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Deadly Reunion | Chapter 1

Eddie Munson x female!reader

summary: You and Eddie have been best friends since childhood. But when the outbreak happened five years ago, you were torn from one another in the chaos. but now you're left alone, after your group was killed by another radical crew, leaving you to seek out what was once home.

warnings: angst + adult themes w/ descriptions of violence, blood, torture + other zombie apocalypse related issues

word count: 2K+

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Your eyes scanned along the shelves and grabbed a few supplies you were able to locate. Band-aids, tweezers, a few sticks of beef jerky that were kicked under a shelf, a bottle of rubbing alcohol, and lastly a box of tampons.

“You find anything?” a voice called from the end of the aisle behind you.

Turning around quickly you watched as your friend Wendy walked toward her. Her curly dark hair was pulled loosely from her face into a bun, tendrils falling in front of her face. Blood dotted across her face and blended with the freckles that seemed to kiss her skin more this time of year. The sun is not being gentle even more with the sunburn showing on her shoulders already. You could already hear her higher pitched voice wining about the pain.

“Just a few things, more so for Judy and adding to her medkit.” You shrugged, before tossing your finds into your backpack. “You?”

“Nothing. This place is pretty cleared out. Randall and the other moved to the building next door hoping to find something.”

You scoffed “He needs to stop leaving without everyone accounted for. That’s how we get killed.”

Wendy shrugged rolling her eyes slightly, “He’s a jackass. Come on, we gotta hurry and catch up.”

She playfully bumped your shoulder as she passed you and headed back to the front of the store. Your eyes did a quick sweep to make sure nothing else was missed, before following right behind her. The two of you moved with ease as you jumped back through the window you’d come in from before. Your eyes squinting as the harsh sun came back into your view.

“How much longer do you think we’re gonna be out here? It’s not like we’re find anything.” Wendy asked, “It’s been weeks since our last good search.”

“I don’t know.” You sighed heavily “My mom’s starting to get worried, keeps talking of heading north back to our hometown.”

Wendy’s eyebrows shoot up, “That’s nearly a two-day travel.”

“I know. But all our sources seem to be out here. And she’s got it made up in her head that Hawkins would be better.” You shrugged. “A part of me wants to go back too, see what we can find. We left so much behind when everything was happening.”

As you spoke your hand moved up to the faded and worn down red and black pic that swung from the silver chain around your neck.

“Well…maybe I’ll come with you.” Wendy smiled, swinging her shoulder to wrap and rest around yours. “Not like I have anything holding me here.”

You frowned at her flippant comment.

It had been two years since Wendy’s brother and father died from a mob and her mother dying at the beginning. Leaving her alone, till she’d join the group a few months back. The two of you gravitated toward one another becoming more than best friends.

Wendy was like a sister.

“I would really like that, Wen.” You spoke softly. “I’ll talk to my mom more, convince her on leaving.”

Wendy’s face lit up with a smile that spready across her face and caused her brown eyes to shine.

The familiar sound of a growl snapped you awake and ripped you away from the dream that had clouded your mind. It was rare that you were able to fall asleep without the dark clouds of your nightmares fogging them. You were welcomed with smiles last night instead of screams.

Your head moved from side to side as you tried to find the source of the sound, scrambling to look over the edge of the building you were able to find refuge in. You’d learned quickly while being on your own it was smarter to camp up high, instead of chancing it down below. The sun was barely peaking out from behind the clouds as the morning started to switch back from night. Your heart jumped again when the growl from before sounded louder and multiplied.

The sound a Flayed was enough to churn your stomach with the deepest of dread.

You grabbed your gun from the back of your pants and checked to make sure it was loaded with the safety off. When your gaze returned to the streets below, you saw the movement of them. Shuffling across the overgrown lawn of the business that was across from where you stayed. The blackened veins beneath their skin are dark enough for you to see even at your distance. One’s face nearly decayed back enough that the bone beneath showed.

“Fuck,” You cursed, before moving to line up your shot. You knew the chances of you getting down and past them were slim.

A Flayed’s hearing was something one didn’t want to bet with.

You always came out on the losing side.

Your first shot hit its target.

Its head knocked back from the force of the bullet before the body fell to the ground like dead weight. But the loud cracking sound of the gun alerted the other quickly to your location. Its head snapping with its dead eye seeming to look right at you. The speed that it broke off into was something that one could never get used to. A flayed moved slowly with no motivation till the possibility of a kill presented itself. Then it became the monster it created to be. It’ broke across the street in what felt like mere seconds.

But you were ready, finger pressed against the trigger, before sending a second bullet out. You missed slightly by hitting it on the shoulder. But it was enough to slow it down before you aimed again and sent one through its skull.

You breathed a silent prayer of thanks before letting your body relax. But only for a moment. Knowing the sound of gunshots were only going to bring attention to your location.

You rolled your sleeping bag up tightly and tied it back beneath your bag before looking around and double checking that you’d left nothing else. Once you were satisfied, you moved quickly, climbing back down from the ladder  of the fire escape.

You gave no second thought as you walked by the dead bodies of the Flayed before walking down the main road of the familiar small town you were in.

-x-

“It’s been a couple of days since we came across a Flayed.” Robin spoke softly, Steve and Nancy a few paces in front of her. “Think they’ll lesson patrols?”

“The last thing that Hopper is going to want to do is to lesson patrols. That man is more paranoid than ever lately.” Steve shook his head, his grip tight on the bat that rested on his shoulder, nails sticking out of it every direction. The wood is worn and stained from months of use.

“Can you blame him? Sarah only died a few months ago,” Eddie spoke with a heavy sadness in his voice.

His head swiveled slowly as his eyes scanned over the forest that surrounded him. The only thing that could be heard amongst the group was the sound of their shoes against the dead leaves at their feet.

This was Eddie’s second patrol in a couple of days, and it was already starting to ware on him. His shoulders ached from the clearing they’d done from the night before. All he wanted was a shower and his bed but knew that was hours away. But he knew that being out of the camp was better than staying behind and lingering with his guilt. It was getting harder each day to see Hopper as he walked through the halls or sitting at the head table in the meetings.

Hopper had told Eddie that it wasn’t his fault that Sarah was gone.

But his guilt said otherwise.

And hearing her screams in his sleep was enough to make sure that guilt didn’t leave any time soon.

Just as Eddie’s thought almost ran away down the dark hole he was too familiar with lately, the cracking sound of a gunshot cut through the silence. Everyone stopped the moment the sound was heard, their heads turning in the direction of the source.

“That’s coming from downtown,” Nancy said, sliding her knife into her small waist sheath, before reaching back for her Smith & Wesson.

“Wasn’t that cleared four days ago?” Robin asked. “Who else could be this close to town already?”

“Sadly, we’re gonna have to go and find out.” Steve sighed before starting off toward the direction of Downtown Hawkins.

The four of them moved quickly and effortlessly through the forest that was quickly overtaking the small town that once existed. As they grew closer and closer to the city limits the more the old town came to life. But just as they were a couple miles out, Steve froze and threw up two fingers, causing the others to stop with him. Eddie listened closely and soon able to hear what had caught Steve’s attention.

The sound of feet moving through the woods, from the light sound of it, it was only one.

“Nancy and I will take the north,” Steve instructed “You two head in the south and hopefully we corner them. No shots unless needed, we don’t need Flayed and Crawlers coming this way if they are close.”

Eddie nodded his head quickly and stiffly before moving in the opposite direction of Nancy and Steve. He used the fallen trees and bushes as cover unsure of what they were all going to come across in the woods. Flayed was their top concern, but lately strangers were becoming just as dangerous.

“Munson,” Robin whispered harshly, causing Eddie to turn and look in the same direction she was.

His eyes caught movement of a dark form through the trees a few feet in front of them. Already he knew it wasn’t Nancy nor Steve.

“It’s a transient.” Eddie said.

“Think they are from the group last time?” Robin asked, her tone faltering as it shook with worry.

Flashes from the few months before played through Eddie’s mind quickly with flashes of Sarah’s blood warming his hands.

“If it is, we end it now,” Eddie spoke angrily.

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OK SO APH/ZANE/AARON IS THE POLYCULE EVER AND YOU CAN'T CHANGE MY MIND

I have a little MyStreet rewrite cooking in my head that’s got this pretty prominently so yeah! Anyways have some HCs!!!

Aaron

Acts like he’ll kill you, is actually a cinnamon roll

People thinks he’s smart, but it’s just because he’s really quiet

He’s actually really fucking dumb /affectionate

Has a very weezy laugh

He/she/they, though most people use he

(Considering having him FTM He/Him but I can’t decide)

Didn’t really know much about gender and sexuality and stuff instill his sister came out as lesbian and she gave him a crash course

Used to struggle with internalized homophobia thanks to her dad being an ass but is now very comfortable in his own skin

Love language is physical touch and is chronically touch deprived, especially due to their years of isolation (just like me fr)

Intimidating when you first meet him, but I can guarantee you he’s secretly shitting his pants out of fear

A.K.A Social Anxiety Prime

RBF

Is such a worry wart, especially towards Zane and Aphmau

Used to have consistent nightmares, but ever since sharing a bed with Zane and Aphmau, they’ve pretty much stopped

On top of physical touch, he likes to do small acts of service

If either of his partners have a nightmare, she holds them through it and wakes up early the next day so that way they wake up to hot cocoa with cinnamon and a splash of vanilla extract

His favorite food is anything with Cinnamon!

Aphmau

Acts like a cinnamon roll, will actually kill you

“Excuse me they asked for no pickles”

A plus sized queen!

She/Her but prefers masculine descriptors i.e. sir, Mr, boyfriend (looks pointedly at her being called the lord of phoenix drop rather than the lady)

Is super sweet and helpful unless you tick her off or mess with friends, at that point, may God bless your soul

Love language is acts of service and gift giving!!

This is super evident in MCD and it peaks through in Mystreet as well! So that definitely stays

Has a tendency to give too much and burn herself out

Anytime she finds a cool rock she has to keep it

Her giving you a rock is a big deal! It means she cares a lot, enough to give it away

Due to growing up poor she has a tendency to stock up on non perishable food and stress if they don’t have enough

Definitely had a crush on Katelyn when they were younger, it passed with time though

Is really smart common sense wise, really into logic puzzles and stuff

She knows everything. Your secret? I think you mean our secret.

Less so with book smarts but give her time and let her put what she needs to know in song form and she’s got it

ADHD

How does she learn these secrets? Well that’s between her and God

Her favorite food is Mangos and Mochi anything!

And last but certainly not least, Zane!

Looks like he’ll kill you, and depending on the day, he’ll either kill you or actually be a cinnamon roll

Was raised with ye old fashioned toxic masculinity drilled into his head by Garte leaving him really insecure about his gender and gender expression

Around college, he started coming more into his own and wearing makeup out and about (all of this up to now is p much cannon btw)

The divergence come when he also starts experimenting in other ways to like sometimes wearing skirts and the occasional dress

It still takes years for them to stop bringing an extra pair of more masculine clothes with him in case he gets too stressed or sees someone in public

They/He but doesn’t mind the occasional she

Asexual

While he really loves the colors pastel pink and purple, he still mainly wears black with those as accents

Has a backpack/bag they take EVERYWHERE

Going out? Take the bag. Going on a trip? Take the bag. Leaving the room? Take the bag.

Mans could survive the apocalypse with all the stuff he keeps in there. I’m taking sewing thread and needles, bandaids, Neosporin, fidget, toys, stuff, to doodle with, a book for when he gets bored, headphones, etc.

Has Autism

MLP Special Interest

Has emotional support Fluttershy and Twilight Sparkle figurines in their bag (they remind him of Aaron and Aphmau respectively)

Mainly does vocal Stims but is not immune to hand flap propaganda

Sensory adverse (that’s what the point of the mask usually is)

Loves his mom very much, even if she can be a bit loud

Daddy issues, him and Aaron bond over this

His love language is quality time and gift giving (they regularly steal one of their father’s credit cards) (Garte has barely noticed)

Is the type to quietly sit beside or across from one of his partners when their stressed, maybe give them one of his hands and be a quiet comfort as he scrolls on the Internet, showing them cat videos/my little pony art

That or be like “You’re sad” throw a change of clothes at them and say “Get up we’re going to Olive Garden, don’t worry I’m paying”

Notices when his friends/partners look at something too long and you can bet your bippy that you’ll be receiving that during your next birthday/Christmas or maybe just tomorrow if he can’t wait

Honestly very book smart, he just doesn’t mention it

Has a PHD, though no one but Aphmau knows of what, the whole friend group have a betting pool on what it is and who will find out first (Aphmau didn’t count, she knows everything)

Loves hyperpop

Favorite Food is the pink Monster Energy Drink, dw that that’s not actually food

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Pahkitew Island of The Slaughtered (Full Story)

Total Drama: Pahkitew Island of the Slaughtered is a horror AU based off Total Drama, 'Island of the Slaughtered was originally based off by Eavee-ry, taking a much darker and horrific turn of the show. If Pahkitew Island had an alternate universe has a killer.

(No Total Drama AU arts for this story, you have to make it on your own and credit me)

Story:

After All Stars, The Day in the new island started, four-teen contestants arrived at the island. but Chris McLean builded but he didn't know that killer sneaked in on boat and hidden in the island's woods. the land is surrounded by waters of sharks. the society, stuck to live in camp site and they have know camping houses. so they have no where to sleep but Chris McLean decided to act suspecious and finds out there's a killer in the island and he's about the change plans and worried about one of the contestants is about to die. Chris and rest of his crew decided to leave the island and leaving the four-teen contestants with the killer behind without them knowing and the reports of the family of the missing teenagers of what happened to the campers remains a mystery. a guy named Shawn Carson meet a huge girl named Jasmine Black, he asked 'are they any zombies around here?' with worried face, she giggled with a smile and Shawn blushes.

