minds was unjustified. For Ada, I can justify it because she was optimistic about what she learned (and she had another 18 years to live), but for Noor, I wish that the Doctor left something in her mind at least, given that she won’t see her family again until she dies the year after. Also, they’re historical figures, so the Doctor is obliged not to affect their histories too much; most who have encountered the Doctor never travel in the TARDIS, so their memories aren’t erased. Vincent van Gogh comes to mind in this regard, as he travelled to the future with the Doctor and didn’t have his mind erased. The Doctor took him to 2010 as he wanted to show him how people in the future would remember him. Sadly though, his mental problems continued plaguing him and he committed suicide soon after.

Summary and verdict

This episode reminded me that Chris Chibnall continues to rip off stuff from past eras of Doctor Who. On a first watch, the episode was quite epic, but when I started putting the pieces together, I was left with more questions than answers. Chibnall’s a real Shirakura alright, with a bit of Toshiki Inoue thrown in for good measure. I usually base my final ratings on the first watch of the episode and not with afterthoughts taken into account in order to prevent bias.

We’re finally getting back into the swing of things with the reintroduction of the Timeless Child. At this point, I’m predicting that the Master (and maybe Barton) will be back by the end of this series.

“Everything you think you know is a lie.” Maybe this line from the end of the last episode could also be directed to us as well, particularly in regards to the Master’s complicated timeline caused by his return.

As I said at the start of this review, I’ll be out for two weeks starting next Monday, so the reviews for the third, fourth and fifth episodes will be delayed. I will be watching the episodes, but I won’t be able to write reviews on them until I get back. Hopefully, I’ll get them released on the week of 27 January.

Rating: 8/10

See you all at the end of the month when I attempt to write reviews for the next three episodes in a week, starting from the third episode, Orphan 55.

#doctor who #doctor who series 12 #thirteenth doctor #doctor who series 12 review #thirteenth doctor review

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horizondawn · 7 years

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For the Doctor Who ask thingy, if that's alright! 7, 13, 19, 23, and 25

It sure is! :D

7. Favourite companion/doctor relationship

ughhh, this one is hard too! haha This is what happens when I love pretty much everyone literally equally (well in Moffat’s era anyway). Dang it between Amy/Rory/Doctor and Clara/Doctor it’s ridiculous (the only reason Bill isn’t included is ONLY because of the fact that there is only one series to go off of, and she’s with a Doctor who (lol) knows who he is). See, friendships and family mean the entire world to me, so that’s why the Ponds are so important on a personal ground, but Clara is the one who helped the Doctor truly understand and accept who he, or eventually they, are at their core. For those of us who read every little sliver of character development we possibly can, we see who the Doctor is more than ever right now, and that’s all thanks to Clara really, for being there after he lost the Ponds. It blends a lot for me because everything about Eleven and his relationships with his friends is what ultimately lead him to where he is now. And we can’t forget that Missy is the one entirely responsible for bringing Clara and the Doctor together in the first place. It’s all a mess of emotions for me with the Doctor and his companions in the era of the Moff.

13. First story you saw on TV.

If we’re talking about on the actual channel it originally airs on (BBCA for me) than it would be The Magician’s Apprentice. When I got into Doctor Who I lived in South Korea, so there wasn’t a way for me to watch it except for livestreams and streaming sites while series 8 aired. By the time series 9 started I had moved back to America, so I had actual TV again for the first time in over 2 years.

19. Favourite one off monster

I never actually thought about this before. Hmmm… that’s a tough one, but the episode that first popped into my head was the unnamed monster in Midnight. That episode was seriously messed up psychologically, and we didn’t even see the dang thing and don’t know what it’s called. I just have a fear of not being in control of my emotions and actions, and that’s exactly what it strips away from you. And it made everyone else go mad. I’m sure there are other great ones that I’ve forgotten, but this is one that definitely stands out.

23. Least favourite companion (why?)

Okay hopefully this stays in a safe spot because it’s a pretty unpopular opinion for a certain portion of the fandom. And I’m not saying I hate her, but Rose is at the bottom of the list. Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE her in series 1. She is fabulous and I absolutely adore her. Once Ten comes in though she becomes this bratty and clingy child who just wants the Doctor to herself. And then her lingering presence makes itself known in not very good ways following her departure that hurt Martha and Donna within the narrative even when she wasn’t there. Not only that, but her actual return was extremely anti-climatic. And in the end she got her Doctor clone. Her character was just a mess after series 1 as a whole, but even then I wouldn’t have had that much of a problem with her if it weren’t for Rose-stans people. She’s good as a whole for the introduction of the show and I will not invalidate her importance to the Doctor with her being his first companion after the Time War, but her character got really sloppy in the end and I felt like she didn’t grow at all really as an individual, again following series 1. But again, that’s just me. People are allowed to love her of course. It’s that certain part of the fandom that has ruined her enjoyment for me to the point I can’t look at her without that bitterness most of the time because you know, Moffat companions are “flat and are only mysteries to solve” apparently to them.

