⊹₊ ⋆ 𝔠𝔬𝔩𝔡 𝔰𝔱𝔞𝔯𝔩𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔰 ⋆₊ ⊹
┊⁀➷ nyx x oc
┊part eight
part seven
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Nerves consumed her throughout the night, not allowing her even a flicker of rest. She kept replaying the conversation with Selah over and over in her head.
Even as she tried to think of her alternatives, or maybe tell someone, come up with a new plan, something that didn't involve taking the deal, no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't come up with a single thing that would help her break free of this disastrous plan.
So, after way too much thinking, she got out of bed and wrote a note. A simple 'Deal'. Then the little paper disappeared.
Demetria bit her nails as she waited for confirmation, pacing impatiently until the paper returned minutes later.
'Welcome to the family’. She read.
✧₊˚.
The next morning, they were bidding farewell to their guests, and Demetria felt a terrible dread rise in her chest as she walked through the corridors of the ice palace.
Tomorrow was the High Lady of the Night's birthday, and though she was dying to accept Asterin's invitation and accompany them to Velaris, now more than ever it would be impossible.
"I'm going to miss you so much," Asterin said as they embraced. "Are you sure you can't come?" They parted, and Demetria felt a stabbing pain in her heart, but she disguised it well enough with a rueful smile and an apologetic look. "I can't, I'm sorry, I wish I could."
She broke away from Asterin to hug Kardam, the male was silent, but just as Demetria was about to pull away, he hugged her tightly and whispered in her ear.
"Be careful, Dem."
She felt fear rise in her body at those words. Kardam was a very cryptic male, maybe he meant something else that wasn't exactly what she was thinking, but...
Demetria pulled away and faked a smile that came up much more tense than she had wanted, and felt it tremble on her lips, but she didn't say anything else either.
She said goodbye to everyone, Hollyver, Elliot, Darya and the younglings, but each hug, each goodbye, hurt more than the last. In a couple of days they would all look at her differently, and the thought of that made her heart ache.
She walked away from everyone, her heart too tight in her chest and a lump in her throat that prevented her from breathing.
A hand grabbed her wrist and tugged so fast she didn't have time to react. But she didn't need to, she knew exactly who the electric, burning touch belonged to.
"We need to talk," Nyx said once they were out of sight of the others.
Demetria sighed. He'd been the first person she'd thought of when she'd sent that terrible note. Maybe, just maybe, Nyx could be her ally in all of this. After all, he was the heir to the Night Court, his court was being threatened as well. Her brother would be completely enraged if she told him everything, Kardam and Asterin would want to get involved, and that would put them in danger. Nyx, however... if anyone understood the good of making stupid decisions, it was him. She could trust him, she knew he would understand.
"Yes, yes, we have to."
"About the other night-"
"I need to tell you-"
They said at the same time.
"What about the other-?"
"What do you need-?"
Once again, they spoke in sink. Nyx tilted his head towards her to allow her to continue.
There was something that had been bothering her since that night, something she had wanted to apologize for, and she took this moment to do so.
"Nyx, if the other night is about me using my powers on you, I'm truly sorry, I didn't mean to do that, it just happened. I didn't see anything concrete, really, I think all the emotions clouded my mind. I promise I won't do it again."
Nyx's face contorted with emotions and confusion, blinking several times.
"Or did you want to talk about something else?" She asked, arching an eyebrow at his lack of words.
Then, his face suddenly changed. He stood completely still, cold, with a calculated calm that confused Demetria, as if he was masking a much greater feeling with that same look he used to give her when they weren't so friendly.
He turned away from her, as if her touch was poisonous, which only confused her all the more.
"No, nothing, that was it."
"Nyx?"
"I have to go, I just came to say goodbye."
"Okay, but I need to tell you something, it's very important."
"Goodbye, Demetria," and then... he left.
Demetria stood there for a while, staring at the spot where Nyx had disappeared with a frown, puzzled and too confused.
Nyx hadn't cared what she had to say, he just hadn't cared. And now she was alone.
Totally and utterly alone.
✧₊˚.
His knuckles were so bloody at this point, drops of red were falling plummeting to the floor. It had been three days since he'd left the Winter Court, and from the first day, he'd wanted to go back and apologise for being a jerk, but the sheer disappointment that Demetria hadn't felt what he felt... Well, it kept him training until his body was so sore, Asterin had to use her magic to heal it.
That third day was no different, his breathing was already labored. His muscles were trembling and he was completely drenched in sweat. But everything was better than thinking about her, everything was better than hearing her voice in his head, everything was better than feeling her disappointment when he backed away from her in his own chest, everything was better than feeling that cold wall made of ice spikes in his head and not being able to do anything to cross it.
