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#not goin to bed yet just making this in case i fall asleep before i get a chance to
princessbrunette · 4 months
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rafe taking care of the gf while she’s on her pms days <33
this makes me wanna cry bc i literally got my period today n was in sm pain all day hence my inactivity 😵‍💫
idk if it’s just me, but being on my period makes me feel so helpless n subby and like …… i just need to be babied and cared for !!!!
★⌒ヽ(´ ❥ `)
being like that with rafe could be a lot of things— depending on how busy he is. he’s clingy, and has a funny way of showing it so he might drag you out with him to barry’s house, and you actually agree because the cramps haven’t fully hit you yet so you think you can handle it. but whilst you’re there, the aches and pains hit you like a sack of bricks whilst you’re sat on the couch curled up into rafes side as he talks business with barry.
“and you got that shipment coming in, yeah? y’not bullshittin’ me?” rafe pins the darker haired man with his intense gaze, ignoring you completely as you huff out your nose like a disgruntled dog, pressing your cheek against his shoulder.
“no, country club i’m not bullshitting you. you think i care enough to lie to you? thought you gave this sellin’ shit up anyway. what happened, huh?” barry’s eyes barely flicker towards you, used to your antics.
“i already told you — it’s a personal favour. got people asking me for— hey,” he directs his attention to you suddenly. “whats with you?” he asks, blinking impatiently.
“my tummy hurts. i got my period.” you pout, all tense and uncomfortable. rafe sighs, thinking for a moment as he runs his hand over his chin, directing his attention back at barry.
“get my stuff. i will be back to talk to you. alright?”
you’re surprised rafe cut things short with barry, never usually pandering to your complaints— but maybe he just wanted to get out of there.
he doesn’t really know how to help someone on their cycle, it’s not really something he’s cared to do before you, but he’s learnt a little. he brings you a hot water bottle in bed before standing back, shoving hands into his pockets.
“m’gonna be goin’ back to talk to barry. you gonna be alright here? by yourself?” his eyes glance towards the hot water bottle and you nod sadly, just in pain and wanting him but not having the energy to argue your case. he nods, adjusting your blanket a little. “alright… okay, good. text me if you need anything.”
he leaves, and you fall asleep — a deep one, because when you wake up it’s dark, and rafe is coming back through the door. you keep your eyes shut, not having the energy and you feel the bed dip, his weight beside you. his hand gently passes over your head before coming to caress your warm cheek. “sleepy baby.” he comments pointlessly under his breath and you nuzzle into his hand in acknowledgment.
knowing you’re awake now, he drops his voice to a whisper. “how’s the belly?” he asks and your heart softens at him using the word belly instead of stomach, seeming to pander just a little to your sweeter ways.
“hurts.” you croak, not opening your eyes.
“hm.” he thinks, trying to come up with a solution but comes up blank. “go back to sleep. m’here now, ‘kay?”
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snoringkitty1 · 10 months
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Boyfriend Headcanons
Characters: Twisted Wonderlands Housewarden's :D cw: None really, extreme fluff and maybe suggestive content?
I know my Headers suck- I'm working on it ;-;
‿︵‿︵ʚ˚̣̣̣͙ɞ・❉・ ʚ˚̣̣̣͙ɞ‿︵‿︵
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Leona Kingscholar
Let's start off simple. Leona as a boyfriend. He would be put forth no effort at first and would possibly neglect you in the beginning. While he means nothing by it, he's just trying not to express himself in case the relationship goes sour fast. Definitely doesn't open up to you until later.
Even if he's neglectful in the start, he is a little clingy. He'll walk you to and from your dorm, the walks are mostly silent in the beginning but once he is more comfortable around you, he'll gladly chat with you.
"How was your morning?" You asked, "Exhaustin'..i'm goin straight to the garden for a nap.." He yawned, small tears in his eyes from yawning. "Haha, of course you will. Shame I can't join, I have a test first period." Leona grumbled and pouted, squeezing your hand as he fell silent.
In the morning he will talk about simple things, ranging from dreams to morning workout and practice. then later after school, he'll ask about your day then ask if you'd like to come with him to his room to cuddle and nap together.
Speaking of cuddling, Leona is an absolute cuddle bug. He'll cuddle until you're sick of it or can't take being in bed any longer. but it's not like you have a choice, you'll stay with him until he falls asleep at least, otherwise he won't let you leave at all.
He likes to study with you after a long nap, preferably likes having you on his lap and listens to you talk and try to help him, even if he knows the subject already, he'll just doze off to your voice.
"You just have to add six to the x and turn it into a fraction an-.." You looked up at the Lion who leaned his head in his hand, though his head was bobbing a bit and his eyes were slowly closing. "Wake up, lazy lion" you chuckled and lightly poked his cheek with the eraser of your pencil. "ugh..'m not feelin' up for homework anymore, Herbivore" he mumbled and got up and wandered over to his bed without another word. "C'mon Leona, you got to do at least a page before going back to bed." you rolled your eyes and walked over, standing close to the edge of the bed. Leona looked up from his pillow and quickly grabbed you and pulled you down before you even had the chance to run. "You just took a nap Leona! let go!" he snuffed and shook his head, going silent fast..already asleep. and knowing you wouldn't slip away from his grasp; you gave up and fell asleep soon after.
He will definitely doze off staring at you in class, it might be the only reason he even attends certain classes, only if you're there to keep him entertained.
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Riddle Rosehearts
Naturally Riddle isn't the best boyfriend at the start, since this is probably his first relationship. He'll do his best to treat you right and be as sweet as he can, but it feels a little forced at the start.
You still have to follow his rules in the beginning, but slowly he'll become more lenient and lax with the ridiculous rules. But it does make him happy when you try to follow the rules to some extent.
Riddle is largely inexperienced as we know, so it's up to you to teach him most of the things in a relationship. From kisses to comfortable cuddling positions.
Speaking of cuddling, at first Riddle didn't think he would like it that much but when he finally had the time and the chance to cuddle with you it became one of his favorite things to do in his spare time, besides eat strawberry tarts.
This poor boy gives the sloppiest or the most awkward kisses, there is no in-between. He's soft and gentle but other times it's almost like he forgets what a kiss is.
Riddle gently held your waist, pulling you close and holding your face before giving you a kiss. Sloppy yet pleasant, and he refused to break it. It felt like it lasted ages, but you eventually pulled back to catch your breath and Riddle did the same. It was one thing to kiss The King of Hearts. It was another to have him wrapped around your fingers.
He loves it if you play with the little heart ahoge on his head, it calms him. especially when cuddling, it's a great way to help him de-stress after a long day of being a prefect. please do it.
I feel like he would enjoy playing with your hair too, maybe tries to style it or braid it if it's long enough to do so.
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Vil Schoenheit
Ok first of all, Vil is a tad controlling when it comes to your appearance, if poor Epel wasn't enough evidence. He'll have you use his products and teach you how to use them if you don't already know, he just wants you to have skin as white as snow, or clear of acne at least.
He will absolutely spoil you to high hell, you deserve the absolute best he can provide with the wealth he has at his disposal. You have no choice but to accept his gifts, if you're stubborn he'll simply leave it at the front doorstep of ramshackle, if Grim likes it you have no choice but to keep it.
But you must have charm to have attracted the evil queen, no? While Vil may come off cold or gives more tough love then you might prefer, he is enamored with you. He relies on you in a way he refuses to rely on anyone else, be it his physical or mental health, if you can handle it, he will rant to you about it. this of course will come along later in the relationship.
Dressing up for no reason? of course. Vil will dress you up and use you kind of like a mannequin. Testing different outfits on you and such. He'll also do your makeup if you wear any, maybe style your hair if he has the time to do so.
"Vil- that's way too tight-" you whined and gave him a pleading look, "It won't fit right if it isn't tight." He argued snappily, listening to your groan with a sigh. "I'll buy you something nice when we're done, does that sound alright?" He smiled and leaned over your shoulder to kiss your cheek. "a-alright..fine" you complied hesitantly and looked over your shoulder as he tied the ribbon, "there, perfect."
A tease, he is definitely a tease. He wants to see just how desperate you can become for his attention and affection. This ranges from kisses, where he'll lean in for one and stop just inches from your face and watch your expression. Or lean over your shoulder and kiss your ear or blow on your ear just to see you shudder.
The lovely Vil had just returned from an outing, taking off his extra clothes and sticking with his shirt and trousers. Even when alone, he wants to look his best for himself. That is until you knocked on his door and poked your head in after he said you could come in. He had been stressed lately, and your presence enough was to make him feel better. When you stepped close to give him a kiss as a greeting, He suddenly pulled you closer by your waist and held your lower back, "ah- I'm happy to see you too." you laughed and he smiled, holding your face and pulling your face closer to give you a kiss. He leaned in slow, and you closed your eyes, yet the kiss you were expecting didn't come..and when you opened your eyes, he was lingering in front of you, grinning rather seductively. "My apologies..here." he hummed and closed the space between you two.
That aside he is gentle when you're alone, he'll admire every inch of you and treat you the way you deserve, like royalty. He'll trace your curves and every crease of your body when he can, and if you'll let him. Consent is sexy after all.
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Malleus Draconia
Clueless, a sweet clueless boy.
He is inexperienced, but not as inexperienced at Riddle, but small little pecks and forehead kisses are his favorites. both to give and receive.
While on the topic of kisses, he isn't the best when kissing with his long ass tongue, but he'll get the hang of it with a bit of guidance.
I bet his eyes glow in the dark, i just wanted to put this here.
He is gentle, very gentle. He's worried one wrong move will hurt you, since children of man are so fragile compared to fae. He'll play with your hair or gently trace veins or muscles whenever you two cuddle.
"Your hands feel nice.." He'll whisper, bringing your hand to his lips and gently kissing it. "Are they? I guess that soap you gave me has been doing its job." You smiled and he couldn't stop a smile of his own from spreading across his face, "you've been using that?" he inquired, "of course, you gave it me after all." When you looked at him, he had the softest smile on his face to the point it warmed your heart.
A very hyper and excited person when it comes to receiving your affection. He doesn't mind PDA, but gets easily embarrassed in public, but he won't deny your love.
His horns? More sensitive the closer to the base of his horns. If you were to rub the base of his horns, he would melt like puddy. Pulling them is a whole nother story that we'll save for next time.
He cannot cook for the life of him, he tries to use his magic to cook stuff for you but ends up obliterating the kitchen. He's almost like a kid after those incidents, he'll come to you all pouty and just want some affection to feel better.
"Did you blow the kitchen up again?" You asked and took his silence as an answer. You sighed and shook your head, "Sometimes I feel bad for Sebek and Silver, not only does Silver have to be with Sebek, but he also has to be with him while cleaning your mess." Malleus frowned and reached for your hand, giving it a gentle squeeze. "Next time I won't use magic. I promise. I'll use a recipe and everything, I want to get it right for you." His sincerity melted you to the point you gave in and nodded, "Sound's good, let's go lay down."
Lilia tootally shipped you two before you got together, he might've even played a part in getting you two together as any good father should.
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Idia Shroud
The moment you two are together Idia will cling to you like a koala, he is clingy and a bit possessive. He'll ask that you stay with him alll the time just to play video games, study together and ultimately fall asleep together.
His nickname for you would definitely be Player 2, doesn't matter if you think it's cringe, he thinks it's a cute 'n crafty nickname.
When you two play video games together you'll either be in his lap, or he'll be in yours. But sometimes when it's just him playing he'll have you sit behind him with your legs wrapped around his shoulders. It might embarrass him a little- and his hair might turn pink, but he adores it.
You'd think he would be shyer about affection and skin to skin contact, but he seems shameless about it. Hold his hands, his face, rub his back, he loves it.
When he plays competitive games, it's better to keep your distance, watch from afar to avoid getting burned whenever he gets mad at the game and the people playing it. Afterwards he'll rant to you about the stupidity of his teammates not playing their roles right or using the worst weapons they could use for the characters they were playing. Just smile and pat his head now and then as he spills his gamer guts to you.
Outside the gaming though, maybe encourage him to go out more? Even for simple things like shopping, maybe take him to a little cafe too? (tbh you'd probably have to trick him into going anywhere outside his room).
If you end up not convincing him to leave his room more, he'll use you kind of like an errand runner.
"Can you stop by Sam's shop and get something for me?" He'll ask, even if you're busy doing something else, "C'moon, I really don't want to move to get Ortho to get it for me! plus~ i really want to see you.." he'll complain until you comply.
Once you do, he'll cheer up, mostly because his excuse to see you worked like a charm.
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Kalim Al Asim
Sunshine baby.
an absolute sweetheart who couldn't be any more dense than osmium, but it's cute?? Somehow??
While at first, it's hard for you to be alone with Kalim because Jamil is always hot on his tail, when you both get the chance, he will want nothing more than hugs and kisses. An absolute cuddle bug, no doubt about it.
He'll teach you to dance, in fact he'd spend all his time teaching you things about his personal interests and his homeland's culture. He's a sweety I want to pinch his cheeks.
If you're both idiots, Jamil refuses to help either of you because mans does not have the patience for that. And I don't blame him.
He'll offer you his clothes just for the funsies without telling you how expensive most of his clothes are. Don't deny him, he will get pouty and confused as to why you won't take his clothes. To avoid this issue, take his clothes and hang them up- just to avoid ruining them.
Even if Kalim is dense, he gives the gentlest kisses, nearly overflowing with a subtle form of passion and love that he knows only he can give to you, and knowing that, makes him want to kiss you more.
Since Kalim throws feasts for no apparent reason sometimes he always without fail throws feasts when you so much as step into the dorm. It's just an excuse to spoil you more, which he effectively loves to do.
"Kalim..you don't need to throw a big party every time I come over here.." You sighed and looked around at all the Scarabia members. Kalim of course was unbothered by your statement, "Of course I do! It's my duty to make sure you feel loved and very special~!" He'll say, with an impossible amount of excitement, he's so happy that you can't bring yourself to deny him.
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Azul Ashengrotto
Praise, please praise him..
Azul is self-conscious, we know this, so you'll have to be there to support and reassure him. That said, when you reassure him or even praise him, he'll brush it off with confidence.
"The lounge has been doing great lately, you're doing a great job Azul." You'd say, "Naturally, I can't neglect any of my business', that would just make me an awful businessman!" is how he will respond, confident, though you should know better than that.
Personally, he doesn't like PDA, he would like to keep his outward public appearance professional. Hand holding and cheek kisses are still on the table though, actually he prefers to hold your hand wherever you two go.
His kisses are gentle and passionate, they're very overpowering and intense sometimes too. His favorite places to kiss you are your hands, arms and nose. Kisses on the lips are usually saved for when you two are alone, most of the time in bed but in his office as well.
Azul is possessive, more than anyone else on this list. He wants to make sure you don't ever plan to leave him for someone else..or leave him at all. He wants you with him as often as possible, if not for your assuring words and affection, it's to make sure you aren't out and about having fun with someone else.
Sometimes, if you steal his hat or his glasses and run off to hide, he'll send one of the twins to find you and drag you back to his office. If it's Floyd, he will carry you like a sack of potatoes. If it's jade, he'll carry you bridal style, wouldn't want to damage important goods after all.
He'll scold you for taking his glasses, since not wearing them gives him a headache, but he doesn't mind you taking his hat, just maybe ask next time (I doubt you will).
Sometimes, after a long day, Azul will text you (probably in the middle of the night) and ask you to come over to cuddle because he can't fall asleep.
If perhaps Grim is being a lil shit, the two of you will call and talk to each other until you both fall asleep. He'd rather fall asleep to your face, but your voice is his second-best option..and he isn't picky.
If not and you can leave without waking up Grim, Azul will welcome you into bed with open arms and a tired smile and exhausted look in his eyes.
"How was your day?" You ask, and he sighs "..Tiring." he whispers before hiding away in the crook of you neck and sighing. You play with his hair, gently combing your hand through the soft locks until the sound of soft snores fill the room, Azul was out like a light, and soon so were you.
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BONUS: Floyd Leech
Oh dear, this man..chaos.
Floyd is far from a gentle giant; you'd think he would be gentler when in a relationship but it's quite the contrary. Floyd is cheeky, he loves to tease you in every way he can.
Kisses with tongue, absolutely. They're in fact his favorite kisses to give, his favorite to receive are neck/collar kisses. Kiss his collarbone and he will melt immediately.
If you were to steal his hat he would use it against you, he'd tease you to high hell until you give it back to him. If that doesn't work, he'll chase you around the lounge, and when he catches you, he will squeeze and kiss you like a madman.
He doesn't care you are, if he feels like it, he will smother you in needless yet lovely affection. I think his favorite thing to do is hold your jaw when kisses get heated.
kisses aside, he is a heavy sleeper. he's not a big spoon but not a little spoon either. I think the way he prefers to sleep is to have you sleeping on his chest so he can feel your heartbeat. Watching you rise and fall with his breathing also helps him fall asleep.
whenever you aren't looking, he softens up a lot. when you're asleep on his chest he'll play with your hair or gently rub circles on your back.
The eel stared at you as you slept peacefully on his chest, slowly rising and falling as he took deep breaths. he had a plain expression, watching you closing with a softer glint in his eyes. he brushed your hair back and held your face, watching your eyelids flutter with every noise you made. He smiled, rubbing your cheek with his thumb "awe~ I hope you're dreamin' of me Shrimpy~" he whispered softly and pulled his hand back and closed his eyes, drifting off to sleep.
He would definitely take his tie off and wrap it around your waist to pull you closer, he would give you the cheekiest smirk and kiss your forehead. "Heya Shrimpy, your face's all red~" he'll whisper to you under the protection of the dark corners of the lounge.
"Floyd where are you?" Came Jade's voice and Floyd groaned and rolled his eyes, "Daaamn..I thought I could get one kiss in." he grumbled and lazily draped his tie on his shoulders. Though he did slip in a quick kiss goodbye before returning to work.
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stupd000 · 5 months
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Milo for the soul
Him, Asher, and Christian had gone to a Telepaths event. Since telepaths are empowered, The three were asked to shift in case anything unsafe had broken out.
Well, something bad did happen. Someone brought a weapon to the event and was threatening people with it. Milo, being the hero he was, shifted and tried to tackle the weapon out of the guys hand. The weapon ended up slicing through his side. Milo got tossed to the sidelines, making sure people were okay instead of helping in the fight.
He didn’t particularly like that. He felt useless and like a burden.
Once they got back to their headquarters, Marie patched him up.
Once he got home, he was achy and tired from all the healing, and worst of all, his mate wasn’t home yet.
Milo whines before taking off his shirt, too tired to go all the way to the laundry room and put it up, so he just threw it on the ground.
Milo then flops down onto his couch, almost immediately falling asleep, curled up in on himself.
About an hour later, Sweetheart walks in, seeing his shirt crumpled up on the ground. They look over the back of their couch to see a sleeping Milo…But uh…
He was a wolf.
Sweetheart assumed that he had just shifted in his sleep, which has happened before.
They place a hand on the top of his head, between his ears and scratches
Sh-“Milo, wake up.”
Sweetheart whispers to him, leaning in to kiss atop his head.
Milo whines and tries to speak, before realizing he uh- can’t.
Milo shifts back quickly,
M-“Sorry ‘bout that sweetheart.”
Sh-“Don’t worry about it hon, what’s goin’ on? You only shift like this when somethings wrong.”
Milo evaluates his choices, tell them the truth, and risk them feeling some kind of burden or Lie, and hope that they’d believe him.
M-“I just fell asleep, don’t worry baby.”
Sh-“Bullshit.”
Milo sighs, chuckling slightly before he closes his eyes, leaning back onto the couch.