1st Victim: Sky Prescott

"Eyeless Sky"

"Rule #1: Be aware of the killer"

Sky was just a super sweet athletic girl who has big heart, but she wonders and stumble on to see Chris leaving with his crew on the boat and she spies through the bushes. she starts to think why is he leaving? she was about the tell the group but keeps on watching Chris leave but the killer walks towards her and she hears footsteps but the killer grabs by the hair but she tries the scream for the others but the killer put his hands on her mouth that the contestants won't hear her. the killer puts his hook and poking her eyes and snaps her neck.

the contestants starts to wonder where is Sky? a guy named Topher Jones tells where's Chris McLean cause he has been Chris wannabe and fan of the show. the others awnser that they don't know, a guy named Dave McKinley asked him to search up for Sky, Topher couldn't find Chris McLean, so he agreed. he decided to search on the woods and finds the confession toilet shed and as he opened it, he was shocked and terrifed. he saw Sky all bloody eyes. he was ran on screaming back to contestants.

Sky's body was found by Topher

After Topher explained to the others he found Sky's body in the sheid, the contestants started to get scared and worried and they realized they haven't seen Chris for while. Shawn seems scared that it might be there's a killer on the island. he takes a deep breath and ask everyone to calm down. Shawn knows how to survive on the island with a killer just like he knows how to survive a zombie apocalypse, he said all they need was weapons and supplies, Jasmine agreed with him and she decided to be the leader and she will guide them all to leave this island and contact the police about the killer and the island including Chris McLean. they decided to find a place to sleep in and they found a cave so they can sleep in. the sunset starts to fall, they decided to sleep and Jasmine asked Amy Stacy and Samey Stacy to look for food. Amy doesn't agrees but does it to get food cause she was hungry.

2st Victim: Samey Stacy

"Brainless Samey"

"Rule #2: Always Look Down Where You're Going, Don't Trip"

Samey was so kind and pretty girl but that doesn't last for long time, Amy and Samey found some blueberries, Amy has been jealous of her sister and she is angry at her sister for being on the show at the first place, they all have to do was survive. the killer starts to spy on them while Amy and Samey having a argument that they shouldn't agree to be on a reality show. the killer starts walking behind them slowly and pulls a chainsaw. Amy looks behind of Samey and she saws the killer. she screams and grabs the barries and runs. Samey looks behind and saw the killer while she screams and runs off with Amy. Samey tries hard to be far from the killer but she looks behind at the killer chasing her but she trips on peace of wood. Amy went far away from her and Samey got up and tries to find away out of here. she tries to run again but the killer grabs her by the hair and saws her head in half.

Amy returns to the cave with blueberries, Jasmine asked her why she's been a rush and asked what's wrong? she told they stumbled on the killer but she couldn't help her sister and she thinks she's probably dead and doesn't care about Samey's life but hers. Jasmine decided to ask Shawn for help to find Samey. Shawn agrees. He goes through the woods and finds Samey's corpse hanging on a tree but no killer in site. he wents back unharmed and went back to the cave.

Samey's body was found by Shawn

After Shawn went back to the cave and tells everything. Jasmine sighs and said they will discuss it later and went back to sleep but Shawn stays up until the nighttime is over. the next day, the contestants are having a meal and as soon they finished lunch but a guy named Max Novak, he asked he wants to get out of this island but the girl named Ella Gilbert said don't know and said they could make a boat. but that will need a axe to chop wood. Jasmine asked Rodney Nielsen to find a tool shied where it's stored so tool weapons and find an axe since he is a strong guy and he agreed.

3st Victim: Rodney Nielsen

"Armless Rodney"

"Rule #3: Don't Go Alone"

Rodney was searching for the woods to find a tool shied but he finds it as he opened the door he was greeted by the killer, before he react. the killer chops off his left arm as Rodney screamed and the killer decided to chop his right arm off too. Rodney fails down on the ground, Rodney tries to escape with his legs. but the killer hit Rodney's head with axe, killing him.

After more hours went by, after the campers realized Rodney's disappears and Jasmine tells Shawn and Dave to look for Rodney and the tool shied. they agreed. Dave and Shawn while been wondering through the woods and talking. they stumbled on the tool shied as they open the door. they greeted terrified by Rodney's body without arms and axe to his face.

Rodney's body was found by Dave and Shawn

They return back to the cave while Shawn has axe in his hand just in case If stumbles on the killer, the campers are worried that they might be the killer's next victim but Scarlett Cantu isn't worried and she said they need spend days on the island until their parents report Chris Mclean to rescue them and shut down the show. Jasmine agrees but it's not their fault that they're stranded on a island but it's Chris's fault. Jasmine tells everyone to find a camp site. everyone agreed.

4st Victim: Ella Gilbert

"Cats bite your tongue?"

"Rule #4: Be Quiet"

Ella decided to went alone with Sugar Mora, but she sings her way with Sugar. but Sugar was annoyed by Ella's singing. she tries to telling her to stop singing but that alerted the killer, Sugar hears footsteps from the killer, she pushed Ella into bushes with her. Sugar shush Ella and they trying to put their foots step back, but Ella gets caught up on bear trap, she screams and it alerted the killer. Sugars runs away instead of helping Ella, Ella was alone with the killer while she scream Sugar's name but the killer reach his hand to Ella's mouth and rips her tongue off and kills her with his hook.

the campers found the camp, Sugar runs off to the others and the others question her but she tells everyone that's Ella's fault for singing and alerting the killer and stumble on bear trap and got killed and she ran for her life. the campers are very angry at her for not helping her, Jasmine kicks Sugar off the camp and tells her to get back in the cave.

Shawn decided to search for Ella's body, he manages to find her in the woods, he walks away unharmed.

Ella's body was found by Shawn

5st Victim: Sugar Mora

"Honey Sugar"

"Rule #5: Never Leave"

Sugar decided to went through the woods all angry at Jasmine for kicking her out off the group, she went back the cave. she finds a bee hive in the cave waiting on her, she looked confused. but the killer with Bee suit approached behind her. he stabs her gut and dragged her and stuffed a bee hive to her guts to attract the bees killing her by stunging her.

The Next Day, Jasmine feels bad for kicking Sugar off the camp. Shawn sees her all sad and he decided to comfort her and telling her "what's wrong?" and she tells him that she made mistake of kicking off Sugar from the group but Shawn tells her that it's gonna be okay and it was a mistake and he gived her a kiss and she blushes. he feels awkward blushes and feels bad for kissing her. Jasmine smiled kissed him back and they both fall in love and smile. they decided to go look for Sugar. they arrived at the cave, only to see a flashlight in the cave with note saids "Turn me on", Shawn picks up the flashlight and turns it on and they stumble on Sugar's body covered in Bee's honey. they both screamed in terror and they both ran off back to camp.

Sugar's body was found by Shawn and Jasmine

After Sugar's death, in the night at the campfire. Leonard Davis is testing his "magic" wand to "help" them get off this island while the campers aren't buying it. Boris "Beardo" Matthews was beatboxxing, but Dave is annoyed by him.. everyone started to get very sleepy and they decided to sleep except for Beardo, he has to pee.

6st Victim: Boris "Beardo" Matthews

"Jewless Beardo"

"Rule #6: Never Go after Midnight"

Beardo decided to go the nearest woods to take a pee, the killer spies on him and decided to approach him. after Beardo was done and he decided to go back to camp but the killer stops him slice up his jew off with a machete. he screams and bleeds out the death and he dies. the killer dragged his body somewhere some way far. Jasmine and Shawn wake up and finds out Beardo is missing and Shawn grabs his axe, they decided to look for him and they find a trail of blood and they decided to follow it. when they find the trail of blood where it leads to they find Beardo's body laying down on a tree.

Beardo's body was found by Shawn and Jasmine

7st Victim: Shawn Carson

"Zombie Shawn"

"Rule #7: Don't be a Coward, Be a Hero"

Before they trying to run away and the killer countered them with a chainsaw, they screamed in terror and decided to run as fast possible but Jasmine gets caught in a bear trap and then she screams, Shawn stops and decided to help and he lifts up the bear trap with his bear hands. He tells Jasmine to go with out him and so he can face the killer with a fight and they kissed and she left. Shawn and the killer begin with a fight, The Killer tries to go after Shawn but Shawn dodges and shoves his axe on his leg but the killer manages to not to feel in pain and Shawn stands on powerless and scared. The killer swings his chainsaw slicing Shawns guts and splits his torso in half and end up dying.

The Next Day, Everyone decided it for looking for Shawn's body because he sacrificed himself to save Jasmine. they decided to go the woods and they found Shawn's body at the beach and as his mouth is ripped off and his left eye was gone and his clothes ripped apart and his torso is full bloody gutty. they scream in terror and he was the last victim from the killer, Jasmine is depressed about Shawn's death and the gang decided to stick with each other and not to get killed. Meanwhile, Chris McLean and his crew arrives at the island cause they recieves some angry calls from the parents of their kids' disappears and they do that. when Chris McLean arrived and he was greeted with anger from the campers and they're saying like "You let our friends to die!" but before Chris McLean can apologise but the dead campers from the dead decided to pull Chris McLean from the water and.

8st Victim: Chris McLean

"???"

"Rule #8: You're in Hell"

"You are done for what you have did"

"You are banished from Heaven"

"You will suffer with eternal pain"

"Your sins will live here forever"

The End

Thank you for reading my horror AU story based off Total Drama! ;)

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Gleens Lover girl

Hello! I'm Back with another "The walking Dead" fanfic. There are truly not enough Fanfics about Gleen Rhee and this will be one of them. I plan on trying to write a few; that way there is a few more happy people in the world. (including myself cuz I searched all day for fanfics for Gleen mf Rhee and there won't any) So here you go! <3

Part 1 of ?

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Summary: Y/n is the younger sister of Daryl Dixon. Y/n was more like her brother Daryl than she was her brother merle. Well, that is unless she's angry. Then she has the mouth and anger of Merle Dixon himself. Y/n first met Gleen at the quarry. That's where there friendship first grew and continued to grow through the post-apocalypse.

word count: 2,509

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Y/n Dixon, younger sister of Merle and Daryl Dixon. Y/n Dixon was a wild card. She was either quiet like her brother Daryl and to herself. Or she was mouthy and speaking her opinion like her brother Merle. Some would say that's the worst mix, but to Y/n she thought that was the perfect mix. She can hold her own and she can hunt and track just like her brother Daryl. -Who's secretly a better tracker then their brother merle. They all knew it whether they said it or not was a different story.

Y/n and her brother were walking through the woods when they came up to a camp. Merle wanted to gain their trust until they were ready to rob them of everything they had. Daryl and his little sister didn't truly agree with it, but followed their brother.

Y/n was a little worried going to this camp of strangers. The only thing that made her feel a little better was that they had many women and children there in their camp at the quarry.

"I think Y/n should walk up first. They might feel more sympathy for a woman than a man." Merle proclaims as they hide behind the tree line watching the group of survivors.

"What if they dangerous?" Daryl asks his older brother. To which merle bellows out a laugh. "Dangerous? This little fire cracker can hold her own." Merle said as he slaps his sisters back. Pulling her against him as he talks.

"I think I can handle it." Y/n says. She's always been able to hold her own. She used to get in fights in school. Never lost one of them. Well, except for the one time when a group of girls ambushed her while she had no back up. But if you asked Y/n herself she'll tell you that she pretty much won that fight. Because all she had was a broken wrist and some bruises. The other girls were unrecognizable. She got suspended while the preppy rich girls just got a slap on the wrist and told not to do it again.

"Are you sure?" Daryl keeps questioning his younger sister. He didn't want to make her do anything she wasn't comfortable doing.

"D, you know I can go up to them. And if they start some shit, they'll have to deal with princess right here." She says, as she taps her hip where her Glock with an extended magazine rested in the holster. And that wasn't the only weapons she had on her person. The two hunting knifes that were hidden under her clothing. And the homemade dagger that rested in between her DIY Bra. Where the dagger was in-between her breast. Hidden and not noticeable unless you knew it was there. Something she had came up with just after the apocalypses.

Her brothers and her started walking up towards the camp. Y/n leading and her brothers following a few yards behind her. Y/n Could see the camp coming closer to sight. She was taking notes of the people that were there. "Families." She tells herself as she looks around. A man who had a police ball cap on. Who hung around a skinny white lady who seem to have a young son. Brown hair freckles. She sees a couple of Young adult women. Both blondes. They look so small Y/n thinks she could probably take them both at once if it had came down to it. There was another family, Y/n thinks maybe Mexican. Trying to describe it in her head. Not being racist or anything, just making notes. And maybe a couple other people.

"Stay back." Y/n quietly told her brothers as she topped the hill and was in full sight of the camp.

Y/n walked a little bit closer and then called out to the group. "Hello! I come in peace." She says as she hold up peace signs with her hands. -Always the one to make jokes in a serious situation; something she got from merle.

The man with the police cap jerked his head up instantly pointing his hand gun up at her. The woman he was talking to hiding behind him and what Y/n assumes is her son behind her.

"I'm sorry y'all. I didn't mean to startle yall." Her thick country accent carried down to them. sometimes Merle and Daryl swore she sounded more southern then the both of them combined. If you weren't a good listener you might not understand what she was saying.

"Who the hell are you?" The man calls out walking closer towards her. But still keeping a safe distance. "My name is Y/n Dixon. I am just here to have a safe place to sleep at night. I was always told it's better to be in a group than by yourself." She smiles a innocent smile gaining their trust.

"May I ask y'all, y'alls names, Mr.?" She was waiting for him to answer back with his name, but he didn't.

"If you were always told to stay in a group why are you alone now?" The man asks her. Lowering his gun just a tiny bit.

