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Episode:  
-Shanghai Swap Meat - Part 2
Read Shanghai Swap Meat- Part 1 here: https://menofcolorswitchbodiestoo.tumblr.com/post/643859326213259264/episode-shanghai-swap-meat-part-1-whats 
- Samual Kang’s penthouse in the Gubei area Shanghai -
*PHONE RINGS*
‘’Uhm, Come on cousin just a few more minutes. I… I just had the weirdest dream ever. That green stuff… ugh you gave me was strong or was that also a part of the dream. I…I just need a little bit more sleep’’…
...'' I’m, uh, I think I’m in the wrong body, your body’’...
''Wait what the hell are you talking about, cousin? Ugh, my head... I feel... I feel like having the worst hangover ever. What happened? Did I pass out? Damn this sucks.''
Waking up, I immediately notice something's wrong. I haven't even opened my eyes, but I can feel it. I feel so weird so .... heavy. I opened my eyes, and blink several times. There were hands on my chest, petite, delicate hands. There was a girl asleep in bed next to you. She was like 25 years or so and HOT, like ''supermodel-hot''. As nice as the scene is, I'm still very confused when I went to sleep, the girl certainly wasn't there. You've never even seen her in your life. Wait how did I even end up in bed I...  I sleep on my cousin's couch. I'm slowly coming to my senses and I push myself up
''Man why do I feel so bulky?! Wait what happened to my voice?'' I said in a low baritone voice.
I realize that this isn't my room either. And looking down... this certainly isn't my body! I'm in Samual Kang's body! Now I remember, the meat, the green juice, the toilets, we fought for control over his muscular body. Did I win? I guess? I've taken complete control of his body. I put a hand on my enormous bicep.
''Woah this awesome!''
''Wait are you still in here Kang? Somewhere deep inside?'' It remained silent, only my own thoughts going through this head. Guess I'm the only inhabitant of this body, sweet!
I looked down at my gigantic body and spread my thick legs. Giving me a good view of my heavy balls scratching the surface of my pants. slowly take off these pants. As a black jockstrap emerges and I then let it slide off my muscular butt. I began massaging my nipple, while with the other hand I slowly stroke Samual Kang's flaccid cock, bringing it to attention. It did so quickly, waking up like a mighty dragon, lifting its head, and stretching out. I took this dragon in both hands, one hand working the base, the other just below the head. Pre-cum was dribbling out the top of my cock now.
''This thing is super sensitive.'' I was still getting used to it. I made my pecs bounce BOOM BOOM. ''‘‘OH YEAH! BRING IT! HOLY CRAP!’‘
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''Need any help with that Sam?'' Seemed like I had woken up Samuel's wife with my loud enthusiasm about this little switcheroo.
''God, you are just such a stunning-looking man'', She said.
''I know right.'' I gripped with my strong hands my juicy pecs. Feeling the soft muscles between my fingers.
''So do you accept my offer?'' She asked as she came closer, laying against me.
...
- 5 minutes later -
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''Did you like that?'' I said to my wife as we cuddled in bed.''
''Oh my God Sam I don't know what's gotten into you, but you went for it.I am exhausted. It was really good and as a thank you, I will make us a nice breakfast'' My lovely new wife got out of our sex sweaty bed and left the bedroom.
''Oh man, I can get used to this: Divine body, beautiful house, happy wife, happy life.'' I look once again at the body I now possess. ''Damn cousin, you outdid yourself this time''. I pick up my clothes from the floor and struggle to squeeze into them. My T-shirt immediately clings to my massive chest muscles and broad back and it takes time to get it done.
''Seems that being so big also has its drawbacks.''
Allen walked over to the large mirror hanging in the hall of ‘‘his penthouse’‘  so he could examine his reflection. Allen loved himself in the mirror.  I was never a bodybuilder, but those years Kang spent in the gym really paid off and it showed, and now it was all mine to enjoy. And enjoying it I did. I couldn't help but feel up my meatier form and appreciate your better looks. For some reason it turned me on seeing myself as Kang and enjoying it.
‘’You looking at me? There ain't nobody else here, you must be lookin' at me. You want a piece of this?’’ Allen grabbed his crotch. ‘’I bet you would I would even like to suck myself’’... wait maybe I could! Dude that would be next level selflove! 
 Allen made some spins to look at his new buff body from all angles.            ‘’You're a damn good looking man Kang... damn good looking man.’’
I can walk the walk now it’s time to talk the talk. ‘’Hey I’m’’... ‘’no that’s not it.’’... ‘’Hello my name is Samual Kang’’. Allen tried to lower his voice, ‘’Kang, Kang, Kang’’ Oh yeah that’s it I’m strong, I’m powerfull, I’m fucking Samual Kang!  
Hearing himself using his new masculine voice made Allen’s cock or Kang’s large cock hard again. 
‘‘Looks like somebody is ready for round 4. Now let’s release the beast again!’‘
*PHONE RINGS*
‘’Fuck who can that be?! Fucking cockblocker?!’’
Allen walked to the ringing smartphone  and unlocked it with his new fingerprint.
‘‘Hello you spreak with Al...Samual Kang. Who is calling’’.
‘‘Fuck that’s really my voice you are in my body. You speak with Samual Kang... the real one. I’m in your body’’... ’‘
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''Finally, you took up the phone! I'm trying to contact you for hours. Listen, kid, Allen is your name right? Your cousin told me. I don't know how this happened the only thing I can remember is that I was taking a piss when you stormed through the door and somehow merged into me! After that, it went all black and the next thing I know I'm inside your body with my or your face in a urinal. I know it sounds crazy but we both can see it ourselves that it's reality. Listen you've to come back to the shop so we can think of a way to get back into our bodies.'' ...
''Yeah about that ... I am NOT giving this body back.''
''What do you mean you don't want to get back to your body?! That's my body your walking around with, it's not some fucking toy! You have no idea how to run my business and life!''
''Forget it there's just so much I can do with this body. I will manage it, can't be that hard, I'm Samual Kang remember.''  
''No, you're not I am Samual Kang you're just some kid playing dress-up. Now get here and find a way to reverse this!''
''Noway man, have you seen my life? Have you seen how much it sucks? I mean, I  sleep on my cousin's couch in the back of his butchery, the story tells itself. I'm glad I choose you to swap bodies with. You're perfect well this body and life are, why would I give that up? I'm not an idiot hahaha! And for your interest and my pleasure, I already toyed a little bit with your body. I have to say you're a real tiger between the sheets. At least with me in the driver's seat or maybe it's muscle memory. Never mind the lady was very satisfied.''
''YOU DID WHAT?! I SWEAR IF YOU PUT ONE FINGER ON MY GIRLFRIEND LISA...''
''Ah yeah, Lisa that was her name. Don't worry it were your fingers and your hands that touched her...''
''You... body thief!''
''Your lips that kissed hers. Your tongue that ate out that whole clean-shaven pussy of hers. Your cock... I used to puss into her begging me to go harder and harder, harder.''
''YOU'RE A DEAD MAN YOU HEAR ME A DEAD MAN! I'm coming to the penthouse right now!''
''And then what are you going to do? Don't forget who I am, I am Samual Kang a strong successful businessman, and don't forget who you are. You are just weak little Allen a nobody in this world. If you dare to come to ''my door'' I will just grab you by your throat.  Using these strong arms. Don't forget I can lift you up, little man. And then I will just dumb you with the other trash!''
...
''I’m the muscle dude around here now! Mmm... I love this body! Man, I’ve never felt better in my whole life. I love to make my pecs bounce BOOM BOOM. 
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I know you're still listening ''Allen'' I have taken my shirt off exposing my beefed-up torso, Loving your image in the mirror. I'm feeling my nipples and they are a little hard. God this body makes me horny! I know it makes you too hahaha. I feel myself with my big hands, I'm squeezing your meaty pecs. I'm pulling out of these jeans wait a sec...
''Allen you perverted little...!''
''Oh man, I'm looking good in these boxers. But maybe something kinkier would do these thick bums more justice hahaha! Oh man so juicy''
''Sam where are you, who are you talking to? I made something for us to eat big guy'' Said Lisa from the living room.''
''Well seems I have more important things to do ... bye ''Allen''.''
''Wait...''
*Ending the phone call*
''Who were you talking to?''
''Oh nothing important something about work''
''Well Sam you should have your priorities sharp'' Lisa said while seductively feeling up Allen's pecs with her finger.
''You're my number one priority babe.''
''That's so sweet Sam''. Lisa's phone began to ring, she answered it while continuing the inspection of her boyfriend's tits.
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''Hello?''
''Lisa?''
''Who's this?''
''It's me bǎobèi (*babe), Sam. I know this sounds crazy but you gotta listen to me. The man in our house is not me. I’m in the wrong body, he somehow switched our...''
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''What's going on?''
''I don't know some weirdo claiming to be you.''
''Seriously? Funny that he says to be Samual Kang while I'm standing right here don't ya think? Don't worry babe I will handle it.''  
''Who is this?''
''Allen, you son of a bitch! Switch us back! I want my body back, I want my wife back, I want my whole life back!''
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''You need to stop calling this number, or I'm gonna contact the police.''
''Allen! You son of a bitch! Lisa don't listen to him! Don't list...''
''Don't try calling this house again. I will change the number.''
*Ending the phone call*
''What a loon. Don't worry babe. I'll have the number changed. It's all good.'' Said Allen as he hugged his wife with is large arms squeezing her head softly between his big tits. Damn these big boys feel gooooood!
- Meanwhile at the butchery downtown Shanghai - 
''THAT FUCKING RUNT JUST HANGED UP! AGAIN!! Who the hell does he think he is?!''
''Well, Allen is now Samual Kang'', cousin Kang you should realize that most of both of us right?'' Said cousin with a slightly sarcastic tone.
''I'm not your fucking cousin, butcher!'' Samual Kang yelled as he slammed the phone. ''Damn I think I pulled my muscle, didn't know this body had even muscles to be pulled. Pathetic body! I really need a drink.''
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''Tell me butcher... how does somebody end up being such a loser? Being a frustrated virgin, working for little money in some nasty butcher shop of his cousin in downtown Shanghai? No offense. Sleeping on his cousin's fucking couch! Why did your huge loser of a cousin have to steal my body? Couldn't he have stolen somebody else's? That kid is walking around in my body like a meat suit. Acting like he owns the damn thing. He is going to ruin everything I worked so hard for.  My business, my money, my life, my wife, my reputation, and my body! ...I’m ruined.''
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''I always said Allen was a late bloomer'', said cousin while still cutting his meat.
Kang looked at his reflection in the display cabinet in the shop. Still weirded out to see Allen's face. His face was slightly mature, but a bit feminine. Lack of a strong jawline or any sign of any stubble, Kang touched his face. ''So soft almost like a girl''. ''You fucking witch crafting son of a bitch'', Kang said to himself quietly. I get why you hijacked my body. He looked lower at the rest of his body. 
I'm so tiny, instead of towering above everyone else like he used to be he was now below average. Even women would now be taller and probably stronger than him. 
''Look at these arms and legs. So scrawny couldn't you at least have taken some care of yourself kid? With this messy hair'' Quess you never really had much luck with the ladies, being considered too skinny, gawky, and awkward to be their partner. They want a real man, not a wallflower. 
''This kid's life sucks ass''. 
Even his bad habits rub off on me I'm eating cheap Pineapple in a can. I hope he doesn’t turn my body into a dumpster like this body.
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''You could get your life back you know''. 
''What did you say butcher?!'' 
''That you could get your life back. Now move aside cousin still needs to clean the floors, I'm closing soon.
''You know how we can switch back?! But how? Never mind tell me how, right now!''  
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Cousin walks to the counter and takes a plastic bottle filled with red juice from under the counter and gives it to Samual Kang.
‘’Drink this cousin!’’
''Last time I'm not your fucking cousin, butcher! I'm sorry I didn't mean to be rude this whole situation just got the hang of me hahaha.'' Kang opened the bottle. ''Ughhh gross, what is this?! How long did you keep this? It smells like a rotten corpse!''
‘’Just drink it, cousin Kang''. 
Kang looked at the label on the bottle and read: ''附身'' (''Possession juice'')? What does this do?''
''This is ''Possession juice'' it allows the one who drinks it to enter another person's body and take over.''
So is this what you gave Allen to take my body?! You're the fucking reason I'm in this fucking mess?! Kang became furious inside his little weakling body. As he grabbed cousin. ''I swear if I had my own body right now I would break you into pieces!''
''Oh, no cousin didn't give Allen  ''Possession juice'' I gave Allen ''交换体'' (''Body transference juice'') big difference. The Body transference juice lets two living beings transfer their souls into each other's bodies. The Possession juice lets you possess another body.''
''So that means when I drink this and repossess my body that runt will be in my head for the rest of my life?! Sharing my body? You've to be kidding me!'' 
''It works a little bit different the Possession juice lets you possess only one body not more, merging your body and soul into another destroying the original soul in the process. Choose the wrong body and you will be stuck permanently'' 
''Do you really want me to destroy your cousin's soul?! Why didn't give him this potion it would have made this all less messy?''
''No, but I gave Allen a chance of living a good life, but he has to protect and maintain it himself to keep it. This is just a test of life, he will either win or lose (the body and life). Oh, and why I gave Allen the green bottle instead of the red one? I wanted to give him the red bottle but I'm colorblind so I mixed them up I make mistakes too you know'', said, cousin.
''Thank you! I have to go to my house to make things right''. Samual Kang opened the red bottle again and knocked back the disgusting red juice all at once down his throat. ''Ugh gross! I feel strange... like so dull. The world slows down. I’m part of it but also apart from it.''
‘‘That means the potion is taking effect’‘. 
‘’I’ve to go!’’ Samual Kang ran out of the shop into the crowded streets of Shanghai at night.
‘‘Don’t bump into anyone on your way home you don’t want to be!’‘ Cousin yelled from the corner. 
‘‘OUT OF MY WAY! OUT OF MY WAY!!!’‘
Damn this body is already tired?! Come on noodle legs I need to get to my penthouse. 
‘‘COME ON! GET OUT OF MY WAAAAAAYYYYYY!!!!!’‘      
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...
-Later in Kang’s penthouse in the Gubei area Shanghai-
*Knock Knock*
''Babe! I think the food is here!''
Heavy steps can be heard walking to the door. As Allen open's it
''Huh, what are you doing h...''
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''Suprise asshole.''
Kang jumped onto Allen as he locked his arms en legs around Allen's big strong body. ‘’Woah never knew I was so big!’’
''What the hell are you doing get the hell of me, you lowlife! This is my body now! And I’m not into ‘’Niang paos*’’ (*Chinese term for effeminate men) I told you what would happen if you would show your face here, time to show you your place!''
''Oh I already know my place ... it's inside '', said Kang devilishly.  
Allen’s old body was rapidly swallowed up by his beefcake body. Kang´s legs and feet had already slipped into Allen´s thick thighs.
What Kang wasn’t aware of was that the almost empty bottle with the Possession juice had fallen out of his jacket on the floor during the jump.
''WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING FUCK!''  
Dammit! Kang had found a way to merge himself with me. I can't give this body up! Damn, I should have taken care of Kang. How could I have been so stupid? But how did Kang manage to pull this off? Then I saw the bottle that had fallen out of Kang's jacket still containing a little bit of red liquid on the floor. The bottle was identical to the one containing the green liquid. Could it have been cousin? Why am I not surprised.
''附身'' (''Possession juice'') huh? So you want to possess me? How original.’‘
Allen felt a strange sensation through his muscular frame as Kang absorbed into him. Fighting against Kang in a vain attempt to get away. I could feel losing control of this body. I could feel this flesh growing……heavy. It felt like I was stuck inside a massive hunk of dead flesh.
''I can't move!''
''That's right just stay still this will be over in a sec.''
Kang was still visibly moving inside his original taller body,  his lankier frame, still squeezing himself into the larger proportions of the torso. Kang’s hands and arms had disappeared into Allen´s large arms.
''UUUUGGHH let go of me you parasite!'''Allen muttered against Kang as he felt immobilized in his own beefcake body.
''Says the one who is living of my bank account and body! But don't worry, I'm almost there Allen it's only a little bit tight in here''.
Kang pushed himself further.  Finally, Kang’s dick touched his former cock. Merging his small penis all the way into Allen’s massive cock, growing larger and fatter in the process. Their fused cock became erect. ''Oh yeah, that's the feeling''. Kang took control of the hands, opening their pants Their cock sprung out, and released their first shared load was blown right after that, long, sticky strings of white cum.
Kang was by this point almost fully absorbed into the large body which left Allen only in control of his head.
With his back sticking out between Allen’s pecs. Allen looked down to where Kang’ peeked up at him. Kang gave Allen a devilish smirk then took control of the pecs to bounce himself into his old head, submerging ''Allen's head'' into ''Kang's handsome manly face'' till nothing was left.
Kang's body began shaking uncontrollably and then it just stood still. Hanging down as if somebody had just turned the brain.  Their eyes opened staring at his own hands.
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''Oh yeah, it's good to be back! You thought you could replace me, kid? You’re wrong. Haha, there is only one Samual Kang in this world. I always win.''.
Kang took his shirt off and began flexing his lost muscles in the mirror.
‘’Oh man I missed you boys so much did you miss daddy too? I hope that lowlife has taken good care of you?’’ Kang pulled his arm up and began sniffing his armpit. 
''Uggghhh I guess he didn't take care of my pits damn they stink damn! So sweaty.''
''Uuuugggh sorry Kang but I don't do roommates''
''What?! Impossible you should be gone! What are you still doing in here uuughghh!''
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''Haha, you fought you could exorcist me! No way I'm not gonna lose so easily''. Said Allen as he struggled to take control of Kang's body again. He pushed his remaining essence into the legs.
''Come on big guy let's take a walk.''
''Stop that, you twerp! Those are my legs! Get lost already!''
Kang's body stumbled to the door where the almost empty red bottle was still lying in front. ''Ah, there it is are you also thirsty Kang? Now get down!''
''What kind of messed-up plan do you have now Allen uughhh!'' Kang was still struggling to get full control of his legs back.
I said to get down! Kang's body fell to the ground as Allen fastly took control of Kang's right arm. ''Hope this works''. Allen drank the last bit of the red liquid. ''UUUGGHHH this is even worse than the last time''
Come on work I could already feel my essence shrink every second that passed. Kang had taken back control over his legs and almost the whole body. ''Well, what did you think that would help you little bitch!'' Said Kang.
Then a small smirk on Kang's face appeared. ''Why am I smirking you're doing this aren't you?! What's so funny?!'' Said an annoyed Kang as he tried to remove the smirk from his face.
''THIS!'' Allen yelled as he took with his last bit of power again full control over Kang's strong arms and pushed them into his as they disappeared into the flesh.
''WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!''
''Just using your little trick against you Kang now where are you hiding in here. Aaaahhh there you are now time to come out little Kang!'' Allen pulled with all his strength till his old body with Kang in it finally came out of his chest. ‘’Told you I’m the muscle dude around here now!''  
''No this can't be happening!'''Kang cried as he was held up above the ground by Allen now again fully controlling his bodybuilder body.
''Sam who is that? What's happening?'' Sam's girlfriend Lisa had come to see what all the noise was about.
...
''Hey, I have an idea. Didn't you say that the possession juice was a one-way ticket with no returns?'' Allen said with a smile as he moved his eyes from Kang in his body to Lisa.
No, you can't you bastard Lisa run!!!!!
''No you won't!'' Allen slammed Kang into Lisa as he sank into her body.
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''What happening with me?'' Lisa cried while lying on the floor. ''I'm so sorry babe I need to get out.'' Kang tried desperately to separate himself from Lisa's back.
''No, you won't Kang this time I make sure you won't surprise me again by keeping an eye on you.''
Allen dropped his pants as he began to stroke his cock. He pushed Kang/Lisa against the floor. As he lay with his whole massive  heavy body on top of them and pushed his cock into their ass. ''Oh yeah oh yeah'', Allen moaned as he felt Lisa's body squirming under his sweaty muscles. Kang was already fully absorbed into Lisa's body as they were fighting for the survival of their souls. ''No, I don't want to do this Allen!'' Kang begged from below him. But Allen put his large hand on her mouth. ''Don't worry babe it's almost over'', I said as I licked their ear and finally cummed inside their hole at the moment the possession became full circle.
I pulled myself from Lisa's sweaty body as I lay on my back on the floor.
''Oh man, that was out of this world!''
