iāve been seeing people online being upset about David Jonsson being the new Black Panther over Damson Idris, and even going far enough to say that heās not cute. Yāall David Jonsson is too fine, and most of heās definitely talented. If yāall havenāt watched him in Industry, Rye Lane, Alien: Romulus, or The Long Walk, yāall are missing out on some talent!!
Also to go as far as implying that Ryan didnāt hire Damson bc of Michael is crazy work. We all know that Ryan hires based on who he feels will best bring the vision to life. I wish people would give David a shot before immediately writing him off bc I can see an Oscar in his future frfr!
Mind yāall, this is the man they trynna call unattractive š„“
i feel like im a weird age where i got just a blurry glimpse at the world Before. it used to be cold in the mornings and websites had fun games and the search results showed you what you searched for. covid wasn't a thing. can anybody fucking hear me. did i dream it all????
Children. If you don't listen to nothing else I say, listen to this: Hit them. Hit them right in the mouth. You might still cry, but you'll feel good that you didn't *just* cry. It's always okay to hit a racist. Every time.
A/N: It's been a long ass time. Of course these beautiful Black people brought me out of retirement. Let's fucking gooooo
The sun shined bright in Clarksdale as Annie waited in line for the 8:30 train to Chicago. Her protections for her home had been set in her absence, as well as on her person with a powerful mojo bag she fed the night before. The Illinois Central Railroad had a straight route to the Windy City from Mississippi. Colored folk filled the train depot almost to capacity in their finest threads, packed to the gills with their prized possessions & family heirlooms, combined with enough food to last them the trip.
It had been four years since Smoke and Stack left everything they knew behind. Including her, and their childās memory. Pain is not sufficient for what Annie felt. She really had no idea what she was doing there at the train station. Or what sheād hope to find when she arrived to Chicago. Or what she would do when she got there. Something had to be done. Energy had to be moved. She had to see Smoke for herself.
A handsome porter helped her with her bags and helped her to get settled in the colored section of the train. She couldnāt help but be mesmerized at all the different kinds of folks that were traveling for greener pastures. The Klan terrorized northern Mississippi in hopes of keeping Black people docile. The Black communities banded together for protection, and yet could not be moved by fear or intimidation. There were grandmothers with their adult children, young families with infants and toddlers running about the cabin full of energy, single people who didnāt have much more than the clothes in their backs. All looking to a new life away from Jim Crow.
Clarksdale to Memphis. Memphis to East St. Louis. East St. Louis to Springfield. Springfield to Chicago. She made sure to get some dirt from every stop of the route ā sweeping her floors with railroad dirt from various places ensured constant flow of energy and resources to find her. She stepped off the train at the last stop and she couldnāt believe her eyes.
āWell, Iāll be damned.ā Annie tried to not look so much a slack jawed yokel but she had never been no further than Louisiana in her life. The skyscrapers towered over the sprawling city, the winding streets that were two lanes wide were bumper to bumper with fancy cars, and there was just so many people! How could Elijah find comfort in a place like this and not with her?
She needed him. She needed him in her bones. In her blood. They were each otherās safe haven. As children, they would meet each other at the crossroads of Route 16 and Candler Road for a respite from their hectic home lives. Smokeās father was a drunk and abused him and the rest of the family incessantly. Annieās mother was always away ā working roots for folks, doing house cleanings and driving out haints, performing exorcisms. They were both 15 the first time they kissed and 17 the first time they were intimate. They were so young then, and blissfully ignorant at how life can be.
As they aged, they were still inseparable. Both didnāt have much formal schooling. Annie grew into her power ā learning herbs and recipes and how to protect, provide and punish if need be. Elijah eventually grew tired of working in the fields. Him and his brother Elias, who was the epitome of hell on wheels, made a living robbing trains. Those boys began to make a name for themselves ā especially when their abusive father mysteriously ended up dead. Stabbed in the chest with an ice pick. Annie knew the truth of the matter. Smoke and Stack were growing into young men ā they couldnāt tolerate the abuse any longer.
Shortly thereafter, America got involved in the Great War. The draft came to Mississippi and Annieās worst nightmare came to fruition. Smoke and Stack were conscripted and were set to ship out to Camp Jackson for basic training.
