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@shanexdarius-blog
they wanted a witch? well they got one. duncan wasn’t like her family she knew spells that could kill, she was not above killing to protect them. but of course duncan wasn’t protecting them right now, she was protecting herself from these men. she wasn’t sure what they were but their aura’s were telling her they were anything but human. “last chance, fella’s.” she was not in the mood today.
plcestohide
“after the fight some dude catcalled me on the way home so i turned around and spat a bunch of blood at his feet. never seen someone regret doing something so fast.”
“men. what good are they for, right? other than being absolute assholes. you okay though? didn’t get beaten too hard?”
plcestohide
“ i hope you have enough decency to feel at least a little bit crappy about it. ”
“and why should i do that? this is a sanctuary which means, its common ground for all.” she didn’t tolerate those that tried to disobey, neither did her parents magic, which the person was lucky to not have started up. “think they got lucky if all they’re left with, is being dragged outside and thrown to the curb. what’s it to you, anyway?” she hadn’t seen the other here before, so she was rather curious about her. strange magic was her families hotel, it was their home. and duncan didn’t tolerate that behavior.
ourechoing
shane was here and she assumed for a reason, so with a quick glance around her she obliged the lift and moved around to the other side of the car. the light was red anyways and she had the time, so she waited until she was in and the door closed. “it’s my mom so…it’s because you’re special. if it was my dad i’d think left-out.” she placed the small bag down to the floor gently and buckled, while her eyes looked over her cousin. “what are you doing here:? playing dirty cop? what did i do this time?” she didn’t actually think anyone in her family would send shane to check in on her if there was a reason like that, because shane would likely let her off or hana would force him into submission to. he wasn’t known for being the easiest cop to deal with and she wasn’t known for knowing when to stop violent tendencies. her mother knew that was her protection of the cage, but with shane she figured it was just him wanting to pass through anyways so hana relaxed right into the leather of his seats and hummed.
he chuckled hearing her eyes looking to her waiting for her to get in, before he revved the car and took off down the street. “at least i know uncle doesn’t think i’m a disappointment.” he says nothing but jest in his voice. honestly his family had been a big help after his mother died, even some before that had made sure shane had everything he needed before he went off to school, knowing that his mother wasn’t exactly fit to look after him, but they didn’t know much about what went on behind closed doors. a laugh now left his lips as he picks up the smoke that was resting in his ash tray, blue hue looking over at hana. “do you think you’ve done somthin’? ‘cause we both know i ain’t the one they would send ‘ere to pull you in line.” he says chuckling once more, before looking around at the stores to see where hana wanted to go.” need to do more shoppin’, eh?”
ourechoing
she didn’t think he would be against going, it was just that she felt bad for needing to go out again. the streets were cold and the stores a little busy so she almost didn’t want to subject herself, definitely not him. shiloh didn’t fight him an inch when he picked her up and placed her down to the couch, her smile spreading warm across her lips just before they met his. “not as many. i promise even i don’t want to keep going over and over.” she admits, but he knew she wasn’t the type to go aimlessly to stores. she didn’t favor the crowds as much as she was a homebody in the winter, nesting in with him. “you look perfect.” she murmurs, a soft smile in her eyes as she pulled him down to rest against her chest, her lips brushing through his hair and kissing his temple, a duck of her head bringing her back to his lips to nip his lower. “it’ll be a perfect tree because it’s our first tree.”
his hand was running through her curls as she rested on the couch thanks to him, blue hue looking into matching eyes. “i know you don’t like crowds. if you want me to do the run and brin’ ‘em back. i can do that.” he tells her. he’d do anything that would make her happy, do anything that would bring that smile upon her face that he loved. “and you’re beautiful.” he whispers, before she was pulling him down more to rest against her chest, and he pressed a kiss between her breasts, before he was feeling her lips in his hair, making him hum and then more so on her lips. the smile stayed on his lips, as his hue looked over at their tree and then back to shiloh. “it’ already perfect.” he whispers, before he was pressing his lips to hers once more. “do you want to come, or you goin’ to stay ‘ere and figure out the tree?”