Sh-“What happened?”
Sweetheart rest a hand on his jaw, rubbing their thumb over his stubble. Milo leans into their hand before resting his atop theirs.
M-“Shit day.”
Milo mumbles, keeping their hand on his face a little longer.
Sweetheart nods, standing up from their crouched spot on the ground next to him.
Sh-“I’m gonna change then we can talk about it, yeah?”
Milo nods, his heart dropping ever so slightly when they stop touching him.
Sweetheart changes, walking back to their living room before noticing Milo had gotten up, and moved to the bed.
Sweetheart hops onto the other side of the bed, looking at Milo sympathetically.
Sh-“Wanna talk about it?”
Milo shakes his head.
Sweetheart…doesn’t really know how to handle this.
Milo lets out a shaky exhale.
M-“ ‘M sorry sweetheart I just-“
Sh-“Nah uh, you don’t have anything to be sorry for.”
Milo let’s out a small laugh, putting his hand over the hand Sweetheart had placed on his shoulder
Sh-“What do you need?”
M-“Nuthin’ just you.”
Sweetheart smiled before wrapping their arms around his waist, burying their face in his hair.
Sh-“We can talk about it when you’re ready, yeah?”
Milo nods, already asleep.
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jesterjamz · 3 years
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good night !!
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arrowflier · 3 years
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can you write a fic where they talk about having kids? maybe after the finale and mickey kinda starts the conversation 👀
It started slowly, and it started with Franny.
She had been staying over more often lately, Debbie taking night jobs again to make ends meet--though at least she was tending bar at a friend's place and not at risk of losing the rest of her toes this time. Debbie would bring Franny over after school and drop her at their door with a backpack full of clothes and crayons, staying just long enough to give her daughter a kiss and threaten Ian and Mickey with the same.
Sometimes Mickey pretended it annoyed him.
"What if we had plans, man?" he'd grumble as he helped Franny off with her coat and tucked her bag into the corner by the door.
"It's Wednesday, Mick," Ian would reply patiently. "We never go out on Wednesdays. Besides," he'd add as he ruffled Franny's hair and sent her ahead into the living room, "Debs asked us like two days ago."
"Didn't say goin' out kinds of plans," Mickey would mumble so Franny couldn't hear. "And she didn't ask, she fuckin' told."
Ian would just snort a laugh at his antics. "Please," he'd drawl, "you'll fall asleep with Fran on the couch by 10, you always do."
There would be no answer to that. Mickey would pout and grumble all day about it if he could, but as soon as their niece stepped through their doorway, it was all smiles and playful teasing and chasing each other through the apartment and down the hallways (much to the displeasure of their stuffier neighbors).
Ian loved watching them. For all of Mickey's insistence that he wasn't ready, or that he'd make a terrible father, he certainly did right by the children already in his life. And when you spent all day playing with a child, feeding them, bathing and dressing them and reading them to sleep, well. It wasn't that different from having one of your own. Not that he would ever say that to Mickey, though. He knew better now than to push.
So it was a surprise when, a few weeks into this new arrangement, Mickey brought it up on his own, albeit in his own, Mickey way.
"We gotta get a bigger place," he mused one morning as they brushed against each other in the narrow kitchen.
Why?” Ian asked, curious. “It’s just us, and we've been doing fine so far. Unless…,” he paused, turning from the open refrigerator to eye Mickey cautiously. “Unless you need some space...?”
Mickey rolled his eyes, and brushed past again roughly enough to knock into Ian's shoulder with his own.
“No, Ian, I don’t need fuckin’ space, jesus,” he answered. “But we need another bedroom." To Ian's confused look, he expanded on the thought. "Franny sleeps here all the time, man, think it’s time she gets an upgrade from the sofa, that’s all."
Oh. That made sense. Ian hid a smile as he ducked his head back into the fridge, pretending to search for the eggs that were right there on the shelf.
"Sure Mick," he agreed. "The lease is up soon, we can start looking for a two bedroom."
It's quiet behind him, and he pulls back just in time to catch Mickey biting his lip nervously, though the other man doesn't see.
“And maybe we can fit a couple beds in there," Mickey said casually, betrayed only by a slight hitch in his breath and the way his eyes darted everywhere but Ian's face. "Just in case.”
Just in case. Ian's heart soared.
"Good idea," he forced himself to say in a normal voice. He didn't want to scare this idea away. He knew by the way Mickey looked at him that he hadn't quite managed the nonchalant tone he was going for, but that was okay. They could both pretend it was no big deal.
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They didn't talk about it for a while after that. Not until Lip started bringing Fred around.
"You sure your girl is okay with this?" Mickey asked the first time, holding the kid away from him like he was a ticking bomb.
Lip just chuckled. "Are you kidding?" he asked. "This was her idea, Milkovich, you can't get out of uncle duties that easy."
Mickey looked offended at that, automatically bringing Fred closer to his chest and putting a protective hand on his back.
Ian stepped in before he could say anything too brash.
"We're just surprised, that's all," he told his brother. "Tami doesn't usually let Fred out of her sight."
Lip shrugged, then clapped Ian on the back, squeezing the back of this neck once before letting go. "She sees how good you guys are with Franny, and we need a break, man," he admitted. "Besides, she thinks Mickey here is some sort of kindred spirit."
They both raise their eyebrows at him until he explains.
"You know, willingly joining the Gallagher crazy and all," he said, only half joking. "If only she knew what an upgrade it was for this one," he added with a nod to Mickey, darting out the door before they can do anything about it.
"Diapers are in the bag," he shouted back to them, "try not to kill my kid!"
Ian and Mickey stared at each other after closing the door behind him, the stared at Fred, who had settled his head against Mickey's shoulder and was staring up at him with soft, sleepy eyes.
"Well," Mickey said slowly. "What the fuck do we do now?"
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As it turned out, Mickey was great with babies, too. Of course he was.
They had Freddie in the bath after he had ruined his last diaper, Mickey keeping him safely propped up while Ian scrubbed him down. Neither of them mentioned the last time they had done this, but they both remembered the drill.
"Kids are fuckin' nasty," Mickey said, wrinkling his nose as Ian washed away the last of the mess.
"You're fucking nasty," Ian retorted, and then they were splashing each other with the dirty bathwater until a wave of it got Mickey in the face.
He sputtered, trying to grab for something to wipe it off without letting go of Fred, who was watching them and giggling.
"You asshole," Mickey growled, "you know where that's been, jesus Ian!"
Ian laughed at him, but stood and fetched a clean washcloth. He threw it at Mickey, then grabbed Fred out of the water and bundled him into their fluffiest towel, leaving Mickey muttering curses behind them as they move out to the bedroom.
Later that night, with Fred sleeping quietly next to them in his worn pack'n play, Mickey brought it up again.
"Don't they make, like, little kid bath things?" he questioned in the darkness. "We should get one of those, make things easier."
Ian rolled over to face him. "Yeah," he said slowly, "but Fred will be too big for that soon anyway."
He could feel the sheets shift when Mickey shrugged. "Should get one anyway," he said. "Might come in handy."
Ian didn't answer for a long moment, then answered with a simple, "okay."
He fell asleep smiling that night.
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Things finally came to a head a few months later, when Ian got home to find a brochure on the table.
A brochure for an adoption agency.
He stared at it. Grabbed a beer out of the fridge, took a long sip. Stared at it some more.
He was still standing there when Mickey came in from the bedroom, and stopped still for just a second before continuing toward the fridge.
"Hey," Mickey said as he grabbed his own beer. "What are you thinkin'?"
Ian just looked at him.
"About that," Mickey clarified, motioning toward the pamphlet with the bottom of his bottle. "The adoption thing."
Ian swallowed hard, and took another drink before answering.
"Not thinking much yet," he admitted. "But I'm wondering where it came from."
Mickey rubbed at his eyebrow with the thumb of his free hand, not looking at Ian as he answered.
"Got it from some lady a few doors down," he revealed. "Said they're lookin' for more couples to step up."
"We wouldn't qualify," Ian managed to say past the lump in his throat. "Two ex-cons, gay, self-employed?" He forced an awkward laugh. "We're like a nightmare for those places."
He wasn't sure what he expected from that, but it wasn't for Mickey to come closer, setting down his beer to wrap and arm around Ian's back.
"Hey," he said softly, shaking Ian a little. "It don't gotta be adoption, man, just..." he hesitated, but pushed on, "been thinkin' about it, you know?"
That made Ian smile. "Yeah, I know," he admitted. "You're not as subtle as you think."
He turned in Mickey's half-embrace, leaning a hip against the table and bringing his own arm up so he could tease the hair at the back of Mickey's neck.
"You sure you're ready for this, Milkovich?" he whispered, hand moving to cup Mickey's face, thumb stroking at his cheek.
Mickey smiled back, leaning closer. "Damn straight, Gallagher," he murmured just before their lips brushed. "Damn straight."
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liibrii · 3 years
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fem!Miya!Reader & Miya family
Part of the Third Miya Series
Synopsis: Three is a weird number. It's only two units bigger than one and only a unit more than two and yet it seems to be so much more, especially when the three in question are toddlers needed to be dressed for kindergarten.
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a/n: baby Miyas, the ultimate serotonin providers 🙃 if you wanna be tagged in future chapters let me know, and as always feedback is greatly appreciated!
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Mrs Miya has always trusted her gut feeling and in that moment it was telling her the bathroom was down the corridor, last door on the left, and, just as Mr Miya had told her that morning, eating leftover curry for breakfast was a dreadful idea.
Doctor repeats her words and Mrs Miya's neck becomes completely stiff. If it wouldn't she'd perhaps be able to look at her husband whose face turned ashen pale. “Triplets?“
Well, this will take buy one get one for free jokes on a whole new level.
Doctor's words are just buzzing and the soon to be Miya parents nod and smile and nod and hold on each others' hand as if there's no tomorrow. They're silent on the way out.
Mr Miya turns to his wife. “Do they even sell strollers for three kids?”
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Three is a weird number. It's only two units bigger than one and only a unit more than two and yet it seems to be so much more, especially when the three in question are toddlers needed to be dressed for daycare.
You all wear the same colours because Atsumu would throw a tantrum if your jumper wasn't the same colour as his and you would throw a tantrum when yours was a different colour than Osamu's, who in turn would throw a tantrum because his jumper was now the same colour as Atsumu's.
Mrs Miya had read advices that one should always dress their twins (or, in this case, triplets) differently as it is good for their personality development; which is all well and good and a great advice, except that whoever wrote it forgot to take into account that two and a half out of her three children saw being dressed differently as their siblings as a horrific violation of their toddler rights.
Your parents tell themselves one day you'll grow out of this phase, but till then mom stitches little numbers one, two, and three on the edges of your clothes. She did start stitching your names, but with only two pairs of hands in the house and three little sprouts in constant need of attention there was never enough time to finish them.
“One,“ says Mr Miya and Atsumu raises his hands.
“Ichi!“ he proudly chimes.
“Two,“ Mr Miya grabs you before you'd crawl out of the reach of his arms.
“Ni!“ like his brother Osamu too raises his chubby fists, but only halfway.
“And three!”
“San!“ You hug your dad's neck, perhaps hoping that will get you out of having to wear socks.
And heaven forbid they ever messed up which jumper belonged to whom. It was beyond your parents' wisdom how you could tell the number stitched on the edge was not the same they said when counting your heads, but you could.
“Must be yer superpower,“ jokes Mr Miya while changing your sweater that has the wrong number on the edge. He barely pulls it off when Atsumu's chubby hands already grab it and begin pulling it over his head. He screams when his father offers to help, pouting even if he's completely lost between the left sleeve and the opening for the head.
“Alright buddy,“ muses Mr Miya and turns his attention to Osamu who already pulled his socks off so, naturally, now you've mysteriously lost one of your socks too. Mr Miya sighs. Maybe it's time to let his boss know he's going to be late.
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Three is an enormous number, when the three in question are a feverish toddler in your arms and two more running around doctor's office. Perhaps it was time to ask the daycare to put you three into different groups. That will cause an outrage, oh ever since the 'One child, one pillow' incident Mrs Miya is well aware of that. But then again, better that than all of you throwing a tantrum when only one got to leave the daycare early.
“One, two, three,“ she counts your heads under her breath, then hurries over to where you just picked up a very interesting small stone that probably fell from the soles of someone's shoes, “San! I mean y/n, sweetie, that's a stone. See, it's rough and cold.“ You whine when she takes the treasure from you but still  listen closely to her words that spark Atsumu's interest too, and he trots closer to see what is happening. Thankfully feverish Osamu has fallen asleep in her arms. Really, the last thing she needs is his firm conviction the stone is just greyish candy. Mrs Miya still lets Atsumu take the stone in his hands. “No,“ she grabs his hand when he lifts it towards his mouth that is already curving into a grimace. “Hey, hey, no need to cry over it sweetie. Yer gonna wake up yer brother and he needs sleep right now.“
“Is he sick?” your tiny voice chimes in. Mrs Miya nods. “Because he ate melon seeds,“ you nod with all the wisdom of a 3 year old. “He's growin' melons in his tum-tum,“ you tell Atsumu whose wide eyes blink twice before he bursts into tears.
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“One, two, three,“ Mrs Miya counts your heads while you play around the house. If you hide from her sight sooner or later screaming and crying alerts her something happened. A moment later Mr Miya returns to the living room with a very much red faced and screaming Atsumu in his arms.
“What happened?“ she asks, crouching down to console you, also crying because there's no way you'd let your brother scream his lungs out by himself.
“Ah the usual,“ he places the scissors on the counter, “wouldn't let him shred his shirt. Osamu, no!“ He quickly grabs his other son who also starts crying, shocked that his own father would take the lost sock from him before he got the chance to find out how it tastes.
Ah, just another Sunday.
The good thing about three children running around is they're never lonely. There are always games to play, fights to win, faces to colour. Most of the days all of you exhaust yours (sometimes apparently infinite) supplies of energy by the time evening falls. Mr Miya puts you to bed (one bed, because trying to make you sleep in separate cribs is apparently a disgusting violation of Toddler convention) before he collapses beside his wife.
“Asleep?“ she asks.
Mr Miya hums. “For now.“
The moment they turn the lights off slide door across the hallway open. Light steps cross the dangerous waters of the dark hallway, enter the bedroom and climb over Mr Miya to the safe haven between the parents.
“Bad dreams?“ asks Mrs Miya. In response Osamu sniffles and snuggles closer. Not a minute passes when two more pairs of legs pass through the darkness of the hallway and climb to be beside their brother. You shriek when Atsumu pushes his cold feet on your back, but dad's stern word makes you stop. A few moments later you're all asleep.  
“One, two, three,“ sleepily mumbles Mrs Miya, patting each of your heads.
“Four,“ says Mr Miya and his wife giggles.
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Three is the number of band-aid packages your parents buy per month. Ever since you've grown for about a chopstick taller, well you only grew for about three thirds of a chopstick because nature thought it would be funny if you got outgrown by your brothers at the tender age of 5, it turned out the tall tree in the park could in fact be climbed, if you climbed on someone's shoulders and then pull them on the lowest branch. Sadly the branches aren't big fans of being climbed on but no amount of scratches and falls could stop you from trying.
“A champignon never stops tryin'!“ proclaims Atsumu after the failed attempt that left bark in his hair and Osamu laughing on the branch.
“What's a champignon?“ you ask.
“It's the person who's the best! It's what I'll be one day!“
Osamu snorts, firmly grabbing on the thin branch he's sitting on. “Champignon's a mushroom.“
“No it ain't!“
A mushroom, you make a little note in your memory, because no matter how much Atsumu protests you're more inclined to believe Osamu when it comes to mushrooms.
Your heads turn when you hear mom calling and waving, waiting for Osamu to climb down before running over to her.
“I win!“ announces Atsumu despite Osamu reaching her first.
“Why, because yer a champignon?“
“Are we all here?“ loudly asks Mr Miya before his boys could jump into each other's hair, “identify yerselves!“
“One!“ calls Atsumu.
“Two!“ calls Osamu, louder.
“Three!“ you call and jump, because being louder than them was never an option.
Four heads turn to Mrs Miya. “Mom,“ she raises her hand.
“Excellent!“ proclaims Mr Miya as three small voices cheer. “Then we can get goin'!“
“Where to?“ you ask.
Mr Miya picks up a stick and starts drawing lines in the sand covering the path. “It's a secret but maybe ya can guess, we'll go down this path-“
“A treasure hunt!”
“Almost. At the fountain we'll turn left, and what lies down the fountain path?“
“Pigeons?“ you try guessing.
Osamu bumps his fist on the open palm. “Ice cream stand!“
Mr Miya nods.
“Last one there's a loser!“ shouts Atsumu who starts running before even finishing the sentence. Osamu immediately follows, both ignoring your shouts to wait up.
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Three is a funny number. It only works when the two and one have the third , because otherwise it's just one and two. Like a clover that got munched on by a picky rabbit that tried a leaf and then decided it doesn't fit its taste.
Volleyball sort of became the rabbit munching on the clover. One day teachers simply decided you're not allowed to play on the same team as your brothers anymore. And no amount of crying, screaming and sulking could convince the rabbit to give the leaf back.
“Maybe we can sneak ya in,“ suggests Atsumu one night, “all ya hafta do is wear our clothes. No one will know!“
So you try that and funnily enough, people do notice when one and two together make a three, and what surprises children even more is that parents also notice when they return late from school because they had to stay in detention. And as if cleaning the school hallways for a month wasn't enough, now they have to clean the house too.
It is however enough to discourage you from trying to sneak into practice again, so you stick with only coming to games and waiting for their practice to end so you can walk home together. From time to time some of their teammates stop to say hello or to complain to you about their shenanigans, but that's knowledge you hold to yourself, since you never knew when blackmail material might come in handy.
It's only when Osamu teases they get to go to a volleyball workshop and you don't that you get envious.
“It sounds stupid anyway,“ you try pretending you couldn't care less.
“It would be perfect for ya then,“ Osamu shots back and sprints away as you dive after him.
Maybe you are just a teensy bit envious, still as long as you get to play with them when they are home it's not that bad. After returning from their workshops you don't even let them take their shoes off before dragging them to the volleyball net dad set up in the garden. You stand where you always stand, by the net so you can throw balls for them to hit over.
Atsumu pushes you away. “No, this is my position now. I wanna be a setter.“
You don' mind, and throw the ball towards Atsumu who sends it back into a bit of an awkward place and you end up not even hitting it.
Osamu bursts into laughter. “Ya suck.“ He jumps to avoid the kick aimed at his knee. “We play with good players now so yer gonna hafta practice more. There was this tall player with a cool name! Right, Tsumu?“
“Tsumu?“ you repeat.
“Tsumu and Samu. It's our names but they sound way cooler now!“ proudly declares Atsumu.
Your eyes widen in admiration. “I want that too! What should I call myself?“
“Yer always copyin' us,“ complains Osamu but he gets ignored as the first name Atsumu suggests earns him a ball to the face.
“Oh I know!“ You bump your fist on your open palm. “I'll be San!“
Atsumu thinks it over with the same expression Osamu has when trying to decide which udon toppings to order. “San,... Y/n... San,... It sounds so cool! Whaddaja think Samu?“
Osamu shrugs. “San, let me show ya how to spike the ball properly.“
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pthalomars · 3 years
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Grounding
Cole stood outside of Kai’s door, a sour feeling pooling in his gut. It was late, he would undoubtedly be asleep. Why should he wake him up? Just so he can have someone to remind him that he’s real? That he’s alive- well, sort of.. 
