People started talking, putting us through our paces. I knew there was no one in the world who could take it. I had a bad feeling, but we were dancing.

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@kjerleik-a
People started talking, putting us through our paces. I knew there was no one in the world who could take it. I had a bad feeling, but we were dancing.
Liv Lisa Fries in Babylon Berlin, 1x01.
fangirl challenge - [40/50] female characters ♡ liz ortecho “Every bone in my body is screaming to get the hell out of this town. Run away and never look back. But I’m not going anywhere. I’m gonna find out who killed my sister, and I am gonna bring them to justice.”
dancingstilled : aaron samuels.
❛ shit. ❜ he’s done it now. put his foot in his mouth ; saying things he didn’t mean to say again. has loved cady all these years , had just been stupid enough to pretend he could move on. going back to regina had been safe , hadn’t been invested enough until she’d mentioned a family. has always tried to squash his feelings , stuff them in a box , pretend everything between them was purely friendship. she’d made it all clear when they were younger ; the night with their kiss had never happened as far as she was concerned. so he played along , played the dutiful role of being her best friend, dating regina. ❛ cady, you know what i mean. ❜ how could she not ? she had to know.
you know what i mean. the furrowed brows, mouth falling agape and all-around confused look on cady’s face should be enough to make aaron understand that she has no idea what he means. ever since mia there’s been so much left unsaid between them, unspoken words hanging in the air which separates them. cady thought that was only on her part, that she was the one keeping secrets from her best friend, too scared to let them out in the open. too scared to put her heart out on the line. but now it seemed aaron had something unsaid too, and cady would listen; even if whatever he had to say would hurt. ❝ no, i don’t. can’t you just tell me? ❞
Volker Bruch’s Face in Babylon Berlin, Episodes 1-16
Oh god he’s so smitten with her I can’t
korezni : nikolai lantsov.
possibilities are endless as long as the right state of mind and a willingness bordering on reckless is accompanying the plan , but he thinks about how much of it he can disclose . royalty usually does not say things like that , but then again charlotte has never known him as a foreign born royal but just as a foreign born diplomat - both usually frowned upon by someone like her , he knows , and yet they somehow manage to thaw the lines between each other . he thinks it has something to do with the fact that he is not involved in murder or any of the dooming secrets she works on uncovering . not to mention how much her presence warms something in him - the same way sun-kissed ocean waves manage to ease something inside his chest - and he does like to not be so weary around somebody else around here .
“ i did not - i am deeply sorry . i’d like to say i wore a captain’s hat , but that wasn’t mandatory on my ship . we weren’t so uniformed , in fashion and behaviour , ” he lets her in on , now putting his elbow on the bar before them and putting his chin in the palm of his hand as he looks at her in the dim light . she’s got so much inside of her , such a wilderness , and he knows it would only rot away in the confines of her current life . wasted potential , the greatest tragedy of all maybe . a death of a person without the offered kindness of dying . “ how about leaving? i remember how badly i wanted to leave home , after coming back from my service . and so i just - i ran . i left . it sounds easier than it’s done , but it can be done . ”
❝ hmmph ... that is too bad. maybe next time you return to the sea you’ll choose to wear one for me. ❞ charlotte hums with a smile while a hand falls from where it had been entangled in her own locks to grasp her champagne - filled glass, then taking a long sip and pretending to enjoy the taste of the bubbles on her tongue. out of the corner of her eye she scans the room for a familiar waiter, the one with a tray of wrapped chocolates, all while the voice in the back of her mind begs him not to appear. she wanted this one night to herself, with a handsome man who didn’t have any intentions of buying her company or her body, who listened when she spoke and cared about what she had to say. now if nikolai did in fact have those intentions, he hadn’t shown them yet and was exceptionally good at hiding them. ❝ if i didn’t know any better, i’d say it sounded like you were a gang of pirates, nikolai. ❞ the thought makes her grin, nearly entices a laugh from her red - painted lips. she thinks he would have made a fine pirate, for he looks like the type who’d be capable of handling a sword better than most. charlotte thinks she would have made a decent one too, not for any particular reason other than her spirit.
there is no reason to pretend she doesn’t want to leave, because she does. she wants to see the world, start anew and mold her life into one of her choosing, one without brothers in law whose unwanted gazes linger too long & colleagues who take but one look at her and consider her nothing more than a pretty face. but in order to leave, she would need money, and even for a working girl like charlotte, that much money is hard to come by. still, she entertains the idea, as much for herself as for nikolai.
❝ i would like to leave berlin. go to france and see paris, wander the streets of the city of light. or maybe to the united states. ❞ so many stories must lie within his mind, of his past travels and adventures some of which charlotte considers herself lucky enough to have been told. she would like to hear them all in time, but she knows this won’t happen. one day she’ll walk into moka efti, scour the room for his blonde hair and find nothing hopeful clients. he will have moved onto his next adventure, while she stays in the same spot she’s always been in. that is how their story will end. ( charlotte knows this because she is not foolish; she has a brain as well as she does a heart. ) that is why despite the unfamiliar want to let her guard down & allow nikolai to take down the makeshift shield surrounding her heart and soul, she keeps it up, preparing for the goodbye she will have to say one day. ❝ tell me. where did you run to first? ❞
Masculin Féminin (1966)
dancingstilled : aaron samuels.
