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⠀ — martyrdom . black noirs number 1 fan
⠀ sporadic writer / eighteen+ fanfictions
⠀ mostly x readers . submissions open
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For God so loved the world
THE BOYS S5 SPOILERS
I haven’t posted any of my thoughts on here like I usually would with the new season , but honestly I’m pretty disappointed in it , especially with how they treated noir / Justin
but trust there will be at least drabbles incoming 😼
hey ik it’s been way too long since you posted any dr phosphorus stuff but i just wanted to say that i LOVE your writing. it’s a lot more detailed than a lot of the stuff i’m used to seeing on tumblr. and i totally get being a sporadic writer, shit’s so tough especially for such beautiful writing like yours i would imagine! <33 i’ll be here whenever you post again. love your work sm
also. this is so awkward but i just have to say. i think. I THINK. PHOSPHORUS DOES HAVE A DICK. but since his skin and flesh is transparent which causes him to just be a walking skeleton and DICKS DONT HAVE BONES. ITS JUST NOT VISIBLE???????
im sAYING THIS PARTIALLY AS AN EXCUSE TO FULFILL SMUT OF COURSE BUT YK. LOVE YOUR WORK REGARDLESS. JUST WANTED TO SAY THAT.
HIII OMG !! <33 sorry for some reason the app doesn't give me my updated inbox so i'm answering on the web lol
thank you so much , you are so sweet <3 i definitely get self-conscious about my writing , especially my older works , so hearing that you love them is so nice <33 i'm going to try and get it out by next week ( hopefully as long as I don't jinx myself . )
and YES !! i wrote the other two before seeing the episode where weasel bites him , so I was going off the assumption he was literally just a skeleton , but i'm totally going to include that (:<
finally working on part 3 to ultraviolence / cinnamon girl . should i like give the three an overarching name or just keep them as lana songs ? idk
also also everything I’ve written will eventually be crossposted to ao3 !! the idea of doing all of them is a little jarring but i want to slowly start catching up ( I only have like 3 of them on there lol )
⠀ . SEASONS IN THE SUN
game compliant — michael afton x female ! reader
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⎨ 𝐂𝐖 ⎬ reader has ocd ( compulsions + contamination ) . spiraling thoughts & behaviors . mentions / depictions of child harm & death . guilt and shame . childhood trauma . mentions of underage substance usage . old man consequences referenced ?? SMUT : dry humping , premature ejaculation , pathetic ! michael . dacryphilia , p in v , riding , safe sex ( yay ! )
⎨ 𝐀𝐍 ⎬ this is part 2 to homecoming , as promised ! and a belated christmas present . i spent way too fucking long writing this but it is my longest fanfic chapter to date ! i never really write part 2s unless I’m really feeling it but god i love michael afton . I’m planning on writing a more oc focused fanfic with Kaz Brekker cause i got into shadow and bone after the fnaf 2 movie so . also i am not diagnosed with ocd but i tried my hardest to write what I thought was an accurate depiction so please don’t kill me ): ok love you byeee xx
One, two, three.
Your fingertips grip the switch on the light socket, flicking over and over. He’s going to kill your father - the only family you have left. He’s going to kill Michael, and he’s going to get away with it just like he did with Charlotte if you don’t turn the lights off in the correct intervals.
Irrational, maybe, but it makes perfect sense to you.
Everything feels suffocating, and despite how you insist nothing will happen, that he’s dead and can’t hurt anyone anymore, the thoughts still race in your mind. Because what if you don’t flick the lightswitch three times and something does happen? It’ll be your fault, and you can’t handle any more death on your conscience.
The basement is messy, unorganized, bits of scrap metal and abandoned blueprints scatter around the floor. It's claustrophobic, pairs of mechanical eyes staring back at you. Your gaze skims the walls, taped up plans and scratched out drawings, but a certain area catches your eye. Bright colors dance off the cold bricks; blues and yellows and pinks. You recognize them immediately as drawings you made when you were little, some by yourself, some with Charlie when she was old enough to hold a crayon properly.
An inch closer, raking over the amateur doodles. Charlie had loved using the brightest colors in the box, snapping them in half with a grip she didn’t quite understand yet. You had been so mad at her at the time, when your pristine set of sixty-four crayons ended up halved and scattered around the living room floor.
Your fingertips graze the old paper, not bothering to fight back a smile at the bunny drawing, a strange blue-ish indigo you distinctly remember being your favorite color at the time. You had been so proud, and your father had surprised you with the Spring Bonnie animatronic based on that very drawing, which you correctly pointed out was not indigo.
He still has it hanging up all these years later, still decorating the walls of his makeshift workshop. A sweet surprise, and all you had come down here for were batteries; which sit in a box underneath his desk.
Closing the cardboard flaps of the container after you’re done, your gaze lifts to be greeted with what appears to be a version of Freddy. The metal is all black, however, with a red top hat instead of a brown one. Its jaw isn’t completed, slack and falling off. It looks just like how Fredbear did after they tore off his hinges to get the youngest Afton’s head out.
Your heart races in your chest, suddenly, rabbiting as if it's attempting to break out of your ribcage. The slightest thing is setting you off; your flesh feels as though it's burning off your bones. You’re back there, laughing and following after Michael as he hoists his little brother into the bear’s mouth.
How had you ignored those cries before? They’re deafening, now, ringing through your skull and penetrating your ear drums. He screams, wails, begs to be put down; but you don’t listen. Why don’t you listen? Why hadn’t you realized how tight the springlocks were until it was too late, why didn’t you try harder to tell Michael about it? Why didn’t you go up and get him yourself?
Not that it matters, because once again, the springlocks snap and a sickening crunch rings through the pizzeria. You stand there, wide eyed and shocked next to Michael, a darker crimson staining your already red sweatshirt, splattered over the indigo mask atop your head. It continues to stain your skin.
Your footsteps echo against the stairs leading back up to the main floor before you have a chance to realize what’s going on, before you can rationalize your trauma to yourself. The faucet in the kitchen drowns out the echoing cries; cold water splashing against your hands as you cup them to your face, scrubbing.
You have to get it off, get rid of the blood, you have to be clean again - be yourself again. And you don’t stop, not until your hair is drenched around your face and your palms are red and angry, sore, scrubbed raw and screaming at you to stop. The pain feels good, the pain means you’re still here.
An exasperated sigh passes from your lips, leaning back against the kitchen counter. The top is cool and grounding, allowing your fingernails to scratch atop the surface three times. Your gaze lifts, meeting that of your father, whose own reflects concern. Nauseous, pity always does that to you, it's how people looked at you after Charlie's death - it's how Henry looked at you after the divorce.
He leans against the kitchen counter next to the fridge, bringing a cup of coffee to his lips. The mug is stained in some places, around the rim and bottom. It’s gross to look at, and your hands - already scrubbed raw from the extensive washing today - itch to take care of it for him.
“Did you take your medicine today?”
“I’m out. The prescription is getting transferred here but it won’t be ready for a little bit.”
He doesn’t respond, a simple nod. He’s trying his hardest not to coddle, you can tell, not to loom over you or treat you like the child you hardly got to be. He’s quiet for a moment, bringing the cup to his lips and focusing instead on some mail sitting on the kitchen island in front of him; a gentle hum at the bitter taste.
“Michael seemed happy yesterday morning.”
If you had been eating anything you would’ve choked, and maybe you still do, the lingering nausea that seems to be ever present rising a bit more. Your cheeks flush, darkening to an almost comical degree as you cross your arms and shake your head. You always were petulant, it's almost reassuring to Henry that you’re still his daughter.
“It’s nothing like that, dad.” It is, but you don’t quite know what the two of you are at this point, if it had been a one off thing - despite the fact the oldest Afton child had spent the night before curled beside you, hugging you in his sleep like you were going to vanish.
“Well, he seemed happy, I don’t think I’ve seen that kid smile that wide in ages.” The thought of that twists in your gut, just more guilt to add to the overflowing list. You should’ve stayed, should’ve been here for him - but you weren’t; and he’s suffered for it. But it's not just him, Henry, too, seems to be doing better since you’ve moved back in.
You grab a towel from the drawer by the sink, pressing it against the front few strands of your hair that had gotten soaked from when you had washed your face earlier. Your fingers still itch to press under the water again, and your eyes flicker over to the stove one or twice, just double checking that it's turned off.
Despite the screaming in the back of your head that something is wrong, that you have to find out what it is before it creeps up on you, it all feels normal. Or, as normal as being home with your estranged father in this town can be. You fold the towel neatly, setting it down on the countertop. You had left the door to the basement open in your rush to wash the imaginary blood off of yourself.
Fingertips grasp the brass handle, turning it once, twice, and then three times before allowing the door to close. Before you can even think to stop yourself, you’re back at the sink - because that handle has been touched a million times before, and when's the last time it's been disinfected? When’s the last time the door has been cleaned for that matter? What if he had chemicals on his skin the last time he touched it and now it's on yours?
But the rushing of water once more feels good, despite how your raw skin protests against the coolness. Henry says nothing, he’s never been particularly good at dealing with your unmedicated OCD; it had always been your mother who knew how to console you.
“What are you building down there?”
Henry’s gaze finally lifts from the now almost empty coffee cup he holds to his lips. He doesn’t need to ask what you mean, because the way you had reacted told him all he needed to know. Old endo skeletons lined the walls, a workshop he hadn’t touched in years, until now.
But what can he say to you? How can he tell you he’s trying to help your sister? You never believed in the ghosts that haunt the animatronic suits, you had told him as much in a particularly heated letter response in your first few months in college.
“Its just something I’m tinkering with, keeping myself occupied.” He doesn’t like lying to you, the words feel bitter and slimy as he speaks them, but telling you the truth may only alienate you further from him.
“You’d tell me if you’re thinking about opening up another restaurant, right?”
“You don’t have to worry about that. I’m too old to be running a restaurant, anyways.”
It’s not an answer. Not a yes or a no, you can tell. He’s being purposefully vague, but your father has always been a bit cryptic when it comes to his animatronics, so you say nothing else on the matter. It isn’t your place to pry, you’ve been gone for so long, of course he is going to need something to get his mind off everything - and your dad has always found solace in tinkering with his creations.
“Okay, well. They said my medicine would be ready at one.” It’s only just past eleven, you have more than enough time but the thought of staying in this house, under the pity in his gaze, feels suffocating. You step over to the door, reaching for your keys, before your father stops you.
“I don’t want you driving, bunny. I can take you.” It’s a sweet offer, one given because he knows how you get without your medicine, that agonizing feeling that you’ve just hit someone with your car, that you’ve hurt someone while driving. It’s not conducive for being safe on the road.
But the use of that nickname makes the nausea double down. Bunny, you haven’t heard him use it in ages; not since your adolescent teenage years when you decided a nickname from your father wasn’t cool - not since before Charlie’s death when he would console you when you were sick or sad.
You’ve missed so much, you left in seemingly such a hurry, and now all those memories are tainted by your overwhelming guilt. You cannot look back on something happy without realizing how much you messed up. It’s ever present, swirling around the back of your mind like a growing cancer, but it does get better with your medication.
“No um - it’s fine. I’ll go see if Michael can take me.”
You don’t want to argue with him about driving, it's for the best that you stay off the road for now anyways. Your gaze doesn’t meet his, because somehow he looks more like a kicked puppy than usual. You love him, he’s your father, but you can’t be around him right now.
Setting the keys back on the rack, you once again take hold of the doorknob, twisting it three times before allowing it to swing open. You don’t step through, not yet, leaning back to triple check that the stove has been turned off before you give a gentle wave to your father and close the door behind you.
You pluck the hand sanitizer from your bag, applying a generous amount to your palms and wincing as the cooling sting finds its way into a little cut you hadn’t known you had. It isn’t necessarily washing them, but it’s the best you can do right now and it helps in quieting the fears of catching an unknown disease just by touching something in your own house.
The old Afton house isn’t far from your own, about a block walk, and the sun feels nice on your skin. You’ve been inside far too much recently; because what if every person that passes in their car is looking at you? What if they recognize you from all those years ago, what if they still hate you?
It wouldn’t be unjustified, you remind yourself. Why do you get to live when he’s dead? Why do you get to move on and go to college and start a whole new life when you helped kill him? But you haven't moved on; and being back here means you haven’t started a whole new life.