‘’Lisa’’ began to wake up. Oh god what happended?  Looking down over his new body, Kang screamed in a feminine voice. He had now  boobs, pale white skin, painted fingernails, and a very obvious vagina. He was a woman he was now trapped inside the body of his girlfriend Lisa!
‘’Kang is that really you in there?’’
‘’Allen why the hell did you do this to me?!’’
‘’Oh come on it’s not so bad you’re fucking hot you know. And besides I know how much you love this strong body, as much as I do. So this way we can both get what we want.’’
‘’You’re a sick twisted man Allen... but I have to admit that looking at my body from the outside really makes me horny. Look at those strong arms, big pecs and handsome face.  You're a damn good looking man Allen... damn good looking man.’’
‘’Yes we are Kang yes we are,’’ Allen responded.
‘’Now let’s make this self-obsessed relationship official’’
‘’Fine by me.’’  
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...
Four months passed and Kang/Lisa and I were quite settled into our new life together. After Kang's failed attempt to possess me, it left me with some beneficial aftereffects.  I now didn't only have Kang's amazing body but also his memories, behaviors, knowledge, and skills making living his life and running his company easier than ever before.
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Kang on the other hand was still getting used to his new body and life as a woman. But being the gorgeous wife and business partner of the Samual Kang gave her more chances than she ever had with flexing her muscles, that was now my job.  In bed we're amazing too Kang just knows what my body desires and provides for its needs. Kang still wants to dominate me from time to time but I firmly remember him I'm the man in this relationship and decide what happens. This little power struggle really turns me on! Who would have thought that Allen and Kang were becoming the next big power couple in Shanghai and the whole Chinese mainland!
Last four months were crazy with work, sex, training, interviews, meetings with investors, and more sex. Right now we are walking to cousin's butchery to thank him without him none of this would have happened.
When we arrived the whole butchery was empty, cleaned, and sealed off with police tape.
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''What happened here?'' I said to Kang/Lisa.
Then a detective from the Shanghai police unit came to us. ‘’Do you know the owner of this butchery?’’
‘’Uhm yeah, he is my cous... I mean I always bought my meat here but I haven't been here in a while. ''What happened here detective?''
''A few days ago there was here a police raid because we suspected the owner of this shop of illegal drug production and possession of illegal liquids. We didn't find any proof of the drugs but we did find larges amounts of cash hidden in the walls, millions of Renminbi. But from the owner, the shop which they call ''cousin'' misses every trail. If you have any information about his location please contact us. Somebody with your status and network Mr. and Ms. Kang could make the difference.''
The detective handed over his card and left.
''Cousin you're full of surprises'', said Kang/Allen.
‘’I'm sure cousin is fine, he is a smart man. If we will ever see him he knows how to find us. Now babe let's go to find some nice restaurant to eat, something fancy and you pay of course. Said Kang/Lisa as she pulled me along down the street’’.    
''Yeah, Yeah fine never knew making you a woman made you more expensive!''
As they walked down the street they unbeknownst walked passed an empty bottle still leaking a few ''blue'' drops. What would this potion do? And what happened to cousin?
...
From the shadows, a woman appeared with golden hair and cherry red lips. Matching her sunglasses and wearing a yellow coat complimenting her feminine form.
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''I always said you were a late bloomer Allen, but now you've finally bloomed. I'm proud of the man you've become. You don't need me anymore. It's time for me to move on because many people in this world still need... ‘’
‘‘a helping cousin ''
THE END
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toffyrats · 4 months
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guys i made a crack treated seriously kinda drabble do you wanna see it. ofc you do basically its an involuntary time travel type thing where albert gets spat out into the hsm timeline (because who’s to say newsies and hsm didn’t take place in the same universe they ARE like 100 years apart /hj) anywayzzzz i didn’t beta this. i didn’t research for this. it sucks on purpose. lets begin.
 when albert woke up, immediately a sharp shooting pain shot through his head. he groaned and tried to sit up, to no avail.
     “you’re awake!” an unfamiliar voice echoed through albert’s ears. “i was starting to think you’d never get up.”
     albert finally opened his eyes and the sight shocked him fully awake. instead of the cold but familiar sight of the lodging house and sleeping boys in bunks scattered around him, he was met with the inside of an odd contraption with metal, leather, and flashing lights- and two concerned-looking teenagers staring straight at him.
     “where am i?” he asked slowly, trying to keep his calm. “what”s goin on? who are you people?”
     “hey, calm down,” the one with the dark, messy curls and ugly-looking shirt whispered. “you’re in the backseat of my boyfriend’s car. we found you passed out on the street.”
     before albert could even process everything going on in that sentence, the other boy spoke. “what in the world are you wearing?” he snickered, and the boy next to him clearly bit back a laugh of his own. 
     albert scowled. “i could ask you the same question,” he retorted. even though the blonde boy was dressed slightly more normal than his partner, the colors on his outfit were all over the place- where the hell did this guy find clothing that pink? albert looked him up and down in sort of a strange awe. he reminded him acutely of someone. blonde hair, blue eyes, great smile- race, he realized, but pushed the thought out of his head as soon as it had arrived. 
     “wow, okay. so, no sense of fashion. cataloguing that for later,” not-race snorted. 
     messy hair shook his head. “ease off the poor guy, c’mon. something’s obviously wrong.” he pointed to not-race and smiled. “his name’s ryan. he’s a little over-the-top sometimes.” ignoring the indignant shout that came from the other boy- ryan- messy hair continued. “my name’s chad.” he held out his hand politely.
     “those are the weirdest names i’ve ever heard.” albert realized too late that it wasn’t really the right thing to say coming from a guy whose friends’ names were things like racetrack and finchley. he spat in his hand anyways and held it out infront of chad’s. 
     chad looked disgusted, and ryan physically repulsed with a sound akin to a hissing cat.
     “sorry,” albert said quietly, not feeling very sorry at all. he wiped his hand on his pants and held it out again.
     chad took it this time, albeit slightly reluctantly.
     “who are you?” ryan asked, clearly becoming more and more confused- and a little pissed off- at albert as the time went on.
     “albert dasilva. a completely normal name, might i add.”
     ryan snickered again. “i like the accent. it’s cute.”
     albert glared daggers at him and turned back to chad, since he assumed he’d be a little easier on him. “you said this was your boyfriend’s?” he asked, referring to the flashy metal contraption he had been evidently trapped in. “and you mean him?” he pointed to ryan.
     chad nodded slowly, a little confused. “yeah, why?”
     “well, first of all,” albert continued, his words flowing out faster, feeling a little flustered, “boyfriend??? since when is that even legal? and what the hell is this thing?!” he scrambled around in the leather (was this some kind of chair?) and cursed under his breath. “are you trappin’ me in here? what’s going on?”
     ryan and chad glanced at eachother, clearly baffled but coming to some sort of telepathic agreement. they both turned back to albert with the same concerned look on both their faces.
     “buddy,” ryan started, “what year do you think it is?”
     “1899, idiot!” albert shouted. chad’s eyes widened and ryan clapped a hand over his mouth. “what, do you not have a calendar along with all of this fancy shit?” albert started to feel worried. what exactly was happening right now? “so stupid you don’t even know what year it is?” 
     “kid. albert, was it? albert. al.” chad was clearly choosing his words carefully. “it’s 2007.”
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I remember last year I had the weirdest dream ever. I don't even know if it counts as a dream because… it ended too quickly.
But it was just another day, and I came home very tired from an activity I did with my family and threw myself on the bed watching videos of Markiplier playing random games. I dozed off for the majority of the video before everything went black, which was strange because I had no recollection of sleeping. I only remember that everything became black.
And then something unusual happened. I was on the ground as the shadowy void enveloped my surroundings. The floor felt sticky, making me unable to move as I was forced to witness what was in front of me...and guess who I saw? Actor, fucking, Mark. I only saw his back as I watched the velvety robe shimmer softly from the light despite everything being dark and foggy, his black hair neat as ever, and his arms behind his back, blood stained on both of his hands. I just focused on him, shivering with fear at the sight of his bloody self because everything felt strangely real, as if this had happened before. And then I heard his voice speak to me, softly whispering my name before uttering, "I'm sorry," with a voice resonating with pain that made my heart ache., which was the last thing I heard before his head slowly turned towards me, too late for me to see his face as I get sucked into the ground.
My heart was racing as I awoke with my computer on top of me. I don't remember how I passed out in the middle of watching Mark's video. It was weird! especially given how quickly it started and ended.
I'd never had a dream or anything like that happen to me before, so it was a strange but cool experience. I don't know how my brain brought up Actor randomly when I was tired but...its a little chilling.
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Day 012: Letter.
Featuring Steve Harrington and kind of(?) Max Mayfield.
Lucas Sinclair, Dustin Henderson, Billy Hargrove, Eddie Munson, Erica Sinclair and El Hopper mentioned.
864 words. Kind of spoilers, and I'm not proud of this one. I had to power through to finish this one.
He eyes the manilla envelope on the table, and he presses his fist against his mouth, his lips pressed together tight. She isn’t dead. Not yet. She told us that those letters are only for after she’s dead. “A failsafe,” she said. He turns away from it. Maybe if I look away from it my desire to read it will dissipate and the letter will disappear with it. He stands, and bites at his nails. I need to hear her voice, even if it’s just text. I need to hear her snark, just one more time... He groans, and snatches the letter off of the table, and rips the envelope. She’ll forgive me. He decides, unfolding the notebook paper that served as her note. “There's something I need to get off my chest. If you are reading this, I guess I died.” She writes, and he feels a tremble go through his hand. “Which sucks.” She continues, “I had so much I wanted to do. You may be wondering why I wrote you a letter, Steve. Truth be told, I don’t know. It just felt like, right, I guess? So here’s the letter. Steve, we met in the weirdest sequence of events ever. 
“We were in a fu¢king junkyard at dusk, of all things, searching for a lizard that came from a different dimension! At the time, I thought it was an elaborate prank on Dustin and Lucas’ part. The whole ‘do you accept the risk?’ bullsh!t and the weird dimensional lizard thing. It seemed like things boys back in California would do to make fun of me. But then me and Lucas ran into you and Dustin on those train tracks, and you really took me off guard. An older kid? Indulging kids in their fantasy role playing? Impossible. Then we started fortifying that bus, and you had that bat and the meat, it felt like too much effort for a prank. So, I admit I thought you guys were just insane. You called me “Random Girl,” and acted like you knew everything, with the way you fought those demo-dogs with that bat with the rusty nails embedded in it. Of course, I told myself you were just there fighting like rabid bears or something like that. But despite that, when I saw that demo-dog open its face and roar at me from its perch above the school bus, you pushed me out of the way, and protected me. You didn’t know anything about me, nor had reason to care about me. Hell, you barely knew Dustin and Lucas at the time, and yet you helped us with Dart and the other demo-dogs!
“Then when we were all at the Byers’ house, and Billy came looking for me, you didn’t hesitate for a single second. I never properly thanked you for that. You just decided you were going to be a protector, and that was it. I had always wanted a brother, and when Mom remarried to Neil, I thought it would be Billy, but he was an @sshole and never cared about me. But watching you, I think I figured out what a brother should be. My true big brother.” Steve chokes up, and a tear leaks out. Max thinks of me as a big brother... “And if you even think about telling anyone I said that, I’ll come back from the grave and dig myself out, drag myself to your big, dumb house and kill you myself. Also, if you read this before I die, you’re also dead. Now that that is cleared up, I need you to know that this isn’t your fault. I’m sure you did everything you could to save me. And I know you won’t listen and will still blame yourself, but please at least take comfort in the fact that I don’t blame you for this. But you know, if I look back, despite dying at fifteen, it was worth it. The risk Lucas spoke of, when he told me, was worth it.” Steve sniffs, a hint of a smile on his face as he reads her letter. Why did it have to be you? He wonders, rubbing his eyes.
“I don’t regret it because I met you guys and you made all the sh!tty things in my life disappear into the background. When I got to Indiana, I thought I was gonna hate it here. And I did, I missed my skate park, my friends, and especially my dad. But now I have you, and the boys, and El. I hope you find someone who can make you even half as happy as you made me.” That line stabs Steve right through his heart, like the spears Lucas and Erica made Eddie and Dustin. He grabs his chest, and he chokes out a sob. WHY DID IT HAVE TO BE YOU? He asks again, collapsing to his knees, and clutching his skull. “I love you, Steve. You were there for me when all else left me. Please take care of Lucas, El and Dustin. They will need you now more than ever. And allow yourself to mourn me. Love, your baby sister, Max.”
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Sorry for asking so much, top 5 favourite accents (in whichever language)?
Spanish accents jeez, I've got this friend and sometimes she sings for me and mmmmmmmm I listen to those audio recordings so many times, so yeah Spanish accents are on the top 😤
Russian accents are really nice😌
Italian accents, they remind me almost of an Indian accent? Idk they're pog
those are all the accents that I know😭😭
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Reader and Steve end up exposed to something on a mission that cause them to body swap. It would be hot as hell if one of them was seeing Bucky too and he decides to have fun with their misfortune.
(okay so this is kind of a crack fic so im sorry in advance asgjakhsagdj this is the WEIRDEST SMUT I’VE EVER WRITTEN... very nsfw and a slight touch of dubcon beneath the cut.)
you’d only been in Steve’s body for a few hours when you began to understand how deprived this man was.
you hadn’t gotten his memories.  you didn’t really understand how this had happened at all but you knew that for sure, because you distinctly recalled being you yesterday and now you were him.  and he was fucking horny.
maybe it was you, a little bit, but this was definitely his body acting of its own accord more than it was your mind inside of it.  it felt different in a guy’s body, for one.  it felt so different to have need like this, so much more all-encompassing than the subtle tingling in your gut that you normally felt when you were turned on.  damn, is this what it was always like for men?  you weren’t sure how they ever managed to get any work done.  maybe they don’t.
my cock is hard, you thought to yourself, trying to wrap your head around the concept.  you tried not to look down at it as you leaned back in your chair-- his chair, actually-- but you could feel it, not just the arousal coursing through it but the head curving back and digging into your hip.  
I can’t touch it, you decided, it would be invasive.  he’s not here to consent to me touching his body.  and you firmly believed that logic, and yet you felt your hand-- his hand-- reaching into the waistband of his uniform and pulling it out.  you whimpered just to feel warmth on it, though the sound was foreign to your ears as you realized you had his voice.
you had never been good at handjobs, but it was like instinct was guiding you as you stroked the cock you found in your palm.  his hands were sort of rough, something you normally liked but was not well-received in this body.  but it was enough-- it was just enough to satisfy this desperation that burned in your chest.  you could tell it had been so long since this cock had gotten attention from anything but this hand, you could feel how much he needed more but you, as his friend, understood why he didn’t get it.  he always told you he was too busy for dating.  frankly, if you got to this point, you wouldn’t really be worried about “dating” so much as “hooking up” but he was, understandably, not the type.
your head fell back as you bucked up into your hand, biting down on your lip-- and you’d always dreamed of tasting his lips, just not like this.  “fuck,” you hissed, the sound of his voice mundane to his body but driving your mind wild inside his stupidly beautiful head.  there was an urge to moan your own name, just to know how it would sound if he said it like this, but the idea was too weird for you go through with it.
then again, you were stuck in Steve’s body and jerking off so, ‘too weird’ was kind of a moot point.
you were jolted out of your rhythm when there was a knock at your-- his-- door.
“wh-who is it?” you stammered.
“it’s me!” you heard from the other side of the door. “or, well, it’s you!”
“shit,” you mumbled as you rushed to redress, running to the door-- you were so much faster in this body, unsurprisingly.  you weren’t really psychologically prepared to open the door and see yourself there.  you weren’t ready to be pierced by your own gaze, your own arms crossed in confusion.
“do you always get wet when you look at me?” Steve asked you suddenly.  “or is this just me... knowing it’s you?”
you swallowed, feeling an Adam’s apple bob in your neck-- what an odd sensation.
“does my voice always sound like that?” you asked when you heard his words from your mouth.
“we need to fix this before Bucky finds me again,” he demanded, “I barely managed to toss him off me.”
“... so I guess you found out about us too?” you winced, your secret fuckbuddies relationship now out in the open.
“more than I ever wanted to know,” he frowned.  his expression shifted as he looked up at you again.  “what were you doing?”
“what?” you asked, and you heard your own breathlessness.  “I wasn’t doing anything.  you always breathe like this.  don’t you have asthma?”
“I used to have asthma,” he corrected.
“yes, and now you have a vagina-- my vagina!-- so maybe we should focus on that and not you giving me this random third degree here?”
“whatever,” he scoffed, brushing past you to step into the room as you shut the door.  
“you didn’t... look, did you?” you asked nervously.
“uh, no,” he answered quickly, “did you?”
“I made a specific point not to,” you announced proudly.
“oh...” he mumbled, “good...”
“sooooo...” you changed the subject awkwardly, “any plans on how to fix this?”
“I was thinking we’ll start by trying everything we can think of, and work from there,” he offered.
“good plan,” you decided.  “maybe.... maybe, uh... we have to... go... somewhere?  or do something?”
“go somewhere and do something?” steve repeated incredulously. “you’re a real genius.”
“don’t make that face at me, you’re gonna give me frown lines,” you sneered.  “I can’t help it, okay?  I can’t think!  I’m distracted!”
“by what?”
“by... by stuff!” you defended, scratching the back of your neck-- it was your nervous habit, rendered entirely different by his short hair.
steve sighed, your chest rising and falling with his breath.  “it’s hard, isn’t it?”
“well, yeah, switching bodies is hard--”
“no.  it’s hard... isn’t it?”
your eyes went a little wide.  “ohhh. uh, yeah, it is.”
“god, I’m sorry,” he groaned, hiding your face in your hands, “it does that a lot.”
“how do you do anything?” you squawked.  “it’s like all I can think about is... is how bad I just need to be in something, something... warm!”
“welcome to my world,” he shrugged.
“you have to let me...” you began, but stopped yourself.  “no, no, we-- no.”
“what is it?” he asked.
“you have to let me fuck you.  me.  you have to let... you fuck me...?”
“won’t that be, you know... scarring?” 
you nodded.  “but I’m not sure we have a choice, please just-- just let me-- I know I want it.  I mean, I know my body wants it.  didn’t you say I’m wet?  I’m probably drenched by now, huh?”
he stammered a bit before answering. “um... I think so...”
“it feels warm, right?  warm and sensitive and like you need to be filled with something?”
“...kinda...” he replied hesitantly.
“please,” you groaned, “don’t tell me I’m the only one that’s ever thought about it.”
“no,” he answered, quicker than ever, “no, you aren’t.  you’re... you’re sure it’s okay?”
“I’ve wanted you for so long,” you finally admitted, “not like this, but I’ll take what I can get--”
“fuck it,” he mumbled before pulling you into a heated kiss, and with your eyes closed you couldn’t really tell the difference of who was who anymore, you just knew that it was him touching you and you didn’t really care that his hands were smaller and that his lips were softer.
you undressed each other at lightning speed, and there was a hand on your cock-- clearly he was pulling from his own experience with his own cock, because wow, he knew exactly how to touch it to make you gasp and whimper.
“you can look,” he offered to you when he pulled back from the kiss, “I know I did.”
“did you like what you saw?” you asked hesitantly.
“better than I ever imagined,” he grinned.  “I even put a finger inside you.  I’ll be honest, I’m not sure I’m gonna fit.”
“neither am I,” you sighed as you looked down at the thick member your own slender hand was wrapped around.  “fuck, steve... it’ll probably hurt you.”
“let’s just hope we can fix this tonight and you get to be sore tomorrow, not me,” he chuckled a little.
“k-keep stroking it, please,” you sighed, “I’m already-- I think I’m close.  I can’t really tell...”
“you should be able to feel it here,” he explained as he slipped his touch lower to cup your balls--
“oh,” you breathed, “this is... new...”
“oh please, it’s nothing compared to a clit,” he laughed, “that thing is sensitive.”
you realized that steve was taking much better advantage of this than you were-- while you had his body at your disposal, you needed to test out the superhuman strength.  it took you almost nothing to lift your own weight onto the desk, grinning as you saw him gasp at the show of strength.
“been a while since somebody lifted you?” you asked him with a smirk.  he didn’t reply, just spread his-- your-- legs and let you grind against him, just the warmth of a body enough for now even if you weren’t inside of it.  you kissed him again as you pulled him closer, thrusting to let that poor, sensitive cock slide over the delicate skin beneath you.
