Hurriedly finished coloring. Perhaps I’ll finish off the colors better another time.:).
Basically whoever woke him up to share the bed is going to get stabbed.
If that’s Zemo, he’s going to get stabbed in the face.
I tried putting two people in a bed multiple times, didn’t work! So this happened.:0
So, plot divergence: Shepard leaves with the Normandy crew when they come to Thedas because angst. Cullen mopes for a few years then agrees to an arranged marriage with Trevelyan’s younger sister as a favour to get her out of a WORSE arranged marriage something something plot contrivance. Baby!Trev’s cool but neither of them are into it. Shepard comes back during Trespasser because Solas’s shenanigans are making something go wonky in her universe. More angst ensues but everyone’s happy from the end, Cullen goes back to Shep’s universe from her, Baby!Trev also joins them for the adventure and immediately goes all heart-eyes for Liara.
I feel the need for snark, so I’m starting my own WIP game.
Post some snark from a WIP. Here’s mine from “For Your Information” again: Jyn and Cassian bickering like an old married couple over sharing a bed.
Jyn quirked an eyebrow at him. “I have no problem sleeping alone, if you want to be that way and pretend we’re not going to share. You have a tendency to smother anyway.”
“You elbow.”
“Because you give me no space to sleep.”
You can’t tell me this would not happen between them, as it happens between every single couple ever that has ever shared a bed in the history of Time.
Tagging some snarky-ass B’s: @sleepykalena @skitzofreak @rebelle-capitan @jenniferjuni-per
If you are a snarky-ass B and I missed you, get yo snarky ass on here and show me yo snark. I desire it. I need it. Tumblr needs it. THE WORLD NEEDS IT.
Bed sharing prompt courtesy of @bookstoreromantic": “Would you please get comfortable and go the fuck to sleep already?"
Rated T - 2000 words - Modern AU - AO3
A warm breeze ruffles the wheat stalks on either side of her truck as she folds her arms beneath her head, smiling up towards the starry night that will be her blanket until dawn. Her friends had thought this a good dare, forgetting that she’s slept in much scarier places where real danger lurked in very real shadows. A night spent alone out here is a piece of cake, no matter how many stupid campfire tales of demonic scarecrows or sickle-wielding serial killers they might have spun.
She’s surprisingly comfortable in the bed of her truck, thanks to the thick pile of blankets beneath her and the lingering buzz of rum from too many pulls of Killian’s flask. Her cheeks warm at the thought of him, the constant will they or won’t they like a rubber band deciding if it wants to pull them together or break from the pressure. It’s easier to want the former when she’s alone and the idea of him can be just a fantasy without the real life implications of what being together might actually entail. Caustic flirting used to be their thing, but she’s sensed a shift, more sincerity and a longing in him that mirrors her own in ways that has her running a bit scared.
Yeah, she’s not scared of serial killers or movie monsters, but Killian Jones, he has the ability to absolutely terrify her.
A rustling too strong to have been caused by the wind catches her attention and she leans up onto her elbows, scanning the fields for what is probably just a crow set out to disturb her solitude. There’s nothing to be seen in the darkness and she’s too lazy to dig out the flashlight buried somewhere in the cab of her truck to go on a search...
“Evening, Swan.”
A scream bubbles up her throat as she’s scrambling to her knees, hands blindly searching for something to grab as a weapon as her brain slowly matches the voice to the unexpected intruder somewhere behind her.
“Fuck! Killian...what the hell?”
Killian saunters around the front of her truck, both hands in the air in supplication as he approaches.
“Sorry, sorry, I should have called out when I was getting closer so you’d know it was me.”
Her heart is racing out of her chest, both from being startled and his presence, but she does her best to calm her breathing the closer he gets.
“You think so? Jesus. You’re lucky I didn’t bring my gun.”
He laughs at that and rakes his right hand through his hair, letting his scarred one fall back to his side before it disappears deep in the front pocket of his jeans. Her heart does a familiar pang at that little vulnerability, the way he tries to hide his scars just as she does hers. They’ve spoken of his loss, not just of the use of his left hand, but of his first love in a car accident years ago, leaving him alone in ways she can’t help but understand. Loneliness for her left scars that no one can see, but she feels, in the walls she’s built up around her fragile heart.
But then, his expressive eyebrow is arching as he leans his hip with purpose against the truck by her hand and she’s pulled from her inner musings and back to the present, where those walls are feeling shakier and shakier by the moment.
“You wouldn’t shoot me, Swan.”
Wanna bet?