It’s sickening, remembering this path to Michael’s house. You’d bike here before you got your car, because you were a stupid teenage girl in love with a stupid teenage boy. Passing the trees you and the others used to hide behind, snickering beneath mascot masks as the youngest Afton walked past before inevitably jumping out to scare him.
You knew it was wrong, you always had that awareness in your gut, that you were tormenting the poor child - and the idea of someone doing that to Charlie or Sammy upset you to no end; but you didn’t stop because Michael liked doing it, you didn’t stop until it was too late.
Shaking those feelings from your mind, you find yourself on his porch. It’s a bit dilapidated, old leaves and helicopter seeds catching in spider webbed corners and underneath the mat that no doubt hasn’t been changed since his father died. You don’t blame him, you still haven’t taken down those old posters and cleaned your teenage clothes from your drawers.
Pulling your sleeve over your hand to negate skin contact with the door, you knock three times. It’s quiet in the house, punctuated only by what sounds like static from a television. Once again, you knock three times, before the sound of something falling startles you a bit. What if he’s hurt? You’re spiraling again, picking at the threads of your sleeves in a nervous habit before the door opens.
There Michael stands, brown hair messed up and deep blue eyes tired; but they light up the moment they see you, as if he were a dog greeting his owner when they got home from work. He steps aside, allowing you to enter the dim house.
“Hey, I wasn’t expecting you - sorry, just step over that.”
Your gaze flickers down to the living room floor, a bowl flipped over on the rug in front of a lonesome armchair and a few popcorn kernels scattered alongside it. The television is in fact running nothing but static, and the sunshine clock above it ticks monotonely.
“Sorry for coming over suddenly. Oh, you have popcorn on your shirt.”
He looks down at himself, the Circus Baby’s Pizza World uniform he was too lazy to take off from the night before has a few stubborn kernels clinging onto it and a full popped piece stuck on his collar. Sheepishly, he brushes them off and runs his fingers through his hair in an attempt to tame it - to look good for you.
You can’t help but grimace at how freely his hands touch everything. It is his home, his right to do whatever he wants, but you keep your own shoved in your pockets; just in case.
“Are you taking your medicine?”
Suppressing an eye roll, you sigh softly. How is it that you seem to be an open book? First your father picked up on it - not that you were really hiding it, it would be strange if he couldn’t tell from the way you practically drowned yourself in the sink - and now Michael? You hadn’t seen either of them in years, but in the few days you had been back they picked up on everything; had you really even changed? Were you truly as different as you felt?
“I ran out two days ago. I had to switch my prescription here.” You hesitate when he makes a soft ‘oh’ sound, looking down at your fraying sleeves. “That’s actually why I came - I was wondering if you could take me? I mean, it should be ready at like one but I was thinking we could get lunch or something? Only if you want to?”
God, you feel like that stupid teenage girl asking him if he wants to hang out by the prize counter without the two others. You hate how flustered you feel, how you can’t quite get the right words out. It isn’t like you’re asking him out on a date, right? And that anxiety looms in your stomach, why would he want to take you?
“Yes.” He answers way too fast, clearly a bit embarrassed by how quick the word slipped from his mouth. He nods meekly. “I mean, yeah sure I’ll take you. Just let me go change.”
He nods once more, all awkward limbs like he hasn’t quite grown into them as he steps away, up the stairs and leaving you to linger in the now empty living room. It’s a bit sad, the couch clearly unused, favoring the solitary armchair better. How often did he fall asleep down here? Is that why he had been so keen to stay the night with you?
He’s lonely, that much is painfully obvious. Despite how close your father is in proximity to him, he doesn’t feel it's his place to come over and visit unless he’s checking up on the patriarch. His father had no doubt killed not only Henry’s youngest daughter, but all those other missing kids as well. And god - does he look like his father.
It feels strange being here. William had never allowed you to come over unless it was a dinner attended by your whole family as well. How many times did you have to throw pebbles at Michael’s window to alert him the two of you were sneaking out for the night? Definitely less often than he did to you. Annoying, at the time, how he’d wake you up at three in the morning on a school day; but part of you would give anything to go back again - to not only linger in those memories but to change what would come after.
Old family portraits line the walls,a few front and center. A wedding photo from the late sixties. Michael had confided in you at some point that he was actually already born when his parents got married, that his mom had to beg his father to take responsibility for him. And look where that got her. A few others were flipped around, ones with his younger siblings in them. You can’t blame him, it’s unbearable to see Charlie in the ones at your house.
He comes downstairs a moment later, clad in the same sweater he had shown up to your house in a few days prior. You say nothing as the two of you walk out to his beaten up car; and he reaches out to open the door for you before you can so that you don’t have to touch the handle.
How you hate the butterflies that pick back up in your stomach at the gesture. So small and inconspicuous, something that perhaps anyone else wouldn’t have looked twice at, but to you it means everything. Driving with him means everything. It feels incredibly intimate, being here with him, sitting in the passenger seat and staring out the window at all the buildings and cars and people that pass you by.
“Any idea where to go?”
“I’m not picky, I just need to eat before I get my medicine.”
“Sparky’s is still open.” He looks over at you for a fraction of a second, a stupid grin on his face at the idea of the diner. The two of you had spent countless nights there, when the scent of weed followed after you and you were starving. It was a wonder, with how often you got kicked out, that they never enforced a lifetime ban. “And the Old Man’s still there.”
“No way, he’s still kicking? He’s gotta be like seventy at this point.”
The line cook and owner - affectionately nicknamed Old Man by the two of you in your younger years - was ever present at the diner. Honestly, you had never seen him take a break from the place and all these years later you figured he would’ve either died on that line or retired. Though, you suppose, that there’s still time for him to do the former.
He was something of a grandfather figure to the both of you; wise in his demeanor and always just a tad grumpy. It added to the charm. Michael turns into the parking lot, a few cars lingering here and there. Business definitely has dwindled, but everything seemed to die off after those kids went missing.
He opens the door for you, a rare sight compared to how he would occasionally intentionally close the door on you when the two of you were younger. A few patrons stare, some you recognize as old regulars, some you don’t. Their gazes fixed on Michael, because god does he look more and more like his father now that he's older.
The two of you find a booth, sitting across from one another and you fight a grimace at the plastic feeling of the seats. Just how you remember it, though probably not a very good thing. Your fingers pick at the peeling vinyl; before gazing up at the waitress as you order your drink - who addresses Michael by name, but not you.
“I don’t think anyone really recognizes you.” His voice breaks the silence that had been lingering between you two, deep blue eyes giving off that doe effect once more. He’s just happy to be here with you, happy the two of you are out on a pseudo-date. “I didn’t recognize you.”
Your fingers don’t stop picking at the booth seats as you shrug ever so slightly. He doesn’t seem to notice how awkward this is for you, how overwhelming it is to be back here. He’s like a lovesick puppy, following you around wherever you wish to go. You’re growing more and more accustomed to those butterflies, hating them far less now.
“Well, yeah. I don’t think I ever went out in public if my hair wasn’t dyed.”
“It isn’t just that.” His words catch you off guard, suddenly more serious and somber. “I mean - you went off to college. Henry bragged about that to everyone, how you studied robotics like he did. I think people see a bright future in you.”
His words die off when the waitress returns, setting down your respective glasses. You fiddle with the straw that drags along the inner walls of your cup, gaze staring down at the liquid. You don’t have time to linger on the worry that someone could’ve spit in your drink or when the last time the soda machine was cleaned because now you’re busy worrying about the expectations for you.
“I don’t know, Michael…” Because what else can you say? How can you describe how you feel without sounding like a whiny child?
“When people look at me they only see my father. They only see the things he’s done. So, I’m just saying - it could be worse.”
His words don’t reassure you, and despite how much you hate pity it seems that you freely give it to him. His blue eyes flicker down to his own glass, the silence stretching once more between you two. He’s been alone for so long now, and despite how long it's been since his fathers death people still look at him as if he’s the one who caused it.
“Well well, aren’t you two a sight for sore eyes. Michael - you look like hell. And you, I heard you were back in town.”
A gruff voice pulls you from your shared sorrow, gaze flickering up to meet the Old Man. His white apron is stained with grease and oil and condiments, ketchup making a prominent appearance. He looks noticeably older, his face wrinkled and reminding you like that of an alligator with how his nose points.
“Yeah, yeah. I’m staying for a while.” You don’t meet Michael’s gaze as you say that, keeping firm on the Old Man’s. You’ve already told him you aren’t leaving again, at least not anytime soon, but every time he hears it he gets a bit more giddy.
“Ah, good. Enough time for this one here to finally get the courage to ask you the question, yes?”
A dark blush spreads over both of your faces, creeping up your ears and the back of your neck as you finally tear your gaze, looking between the two men as if this were some secret you weren’t privy to. Michael sputters a few times, shaking his head awkwardly.
“It isn’t like that.”
“Isn’t it? You two always seemed to be in here, huddled in this corner booth and whispering like star crossed lovers.”
You stop peeling the vinyl, now. The memories are heavy and carefree all at the same time. High out of your minds on awful weed you got from some kid behind the school, starving and the only place that happened to be open past midnight was this cramped diner on the township line. The two bicker for a moment, before the Old Man steps away to his kitchen.
Silence spreads back over the two of you, though no longer quite so awkward or tense. You continue to circle your straw around the glass containing it, biting back a stupid smile.
“So, you gonna pop the question?”
He blushes, playfully - and rather pathetically - brushing you off. “Shut up.”
They hadn’t lied to you, at least, when they told you your medicine would be ready around one in the afternoon. While the line was longer than you would’ve liked and the medicine always seems to take forever to kick in, there is some kind of placebo effect in just having them. The anxiety doesn’t leave fully, but it never seems to, and your compulsions aren’t at the top of your mind.
You still don’t touch his dashboard as the two of you drive, nor do you let go of the little hand sanitizer bottle you’re practically squeezing within an inch of its life, but it doesn’t feel as heavy or overbearing.
And you don’t mention how his gaze flickers over to you when stopped at red lights, how those pathetic blue eyes stare you down like you’re some kind of ancient goddess, like you were carved and crafted out of the most precious stone all for him to adore. The butterflies linger, but you’ve made peace with them.
“Do you want me to drop you off at your house?” His words are quiet, as if he doesn’t want you to hear him ask. He wants you to come over again, to stay with him and maybe allow him to tangle you in the sheets once more; but he doesn’t want to be pushy, especially since you’ve only been back a few days.
He has to remind himself that he isn’t yours and - more gratingly - that you aren’t his. He doesn’t own you, despite the possession that creeps up his being when he's around you, that he cannot cage you like some pet bird. You two are allowed to be apart, have to be at some point, but he hates even thinking about it.
You think for a moment; because going home to your father when the two of you in this car are finally reconnecting feels like a poor idea. A cop out. And whatever remains of that idiotic teenage girl with a massive crush screams at you to stay, at least for a little while.
“Um. Well, I was thinking maybe we could just go back to your place, if that's okay with you?”
Michael’s grinning like an idiot now, if he didn’t think it would make the moment awkward he would’ve been celebrating. It finally feels normal between you now, finally feels how it did all those years ago before every awful thing that could’ve happen did just that.
He pulls in the driveway with all the enthusiasm of a dog arriving at their favorite park, hopping out of the car and opening the door for you before you even have the option to. He’s a bundle of excited energy, something you haven’t seen from him since you were kids. And how are you supposed to say no to a face like that?
He practically pulls you up the stairs and into his old room, which has changed a lot since you last remember it. Compared to yours - that you’re still in the process of getting the emotional courage to take care of - it's more mature and a bit sad. Barren walls, a messy bed he hadn’t even slept in the night before, and a dresser.
Somehow, someway, you’re in the same situation as before. It feels like you had just blinked and he was hovering over you on the bed, a stupid grin plastered on his face. Bright and eager as you lay against his pillows, while his fingers trace you like he's mapping your body, committing you to memory.
Your fingertips manage to press against his scalp through the mess that is his brown hair; tangling in strands as his own catches on the belt loops of your pants, dragging your shirt up to catch the flesh of your lower stomach with his lips. Soft and sweet kisses, distracting you from the way he unbuttons them; the way he dips lower and lower but never quite reaching that spot that aches for him.
He’s more confident, today, almost cocky; yet he still doesn’t take any lead. He only lingers where you guide him, only stills where you want him too. He’s teasing, sure, but you could very easily make him do anything you wanted to.
