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falconfriend · 3 years

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AU where some different things are possible. Don't read too much into Jay's techno babble, quite honestly, I might edit some of it out, it's not the point.

Don't be surprised if you see this edited before the final ff.net post, but it's here, and I'm happy with it. The original concept has a chapter in which our two main characters talk together and process, and that is still very, very important to me, I'll probably bring it back.

See tags for warnings.

The amount of power Zane is channeling right now shouldn't be possible. Jay made darn sure to learn everything he could about Zane's possible repairs while Dr. Julien was still alive—the other guys didn't like to think about it back then, but come on, he was old, Jay knew, everyone else knew too even if they weren't saying it— so anyway, he'd spin wild hypotheticals, ask what happens if one tiny piece of machinery goes wrong.

Lloyd would hit the point where he wanders off, self-consciously chuckling that this isn't really his area but he feels like he's kinda learning things, and Jay would watch the clock tick until Nya got bored... and then, that was his opening, to fire off whatever question would come off as too rude while the others were around.

The doctor would smile in a sort of understanding, if slightly flummoxed, way, and he'd start answering. Jay got a lot of answers! He figured out how to put all of Dr. Julien's numbers into his numbers, you know, the kind we learn in the modern century, and made a copy of Zane's schematics with his notes. He had a harder time finding the focus to figure out the Falcon, but Nya and Lloyd are on that anyway. Logical division of labor.

What is he talking about. What was he thinking about. Zane's dying.

Distractedly, he answers- "I said critical mass. If he doesn't contain that, he could go nuclear."

"He's containing it, right?"

"It doesn't- matter." Containing it also means dying.

"Why wouldn't it matter, Jay-"

Jay asked a lot of questions, but he never did even think to ask about Zane's power source. Shouldn't that be the first thing? Why weren't we asking questions about the power source?

He knows approximately how much power Zane runs on. He knows it isn't this much. He knows how a storm feels, right before lightning is about to strike, what builds up in the air and how much damage it can do, right before he—

Jay takes a step forward.

Wu puts an arm across his shoulders, pulling him back. Jay just about slaps him off before realizing that's a quick way to get himself thrown to the ground and shut up before he can start,

So he waits, a frustrating two, three seconds, until he finds words.

"I can help." His throat is dry and he wouldn't mind except that he needs to be louder. "Get me to him, I can help!"

The rest of the ninja are turning to look at Jay… so… slow. Cole looks like he could be swimming through molasses. Jay seethes, and flexes and unfurls his fists by his sides to let it out, and takes a small step back instead of forward.

It works. Sensei releases him, almost.

Kai looks like he might be committing a crime if he lets himself look away from Zane, which isn't helping. Finally, though, he opens his mouth before Jay can. "Your powers? …Do you think?"

"'Do I think-' yes, I think, that's electricity. Or, electromagnetic- whatever. It's energy. I can feel it, Kai- this is taking too long! Where's Pixal- Pixal! Pixal, yoo-hoo, tell them I can help!"

"That won't be necessary," says Wu. Everyone is moving like an old man right now, taking their time; Jay's sure of it. Remember that comment about Cole? It feels like Jay's the only thing who isn't wading through molasses. Jay and the Digital Overlord, that is, and Zane, who cries out so bad Jay spends that moment sure that everything's over and Zane is gone now-

Everyone is moving like the slow old man Sensei talks like, but then Jay sort of- must have blinked, or something, because suddenly, they're all shifted. Cole sets a hand sturdily against his shoulder. It takes him a moment to realize that they're all on his side.

Jay finds a hardened, gold feeling deep in his chest, and latches onto it, and uses it to find his voice. "Okay." Okay. Look. Think. "Cole, I'm going to run at you and I need you to launch me, onto that web. Lloyd, use your energy to boost me."

"But-"

"We don't have time! It's just a scratch."

"Keep him on the edge of the blast. Try to center it about two meters from him." Jay looks back at Nya, Nya looks back at him. It's like they're both realizing how small everything has been. They're nineteen- Jay's nineteen, Nya's eighteen. It's like- like, we didn't need to know the shape of the care right now, I care about you.

Nya waves him away to the task at hand with a smile that means What? Anyway, you're coming back.

Jay looks at Cole and Lloyd. They look back at him. "Well, let's go." With a serious expression, not a word in response and not wasting a second, Cole stoops, palms up and fingers intertwined, a foot-sized platform.

"I'm ready for you, Walker."

He gulps. Time freezes for a second and then skips forward again, like half a second that definitely shouldn't be allowed to be that long. "Okay."

Kai steps forward, like he's going to- hug him, maybe? Rub his back? Push him forward?

"Okay ninja-go—" he kicks off and twists. Off the ground, off Cole's intertwined hands, launching him into the air- about to panic and yell Now, Lloyd when Lloyd finds the right moment anyway, blast re-aiming him just as he's about to fall-

He's sailing through the air, back sore and ears still ringing as the wind whistles past them. Ninjago city sails beneath him. He's two feet short of Zane's hand. He's going to miss.

He's going to miss, he's sorry, and they don't have a second shot, and not that it would be okay if he didn't but now he's going to get all caught in the explosion too,

And Zane reaches back, and grabs his hand.

The jolt that immediately moves through Jay is an absolutely massive electrical discharge. It tries to run from him straight to ground; at first, he was not connected to the circuit, so the electricity is looking for him as its way out. Here's the thing about electricity—it doesn't ask questions. It's already moving by the time your question is halfway out of your mouth, and that's why you need to either be five steps ahead or be ready to start improvising right now or else you're dead.

Something about that isn't how electricity should work, though. It doesn't rush into... a wire that isn't connected to a throughline. Batteries have two ends, positive and negative, and a wire that isn't connected to both of them might as well not be a wire at all— electricity isn't trying to get out, it's trying to get to somewhere, electrons hungry to get to that battery's positive side. Every single electrical invention in the world is formed by humans forcing those electrons to take the long way.

This electricity doesn't have a destination.

The Digital Overlord is always destroying. That means energy in him is leeching outward; this isn't just entropy, this is entropy gone rogue. Jay doesn't know where he's getting the electricity from, but- if he can destroy, maybe he can create. Who knows. Whatever. What becomes apparent right then is that it seems like the Overlord needs to always leech outward, and what Zane is doing is containing him. Sooner or later the snake eats its own tail.

Zane nods, with a firm little hum, as if he can tell from Jay's face what's going on in his head. It's businesslike, and it jolts Jay back to work. Jay can stand this for a few minutes longer, but Zane- Zane's dying.

So: parallel paths. Create two paths, two options, and the electricity will keep looking for how it can be the least crowded. It's like the reason air leaves a popped balloon, kinda like pressure but with a thousand electrons that all hate each other and feel indifferent about you. Or picture... getting into a crowded convention center, and someone coming running to announce they've just opened a second doorway, and that you can get in through either line. Create two paths, and only half of it goes through Zane.

Zane releases his hand.

They really, really need to have a talk later, but Jay is relieved it's not a talk about being willing to be saved. He's helping himself be saved.

Jay holds one of the golden contact points in one hand, and one in the other. The energy rolling around his ligaments and bones deflates, taking the easiest path.

"I had hoped you would do that behind me," says Zane, whose eyes are now closed.

Jay doesn't really try for a little laugh, so much as his body tries for a little laugh, like his brain is fine-tuned into making his excuses with or without him. "You could've said that earlier."

"No, it's alright. Just… here, scoot a little to the side-"

"This is pathetic," hisses a condensed-evil murmur over their shoulder, like it's obligated to, "YOU THINK YOU CAN DEFEAT ME?"

"Yes," says Zane.

And the bluewhite what-is-that-stuff that he'd once used to take down a plain old treehorn beams closer past Jay's cheek than he can really say he's comfortable with. It's almost like being near a fire- a live wire, static. He's not too cold, but he's sure if he touched it, it would move straight through rapid-action frostbite into part of his face falling off.

"Jay, now." Jay isn't sure what he means by now, that uh, isn't very clear, but he spends a half-second in panic before realizing Zane's ice is running a cable to ground. It'll keep a direct hit from coming back for them. It means, since this is the only window before it connects, they need to hit him now.

Jay pulls the electricity out of himself, out of the air- he takes whatever excess Zane will give him, when he touches his hand- and he breaks the circuit. He shoves it, with force, the opposite of the ways electrons want to work, not the way lightning wants to work—but that's the first step of making lightning. You build up a gap. The buildup snaps from him into the Digital Overlord's metal body. Something is wrung out of him like a sponge.

There's a thunderclap that shakes the city and an explosion that's- like a video game character died. Like it's not a real explosion, it's just something- dissipating. The city just turns white.

Jay becomes aware that he's flying again for the first time in two years, and Zane is holding onto him but losing strength. And then it turns out that he's got his arms around Zane, too. He only figures that out when he starts to panic that Zane's going to fall, and the tug of Zane's weight on his arms doubles, and alerts him that they're there, secure. His body was thinking ahead, even if he wasn't.

Zane's out. He's… fine. He's fine. He's got to be fine.

And while we're at it, Jay's hoping he's fine. His heart feels- wrong.

The first thing he needs to do is get back to land, the second thing he needs to do is look at… is get Nya to look at Zane, he's not even sure he can trust his senses. Huh, hang on, there's a sound other than the ringing in his ears.