“Whatever. What the hell are you doing out here?”
“What, not happy to see me?”
Yes. No. Yes?
Letting out a frustrated sigh, she shifts off her knees so she can lean against the back window of her truck and crosses her arms over her chest to wait for him to actually answer her question. His head cocks a bit to the side and she keeps her expression blank, a difficulty as the moonlight illuminates his stupidly handsome face as his lips curl into a stupidly adorable smile.
“I was dared to come out here and keep you company, love. I think Regina was hoping you would, in fact, have your gun and she’d finally be rid of my obnoxious arse.”
She can’t help but laugh at that, knowing it isn’t really true, even if Regina and Killian interact as well as oil and water set on fire.
“Sorry to disappoint her...wait, what are you doing?”
Killian has one foot up on the back bumper of her truck and he’s poised to hoist himself up, but he freezes and looks up and meets her gaze.
“Joining you, I hoped...uh....thought...? Would you prefer I sleep down here on the grass?”
Fuck. She can’t tell him that yes, she wants, no…needs him to sleep on the grass because having him sleep next to her in the bed of this truck all night is definitely more than she can handle.
“Fine, come on up. But if you snore, it’ll be the grass for you, buddy.”
The truck creaks with the added weight as he climbs in beside her, the brush of his arm against hers as he leans back against the window sending sparks along her skin. Clenching her fingertips against her thigh she looks away and out into the fields, matching her breaths to the sway of the wheat as her entire body comes alive at his proximity.
“It’s quite peaceful out here, isn’t it, Swan?”
It was.
“Yeah…”
Silence falls between them for a minute or so and she summons the courage to look over at him beside her. His head is resting against the worn blue metal of the hood of her truck and his eyes are directed at the sky, his lips pressed tight as if he’s holding himself back from speaking.
She wants to say something, ask what’s on his mind, but she’s a bit afraid of what that might be. His head shifts to the right and she finds herself looking directly into his eyes, the darkness doing little to hide the questions lurking in the blue depths. She keeps the connection a beat longer than she knows she should before turning away and scooting downwards so she can lie down on her side of the truck. Even with her eyes once again trained on the stars, she can feel the heat of his gaze prickling along her skin. Closing her eyes, she lets out a long breath through her nose, anxiety and attraction in a fierce battle as she waits for him to stretch out beside her.
When he does, he manages to shake the entire bed of the truck as he rolls this way and that, seemingly unable to find a comfortable position. He ends up on his back, his arm just barely touching hers with his legs bent at the knees. He lets out a frustrated sounding sigh and is still for a moment, but soon she feels the truck rock again as his legs fall flat.
“Would you please get comfortable and go the fuck to sleep already?”
“Sorry, love, my legs are too long. I’ll be settled in just another moment.”
Knowing he’ll really only fit if he turns on his side and bends his knees, she turns first, putting her back to him and giving him the room to follow suit. He catches on quickly, this connection they have constantly finding them in sync in odd moments such as this. As his breath begins to caress the back of her neck and the sounds of the creaking truck gives over once again to the sway of the wheat, she finds herself wondering just why if they seem to fit together so well does she continue to push him away?
She knows why, but dammit, she’s fucking tired of it.
Reaching behind her back she blindly searches for his arm, grabbing his wrist and dragging it over her waist as she scoots her back up to align with his chest. A shiver takes a ride up her spine as he exhales her name in surprise against her hair and she weaves her fingers over and through his where they are tentatively resting on her belly. It’s only in that moment that she realizes she’s grabbed his scarred hand, the puckered skin beneath her palm smooth to the touch. She presses down a bit harder at his slight flinch, letting him know that it doesn’t bother her in the least. It’s interesting, actually, that her need to give him reassurance managed to calm her own nervousness at making such a bold move.
“Emma?”
“Shhh, let’s just sleep, okay?”
He shifts behind her and she lifts her head, letting him slide his other arm beneath her neck as he tucks his knees into hers and settles his groin against her backside.
“As you wish…”
She isn’t really comfortable, not with all of the blood in her body rushing to her cheeks and everywhere they are touching burning as if she’s standing too close to a bonfire. It doesn’t help that his body is pulled taut behind her, seemingly poised to pull away as if he fully expects to be pushed. So she does, but just with her back, keeping a hand on his arm at her waist as she’s the one to rock the truck this time in her effort to turn towards him. They end up face to face, albeit a bit tangled, and she slowly reaches her hand up and curls it around his neck.