"I have two brothers." She gives away. "And where are they at?" the man looks around. "Somewhere safe. They sent me to make sure it would be safe to join y'all. That is if yall allow us to join your little group." Y/n says in the calmest voice.

"I want to believe you, but why would two men send a woman somewhere that may not be safe." The man says. He doesn't trust her. You cant trust anyone these days. Y/n understood that. It's not like it's a normal Sunday evening and she's trying to join someones barbecue. This man has a group to protect. and from the looks of it they all are like one big family. She 100% understands doing whatever it takes to take care of family.

"Well, who said they were men? Maybe they're little children? Who are you to say, Mister? My momma said assuming makes ya an ass." Y/n smirked and pierced her lips Leaning on one hip kinda with a small attitude. :)

"I'm sorry." He apologizes for assuming after lori tapped his back for kinda being rude.

"Do you have any weapons on you that might hurt me?" He says as he lowers his gun, slowly approching her. "I'm sorry ain't we in the middle of the apocolypes? 'course I got a weapon. and not to be rude sir, but I don't plan on surrendering them to a bunch of strangers that I don't know."

"I understand." the woman says as she joins the man walking up to her. "My name is Lori. That's Shane." She says as she smiles friendly at the younger woman.

"How many geeks have you killed?" Shane asks Y/n. "I didn't know we were keeping score, but probably a couple hundered." Y/n says. "Have you ever killed a human before?" A human? Y/n thinks. She doesn't tell them the truth and says no. "No, I ain't never killed a human." That's because she wouldn't count that person as a human Ever!

"Your brothers? Have they ever killed a human?" No she shakes her head.

"Get your brother, but you have to put up camp away from us. Until we can gain your trust we cannot fully trust you. We dn't know yall. You can understand that. We have families to protect we can't fight the living along with the dead." Y/n agreed with Shane.

Y/n whistled and the two brothers walk up the hill. Weapons put away until they need to be out.

"These are my older brothers, merle and Daryl dixon. Boys play nice." Y/n says as she introduces her brothers to Shane and Lori.

They welcomed Y/n and Daryl with open arms. Merle well he was a racist pig who treated women, besides his sisters like they're a piece of meet.

Y/n and her brothers set up camp down in the edge of the woods and the water at the quarry. Merle and Daryl set up camp as Y/n gathered wood and twigs and dry leaves to start a fire with. Y/n starts a small fire and builds it big enough to start their supper on. Daryl gives Y/n a few squirrels to roast on the fire. Y/n starts to skin the Squirrels and she hears someone walk up to her. She looks up and sees someone she hadn't met yet.

"Hello, We haven't met." Y/n looks up at the Korean lookin boy. "No, I don't think we have met." Y/n says as she holds her bloody hand out for him to shake. He looked at her outstretched hand and looked a little grossed out. She notices and wipes the blood off on her already dirty jean. "Y/n Dixon, nice to meet you.." "Gleen, Gleen Rhee. It's nice to meet you, miss Dixon." "Just Y/n." She says with a smile.

And that was the beginning of their friendship.

y/n slowly started to fall for the Korean boy. They had a lot alike but at the same time they didn't. He had all the features she wished she had. Optimistic, charismatic, charming, handsome, Grammarly correct. The boy just seemed perfect to Y/n.

As time goes on Y/n creates a bond with the group. She helps the women do laundry, fix supper for the camp, goes hunting with Daryl to help provide food for the camp. Y/n enjoyed having a somewhat "normal" life here at the quarry. She did most of the things she enjoyed doing before. She helped the group when needed. She helped look after the kids when the adults needed a break. She helped cook over the fires for them. When Y/n first cooked for them it was the best meal they had in quite a while. Y/n knew how to cook the squirrels, rabbits and deer perfectly.

Y/n always gave the best parts to Gleen. The one she thought would taste the best. Nobody really paid attention to it, but the one thing they did notice was how Y/n would have less plate on her food then the rest. She always made sure the children would have full stomachs when they went to bed at night. To see that they were just living off wild mushrooms and sometimes fish if they catch was good that day. She was so sad to hear it and made sure that she did everything in her power to make sure the kids always had full bellies wither or not hers was growling with hunger or not.

Merle hated y/ns heart. He wanted her to be selfish like him, but she wasn't. She had always put people before her, her whole entire life. She always put merle and Daryls needs first. he hated it, but that's what she's always done. he secretly loves her for it.

As the days gone by Y/n and Glenn had started becoming closer and closer. Y/n would help him when he went on runs. She was soon to be called on of the best runners for the group. Always on the look out for what they needed/wanted. She always brought a book bag and a duffle bag. she would look for toys, comics, and treats for the kids. Female hygiene products for the women. Including always being on the look out for Motrin . And always on the look out for her brothers favorite candies.

Y/n started to slowly fall for this boy. He was everything she wanted in a man. He always took a risk for the people he called his family. He may have just been a pizza delievery boy, but Y/n always tells herself that she probably would've dated him if she had the chance back before the apocolypes.

Y/n was walking along side the water when Gleen decided to join her. She was enjoying the sounds of nature. Feeling so blessed to not hear the sounds of the dead walking. Y/n and Gleen sat down on the edge of the water. The whole group up at the top of the hill. Everyone enjoy the food they had fixed for supper, frog legs and rabbit.

"You know I always wondered how the world would be if there was an apocolypes." Y/n says as she figgets with a twig in her hand.

"Did you really?" Gleen laughs shaking his head not judging but just enjoying her presence.

"yeah, but not like the dead walking apocalypses. More like the world not functioning anymore. Airborne disease maybe? IDk." The conversations went on. Just some small talk anywhere from where did you live. what kind of life you had etc..

"I was a nurse." Y/n had said. "Really? I don't think I ever expected that." Gleen says shocked. "What does that mean?" Y/n say jokingly offended. "I don't mean it in a rude way. I just never expected a bad ass to be a nurse. I don't really know what i was expecting really." he says as he looks up at the Y/E/C eyed woman.

"Did you ever date before the apocalypse?" Y/n questions, looking into his brown eyes she could stare in forever. "No, did you?" He asks. She giggles. " I tried to date this boy back in high school. His name was John. We "dated" as in we hung out in parking lots with his friends. Smoked a little weed and drank a little bit, but nothing serious. When my brothers found out about him. They threaten to beat him up. And when they did, I never heard from him again." Y/n says laughing at the memory.

"Do you think they'd beat me up?" Y/n smiles up at Gleen. "We can see." She whispered as she leans in giving his lips a small peck testing the waters.

"And if they tried.. They'd have to go through me first. And I'm their favorite sibling over the other. As long as I am happy that's all that matters." Y/n says against his lips smiling up at him through her long eye lashes. Looking into her eyes he deepens the kiss. He lays her back slowly against the ground. They continue making out when Y/n hears her name being yelled. She rolls her eyes as she pecks Gleens lips again before getting up. Gleen looked scared, but when he seen it was just Daryl picking at his little sister like always. "Don't be making no kids. We cant have babies running around 'ere." Daryl laughs at them and stares at them. "Fuck off!" Y/n yells as she flips the bird on her brother and he walks off. and that was just the beginning of their relationship.

#the walking dead #x reader #imagines #Shane walsh #Glenn Rhee x reader #Finally a place for gleen rhee fanfiction #Glenn Rhee fanfics #Glenn Rhee x reader imagines #Glenn rhee smut #Rick grimes #rick grimes #judith grimes #michonne #carl grimes #twd #Season 1 twd #Glenn rhee x Dixon! reader

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Yooo! Sorry if you already explained this BUT what's the lore for your monster boys? The Goblin and Zombie lookin' guy?

hi!! i really haven't talked much about their lore on here, so no worries!

the lore/story itself is still pretty new (i only started actually writing it a few months ago), so i don't have all of the details sorted yet, but i can definitely share a bit of their backstories & how they met!

but just like... general warning for death & other similar subjects, because this story is full of all of that

Basically, the story is set in a sort of post-apocalyptic/nuclear apocalypse type of world & people become monsters through high amounts of radiation exposure.

Neither of the boys knew each other prior to becoming monsters; however, they did live in the same city/area when the apocalypse started, which was around like... 2018 or so.

Kelly/Red (aka "the goblin" lol) was in a group with his younger sister, her partner, and another, older guy who he grew up with/is kind of like a brother to him. About 10 months into the apocalypse, Kel made a bit of a fuck up which resulted in his sister & her partner dying. In this universe (bc it's an AU of another story I have), Kelly's sister was pretty much his best & only friend--she was more or less his entire world. Their childhood wasn't great, so they ended up really close with one another. Long story short, the guilt of what he did ate him alive & he intentionally turned himself into a monster by going into a "high radiation zone" & just... waiting. Red, as a monster, is very apathetic, vicious, etc. and he doesn't remember being human at all.

Dhestyn/Teeth (aka "zombie lookin' guy") was living with his cousin who was a bit of an amateur doomsday prepper type. BUT his cousin is an absolute coward & refuses to leave their bunker ever, so Dhes does all of their supply runs on his own. Now, Dhes is a good survivor & definitely has the skills to make it a long time in the apocalypse, but his hubris is absolutely his downfall--he sees himself as almost untouchable, which causes him to make some... less than great decisions. About 2 years into the apocalypse, he gets caught off guard by a group of raiders while on a supply run & that ultimately leads to his becoming a monster. I talked about it a lil bit already here, but basically he does manage to escape said group of raiders, however!! his injuries are too severe to make it back home, so he (unintentionally) passes out where there's a lot of radiation (the city is surrounded) & turns before he can wake up.

The two of them meet when Teeth wanders near Red's cabin. Originally, Red intended to kill Teeth, but ended up choosing not to & took him in instead. I would explain why but this is already really long so... in short: they're soulmates lol

but yeah! that's it! thank you for asking! :-) apologies for the literal essay lmao

#this was my attempt at giving a cliff notes version of the story sdfjhsdk #i do not know how to be brief i'm sorry #ask #anon #mb:ex

[parkeryangs]

ooooh please tell me more about texas boy parker

i would be DELIGHTED anon; you have no idea how excited this ask made me ahahah. a lot of this is related to the apocalypse au specifically, but texan parker is a forever hc for me

firstly this fic i wrote (though its in the college band au) is, among other things, about texas boy parker so 👀 might be worth a read lol

he grew up in southwest texas, in a town called alpine! it's an "everyone knows everyone" type of place, and as he also has a twin sister (who he hasn't heard from since the apocalypse starts in this au ,,, ahaha,,,,,) he had a lot of trouble determining who he was/his plsce in the world apart from his family

thus, leaving feels just like a necessary step within self-discovery. its not so much that he hates where he came from, but he struggles for a long time about what alpine repesents overall in his life. he has a lot of fondness for the town itself, but doesn't ever really what to think on what that "fondness" actually is (ie just nostalgia vs genuinely still caring)

though he had a period of time as a teenager where he heavily rejected any cowboy/western motif, thougu it was always pretty natural to who he was and by the time he hit college he'd returned to embracing southern culture :]

when he was in school, his classmates would tease him for the way he talked, as most of them didn't have parents who'd grown up rural and consequently had no discernible accent. thus he trained it out of his voice the best he could (though it wasn't perfect)

^ later, after moving to arkham, he realized that he didn't want to be ashamed of his roots and stopped "fighting" it when it slipped out, which eventually devolved back into the drawl that faroe also ends up gaining in the apocalypse au. its also much stronger whenever his emotions are heightened (upset/excited/etc)

he plays guitar (and teaches faroe the basics :)) gravitating towards bluegrass chords before anything else as that was the colloquial music heard around his hometown, even if he lightheartedly denies the preference. (his guitar also has a sticker of the texas flag on it :))

oscar calls him cowboy, he acts like he hates it but tbh he really likes it lol despite pointing out that he isn't technically even a cowboy

being queer in a small, religious, southern town was a recipe for disaster, so he kept his head down and his mouth shut. he wasn't even worried about himself, but, for a multitude of reasons, how it would reflect on his parents. it made him cagey about his identity even after leaving tx, to the point he had a lot of trouble opening up to/growing closer with arthur because of it.

i think texas overall just represents SO MUCH for his character as a whole; he chases danger with the sort of spark that only starts in a dead-end small town, he doesn't look it but he can 100% hold his own in a fight, he's always moving not in pursuit of anything, but in fleeing of what he's scared of accepting

#jfc i project on this guy a LOT jsksjkdn.. twirls hair hes so me #i hope this is kind of what you were thinking anon LOL i feel like its a bit scattered #finch chirps #finch's headcanons #malevolent apocalypse au #parker yang #askbox

[innytoes]

Sleepy prompts 👀 10 for Reggie/Carrie?

Set in the Nuclear Apocalypse Bunker AU.

After Reggie got better, things with Carrie got better too. Tía Victoria kept him under observation for another week, but she visited every day, bringing him food and talking to him. When it was just the two of them, she was different. Less tightly wound.

Reggie came back to the rest of the bunker and immediately got pulled into a Molina family group hug, and then another one with Luke and Alex (his parents frowning in the background). Even Trevor gave him a part on the back, smiling. Things were kind of weird between them, seeing as how Trevor kind of saved his life but also kind of broke the rules to do so.

So things settled down again. Reggie returned to his chores, returned to cracking jokes with Willie over the comms, returned to doing whatever he could to make himself useful around the bunker. But now, he got to joke and hang out with Carrie as well. And maybe even, you know, hold hands. They were taking things slow, since they literally had all the time in what was left in the world, but it was pretty awesome.

Which was why he was the one who was pulled aside by Julie. "Hey, have you noticed something off about Carrie?" she asked. For a second, he was offended, like 'she's suddenly likes you now' was something weird and off. But now that he thought about it, she had been more and more tired lately. And snappy, but not like before, not just to him. More like she was having trouble keeping it together with everyone.