“Don’t tease.”
You scold him, reprimanding that gets his gaze back on yours. Blue eyes searching, scanning, deciphering what you want as you stare down at him. His lips travel upwards, now; soft and sweet until he reaches your neck.
His fingers stay on your thighs, grasping at your flesh as he carefully slots himself between your legs, pulling them up against his waist. A pathetic position, one that allows him to bury his head in the crook of your neck and suck hickies as he grinds himself against your core.
The bulge in his pants catches on your underwear, pressing firm against your aching clit. He whines, moans against your flesh as if the combination of your scent and the feeling of your clothed folds are enough to make him cum.
It is - or, at least - he’s already close. He’s embarrassed, you can tell, biting his bottom lip to hide the way he’s panting against your flesh, hips grinding against you firm and desperate. You can’t help your grin as his whines get louder and louder.
His cock twitches painfully, strained against the confines of his pants before ropes of cum drip from his tip almost achingly. It isn’t the orgasm he had intended, stuttering and weak and leaving his cock painfully hard all the same; and he didn’t even make you cum.
“I-I’m sorry, I’m sorry.” His words are soft, pulling away from your neck. Tears prick at his blue eyes again, sniffling as he looks down at you. You feel cruel, the way your smile etches onto your face.
“Don’t apologize, it’s okay.” You guide him onto his back, unbuttoning his pants and slipping him down his legs along with his boxers. His cock head, angry and red but beautiful all the same, twitches against the cool air of the room.
You don’t think twice, leaning down to lick up the ropes that cascade down his shaft, marring his lower stomach and upper thighs. You’re sure you look almost pornographic, eyes closed as your tongue maps out his pelvis; only opening to look up at him as he moans between choked sobs.
Sitting up, after a moment and he’s all clean, you lean over to reach into his nightstand. Condoms, ones he’s bought recently - it seems. A crumpled receipt showing the date you moved back in, he looks sheepish.
“I just- I thought-“
You don’t allow him to finish his sentence, capturing his lips in a kiss. The first one in forever, since you were dumb teenagers making out wherever you wouldn’t get caught. You unwrap the package while he’s distracted, pulling away after a moment.
A string of saliva connects your lips, still. Breaths mingling before you slip off your own neglected underwear and carefully pull the condom over his needy cock.
His breath is heavy, watching how you maneuver yourself atop him. Blue eyes big and pathetic, pupils blown wide before he screws them shut as you lower yourself onto him. Slowly, almost painfully so. Your fingernails dig into his sheets, allowing yourself to get used to his size. You’re by no means a virgin, but it’s been a while and Michael is bigger than you would have anticipated.
A choked sob escapes him when you begin to rock yourself over his cock, desperate and clingy as his hands attempt to grasp onto your waist. Tears welling in his big eyes slip down his cheeks, making him look somehow even more beautiful. Your own fingers grab his, pinning his wrists down to the bed as you pick up the pace.
He adores being pinned, he realizes. Allowing you to take control of the situation, giving himself fully over to you. He’s obsessed; though, he always has been. Jerking himself off to thoughts of you for years. And now that he finally has you here, he worships you. Reveres you, like some kind of saint.
He won’t last very long, squirming against the bed in an attempt to stop himself from bucking his hips into you. Though, neither will you. Anticipation and the way you manage to maneuver his cock to hit that particular bundle of nerves.
His cock throbs inside of you when you squeeze around him, gummy walls milking him dry as his tip leaks cum in the confines of the condom. Your own legs shake, gripping his wrist tighter as your orgasm washes over you.
He grins like an idiot as you collapse beside him, head resting on his pillow and staring at the ceiling, both breathing heavily; chests rising and falling in rhythm. Blue eyes meet yours after a moment.
“You’re beautiful.” He says it as though it’s the easiest thing in the world to him, like it’s a proven fact. A blush coats your face, shaking your head.
“You’re prettier, especially when you cry.”
“Ah-“ It’s his turn to blush, sheepish once again. “You like that, huh? Well, I can’t really help it. That was my first time.”
You blink, convinced you haven’t heard him right. Something stupid and possessive aches in your gut, the knowledge that you’re his first.
“What?”
“Yeah. I always wanted it to be with you. I didn’t mind waiting, I’d wait years more just to get pinned down by you again.”
Michael’s grinning like an idiot, now. Bright and carefree; like that teenager you knew before everything happened. Before his brother, before Charlie. You won’t let yourself linger on those memories, not here, not now. Not when everything's finally going right.
“Well, you couldn’t top to save your life.”
“Maybe. But you’re so hot above me that I really don’t want to try.” He’s stupid, you think, irrevocably idiotic to wait for someone like me. But warmth blooms in your stomach and those butterflies thrive and for once, perhaps, it’ll finally be okay.
part 2 of michael x f!reader i beg
i’m almost done with part 2 of homecoming !! i’ve spent a couple days working on it on and off and it’s pretty long lol .
my only issue with it now is that it’s nearly 4.2k words and i haven’t gotten to any smut . so maybe a bit stupid but i’ll write it if the people want it !
add smut or leave it off as fluffy ?
smut !!!
just leave it as fluff
⠀ . GOT YOUR HEART
movie compliant — michael afton x female ! reader
⎨ 𝐂𝐖 ⎬ mentions of blood / cleaning blood . mentions of younger sibling ( charlotte ) death . stalker - ish ! michael , walking red flag ! michael . SMUT : mutual yearning . mutual masturbation . fingering . male moans ( yay ! ) . whiny ! michael . mutual orgasm .
⎨ 𝐀𝐍 ⎬ also lowkey a drabble ; i wrote it on here so i have no clue how many words there are . NOT BETA READ btw , i write at like three am so it’s an occupational hazard . IMPORTANT NOTE : i know / think michael is technically supposed to be younger than vanessa in the movies but fuck that i changed it so he’s older . okay bye bye love you xx
“You look like hell warmed over.”
His gaze doesn’t quite meet yours, back pressed against the cracked siding that lines your small front porch. A crumpled tissue rests against his nose, red coating the once white surface; his fingertips stained with the same crimson. God, he’s sulking, like a kid who just got their favorite toy taken away from them.
“Yeah, it’s good to see you too.”
A grumble, pushing himself off the siding of your front porch and slipping past you as if he owned the place, as if he were entitled to entry without your permission. Spoiler; he isn’t, hasn’t been since the two of you were children.
Fingertips wrap against the doorknob, something akin to anger scratching its way up inside your chest; but then he turns and grins at you and suddenly it feels silly to be upset at him. How can you be? With those blue eyes that always seem to look past you - through you - to your very soul. He always seems to know things before you do, despite how reclusive and arrogant he is.
The door closes behind you, arms crossed as you watch him linger in the entryway, his eyes flickering over old photos, a happy family. His nose is still bleeding, still trickling down his pale skin and dotting the carpet below him, raising a small grimace from you.
You step past him, past those old framed portraits that have been dusted meticulously, as if they’ll disappear without it. Your gaze doesn’t linger on it, on the way she smiles so happily, as if nothing in the world could go wrong. Your should’ve been there more, should’ve watched her, listened to her, but instead you left her. So instead you don’t linger on those photos, you don’t even spare them a glance - he notices.
The faucet runs with warm water, paper towel roll losing a few pieces as you rip them off, allowing them to soak up the moisture, and when they’re perfectly damp the water is shut off. Wringing them out. He leans his back against the kitchen island, arms crossed as you step up and take the soiled tissue away, tossing it out.
“He’ll kill you if he sees you here.”
A huff, pressing the damp paper towel to his nose for him. He grimaces at the touch, at the pain, but he allows you to hold it. Only you. And god, you try your hardest to ignore how old butterflies you had thought to be long dead suddenly flutter up inside your gut when he smirks at the proximity. You want to puke and kiss him all at the same time.
“You let me in.”
“I did not. You just walked in.”
“But you let me. You could’ve stopped me, closed the door the instant you saw me standing there if you really hated me so much.”
Ignoring his words, frustration lacing your gaze as you focus on stopping the dripping of blood. Your tone is soft, though not gentle, as if you don’t want him to hear you. “I never said I hated you.”
For once, it seems he has no response. It’s been ages since you’ve been this close; proximity and relationship wise. He had dropped off the face of the earth a year or two ago, not that you had been counting the days, but you knew he was close with his dad and assumed he took the death hard.
It was that closeness that tore you two apart in the first place. How could you tell your father you hadn’t been watching Charlotte because the two of you were making out just behind the prize corner curtain? How could you look at him when grief twisted itself with the lust you felt towards him. The best day of your life quickly becoming the worst.
And how could you speak to him when no one else did? When everyone whispered about how it was his father - no doubt about it - and your father cut ties with his business partner over it? No proof, but you knew; you could tell. Just like you can tell how bad the bruising around his nose will be.
“God - did you run into a pole or something?”
He tilts his head ever so slightly, like a cat observing a mouse under his gaze, or a fox stalking a rabbit. You’re an idiot, letting him linger here, but after so long you’ve forgotten how sharp his fangs are - how good they would feel against your neck.
“Something like that.”
The fake gold of the badge on his purple shirt reflects the dim light over the kitchen sink; catching your attention for the first time. Eyebrows furrow, gaze flickering, a soft frown.
“You’re working there? Really?”
“Is that a problem?”
“I mean - no. I just didn’t think you’d ever want to step foot in there again.”
He scoffs, as if surprised by your words, like you should have moved past the death of your little sister by now.
“I didn’t, not for a long time. But then I thought of you, how sad you always are.” He stops, your confusion grows. You haven’t seen him in ages, how can he possibly know how sad you are? “So I found her. I brought her back, for you.”
It’s not funny anymore. This cute meeting after years of being apart and staring at each other like teenage lovers is suffocated by the coldness you feel. He’s done bleeding, you’ve been lingering, but now you step away and throw the paper towel in the trash.
You don’t step back over to him, you can’t face him. Something tightens in your chest at his words, so uniquely sincere and real - he sounds like your father, convinced that Charlotte could still be alive somehow. You had seen the stab wounds in her back, had held her body when the paramedics arrived. You knew better.
And you didn’t believe the rumors about Freddy’s.
“Don’t say stupid things like that, Michael. You know none of that is real.”
Michael stands up straight, now, grabbing your wrist a little too tightly. “I did it for you.”
“Well I didn’t ask you to, did I?”
There the two of you stand, his fingertips wrapped around your wrist almost painfully; with nothing but the moon outside the window and the dim nightlight over the sink illuminating the kitchen. That petulant look that’s never quite left him returns tenfold, morphing into something almost angry.
“I’ve seen you. How you sulk around - how those first dates never quite work out. You’re still hurting, I can fix that.”
He won’t say how the box under his bed is filled with photos of you, how he’s spent more hours than he’d like to admit following after you like a lost puppy. He’s gotten better at it, much better, you can’t even tell he’s there.
“Michael. Let go of me.” You feel as though you’re talking down to a child who’s gripping a toy that’s not theirs.
“No. No no no, I’m never letting you go again.”
He’s almost maniacal with his words, shaking his head desperately as he grabs you with both hands now, pulling you taut with his body. You can feel the tent growing in his pants, how he pants like a dehydrated dog before kissing you roughly.
And you, you’re no better than he is. Those feelings you thought you’d never experience again bubble up tenfold, and you kiss him back with as much urgency as you can - like he’ll disappear if you stop - breathing be damned.
He’s a walking red flag, perhaps you should’ve lingered on his words a bit longer, asked what he meant or how he knew your dates never worked out; but now his hands are on your hips and he’s setting you on the countertop and suddenly it doesn’t really matter.
Subconsciously, all you’ve ever wanted was him, and now you have that.
Michael’s desperate, hands roaming your body to map out every inch of your skin. His tongue has slipped past your lips, now, drifting dangerously close to the beginning of your throat. His hips slot themselves against yours, rocking his poor cock through the fabric.
It’s almost practiced, as if he’s thought of this scenario in his head over and over again. And he has. How many of those pictures under his bed has he ruined simply from jerking off onto them? From wrapping his hand around his cock and biting on his knuckles to silence his moans? Because Michael Afton is loud; and you pick up on that rather quickly.
One hand tangles into his hair, ignoring how greasy it is; and the other finds its way down his chest - down to the hem of his pants and slipping under it. He’s already hard, straining against boxers with a wet dot on the fabric where his cock weeps precum. You grasp him through the cotton, using the friction to your advantage.