❛ actually, i think it does. what kind of guy is stupid enough to go back to a girl who has a track record of cheating on him again, and again, and again ? it happened back in high school, and it happened again. ❜ a bitter laugh escapes him, uncharacteristic for aaron, but uncanny to his mother’s frequent laugh whenever his father is mentioned. ❛ it wasn’t supposed to be like this. ❜ his voice is softer, quieter now. ❛ she was only supposed to be a placeholder. ❜ hadn’t expected to find himself attached to a baby that he’d never meet. one that he had no ties to whatsoever. a chance for him to prove to himself, to the world, that he could move on. that he wasn’t in love with cady, that he wasn’t his father’s son, that he could have it all. had never loved regina the same way, only fooling himself and masquerading the love he had for his best friend. his study abroad trip in italy had helped ; time & away from the situation had been just what he’d needed.
❝ people who are in love are stupid enough to go back to a girl like that. it just means you love her and wanted it to be different this time, and that’s okay. i don’t blame you. ❞ cady had nearly done something similar when aaron’s mom told her him and regina were back together again. ( ‘ they say it’s serious this time. ’ his mom explained with a small, almost sad smile that said she knew how she felt. cady had only smiled in response, played pretend and acted the part of supportive friend. ) with her phone in hand and a mixture of jealousy and betrayal running in her veins she’d written a long text to the no - brainer who’d fathered mia years ago, but something had stopped her from pressing send. it wasn’t him she wanted to be with. it was aaron, it had always been aaron. if only she had figured that out a little sooner, then maybe they’d be together now. not stupidly in love, like aaron said, but happily in love. but if that had happened, then mia wouldn’t be here, and cady would never wish for a life without her in it. not to forget that aaron might not feel the same way his heart is clearly with regina.
❝ a placeholder? what do you mean? ❞
dancingstilled : aaron samuels.
❛ cady , i ❜ there’s a small part of him that’s still bitter about the secrets that cady’s kept from him. has always asked for honesty, above all, from the people in his life. some good that’s done him ; cheated on again and again by his now ex-girlfriend, a best friend who couldn’t even bring herself to tell him she was pregnant. ❛ i was going to tell you. ❜ uses the same words she’d said months earlier. ❛ it was just easier not to. i mean, how stupidly in love does someone have to be to hand out second chance after second chance ? ❜
the words she had once used to ease the pain of admitting she had deceived and lied to the only person who’d ever seen the real her and decided to stick around, he now uses against her & the words’ abrupt appearance force her to tilt her head downwards in shame. guilt flows through her veins, seeps through her skin and clothes until it all but covers her head to toe.
stupid in love. a laugh tickles her throat, threatens to roll off her tongue and echo off the walls of the apartment. it’s a phrase that fits her as well as it does him, for he is as much of an optimist and blue - eyed as she is, always running head first into every matter of the heart. ❝ you’ve always believed that people can change for the better. that doesn’t mean you’re stupid, aaron, it means you have a good heart. ❞ this boy here is her twin soul, and this is a fact cady has known ever since she was a little girl. now if only she could summon the courage she had back then ...
i know it all will come back o n e d a y
new url alert! faerheart → kjerleik.
❝ i heard about you and regina ... ❞ cady approaches the subject as carefully as possible, knowing well that she is treading on thin ice by bringing up a subject as sore as this. ❝ why didn’t you tell me? ❞
@dancingstilled ( tumblr won’t let me tag you )
@korezni :
the roll of his eyes comes by itself , but it is steeped in good nature , her antics ( her razor sharp and yet never not imaginative mind that is ) always getting this reaction out of him like clockwork . it seems that charlotte manages to make every conversation interesting and something to look forward to for him just by her presence - even seeing her a little slumped doesn’t teeter that little bit of magic . “ you don’t have to , i wasn’t a sailor . saint’s forbid - i was the captain of a ship . a whole fleet , actually . a privateer . greatest years of my life i’ll let you know .” leaning forward from his place next to her to take up her gaze with his , a warm smile over scarred features directed at her too . “ you’ve got the world at your feet . maybe you need to find your own , well , let’s call it your own sea . i needed an ocean to find myself again , maybe you need your own ocean , you know?”
❝ so you didn’t wear a sailor’s hat? that’s too bad, i would have liked to have seen you in one. ❞ always the flirt, always the one steering conversations away from topics shrouded in seriousness. it’s a flaw she sees as clear as day & whose ramifications she feels every night and each morning when the city gets so quiet the only thing she can hear are the growls of her own thoughts, yet changing it has proven to be more difficult than expected. hiding behind the mask of an exciting flipper girl is as much a shield against the rest of the world as it is a bad habit.
her own sea, her own ocean ... charlotte likes the sound of that. the thought of leaving the familiarity of life in berlin [ working at the police station, lunch with gereon at aschinger, dancing the nights away at moka efti ] in exchange for something unknown is scary, terrifying even, but it is also exciting, refreshing, liberating. ❝ maybe. but i’d never know where to start. ❞
Liv Lisa Fries as Charlotte Ritter by Joachim Gern.
let them find out just how stubborn a rock could be.