#arexyouxafraidxofxthexdark

[devilxwithin]

Closed Starter for: @arexyouxafraidxofxthexdark

"That's what I'm talkin' 'bout," Sabina beamed as the shots were placed in front of her, then she was turning to grin at the person next to her. "Come on! Tonight we're gonna drink up a storm and forget about the world. No arguments!" Was spoken sternly when she noticed the other beginning to open their mouth to say something.

[mollysmythtymsyllom]

Last Kiss

Reality didn’t hit her until she had pulled onto Lark’s street. She pulled over just before Lark’s house and sat in her car, turning it off for a moment. Fingers graced her lips, where she still felt Tessa’s own. That’s when the tears came, because suddenly everything was being felt. That had really been her last kiss with Tessa. Tessa, who had not once ever judged her or called her a child or told her she needed to grow up. Tessa, who always came to the late night booty calls, despite basically being a mom. Tessa, who came over to witness her drunk self trying to defrost donuts and reheat all the left overs with a damn space heater – and helped her.

Cody was a domestic child, in a sense where she was hopeless when it came to laundry and cooking, and keeping things organized the way an adult would. But Tessa loved her despite that. Well, hold on – love was never spoken about. No, she was projecting. Here she was, sitting in her car, on the street of her work partner, and a woman she knew she was in love with. Sure.

But.. something was stopping her, and it wasn’t the fear of rejection. It wasn’t her chickening out. This was.. different. She touched her lips again, closing her eyes and resting the back of her head against her ferrari’s car seat. “I love her..” She whispered to herself, eyes opening as if her own voice, admittance, and words shocked her. And they had. “I love her.” She declared to herself, more openly. Looking across the way to Lark’s house, everything tore at her, to the point where she just spent the next endless amount of hours at a shooting range, batting cage, and gym. A bar, too, but she drank only water, and was mostly there for atmosphere and pool.

She won two hundred dollars, and the first person she wanted to call in celebration wasn’t Lark. It was Tessa. Tessa wasn’t her fallback; a second choice; a means to an end. No, Tessa was the choice. Maybe it wasn’t love. Maybe it would of been smart to choose Lark. But with Tessa, she suddenly was fearful of rejection. Love or not love, it was Tessa that Cody wanted to be with.

Was it too late to show up randomly at the house of an ex? An ex that had only become an ex hours earlier… on Thanksgiving? One hundred percent. But that didn’t stop Cody from parking her car at home, and calling a cab to Tessa’s. It didn’t stop her from getting into the building, and knocking continuously on Tessa’s door until she answered. Of course, then she lost everything she had come up with to say.

“I won two hundred dollars playing pool today. Because that’s what I did. I shot my gun around, worked out, dipped some dumbass into losing at pool. But I’m sober, which.. was a really bad fucking idea, now that I’m here. But you were the first person I wanted to tell. Lark- I know my feelings for her. But after winning that money- she’s the easy choice, Tessa. I thought- I thought that meant she was my first, but.. and now I’m hungry because I missed dinner and drove around all day, and seriously wishing I had some alcohol. And.. this is notthe speech I had. And I had four. I jsut.. I’ve never been more terrified, because.. Tessa, I’ve never wanted to work at something with someone like this before.. and I’m shitty, and need to grow up sometimes, and I’ve no sense of how to do this or what’s right or wrong, and I’m probably more to handle than any of your siblings.. but I didn’t want to choose what was easier for me.. I didn’t want that to be our last kiss..” She swallowed, licking her lips, trying to keep her voice from cracking. “And I just really hope you don’t, either..” @arexyouxafraidxofxthexdark​

The past forty-eight hours had been a whirlwind and a half. First Tessa had told the woman she was falling for to go after someone else. It had nearly broken her heart when she overheard Devin and Cody talking. When she learned the truth about why Cody had been acting differently since she got back from her undercover mission. Cody had fallen in love with her partner while she was away. Tessa didn’t have time to fully internalize how she felt about the whole thing when she had made the cut. She didn’t have time to deal with a complicated relationship, so she had told Cody to go after Lark. She let Cody go. What was that saying? If you love someone. . .? Well maybe she wasn’t in love, like I said, she hadn’t let herself think it through. She didn’t have time, what with Devin asking her and all her younger siblings to move in with her, Will proposing to Devin, then Josy going into labor at the dinner table, Tessa hadn’t been able to think much about Cody.