And god does he moan. Mewling and panting against your lips (pulling away because the two of you have to breathe at some point.) His lips trail down your neck, kissing and sucking between his sounds, before eventually burying his face in your shoulder.
His hips rock against your hand, chasing the feeling of your grip while his own trails down in a manner similar to yours before it. Undoing the button of your pants and easily snaking against your panties. Swiping two fingers to catch on your clit.
You’re not quite as loud as he is, it’s almost comical how the lightest of touch still draws a whine from his lips. Perhaps you would’ve laughed, if you weren’t so enamored by him. His whining, his moans, they only aid in making the pad of your panties slick.
Michael bites and sucks on the flesh that meets between your shoulder and your neck, though it does little to hide his perverted noises. He wastes no time tucking your underwear to the side, running his fingers between your folds and relishing the jolt he gets from you when he reaches your clit.
He grins, biting harder on the base of your neck as he focuses his attention on that little nub. He rolls his fingers, capturing it between them and rubbing up against it - encouraging quicker movements with your own hand against his cock.
“Please please, cum on my fingers.”
He whines out, pulling away from your skin to look you dead in the eyes. He doesn’t stop as he speaks. Instead, two of his fingers slip inside you, feeling your gummy walls while his thumb continues its assault on your swollen clit.
He eats up the way you gasp and whine, rocking your hips against his hand as your grip tightens on his cock, hand moving up and down in a piston motion; which only serves to rile him up more.
And all too soon, that coil tightening in your core snaps. Your legs tense up, shaking ever so slightly as you do exactly what he had asked - riding out your orgasm on his fingers.
The bliss that overtakes you is almost too much to notice how his own cock is shooting thick ropes, reaching his climax simply from how you tighten and shake against his fingers.
You pant, attempting to catch your breath before his lips are on yours, kissing you hungrily like he could get something out of it. Your lungs scream for air but you do not pull away, not until he does so. You can’t help the way you bite back a laugh at how fucked out he looks.
“We should shower, I’m all gross now.”
“We could… or I can just use my tongue.”
“We’ll shower. Your nose is bleeding again.”
⠀ . 𝑯OMECOMING
FNAF GAME CANON — MICHAEL AFTON X F!READER
⎨ 𝐖𝐂 ⎬ 949 . drabble
⎨ 𝐂𝐖 ⎬ michael afton x female reader . mentions of divorce , brief mentions of death + alcoholism . smut : dacryphilia , oral ( f receiving ) , dry humping , worship , munch michael , michael overall being pathetic <33
⎨ 𝐀𝐍 ⎬ very very self indulgent my bad . i saw fnaf 2 yesterday night and I’m not gonna get into it but i forgot how much i love fnaf and how obsessed i am with michael afton . i am actually tweaking out over him . anyways quick drabble ! i wrote this in like less than an hour so . mwah !
This isn’t how you remember him.
A boy; hiding pain behind a red fox mask and bruises beneath a gray shirt. That grin he shot you when you held two bottles of vodka in your hands or bummed him a cigarette. How close he had leaned in when you lit it for him. It feels like an eternity ago.
You weren’t much better, but he had been the only reason you stayed when given the option to leave with your mother. This town, this place, its history carved its way onto your bones that screamed to get out - but how could you? How could you leave him?
You’re troubled, that’s what they said, when blood stained your red shirt and the Bonnie mask you wore shattered into a million pieces below your boot. You, you, so uniquely affected by the divorce. You were just a silly girl, young, naive; who would listen when you told them you’d watched the bear be built - that you knew it wasn’t supposed to bite down so hard - that someone tampered with it.
And then Charlie died, and your father took up drinking, and suddenly Michael’s issues weren’t the biggest care you had. You were dealing with your own demons, your own guilt and shame that threatened to claw its way out of you each time you let a tear slip. And the best thing for you to do was leave.
College had been fun, a change of pace. You were someone different, someone new. The blood on your hands didn’t stain anymore, classes and parties kept your mind occupied, and you were close enough you could see your mom, see Sammy.
And then you graduated; and a choked up phone call from your father sent you running back to that place, that town. Your room still exactly how you had left it all those years ago, the house still far too quiet for comfort. Everyone else was gone, except for him.
Maybe it was those eyes that drew you back in, the dark, sad ones that made him look like a kicked puppy, or how awkward he was when he came around - your father being the only comfort now that his family was gone. Tall, lanky, bags under his eyes that told you he hadn’t had a good nights sleep in days.
A catch-up, that’s all it was supposed to be. Explaining where you’d been - apologizing for how you’d moved on from him so fast after you went to college.
So how is he nestled between your legs?
Wet kisses press against your inner thigh, dangerously close to the fabric barrier between his mouth and your clit. Quiet tears mix into how he presses his lips onto your flesh, as if he’s revering you; worshipping you.
Your head rests back against the pillows you hadn’t touched in years, staring up at some tacky 80s poster you had managed to tape on your ceiling. It’s all too much, but the feeling of his tongue swiping over the base of your panties takes your mind off it.
“You’re so - god. I missed you so much, please, please don’t go again - I need you.” A whine, soft and delicate as he looks up at you, bottom lip pouting out and nose and cheeks rosy from all the crying he’s done.
His pleading doesn’t stop, but it trails off when he manages to bury his face between your thighs as you squeeze them together at the sudden feeling. His tongue prods, pokes, nuzzling himself against your warm core.
Michael’s fingers come up to slide the fabric to the side, ring and pinky fingers keeping it in place; tongue licking a stripe up your core. Your fingers tangle in his messy hair, nails pressing firm against his scalp as he practically mewls into it.
“Please, please.” He repeats like a mantra, pleading over and over with you to not leave him again - to stay, to allow him to bury his tongue between your folds and just live here. To eat and breathe you and only you.
A content sigh passes from your lips as he begins a rhythm - no longer sloppy, eager movements - a calm, gentle lapping that his hips mimic. Pressing against your bunched up blankets, rocking his poor weeping cock against them.
It’s not like it’s the first time you’ve done this; sixteen years old and figuring out how to stop that aching. But this feels far more intimate, like it means something to the both of you.
His tongue continues its movements, the speed picking up with the movement of his hips, which jerk and rut against the bunched up blankets. Your legs quake slightly, when his nose brushes up against your clit over and over again.
And all too soon your eyelids flutter shut, that coil tightening in your core snaps, and his tongue slows as he laps up your climax. His hips don’t stop, and when you finally gather the strength to look down at him again he’s crying again.
Tears brim at his eyes as he mindlessly humps your blankets, desperate and needy, his cock achingly hard against his jeans. What can you do other than feel bad for him? You sit up slightly, propping yourself up on your elbows.
“Do you want to fuck me?”
You can barely finish your sentence before he’s nodding eagerly, climbing up to slot his clothed cock against your still slick core. He fumbles to wipe your juices from his mouth and chin before he captures your lips in a kiss; his tongue prodding against yours and you can taste yourself on him.
It’s not how you remember him, needy and pliable, but you won’t complain.
⠀ . 𝓝𝐎𝐓 - not the crowd , not winning
THE LONG WALK — someone you’re not
⎨ 𝐖𝐂 ⎬ 3.6k
⎨ 𝐂𝐖 ⎬ billy stebbins x original female character . fraud oc . oc lies to get in . mentions of hunting & killing animals . eldest daughter syndrome . vague mentions of blood . bi panic stebbins .
⎨ 𝐀𝐍 ⎬ incredibly self indulgent x oc but I have had brainrot for my girly since the movie came out . also my first time writing an x oc on tumblr ! isn’t that crazy ? all my x readers are because i have an oc idea but am too lazy to actually make them 💀 . sophie nélisse as shauna shipman is my fc for her <3 lowkey kind of gave up at the end sue me
A liar. It seeps into her bones, fills her lungs; threatens to consume her whole. Her feet ache, muscles strained against her flesh. She could fall apart here and now, and who would really care if she did? She’s alone.
Her hands don’t shake as they clutch the grip, steady as ever despite the pain. The handle of her hunting knife digs into her hip, indenting her skin deeper and deeper with every movement.
Eyes meet from across the brush; soft black ones meeting deep browns. Scanning, a silent plea. It doesn’t see her yet, she knows this, but it doesn’t stop the knot forming in her heart. The apology before the tranquility is broken by a gunshot.
Leaves scatter around the doe as if startled away before settling like a vigil around it. She stands, finally, holstering the buckshot on her back and unsheathing the bruising knife.
The doe twitches, legs moving uselessly, crying softly. Her least favorite part, when the bullet doesn’t make it quick and clean and she has to do it up close. She kneels beside it, lingering over its dark eyes pooling with blood, the wound in its head trickling down. Is this how she will look when she’s dying? Scared, shaking, trying desperately to run but knowing there’s no where to go.
Sighing. Leaves crunch somewhere behind her as her knuckles turn white around the grip of the knife before she drives it past the deer’s skill. Deep, effective, legs cease twitching. No more pain, no more hurt, it looks almost peaceful if not for the pooling blood.
“Good job. Pa’ll be happy.”
She doesn’t turn, she doesn’t need to. Her fingers rake over the pelt, fur bristling against her touch. A gentle hand places against her jacket; she gnaws on the inside of her cheek ever so slightly. She stands, facing her brother, her twin, not quite identical; but mistakeable enough. Like looking into a mirror of everything she should be, everything she wants to be.
“Yeah. I’m sure.” Her hands grasp the hemp rope, fraying enough to irritate skin. She ties the legs of the doe together, bounding them as he helps place it onto the deer cart. She yawns, stretching, the dawn far behind her as the sun begins to set.
Crickets begin their song, soft and sweet as the two begin their descent back to the little cabin they call home. Pa will be waiting to gut it, no doubt, take it as an opportunity to teach their younger brothers how to bleed a doe. The credit for the kill will go to Oliver, not that it matters much to her anymore.
Her stomach growls, a breakfast consisting of a granola bar and a handful of huckleberries and missing supper wasn’t conducive to a proper diet. The two and a half mile trek back never seemed so long. It wouldn’t matter much soon, perhaps she’s preparing them to have one less mouth to feed, one less spot taken up around the dinner table.
“You gonna miss me?” Oliver’s voice cuts through the silence, gaze meeting hers for half a second before she looks away - focusing on the house's silhouette as they reach the edge of the woods, the hill towering over it.
She won’t answer right away, pulling the deer cart. “Did you tell them about your foot drop?”
Silence fills the air between them once more, his hand rubbing the back of his neck sheepishly. She knows the answer already, knows he’d rather get a bullet through his head than skip out on the opportunity.
“I mean - no. It would get me disqualified.”
“And it should.”
“Via.”
A huff, the cart's wheel lodging itself between a rock. She sets it down a bit more forcefully than she would normally, gripping the metal rods to pull it away from the snare. He stands, pacing, as she lifts it away and grabs the handle once more.
“I leave tomorrow, I don’t want us to spend the last few hours arguing.”
“You’re a genius, you know that? Joining a death march with a fucking foot drop. Oliver. You can’t even walk back to the house without starting to limp. It’s not past the drop-out date.”
“Fuck, Via. I’m not dropping out, what would pa say?” He hugs his arms to his chest as they continue their descent to the cabin. It always seems so small from the top of the hill, somehow housing seven people.
“His opinion isn’t worth your life.”
“Maybe to you. You’ve never had to compete for it, though.” Olivia bites the inside of her cheek at his words, focusing on the faded trail ahead instead of him. He shrinks back into himself after they leave his lips, he’s right, though. It’s never been a contest between the two, Oliver takes shine in their father’s eyes.
She’s the oldest between the two, a whole ten minutes before him, but her father always boasts that he came first. What is a daughter good for? He has a wife to cook and clean, it isn’t decent to teach a girl to hunt - and in the backwoods of Montana that's their meal ticket. She learned, regardless, tagging along when his focus was on Oliver.
“What time are you leaving?”
“I don’t know, I think sometime around ten? It’s about a thirty-eight hour straight drive from here to Maine, not counting sleeping and bathroom breaks and stuff.” He shrugs as they near the house, her gaze flickers over to him for a moment, watching the way he attempts to hide his limping.