He’s on the verge of speaking when her mouth steals the question from his lips. It only takes him about two seconds to respond, his scarred hand gripping hard at her waist as a shaking breath parts his lips for her tongue. He tastes of marshmallows and rum, the sweet and spicy combination so intoxicating she doesn’t hesitate when his hand cushions her neck as he rolls her to her back. The kiss goes off the rails a bit after that as almost a year of tension breaks and it’s all hands and lips and hot breaths against oversensitive skin.
As she lifts her hips up to press against his thigh that has settled between her legs, his mouth suddenly pulls back and out of reach.
“Emma?”
“Shh...just kiss me.”
No “as you wish” this time, just compliance in the form of a kiss that manages to steal what was left of her breath. They kiss until her lips are sore and the skin of her chin and throat are raw from the coarseness of his beard. They kiss until the sky begins to lighten from the morning sun and they’ve rolled from one side of the truck to the other and back again. It never moves beyond that, well, their clothes stay on at least. But it’s enough. It’s perfect.
Even if they the only words spoken have been each other’s names and a few laughs (and maybe a few moans), it feels as though entire conversations have happened with the slide of their lips and the curl of their tongues. So, it doesn’t feel strange when he pulls her tight against his chest and her leg drapes over his knee and they both fall asleep to the sound of the waking crows.
“So that’s where Killian went off to. Regina was so annoyed that he ducked out of the game…”
Ruby grabs Mary Margaret’s arm and pulls her away from the truck before they wake the sleeping beauties inside.
“MM, not only is he in the game, I think he’s finally gotten on base.”
Prompt: A morning kiss or before-mission kiss prompts maybe? Pretty please? ;) For @grexigone
Read it on AO3.
Author’s Note: Er, I did both. And then added an after-mission kiss, too. :)
Jyn woke up slowly in stages of awareness. First, she was aware she was awake, but her eyes were still closed. Then, she was aware of the pleasant temperature of the room and the breeze drifting in through the open window.
Then, she was aware of the warm body next to her, the one she always woke up next to.
Cassian.
Jyn smiled and rolled over to snuggle into his bare back. He didn’t stir – he always slept more soundly around her, he said – so she kissed his shoulder and moved down his biceps, dropping little kisses on his warm skin, and then moving up again. His alarm would be going off any minute, and just as he did with her alarm when she had to get up before him, Jyn also tended to wake just moments before his alarm went off. She cherished these moments of quiet, where she could just adore his body without him knowing it.
I love you, she thought, but he didn’t know it yet.
Well. He did. But she hadn’t said it yet. She was waiting for just the right time, just as he probably was.
The alarm finally started beeping, and Cassian woke and turned it off. He slowly turned over in Jyn’s arms and pulled her to him, kissing her neck.
“Buenas días,” he said sleepily, and yawned. Jyn had noticed that he spoke in Festian when he was too tired to use Basic, even if he’d been bilingual most of his life.
“Buenas días,” Jyn replied. “Cómo estás?”
“Good,” he said, and ran his hand down her arm. He was fully awake now. “Just a little tired.” He sighed. “Only a couple hours till I ship out.”
“I know.” Jyn was already a master at disguising the sadness in her voice at having to watch him leave on a mission that didn’t involve her. He knew how she felt anyway; no sense in making it worse by making him hear it. “Breakfast?”
“That sounds good. Shower first?”
Jyn smiled. “Of course.”
As it always did, time passed more quickly when one of them was getting ready to leave on a mission without the other. Before Jyn knew it, she was standing at the top of the boarding ramp of Cassian’s ship, a captured Lambda-class shuttle, her elbows in her hands, fingers gripping them hard.
“Stay out of trouble,” she told him.
“I will,” he lied.
“I know,” she lied back. It was their little ritual.
Cassian glanced at the cockpit. Kaytoo was busy pre-flighting the ship and setting coordinates. He turned back to Jyn and pressed her back against the wall of the ship at the same time he kissed her hard, roughly, telling her just how much he was going to miss her.
“I’ll be back in three days,” he said in between kisses. “Sooner if I can.”
“I know,” she said, pulling him tighter to her. “I know.”
His hand skimmed over her breast, and he ducked his head to kiss it through her top. “Thank you for this morning.”
Jyn chuckled. “That’s what you get when you ask me to join you in the shower.”
Cassian smiled and returned to her mouth. “I should ask more often, then.”
“You should.”
“If you two are quite finished,” Kay said from behind Cassian.
“Not done,” Cassian said, waving him off. Kay didn’t move, and Cassian went back to kissing Jyn.