“well, well, well,” a voice echoed from the doorway.  you sat up and spun around to find Bucky, leaning around the wall with crossed arms and a satisfied smirk.  “it was just a matter of time before you two got together-- we all knew it.  no wonder you ran off so fast, babygirl... you had another engagement to attend to.”
“Buck, hold on--” Steve began.
“Bucky, this is not what it looks like,” you interrupted.
“then what is it?” Bucky asked with faux innocence.
you and Steve looked at each other, neither of you sure exactly how to answer that.  “it’s complicated,” you answered in unison.
“don’t worry about me, I’m not jealous,” he explained.  “we never said we were exclusive, no hard feelings,” he addressed Steve-- but he was talking to you.  well, he was trying to talk to you, but he didn’t know he was looking at Steve.  well, he was looking at you, but just your body-- oh fuck it, even you couldn’t make sense of it. “but Steve?” he chuckled. “he doesn’t even know what he’s doing.  he can’t make you feel as good as I can, I know it.”
he was like a blur as he pounced on you-- your body, at least, but it was Steve that was arching his back and moaning as Bucky licked and sucked at your neck, slipped his metal hand into your shorts and apparently found your most sensitive spots instantly.  Steve was already bucking up into his touch, your own moans echoing over the walls even if you weren’t the one making them.
“B-Buck, wait,” Steve protested, but he was too weak now to push him off, and too far gone into the pleasure to want to.
“feels good, hm?” Bucky purred, throwing a stray glance at you.  “are you jealous?” he asked you tauntingly.
“yes,” you admitted.
“jealous cause you know how good it feels when I make you come like this?” he pressed, and you froze.  
“do... do I?” you asked Steve anxiously.
“don’t look at him, look at me,” Bucky corrected firmly.  him? you wondered, but before you could ask, he answered your question, turning to address Steve pinned under him.  “I know it’s you, Steve.”
“what?!” you both gaped.
“she would never call me ‘pal’ like you did earlier,” Buck explained, “and she would never say no to me like you also did earlier.”
“hey!” you protested.
“and you,” he laughed, “I’d know that deer-in-the-headlights look anywhere, even on a different face.”
as embarrassing as this whole situation was, it was sort of nice to have someone else acknowledge it.  it made you feel less crazy.
“I can’t keep track of this conversation while there are fingers inside of me,” Steve shivered.
“it’s weird, isn’t it?” you smiled at him.  “good weird.”
“very good, very weird,” he agreed, breathing heavier as Bucky’s arm flexed from pumping his hand back and forth.
“she usually comes in just a few minutes from this,” Bucky explained to Steve, making you feel oddly exposed-- and not just because you knew they could both see the achingly-hard cock threatening to burst from the hastily-zipped pants.  “I know it’s you in there, but it’s still her body... so it should still be the same, right?”
“I-I’m close,” Steve replied, making Bucky laugh.
“oh, you’re even faster, damn.  go ahead and come for me-- don’t you wanna hear how she sounds when she comes?”
“yes.”
“don’t you wanna see that pussy cream all over my fingers?” 
“yes.”
“then beg me not to stop,” Bucky demanded, and instinct took over.
“please don’t stop,” you found yourself saying before Steve could answer, making them both turn to you.
“I’ve got you so well-trained,” Bucky grinned before looking back down at Steve beneath him.  “just like that, doll,” he repeated his instruction.
“don’t call me ‘doll,’” Steve barely managed to protest between loud moans.
“okay,” Bucky relented, “beg for me just like that, Stevie.”
“please!” Steve shouted instantly.  “please... please don’t stop.”
“one more time?”
“damn it, Buck, don’t stop!” he sobbed, and you wondered if you always looked like that when you came or if it was Steve’s expression painted on your own features.  Bucky, as always, wasn’t content with just one, and Steve’s eyes shot wide open as he realized that this could just keep going, over and over.  
“you’re-- you’re really not gonna stop,” Steve gasped.
“he’s mean like that,” you explained with a little smirk.  you were looking forward to getting back in your own body just for the multiple orgasms alone.
“how’s it feel, Stevie?” Bucky asked proudly.
“s-so good,” he answered dutifully, “so good it almost hurts.  fuck it hurts... but I want more, I wanna come again.”
“mm, so greedy,” Bucky praised.  “just one more, then we need to give our lonely friend some love... I bet she’s ready to make a mess in your pants just from watching me finger you--” he turned to you suddenly-- “isn’t that right?”
“yes,” you answered quickly.  “p-please, Bucky, I feel so... I need you.”
“I know, babygirl, it won’t be much longer,” he promised, “I can feel your cunt clenching on me already-- come on over here and feel for yourself.”
you hesitantly stepped closer, hissing a little as Bucky’s free hand grabbed your wrist and pulled your hand closer.  “see?  just put your finger in beside mine, I want you to know how tight you get when I make you come.”
you took a shaky breath but did as he asked, hearing Steve’s gasp as you inserted his thick finger into your slickened channel.  it definitely felt different than when you put your own fingers in yourself-- for him and for you.  it was different to feel your pussy around your finger when you couldn’t feel the finger in your pussy... if that made any sense.
“three’s too many,” Steve complained.
“and yet, here we are,” Bucky winked.
“I can’t,” Steve clarified, “it’s too big.”
“aw, she always says that but then she changes her mind... you will too,” Bucky decided.  “now just move like this,” he explained to you as you started to move with him, feeling the way your body responded instantly.  it built up so fast as you tried to keep up with Bucky’s pace, watching Steve cry out at the same time as your walls tightened around the assortment of fingers-- Steve and Bucky’s, flesh and metal-- inside you.
“you’re close,” Bucky informed both of you.  “feel the way that pretty pussy is getting so wet, holding on so tight?”
“y-yes,” you shivered, trying your best to ignore the pangs of need coursing through the cock you still struggled to acknowledge as your own.
“go ahead and come, Stevie,” Bucky encouraged, and that was all it took; Steve cried out as your whole body spasmed-- not just your body, but the body you were in.  You were coming, much to your dismay, without even being touched, ropes of hot come creating a wet patch on Steve’s uniform, and you couldn’t bit back the groans of pleasure as your gut flexed with each wave of the orgasm.
“oh, now look at that,” Bucky purred as he looked back and forth between Steve and yourself.  “you two both made a mess.”
“aw damn it, my uniform!” Steve protested as he looked at you.
“I think you need to help our girl clean up that mess,” Bucky cooed as Steve shot him a look.  “it’s been too long since you got your dick sucked... and I’ve always felt it’s your responsibility to solve your own problems.”
“I... I don’t know how,” Steve protested.
“I’ll show you,” Bucky promised as he guided Steve to kneel in front of you, helping you push down your trousers.  “just lick up some of that come first, nice and slow.”
you gasped the second you felt a warm tongue against your skin, your hands reaching out and finding a comfortable place to grip on your own hair-- and Steve moaned when you pulled on it.
“you like the taste of your own come, Stevie?” Bucky purred. “now put it in your mouth-- just the head, you might not be able to fit much else.  suck on it like a popsicle.”
you bit back a moan that wouldn’t been embarrassingly loud when you felt a warm, slick mouth wrap around where you were now much too sensitive.  
“look down, babygirl,” Bucky whispered to you.
“I-- I can’t,” you denied, “I can’t look.”
“but you look so pretty when you suck cock, doll, haven’t I told you a million times?”
you sighed but obeyed, opening your eyes and looking down at Steve looking up at you, but with your eyes, and with your lips stretch around his thick shaft.  “I... I do look pretty,” you agreed nervously.
“did you always wonder what Steve looks like when he’s getting his cock sucked?” Bucky asked you as he knelt down beside your body where Steve was using it for the moment.  “The answer is... very confused.”
“that might be unique to this situation,” Steve explained as he pulled away from you.
“keep sucking, whore, I didn’t say you could stop.”
that language made you both moan softly, but Steve obeyed.
“oh, we are going to have so much fun,” Bucky chuckled excitedly, and you already knew that you were in for a very long night.
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WITH LOVE, THE GHOSTS | Julie and the Phantoms - Part One
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Author’s Note: Gah… I'm such a procrastinating butterfly. I should be writing my Billy Russo series which I'm so excited about, but I just want to be able to read it already instead of having to write first + I'm currently writing each and every chapter instead of the next one (struggles of a fanfiction writer - am I right?). So, what do I do instead? I flew from one of my obsessions to another and got inspired by this week's @flashfictionfridayofficial​ prompt. 
Anyways... This fic will be a little to late for some of you guys, but still: Merry Christmas everyone! And if you do not celebrate Christmas I still hope you have a wonderful day and a rest of the year filled with love and happiness. You did it, you fought through it. I’m sure you had your own pair of himbo ghosts taking care of you.
word count: ~ 1k
summary (and basically background info): Y/N is Julie's & Flynn's friend who doesn’t know about the ghosts (let’s just say she believes that they’re holograms). The boys become attached to Y/N due to her kindness and positivity and do everything in their (ghostly) powers to keep her days sunny and bright, especially in winter.  Or: Two times Y/N is oblivious to the boys 'paranormal' activities and the one time she notices it
prompt: Comfort in the Cold by @flashfictionfridayofficial​
warnings: english is not my first language, therefore, typos
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#1: Luke
Slowly and quietly you made your way down the stairs of the Molina household, leaving Julie's and Flynn's sleeping forms behind. Even though you had just watched multiple Christmas movies and probably eaten double your weight in popcorn, your stomach was still asking for more. As Julie knew about your habits of needing a midnight snack and since Ray repeatedly told you to make yourself at home you weren't feeling bad about stealing some small bits and pieces out of their fridge or cupboards.
Which is why you were straining your ears to hear any sounds that might indicate that you had woken up either Carlos or Ray, but you were only met with silence. Releasing the breath you were holding you hastily hopped down the last few steps down to the living room, grabbed the stair railing and used the momentum of your movement to swiftly swing yourself in the direction of the kitchen, freezing at the sight that greeted you.
A quick glance at the clock told you it was 2 a.m. and the continuous silence indicated that nobody except you was awake and around. Yet, as you hesitantly took a view steps towards the kitchen counter, pulling your blanket like a shield tighter around your body, there was a perfectly fine peanut-butter/jelly sandwich waiting for you, a smiley made out of Nutella painted onto it. Your favourite midnight snack.
A small note peaked out from under the plate and it took you some time to decipher the chicken scratch. Can't have our favourite groupie going to bed hungry! 
Smiling and shaking your head, thinking that either Julie or Flynn must have sneaked out of the room sometime earlier to make you this sandwich you happily bit into it. 
If you'd known that there was a brown-haired ghost with hazel eyes sitting opposite to you and watching you with a smile, the sandwich would have probably gotten stuck in your throat.
#2: Alex 
Doing multiple Christmas movie marathons would be fun they said. No need to worry they said. Only Christmas cheer and joy they said. Well… long story short, even fun movies can make you bawl like a baby! 
A few days after the midnight snack incident, which you completely forgot about, you were once again sitting on Julie's bed. With her and Flynn to your left and right, you had been watching different movies on her computer. Currently, however, you were only trying. Tears were blurring your vision and your sniffles were the only sounds reaching your ear. 
Pressing the plushy's soul that Flynn had won you at a fair out of its body and sobbing into it, you felt Julie shift beside you and lay her head in your lap and mumbling something while Flynn was searching for a handkerchief.
"Whose idea was it again to watch this movie?" you tried to ask, but your voice came out all thick and full of emotion, so you weren't sure if they understood or heard you at all.
What you didn't know was that the boys were watching the movie, and now mostly you, with big eyes.
"Remember the day when Julie was crying in the garage and then Flynn came in crying too? Remember how I said that two girls crying are worse than one girl crying? This… this is way worse!" Luke pointed exaggeratedly at every single one of you and moved quickly out of Flynn's way when she left the room to get a box of tissues. 
"Dude… they're not actually crying crying. It's just a really sad movie," Alex said and sighed quietly when he heard Reggie whisper, "Do you think that's what Willie meant when he said Caleb floods the place during movie night?"
"That's... no, okay." Shaking his head Alex moved towards the bed and sat carefully at Flynn's place to not alert you of the shift beside you. Then he gently took a paw of the plushy that you weren't currently pressing into an embrace and lifted it to wipe away your tears and free your sight. 
You sniffled, too confused and full of emotion to realize what just happened and that it couldn't possibly have been Julie or Flynn, and whispered a small, "Thank you". 
Alex smiled, proud of his action.
#3: Reggie
You didn't even bother to take off your shoes or wipe away the residual snow still sticking to your hair as you flopped yourself down onto your bed, groaning into your pillow. Everything was already grey, wet or at least soggy anyway. To say your day had been bad was an understatement.
It's the most wonderful time of the year With the kids jingle belling And everyone telling you be of good cheer It's the most wonderful time of the year
Confused you lifted your head and starred at your computer who apparently decided to become sentient and cheer you up.
It's the hap-happiest season of all With those holiday greetings and gay happy meetings When friends come to call It's the hap-happiest season of all
The next thing that happened would forever be burned into your brain. Your favourite pen suddenly lifted itself up into the air and started to scribble down onto a nearby paper. Slowly and unsure you stood up and inched closer to your desk, but as soon as you were able to sneak a peak onto the paper the pen stopped and fell down.
Shaking your head you rubbed your eyes and turned back to your bed. "This is the weirdest lucid dream I ever had." The moment you flopped back down onto your bed you heard the familiar scratching of pen on paper again. Turning your head there it was again - the floating pen. "What?"
However, once again, as soon as you reached the desk the pen fell down, lifeless. “Alright... alright. I understand! Don’t worry, I won’t sneak a peak.”
"I am dreaming... right?" You weren't. Pinching yourself hurt, trying to breathe through a closed nose didn't work and your pointer finger would not move through the palm of your hand.
Shakily, yet weirdly motivated by the happy Christmas music still playing in the background, you picked up the note laying beside the now still pen. "Merry Christmas Y/N! Lots of love from Reggie, Alex and… Who?" 
"It told you, Luke… I should just have signed for us all."
"Shut it Reg, I know my handwriting sucks."
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Spicy Sunday 🌶🌶 Molly cheap thrills was such a surprise - loved it! The flirting 😍 Now we need to fill in the blanks of what happened when Kate brought him home
Absolutely LOVED Cheap Thrills!!!!! Your writing is constantly amazing, I get so excited every time you post! Would it be too much to request more from this universe, maybe some spice🌶? Wishing you a great upcoming week, love from Canada🇨🇦
so…. cheap thrills spicy sunday?
also klepto drunk molly is very unexpected yet welcome
So I hadn't planned to write this AU really. But I told @readandbemerry but my drunk antics and Cheap Thrills was born! A pair of glasses isn't even my weirdest trophy. I once came back from the bathroom wearing a crown that to this day neither my friends or myself can explain. I have no memory of it. It looks like the kind of thing Julius Caesar would wear.
Okay! Let's do some Spice in this Universe, but I also feel like... you already know how it goes. It was in Kate's drink order 😏😏😏😏😏
Anthony really wasn't sure how he ended up in the back of a taxi with Kate Sharma's lips nipping at his neck, her hand settled on his thigh. He hadn't been able to help himself last night, Someone had stumbled, on their way into the bar, and instinctively his hands had reached out to steady them and suddenly he'd been staring down at most probably the most beautiful woman he'd ever seen. Her dark hair tumbling around her shoulders, her eyes wide with surprise, her smile apologetic as she mumbled Sorry.
"No worries, Hey-" But she was gone. And Anthony spent the next few hours staring at her laughing across the bar. He'd taken his glasses off to clean them, turned around and suddenly there was a much smaller woman staring up at him.
"Are you a good guy?"
Anthony had been startled but stuttered to answer "Yes. Yeah. Umm I think so. Maybe. No, Yes, I am."
She nodded. "And you're how old?"
"Twen-Twenty-nine?"
"And have you ever killed anybody?"
Benedict beside him had laughed bemusedly, "No!"
"And you have a stable job? You're not like... I don't know making t-shirts from the boot of your car or working on your garage band?"
"I'm a barrister?" He really had no idea what was happening but something was compelling him to answer.
"And your name is?"
"Anthony?"
The woman stared at him scrutinisingly for a moment before saying. "Give me your arm." His arm shot out of its own accord, "Well, Anthony," She was writing something on his arm in felt tip, "You should call Kate. Because you've been eye fucking her all night and she stole your glasses 5 minutes ago."
And then she was gone as well, and Anthony had just stared like a stunned mullet as she followed Kate from the bar, his hand already fumbling for his phone.
"You have to call that Girl." Benedict had said a little incredulously but Anthony was already dialling, his heart racing, it just seemed too good to be- Hi this is Kate Sharma, I can't come to the phone right now but leave a message and I'll get back to you. Maybe not too good to be true.
And then He'd seen her at the bar again, her black dress hugging her body, his glasses perched on top of her head like a trophy, even more beautiful than he'd remembered and it had taken everything in him not to march up to her and claim her lips right there. He wasn't really sure what to expect from a woman who engaged in petty theft when drunk and honestly, she seemed mortally embarrassed by it. But other than that, she was razor sharp. Her witty remarks as sharp as her cheekbones, standing toe to toe with him, drawing him closer with each new fact about herself, and before the bartender had even taken his money, Anthony had known he was going to ask her to dinner, and probably out again after that.
He really hadn't expected her to invite him home, hadn't been looking for it, but that wasn't going to stop him from standing and fumbling over himself as they left the restaurant. As he fumbled around on his phone ordering a taxi he could feel her eyes on him, staring curiously. He turned to face her as he hung up, nerves building in his stomach. Their eyes locked together, and jesus she was beautiful, maybe too beautiful in the bright city lights, tension building between them.
"Can I kiss you?" It swept from his chest a little unbidden.
She'd stepped closer to him, her hand on his chest, burning there. And then he dipped his head and their lips met, and it had never felt like this before. Her lips were moving against his, meeting them just like her banter had, perfectly in sync after just seconds, his hands moving to grip her waist, tugging her tight against him, her hands threading through his hair as the kiss deepened, his leg slipping between hers and-
"Oi!" A car horn sounded startling them apart. "If you get in mate, you might avoid getting arrested." The taxi driver was rolling his eyes, Kate ducking her head a little embarrassedly as Anthony pulled her inside, murmuring her address before her teeth started nipping at his neck, heat building between them.
By the time they reached her flat it had reached a slightly desperate stage, hands fumbling down the corridor, his chest pressing against her back as she fumbled with her keys, a low whine escaping her as he ducked his lips to her collarbone, sucking lightly against it, his teeth following, falling through the door as it swung open. Kate's hands were dragging him down a small corridor, her eyes locked on his.
"I don't um... do this that often, I'm sorry if this is... weird?" She started a little awkwardly, breaking the bubble forming around them, Anthony ducked his head cutting her off with another kiss.
"I have to say, this is definitely the weirdest way anyone's ever flirted with me, and I fucking loved it." Her eyes widened, staring back at him, tension thick in the air. And then she moved, her hands releasing his forearms, sliding to her own back, a zipper drawn down and Anthony felt his mouth drop open. staring. Frozen.
"Are you going to-?" Her fingers playing with the hem of his sweater, her voice soft pulling him from his reverie.
"Oh my god, Yes. Sorry, You're just really pretty and I got a little distracted." Anthony couldn't keep the grin off his face as he tugged his sweater over his head, obscuring her eye roll, tugging his jeans off seconds later.
She was staring at him now, her eyes glazing a little.
"So maybe your mum and I do share the same opinion." her hands were tight on his bicep tugging him back to her.
"I knew it."
And then his lips were on hers again, her exposed skin, setting his on fire as their teeth clashed, tongues tangling, her hips moving against his leg between hers.
"What do you want, Kate?"
She looked a little wild as she stared back at him, her voice rough, her lips tugging upwards in a catlike smile, "Mine's a slow screw against the wall."
A whine escaped his chest, his hands tugging on her legs, lifting them to wrap around her turning them, until she's pressed firmly against the wall, trapped against him. Her smile nearly too bright. His eyes questioning, her legs tightening around him. A gasp given together as their hips started moving together, push and pull, his forehead falling against hers, his spine shivering with the little noises she made as he moved against her, her hands tight in his hair. His glasses still perched on her head, forcing a slightly possessive growl from his chest. Heat building in his stomach slowly, simmering, a steady pace, the noice echoing through the room like his heartbeat Oh My god, Anthony, Anthony, Fuck Fuck, Anthony. Her eyes blown even wider as she shuddered against him, falling apart all around him But Anthony held her together, his arms tight around her as he pulled her from the wall, stumbling a little in the few steps, her breathing ragged in his ear as he laid back against the mattress, forcing him to straddle her.