It just felt like so much of a burden to put on his friend. However, Cole couldn’t ignore the feelings of dissociation that crept through his fragile mind. 
Ever since he had been turned into a ghost, he could never really ground himself; both in the literal and psychological sense. It was hard for him to feel present when he struggled to hold a plate in his hands. His barely corporeal form seemed to phase through surroundings like there was nothing there. Maybe it was him that wasn’t really there. Everything was so cold. So distant. Now more than ever, he felt like if he didn’t have someone to bring him down to earth, that he might fade away all together. 
Straining with concentration, Cole focused enough energy to knock on Kai’s door. It came out a bit louder than anticipated, upon which he cringed and recoiled his hand. The drawn out moment of silence made him reconsider his options. Maybe this was a bad idea after all. 
However, just as he was about to tuck tail and run, a shuffling sound arose behind the wooden door. Footsteps slowly approached the threshold. Cole held his breath as the door creaked open and the bleary eyed fire master looked up at him.
“Cole?” Kai mumbled, rubbing the sleep from his eyes, “ ‘s early, what’s up..?”
“Ah, erm..” Cole began, “I’m sorry I-I know it’s probably not the best time, but can I uh.. I just.. I need someone.” The earth ninja began to crack his knuckles and wrists, each one letting out a dull, muffled pop. A nervous habit. 
Kai looked at him, drowsiness subsiding enough for him to put the pieces together. Cole’s hunched posture, tired eyes, furrowed brows, and wavering voice. He nodded, opening up his door and allowing his friend to enter. 
“Watch your step, sorry it’s a little messy in here.” Kai warned. Lighting a small flame on his finger, Kai led Cole to his bedside.
“So what’s goin’ on?” Kai asked softly, patting the space next to him on the mattress. After a beat, Cole moved to sit, letting out a dismal sigh. The bed sank beneath his weight, pushing him and Kai to be attached at the hip. 
“Nothing feels real anymore, Kai.” Cole said plainly. His friend looked at him with concern, but refrained from interrupting. The black ninja continued. 
“Ever since this,” he gestured to himself, “I just feel so.. Distant. Cold. Everything is so far away- I’m so far away. I don’t really feel anything anymore. I’m just..” He looked at Kai, hazy greens locking with deep browns, “I’m scared.”
Kai’s brows pinched upwards as he eyed his friend. He knew the transformation had affected him, but he didn’t realize it was to this extent. Though he had never been turned into a spirit, he knew what it felt like to lose his ground. 
There had been times in his past when he became so high strung that he couldn’t come back down on his own. It was moments like that when Nya would swoop in and anchor him. She always knew how to help calm his nerves, and as time passed, he was able to do it himself. Maybe now, he could do the same for his aching friend.
“Cole, I’m.. god, I’m so sorry. I can see that you’re hurting, and I wanna help. What do you need?” Kai said, turning to face the larger man.
Cole’s gaze dropped to his hands, pausing before muttering his answer. “I think I need someone to hold onto. Like an anchor. If that.. Makes sense. If I have someone there to hold me down, the fading feeling usually goes away.”
“You need someone to ground you?”
“Mhm.”
“I can do that. There’s something my sister showed me that I think might work. It’s a mix of physical contact and mutual breathing exercises. But there’s another element I want to add. I think it might help you feel better.”
“Sure, I’m willing to try anything.” Cole said before shifting to face Kai. The two of them sat criss cross and the red ninja held out his hands with his palms up. 
“Cole, I’ve seen you be able to touch and hold things with your hands. Can you tell me how you do that?”
“I uh, well I usually have to put a lot of concentration into a part of my body that needs to be solid. It takes a lot of energy, but if I try hard enough, I can maintain it.”
“In that case, I want you to put all of your concentration into your hands. Then put your hands in mine.”
Cole hesitates, but then takes a deep breath and begins to pool his focus into his palms. A strange tingling sensation spreads from the tips of his fingers, up to the knuckles and ending at his wrists. He lowers his hands and prays that they don’t fall through Kai’s. They fall through.
Seeing Cole become visibly upset, Kai chimes in. “It’s okay buddy, you don’t have to get it on the first run. Just try again, and take your time, alright?”
“Okay” the larger man sighs. Once again, he channeled his energy into his hands. 
“Remember to breathe,” Kai says in a soft, low voice. Cole obliges, letting air fill his lungs and leave in a steady flow. With closed eyes, he lowers his hands again. They don’t fall through. 
“Good! You’re doing great, Cole. Keep that concentration, okay? Let your hands become heavier and heavier. I’ll make sure to hold the weight.” Kai encouraged. The smaller man noted the soft gravity of his friend’s hands in his own. Even in his ghostly state, the calluses of his hands felt so tangible. His fingers were thick and his palms were wide, and his nails had been bitten so very short. Another nervous habit.
“Alright, Cole, I’m gonna breathe with you. Just follow my lead.” Kai said before taking in a large breath through his nose. The master of earth followed suit, mimicking his friend as he exhaled through his mouth. Cole opted to keep his eyes closed as he did this, instead trying to focus on his breathing and keeping his hands from slipping through Kai’s. 
“You’re doing good, keep breathing just like that, okay? Now there’s one more thing I’d like to try. You said that you feel cold, like really cold, right?” said Kai. Cole hummed in response.
“I’m gonna channel some of my fire into my hands. Not a lot, but just enough to heat up my palms. I’m thinking maybe the heat will make the physical touch more grounding. Are you okay with that?”
“Yeah, I’m okay with that.”
“Okay good, you just let me know if it gets too hot.” With that, Kai gently tightened his grip on Cole’s hands and let his element flow freely. Like coals in a fire pit, his palms began to glow with a soft warmth. 
“Do you feel anything?” the brunette asked.
“Not yet.”
Kai added more heat.
“Feel it?”
“No.”
He added more heat. 
“Anything?”
“A little bit. It’s faint, but there’s something.”
He then added more heat. At this point, Kai was worried about whether or not ghosts were capable of getting burned.
“It’s warm..” Cole murmured. He opened his eyes to see the light of Kai’s fire glowing through his own translucent hands. 
“How does it feel? Does it help?” Kai asked, his eyes searching for an answer in Cole’s expression.
“Good, it feels good. Grounding.” 
“I’m glad. We can stay like this as long as you need, Cole.”
“Thank you, Kai.”
The two of them sat together, hand in hand, for what felt like an eternity. Not that either of them could complain. Cole let himself be brought back to reality by the warm hands that anchored him down. Kai quietly enjoyed the subtle intimacy of the physical contact. 
Cole finally broke the comfortable silence that hung tenderly between them.
“I’m feeling a lot better. Thank you, genuinely. I can’t tell you how much I needed this.”
“Yeah, of course! And if you ever need me, all you gotta do is ask. And as for this-” Kai gestures to their hands, “You don’t even need to ask for that. Just grab me when you need to come back down, okay?”
“Thank you.. I-I really appreciate that.” Cole felt a soft blush blooming on his cheeks. He couldn’t deny that he had wanted to hold Kai’s hands for other reasons. However, he decided that those reasons weren’t relevant in the moment.
“Anything for you, man.” Kai affirmed, giving Cole’s hands a squeeze before pulling away to rub his eyes. Sleep had begun to creep up on him as the time had passed. Cole glanced at the red numbers on his friend’s digital clock. He noted how it was strange that time had escaped them.
“Jeez, sorry I know it’s late-”
“Don’t worry about that, I promise I don’t mind.”
“You sure?”
“Yeah, and it’s not like the sun is up yet. There’s still time to catch some z’s.”
“You have a good point. Well, I won’t keep you up too much longer, I can head out if you want. I think I’ll be able to get some sleep now that I’m feeling better.”
“Did you want to stay?”
“Stay?”
“Yeah, like, stay the night. You don’t have to, obviously, but I just figured that maybe you wanted company.”
“That would.. Be nice, actually. Are you sure I wouldn’t be intruding?”
“Not at all, and I’d be lying if I said I wouldn’t appreciate the company either.”
“Ah, fishing for a cuddle buddy I see.”
“I never said that,” Kai let out a chuckle, lightly punching Cole’s shoulder. It was solid. 
“Well I wouldn’t mind, even if you did.” the larger man retorted, landing a similar punch on Kai’s shoulder. 
The two of them weren’t strangers to that level of physicality. Though, most previous instances were purely platonic; like resting on each other during long ship rides, laying together on the couch with the rest of their friends for movie nights, and keeping contact with each other in most settings. This should be the same, but both of them felt a slightly different twinge in their hearts. 
This whole grounding experience had strengthened their bond and brought them closer. Both of them usually had trouble expressing their emotions, so this was a huge step forward. 
“Then get over here, why dontcha?” Kai chuckled, flopping backwards. Cole chortled, slowly crawling up to be next to his friend. The smaller man reached his arm out to the side, allowing for the black ninja to curl up against him. With a sigh, the noirette let his head rest gently on Kai’s chest. The quiet beat of his heart vibrated against his ear and he let his eyelids grow heavy until they shut completely. For the first time in a while, he slept through the rest of the night.
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shgrrushi · 3 years
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MODERN AU!SASHA, CONNIE, AND JEAN AS YOUR ROOMMATE: RANDOM HEADCANONS
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❱ CHARACTERS: Sasha Braus, Connie Springer, Jean Kirstein
❱ CONTENT WARNINGS: Mentions of food, some swearing
❱ REQUESTED?: Nop
❱ Headcanons for a modern au!Sasha, Connie, and Jean as your roommate!
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SASHA BRAUS
You'll often (*cough* always *cough) find her munching on snacks from the pantry, whether it be day old muffins, or uncooked ramen noodles, she'll eat anything she deems tasty.
Sasha's kind of a shit cook, so whenever she tries cooking her own snacks or meals, it always either leads to her almost burning the whole kitchen down, or making garbage food.
You'll find her laying on the kitchen floor, after groaning in defeat and annoyance.
“In my defense, I didn’t know I couldn’t replace butter with petroleum jelly!”
Though she always ends up asking you to cook for her instead, which takes a lot of coercing to do so, but you give in anyways.
Since she's a very messy eater, it's obvious that she leaves crumbs everywhere, yet it's exhausting sometimes, having to clean up all the food crumbs you'd surprisingly find on your bed, behind the TV, and sometimes even in the bathroom.
Honestly, this woman cannot clean up after herself, forcing you to do most of the chores in your shared apartment.
You wash the dishes, clean the bathroom, hell, you even wash her clothes
She's very observant, though. One time when she found you were upset, she took responsibility of doing the house chores for you this time.
You find her standing in front of the sink one day, the clattering of dishes catching your attention. "Hey, Sash, watcha doin'?" You ask, an eyebrow raised in surprise.
Sasha turns around to face you, wearing a wide grin on her face. "I'm washing the dishes! See?" She holds her hands up, clutching a plate, and a...
"... Are you using Windex to clean?"
CONNIE SPRINGER
Connie as a roommate would be pretty hectic 😩.
This man blasts music from his room 24/7, and will never actually turn it down when you tell him to. Prepare noise cancelling pls 😭😭.
Very much broke, so the speakers that he bought for like 5 dollars blast microwave quality music, yet he somehow turns a blind eye and puts music on at 100% volume.
Though he's broke, he'll find ways on how to get money and spend it on video games. That he plays very loudly. Every. Night.
You're honestly wondering how this man even has vocal chords anymore, with the way he yells profanities and complaints into his microphone.
He's bought like a shit ton of games—which aren't even that violent?? Why does he scream??
—Wait though he might be broke because he's spending too much on video games,,,,
Anyway-
Connie greets you every morning with an apology for the night before of him being loud, and with the sight of a messy living room.
Surprise surprise, he doesn't have a computer, so he uses the living room TV to play the games on.
You see cd cases strewn all over the floor, empty energy drink cans struggling to fit inside of the trashcan, and spilled soda on the carpet.
Needless to say, he’d be the one cleaning the house for a whole week.
JEAN KIRSTEIN
He's the type who cries over Taylor Swift songs one night, and then come home drunk, with a couple bruises on his face from bar fights the next night.
(Please ask him how he's doing, most of the time he answers you by sobbing-)
Jean's fashion sense is godly, though will absolutely bother you by stealing clothes from your closet, complaining about how he "can't make up good shit from hand-me-downs at thrift stores".
(Wait but clothes from thrift stores are actually good don't fight me 😩)
You'd just end up using each other's clothes though. Y'alls laundry messed up asf.
One of my friends headcanoned that he's afraid of the dark, so I'd imagine him definitely brushing his teeth together with you, since the bathroom's down the hall from his room, and he doesn't wanna be the one who turns the lights off and get eaten by demons.
Let him be, he's still a growing boy 🙄.
1 AM is his sadboi hour, where he'd blast those emo shit from early 2000s until he falls asleep. Don't interrupt him, he's still stuck in that angsty part of his life.
"WE'RE GOIN' DOWN, DOWN [unintelligible], AND SUGAR WE'RE—" And then comes the sobbing.
"So, Jean, how'd you sleep last night?"
Jean sniffs, eyes puffy. "Great."
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❱ NOTE: This is super short so I apologize- 😭
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the-lady-of-stars · 3 years
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Feeling you
Din Djarin x Reader
A/N: I am writing some mega fluff as a warm up for the angst I’m gonna write later. This is my first time writing for Din so this is just me figuring out how to write his character. Please send in any requests for Din :)
Summary: You ask your boyfriend what he looks like under his helmet. Lots of soft Din plus a cheeky first kiss.
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Night time had arrived, and you were laying with your head in Din’s lap as he sat on his cot. He was busy reading something off his holopad, mindlessly running his fingers through your hair. You gazed up at his helmet as he read, mind wandering to what he looked like underneath. You respected the way he followed the creed more than anything, and you’d never ask him to break it for you, but you still couldn’t help but wonder what he would look like underneath. Din had taken off all his beskar except his helmet, leaving him in nothing but a pair of sleep pants. Mind still turning, you reached up and brushed your fingers along the jagged scars that adorned his chest, trailing them over the puffy marks. 
“What’s goin’ on in that pretty head of yours, mesh’la?” Din cooed, the soft tone of his voice amplified by the modulator. He put his datapad aside on the bed to focus on you, trying to figure out what was causing the gentle smile that sat on your lips.
“Just thinking,” you replied, smile widening.
“Oh? And what would you happen to be thinking about, hmm?”
“You.”
“Me? What about me, pretty girl?”
“Your face. What you look like.”
Din paused for a moment, a brief panic washing over him. Did you want him to give up his creed? He didn’t blame you. Who could ever fall in love with a man without even knowing what he looks like. Din tensed, self-doubt building up in his stomach. He knew you felt him grow tense due to the furrowing of your brows, your lips pulling tight.
“Din?” you sat up to straddle his lap, and stroked the side of his neck, the Mandalorian leaning into the touch.
“I’m sorry I can’t give you more, cyar’ika. You shouldn’t have to wonder what your own boyfriend looks like,” he spoke softly, a sad lilt to his words. Din looked down, not wanting to meet your eyes through the visor.
“Hey, no,” you shushed him, “Din, look at me, my starlight.”
Ever so gently you tilted Din’s head up to face you, eyes tender and warm. 
“Din, I love you. I love you more than anything. I don’t care if I never see your face, that doesn’t matter in the slightest. Never has. It’s you I care about. You took me in, let me stay with you and the baby. You gave me a family Din, someone to come home to. You’ve always looked after me, kept me safe, given me your heart. That’s all I could ever ask for. You make me so happy, Din. So happy.”
Din felt his heart racing, beating so hard like it was trying to jump out of his chest and straight to you. You already owned it, he knew that. The tears pricking at his eyes just confirmed it.
“Thank you,” was all he could bring himself to say, the words barely audible through the shaky breath, voice wavering through trembling lips.
You smiled, an affectionate smile which stole the breath from Din’s lungs. Taking his hand, you delicately brought it up to your lips, pressing a kiss to his knuckles. 
He couldn’t hold himself back anymore, pulling you into his chest, tucking your head under his chin. 
“I love you,” he whispered, as though if he spoke too loudly you would disappear into the night like a dream.
“I love you too,” you matched the quietness of his voice. 
Din held you close, mind racing when an idea popped into his head.
“Play a game with me, Cyare?”
“A game?” you questioned, untucking yourself from his neck to look at him.
“Mmhm,” he hummed. “A guessing game. You tell me what you think I look like and I’ll tell you if you’re right or wrong.”
You laughed lightly, the sound making Din’s pulse speed up.
“Okay, sure. A game,” you reaffirmed. 
“Go ahead, sweetheart. What do you think I look like,” he purred, an element of amusement to his voice.
“Hmmm, well- the hair on your arms and chest is dark brown so I’m gonna assume it’s the same up top. Correct?” 
“Uh huh. Good job, beautiful. What else?” you could tell Din was smiling from the sound of his voice.
“I assume you’ve got an awful case of helmet hair. With that thing on all the time it’s gotta be pretty scruffy looking,” you smirked.
Din laughed heartily at that, chest shaking.
“Scruffy lookin’? Who are you calling scruffy lookin’? You’ve never even seen me and you’re insulting my hair?” Din reached up and rubbed his hand over the top of your head lovingly, messing up your hair. You cackled, wiggling away from his hand.
“Okay, okay, fine,” you laughed, “I’m sure you’ve got beautifully styled hair and absolutely no trace of helmet hair whatsoever. Wait- are you bald? You could be! Do you shave your head?” You got excited, a wide grin spread across your face. 
Din couldn’t contain his laughter this time, tipping his head back as his shoulders shook. 
“N-no, no I’m not bald, Cyare,” he finally choked out when he regained his breath, still snickering.
“Okay great, scruffy brown tufts of helmet hair it is then. Final guess.”
“Final guess? You sure? Going with helmet hair?” he beamed.
“Yup!” 
“Yeah okay you’re right. I’ll give you that one. But to be fair there aren’t all that many products to keep your hair smooth under a bucket.”
You bothed laughed again before Din prompted you to guess his eye colour.
“I always imagined them brown as well. Like a dark brown. Am I right?”
“On the dot, Cyare. You sure you haven’t been taking a peek while I’m asleep?” he joked, pinching your cheek playfully.
“Ooh! What about facial hair! Do you have a beard? I’ve been imagining stubble but maybe you’ve got a goatee or something, I don’t know. But if we are sticking with the scruffy rogue bounty hunter look I’m gonna go with some stubble. Very sexy, if you ask me.”
The more you spoke the harder Din laughed, his hands gripping your waist.
“Sexy, scruffy rogue bounty hunter. Should add that one to my resume. I’m gonna take that as a compliment and say yes to the stubble- as tempting as it is to grow out a goatee.”
“Hey I think goatees are great, I won’t stop you,” you snorted.
“Well?” Din prompted. “Happy with what you’ve learned?”
“Oh definitely. I love whatever it is you’ve got going on under there.”
Din chuckled, leaning in to pull you into a Keldabe kiss. 
“I wish I could kiss you properly,” he sighed. Suddenly Din froze, pulling away slightly.
“What is it?” you asked, noticing how hard he was thinking.
“I’ve got an idea,” he spoke. “Stay there.” 
Din rose and began to turn off all the artificial lights, making sure you were swamped by the pitch black darkness of night. He covered the viewport with the small curtain, blocking out the light of the stars.
“Din, what are you doing, I can’t see a thing!” you called out.
“That’s the point,” he replied, making you jump from how close he had gotten without you knowing. “You can’t see me at all, right?”
“No, not in the slightest.”
“Great, so if I were to do this-” the next thing you heard was the hiss of Din’s helmet being removed, and a thunk as he set it down on the floor by the bed. You gasped, realising what he was going to do.
