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Sage you're so good I-
aaaaaa uno reverse tho???
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Sage you're so good I-
aaaaaa uno reverse tho???
D:
first draft, but
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@ccb37 I like to think I don't cry
You just proved me wrong
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also @DoctorOfTheDead i'm uhhhh crying :') you really did give us heart-wrenching :'))
D: I'm sorry I made you cry but I'm glad my writing was good!
Nice, nice, Ccb37. I have a Silas who's a healer too.
Idk. My Silas is just a really smart asshole that respects no one.
He did the only thing he could think to do, the only sane thought that popped into his head: he stole his father’s car and jetted off into the distance, driving down the road as fast as he could. Moonlight lit his way as the streetlights were dim in most places and broken in the rest. The town itself seemed asleep, the peaks and hills of the road rising and falling like the steady breath of a chest in deep slumber. Beach houses, surfing shops, condominiums, and tacky seafood restaurants rose all around him. He sped to the edge of the town, where the interstate in its full glory kissed the edge of the main road, and swerved off, bringing the car to a shrieking halt. He slammed his palms against the wheel, frustration building. He didn’t want to be in a town that slept through the night, like someone on the brink of death or in the depths of illness, he wanted to be somewhere that moved, somewhere that breathed each breath like it was precious, somewhere that embraced him and enveloped him in life. He wanted to run through this last summer, wanted to hurry towards the future, not crawl.
He left the car on the side of the road and dismounted, bare feet hitting sand and gravel as he stumbled from the road onto the beach. White sand stretching across the expanse, untamed with weeds shooting up throughout, leading to the still, dark ocean. The water was impossible to see into, due to the darkness and to the natural murkiness of the water. It wasn’t like a pristine Florida coastline or a bright blue California wave; it lacked the vibrancy. Or perhaps Kai was biased. He wasn’t going to try to see past his own point of view.
His feet met the water. It was warmer than the air. The realization led to him to sit down, letting the waves crash over him and drench his clothes and hair. He wished for something, something strong, but since he was in short supply he lit a cigarette instead. He leaned back to keep his head out of the water and placed the cigarette in his mouth, eyes towards the stars. This is better, he thought, much better than the crisscross beams and the stale attic.
Foamy, thick waves pushed against him in gentle rhythm, steady breath, held him close. It almost felt like an embrace, the water being so warm in contrast to the wet, cool night air. He looked off to his side and saw something move in the water. Likely a fish, he told himself, but he imagined it was another person, lost as he was, looking for something in the ocean. He offered that person his cigarette, but he let his hand dip too low and the waves took it instead. Sand inched into his clothes and he felt like he was lying in a bed of wet crumbs. Suddenly the Romantic beach scene was pathetic, he was suddenly waterlogged and gross and drunk, and the swirling police lights reflected off of the dark water instead of the stars. He was pulled roughly from the warm embrace and yanked to his feet.
Oh I like.
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tw: abuse, thoughts of suicide
Sage often wondered what life would be like with different parents. Gemma’s parents, for example, were such a contrast to his own that sometimes he forgot they were parents. It just seemed the Westlake kids lived with two friends who happened to be middle-aged. Parents weren’t supposed to be loving and friendly and fun to be around, right? It was hard to comprehend.
Sometimes he played with the thought of having only one awful parent. If Ruth was kind to her son after Curtis screamed that he daydreamed about strangling Sage to death, that’d be a little better. Or maybe if Curtis tried to protect Sage from Ruth’s leather belts instead of holding him in place for her. Their team-up made life worse than it had to be.
Actually, he was happy that they’d found each other, in an odd way. It was just empathy working when he didn’t want it to. They were two people who were the same kind of awful, so no one else would want them. But often he wished they’d never crossed paths, because then he wouldn’t have been born, and that would save him a lot of trouble. He didn’t want to take his own life, not now, because then he’d be hurting Gemma. But if he never existed, it wouldn’t matter. She could find somebody—anybody, really, she was amazing—else. If he could stop himself from existing in the first place… Who knows?