Kate stared down at him, clearly a little surprised, his own voice rough,
"I like to see a woman on top." a small shrug escaping him.
A slightly breathless laugh bursting from her, as she started to rock against him. "We thank you for your feminist efforts."
Whatever witty response he was going to make died on his lips as she started moving in earnest, her fingernails digging into his chest, his hands tightening on her hips encouraging her against him, pushing him closer and closer to the edge, choked words falling from his lips. Holy Fuck, So beautiful, you're so incredible, Needy, greedy gasps, Again, Kate. Kate Kate Kate, Again Please. A soft cry breaking free from her chest, and he fell over the edge as well.
Kate collapsed again him, reaching up and plucking his glasses from the top of her head, her shoulders still heaving as she fought for breath, sliding his glasses back on his face. Her smile a little brilliant.
"I knew you'd look better with them on."
A breathless laugh from his own lips. "Next time you fuck me, I'll wear them for you, Catwoman."
This got way too long, I'm sorry
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RESISTERE TENTATIONEM: CAPITULUM II
TĒCTUS: Covered, concealed, hidden, having been covered, hidden or concealed
Pairings: Damian Priest x Reader
Warnings: +18, mature content
Editor: @thenightmareismyreality
Tag: @ziasaph , @theworldofotps , @alyhull , @bellalutionn , @aerynscrichton , @serpantscorpio8497 , @ava-valerie , @omegasshyghuleh6661ghosts , @squirreledelman , @cazxcx , @sophiewolfheart-blog , @bayley-no-friends , @waywardwrestlewritingwaif , @sassymox
Notes: I would like to thank @letsgivethisonemoreshot , for not only being my partner in crime with this trilogy but also being one of the best friends someone could ever have 😘 This is fully written in Damian’s POV. If you’d like to check out my previous works, you can find them on my Masterlist
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Want to hear a joke that’s really in poor taste? The Mother Superior of the famous Mary Magdalene Convent (isn’t that ironic) is being accused of hosting ‘parties’ to the oh so loving convent donors. And you know who isn’t invited to those parties? Jesus Christ. Because the Devil sure loves to be a part of them! Drugs, orgies, alcohol, prostitution, even black masses... you name it! Everything that is unholy happens in the so-called house of holiness, and if that isn’t a bad taste joke, I don’t know what is.
So here I am now, driving towards the Devil’s den: the Mary Magdalene convent for three torturous days of interviews. Out of all of the reporters from The New York Times, of course I was the one who drew the short straw and got assigned this article. Some people see this as a career changing opportunity... a blessing, but me? I see it as a fucking curse! I don’t like religion, I don’t like churches, I don’t like priests and I sure as hell don’t like nuns! Anything that has the word “holy” in it, I prefer to be as far away as I possibly can from. But today was not my lucky day….no, today was the day that I was going to be tested. The only thing I’m hoping for is to not fail.
I knocked on the convent’s door and a young lady answered me.
“Hi, good morning. I’m Damian Priest, reporter from The New York Times and I’m here for an interview with” I looked down at my notepad “Mrs. Y/N L/N? Whom I believe is the Mother Superior”
The young girl only nodded once and motioned for me to follow her, without saying a word.
I followed her in, mesmerized by the size of the convent, the whole place was fancy as fuck on the inside. Art pieces from famous painters were displayed on the walls, modern furniture, dim lights that made the place look cozy and inviting. *What a scam* I thought to myself. The young lady in front of me suddenly stopped walking and pointed towards the door in front of her before turning around and leaving.
Presuming that it was the Mother Superior’s office, I knocked on the door twice before someone told me to come in. You see, when they told me I was going to be interviewing the Mother Superior of a convent, the last thing I expected was for her to not only be beautiful, but young (considering I was under the impression that women in that position were around sixty years old). She was breathtaking to say the least! Soft features, her skin had an angelic glow to it and there was something in her eyes that trapped you in them...something you could not turn your gaze away from no matter how bad you wanted to.
“Mr. Priest, please sit down” She smiled
I nodded and sat on the chair in front of her desk
“Thank you for taking some time out of your busy schedule to speak with me, Mother Y/L/N-“
“Please, call me Y/N” Her sultry voice spoke
“Y/N” I tested the word on my lips and it sounded oddly pleasant
She smiled softly and...fuck she’s gorgeous! Her beauty was a painful and constant reminder of what you couldn’t have, couldn’t touch, couldn’t-“
“Mr. Priest?” She said softly
“Damian”
“Damian, would you like something to drink? Coffee, water, juice, tea perhaps?”
“No, I’m good. Thank you” I answered, while grabbing my notepad and a pen out of my backpack. Clearing my throat, I said “Can we get started with the pre-interview?”
“Of course” She smiled widely and reached for a cigarette pack on top of the table, which made me raise an eyebrow
“We all have our dirty little secrets, don’t we, Damian?” She asked, licking the cigarette filter before sucking it
*Am I going crazy?* I thought to myself
“Damian? Your first question is?” She giggled
“Ummm” I cleared my throat once again “Y/N, recently the convent was involved in a huge scandal involving drugs, prostitution, orgies and black masses. Would you like to clarify why an institution that’s deeply connected to the church is in the middle of something so profane?”
She grinned “God is in the most profane things, Damian. After all, the sinners are the ones who need Him the most, aren’t they?”
“I’m not sure if I follow-”
“You see” She took a long drag on her cigarette and walked towards me “God is our Lord and savior. He forgives us from our sins, grants us forgiveness to our most foul actions” She sat down on the chair beside me “If you steal from someone and repent; He’ll forgive you, kill someone and repent; He’ll save you, cheat on your wife with the hot, young next door neighbor and repent; He’ll brush it underneath the carpet and pretend it never happened” She shrugged “God doesn’t judge, Damian. He only forgives” She leaned forward on the arm of the chair, until she was uncomfortably close to me “So if the big boss himself doesn't judge anyone, then why should I?”
“And what does judgment have to do with drugs, orgies and sin?”
She smiled “How can God forgive you if you don’t sin, Damian?”
“And how can God forgive his so-called followers who incite others to sin, Y/N?”
“Incite others to sin?” She chuckled “Are you talking about the allegations, the donors or yourself?” She smirked
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Since we’re so far from town I was informed that I would have to spend the night at the convent. They showed me my bedroom and it looked pretty fancy. King size bed, Egyptian sheets, expensive furniture. Everything was oddly normal, except for the weird dream I recalled having. I was at the convent, lost, calling for help because I somehow ended up locked in here. I was inside what looked like a large basement, the room was only lit by red lights, a faint smell of leather took over my nostrils as I heard someone moaning softly in my ear…a woman. And the weirdest thing was that I could’ve sworn I felt her breath against my ear. Needless to say I woke up with my dick as hard as a rock and had to spend a solid thirty minutes trying to get rid of a very painful boner, which did not leave me no matter how many times I came. Half hard and inside a convent...yeah, I’m definitely going to Hell!
“How did you sleep, Damian?” Was the first thing I was asked when I walked into the Mother Superior’s office in the morning. Something in her voice told me she knew exactly what I had done underneath the shower.
“Good”
“I bet you woke up feeling much better after a good night of rest, right?” She smiled devilishly and I just nodded
“Would you mind if we took a tour through the convent at some point?” I asked, quickly changing subjects
“Of course not! Let me know when you want one”
I nodded and began to ask my questions
“So, why do so many men keep coming and going from this convent? Seems like the place men shouldn’t be”
“The only men who come to the convent, Damian, are maintenance, the donors for the ‘thank you parties’ we host and now you” She smiled
“How do you get so many people to keep donating?”
“We don’t oblige anyone to do anything. People are still kind enough to see the work we do for those in need and they get touched by it. So God is the one who inspires them to donate, Damian. Not me”
“I’ve noticed a lot of fancy things here. Shouldn’t the money be going to something else?”
“The ‘fancy’ things you see are gifts from the donors. Things they felt in their hearts they should give us freely. We don’t buy things for the convent, apart from food. That’s one of the rules”
“Speaking of rules” I looked at her “Why are you smoking? Isn't that not allowed?”
“We don’t have rules against smoking here, Damian. The choice to do it or not is personal, but there are no rules for it. It’s not forbidden or a sin. Now, if you think nuns shouldn’t smoke, I suggest you pay a visit to the convents in Rome and give them a piece of your mind about their choices regarding health”
I chuckled at her comeback
“Why so cynical about our good intentions?” She licked her lips
“Because you don’t have any” I spat
“We live for helping those in need, Damian” She pointed towards my visible bulge
“Helping those in need, huh? And what do you get out of it?”
She walked towards me “Satisfaction in its purest form” She lifted one hand up and caressed my lower belly over my shirt “It’s incredible how much providing relief to others can trigger the biggest pleasure in our bodies...to see their eyes semi-closed in...relief is so rewarding to me”
I cleared my throat and shifted uncomfortably. “And just how needy do these people have to be?” I was speaking in financial terms of course
“Very needy” Her hand toyed with my jeans button “Some even have trouble sleeping due to their neediness, so you can see how a helping hand goes so well in this case...even the right mouth, you know to profess the Lord’s word”
“And just how many of these ‘charitable acts’ have you been involved with?” I felt my cock grow harder and harder
“Directly? Only when things get too hard, Damian” Her hand brushed against my hard bulge “That’s when I offer my help, so things can stop getting so hard and painful”
I gulped as I tried to shift away from her touch “So what, you just have all these other poor girls do your dirty work for you?” I try to keep my serious composure
“I’m not afraid of getting dirty, Damian. The girls do what they can, what they’re instructed to...but sometimes things get so hard that I have no other option but intervene” She pulled the fly of my jeans down “Then, once the seed of evil is finally spilled, things can go back to being soft again” She leaned in closer “Would you like a demonstration, Damian? I’m sure you have some kind of evil inside you that needs to be released” She asked with a sinister smile reaching her hand into the waistband of my boxer briefs
“I’m just here for work, Y/N, I have nothing to donate”
“Don’t worry about it. My girls will not be involved in this...it will be our little secret”
“I would like the tour now, please”
She smirked “Of course” and stepped away from me “This way” She went out the door as if nothing had happened
“Psycho bitch” I whispered to myself, as I pulled the fly of my jeans up and tied my hoodie around my waist to cover up the boner.
“This way we have the nuns bedrooms” She pointed towards a hallway “Kitchen, restrooms, archives, laundry room, storage for cleaning supplies, pantry” She explained each room, until we were outside “The patio, garden; where we cultivate flowers, fruits and vegetables, garage and the chapel is this way”
She walked towards a medium sized chapel in the middle of the garden, it looked like a regular chapel on the inside. It had an altar with a bible on it, a pulpit, a big cross, devotional statues of catholic saints, wooden benches and a confessional. Candles were lit up all over the place and everything looked normal. Scarily normal, until I noticed a few nuns who were sat on one of the benches staring at me with a weird look on their eyes
“Why are they looking at me like that?” I asked Y/N
“Like what?”
“Like, with...” I trailed off
“With desire?” She whispered in a mocking tone
I looked down at her speechless
“One could say that you’re a little too obsessed with the lust theme, Damian” She smiled “It’s all you can think about ever since you got here, dear. You should be careful” She licked her lips and pulled me by my hand towards her office again.
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Later that night while I was trying to get some sleep, I began to hear some mumbling. Muffled voices kept saying something unintelligible and filling up the bedroom with mainly female voices. But one of the voices sounded too familiar to me...
I stood up from the bed and began to search in the room where those voices could be coming from, and as I almost gave up, I found it. A small hole of the size of a coin, in the concrete wall in front of my bed. Scooting closer to the wall, I knelt down and peeked through the hole, but weirdly enough, the room was pitch black. The mumbling started again and they soon became moans. Above all the moaning voices, one stood out to me. It was Y/N’s voice, she moaned softly while she said something I couldn’t quite understand. Her voice was filled with lust, her moans were pornographic and I could swear she was moaning my name. It both frightened and turned me on, so I did what any wise man would do. I returned to the bed, laid down and jerked off before falling into a deep slumber.
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“Wake up” Someone softly whispered in my ear
I quickly opened my eyes and my heart was beating at a frantic pace due to the fright.
A young girl was sitting down on my bed “Please, follow me” was all she said before standing up and leaving my room
I was so confused that I didn’t even bother to grab a t-shirt, so I just followed her down the hall barefoot and only with a pair of sweatpants on. Looking outside the hallway windows, I could see that the sky was still dark, which could only mean it was the late hours of morning.
She took me inside the laundry room and pressed a button underneath the folding clothes table. A door opened and a red light lit up the dark wooden stairs. I continued to follow her down the stairs, and we began to walk down a long hallway that looked more like a basement. The whole place had only red lights as the lighting source, so it took my eyes a while to get used to it.
“Where are you taking me?” I asked, but only received silence as a response
We walked for what felt like ten minutes until we reached a black wooden door with an iron door knocker. She knocked on the door four times and left.
“Is this a prank?” I asked myself, after five minutes of standing there alone. Suddenly the door opened, but I couldn’t see anything other than darkness ahead
“Hello?” I called from the doorway, but no one answered back
The thing that made me such a great reporter was my utter curiosity, and even with all my senses screaming ‘don’t go in there!’ I decided to listen to my curious side instead, and went into the room. As soon as I stepped a foot inside, the door behind me closed shut.
The room was pitch black and I stumbled across a few items. I placed my hand on top of what felt like a table so I could try to guide myself through the room, at least back to the door again so I could leave. When suddenly I felt several pairs of soft hands on my torso pulling me back.
“What the fuck?” I gasped in shock
But before I could make a move, my wrists and ankles were tied to a wooden surface and a red light turned on in the room
Five nuns were in front of me, staring silently at my body
“Leave” Someone said from behind me, and the nuns obeyed and left
“I would be lying if I said you weren’t a beautiful sight” Y/N said, and and walked in front of me
“You psycho bitch” I growled and pulled at the restraints “Let me go!”
She smiled “Oh Damian...You don’t want that!” Her nails softly scratched my lower belly “And neither do I”
“You’re sick! Let me go, you fucking-“
“Na ah” She slapped me across the face “I’m done playing these pretending games” She lit up a cigarette “Pretend you didn’t jerk off to my moans, pretending you don’t want to fuck me...that gets tiring” She dipped her hand inside my sweatpants and found my semi hard bulge “You’ve wanted to fuck me ever since you laid eyes on me” She giggled and I licked my dry lips
“Those sinful, filthy, thoughts you’ve had, Damian” She closed her fist around my erection “You wanted to know what we do here, right? We purge that demon out of you” And scooted closer until her lips brushed against my own with every word she spoke
“We send him away, so he can’t bother you anymore” She freed my cock from my pants and began to pump her hand up and down “We release you from the seed of evil”
“What the fuck are you talking about?” I panted
Y/N knelt down in front of me and darted her tongue out, licking my slit “Give me the seed of evil, Damian” and gave an open mouth kiss on my tip “Feed me with it” Licked the underside of my shaft “Release yourself from what’s been bothering you ever since you got here” Darting her tongue out “Use me to purify your soul” And opened her mouth wider.
At such a sight I had no other option but to buck my hips forward…
And chase for my cleansing
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It’s Hard Sometimes
Pairing: Jay Halstead x Reader
Word count: 2,975
Warnings: Yelling, arguing (gets a little physical, really just a little bit!), high risk-pregnancy, slight mentions of fertility issues, mentions of anxiety and overthinking, and a lot of angst.
Summary: Jay and the reader are married, but start having a hard time after they found out that (y/n) is pregnant. 
Disclaimer: I don’t own any of the One Chicago shows, or its characters, also not associated with it in any way or know anyone involved with it.
A/N: I made this piece of almost pure angst mostly because I feel like Jay is such a well-built character, who gives us a lot of space to talk about mental health and anxiety (even though I don’t think I developed it very well, lol), so I wanted to use this space to try and add to the conversation with him. Anyways, I hope it doesn’t suck too bad and, please, feel free to give me feedback, cause I’m also here to learn!!
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Your Saturday morning just couldn’t get any worse. 
Or, at least, that’s what you thought after having been mugged at the subway and then asked to go pick up your stuff at the 21st District, where your husband works. You had to go in because they had apprehended your bag as stolen property. But you were hoping that,  maybe, you’d be able to sort it all out without Jay seeing you. 
“(y/n), hi! Here to see Chuckles? Cause they’re all out working on a case now.” Trudy said with a small smile on her lips, while you just prayed she wouldn’t notice how relieved you were to hear that.
“No, uh, I’m actually here because there was an incident at the subway and the responding officers told me I had to come in to get my bag back. Also, sign something, I think…” You answered shrugging your shoulders to make it seem like nothing. But, of course, Trudy knew better, she always does.
“Oh my God! I heard about that, just didn’t know you were one of the victims! Are you okay? García, go get (y/n) a glass of water!!!” She quickly shouted at the young officer, not waiting long to turn back to face you with a concerned glare: “Can I get you anything else?”
“Oh, no, Trudy! You don’t need to worry about me! It wasn’t a big deal!” You said, also noticing that she was already going through some evidence bags, looking for the one that contained your things. “But there is one thing that I’d appreciate from you…” Hearing that, she didn’t even let you finish:
“Yes, of course! Anything, just name it!” At that, you shot her your brightest smile. Maybe Jay was right and the tough Sergeant Trudy Platt did have a soft spot for you. 
“Well, it’s just that… You know how Jay can get, so maybe you could not mention any of this to him? I just don’t want him worrying, the way I know he will, over something like this…” You would’ve continued but Trudy had the weirdest look on her face and, then, you got it. “He’s standing right behind me, isn’t he?” She didn’t bother to answer as your husband turned you to face him and the other members of the Intelligence Unit.
“So, what is it you don’t want me to worry about, huh?” He had a playful smirk on his lips, but his eyes showed you he was already worried. And now you had no other option but to tell him what happened.
“Well, um, there was a little confusion at the subway today and the officers said I had to come in…” You would gladly stop at that, but you knew that Jay wasn’t gonna let it go until you told him everything, so you just went on: “To retrieve what I, um, lost.” God, you couldn’t even look in his eyes right now. 
“What you lost? What kind of confusion are you talking about exactly, babe?” In spite of the pet name, his voice was already showing off a bit of irritation.
“It was a, um, robbery,” at that his eyes almost jumped out of their orbits, so you quickly added, “but it wasn’t a big deal! Nobody got hurt! The officers tackled the guy pretty fast, as soon as he stepped out on the station! And everything is here,” you said raising the bag  Trudy handed you a few minutes earlier, “so, really, there’s nothing to worry about!” You told him, not being able to conceal the exasperation in your voice.
“Nothing to worry about? You just got mugged, (y/n)! We heard a call about that over the radio, it was an armed robbery! Or did you happen to miss the gun on your face when he was getting your bag, huh?” He asked and, even though you knew that the only reason why he was lashing out like that was the concern, the way he said what he said made you feel really small and brought tears to your eyes. “Actually, what I’d like to know, to begin with, is why were you even riding the subway alone, after our talk from the other day, huh?” You could feel the eyes from every person in that District on you and, as much as you knew where Jay was coming from, it was starting to really bother you.
“I was just going to the library. Sorry I didn’t think I needed an escort to do that!” You wish you wouldn’t have said it with those exact words, but you were reaching your limit.
“But we talked about it!” He snapped and you jumped back a little. Then he added, more calmly: “You should have called me.” He was pinching the bridge of his nose, like he always did when he was disappointed and upset about something, and you just felt yourself getting smaller and smaller, as the tears started falling. As if all of it hadn’t been enough, he asked: “Are you okay, though? Because, you know, given our circumstances, you’re to avoid going out on your own to prevent this kinda stress from hitting you, babe.” He explained that to you like he was talking to a child. Like he was the only one who heard what the doctor said. And that was it for you. As much as you loved the man, you just didn't have infinite patience towards his overprotective dad-to-be mode. 
“Oh, really? Why don’t you just go ahead and say ‘I told you so’, huh? Because I can tell you’re dying to do it!” God damn those pregnancy hormones because you were fuming with anger and the tears just kept going down at full force.
“Babe, that’s not what I-”
“The hell it isn’t!” Part of you really wanted to let it all out. All the hurtful words that were just waiting for a go-ahead at the tip of your tongue. But the other part of you, the rational one, knew that wasn’t gonna do any good for you or Jay. Or your baby. So you decided you’d leave instead. “You know what? It’s probably best if I go home now!”
