@pnkb1tch asked //
‘it’s you that i came for .’ [ from here ! ]
Well, isn't that a pleasant surprise? Jamie's lips curl up into a grin, a cocky smile rising, a mirror of an old expression he's grown out of, made anew. "Oh, yeah?" he asks, his eyes running over Arlo's body in a way that couldn't be described as subtle in the slightest. "Big man Arlo Thompson, coming all the way to Richmond to watch me play?" Jamie can't help himself - when one of the biggest movie stars in the world is asking after you and you specifically, well, it makes your ego grow, doesn't it? Makes you feel special. "Well, I'm Jamie, but you already knew that, didn't you?"
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PROMPTS FOR YEARNING, LOTS OF YEARNING… // ACCEPTING .
—— 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞'𝐬 𝐧𝐨 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐰𝐲𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐡𝐢𝐦, a hideout the two of them made all their own throughout their childhood; a sanctuary, tucked away from the pompous events that his parents hosted rather frequently. it's quiet, holding a small corner of the earth that is all their own. she's sure not even giselle has even seen this sacred place; maybe sawyer shouldn't feel smug about that, yet the feeling remains as a lingering blemish in her being, a vice she's struggled with all her life. but it's not about her, not right now. there's a reason she's sought arlo out, a reason she treks through the acreage on the thompson estate to the small cottage quarters at the back of the lot. it's a little decrepit, but it's been a while since the two of them spent any time sprucing it up like they used to every summer.
there are lights on inside and sawyer finds it amusing that the thompsons still paid for the electricity ( or maybe they just don't notice where that money goes ). pulling the door open, obvious footsteps make their way through the threshold and towards the figure that's sat itself on the couch. he doesn't even need to look to know it's her, she's sure, and thus takes a seat at his side in silence. their extensive text conversation prior to her search for him tells her to simply sit and listen; that is, if he even wants to talk about it.
@pnkb1tch : ❛ how am i supposed to do this without you? i can't. ❜
faux offense etches into her features as she lets her attention fall on him, hands clasped in her lap as her head tilts and her chin lifts up to morph her lips to purse, ❛ well . . . the good news — ❜ she leans towards him, shoulders lifting as her eyes shift their attention up and off to the side of the ceiling. not a moment after does she relax her shoulders and her eyes find his face. she's fully leaning against him now, shoulder to shoulder as her hand reaches out to rest on his thigh, patting it a few times, ❛�� is that y'don't have to. ❜ her tone is low, still holding a sense of teasing within it as her lips pull into a soft grin.
there's nothing she wants more than to reassure him, having seen the way the tabloids have tried to spin the story of his newly ended relationship. it's ruthless, demeaning and brutal how they talk about him and giselle, sawyer feeling fiercly protective of both parties involved, but arlo taking priority always, ❛ i'm right here, okay? ❜
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@pnkb1tch / starter call.
"dude like ... like what are you even saying to me right now !?" voice raises in pitch, and his shoulders roll back ( he might be over reacting, just a little bit ).
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@pnkb1tch. / continued.
she's tired. she's always tired, sure, but she's felt so observed the past few days. arlo isn't bad company, per se, but she feels as if she's a creature under observation rather than a person. he'd found her on accident, bringing little things to the ghosts of the cemetery to keep them from menacing the groundskeepers & nearby houses. after all, they're still just people. they want some sort of connection, even if they can't have it. (she understands that far more than even she knows.) selflessness has always been her strongest motivation.
there was an old man, rather unpleasant fellow, who'd perhaps been less than satisfied with her offer of conversation & trinkets. he'd gone on some unseen tirade about how he doesn't need any charity, or any help, especially not from her. the venom in his tone sapped what little energy she had left, the spectre of the man vanishing with the approaching steps of her living companion.
she's taken great care to keep a physical distance from arlo, more for his sake than hers, but she's so tired. annette's set her head against his shoulder before she realizes it. & then he wraps an arm around her, & she relaxes. maybe this is safer, after all, with someone else there. she closes her eyes for just a moment, jumping slightly when he pushes curls from her face. "m-m-m'f-fine ... ti - tir-red. h-he, um." referring to the ghost she knows he couldn't see. "s-sai - said he d-d-didn-n't w-want my, um. p-pity." a small shrug. nothing she isn't used to.
