to be human

[chasingnormalcy]

take a bite of my heart;

“Please.”

Her fingers skate down the wall, soon his hair is entangled in her digits. It hurts, the way he’s tearing into her bare thigh but it’s a hurt she loves. A hurt that has her covered in sweat from excitement and adrenaline. She’d barely been inside the house before he’d attacked her, her keys clattering to the floor as her back met wall. Her leggings lay in two pieces on the carpet, drops of her blood creating a pool on the discarded rags. 

Chest heaving, she presses her thigh harder into his mouth. “Please Danny, please.” She doesn’t even know what she’s begging for, heat spreading in her belly like wildfire. Every gulp he takes has her core aching fiercely and with his face so close, she knows he can tell. 

Unable to bear it anymore, she cries out with her head tilted back against the wall and her eyes screwed shut. It’s unreal, legs quaking as they give out but he’s got her. He always has her. 

[chasingnormalcy]

chasingknowledge:

It seems they were having a staring contest and neither go them cared to look away, and it wasn’t even uncomfortable. Dan felt like he was opening a door to his soul for her and she was here doing the same. The teenager ends up waving a hand in his face to get his attention and he looks up very confused.

“Oh! Um… coffee? Two of your… breakfast specials?” he looks at Veda to confirm, he kind of just wants the kid to go away and leave them alone. “That was awkward.” he laughs when they are alone again.

Veda hasn’t felt this weak in years. Decades. Swallowing thickly, she tries to come up with away to respond but fails for several long minutes. In those minutes, she opens her mouth a couple times to start a sentence but all that comes out is a puff of air. Blushing up to ears, she looks away from him to gather herself.

“Right,” she says slowly, and dumbly. Shaking her foot in frustration, she sits up straighter and lets out a huge breath. “Sorry, I didn’t get much sleep last night. I’m running on fumes.” She brings herself to meet his eyes again. “I hope that coffee comes with free refills, or else I’m gonna break your bank.” Doubtful, each Hopkins had enough money for several lifetimes. She manages a genuine smile, “Might be cheaper to just get me an IV caffeine drip.”

[chasingknowledge]

chasingnormalcy:

     Of course she didn’t have to explain. She never had to explain herself to Dan, he just knew. He knew what made her tick, and what made her smile. He knew how to keep her breathing, and why couldn’t that be enough for her? Looking into his eyes, she tried to come up with one reason why they wouldn’t be happy together. One of her hands went from clutching the blanket to landing on his chest. And there it was. Her one, stupidly unfortunate reason.

He was a hunter, and he would die long before her time. There was a sadness in her eyes then, unlike the one she usually showed him. This time, it was him she longed for openly. Not Callum. Her Danny. Voice soft as air, her fingers wrap around his cross. “I love you.” It wasn’t the first time she said it and it wouldn’t be the last. Thumb tracing the intricate etches of his family crest, her mouth moves close until his breath is her own. “I love you,” she repeats, softer than before because he knows. The way he always knew.

Veda has a boyfriend. A pretty damn good boyfriend that could take care of her every need and it pains Dan to admit the man really has no reason to be hated. Dan doesn’t hate him, but at the same time he definitely does not like him for stupid reasons. Jealously is hard to curb, but boy Dan dissolves it well in front of Veda and Garrett. Her ‘I love you’s’ are from one friend to another. Best friends actually and that’s all they will ever be but he still wishes he knew why she didn’t like him the same way she likes Garrett.

“I love you too, Veda.” he means it differently than she does he knows, and it’s not fair to her but he can’t imagine his life without her. Dan touches his forehead to hers as he snuggles up to her body, and he almost closes the distance between their lips, but that would not be fair while she is so intoxicated like this. No matter how much he wants to, he will never kiss her the way he desperately craves, so he brushes his lips across her cheek and closes his eyes, “Always.”

[chasingknowledge]

“Is that not already a thing?” he quirked an eyebrow before nodding in agreement. “Hell yeah! let’s do it! We’ll call it Organicish.” He knew it wasn’t actually a very good name, nor was it funny at all but he laughed anyway before standing up to get the blender ready. She had to drink the blood before their baby decided to eat her. Magical or not, claws and teeth still made witches bleed.

Dan quickly peels and deseeds three oranges before tossing them in the blender along with the last banana. Just for good measure he finds some frozen strawberries in the freezer and tosses those in there as well. “Oh… ice right?” He’s moving so quickly, he forgets to dump the blood in it as well.

[chasingnormalcy]

Veda hears him working in there, a smile on her lips. He was such a spaz, but he was her spaz. She wished she hadn’t taken so long to admit that to him. For good measure, she leans over the couch and calls to him. “Don’t forget the blood!” There’s a beat of silence before she hears the blender go.

Laughing, she gets up on unsteady feet. It took a lot of energy to do just about anything these days. Good thing she was a witch, she had energy to spare. Waddling to the kitchen, she stops in the doorway to watch him pour the concoction into a glass. Her large belly looks comical on her slight frame. “Mr. Hopkins,” she sighs, touching her stomach. “What did I do to deserve you?”

[btvsgif]

buffy meme → [7/7] quotes

↳ welcome to thunderdome

[subtitlesdaily]

[btvsgif]

I am the law.