“Okay, then, I’ll drive you.” You heard Jay saying, with a deep sigh, but you couldn’t even begin to think about an entire drive home with him at that moment.
“No way! I can do that by myself! And don’t worry I’ll get a cab this time!” As you headed towards the exit, you felt a strong grip on your wrist. You turned around and it was Jay. He’d never done that before. “Jay, you’re hurting me!” You breathed out, trying not to be too nervous. When your eyes met his, he let your arm go quickly, looking absolutely stunned by his own behavior. 
You knew that the healthiest thing to do right then would be to try and talk to him about it, but you couldn’t. At that point you needed the space more than ever, so you took the opportunity to just leave the District and go home.
After you stormed out crying, every cop in that building laid their eyes on Jay. To say they were completely shocked by the previous scene was an understatement. Almost everyone there knew you and Jay and how you two were great together. But, more importantly, they knew Jay Halstead wasn’t that kinda guy ⎯ or at least they thought so ⎯ and now they were all wondering.
Still, Trudy Platt, who wasn’t about to have any more of that drama at her District, ordered loudly for everyone to get back to their tasks, while shooting Jay a worried look, because, as much as she knew for a fact that he wasn’t that kinda guy, she cared a lot about you and had, obviously, witnessed the whole thing. 
After the little gathering of cops had been dissolved, it was Voight’s turn to speak up: “Alright, Intelligence, let’s get back upstairs, we still have a lot of work to do on this case. And, Jay, you should go home now.” He said with a stern look, despite his concern for the detective.
“But, sarge, I-” Jay started to protest, like Hank knew he would.
“I don’t wanna hear it, Halstead. I know your head is not gonna be on the case until you fix whatever that was, so, now, the best thing you can do is just calm down and go home.” This time Jay knew there was no point in arguing, so he accepted the defeat and went upstairs to get changed in the locker room before leaving. 
As he got there, he saw his reflection in the mirror and that was when it hit him. All of it. From your incident to your tears, to his aggressiveness. He really messed up. He let his fears get the best of him and he hurt you, he made you cry, fear him, even. So he started crying himself, like a little child whose favorite toy had just broken, like there was no tomorrow. By the time Voight went there to check up on Jay, maybe give him some advice, that’s what he saw: a grown man sitting on the floor crying his eyes out. So he did the one thing he could think about doing, to try and make that man he considered like a son feel better: he sat there by Jay’s side and put a hand over the detective’s shoulder until the crying sufficed. 
“So, you and (y/n) been on the odds lately?” Hank asked after a while.
“No, uh, not really.” Jay started whilst sniffling. “It’s just that this week we got some news that messed with our emotions a little, but, Hank, I swear I have no idea why I did that! I would never do anything to hurt her, you gotta believe me! Please?” He pleaded, in desperation, for someone who knew it, who knew him.
“Jay, Jay!” By then the sergeant had to shout to get the frantic young man’s attention back. “Jay, I know you wouldn’t hurt her, you hear me? I know. I know you love her more than you love yourself, hell, everyone here knows it! They were just… A little surprised to see you two arguing, that’s all.” Hank tried to make it sound a lot less bad than it actually was, and Jay appreciated that. “Now, why don’t you tell me what’s really going on between you and (y/n), huh? Maybe I can help you somehow… Or maybe you just need to vent.” Hearing that, Jay decided that he should take Voight’s suggestion and just talk about it already.
“Well, here’s the thing, sarge, (y/n/n) and I, we’ve been trying to get pregnant for a while now. And, um, we were having a bit of a hard time with it. But then last weekend we found out that it worked, she got pregnant, and we were so happy about it!” He almost smiled at the memory. “But then we went to the doctor to check it and all that, and found out that it’s a high-risk pregnancy, meaning she’s gotta take it real easy from now on, otherwise the baby’s life and her own would be in danger! And I’m terrified ever since we left that hospital! Because the simplest thing could take her away from me! My everything, sarge, she is my entire world and I can’t live without her.” He said shaking his head in a way that made even Hank Voight feel a bit of sadness. “So when she said she’d been robbed at gunpoint… I just lost it, you know? What if I’d lost them?”
“Ah, Jay…” Hank knew exactly what the detective was scared of, after all, he had already lost a wife and a son. “Look, I know this can be hard, trust me. Camille and I had our issues before Justin came, as well… But you said it yourself, you’re both happy, aren’t you?” Jay didn’t even need to think before answering that question.
“Yes, of course, sarge! But-”
“No buts! Look, Jay, I know what a big heart you have and I know how much you care, how- how intensely you care, I know, okay? But sometimes, with things like this, you just gotta keep going and hope- just hope that everything is gonna work out. So here’s what you’re gonna do: go home, make up with your wife and start planning a nursery, or whatever else you, parents-to-be, have on your to-do lists these days.” At that, Jay chuckled a little, feeling grateful to have this second father to set him on straight.
“I know you’re right, and I really appreciate you saying this to me… I’m pretty sure that (y/n/n) said something among those lines after we got back from the doctor’s appointment too. The problem is that sometimes it seems like I can’t control my own thoughts. Then, next thing I know, I’m freaking out…” Hank thought that he sounded so frustrated saying that… He really felt for the kid.
“Listen, Jay, you- you just try, okay? You just try your best. And talk to (y/n/n) about it, just let her know what’s going on in there.” He pointed to Jay’s head, as they had already stood up.
“Alright, I will try. Thank you, sarge. Thank you so much, I really needed this.” They half-hugged and the detective went home to you.
The thing he wasn’t prepared for, at all, was finding you: the woman he loved more than anything and anyone in the entire world, sitting on the floor, leaning your back against the bed in the bedroom you two shared, crying and shaking. You were scared of him. That broke him in a way he never thought possible. He wanted to hurt himself, as punishment for hurting you, but he knew it wouldn’t be fair to you. So he gathered some courage to speak through his shame instead. “B- babe?”
You shivered, but you didn’t wanna be afraid of him. That was Jay. Your Jay. The man you loved. The man who loved you. You knew he would never hurt you or your baby. But your body didn’t seem to be listening to your brain. Still, you wanted to say something. But you couldn’t. You wouldn’t know what to say, so you just stayed silent, trying to stop the sobs. He decided to make a move: He sat down on the floor like you, but still giving you some space. “I’m sorry,” he said softly, almost whispering, “I’m so, so, so sorry. You don’t need to say anything, or to forgive me, or do anything, really. I came here willing to talk to you. To do anything to get you back. But now I see just how much I hurt you, so I’ll give you all the space and time you want.” You still couldn’t seem to find your words. It was that same man, you knew it. Why couldn’t you just tell him that? “I’ll sleep in the spare bedroom, or even go to Will’s if it makes you more comfortable?” Just by the sound of his voice, you could tell he meant it. And that was your Jay.
“No,” you spoke so lowly, that you weren’t even sure he’d heard it, “I want you to stay.” And you really did. But you needed to understand, in order to be able to forgive him. “Just- just tell me what happened there? Why?” You tried, a little louder this time.
“Long story short? I was scared to death.” He said with a long and heavy sigh, looking so much older than he’d ever done before; at the same time, you could see the bags under his eyes, from all those sleepless nights he’d been having lately.
“Scared? Because of the robbery? Baby, you’re a cop! You’ve heard of that kind of thing a million times before, and you know it’s not that big of a deal!" You tried to reason with him, even though you were afraid too, at the time.
“I know!” He said, in a tone that made you flinch a little and, then, more calmly: “Look, I know. And I know that you’ve been through tougher stuff. And that you can handle yourself. But that whole thing could’ve gone badly for you, for the baby, for us, in a thousand different ways. Besides, it’s not just that. Ever since we left that exam room, on Monday, I’ve been scared, worried. Because, according to the doctor, the tiniest problem could get you on edge. Because of the tiniest problem, I could lose you. I could lose everything, babe!” You could only stare at him in shock, after hearing that. Of course, you understood his concerns, but you had been so absorbed in your own fears, that you never thought about how much the whole situation was affecting him. Your formerly brave soldier, now tough detective, was also a very anxious man ⎯ who always overthought every single detail of everything when it came to you ⎯ and was, now, crying his eyes out, sobbing like a little kid by your side. So you did the one thing you thought could make him feel better: you pulled him closer to you, letting him break, into your chest, as he listened to your soothing heartbeat.
“It’s alright, my love, it’s alright. Shhh, I’m right here and I’m safe. We both are. You don’t need to be afraid, because we’re not going anywhere, baby.” You promised him with tears already pricking through your eyes, as well. 
And, like that, you two stayed, crying in each other’s arms, just holding each other. With a renewed hope that everything was gonna be okay.
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I LOVE No Straight Roads
Honestly it’s hard to keep me away from a game with great visuals and even greater character design. I knew from the INSTANT I saw these characters that I was going to love it. I just finished it because it’s (unfortunately) pretty short, and even though I cheesed the final boss through it’s very lenient death mechanics (Instant respawn at the cost of a good rank) I actually appreciated that it wasn’t a pure cake walk. I’ve yet to rematch all of the bosses, but since I had genuine trouble with the later ones I’ll hold off on that.
But who cares about gameplay, am I right? I sure as hell don’t. I would’ve bought the game no matter what the hell it was. I wanted the characters (and the music, although I realized that second) and that was it. 
First of all, I love any world that is super fantastical but cheesy in its concept, ala a city powered by music, and battles between artists using music. Ideas like this only spawn from a mind that wants to create a fun atmosphere, if nothing else, and it was sure as hell fun. I genuinely love when someone goes so far into a crazy idea and doesn’t waste your time explaining it with real world logic. Wanna know how a city can be powered by music? Shut up and look at the cute virtual mermaid. Lord knows I did. Every once in a while, it does you good to just let the player/reader/viewer just revel in the idea without having to go out of your way to make things seem realistic. It’s not about “turning your brain off” or whatever, it’s picking your battles.
Also, I can seriously love a world with great background characters to it. Any game with the right situation to insert the random nobodies you find onto the streets into the art in the credits really played into the greatness of the world’s less important characters, and that’s always a good thing. It’s technically world building. But, since I always love to pick favorites, I’d have to say my favorite background character is easily Mia, the NSR infodesk assistant. It’s funny, because you can literally search “nsr characters” into Google and she’s the third image result. I love how jumpy she is when you first interact with her, since NSR probably spread the word about B2J suggesting they’re rock thugs who’d beat up anyone, so for all she knows she could die right then and there with a guitar lodged in her skull. She’s probably just some intern trying to pay for college. She don’t want trouble.
Also, I just realized that 90% of the characters in this game have the same body structure that I always love, that being having arms/legs that sort of fan out in width into relatively large hands/feet. It’s a kind of limb structure I fall into so much because it just really hits me right for some reason. I really can’t explain why.
Anyways, I gotta talk about the big boys individually:
Mayday and Zuke are an amazing duo. I’m always a sucker for a cute and crazy girl, but honestly Zuke hit so many of the right notes too. I will say it’s weird to pair the martian Zuke with the humanly-skinned Mayday, but honestly it doesn’t even matter because he looks so cool on his own. I love his weird blocky blue dreadlocks, and his weirdly shaped shirt which bares his chest in the weirdest way... And, oh my god, Mayday’s weird Spongebob background flower eyes? It’s little tidbits like that that really make me jealous. How could I have ever thought of that? It looks so perfect, and I don’t know why. And her little booty jig she does in her idle animation? Adorable. I played as her as much as was reasonable not only because I’m a filthy button masher with little strategy but also because she’s so damn cute. I can also appreciate how she has a tough-as-nails persona while still keeping a semi-girly attitude, like with her falling for 1010 and Sayu. Characters are so much better when they’re a perfect blend of characteristics, instead of being all one-note, like how Zuke is the quiet one but gets heated against DK West, and all. 
Honestly the voice acting for every character is great, but I love when Mayday’s VA’s accent shows through. It’s a perfect twang to accent (consider this the only acknowledgement of a pun in this post) her snarkiness. 
DJ Subatomic Supernova was going to be an easy favorite since he’s all space-themed. Also, I don’t know why I always end up liking the egotistic characters. Not in the sense that I like their egotistic-ness, but in the sense that I like everything else about them and they just so happen to also be egotistic. The same applied with Empoleon (maybe like my 2nd favorite Pokemon) and Rarity from MLP, probably among others. Either way, I’ll never not love space themes. Not to mention he’s got a funky disco theme, and I’m slowly starting to realize that I am in extreme love with techno-funk styles of music. The instant I heard his music he cemented his place into my playlists. 
As for design, I still have no idea what the fuck he is. Clearly AI is at human levels in this world, but if he’s a robot why does he still have hairy legs? But, if he’s a human, is that weird orb his head? Is it just some sort of puppet which he controls from inside his giant jacket? I know I dissed explaining things realistically but I actually want to know with this guy. Even the wiki doesn’t say. Either way, he’s clearly the logical extreme of “being at the center of your own universe.” Even his jacket depicts a solar system, with his hood being the sun. Didn’t see that until I tried to draw him. I really wish this guy wasn’t so tied to his DJ stand so I could reasonably draw him without it. I don’t want to draw his hairy ass legs. It is a great touch for his design though (although I prefer his beta look with pants and long boots, another design trait I tend to gravitate to) since DJs could reasonably not wear pants, since they’re always behind a table.
Sayu is my favorite. It’s so plainly obvious. It’s weird to say that sometimes, because some characters like Sayu are so clearly engineered to be as adorable as possible, to the point where they’re basically a parody of whatever they’re supposed to be emulating, but then they do that so well that they are still likable for what they’re trying to parody. Also, even though I’ve never looked into any vocaloid superstars myself, the fact that they exist and are loved in real life is absolutely perfect to be used as a character design in a world like this. It’s so weird conceptually, but we all know it’s normal and realistic. But yeah, she’s a giga-cutie whom I’ve already drawn and I’ve listened to her theme on loop on many different occasions. Favorite character, favorite track, favorite weapon of choice (What did I say about Empoleon?), which, and I wouldn’t have noticed this myself, looks like the USB symbol you see above USB ports on computers. How crazy perfect is that?
Even apart from my unbridled love for cute monster robot(?) girls, her boss fight is probably the 2nd greatest of them all, at least conceptually. She’s just a hologram, so you can’t touch her, but you CAN disconnect the artists which control her in order to defeat her. It’s the kind of concept for a boss fight that could only work for this type of character. I’m a sucker for the cute girl that provides her voice, but I love how the animator (video editor? the yellow one) actually attacks you with a mouse and lowers the brightness of the setting once he appears. Also, the mocap guy being the deeply-voiced type but still providing the adorable movements of her body. It’s such a great combo of characters, and their little extra art in the credits makes me like them even more. I just wish we could interact with them individually.
DK West was probably one of the most interesting characters visually, especially since I knew of every other NSR member long before the game came out, but I only just heard of him closer to the release. I wasn’t sure where he was placed, but I definitely assumed his gig was the weird shadow demon we saw in the trailers. When I finally saw him in game, I was shocked to hear him speak an entirely different language most of the time, which was really cool. Also, finding out he was tied to Zuke and wasn’t strictly an NSR artist really made him more interesting. You know, if his fucking shadow clone magic didn’t make him crazy cool enough. Even though I suck at his game and am not especially fond of his raps, the visual of him rapping with this giant monster behind him and dozens of weird shadow wingmen by his side hyping him up was probably one of the coolest in the entire game. The dark way they were hyping him up too gave such a bizarre atmosphere, especially since it parallels his seemingly chill and smiley demeanor. 
I definitely hope they’ll introduce new bosses as DLC in the future, and make them sort of in the same vein as DK West, where they aren’t the biggest artists ever, but they want to pick a fight with B2J. I’d kill for any extra content this game can provide.
Yinu is obviously special since she was the subject of the demo they put out for the game. Even though I knew all her bells and whistles, she and her mom still beat me a few times in the full game. Considering she’s semi-tied to story-ish spoilers I kinda want to go more into her in a separate section. It is worth considering playing the game first since it’s not hard (with the easy going deaths) and it’s short length.
1010 seriously grew on me as I learned more about them and interacted with them. I got their shtick when I first looked at them, but after seeing that animation of them touring the city on Youtube I was kinda falling for them. Then, I learned that they’re apparently repurposed navy war robots? I mean, maybe not them specifically, but it seems to heavily point in that direction, with the warship cars and “attention!”s and all. It took me a bit to get into their music too, but once I actually fought them and put their actions to the music I fell in love with it. I swear, Neon J’s weird dancing can has some of the smoothest moves in all of gaming. I don’t know whether they mocapped out those movements or got one of the greatest animators ever, but it looks so impossibly clean his part of the song gets me like 30x more hype than it would normally. 
Also, their little art piece of them looking at fan mail in the credits is probably one of the most adorable things ever. Even if they’re just Neon J’s puppets, that piece of art really makes it seem like they love every one of their fans. I’m not gonna lie, I might swoon a bit too if they picked me out and gave me some special attention.
Oh yeah, and the fact that Mayday was super sad in her showstopper against them was adorable and hilarious at the same time. The little tweaks they made to the showstopper for each fight were great.
Eve just has to be Lady Gaga, right? Like, an even crazier Lady Gaga. DJSS is Daft Punk (or any artist with a helmet persona, you know what I’m talking about), Sayu is Hatsune Miku, DK West is Kanye West, Yinu is a generic child protege, 1010 is a KPop boyband (just pick one) and Eve is Lady Gaga. That’s just how things are. But, again, this is the kind of boss fight that only this type of character could provide. It’s not just surreal imagery, it’s ARTISTIC surreal imagery. The fight is so mesmerizing in every way, especially by how it starts off so slow and calm and progresses to insanity, as well as the increased emotional investment in the fight making you feel so much more into it than just “That’s the boy band. Let’s fight.” Not only does it get you more invested, but it makes her artistic persona go deeper than just “she looks weird.” She is genuinely conflicted about her relationship with Zuke, and naturally that leads her to literally split him and Mayday apart. That mechanic specifically was the coolest, although I do wish they made it more obvious when you needed to switch over to a different side. I was getting pulverized by her fight too, since there were so many things to pay attention to. Her fight was definitely the best one. 
Tatiana and Spoilers:
Let’s be real with ourselves, the twist was so obvious. I do also think, though, that obvious twists aren’t bad if they’re just good reveals. At some point, a person just has experienced so many stories that “only pretty good” twists are easy to spot. It doesn’t mean that the twists are bad, it just means you yourself experienced.
I feel like her transition from rock to EDM was pretty understandable, even as a non-musician. She was so caught up in what she assumed was popular that it basically consumed her. It’s easy as an artist to want to forgo what you truly want to make in favor of what makes you popular, and clearly since her transition to EDM made her the CEO of the biggest company in the city (world?) that probably made her think she truly needed to change her outlook. Then, when she saw B2J try to bring it back, she sort of coined them as being as misguided as she was and knocked them down a peg. Plus, they were kinda being jerks about it.
It’s kinda like the Trolls sequel, where everyone pegs rock music fanatics as being too stuck up in their own heads to appreciate other types of music, which honestly seems more like the case than the alternative. When I first heard of the story of the game, I was seriously hoping they did put an asterisk on B2J’s ambitions because they were a bit sketchy from the start. 
That’s kinda where I want to talk about Yinu, because she was the true turning point in what they were doing. She’s literally 9 and yet she’s getting dragged into all this BS. When she said “I hate you all” at the end of her fight, and played a somber tune on her broken piano after the fight destroyed it, you kinda got a kick in the face to realize you’re kinda being an asshole to some of them. Sure, they fight back, but they wouldn’t fight in the first place if they didn’t have to. They are just people who play music under a joint name that B2J just so happened to get in hot water with. 
Then, of course, there’s Kliff, who also reeked of surprise villain, and who’s basically the embodiment of the bad side of B2J, where he just wanted to destroy for his own sake and not for the actual greater good. Once B2J realized their mistake, they backed off, but Kliff was so hard pressed to do what he planned on in the first place he wouldn’t stop. I kinda wish he got a bigger fight to his own since he’s clearly a big enough tech genius to divert a whole satellite into one specific building. Maybe the Elliecopter chase bit was his thing, but I do kind of wish he was there to fight against them too.
Even though Tatiana did kind of reform a bit quick, It’s still not too crazy to assume she could see that B2J was just misguided and the fact that they worked to revert their wrongdoings for her sake would make a pretty strong impressions. They clearly can hold their own, so it’s not like she wouldn’t want them to join NSR too. 
Oh yeah, and her boss fight was clock/time themed. If there’s a theme under space that I love, it’s clocks/time. 