“Din, what-”
He shushed you gently. “Nothing’s keeping us apart now,” the sound of Din’s unmodulated voice wracked your body with goosebumps. He could feel your skin prick up beneath his hands as he lay them on your upper arms. “I can finally give you everything you deserve, and I don’t need to break my creed to do it.”
“Din-” your voice wavered, hands beginning to tremble. It was finally happening. Din was here in front of you, his face exposed, more vulnerable than he had ever been yet feeling so right. He trusted you so much, letting down his guard for you only. His hands slid from your upper arms to meet your hands with his, carefully bringing them up to meet his face. There was no resistance this time, no cold metal barrier to block you from the warmth of his skin. Your breath hitched as your fingers met short stubble, the gentle scratch pleasant, familiar despite being new.
“I’m here, Cyar’ika. I’m all yours, every part of me.”
Slowly you moved your hands to trace his features, running over his jaw, across his cheekbones, up to his brow. He was perfect. Everything you had ever dreamed. Your lack of vision made you more sensitive to every touch, more goosebumps pricking your skin as his eyelashes fluttered against the side of your thumb. Your final destination was his lips, tracing your thumb across his lower one, the smooth, plump skin trembling beneath your touch.
“Din,” you spoke for the third time, his name the only word you could muster. The word left your lips more as a sigh than speech.
“Kiss me,” he breathed, the words sending a shiver through both of you.
You couldn’t stay apart from him any longer, tilting your head to unite yourselves as one. His lips pressed smoothly into yours as though they had been made to fit, tenderly meeting each other with all the love in the world. You heard Din’s breath hitch, his hands wrapping around you to pull you into his lap. You cupped his jaw, thumbs stroking it adoringly. Neither of you even thought of separating, moving your lips together in a wordless declaration of love. After a moment you were both robbed of breath, having to pull away to pant against each others mouths, foreheads pressed together, eyes closed.
You didn’t move from that position until the next morning, spending the whole night straddling Din’s lap, making up for all the kisses that you hadn’t shared before. Your Mandalorian loved you, and he’d do anything to prove that until his dying day.
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fear itself.
Aaron Hotchner x Gender Neutral Reader
a/n: part two of the 100 arc! this installment covers the events of faceless, nameless. i am living for the feedback! please keep it coming. i can’t wait to hear what you think as we go through this (very emotionally wrought) section.
an ajf fic arc that happily stands on its own! one | two | three | four | five | six | seven | eight | nine | ten | eleven
words: 4.5k warnings: canon-typical violence, language, hospital setting
summary: four hours of sleep and aaron’s missing. what else could go wrong?
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4:02am “Just got home, so I’m calling like you asked. Shoot me a text when you get back to the apartment, if you aren’t already asleep. Call me when you’re up and we can work on that Nebraska consult, maybe in the early afternoon? Goodnight. Sleep well.”
8:13am “Hey, it’s me. I know I’m not supposed to be worried about you, but we were called in a half hour ago and you’re still not here...so...give me a call when you get this. Bye.”
8:48am “Hey, it’s me, checking in again. You’re probably still asleep, but I’ve never known you to sleep more than seven hours...so if I don’t hear from you by eleven I’ll drag you out of bed myself.”
9:51am “We’re headed to the crime scene. Garcia’s sent you the address. I know JJ’s been calling you too, so just...I dunno? Call us back? Bye.”
10:20am “If you’re getting these and ignoring me, I hope you know you’re taking years off my life right now.”
11:08am “Um...Call me back. I’m starting to worry. Well...not starting. I’ve been worried. But I’m getting...really worried.” 
11:37am “Aaron please call me and let me know you’re alright. You’re scaring me.”
+++
Needless to say, it’s been a weird day. Why you expected anything else after that wretched Canada case and four hours of sleep, you have no idea. 
You had a horrible dream last night, on top of everything else. The image of Aaron broken and bleeding beside you hadn’t left your mind since it first appeared in Foyet’s kitchen. You tried to shake it off every time, but it was persistent. 
We’ll worry about that later. 
You check the time again, trying to ignore the weird feeling in your gut. 
Where is he? 
Your phone rings and your heart leaps. Guilt (and a little bit of embarrassment) pricks at you when you’re disappointed to see Emily’s name on your phone. You answer. 
“You have to get down here.” Her voice isn’t frantic, per se, but the urgency is undeniable. 
“What’s going on?” 
She takes a breath. “I just got off the phone with Garcia - I have crime scene techs and SWAT on the way to Hotch’s apartment, and I need you here.” 
All the blood in your body seems to rush into your head, and you lean heavily on the nearest object - the dining room table. “What?”
“I - I don’t know. All his stuff is here and there's -” She stutters for a second. “There’s blood on the carpet, broken glass, and a bullet hole in the wall by the kitchen. No Hotch.” 
An eerie kind of calm washes over you, and you straighten, making eye contact with Derek. “Okay. Let me just -”
Derek gets a call, but keeps his eyes on you. “What’s goin’ on, Baby Girl?...What do you mean ‘Emily just called SWAT to Hotch’s apartment’ what -“
You break his gaze as he nods at you and turns to the rest of the team. “Emily, I’ll be right there. Don’t go anywhere.” 
+++
You make it to the hospital with Emily. You flash your credentials and it gets you exactly where you want to go. 
When you see him, your breath catches. He looks awful - drawn and small and wrapped in what seems like miles of gauze. Emily grabs your arm, but you’re not sure if it's for her benefit or yours. 
This is, after all, your worst nightmare come to life. A little chill crawls up your spine. This whole thing has you feeling six different kinds of scared. 
The nurse lets you into his room, telling you he’ll be out for another hour, at least. “He needs the rest.”
Emily leaves you to retrieve coffee. You take the opportunity to sit beside him and slide your hand under his, careful not to disturb the IV. Your hand shakes - whether from anxiety, fear, fury, or all of the above, you’re not sure. 
“If you die, Aaron Hotchner, I’ll kill you.”
You hear a little laugh from the doorway and you pull your hand from him. Emily shakes her head, two cups of coffee in her hands. “You’re fine. I'm not going to tattle.”
You squint. “Tattle?”
She rolls her eyes. “You’re so clueless it’s almost cute, but he’s worse.” She throws her head toward Hotch with a fond smile, handing you your cup of coffee.
+++
The rest of the team arrives in a flurry a little while later, and the nurse has to warn them off as Aaron starts to wake. 
They quiet down, surrounding his bedside. You haven’t moved, making it your mission to keep your eyes on him at all times. 
His eyes flutter before closing again. “Where am I?”
“You’re in the hospital,” you say, keeping your voice quiet and steady despite the tightness in your chest. 
“How did I get here?”
Derek gets that one. “Foyet drove you.” 
Aaron takes a breath. It’s shaky, and you imagine he’s in a lot of pain. Emily leans forward, looking for his eyes. “Can you remember what happened?”
He tells you, slowly, about how Foyet broke into the apartment, waited until he was home with his guard down, fired a shot, and then...He trails off. A heavy breath leaves him. “What did he take?”
You have an answer. “There was a page missing from your day planner, the Bs from the address section.” 
He closes his eyes and his breath grows faster, his heart rate increasing. After a moment, he collects himself and asks Emily, “What did he leave?”
“I don’t know.” 
“He also leaves something with his victims.”
Emily shakes her head. “I looked through your entire apartment. Nothing felt out of place.”
“Where are my clothes?”
“Right here.” You reach over, grabbing the bag and removing his bloody shirt with only the barest moment of hesitation. He reaches for the envelope of his personal effects and you press it into his hand, saving him the effort. 
Tears prick at your eyes as you watch his hands shake, opening his wallet. He’s eerily quiet, and you catch a glimpse of a photo, tucked into the fold. 
Haley and Jack. There’s blood on it. You recognize it from the desk in his home office space. 
No. 
Aaron’s come to the same conclusion, falling back on the pillows with a look you can only describe as defeated. It scares you. You swallow, pushing your tears back. 
That’s the last thing he needs right now. 
“Haley’s maiden name is Brooks. I always listed her in the Bs in my personal information in case it fell into the wrong hands.” Your hand, like JJ’s, has fallen over your mouth. 
Oh. 
Of course. 
Of course, he keeps her under Brooks. All he wants to do is keep her safe. 
You hope, one day, that someone will love you that much, will want to protect you with the same ferocity, will think of you before anything else. 
You could only be so lucky. 
He swallows and continues. “He knows where they live.”
Derek makes assignments. You’re to stay right where you are, while the rest focus on locating Haley and Jack. 
When it’s just the two of you, he closes his eyes again. “I don’t know what I’m going to do if -”
“They’ll find her. They’ll find Jack. They’ll be safe.”
You have to believe it, too. They’re too important to you, to central to your life, now 
He shakes his head, his eyes cracking open. “Why didn’t I just take the deal?” Clearing his throat, he continues, his voice a little stronger, but still rough. “He told me I should have. I never thought -” He cuts himself off.
You hand him a cup of water, and he takes it gratefully. Idly, you note he hasn’t looked you in the eye yet. 
“Do you want an answer to your question?”
He doesn’t answer you, looking across the room. 
You lean into his eye line. “You didn’t take the deal because you have the most integrity of anyone I’ve ever known. Anything he does is on him. It’s not on you.” 
“But,” his voice breaks and the smallest of tears falls out of his eye. It tracks down his temple until you gently wipe it away with your thumb. “But I could have stopped all of this.” 
“No,” you whisper. Your hand lingers on the side of his face. “No. He’ll be this way wherever he goes. The only way you change that is by catching him, Hotch.” 
He finally looks at you, his brown eyes exhausted, hurting, and bloodshot. You card your fingers through the hair at his temple, putting the oxygen cannula back over his ear. Soon, he closes his eyes again, his vitals evening out as he falls asleep. 
“We’ll get him, Aaron.”
A few tense minutes later, your phone buzzes in your pocket. When you see the caller ID, a shot of adrenaline zings around your body. “Haley?”
Your name is a sigh of relief in her mouth. “SWAT scared the hell out of me and I just - I don’t know.”
“Oh, Haley I’m so sorry. I should have gone over there with the team but -“ Derek knew my stress wouldn’t be useful. 
“No, no. It’s fine. They’re getting Jack from a friend’s house, but they told me what’s going on. I’ll see you when I get to the hospital. I just -“ She laughs, but there’s no humor in it. “I just freaked out.”
“I know. I’m sorry. I’ll see you soon.”
“I’ll see you soon. I love you.”
Your heart pulls. “I love you, too.” 
She hangs up, and you stuff your phone back in your pocket. 
Aaron wakes again when you pull a case file from your bag, but you’re not sure it’s your doing.
Shit. 
He looks around a little frantically for a moment, still disoriented. You rise and cross the room, finding one of his hands. 
“Hotch, it’s okay. You’re still in the hospital.” 
“Haley?”
You nod. “They got her. She’s safe and she’s on her way with Jack.” 
He finally relaxes, sinking back down into the pillows. “Thank you.”
You nod and resume your place on the other side of the room, patting the back of his hand as you let him go. He’s quiet, if not a little fidgety. You look at him for a minute. He takes a talking breath. 
“After the first one, it kind of goes blank.” His breath is still a little unsteady, and you take your chair next to his bed again. “There were nine, apparently.” 
Your breath catches. It’s not new information, but it’s still raw, sharp-edged. 
Awful.
He swallows. “He taunted me.” His eyes beg you to understand, to keep him from flying off the rails. 
“He’s a bastard, Aaron.”
He levels you with a withering stare. No shit. 
“I know you know that, but it’s worth repeating.”
“I don’t want -“
You interrupt him, knowing exactly where he’s going. “You’re not going to become a victim. You aren’t a victim.”
“I don’t want Haley to -“ 
You press a hand to his arm, mindful of his bandages. “One day at a time. They’re safe today.”
His lip quivers and his voice leaves him in a whisper. “That’s not good enough.”
+++
Eventually, Haley arrives looking a little worse for wear. 
Her haircut’s really cute. 
The thought almost makes you laugh. 
Of all the things to notice...
You startle a little as you remember where you are and rise, ready to give them space. She waves you off, giving you permission to stay. 
“How do you feel?” She asks. 
Aaron sits up a little more, not without effort, and says, “I’m gonna be okay.” 
That’s not what she asked, stupid. 
He continues. “Did they explain to you what’s happening?”
She nods. “They said the marshal's service is taking us straight from here and putting us into protective custody.” Her eyes meet yours, and you dip your chin. She’s right. 
Aaron apologizes to Haley for the first of what you imagine will be many times. 
Her lower lip disappears between her teeth. “Do you know where they’re gonna take us?”
“No,” you answer. “We don’t. And that’s the point.” 
“I can’t know where you’re going,” Aaron adds. “If you have any contact with anyone, he can track you.”
That shocks her a little, and you can see she’s getting upset. “Jack has school. He has friends. I have a job now. I have -” She cuts herself off. 
“I know.” He levels a steady, solemn gaze upon her. “And I’m sorry. We will catch him and you’ll come back.”
She looks at you again. “Are you sure we’re in danger?” 
You nod, almost imperceptibly, and Hotch answers. “Yes.” 
“And what about you? Are you gonna be safe?”
There it is. 
She does love him. 
You knew that, of course. Seeing them together during visits at home or out to dinner or otherwise in the presence of that other, that was never in question.
Your heart tugs. 
Twenty-five years... 
“He wants to see me suffer. Knowing that my son is out there and that I can’t see him is better than killing me.”
Haley wets her lips and swallows. 
That’s her tell. 
You figure she’ll burst into tears pretty soon. It was only a matter of time, and you don’t blame her in the least. You’ve had tears threatening you all afternoon, and this wasn’t even happening to you. 
“Jack wants to see you.”
Aaron’s jaw gets a little tight. “I want to see him, too. I just don’t think it’s a good idea.” 
You hear what he can’t say, too. I don’t want to scare him. I don’t want him to see me like this. 
“Look,” she says, exasperated. “I know you’re trying to protect him, but you both need this. Please.”
He nods, resigned. “Okay.”
Haley looks over and offers you a shaky smile, trying to break the tension. “He also asked me if you’d be here. He’ll be thrilled.” 
That almost does you in. “So will I,” you tell her, meaning every syllable. 
With another brisk nod and wipe of her face, she leaves the room to retrieve Jack. Aaron sits up a little straighter and you help him. He tries to suppress his wince, but fails. 
“Do you need another round?” 
He shakes his head. “I’ll be fine.”
“Just let me know.” You settle back into the corner, the case file in your lap. 
Haley and Jack return, and she brings him to Aaron’s side, lifting him up onto the bed. 
Aaron meets his eyes and tells him that he’s okay, giving him a little preparing for what’s about to happen. “But, what do I tell you whenever I go away?”
“That you love me.” 
You hide your face, looking out the window as tears finally fall from your eyes. Haley’s eyes are on you and you know it. You wipe at your face and take a quiet breath before turning back, pretending to pay attention to the case in your lap. 
In your periphery, you can see Aaron looking over Jack’s face as if to memorize it, as if he doesn’t already know every plane, every curve, every angle of his son’s face. “More than anything in the world.” 
They exchange a few more words before he brings him close and kisses his forehead. You glance up, and they look so alike in their profiles it almost makes you smile. Haley’s crying, too, and she meets your eyes. 
Something passes between you, but you don’t have a name for it. 
You don’t need one. 
Haley takes a breath and tucks her hair behind her ears. She redirects Jack’s attention to you, and his eyes light up. She helps him scramble off the bed and he books it around the bed to you. 
You close the case file and open your arms to him. “Hi, bud.” It’s hard not to scare him with the feverish way you hold him close, your fingers wound in his hair. 
There’s a failed attempt to avoid thinking about the uncertainty of the future, when you’ll see him again. 
If ever.
Stop. 
The pair of you lean back for a minute, and you brush his hair away from his forehead. 
“Are you going away, too?” He asks. 
You shake your head. “I’m gonna stay here with your dad.” 
“Are you going to keep my dad safe? I’m going to keep Mom safe.”
It’s Aaron who looks away this time. 
“Of course, my love.” You offer him something you hope looks like a smile. “We always keep each other safe. We’re a team, like you and your momma. I’m so proud of you.” You check in with Haley, who’s looking away, the back of her hand swiping at her cheek. When she turns back to you, you tilt your head a little. 
Want a minute? 
She nods. 
You stand, Jack still tucked against your chest. “I think,” you say, as he sits back in your arms, “Miss Emily and Miss JJ are back and might have something fun for you over there.” You tip your head toward the waiting room. “Wanna go see?”
He nods, leaning back into you and playing with your collar. You pat Aaron’s knee and squeeze Haley’s shoulder with your free hand as you pass. 
Aaron watches you go, your low murmuring comforts to Jack lost in the ambient hospital noise. When you find JJ and look back, giving him a small (if not a little watery) smile, he looks over at Haley, guilt closing up his throat. 
“I’m so sorry, Haley. I promise, when this is all over, I’ll spend the rest of my life making it up to you.” 
She gives him a half-smile and sits on the edge of his bed. She reaches for him, and he takes both of her hands in his. There’s silence for a moment as they sit together. She studies him. 
While it doesn’t bother him (she has been looking at him for nearly twenty-five years, after all), he does feel more exposed under her gaze than he’s used to. 
“You should do something about that, one of these days,” she says, looking over her shoulder. You’re still visible in the window, talking to JJ while Jack is still glued to you. His little arms are tight around your neck, his head tucked under your chin.
Aaron’s brow furrows, but the EKG picks up the increase in his heart rate, much to his embarrassment. “What are you talking about?”
Haley laughs, a light, watery, delicate thing, and turns back to him. It almost brings a smile to his face. “Do you think I don’t know what you look like when you’re head over heels, Aaron Hotchner? After eighteen years of marriage and twenty-five years knowing you? Give me a break.”
His jaw grows tight, but he holds her gaze. 
“You used to look at me like that, you know.” A little smile plays at her lips and she looks down, almost shy. “Still do, sometimes.” 
“I love you, Haley.” 
She squeezes his hand. “I know you do.” A sigh leaves her and she looks over her shoulder again, just catching a glimpse of you and JJ out in the hall with Jack as you go scavenging for something sweet. There’s a little smile at the corner of her mouth when she turns back to him. “You are so loved, Aaron.” 
“I don't…” He huffs, frustrated. “I don’t feel -”
“I’m not saying you have to do anything, but it might do you some good to just…” She sighs, throwing a hand up in a kind of searching gesture. “I don’t know, be honest with yourself. Think for a minute.” 
His teeth worry the inside of his lower lip as he thinks about it. He does care about you. But love? 
He thinks of the way his chest feels too small whenever you laugh, the way he always goes above and beyond to make sure you’re safe in the field, how he looks for you when you’re out of the room, how he looks for you when you’re in the room. 
The way you are with Jack brings him to his knees every time. The sound of his son’s laughter under your tickling fingers never fails to bring a smile to his face. 
You’ve helped him heal what seemed like an insurmountable chasm between him and Haley, and though it’s not perfect, it’s better than it would ever be without you. 
You always take a second to straighten his tie and ensure his suit jacket lays flat across his shoulders before leaving the plane, just like he always takes time to count the rounds in your magazines or tuck your tag back into your shirt collar. 
He always feels so warm under your fond and attentive touch. With a little bit of alarm, he hopes you feel the same under his. Safe. Cared-for. 
Loved. 
Oh. 
Oh no.
He knows the realization is clear on his face when Haley laughs again, surprising them both. She swipes at her eyes again, clearing any remaining tears. “You know, I can’t say I’m surprised you didn’t know, but it’s still funny, even with all this.” She shakes her head. “You haven’t changed much, have you?”
