the more anyone makes an un-nuanced claim about leia hating anakin, the more i gain the urge to write a fic of leia learning to make peace with him. also go read amakurra and the dav series by fialleril and nameless on the edge of nowhere by taxonamie NOW
Orion Pax doesn't have his memories but he DOES have a bullshit detector and Megatronus or whatever the fuck he's calling himself now has just tripped the meter so far past red its broken.
Now.
Orion isn't good at lying. He knows this. But he IS good at playing clueless.
It helps that he seriously doesn't know What The Frag is going on. It also helps that he has Big Blue Optics that no one seems capable of meeting for more than a few seconds at a time.
And Warlord Ratchet? Really??? That's the best he could come up with? Orion has encountered younglings with better lying abilities.
I apologize for the lack of interaction but I do hope you enjoy this even with a rare ship and odder plot.
CopperRightVin (I may try to think of a different ship name for my sake 🤔 just so it won't be mixed up with CopperRightMin)
Tw/Tags: Canon Divergence, Established Relationship, Double Agent Charles, Morally Ambiguous/Grey Charles, Ooc Charles (But for this it's in character if that makes sense?), Domestic Fluff, Minor Angst, & Plot/World Building Heavy(Ish)
From a day so prolonged, Charles is fatigued by the end of it. Within seconds, in a snap of the finger his life is altered drastically and he doesn't know what to ponder about it. Since then to now, tiredly slumped in the backseat to some luxuriant vehicle, he can't even use his brain, or even his body for that matter.
"Look tired there?" In his haze Charles can hear the familiar accented voice up at the driver's seat.
"Hmm, You don't look well, darling" A second, softer, smoother voice recalls. Gloved hands then cups his face that brought him to reality again. Past bleary eyes, which showed to be a momentary struggle for him to focus, saw a face looking genuinely concerned for his well being. "You should get some sleep, doll. We had a long day, didn't we, Right, dear?" Not too long after Charles did close his eyes, he barely hears the last conversation between the two men. Some he picks up on, either it relates to him and or the day that led them here, other topic pieces he ignores for the calmingly numb buzz sound in his head.
"He should. Did so well for us earlier"
With a broken little whine Charles can't help to preen at the glowing praise, "... I. Y-yeah… I did…"
"You did. We're so proud. For putting all you knew on the line for us" Life as Charles ever known is uprooted, changed forever to which he can't back out on.
"Never expect much outta you in the terms of a good strategy plan but that one worked out spectacularly" The driver, Right, says with a chuckle.
"...They… Didn't know what hit them… I-it. It was amazing …" In between a yawn, Charles continues with them. Once he would've felt bad, still there's a nagging voice saying he should, although pushed back, he's actually expressing pure giddiness. "... You all. You should've seen their faces" He can picture them, no matter how he forced it to dissolve into a faint memory where it is permanently seared into his mind. The looks were an odd combination of shock, anger, sadness, and more importantly, betrayal, if they found out about his status.
"Yes. We saw a few. They were utterly beside themselves in grief. They think you're dead"
"... That's … Good" Decidedly Charles laid their head on the man's lap, curling into a tiny ball rather than bother an attempt to sleep in their stiff seat. "I should feel bad for them… I don't though…" Spoken softly in a hush, as if someone could hear them. Maybe that made the (ex) pilot a traitor in the law's eyes, in his old friend's viewpoint nevertheless he'll grow past it.
"Eh' you shouldn't feel too bad for those dogs anyways" Right snidely remarks, earning a tutting noise from their partner. "You're back with the clan and us"
"Yes. There's quite a few who miss you. We certainly do"
They cracked their eyes open a little, staring up at Reginald with a sullen expression when they replied, "Not exactly who I was referring to. I could care less, they saw me as a simple minded, naive fool they can use. You won't believe how many times I wanted to shoot them in their smug faces. Better yet crash the plane into the nearest building per my 'great plans' with them in it. Painfully ridiculous in what I had to deal with on a daily basis"
While rambling on, Charles stops, sensing Reginald's fingers cautiously curl around his thick, white locs. "We know. So who do you mean then?"
"There were these two people I was assigned to work with during my time with the military" Charles picked up, heavily exhausted, and he fought against it. "In order to take both you and the Toppats down"
In the internal rear side mirror Charles saw Right perks a brow, suddenly curious. "You mean Stickmin and Ms. Rose?" His robotic eye turns a blazing red, and a scowl on his scruffy face.
"Yes... A part of me does wish I could've told them. I knew better than to spill. It would've risked everything more than it already did. They were amazing in their skills" Charles sympathetically understood why he couldn't have at the time. His teammates, thinking he was their best friend, were regular, run of the mill thieves turning a brand new leaf for the government.
Far too much a risk to his main cause. They were more trouble then what Charles thought their worth was to him.
"You shouldn't miss them" Reginald took his turn to respond, looking rather bristled at the mere mention. "Likely they were only in it for themselves. They're a danger to the clan and I'm amazed we aren't totally inoperative"
"I know. Still they were something" Charles sighs dismissively.
"We're home. Finally" Right pipes up, curt, as he stops the car and exits. The back door is opened moments later, Charles stays put on Reginald's lap. A gentle persistent nudge at their sides keeps them awake, just barely. "It was a long ride for us. Do you need help?"
"U-uh, no… No, I think I'm fine. I can handle it"
Right hums, not believing a single word with Reginald helping the third party up and out the car. "You need it the most. Today was quite spoiled with excitement" He sleepily imagines Reginald fret over him.
"Sure" He purrs, "I love a good tending to"
In one swift movement, Charles is swooped into the strong arms, obviously it was Right, cold metal earning a chilled shiver. Again he hears Reginald speak across his head to the man, the man's hands freely brushing a loc behind his ear. Well earned sleep came in a slow progression that is able to fully drown out his problems. Enough he for once could relax, to snuggle into the other's broad chest and notice in his daze they entering a house. Charles is met with a deeply intimate warmth seeping into their skin, soothes the aches in his body. A sleepy smile adorned their worn face, safe to be at ease, be with people he's known and loved for years..
Character A is a private investigator for the government who has been tasked with infiltrating a titan of a business to find out what kind of criminal activity they engage in. A starts to climb the ranks of the company and eventually discovers what they were looking for, but along the way, they began to fall for the company owner’s son/daughter who’s reputation will be destroyed if they bring the businesses wrong-doings to light.
i have a few AUs and im dummy so ill just sprinkle ships in there, but theyre typically not the main focus but!!!
There’s 2 AUs primarily for angst: Double Agent and Groundhog Day
Double Agent is where Nauls figures out some members of the crew are things
but!! rather than telling anyone out of being too distraught to tell anyone, he keeps that to himself and instead starts helping the thing as he slowly spirals into denial and is willing to do just about anything to keep up the illusion of everything being fine
originally he kills fuchs because fuchs was about to tell mac after nauls accidentally told him who is assimilated
but for fuchs/nauls angst we can tweak that a lil ;^)
Groundhog Day is where every time Nauls dies, the horrendous week of pure pain and suffering starts over and over again
However, the more loops hes stuck in, the more other people start remembering too
Palmer, Childs, Mac, Clark and Windows remember alongside Nauls, while no one else seems too
Nauls is very stressed out from all of this and it doesn’t help that his body cant seem to handle the amount of times it keeps being torn apart, from being incinerated, to being shot, to being gutted, drugged, the works
however, good ol fuchs doesn’t remember any of these loops so as far hes concerned, his sweet skating bf seems to have woken up after being blended alive! and he wont tell him whats up :^)