And If I am to be respected by the internet, I must provide a negative opinion to balance out my positive one. I will say that the character model physics (like Mayday’s braids, DK West’s vest thing, Neon J’s fluffy neck thing, etc) got kinda funky at times. Especially DK West’s vest, which was completely messed up for every scene he was in... Also, even though the voices are mostly great, some lines felt a bit off. Just a bit. That good enough? Good.
But yeah anyway that’s another favorite game to add to the pile. Eventually I’m gonna have to compile a true list of my all-time favorite games/movies because I do kind of want to have a solid idea of what my all-time favorites are.
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The multiple Yuus' suffering won't end yet.
I feel like Villain! Yuu and Villainous Paranoiac! Yuu are similar personality-wise but do you mind switching them too?
I can imagine them sleeping with one eye open in their new world, cuz they don't trust anyone.
Thank you for the ask, dear anon!
You cover your nose and mouth to muffle your breathing as best you can.
Costumed adults run past your hiding place, crouched behind a series of pipes. They’re boiling hot, feeling like they could burn through your thin pajama sleeves even though you’re trying to keep your distance from them while staying concealed.
“Princess? Oh, little Princess? Come out, come out, wherever you are~” The voice of the older woman who tried to kill you when you woke up croons. You can see her shadow on the wall next to you.
Your lip curls involuntarily at the nickname, and you hunch down further into yourself.
“Are you sure we wanna do this?” The other man asks. “If the Night Raven finds out about this...”
“He won’t.” The woman snaps. “Not if we do this properly. That pampered little brat needs to die. If it’s another one of those annoying alternate versions, killing this one means there’ll be no way for our version to switch back here. If it’s a de-aged version, then even better. Either way, we’ll finally be free of that weak, pathetic pushover of an employer. Now go check over there!”
“R-right!”
You watch as their shadows move across the wall, until they vanish as their owners exit through the doors on the other side of the room.
You bite the skin on the side of your thumb. You thought this place was where that...reporter version of you came from, and that you were in the lair of one of the seven supervillains you met before, but everything you’ve seen and heard so far runs counter to that hypothesis. None of them were using the whole clockwork and steam motif that this place is decorated with, and the way those...minions? were talking, it sounds like a version of you is the one running this place.
And not very well, judging by the employee dissatisfaction.
You want to just curl up and stay hidden behind these pipes forever, but the longer you stay here, the more likely it is you’ll be cornered with no chance to run. Plus the heat’s making your head spin, and you know with your luck you’ll end up burning yourself. Better to get out now while the getting’s good.
You slip out, and go through the door that the two minions came from, peeking around to make sure the coast is clear before darting for the next bit of cover. You wish not for the first time you had shoes to muffle the sound of your bare feet against the rough floor.
You need to find an exit, get out of here as fast as you can. But if you can’t find a way to distract the minions, how long will it be until they just follow you to wherever you try to take sanctuary, just like the Scarabia students did back over winter break?
You’re in an even worse spot that you were then. At least then, you had Grim with you.
Here? You’re all alone. Defenseless.
Your right ankle twinges again, making you stumble and clip a bunch of nearby boxes. You frantically need to spread your arms to catch the boxes so the crash of them falling over doesn’t alert any of the security.
And injured. Can’t forget your overblot injuries.
You’re already panting after running for only a few minutes, your lungs burning in your chest. Nurse Kamac told you you’d find physical exertion much harder now, but it’s one thing to hear it and another thing entirely to feel how much effort it takes to do things you used to be able to do with ease, how much your body protests against the one advantage you used to have, how much more useless you are now.
You slump at a corner, sweat beading on your brow. Your vision is swimming, and your knees feel unsteady under you.
Something liquid and hot is sliding down your collarbone. You think your throat is bleeding again.
“Kreek?”
You yelp, tripping over your own feet at the sound, hitting the ground with a hard thud. You whip your head around to find the source of the noise.
There is a huge crow perched on a pipe above you.
It’s massive. Are birds allowed to get that big?
It tilts its head at you, before taking off from its perch and fluttering down to land next to you, hopping a few steps closer.
“H-hey, nice birdie...” You rasp. Then, recalling something the minions said earlier, you venture, “...Are you the Night Raven?”
There’s a moment of silence.
Then the crow erupts into a raucous, croaking squawks that sound suspiciously like laughter.
You purse your lips, running a hand through your sweaty bangs. “Yeah, yeah, laugh it up. It’s not like I’ve been sent to a whole other world again or anything, and whoever this ‘Night Raven’ is seems to be the only thing between me and those guys who think killing me will ensure some supervillain also ends up dead. Because of course they do, that’s just how my life is, it’s not like I don’t already know my birth was enough of a mistake. Ugh.”
You drop you head onto your knees and squeeze your eyes shut tight. You’re tired. You’re sore.
You just wanna wake up back in your bed at Ramshackle with Grim cuddled up next to you, muttering about tuna, and have all of this be some horrible nightmare.
You flail at the feeling of a series of sharp pinches on your good shoulder and a heavy, warm weight unbalancing you. “Hey, what the—!”
The crow croaks at you from its new perch on your shoulder, looking both mildly annoyed and unphased by your floundering. You jerk as it’s wickedly sharp beak darts forward and—!
Closes around a section of your mussed up bangs?
The bird pulls your hair back into place as best it can, tugging hard on your scalp as it repeats the process until it’s satisfied you’ve been groomed enough.
It is one of the weirdest experiences you’ve ever undergone. And you’ve played in a Heartslaybul crocket match.
The crow pushes off your shoulder, smacking you in the face with one of it’s wings in the process. It lands on another set of pipes some distance away and turns back to look at you. It caws in a distinctly impatient tone when you don’t immediately follow it.
You weigh your options. On the one hand, it could be leading you into a trap, and you’ll end up dead, though that doesn’t explain why it would try to groom you. You also don’t know your way around this place, and ignoring the bird could lead to it making even more noise as it attempts to get your attention again, which would alert your pursuers and get you killed even faster.
“So I’m following birds now. It’s official. I’ve finally lost it.” You mutter to yourself, pushing yourself shakily to your feet, and counting yourself lucky your vision only goes fuzzy once when you’re upright.
The crow guides you through the...lair is the only word suitable for it. It has a knack for landing on areas that will allow you to take some cover should some of the minions looking for you pass by, hissing whenever it wants you to stay put, and giving that same impatient caw once it’s time to move on again.
It’d be nice if that system could be foolproof.
Unfortunately, as you’re running past a doorway that you thought was clear, you hear a cry of, “HERE! THEY'RE HERE!! THE IMPOSTER IS OVER HERE!!”
You curse, and make yourself run faster, trying to ignore how it pulls the ridged scars along your left thigh and hip and your sudden shortness of breath. You can’t afford to acknowledge that right now, especially when you yelp as actual gunfire erupts behind you and real, genuine bullets whiz past your head to embed themselves in the stacked boxes near you.
The crow has the same idea, taking off to fly just ahead of you, soaring into the faces of any minions who try to cut off the path it’s leading you down with sharp talons and beak at the ready.
You follow it to a huge room, slamming the large double doors shut behind you.
You shove back against them as the doors jump when your pursuers collide with it. Your breath is coming in harsh pants as you fumble with the bolt and padlock, barely clicking it shut before the entrance is forced open.
You stumble away, blindly colliding with a desk and hitting the floor as you desperately and feebly try to suck in air that your lungs can’t seem to inhale, your breaths getting shallower and and more panicked as your vision fuzzes out again. You can’t breathe, you can’t breathe, you can’t breathe, you can’t breathe, you can’t breathe, you can’t breathe, you can’t breathe, you can’t breathe, you can’t breathe—
A loud cry erupts above you, and you faintly see dark shapes descend down on you, feeling dozens of sharp pinches on your upper body, the force of what feels like dozens of dozens of wings dragging your upper body up and back until you’re leaning upright against something and there’s a monumental. warm, fluffy weight against your chest, alternating between getting heavier and lighter, forcing it to expand and contract in intervals of four seconds under it.
It takes a while, but eventually, your hyperventilating finally, finally stops, as you carefully and slowly suck in grateful lungfuls of oxygen and your eyesight gradually returns.
Then you have to blink hard.
You are covered in what you think Epel would describe as a metric fuckton of birds.
They’re all staring at you, some of them picking at your pajamas, others making a caw-like noise that can only be best described as a worried peep.
You lift a hesitant hand to try and maybe shoo some of them off, only for your heart to melt as one of them honest-to-Seven nudges into your palm, like it wants you to pet it or something.
You wonder if the supervillain version of you trained them to do this. If so, at least they did one thing right, because Great Seven this is adorable.
The monsterous crow who led you here lands next to you, squawking and flapping its wings indignantly. The black birds gradually hop off you at this display, much to your subtle disappointment.
“Alright, alright, I’m up.” You grumble, shakily pulling yourself to your feet. “Now what Crow?”
The leader of the birds lands on top of the desk you hit earlier, tapping on some sheets of paper with its beak. You pull them towards you, trying to puzzle out what you’re seeing. It looks like some kind of...schematic? For a water-powered machine that seems to be the power source of a death ray or something. What’s most interesting though is the part of the plans with a section labelled ‘self destruct’ near the top of the construction.
“Okay, so this going boom would make for a good distraction so I could escape.” You chew at your nail. “But now I’ve got to find where it is so I can do that...”
The crow pecks at your other hand. When you pull it away, it shoots you an unimpressed glare and turns around.
You lift your head and follow where it’s looking.
There, along the back wall of this huge room, sits an absolute behemoth of metal and glass surrounded by scaffolding, a huge clear water tank like the one in the plans already filled to the brim and gurgling with movement.
Oh.
You purse your lips at the Crow, which is still shooting you an unimpressed glare. “In my defense, I was kind of having too much trouble trying to keep those guys out, and then breathing to really notice...that.”
It laughs at you again.
There’s a percussive boom from the doors, all the birds taking off and circling with warning squawks.
You push off of the desk as you dash towards the machine, trying to ignore how you want to flinch as several more booms follow the first one. You grab the scaffolding and frantically pull yourself up, trying to climb as fast as you can. If you can just reach the top before they break through—!
There’s an ear-splitting explosion as the doors fly open.
“THERE! THERE THEY ARE!! STOP THEM!!”
You shriek as the gunfire starts again, the need to climb, to get away warring with the instinct to try curling up as small as you can so you’re less of a target.
Your footing slips when you jump to grab the last ledge, leaving you to desperately grab onto the scaffolding with your bad arm. You whimper at how the rounded scars on your shoulder scream in protest at taking almost all your weight, the blackened bite mark on your elbow throbbing with pain like a second heartbeat.
You feel a flare of agony in your right thigh that makes you almost lose your grip. You whine through your teeth as you grab onto the metal and heave yourself up and over, rolling away from the ledge and curling up so your attackers can’t hit you.
“Cease fire! Cease fire you idiots! You’ll break the tank!!”
It takes you a second to realize that you’re curled around the circular podium where the schematics said the self-destruct button was mounted.
“Come down, Princess!” The older woman’s voice floats up to you. “You don’t know what you’re doing up there, do you? There’s nowhere left for you to run. Just be a good little nepotist and come face your fate with some dignity. I swear to you it’ll be quick.”
You grit your teeth as you haul yourself up. “Fat chance.”
You can see her at the head of the pack now, scoffing as her face twists with hate. “Typical. Bloody typical isn’t it? Even the other version of you was an ungrateful little shit, but at least it knew when to keep its head down and listen to its betters. It’s galling to be demoted to working under an imposter, a fake human like that thing!! Spending all its time with birds and playing around with those stupid civilians, hah! You’re no better than an animal! Just a dumb little pet that the Night Raven thought would be funny to give a title and call his ‘heir’!! A disgrace to the pursuit of villainy and evil!!”
“Are you sure about that?”
You take far too much delight in the way she pales as she sees your hand hovering over the self-destruct button.
“H-hold on princess,” She babbles, reaching a futile hand up. “W-we can talk about this, just don’t—”
“Shut. Up.” You growl. “If you wanted a heroic little fairytale princess to terrorize, you picked the worst person you could.”
“‘Cause me? I’m the damn wicked witch.”
You slam you fist down on the button.
There’s a wailing of alarms as the structure below you shakes. Tons upon tons of water bursts out of the machine.
The woman can’t even scream as the flood swallows her.
The crows caw wildly above your head, and you tear your eyes away to see the largest one leading the flock in flapping around a ladder leading to a hatch in the roof. You stagger over to it, your hands almost slipping off the metal rungs several times.
You push hard on the metal hatch and breath in the cold, dry air of the outside, the rough stony roof feeling like it’s cutting into your feet. You can still hear the alarms blaring as you close the hatch again after the last of the birds have flown out.
You’re tired. So tired. Your eyesight is going blurry again and the right leg of your pajamas feels uncomfortably wet, giving off little pulses of agony that has you whimpering.
“Hey, Crow?” Your voice sounds very far away. “I think I’mma pass out now.”
The world tilts sideways before everything goes black.
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easily-infatuated23 · 4 years
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The Tub: Draco Malfoy x Reader
a/n: this is my first one of these so sorry if it sucks but here goes nothing!
Part Two Here
warnings: just some light fluff, small mention of bullying
summary: reader is having a really hard day and when she goes to relax in the prefects bathroom the unexpected occurs 
word count: 2k
The castle is enormous. So enormous that getting lost becomes part of my daily routine. But sometimes, its so crushingly small it's hard to find a place to be alone to get away from the constant noise of what feels like hundreds of middle and high school students. Everyone’s first choice of escape is the astronomy tower, so much so that a Ravenclaw tried to institute a sign up sheet as to insure the crowds wouldn’t mass as much. They were unsuccessful. The truly hidden places of the castle are few and far between and for those of us who aren’t lucky enough to find the Room of Requirement, we must get creative. The most recent spot I have found is the Prefect’s bathroom on the sixth floor. Moaning Myrtle will sometimes float through but we are on good terms so she generally will leave me alone.
As a Seer, the noise of the world is extra loud in my head. It's bad enough to have the regular noise, but the passing through of others’ thoughts is exhausting. I have gotten better at shielding myself but it takes a lot of energy. The Prefect’s bathroom has been a wonderful solution because within the chamber is a large bathtub which I use as a jacuzzi, to relax and reset. I am just so tired. The added layer of being Seer as well as a non pure-blood in Slytherin, takes its own individual toll. My family had been pure-blood until my parents. My mother had married a muggle man.
I started late in the sequence of years at Hogwarts. My family moved from America to England which meant I transferred into school third year. For a while people were interested in me but that died down within the first month. However, when I let my family heritage slip, I became as talked about as Harry Potter. As a descendant of Merlin himself, people began to attempt to get close to me just for the idea of “fame” rubbing off onto them. Harry and I have had discussions about it together but I know he secretly enjoys it, even if he doesn’t know he does.
Today wasn’t just any typical Thursday. The excitement for Christmas break was buzzing around the castle, practically inescapable. The world was loud and I was tired. Luckily, today is a short day so I was able to escape to the Prefect’s bathroom after lunch. I usually waited until I knew most of the castle was either at a meal or doing homework but today the world had been especially loud. I tentatively filled the tub checking my surroundings for a stray ghost or student. Once it was full I climbed in and allowed myself to fully relax. The noise melted away and it was like I could finally breathe.
After only fifteen short minutes I heard footsteps and looked up to see the last person I would expect or want to see, Draco Malfoy. The Prince of pure-blood Slytherin, the cruelest person within the castle besides Professor Snape. He had never gone out of his way to be mean to me in particular, but if one of his buddies started something he would be sure to join in. When people found out about my abilities, I had been forced to read him in front of practically the whole school. I saw such pain and fear in his life that I nearly passed out. To prove to him that my abilities were real, he told me to tell him something from his past only he would know. I said “a talking diary and a ripped page from a bookstore”. Ever since then, he never challenged me again. And yet here he was now, invading my hidden corner, my escape from everyone.
We locked eyes as he walked in and we both froze. “What are you doing in here?” he asked sharply. I didn’t reply but simply began to get out and grab my things when his voice interrupted my actions. “I’m not gonna make you leave I was just asking. You looked dreadful during Potions today, are you ok?”. For the first time, his words and his tone matched and seemed genuine. “Everyone has been really loud today. Let's just say that if I never hear the sentence ‘is he gonna ask me to the Yule Ball’ again it will be too soon” I remarked. He chuckled and looked down at his shoes. I now became acutely aware of the fact that I was standing in front of him in just a bikini in a steamy room. My cheeks flushed and I slipped back into the tub. “Why are you in here Draco?” I asked. He looked up at me and sighed. “This is usually where I come to hide but I got here a bit later than usual, I didn’t think there was competition for this spot”. I frowned and looked away from him. “Yeah that’s my bad, I usually am in here much later in the day. It’s just been such a loud day already. I needed to decompress earlier than usual”. He walked closer to me, then circled the tub to sit on the window sill. After a few minutes he spoke. “Does it actually help quiet the world? To sit in there I mean”. He gestured to the tub. “Yes it does actually”. I replied.
This was the weirdest but nicest conversation I had ever had with him. I had never been fully alone with Draco before, was this how he was when he was removed from his asshole friends? In a moment of impulsive thought I blurted “You are welcome to join me if you’d like”. Shit. Why did I say that? This guy is literally the worst. “Wouldn’t that just add noise in your head?” he asked. “No, when its a group of ten or less I can actually turn everybody off quite easily. Anymore then that and it gets harder and harder”. He nodded and then looked out the window. I could see his mind working through his grey eyes, deciding if he would stay or go. Finally, he shrugged. “What the hell”. He kicked his shoes off and began to loosen his tie. I wanted to look away but I couldn’t help myself watch him undress. I finally looked away and closed my eyes, relaxing my head on the edge of the tub.
The tub was big enough around that he could sit on the other side and we wouldn’t touch. The water churned as he got it. He sat closer to me than I had anticipated but I tried not to think about it as I took a deep breath and let my mind wander. “This is surprisingly relaxing”. His voice for the first time didn’t sound as strained or coarse as normal. “How did you find out about this?” he asked. I opened my eyes and looked at him, puzzled. “Have you never been in a jacuzzi?”. He shook his head. “Wow well that’s one thing wizards should definitely adopt from the muggle world” I replied, with a smile. He looked away from me quickly. Was that a hint of blush coming from his cheeks? Probably just from the heat of the water I rationalized. “Do you do this everyday?” he asked. “At least once a week. It's good for the soul”.
There was then a long period of silence. At first the silence was uncomfortable, but the longer it persisted, the more comfortable it became. A couple times I could have sworn that the water churned in a way that would indicate him moving closer to me. I didn’t dare check. I kept my eyes closed as the odd smile would flow across my face without thought. When I finally did open my eyes, he was less than two feet away from me. We locked eyes and I smiled. He gave a timid smile back before looking away again. I wanted to use my abilities to slip into his mind and hear what he was thinking but I held myself to a strict rule. “This seems like a pretty necessary time to use it” the voice in my head remarked. I physically shook my head to expel that thought from my mind. I felt his eyes on me. “I wasn’t inside your head by the way. I thought about it but decided that didn’t hold up with my rule so I shook it out of my head”. “You can if you want” he replied. I looked at him and sat up a bit. “My rule is I only purposefully do it if absolutely necessary or if the person gives me permission or asks me to do it. Are you asking me Draco?”.