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@pnkb1tch. call.
ㅤShe looks insufferable and is keenly aware of it. Penny had sworn she'd never become a sunglasses indoors person, but that was before Kit Wallace had hit her in the face with a cricket ball. Now she's peering at Arlo over the top of her sungigs and, after a moment, pushing them back up her face with a grimace.
ㅤ“ Does it look bad still? ” she asks. That's desperation, that. The answer is so obviously oh, yeah, real bad, why are you showing your face in public. But miracles have been known to happen even to northerners and she's holding out hope that today's her day.
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@pnkb1tch, continued from here.
Darling? Oh, this guy clearly thinks he's charming. Maybe some people fall for it - a few cute words in an accent, sure, there's a type of person who thinks that's charming. Katrina is the kind of person who takes a stranger calling her a pet name with a scoff and a raised brow, if not a quick retort. It was either a sign of guts or stupidity to talk to authorities like that. She knows that firsthand.
She watches with crossed arms as he takes care of the two creatures, taking a mental check of the weapons on her person just in case. Admittedly, he does have skill - a bit of training and refining could do him some good, but skill nonetheless. Not that she’s going to say that out loud and feed into his already almost annoyingly confident demeanor. (As if she hadn’t gotten too cocky many times herself.)
“Alright, so what do you want me to do about it?” she says, her tone nearly deadpan. “Are you trying to book a SHIELD audition or something?”
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a dirty rag is pressed against his forearm to disloge the soot & oil from all the work he just did on the dude's car. he isn't even paid to do that anymore -- left it all in henrietta, with the trailer park and the forest. hasn't really thought about mechanics and dirt ever since he got to harvard. but the poor dude and his too-expensive car broke down next to adam's bike and he couldn't just leave him on the side of the road, right? or maybe he could. maybe the new adam is the kind of person who sees bad luck and shrugs it away, already biking to wherever he's supposed to go. he doesn't know. hasn't really had the opportunity to figure it out yet. old habits die hard.
"you from around here?" he asks, because he feels like the silence has stretched too much to be natural or comfortable, and without the hood to keep him from @pnkb1tch's gaze, he feels much less confident in his ability to just ignore the owner of the very expensive, very brand new car. "i think i fixed the issue, but you're gonna want to change that part." he points, long lean finger touching the top of what he's talking about, "or you're not gonna be able to drive for long." he shrugs, like it's all he can offer, and honestly it is : he's not much of a talker. so he lowers the hood, puts the dirty rag back in his backpack, and starts walking toward his bike only to stop. he doesn't know the procedure there : does he say goodbye? good luck? fuck if he knows. thing is, he's sure he's seen that man somewhere. "hey, you don't happen to go to harvard, do you?"
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𝐀𝐑𝐋𝐎 𝐓𝐇𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐒𝐎𝐍 . ( ft . @pnkb1tch ) : ‘ᶤ ᵗʰᶤᶰᵏ ʷᵉ ʷᵉʳᵉ ᵐᵉᵃᶰᵗ ᵗᵒ ᶠᶤᶰᵈ ᵉᵃᶜʰ ᵒᵗʰᵉʳ’
ˢʰᵃˡˡᵒʷ ᵇʳᵉᵃᵗʰ ᶤᶰ , even smaller exhale at the way arlo's lips 𝑔𝘩𝑜𝑠𝑡 against his own ... so close , wanting & needing as their bodies come closer . milo finding himself hanging onto each word that arlo speaks into the intense silence . ( ᶜᵃᵘᵍʰᵗ ᵇᵉᵗʷᵉᵉᶰ ʰᶤˢ ᵃʳᵐˢ , he has you in his grips & you don't mind it . finding safety within the other's eyes ― ᴛʀᴜsᴛ ʙᴜɪʟᴛ slowly through months of cat & mouse . finally , finally , 𝚏𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚢 . ) ᵍᵉᶰᵗˡᵉ , barely there touch of fingertips feeling upon arlo's scalp ... gaze distracted by the way almost - lover's hair curls around finger , a 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝 within gut ; wanting to be fanned & added to by the other . 𝖿𝗋𝖾𝖾 𝗁𝖺𝗇𝖽 presses to other's chest ... as if in warning ; get closer at your own risk . ❝ are you going to kiss me , arlo ? ❞
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@pnkb1tch asked //
❛ we can just sit here, you don’t have to talk. ❜
Jamie almost laughed at that. With his hands between his legs, his fingernails of his left hand picking at the calluses of his right, he kept his head bowed. "I'm Jamie fucking Tartt," he replied, as if that was an answer to his statement. "I don't know how to shut the fuck up." All in all, it had just been one of those days. Training went poorly, he was waiting for texts that he knew would haunt him when they came, but he was still looking forward to nonetheless [ why did Jamie want to hear from that wanker so fucking badly? ]. "It's just been a day and a half, Arlo Thompson. You ever make shit decisions that you know're shit decisions as soon as you make 'em? And then you're sat there, waiting for the consequences of your shit decisions to hit you in the face, but they haven't hit you in the face yet, so. It's just. Fucking. Waiting? That's what today's been like for me."