I don't have it written out yet, but i have the basis :/
There's a scene where my main group gets kinda ambushed. They all get a little bit separated, but Garret (my MC) is closest to Dominick, who garret decided he hated, and Dom get shot and dragged away by the ambushers and he's screaming to Garret for help, saying "Please, please, they're gonna kill me! I know it! They'll kill me!" and Garret chooses to ignore him. And further away, Dani (Garret's love interest and Dom's sister) doesn't see what's going on until the people who ambushed drove away with her brother. She started having a breakdown and stuff and garret tries to play it off like he didn't notice until it was too late as well. He comforts her and since he's there for her, she kind of starts to catch feelings for him, but later on she finds out that Garret let her brother get captured, and she thinks he's dead.
Maybe once i actually write this out, i'll revisit this thread and post it cos this ^ doesn't to the scene justice :(
Yeah. Really it would need to be typed up for real.
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Dom, you've already read this so you don't have to read it again, it's just that this is probably the best 'heart-wrenching' scene I've managed to write
TW: this is an aftermath scene of a rape, so there are hints to it but nothing really said or shown.
Nothing could compare the blind panic and terror that coursed through her veins. She had thought, long ago as just a child, that she had become immune to the horrors of the world that could be inflicted on her. She’s taken a beating without flinching. She’s stared down death without batting an eye. She’s kicked and screamed and fought tooth and nail against everything life had to throw at her.
But this…
She had forgotten what fear felt like.
It crawled over her skin like thousands of slugs. Spiders clung to the back of her neck, fangs poised to strike if she so much as breathed wrong. Hornets kissed her jaw and ears with their stingers so, so close.
Off, get it off of me.
Her bare feet sunk into the mud and grime of the camp. The stench of worn soldiers hung in the air. Rain poured from the heavens as if the gods wept for something—or someone. Metal choked her from her split lip.
Please please please.
Oh, how she hated that word now.
She burst into the black tent, wet, dirty, and adorned with only a soaked blanket that did nothing to preserve any shred of modesty she wished to keep for once. Male eyes turned to her, and she felt their touch like a bucket of a hundred pounds of slime being overturned over her head. Their snickers… She had never felt so belittled, so objectified. Her pleading eyes turned to ones she desperately hoped would save her.
Gorgeous violet met burnt gold. Emyr hardly took one glance at Theresa’s ragged appearance before ordering the men in the tent to leave. Their war plans could wait until a later date—this couldn’t. The soldiers and generals grumbled and complained, but they still reluctantly let themselves be ushered out of the tent.
Only the two of them remained. Alone.
Theresa’s bones locked up.
Swooping in, Emyr slowly held his hands out, not touching her just yet but still wanting to help his friend. He hated treating her like a spooked animal, but he had no choice. An idea of what happened to her formed in his head, and it chilled his long-deceased blood to ice. What has he done to you what did he do please be okay what can I do to help please please be okay please make me wrong Tess I’m so sorry please.
His worry, which he had hoped would be lifted, only increased tenfold as the girl whimpered and crashed into Emyr, her legs giving out. He quickly wrapped his arms around her to keep her upright and against his chest, nose buried in her damp hair and eyes sealed shut.
The dead warrior had always seen her hands as battle-scarred and molded for any kind of weapon. But now, seeing her so desperately clutch the blanket around her even as he held her close, delicate was the only description for them.
It disheartened him more than he thought it would.
Emyr held Theresa close as she buried herself against him, clinging to that blanket as if her life depended on it. Maybe it did in her mind. Here she was, the most powerful woman that Emyr has ever known and had the privilege of befriending—crying in his arms and trembling to the point where she practically vibrated. He doubted it was from the rain.
“…Tess?” he murmured hesitantly, pulling back a fraction to get a look at her face.
She shook her head and pressed herself closer to him, determined to keep herself as hidden as possible from the world.
“Okay, that’s okay,” he whispered quickly, not wanting to push her to say or confess anything if she didn’t want to. She was strong, he knew, but her strength wasn’t enough right now. She needed him, her undead friend.