His face breaks out into a little smile as he looks back at her. “Oh, quit.” 
“I’ll never quit giving you hell, as long as we live.” Haley reaches out, pushing gently against his shoulder. He takes the shove like a champ, even through the ache in his chest and abdomen, thankful she’s not treating him like he’s made of glass. 
“Don’t I know it.” 
They look at each other for a minute before Aaron sobers, the mirth evaporating between them. He already misses her. “I’m sorry. I’m so sorry for all of this. I’m hoping it’ll be...temporary.” 
“I do have a life, Aaron. And Jack…” She sighs and her eyes fill with tears again. 
“I know. I’m sorry. I wish there was another way to keep you safe, but -” He cuts himself off, knowing there’s nothing he can say. 
She swallows again. She already misses him. “How am I supposed to keep him safe when there’s nobody I know to help me?”
He sighs, but speaks with conviction. “Haley, you’re strong. You lived with me in this job and you’ve practically raised Jack all by yourself. You’re a great mother.” 
Haley’s actively crying now, trying to stem the tears with her fingers. It’s not working. After a moment, she collects herself. “Can you catch this man?”
“I will catch this man.”
+++
When she leaves Aaron’s room, you bring Jack to her. You take a moment to lightly fuss over them both. 
Her blue eyes find yours. “Take care of him, please?”
You nod. “I will.” 
“He needs you.” 
She says it with a simple kind of conviction that makes your chest pull. You put a hand on her shoulder, trying to communicate everything you can’t say into your touch. “He needs you more.” 
“No, he doesn’t.” Her lips twist in an odd sort of smile and she wraps you in a hug and kisses your cheek. “I’ll see you soon.” 
You hold her tight, Jack trapped (and whining a little) between you. “See you soon, Hales.” You pull back, looking deeply into her eyes. “We’ll get him.” 
The U.S. Marshals arrive, and you have to let go of each other. You press a kiss to Jack’s forehead and tell him you love him one more time, and wait until they’re in the car and out of sight before you break down. 
You don’t know where he came from, but Derek wraps around you, catching you before your knees hit the ground. You don't know what you’re crying about, really. 
It could be the overwhelming task of catching Foyet.
It could be Hotch in the room down the hall with nine stab wounds to his chest and abdomen. 
It could be the indefinite absence of your dear friend and her son - a boy you love more than anyone except maybe -
Nope. Don’t go there. Not now. 
Sobs wrack your chest, and your head hurts and your throat is sore by the time your body lets you breathe. 
Derek’s there the whole time, rubbing your back and keeping your face hidden in the crook of his neck and shoulder. “It’s gonna be okay, kiddo. It’ll be okay. He’s okay. We’re gonna catch this son of a bitch.” 
“It’s just so much, Derek.” 
He sighs. “I know. I know.”
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“Did you hear what happened this morning?”
You’re woken by Dave’s voice, coming from the doorway. Cramped and crunched into the corner of an uncomfortable chair, you stretch and what feels like every joint in your body cracks. 
“No.”
When did Aaron wake up? 
You look over at him and he glances at you before returning to Dave, who’s leaning on the door frame. 
“We had a situation. Unsub had already killed two people. Said he was gonna keep killing unless a man used his son as bait.”
“What happened?”
Good question. 
Belatedly, you realize you’ve neglected your case duties all day in favor of holding vigil over Aaron’s bedside. The weirdest part about it? The rest of the team let you. 
Why? 
“We kept the boy safe. Worked the profile. It was a happy ending.” 
That’s good, at least. One fucking happy ending today. 
It’s like Dave’s reading your mind as he asks Aaron, “Do you know why I’m telling you this?”
“Yes.” Aaron’s gaze is impassive, but there are universes behind his eyes. 
“No other group in the world could have pulled off what yours did in a matter of hours.” Dave checks in with you, and the corner of your mouth lifts. 
Sorry. 
He shakes his head just a little. No sweat, kid. You did your job.
“I appreciate what you’re trying to do, Dave, but -”
Dave cuts him off. “We’ll get Foyet.”
“I promised Haley I would get him. But the truth is, if he stops killing we have no way of tracking him. He stopped killing for ten years just for the pleasure of watching Shaunessy’s life fall apart.” 
He’s crying again, and your heart breaks. You’re surprised Dave can’t hear it crack all the way across the room. 
“What’s Jack going to remember about me in ten years?”
No. 
“Hotch, look at me.” You rise from your chair and sit on the edge of the bed, careful not to disturb his position. He turns his head just so, his brown eyes locking onto yours. “We’ll get him. We will get him.”
We have to. 
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just-benni · 3 years
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i don’t wanna be okay without you
pairing: Bucky Barnes x reader
summary: Y/N gets an undeniable job offer that Bucky wants her to take. But if she accepts, it will mean long distance for them.
warning: angst, bit of fluff, mentions of sex
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An offer of a lifetime, and everyone was calling her crazy for considering any option other than accepting it. The job, although a temporary one, it consisted of everything one would want in a job. The pay was good, the other benefits, and above all, it was Y/N’s dream career. If she were to take it, it would give her beneficial experience and overall good exposure. There was just one thing making this offer too good to be true and it held her back from making a final decision.
Y/N’s thoughts were interrupted when Bucky set the car in park. She didn’t allow him to open the door for her like he usually would. Tonight, the two of them were not on good terms. They were both out to dinner with her parents when her father brought up the job offer. Bucky was kind enough to step in and talk to Y/N’s father about it, seeing that she were uncomfortable. Y/N decided to speak up eventually, the comment she made insinuating that she didn’t want the job offer. From there it went down hill. Bucky and Y/N’s father both had the same expression of shock, showing off the creases in their foreheads.
Her mother, however, swiftly changed the conversation and to Y/N’s relief, the job offer was not brought up again. That changed the moment she walked away from saying goodbye to her parents, Bucky had bombarded her with questions. Eventually, she snapped at him and the rest of the ride was filled with silence or Y/N commanding Bucky to slow the vehicle down. The silence remained between the two all the way up to their shared apartment.
It wasn’t until she stepped through the door that Y/N finally spoke, “I don’t wanna talk about it. Tomorrow maybe but not now, not tonight.”
“You’re being ridiculous,” she could see from the corner of her eye, Bucky shaking his head as he shrugged off his coat. “You realize that, right?”
He seemed almost disappointed in the hesitation. Y/N hadn’t recognize how much Bucky really wanted this for her. She wondered if that opinion of his would change after he knew the entirety of it; the reason that was holding her back from saying yes.
“I said I don’t wanna talk about it. Please.”
“We’re talking about it tomorrow.” His voice was husk, evident that he was still angry. Regardless, Bucky laid a kiss on her head. It was a forceful peck that made her flinch, not going unnoticed by him but he let it go.
He stomped his way down the hall into bathroom to take his shower. Y/N didn’t even wait to hear the click of the door to break down silently. She stayed upright, leaning against the wall, and forced her way to the other end of the apartment knowing she wouldn’t be able to hold back the sobs. She felt like she were already losing him.
It didn’t take her long to get those tears out of her system. By the time she gathered herself, she had taken off her makeup and changed into some pajamas, waiting patiently for Bucky. From how long he was taking, she could tell he was shaving. She feared that the longer she waited the more likely she would be to get in her head and back out from telling him.
He stood for a few moments in the doorway when he finally entered the room. He examined her head to toe, waiting for the right words to come to him. His face had that look telling Y/N he was sorry. She nodded, and patted his side of the bed all while managing to keep her voice from shaking, “Will you come sit?”
“Were you crying?” He discarded his dirty clothes into the hamper, slowly shifting his way over to Y/N.
“Why don’t you come sit.” He hesitated a bit, sat down on the bed. Not to the spot she suggested but instead to the edge of mattress on her side of the bed. Without hesitation, Bucky took Y/N’s hand and gave it an affirmative squeeze; the sincere gesture only made Y/N want to break down into tears again. 
“What’s goin’ on, Y/N?” His question lingered with concern. “Seriously, you’ve got to tell me so I can help you.”
She wiped a tear and looked to the comforter. Anywhere but his eyes, she couldn’t handle his piercing blue eyes. They weren’t approachable at a time like this. “I haven’t been entirely honest with you.”
“What is it?”
“Everything I told you about the job offer is true but the part I left out is that it’s located out of the country.”
“Oh.” His mouth dropped open and it was like he’d forgotten every word in the English language.
“If I say yes, they’ll send me out to London.”
“London, as in, England?”
“Yes.”
“You knew this whole time and you haven’t told me?” She sighed. “I’m not mad, Y/N. But something as important as that, it would’ve been nice to know sooner.”
“If I told you sooner, we would’ve had this conversation sooner. I know it was selfish and I’m sorry I didn’t tell you but I wasn’t ready to talk about it with you just yet,” her voice couldn’t go any higher than a whisper. “That’s why I’ve been putting up this front the past few days. I don’t wanna take it.”
“No, it’s okay Y/N. This opportunity, you have to take it.”
“I can’t, Buck.” She finally looked him in the eye, shaking her head. Her voice cracked and tears flooded her eyes. “I can’t do it. I don’t want to be away from you.”
“It’s okay.” Bucky repeated it again and again while comforting her. He kissed her head and pulled her into his lap, holding her close and letting her cry into his shoulder. The thought of being away from Bucky kept the streams of tears going. Other negative thoughts trailed in eventually but she was so drained of energy and finding that she was out of tears. 
Y/N managed to rest her eyes and catch her breath from the breakdown she just had. What was only supposed to be a few moments turned into her accidentally falling asleep, still being held in Bucky’s lap. She felt him trying to move careful and slow when setting her to lay down. Half awake, she clutched his arm and stirred awake.
“You alright?” He swept a chunk of hair out of her face to tuck behind her ear. Bucky went to retract his hand but Y/N moved it to her cheek. “Want something to drink?”
“Not really. I just want you.”
“London, huh? It’s a good thing you’re a tea-over-coffee kinda person.” Bucky lips curled upward but he was only putting on a face to send some sort of approval her way. “We’ll talk about it tomorrow.”
Their mouths met in a chaste kiss, then Bucky giving her another short one for good measure. He walked to his side of the bed and got under the covers. Both of them were now turned at their side, facing each other.
“I know you’re trying to lift my spirits but it’s not as great as you’re making it out to be. No life without you is a good one, I know that much.”
“It’s been a long day, Y/N. I need to process this and you need rest, desperately.”
“Tell me how you really feel. Because if you love me as much as you say you do then that means you must be hurting too.”
Bucky sighed, lying on his back now. He tried forcing himself further into the mattress, finding it impossible to get comfortable. “I’m feeling a lot of things.”
“You’re good at hiding it.” And she absolutely despised him for it sometimes.
“Tomorrow, Y/N.” She found his hand under the blanket and just kept it laid over his as they both drifted into sleep.
[morning, the next day]
Y/N woke up from a peaceful slumber which surprised her because of how emotional she was the previous night. Because she still hadn’t talked to Bucky about what he thinks, it left her final moments awake anxious filled.
She looked over to her side and relief washed over her, seeing Bucky asleep. Y/N weighing out the likelihood of going to London, she wanted to do one of her favorite things to do with Bucky: to lay in bed and cuddle, forgetting about commitments or how much time has passed. And a plus side, sometimes—majority of the time—cuddling led to some great morning sex.
She lightly kissed along his bicep, his chest, his neck, jaw, all along his face, and by then he’d stirred awake so she laid a quick kiss to his lips to finish it off.
“I’m surprised you’re not up before me.”
“It was hard to fall asleep last night.”
Y/N winced, feeling bad. “In that case, I shouldn’t have woken you. Sorry.” 
“You just wanna use me for cuddles, I assume?” Bucky could feel the vibration of her chuckle. It was a relief to hear her laugh. It was a drastic difference from the distraught state she was in last night.
Y/N draped one of her legs shamelessly over one of his. Her head fell onto his shoulder, just above his chest. They fit perfect against each other, part of the reason she loved it so much. And Bucky secretly loved it, no matter how much he acted like he didn’t want her affection. 
“You feeling okay?” He asked after nearly falling back asleep.
“Um, yeah. Better than last night.” She aimlessly drew shapes on his stomach and tracing over his prominent muscles.
“What are you thinking about?”
“I’m thinking of how I won’t get to wake up next to you or be able to hug and kiss you.” After some silence she continued, “If we go long distance, it won’t work Bucky.”
“Don’t say that,” he scolded. “Why would you say something like that?”
“We have to be honest with ourselves.”
“It’s okay to have doubts but I’m willing to at least try, and so should you. Yes, it’ll be challenging. But you really think it’ll break us apart?”
“What then? Messages and FaceTime calls aren’t going to be enough. What if one day you decide you don’t love me anymore? All I want is for you to be happy.”
“You do make me happy. You.”
“You deserve someone who can give you their all, from here in New York, not from thousands of miles away.”
“Don’t say that, I’m—you’re it for me.”
“I don’t wanna go.” She didn’t intend to sound as whiny as she did. Bucky was ticked off by the conversation, separating from Y/N to begin his day.
“Why don’t I come with you?”
“And let your business with Steve plummet to the ground? No.”
“He would understand.”
“You’re not wrong about that but regardless, he needs you.”
“Then I’m gonna visit any chance I get. We’re gonna work this out.” Her mind instantly translate that out to, you’re going to London. “I’m making breakfast.”
Y/N remained in bed and browsed a number of apps on her phone for a few minutes until she finally decided it was time to join Bucky. She shuffled into the kitchen and sat at one of the barstools as Bucky was in the early stages of cooking something up. Breakfast was a specialty of his. 
She didn’t know how to start up the conversation, which was ridiculous considering it was Bucky. It was rare that she felt this sort of discomfort in Bucky’s presence, but he took it upon himself to ask, “How come you didn’t tell me sooner? About London.”
“You already asked me this.”
“Well I’m asking you again.”
“Part of me didn’t want you to know. I thought about not telling you even at all.” She thanked Bucky when he handed her a cup of coffee. Continuing, “I knew if you knew, you’d force me to go and I just don’t wanna be away from you.”
“It’s just 18 months Y/N, it won’t be forever.”
“Seems like forever. Like I’m gonna miss out on so much.” Y/N forced herself not to think about it, tired of all the emotions and tears. She sighed, “18 months.”
“Well if you think about it, the lease for this apartment is up in nine months.”
Y/N shot a questionable look his way. “I don’t think I see where you’re going with this.”
“I’ll renew the lease or have something worked out. That way, by the time you get back, we can figure out where we want to live and we find a house. That was the plan all along, no? It just might have to be delayed, that’s all.”
“Initially, the plan was to live with each other for 12 months and come out without killing or injuring each other.” Y/N wore a mischievous grin on her face. “Remember that conversation?”
“You hated me for a while.” Bucky laughed to himself. “It’s safe to say we’re compatible though, no? You haven’t killed me thus far. And you’re bareable to live with, long term. Maybe we can get a house that comes with a working dishwasher.”
“Ooh, yes.”
It was a no brainer they would end up together. Bucky would be the one she married and grew a life together with. Even their friends have complimented how well they fit one another.
Bucky stared at her with a prideful grin, making Y/N grow timid like she used to when they first started dating. “What?” She asked through laughter. “What are you up to?”
“You’re gonna do great in London.”
“But what if-“
Bucky read her so well, already on his way to be at her side and comfort her. “Don’t ‘what if’, I told you, you’re it for me, okay? Whatever you think—that I might fall out of love with you—it’s not gonna happen.”
Finally, relief hit her. Bucky has proven himself over again, it was no doubt that he was in it for the long run erasing over all her doubts. Y/N got choked up from his words and the intensity of his gaze. “I was really wrong about you.”
“In what way?” He slyly maneuvered her out of the chair and placed her to stand on her feet. Bucky tangled his arms around her to rest at her lower back.
“I thought maybe you’d be upset that I got offered to go to London. But I think you’re more supportive now than you ever were before. I kinda hate you for it because that means I’m going to London.”
“You’re going to London,” he repeated following a sigh, burying his head into her neck.
“Are you sad?”
“I don’t wanna think about it.”
“M’sorry, Buck.”
“I wish I could come with you.”
“No you don’t,” she teased. “You are such a New York boy. I can’t imagine you living anywhere else but here.”
They both laughed, Bucky pulling away. “You’re probably right.”
“New York pizza and the people, your people.” Silence broke out and when neither could muster a response, they opted out for a hug. She curled her fingers through his hair. “You’re not gonna need me?”
“I’ll always need you. Definitely.”
“Definitely? Oh, good.”
“But I’ll manage through video-phone calls.” Bucky specifically backed away to see her expression.
Y/N facepalmed, shaking her head a bit. “It’s called FaceTime, Buck.”
“Whatever. I’ll send you letters if I have to.”
“You really think we can do long distance?”
“I’m not losing you and I’m gonna put my all into this to make us work. Just 18 months and I’m yours again.”
“What do you have in mind? How are we going to make this work?”
“Well I assume you’ll be coming back for holidays so there’s that. I’m for sure going to London for your birthday, maybe mine too. Then throw in a few spontaneous visits here and there. It’s only a five hour difference so I’m up by 6AM usually, that means it’s 11AM over there and I can spend my time getting ready and making breakfast talking to you, if you’re not busy. Or by the time I’m out of work it’s about midnight over there. Oh! We have to get you those power adapters—“
“You’re it for me too.” Y/N leaned in, closing the space between them. “I love you.”
“I love you more. Come here,” Bucky raised her in his arms, setting her to sit on the counter. “You believe me when I tell you we can make this work?”
“I do.”
Bucky felt his heart squeeze, hoping to hear those words again one day.
He stood in between her legs with his hands reaching under her shirt, doing more wandering than they probably should have been. “It’s not gonna be easy or perfect in any way but I would rather us take up the challenge than for you to give up your dream because of me. I would never forgive myself if I let you stay here and waste your potential.”
“Thank you.”
“You’re welcome, love.” He horribly mimicked a British accent. The couple physically cringed at it which quickly translated into laughter.
“Might wanna stick to cooking.”
After that lighthearted moment, Bucky went back to making breakfast as she shuffled through yesterday’s mail. Then it occurred to Y/N. “Bucky?”
“Yes, love?”
“What about sex?” Bucky drops his spatula to the floor, the plastic clanking against the tile.
His eyebrows raised and from the reaction he gave off, she burst out laughing. Bucky laughed along with her and replied with a sarcastic remark. “On second thought, I don’t think London is a good fit for you.”
“Bucky!” She yelped when Bucky lifted her up, forcing her against the closest wall. “What are you doing?”
“You’re going to London so it’s only logical that I start makin’ love to you now.” He said against her neck, lightly sucking at the skin there. “Give you something to remember me by.”
The moment was interrupted by the alarm of the oven and his stomach gurgling. She cupped his face in both of her hands. “Sounds like a plan for today but food first.”
“Yes ma’am.” He kissed her sweetly, “Looking forward to it.”
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makbarnes · 3 years
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Hey I was wondering if I could request a one shot. It mentions some heavy topics so I would like to apologize in advance in case it bothers you.
Loki x reader where they’re newly budding friends and he finds out that she has never really indulged in sex due to trauma from being sexually assaulted when she was younger. Knowing that she trusts him, he offers to sleep with her to help her overcome her fear and she accepts it. Can the smut be slow and passionate and include soft dom Loki, with a romantic ending?
Change of Plans! I discussed changing the character for her request! This is for @yeeetmyasss Steve X Reader
A/N: I hope you enjoy! Warning there is a little cut scene where it flashes back to the reader's past but doesn't describe anything. BTW this really got away from me! I enjoyed writing this so much!