"She's been kind of tired," he agreed.

"I'm worried about her," Julie said. "And I think someone should talk to her. Someone like her boyfriend."

He flushed. "Oh we... we haven't... it's not... We haven't labeled it yet." Julie gave him a knowing look. She was like the sister he always wanted, he loved her so much. "But yeah, I'll talk to her."

So, after dinner, that's what he did. Trevor was out... schmoozing, or something. He was usually over at the Mercers or the Pattersons or even the Molinas, or holed up in the comms room talking to people in other bunkers. So he could manage to slip into their pod pretty easily without anyone noticing.

Carrie was in her room. He'd never actually been in Carrie's room yet, and he smiled at how she made the sterile place her own, just like she'd made the pretty standard uniform her own. There were sparkly stars made from food packaging stuck to the walls and ceiling, and little paper origami flowers strung up, and all the sad metal railings had been draped with fabric.

Carrie herself was hunched over her desk in a posture Reggie was very familiar with. It was the same one she used to get in math class, before he started tutoring her. Frustrated but trying not to show it.

"Hey babe," he said quietly, and she whirled around, clutching... a science book to her chest? "Whatcha doing?"

"What are you doing here?" she snapped. But Reggie knew better than to be intimidated by that now.

"Just wanted to check in with you," he said, flopping on her bed. She looked like she wanted to say something about him messing up her bedding, but he just smiled at her. "Missed you. You've been holed up in your room after dinner these past few..." Now that he thought about it, almost as long as he'd been better. "Weeks."

"I've been busy," she said.

"Doing science homework?" he asked. They did get lessons, sometimes. A lot of it was improvised, between the adults here and adults from other bunkers when they had time. Music class from The Trevor Wilson kind of was the coolest thing ever. Ray taught them Spanish, Mr and Mrs Patterson taught them all kinds of stuff about history, modern history, politics... basically what lead up to them being stuck here. Like if the understood, they weren't doomed to repeat it.

The Mercers, when they could be torn away from their Top Secret Whatever in the Bunker taught them science-y stuff like chemistry and physics, and Tía Victoria taught them biology and medicine. But this book was way beyond what Victoria was teaching them. "You aiming for an internship with the Mercers?" he asked. If anyone could talk her way into that top secret lab, it was Carrie.

"Oh very funny, Reginald," Carrie snapped, throwing the book at his head. He dodged, flinching. "We both know I'm not fucking smart enough for that." Part of him wanted to run, but then he saw the unshed tears in Carrie's eyes.

"Babe, you're plenty smart," he soothed.

"No I'm not!" Carrie shouted. "When you got sick I didn't understand a word of Victoria's explanation, and I can't do math, and I heard Mrs Mercer tell Mr Mercer that it was a good thing I was pretty and healthy, so I could be a good wife to Alex and have plenty of babies to keep civilization going, because I was never going to be a scientist." She burst into tears, and Reggie gathered her up in a hug.

"I'm just so tired," she sobbed as he stroked her back. "I don't understand it and I keep rereading the same things and I'm just so tired."

"Okay first of all, fuck what the Mercers think," he said. "They've been stuck in here for years and they still haven't realised their son is gay as fuck." Okay maybe they'd all been helping cover up Alex' conversations with Willie, but it wasn't like he was that subtle. "Also, just like, ew. To all of that." Carrie sniffled her face buried against his chest.

"And second of all, who cares if you're not gonna be a scientist? There's more to rebuilding civilization than scientists." Carrie opened her mouth, probably to say something about being a... a broodmare or whatever creepy philosophy the Mercers had. "You know how to talk to any of the adults here, like an equal. You're literally the only one who understands Mr Patterson when he forgets he's not giving a university Philosophy class, or when figuring out what Mrs Patterson means when we're dissecting what went wrong with the world and politics and stuff."

"But that stuff is easy," she said.

"Yeah, to you!" Reggie hugged her close. "Babe, you're not a future scientist. You're like, the future President. You know how to talk to people, and get them to like you, and you know how they tick." He didn't mention that when she used her powers for evil, like when she'd been mad at him, she was pretty devastating as well. He was pretty sure she knew that. "The world doesn't just need scientists. We also need leaders."

Carrie swallowed hard, rubbing at her eyes. "You mean it?"

"Of course," he said. He leaned down and nuzzled his nose against hers. "Besides, I have my hopes set on being First Husband." She laughed, before looking at him. He flushed when he realised the implications of what he just said.

"I think I can work with that," Carrie said, smiling at him. She sat up. "I should... I should make a list. Talk to Emily. See about connecting with all the other bunkers, start forming relationships with..."

"Okay, POTUS," he said, reeling her in and pulling her back onto the bed. "First, you are going to take a nap. You look exhausted, Carebear. The world, or what's left of it, will still be there for you to conquer tomorrow."

For a moment, he thought Carrie was going to argue with him. "Will you stay?" she asked instead.

"For as long as you want me too," he agreed.

#julie and the phantoms #nuclear apocalpse au #carriexreggie #this got so long and I nearly forgot to include the actual prompt lol #fanfic #I wrote a thing #post apocalypse #yes Carrie does talk with Emily and is newly focused and determined #Julie is like: wtf did you say to her #and Reggie is like: um so just in case this turns out badly and Carrie takes over the world this is all your fault #Reggie 100% thinks about his own future and is like: yeah I'm fine being the bunker's official child care and manual labour and stuff #no science or politics for me thank

[discet]

So, how old was Marcy when she put the crown on (we know Simon was in his 40s when he put the crown on and began transforming and reverted to that age when the magic was removed in Betty)? And what does her appearance (in hair and clothing) look like when she was human (or depowered in the dungeon in that one AU episode with Finn and Jake)?

Okay, really gave this some thought. I think physically her body ages to about 17, and mentally she gets to about 20 before she is full on lost to the crown. The last year is a pretty rapid descent.

I think her hair grows out long, but she keeps it in a tidy side ponytail. Specifically the dead mom ponytail because I think Marcy would do it on purpose as a cynical inside joke to herself. Even if she doesn't want to admit it she’s trope savvy enough to where this is heading.

Clothing is very apocalypses chic: naturally torn jeans, a bomber jacket, a graphic t-shirt, and boots. Hair goes from black to white over the years

So I think the timeline works out like this:

13: Apocalypse happens. Marcy freezes Anne and Sasha. Wears the crown on the strap of her shoulder bag to survive the magical fallout.

14: On Marcy's 14th birthday, after most of the fallout has past, Marcy decides to unfreeze Anne and Sasha believing its safe in the little bunker she prepared for the three of them. She discovers she doesn't have the means to actually unfreeze them and believes she killed both of them. She leaves their old neighborhood not able to stand being near what has effectively become her friends tomb. She almost spirals into despair, but finds Marceline and through her a purpose to keep going.

15-19: The golden age of Marcy and Marceline's sister relationship lasting for Marceline between the ages of 7-13. Marcy has successfully kept Marceline in the dark about any of the side effects the crown is having on he, not wanting to worry her. However this mostly means that Marceline is basically blind sighted when Marcy starts to full on lose it.

20: This one is rough. Marcy is increasingly lost in an fog not taking the dangers of the apocalypse seriously kind of lost in her own fantasy of being a powerful witch. Marceline, upset eventually confronts her about this trying to shake her out of it, and Marcy reacts... poorly. I think Marcy blasts her with a blizzard, hurting Marceline and only barely catches herself before freezing Marceline solid (like she did to Anne and Sasha). In a moment of horrified lucidity apologizes before basically imprisoning herself in a little ice bunker to contain herself which eventually becomes the foundations of the Ice Kingdom

This poking at her fantasy doesn't really happen cause her being a powerful witch is totally plausible real thing in Ooo. So even though she's being this sweet old lady/author, she keeps acting like a wicked witch and it never really melds

I think we see it in the remember you parallel episode where instead of ending with a bittersweet chill jam session, Anne and Sasha try to use it to snap Marcy out of it and Marcy lashes out which also pays off Marceline's warning to the both of them after they put together Marcy's identity.

#crown!marcy au #marcy wu #marceline the vampire queen #adventure time #amphibia

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supernatural shows

the last of us

name: naila el shafei ship: joel miller faceclaim: may calamawy summary: Naila El Shafei was 19 when the apocalypse started. She'd had hope in the beginning, of good things coming, of community, but years passed and nothing good came. 20 years later, Naila is living alone, far from the QZs after being left by her girlfriend. She comes across Joel and Ellie in Boston and offers them food in return for letting her come along with them.

stranger things

name: florence ‘flora’ dean ship: eddie munson faceclaim: havana rose liu summary: After demogorgon, demodogs, and starcourt ‘burning down’, Flora isn’t so naive as to think her life will go back to normal in Hawkins. Still, she picks up her old job at Palace Arcade and starts off her senior year. Then ‘good old Hawkins’ falls back into upside-down madness when Chrissy Cunningham dies and Eddie Munson, Flora’s friend-and-definitely-not-crush, is blamed. She allows herself a moment of naivety, a small hope that they’ll all get out of this as they have done in the past. That’s not how it ends up and she curses the thoughts as Eddie dies in her arms. Secretly, after her leg heals enough, she heads back into the upside-down with hopes of bringing Eddie’s body back. Instead, she finds the spot where she left him empty.

[ fics / here ]

name: doreen ‘dori’ henderson ship: eleven faceclaim: peyton kennedy summary: Dori Henderson was a bit of a loner. She didn’t have the group of friends her twin brother did and after her best friend Lenny Cameron got popular with ‘it crew’ of Hawkins’ middle school, she was even more alone. The definitive target of Hawkins middle’s bullies - and Lenny’s new besties - Lori Miller and Tricia Allan, she worried about the chance of her deepest secret being exposed. A lesbian in a small town, she keeps her head down and tries her hardest not to stare too closely at the pretty pretty girls in her classes. That is, until, Mike Wheeler discovers a girl in the woods the same night Will goes missing. Eleven is like nobody Dori has ever met and Dori trips head over heels immediately and the feeling only grows the more El is around; it’s just a shame she’s so caught up with Mike and Dori is left to pine in secret alongside Will Byers and his infatuation for his best friend - or, at least, that’s the plan until Dori proposes they ‘fake date’ to get Mike and El’s respective attention.

wednesday

name: khioniya ‘niya’ moorcroft ship: wednesday addams species: slavic vampire faceclaim: bailey bass summary: Khioniya Moorcroft, the ‘popular’ girl but without the trademark clique backing her. She strolls the halls of Nevermore Academy with little more than acquaintances that refused to say why they would do what she asked of them. Even after these few school years, none of the student body knew much about the girl - but she seemed to somehow know a lot about all of them. Pointedly disinterested in all of her fellow students, that all changes when Wednesday Addams shows up at Nevermore. And from then on, Niya seems to leave her shell - or ‘chrysalis’, Wednesday would say, though she wouldn’t explain whatever the ‘joke’ was that made Niya’s lips twist so coyly.

[ fics / here ]

buffy the vampire slayer

name: miranda ‘milly’ chase ship: spike, briefly faith lehane abilities: death-precog psychic faceclaim: alba baptista summary: The half-sister of one Cordelia Chase, Milly's entire life has been a well-kept secret. Put forth as 'twins' to the public of Sunnydale, Milly was often seen as the less popular, the less pretty, the other Chase. She skirted by on her sister's popularity, even becoming a cheerleader when she'd rather be in the photography club. Her life becomes more complicated when she befriends new girl, Buffy Summers. And then even more complicated again when she starts developing feelings for a vampire who'd tried to kill them all at least once. The dreams of deaths that come true? Well, that's another secret all her own.

supernatural

name: kaitlin ‘kat’ singer ship: dean winchester faceclaim: loey lane summary: ‘The Sunset Journals’ were supposed to be nothing more than a pastime; a collection of online entries about her hunts. When it started picking up traction though, Kat Singer assumed she could at least inform people of how to protect themselves - even if it seemed most people seemed to think they were fake stories. Between up-keep of her entries was her actual job: hunting. Since becoming a hunter at 20, she quickly found herself specializing in hauntings; from houses, dolls, and artwork to whatever else a ghost could attach itself to and cause harm. It’s on one of these ghost hunts that she runs into the Winchester brothers … for the first time in almost six years - and if old feelings happened to start coming back for Dean, that was nobody’s business but her own.

name: jude winchester ship: jo harvelle faceclaim: kristen stewart summary: Jude Winchester is daddy’s little disappointment 2.0. She only finds this out when she meets disappointment numero uno, her older half-brother Dean Winchester, and his (and her) along-for-the-ride brother, Sam. None of the three are happy about this fact. Getting hauled along with her annoying-ass half-brothers wasn’t her initial plan, but if she gets to finally track down her deadbeat dad and give him a peace of her mind, so be it then.

teen wolf

name: wila charoensuk ship: cora hale (3a), stiles (3b-?), scott mccall (??) species: werecat (spotted leopard) faceclaim: kitty chicha amatayakul summary: Moving to beacon hills in 2010 wasn’t exactly in Wila’s plan, but she couldn’t stay at her old school after the stunt she’d pulled. That school had been her third in five years. She’d acted out as a kid, but even more so after being bitten by her mother at 11, subsequently taken in by her aunt and uncle, and then finding out her mother was killed; all within two months. She wasn’t following those two boys from school into the woods, rather she, too, wanted to see half a dead body. When one of those same boys, so-called ‘Scott McCall’, comes to school the next day, reeking of wolf smell and seemingly stronger and faster, her interest is piqued. Everything just goes to madness after that. Turns out, there’s more than just werewolves and were-whatevers in the world and they’re all converging on beacon hills.