"Jay!"

That's Pixal.

"Jay!"

She's standing on the roof of Borg Tower, waving her arms, and just as Jay starts to settle enough to realize he's not frozen, adrenaline's not gonna stop him from moving and he should fly somewhere. ...Huh. He has to pick where.

It would be a really good move to let their friends see they're alive. Nya's good at robotics.

Pixal and Borg… can probably fix him faster.

Zane sparks, hard.

Like Superman, made of light, Jay descends toward Borg Tower in a graceful arc. His feet connect with the roof with a very soft patter. He locks eyes with Pixal to hand off their boy to her.

"Whoa, okay, Sparky, geez. Just thought I'd keep the sweat out of your eyes."

Well. That's not correct.

There are the tiles of a hospital ceiling in front of his eyes, which feels more correct. Apparently, Kai is also in the room, because—

"Yeah. He's okay."

—well, because that's Kai.

Cole, of all the things that could happen here, squeezes Jay's hand. It occurs to Jay that he could have died on- on really, really weird terms with him.

Whoof. Jay takes stock of his body. He starts by feeling the sheets, just to figure out where his body is, then investigates the muscles and aches beneath them. He's in one of those medical gowns that closes in the back.

Everything feels... pretty okay? No, everything feels like he's just been stretched in every direction like a piece of toffee.

No, everything feels like he's just been stretched in every direction like a piece of toffee, but also maybe like he is toffee, so he's fine.

He, uh, definitely can't move. And that feels wrong, but at least he's identified the reason he's in a hospital bed, rather than wondering. He'd find this a lot harder to process if he had walked away from it without a scratch at all, even though it would have been cooler. He sort of wonders if anyone would bring his chart over where he can read it.

"Uh, yeah, that's all great, but what about Zane?"

Kai lets out a small, slightly-amused very-concerned snort. "Jay, you asked that already. He's okay."

"Go easy on him."

That's Lloyd. There are, wow, a lot of people in this room. It's gotta be a pretty small room? Hospital rooms aren't that large. Are his parents here?

"They're on their way."

"My mouth keeps saying whatever's in my brain."

Cole laughs. "Hey, don't worry everyone, he's back to normal."

Jay's breath does a weird thing in his lungs. It's like his body is focusing on every sensory detail except where it hurts. "Yeah, you're just jealous of how I looked up there."

Cole could nearly double over laughing at another time, but right now everything about him is subdued, gentle. Jay could see him ruffling his hair if he wasn't, you know. In a hospital bed. "Sure am, sparkplug."

And there's quiet for a beat.

Jay continues, still staring at the ceiling, "Hey, Nya, how bad are you gonna kill me."

"Oh, uh—" That's Lloyd again, kicking one heel awkwardly back against the wall. Kai speaks quickly—

"She wanted to be here. It's killing her not to, I mean— everyone did. Sensei, too. We told them we've got you."

"That's nice."

"I-I said I'd run and call her once you're awake, just to let her know. I should probably go do that now. She's—"

"With Zane," Jay finishes, no bones about it. Kai nods. "That's nice." The way energy thrums from Jay's palms feels different now, like he's not just pulling it from the air, like there's a battery under his skin, but that's. That's a question for training time. It's sleep time, now.

A/N: Why did the writers say "it's reaching critical mass." I still don't know what that means. Zane's power source is presumably based on some kind of nuclear fission then, but I'm not sure what "critical mass" has to do with the Digital Overlord encounter? If anyone knows how that's relevant to how Zane died, please lend me your knowledge, I'd be very grateful and schooled.

Anyway, critically, this is an AU where it is possible for Jay to help, not an AU where Jay notices he can help. It's built on the assertion that there was nothing Jay could do in the original, but in this universe, different things were possible.

#ninjago #jay walker #zane julien #jay ninjago #zane ninjago #warnings:#hospitals #there's some narration of Jay's thoughts not making linear sense which might be disorienting to some readers

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goldenretriever-nicknelson · 5 years

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Blurb Masterlist

Main || One-shots || Series || SMAU || Blurb 2 || Edits

I realised I write a lot of blurbs and so I thought I’d put them all in once place. This is a collection from this blog and my old one (@parkerpeterholland).

This will be updated as I post. You can also track them with my tag #katiesblurbs.

KEY = HC (headcanon) || 🥀 = angst | 🌹 = Fluff | 💦 = smut |

Events

12 days of blurbmas

The interview 🌹

Plane journey (HC) 🌹

First date (HC) 🌹

Twins 🌹

Going public // part 2 🌹

The break-up 🥀

Bafta 🌹

Old-fashioned 🌹

Knitting 🌹

Make me (Mob!Tom) 💦

Marked 💦

Love and Pizza 🌹

Slow dance 🌹

Crazy in love 💦

Forget him 💦

Close the door 🌹

Valentine’s day 🌹

Perfect match 🌹

The present 🌹

Rainy day 🌹

Voice of an angel 🌹

Compliments 🌹

Supermarket 🌹

Monday Night 💦

Tease 💦

Frat!Tom // Part 2 💦

Praise me 💦

Dream // Part 2 💦

Other things 💦

Morning 💦

Adventurous 💦

Cute idiot 🌹

Tess the matchmaker 🌹

I’ve got you 🌹

Hair 🌹

Rich kid 🌹

Cute showers 🌹

Mario Kart 🌹

Interview crash 🌹

Small kick 🌹

Co-star romance 🌹

Dinner thief 🌹

Fight to Fluff 🌹

New positions 💦

Punishment 💦

It’s mutual 💦

Touch 💦

Truth or Dare 💦

Three can play that game 💦

Not all superheroes 🌹

Tom taking care of you / movie night with haz 🌹

Pet names 🌹

Love making and warm cuddles 🌹 💦

Restless 🌹

Paintball 🌹

Talk show 🌹

Tired cuddles 🌹

Library 💦

Body shots // Part 2 🥀 🌹

Birthday event 2020/2021

Stay 🌹

Best present 🌹

Good morning 💦

Surprise 🌹

Secret 🌹

Missed you 🌹 💦

Happy birthday baby 🌹

Jealousy looks good on you 💦

A boat trip (HC) 🌹

Sleep (HC) 🌹

The perfect storm 🌹

Not your fault (contains endgame spoilers) 💔

Concussed 🥀 🌹

Avenger // Part 2 🌹

Jokes 🌹 (💦ish)

Learning 💦

Perfectly imperfect 💦

Unexpected 🌹

Act cool 🌹

Love to hate 🌹

Wisdom teeth 🌹

Sunrise 🌹

Confessions 🌹

Kiss practise 🌹

Queen 🌹

Babysitting 🌹

Drawing 🌹

Stargaze 🌹

Date night 🌹

Vocal 💦

Ballet 🌹

Halloween costume 🌹

Pride Month 2021

Bi!Peter 🌹

Questioning 🌹

Birthday events

The party 🌹

Dad!Peter 🌹

Hold my hand 🌹

Call me 💦 🌹

Adorable 🌹

Drunk 🌹

Competitive 🌹

Surprise 💦

Three can play that game 💦

Rough 💦

Riding (t)high 💦

Tom taking care of you / movie night with haz 🌹

Looking after you 🌹

Running Lines 🌹

Paint fight 🌹

Nightmare before Christmas (HC) 🌹

Pottery 🌹

Period Sex 💦

Laces 🌹

Naughty or Nice 💦

Travelling with Haz 🌹

Choke me 💦

Animals 💦

Blow off some steam 💦

Pegging 💦

#my writing #katiesblurbs #masterlist #blurbs #blurb masterlist #tom holland x reader #peter parker x reader #harrison osterfield x reader #peter parker #tom holland #harrison osterfield #smut #fluff #angst

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clownsgobeepbeep · 4 years

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World Where Pumpkins Bloom

And now, part 11 of my story! Hurray!!!

Tbh the next part is kind of when things get...good? X3 Gah I hope stuff here is good both writing and story wise heheh, I feel that I may have rushed with the editing so I pray it’s decent

Tagging @grotesquegabby and @post-itpenny because there’s the slightest mention of some of yours uwu

Part Ten /// Part Twelve

“No, no, no! I said that no cake right now! The cake is going to be rolled in when we start to sing!”

“Jells, take a breather and just relax.”

“How am I supposed to relax when they can’t follow simple orders!?”

“You’re starting to sound like Mama Carol.” mentioned Cosmos who had been standing next to his sister who impatiently tapped her foot, both watching as two men rolled the large cake back and away into the kitchen where it came from. “How about you take a break from this? I’ll do the telling around here and you can go change into your costume.”

“It’s too early for that and knowing you, you’ll either get extremely angry or be too chill about things.” Jelly walked away from her brother who then ran after her, walking alongside her. “Ugh! That table is not in the right place!”

Cosmos stopped walking and turned to the table, waving a hand before the table moved with his movements into what he could assume was the correct place. He then followed his sister once again, watching as she walked to the center of the circus they were inside. Right in the center was the main stage, their cousin Cuckoo standing on it as they did their own leading.

“Cuckoo,” Jelly called out to the ringleader who turned to her with a smile. “Where did you put the section for the gifts?”

“That would be right over there Jelly.” Cuckoo motioned to an area that was already adorned to the theme of the party the D’Vitt family had been working on for the past few days. “Jelly, may I recommend something?”