PROMPT: Steve x reader where they’re newly budding friends and he finds out that she has never really indulged in sex due to trauma from being sexually assaulted when she was younger. Knowing that she trusts him, he offers to sleep with her to help her overcome her fear and she accepts it. Can the smut be slow and passionate and include soft dom Steve, with a romantic ending
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You carefully slipped on your jacket in hopes it would cover enough of your skin for you to be comfortable. Your hair helped cover your neck and yet you still felt exposed. You felt the cold air on your legs and you could feel the tears brimming your eyes. You held back your tears as you grabbed your things and headed for the elevator in the Tower. You smiled to push the feelings down as you walked, Waving at Sam and Bucky you headed straight for the kitchen to grab a sip of water before leaving. As you leaned against the counter your fingers gripped the marble and you couldn’t help but sink into your thoughts. Your eyes flashed a deep blue as your memories took over.
Night after Night, You dreaded the night. It happens every night and you keep trying to prevent it. Hiding, acting like you were asleep, even faking sick, nothing stopped him. You had moved in with a close member of your family after your parents had divorced and the state concluded it was unfit to live with any of them. Every night was the same thing, he’d come in sometime after he had a few drinks, you could always smell it on his breath. Knob Creek Bourbon Even to this day that certain kind just sent shivers down your spine. You never wear your hair up to sleep anymore, It would give him access to more skin at night. You always tried to wear thick clothing and you still do every night when you sleep. It started off small, a grope or a kiss that lasted a bit too long, then it came to him covering your mouth, forcing himself onto you. You cried each time and you were thankful for the night you didn’t have to see him. You lost count over the years, You just felt numb...The night of your thirteenth birthday you fought back, ran off and found yourself running into HYDRA. After the years of abuse and silence you agreed to their experiments that ended up giving you powers, HYDRA set you loose after they searched your mind and found the trauma. They released you and you set forth to kill your trauma at the source. You started with your parents then your uncle. He laughed in your face as you choked him with your powers, He fell limp and you set the trailer on fire in hopes it would burn the memories as well. After that night you had turned yourself into the Avengers and they added you to the team.
“Angel?” Steve held himself back from touching you knowing what happened last time he did. He heard your sniffles and decided to lean against the counter next to you. Your knuckles were tight and you felt locked in your fears. “{Y/N}? Hey, it’s Steve, I’m right here. It’s okay.” You gasped as your mind came back to you and saw Steve standing next to you with worried eyes.
“Sorry.”
“Nothin’ to be sorry for.” You gave him a quaint smile before turning away and trying to clean your face of tears. “You goin somewhere?”
“I have a date.”
“A-a Date?! Oh...w-with who?” Steve stumbled over his words as he mentally cursed himself for his reaction.
“Don’t act so surprised, Old Man. I can pull a guy.”
“I know you can, Angel. Just surprised.”
“Don’t go gettin’ jealous on me now.” You nudged his shoulder as you sent him a wink and took your phone from your small bag. “I’m texting you my location. Just to be safe.”
“Or you could just not go. Stay with me and watch a movie.” Steve suggested quietly and you held the blush away from your cheeks. You kissed Steve’s cheek bye as you texted the boy you were supposed to meet. Steve had felt jealous as you walked away. He loved you and wanted you so badly but you never acted that way towards him. He thought he was like a brother in your mind so he pushed it down and took what he could get. Just your presence calmed him. He had started calling you when he had a nightmare or trouble sleeping and waited for you to invite him to your room to talk. The first time he snuck up on you while you were sleeping he instantly regretted it when you slammed him into the wall. Steve understood and didn’t as when you had reacted that way, some people liked their privacy. Unknowingly to him you liked him just as much as he did you. The touching was rare but when it did happen it was enveloping. The late night cuddles when you each had fallen asleep as you watched a movie, relaxing against each other after hard missions full of fighting. Everything about the man made you feel safe.
Your breath hitched when you spotted your date at the bar. You were never against drinking, you were just scared around men who couldn’t hold their alcohol. That was an issue you never had to worry about with Steve. Each time you talked with someone they had blown their chances before you even set a date with them. You were partially grateful for that fact, you were just waiting for Steve to ask you out. You hoped for it, you even dreamt about it most nights. You pushed Steve to the back of your mind as you plastered a bright smile over your face and approached your date.
“Hey Brandon?”
“Hey! God you are hotter than your pictures.”
“Uhm, thanks. Did you wanna grab a table?”
“I’d rather sit here at the bar, if that’s okay.”
“Perfectly fine.” You slid into the empty seat next to him and ordered a club soda. Something to just take the edge off but to keep you lucid incase. You noticed Brandon’s eyes roaming over your body and you felt a bit exposed as he did. “So, How was your day?”
“Boring, I’m hoping to spice it up tonight.” He reached his hand for your thigh and you quickly moved it away from his reach. You cleared your throat and hoped he would turn off the douchebag side of him. Brandon downed the rest of his drink and you rolled your eyes as his actions.
“What do you like to do?"
“Fuckin’ pretty ladies. Wanna get out of here?”
“Ugh! Yea, I'm leaving." You slammed your glass down as you stood and started to walk out of the restaurant.
“Woah! Where are you goin’?!” Brandon jerked his hand out to grab your wrist and pull you back to your seat. You stumbled but thankfully caught yourself against your chair.
“I’m going home! Let go of me!”
“No, I think you are gonna sit here and make this worth my time.”
“No the fuck I won’t” You slung his hand off of your wrist and slapped him hard across the face.
“You dumb bitch!”
“You fucking douchebag.” You easily left the restaurant and hailed a taxi to take you back to the Tower. You brushed away the few tears you had and held off your panic attack until you knew you were safe. You slammed the taxi door and stomped into the building. Tapping your foot in anger the elevator seemed to take forever, you prayed for the main room to be empty and for everyone to be doing their own things on a Friday Night. You grabbed your phone and deleted the dating app you had set up. All the guys in there just wanted one thing. You wanted to build a relationship not just fuck and leave. You tucked your phone away and groaned while the elevator opened. You kicked off your heels and ignored everyone in the main room as you went to your room. You quickly changed out of your uncomfortable dress and slipped on your joggers with one of Steve’s sweatshirts. You smiled as his scent covered you and felt safe again. You tucked your knees into your chest as you sat on your bed. Your mind ran over your thoughts and you compelled your thumb to hover over his contact in your phone. Steve would always be there.
Your breath quickened and tears started streaking down your face. You held your knees tightly and tucked your nose against the collar of Steve’s shirt. He knew you had it, He had given it to you after a night full of PTSD terrors and bloodshot eyes because you were too scared to fall asleep. You ran your finger through your hair and you pulled, trying to keep yourself grounded. Your eyes panned to the door. If you could make it a few feet. Steve was right across the hall. Just a few steps. You willed yourself to stand but felt your legs shaking, breaking out to a full sob you reached for your small clutch and pressed the green call button next to his already open contact. You just stayed silent, your sniffles echoing back from the rings as you waited for him to answer.
“Hey! Are you okay? Do I need to pick you up?” Steve’s protective tone shined through the phone and you held your mouth open to speak but it just came out as a whimper. “I need you to tell me where you are.”
“I-I…”
“F.R.I.D.A.Y locate {Y/F/N}.”
“{Y/F/N} is in her room, Captain.” The only thing you could hear were heavy footsteps echoing over the phone and you kept pushing the tears away with the sleeves of his sweater. You jerked when you heard a knock and tried to speak.
“It’s Steve, I’m coming in okay?” You nodded silently, knowing he couldn’t see you. You needed him. The only touch you ever welcomed was Steve. As he easily opened the door you sat balled on the floor with your face covered with tears. “Angel. What happened?” You shook your head no repeatedly as he sat beside you on the floor. “You don’t have to talk about it. It’s okay.” Without warning you climbed into his lap and snuggled against his broad chest. His hand rubbed up your spine while you stained his shirt with tears. Your shoulders began trembling while his warmth enveloped you, Steve pressed his lips against your head and let you cling onto him.
“Why can’t all guys be like you?” You looked up at him with tears filled eyes and sniffled.
“I’m Captain America sweets. Nobody is like me.” Steve’s thumb gently wiped away your tears. “What happened?”
“Just a douchebag only wanting sex and no relationship.”
“He doesn’t know what he’s missing then.” Steve ran his fingers over your hair as both of your movements grew still. You felt a pit of nervousness growing when your panic settled and you realized you were in his lap. Clearing your throat as you stood up Steve followed quickly and offered his hand out to you. “Since you’re home, wanna watch a movie with me now?” His bright smile was hard to say no to but you wanted to stay in your room. Your eyes darted between his hand and your bed while you tried to decide. “Wait here.” Steve rushed out of your room as you sat on your bed.
He quickly came back with four movie cases and his bowl full of popcorn with two boxes of your favorite candy. “Movie night in your room then. Need me to get anything else?”
“How did you get my candy so fast?”
“I have a secret stash in my room for you. For nights like this.”
“You are going to have to show me this stash.” You blushed as he climbed into your bed next to you. Tucking yourself against the wall the first movie started and Steve kept his distance. He placed the popcorn bowl between the both of you while he sat relaxed against your headboard. You tucked your feet under the blanket as your fingers pinched at your candy pieces. Steve tried to keep his attention to the move but kept finding himself watching you with a small smile on your face and your eyes glistening against the bright colors from the screen. You noticed his staring and set down your candy. Moving the bowl onto his lap you inched closer and laid directly next to him.
“Now stop staring.”
“I wasn’t”
“You were. I saw you.”
“Prove it.” Steve smirked as he took a few pieces of popcorn. You both stayed silent for a moment and you felt yourself messing with the sleeve on his sweater.
“Thank you Steve.”
“For what?”
“Cheering me up. You always know what to do.”
“How can I not? You're my girl. No thanks needed.”
“I’m not your girl Steve. I’m your best friend.”
“What if you were my girl?” Steve locked eyes with you as a blush creeped onto your face.
“W-what?”
“What if you were my girl, Angel?”
“Steve, you don’t want me as yours, too much shit to deal with.”
“That’s not true {Y/N}, I’ve always wanted you to be mine. Why do you think I never go on the dates Nat sets up? I’m always checking on you, I’m always worried about you. But you never seemed to want that so I just never pushed, but I’m tired of you going on dates and coming back hurt because they just want that one thing. I don’t want this to ruin our friendship but I want you, I’ve always wanted you since you joined.” Steve reached out to brush the hair away from your face but you jerked away from him. “Hey, I’m sorry Angel. I’ll just go okay? Don’t worry about it…” Steve’s voice dropped in sadness as he quickly ran into his room with a slam of his door. You still sat shocked on your bed at what he just said.
“Steve Rogers, Captain America wants you...You?! A trauma filled, scared of sex, timid girl like you?! And you sat there silent, let him think you crushed his dreams! Maybe he’s confused, Maybe he doesn’t want you. Just a thing to be conquered. No, it’s Steve. He would never. Shit I’m still wearing his shirt. God what did I do?”
You knocked yourself out of the trance and moved after Steve. You chewed your lip as you knocked on his door and your breath hitched when it opened.
“Who is - oh. Hi.”
“Can I come in?” Steve opened his door wider for you to slip inside and you stood there awkwardly as he shut the door again. “Look {Y/N} I’m sorry. I just can’t take it anymore. It’s fine if you just see me as a friend and we can stay that way.” His eyes pleaded with you.
“Steve.”
“Please {Y/N} Please just forget what I said.”
“Steve.”
“God I’m so stupid.”
“STEVE! Let me talk. I-I like you too. I always have, it's just I have an issue with my feelings.”
“What?”
“I love you Steve. You are my best friend and can always cheer me up. You even have a stash with my favorite candy. How can I not love you?” Steve closed the distance between you two and held your hands in his large ones.
“Can I? Uhm. Can I kiss you?” You smiled while you leaned your head up to feel his soft gentle lips against your own. You wanted to melt but kept your walls up, Steve cradled your head as he pulled back and smiled. “I’ve always wanted to do that.” He huffed out a heavy breath and you felt a lump in your throat, you had to tell him before it got too far.
“Can I talk to you about something?”
“Whatever you want, Angel. Sit down.” You sucked in a heavy breath as you sat down on Steve’s bed and played with his fingers that laid in your lap. “Before this gets too far. You uhm, you need to know that while I am not totally against it, I am terrified of having sex. It’s nothing against you. It's just. I, uhm, didn’t have the best childhood and I was...abused...a lot.” You held your tears away, not wanting to cry anymore tonight.
“Angel, I don’t care about that.”
“Of course you do. Everyone does! Even I do. But I just really need to trust someone and they have to understand that I just can’t.”
“If it makes you feel any better I haven’t had sex in over seventy years.” “Yea but if the time came you could do it better than me.”
“What if I uhm I help?”
“What?”
“Have you ever had someone make love to you? Not just fuck?”
“Language Captain.”
“I’m serious. Do you trust me?” You nodded your head as Steve drew himself closer to you until he was almost sitting on your lap. “Can you lay down for me?”
“Okay.”
“I want you to tell me to stop if you need me to okay?”
“Okay.” Your breath hitched as Steve moved to lay next to you and turned you on your side to face him. His hand laid over your shoulder while he slowly guided your lips to his own. Your lips intertwined and you felt his hand trail under his sweater to glide over your skin. He pulled your body against his own before coming back up to cup your face. Steve teased your mouth with his tongue and you opened for him to taste you. A stifled moan flowed into Steve’s mouth from your own while he guided your hands to flow under his shirt. You pulled back to catch your breath while you pushed your fingers over his abs and bit your lip with every curve of his skin.
“You are so beautiful baby.” Steve’s eyes moved over your body before he took his shirt off and you pulled him hungrily to your lips. “Can we take this off?” He fiddled with the bottom of his sweater that covered you. You nodded while he slowly slipped it off of your body. “You okay?”
“Yes. Kiss me more.” Steve obeyed while he gently rubbed your skin and guided your hand up to the bottom of his hairline. Steve’s hand held your hip slightly and you felt his hard member press against you. Your breath hitched and he pulled back away from you checking your face. “I’m okay. Sorry.”
“C’mere.” He pulled you against him and let your nails play over his back while he peppered kisses over your jawline. His nose tickled against your skin, his mouth was hot and welcoming while he toyed with your skin. “So sweet.”
“More please Steve.” Your legs wrapped around his waist while he sucked a mark to the top of your breast. “Shit.”
“Like that Angel?”
“Mhm..” Your nose was tucked against his hair while his lips moved down your body and he paused when he reached your pants. “{Y/N}, Can I take these off?”
“Yours too?” Steve stood up and removed his sweats before pulling your own down softly with a kiss over every inch of exposed skin that followed. You could see him in his boxers and pushed down the gulp in your throat. You let out a shaky breath and hoped Steve didn’t notice.
“What’s wrong?”
“Nothing, I promise.”
“I don’t believe you.” Steve grabbed his blanket and laid down next to you resting the situation. He covered your bodies with the blanket and scooted you against him. “What’s wrong?”
“Just nervous, please don’t stop.” Steve moved your leg to hook over his waist and pushed your back to grind over him. “Just look right at me baby.” He gave you a small peck while he reached around and unhooked your bra. Steve sucked in a tight breath as your chest was revealed and his hand toyed with one of your breasts.
“Feels good.” He licked his lips before trailing his tongue down to circle over your nipple having your back arch against him. He teased the other with a pinch and you rolled to your back. Opening your legs wider Steve held his hips tightly against you with small ruts while he had his fun on your chest. You gripped one of his wrists and moved it down to play over your underwear. Moaning at his touch you arched into him and let your eyes roll back into your head. Steve rolled his tongue down your stomach and pressed a few kisses against your hip while he pressed his fingers against your clothed clit.
“I’m gonna take these off okay?” “Please. Yes.” Your voice was at a pleasurable sigh and Steve loved how you looked to him in this moment. He trailed his tongue down to your slit and massaged your legs to open again.
“God, You’re dripping Angel. This all for me?”
“Only you Steve.” He let an guttural growl loose from his throat while he dipped his tongue through your folds. “Oh! Yes!”
“Taste so sweet Darling.” His tongue cleaned up your slick before he teased your opening with his tongue. His thumb came up to rub small circles on your clit as he began to fuck your hole gently. Steve pulled down one of your hands to play in his hair while the other was linked with his free one at your side. You pushed your hips up against his face to earn more pleasure and Steve let you control his movements. Your moans filled his room and you only wanted more. Steve switched his fingers with his tongue and you gasped as they curled inside of you. Steve pressed kisses against your thighs while he looked up to watch your breasts rising and falling with your pleasure. You gripped his hand tighter with every rise of pleasure, Steve was your only thought and you gripped for him. He adjusted his thumb to take his tongue’s place on your clit as he rose up to rest his forehead onto your own. “Feel good Angel?” “So good. Oh god! Right there. Don’t stop.” Steve tucked your face against his shoulder while he focused his hand and felt your walls tense over his fingers. Steve hovered over you a bit as he cleaned you off of his fingers and your pupils blew as you watched him. You urged your hips towards him and felt a pit open in your stomach with that little laugh he did. Steve kissed you harder this time while he guided your hands to link around his neck, you gasped against his chest as he coated himself in your finish before slowly pushing into you. The sting was coated with pleasure once he filled you to the hilt of him and stayed there for you to adjust to him. Your nails gripped into his skin and his hand held your thigh in place while he balanced himself over you with his arm next to your head. He watched your eyes close and kissed you forcefully with his ruts.
“Look at me baby.” You moved your chin down for your eyes to lock with his crystal blue ones and your breath left your body. “I love you so much, god you are so beautiful.” The coil tightened with every word he spoke. “God I’m so lucky. Such an Angel.” You pulled his chest flush against your own and tucked your face into his neck. Your thighs trembled a bit when you felt his teeth sink into your neck and suck.
“Fuck Steve. Feels so good. So close.”
“I know baby. Just let it happen, Don’t worry about me.”
“Faster. Please.”
“Sure?”
“Mhm, Please.” Your lips pressed against his clavicle and you gripped his shoulders as he picked up his pace, your eyes flitted up to him and he was chasing his own release now. He grunted quietly with every thrust and your legs felt weak as he did so. Your orgasm had ripped through you but kept rising with Steve’s thrusts. Your legs twitched when Steve’s fingers found your clit again and began working them in time. He hovered over your face and pulled your lips to his as he stopped his thrusts and filled you with his finish while his fingers kept pushing you over your limit. You gasped against the sheets as a gush of your finish coated his abs and he watched you with wide eyes.
“Oh my god, Did I!?” “That’s my new favorite thing about you Angel.” Steve quickly moved to grab a rag and cleaned his abs before slowly wiping over you and grabbing a clean pair of underwear for you.
“How many of my things do you have Steve?”
“Everything my Angel needs.” He kissed your forehead as he climbed in his bed with you and you tucked your nose against him. “Are you mine forever now?”
“Forever.”
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lovehatemysme · 4 years
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[Mammon x MC]
"I just don't get it Asmo!" You whined as the demon picked the fallen cucumber, bringing it back on your eye. "He doesn't want anyone near me, but he doesn't make a move either," you sighed.
Asmo hummed as he lay next to you, bringing his own sliced cucumbers to his eyes. He loops one arm to yours steadily, careful not to move too much. "I don't know what to tell you MC, he's like.. a hopeless case," he said, recalling how many times Mammon would deny and brush it off when the brothers tease him to you.
