hi hi pasi ! for trope night, royalty AU with suguru for me please <3
the most famous bachelor of town, suguru, is said to have a elite taste in the type of woman he is to marry. every gal in town has tried striking up a conversation with him but all of it goes in vain when he is rather quickly distracted and stressing over house affairs and his position in the club. he goes out in the garden, away from the chatter for a cigarette to be stumbled upon you. a fine lady with a turquoise gown rather simple but your body making snd beauty making it stand out in the moonlight. he squints to find a cigarette in your hand as well. quite stunned to see such a young lady smoking which is what interests him.
"Would not be that appealing to other men if they were to catch you like this. Would not court you either?"
"oh it's you, lord. the infamous loner," you tease. "well...that is exactly my point. i do not want to be a marketpiece men can bet on. i would like to fall in love." you answer. "and none of those men would like anything more than my body." he chuckles as he immediately falls in love with your words.
"Did I say something funny?" You ask.
"No. Not really. Just...amused at your words." he shifts closer to you. "Do you smoke often?"
"Why, lord? Looking for a company? I am sure everybody wants to have this with you."
"Sure do. But I've never had any company like...yours."
you both look back when you here a crowd approaching, with his mum trying to look for him to introduce him to what seemed like the 17th girl of the evening.
"Want to make a run for it? I've got more cigarettes to light in the woods." With no second thoughts, he grabs your hands and runs away with you, laughing and letting the evening breeze brush against his skin, with no care in the world.
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Moving Forward | Graham Dunne x Reader
A/N: After I got a request asking for Graham x a groupie, I knew I had to take it on. I just didn't realize it would be two parts, different perspectives. Hope you guys enjoy <3
Warnings: Drug use, angst, death
Daisy Jones and The Six Masterlist
You moved around the hotel feverishly, throwing your things into a small duffel bag that was so full it was threatening to burst at the seams.
Graham followed your every step, gently taking you by the shoulders, "Y/N/N, please, just hear me out."
Shrugging him off, you pushed past him into the bathroom, sliding the things in the vanity into another compartment of your bag.
"I don't want to see you go down a bad path you can't get out of, Y/N. I love you, I can—"
Turning on your heel, you pushed him away from you, shaking your head, "You don't! You don't fucking love me, Graham. You just met me!"
"Three months is long enough to fall in love with someone," Graham said, trying to take your hand in his, "I want to help you. Please, let me help you. I don't... I don't want to lose you."
"No one can help me, Graham," You hissed, "I've been on my own long enough. I don't need a man coming in here trying to change that—trying to save me from myself."
Before he could even reply, you pulled him into you, your lips crashing on his. It felt like it lasted forever, feeling his tears roll down his face and onto your cheeks.
Finally breaking away, you shook your head, "This isn't love, Graham. It's fear."
"Y/N. Please, think about this," He pleaded, his voice breaking.
If you started crying now, you don't think you'd ever stop. You'd be unpacking twenty years of heartache and neglect.
"You wouldn't have been happy, Graham," You said softly, your fingers gripping the door handle, "Not in the long run."
You left without another glance, walking pasy rows and rows of hotel rooms before you made it to the elevator.
As you frantically pressed the button to go down a floor, the doors opened. Warren stood on the other side, his neck covered in hickeys and lipstick.
Smiling like always, his face fell when he saw the sickening expression on your face.
"Hey, Y/N, you alright?" He asked, stepping out of the elevator.
"Goodbye, Warren," You said, walking right past him and into the elevator, hitting the close button and entering the floor number.
You didn't want anyone else to see you like this.
Leaving that night broke your heart. But it would've broken your heart even more to know that Graham would've dropped everything for you. He was the first man who saw you as a person, not as another way to add to their body count.
Hot tears spilled down your face, blurring your vision as you tried to find a place to go.
Settling down in a bar, you asked for a pen and piece of paper. Once you had what you needed, you sat down to give the man you loved an explanation.
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Warren went straight to Eddie's room after he saw you stumbling down the hallway. Warren was a lot of things, a voice of reason was not one of them.
He and Eddie made their way to Graham's room, knocking gently before entering. He rarely ever locked his door, a habit he knew he should break.