The words flowed out of my mouth before I could filter them. Was that flirty? Did I just flirt with Draco? The thoughts swirled in my head only to be broken by his response. “Yes I am” he said sincerely. “Can I have your hand? It’s easier if I have physical contact”. I said. He nodded  and stared into my eyes as I moved closer to him. I clasped his hand and imagined his energy and thoughts flowing into my brain. His head was relatively quiet, besides one thought practically screaming. I opened my eyes and looked into his, stunned. “What was I thinking?” he asked in almost a whisper. I swallowed hard. “You were thinking ‘is it wrong that all I want to do is kiss her’”. I felt my cheeks turn red but I didn’t break eye contact. “Is it?” he asked. “No” I replied, unaware that a smile had crept across my face. He smiled back as his eyes darted from my eyes to my lips and back. I moved his hand which I was still holding to my cheek. His free hand moved underwater to my lower back as he pulled me onto his lap. Our faces were so close together I could feel his breath. He moved his other hand to my waist as I cupped his cheeks with mine. In a tender moment, not overly embroiled with passion or lust, we kissed. It was innocent and sweet. It made everything else seem unimportant. It was as if time slowed to a stand still. After a few moments we both pulled away and shared a smile that became a laugh. “I can honestly say this is not how I thought my day was going to go” Draco chuckled. “Me neither” I added. Suddenly a thought popped into my head. “Wait what time is it?” I asked. He checked his watch. “Two o’clock, why?”. “Damn, I promised I would meet Ron for a game of wizard’s chess. I always beat him but he insists on constantly challenging me”. I started to pull away when I noticed his face drop slightly. I pulled close to him again. “I am not making up an excuse to run away from you. Believe me I don’t want to go but if I don’t Ron will come looking for me and this would be a hard situation to explain” I remarked with a chuckle. His face picked up a little. “Are you staying here over Christmas?”. “Yes I am” I replied. “I think I will too, I’ve recently started to fancy you and I kinda want to explore this without the pressure of the whole school being here, if that’s ok with you” he smiled. “I would like that”. “But for the moment we can’t tell anyone what happened here or that we are even friends” he remarked suddenly. “It’s not my favorite reputation to uphold but if my father finds out I am seeing or being seen with someone who is not a pure-blood..” he trailed off. I pulled his face close to mine again and looked deep into his eyes. “You don’t have to explain. Remember, when I read you two years ago? I saw all of your past. I understand why”. His eyes were sadder now but he still managed a small smile. “Ok now I really have to go” I said as I kissed him one more time before climbing out of the tub. He watched me as I changed back into my uniform, smiling a bit more smugly now. “When can I see you again?” he called after me as I walked towards the door. “Friday night, let’s meet in the common room. Everyone will be gone for Christmas by then”. “Its a date!”. I turned back and blew him a kiss which he caught and immediately pressed to his lips. My heart fluttered as I jogged to the Great Hall. “Oi, where’ve you been?” Ron questioned impatiently. “Sorry, got a bit caught up” I remarked, smiling at the secret Draco Malfoy and I now shared.
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earthlostgirl · 3 years
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This is probably the weirdest fic I've ever written. ha ha ha ha ha But I wanted to see them in that situation....
New, Old life
When Spike opened the door, Faye was sitting on the stool, drinking something steamy from a cup. She smiled when he held out a sunflower.
“What have you done?” she asked, putting the cup down on the table and looking at him skeptically.
“Don’t you know what day it is today?” Spike asked, approaching her and holding out the flower.
“Would I have to know?” she asked as she took it.
“It’s our anniversary, it’s been twenty years since we met.” Spike shoved his hands in his pockets and stood in front of her, smiling.
“Twenty years? How old I am... I hate you for making me feel old.” Faye brought the flower closer to the face so she could smell it and smiled.
“You’re always so romantic.” Spike moved close and kissed her on the lips. “Are we alone?” he asked as he hiked her skirt up to her thighs.
“No,” Faye murmured, gently passing her hands down Spike’s back. “Vera’s in her room... with a boy.”
“What? Your sixteen-year-old daughter is in her room, alone, with a boy?”
“My daughter? She’s fifty-fifty yours...”
“I don’t think that’s funny.”
“Don’t be paranoid...”
“Paranoid? I lost my virginity when I was thirteen. I know very well what a teenager of that age thinks about girls... At her age I...”
“At her age, you had killed people. I don’t think they are comparable lives,” she interrupted him.
“I at least have memories of everything I did...”
“If she wants to sleep with that boy, she will wherever it is. I prefer it to be under my roof, so if she needs my help, I’ll be there to rip the balls off anyone who wants to go overboard with her,” he said, standing up. “But you’ve always preferred to shoot before you ask.”
Spike hated seeing that hurt look on her face. Over the years, he hadn’t learned to shut his fucking big mouth and stop saying things that hurt her when he got pissed.
He followed Faye into the room. Apologizing was another thing he hadn’t learned.
“Where are you going?” he asked, sitting on the bed.
“To get Jean from training.” Faye hadn’t learned to stop running away instead of facing problems, either.
“It’s two hours before she leaves,” he sighed, trying to remain calm.
“I know,” she replied harshly, as she was shoving things into the bag.
Spike set his eyes on the dresser. There was a little white box with a note on top. He walked over to look. It was a pregnancy test, on the note was written in Faye’s neat handwriting: “Dad?”
“Are you...?” Spike asked, showing her the package.
“I don’t know... I wanted to wait until you were here to find out, but since you’re an idiot,” Faye said, taking it out of his hands. “Now, fuck you.”
“Faye...” He made no move to stop her.
“Try not to kill the kid in front of your daughter. I don’t want you to traumatize her for life,” she snorted sarcastically.
She left the room without looking back, putting on her jacket and holding her car keys in her hand.
Spike just sat smoking in the kitchen, his eyes glued to the stairs leading upstairs. He heard a door open and laughing voice.
Vera came down the stairs, smiling. She was the spitting image of her mother; the same hair color, the same skin tone, she was tall and thin, she even had the same haughty mannerisms. She was followed by a boy, a 16-year-old teenager who was as awkward as a teenager could be, with messy hair and a little fuzz on his face.
Vera smiled in delight at the sight of him and hugged him.
“Why are you smoking?” she asked, pinning her brown eyes to him.
Spike shrugged and looked at the boy above her.
“Who is he?” Spike asked, looking at his daughter in a serious tone.
“Hello sir...” the boy stuttered nervously. “I’m Ricky.”
He nodded to him, and his daughter gave him a cheeky glance.
“He’s my boyfriend.” Vera shook the head, waving her long hair and placed her hands on the hips.
Spike held back a laugh as she pushed the boy in front of him.
“Want a beer, kid?” He asked, moving over to the cooler.
“I can’t drink alcohol... I’m a minor sir.”
Spike enjoyed making the boy nervous more than he had imagined.
“I didn’t ask you that,” he replied seriously.
“I... uh... I,” the boy didn’t know what to say or where to jump in, wondering if this was some kind of test he had to pass.
“Do you want one, sweetie?” Spike asked Vera, who smiled at him in disbelief with a hint of malice.
“That smile only works for your mother, so don’t even try it.” Spike smiled smoothly as he opened three beers and set them on the table. “If you think I don’t know you drink once in a while you’re very naïve.”
Vera took hers and raised it to her lips.
“I’ve only tried it,” she said, dropping her long eyelashes and putting on a sweet, girlish voice.
Spike raised an eyebrow in disbelief as he passed the other bottle of beer to Rick.
They sat on the couch, listening as Vera enthusiastically talked about her plans for the summer. Rick nodded, ready to follow her wherever she went.
A car horn blared down the street. Rick waved goodbye with a limp handshake, and Vera walked him to the door.
Spike sighed in exhaustion. She would be the one to break the boy’s heart, his little witch, beautiful and evil. The little boy looked up at her from the door with a goofy face and she blew him a kiss.
When he closed the door, Vera jumped onto the couch and snuggled up against him.
“You don’t like him at all, do you?” she said, taking the beer that her friend hadn’t even touched.
“You don’t like him either,” said Spike, taking the bottle from her hands and she pouted in disgust. “Don’t push it.”
She huffed, crossing her arms and leaning back on the couch.
“Have you finished all your homework?” he asked, lighting a cigarette. She gave him a grim look.
“You smoke too much,” Vera said, crossing her legs on the couch, “I don’t know how mom can kiss you if you taste like a cigarette butt.”
“Your mother quit smoking when she got pregnant with you,” Spike smiled. “She smoked as much as I do. She kisses me because she wants to taste cigarettes, not because she loves me.” Spike joked.
“Well, you could have quit smoking for her, couldn’t you?” She smirked mischievously “Or is it you didn’t love me? Am I an unwanted daughter? Did I destroy your dreams of being a rock star?” Vera put her hand to her forehead and threw herself on top of him. She loved drama. “You were forced to raise a child...”
“A demon is what I raised,” Spike said, grabbing her waist and tickling her.
Vera burst out laughing, kicking as she tried to get rid of him.
“I’m going to call Rick,” she said when she got rid of him.
“He won’t even have made it home...”
“I miss him already...” she said as she hummed up the stairs.
Spike heard the street door opening and a little girl with her hair in a messy ponytail came running in, leaving a sports bag on the ground, jumped on him, and hugged him.
Jean had the same skin color as him. She was lanky and thin. Just like Vera, she had the same hair color as Faye, dark and straight. She had huge green eyes and the same charming smile as her father.
“I pulled off an incredible goal,” she said, sitting on his lap. “You should have seen it. I tackled one of the girls, I got stitches,” Jean said, pushing her bangs aside and showing him the wound. “I broke two of her teeth.”
“But it was training...” Spike looked at her, smiling as he examined the girl’s wound.
“I don’t know where she got that habit of fighting until the last bloody second, even if she gets hurt,” Faye said, throwing her jacket on the couch.
“It was amazing,” Jean said, jumping to her feet, “I ran all over the field, Mel passed me the ball, I grabbed it hard, Judy ran to me and...” She couldn’t stop talking, she was hysterical, she was ecstatic, her big green eyes were shining with happiness. “I plated her, bam! I head-butted her, jumped over her, and threw with all my heart into the net...”
Jean jumped onto the couch and flipped over.
“I’m starving,” she blurted as she bolted for the kitchen.
“I think Ed bit me when I was pregnant with her and she’s infected,” Faye sighed, dropping onto the couch.
She looked at the beer bottles and the cigarette butts in the ashtray, gave him a questioning look, and kissed him on the lips.
“How I missed it,” she muttered, running the tongue over her lips.
Spike leaned in to kiss her again, and she pulled away, smiling as she put her hand to his face.
“Dad,” Jean shouted from the kitchen. “I can’t reach the cookie jar.”
“Do you have to scream like a manic?” Vera spoke, stepping up behind her and lowering the boat. “There is no way to talk on the phone .”
“You talk on the phone all the time,” Jean replied. “I don’t know how you have things to tell.”
“When you’re older, you’ll understand...”
“When you’re older, you’ll understand,” she mimicked her, sticking her tongue out and showing the half-chewed cookie in her mouth. “Snob”
“What a disgusting brat.” Vera gave Jean a shove and headed for the living room. “Mom! Tell Jean to eat with her mouth closed.”
“Eat with her mouth closed, Jean,” Faye sighed, looking at Spike, who leaned back in the seat with his hands over his head, putting his feet up on the table.
“But Mom,” jean replied, sitting back in the easy chair. “Vera started it. She said I suck.”
“You showed me the food.”
“Snob!”
“Monster!”
“Oh god,” Faye complained, holding her hands to her forehead. “I should have abandoned you in a basket downstream...”
“Mama!” said the little girl indignantly, squatting down on the couch and wiggling like a cat about to pounce on its prey.
Jean was about to jump on Faye, but Spike stopped her in her tracks.
“Enough, both of you,” he added, slinging the girl over his shoulder like she was a sack of potatoes, while she kept bursting out laughing. “I’m sure you have better things to do than fight and annoy your mother and me.”
Spike put her down, and Jean pouted at him, which he endured stoically before sending her to her room. Vera mumbled an “I can’t wait to be old enough to leave home” and left, huffing down the stairs.
They were alone in the kitchen again. Spike was sitting on the stool, turning in on himself, holding the sunflower in one hand.
Faye looked up at him as she nibbled on a chocolate stick. He stopped and held out his hand to her. Faye hesitated for a second, but she took it, and he gently tugged and caught her between his legs.
“Are you not angry anymore?” he inquired, taking her hands and caressing them gently.
“I can’t be mad at you, you just wanted to protect your daughter. I’m sure you’d kill the little girl who put a gash on Jean.” Faye kissed him on the forehead. “You even stopped the little girl from jumping on me, you can’t help it.”
“Are we having a baby?” he asked, clasping his hands behind her back.
“Yes...” Faye leaned her head on his shoulder. “I’m too old for this now.”
“Sure, you’re over a hundred years old,” he teased, stroking her hair.
“Spike...” she broke away, looking at him, annoyed. He caught her before she could take another step back.
“Do you think the chromosome gods will give us a boy this time? There are very few dicks in this house.” Spike rested his hands on Faye’s belly and moved closer to speak into her belly button. “Olive, Can you hear me? Can you develop a penis for me?”
“What a fool you are,” Faye told, running her hands through his hair.
“I’m in the minority...” Spike pulled her to him and hugged her by sliding his hands around her waist. “You can conspire against me... And murder me and eat at my corpse...”
“You’re the king of the house.” Faye kissed him on the hair and he lifted her by the waist, sitting her on top of him.
“Shall we keep it a secret for now?” Spike kissed her neck, and she wrapped her arms around him as she nodded her head. “The girls are going to go crazy.”
“This still terrifies me like the first day,” Faye whispered, hugging him. “I still have nightmares about the Syndicate...”
“I know, I sleep with you.” he cupped her face with both hands and kissed her nose. “I have them too, but we’ll be fine.”
“Yeah,” she smiled frankly. “Happy anniversary, Spike.”
“Happy anniversary, Romani.”
by the way it's another girl
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doomstypewriter · 3 years
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The submersion | Intrulogical Mermaid AU
Future intrulogical.
Follow up on this animatic. | AO3
Words: 1728.
Summary: Remus has fun in his submarine. A giant barracuda disagrees.
CW: Dark humour, skeletal remains of a rat, drowning, deep ocean (if there's anything else do tell), death, sexual innuendo.
The submersion
It was cloudy.
And cold.
But that was to be expected when one’s in the middle of the Atlantic.
“Remus Prince, you dunce, how are you dressed like that?”
Remus turned around to see Ella Da Villa, the captain of the ship he was on, and an old friend. Her short afro was stuffed inside of a beanie, she held onto her sides through her huge puffer coat.
“I know you’d just rather I take it all off, but, honey, I need to at least wear something”.
She laughed.
“What you need is to make sure you don’t get drenched or--”
“First of all, I look amazing all wet. But if that’s what you’re so worried about, hey, I took care of that” he answered pointing at his green rain boots.
The crew looked at them in amusement as they moved the equipment, preparing everything for the submersion.
Ella took off one of her gloves and smacked Remus’ head with it.
“Ow! I thought you were against violence!”
“I never said that. But I am against animal abuse, that’s why I didn’t hit you hard. Now go and put on a coat, you dumbass”.
“Sure thing mommy, you know how to be commanding” he winked.
“It’s captain for you, now go!”
His boots squeaked against the flooring of the deck as he ran to get into the guts of the ship. He managed to hear Ella swearing under her breath.
“How did he even graduate? Going out in short sleeves…”
Ella was a funny one, Remus thought. It was easy to get under her skin, she also liked to play along which made it even better.
One of the people going up the metal stairs almost tripped against him, there wasn’t that much room, after all. Remus jumped over the railing and fell onto the lower level without a scratch.
“Oh my god! Are you okay?!” said someone.
A younger guy with spectacular hair held onto his forearm to check on him. Oh, this was the newbie.
“Don’t worry, I don’t have any lungs”.
“Wha…” he looked half perplexed and half horrified.
“You know, we all get it done since we’re going to end up sleeping with the fish anyway”.
He stood up quickly and mutely apologised. Remus enjoyed the view of his ass going upstairs as fast as possible. New meat was always hilarious.
When he entered the room his cupboard was already open. He liked to leave the sliding doors that way so he could see what was inside, otherwise, he’d forget about it. In a ship, that meant ending up with all of one’s clothes on the floor, but as long as Remus could see where they were he wouldn’t misplace anything. Object permanence was a bitch.
Messy floors did have an advantage, the coat on top of the pile was good enough to satisfy Ella and easy enough to grab quickly.
The backswing of the glove against his shoulder caught him off-guard.
“Ow! What did I do now?! This coat is fine!”
“The coat is fine, yes, but the new guy is shaking like a leaf. What did you tell him? He keeps saying stuff about drowning”.
“Hey, I’d never mention drowning when I’m about to get into a submarine”.
“Yes, that’d be very poor taste, sadly, you have it worse so you must have said something terrible. I expect you to fix this, or we’ll have to arrange you drowning”.
“You know I love choking on wet things”.
“Then your last moments will be pleasant. Consider me the best friend one could have”.
The new guy was holding onto the railing of the ship, staring at the water in concentration. Probably about to throw up or something.
“Hey!”
“Ah!” he screamed.
“Do you have a name?”
“Uh… yes… um…”
“Great! I have one too, it’s Remus” he introduced himself with half a bow.
“I’m Nathan… sorry… I’m just anxious… it’s the first time I go on one of those” he gestured at the submersible held by the crane of the ship.
“First times are always awkward, don’t worry”.
Finally, Nathan let out a laugh, it was a nervous one but it would suffice.
“You know what I said earlier was a joke, right?”
“Oh, yeah, it just caught me by surprise. You’re the head biologist here, right?”
“Yup. Guess you could say I’m the dom of this study”.
“Darn it, here I was expecting to be more active”.
Remus smiled in surprise. It was always nice when people had similar humour to his.
“Oh, you’ll have to be. I expect it”.
“You wouldn’t expect we could go for some coffee after we get into…” the date proposition vanished into a look of fear at the submersible.
Remus put a hand over his shoulders. The drowning jokes would have to wait until they were emerging.
“Don’t worry, my thicc ass has been there tons of times! It’s just a lot of water”.
“While it’s true he’s been there more than you, he’s overplaying his own ass. It’s kind of droopy” a heavily accented voice said
“Who are you calling droopy?”
They turned to see a tall blond woman smiling smugly. Erika Engström, oceanographer and the operator of the submersible.
“You, obviously, do you have water in your ears?”
“Not yet, but we’ll see if…”
Nathan held his breath.
“Nah, I don’t”.
“He either thinks you’re cute or he’s afraid the captain will throw him off-board if he keeps bullying you”, Erika told Nathan.
“I wasn’t bullying anyone”.
“Sorry to break it to you, but you’re always bullying people, you don’t know how else to flirt”.
“Then I would be flirting with everyone”.
“Aren’t you?”
“Okay, yeah”.
“Come on, I have to set up things. Give me a hand, rat skull”.
“At least give me a knife or something”.
“You can chew it through”.
One last look at Nathan before following her.
“Well, I’ll leave you to stress out, if I don’t help her we’ll dro…” oh right, no drowning jokes. “We’ll…”
“Flirt with me when we’re back at the surface”.
Remus smiled.
“Will do!”
-----
The light was beginning to fade out. The flickering of the few rays coming through a swirl of silvery fish would be their last glimpses at natural lighting for a while.
It was wonderful.
How the underwater landscape changed, morphing into something out of a nightmare. Never ceases to amaze him. People would say it was all just blue getting darker and darker, and it was! But it was also a thick fog from which anything could come out. He always looked forward to seeing the weirdest fish appear.
There wasn’t much room behind the giant acrylic viewport. Despite being stuck so closely together, Remus could feel a chill as the air within got cooled by the deep water. His coat lay forgotten at the back of his chair still.
Once the lights of the submersible switched on, a delicate dance of white dust shined just like it would on a sunny day. This was no room dust. But there was just as much beauty in seeing the marine snow surrounding them. Teensy tiny pieces of dead fish falling all around, making the nicest shapes.
“It’s so quiet” Nathan observed.
“Wait until you hear a whale. The first time I did I thought my skull would pop”.
“Which one?” Erika kept her eyes on the water, but he could see the reflection of a smile curving onto the surface of the acrylic.
“Well, the small one. I know you’d hate to have to scrape my brains off your console”.
“If you had any I would”.
“There would still be plenty of blood”.
The ship carried on with the descend, soon, they’d be at twenty thousand feet. Nathan leaned in.
“Hey, what did she mean by which one?” he said in a hushed voice.
“Oh! Right”
He pulled on the string of his necklace to get it from under his shirt. Remus held it in front of Nathan’s face.
It turned, revealing the empty sockets and the front of what used to be a snout.
“I have this rat skull as a necklace! Erika teases me because that’s how she copes with the fact that she hates it!”
“Anyone would hate it. You wear that thing everywhere. It’s creepy” Erika pointed out.
“Where did you get it?” Nathan asked.
In the dim light, Remus’s smile cast shadows, giving him a grim vibe.
“I used to have a pet rat. When it died it sucked, my brother and I buried it in the backyard. It was there until three years later when we got a heavy storm. The bones peeked through the mud. So I just yanked a bit on the spine and got it. The skull was already defleshed anyway, so, aside from cleaning it a bit, I didn’t have to do any of the work. I really like this necklace. I got into marine biology because I began looking at fish skulls and I wanted to see more”.
“That’s…” Nathan began to say.
Suddenly, the submersible turned violently.
“What was that?”
“I don’t know, I couldn’t take a good look”, said Erika.
Her frown told Remus something was seriously wrong.