A thief. The sun barely peeked its golden rays out from the horizon. Curtains drawn tight, darkness still enveloping the room. She climbs down from her bunk, old wood creaking too loud for her liking. Her gaze lingering on the other bunk her two younger brothers shared, the baby sleeping in her parents room.
Nerves flutter in her gut, grabbing an old raggedy backpack and stuffing clothes, a jacket, and an old baseball cap inside. She gnaws on her bottom lip, fingers lingering over Oliver’s nightstand. The lottery letter as well as his ID resting, waiting. She hides them in one of the front pouches of the bag along with cash she’s saved up.
Shaky fingers tie the laces of the hunting boots she had begged for for Christmas two years ago. Reliable, her most prized possession. The soles comfortably worn in - she could walk for days in them, at least she hopes.
“Via? Where are you going?’ The groggy voice of her twin startles her slightly, old wood floorboards creaking below her feet. She shuffles back ever so slightly, hand pressed against the cool doorknob. A soft, sad smile his way.
“Gonna go get some berries. A proper send off, yeah?”
“Yeah.”
He says nothing else, head hitting the pillow once more. She can hear his snoring pick up, a frown as she closes the bedroom door behind her. Carefully grasping car keys so they won't cry out and tell on her, she steps out the front door.
The old red pickup sings to life, tires hitting the gravel as she pulls out of the makeshift driveway and down the country roads. Headlights illuminate signs, turns she knows like the back of her hand. Another thing she had begged for, claimed she would be able to run to the store without having to wait for someone to drive her.
The road is long, nothing but highways for a thousand miles or more. Small diners and rest stops along the way see her for no more than a few hours, sleeping in the parking lots or getting gas. She’s sure they’ve pieced together where she's heading by now. The absent truck is more than just a hunting trip when paired with the missing lottery ticket and ID.
But by the time they figure it out and drive all the way down the walk will already have started, and she’ll be marching to her death alongside forty-nine other boys.
She isn’t nearly as tired as she thought she would be, driving up to the gates. The breakfast she had stopped for hours before churns in her stomach, bile threatening to creep up the back of her throat as she hands the guard the ticket and stolen ID.
He inspects her for a moment, gaze flickering between the items she had given him. She can pass, she knows this, the amount of people who confused her for her brother or thought she was a boy all together. Montana’s lack of photo identification sealed her fate as he waved her through, the bars lifting to allow her to drive in.
She’s not exactly early, but not the last one. Car’s line across the area blocked off, tens of boys sitting, some hugging parents - saying goodbye. A wave of homesickness punches her in the gut as she parks, running hands down her face, convincing herself one last time. She digs through her bag, pulling out the old hat and settling it on her head before stepping out of the car.
Two more guards inspect her bag just before the waiting area, rifling through it. Clothes, an apple she had picked up from a fruit stall outside a rest stop, and an old locket. God, she had forgotten that it was in there. A compass, and a photo of her and her siblings inside the cover. They hand it back to her, allowing her to pass through.
A secluded spot, under the shade of a tree, calls to her. She sits criss cross, running fingertips over the cool metal compass. Homesickness returns tenfold now, a silent curse to herself. She shouldn’t have done this, she’s sure they’ll shoot her if they find out. But for Oliver? She’ll do her best.
“Hey, new guy. What’s your name?”
Her gaze flits over to a boy peeling a clementine, popping a slice into his mouth. She blinks a few times before realizing he’s talking to her, clearing her throat slightly.
“Um, Ollie. Ollie Haywood.”
“Haywood. I’m Hank Olson.”
“Art Baker.” One of the others sitting beside him looks up from his bible, giving a kind smile. The attention on her makes her stomach twist, but she’s glad they seem kind.
“How come no one was with ya for your drop off?” Olson questions, his head tilting to the side curiously as he strips another clementine of its pith and eats it. She hadn’t thought of a clever reason as to why, so she simply shrugs.
“No one who wanted to, I guess.” A lie, but it feels tiny in comparison to the one she maintains now. Keeping her tone low, she’s spent her whole life interacting with the things her brothers like, she’ll be damned if she can’t pull it off.
Nine o’clock on the dot the Major rolls to the front in his own personal half-track. Some of the boys stand, some don’t, she remains where she is. Her father had instilled that value in them all from a young age. What has the Major ever done for you to deserve your respect? He’s not going to pull you out of poverty, he won’t look twice at you as you starve on the street.
He barks out names and numbers, a twitchy boy named Barkovitch stands, followed by Baker, and then a boy who looked as if he couldn’t be much older than fourteen. She isn’t the only one lying, it seems, to help family, to not have to go to bed hungry every night. She’s called not much later. Number thirty-three.
She doesn’t miss the way another boy, 38 - Stebbins - stares as they pass each other. Perhaps he’s just sizing her up, her time in the woods giving her a slight advantage, or maybe he’s figuring her out. She gnaws on her cheek once more, a nervous habit.
It feels like forever before they all stand, a blank round fired in the air, as the walk begins.
Four warnings are given out within the first two hours. Stebbins, the one who had been staring, caught one for stepping just under three miles per hour; and Barkovitch had stopped to get a rock out of his shoe and bought three. An idiotic move, one everyone was sure would end with him getting his ticket. But he bounced right back up, marching his way to the front of the pack.
It’s warming up, now, the Maine sun beating against dark asphalt. It’s secluded, quiet besides the rumbling of the halftracks on either side of the pack. It feels like home, despite everything.
Three hours in and her legs already begin to ache. She’s used to walking long distances but never without a rest. There’s a difference between trudging through leaves and over fallen trees and stopping in a brush to catch a rabbit or squirrel. There’s a different kind of fear, cougars and bears are one thing but she’s never had a gun aimed at her. And she feels all too much like the doe from the days before.
A murmur shoots through the pack, reaching her as she trudges behind, almost step in step with Stebbins though off to the side much more. A pained groan somewhere in the middle, a few shouts before a gunshot echos through the air.
It’s silent, too much so, and she thinks she may have lost her hearing. Her feet don’t stop, they can’t, but everything in her screams to as they pass a body. Curly, the young boy from earlier. She clasps the compass in her pocket, who will remember him? The first one to go?
“Poor kid.”
She hears those words over the echoing silence, though they don’t come from her. She blinks, shaking herself out of the daze. He’s just like an animal, she attempts to convince herself, just a fawn caught in a bear trap. Her gaze flits over to Stebbins, she’s sure he was the one to speak, but she says nothing.
She isn’t sure how many hours have passed, though it feels like forever she’d guess two more since the boy’s death. The sun is high overhead, it’s brightest for the day and every step feels like hell. She drinks from her canteen, slowly, forcing herself not to chug as she flips open the compass once more. Her fingers trace over the worn photo. Just another thing of Oliver’s she had taken.
“Thought you said you had no one who wanted to send you off?”
Ollie looks over, gaze meeting Stebbins, who adverts his eyes onto the photo she holds in her hand. An awkward glance back. She shrugs ever so slightly, trying to play it off in front of a boy who's already suspicious of her.
“I don’t. Not really, at least.”
“That your girl?”
He points to her in the photo, standing beside Oliver with a smile. She blinks, taken aback. The two only look different because she had been forced to doll up. A family portrait taken at their church, and her parents couldn’t have her looking like she usually does, could they?
“Uh. No, that's my sister.”
“She’s pretty.” A sheepish blush runs up to the tips of her ears, awkwardly clearing her throat. There aren’t many people in her town, let alone boys her own age, so being complimented by one feels new. She hates it. “Why didn’t she come see you off?”
“Why are you so interested in my life?” It’s far snappier than she had meant, clearly startling Stebbins, who shrugged and put his hands back in his pockets. They continued to walk, his eyes going back to the road ahead. She sighs.
“We’re all the way in Montana and my family didn’t want me to do it, told me to back out. So I told them I did.
“But you didn’t.”
“I thought about it for a while, was almost going to but -... I don’t know. We need the money.”
“You don’t seem super confident you’ll win.”
“I’m not.” She meets his gaze once more, trying to play it cool. She walked behind everyone because there was less of a chance she’d be noticed - she had thought it wouldn’t be too bad to walk beside Stebbins because he didn’t seem like a talker. He still doesn’t, he simply gives her a confused look.
“What about your family, then? If you don’t win?”
“Well. The way I see it; If I do win I’ll come home rich, we won’t ever have to worry about money again. And if not, well, then it’s one less mouth to feed.”
Another gunshot rings through the air, she’s thankful to not flinch nearly as bad as the first time. The thought of buying a ticket still weighs heavily on her mind, but she adverts her gaze past the body and tells herself they’re no more than the buck or rabbit who happened to catch a hunter’s gaze.
They walk in silence, she fiddles with the belt around her waist that carries rations. Half already gone. The ones left don’t seem all that appetizing and she chooses, instead, to grab the apple from her bag. It’s still crisp despite having been smothered in her bag, sweetness dancing over her taste buds.
They pass through a small town, a few people sitting on their porches, catching a glimpse at the walkers. She notices how Stebbins’s eyes linger over a blind cat perched on a shaded mailbox. She can’t help but smile at that, huffing in amusement which catches the boy’s attention; who seems flustered.
“What?”
“Nothin, nothin, you’re just staring pretty longingly at that cat.”
He scoffs ever so slightly, tugging his backpack closer to himself, an extra pair of shoes dangling off of it. “We used to have a cat like that. I mean, it wasn’t mine. But it roamed the neighborhood, I’d feed it and stuff. I’ve always liked them.”
“Yeah? You remind me a bit of a cat. All aloof and mysterious.”
“A cat? I think I’m more like a rabbit.”
“Okay well, whatever.” He looks back over at her, and she could’ve sworn a hint of a smile ghosts his lips. She doesn’t call it out, as much as she wants to.
“What about you?” The question takes her off guard, her brows furrow together as she adjusts her hat further, hiding her face ever so slightly.
“What about me?”
“What kind of animal would you be?”
It’s not something she’d ever thought about before. She relates to the deer in the woods, the does who scamper at the slightest sound and cry out in pain. It would be easy for her to say that, an answer that is surface level and clear. Anyone can relate to a deer, especially those about to share the same fate as one, with a bullet through their skull. She bites her inner cheek, thinking hard.
“Probably a black bear.”
“A black bear?” “Yeah, I mean, they’re mostly solitary animals. They don’t like to interact with humans or anything but they can hold their ground, and they’re protective of their young.”
Stebbins hums in acknowledgement of her words, hands pressed into the pockets of his purple pants. He doesn’t say anything else, walking in solitude once more, but he catches her gaze a few times throughout the remainder of the day. He seems as though he’s thinking, maybe he is, as she reaches into her bag when the sun begins to set and the night starts to creep in.
A boy can’t be this cute. He’s practiced for this for years, since the idea of being drafted into the walk had been a thought in his mind. He can walk for ages without tiring, he’s learned how to properly ration his food and switch shoes while still maintaining a speed of three miles per hour. He’s the most prepared to win this, though he didn’t factor in Ollie.
From the first glance he could tell there was something different. The other boys are scared, sure, but Ollie seemed as if this was some kind of sacred duty, that no matter how much he didn’t want to - it wasn’t about him or for him. Something that Stebbins could relate to; because the walk is about something bigger than both of them, maybe even something bigger than family.
Self inflated, the prospect of the walk, because at the end of the day it's nothing more than giving your life for entertainment. Nothing will change, people will still go hungry and sick, and next year fifty more boys will be chosen to do it all over again.
But for now, he doesn’t linger on pessimistic thoughts, because the sight of Ollie pulling on their jacket is invigorating. He had heard the other say they were from Montana, no doubt a hunter, which made sense given their complexion. Soft and almost sweet looking, but he could see the build up of muscles underneath.
Stebbins feels like an idiot, walking here thinking about another boy like this. Ollie is going to die, he knows this, they may be a strong walker but he can tell they don’t have very much going for them in the way of spirit. You can only be so tough, but you have to want something so bad you’re willing to walk through death for it.
There’s no use getting attached, but he can’t help himself as the questions flow from him. Gentle, as if he wants to learn everything about the other, to commit them to memory so even after their passing he can think back to them.
And for now, as darkness settles over them and the incline begins to get steep, that's enough.
rewatching the boys and I always forget how little screen time black noir has . My poor baby </3
SULK
ADRIAN CHASE X METAHUMAN!READER
⎨ 𝐖𝐂 ⎬ 3.2k
⎨ 𝐂𝐖 ⎬ 18+ . fem!reader . light b&e . dork adrian . slight depictions of gore . implied cannibalism . cult ‘leader’ reader . heavily inspired by true detective , the king in yellow , and yellowjackets . smut : oral (f receiving) , fingering , slight overstim , adrian is a munch truther!