name: brenna rafferty ship: raquel mccall (oc) species: selkie faceclaim: shannon berry summary: Arethusa always warned her daughter to keep her selkie skin close to her and never out of her sight when she was on land. Brenna was a curious girl though, especially when it came to the world above the water. It’s only for a moment, when she’s distracted by some flittery thing her mother had once called a ‘butterfly’, that she feels hands on her discarded seal skin. As simple and terrible as that, Brenna cannot return to her watery home or her mother. ‘Wife’, that is what the man - Blake - insists she will be, once she is ‘a little older’. He drags her from town to town, away from the eyes of those who pry to closely, away from those who could rescue her. Beacon Hills is something new though, she knows this as soon as she smells the wolf - just like the were-packs she once shared shores with - on her new classmates.

name: raquel mccall ship: brenna rafferty (oc) species: werewolf (beta) faceclaim: paulina chavez summary: Raquel McCall is determined to get to the bottom of this mystery, a mystery that nobody else seems to think exists. When Brenna Rafferty moves to beacon hills with her ‘foster father’ Blake Peters, Raquel gets bad feeling. The new girl claims to not be able to swim, but Raquel can smell river and rain on her, can see how she stares longingly towards the school pool when she sits out during pe class. When Raquel snoops around outside their house late in the night, she can hear someone weeping inside. Peering through a window, she watches Blake lock away some shawl of smooth fur that, even through the glass, smell distinctly like Brenna.

percy jackson

name: korinna ‘kori’ bato ship: tbd godly parent: dionysus faceclaim: ella jay basco summary: Kori Bato was claimed as Dionysus’ child, the youngest of his at camp half-blood under Castor and Pollux. A year-round occupant at the camp, she’s looking for any reason to get back out into the real world and actually do something; there’s only so much training and rounds of capture-the-flag a girl can take. Well, playing tag-a-long with a trio of wannabe heroes will work just fine. Shame this ‘quest’ business isn’t turning out as fun as she thought it would be.

good omens

name: penemue ship: mallory (oc) species: angel faceclaim: josefine pettersen summary: To say the angel - Penemue, no last name needed nor wanted - struggled on earth was to say the very least about her. Between teaching humankind to read and write and being invoked to cure their harshest stupidities, she had her hands quite full. And yet, she far preferred earth to heaven. Or hell for that matter. Not that she ever had any intention of visiting hell, not in her eternity. Earth for all it’s odds, at least had good music and sweet fruits and delightful books and it had, well … it had Aziraphale. It, too, unfortunately, had Crowley. She had thought the absolute worst happened when her first love, Mallory, was murdered, leaving Penemue with only a carcanet to remember her by. And yet, here and now, she learnt that Aziraphale and Crowley had misplaced the antichrist with only few days to spare before Armageddon.

#oc masterlist

[ruthlesslistener]

Regarding PK's reactions to his kids relationships, how in the world did Quirrel end up helping Hollow out with their heats or just generally being around and what was PK's overall reaction for the two becoming QPPs?

From my own hunch I could definitely see Hornet perhaps harassing Quirrel as well to a degree for at least awhile given how protective she is over her sibling (as vis versa regarding Hollow harassing Lace as you mentioned previously, both siblings look out for each other it seems), though I have no clue how their father might react to that whole idea that Hollow can indeed make relationships on their own in just a complex way as anyone else, let alone with Quirrel.

It's fun to theorize and further 'torment' the fork manlet over the causes and effects of his actions (and lack thereof). That, and seeing Hollow and co being happy for at least a few instances, juicy angst aside.

Well, to put it quite simply- he didn't react at all, because by the time that actually became a problem, he was trying to be dead. I haven't played around with Quirrelhollow too much (partially bc I'm worried about people side-eyeing it and the way I write it), but the whole QPP/FWB deal didn't actually fully come about until post-canon simply because Hollow didn't have to worry about their heat cycles until AFTER they recovered from the ordeal of the Black Egg Temple. I headcanon that Quirrel and Hollow met when they were both around 15, which was too young for Hollow's heats to start in full, and when they were actually due for a proper hormone cycle at ~mentally and physically age 20, the stress from being the Pure Vessel put them on hold. And then, of course, being trapped in the Black Egg Temple with a goddess in your brain doing her damned best to kill you is pretty much stress incarnate, so that + the lack of soul available also removed their heat cycle altogether. So it's not until after their body has healed and they're no longer being treated like a lifeless puppet that something like heat becomes a problem, which takes a long enough recovery time for Hollow and Quirrel to have built up a relationship as god and favored mortal.

PK also had no idea that Quirrel and Hollow struck up a sort of bond when he was alive, as the whole reason why he allowed them to interact in the first place was because Monomon would take her adoptive son everywhere when he was training to be her assistant, so it was more useful to just stick the teenage pillbug next to the similarly-teenaged vessel and just tell him to practice his tutoring skills on them, as they had been proven to be 'pure' at that point. And if he DID figure out what was going on in the Dream Realm, then he would just mourn the fact that he hadn't seen their connection earlier, and subjected Hollow to centuries of suffering. Gods picking a favorite mortal for being close to their aspect (and having an intimate relationship with said mortal) is pretty much a natural aspect to living as a Higher Being, and since Hollow was well on their way to full ascension by the time they met Quirrel, it wouldn't have been surprising for them to gravitate towards him and then fully accept him as theirs post-release from the Temple, when they were a fullblooded God of Nothingness. He absolutely would not intervene, since that's territory that he has no right to walk upon, but he would most certainly hate himself for missing all the little indicators that his child was alive instead of deliberately ignoring them out of a desperation to stop an inevitable apocalypse.

As for Hornet, she's suspicious but keeps her mouth shut. Idk, I just dont really like the whole harassing people about their partners sorta deal. Hollow's an adult and has been for at least 200 years, just because they've been sheltered on account of not being seen as a living being doesn't mean they're incapable of making their own decisions, so their baby sister acting like a sort of guardian figure over them makes me pretty uncomfortable. She's protective over them, but Hollow is her elder, so even if she's suspicious of Quirrel, she'd still respect their pick of consort.

#hollow knight #hollowquirrel #quirrelhollow #anon #reply #this family doesnt work like a human one does #and hollow and quirrel's relationship is BARELY definable as qpp/fwbs #mostly bc again-they're bugs and hollow is a god #so no pk and hornet dont care they're keeping their distance from that thanks #i also really dont like hornet acting like hollow's elder even though she is pretty protective by nature #shes still their baby sister and they are still very much an adult despite what theyve gone through

[yelya]

So I have a fic idea...

So I read a post a few days ago about how Cousin Greg from Succession looks like Five from Umbrella Academy was put through a stretcher when he grew up and now I have ideas for a crossover fic.

So at the end of TUA s3, instead of ending up in the world where Reggie is basically uber!ruler, Five ends up in Succession!verse, he no longer has his powers and there's no sign of his siblings. Once he stops PTSDing over being alone in Potentially Yet Another Apocalypse, only this time without his powers and aged up to his thirties, he looks around and realises, he's actually in a pretty advanced world compared to what he's used to, only there's no powers, no Academy, and no Reginald Hargreeves here. Five starts trying to figure out wtf happened and where everyone he knows is. (He dismisses his aging up as a side effect of whatever the fuck Reginald and Alison did and pretty much just rolls with looking like Cousin Greg; Five has bigger issues to worry about).

After a bit of sleuthing, he determines there's no Commission here (at least no one has made contact yet), and without his powers and no briefcase to help him time-travel, Five decides to treat things like what happened in the Sixties: his family will arrive at some point, so he decides to make a base and settle in to wait for them. Luckily, he has an identity ready-made for him with all the details revealed on his weird high-tech phone - Gregory Hirsch, what kind of name is that? He has a women claiming to be his mother (which he will deal with later, much later) sending multiple messages telling him to go to meet his great uncle Logan for his birthday. The old guy is rich and powerful and if he gets in good with him, he's set for life even after getting fired again. Five figures it's as good a plan as any and heads off.

Only, when he meets Logan Roy, it's not long until he's reminded of Reginald Hargreeves with how the man treats everyone around him, and the guy's kids are all kinds of fucked up in painfully familiar ways. Kendall's drug use and Connor's cuccoolander behaviour remind him of Klaus, Shiv somehow has the best and worst traits of Viktor and Alison, combined with Diego's tendency to go for the jugular (a trait she shares with Roman) but they all have shades of Luther in how they desperately want to please their father. Five tries keeping distant, but the more he's around the Roys, the more it becomes clear that Logan plays his kids off against each other in ways that would do Reginald proud. Five's not just keeping a cover intact anymore, he's got a whole new messed up family to protect.

So he works his way up WaystarRoyco alongside Shiv's husband, Tom (a Troll after Five's own heart), trying to stay within the Roy family dynamic and getting close as he can to Logan for information while trying to protect the others from the man's fucked up treatment. Just when he's starting to give up hope his sibling will ever appear, he almost has a heart attack when he sees Alison's face on the cover of one of Shiv's magazines, declaring he Hollywood's newest up-and-coming star. He readies himself for a trip to his wayward sister (she reset the universe, she must have answers, she must), only for the whole family to be called to dinner by Logan. He's given up on acquiring Peirce now, he's got a new business venture in mind - a partnership with an English billionaire called Hargreeves whose latest project has just made world-wide news - a monkey with human-level intelligence and the ability to talk. Apparently, they've called the monkey Pogo...

#the umbrella academy #five hargreeves #succession #cousin greg #fic ideas #I've been awake like 30 hours and had to get this out.

[egsometimeswrites]

It hadn't been long since the apocalypse started,

But to Tommy it felt like forever.

He knew he had gotten lucky though,

He had found himself not one, but two of his very own apocalypse buddies.

There was the freakishly tall, and rather odd ranboo. who chose to wear a mask and sunglasses no matter the situation. He carried a baseball bat as his weapon, which didn't do much to kill the zombies, but it did stun them for a little bit. so it was good for buying them some time.

Then there was tubbo, who was also an odd character, but not as much as ranboo. he was fairly short and looked pretty harmless,

But looks are deceiving. Tubbo was the most capable of the group, he was strong and seemed to know what to do in most situations.

He was also someone the zombies would regret messing with. His weapon of choice was a handgun. Tommy wasn't sure where Tubbo had gotten it but it didn't really matter, it had saved their asses on various occasions.

Then there was Tommy. Does such a big strong man really need an introduction? Yes. he does.

Tommy was on the taller side, and was fairly resourceful. He had some survival skills from his short time in boy scouts, but that was about it. Tommy was like a raccoon, that's what his friends always said. and he would be lying if he said he didn't take a bit of pride in that comparison.

He rather liked raccoons.

Tommys weapon of choice was whatever he could get his hands on.

He did carry a pocket knife. but that had only been used against a zombie once. when he had gotten himself cornered in an alley.

He got chills thinking about that.

All he really remembered was walking out of that alley covered in so much blood he thought he might be able to pass as a zombie, though he didn't test that theory.

Ranboo tommy and tubbo.

Despite not knowing each other for long they thought of themselves as a little family.

The apocalypse will do that I guess.

When you're forced into a constant life or death situation, with only each other to talk to there's only two outcomes; friends for life or total enemies.

They were all glad their relationship had ended up being the former.

Their current task was to find a relatively safe place to set up camp for a few days while they scavenged the area, and looked for any other survivors.

The later task wouldn’t be something for them to worry about, if it weren't for ranboo.

See ranboo had a sister; aimee and he hadn't seen or heard from her since the start of the apocalypse. He was quite worried for her safety.

So the trio had added searching for her onto their list of ongoing tasks:

find food.

find shelter.

find aimee.

They hadn't had much luck so far. though tubbo had found a red beanie with a little cartoon style person on it. when he brought it back to show his friends ranboo swore up and down that it was the beanie his sister always wore, tommy and ranboo were a bit skeptical at first but after ranboo explained that it was a custom and the little cartoon figure was actually a little cartoon aimee they left their skepticism behind. ranboo had kept that beanie on him at all times ever since.

A few hours later they had set up on the roof of what Tommy assumed to be an office building. but he couldn't be sure with how messy and destroyed it was inside.

They chatted a bit as they ate their dinner. It wasn't much a cold can of corn and some stale bread that they had picked moldy bits off of. but it was food so they enjoyed it as much as they could.

After they finished their meal tubbo spoke up, putting an end to their current conversation “i found something pretty awesome earlier” he was being rather vague, and tommy and ranboo were both very intrigued.

They lean in a bit signaling to tubbo that they were listening.

He pulled his bag into his lap and started rummaging through it. “It's not much but it's a pretty rare find” he kept rummaging for a few more seconds before he found what he was looking for, “ah here it is!”

He pulled out an orange.

It looked mostly good, with just a few spots of bruising. “whoa” Tommy and ranboo both said in shock. “how is there any good fruit left?” ranboo asked in a questioning tone. “beats me bossman” “who gives a shit about how it's still existing let's eat it!” Tommy said a little louder than he probably should have. He paused for a minute listening for the sound of zombies being alerted to their camp. When he didn't hear anything he let out a small breath of relief, tubbo and ranboo let out a quiet laugh, and tubbo started peeling their treasured orange. They split it evenly between them and savored the sweet taste in silence.

Once they had all finished their fruit they decided ranboo would take first watch, while tommy and tubbo slept. Tommy would take second watch. and tubbo the third.

It really was nice to have some friends in the apocalypse. They find fruit and help fight off the loneliness.

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#tommyinnit #tubbo #ranboo #bench trio #dsmp fanfic #zombie apocalypse #au #bench trio fanfic

[thebookbin]

The Sunbearer Trials

Aiden Thomas

Publisher: Feiwel & Friends, Macmillan Genre: young adult, fantasy Year: 2022

Me, every time I read a YA book:

I don’t know why I keep convincing myself to give them a try when I have clearly outgrown the genre. It’s probably the pretty covers and interesting blurbs, but yanno. I apparently can't trust myself. I'm an untrustworthy bitch.