Theresa held onto him for as long as her trembling limbs could, and when her grip loosened and she started to give out, she felt strong arms carefully scooping her up. She tensed at the masculine touch to her legs, ready to thrash and get away from it, but the touch slid to her knees and stayed there, loose and submissive. No force, no danger. Safe. The shivering girl curled up and pressed into Emyr’s chest, a sob tearing through her.
Cadfael, her own mate, had…
She didn’t know if she could ever learn to trust anyone again.
The chest she used as a pillow rumbled. Soft words bounced against the cotton in her ears. Everything but the caring warmth surrounding her slowly fizzled away, and even the warmth was starting to go numb.
Her body molded into a familiar surface. Again, she tensed, remembering the cot she had been pinned to, helpless and powerless for the first time in years. Panic seized her so tightly that she didn’t notice the hands quickly snatching her away and moving her to a different, softer, surface.
Oh, how she fought against him, screamed at him to get off, to let go of her.
Oh, how he had ignored her, belittling her with familiar slurs, with his touch.
“Tess, I need to take off the blanket to get you into dry clothes,” Emyr murmured. He kneeled on the rug-covered ground and gently stroked Theresa’s drenched hair. The usually bright gold seemed muted tonight.
She didn’t respond, at least verbally. Her death grip on the blanket slowly loosened, and at once, she fell limp. Defeated. Utterly defeated.
Another crack split through his heart.
One of the girls had delivered clothes the moment he asked for it. Questions never got asked, but hesitation never occurred. Their friend was hurting, so they worked together to help no matter what.
Emyr didn’t let himself linger on the circumstances that broke this powerful woman into thousands of pieces, nor did he let his hands represent the touch that had caused them as he slowly unwrapped the blanket. Eyes averted and focus on the objective, he undressed and dressed Theresa, then grabbed his heaviest fur-lined blanket and draped it over her still-trembling body. She curled it even closer as she became half of her size, knees drawn up nearly to her chin. Emyr stood to leave, but fingers hooked into his shirt.
“Stay… please.” She didn’t look at him, but she didn’t need to for him to know what she looked like. Yet another crack formed.
“How do you want me?” he questioned, not moving until he got her permission and direction. Never—never would he want to be like the man he once called a friend.
No words left her lips this time. She scooted to the side, leaving room between the tent’s wall and the front of her body for him. He understood instantly.
Theresa watched warily as Emyr climbed over her to the space she left for him. His movements remained slow and careful; any other time, she would’ve been angry, but now all she felt was immense relief and gratitude. I don’t deserve a friend as sweet as him. She uncurled as he settled with his back to her—with a significant distance between them.
The gesture might’ve been appreciated, but it wasn’t needed.
She needed something else.
Snaking arms slipped around Emyr’s waist, and he stayed still while Theresa hugged him from behind and pressed her face into his back. He didn’t move for what felt like ages and listened. Listened to the rustle of soldiers outside of the quiet tent, to the breathing fanning over his back in a rhythmic pattern, to the howls of hungry hounds and rattle of swords being sharpened, to the thumping heart steadily calming behind him. He listened for the sound of deep sleep, so sure it would be soon that the barely-there words startled him. A breathy chuckle rasped against his spine.
“Thank you.”
He only slid a hand up her arm and laced his fingers through hers, giving them a gentle squeeze in answer. She squeezed back, and at once, the two fell asleep, tumbling into horror-filled dreams that failed to wake them.
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(Geez, Circe, why are you so talented?)
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((I feast off of the suffering of my children. You should try it sometime. Quite appetizing))
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(Trust me, I'm very familiar with that food source :P)
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((Well no wonder why you're so good at writing then))
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(D: no u)
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((this is going to go on forever, isn't it?))
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(Yep)
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((of course ghfjg))
(is this what heartbreak feels like)
(Whose did you like best? As partial as I am to mine, Circe/Strangebird's almost brought me to tears when I first read it.)
(i honestly don't think i can pick, they're all so good! at the moment probably circe's as well)
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(( :O am shooketh))
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(Damn it Circe, why are you so talented?)
(You're a frickin word sorceress, Circe.)