āPut this on your neck.ā
Smoke rolled his eyes and begrudgingly took the brown mojo bag. He tied it around his neck and let it fall to his chest. āYou know I donāt believe in all that mess.ā
āAnd you donāt need to. This āmessā has been around longer than we could imagine and will be around long after we return to this earth. Just keep it on. For me.ā
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The boarding house Annie lodged in was Black owned in a neighborhood called Bronzeville. All kinds of fancy colored folks lived there in their pressed suits and pristine dresses hustling to their next destination, with little time to converse. She asked a few people about Smoke and Stack andwhere they hung out at. āElijah and Elias? About six feet, pretty teeth, dimples. They hard to miss.ā But no one could point her in the right direction.
Her trip was only supposed to be for a week. Yet four days had passed and not a peep from either one of the twins. Riding the bus along Cottage Grove, she couldnāt help but to overhear two young chapsā conversation. āBilly done fucked up for the last time. He was slow with Luzzatoās money and Smoke and Stack left him for dead on the pier. I aināt fuckin with them twins.ā
Annie knew that the twins were okay with violence and confrontationā this was not new information to her. But working for the Italians? How did they get wrangled with them? And how did they manage to stay out of jail?
Apparently Paul Luzzato was one of Al Caponeās lieutenants who was a bit more open minded when it came to race than the rest of Caponeās family. The teens made mention of a club right in the neighborhood of the boardinghouse where she was staying. This was the opportunity Annie needed to get a step closer to closure.
The Lighthouse was a cool joint for colored folks on the southside playing nothing but Chicago and Mississippi blues. Lowlit with the fog of cigarette smoke hovering at the ceiling, Annie moved gracefully to the bar scoping out the scene. Beautiful Black men and women in their finest zoot suits and bias cut gowns drinking and carrying on ā she felt a bit country and backwoods around all these fancy folks. Annie wondered if these colored folks all traveled from down south as well in hopes of seeking a promised land.
The house band played a good ol southern tune that made Annie rock and sway in her seat. A young stocky man tending bar wiped off a glass, looking in her direction. āWould you like a drink maāam?ā
āI reckon so. Whatās a girl gotta do to get some moonshine around here?ā
The barkeep fixed her up a glass of moonshine neat. That familiar burn went down so nicely.
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āNigga, if you donāt count this money so I can go. Couple bitches in there dying to get broke off by daddy Stack.ā Smoke and Stack sat in a dimly lit storage room counting up their money from their protection runs for the day. Capone had sway over the whole city ā any business that wasnāt a patron of the mob had to pay up for their own sakes.
āPussy hound. Can we finish this business please?ā Smoke sucked his teeth at his twinās one track mind. To be fair, they had a long day and he wouldnāt mind a nice nightcap as he hears that guitar wail and moan.
Every dollar and cent is accounted for. Stashed safely in their massive safe built into the wall, they put their suit jackets back on and spread out into the fray. Stack went immediately to coat check to seek out this young filly who had no idea how mischievous he was. Smoke however, sat alone at his usual seat on the second floor overlooking the band. He nursed his whiskey and scoped out the room. The club was full to capacity, there were no fights at the moment, alcohol flowed ā he would have a good report for Luzzato.
Smoke peered toward the bar and saw Rallo, the barkeep chatting up with a dark skinned woman who filled out her dress like no one he had ever seen before. Not in a long time anyway. Imagine his surprise when he stood up gazing over the balcony to get a good lookā¦.
āIt canātā it canāt be. She said she would never leave Mississippi.ā Annie had had a lot more to drink by the time Smoke recognized her and her lips and limbs were a lot looser. Smoke watched Rallo fill her glass up to the top and sat watching her gulp it down like a sucker for love. He would serve other folks and park his ass right back in front of Annie, charming her with everything he had.
āOh fuck this.ā
Smoke skipped every two steps to race towards the bar. Pulling out a cigarette Stack rolled for him, he stood behind Annie staring directly into the back of her head. Her hand rested on Ralloās forearm, waxing poetically about the south and how beautiful Chicago was.
āAnnie.ā
Her heart dropped into her ass. Annieās pulse skyrocketed head ring his southern rasp that hadnāt changed in four years. She forced herself to play it off howeverā he didnāt get to leave her and their home and their baby and demand immediate attention.
Annie turned to gaze him in the eye and smiled. Rallo however stood up straight as a board, having prior knowledge of Smokeās reputation especially on the southside. He has never been on his bad side before and didnāt want to start today. Smoke was burning with rage seeing his estranged wife giggle and flirt with a measly bartender.
āIām busy.ā
She cut her eyes and returned to her moonshine on the bar. āRallo, get the fuck outta here.ā
āSure thing, Smoke.ā Rallo left Annie alone and assisted other patrons where it was safe. She huffed at his audacity and threw the rest of the liquor back.