Now, Will and the rest of her siblings, excluding Max and Ryan who wouldn’t leave the hospital, were staying at Devin and Cody’s house. Tessa chose to go back to her own place to get at least one minute of peace and quiet. She needed to calm down after all the craziness. She needed to look inside herself and consider her own feelings. She needed a moment alone to mourn what could have been between her and Cody. The first thing he did when she got home was make herself a cup of tea. But before the water was even cool enough to drink without burning her tongue, there was a constant knock on her door.

Tessa sighed, assuming it was one of her siblings, who had forgotten to get something that they needed to stay at Devin’s, or maybe someone hoping to help Tessa find God. “Alright, Alright!” Tessa had said before opening the door. She saw the look on Cody’s face, and couldn’t help what she said next. Then Cody did just what she asked, she spit it out.

Tessa stood there, her mouth partly open as she listened to the other woman ramble on. Cody spoke about where she had been, and how Lark was the easy choice, and how she didn’t want to make the easy choice. She talked about being scared, about never wanting to work for a relationship the way she did now. She rambled on without letting Tessa get a word in edgewise and by the time she was done, it took Tessa a long moment to even come up with what to say back to her. “Why don’t you come inside?”

[inhumanhacker]

“Alina?” Skye had been dealing with so much, so many things had been happening, that she had barely seen the other woman, since she had recruited her and brought her in. 

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New Beginnings with Old Startings | Closed for ArexYouxAfraidxOfxThexDark

@arexyouxafraidxofxthexdark

With a smirk on her face, and almost in a slight rush (but not running) the blonde exited out of the back-side door and into the alley. The door was the heavy kind, unmarked, although those who worked or lived in the building it belonged to would know what it was for/where it led. It also only opened from the inside. She had a brick of money in her hand, specifically, a thousand dollars in 20-dollar bills.

Rachel smiled to herself. Frank thought he was smarter than her, but he really wasn’t. She knew he didn’t own The Booze, he only managed it. She also knew that the last time she’d fought there, there had been much more people then her cut of the winnings had implied. Fighters generally didn’t pay too much attention to the crowd, too busy fighting and all, but you could tell when there were a few hundred or a thousand people. It wasn’t like the place was that big!

Standing in the dark alleyway, only one way in or out (that being the pavement right in front of her), the blonde quickly stuffed the money into her bag. Americans liked to call it a ‘fanny pack’. She liked to call it a bag someone couldn’t grab away, not when it was looped through her jean’s belt loops. Needless to say, her boss worked in a rough neighbourhood outside of the ‘bar’. Rachel also lived just a block and a half north from there. She knew how it all worked. Get what you can get where you can get it.

As she zipped the zipper closed, walking onto the pavement, a few people were walking by each way. Mostly it was people who lived/worked around there or were desperate enough to venture down there. Sometimes there’d be the stray person who was lost, but it was pretty rare. The woman knew where she was going and how to get there. But, sometimes the old neighbourhood was able to surprise her.

Rachel had gone with the flow of people as a small group went in one direction. Ahead of her stood a familiar face which almost made her stop. Or, actually, it did make her stop, but only for a second, she’d realized as some bloke’s shoulder roughly rammed into hers as he walked past.

“Fuck off.” She spoke more to herself. It wasn’t in a yell but simply a moderate volume, as if more like a thought out loud than anything else. The bloke was already long gone so it certainly wasn’t for his sake.

“Noah?!” Rachel spoke again, this time in a nice tone and a greater volume, trying to get her old friend’s attention from up the street. Although, the question also stood as the blonde making sure that she was, in fact, seeing her old friend. It’d been at least a year since the other woman had left for school and Rachel herself had started her own journey. Nonetheless, a friendly face was nice, but Noah should definitely not be in this neighbourhood, she thought as she made her way over, weaving through a few people. “What are you doing here, love?”

[felixculpxx]

starter for @arexyouxafraidxofxthexdark

It was a Saturday and for once, Abigail was forcing herself to properly take a break. Sat comfortably in the coffee shop, she looked over to her friend. “So how’ve you been anyway? Sorry that I’ve been so hectic lately,” The brunette slowly set her mug down before leaning forward to give her friend her attention. “Update me on everything. How’s work? How’s dating?”