ourechoing
instinct kicked her into movement, steps she fell into. shane was further than she’d found him ever before and she knew why, but ignoring why for the moment to focus the other details around her, had he eaten, had he showered, had he slept. the answer to all of those things was no. the fridge offered little and she figured as much, but she didn’t pause with seeing the take-out containers. marley was looking to shane while pulling her phone out. he’d had chinese so she went to ordering pulling up the local applebee’s. it wasn’t home cooking but it was closer to that than any other place, delivering cups of soup, steaks, grilled chicken smothered in gravy with mashed potatoes. it was better than ordering pizza or something lesser. “i know.” was what she answered him with, but i’m hungry…too. and she was, and her eyes softened on him as she moved closer only after she took a moment to place a large order. “no, it’s okay.” the words came out fast but weak and she shook her head and she managed a nod. “hungry.” and maybe that was an answer all on it’s own; shane knew she didn’t eat much so if she was hungry he had to be, if she was hungry she thought it was all the answer he’d need. “i love you and i’m….i’m here.”
she always took care of him, and he didn’t think she should. he didn’t think she should stop what she is doing, to look after him. she came all this way for him. and he watched as she pulled out her phone and was ordering food. his eyes watered because he didn’t deserve this. he didn’t deserve the kindness marley had always given him. didn’t deserve the way she looked after him. he was a wreck, he was a mess. he ditched her, not marley but everything else. and now here she was, talking to him, looking after him when she didn’t even need to. marley had always been there for shane when he needed her. his eyes just watched her move.knowing she saw the state he was in. his world got turned upside down, he lost the love of his life, the person he was suppose to spend the rest of his life with. she was his imprint, they were going to have a little girl. marley was going to be godparent to kaylee. she moved closer and he just gripped onto the counter of the small kitchen, eyes just boring into hers. “i love you too.” he whispers. she’d told him that she was hungry, and marley rarely said she was hungry. but her being here, saying she was here. he wrapped his arms around her, pulling her in close, burying his face into her neck and just held her. it was his first christmas without them. it would of been kaylee’s first christmas with them in the world. and they were both gone.
“i’m sorry, marley.” he whispers into her neck, feeling tears hitting her skin as he held her. “you deserve better.” she did. and he pulled back to wipe at his face, trying to keep the tears from falling. “you shouldn’t ‘ave to come all the way out ‘ere to find me.” he whispers, falling onto one of the bar stools as he continues to wipe at his face. “i’m so sorry.”
ourechoing
@shanexdarius
hana knew the car, the black camaro that was barely even street legal. she knew cars, but that one pulling along the roads of old town caught her attention and made her pause her steps, to turn on the toes of platinum studded boots. instead of continuing on with her arm through the satin loop of the shopping bag, hana moved to the car nearing the stoplight and tapped a light knuckle on the window of car. it was already a little rolled down and she caught the scent of smoke and spice of cologne. “did my mom ever tell you the story of you being the only blue-eyed baby in our family?” she had, a million times, and hana’s smile spread.
this was done on purpose. him being here in old town. he knew exactly where his cousin lived, knew she shopped around these familiar streets. so seeing her knock on his window when he was stopped at a stop sign just had him smiling, as his smoke burnt down in the ashtray when he wound the window a little more so he could see her better. "she told me a lot. still ain’t sure if she was tellin’ me to make me feel special, or tellin’ me to make me feel left out.” he says watching her smile spread and his own spread on his face. “want to get in? until i find a park and we can catch up. you had lunch yet?”
