Would you look at that, it's Wednesday! And now that I'm not working on chapter 9 of my tattoo shop AU anymore, which I wanted to keep a secret until it posted, I can go back to sharing snippets of the fic to help keep me motivated! Been chipping away at chapter 10, here's a bit of what I've got so far:
The mansion, already ridiculous from afar, became somehow more absurd the closer to it he got. It didn’t help that there was a big stack of flashy cars parked further down the driveway, or that some of the flamboyant statues he’d spotted in the distance weren’t fountains at all, like he’d thought, but rather sculptures that were—yup, he was seeing that right—made of actual fucking ice.
Christ on a stick. Who the fuck were these people?
His old, run-down van had never looked more out of place, and Blitz wasn’t about to let that go to waste. He hit the gas and made it to the ample driveway, which the limo ahead of him had just cleared out of. With no people or vehicles in his way, Blitz oversteered and swerved, loudly, before coming to a shrill stop at the foot of the giant stairs, facing directly towards the door. A dozen pairs of eyes landed on him and several curtains opened to reveal more curious onlookers.
Yeah, bitch. That was what these fuckers got for daring to play their little European royalty game while Stolas spent his Christmas home alone in a pile of sadness. Blitz grinned, and then—finding he still had some chaotic energy to get out of his system—showed the limo driver from earlier the middle finger as the guy made it up behind him. Oh, how he loved a good opportunity to make a scene.
And it seemed this wasn’t a solo show, because the doors that swung open at the top of the stairs were just as booming as his tires. All eyes flew to Octavia as she pushed shoulder-first past their heavy weight, then kicked them closed before shoving aside the guests.
There was a moment of general confusion, and then the doors flew open again.
“Stop right there, girl!”
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