⎨ 𝐀𝐍 ⎬ hiii ! sorry i was gone for so long - I ended up having to quit my job and move and get a new one so I’ve been swamped & lost motivation to write. i didn’t forget about all of you <33 i have a john seed fic i’m working on , going back to my roots , so hopefully I’ll finish that lol . enjoy !
There’s someone in his house.
His moms house, technically, but he does occupy the basement and pays his own car insurance on a minimum wage, so all things considered it’s his house as well.
He isn’t entirely sure how you ended up in his kitchen, the glow from the refrigerator light illuminating your face, dark circles under your eyes prominent. You don’t tear your gaze from the little bulb glowing warmly, as if it's some kind of faded memory from a time forgotten.
You are not yourself, your hands shake against the handle of the old white fridge. Sauce stained tupperware lines one of the shelves, organized by date. A fleeting feeling from ages ago, the kind that's fuzzy around the edges; that evokes the unintelligible sounds of cartoon on a big boxed television, that feeling of cool air around your hand as you reach for a cup of applesauce while your mother stands at the kitchen island and prepares dinner, scolding you for attempting to spoil it with more sugar than fruit.
You can’t make out her face, it’s been ages since you were able to do that, and her voice is unimportant, focusing on her tone instead. Calm, a caring sort of worrying. You’re too young to understand why not. So you become upset instead, reason does not sit well with you, it never has. You have a temper that festers under your skin and leaks through your pores, it reminds her of your fathers.
“Hello? Hey? What are you doing in my house?” His tone is completely different from that you’ve heard before. There’s no worry, but no anger either. Curiosity laces his words as if you’re an enigma to him. You are, naturally, a stranger standing in his house. “Not my house, I mean-! In fact, I’ve never been here before! Ha, I don’t even know who lives here!”
You turn to face him, now, hand clutching around one of those squeezable applesauce packets. He’s odd looking; clad in a black suit with stripes of blue and a red visor over his face. He’d look like a monster, had he been the strangest thing you’ve seen, but he isn’t. Not by a long shot.
You struggle for a moment to remove the top of the packet, for all your praise, the idea of a twist top eludes you. He notices, of course he does, and as if it’s second nature he reaches out and removes it for you, handing it back to you.
“You know those are awful for the environment, right? Twist off caps are one of the biggest polluting factors to the ocean. Man, I don't even want to think of how many turtles have eaten them while just swimming around; cause those get stuck in their little turtle throats and can kill them.” Your eyebrows furrow, he sighs. “I don’t even know why they’re in the house, honestly!”
“I thought this wasn’t your house?”
“Oh! You talk! Jeez, you scared me. It’s not my house, and you never answered my question of why you’re here.”
“Why are you here?”
“I asked you first.”
“I was hungry.”
“Oh.” He thinks for a moment while you finish the applesauce, taking the empty packet from your hands and placing it into the trash can. For someone who so adamantly didn’t live here, he seemed to know his way around just fine. “Well, that’s not going to fill you up, trust me. Here, sit.”
You follow his gesture, taking a seat at the table, watching as he grabs one of the containers of tupperware, separating it into two different plates and setting them in the microwave. He talks while you wait, it seems to be something he’s good at, filling the silence with nonsensical facts and rambling. His tone, despite constantly changing topics in the middle of his sentences, remains calm and neutral; except for the times he laughs at his own words.
You’re sure, at one point or another, you’d been around someone like him - who radiates the same kind of comfort as him - but not for a long time. That fuzz creeps back in, it always does when you try to remember before, and at a certain point you become content in never fully knowing. There’s no point in trying to fight for memories you’re not even sure are good.
The microwave beeps, signalling its end, and he takes the two plates out, setting one in front of you. Taking up the fork, you pick through the noodles and red sauce, examining a few chunks of meat you had never seen before. Starving, yet picky. He’s hesitating as well, staring at you for a moment.
“If I take my mask off, you pinky promise not to out me?”
“Um. Sure.”
You don’t tell him you don’t know what that is, the idea of having it explained to you seems more exhausting than you’re willing to put up with. You’d walked all the way here, with the exception of a few kind souls that allowed you to hitch a ride with them when you came across scattered roads deep in the wilderness. They never lasted long, though, a promise of dropping you off in the next town always cut short when the madness crept in around them.
It always seemed to emanate from you, something most couldn’t stand to be around for longer than a few moments before the urge to blow their brains out itched at their fingers. You’d watched, far too many times, when the mask would settle on your face and their eyes would bulge, when their figures would tremble and they’d begin speaking nonsense till they drove themself into a tree or found a blunt object to pick their brains out with to make it stop.
You’d get out, then, and continue to wander till the next car stopped for you. So yes, you were tired.
He holds out his gloved pinky and you mimic the action, unsure before he hooks his around yours. An almost disappointed feeling settles in your gut at the feeling of the fabric barrier between your skin. The last time you’d felt a human’s touch was when they combed your hair and laid the antler crown atop your head.
“I can cut off your pinky if you break your promise, now.”
He seems content, all too giddy with his words and reaches to take the mask off of his face, reaching into one of the many pockets in his suit to pull out a pair of glasses and allow them to settle on the bridge of his nose. He observes you, for a moment, able to take you in without the blur before he picks up his own fork and begins to shovel food into his mouth.
That felt like home, the ravenous eating, and you couldn’t help but smile and mimic his actions. You’d never tasted food like this before, so accustomed to only consuming that which was caught by hand and grown in the soil outside the compound. Deer, rabbit, bird. And in those harsh winters when snow settles heavy on the pine branches and game hides away and nothing will grow, the hearth is kept warm for doubters.
He continues to talk, even with his mouth full and sauce coating the area around his mouth. He asks you questions, some you aren’t quite sure how to answer. You were told from the moment your father had packed your bag and huddled you into the car that no one but those in your new home would understand.
“Where are you from? Because your clothes say early 2000s horror game protagonist but you have this kind of haunted look that tells me you might actually be.”
“I’m from Carcosa.”
His brows furrow, taking even more of an invested interest into you. “I didn’t know there was a city in Washington called Carcosa. Where is that? Relatively?”
“I’m not sure.” A half truth, your home being so far surrounded by dense forests makes it impossible to pinpoint on a map, and the deep rooted fear of an outsider, even one who is giving you food, managing to find your home and hurt those inside. Your family, the only people you’ve known since eight years old. “It’s in the mountains, though. It’s beautiful, black stars in the heavens. You can’t see them here.”
He wipes his mouth with the back of his hand before grimacing slightly and quickly grabbing a napkin to clean himself off. You’ve always been a good listener, so his ramblings don’t bother you. He tells you all about Evergreen, about his job at the restaurant and his nightly escapades as Vigilante, and most of all he tells you all about his best friend Peacemaker.
It’s foreign to you, how easily he opens up about every facet of his life, especially to a stranger who had broken into his house and now sits across from him. He stands now, taking the empty plates and dirty forks and bringing them over to the sink to begin washing them.
“I should’ve killed you for that, you know, cause breaking and entering is illegal - but I can let it slide this time. Honestly I’ve been dealing with the repercussions of fighting crime with the 11th street kids cause we commit, well, committed, a lot of felonies. And, you know, I took an oath to punish evil-doers, no matter how small the crime, but I just can’t do that to Peacemaker. He’s been through enough with accidentally killing his brother when he was little and then his dad being a racist and then going to jail and then - hey. Is this yours?”
He holds the Pallid Mask in his hand, gesturing with it over to you. An air of hesitancy covers the room, like a blanket much too thin to protect against the nipping cold of winter. He doesn’t try to fill it, this time, simply waiting for your answer.
You feel rigid, sitting up straight and simply watching, waiting for the madness to find its way into his bones. A sadness settles in your gut, because, for the first time, you actually liked someone who took care of you. Sure, the others in the compound who doted on you and worshiped you were nice, but you never found yourself truly enjoying their presence like you have with him. You don’t even know his name, yet he felt infinitely more real than those who cowered before you, the King in Yellow.
But after a moment, nothing happens, and you find yourself nodding to take ownership of the mask he holds. He hands it off to you and remains unaffected. It isn’t impossible, as those who are already unsound of mind don’t seem to suffer the same as those who are, but it’s rare for someone to be completely fine after handling it.
“So you’re a hero too, then? I mean, the mask kind of screams evil supervillain, but I’m not one to judge someone for their fashion choices.”
Hands reach out for it as he hands it off to you, placing the mask into your lap with a soft smile his way. It feels strange, the way your skin tightens to show off your teeth. You’ve seen others with the expression, those who bow in front of you and are content with the reward of being spared from the winter hunt, but it's odd coming from you.
“Others see me as a god.”
“Yeah, that tends to happen. I’m sure I got a couple - hopefully - most people just kind of throw shit at me when they see me.”
How he can grin through his words, as if the action of others belittling him in such a way doesn’t bother him is commendable. Maybe, before her expedition here, you would’ve laughed at him for such words. Disrespect wasn’t something you encountered often, and if you did soft whispers would echo out, commands to clean their eyesockets with a gardening shovel or to stuff themselves with the nightshade growing behind the compound as the lining of their stomachs scream out.
You blame it now on the mask, that the pale thing drove even you mad with power, but deep down you know better; and you understand that the covering is not the perpetrator, but simply the manifestation of your power.
The same power that scared the kids on the playground, that drove your doctors mad and your teachers to tears. The same power that caused the arguments between your parents. Fuzzy, voices fading to unfamiliarity, but the crux of their fighting clear. Your mother was afraid of you, thought it best to hand you over to ARGUS, who came knocking one day after a particularly bad fit from a nurse, and your father who deemed you a god. A deity meant to be worshipped, and who wanted to take you to the compound deep in the okanogan-wenatchee national forest.
You’d learned how to hide your true face, how to appear sweet and unassuming, and the Pallid Mask was only the real you.
You can’t fight the yawn that passes from your lips, his own coming right after yours. He has a dopey kind of smile on his face, head tilted to the side as he watches you as if you’re the most unique thing he's ever laid eyes on.
“Soooo… Are you planning on staying the night or?”
“Can I?” “Sure! I’ve never had a girl in my room, cmon, I’ll show you it!”
He’s almost too excited, shutting off the faucet and setting the dishes on the drying rack before walking over to a door that leads down into a dark stairwell. You follow obediently, hands casing the wall around you instead of finding their way to the railing. He fumbles for a moment, finding the lightswitch before turning them on.
Even with the lights it's dark, the curse of basements, your eyes flutter between the messy bed he doesn’t bother to attempt to tidy in your presence and the strange posters lining the walls. Sometimes symbols, other times people or objects, and strange names like Radiohead, whatever that meant.
You sit on the edge of the bed beside him, his eyes going slightly wide before he laughs. “Didn’t have sharing a bed with a stranger on my itinerary tonight, I don’t even know your name.” Eyes meet his, not shunning away despite the rather close proximity the two of you find yourself in, and you give him your name. “Pretty. I’m Adrian.” You can’t think of a time since you met him that he hasn’t been smiling, at least visibly. He looks a little silly, all smiley like that, as if you’re the first girl he’s had in his bed. Which, chances are, you are.
“Pretty.” You mimic his words, his actions, when he falls back on the bed against his pillows you follow soon after, eyes never leaving his. Another blanket of hesitancy falls over the two of you before he's back to rambling about nonsense, yet your gaze falls against his lips.
There’s a draw to him, a comfort you’d never had, and a deep seated urge to keep him begins to crawl its way up your skin. Everything you’ve ever wanted, you’ve gotten. Worshippers would flock just to be able to be in your presence, let alone fulfill an order from you. But now the fire had consumed them all, the compound you had spent so much of your life being a part of was gone, and you had fled.
But Adrian made you feel normal, or as normal as someone like you could feel. You never went to high school, never had a boyfriend or girlfriend or really even a friend, but through his talking and rambling you felt as though every little memory he shared so easily you had been in as well.
“You could kiss me.” Your words draw him out of whatever story he was telling now, still stuck on one he had told about him never having kissed anyone in high school. He definitely had by now, but it didn’t matter to you. Your skin crawls with a need you haven’t felt since your teenage years, and he seemed to reciprocate.