“You may not.” Jelly sweetly smiled at Cuckoo before turning on her heel, Cosmos having parted away. “Do not tell me to sit down and relax.”

“I was actually going to recommend that you lay and rest, but alright.” Cuckoo laughed to themselves as they walked beside Jelly. “Although I must ask, where do you want the cake to go once the moment arrives?”

“I’d say right on the center, which is why I ordered that platform so that we wouldn’t struggle.”

“Ah yes, of course.” nodded Cuckoo. “And may I ask, where is James?”

“He’s at home with the boys. James is practicing the heart warming speech he has for Ula.” Jelly playfully rolled her eyes. “He’s acting like he’s giving her away at her own wedding. I mean, it’s just Ula’s twenty-first birthday which to humans is like becoming an adult and it’s almost like...I’m giving her away at her own wedding…”

“Jelly.”

“What am I going to do Cuckoo?” Jelly turned to the ringleader who attempted to contain a laugh. “Cuckoo, what if my little girl leaves home? What if Schrader asks for our blessing and proposes to her? Tonight!? What if-”

“Jelly, Jelly.” Cuckoo took hold of Jelly’s shoulders to stop her from rambling any further. “Take a deep breath, and think about what you are saying.”

Jelly followed as Cuckoo instructed,releasing her air which was then followed by a sigh.

“Oh Cuckoo...even as a so-called Elder I act like a paranoid human.” Jelly tugged at her hair. “I’m just glad-”

“Mom?”

The pair soon turned to look behind, a smile gracing Cuckoo’s features as Jelly’s showed a sign of subtle, mixed emotions.

“How do I look?”

“Oh, Ula.” Jelly whispered before going towards her daughter who was now in the circus, a pink dress hugging her body as she wore it. “You...you look…”

“Absolutely stunning.” Cuckoo finished for Jelly. “A flower who continues to bloom fantastically.”

“Thank you.” Ula grinned at Cuckoo before giving them a hug. “And thank you for allowing us to hold our party here.”

“Ula, you are family.” Cuckoo carefully pat Ula’s hair, making sure not to mess it up since they knew she had just gotten it done. “There is no need for thank you. Now-”

“Isn’t it too early for you to be in your costume?” Jelly interrupted before biting her lip. “We wouldn’t want your dress getting ruined. Where’s Schrader? He’s not wearing his suit, right? Why are you here? You’re not supposed to be seeing these things! And-”

“Mom.” Ula was the one to now place her hands on Jelly’s shoulders, smiling at her anxious mother. “Please, just relax. I know you want everything to go well, but I just need you to chill.”

“I will chill,” Jelly cleared her throat. “Once you leave the circus and go hang out with Richard. You two are supposed to be at the pier, having a good time while we finish everything up.”

“But mom-”

“No buts! Now go to the pier and have fun.” Jelly shooed Ula who rolled her eyes with a laugh. “And you don’t come back until it’s time!”

“Alright, alright. I won’t come back.” Ula waved at her mother as she walked away, Jelly giving a sigh before Cuckoo placed a hand on her shoulder.

“I know you think she looks as if she were to be married today-”

“Cuckoo, what the hell are you talking about?” Jelly removed Cuckoo’s hand before making her way towards a table. “You’re cuckoo, Cuckoo.”

“Oh Jelly. It is not like I am the Elder of Time or anything.”

“Whatever Cuckoo. Just go and lead the ring or whatever it is you do.”

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“Ula, you’re gonna be laaate!”

“How is she going to be late if she got ready way before us?”

“And it’s her birthday party!”

“Yeah!”

“Boys,” spoke James as he stood in front of a mirror and slipping into a leather jacket. “It is us who will be late if you do not put your shoes on.”

“But daaad!” whined one of his sons. “I don’t wanna wear shoes.”

“Vincent, please.” James turned to the triplets who all sat on their parents’ bed. “Your mother is already waiting for us at the circus. I feel awful about not being there earlier. Now where is my comb?”

“I think I saw Biollante with it.” Hector shrugged as he swung his legs around, slicking his hair back which was being held down by a nice amount of gel. “Maybe they already ate it.”

“Biollante never had it.” came the voice belonging to Ula, everybody turning to the doorway where she walked in with a comb in hand as she was followed by Biollante. “You left it in the kitchen.”

“Oh, Ula.” James gave a bit of a sigh before approaching Ula with a smile to gratefully take the comb in her hands. “Whatever would I do without your darling?”

“Pfft, I dunno.” Ula slightly shrugged before looking over at her brothers with a smile. “Um, anyways, I just got a text from Schrader.”

“Is he near?”

“Oh yeah.” Ula nodded as she read the text messages. “So I think I should be leaving now.”

“What about us?” Davy threw himself backwards so that his back was on the bed. “We wanna go in the fancy limo too!”

“Boys.”

“Yes dad.” the triplets all replied with a sigh, their eyes turning over to their sister who gave a small smile.

“Oh! I think that was the door.” Ula pointed behind her after hearing the doorbell ring. “I should go now.”

“Oh, alright.” James nodded before following his daughter out of the room and to the living room where Ula unlocked the front door. “We will see you at the party then.”

“Mkay.”

“Take care and make good decisions.”

“Okay.”

“And-”

“Dad.” Ula interrupted James. “I’m just going on a limo ride and gonna stall until everything at the party is ready. You’re gonna see me there. It’s not like I’m going to prom and you’re staying here at home worrying about nothing.”

“I…” James remained silent before nodding, giving Ula a smile before carefully hugging her in a tight embrace. “I am very sorry I have been treating you this way. I just worry about you.”

“I know, but I’m here.” Ula snuggled into the hug, hiding her face. “I won’t leave you, dad.”

“Alright.” James nodded before finally letting go of Ula, the two smiling at each other before she finally opened the door to revel Schrader in his suit. “Schrader.”

“Mr. Mendax.” Schrader replied with a smile before glancing over at Ula who grinned ear to ear, so he offered an arm. “Miss D’Vitt.”

“Alright dad, we’ll be leaving now to head to the party later.” Ula kissed James’ cheek before accepting Schrader’s arm. “See ya!”

“See you.” James gave a bit of a wave at the pair as they headed away and into the vehicle parked in front of the house, neither noticing the suspicious glare that was now on James’ expression.

“So, what did you do the entire day before coming to pick me up?” Ula turned to Schrader after they both sat inside the limo, her eyes soon widening in surprise when she felt him kiss her all of a sudden.”

“I’m sorry.” he apologized with a laugh once he pulled away. “You just look so beautiful.”

“I look like this every day.” Ula gently hit Schrader’s shoulder before he shook his head.

“Look like you’re going to a school dance to get a kiss from your destiny lover? I don’t think so.”

“Whatever.” Ula rolled her eyes before snuggling into Schrader who wrapped an arm around her. “So, we picking up the guys?”

“Yeah, right before we actually go to the party.”

“How long will that take?”

“I don’t know; I just know there’s a certain time we need to be there and it’s not exactly soon.”

“Huh.” Ula tapped her chin for a moment, then removing Schrader’s arm before making her way towards the end of the limo where there was a window that allowed her to see the driver. “Hey, how long till we go pick up our friends?”

“About an hour or so.” the driver answered. “Your mother instructed me to give you and your boyfriend either a leisure ride or let you stop wherever you wanted during that time. After that, we pick up your friends and head to the party.”

“Huh. That sounds pretty nifty.” Ula blinked in surprise before turning to Schrader who was too busy looking through the drinks. “Is it possible for you to take us to a restaurant or something like that?”

“It is. What do you have in mind?”

“I need you to go to this address.” Ula presented the driver with a note she had written earlier. “We’ll just spend some time there, maybe until the hour’s over.”

“Sounds great, I’ll take you there right away.”

“Thanks.” Ula nodded with a smile before heading back to where Schrader was seated, the latter casually drinking from a soda can. “Find anything good?”

“I’m surprised I found some Dr. Pepper.” Schrader proudly presented his soda before drinking from it again. “Anyways, where are we headed?”

“Oh, just somewhere nice. Hopefully it’s not crowded or anything.” Ula innocently grinned before Schrader gave her a look. “I know you’ll like it. Just make sure you don’t drink a lot of Dr. Pepper so you can have another drink over there.”

“We’re not going to a bar or anything, right?” Schrader laughed before wrapping an arm around Ula again.

“Of course not, you know I hate those places unless it comes to the good food.” Ula winked before her eyes turned to the driver who was too focused on the road. “I think you’ll like the place. Good food...if I remember correctly.”

“I trust you.” Schrader kissed the side of Ula’s head before looking out one of the windows. “Is that it? A 1950’s diner?”

Ula turned to look out the window as well, nodding with a small smile.

“It sure is.” she fluffed her hair and fixed the accessories in it before the vehicle made a stop, so she approached the driver’s window again. “We’ll be getting down now, I’m not sure if you’d like to come with or want to order something.”

“Don’t worry about me, I’ll wait here for the two of you. Just take your time.” the driver gave her a reassuring smile. “Go have fun.”

“Thank you.” Ula waved at the driver before she was helped by Schrader out of the vehicle. “Okay. Let’s go get our table.”

“Right.” he nodded before the two made their way to the front door, Schrader opening it and walking in after Ula. “Wow, it’s really not crowded.”