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@shanexdarius
“i don’t know how to say this….” shiloh glanced from the christmas tree over to shane, a smile faint in her eyes. “but i think it needs more lights.” the tree was covered in white lights but maybe not covered enough, and she knew they didn’t have any more strings of lights to stretch around it, unless they took some down from the windows maybe but….then the windows would need the lights. she hadn’t even gone overboard on any of it. it didn’t look like christmas had thrown up in here, but it wasn’t quite….done, and she didn’t know how shane would feel about another run to the store together.
he knew it was coming. what she was about to say he knew it was coming. blue hue looked over at her, seeing that faint smile upon her face. it had him smiling at her because how could he not? she was always adorable around this time of year. but she was always adorable around every time of year. he picked shiloh up really easy, and plopped her down on the couch, which had him resting on top of her, as he pressed a kiss to her lips. “whatever you need, shy. we can take as any trips to the store if that’s what its goin’ to take, to make this tree look perfect.” he tells her, before he was kissing her lips once more.
ourechoing
her skin prickled the moment the door opened and her ocean eyes fell on shane’s matching hue. “i cheated and skipped a few numbers while counting.” she stepped in, hands in the pockets of her the purple suede jacket. she hadn’t roamed this far from her hometown before but there was a first for everything and she wasn’t hating the stretch of wings. in familiar company, no matter how somber, she was safe if nothing else. “no.” she shook her head, thinking back to the last time she’d seen him; it was at jasmin’s funeral, the room he could barely set foot in. she maybe should have tried calling him before following that beating. “have you eaten?” something inside of her kicked right into gear, something bursting forward while something else bottled down. marley moved to his kitchen with an unsure but steady enough pace to open the fridge and see what she was working with here, movement to not let her element surface in her eyes.
“sounds ‘bout right.” he whispers, watching her closely. he could sense something was off, and perhaps it was because she’d never left her hometown before. he didn’t mean for her to leave and he felt like telling her they could go back. that she didn’t have to stay here. he hadn’t caught up with marley. not since burying his wife with their unborn child. the child that never got a chance to live. she didn’t want a drink, and shane looked around the very empty space, because there really wasn’t much in here. “no.” he replies, eyes watching her moving into the kitchen. nothing of jasmin was here. not like at home, where he could barely move any of her things out, or sell the stuff in the nursery. “you don’t ‘ave to do this, marley.” but she wants too. is what he believes she’ll reply back with. he rests on the counter, knowing she would see food that hadn’t been touched in the fridge. left over canteens of chinese. “i’m sorry. that i left the way i did.” he tells her, heart hammering in his chest, eyes staying on her. he wasn’t the only one who lost someone. he should of been there for marley too. “you doin’ okay?”
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@shanexdarius
she could feel his heartbeat anywhere, a underwater drumming through her element that echoed in her ears. he was further than she expected to find him and she found herself curious of why that was, walking the dark street and letting her element’s molecules touch energy to form a static that touched the bulbs of street lights she walked under just to dim them. it was a gut-defense, the area unknown to her, she walked a little faster until she reached a door the pulse was hammering behind inside of her head, and she knocked.
there was that familiar sense coming to his door. it had his heart hammering in his chest as he slowly walked toward his door. he shouldn’t have underestimated marley. she had this way of finding him, always. wiping at his face, trying not to look like he’d just drowned himself in a bottle of liquor and pills he opens the door, after hearing her knock. his heart still pounding in his chest, eyes looking into matching hue, before looking her over. “really didn’t take you lon’ to find me.” he whispers, before opening the door wider, letting marley step over the threshold, before closing the door behind her. “can i get you a drink?”
lawson-cage
It wasn’t exactly surprise that easily swept over the shifter’s face upon seeing the arrival of Shane, but it was happiness as Lawson threw his hand up in the air to indicate another round of drinks. “Shit, I feel like a sorta reunion thing is goin’ on— jus’ get into town?” As drinks were quickly scurried their way, Lawson was quick to push one towards the other male. “S’good to see you though, man. Been a couple of months now, ain’t it? What’ve you been getting up to?” Fingers clasped around his own glass as he lifted it up, beckoning for Shane to quickly join him in a cheers that had Lawson grinning from ear to ear.