"You have exactly 30 seconds to start explaining yourself, Nyx Archeron, or I'm going to break your face," Blaze's voice made him freeze and turn around with a frown on his face.
He hadn't expected his best friend at all.
"Blaze, what are you...?"
"Start. Explaining," the male gritted his teeth, in the century they had known each other, Nyx had never seen him so heated.
"I don't understand what-"
"Demetria, Nyx! What the hell happened with Demetria!”
Nyx felt his blood run cold and his breath completely leave his lungs. He had avoided her name completely all that time, and now for her twin to be standing in front of him, so furiously screaming her name. Shit, the Mother really did have strange ways of acting.
"Blaze, I can explain."
"Yeah, that's what I'm waiting for, a fucking explanation. Why did my sister, after apparently having her heart broken by someone, decide to marry fucking Abraxas?"
Nyx had never heard his heart break, never felt the air get painfully stuck in his lungs and the need to open his chest with his bare hands to take out his heart before it kept making feel like it was. Until now.
Demetria was going to what?
“Wait a second, what?”
“She’s going to marry him, Nyx, she accepted the damn deal!” Blaze shout, and again, that terrible pain pinched his heart.
Now a complete wave of wild emotions lashed though him. He tried to hit into that barrier of ice, hit and hit for her to hear him, but there was no response.
“I didn’t…I didn’t know,” Blaze looked surprised, what told him that his family had to know already, and none of them had said a thing.
He normally kept his emotions at bay, had learned from the best High Fae in Prythian to control the wild rushes of rough power cursing through his veins. But at that moment, it all felt like he was not going to be able to keep everything in him under control. He had never felt the need to explode so badly. He felt every kernel of power punch into his walls, into his barriers, begging to burst in a frenzy of emotions.
“I’m sorry, Blaze, I really don’t know what was I thinking, I couldn’t…I…” He couldn’t even find the words to explain.
Blaze was his best friend, Demetria’s twin brother, and he had been hiding it all from him.
“You think I’m mad you’re in love with my sister?” The silver-haired snapped, making him frown.
“Then what are you mad at?”
“I’m mad at you for not telling me! I’m mad at you for not telling her!”
“I tried!” He finally snapped, all the rush of feelings swirling up his body like a wild tornado.
“Did you really?”
He fell silent, not knowing what to say. He hadn’t said it, but…
“I-“
“Yeah, exactly what I thought,” Blaze sighed and grabbed the bridge of his nose, then got closer to him, a look of worry in his winter blue eyes. “Nyx, of course I’m not fucking mad that you love my sister, don’t be such a ridiculous asshole and use me as an excuse for being a coward.”
Nyx rolled his eyes and huffed a breath. “Well thank you, dear best friend.”
“As your best friend I’m in the legal obligation to tell you you were a coward,” the silver-haired put his hands on his hips, making him look way too much like his twin sister when she was scolding him.
“I know! Ok? I know, I just…I though she had seen it, that she had…” Again, the words got caught up in his throat in an impossibly painful knot.
“That she had felt the the mating bond?” Blaze finished for him in a soft, much more calm voice than before.
Nyx shot his head up with an incredulous frown. “How did you…” When Blaze rose an eyebrow as if saying ‘you really thought I didn’t knew that already?’ Nyx shook his head and sighed deeply. “Never mind. Yeah, that. But apparently she thinks it was her powers and not…that.”
That had been what made him back away, he had been so out of words, so pathetically hopeful Demetria would have felt as he had. And then he had ran away from it, from his feelings, and from her.
“‘That’ has a name, Nyx, you got to say it,” Blaze said with a sigh, but Nyx lowered his head without being able to look into him.
“The…” He closed his eyes, then sighed, feeling the lump in his throat burn more than he cared to admit. “The mating bond,” he finally gathered his courage to said it out loud, his chest sinking in heavily at the final realization. “Demetria is…she’s my mate,” a sigh escaped him mid sentence, his voice shaky and almost unrecognizable.
He had become a whirlwind of emotions and regrets, he had spent a hundred years in pure oblivion, having her right in front of him, fighting her off, driving her away, being too full of himself he never stoped to think of what he had right in front. Demetria had been there all those decades, saving him from his own stupidity, he hadn’t realice just how much he loved to hear her laugh, how much he loved to see her put her hands on her hips when she was scolding him, how her ears turned red when she was lying, how her eyes squirmed when she was analyzing him, how she always had an answer for almost everything, and when she did not; she went on and learned it. How she was so terribly frustratingly beautiful and deadly all at once, how she was full of empathy and love for those around her. He hadn’t appreciated enough the little involuntary smiles and bites of her lip when she was too concentrated reading a book, or how she loved to wear beautiful clothes that had always unknowingly stolen his breath. How he couldn’t see a snowflake without instantly thinking of her, how she was just so cold and hot and powerful and sweet and…so her, he hadn’t appreciated that enough, her being her, her being Demetria.