“It’s perfect.” Ula took hold of Schrader’s hand before leading him all the way to one of the booths in the back. “And this booth is perfect.”

“And why is that?”

“It just is.” she reached her hands out to hold Schrader’s again. “I really want a milkshake right now.”

“I think there’ll be plenty at the party.” Schrader looked around the area before turning back to Ula. “But, it’s nice being here. Just the two of us.”

“Yeah, exactly.” Ula nodded. “Nothing like a corny 1950’s date while we dress the part and drink from a single milkshake with two straws.”

“Sounds like the perfect date.” Schrader also nodded before his thumb rubbed on Ula’s knuckles. “You look so beautiful.”

“And you so dashing.” Ula replied. “I love you.”

“Nah, you don’t.” Schrader chuckled out before leaning over the table to plant a kiss onto Ula’s forehead. “But I love you.”

_____________

Once the appropriate time had gone by, the skies had finally grown darker while still having a bright orange coloration to them. Beneath the skies was the circus belonging to Cuckoo who wandered around said tent, a warm smile adorning their features as they greeted guests that arrived.

Cuckoo however also made it their job to keep Jelly at bay, keeping an eye on her as she was put in a “time-out”. After greeting yet another few guests, Cuckoo turned to the table where Jelly was seated, and she directed an insulting motion towards them which merely made them laugh.

“Are you really that upset?” Cuckoo questioned the woman who refused to look at them, turning to face the opposite side with her arms crossed.

“I’m not talking to you.”

“Jelly, you knew I would most certainly not allow you to rush around the circus with stress on your mind.” Cuckoo chuckled as they sat in a chair next to Jelly’s. “Did you not take me seriously?”

“I kind of thought you were joking, yes.” Jelly still did not look at Cuckoo who pat her shoulder. “But let me tell you, you won’t be able to stop me once Ula gets here.”

“Alright, that I can agree on.” Cuckoo nodded before turning to the side, their smile widening. “However, I will resume welcoming guests and attending to every other detail after you have finished greeting Ula.”

“Whatever.”

“So, you might as well take the opportunity.”

Jelly finally turned to Cuckoo with a frown and a rather confused one. Her nose twitched at the new scent that made her look to the entrance before clasping her hands with a gasp and brightened expression as a new guest arrived.

Cuckoo turned as well, now spotting that new ‘guest’.

“She’s here!” Jelly excitedly exclaimed before her expression turned into one of terror. “She’s here!”

“Jelly-”

“Where’s James!?” Jelly jumped up from her chair before spinnin on the spot, then gasping upon finding her husband standing right in front of her. “Jamie!”

“Jelly, she’s here!” James exclaimed in a whisper as he motioned to the entrance of the circus.

“We need to go to her.” Jelly grabbed his wrist before dragging him through the crowd of applauding party-goers who all now focused on the spotlight on Ula and Shrader. “I already saw her earlier, but she looks so beautiful!”

“You saw her before me!?” James asked in shock before his wife waved a hand at him, both finally stopping once they neared their daughter.

“Ula!” Jelly waved her free arm while slightly bouncing in place, this obviously catching the attention of Ula and Schrader who went towards them. “Oh, look at you two!”

“Mom, dad! Everything looks great!” Ula exclaimed before she was embraced by both of her parents. “I can’t believe you guys did all of this!”

“Anything for our tiny clown.” James booped Ula’s nose after the three parted away. “Schrader, you also look nice. The slicked hair suits you.”

“Thank you.” Schrader bowed his head momentarily before turning to Ula.

“And wow, mom.” Ula laughed as she looked her mother up and down. “I don’t think I’ve ever seen you wear pants, especially such tight ones!”

“They look good, huh?” Jelly showed off her legs.

“Very.” James nodded before he got a small slap from Jelly on the arm.

“Alright you two, now that you and your friends are all here you should go and sit down. We’ll make some announcements later and such, then we can get to dancing.” Jelly grinned in excitement with some soft clapping. “I am so very excited.”

“Me too!” Ula also clapped before taking Schrader’s arm and locking hers into it. “Well, if you guys don’t mind, Schrader and I are gonna go dance!”

“Sounds good.” Jelly nodded, then nudging James’ side before he also nodded.

“Yes, we do not mind at all.” James smiled at Ula who also nodded, then rushing away with Schrader. “I hope they do not ditch the party.”

“Ula would never do that, especially after how hard we worked on making all this happen.” Jelly planted a peck onto James’ lips before walking away, surprisingly in a calm manner.

As James was left alone, he gave one more suspicious look at Ula and Schrader who were already on the dance floor. Soon enough, James made his way out and towards his wife.

_____________

“So,” Ula breathed out as she slow danced with Schrader, her head bowed down as she looked at their feet. “How are we gonna do this?”

“Well,” Schrader shrugged before pulling Ula closer as he also spoke quietly. “We gotta get their attention.”

“I think I know how to do just that.” Ula added before finally looking up at him. “We’ll have to wait just a little longer.”

Time had gone by, hours having already passed as the pair felt that the party was never ending. They had decided to join each other in yet another slow dance, this one being different from the rest that had been filled with loving gazes ad kisses here and there.

“I just…” Ula sighed. “I feel so numb right now.”

“I know, I get it.”

“I’m scared Schrader.”

“There’s no reason for you to be scared.” Schrader forced a comforting smile upon his features as he brought a hand up to Ula’s cheek. “I’m...I’m here for you.”

“No...you’re not.” Ula shook her head, her eyes blinking away what she could tell were tears. “You can’t be.”

“Ula.” Schrader reached out to hold her hand. “Ula...I know this is hard to believe, but you have to believe me.”

“I want to...b-but how can you be talking to me?” Ula felt her lip quiver as she took her hand away from Schrader. “I, I’m so confused...how...I-”

“I know, I know. Just...let me explain everything.” Schrader attempted to calm her down.

Ula’s night had been going well. It had been fantastic, even after a small mistake that took place in a circus that in no way belonged to Cuckoo but was in fact their rival in their eyes. Yet now, Ula was seated back on the couch of her living room where she had left a slumbering Schrader who was now wide awake. She didn’t want to believe that just a few minutes ago she had been conversing with a cat, and one who told her quite the unbelievable story she did not want to believe.

The cat told her to speak to Schrader, and that was exactly what Ula did...never expecting him too add on to the feline’s tale.

“How did you die?” Ula spoke before Schrader was able to, turning to him once she wiped away stray tears. “And if you’re really dead and not playing some fucked up joke, how is it that you’re talking to me?”

“Ula, I would never do something like that to you.” Schrader took her hands into his again. “I died after your birthday party. You were attacked by the daughter of...Ryder and Missy.”

“What?” Ula blinked a few more times, this time with even more disbelief.

“I’ll get to explaining that other part later. Right now, I just need you to know that their daughter killed me. Grabbed my own mallet and…” Schrader stopped himself, feeling a pain course through his head. “She...she smashed my head into bits and-”

“Are you here because you too got a favor from the Elders or something.” Ula interrupted with an empty tone, her face plain and numb as could be.

“Conllium, yeah.”

“Why didn’t you tell me any of this earlier?”

“I had to make sure I wasn’t suspicious. Couldn’t blow my cover immediately since there are eyes and ears everywhere.”

“So...you’re alive here...but dead in reality…”

“...yes.”

“And I have a boyfriend who’s not you because you and I broke up before that.”

“Yeah…”

“What’s his name?”

“Atlas.” Schrader breathed out, not even sure what emotions he was feeling in that moment. “You’re...you’re childhood best friends.”

“How’s he look?”

“He’s got dark brown hair, green eyes, glasses. Pretty damn tall but still shorter than me. Has antlers coming out of his head ‘cause he’s a deer dude.” Schrader gave a bit of a laugh, still trying to comfort Ula. “And if I do say so myself, pretty good looking guy. Guess you do know how to pick them.”

To Schrader’s surprise yet gratitude, this was enough to make Ula smile a bit.

“However, Dante and the twins say that he looks like a nerd. That’s their nickname for him.”

“They’re so mean.” Ula quietly giggled to herself, right before her smile faltered and turned back into a frown. “But if he was my boyfriend and I really loved him...how did I forget about him?”

“You didn’t forget him. You were forced to;you were forced to forget every detail of your life so that you could feel that you belong in this world.” Schrader stated before looking down with a sigh. “Just how...you were forced to love me again.”

“Schrader-”

“That’s not important right now.” Schrader shook his head. “What matters is that I tell you everything about your reality, and that we figure out how to get out of here.”

“Schrader,”

“Maybe we need to-”

“Schrader.” Ula spoke louder before Schrader looked at her, realizing that they were still on the dancefloor. “Schrader,”

“Yeah?”

“Schrader,” Ula started again before placing both of her hands on Schrader’s cheeks, biting her lip as she blinked away tears she would not allow to escape. “You have such a beautiful smile.”

“Ula-”

“Please. Just, never stop smiling.” she continued before pressing her forehead against Schrader’s. “I love you.”

“No.” he shook his head after grabbing Ula’s arms, preventing her from leaning in anymore towards his lips. “You don’t.”

They stared at each other for a moment before Schrader released Ula’s arms and she lowered them, the latter biting her lip as she felt Schrader kiss her forehead.

“But even death, I really love you.”