āStill jealous, huh? You never did like my attention to be split.ā She hasnāt looked him in the eye yet, staring at the mirror that spanned the backlit bar in front of her. He was still devastatingly handsome..
āWhat you sayin to him, huh? Had a good time socializin? Why are you here?ā
āSo Smoke the only one āllowed to leave the country? Iām looking towards a future, not the past where everything hurts too bad. Sound familiar?ā Annie hissed at Smoke for daring to regulate her. He left HER. He needed to hurt now.
It sliced right through him to have his own words thrown back in his face. His jaw was locked so tight it could break an anvil. āAnnie, can we talk in the back? Please?ā
āMmmm, no Iām fine just right here ,thank you so much.ā Internally, she loved that she could rouse him still. He still cared. She could tell he still wanted her carnallyā his eyes wouldnāt stop wandering the length of her body.
Smoke curled his lips in, gritting his teeth at her insolence. He did deserve the treatment. But he didnāt careā all he wanted was to cuss her ass out and give her all the love that had been pent up for the last four years. āAnnie. Please.ā
āElijah. Please.ā Her ire began to rise now. His eyes pleaded with her to cooperate and not have his business out for Chicago to see ā he had a reputation to uphold. Annie acquiesced begrudgingly, jumping from the barstool and allowed him to guide her to the back. He grabbed her hand and laced their fingers like they used to. Electricity had no choice to spread through her body.
Smoke had a key to Luzzatoās office which had a bed and closet for whenever he was too tired to drive home from the club. Annie scrutinized the tall windows cased in luxurious drapes, all of the expensive hardwood furniture and floors, and fancy Art deco decor. Nothing like back down home.
āYou like Rallo?ā
āTuh, you aināt got not one lick of sense. He was friendly enough.ā
āWhy are you here, Annie? You said you could never leave Mississippi. You said you could never leaveāā Smoke stopped short of speaking their dead childās name. Her name crumbled in his mouth, a raw memory that still threatened to take him down if he let it.
That made Annieās chin tremble yet galvanized her to force the issue. āYou canāt even say her name. The child we made out of love. And you canāt even do that.ā She sounded so weary and exhausted.
His eyes were glassy already, and he grabbed both of her hands. āAnnieā¦..I couldnāt stay and you know this. I fuckin couldnāt wake up every mornin seein that tiny grave every day. I couldnātā¦ā
Annie felt the tremors in Smokeās hands. She couldnāt hold tears back any longer. āAnd how do you think I felt?! I pulled her from my womb myself. I nursed her. I prayed for her. And she wasted away anyway. What about my pain, Elijah?!ā
The dam broke for Smoke, and he cried as he embraced her. She wriggled and struggled but Smoke held her in place, both shedding tears that had no end. āAnnie, please forgive me. Please forgive me. I love you. I love you to the ends of the Earth. Please forgive me.ā His lips sweetly grazed her chin, cheek and down to her supple neck.
She shuddered audibly, his touch still had the ability to make her knees weak like jelly. Annie hated that her body leaned into his affections without her permission. After all this time. After what he did. āYou hurt me. You hurt me bad. How can I..ā
Their mouths met in a whirlwind. Tongues lashing against one another, inciting soft moans from the pair. āIāll make it up to you. Iāll do whatever. Spend the rest of my life doin it if I have to.ā Smokeās lips kissed down her collarbone to her chest and he tenderly pecked the top of her breasts.
Kisses turn to bites, and revert back to kisses along her cleavage, and a big bicep wraps around Annieās waist for him to grind his hips on hers. Her moans rise in volume when he reaches under her gown, and pulls her panties to the side. Smoke folds his tongue back into her mouth while two of his agile digits swipe back and forth so tenderly across her pussy lips.
āOhā¦shit Smokeā¦ā
So much of her slick is already expelled, making a mess on his fingers just how he remembers. āIāll just have to remind you how it feels to be loved by me..ā
Smoke loves how buxom his wife is, and canāt wait another second without one of her titties in his mouth. Annie helps him pull down the straps of the dress along with her bra, showing her bare breasts in all their glory. Smoke walks Annie back to Luzzatoās massive dark oak desk and leans her up against it. She held the skirt of her dress while he played with her pussy and sucked her nipples so sweetly. He kneeled so he could look at her mound even closer, making her gasp at his anticipation. He ran his hand through her soft coils and spread her lips and put his face in between them.
Bliss canāt come to close to how sensational sheās feeling. Annie holds her husbandās head right on her clit, letting his tongue lap gently in tight circles. Two thick fingers penetrate her hole and if Smoke wasnāt holding her up, she would have slipped right off the desk.