Now, being the extremely gay fantasy-lover I am, when I saw the premise of the book I was immediately like yes. This is exactly what I want from a fantasy, a nonwhite setting with fantastical mythology and everybody's just so gay. But it just... disappointed me on all aspects.

I didn't used to be a prose snob, but now apparently I guess I am. I have just read some works that are so well-written that the more juvenile style of YA becomes grating. There were so many "he explained" and "she retorted"s. In my humble opinion, dialogue tags should only be used when there needs to be clarity over who is speaking. Also, what's wrong with plain ol' "said?" IDK it just takes me out of the story. Instead of focusing on what the characters are saying, I am so focused on these weird descriptors that are all over the place.

There are so many expressions that just come from an undeveloped writing style. "Terror gripped his spine" and "The curve of his muscles" were two phrases that I caught multiple times each, and they were so weird. There is an absurd amount of detail paid to clothes and appearance. It very much gives "secret-novel-I-wrote-in-high-school-that-was-lowkey-anime-fanfic."

First is the introduction to Teo. He is described as a troublemaker, but he rarely causes mischief and when he does, it's caricaturistic. His first introduction, he plays a "prank" on the described "bully." But because we don't get to see Ocelo actually be a bully, Teo becomes the bully in my eyes, humiliating them in front of a room full of gods. But literally as soon as anybody says anything to Teo, he gets so offended and cries. Characters constantly feel like caricatures: Niya is the literal stereotypical Nickelodeon Best Friend, like I'm pretty sure her character is just Sam Puckett. Loud, stupid, strong, and loves food. Aurelio, the strong and stoic type. His sister, the stereotypical high school bully, who is even described with a high pony tail!

There's also this weird hierarchy between types of gods. There are Gold gods and Jade gods. Gold gods are supposed to be "superior." But literally the only person who ever talks about this is Teo himself. It gets to the point where we as the audience start to wonder if it's all in Teo's head. Like yeah, Jades have never been in the Trials before, which means he's never had to worry about joining a life-or-death competition. And then Teo complains about not being allowed to go to the "Academy" (cue eye-roll), which is described as a place of abuse, anyway. Nobody literally says anything about Jades being less than Golds except Teo.

The comparison to Percy Jackson and The Hunger Games is so laughable. Both of those series have a main theme of systems of power being corrupt and harmful to society. But in The Sunbearer Trials the system itself is part of a religious order that is deeply rooted in latine cultures. I mean personally, any religion that requires child sacrifice isn't one worth following, but hey that's just me. But this culture isn't acknowledged as bad or flawed, even by the main character, the so called trouble-maker, the one who can see the flaws in the world, doesn't even have a doubt about the way this world is. It's like if Katniss was from the Capitol or Percy if he was more like Luke.

Just the idea of the entire world relying on teenagers à la Hunger Games but not for entertainment or a grotesque commentary on society but to literally keep the apocalypse from happening is probably the stupidest system for keeping the world from ending ever thought of.

There's just so much to say about this, because I wanted to like it. But the clumsy attempts at prose end up seeming like more of a rough draft for a novel than a complete novel in and of itself. I think I would consider reading another Aiden Thomas novel if it wasn't YA, and had gone through the higher publishing standards of the fantasy genre.

storygraph | bookshop.org | local houston

★★½ great idea but terrible execution stars

#book review #ya books #young adult #books and libraries #the sunbearer trials #aiden thomas #meh #disappointing #iffy writing #fantasy #queer #author of color #author latine #featured #2022 #macmillan #fiewel and friends #two stars #two and a half stars

[laurenceslife]

Chapter 50

              Laurence invited his friends for a box match, what’s, and other martial arts’ watching he got used to back during filming Apocalypse Now. For the sake of nostalgia, Emilio and Dennis came, the others didn’t have time. He had been to the children’s place that day already, and Victoria happenned to be filming, otherwise, Laurence would have spent his time with her.

              After the match, the man invited Dennis and Emilio to their house. The house was beautiful, thanks to Laurence’s and Victoria’s salaries. They had their own housekeeper too, and everything was shining from spotlessness.

It was late spring so they were sitting outside, on the terrace, but it was in the evening already so the sun wasn’t shining anymore. Because of Dennis, so he wouldn’t fall back again, there was alcohol-free beer and chips on the plastic, white, angled table that they were sitting around. Laurence was wearing a dark denim jacket with white T-shirt and light jeans, Emilio was in a purple jacket with cream sleeves, also with light jeans, and Dennis was in a black jacket with white T-shirt and dark jeans.

They were talking about Emilio’s brothers and sister, their partners, the children and about work too. Laurence’s filming had just come to an end, what they were talking about, too. Of course, they were talking about Emilio’s divorce and Martin’s Emmy award too.

- You and Victoria are working pretty much nowadays – Dennis said – Emilio’s marriage folded up because of much work, too. So be careful.

- Thanks for speaking, but it’s not necessary to worry – Laurence said loosely.

- First, I said it, too – Emilio said brokenly.

- I’ve always worked a lot, and I’m happy that Victoria’s career  started up so much, too – the man smiled – She’s never gotten so many offers like nowadays.

The two other men didn’t calm down at all. They knew that Laurence’s marriage with Hajna also folded up mostly because the man spent too little time with his family. But for the time being, they didn’t see that there would have been any problem in his relationship with Victoria. Moreover, they were even like a happy pair. While it could also bother the girl that Laurence spent so much time with his children who were born from his first marriage, and he wasn’t in bad with his ex-wife either. Moreover, when he met with Langston and Montana, usually they were together with Hajna.

Although in the circle of celebrities, there are many divorced parents who get married again, moreover, Victoria’s also younger than Hajna, although stars usually have much younger partners after divorce… Moreover, not only stars. Although Laurence surely learned his lesson that he shouldn’t prioritize work instead of relationship, although then he already had a family, and now he only had a companion. On the other hand, he had his children too, who he also kept in touch with, and he still couldn’t prioritize work instead of them. And nowadays, he had less time for them, too, because of the lots of work. It even would have been absurd to spend more time with them, except if he would have brought them along to the filming locations. The man would have even brought them along but Hajna didn’t let him do it, she thought Montana was too young for it yet, and if he would have only brought Langston along, then the little girl would have been jealous of her brother.

- You don’t have too much time for the godsons and goddaughter of yours either, nowadays – Emilio said, still under the influence of his mood because of his divorce.

- Sorry I wasn’t there when you divorced – Laurence said sadly, too – You know that you’re not only my godson but we’re friends too.

- You’ll see, you’ll have a new partner soon, too; Larry soon succeeded in finding a new companion, too! – Dennis tried to cheer him up. He still called Laurence Larry because he had known him since his childhood.

- For the time being, I don’t need a new partner! – Emilio said angrily.

- OK, of course now you haven’t gotten over your divorce yet, but it would cheer you up! – Dennis continued cheerfully – Larry didn’t look for a partner yet, either, Victoria simply just came!

- Let him alone, somebody might come; for the time being, he’s not gonna look for anybody, anyway! – Laurence laughed.

- At last! – Emilio leaned his head back.

After that, Dennis and Emilio were talking about work again. Laurence was hearing something like Emilio’s popular Disney movie had sequels, and a hockey team assumed the movie’s name, but Laurence was thinking about Victoria during it. He already missed her very much, and she was going to come home tomorrow, which he was looking forward to. He was thinking about what it would be like when she would come home, and he was considering what to be doing together.

Dennis realized that they couldn’t be keeping Laurence’s attention anymore so he spoke to Emilio that they could be leaving already.

Out of courtesy, Laurence pretended that he wanted them to stay on but Dennis didn’t believe him, and left, together with Emilio.

Laurence realized that it was late at night so took a shower, and went to sleep.

              Next morning, he couldn’t do anything but only wait for Victoria, so to occupy himself, he didn’t have any other idea but to review his next movie’s lines, anyway, the filming was going to begin some weeks later. Mainly this was why he was so much looking forward to the girl’s coming, because they were going to have so little time together – Although he could take her to the filming location – he thought, so decided to talk it over with her so she would go with him.

Then the phone rang.

It was Tom.

He complained to him, too, about how bad his marriage was with Nicole nowadays, like he did, but this time Laurence even succeeded in cheering him up, he was so much happy about Victoria was going to come home soon, and then he was going to be the co-star in such a movie which was going to be made according to a play he wrote. He already has his own movie company, Cinema Gypsy. Mostly such movies are made with it which are authentic, human and are about radical stories, about African-American experiences or according to his own experiences or which somehow speak to him.

Victoria had arrived so Laurence replaced the receiver.

- I missed you so much! – the man hugged and kissed her. They were kissing on for minutes by the time the girl could begin to speak.

- I could go with you to your next filming location – Victoria said while they were still embracing each other.

- I wanted to say exactly this! – Laurence said joyously – It came into my head exactly today – he sat down to the sofa, grinning, leaning back and placing his arms to the backrest – This is gonna be my life’s movie, it’s gonna be made according to my play, I’m gonna be the co-star, and the love of my life will be there with me!

- I’m so proud of you! – the girl sat on his lap, grinning, too.

- I’m proud of you too – the man kissed her again.

- Why are you proud of me? – Victoria was surprised.

- You get so many roles nowadays! – Laurence said, startled at his girlfriend’s reaction.

- But you have leading roles too, and you have your own movie company too… - the girl stood up humbly.

- You’re not beginning that, too, are you? – the man frowned.

- What are you talking about?

- That’s Nicole’s problem with Tom, too! – Laurence said angrily – She’s jealous of his success!

- I’ve been over that for a long time already! That was already a long time ago! You know it, too! – Victoria sat down in the opposite armchair tensely.

- Then why are you so tense?!

- ’Cause you’re behaving like that! – the girl shouted – Besides, I’ve told you how proud I am of you! – she continued with teary eyes.

- OK, sorry, surely just Tom stuffed me! – the man stood up, went up to the girl, and sat down in that armchair which was next to her – Let’s make peace now; I was so much looking forward to your coming home!

- You were the one who began it! – Victoria stared ahead sulkily, with arms folded.

- Don’t do it now, I considered so much about what to be doing today! – Laurence frowned again.

- I missed you too – the girl said sadly, with downcast eyes – What to be doing? – she began to smile.

They were making love, then went over to the girl’s parents’ house because they had met a long time ago.

- What was the filming like? – her mother asked, sitting on their sofa. Her father was sitting next to her.

- It was just a further series-role. I always get such roles – her daughter laughed on the wrong side of the face – On the other hand, some weeks later, we’re gonna set off for the filming locations of Laurence’s movie! – she continued cheerfully – He’s the co-star, and the movie’s gonna be made according to a play he wrote!

- Then you won’t be home again! – her mother said in disappointment – Where is the filming gonna be?

- In California, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Georgia – Laurence smiled joyously.

- And what is the movie about? – Victoria’s father asked out of courtesy.

- It’s a drama based on a true story. During World War II, according to a special idea, Afro-American pilots are trained on a military air base in Tuskegee, Alabama. The pilots are getting ready for fighting against Germans when they are up against racism because the colonel thinks their presence’s objectionable, they just take „real” pilots’ place. I won’t tell its end anymore – the man laughed.

- It sounds interesting – the mom smiled politely.

- I know its end but I won’t tell it! – her husband said cheerfully.

- And what was your series role about? – the mom looked at her daughter.

- I’ve already told you that it’s nothing special. You guys are gonna see it on TV soon, anyway – Victoria laughed humbly.

              On the way home, Laurence was reflecting again about maybe Victoria was jealous of his success, but after that, he put it out of his head – At her parents’ house, she was so happy about his success, too! – he thought – And she was also happy about it when she got to know that the movie was going to be made according to his play, and also when he got another leading role! And she was so happy with him other times too! Or maybe she pretended it now too, like at that time when he was nominated for an Oscar? On the other hand, since then, all was so well with them: when they weren’t filming, on the weekdays, they spent the time together with the friends of both of them who had time happen to be then, and on the weekends, the girl could spend her time with her family, and Laurence could spend his time with Langston, Montana and Mike.

It came into his head that he had met with Mike and his parents a long time ago. Since he had come home from his latest filming, he hadn’t even seen them – He also should meet with them during the next few weeks – he thought – He was going to take Victoria to the filming location, anyway.

He talked it over with her, then called Kristen to ask when Mike had time, and he went over to his place already that day.

They were talking about his girlfriend, about school and Laurence’s movies. The boy was still dating Jasmine, his first girlfriend, and studying went well for him, too. He was the best in Literature like Laurence, and he played basketball, too, like he wanted to. He was proud of him that he resembled him.

After the talk, they were playing basketball in the garden, then one of his friends came so the man started to go home.

During the ride, it came into his head that he wanted to spend some time with Victoria, the two of them, too, because filming was going to last all day, and they would only have time for each other on the weekends.

In the afternoon, he rather got it over with the meeting with his parents, then he wanted to go to an elegant restaurant with her.

At home, he called Hattie and his father, and his mother had time, so he went to her place too, because of her bad legs, but he was taking Victoria too.

Of course, his mother was beside herself with her son’s success when they told her, she just lamented that she couldn’t go to the filming location.

They were talking about Victoria’s series, and about relatives too, and on the way home, Laurence told the girl that they would only change clothes, and would go to have dinner in their favorite restaurant.

Victoria remarked that today, he only made a brief stop at home all day, but she agreed to the idea.

The girl put on a black, low-cut, and on the side, cut dress, and the man put on a suit with the same color.

Light and dark blue’s beautiful shades dominated the restaurant, this was why it was the favorite of both of them, because it wasn’t too feminine, too manly either.