“Ray-”

“Ula!~” Jelly’s voice sounded from the side, prompting the pair to turn and see just the woman approaching them. “Schrader! It’s time to cut the cake!~”

“Already?” Ula turned to look at the large clock in the circus, but shock came to her upon the realization that there was no clock in sight. “What time is it?”

“It doesn’t matter.” Jelly waved a hand before grabbing Ula’s hand, dragging her through and off the dancefloor until reaching the bottom of the center stage. “Alright, now let’s get you ready Your father should be here any minute.”

“Jelly.” James was now heard, so the girls turned around to see James who smiled at them both. “Ula, ready to cut the cake darling?”

“Of course.” Ula nodded. “But I want Schader up there with us too.”

“Oh yes of course! We must have lost him on the way here.” Jelly chuckled before Schraer was finally in their presence. “There he is! Now let’s go up on the stage.

“Ready?” Ula whispered to Schrader who nodded, both holding hands rather tightly.

“I guess.”

“May I have everybody’s attention please?” Jelly spoke into her microphone she was handed, the music now stopping as everybody turned to her. “I believe that it is now time to sing Happy Birthday to the birthday girl.~”

Everybody’s attention was now on Ula who stood in the center, her siblings, parents and Schrader standing beside her. All eyes watched as from one side of the stage, two workers rolled in a table with a large cake that made Ula’s eyes widen and her jaw drop. The pumpkin at the very top was then lit up, right before everybody began to sing to Ula who felt her eyes swell with tears. Once done, Ula leaned in to blow the candle out before everybody clapped and Ula embraced her family, then being released as she was handed a large kitchen knife to cut the cake.

Cake slices were distributed to all the guests who focused on their new treats,. However, their attention was once again grabbed once a tapping into the microphone was heard. They all turned, as did Ula and those near her, everybody now staring at James who held the microphone and neared the girl.

“Lily.” he started before clearing his throat, a hand going up to slick his hair back despite it already being styled in such a way. “As your father, I have a few words I would like to speak to you.”

“Dad?”

You know I would do anything for you.” James gently squeezed Ula’s hand. “Lily, you...you have grown into such a beautiful, little lady.”

“Oh, dad...” Ula whispered, her eyes glancing down at her thumbs which she twiddle, feeling a knot in the pit of her stomach. Besides that, there was a pain in her head just like every single other time something familiar struck her, and she very well knew these words had some kind of familiarity to them.

“What I am trying to say Lily, is that...I am so, very proud of you. Without knowing it,you gave me a chance to better myself and turn into who I am today. You allowed me to become your father, the father of a very talented, intelligent, beautiful, young woman who I thank for such acts of kindness.” James looked at Ula who bit her lip in order to prevent herself from showing too much emotion that she would have liked. “Anybody is fortunate to have you in their life Lily, I know I am. And as I mentioned before, you have grown into such a lady that I have grown to be very proud of.”

“Oh, dad.” Ula tried her hardest to hide what she felt, but even if she knew what she heard was all a figment of her imagination...it resonate deep within her. “Stop, you’re gonna make me cry.”

“I only tell the truth.” James chuckled before using a handkerchief to softly wipe Ula’s eyes. “You deserve all the good in the world. You are such a strong and courageous one and you stand back up no matter how many times you fall. You are such an admirable lady Lily.”

“J...dad…”

“I just need you to know these things, just in case you ever forget darling. I am so glad that I was given the chance to this life, and especially to share it with you as you grow and continue to bloom into the wondrous flower that you are.” James smiled at Ula who accepted the handkerchief he offered to wipe her eyes again. “I know that the night is coming to an end, but I wish you a Happy Birthday.”

Ula then pulled herself away from James to wipe her eyes that finally poured out tears, right before she felt him pull her into a hug that she instantly returned. The girl buried her face into him until they eventually pulled away, James wiping her eyes once again.

“Thank you J...dad.” Ula wiped her eyes one last time. “That...that was very sweet ...I'm so glad...I...I don’t even know what to say….”

“That is alright.” James tucked a strand of Ula’s hair behind her ear. “You do not need to say anything.”

“No.” Ula shook her head before taking the microphone out of his hand. “There is something I need to say.”

Ula looked at both of her parents who each gave her smiles, awaiting the heartfelt speech Ula must have prepared. She then glanced over at Schrader who furrowed his eyebrows at her, motioning as if to ask what she was planning.

“Tonight has been wonderful, probably one of the best nights of my life.” Ula began, roughly clutching onto the microphone she spoke into. “But this is not my life.”

Jelly and James turned to each other, completely perplexed before Jelly stepped towards Ula who got away.

“This is just some illusion. It’s not real and I realize that now.” she told everybody before looking over at James. “You are...you are not my dad...you...you’re just a bunch of pure imagination.”

“Ula, what is going on?” Jelly whispered through grit teeth.

“My dad’s name is Lennie Blueblood and he’s the father of my siblings Davey and Cordelia. My pet is an alien axolotl named Mana, and he has a family of his own. My uncle Cosmos is married to a man named Vespers and they have three kids. My uncle Pepper is married to a woman named Belinda and they have kids like rabbits would. My mom’s best friend is my aunt Maggie who is married to Billy.My best friend is named Amaranthus and I couldn’t stand her when we first met, but I love her like a sister despite her being my cousin. And my-” Ula then stopped herself before looking over at Schrader again, though he made sure to turn away. “My boyfriend’s name is Atlas. That’s my life, my reality and I wouldn’t have it any other way.”

“Ula…” Jelly pressured as she attempted to grab the microphone, Ula tearing her hand and the microphone away which made Jelly frown deeply.

“And now that I have everybody’s attention, I have one more thing to say.” Ula took a deep breath before finally speaking again. “Fuck you Cantarella, you useless piece of shit.”

In that moment, Ula saw as the lights in the circus all turned off to create a dark atmosphere that made her clench her fists. She felt as Schrader stood next to her and grabbed her hand, both then seeing as a series of pink lights turned on in the darkness.

“What’s with the pink lights?” Ula whispered before feeling Schrader securely dug his fingers into her arm.

“Those aren’t pink lights.” he took a step back, taking Ula with him as they realized the pink was everywhere. “They’re eyes.”

“I think it’s about time we ditch the party.”

“Yeah.” Schrader nodded before he and Ula made a run for it, jumping off the stage and kicking some guests on the way down before pushing through everybody that attempted to stop them. “May I ask what your plan even is!?”

“I just knew that we need to get everybody’s attention but other than that, my mind’s blank!” Ula exclaimed before stopping in her tracks. “Wait!”

“No time for waiting!” Schrader grabbed her by the wrist in an attempt to drag her away from the crowd of pink eyed shadows that chased after them. “They’re going to get us!”

“No, wait! I need the cake knife!”

“Knife!? What for!?”

“I saw this in an episode of Batman: The Animated Series!”

“Ula!” Schrader groaned before picking her up, running even faster before they finally got out of the circus and lost the others. “I know this is all fake but this isn’t some hero television show!”

“I know, I know!” Ula replied, then whispering once Schrader hid behind a tree with Ula still in his arms. “But this stuff always works in movies and shows, I’ve seen it more than once. But there’s this episode with the Mad Hatter, and-”

“Ula…!”

“Oh! I’ll get the knife myself!” Ula removed herself from Schrader’s arms, hopping down and creating a rabbit hole in the ground which she jumped into. “Come on!”

Schrader searched the area for a moment, making sure nobody else was near, then jumping into the hole that lead him and Ula back into the circus. He remained silent as did the entire circus, the only sound being the music that ever so softly played quite ominously in the darkness.

“This way.” he felt Ula grab his wrist, the two walking over to the stage before Schrader helped Ula climb onto it. However, before he too was able to get on, the lights in the circus all turned on and Schrader was pulled back by arms grabbing him from every side.

“Schrader!” Ula exclaimed before rushing towards the cake, grabbing the large knife that she held close to her. Her eyes widened at the sight that was Schrader being held down by the hands of her parents and brothers that all glared at her with pink eyes.

“Oh shit…” she muttered once realizing that she was actually surrounded by pink eyes everywhere. “Oh shit, shit, shit.”

“Put the knife down.” commanded her mother in a distorted voice, her frown then turning into a sweet smile. “Please my little oyster, put the knife down.”

“No!”

“This is all but a grave mistake.” James commented as his nails dug into Schrader. “Please, let us love you.”

“No.” Ula shook her head as she now pointed the knife at them. “Fuck you.”

“Don’t you love us Ula?” the triplets asked with innocent voices. “We love you, big sister!”

“Fuck off!”

“Don’t speak to your brothers with such foul language.” Jelly frowned one again, pressing her sharp, elongated nails against Schrader’s throat. “Or I’ll kill him.”

“And we’ll especially kill him if you don’t stay with us.” the triplets nodded as their nails grew into claws as well.

“You have always wanted a father, correct?” James smiled at Ula who’s glare started to falter. “Here I am darling.”

“D...dad…” Ula started to lower the knife, then shaking her head as she slashed at the air. “You’re not my dad! Lennie is!”

At this, James gave a glare before turning to look at Schrader who struggled to get out of the family’s grip.

“If you don’t stay with us, we’ll kill him.” James threatened, everybody then hearing as Ula gave a laugh.

“Do it.” Ula continued to laugh. “Do it, asshole.”