His lips are on yours quickly, something sweet and delicate that your nature wouldn’t let you savor. Your fingers move to his hair, tangling themselves in the curly mess as you deepen the kiss, tongue prodding against his lips like a starving animal, which you had been only hours earlier.
He melts against you, against your desires, propping himself up over you as your tongues dance something akin to the tango. Your hand not in his hair moves to his chest, exploring over his suit and attempting to find a way to get the intricate thing off. He manages to without breaking the kiss, his own hands navigate under your shirt, playing with the strap of your old bra before unclasping it, fingers fumbling over your breasts.
You bite, hard enough to draw blood from his bottom lip but he only whimpers in response, parting the kiss to lift your shirt over your head and trail kisses down your jaw and chest, stopping to capture a tit in his mouth.
You squirm as he kisses lower and lower, gloved fingers hooking around your pants to pull them down around your ankles, his lips finding their way down just below the wet cloth at the base of your panties.
You are a god, or, used to be. Worshipped by a congregation a hundred strong. But they were afraid of you, afraid of the Pallid Mask, but Adrian is not. He doesn’t seem to care about your past, about the answers you can’t find yourself giving, he takes you here and now as someone much different than you were in Carcosa.
So caught up in your own thoughts, you hadn’t paid attention to what he was doing till he stripped them away by wrapping his lips around the swollen bud of your clit. Your back arches as if searing pain courses through your body, stifling a loud moan with one of the few pillows askew on his bed.
The feeling of his laughter against your folds is euphoric, not even being tongue deep in pussy can silence him, it seems, as he continues to talk though raking his tongue through your folds. One gloved hand presses against your lower stomach, holding you from squirming too much against the mattress, his other hand pressing a finger at your entrance, lapping up the juices and noises that spill from you.
Another laugh as you curse, legs beginning to shake as he slips inside you. The fabric from his gloves is rough against your inner walls but quickly slicked to allow a second one to enter, tightening that coil deep within you. Wanton moans falling, caught by the pillow you press against your face.
His lips press back against your clit, sucking and licking and all too soon the coil snaps and you flood against him. Legs shaking, craning your head to look down at him, but he does not remove his face from between your thighs; like he belongs there, thrives down there.
Oversensetivity crawls over your flesh, tingling and leaving goosebumps in its wake. Your hands that had grabbed at his hair now push against his head, pushing him off you as you paint. His chin and nose are slick, a grin present on his face as he lays back beside you, all too proud of himself.
“So you’re definitely staying the night, then? Cause I have work in the morning so I’ll probably be gone by the time you wake up.”
ֹ ⑅᜔ ׄ ݊ ݂ ONE MORE NIGHT ۪ ֹ ᮫
the salesman x female reader
⎨ 𝐀𝐍 ⎬SORRY THIS ONES KINDA CRAZY 💔 i wrote this in like an hour after seeing mettatons_highheel ‘s headcanons about him on tiktok so please don’t kill me over any spelling mistakes . and yes i’m still working on national anthem ! i’m just taking a quick break from phosphorus because squid game is consuming my life . also one more night by maroon five is so great i wish adam levine wasn’t a horrible person .
⎨ 𝐂𝐖 ⎬ probably the worst smut i’ve written so far ! mentioned / described abuse , degrading kink , pet names ( puppy ) , slapping , biting ++ marking , mentioned blood , oral ( f receiving ) , overstimulation , cnc sorta ? vibrator , punishment , hate sex ! ! fingering ( f receiving ) , choking . dacryphilia , the salesman just being a fucking freak in general
“You’re a fucking psycho.”
He doesn’t reply, his hand wrapped tightly around your neck if only just to watch the tears that stream from your eyes. His head tilts to the side, mocking, condescending. That stupid smile plastered on his face as you spit in it.
“Shhh. I don’t keep you around so you can push my buttons, puppy.”
His wrists are bruised and bleeding, you scratch at his skin and tearing it up, getting him under your nails. Under you, on top of you, inside you. What’s the difference? He doesn’t flinch; doesn’t move. If anything his grip tightens as black floods the corner of your vision, cutting off your peripheral.
You’re a scared dog under him, tail tucked between your pretty legs that his knee spreads, digging between your thighs. It’s hardly the first time this has happened - you couldn’t count on one hand the amount of times you said you’d leave him. The amount of times you claimed it was the last.
But god, his knee brushing against your core felt so so good, and you’re so so weak for him.
It’s easy to tell yourself that it’s over between the two of you when he isn’t home. When he leaves you for days so the next time he opens the door you’ll crawl to him; begging for him. It’s easy to argue over the phone, but your mouth feels dry and words get stuck in your throat when he’s around.
He fucks you till you’re stupid. Brain dead and pliant for him, pressed against his sheets and inhaling his scent. You’ll babble for him, words jumbled and incoherent between wanton moans and whimpers. Sometimes, if you think hard enough with that brain he turns to mush you can manage to say his name til he shoves his fingers in your mouth.
“Oh shh, you poor baby. Don’t cry.”
You hadn’t realized tears were streaming from your eyes till he pointed them out, mocking you as he went to move the hand that wasn’t pinning you to the wall to wipe your tears. Your grip, however, kept him there; nails digging deeper into his flesh. A soft tsk falls from his lips before he simply moves to lick the salty tears from your cheeks.
Your breathing turns shallow, chest heaving as you attempt to suck in the air around you. It’s futile, his hands only tightening more. His tongue laps at your skin before his lips travel down, tracing your collarbone before biting down harshly against your shoulder.
If you had any air left in your lungs you would’ve screamed, his teeth drawing blood from your flesh as your back arches off the wall. You can’t even pretend to hate it, to hate him. He knows it, too, relishes in how you squirm and writhe under him; desperate to simply breathe again.
He’ll loosen his grip when he notices you begin to fall limp, reaching up to slap you, bruising your tear stained cheeks and causing you to jolt forward. It only serves to turn him on more, how he can play with your life in his hands. That at any moment he could snap that cord and kill you and he’d get away with it, too. His teeth graze over your neck, humming.
You suck in a few breaths, allowing air to fill your lungs once more as your feet touch the ground again. His knee presses against you more, rubbing against your clothed cunt and drinking in the way you grind back against him. A needy slut, all for him. It’s how he knows you’ll never actually leave him - who else could treat you the way you liked? Your head rests back against the wall as you hear the clinking of his belt.
Within a moment the leather is pressed between your teeth, a makeshift gag as he sinks to the floor in front of you. You can only watch, tilt your head down at him as he works your pretty skirt off your hips. His fingers trail over your panties, circling the wetness that pools against the fabric.
“Just can’t control yourself, can you puppy?” He grins, fingers hooking around your underwear and pulling it off as well. He hums in contentment, slipping them into his suit pocket. It would be almost attractive if not for the slap to your folds that followed right after.
Once more, you find your back arching off the wall - moans muffled by the leather belt gagging you. He’s not gentle in the slightest, not kind or sweet as he slips his fingers into your cunt, thrusting harsh enough to make your legs shake while his lips wrap around your needy clit.
The dark kitchen of your shared apartment is filled with gushing, wet noises that echo from you. You’d be ashamed if not from the assault he was laying on your body. His hands grip at your sides roughly, just above your hips and leaving bruising marks in their wake. You’re nothing more than a doll for him, and you wouldn’t have it any other way.
“Please please… fuck-“
“Shut the fuck up.”
Your voice is muffled by the gag, though the words that manage to be comprehendible are cut off by his snapping. He doesn’t want to hear your voice, doesn’t want to hear you speak as he’s focused on the noises your cunt makes. Needy and gummy walls tightening around his fingers. You can feel yourself teetering on the edge, ready to spill for him.
He doesn’t miss the way your legs tremble as your cunt pulsates around his fingers into rhythm with his thrusting. His tongue laps over your swollen clit as your fingers press against his shoulders, holding yourself up as your legs fail you. He doesn’t stop even as you begin to cry once more, begging him through the belt to stop.
Your legs shake even more violently, one hand moving to trace up and down the back of them. He relishes in how you fall apart, how you go from playing tough with him to a broken doll he needs to glue back together. Your hands feebly push at his head, trying to get him off.
When he does stop, he stands in front of you and wipes his lips with the back of his hand. His fingers trailing up to your lips before slipping inside your mouth, making you taste yourself. A smug smirk plays on his face, one that reminds you that after all this he’ll be gone again and you’ll go back to hating him.
But for now, he leads you to your bedroom despite your legs that refuse to work - practically dragging you there and throwing you onto the bed. He’s quick to reach underneath the frame, pulling out a box and rummaging through it before he finds what he was looking for.
He pushes the buttons on the black vibrator he holds in his hands now, the toy drumming to life under his touch, much like you. He looms over your shaky body, grinning down at your form.
“Open your legs again, puppy.” The hand not on the toy kneads your thighs apart, humming at the slick that paints your flesh. “There we go, just like that. Because of that mouth you have on you were not going to stop til you’ve given me everything you got. Okay doll?”
i’m working on another , separate Phosphorus fanfiction right now based on the last poll I did but i’ve been getting requests to make a part three for ULTRAVIOLENCE and CINNAMON GIRL .
do you guys want a part 3 ? if yes you should write in either my ask or the comments with stuff you’d like to see !
yes , gimmie part 3
no , write about literally anyone else but phosphorus
HOW ARE THEY SUPPOSED TO KISS NOW WTF WTF I HATE YOU JAMES GUNN
Your Dr. Phosphorus is work is just to DIE for. Actually surprised there’s not much more xreader fics with him 😭🫶
Ahh tysm !!! <33 all the support I’ve been getting on my phosphorus fics means the world . i actually started writing him after the first episode cause there weren’t fanfics up fast enough for him lol
it would mean a lot if you guys could help me out with a new idea ! i’m toying with another one based on his mob boss era . i’m thinking either :
call girl ! reader
crime family ! reader ( either maronis or falcones )
Iceberg lounge waitress ! reader
ֹ ⑅᜔ ׄ ݊ ݂ CINNAMON GIRL ۪ ֹ ᮫
DOCTOR PHOSPHORUS x FEMALE READER
⎨ 𝐀𝐍 ⎬ this is part two of ULTRAVIOLENCE and should be read as such ! also i love lana for him , it’s perfect . i just watched the new episode and you can tell near the end lol . i tried to explore a bit more of his needing of love as well as the readers ! also i had to get creative with the smut due to him not having a dick so sorry </3
⎨ 𝐂𝐖 ⎬ monster ! reader , religious / catholic trauma trauma and guilt . depictions of body horror and violence . blood and burning , mentions of cannibalism , imposter syndrome and disassociation . non graphic depictions of death and injuries . smut : pining , pet names ( puppy + princess ) , sub - ish phosphorus , clothed rubbing and fingering ( ? m receiving ) , male moans ( yay ! )
3 . 2 k words ++ not beta read
A hero.
It was a strange feeling, being praised the way you were. It wasn’t like anyone outside the bubble of the castle cared, but those inside hailed you and the other creatures as saints. Perhaps it would feel a lot nicer had the others been able to look at you with something more than hesitancy.
“Good work.” The Bride had said, Flag following with a similar sentiment, but you could tell how empty the words were behind gazes that wouldn’t meet yours. Even among animals like Weasel and robotic parts strewn around the grounds like GI, despite the Bride’s nature and Nina’s gills you are nothing more than a monster.
God, and Phosphorus. Things had been little short of awkward with him since the night you had shared. Despite his request that you not talk about it to avoid situations like silently standing beside each other in a lineup and trying to forget about his handprint being burned into your thigh, they still happened. You cannot blame him, though, for the way he avoids you as much as he possibly can.
Flag had wanted monsters for this mission, but it seemed you were too much. It isn’t like you can remember; practically pleading with Nina to tell you what had happened had left you with the bare minimum, but it was something. The gunshots had no doubt set you off and witnessing GI being torn apart hadn’t helped. In your absence had been a monster, eyes glazed over and rolled back into your skull as downright demonic claws and wings sprouted from your flesh, body contorted to allow the growing of the appendages. Bullets fired at you had been expelled from your skin like they were being spat out and the wounds simply grew back as if nothing had happened.
“They had to pull you off a body…” She informed you as gently as she could, though an air of fear surrounded her, as if her words would set you off again. They might, day by day it felt like you were losing yourself to this monster. More and more of you disappearing, you didn’t know what would make you volatile anymore. “Well, Phosphorus was the one to volunteer.”