Laurence was eating steak with caviar, and Victoria was eating chicken’s breast with truffle. During the dinner, they were planning and talking it over where to go on the weekends in the filming locations. According to the man’s idea, they decided that in Georgia, they would go to the man’s grandmother, and according to the girl’s idea, they decided to take a look at the hospital where Laurence was born, the house where he lived as a little boy, and the places where he was.

              Next day, the man went to have a cigar with his father, and told him their joint plans with Victoria.

His father offered to him that on the weekend, he would go with them to show them those places which he didn’t remember anymore where they are. Molly remembered some of them, too, but she didn’t remember all of them, not only because of her age but also, because of course, she spent less time with him than his parents.

They were talking about memories there; Laurence already hardly remembered anything because he was so young. It was interesting.

              When Laurence had arrived home, Victoria wasn’t at home. She went shopping with one of his girlfriends while the man was meeting with his father.

Laurence laid down to the sofa, and was reading until the girl had arrived. He already reads every kind of book, but Paulo Coelho is his favorite author so he mostly reads his novels. He’s his huge fan, and he was reading one of his books now too.

After Victoria had come home, they had dinner together. Laurence cooked the dinner like he sometimes did. They had a housekeeper in vain, he liked to cook food that way like they liked it.

- What if I didn’t go with you to the filming locations? – the girl began to speak during it – On the weekends, I could go, but on the weekdays, you’re only filming, anyway.

- Did your girlfriend say it to you? – the man asked, startled – Till now, you said even by yourself that you wanted to come with me.

- But after that, I thought, and this time this is a leading role. Constantly your scenes are gonna be filmed. Should I watch you filming till the end, waiting for the breaks? Or should I wait for the weekends in the hotel all day alone?

- Martin also took his whole family to the Philippines, while he was a co-star!

- That was different. It’s impossible to go there every weekend. Besides, what do you want, what to do while you’re filming all day?

- Still not all day.

- I wasn’t there, either when you were filming your previous movies. Now what changed, why do you want me to go in any case?

- Then you were filming, too. And I don’t want it in any case, just it’s odd that first, exactly you were the one who came with you wanted to come, and now you suddenly don’t wanna come! – Laurence said furiously.

- You also wanted to tell me to go – Victoria said firmly – You said it.

- But you said it, too – the man continued furiously – Did you meet somebody since then? – he asked, frightened.

- What do you think of me?! – the girl was indignant – If I wanna meet somebody, don’t you think I would break up with you before it?! – she stood up.

- Then why do you wanna stay here?! – Laurence shouted.

- Why would I wanna go?! – his girlfriend shouted, too.

- And till now, why did you wanna come?! I guess you found a young lad, and you’re with me for my money only! – the man stood up, too.

- I won’t be hearing it anymore! – the girl stormed upstairs to the room, and slammed the door.

Laurence went after her.

- And do you think I’m with you only because you’re young?! – he opened the door – You think I wouldn’t get other young girls too?!

- It seems you think so, and that’s why you’re jealous! And I still believed you don’t want me ‘cause you’re much more successful in the profession!

- So you lied! – the man pointed at her – You said that was already a long time ago!

- Yes, that was a long time ago! – his girlfriend yelled – You just said it now!

- Then why did you broach it again?! – Laurence yelled, too.

Victoria flopped down to the bed, and began crying.

- I’m afraid of you leaving me if I tell you! – she said grievously hysterically.

- What?! – the man asked, startled – So you’re hiding something from me, and wanna make me believe that you’re just jealous of my career! – he said angrily.

- I’m not hiding anything! – the girl yelled furiously.

- So you’re jealous of my career! That’s why you don’t wanna come with me to the filming locations, and watch me working!

His girlfriend was sitting on the bed, scared to death and without a word.

Laurence left the room.

They were there again – he thought – Once, they almost broke because of it. But at least there wasn’t any even bigger problem. He was already afraid she met somebody else. She was so young that he was constantly jealous of her. At least recently, when they were working so much that they were far from each other so much, and she was spending her time with other men and young boys.

So she only pretended again that she was happy about his success – he thought furiously – While she said it would never happen again! She said it so convincingly that he really believed it! At home, of course, she was such a good actress!

He sat down on the sofa, and was considering – But since till now, nothing had come into his head, now why would it come into his head? – he thought.

He went to take a shower; he was thinking during it too, but nothing came into his head.

After he had been ready, he still couldn’t sleep so was reading. He was reading through an hour until he had become sleepy, and fell asleep there, on the sofa. He didn’t even feel like sleeping with Victoria.

              In the morning, when the girl didn’t find him in the bed, she believed he just went to sleep when she was already sleeping, and got up earlier than her. She then noticed that the man was sleeping on the sofa when she came downstairs to have breakfast.

She noticed the book, and thought he fell asleep during reading.

She wanted to make peace with him so was having breakfast inaudibly, so he wouldn’t wake up. By choice, she would have woken him up by clattering but didn’t want to lose him so shouldn’t continue quarreling. She had still been angry with him because he said surely his money was the reason why she was with him, while she loved him, and that was why she didn’t want to lose him.

She was trying to consider how to prevent it, but she was still too angry with him for it.

He surely only said it out of anger that she was with him for his money only – she tried to appease herself – Besides, he was the one who got off with her! – she thought indignantly.

Unwittingly, she loudly slapped her coffee cup to the table, which Laurence woke up by.

He was surprised that he fell asleep on the sofa, and when he noticed Victoria, he looked at her, frightened. He thought she would be indignant that he wasn’t sleeping with her.

The girl went upstairs to the room because she was too angry yet to talk to him – If she talked to him, she would only make things worse, and would lose him – she thought.

- Sorry, I just fell asleep while reading! – the man went after her.

The girl sighed.

- If you want, I will go with you to the filming locations – she said while making the bed.

- You don’t have to if you don’t wanna… - Laurence said. He thought if she wouldn’t see him filming such a movie which he was the co-star of, she wouldn’t feel so much less than him.

- In the beginning, I wanted to go with you, anyway. I don’t wanna lose you. From now, everything will be how you want – Victoria said robot-wise.

- Now the most important thing is that you should feel good – the man took her hands – You’re jealous of my success, but the reason why you’re not where I am, is surely that you’re younger. Moreover, you also started acting when you were much older than me.

- Thank you – the girl said seriously – This way, I’ll already go with you to the filming locations with much more pleasure – she smiled.

- So you’ll come?! – her partner rejoiced – But is it sure that you’d like to come?

- Of course, I would miss you so much! – Victoria embraced him, smiling – Thank you for being so understanding!

- If you don’t feel good in the relationship, then the relationship doesn’t make sense – Laurence said seriously – Sorry I said you were with me only for my money. I didn’t mean it.

- Sorry I hadn’t told you that I was jealous of your success, I was just afraid of losing you – the girl hugged him again – Once, I already almost lost you because of it.

- I love you – the man kissed her, and they were making love.

              During Laurence was having breakfast, too, he was considering how to also spend their joint time till filming – He was still going to shoot almost all day – he thought.

Victoria was watching TV in the living room, which the man didn’t do anymore. She thought it was a shame that he wasn’t watching TV with her during breakfast after they also had breakfast separately. They didn’t do almost anything between the two of them, but only when they were eating together, and this time they didn’t even do it together – Maybe he was only with her because he was happy about he had a young girlfriend, but because of the age difference, they didn’t have any joint field of interest? – it suddenly came into her head – Although both of them were actors, that was a joint field of interest, too…

- What should we be doing today? – the man asked after breakfast, still with a full mouth, sweeping the crumb off from his hands.

- We could rent a movie – it came into Victoria’s head. In the end, because of their profession, movies were their joint field of interest too.

- Then why don’t we go to the cinema? That’s much cozier.

- In the daytime? – his girlfriend asked, startled – Besides, in the video rental, the assortment is much bigger – she continued in a funnily begging voice.

- That’s right, anyway, there are only a few such movies which are interesting for both of us – Laurence said, but his voice was accommodating – Then let’s go to the video rental – he went up to the girl cheerfully, kissed her, and went upstairs to change. Victoria had changed already.

- And what genre to watch? - Laurence asked cheerfully after coming downstairs. 

- I think any romantic movie is even out of the question - the girl said funnily sulkily.

- What for? Our life is like a romantic movie – the man was kidding, too.

- Then what to watch? – his girlfriend continued in the style she started, while they set off.

- What about sci-fi?

- It’s still better than western and history which you usually come forward with.

- You’ll choose which sci-fi to watch.

- It’s the same, just it can’t be scary or full of action.

- That’s agreed – Laurence gave her a kiss – I love that you’re so feminine. You couldn’t even be even more feminine – he smiled at her.

- And you couldn’t be even manlier – Victoria kissed him lover-wise.

- I still like shopping and cooking. After the movie, we could go shopping, and could cook something together.

- I went shopping yesterday but it’s never enough. On the other hand, I hate cooking; I always dance during it, otherwise it’s so boring!

- I love it when you’re dancing! – the man kissed her.

- And I love dancing so I agree to cooking!

They had arrived at the video rental, and for their request, the shop assistant gave them such sci-fi which wasn’t scary and wasn’t full of action either, so they finished there quickly.

- Mr. Fishburne, can I have an autograph? – a woman asked on the way back.

Laurence methodically signed the paper.

- From me, nobody has asked for any autograph – Victoria said sadly after that.

- I’ve already told you that your time will come, too – the man said encouragingly – And to me, that’s the first time since What’s Love Get to Do with It that a woman asked me for an autograph. Till now, almost every woman thought me violent because of the role. Fame doesn’t have only a bright side.

- I know, you’ve said it already.

- For example, I don’t like it either when I’m asked for an autograph. And the bigger star one is, it’s the more irritating ’cause one will have enough of it more. After a while, one can’t go anywhere without one could be let alone – Laurence said, being a frat.

- It sounds like you’re already there – Victoria was kidding.

- I don’t even wanna be there but I just wanna play in more such movies which are really interesting for me.

Of course, she so much wanted to be a bigger star – the girl thought. She didn’t think it probable at all that she would ever achieve what the man had achieved – She was always only a guest actor in some parts of some series – she was annoyed. But she didn’t dare to tell Laurence not to lose him. She thought it was still better for her to be in this relationship than without the relationship. Love was more important for her than success, even though it bothered her that she felt like she was just an object that was nice and young. She only hoped it would be enough for the man in the future too – How hadn’t it come into her head till then? – she thought – Although she’s not much younger than him; he surely wasn’t with her because of her look only.

At home, they saw the movie snuggling, then went shopping, and cheerfully cooked lunch. Victoria was happy that they were at last spending time between the two of them too.

While eating lunch, the man continued going into raptures over his new movie, and the girl was pretending it in the future too, that it interested her. This kind of movie didn’t even interest her. Romantic movies were much more interested to her. Maybe the reason why love was so important for her, was because she was a romantic type. She didn’t even know what she would do while Laurence only would be shooting that war movie before her eyes – During it, she might go to look around in the city alone – she was planning – But what would she do on the other days?!

She didn’t even know why the man wanted her to go with him to the filming locations – Maybe he wanted to check if she cheated on him while he was working?! – she thought.

After lunch, she wanted to ask him, but she thought it would just be an unnecessary quarrel if she did it. She rather only wanted to enjoy the time she was spending with her love – During the filming, she wouldn’t have much opportunity for it – she thought.

But one of Laurence’s friends Billy Zane came, who was complaining to the man in the living room, about his bad marriage. The girl couldn’t hear it because she happenned to be reading a love novel in the room but she saw that he wasn’t in a good mood when he arrived.

Laurence was startled, hearing that Lisa was also going to divorce from Billy because her husband was working too much recently.

He decided to spend every break only with Victoria, he rather wouldn’t even make friends with any actor.

It was a lucky thing Billy came – he thought.

#laurence fishburne #martin sheen #emilio estevez #dennis hopper #tom crusie #nicole kidman #montana fishburne #billy zane

[lexalovesbooks]

The scene in episode ten of tua where vanya is playing with her orchestra and the rest of the umbrella academy is right outside the recital hall and Allison and Luther are like, quietly arguing until Diego jumps in and aggressively shouts “DO YOU HEAR THE MUSIC? IT’S STARTING” is actually one of the funniest bits in the show because out of context it just sounds like they’re a harried family late for their sister’s concert.

#tua #everytime i watch that scene i imagine all the people already in the hall overhearing diego shouting and just thinking #‘oh must be someone who arrived late i wish they’d keep it down lol’ #something about it is just peak music concert chaos except is ALSO. aplies perfectly to the Actual situation they’re dealing with which is #them being pretty worried their sister is about to start the apocalypse

[topazy]

Inside, outside

Pairing: 10k x reader, Addy Carver sister!reader

Warnings: swearing, kidnapping, drinks being spiked

Chapter: 1.11

You turn and peer out of the vehicle, finding no movement or signs of life while trying to ignore the crushing emptiness you feel inside.

“Do you think we will ever see them again?” Cassandra asked quietly.

“Mack and Addy?” Warren locked eyes with you.

You lean your head against the glass window, as a soft sigh escapes your lips. “It’s fine. Be honest about what you think.”

For days, nobody had mentioned either of them trying their best not to upset you.

She nodded, “Honestly? My heart says yes, but my mind says no.”

Doc shook his head, “I was kind of hoping they’d make it with us to the promised land.”

10K gave you a reassuring smile.

You felt guilty for being so sad. When the apocalypse started, you only had Addy, and now you had a group of people who felt like family. Even on the bad days, they still made you laugh and smile. You were never really alone. But your sister had just chosen a cult over you, and her boyfriend probably died trying to get her out.

And it’s hard not to agonise over that.

Warren grunts, “Now what?”