[ from here ! ]
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☆ star signifying that ur one of my faves sans the cringe copypasta. i love u and sawyer, two of my absolute faves. i feel lucky to call u a mutual and friend 🫶
RANDOM INBOX LOVE + 🐝 * ― send ✨ or ( ‘SPARKLE’ ) and i’ll tell you at least one thing i like most about you, your blog, your portrayal, or your muse. // @pnkb1tch + ACCEPTING.
RONNIE!! listen, we've only been mutuals for a hot minute but i'm already in love with what we got goin' on ok! you are so energetic and fun to talk to but alsooooo i'm so excited for our little angst train we got on the tracks that is gong full speed ahead to pain station ok!!! arlo and giselle? sawyer is a lucky laddyyyyy!!!! im so stoked to know you better and flesh out some more plots with you!
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@pnkb1tch: “i’m gonna get you out of here.” / accepting.
it's what she gets for wandering off, she supposes. debris flies around the room, a ghost only she can hear screaming & hurling insults as viciously as the pieces of wood & brick & trash. annette had enough volume for one good scream before a small chunk of wood struck her face, leaving the left side of her nose & mouth bruised & bleeding. by the time she hears living footsteps, she's curled into a corner like it's a tornado drill -- knees tucked to her forehead, arms covering the back of her skull, folded neater than a napkin. through her stutter & her panicked breath, she's muttering a constant stream of make it stop, make it stop, make it stop --
whether by sheer luck, or maybe her insistence upon his carrying a silver charm, or maybe just it wasn't fun for the spirit anymore, it all stops as quickly as it had begun. annette doesn't lift her head until he speaks, only barely peering her eyes over her knees. wide eyes look behind him, around the area, spine pressed against the wall. the coast is clear, & she can only imagine how pathetic she looks. thin limbs unfurl, breathing calmer but wheezing. (a side effect of both her panic & the dust.) warm, sticky blood flows -- slowly but surely -- down from her nose to her chin, & she fights the urge to sniffle.
"i c -- i c-ca - can-n't g ... g-go h-h-hom-me. i-i --" tears well up in her eyes. he may have thought she was some sort of expert, but disappointingly, she only knows so much by trial & error. the makeup-covered scars are lessons. "i d - i d-don' - don' w-wann-n-na g-get ... get b-blood on ... on you ..."
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❝ you think you know me, huh? ❞
@pnkb1tch
"i mean, i'm not gonna claim to like, know you specifically, but you're not like. unique, or anything." it ends up being more of a dig than they directly mean it to be, tone not hitting the right way. not that they're apologizing. nadine has been around the block a few times, met plenty of different people. he might be the most famous, but does that really change anything?
"it's like, cool if everyone else thinks you're like, the bees knees, or whatever, but i don't have to. does that bother you, or some shit? that i feel kind of indifferent about you?"
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expression growing exponentially dire, annoyed. a smile as pearly white as freshly fallen snow now blocked out by a frown. ; ken, of course, was a lover &. not a fighter. until he had to be a fighter, and he never really wanted to be a fighter. the insult at first rolled off of him, steamed milk to a cappuccino. he never really let things bother him. until he did, and then they would really bother him. rinse &. repeat.
" — well that's . . . not very nice. i mean. i don't even know what i said to warrant THAT. "
♡ . @pnkb1tch sent. . . . i did just call you a jackass. / ocean's eleven.
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PROMPT: how’d you get good at this?