āYouā¦you motherfuckerā¦donāt you stop babyā¦ā
He has her to tilt her hips up so he can lick even more thoroughly, his handsome face covered in her essence. Smoke is proud as ever, and considers it an honor to make his wife come after the way everything went down. The telltale signs came one after the other ā Annie grabbing her breast, plucking her nipple, her gritted teeth, her bewildered expression at the sheer amount of pleasure sheās receiving. Those juicy lips of his wrap around Annieās clit and sucked to tumble her into sweet oblivion. The way his moans reverberated through her body as he took from herā¦.she couldnāt ache for him more than she did in this very moment.
Smoke kisses her sensitive pussy for the last time and finagles with his belt and slacks. When he takes his button down off, Annie sees the mojo bag she made for him when he went to the war. Her belly fluttered, that he still kept it after all this time. Even with how he felt about her beliefs. āTurn yo ass around.ā
He wipes his mouth off and sheds his underwear. Annie can feel how hard he is on the small of her back, urging a coy gasp out of her. A couple strokes of his shaft is all he needs to enter his wife. Her skirts are bunched up over her ass, and his hands canāt resist slapping both cheeks in tandem. Annie hikes her waist up, positively buzzing waiting for him to split her open. Smoke holds her open and lets the head of his dick penetrate her. They both shout in ecstasy at their coupling. It had been so longā¦.
āI know you donāt believe meā¦.but you the only one. You the only one, Annieā¦ā One of his hands held her by the shoulder, forcing Annie to sit on every devastating inch of that thick dick. Her whines and cries spurred him to get in deep ā make her remember that he was her husband, and she was his wife. Forever.
Her umber skin meshed so well with his, Smoke enjoying the view of him sliding in and out of her soaking wet pussy. āGood ass pussy, that good ass shit, fuck!ā Smoke licked and bit at Annieās delicate shoulders and neck, grunting like a man determined to fuck his beautiful well.
Fingers played and twisted at her nipples, until he pushes Annieās chest to the desk so she gets everything she deserves out of him. Her pussy feels every vein and pulse of his dick caressing her walls, his heavy sack making contact with her clit on every thrust. She canāt stop smiling. Her man. Her Elijah. Their love was bone deep ā inescapable, insurmountable, and unbreakable. They were a committing a sacred act that she didnāt realize how much she missed until that moment.
Smoke is beginning to twitch inside of her, and Annie starts clapping her fat ass on his pelvis. His bottom lip is tucked between his teeth, feeling himself about to walk into Eden. He has to get her to come with her ā he needs to make her ascend this way.
āYeah baby, yeah baby, itās coming ā fuck fuck Iāā Smoke gives Annie three powerful thrusts and he erupts inside of her. So much cum from her and him, the floor is a mess. He stands back and spreads her open to see the amalgamation of their love inside her pussy, and she blushes. Smoke is tender and sweet, but so filthy and nasty for her, and she swears sheās the luckiest girl in the world.
He holds her from behind just taking in her scent mingled with his ā Luzzatoās office smelled like old cigars and pussy. āI forgive you, Elijah.ā
Smoke was startled when she spoke ā there had been a comfortable silence as they held each other. He turned her to face him and held her close, looking in her eyes with hope for reconciliation. āI couldnāt quit you if I wanted to. Blood of my blood, bone of my bone.ā
He graced Annie with a rare smile, one that reached his eyes. One peck on her lips turned into twenty and he thanked her incessantly for her mercy. Ever the gentleman, he assisted his wife in redressing and rearranging Luzzatoās office. The sneaky pair rejoined the festivities ā still lively like they never left. Smoke got Annie a seat at his personal table on the second floor, walking tall and proud with his wife on his arm. Heads turned and gossip flowed at this mysterious woman. Smoke had never been sighted with any woman before in Chicago, not unless it was about business.
Humming in the vibrant after sex glow, Annie could do nothing but look at her husbandās face. By no means, was this going to be easy for them to grow from. But they were both ready and willing. Their love was unstoppable. Ancestral. Celestial. Smoke sensed her gaze on him and he turned back to her. Reaching over the table to kiss her, he held her hand tightly to his chest, with urgency.
āIām comin back wit ya. I canāt let you walk away from me. Iād surely die, Annie. Will you have me?ā
She squealed with utter joy at his heartfelt request. Annie sprang up and ran to him, sitting on his lap and kissing him with everything she had. āI wouldnāt have it any other way.ā