On the edge of the bed, the youngest Dunne had sunk onto the bed, his elbows on his knees and his head in his hands as he cried.
Looking at one another briefly before sitting on either side of their friend, Eddie and Warren tried to comfort him in the best way they knew.
Warren rubbed his upper back while Eddie began talking him through what happened.
Between muffled sobs, Graham told them he only wanted to help you.
"She's ruining her life," He hiccuped, "The counter. Cocaine on the counter. Addicted. I can't watch her do that to herself. Tried to help."
Although Eddie could barely make out what he was saying, he managed to put two and two together, "You saw her snorting it and you offered to help her?"
Graham nodded, "She got mad. Left."
He had always been a bit of a softy, but his loyalty was beyond measure. When he loved, he loved hard. This was no exception.
"Graham, man, there's nothing you can do now except move forward." Warren said, still rubbing his back.
Eddie glared at the drummer, "You read that off of a billboard on the way here, dumbass."
"He's right," Graham said, "That's what makes it so much harder."
Shrugging, Warren couldn't help but smile, "You learn a lot driving around."
Eddie smacked him on the back of the head, rolling his eyes, "Are you going to be okay, man?"
"Eventually."
Warren paused for a moment, "Want us to get Billy?"
Both Eddie and Graham immediately said, "No!"
Groaning, Graham shook his head, "No, he'll only say that he was right. He'll say you can't trust a groupie."
"Most groupies are just there for sex, peaches," Warren said, pursing his lips.
"She was different."
"They always are."
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Dear Graham,
By the time you recieve this letter, I'll have left the city. The way I left things was wrong, and I'm sorry I hurt you. There has to be some part of you that knew if I stayed that I would only be hurting you more.
Truth is, Dunne, I love you, too. But I can't love someone if I don't even love myself. You mean so much to me and you alwaus will. But you deserve to be happy with someone who's healthy. I'm not that girl.
I wish you the best. You guys are going somewhere.
Love,
Y/N/N
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The letter was found in your possessions are your death. Although labeled as an overdose, what the public didn't know was that it had been a car accident. The man driving you had overdosed. You had been clean for two days, the longest you had gone since you were a teenager.
When the letter was delivered to Graham, it broke him. You loved him—and now you were gone. Unable to get through it on his own, he relied on his music to get him through it. That was the only thing that could get him through it.
And that was moving forward.
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3, 4, 10, 11, 12, 13 for the book asks?
3. What were your top five books of the year?
In no particular order:
The golden enclaves was a very satisfying end to a good story.
I teared through An unauthorised fan treatise in an afternoon and it was nostalgic fun.
The Wager was some good non-fiction. Boats! Mutiny! I disliked the author's other book, The lost city of Z, so I was very pleasantly surprised with this one.
The sufficient loss protocol was a short story that stayed with me for a while.
Same with The last banquet of temporal confections
4. Did you discover any new authors that you love this year?
I don't pay as much attention to the author as I should...
10. What was your favorite new release of the year?
Leah Hazard's Womb pleasantly surprised me.
11. What was your favorite book that has been out for a while, but you just now read?
My work's got two book clubs, one of which was the Jane Austen book club (but we're out of Austens so now it's been rebranded "classics"). I had a lot of fun with the Austens.
The main book club works with themes, and there we also picked an older book by Virginie Loveling. I won't say Een revolverschot is the best book you've never read (it's not), but I'm insulted I never had to read any of her books studying literature in a building located in a street named after her. She's as least as good as, if not better than, other classic Dutch works I had to read.
12. Any books that disappointed you?
Oh several. Right now I'm reading Gaston Dorren's Lingua, and while it's interesting how he analyses the way his book has been transformed through the different translations and editions, it's a very scatterbrained book.
I was also disappointed in Greg Jenner's writing, as I like his other works.
Sense and Sensibility was a disappointing end to my Jane Austen year.
And I may have gone into The invention of nature by Andrea Wulf with the wrong mindset, but I still didn't have as good a time as I thought I would.
13. What were your least favorite books of the year?
When pasi still had to breastfeed the baby to sleep, I'd sit on the bed behind them to keep them company. To pass the time in a better way than doomscrolling, I got a bunch of Tor.com short stories to read. I usually read one per night. A lot of those did not do it for me.
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