“Ula.” Schrader breathed out as he glanced down at Jelly’s and the triplets’ claws. “What are you doing?”

“Trust me.” Ula mouthed to Schader before her eyes went back to James. “Go ahead and kill him. I bet you won’t do it.”

James and the others scowled at Ula, then turning to Schrader before claws were dug and slashed into him. Ula made sure to turn away at the sight, not wanting to relive the memory of Schrader dying, even if she didn’t remember the first one.

“And now,” Ula shut her eyes as she gripped onto the knife very tightly. Her eyes opened for one last time before she glanced at James and despite her determination, Ula felt a twinge of pain in her chest.

“Goodbye.”

“Ula, don’t!” James exclaimed before plunging the knife right into her back, choking out a breath of air before she cut a straight line down.

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Stitches | Tom Holland

Summary: Based on the song ‘Stitches’ by Shawn Mendes. Where Tom is in an unhealthy relationship and comes to you one night when things get too hard,

Warnings: Toxic / verbally abusive relationships!! Please do not read this if it will trigger you.

Words: 1.5k

Notes: This was partially based on a really amazing imagine called ‘Cherry Wine’ by one of my best friends @pumpkinparkers | I don’t know whos pic this is but if it’s yours I’ll happily give credit!

This has also barely been edited because it’s 10pm and I need dinner!! Enjoy :-)

You watch me bleed until I can't breathe

“Can I please– Can I please come in?”

You stared wide-eyed, grip limp on the door handle. Your friend– your best friend stood on the other side of the door, eyes red and raw filled with unshed tears that in no way matched the stains that ran imperfectly down his swollen cheeks. Tom looked broken, like glass shards scattered across a kitchen floor or an iPhone littered in messy, piercing cracks. His curls were no longer curls, but strands of hair that looked tugged at and teased and you hated everything about it. Not because he didn't look like Tom– your Tom, but because he looked to be in more pain than you could comprehend and you couldn’t work out if it were mentally or physically.

“Get in– god, Tom, you look a wreck.”

I'm shaking falling onto my knees

Maybe it wasn’t the best thing to say but Tom never expected you to lie to him. Admittedly he felt worse then he looked and he was almost certain that it’d get picked up on an MRI but then again, that wasn’t exactly how those things worked. But on the inside he expected a thick line to run down the middle of his heart, splitting the main organ in two– because Tom was always told that if he didn’t stop following his heart instead of his head that it’d break soon.

He expected his lungs to be giving up, finally sick of his wailing and consistent panic attacks and my god his brain, that was a whole other story. Tom was surprised he could still think straight after his mind had seemingly run a thousand miles an hour, coming up with every outcome and reminding him of every word she had spat. But maybe it was only a matter of time.

And now that I'm without your kisses

Tom can’t even look at you, filled with too much shame and guilt as his body can muster but for what? He didn’t know. “I can’t breathe. I can’t fucking breathe, She– She…”

You grab the blanket that was slung over your shoebox apartment couch, the woollen one knitted by your grandma that Tom had always taken a special liking too and throw it over his trembling shoulders. It was something familiar to him, and something that reminded him of happier times like the time you two sat cuddled up in it and binge-watched the hunger games movies, or the time he woke up at eight am after a wild night out. He had a pounding headache but woke up to a plate of warm pancakes, freshly made by you and the blanket wrapped firmly around his waist.

Then again, that was all before he got with her.

“Tom, look at me.” You instruct, guiding him to sit down on your couch. He takes the seat next to you, hugging the blanket to his chest and lets a fresh set of sobs rake over his body. It’s enough to make you want to break too but you don’t. No, you hold yourself together for him. “Take your time, in and out. You hear me?”

I'll be needing stitches

He does so and somehow in the process, finds his fingers laced together with yours. Tom didn’t know when or how, only that one second his legs were tapping up and down manically against the wooden planks and the next he was squeezing your hand as if it were his life support. Your touch was gentle, comforting. Hers was harsh and almost threatening every. Single. time.

“I can’t do it anymore, It hurts.” He struggled out, gripping the hair on top of his head with his free hand. Every wound was fresh, oozing with emotion. “I feel fucking stupid for sticking around, but I feel stupid for not being enough and I just– it hurts.”

Your best friend looked down, squeezing his eyes shut and cried every little emotion he was feeling out. Tears hit his jeans, torn and ragged. Tom was tired and he was hurt, every one of her words as harsh as they were cutting like a knife. He hated himself for beginning to believe her words, because at first he’d shrugged it off and told himself that it wasn’t true. Because he wasn’t worthless, or stupid, or a no good of a boyfriend, was he? There were a hundred other words he could’ve reminded himself of.

He looked like a kicked puppy.

I'm tripping over myself

But Tom felt stupid for crying about it because he was a boy and they’d told him to get over it, to suck it up, that he was overreacting. But you’d tell him now that he wasn’t and maybe that’s why the boy would trust you with his life. He’d lay it all out without a second thought and only now did he really begin to feel guilty for dragging you into his mess. Because it wouldn’t have happened if was just a better boyfriend, just a better son, just a better person.

You gripped the couch, black faux leather cracking beneath your grasp and you couldn’t care less because you were fuming, every emotion from anger to sadness racing through you at high speed and while you wanted to be there for Tom, you also wanted to show her not to mess with your best friend… and easily long-term crush.

For now, you’d stay and be with him, you’d be the girl that she was supposed to be but wasn’t.

“You are enough, you hear me? You will always be enough. This isn’t good for you, T, and you know that.” You stop and sigh, staring at your intertwined fingers. “We can talk about that in the morning because for now, I think you need some hot chocolate and just to cry everything out.”

Aching, begging you to come help

“You can tell me if I’m being stupid or weak. I–I don’t want to be a pain, you don’t have to put up with it just because you’re my best friend. She said that she doesn’t like us hanging out, anyway.” Tom merely whispered the last part, hating himself the second the words slipped his lips even if he’d already told you that before. But you were his absolute best friend, his number one and not even her words that had the same impact as snake venom could drag him away from you.

Tom reminding you that she didn’t like when you hung out made your face fall even more if that were possible and all you could think was how dare she.

“No way are you being stupid or weak, you’re hurt and that is enough to validate every single emotion you’re currently feeling. You’re my best friend, one of my favourite people in the goddamn world.” You stopped, eyes brimming with tears. “I love you– I love you and I can’t watch you stay with her when she does this to you. You’re a mess, Tom. It looks like you haven’t slept in days.” You sniffle, wiping away the tears that threatened to spill though Tom would admit that he was seconds away from doing that himself. “You’re one of the strongest people I know but you don’t have to be, got it? No matter what anyone says, your pain is so fucking valid.”

And now that I'm without your kisses

Tom listened to every word and it wasn’t hard considering it was only the two of you, no radio or tv or phones ringing or clocks ticking. It was just you both and he felt safe, embraced by the blanket that reminded him of simpler times. He never wanted things to change but then again they always did and he had no control over it. He had no control over any of it.

“Can we please go to sleep? Things were really hard tonight and I just need sleep.” He looks down at his lap, playing with one of the strands that hung off of the blanket and you only nod, giving his hand one last squeeze before standing up. The couch creaked as you did. Tom was utterly exhausted, drained of any energy he currently contained and his throat felt dry and scratchy, something he had noticed earlier.

Tonight and every night until he was ready to go through with things, you’d give him your bed. Your bed where you’d listened to him cry about her and her wicked words for the first time and your bed that you’d slept in together the night that he helped you move into your apartment.

Because you had given him everything you could in an effort to fix things for him, including your heart time and time again, hoping that one day—instead of using yours, he could pick up his again. But you would continue to allow him to do so for as long as it took. Because that's what best friends did, right?

I'll be needing stitches

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How rich snippet Schema Markup data help in SEO of your website?

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How rich snippet Schema Markup data help in SEO of your website?

What is rich snippet Schema Markup data?

By Implementing Structured we are helping search engines analyze our content more easily. It makes easy for search engines to crawl your website and will get an SEO advantage.

Another reason schema markup is totally necessary is because it makes the job of the search engine even easier.

So, we are writing the schema markup to help the human beings

You would do that by using this markup:

It looks complex…

Here’s what you need to know:

1) The type of structured data to use.

There are three main types of structured data. Here’s a table courtesy of Google:

Since JSON-LD is the recommended type, that’s what we’ll be using.

I’m sharing this because I want to make you aware that microdata and RDFa are not the same as JSON-LD.

So if you research structured data, make sure you’re reading about JSON-LD and not one of the other two types of structured data.

2) The most common schema terms.

You could probably get away with not knowing these, but if you take a little time to learn these fundamental terms, you’ll get better faster.

i) itemscope:

This is one of the most common schema terms. It essentially organizes your content by topic.

More specifically, it tells search engines that all of the content marked with an itemscope tag is about the same topic. Think of it as categorizing your content into different sections.

Here’s an example from Schema.org. Let’s say your HTML looks like this:

You can make one tiny change to let search engines know that all of this info is about the same topic. Simply include “itemscope” at the end of your opening <div> tag, like this:

Now search engines will group all of the data between the <div> tags into one group.

ii) itemtype:

The itemtype term further categorizes your content. The itemscope term told search engines that your content was about an item, and the itemtype term will tell search engines what kind of item your content is about.