As soon as she realises how many cars are blocking the road, Warren spins the truck and drives onto a golf course. She stopped in front of a wooden bridge to see if it was strong enough to hold the weight of the truck.

You jumped on top of the bridge, “seems pretty solid.”

“Citizen Z calling all cars, calling all cars.”

Warren’s brows lift. “Delta- Xray back at you.”

“Hello, good to hear from you again. It’s been days, and I worry.”

“Thanks mom,” Warren quipped. “Any news on Mack or Addy?”

“No, nothing yet. Maybe they’re just off the grid and can’t make contact... For what it’s worth, Astra, I’ve overheard them talking about you loads. I know Addy will definitely be missing you.”

“Aww, wait! Can you always hear what we are saying?” You asked. You thought of the times you’d teased Addy about Citizen Z crushing on her, you hoped he hadn’t heard it.

Murphy snatched the radio from Warren's hands. “Murphy is pissed! Where the hell is that lab you keep talking about? And have you found that witch doctor that almost killed me?”

“I’m still working on that.”

“And you call yourself the NSA?” Murphy spat. “Quit looking at porn and find that quack. We've got business to settle.”

“Even nerds watch porn,” Doc elbowed 10K playfully.

“You’ve never watched porn?”

He pauses for a long minute, looking at you with an intense expression on his face. “Have you?”

You chuckled, “I plead the fifth.” Hearing a rustling sound, you spin round fast, “Z’s!”

You take turns firing at them until Warren and 10K both run out of ammo. You all retreat to the clubhouse.

You locked the door behind you, then noticed there was a person missing, “Murphy?”

“He’s safer out there than we are here,” Doc said, pointing towards a bathroom.

As the Z’s break through the glass doors, you, Warren, and Doc push up against the bathroom door. More Z’s pushed on the opposite side, making it harder. “This isn’t going to hold much longer!”

10K eyes light up, “gunfire?”

The pressure on the other side of the door lightens as gunfire echoes nearby. After a moment, a voice calls, “You can come out now.”

“That wasn’t Murphy,” you whisper.

“It wasn’t a Z either,” Warren says, with uncertainty in her voice. “All right, get ready.”

You pull the knife out of your belt, waiting for the door to open. When you exit the bathroom, two armed men and a woman are standing waiting for you. “It’s okay, it’s all clear.”

“Nice timing.”

“Don’t get too relaxed,” the woman says. “There is more out there.”

“I don’t believe it,” the younger man says.

You follow his train of vision to see Murphy playing golf outside, while wearing a stupid blazer that he’s probably stolen from a Z.

“Son of a bitch,” you say as you walk outside. “Did you not think of helping us?”

Murphy laughed at your words before confronting the strangers. “Who the hell are who?”

“Brett Zimmerman,” he said, motioning to the older man. “This is Henry and Janis.”

Warren stepped forward and introduced everyone. “I’m Roberta Warren. This is 10K, Doc, Cassandra, and Astra. The fool with the jacket golfing with the zombies is Murphy.”

—

You watch as Doc chews on a piece of meat from the grill. The strangers who saved you had invited you to stay for dinner. At first, Warren tried to refuse, but they insisted, and said you could stock up on supplies.

Brett poured a strange-smelling liquid into your glass and asked, “Do you have any ID, Miss?”

“Carver,” you answered. “And no, I don't think anyone does now.”

“Oh, well,” he shrugged before sitting back down. “I won’t be needing it now anyway, since I’ve already found out everything I need to know.”

“And that is?”

“You're a miss, not a Mrs,” he winked.

You struggle to keep your composure as a hand light smacks against your thigh. You give Cassandra a wide-eyed look, telling her to stop. She and Doc both found Brett's flirting funny, but 10K didn’t look impressed.

“So Warren,” Brett said with a smile.

You can see Warren nod her head and say, “Roberta.”

“Roberta,” he repeats. “Would you like to make a toast?”

Everyone minus you takes a drink as Warren raises a glass to absent friends. It doesn’t take long for Murphy to make the conversation about himself, as he starts telling them how he’s the saviour of the world. A look of concern crosses Warren's face.

You let out a snort, “Murphy tends to... spin his stories a little to fit his audience.”

Janis turns and gives you a cold stare, “We all know what we saw outside.”

“Only a mad man would believe him,” you chuckle, trying to pretend everything Murphy said was one big joke.

You lean back in the chair and go to take a sip of your drink, but stop when you notice Brett staring. His stare sends a chill down your spine.

You look across the table and notice 10K's head swaying. You reach across and grab his arm, “you feeling okay?”

He doesn’t reply. 10k slowly moves further forward until he is completely leaning on the table, and his head is pressed against his plate. “10K,” you say, shaking his hand. “Tom-”

Murphy cuts you off with a loud laugh, “he’s just had his first sip of alcohol. He’s passed out. Don’t fret.”

For a moment, you thought you were going crazy until the glass slips from Cassandra’s hand, smashing on the ground as she falls forward. Warren reaches for her weapons but falls to the ground.

You lock eyes with Murphy, and he looks just as scared as you.

Brett lets out a frustrated sigh, and pulls out his fun. “Now, what to do with you.”

“Let-”

You stopped talking when he pointed the gun at you. “Drink every drop, or I’ll blow your head off.”

You picked up the glass, your hands trembling as you brought the drugged drink to your lips.

—

“Mom!” Addy yelled, as she stormed down the stairs. “Tell her to stop stealing my clothes!”

Your mom let out a frustrated sigh as she ran a hand across her growing bump and said, “Addison, stop yelling, and Astra, ask your sister if you can borrow her things.”

You pouted. All Addy had done since her sixteenth birthday was whine and moan. “Whatever, Maggie’s mom is taking us to the cinema soon. I need to finish getting ready.”

Your mom raised her brows, “and where did you get the money for tickets?”

“Dad, he said I could go because I’d done all my chores and finished all my homework.”

Addy yelled from the other room, “Suck up!”

Your mum rolled her eyes. “Okay, fine. But no sneaking into scary movies again.”

The first thing you notice when you wake up is the pain shooting through your arms. Your eyes open, and you see a blur of objects through a window. You are in the boot of a car with your hands tied behind your back, and a gag is pulled tight in your mouth, and you feel your anger growing.

You struggle to sit up, but when you do, anger fills you. Murphy is sitting in the backseat beside Henry. You begin to kick at the chairs and try to scream through the gag.

Murphy slowly turns to face you and shakes his head. You stop kicking and yelling. “Where the hell are you taking me?”

“Just enjoy the ride,” Brett said calmly. “We have food, water, and fuel. You and your friends had no food, no water and were running on fumes.”

“I mean, are these really necessary?” Murphy held up his cuffed hands. “Look, I get it. You heard everything I said, and you figured there might be something in it for you if you get me to California. But why the girl? She’s not special.”

Henry grinned, “We aren’t going to California. And we don’t mind having another pretty face to look at.”

Oh, shit.

You were really screwed and didn’t have a lot of options. You listened in to their conversation and the moment Brett says he left the others for the Z's, you realise you only have one option. You needed to get away from these people by any means necessary.

—

Eventually, Brett pulled over by the side of a river. When you heard multiple footsteps going in different directions, you thought they were going to leave you in the boot, but Janis opens it and yanks you out roughly. You land on your ass, sending a shooting pain up your back.

“Get up!” She snaps.

You get to your feet and start to struggle, trying to slip yourself from your cuffs, causing them to make a clanging noise.

Brett scoffed at you, “Take the cuffs off. If she tries anything, we shoot her.”

Janis reluctantly pulls out a small key and unlocks it. With your hands free, you pull the gag from your mouth and spit out the material that had stuck to the inside of your mouth.

Henry brushes past you, “Keep up! Or it’s the firing squad.”

You look over at Murphy, who is tilting his head. At first you didn’t understand, but then you noticed the camera. You feel relief flowing through you. Citizen Z would be able to help somehow. He always did.

—

You were now sandwiched between Murphy and Henry in the backseat of the car.

Murphy does what he does best, which is irritating people. After being openly mocked by Murphy, Brett pulled over to the side of the road. “Six miles from here is a pharmaceutical company. That’s where we are going next.”

“Can we please go to Disneyland next?”

Brett raised his finger at you and said, “he’s not replaceable, you are.”

You step back, as Brett explains their plan. Murphy's job is to walk into the warehouse full of meth zombies to pick up drugs for them. His part seemed clear enough, but yours didn’t. And that’s what scared you most.

—

You frowned when Janis slowed her pace and walked beside you. “Bet you are wondering why you are here, huh?”

“Yeah, you can imagine the scenarios running through my head.”

She tutted, “When you were inside, I overheard your little boyfriend and the old guy talking about you and how many great adventures you’ve had together.”

Your brows furrowed at her comment. You didn’t understand what she was talking about.

“They said you helped save a guy who was dying during a storm,” she said, sounding skeptical. “The old guy said you were one of the strongest people he knew.”

You give her a weird look and say, “Doesn’t explain why I’m here?”

“Henry is sick. So are others. People will pay good money to have a nurse look over them.”

“I’m not a nurse!” you notice Murphy staring at you. He looks up at the sky, then back down. You nod, understanding what he was thinking of. Citizen Z. “You should really go talk to Murphy. I’m sure he’ll enjoy your company more.”

With a scoff, Janis storms off. When you're sure none of them are watching, you slowly start to undo your belt, and slide it off. You gently place it on the side of the pathway.

When you stop for a break, you excuse yourself by saying you need to pee, so you have a reason to walk away. When you stopped looking for a tree facing the way you just came, you pulled out your knife and carved an ‘A’ into it, before joining the others. Upon hearing a gunshot, you speed up.

“What just happened?”

“Nothing,” Murphy said as Henry snatched the gun from him.

As Brett orders everyone to move along, you spot the blazer Murphy was wearing lying on a log. He was leaving a trail behind, the same as you.

—

When you reach a small ridge, Brett stops, saying that the place you're looking for is just on the other side. He steps closer to you and looks at you up and down. “You had more clothes on. What happened to them?”

“Oh,” you grabbed at your waist, pretending you didn’t realise you were now only wearing a thin vest top. “I didn’t notice I’d lost my jacket.”

“Or your jumper?” He held your gaze. “Hands behind your back.”

“Seriously? What if a Z comes?”

His jaw twitches in anger. “That’s not my problem, now turn!”

You comply and spin the other way with your hands behind your back. He puts the cuffs on tighter this time, and you groan as you feel the fabric tighten around your mouth.

“Go sit over there, and don’t move,” he orders.

You should go sit under the tree he pointed out. He’s fucking crazy. Janis gives you a sympathetic look before tying your feet together with rope. You were completely helpless.

As a scuffle breaks out between Murphy and the rest of the kidnappers. You tried to kick your legs apart, but it caused you to lose balance and roll down the slope. You cried out as you hit the bottom, and when you looked back, Murphy and the others were gone.

—

Hearing voices nearby, you stopped struggling against your restraints and listened.

“Mess pharmaceuticals.”

It was Doc. You tried your best to scream, but they couldn’t hear you. Fuck it. You managed to spin round and face the fence. You kicked at it hard, causing it to vibrate and make a loud noise. Luckily, a loud alarm distracted the Z's.

“What the hell is that?” You stopped kicking when you heard Warren’s voice.

“I’m down here!” You tried to scream out before kicking the fence again.

You could hear clatter from the radio, followed by muffled voices. You let out a muffled sob, knowing it would take a miracle for them to find you. Frustrated, you take all your anger out on the fence.

“10K, I’ve found her!” You can hear Warren yelling. “You get her, and we’ll get Murphy.”

Seconds later, the gag was pulled from your mouth. Tears spilled from your eyes as relief washed over you. 10K cut the rope, freeing your legs, then helping you to your feet.

He ran his fingers over your arms lightly, taking in the small cuts and forming bruises, “are you-”

You cut him off by pressing your lips against his. The kiss was soft, 10Ks' hands lifting to your face to hold you in place. You pulled back and let out a frustrated groan.

10K looked at you worried.

“I need to find the damn keys for these.”

He raised his brows, as if he’d forgotten your hands were cuffed. 10K put his arm around you as you walked towards the warehouse.

When you got inside, you went into a room filled with large boxes of drugs. 10K spotted the others and led you towards them, with his gun in one and the other on your back.

When you approached them, you noticed what they were all staring at. Murphy. Brett was standing beside him, holding a gun under his chin. “You are a weak man, Brett. You were going to kill me and everyone else and do God knows what with the girl.”

Brett’s voice shook as he spoke, “it’s the apocalypse.”

“The apocalypse is better off without you,” Murphy shook his head and walked away.

Seconds later, Brett pulled the trigger.

Everyone was stunned. Murphy had somehow made Brett kill himself.

You broke the silence, “can we please start looking for the keys to the cuffs?”

—

You woke up to the feeling of warmth against you. 10K had placed his jacket over your bare arms and was now snoozing softly behind you as your head lay on his chest.

Cassandra was sleeping as well. Your eyes trailed to her bandaged leg that had blood stains on it. It worries you that her wound still hasn’t healed. Murphy was sleeping as well, with his head resting against his jacket.

10K must have felt you move because his arm was wrapped around you tighter.

You relaxed into him until you heard your name, then you instantly stiffened.

“She must be going through something pretty bad, Doc. I would have bet my life on Addy leaving that place,” Warren said quietly. “Astra is holding it together a lot better than I thought she would.”

“Hard enough to think she’d leave Mack, but the kid back there?” He tutted. “We are dropping like flies.”

“Well, we'll have to stick together in the future,” she said after a brief pause. “Hammond, Garnett, Addy, Mack. Getting that bonehead to California is the only way to make our losses mean something.”

As your brain processed what she said, you blinked away tears. She was right. Getting to California was the only thing that mattered now. It was the only way to honour all those you’d lost during the mission.

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