[chasingknowledge]

Of course the cat had to bother him as soon as it was free. Now she was rubbing on him, making him itchy. “No, kitty please.” he whispered at her as he tried to scoot away. The project was only half done and one comment, a freaking joke, threw it all out of whack. Maybe he should tone down his crush somehow, like magically just stop liking her. Yeah, right.

He looks up and snorts, “I’m pretty sure I brought you some ice packs.” His fingers brushed hers gently when he took the berries and sat them on top of his head, these little things were subconscious, but he’d always been cuddly with her so she must not have minded much. “This is never gonna get done if you don’t pick up Freya.”

[chasingnormalcy]

Veda wonders when he's going to drop the innocent bullshit and just kiss her already. Technically it was her fault they hadn't gotten together yet, but she figured she was dropping all the right hints. Except... When he brushes her fingers, she immediately follows the impulse to find a seat on the other side of the room. She was always running.

"Ya're just being mean to Freya," she huffs, beckoning the cat over. Picking her up, she gets back into her comfortable position on the couch. "Also it'd would've been done already if you had come over earlier like I'd asked." She's griping, she knows, but she doesn't like it when she spends time with people that aren't her. Not that he was spending time with anyone, she's almost sure he was just held up in the Hopkins' library.

[chasingknowledge]

Dan was concentrating very hard on perfecting this bookshelf just like all the others he had built for Veda. He hadn’t even noticed she was staring until she spoke up and because he was all innocent and celibate, his face flushed as it usually did with any mention of porn. At least he didn’t scream when he dropped one of the shelves on his foot nervously.

“Nooooooo,” he hissed and then bumped his head on the very top shelf, “Ahhhh…” he sobbed dramatically and whispered “ice pack.” like he was going to die without one.

[chasingnormalcy]

Veda goes from smiling to grimacing in under a second, which was pretty par for the course when you are with Danny. Huffing, she sets the cat down and propels herself off the couch. "Ya're a fuckin' mess," she muttered as she passed him to get to the kitchen.

Instead of an ice pack, she purposefully grabs a bag of frozen raspberries. Chuckling to herself, she brings it to him hoping he'll remember when he brought the same to her after a particularly nasty bar fight.

[wasted-our-time-away]

Veronika Decides to Die (2009) Dir. Emily Young

[dontlikechange]

[chasingnormalcy]

;my sunshine

Veda was aware of the complications. Of the physical trauma this could inflict on her body. That life would be hard for their child, but she had to try. She just knew that she would love him more than anything in the world, that when he appeared then everything else would seem so small and simple. He would be the most important thing in her life. And she loved him already.

The first time she cries for him is when he's just a baby, and the milk her body produces just for him does nothing to nourish him. His cries of hunger pierce her heart, and the way his skin clings to his soft bones make her feel like an utter failure. They learn quickly that he needs the blood too. She begins filling bottles with bags of the stuff, and tries to ignore the numb feeling growing in some corner of her heart.

One of the many times she cries for him, it's when he's seven and she's come to pick him up from school. At first she doesn't think anything of him hanging by the gates of the academy, until she realizes that the rest of the children are loudly buzzing in small clumps more than ten feet away. It wouldn't be so weird, Bran was shy, if the teachers weren't standing between Bran and the other children. A wall of bodies between her sweet tempered son, and the children he wanted to be friends with. She doesn't think twice about throwing open her car door, and swinging him into her arms, and marching right up to those bastards and letting them hear the mouth Dan fell in love with.

It's the next day she finds out he'd tried to bite a girl on the playground.

[chasingnormalcy]

you didn’t get to heaven;

Death may be scary for some, but not as scary as it was for Veda. It ran around every corner, didn’t bother to hide beneath her bed. Some may say it is a gift, to see the dearly departed as if they’ve never left. To Veda, it was nothing but a curse. Hung over her like a black cloud, and there was never a moment of peace. The Death clawed at her eyes, tore her mouth open and found a home inside. Death was terrifying. And yet Matt made it beautiful. She hated him for so long, for destroying Kizzy. For leaving her three cousins without their father. It was his choice, even when it wasn’t, and Veda should know better than that. Yet, as for many, the  moment she saw him again all was forgiven. Matt was home, and he was safe. Safer than he realized. Around him was Death, and not the kind Veda wanted to hide from. A little blonde angel resting her head on his shoulder, a thin figure watching over them both.  A ghost of the man standing beside her, so alike but his eyes told a different story. He spoke to Matt, the only one to speak. She wonders if Matt ever hears him, as he walks the halls of her home. The home that once belonged to him.

[aprilkepners-archive]

get to know me meme (7/50) female characters → thea queen (arrow) “I don’t want to hurt or be hurt ever again and you seem like someone who could teach me not to.”

[prettylittleliarsbelgium]

[fyeahdjqueen]

[vulpesburning]

"I wouldn’t say hate–I’d say strongly dislike with intent to strangle occasionally. Like, Dan knows Garrett is good guy but eh..” Paolo gave a non-commital shrug. “I don’t hate him either but not my favorite. Just answer me one thing and be honest. Are you happy with Garrett?”

[chasingnormalcy]

Veda squints at her brother, her annoyance ever apparent. "Why wouldn't I be happy with Garrett?" She sits up suddenly, throwing a pillow at him again. "You're conspiring, the both of you. Dan with his weird schoolboy crush on me and you... You with your trash man politics!" She has no idea what that means, but he's a fucking trash man and she is pretty sure this could boil down to politics. Somehow.