SENT BY: @pnkb1tch
SOURCE: the bear sentence starters.
" I DON’T KNOW. — PRACTICE. " one shoulder lifts in a half shrug, as well as rolling out the 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐭 that comes with being complimented. carmen has never been particularly good at accepting 𝚙𝚛𝚊𝚒𝚜𝚎. partly because it’s rarely offered, but mostly because it’s impossible for that pesky lack of self - worth to believe. tongue wets lower lip and eyes momentarily glance down at the sandwich he’s served up, wondering if it’s really that good or if the other is just being 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗼𝘂𝘀. hard to tell. " i had this boss in new york. he was, uh. — 𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘶𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘳, but he knew his shit. taught me a lot. " he looks back up then, offering tired ( but at least an attempt at genuine ) smile. there’s been a bustle in the kitchen since arlo walked in, face 𝚛𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚐𝚗𝚒𝚜𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎 to some, while remaining completely unfamiliar to someone as outta touch with modern society as carmy berzatto. " so you’re, um. my sous chef mentioned you’re . . . " now that he’s talking, he can’t actually remember 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 sid said, nose wrinkling awkwardly. " shit. "
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𝑨𝑹𝑳𝑶 𝑻𝑯𝑶𝑴𝑷𝑺𝑶𝑵 . ( ft . @pnkb1tch ) : “ʸᵒᵘ ᵃᶰᵈ ᵐᵉ˒ ʷᵉ ᵐᵃᵏᵉ ᵃ ᵖʳᵉᵗᵗʸ ᵍᵒᵒᵈ ᵗᵉᵃᵐˑ”
ᵏᶰᵘᶜᵏˡᵉˢ ʳᵉˢᵗ ᵒᶰ ʰᶤᵖˢ ― surveying the work their hands have done , chairs 𝑛𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑙𝑦 stacked beside perfectly slotted together tables in the corner of the room , 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝘩𝑒 𝘩𝑎𝑙𝑙 up for whatever dance class followed this nartocics anonymous meeting . ❝ 𝐰𝐞 𝐝𝐨 . that was record time gettin' the shit away . you didn't have to stay around , though . ❞ ah , i̶t̶ c̶o̶m̶e̶s̶ e̶a̶s̶i̶l̶y̶ ; the highlight of independence . ( shake off the discomfort of help , the way it sits heavy upon your chest ; already 𝚜𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚌𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 to level the playing field , unwilling to end this day owing arlo anything . ) turning on heels to land gaze upon the other ; ᴅɪɢɢɪɴɢ ᴛᴇᴇᴛʜ into tender flesh of cheek as ᵗʰᵉ ʳᵉᵃˡᶤˢᵃᵗᶤᵒᶰ dawns upon him that any extra time spent with the star felt like 𝒂 𝒈𝒊𝒇𝒕 for himself ; 𝗐𝗋𝖺𝗉𝗉𝖾𝖽 & tied with selfishness ; who really owes who ? ❝ let me buy you a coffee ― ? show my gratitude . ❞
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@pnkb1tch [ sc! ]
Playing an open mic always gave Jamie the feeling of being back where he came from. Back in Manchester, in those coffee shops and bars with their low lighting, one of dozens of Mancunian boys with guitars and big dreams. Not that Jamie's much further from there now - but London is about as far from Manchester as Jamie has ever been. He's playing smaller venues, but smaller venues with stages and lights and his name on the marquee. It's fucking surreal, isn't it? If you Googled Jamie's name even a handful of years ago, nothing would come up. Now, there's his website, with links to buy tickets, and a fucking Wikipedia page with his name on it. Bizarre, isn't it, how things work out?
The lights on stage are fucking hot. When Jamie finally exits stage left after the show, his beloved guitar still in hand [ with no offense to the people that the venue hired to handle equipment, Jamie doesn't trust anyone else to handle Georgie's old instrument ], he can feel sweat dripping down his forehead. He hasn't been sweaty like this since his days of playing street football with his mates. His manager pulls him aside, telling him that there's somebody who he ought to speak to, so he gives them a gesture of go ahead; he'll follow behind after setting down the guitar on a stand nearby.
"Oh, fuck-" Jamie exclaims when he sees who the somebody is. "You're Arlo fucking Thompson, fuckin' hell- I - hi, I'm Jamie. Big fan. Huge fan, honestly."
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