he definitely didn’t mind running into lawson. in fact the shifter was kind of hoping to run into him. they had a lot of adventures together whenever they did bump into each other in small towns here and there. shane enjoyed the others company, he let him forget about everything just left him to his own devices really. just like right now, the other shifter was calling for another round of drinks, and shane was happy to accept it. a chuckle left his lips, fingers scratching at his cheek before he was nodding his head. “to bad there ain’t a reunion party goin’ on ‘ere, eh? yeah, just got in. thought i’d come and find you first, b’fore bumpin’ into my cousin.” he tells him, as he takes the scotch that was given to him, a clasp on the back to lawson after his words. “it’s definitely good to bump into you, bro.” he tells him, nodding his head once more as he lifts his glass after lawson beckoned him to, and then poured it down his throat, letting it burn before asking the bartender for more. “yeah ‘bout a couple of months. nothin’ much. doin’ what i usually do when i’m alone by myself. what ‘bout you? any crazy stories you’d like to share?”
it had been the first time in a long while since shane had been in human form. being in his wolf form he got to forget about the pain that was his life, forget about the anger and the guilt that tore him apart. especially coming up to holidays, shane couldn’t deal with it. it was why he came to red creek, knowing his cousin would be here, and shane would much rather be in the company of family, than the company of his own thoughts.
cassidytalbxt
“See, there’s the difference between us, your bullshit isn’t worth feeding into.” The tilt of her glossed lips didn’t pry into her annoyance in the way his eyes rolled, she’d much rather stick out out as if he wasn’t close enough to the bane of her entire existence at this very moment. Cassidy had never been above her childish nature, barely twenty when she’d been cursed, she’d been forced to eternally live like this, why in the hell wouldn’t she act like it. “Yes, Shane, dirty money. You got me, you fucking moron.” The slipline of smoke that fell through her lips blew with all intents right up into his face, “I know it’s a foreign concept to you, but shockingly enough people don’t enjoy brooding pricks like you all that much, which, luckily for me, works perfectly.” She didn’t brood – never did she brood, instead she partied, went too hard, too fast, her reckless abandon her own sense of burying her state of self. As he pushed by her arm, Cassidy sighed beneath her breath, turning back into the house, taking a drink from someone she passed with little care to what it was, “I’d rip your mates apart and you damn well know it,” she sure as hell did a good enough job of doing much the same to him. With a slight rise of her shoulders she stepped towards him, feigning catching her foot on something as the drink in her hand tipped forwards, all over his shirt.
“perhaps i’m just takin’ in what i can so i can just say you’re not even needed, eh?” he asks her, raising his eyebrows before dropping them. they could go at this all day, until one of them snapped. eventually it would be shane, his temper got the better of him at times, and he didn’t care if cassidy was a girl or not. though he never laid hands on her in a violent manner, just pushing her against a wall, was the worst he had done to her really. “i don’t brood. do i look like i’m broodin’ right now? no. i’m ‘ere to enjoy my fuckin’ self. what are you ‘ere for? aside from suckin’ the fun out of people.” he starts shaking his head, before he was walking back inside, hearing her he couldn’t help the chuckle that left his lips. “yeah, and they won’t enjoy it as much.” he says, turning his head to wink at her, before she was splashing her drink over his top. he could feel his body shaking, eyes flashing yellow as he stared at her. well that did it. “you’re seriously, out of your fuckin’ mind.” he snaps at her, before pushing his way through people, dragging cassidy back outside, where he took his top off and threw it at her face. “why the fuck would you do somethin’ like that, eh? don’t like that people actually want me ‘ere? probably more than they want you ‘ere.” he says, wiping at his chest where some of the alcohol had spilled, before he was walking toward her, trapping her between the banister and himself. “or did you just want to see my body again?”