25. Favourite EU companion?

I actually got really excited about this question. And because I talk about the EU so little I’m going to mention my top three. First is the lovely Josephine Day. Holy I love this girl so much. She’s the companion of the eighth Doctor from Titan Comics. She’s smart, has a wonderful personality, she loves art, and she and the eighth Doctor are so in sync and balance one another wonderfully. And there’s a wonderful little twist at the end. It’s only 5 volumes long, so I highly recommend it for a short story but wonderful character (and the art is absolutely lovely as well).

The other two are ironically companions of Eight as well, and sometimes River Song. Yeah, I’m talking about Liv Chenka and Helen Sinclair. TBH I do need to listen to their stories again to remember specific details, but once again I just love their dynamic with the Doctor, and how gay everything becomes when River shows up. It’s not even River’s interactions with the Doctor I get excited about (which isn’t as much as you think since it’s always younger versions), but River with Liv and Helen gives me life. If you can find a way to listen to it, Doom Coalition is astounding, and Liv and Helen are half of the reason it is.

#thiswolflovespizza #heather answers #meme asks

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Nitpicks and minor complaints about this series of Doctor Who and how I’d have fixed them

Overall, I really enjoyed the latest series of Doctor Who. It’s the most I’ve liked Doctor Who in a long time. It wasn’t perfect but it was fun and I loved Bill Potts. Under the keep reading are a few minor things that I think could have been done better or things I still want to know. They are said with love cos I really did like this series.

Damn it, Moffat! Why did Bill have to die (or become immorally undead like Clara)? Note: I’m not really blaming Moffat for this. I don’t know if Pearl Mackie only wanted to do one season or if she wasn’t given a choice but I’d have liked more stories with Bill.

The other thing that upset me a bit was that the Doctor’s eyesight was fixed. Not counting the episode that happened in a simulation, the Doctor was blind for one episode before Bill consented to the Monks so that he could see again and escape. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t have a problem with Bill making that deal, it was perfectly in character. It’s just that it felt like an easy fix.

I’m not a fan of giving a character a disability only to have it cured completely, easily and quickly. I’d have loved if the Doctor remained blind until he regenerated. It gave such great opportunities for stories and would have shown that the Doctor can be awesome while completely blind.

If Bill been a little less specific when she asked the Monks to save the Doctor, they could have made it so that the lock numbers were also in brail. That would have meant he could get out without curing his blindness.

Here are a few other minor nitpicks, complaints and unanswered questions I had-

Why was the Tardis malfunctioning in ‘Empress of Mars’? It went straight back to the Doctor’s office at the University. Did Missy mess with it just so that she could ‘fix’ it and help save the day?

Why did Bill’s opinion of Missy change so much between ‘The Lie of the Land’ and ‘World Enough and Time’? Bill might not have liked Missy’s solution to the Monk problem but she understood and agreed with it so why was she so scared of her by the penultimate episode?

They never seemed to know what to do with Nardole.

Why the hell did the Doctor aim his, ‘stand with me’ speech at John Simm’s Master and then only ask Missy to stay as an after though? This one did annoy me. Look at Missy when you talk, Doctor! She’s the one you spent hundreds of years trying to help change. The Master hasn’t been through that yet.

This series was only 12 episodes long rather than the usual 13. I feel like most of the little nitpicks I just mentioned, could have been fixed with one more episode and/or the odd scene here and there.

I’d have liked to see Bill visiting Missy in the Vault. Bill could have talked to Missy about her life only for Missy to tell her she’s boring. Missy could then tell Bill some of the things she’s done over the years and mess with Bill’s head a bit.

“You know dear, the moment I get out of here, I’m going to snap your pretty little neck,” Missy told Bill before for her face cracked into a grin, “Just kidding! You shouldn’t take things so personally. If I wanted you dead, you wouldn’t still be breathing.”

“The Doctor thinks I can change, bless his little bleeding heart. It’s going to destroy him when he thinks can trust me and I stab him in the back… Joking! I’d never kill him. He’s too much fun alive.”

Then I’d have had an episode before ‘World Enough and Time’ where the Doctor attempted a more controlled test run with Missy. Missy comes along for the adventure and the Doctor doesn’t stay in the Tardis but plans to stay close to her so she can’t get into mischief.

Shenanigans happen and somehow Missy and Bill end up separated from the Doctor. Bill gets into a dangerous situation and Missy ends up saving her life. However, we see Missy hesitate first. Afterwards Missy being Missy says that she only did it to gain the Doctor’s trust, that the Doctor would be disappointed in her if she didn’t and/or that if anyone is going to kill Bill it’s going to be Missy herself.

“Don’t go think I like you or anything. I saved you for completely selfish reasons. I’m going to find a puppy to kick now just to prove I’m still the worst.”

That way, it builds on Missy’s character more. We aren’t quite sure if she’s really changed or what her motives are and the progression of her restrictions being lifted doesn’t feel so sudden.

Again, I liked this series of Doctor Who. These are nitpicks and didn’t stop me enjoying watching it.

#doctor who #bill potts #Missy #the master #nardole #new who

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