You sigh once again, frustrated how long this whole thing have been going. The silent flirts and signs you give to Mammon and yet it's like he doesn't know or even notice it. And it's killing you, the way he'd barged into your room unannounced, staying there for hours just to hang out with you. The way he'd take your head and rest it on his shoulder when you fall asleep during movie marathons, the way he bites off anyone’s head when they get physically close to you, and even scaring other demons when they attempt to be close to talk to you.
It's like he's putting a fence on you, and yet he's doing nothing to move up your relationship. You tried, you really did.
The way you'd linger your fingers on his arms and chest for too long, he'd blushed but only to move away and ask what you were doing.
"What? You don't like it?" you asked, he'd gaze away and mutter, "Whatever," before walking away and leave you to your stance.
"How about making him jealous?" Asmo said by your said, his fingers lightly gliding on your forearms, "But isn't he always jealous?" you asked.
"But angry jealous!" his voice bubbling with excitement, "It's not enough that you get attention from everyone, how about you give attention to someone else? Oh I want to see Mammon's face when he sees you go with another demon!" He hummed beside you, excited to see his own brother go ballistic. He's the Avatar of Greed after all, what he wants he gets, what's his is his.
You thanked Asmo for the advice and the beauty treatment, going to the kitchen as you wanted some water, only to see Beel rummaging through the fridge door.
"Hey Beel," you said as you took the fridge's door, reaching out for a bottle of water, "Oh hey MC," he said in a muffled voice, mouth filled with cake. "Do you want some?" He offered the one with his hand, only for him to take it all in too, "Oops, sorry," he said in a small smile.
"It's okay, I don't have an appetite anyway," you said as you sat down near the kitchen table, Beel taking out some more food and placing it at the table as he sat close to you.
"Mmm, I don't know what's that like," his lips curling to a frown as he took a sandwich all in, "Are you okay MC?" he then asked as he swallowed the sandwich whole.
"Oh," he suddenly then stood up waiting for your answer, "I forgot I told Belphie I'll bring some snacks," he proceeded to take in his arms all the food he took out, "Here let me help," you said as you took some snacks into your own arms. In his cheery and kid-like smile he thanked you as he walked towards their shared bedroom.
Entering the bedroom you saw Belphie snugged up in his bed, cuddling his pillow.
“Belphie, I brought the snacks, and MC is here,” Beel said as he laid down the snacks on his own bed, Belphie yawned as he opened his eyes and smiled when he saw you. The twins always love it when you come over to their room, Belphie always asking what’s new in the human world, his love for humans once again ignited. And they loved telling you about Lilith too, how even though she’s the youngest of them all, she was the fiercest also.
Time flew by as you listened to the twins, enjoying the exchange of stories and laughter, but not food. The snacks didn’t even last a minute with Beel, but he was more than happy to go back to the kitchen and fetch some more.
“Oi!” a sudden loud knock over the door, “MC, are you in there?” the demon asked as he opened the door. A grin plastered on his face as soon as he saw you, “There you are! Been lookin’ all over for ya,” Mammon said. “Come on! It’s almost curfew hour,” he said as he grabbed your wrist, you waved goodbye to the twins as you followed Mammon.
Realizing you followed him without questions, you stopped on your tracks, “Wait, where are we even going?” you said, Mammon stopping as he looked back at you.
“To your room of course,” he said casually. “Why?” your eyebrow raising as he let go of your wrist, his face looking at you as if you asked a dumb question. “Whaddya’ mean why? To watch a movie you stupid human,” he said.
You looked down as you fidgeted with your hands, “Do we need to?” you asked in a small voice. Mammon was baffled and taken aback, “Why do you even hang out with me so much?” Mammon blinked several times, your own heart racing to hear his answer.
“Because you’re my human, dummy,” he simply said, his hands on the back of his head as he turned around and continued to walk.
“What does that even mean?” you asked in almost a whisper, a phrase you have heard a thousand times, as if claiming you are his. The words easily thrown out and yet actions failed to prove otherwise.
“It means you’re mine, my responsibility, anything happens to ya I’ll be the one payin’ the price,” a heavier tone than earlier, and your heart suddenly ache.
Was that it? Did that meant nothing but just a responsibility? A burden, a chore, nothing but a task he must complete because of Lucifer.
“I.. I’m tired, let’s just watch another time,” you said as you walked past him, leaving Mammon on the empty hallway. He didn’t gave it much thought, but as soon as he entered his room he took his DDD to ask if you were okay, but not getting any response he swore under his breathe, Dammit’, did I said anything wrong!?, he thought, throwing his DDD on his bed.
Maybe Asmo was right, you pondered staring at the ceiling. Maybe all it takes is for his human’s attention to go to someone else, maybe just a little nudge, a little more jealousy, then maybe, just maybe, he’d fess up.
The next morning you were cheery, sitting next to Mammon during breakfast and noticing the little things he did, he laughed merrily as he basked in all the attention that you’re giving.
“Can’t get enough of the Great Mammon huh?” he said as he took a bite from his food, a stupid grin on his face as his brothers just sighed.
Mammon was giddy all morning, his grin never leaving his face even after reaching RAD. But then your attention suddenly switched to someone else, to a lesser demon when you entered the classroom. Walking up to them and even sitting closely to them, much to Mammon’s likeness, he quickly went up to you and the demon to the demon you were talking.
“Hey! Move over! I’m going to sit beside MC!” he said as he tried to push the other demon away, “Mammon! Don’t be rude, we we’re talking,” you scolded him like a child, “Sit over there,” you said as you pointed at an empty chair that was three seats away, “Ya can talk even if you’re far away from one another!” he retorted back, his brows furrowing.
With eyes meeting his, in a commanding tone you said, “I said sit there!”
“Wait- wha-“ Mammon’s legs started to walk, he couldn’t control his body, his pact shining as he walked over to the chair, a little surge of power going through his body as he can’t resist. You smiled at him as he was forced to sit down and continued to talk with the demon beside you.
A strong gloomy aura surrounded Mammon that even in the hallway Beel was scared of coming near him, his stomach growling loud seeing Mammon in such a state.
Mammon glared at the demon, muttering curses under his breathe along with his lines of possessiveness.
That’s my human.
My human!
Mine!
While his morning was all merrily, his afternoon was ill. The pits of his stomach churning, as if harboring all his negative emotions. Stupid demon, stupid MC wanting talking to the demon, what does he even have?!
With sharing only one class today, it was easy not to pay any attention to Mammon for the rest of the day, even coming home quickly as you can to avoid him. You fixed yourself in your room, putting on your favorite outfit as well as fixing your hair the way you feel most good at, studying yourself in the mirror you bit your lip, your heart racing and hoping, wishing, that this would work.
As if on cue the demon barged into your room, “Hey MC what was tha-“ he stopped the moment you stood up and face him, his face completely in awe on how you look, he glanced away as his cheeks flushed.
“Wh-where ya goin’?” he gulped, you past by him as you exited your room. “I’m going out,” you simply said, “With who?” asked as he followed suit to the hallway, “Oh you know, the one I was talking to earlier,” you said, glancing at his face to gauge his reaction. His brows furrowed, the ugly feeling starting to pool again inside him, the need to grab you and make you stay, but he couldn’t find move his body.
“You’re not goin’!” he then said a little too loudly, “And why not?!” you retorted back, stopping in the middle of the hallway as you turned around to face him.
“Cause’.. cause’ you’re my human!” his voice echoing through the hallway of the House of Lamentation. Levi peeking out from his room to see the commotion, taking out his phone to video everything, “His face is so red ROFL LMAOO” he whispered to his phone.
“Yeah yeah, I’m your responsibility, I’ll call when something happens,” you said, “Don’t be stubborn, I said you’re not goin’!” just the thought of you being with someone else irks him, as if something is crawling under his skin, he can’t even stand when his own brothers are too close to you, much less some other demon.
“Then give me a better reason Mammon!” your eyes piercing through his, your heart racing, waiting, hoping.
Mammon frantically looked everywhere but your eyes, panicking to say some words.
“Just say it! Just say that you like me, you coward!” you shouted with your fists balled up, your frustration getting the best of you.
“MC called him coward LOLOL this is epic!” Levi snickered, capturing the whole thing on his phone.
Maybe it was the tension, or the pits in his stomach churning, or that you called him coward that words spit out of his mouth without thinking.
“Alright! I like you, okay?! Ya happy?!” his face and ears turning red, gazing to the side as put his hand on his mouth, your heart leaped hearing his words, your feet running towards at him, seeing you run to him Mammon braced himself for the impact, opening his arms as you jumped to him, catching you with both arms circling around your waist as yours wrap to his neck. Your lips landing onto his, you both smiled like fools into the kiss.
Pulling apart Mammon had a toothy grin, his fangs showing, “Ya gotta kiss the Great Mammon! Whaddya’ say?” you rolled your eyes at him, “Took him long enough!” you pouted. Mammon laughed as he leaned in, his nose touching yours but his eyes looking at one side.
“Still goin’ out with that demon?” he said in a low tone, “Why you want me to?” you teased. “Course not! You’re only gonna go out with me,” his eyes now looking onto yours, his hands pulling your legs up as he wrapped his around his waist, “Got that?” he said, you giggled as you nodded. 
“Oh! Is this snuggle time,” Asmo asked in his cheery voice, reaching out his arms to join you until Mammon turned his back on Asmo. “Go away Asmo! No touchin’! MC’s mine!” he growled as he held you closer, walking away from him and towards your bedroom. Asmo smiled at you as you waved at him with a grin and a thumbs up.  
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Hello, this is my first OM fic and I’m still testing waters~ Any feedback would be nice, thank you~ ♡
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ampleappleamble · 3 years
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The more she saw, the more she remembered. And the more she remembered, the more she dreamed.
Axa was learning– and luckily for her coinpurse, she was learning fast– that while booze and whiteleaf still did the trick when it came to helping her fall asleep, they did nothing to prevent the dreams, vivid and ominous and unrelenting. They tended to start off vague, foreboding glimpses into a hauntingly familiar world: a lone woman wandering lost through shifting halls, throngs of kith raising their hands in supplication before a flash of light reduced them to crumbling ash, great dragons screaming with rage and struggling against their chains. But before long, the dream would inevitably gather itself and resolve into its recurring main features: the tree, and later, the temple.
It was the tree from her first dream as a Watcher, the tree from Gilded Vale, and yet it wasn't– although she quickly noticed that Edér was dangling from it still, just as she'd seen him do in that first dream, before she'd known him. Instead of smiling at her and puffing on his pipe, this time he seemed to be aware of his predicament, lifting himself with one hand on the branch from which he was hanging in an attempt to relieve the pressure on his neck. In his other hand he gripped a stubby little candle, very much like the ones they'd seen in the ruined Eothasian temple under Gilded Vale, and he trembled with exhaustion as he held the feeble, flickering flame to the rope that bound him.
He'll never burn through it with that in time, she realized with a jolt, his grip will give out and he'll hang! But as she sprang forward to help him she felt a tug on her ankle, and all of a sudden she lay sprawled in the dirt, the breath driven out of her by her landing. A glance at her feet revealed the culprit: a scroll, of all things, rolling loose and twisted around her boots, little stylized eyes winking out at her from cramped, illegible writing. The parchment trailed into the distance behind her, and when she turned to her fore again she could see its origin: the base of the gnarled, blackened tree, where two figures knelt bowed their heads together,  deep in conversation. And just as Axa thought she might recognize them–
She was hurrying down the temple hall again, no longer herself but a memory of herself, and he stood at the altar, turning sharply to receive her. "Is that you, Anthea? My child, what brings you–"
She opened her mouth to ask him–
–ask him ask him please i have to know we have to know we deserve to know if it was all–
–and woke up on the floor again, blankets tangled around her knees and hips.
A pair of golden eyes, shining like coins, peered back at her from beneath the bed.
"Vaargys–"
But as soon as his name was out of her mouth, reality rushed in to replace the confusion wrought by her dreaming mind, and she whipped her head around to blink stupidly at the blond man crouching at her side, concern plain on his sun-weathered face.
"Uh... name's Edér, actually," he drawled, his brow furrowing as the edge of his lip twitched into a grin. "...Kinda rude that y' forgot."
Axa stared blankly for a moment, then winced as the hangover washed over her. "Oh, shut up and give me a hand," she grunted, yanking at the twisted sheets.
"What are you doing in here, anyway? After all that fussing about 'chivalry' and 'propriety' last night, I'd have thought you gentlemen would consider intruding on our sacred womanly privacy a dishonor worthy of nothing less than death." They'd rented two rooms to accomodate the party of six, and for some reason, Edér and Aloth had insisted– and to Axa's surprise, Pallegina had agreed– on splitting the party between the two rooms on the basis of sex. Axa still couldn't quite wrap her head around Aedyre and Dyrwoodan ideas about segregating women and men in the name of some sort of nebulous "decency," but it was no hill she cared to die on, and if it made her companions happy then she was more than willing to acquiesce.
"Uh." Edér slipped his hands under the orlan's armpits and hoisted her into the air, allowing her to wiggle free of her linen bonds. "Guessin' y' don't remember what happened last night, then." He couldn't seem to bring himself to look at her, and when Axa cast her eyes around the room, she noticed it looked different than she remembered it...
Kana's head and shoulders popped out from behind the hulking wooden wardrobe, his face slathered in soap suds and his smile as broad as ever. "Axa! Our little sleepwalker, awake at last!" Edér gently set her on her feet as Kana rinsed himself off, and Axa felt her face burn as she realized what must have transpired while she was dreaming.
"I'd say y' owe me a beer for makin' me spend the rest of the night on the floor," the farmer sighed, "but somethin' tells me I really oughtta just let this one go."
"Oh gods, please tell me I didn't..." She cradled her throbbing head in her little hands, trying desperately to hide from the implication, but it was no use. "And you didn't even try to wake me?"
"Couldn't. You know what they say about waking a sleepwalker. Plus, you kinda tend t' sleep like shit. Figured y' could use the rest." The folk man yawned. "Even if it was my damn bed."
Axa planted her hands on her hips, regarding Edér with disbelief. "I can't believe it. Of all the people in this inn, I had to climb into bed with you?"
Edér huffed out a surprised little chuckle. "Wow. Okay. Who'd you rather've climbed into bed with?"
–oh, gods, if it had been Aloth's bed–
"I– I'd have rather not intruded on any of my traveling companions' personal space while they were trying to sleep, thanks," Axa snapped in reply, quickly turning away to better hide her blushing. It wasn't helping that Kana was in full view now, strutting about with a towel draped over his head, naked from the waist up. "How in Hel did I even get in here, anyway? Didn't you lads lock the door?"
"We were wondering that ourselves last night," Kana chirped merrily, scrubbing behind one ear. "The door was most definitely locked– Aloth was very insistent about that– so we supposed you either tapped into some obscure Watcher ability and phased through the wall somehow, or you picked the lock in your sleep." He laughed softly, taking a seat on his bed and rifling through his pack for a clean shirt. "Perhaps it'd be in our best interests to pay a visit to the Hall of Revealed Mysteries today, ask the Eyeless Face for answers– or mercy, if you'd rather."
"I could certainly do with some mercy. Maybe we should stop by," Axa muttered. "After we've delivered that research to the forgemaster in Crucible Keep, of course." She scowled, crossing her arms and rocking on her heels. "...Not looking forward to going back there, to be perfectly honest. For a few reasons."
Back on his own bed at last, Edér looked up from tucking his trousers into his boots. "Aw, c'mon, Axa, the Knights ain't as bad as all that. Don't get me wrong; they ain't very good, 'specially at actually doin' much for the people. But at least they ain't the Dozens, doin' whatever they please and sayin' it's for the people." He stood, lightly stamping his feet to get his trouser legs to fall evenly, and then got started donning his armor. "In any case, maybe while we're there we can convince 'em to open up Heritage Hill for us. It's not like whatever's been goin' on in there is solvin' itself, and they know it."
"Worth a shot," Axa agreed, massaging her temples. "Speaking of the Dozens, it might be worth it to have a little chat with them, too. As you said, the Knights may be the 'official' peacekeepers here in the city, but it's members of the Dozens who are actually out and about in the streets, winning hearts and minds. It'd probably be a good idea to see exactly what it is they think they're doing. And we'll have to make time to visit Brackenbury Sanitarium as well, get Aloth looked at..." The little woman sighed. "Gods, I'm already exhausted. Either that or I'm still exhausted from yesterday. It's getting harder to tell."
She glanced around the room again, briefly allowed her gaze to linger on Kana's bare chest, swept the room again, furrowed her brow. "Where is Aloth, anyway? Don't tell me he sleepwalked into my room last night."
"He left earlier this morning, to dress in the privy or somesuch," Kana grinned, finally finding a suitable undershirt and pulling it on over his head. "He thought it improper to change in front of you. I tried telling him you were sleeping and wouldn't see, but..." The aumaua shrugged, chuckling and shaking his head.
Edér cinched his belt and smiled nervously, looking at the floor. "Uh, speakin' of, Watcher, hadn't you oughtta... y'know. Get ready?" He gestured vaguely at his own torso, and Axa suddenly felt the urge to wrap her furry arms around herself. She hadn't really been thinking about it before, but now she couldn't help but feel uncomfortably exposed, standing there in her ratty old nightshirt that barely fell to mid-thigh, one shoulder poking out from the drooping neckline.
"Uh. Right. Big day ahead of us, after all." She hurried to the door, yanked it open– only to find Pallegina on the other side, midway through reaching for the knob herself, Sagani and Itumaak close behind her.
"Watcher!" The paladin's golden eyes flashed with surprise. "There you are! We woke and you were nowhere to be found. Per complancanet, do not worry us so." She peered into the room, lip curling in mild disgust. "What... what are you doing in–"
Her headache was getting worse. "Long story. Probably. I don't actually know, truth be told. Short version is I somehow managed to get in here last night while sleepwalking."
"I heard you get up and leave the room, but I fell asleep again before long," Sagani admitted, looking the little woman over bemusedly. "Wasn't expecting you to just wander off. Didn't these boys have their door locked?" Itumaak tried to sneak past his mistress and sniff around Edér's pack for more jerky, but she stopped him with a sharp snap of her tongue.
Kana opened his mouth excitedly to explain, but Pallegina cut him off. "No matter. The sun climbs the sky quickly, and we have idled here long enough. Watcher, you should return to our room and get dressed. There is much work to be done today." The Godlike gave her a sharp nod and turned to march down the hallway toward the stairs, Sagani and Itumaak following a moment later.
Axa laughed despite herself. "Well! You heard the woman. I'll see you downstairs in a bit, gentlemen." She gave the two men one last glance before stepping out into the hall herself–
–and colliding with Aloth, his face buried in his grimoire and strolling full-speed back into his room, clearly not expecting a fuzzy little missile to barrel directly into his midsection. Both kith tumbled backwards, falling flat on their asses, crying out more from surprise than from pain. And when the shock had abated, both groaned in embarrassment.
"You're up, then," he muttered, clambering to his feet. "However did you get into our room last night?"
"Can I please just go put some gods damned pants on," she wailed in response.
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spnsisterimagines · 4 years
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Homecoming?
Summary - Y/N brings her first boyfriend home and has to face the terrifying wrath of her older brothers and single father.
Pairings - Dean Winchester x Sister!Reader , Sam Winchester x Sister!Reader , John Winchester x Daughter!Reader
Word Count - 2,891 words
It was her very first homecoming. When she was a freshman, she didn't get to go. For one thing, she and Sam were set on research for Dean and their father. For another, nobody asked her to go because she was the weird new girl that had a throwing knife in her book bag after that nasty cheerleader Henrietta Marycomb thumbed through it in the girls' locker room after gym. Y/N easily took care of that situation, however, when she took one of the spiders near her motel room and slyly slipped it onto her lunch tray the next day.