“Guys, we’re picking up really weird signals from here. Are you all okay?” the sound of Ella’s voice through the radio distracted him from his train of thought.
“It’s all under control, but I am going to begin ascending” Erika replied.
“We haven’t taken all the samples”, Nathan said.
“We’ll have another chance. Right now I’m worried that---”
Erika did not have time to finish talking.
Its needle-like teeth loomed over the viewport. This creature was unlike anything he’d ever seen. Part of him felt excited at how terrifying it all was. Sadly, he had the feeling they were all about to die. This fish looked like a giant barracuda and an angry one.
The creature snapped its jaw closed, cracking the viewport.
Seemingly, it didn’t find it tasty enough and it swam away even moodier than before. The very least it could have done was eat them.
If you’re going to kill them might as well finish the job.
Remus’ body floated into the dark abyss as he struggled to breathe. Covering his ears tightly, he screamed in pain. The pressure was unlike anything.
Well, it had been fun.
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All of us love a mischievous squid.
-o-o-o-
Everyone knew Virgil was the musical soul in the family. He played, wrote and occasionally bled music. It was a constant in their home and the few times it was missing due to illness or absence, it was painful.
The man could sing if he wanted to, but that was a rare thing. He could dance with the grace of any ballroom dancer, his rhythm and style even outshining his eldest brother, Mr Lady-swooner himself.
Music was part of Virgil’s soul.
So, what happened late one Wednesday night after one too many rescues and ten too many drinks was quite surprising to them all.
The Tracy brothers weren’t big drinkers. They couldn��t afford to be due to their occupation. Both Scott and Virgil had been known to down a late night sniff of whisky on occasion. John had his boutique beers, but honestly, he wasn’t home very often to drink them, and space and alcohol was never a good combination.
Gordon fancied an odd cocktail from time to time and had the liquor stash to back it up, but most of the bottles were dusty and a couple well past their expiry dates. They just didn’t have the time or the opportunity to really let rip.
But it was Wednesday. The last rescue of five had been an avalanche and they always sucked. The boys had congregated in the living room…and it was a living room, not a damned comms room because International Rescue was down for a good forty-eight hours, Grandma’s orders.
They were all exhausted, but none wanted to sleep. They wouldn’t admit it, but there was fear in what they might find behind closed eyelids after such a shitty day, so they just sat together.
At first it was quiet. One or two words, fragmented debrief, until Virgil put an end to it and demanded John come home. Now!
Fifteen minutes later, the middle brother, just as exhausted as the rest, slunk into the living room and made a seat his own.
But there was little talking, each caught up in their own thoughts.
“Screw this.” Gordon jumped to his feet. “Stay here. I’ll be right back.” And he disappeared around the corner.
Scott didn’t pay much attention, his eyes on John, assessing his condition and fast coming to the conclusion that his brother hadn’t slept in at least the last twenty-four hours judging by the bags under his eyes.
“John, have you eaten.”
Turquoise darted in his direction. “Have you?”
A blink and Scott realised he hadn’t. He had been too occupied keeping track of tired brothers. “No.” Honestly, he wasn’t hungry.
“Then you understand.”
A glare in his brother’s direction. John just turned away.
Scott’s lips thinned, but then his attention was taken by Alan, who was slowly tipping sideways on his couch, eyelids drooping. “Alan, you should go to bed.”
“Don’t wanna. Wanna stay with you guys.” His head landed on the couch cushion and two seconds later he was snoring.
Scott sighed.
“I have cake. I have popcorn. I have drinks.” Hurricane Gordon slammed into the sunken lounge and a pile of popcorn, chips, a rather large cake and a bucket of candy landed with him. The whole mess was dumped on the table and the aquanaut disappeared again.
Scott just stared at the pile of food.
“Well, that’s the healthy option.” Virgil’s voice was pure sarcasm.
“Do you really care?” Honestly, Virg.
“Not really, but the principle is there.”
Scott rolled his eyes. Just in time for Gordon to reappear with half his alcohol stash, several of John’s beers and whisky. Glorious, golden whisky.
Now that was a very good idea.
What happened after the appearance of the alcohol involved a movie Scott didn’t pay much attention to, far too much carbohydrate…c’mon, caramel popcorn, yes…and a lot of alcohol.
After all, they were down for forty-eight hours guaranteed and how often did that happen? This was an opportunity for them to focus on themselves and despite their exhaustion, there was finally a little relaxation in front of…the Enterprise?
“Who gave John the remote?!”
“I did.” The feminine AI’s voice danced through the room in amusement.
“Eos! That’s cheating!”
She giggled. “I thought Gordon was cheating when he stuck it in his drink.”
Scott turned to his aquanaut brother who was dressing the sleeping Alan’s hair with popcorn. “Gordon!”
“What?!” The cocktail in his hand had an umbrella and a remote control garnishing it.
“You drowned the remote.”
“Huh?” He looked at his drink. “Oh.” And he pulled it out of the concoction and started licking it clean.
“Augh.”
A blur of red plaid and Virgil snatched the gadget from Gordon’s fingers and flicked it into the nearest pot plant.
Gordon appeared forlorn for its absence for a whole second before turning to his drink and sculling it all in one go.
“Gordon!” This time it was Virgil yelling his name.
The aquanaut had blue curacao for lipstick. “What?!” It was a direct echo of his same exasperated response moments earlier.
“Take it easy.”
“I don’t want to take it easy. I’m having fun.” With that he grabbed a bottle and dumped something red into the same glass with the blue, resulting in a rather unpleasant purple.
Scott groaned.
Which only earned him an assessing stare from Virgil.
A sigh. “Relax, Virgil. We’re home, we’re safe. Let your hair down a little.”
He was going to regret those words later.
The stare turned into a glare, but moments later, Gordon was ribbing Virgil about drinking and somehow he got under the engineer’s skin because there was a drinking contest.
Unfortunately for Gordon, swimmer’s physique or not, apparently Virgil was more brawn and could simply just absorb the stuff.
Gordon ended up snoozing in a sea of popcorn beside Alan.
John started giggling.
Scott raised an eyebrow at the small pyramid of empty beer bottles beside his space brother.
“How many have you had?”
“It’s a tetrahedron. Work it out.” John placed a single bottle at the top of the pyramid and smirked at Scott.
This was definitely a very bad idea.
His own whisky glass was only half empty. He needed to fix that.
It was warm going down.
Gordon started snoring, loudly.
“Okay, that’s it. Time for bed.”
“Don’t wanna go to bed.” Virgil put on the soppiest puppy dog face Scott had ever seen.
John cracked up laughing.
Oh god. “No, bed, now.”
“Okay.” And Virgil stood up.
And took a quick step to the left, then the right, before managing to stabilise himself somewhat upright, but listing slightly to one side.
It was that moment that the movie playing on the holoprojector burst into music.
Music? What the hell were they watching. He stared up into a haze of rebooted retro nineteen fifties and a song about a car and lightning.
“Ooh, I like this one.”
What?
And Virgil was suddenly dancing. Well, it could be considered dancing in some circles, but it mostly consisted of a lot of poorly coordinated butt wiggling and a lot of horizon pointing arms.
The jumping on the couch was really not called for.
“Virg?”
But his brother was lost to the music and dancing his heart and his coordination all out.
“C’mon, Scott, get up and boogie!”
Of course, Virgil was loud enough to wake Gordon, who took one look at Virgil and fell off the couch.
There was far too much butt wiggling happening.
“Virg, come down from there.”
He was completely ignored.
Scott needed more alcohol.
The bottle of golden oblivion smiled at him.
Screw it.
He wasn’t quite sure what happened next, but the result was a broken lamp and Gordon on the floor laughing hard enough to break a rib.
“Eos, play Jailhouse Rock.” John managed that between giggles. Scott idly noticed that the tetrahedron had become modern art and was attempting to defy the laws of physics.
It failed with a smash and rolling of bottles two minutes later.
And Virgil was still dancing.
Classic Elvis Presley at full volume, enough to wake up every lifeform in the caldera.
The butt wiggling had morphed into hip waggling and some kind of leg shaking that threatened to faceplant his brother on the floor.
“Virg, please get off the couch.”
“I am having fun, Scott.” Each word was enunciated clearly as if the man was having trouble putting the syllables together. “Letting my hair down.” A grin and Virgil shoved his fingers into his hair and completely messed it up until it was sticking out in all directions. Suddenly a hand was almost in Scott’s face. “Join me?”
There was something in his brother’s deep brown eyes, something beyond the alcoholic haze, something desperate, something…sad.
Scott never could refuse a brother his help. So, a moment later, he found himself standing on the couch as Virgil shifted his dance moves into something that involved some shoulder rolling and a goofy grin.
Scott found himself grinning in return.
John said something half drowned out by the music and the room was suddenly filled with an old dance favourite from his teens.
Virgil actually let off a laugh and moved into a sloppy dance routine from their childhood.
Scott couldn’t help himself and at some point, he just let go.
-o-o-o-
Alan woke from one of the weirdest dreams of his life. It involved music and Thunderbird Three dancing to a beat, her arms waving about.
It took him a moment to work out exactly why.
The dream was saner than reality. Scott and Virgil were standing on one of the couches…dancing.
Alan blinked the sleep out of his eyes. Was that the Macarena? It was hard to tell. Virgil was so uncoordinated, he could have been servicing Two in his sleep for all Alan could discern. Scott was smoother, but he was leaning at a teetering angle.
Frantic eyes located his two other brothers.
John was sitting on the floor beside a pile of empty beer bottles. He had a dob of cake frosting on one eyebrow.
That left Gordon.
The strawberry blond was sitting on the floor in front of Alan’s couch.
“Gords? What’s going on?”
Gordon turned around and a soft smile curved his lips. “Big bros are letting their hair down.” The music suddenly paused and Gordon sat up straighter. “Eos, Dance Party 2054.”
More music erupted from the overhead speakers and vibrated the glass walls.
Alan found himself bopping to the beat.
Virgil climbed up off the couch and onto the hardwood floor, apparently so he could really let loose. His plaid shirt was undone and swirling around him as he moved.
Scott tripped over the top of the couch and almost faceplanted on that same hardwood, but he saved himself the bruises with those half-sharp reflexes of his. A moment later he was up boogying with his brother.
It was an odd sight.
“Are they okay?”
Gordon’s voice was quiet. “No, but they will be.”
“What about John?”
Gordon shrugged as they both eyed the slouched astronaut. “Not sure he has it in him, fresh down from Five. He’s safer on the floor.”
“What about you?”
Gordon snorted. “I’m good.” He chucked down the remains of his drink before turning to face his little brother. “Wanna dance?”
Alan’s eyes widened. “How are you?” His eyes bounced to the empty bottles on the table, the stained glasses and limp umbrellas.
“What? Do you really think I can’t outlast Virg? The man is a drinking wimp. Only took two good ones to get him dancing with the fairies. Letting him win was the hard part.”
“Win what?”
A snort. “Virg thinks he can drink me under the table. He’s small fry.” The aquanaut stumbled to his feet and Alan eyed him. Gordon had definitely had a few. “You aren’t allowed to kill brain cells. However, you can have fun, dear little brother.” He held out his hand. “May I have this dance?”
He blamed sleep fog for the automatic yes that found him up and out of the sunken lounge, careening around the room laughing his ass off.
-o-o-o-
“John, what is happening?”
The astronaut blinked dopily. Maybe he had had one too many, but with each one, the voices faded just that little bit more. Calls for help he was desperate to answer.
And the silences that followed.
“They’re dancing, Eos.” It was obvious really.
“I’ve never seen them act like this before.”
“Doesn’t happen very often.” If ever. What was Scott trying to do with their father’s chair? “Eos, could you please close the doors to the balcony.” Gravity did suck after all.
He took another swig of Swedish beer as the giant glass doors slid smoothly closed.
“Can you access the room lighting?”
“One moment. I have control, John.”
“Good. Reference the 1970s disco movement and see if you can replicate any of the lighting involved.”
“FAB.”
A few moments later and the room’s lighting went nuts. The holoprojector flickered and shone dancing rainbows on the rafters. The atmosphere changed radically as the whole room pulsed and flickered in beat with the music.
Virgil froze for a whole five seconds in the middle of the room, staring up at the glass ceiling before bursting into a massive grin and throwing himself into a full on fit of dancing to the song that was screaming out of the speakers.
Scott was pirouetting with his father’s chair in great rotating circles.
Gordon was attempting some kind of retro-breakdancing. Though at this point, the only thing that was going to be broken was pot plants.
Alan had a grin on his face and was the most coordinated of them all, jiggling along to the beat with a grin on his face.
Another figure appeared in the entrance to the room. It took John’s entire remaining intellect to realise that it was Grandma.
Something stirred in the back of John’s head, something about getting in trouble, but he had no coordination to connect the dots so gave up. Besides, the Grandma figure was only standing in the doorway watching.
“What is the purpose of all this activity?” Eos’ voice was ever curious.
“It’s fun, Eos. An attempt at stress relief.” To wash the pain away.
-o-o-o-
Virgil was vaguely aware that he was being ridiculous, but he was beyond caring. The music pulsed through him and lifted him up. He just let it all go and rode the beat.
He was too exhausted to care about anything.
Except his brothers.
He always cared about his brothers.
Scott was astride their father’s chair and was riding it across the room in a completely undignified manner. Gordon was laughing his ass off at the sight and Alan was beside him in that. Even John was grinning as the eldest coasted past.
Virgil spun and let the air stream around him.
Round and round and round.
Oh dear, too round.
He staggered to a halt, but the world kept going. He stumbled.
A hand caught him. “Take it easy, honey.”
The blur turned into his grandmother in her dressing gown.
“Grandma!” He drew her in to a massive hug. “I love you, Grandma.”
Her tiny arms hugged him back. “Virgil, you’re drunk.”
“No, no, I’m dancing. Wanna dance, Grandma?”
She was looking up at him with concern on her face.
“Smile, Grandma. You need to be happy.”
He needed to be happy.
She reached up and touched his face, her hand cupping his cheek.
He closed his eyes and leant into her palm as the beat throbbed around him.
-o-o-o-
The sight of his grandmother sobered Scott immediately. The chair beneath him drifted a few more feet before he brought it to a halt.
Grandma caught Virgil as he stumbled and they were hugging. Something about that simple gesture clenched his heart.
He clambered off the chair and staggered awkwardly. Okay, maybe he had a few too many. He forced himself upright, kicking some spine into his vertebrae and made his way over to his grandmother.
Virgil was all plaid and gentle eyes as she cupped his cheek.
“Grandma?” Scott’s voice wavered with his step.
Eyes as blue as his own turned towards him. “Scotty, you need to sit down before you fall down.”
He frowned. He had a chair a moment ago. He looked around.
A hand caught his cheek and drew his gaze back to his grandmother and those blue eyes.
A red arm wrapped around him and drew him in. “Scott, you are my big brother.” The statement was declared with so much love as he was pulled sideways into Virgil.
They almost fell in a heap. It was Grandma who steadied them.
“You boys need to go to bed.” A concerned frown and she called out to the ceiling. “Eos, kill the light show and the music.”
The silence that fell was so sudden, Scott almost fell with it.
Virgil stumbled and Scott held him upright.
An almighty crash off to their left and Gordon upended one of the large pot plants near the glass doors. Potting mix scattered across the floor. Gordon rolled over and sat up covered in the stuff. “Who turned off the music?”
Grandma straightened. “It is time for bed, young man.”
The dopey aquanaut looked up at his grandmother and squinted. “Grandma, is that you?”
She ignored him. “Alan, come here, sweety.”
Alan, who was yawning fit to break his jaw, wandered over as bidden.
“Yes, Grandma?”
She snaked an arm around his waist and drew him in. “Time for bed, Allie.”
Virgil reached out an arm to snag his littlest brother, but suddenly Gordon was in his way and he got an arm full of fish instead.
Virgil did not seem to mind. “Gordo! My wingman, my copilot, my fish in a barrel.” Red plaid squeezed tight. “Love you, bro.”
Scott blinked. That was three. Where was the other one?
A glance at the lounge found John sprawled on the floor up against one of the lounges, fast asleep.
“Oi, Johnny!”
Scott jumped at Virgil’s yell and so did John. Bleary turquoise peered in their direction.
“Get over here, little brother, group hug!”
Wha-? Scott’s head was so foggy.
But John was stumbling to his feet. Something told him this was a dangerous thing. As the astronaut wobbled over, Scott moved to help him, but found himself snagged by cast iron red plaid.
Fortunately, Alan picked up on his fellow spaceman’s difficulties and hurried over to give him a hand. A few moments of wobbly astronaut and John was standing with them.
Virgil immediately reached for him. “Johnny!”
Unfortunately, he didn’t let go of either Gordon or Scott when he did and, damn, Virgil was strong. They ended up in a huddle, Alan and Grandma awkwardly caught up with them.
“I love you guys.” Virgil’s voice was muffled up against John’s shirt. Scott had caught Grandma and Gordon had grabbed Alan. Virgil had his face mushed into John’s shoulder.
John looked like he had stuck a finger in an electrical socket and didn’t know why his hair was on fire.
“We love you, too, Virgil.” It was Gordon’s voice, muffled by Alan’s hair.
Something lodged in Scott’s throat and he found himself hugging the pieces of brother and grandmother he could reach.
Apparently, it was something they all needed, because they stayed there holding each other for a full minute.
Just long enough for Virgil to fall asleep against John’s shoulder and let off a snore. It took Gordon and Scott to catch him to prevent them all from falling in a heap.
The group hug dissolved and the focus became getting certain brothers to their bedrooms. Grandma hovered and helped where she could. Scott took Virgil, while Gordon switched to helping Alan with John.
The family went their separate ways.
Grandma followed Scott up to Virgil’s rooms. The engineer faded in and out, declaring his love for any and all brothers several times on the way up. But by the time they made it to Virgil’s room, the engineer was getting heavy.
“C’mon, Virg, not much further.” Scott was ever so glad of that as his head was still trying to swim against the current.
Letting him gently down on his bed, the man immediately curled up into a ball, fully dressed and obviously not caring. Scott undid green shoelaces, dumped boots on the floor with a clatter and yanked the covers up and over his already snoring little brother.
A hand smoothed crazed hair back into its more familiar style and Scott unfolded from the bed.
A glass of water appeared on the bedside table and he turned to find his grandmother looking at him fondly. He blinked. He had forgotten she was there.
She held out a hand and as he took it, he was drawn into a quiet hug. She was ever so little up against his bulk. “C’mon, Scotty, let’s get you to bed.”
“I’m okay, Grandma. I need to check on the others.”
She sighed, but let go a single nod.
As they left Virgil’s rooms, she didn’t leave his side.
A visit to John’s room found him in bed, but the wrong way around, his feet on the pillow, his head hanging off the end. It took some prodding and yanking, but Scott re-orientated him. A quick check of the gravity support systems in his clothing were functioning properly – the alcohol probably wasn’t helping. Grandma materialised with another glass of water which was placed on John’s bedside table.
Quietly. “Eos, are you monitoring, John’s systems?”
“Of course. He is well, Commander. Do not concern yourself. I will watch him.”
Scott’s eyes closed without permission and he had to force them open again. “Thank you, Eos.”
The AI didn’t answer.
Grandma took his arm and led him from the room.
A check on Alan found him on the floor, but that was nothing unusual. Gordon had probably dumped him there. The kid preferred the rug to his bed and Scott meant to talk to him about it, but…life.
Gordon had fallen asleep in the corridor outside his room.
Scott rolled his eyes. He wouldn’t be surprised if the brat had done that on purpose. After all the entire night’s fracas was obviously engineered by the aquanaut. A fond sigh of exasperation and he pulled his little brother into his arms and dragged him into his rooms.
Dragging fish was considerably easier than dragging two hundred pounds of engineer.
Scott threw Gordon onto his bed and covered him up. Fingers brushed hair off his face.
Scott sighed again and had to prevent himself from curling up beside his brother.
“C’mon, Scotty, your turn.”
Scott mumbled something even he didn’t fully comprehend and let his grandmother lead him out of his brother’s rooms. One of the aquariums blurped at him as he walked past.
And finally, he was in his own rooms and his own bed. Grandma handed him a glass of water. He guzzled it before burying his face in his pillow.
He opened his eyes as a hand brushed through his hair. “We love you, Scotty. Don’t you ever forget that.”
He blinked slowly and managed a smile up at his grandmother, but her fingers caressed the side of his face, forcing his eyes to close again and he drifted off.
His dreams were kind.
And full of loving family.
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FIN.
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