“The ship is ready to go,” Kay continued. “The systems look good.”
“Mmhm. Great.”
“Ground control commed us. They need the berth.”
“Good for them.”
“So, whenever you two are finished with your mating ritual,” Kay said, “we can leave.” Cassian and Jyn made no sign of stopping. “Cassian.”
“Fine,” Cassian said. He gave Jyn one final peck on the lips, then squeezed her hand and looked her in the eye. “I will be back.”
Jyn nodded and forced herself to smile. “I know.”
But she didn’t know. Not for sure.
Cassian did come back, and Jyn waited eagerly in the hangar for him to land. The minute the shuttle’s ramp lowered, she ran up it. He’d barely unbuckled his crash restraints before she had him in her arms. Then she was kissing him again, and Kaytoo made a sound that somehow imitated an annoyed groan, but he walked away this time, and when Jyn finally was able to pull her lips away from Cassian’s, she gave him a huge smile and said,
The first time Jyn asks to stay overnight in his quarters, Cassian offers her his whole bed. In his defense, it’s a small bed—he has to fold his knees to keep his feet from falling off the end, which doesn’t help the width of the mattress either. Neither of them are large people—they could, in theory, squeeze together with maybe, maybe a hairsbreadth of space between them, but the last thing Cassian wants is to crowd Jyn.
“I’m fine with the floor,” he tells her, pulling one of the blankets off the bed. It’s only half a lie—he’ll be cold and the hard floor won’t do his back any favors, so he doesn’t anticipate getting much rest, but if it will make Jyn feel comfortable and safe enough to sleep, it will be worth it.
She’d stayed at his bedside when he’d been confined to medical, and he couldn’t deny he’d found comfort in having her near. She’d fallen asleep there sometimes with her head pillowed on his thigh. The soft sound of her breathing is something he’s missed since she’s been—well. Apparently not sleeping elsewhere.
The dark circles under Jyn’s eyes almost look like bruises; the light that usually catches like a blaze in the green of her irises is absent. Cassian watches her sigh with her whole body and scrub a hand over her face, her shoulders slumping.
“I didn’t come here to kick you out of your bed,” she says, a spark of irritation smothered by weariness.
Cassian doesn’t ask, what did you come here for, because the words feel raw even unvoiced in his mouth, too risky. He doesn’t know if they would be jarring in the air, a misstep that triggers alarms and sends Jyn running. “Consider the bed freely given,” he tells her instead, and when she visibly wavers where she stands by the door, he looks her in the eye and carefully adds, “It’s fine, Jyn.”
She grimaces, but bends over to fumble at the laces of her boots. Cassian thinks the argument is over, but when her boots are off and she shrugs out of her jacket and overshirt, she insists, “I don’t want you to sleep on the floor.” He automatically glances at her and then quickly turns his attention away as she takes off her pants. “If you let me have the right side, I think I’ll be fine.”
“Closest to the door?” Cassian says without thinking, heat still searing his cheeks. He hears the bedsprings squeak as Jyn sits down heavily on the mattress.
“Yeah, is that a problem?” There’s no challenge in Jyn’s voice. He looks at her out of the corner of his eyes and she looks tired. Small. Her hands tremble as she pulls the pins from her hair. Whatever he was planning on saying gets caught in his throat as he watches her comb her fingers through the soft fall of her hair.
He doesn’t know what to call the ache of his heart, the pull on his ribs, how his whole body turns to face Jyn like a planet orbiting its sun. All he knows is that it feels unnatural to struggle against that call to be at her side.
“I prefer the side by the wall,” he says finally as the realization hits him that he’s been silent too long, staring at her. He sucks in a breath and sweeps the blanket up off the floor, folding it up automatically, burning off sudden nervous energy.
Jyn pushes her hair out of her face and Cassian catches the faint, dazzling flash of a smile flickering across her face. “Sounds good, then. Come on.”
There’s more than a little adjustment as they try to find comfortable positions. At first, Cassian faces the wall, letting Jyn press her back against his, but it’s impossible for him to relax that way and Jyn feels it in the rigid line of his spine.
She nudges her elbow into his side until he gives in and rolls over. And the tension breaks, giving way to exhausted relief. Jagged edges smooth out and slide into place.
“There,” Jyn murmurs, sounding half-asleep as Cassian folds himself into a position that is familiar except for the welcome warmth of Jyn beside him. He was right before—in this way, they do manage to fit with a sliver of space between them.
He could drape his arm over her and pull her body into him, hold her close while the world slips away, but he doesn’t. It’s enough to have her near.