Her words did little to ease the guilt that bubbled in your chest. The thought was nice, that he had been the one to take initiative and guide you back to your normal state; though part of you couldn’t help but assume that was because he didn’t want anyone else to observe the branding he had given you and connect the dots of your night together. You can’t blame him for anything it seems, not how he avoids you and not how he tries to cover up the things you’ve done together. You’re unworthy of love, aren’t you? That’s what they had said when you were just a girl.
Bruised knees and bleeding palms, the sharp end of the rosary’s cross digging into your palms and making indents as if to replicate that of Christ himself. You’re little more than the thieves that hung beside him on that day, representative of the one who laughed in his face and was hence discarded from the kingdom of God, never to see the pearly gates or beautiful lights. Judgement day would not be kind on you, you had heard the nuns and priest whisper from behind the monastery walls. What had you done to be cursed in such a way? Was simply being born enough to cast you from God’s light? It’s not like you had chosen that.
You’re quiet, far too much so for the others to consider it normal, but no one says a thing. Perhaps they’re too worried about setting you off, maybe they want to distance themselves. It seemed everyone grew a little closer from this mission, but you are just as alone as ever. The plane ride back is bumpy, Weasel curled up into a ball beside you. He was the only one who didn’t seem to care what you were or who you could become. Somethings never change, like the way you card your fingers through the coarse fur that coats his body.
You can feel his gaze on you, the radiation that pools from his body is difficult to shut out. Daring to lift your eyes to meet his, you don’t miss the way he quickly adverts his gaze as if he was ashamed of having been caught. God, you hated this. You could deal with the others avoiding you, you hadn’t expected them to try and be your friend after this regardless, but him? Could you forget how sweet he had been to take care of you after you had slipped? No, you don’t think so. Besides, those pretty whines and mewls that had spilled from his mouth still weighed heavy in your mind.
Arms crossed as the plane landed, back in handcuffs and escorted to the cell you had spent so long in. Your taste of freedom was over, done with. It was back to the slop they had the gall to call food and the endless sound of waves that now pissed you off more than it soothed you. Things seemed to be getting on your nerves more frequently, since he had brushed you aside and told you it would be better like this.
It doesn’t feel better. How can he be right about your situation when his hand burning into your flesh had felt so good? You worry your bottom lip between your teeth as you sit on the thin mattress in the cell assigned to you. The lights had gone out for the night long ago, the freedom you had once felt in the large room of the Castle was now gone. Back to the same old routine, back to being captive. Back to the power dampener around your neck.
You want to lay down, to close your eyes and at least try to get some rest, but the same looping sound of crashing waves and the soft green glow from far down the hall only served to stress you out. How could he brush you aside like that, had it truly meant nothing to him? You were well aware of his tendencies, the psychopathic nature of him, but that night had felt; well, like something. Like he cared despite his apathy.
Maybe you were thinking too deeply into this, maybe it was nothing more than a simple fling to him. Maybe your touch starved mind had crafted this narrative that he truly loved you and was just hiding it. It had been far too long since anyone but your own hand managed to touch you like that, to slip past the layers of monstrous intent and simply find you. Even if it wasn’t real, if he truly didn’t care, at the very least you would have that to remember. And for now thats okay.
For now.
Because the next morning you are forced to see him, forced to have all the feelings from the last few days pile up in your gut and make the stupidly large power dampener you wore feel even more foolish. You sat at one of the tables, lazily picking at your plate of food when you were interrupted. A hand swiped your tray off the table, knocking the mushy pile of stuff they dared to call food to the floor.
“Whoops, were you eating that, dollface?” No, you weren’t, but the asshole who picked a fight with you didn’t know that. Another monster, another creature who was far too vile to be put onto the team. Why shouldn’t you indulge just a bit?
Blood. It’s all you can taste. It suffocates you as you lay in a pool of it. Trickling down your nose and coating your mouth. You cannot quite tell whose it is, yours or the beast laying dead beside you. It’s nice, though, rich and far more delicious than the slop they feed you here. The electric shock had hurt, but not awfully so. You don’t feel angry that you’ve allowed the monster control over you once more, just bliss.
Ending up in the medical wing had not been on your itinerary, though. Head pressed back against the cold, sterilized pillow that was as thin as paper against the hard as a rock mattress. You’d hardly call it nice, if the hums of medical machinery hadn’t been soothing as white noise; you could almost get used to it. Your eyes flutter shut against the cold atmosphere, taking a deep breath to let the serene moment wash over you, its truly a nice break.
Till the doors open and you’re greeted with that familiar green glow basking over you for a moment before being harshly shoved into the bed besided you. You let out a soft sigh, sitting up and rubbing your eyes slightly. He wont look at you, clearly pissed off about something, and as the guards leave the room he shoots them the middle finger before finally catching your gaze.
“What are you looking at?”
“You. Why are you in here?” You can’t help it as the question slips through your lips before you can stop yourself. You shouldn’t engage with him, it’ll only serve to make you upset over the little predicament the two of you find yourselves in, but it comes out nonetheless.
“The guy you killed’s dickweed friend decided to pick a fight in his honor. You know that’ll go on your sentence, right?”
“What does it matter? I’m already in here for life.”
He simply hums in response as you card your fingers through your hair. You suddenly feel tired, as if being around him is draining. Putting up this act of nonchalonce about your feelings towards him is more taxing than you had originally expected. He weighs heavily on your mind, taking up valuable space that could be used for other mundane things in Belle Reave like finding new shapes in the texture of walls you’ve stared at for years.
The room is quite now, far more than you like. The humming machinery now acts as a nuisance, a reminder of how hes doing everything but talking to you. While you can’t blame him outloud, you did just kill someone over him, does he feel anything about that? Does he even know how your mind runs circles around the thought of him all day? God. You sound like a love-sick schoolgirl with her first crush. Whats next? Will you write little anonymous post-it notes for him?
Regardless, you can’t stand the silence anymore, looking back over at him you tilt your head to the side to come across as non interested as possible. As if the question you’re about to ask him is one you’ve just thought of and not one thats been on your mind since that night.
“When we-... God, this sounds stupid outloud but why did you not take off your pants? Do you not have anything… down there?”
The awkwardness is palpable in your tone and it fills the room. Mentally, you curse yourself for asking such a dumb question. If he had eyelids, he’d most certainly be blinking over and over out of sheer confusion.
“Uh no. Its just the pelvis. Look at me, I’m just a skeleton and have you ever seen a skeleton with a dick?”
“No, I guess not…” Theres a pause, eyes fluttering away from his awkwardly. You shouldn’t have even brought it up and you really didn’t want to listen to his sarcastic answers.
“Do you want to see?”
Again with the sarcasm, you roll your eyes slightly and look back over at him with a frown, about to retort before you realize he isn’t joking. No, he’s looking right back at you, skeletal hands fiddling with the buckle of his pants. A sheepish blush coats your face as you worry your bottom lip between your teeth. Sure, you two had had a very intimate encounter before, but this was different and it made you second guess his seriousness in telling you the two of you should pretend that night never happened. Without another thought you nod, almost a little too quickly.
“Yes. Please.”
“Eager now, aren’t ya pup?”
“Pup? Where’d that come from?”
“I mean, you looked like a starved dog with a piece of prime rib in its mouth when I pulled you off that guy back in Pokolistan.”
“Don’t bring that up right now.” A huff falls from your lips as your blush darkens, shaking your head slightly to push the imagery out of your mind. Had you really acted so barbarish that he deemed it fit to call you such a name? And are you out of your mind for liking it in some way? He simply chuckles as his hands continue to play with the button of his prision pants before he finally simply pulls them down and cocks his head to the side at you.
“See? Told ya.”
“Oh. But- you can still feel as if it were there?”
“I guess. I wasn’t just faking those noises to make you feel better.”
You can tell by his tone that had he had eyes he would’ve winked at you. A grin that you can’t see etched into the permanent smile of his skeletal face as you slip off the bed you were in, stepping over to him and gently running a hand over the orange fabric of his shirt as he lets out a soft, shuddering breath. For him, as well, it had been far too long since anyone looked at him the way you did.
After the death of wife and kid and being burned alive in his own machine meant for good, after taking over the Thorne crime ring and subsequently being taken down by Batman he has been looked at as nothing but a monster. Maybe, in a way, he is. The radiation addled his brain, the death of his family heavy on his consious. Had he been good before? He can remember a time where he tried to help, but was that out of kindness or need for recognition and praise?
Perhaps he doesn’t deserve it, the way you look at him as if hes someone special, as if hes done you some favor. It makes some part of him feel sick, while the other part relishes in the feeling of your touch, even if it has to be over fabric. A soft sigh emitted from him as he grabbed your hips, careful not to touch your skin even if he had before, and pull you ontop of him while he laid back in the bed.
He relished in the blush that coated your features, hands moving up to gently graze over the power dampener you wear, he resists the urge to burn through the metal and instead matches your gaze, a hum.
“You like this position, princess?”
“Oh its princess now?”
“Don’t avoid the question.”
Somehow he manages to get laughter out of you, coaxing it from your pretty lips and letting it fill the room. He almost feels stupid with the giddiness that fills his chest, tilting his head back against the headboard to get a good view of you. For every awful thing thats happened to him, hes almost glad they all did because they led him to you. He could deal with the worry of burning through everything if it meant you’d be by his side forever.
His sappy thoughts are cut off by the sudden feeling of pressure against where his cock had been. Your sleeves had been rolled up over your palms, providing a barrier that allows you to knead against his pelvis like some kind of cat. He can’t help the way his hips thrust up slightly, back arching into your touch. Its euphoric, sweet, and he’s letting explotives fall from his mouth like they’re a prayer to you. Like you’re some sort of God.
“Oh, ffuck princess, just like that.” His head tilts back farther, soft huffs emitting from him as he tries not to dissolve into a moaning mess in your hold. It’s been far too long, and even the night you shared couldn’t compare. He feels like an idiot for telling you it would be better to ignore each other now.
You keep a steady pace, hands moving against his pelvis to create some kind of friction, relishing in the clear way he fights back the moans creeping up his throat. Its almost beautiful, like a symphony of choked sobs and wanton moans. You couldn’t help but grin, humming softly as your eyes focused more on the exposed bones of his lower half.
“Phosphorus?”
“Alex. fuck - please call me Alex.” His words are a bit sudden but the way he practically pleads with you makes it difficult to think twice. His name, though, just knowing it feels intimate.
“Alex. I’m gonna try something, okay?”
Its a warning that slides right past him, indecent moans filling the room as he simply nods feverishly, though begging with you that whatever you’re going to do you don’t stop making him feel like this. You’d be a fool to stop now, anyways, with the way the radiation on his body hightens like a solar flare its all the sign you need to tell hes close.
You almost hesitate as this is probably a bad idea but you don’t give yourself time to dwell on the consequences of your actions as one hand stops kneading and instead moves the fabric of your shirt sleeve off, quickly pushing past the barrier of radiation and tracing your fingers over the inside of his pelvis.
It burns, pain bubbling up in your body and at the same time the reaction from his is almost like a man possessed. His moans gain volume at the feeling, urging you to push past the pain and continue to rub along the bone. He squirms and thrusts his hips up, arching his back yet shying away at the same time. It’s too much for him, the wires of his brain getting all crossed between feeling so good and overstimulated at the same time. It doesn’t take a genius to know that he was orgasming.
He falls back against the thin bed with a huff, panting to catch his breath. You sit up straighter on his lap, pulling your hand out and cradling it in your other one. It hurts, stinging as large burning wounds take up the majority of your hand. He sits up as well, apologies spilling from his mouth before your skin begins to heal as if nothing has happened.
You blink, knowing he probably would be as well before you simply rest your head on his chest. Theres an unspoken thing, now, an idea that perhaps the two of you don’t have to be as careful as originally thought, especially if your body had a healing factor even with the power dampener on. A content hum emits from him at the thought, tilting his head to look down at your form thats nuzzled against him. No doubt the cameras have caught all this, but the thought doesn’t seem to run through your mind so he wont worry you with it.
“If thats what we could do with that collar of yours on, imagine what we could do with it off.”
“Hmm does this mean no more ignoring me?”
“Who said I was ignoring you in the first place, princess?”