In this example, the itemtype markup would look like this:

This will tell search engines that all of the content between the <div> tags is about one movie.

iii) itemprop:

This term lets you define certain properties that your items have.

Basically, the itemprop term is communicating additional information about the item.

There are countless types of itemprops you can assign. For our example, here are some possible itemprop types:

By using all of these terms, you’re going into extreme detail, which is a good thing. That means search engines can more easily and more accurately organize your content.

3) Google’s structured data guidelines.

If you’re doing SEO for Google––and let’s be honest, who isn’t?––you need to play by their rules.

Structured data is no exception. They have quality guidelines for using schema markup:

It’s important to keep these in mind when using schema markup. This is not a time for black hat or gray hat SEO.

Remember, the whole point of using structured data is to help search engines display your content better for people.

Help out the search engines, and they’ll help you out in return, which will increase your visibility.

Adding structured data to your site-

Now let’s go through the process of adding schema markup to your site.

Click here to get the link to tools to Generate Schema Tag

Unfortunately, this can be a somewhat lengthy process. It all depends on the system you use to manage your site and the level of control you want over the process.

I’ll cover two of the best ways to implement schema: Google’s Structured Data Markup Helper and WordPress plugins.

1) Using WordPress plugins

If you’re one of the millions of people who use WordPress for a website, then utilizing schema markup will be extremely easy for you.

There are several dedicated plugins that you can use. In my opinion, the best is Schema App Structured Data.

This plugin will generate schema markup for your whole site, and you can even go in and manually edit the markup yourself. (Or you can find the plugin by searching in Plugins > Add New.)

Once you download the plugin, you can upload it by going to Plugins > Add New. Then click “Choose file” and select the zip file for the plugin you downloaded.

Click “Install Now.”

Finally, click “Activate Plugin.”

Now when you edit a post or page of any kind, you’ll see a box below the editing pane that says “Schema App Structured Data:”

Usually, the plugin will add the best types of schema markup.

But this is where knowing the basics of structured data will come in handy. You can review the markup and make any changes that seem out of place.

If you want to edit the markup, click on the pencil icon on the lower right.

(Also, notice how the top left of the box specifies JSON-LD. That’s exactly what you want.)

That’s the plugin in a nutshell. It’s really simple to use, so if you use WordPress, I recommend using this.

2) Using Google’s Structured Data Markup Helper

I know many of you don’t use WordPress, so here’s another method of adding structured data that’s actually pretty simple.

This method will work for any site, no matter where you host it or what kind of site it is.

Google provides the Structured Data Markup Helper to help webmasters add schema markup to their sites without any hassle.

It’s straightforward to use. First, go to the Structured Data Markup Helper page:

Make sure the website tab is checked:

(Yep, you can also mark up emails with this tool.)

Next, copy and paste the URL of the page you want to mark up. Paste it in the URL box at the bottom of the page:

If you just have HTML, choose the HTML tag and paste your code in the box:

Next, choose one of the ten categories that Google provides. This selection can feel a little bit limiting, but you’ll find that most often your content will fall under one of these ten categories.

Since I’m using a blog post for this example, I’ll choose “article.”

When you’ve done all of that, click “Start Tagging.”

On the next page, you’ll see two panes. The pane on the left is your content (your page or HTML code), and the pane on the right is the schema markup tool.

To mark something up, highlight it in the left pane.

For example, to mark up the title of the article, highlight it by left clicking and dragging over the text you want to highlight. You’ll see a box pop up that will give you options for different markup tags:

Since this is the name of the article, choose the “Name” markup tag.

You’ll see the change reflected in the right-hand pane under “My Data Items.”

If you want to mark up an image, click on the image and choose “Image” from the box that pops up.

Those are the basics of the Structured Data Markup Helper. The process is the same no matter what type of content you want to mark up.

In the “My Data Items” pane, Google lists all of the main elements that you’ll want to mark up:

You don’t have to mark up all of these elements, but I’d recommend it.

That way, you can make sure you’re creating the most thorough markup that you can. This will give you the biggest advantage.

Once you’re done marking up everything on your page, click “Create HTML” in the upper right-hand corner.

Here comes an Important step

In the second box from the left, click it to open and select “JSON-LD” instead of microdata.

Make sure you do this since JSON-LD is Google’s preferred type of structured data.

Copy and paste the code that gets generated. (I recommend leaving this page open in case you need to copy it again.)

Everything’s been pretty easy so far, but at this stage, it can get a little tricky.

That’s because you have to add the markup to your website, which is often the hardest part of this process.

Basically, this schema markup (written in HTML) needs to go in your source code.

If your site has only static page files, it’s super easy to put the markup on your site. Click the “Download” button in the top right corner.

Go into the source code for this specific page. Then, delete the current code and paste this new code in its place.

But if your site has non-static pages, it gets more difficult. And unfortunately, this is the case for most content management systems (CMS).

When it comes to implementing structured data, WordPress is one of the trickier CMSs to use because it splits up your content. Though you have access to the body copy and code in your page editor, but the header for each page is contained in its own file.

Moreover, some schema markup needs to go in the header. That means you’ll have to go your theme file and manually insert the code.

You can potentially mess up your website if you do this the wrong way. Even if you have site backups, it’s still a huge pain if your site breaks. For that reason, I recommend hiring a developer if you have to go this route.

If you’re worried about this, you can just put the schema in the code for the body copy.

One more option…

There is a third option that you can go for, but I don’t recommend it unless you have coding or developing experience.

The third option is to add the schema markup manually.

This ties into what I said about potentially messing up your website. You can do some damage if you’re not careful.

But this option does have its fair share of advantages.

For one, these tools I’ve shared are somewhat limited. You can go much more in depth if you input schema markup manually.

And you can also ensure everything is exactly the way you want it.

So if you’re confident and have coding experience, this might be an option to consider.

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mothzi · 7 years

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Hello, I am currently on sick leave and my brain is not working at all! While waiting for my fever to break I’m just going to force myself to do the easiest little project on my to-do list. To make it more fun, I’ve decided to turn it into a blog post.

Welcome to why web design is fun and cool and totally not a waste of time at all!

In this post, I shall show you the steps to make a fake Wikipedia page for a character profile page. All you need to do to follow along is fire up your handy text editor, and your imagination.

Let’s take a look at a typical mobile Wikipedia page:

I’m using the mobile page as it’s simpler and cleaner, and it still looks like a Wikipedia page to a typical Internet user for whom Wikipedia surely is amongst the first port-of-calls to obtain or check information. That serves my purposes just fine.

Disclaimer: we can simply check the page code through your browser’s handy “View Page Source” option. But I want to start from scratch because things will be more fun that way.

Let’s get on with the coding!

Let’s start with the top. We have a search bar, with a hamburger menu icon, and a search field. And then we have the article itself, the top part of which has a header, an overview, a drop-down contents menu, and then a summary table at the right.

Let’s open up the page:

Wow, that’s ugly! CSS to the rescue!

Let’s start with the search bar. Let’s take the background-colour of the search bar using a colour-picker plugin (I use colorZilla). That turns out to be #EAECF0. While we’re at it, let’s check what colour is Wikipedia’s body font. It’s #222222.

Let’s style the search bar with display:flex. Let’s set a padding. 15% on both sides make looks good! Add more padding on the search bars, adjust the width, and voila!

Hey, that’s the search bar done! That wasn’t hard at all!

Let’s move on to the main article for real. I’ve placed the entire article in wow can you believe it, the <article> tag! I break up each sections into... oh my god what a coincidence... <section> tags! And while we’re at it, let’s put a main container tag on the entire damn thing, set the width to 70%, and center it.

I put a parent container for the <p> components and the content box. Flex the entire damn thing. God, I love flex. Finally, format the table. Take the background-color from the page itself using the colour picker plugin (it’s #B0C4DE). I use the :first-child selector to make sure the first cell of each row of the table body is bold. Fix the fonts and typography (line-height is so important please). And what do we have now?

Ho-hey! Not bad! So now we move on to the contents box. This one’s slightly trickier: if you look at the first screenshot above, the contents themselves are hidden until you click to expand them. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. We must first style the contents box! All we need to do is just get rid of the list-styles of the ul elements in the contents box, and everything else is just a matter of padding and margin.

That was simple! Now comes the scripting part. The easiest thing is to use jQuery to manipulate the content box. But hang on, we also have more drop-down elements in the document! The sections themselves can be toggled open or close by clicking the respective headings. By using jQuery toggle() method, we can accomplish this effect easily. I’ve also added a class to the arrow icon styling it with “transform:rotate(180deg)” that will be toggled when we click the heading. Finally, add a “cursor:pointer” to the drop-down headers.

Now the page looks something like this:

And if I click on the contents page and the ‘Background’ header:

Now we’re left with mostly just content, which is the hardest part and shall be left for another day (read: never). Let’s finish up with the footer!

This is the footer page of the reference Wikipedia article. The green bar tells us who last updated this page and when. There are also related pages, which are dynamically generated for each entry. Finally, there’s the Wikipedia logo, For the purposes of my static profile page, creative common license attribution, a link to the Wikipedia’s privacy policy, and a link to “Desktop View”.

Okay, so let’s have a <footer> element. The background-color is the same as the search bar above. And finally let’s have some cards showing the related pages.