[warxpaiint]

@arexyouxafraidxofxthexdark

Like always Blair was up at the crack of dawn and inside her shop before the sun rose, sorting the stock out before she opened up and the flow of people started to trickle in. A couple hours later just before she was due to open, Noah had walked in, causing her gaze to raise up at the chime of the bell, smiling almost immediately. “Good morning,” she greeted as she stepped away from the desk. “I actually have something for you,” she leaned down slightly and pulled something out from under the counter. Stepping around to the other side, she moved to lean back against it and held out the little gift bag, waiting for the younger woman to take it.  

[solaralockwood]

Closed Starter: @arexyouxafraidxofxthexdark

Solara was walking back to her office from her last class of the day, a night class to be exact. She had a leisurely pace, satchel slung over her shoulder, as she glanced over one of the lab reports her students had passed in. This one had a few spelling errors...on the first page. Her lips pursed, thoroughly unimpressed by the clear lack of effort. 

Blood.

The scent invaded her nose, almost violently. Blood was not something she feared, rather, she welcomed it. There was time where she couldn’t control herself around the substance, violently killing hundreds of people. That was so long ago, she barely remembered anything to do with that time, so lost in the blood lust she was. It destroyed her memory leaving her only with the memory of unquenchable thirst. The scent was getting stronger, worrying her. The campus was small, a local state college, and such a strong scent could only mean trouble. 

Solara shoved the paper into her satchel, holding the strap as she followed the scent. The next scent to hit her, rounding the corner into the parking garage, was vampire. Young vampire. She heard gasping as she got closer, and she found the vampire in question. 

She was huddled over a body. Whoever it was was dead. “You shouldn’t be here,” Solara tutted, surging forward with inhuman speed, catching the newly turned vampire off guard around the neck, holding her against the cement wall. Blood covered her chin, running down her neck. “Do you know what you are?” It seemed as if this girl was changed and set free to either die or kill recklessly. She was a baby as far as Solara was concerned. 

“Hmm? Where’s your sire?”

[nightxcrashes]

@arexyouxafraidxofxthexdark | Closed starter | Adriena x Alina

Things had been so different, at the Ark. It felt ages ago that they were floating in space, living under a law that didn’t respect anyone. Adriena had worked as a guard at the Ark. Not just a pawn used as a muscle, instead, she also played a big role in leading investigations on the ark. She was rather good at her job, figuring things out, tracking people down, keeping order. Her job wasn’t always what she wanted it to be though. The law they lived under was rather extreme and floating people for no reason? That wasn’t something for her. 

She did her job well, but she also let things slip sometimes. She couldn’t see why stealing bread would have to get anyone killed. The fact that people risked their lives to even do it, said enough to Adriena and she wasn’t going to prosecute people with that law still up. There were moments in which she considered quitting, more than she actually enjoyed what she did. What would she be, if not a guard though? She had no talent, no way to fulfill any proper duty. Then there also was the blackmail. They weren’t going to let her off easy. 

Adriena remembered locking Alina up. She was the first to get there and the first to get Alina into holding. A double homicide followed by an attempted murder? Alina was going to die the moment she would turn eighteen. Adriena didn’t regret getting her, but she did regret it had gotten that far. The fact the other had been abused, without anyone sounding any alarm bells? Adriena could understand that brought up the urge to kill. No, Alina hadn’t deserved this, even so, she shouldn’t have killed them and she was definitely dangerous. 

She’d followed the 100 going down and she’d followed Alina. Not that the system worked flawlessly, because like Abby, Adriena believed that those people were still alive even as their wrist bands were out. Later, the both of them appeared to be right. 

Now that the Ark was down, things changed. The moment things went loose with the grounders, Adriena had told their own folk to go fuck themselves and she stopped being a guard. She wasn’t going to mindlessly follow a bunch of assholes trying to oppress other human beings. It was absolutely disgusting. 

Adriena spent her days on the edge of the camp, often going out on her own runs. She didn’t do much other than getting to know her surroundings. She studied the grounders, she learned about them and she studied the language. She was slowly on starting to learn. She hadn’t seen Alina much, only from a distance, and hadn’t put any thought to it either.