“Yeah, now I owe your sister some biiig money,” Blaze interrupted his trail of melancholic thoughts with a low whistle, making Nyx rise his head and lift and eyebrow. “What? Oh, don’t look at me like that, we all betted on you being mates.”
“I can’t believe…you know what, yeah, I can totally believe that,” he shook his head, a little smile spreading at thinking just how much money Asterin had made from that bet, because she sure as hell had bet on them.
“What are you gonna do now, then,” his friend asked after a moment of silence.
“What am I gonna do? What am I supposed to do? She’s marrying someone else,” being shot poisonous arrows would hurt less than those words out loud did, he cringed at the thought of Demetria at Abraxas’ side, and a wave of hot rage traveled through his toes to his head.
“Yeah, and so was your mother, have you learned nothing from history, pal? Girl who’s about to marry a prick from the Spring Cour=bad. A mysterious good-looking Night Court male who opposes to said marriage and conveniently happens to be her mate=good! Now go get your happy ending too!” Blaze’s face, in other circumstances, would have been hilarious; brows furrowed and accusing look.
“Don’t be ridiculous,” Nyx shook his head, heading off to clean his sweat with a towel, in reality, just finding an excuse to get away of Blaze’s scrutinizing gaze.
“Oh my…is this a Night Court male thing? You’re all trying to have a last-moment moral or what?”
“It’s just…she’s planning something.”
He had been thinking about it, he knew Demetria all too well to think she was doing all this just for spite, she would never, in a millennia, marry a male like Abraxas just because, leaving her court, her home, and her dreams for a weak, selfish and fool male. Hell no. There had to be something else, something hidden in all that. He just knew it.
It just had to be.
“Of course she’s planning something! To ruin her life!”
“No it’s not…it’s not that. Why would your sister, of all people, willingly choose to marry the male she hates the most?” He turned around to look at the silver haired again, eyebrows furrowed together.
“I’m sorry to break it to you my friend, but you’re the male she hates the most, and she did not agreed to marry you, in fact, she heavily rejected-”
“Yeah, ok, I got the point. Thank you,” he rolled his eyes, turning back away from his mocking friend.
“But you’re right, I thought so too. I questioned her this morning about it but she just…shut me out completely, that’s why I came here to talk to you, Demetria never shuts me out like that. She’s shutting everyone out, in fact. My mother, my father, even my aunt. No one has been able to really talk to her.”
“And you think she’ll listen to me? Of all people?”
“Oh hell no, she’s going to tell you to go fuck yourself, that’s for sure. But at least, you’ll be able to…I don’t know, maybe know what’s going on, help her in some way. She’s going through a bad time, Nyx, I can see it, she hasn’t slept in days, she doesn’t look like herself. You’ll at least make her explode and scream, get some feeling out of her. You’ll make her feel something, Nyx, I know you will.”
That was what scared him the most, that not only he had that power, but she as well. She had the power to make him feel everything at once. And if he had barely been able to control his feelings today, he didn’t wanted to start imagining what would be like when he actually had her in front of him, when he heard her say she was going to marry Abraxas. Fuck no, that will actually make him snap.
But, seeing Blaze’s worried eyes, and imagining Demetria’s state, specially after he had been so coward he hadn’t let her speak, let her tell him what was wrong and just ran away, well, he gave a shit if he ended up killing that son of a bitch if necessary.
Demetria was his mate, and like hell he was going to let her go again.
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a full list of my names!
[PT: a full list of my names!]