Style each card with flex, and then let’s add a last edited component to make it look like a wikipedia page (the date can be generated by Javascript). And then we add more generic footer components and now we have:

And finally, let’s add some media queries to make sure that the page will look good in every screen size. Here’s what it looks like for screens less than 400px wide:

And that’s that! More things have to be done, like a slide-in navigation menu, and of course, the contents (urgh!). The search bar is working, though, test it out if you don’t believe me. I’ve put up the page in all its lorem ipsum glory here for your purview.

That was 4 hours gone, and now my medicine has kicked in and it is time for me to sleep.

#coding

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madmonarch · 6 years

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THAT HEADCANON ASK DROP FROM YESTERDAY ( thank you to @selfsaving and @lacksmotive for sending them and keeping me busy on the road trip! ) ALL UNDER CUT CAUSE ITS LONG

“ would mk ever use his telekinesis during sexy times ? “ Ironically enough I actually thought about this a day or two ago and forgot to post anything about it. But the answer is if the opposite party already knows about his telekinesis then yes, yes he absolutely would. His favorite thing? Keeping hands occupied but using his power for tools or other parts ie tying stuff, knives, softer objects. Though sometimes he will use it on the opposite person themselves too

“What is The Most Violent thing mk has ever done?” this one is fucked up I’m going to say this. It was in his late 20s, and the reason he has that huge stomach scar of his. It was the first time he got kidnapped. Obviously I already mentioned he doesn’t like being bound in a room alone. And young MK wasn’t used to physical torture- what he received in the past was all psychological. At least for the most part. So some guys he had gotten on wrong terms tied him up and start to open his gut. MK, without a better choice of words, snapped. Killed most of the men in the room with his telekinesis. A reason that its dangerous for him to use his telekinesis when pissed is its terrifying. A lot of the men got impaled, but some parts of their bodies were torn off or ‘exploded’ without any external cause. With his torturer, he physically assaulted him for about 15 to 20 minutes with his fists or other parts of his body before rigging up a make shift machine in his containment location to keep him alive. Tortured him back for the better part of 7 hours past the point that he should be dead. And this isn’t even the most visibly gruesome thing he has done. But the other instance was mostly post mortum

“ is mk a good cook ? does he prefer to cook or get takeaway ? “ oh I’ve actually thought about this before and yes he’s actually a pretty good cook! Given that he was alone most of the time when he was a kid he had to cook his own food, so he learned pretty quickly. However given how busy he is with work work and villain / criminal work he often just picks up. Usually higher quality food as he can be quite particular on what he puts in his body. Though he occasionally indulges in fast food. He also has quite a sweet or salty tooth.Edit / add on: due to his ‘super’ sense of smell he is real precise on spices and stuff like that which can be good or bad. Certain food with a bad odor or overpowering he can’t do

“ when did the title 'mad king' actually come about ? “ as I said Riain was more of a serial killer in his early adulthood so the paper tended to give him names, especially as he started marking his victims with the crown symbol. The most common he heard was The King or The Bloody Crown. Well he was also into plays and old books about kings gone, well, Mad. Low and behold, he pieced together the name The Mad King and started to push that one at public eyes. It wasn’t necessarily one he pieced together, either. He used the name a few times before hand for throw together plays he did back in acting.

“ if mk had a pet, what would he want ? “ actually he has three (had, at least. Its unlikely they carried onto other verses besides main.) A frog with 5 legs, a two headed snake, and a cat depending on verse / character connections. The first two for sure. He likes animals with genetic oddities, and given that his early experiments were generally on frogs there is that reason too.

“ where is mks favourite place for a sexy encounter ? “ mmm well a sense of danger is kind of a turn on for him. Areas of potentially getting caught but low likelihood of it happening. Or you know, more physical danger. He’s also a fan of shower / bath sexy time or oddly enough, car. Back seat specific. Honestly Mad King is big into indulging just about anywhere at any time on or against probably just about anything.

“ Has mad dad ever tried to reach out to any of his family members or vice versa?? “ Mad King himself hasn’t tried to, neither has any of his family as far as he is aware. He prefers it that way. They did try to once or twice immediately after he ran away, but he knew it was just to drag him back to being a good little lab rat.

“ if someone put their hand over his mouth ( in a NON sexy way, in a like 'shut the fuck up' and / or 'this is a kidnapping' kinda way ) would he lick them yes or no? “ lick? MKs a biter. He will actually tear the flesh off of someone’s palm if that happens. He’d try to go for his knife or something first and cut their gut, but its a split second difference of which one would go quickest for him. Licking is saved for sexy stuff or him being a messed up piece of shit and licking up blood

“ does mk own a human skull ?” oh he absolutely does. A few actually. Most are made into something or other- technically speaking, a lot of skulls he does own would be hard to tell from other house hold items (mk uses parts. That means be careful with household items in his house. Your spoon could have been made from an arm bone). But he’s edgy. He uses some unchanged just for looks in areas he can get to. For a bit he used on as a stand for his crown but that was for a real short amount of time

“ how is mk with children !! “ he’s alright with them. I’ve said a long time ago that children are the least likely for him to hurt. He doesn’t have a reason to. Beyond that, he doesn’t really like seeing kids being hurt. However, he will not go out of his way to help a kid especially if it interferes with a plan of his. Generally speaking, he won’t go out of his way to talk to kids nor will he really break who he is to look kinder in front of kids. Though I think he honestly has some dad instincts buried under that arrogant demeanor of his. Secretly might want an ‘heir’ but would never say that.Obviously he’d be far more obviously better with / if a kid is his and not just some random kid.

“ does mk like birthdays + does he / how does he celebrate his ? “ when it comes to his own birthday, no he doesn’t celebrate it. He quit celebrating it a long time ago when his family showed no care towards it. For him his birthday is just another day of the week. He doesn’t even tell people when his birthday is. Which is odd, given it would be even better of an excuse to have people treat him like royalty. But then again, he’d rather force that belief then make excuses.As far as others, it is likely he does celebrate them. He isn’t flashy about them, and he doesn’t really abuse the fact he has money. If he cares enough to celebrate another persons birthday, he isn’t just going to get them stuff with a large price tag. He is going to go for something of personal value.

“ does mk like horror movies ? does he taken any inspiration from horror movies / villains for his own bad shit ? “ he adores horror movies! His favorite genre and if he actually has free time he’ll watch them. He has taken some inspiration for some of his killings, but its more bits and pieces for one or two kills. He makes fun of killers that take too much inspiration from horror. However, arguably the one he has taken a lot of inspiration from happens to be his favorite horror movie / book- Silence of The Lambs

“ WHAT ARE MK'S FAV PET NAMES EITHER TO BE CALLED OR TO CALL OTHERS “ so the ones that apply to either calling others them or being called them himself; dear, darling, honey, and to a lesser extent babe and loveNow I’ve talked about this too much but won’t stop tbh but like if he likes you? You for sure have a title brewed in his mind already. The fucker loves titles. Specifically royal titles. (And for half the ships I have I may or may not have figured out what specific titles he would give and why)As far as ones he LOVES to be called. Call him ‘My King’ in a non mocking manner. Also 'My Love’ or 'My Dear’ are good options.He’s not a fan of overly sappy ones. Like honey bear or stuff like that.

“ does mk prefer to share a bed or have his own space ? “ depends. Concious / appearance keeping Mad King prefers his own, but its pretty obvious subconsciously and if he were to relinquish some pride issues he much prefers having another person with him. Its comforting. Like I mentioned he cuddles up to people rather quickly when he falls asleep. And his prideful butt hates that fact when he wakes up. Especially the fact his body yearns to keep the contact despite the argument of mind. Of course I’ve mentioned he’s awful about falling asleep. Aka he doesn’t get enough sleep ever. Actually, probably his best sleep is gained if he’s with someone.

“ what's mk's favourite weapon to use during a kill and why ? what weapons does he like in general for what purpose ( like what's he like to use for torture stuff ) ? “ he actually really likes to get creative with his crown. The tips of his crown are razor sharp- like, they can put plenty of knives to shame. Of course he wields it in such a manner that he can be precise whether he wants a real deep cut or not. But he’ll use it to cut chunks off, slit throats, or lodge through people. Other then his crown, its usually blades. Knives are of highest preference- a harpy or curved blade is fun, but he also likes basic hunting knives (the one he carries in the GTA AU fits one of these.) And speaking of GTA, his favorite guns are generally the bullpup rifle / shotgun or (ironically if I remember correctly) the MK Pistol. Though for torture? It changes. He likes pliers. And his knife. Chemicals. Also does enjoy fire. Basically, the King likes anything with power but is efficient and aesthetically pleasing at the same time.Of course, if he’s feeling creative he will build tools for torture. Draining people, slowly cutting them apart piece by piece, triggering electrical impulses naturally occurring in the body to go into overdrive to burn the person inside out. It depends on his mood. It really does. And he’s tried plenty.

#‛|ℳK┆“OUT OF CHARACTER” ♛ ᵗʰᵉ ᵏᶦⁿᵍ ʰᵃˢ ᵇᵉᵉⁿ ᵈᵉᵗʰʳᵒⁿᵉᵈ #headcanon tag tba #( things learned from this headcanon ask day #mk is awful and violent #really likes sexy time #has a shitty childhood and probably needs to sit down and talk to someone about it )#abuse //#gore //#horror //#blood //#torture //

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