Just a Nightmare Drabble
Tord x Reader
Tw: depictions of despair
Tord felt like he was drowning, the darkness swallowing him whole after a minute of trying to gasp for air but failing to fill his lungs. He was starting to drift in the cold that surrounded him, feeling the sting of the air on the pallor of his skin. If he focused hard enough, he could feel a little warmth coming from somewhere in front of him, but he just felt it was best to just let himself float in the nothingness. It wasn’t until he started to realize that he truly couldn’t breathe was when he really started to thrash in the nothingness. If he gripped his chest hard enough he could just tear his heart ou-
------------
“Tord, wake up, please!” Your voice snapped him out of his allusive nightmare. Stormy gray eyes met a worried expression as you stared at him in the dim warm light that your bedside lamp provided. The blankets were still swamped on his torso, shoved nearly all the way off in his thrashing. “Hey, come back to me. You’re alright, you’re with me.” You soothed him, a warm hand finding its way over his chest. Just over his racing heart. You felt the way his chest rose and fell steadily, a little fast for your liking as he caught his breath.
Tord blinked at you before his eyes drifted to the ceiling. He swallowed. His remaining hand reached up to squeeze over yours on his chest. It was just a nightmare. A stupid night terror. He hadn’t had one in a long while.
“Are you back to me?” You asked quietly, words coming out softer than intended to. His eyes flickered to yours, the scars over the right side of his face stretching as he gave you a subdued grimace.
“I’m fine.” He croaked out, giving your hand a final squeeze before he was sitting up gingerly. His back rested on the headboard, his left hand tousling his bed head so that his hair was out of his eyes.
You couldn’t help but find him attractive as your eyes tracked the movement.
“It was just a nightmare.” He muttered, eyes flicking to the corner of your bedroom. You nodded, a frown on your lips as you carefully moved to sit closer to him to where your thighs touched. He looked down at where you were touching, head tipping to rest over the crown of yours. You nuzzled into his neck, planting a kiss to the raised skin you found there before kissing the corner of his mouth where the scars weren’t the most prominent. It was where he felt the most comfortable on that side of his face. Though, you would gladly kiss him all over if he ever allowed it.
“Thanks.” He whispered, tired eyes finding yours again. His brow twitched as you gave him a small smile, resting your head against his shoulder.
If this was how his week started, it was going to be a long one.
He blew out a breath. He could use a smoke.
134 notes
·
View notes
I've been thinking about the tragedy of Elizabeth Woodville living to see the death of her family name.
I don't mean her family with her husband, which lived on through her daughter and grandson. I mean her own.
Her sisters died, one by one, many of them after 1485. When Elizabeth died, only Katherine was left, and she would die before the turn of the century as well.
All her brothers died, too. Lewis died in childhood. John was executed. Anthony was murdered. Lionel died suddenly in the peak of Richard's reign, unable to see his niece become queen. Edward perished at war. Richard died in grieving peace. For all the violence and judgement the family endured, it was "an accident of biology" that ended their line: none of the brothers left heirs, and the Woodville name was extinguished. We know the family was aware of this. We know they mourned it, too:
“Buy a bell to be a tenor at Grafton to the bells now there, for a remembrance of the last of my blood.”
Elizabeth lived through the deposition and death of her young sons, and lived to see the end of her own family name. It must have been such a haunting loss, on both sides.
8 notes
·
View notes
beautiful product tumblr recommended to me i think you should see it too
Why would you send this to me
14 notes
·
View notes
Bitter water in regards to the teenager thing you couldn’t hand wave YRZ in order to Not Fuck A Child in A Fuck or Die situation comes up with the Just Die technique in which he (briefly) kills you then resuscitates you! Still traumatizing but no genitalia involved!
I mean that would probably work for some very fast acting types but I pictured being papa planted more like being poisoned. You don’t stop being poisoned just because you’re dead. The poisons still in the corpse, it’s just not affecting it anymore because it’s a corpse.
Plus Yrz, morally speaking, shifts with the general societys morals. Living in a world where there’s so much fuck or die means that sex and the taboos around it simply aren’t the same as regular earth. Yrz dual culvating with a teenager to save their life would absolutely not be seen as weird! But outside of life saving it’d be seen as improper. It’s like the difference between kissing someone without consent and giving them life saving mouth to mouth.
Yrz would feel a little skeeved out but he’s a professional before anything else. If there was no choice Yrz would simply do it.
Fortunately, A lot of the papaplants don’t hit younger people as hard, so they can simply be carefully knocked out while they process it out of their systems!
34 notes
·
View notes
Bedroom fail with Dabi: his tongue stitches break while he's eating you out and his tongue falls off
EW! NO! BAD NONNY 🤣
32 notes
·
View notes