this will be very long, hence the cut
[divider creator]
my icelandic names
mosi, lækur, kaos, rebbi, bambi, brynmar, eldur, fjarki, hljómur, kjói [i will not share the names i go by in day-to-day life for comfort’s sake]
nature / animal-themed:
froggie, ocean, storm, river, wren, fox, bee, floro, koi, calico, meadow, prairie, axolotl (axie), birdie, fennec, florin, mirage, artic, aero, sage, fleur, seafoam (foamy)
music / sound / art-themed
indie (indigo, gogo), echo, audio, art, rhapsody, lyric, rhythm, crayon, abstract, scribble, harmony, vinyl, klaxon, comic, pixel, 8bit
mythology / story-themed
nyx, artemis, apollo, amphinome, aurelio, helios, juno, koios, myth, fable, story
space-themed
sol, io, star, cosmo, andromeda, starshine, orbit, astro, comet, moon, equinox (quinn), moonlight, nova, stardust, asterin, soleil, solstice
fashion / color / subulture-themed
kandi, punk, azure, neon, anarchy, riot, decora, rebel
magic(k) / gemstone / fantasy-themed
onyx, melancholy (collie), riddle, moonstone, jade, aura, alchemy
fictional-themed
2D
misc fem
maera, evelyn,
misc masc
arlo, alistair (allie), artemio, ace
misc neutral
freckle, yoyo, mayhem, ayven, arcade, fizz, arrow, pixi, fidget
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A Court of Shadows: When Worlds Collide
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by HufflepuffJessica9505
Vaughan knew that Maeve was not to be trusted, that she was something else. He had known when he took that vow, after learning how to ward himself from her dark magic. His grandmother had taught him everything, things that had been taught to her from her own father, who had fought alongside the fire king himself. Now that knowledge rests him and he will not fail. After gaining her trust, he bides his time, waiting and watching, until the heir that had been promised arrives. Once she has, the first chance he has to leave her takes, leaving not just Maeve's side, but the world itself. The very world Maeve had her eyes on next.
Its been a year since Lyra and her twin brother Rhysand fought and won against the Koshei, that last remaining death god. A year of healing and watching their children grow, basking in the warmth of their mates. All that comes to a screeching halt when the sudden arrival of a male changes everything. Barring stories of horror and nightmares, he begged them to help save his world, before that same threat can come and destroy her own.
What none of them know is that by colliding their two worlds together, may come at a price.
Words: 2053, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English
Series: Part 2 of A Court of Shadows
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass Series - Sarah J. Maas
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Categories: Multi
Characters: Feyre Archeron, Rhysand (ACoTaR), Rhysand's Sister (ACoTaR), Nyx (ACoTaR), Azriel (ACoTaR), Cassian (ACoTaR), Morrigan (ACoTaR), Eris Vanserra, Lucien Vanserra, Elain Archeron, Original Elain Archeron/Lucien Vanserra Child(ren), Cresseida (ACoTaR), Gwyneth Berdara, Emerie (ACoTaR), The Lady of the Autumn Court (ACoTaR), Helion (ACoTaR), Amren (ACoTaR), Varian (ACoTaR), Manon Blackbeak, Dorian Havilliard, Aelin Ashryver Galathynius | Celaena Sardothien, Aedion Ashryver, Lysandra (Throne Of Glass), Rowan Whitethorn, Chaol Westfall, Yeran (Throne of Glass), Yrene (Throne Of Glass), Galan Ashryver, Evangeline (Throne of Glass), Original Nesta Archeron/Cassian Child(ren), Original Azriel Children, Gavriel (Throne of Glass), Elide Lochan, Lorcan Salvaterre, Asterin Blackbeak, Imogen Blackbeak, Kaya Blackbeak, Sorrel Blackbeak, Thea Blackbeak, Fallon Blackbeak, Faline Blackbeak, Ghislaine Blackbeak, Vesta Blackbeak, Linnea Blackbeak, Edda Blackbeak, Lothian Blackbeak, The Thirteen (Throne of Glass), Nesryn Faliq
Relationships: Feyre Archeron/Rhysand, Azriel (ACoTaR)/Original Female Character(s), Nesta Archeron/Cassian, Elain Archeron & Lucien Vanserra, Manon Blackbeak/Dorian Havilliard, Aelin Ashryver Galathynius | Celaena Sardothien/Rowan Whitethorn, Aedion Ashryver/Lysandra, Helion/The Lady of the Autumn Court (ACoTaR), Eris Vanserra/Imogen Blackbeak, Cressida (Acotar)/Vaughan, Elide Lochan/Lorcan Salvaterre, Emerie/Morrigan (ACoTaR), Gwyneth Berdara and Galan Ashryver, Chaol Westfall/Yrene, Original Aelin Ashryver Galathynius | Celaena Sardothien/Rowan Whitethorn Child(ren)/Nyx (ACoTaR), Amren/Varian (ACoTaR), Evangeline (Throne of Glass)/Original Character(s), Asterin Blackbeak/Gavriel, Fenrys (Throne of Glass)/Original Female Character(s), Nesryn Faliq/Sartaq
Additional Tags: Not Canon Compliant, saved a lot of people, the thirteen live, Alternate Universe - A Court of Thorns and Roses Fusion, Alternate Universe - Throne of Glass Fusion
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