But everything was going to be different for her sophomore year. It was a new school, so she wasn't known as the scary new kid with knives and spiders. She actually had a handful of friends, and she knew they would stay there until Christmas since her father had a lead that would keep him busy for a good few months. She also finally had someone ask her. James Cleese was her friend from Geometry. He was a junior, only one year older than her, and he was probably the cutest boy she'd ever met. He was tall and lean, his legs muscled from being on the varsity soccer team. He had messy brown hair that fell over his forehead, constantly tempting Y/N at running her fingers through it. He had the biggest brown eyes she had ever seen, which he often used on her at lunch when he wanted her milk carton. He constantly talked about soccer games and Harry Potter. Overall, he was a great guy, and he had asked her in the sweetest yet corniest way possible.
Their friend group consisted of four people, including himself and Y/N. The other two were Jane Collins and Elyse Porter. He had convinced them to wear custom t-shirts that had the question stitched on the front and answer choices on the back. After handing her a check mark with a slip of tape across the top, she had put it on the shirt that read yes before squealing in delight as he pulled her into his arms and spun her around. It was what almost every high school kid wanted from a date. It was sickeningly romantic, and Y/N couldn't wait to go with him. 
Unfortunately, the step after accepting his invitation was notifying her brothers and father, which she forgot to do until the day James was supposed to retrieve her. Sam and Dean had to have known homecoming was coming up. At least Sam should have known since Dean had graduated that year prior, but he was always excited for the big dances and football games, even if they rarely got to attend due to their shabby attendance record. 
As for Sam, he was keen on spending his senior year with his nose behind a book; Y/N was sure he wasn't even aware that it was October. Either way, neither her brothers nor her busy father knew that she'd be attending the Homecoming dance with a boy they'd never met. And she truly intended to tell them, but every time she tried they were either busy with a case her father was stuck on or arguing about some stupid football team. Besides, Y/N had no idea how they would react. 
Dean and Sam were always relatively protective over their baby sister, but that was with hunts and monsters. The thought of boys(or girls) never really crossed their mind because they figured Y/N was never interested in dating. It never bothered to occur to them that, perhaps, Y/N would be open to seeing other people that weren't her brothers teasing her or her father playfully ruffling her hair as he wandered to the fridge to get another drink. This would be a rather dramatic wake up call. No warning. No foreshadowing. Just a boy appearing at their door in a cheap outfit with a flower in his tightly clutched hand. 
James didn't question the fact Y/N lived in a motel. He didn't really care where she lived, and for that she was grateful. Most people would make fun of her, and they have. 
Anyway, the night approached for the dance. Y/N had managed to use up all her allowance for a cheap purple gown that fell down to her knees. A pair of nice sandals would suffice for her shoes for the night. She wouldn't be caught dead in heels. She'd fall right on her face, she was sure. She had spent over two hours in the bathroom getting ready, putting on little make up to make her eyes pop along with a little lip gloss that Jane let her borrow. Her father was asleep on the arm chair, so he didn't notice. Dean was watching television and Sam was content on one of the beds with a book pulled open on his lap. They didn't bother to check in on their sister, figuring she was just taking a shower. But Dean really had to use the restroom, so now he was pounding annoyingly on the thin wood. 
"Y/N! C'mon! I ain't goin' outside!" he called for the fifth time, not taking no for an answer again. Y/N was attempting to curl her hair, but the cheap iron didn't want to work with her. Eventually she just decided to pin it back, smoothing out any bumps and checking her face for any blemishes or stray marks from the mascara she had used. She looked very pretty. Swelling with confidence, she unlocked the bathroom door and opened it wide, scowling up at her brother. 
"You're so whiny," she insulted, stepping around him toward her duffel bag that contained the small purse she wanted to take to the dance. 
"Woah, woah, woah," Dean said, forgetting all about his need for the bathroom. "Why are you so dolled up?"
From the bed, Sam looked up. He eyed his sister in surprise. She normally wore flannel and skinny jeans; basically anything that had her ready to fight was her sense of style. He rarely saw her in anything remotely feminine. His eyebrows creased, closing the book and inching his way out of bed as though he was going to inspect Y/N closer. 
"Is that make-up?" he asked.
"Yes," Y/N said hesitantly. This was going to come out sooner or later. "I'm going to the homecoming dance tonight."
"You've practically got nothing on. The hell do you think you're doing wearing something so short?" Dean snorted. "Wait a minute, since when were dances your thing?"
"Since I was asked?" Y/N replied sarcastically. "And you can't even see my thighs. I'm not exactly dressed like a flapper." 
"Wait, you were asked to the dance?" Sam asked, looking thoroughly surprised. How could he not know about this? They attended the same school! Granted, she stuck with the sophomores and juniors while he was perfectly fine by himself in the library, but that kind of news normally spread like wildfire, especially in a small town school like theirs. "By who?"
"James Cleese. You don't know him. He's a friend from my math class," Y/N shrugged it off, hoping if she played it off as though it weren't a big deal, they'd do the same. Clearly she didn't know her brothers as well as she thought because now they were rounding on her like two mother hens. Sam was fussing over the amount of mascara she was wearing and Dean was adamant that she not go out at all unless she had something to cover her shoulders with. Their father snoozed on, completely unaware of what was happening with his three children. They were only interrupted by a knock at the door. Their father stirred, opening his eyes groggily and looking over the top of his chair. 
"Who's there?" he grunted, suddenly alert. "Who the hell knows we're here?"
"Daddy, it's my friend," Y/N supplied with ease, sending him a calm smile. That didn't work since he was now a third witness to her appearance. He shot out of his chair, suddenly clutching his right hip where his trusty gun sat. "Dad, no! It's just James. He's here to pick me up. He's a really nice boy, you'd like him! You'd all like him! Let me just get the do-"
Her father didn't listen, instead marching right over to the door and unlocking it aggressively and yanking it open. James stood there awkwardly, for once not wearing his cheesy grin he used on Y/N constantly. He had on a nice button up with a navy blue tie neatly laid over his chest. He held onto a lily in his right hand, his left held up as though he were going to knock again. 
"Uh, hi," he greeted. "You must be Y/N's father. I'm James, sir. James Cleese." He thrust out a hand for John to shake, but he just stared down at it before slamming the door in his face. 
"Dad!" Y/N hissed, pushing past her brothers and getting to the door, quickly pulling it back open. "James, you just wait here!"
"O-Okay. Is everything alr-" She slammed the door back in his face and whipped around to face the three men, all of which had completely forgotten what they were previously doing, instead shocked over what Y/N was now putting them through. She wasn't supposed to be interested in boys yet. That was supposed to be a foreign concept to her. She still needed to think they had cooties, but here she was dressed really nice with her hair pinned back and make-up really bringing out the beautiful details in her now hostile face as she looked at them. 
"Alright, so I didn't say anything. But it's because I knew this was exactly what was going to happen!" she snarled, pointing an accusing finger in their direction.
"I'm sorry, can someone clue me in on what the hell is going on? Why are you dressed like that? Why the hell is there a boy with a flower on my doorstep?" John demanded. 
"Y/N got asked to the homecoming, Dad," Sam explained hastily. 
"And she's not going," Dean added.
"Excuse me?" Y/N scoffed, completely offended. 
"We don't even know this kid. For all we know, he could be some dick wanting to lose his V-card to the nice girl that blew into town unexpectedly." Dean scoffed, crossing his arms. 
"Right, because he really seemed like the type! Dean, he's my friend. I know him. Really, I do. I know it's hard to believe I have a life outside of the three of you, but I do!" Y/N said. "Daddy, I promise you. He is so nice. He likes me. He really does. He plays soccer, he's okay at math, and he's really funny! He likes all those stupid old sitcoms that you like!"
John shook his head. "I dunno. This is the first I'm even hearing of this. Why the hell would you wait for the day of?"
"Like I said, I knew you guys would react like this."
"What, like reasonable family? Look, I know you're living in that little fantasy in your head. You want to believe this guy is good through and through, but let me give you a tour behind the curtain. All men are assholes. All of us." Sam looked slightly offended at that, but he didn't say anything. But that seemed to be the last straw for their sister.
Y/N grit her teeth, fighting off the urge to kick off her sandals and beat the living hell out of her elder brother. "Actually, he's a nice boy that's my friend that wanted to go to the dance with me, alright? You know, that's so unfair! None of us bat an eye when you go home with a girl or when Sammy talks to a girl when he's not nose-banging whatever law book he's managed to find! And I'm not even being inappropriate; it's a school dance that's supervised by staff members! Jane and Elyse are tagging along! He's not gonna pull me down in the middle of the dance floor and hoist up my dress!"
They grimaced, feeling even angrier at just the thought of a boy violating Y/N, but they couldn't find much of an argument. She just wanted to go out and have fun. Who were they to stop that from happening? It was selfish. And...maybe she had grown up from that little girl that didn't give boys a second glance. Plus, she was also a Winchester. She was perfectly capable of defending herself against anyone that put their hands on her, including a stupid boy from class that wanted to take her out for the night. 
Sam was the first to speak. "She's right. It's just a dance, Dean. C'mon. She never really asks to go anywhere." 
Dean didn't answer right away. He stared at Y/N, his arms still crossed stubbornly. She was giving him her best puppy dog eyes, clutching her hands to her chest as she looked him in the eyes. He hated when she did that. That was the face she often pulled on dad when Dean and her were arguing so he'd take Y/N's side. Dean could understand finally why it always worked. It was very difficult to say no to that face. He finally looked up to his Dad, who also had his arms crossed. The two of them would be the hardest to crack, and they didn't seem to want to make a move until the other did. 
"Okay, he's still waiting outside, and I don't think he'll be there much longer. Someone say something," Y/N said, throwing her hands out in exasperation.
"Fine," John said at last, lifting a hand to rub at his temples. Dean looked up at him in surprise. Y/N elicited an excited squeal, throwing her arms around her father in a tight hug. He gingerly patted her head, not used to the physical affection. He loved his daughter to the moon  and back, but they weren't necessarily a family that constantly hugged and exclaimed 'I love yous'. Dean still looked hesitant, but he couldn't stop her now that their father gave her the green light. 
While she went to hug Sammy, John opened the door back up to James, who was standing there bouncing on the tips of his toes. He froze once he saw him again, his eyes flying toward the gun that was very obvious in the streetlights. He gave him a nervous smile, holding the lily a little tighter in his fist. 
"James...I'm John Winchester, Y/N's father," John said, as though he hadn't previously slammed the door in his face. This time he held a hand out for James to shake, to which he did so eagerly. Although John seemed to be holding his hand a little too tight, making James wince. When the handshake finished, he let James step in and see Y/N separate from her hug with Sam. His mouth slightly dropped and his eyes brightened considerably. 
"Wow...you look amazing," he complimented. "I only saw a glimpse of you earlier before you..."
"Yeah, let's not talk about it," Y/N smiled, walking over to him and taking the lily and pinning it into her hair. "You look really nice, too. A little sad you didn't go commando like I wanted." Dean physically growled. "I'm kidding, Dean! Let me just get my purse, James, and we can go." She pecked his cheek and, once more, went to dig through her duffel bag. This left James with her two big brothers. Some would say they're an even bigger threat compared to John. 
"Hey, James, I'm Sam," Sam introduced himself, also thrusting out a hand for him to shake. James obliged, wishing he chose a different hand since it was still slightly sore from John's handshake. "Not to be that guy...but we do expect her home at ten. And if there's any sign that anything happened...we're proud gun owners."
"Okay," James squeaked. Dean came up behind Sam, not holding a hand out. 
"We mean it. Even if it's just a hair out of place or the tiniest hint at a hickey...I will personally find you myself." 
"Nothing will happen, I promise," James declared shakily, grateful when Y/N returned to his side with her purse slung over her shoulder. 
"They're just joking with you, don't take them so seriously. Dean can't even aim at the toilet," Y/N smirked, ignoring her brother's disgusted pleas for her to shut up. "You ready to go? Jane and Elyse are probably wondering where we are."
"Yes, yes I am," James eagerly nodded his head. "It was nice to meet all of you. I promise to have Y/N back at ten safe and sound."
"That'll give us enough time in the back of your truck," Y/N smirked, slamming the door shut behind them. 
"Y/N!" Dean shouted as a warning.
Both brothers watched through the only window their motel room offered as James' truck pulled out of the parking lot and down the road. 
"Don't you worry, boys. Nothin's gonna happen to your sister," John assured, going through the fridge and grabbing a beer. 
"How are you so sure?" Dean asked. 
"Because I slipped a knife into her purse before she left," John answered coolly, popping open the can and slipping back into the armchair.
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hillbillied · 3 years
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I'm about to be a basic bitch and ask for andyeddie for the domestic ship meme please and thank you?! 💜
fuck yeah you can, i want all of these!! and if this means we’re basic then call me bottom-line PH neutral, my dude - this is an andyeddie brain rot zone, you know this and i thank you so much for it!!
DOMESTIC SHIP MEME - AndyEddie
who reaches out to new neighbors
Andy. mr personality over here got it all. smooth voice, soft accent, award-winning smile. some neighbours take a while to even realise the tall, scary-looking guy in the blue pickup lives in the same house.
who remembers to buy healthy food
Andy, sort of. he buys a range but he does love his fresh fruit and veg. Eddie, on the other hand, shops simultaneously like he’s only got $5 and is on death row. not necessarily unhealthy just… bread. pasta. bacon. ready meal shit. bags of snacks. buy in bulk, Andy, it’s cheaper.
who fixes the oven when it breaks
Eddie, more practical knowledge from the machines. Andy would rather just call someone but has accepted just watching. (Eddie wears a dirty vest when he’s fixing it. got it tucked into his jeans with that big ol’ belt he wears and his tattooed arms are out so Andy just sips his drinks like cool, cool, please hurry up or this is going to turn into a bad porno.)
who waters the plants/feeds their pet(s)
Andy waters the plants because he loves his plants. he has a flowerbed when they get a garden but even in an apartment he had flowerpots on the windowsills; he loves gardening. (pet wise, when they get a dog, they both feed it. they share cleaning, though Eddie is more maintenance and Andy more cleaning.)
who wakes up earlier
Eddie. six in the morning, without fail. marine clock, baby, that shit will never die. (not without heavy drinking or an all-nighter anyway.)
who makes the bed
Eddie. because Andy’s shit at it. military-corners Eddie’s fucking ass; Andy’s terrible at keeping things tidy. he’s clean but he’s not neat.
who burns breakfast
Andy. Eddie is a great cook, he does deliciously simple comfort foods and he makes dinner every night. full-on stereotypical house-husband in that regard, because Andy’s the breadwinner of the two in the boring hetero sense. Andy can cook, as in he can follow instructions and not set the kitchen on fire, but he’s the only one who’ll burn anything.
how do they let each other know they’re leaving the house
Andy always kisses Eddie on the forehead. he’ll probably smooch him properly first – or worse, because he’s a a bastard, and will grab his ass before leaving – but he always marks that he’s actually leaving by kissing his forehead. he will go find Eddie specifically to give him his goodbye kiss.
Eddie shouts. hollers he’s going out in the shortest, blunted transfer of information. a grunted “Goin’ work” kind of deal. unless it’s spontaneous, he’ll also give Andy a kiss. it’s always on the lips and its chaste but heavy, pressing hard like he’s trying to remember the sensation. then he’ll get out of bed or grab his keys or go shower or whatever, and leave with a shout to mark him actually opening the door.
how do they greet each other when one of them gets home
Andy’s talkative. he’s “You have a good day?” or “You’ll never guess who turned up this afternoon!”. first one is default if nothing interesting’s happened. he wants to start a conversation, even if he talks and Eddie grunts. he doesn’t get up to greet; he knows Eddie will come find him and either sit down in his lap or come up behind him and wrap two strong arms around his waist. whatever suits, no rules
Eddie wanders out to meet Andy. he’ll come downstairs or walk into the entrance hallway. he’ll always have his arms folded, because he wants Andy to tell him what happened while he was out. (he doesn’t consider himself very interesting, yet he always wants to hear about the most basic shit Andy does.) normally he’ll add a “How was it?” or “Evenin’”. then he’ll wait because Andy usually answers him but not before he’s given him a greeting kiss.
who brings home little gifts like flowers/chocolates more often
both. Andy on the chocolates, Eddie on the flowers.
Andy knows the flavours Eddie enjoys and likes popping them into his mouth while Eddie berates him about wasting money. Andy buys things he thinks Eddie likes, but he also buys things Eddie needs and will not buy himself. lighters, jeans, shoes, wallets, picture frames, glasses cases. things that are worn down to the bone and need replacing. but also things like books and records.
Eddie’s a traditionalist, even if his reasoning might be a little tainted by heterosexual bullshit and toxic masculinity. he thinks flowers are beautiful, he knows Andy loves them, even memorised what kind he loves most, but there’s a-whole-nother level of gears in his mind about buying them. eventually he does because he desperately wants the ‘romance he can never have’. it’s a semi-special occasion the first time, like he’s picking Andy up from the station. he brings his bouquet and he looks way more uncomfortable holding it than Andy ever could be receiving it. (Andy, of course, is overwhelmed with joy. he puts them in the front window so everybody can see and he prunes them daily and he changes the water so they last longer and he plays with Eddie’s hair while looking at them and talks about how much he loves them. Eddie starts buying him flowers a fair bit after that.)
their favorite kind of movie to watch
I’ve been doing these for canon-era (1950s) so for that it’s any western movie and specifically The King and I. (they’re a couple of gays who love a good musical.) they don’t enjoy all the war movies, particularly since most of them are about Europe and are just completely surreal.
modern AU: shitty horror movies – they’ve seen every Final Destination and can rate them in order of ‘watchability’ – and 1990s classics like Jurassic Park and Jumanji, they’re simple guys.)
who first suggests a pillow fort
Andy. he secretly wants to give Eddie the childhood he’s certain, by piecing together a lot of clipped information, the man never had. so, he’ll make sure he’s already halfway down with it in the living room when Eddie comes home because then they might as well finish it and sleep there, right?
who builds the pillow fort
Andy starts it, Eddie watches and considers whether he’s going to participate. then Andy smiles at him and asks if he can help tie up a blanket to make one of the walls and yeah, Eddie’s building it too.
who tries to distract the other during the movie
Andrew Fucking Haldane. stupid fucking horny man does not have the attention span for movies. he’s impossible. luckily, he’s polite and will just entertain himself, running his hands up Eddie’s sides and kissing his neck even if Eddie himself wants to know whether Dorothy makes it to the Emerald City or not.
who falls asleep first
Eddie. in the marines, you have a time when you sleep and it is limited. he lays down, shuts his eyes, switches off his problems, and sleeps. dead to the world, he’ll be up at six. Andy doesn’t have trouble falling asleep usually but he can be known to lie awake and think too hard. Eddie’s occasionally found him downstairs reading the newspaper or pacing or sipping tea at the early hours when he’s really stressed. (and hiding it as best he can.)
who is big spoon/little spoon
both. Eddie will happily wrap himself around Andy protectively and just listen to the man talk. he’ll squeeze him tight and breathe deeply so Andy can feel it and simply let him know he’s there, he’ll keep them safe. when Andy’s the big spoon, he’ll kiss the back of Eddie’s neck and whisper in his ear and thread their fingers together. he tells Eddie that there’s nowhere else he’d rather be and how warm he feels and wonder what they’ll get up to tomorrow.  they also both like to come up behind each other for a standing-spoon, if you will.
coffee, junkfood, movie night pick ones here
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