cassidytalbxt
“Someone is definitely fucking lying to you, Darius, but I’m really not all that surprised that you’d feed into that kind of bullshit. Life of the party.” She scoffed harshly, the arch of her brow shifting higher despite the crease between them as she frowned. The smug look on his face without doubt had quickly become one of her least favorite things about him — not that she held a single favorable memory of him. He was irritating and as much a waste of her time as he’d ever been, but he bit back and so few people ever bothered to bite back. “Of course someone invited me, dipshit – you think there’d be this many people her without my being here?” It’d been staple, her immortal college life brought a string of followers that knew she knew how to push the boundaries that every willingly abled body that wanted to destroy whatever sense of a weekend they had with alcohol and party favors, and she was always good for it. “By cute you mean, blind and deranged, right?” Without question, she reaches to snatch the smoke from him, slipping it between her teeth to pull a deep drag from before he could argue. “You sure do, so turn around and get the fuck out, me and my lonely corner here are full.”
“glad you ain’t all that surprised, since i feed into your bullshit every day.” he retorts back, rolling his eyes right back at her. at times she was like a damn child. scratch that a lot of the times she was like a damn child. threw tantrums when she couldn’t get her own damn way. they never got along, not once and he didn’t think that would change despite him being here. if anything it gave him more reason to actually not come out a whole lot now. he couldn’t help the laugh that passed through his lips, his own eyebrows raising. “what do you do? bribe ‘em with dirty money?” he asks her, watching as she took his smoke from him and took a drag, and he just took it right back, snatching it out of her fingers before he was shrugging his shoulders. “better than the arm candy i had.” he retorts right back to her, before he was shaking his head, moving closer to her. “since i know it just irritates you so fuckin’ much to ‘ave me ‘ere. think i’m goin’ to just stay a little while longer.” he tells her, this time pushing her arm away from the door so he could get back inside. “don’t worry. i’ll make sure the males know just how well groomed you are.” he tells her, taking another drag from his smoke, letting it out in a puff of air before wandering back inside with it, that smirk plastered on his face, though irritation was in his eyes.
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@shanexdarius
“You would fucking be here.” The original spoke through a sharpened scoff as she broke the crowded house party to catch him before he walked back in from the back patio. The palm of her hand pressed into the door frame to block his path as if she hadn’t noticed him over an hour ago, the vicious roll of her eyes even then still seemed to echo irritation in doe eyes sharper than razors as she all but glared up at him, “Don’t you have better things to do than crash, I know nobody here invited you.”
he would be lying if he said he didn’t see cassidy here. of course he saw her. he’d know her scent from anywhere. he’d know her look from anywhere. he heard her and a deep breath left his lips, blue hue looking into her doe eyes. “what can i say? i’m the life of the party.” he tells her, crossing his arms when she refused to let him back inside. they’d been doing this even before he stepped foot in red creek, his eyes challenging hers like hers did his. “what? didn’t realize you had friends ‘ere, eh? someone invited you?” he asks her, blue hue looking her over now. “doubt it’s for that ass of yours.” he quips back, before he was resting his back on the wood of the house, taking out a smoke to light it up. “no one needs to invite me, cassidy. just ‘ave to smile at a cute girl, be on her arm for a little while.” he says, shrugging his shoulders, eyes looking back at her. “must admit, i do ‘ave better things to do than talkin’ ‘ere with you.” she always knew how to press his buttons, and he had to admit to himself not to her, he rather enjoyed it. “don’t you ‘ave a lonely corner to pout in?”
@lawson-cage
he had heard by the man himself that he was only two blocks over from where shane was. given that lawson was a close friend to him, and had helped him out during a tough time, he didn’t hesitate to pack up his bag and move once more. shane was used to moving by now, it was something that kept those demons at bay. now here he was, in this place. a place he never actually had been to before. blue hue looked around him, before wandering into the bar he had found knowing exactly where lawson would be. the place was a little crowded but shane was able to order his scotch before he found lawson in the corner. he moved to sit down in front of him, a smile upon his face. “you always did know how to find the best places, eh?”
