@febuwhump day twenty-eight - breaking point
"Then it won't be Wanda who comes for her. It will be the Scarlet Witch."
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@febuwhump day twenty-eight - breaking point
"Then it won't be Wanda who comes for her. It will be the Scarlet Witch."
Febuwhump Day 28: Recovery
pairings: gen
summary: a story about y/n, Redbull’s new second driver, told in non-sequential order
a/n: I love febuwhump and have participated before for other fandoms but this is a first for me — attempting to compete it via smau only. Hopefully I can write a complete story eventually and I will be posting it on its own masterlist in the correct order to read but it’ll be written based on the febuwhump prompt list! @febuwhump
a/n2: based on the 2024 year; sorry checo but you got replaced earlier!
a/n3: I did it! This is the last of the small installments that make up this story — I’m already planning on a bigger piece that will reference all of these and will be a LS2 piece
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y/n_rb: well it’s been a long fucking year — lots of new friends, my beautiful gorgeous girlfriends, too many visits to the hospital, and of course - Formula 1, my first and truest love. I can’t really put into words how much it’s meant to me this past year to have the chance to drive for Redbull (knowing they took a chance on me), to drive amongst my teammate maxverstappen1 and my heroes fernandoalo_oficial & lewishamilton, my old friends oscarpiastri & logansargeant & liamlawson30, new friends charles_leclerc & landonorris & georgerussell63 & alex_albon ( even pierregasly 🤢 i guess), and everyone else on the grid this year.
Now it’s time to rest and recover because guess what?? I GOT SIGNED FOR MORE DRIVING. THESE LOSERS AINT GETTING RID OF ME JUST YET
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Febuwhump 2k25 - Day 28 - Recovery
All will be well again
Febuwhump Day 28: Breaking Point
Febuwhump day 28: breaking point
key characters: Iphigenia (D&D PC), Osvaldo, Terenzio and Elzerina (D&D NPCs)
summary: Iphigenia is kind. but if some fool makes the mistake of threatening her siblings, well... they get to learn the hard way just how much of a mistake this is.
(or: Iphigenia gets to be scary, as a treat. again, don't say i never give you nice things!)
warnings: threats, blood, bruises. minor whump (Terenzio and Elzerina are somewhere in their late teens).
length: 1700 words
tags for the angst fiends: @febuwhump @zmwrites @memento-morri-writes @isherwoodj @talesofsorrowandofruin
@kaatiba @dragon-swords-prophecies @zinabug-writes
other notes/references: i found House Thal on the Forbidden Realms Wiki; it's described as a “ruthless family angling for a seat on Waterdeep’s Council of Nobles”
WE DID IT! 28 DAYS OF FEBUWHUMP!!
Febuwhump 2026 Day 28 - Breaking point
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Under Controlled Conditions: Breaking Point
Chapter 32
CW: Gun violence, shooting, minor character death, Vivesection aftermath.
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Febuwhump Day 28
Danny and his team crept down the road leading to the building looming out of the darkness. Three full tactical units followed in their wake, silent as the dead. As Danny led them forward he just hoped they weren’t too late, tension coiled in his stomach.
All was still quiet as the teams surrounded the building. Danny and Joel positioned themselves at the main entrance and stared at each other. Danny held up his hand, 3 fingers pointing upward. He whispered into the open mic earpiece that was secured to his helmet.
“Three. Two. One. Go, go, go.”
The doors blew open. Danny, Joel and Harris entered, followed by the tac teams and were met with a mass of guards in black gear who charged toward them. Damn there must be cameras around the facility that they’d missed, thought Danny. His gun already firing rounds into the necks and bodies of the men and woman who came at them. The suppressed pop of rounds leaving silenced weapons danced around the room. Black armoured figures fell with muffled grunts as bullets struck them. Blood exploded from their enemies as fatal shots downed one after another.
“Clear”, came a call from behind. “We lost Alpha six”.
Danny spun round to see Alpha six lying face down on the floor in an ever widening pool of fresh red blood. Sorrow filled him. He locked it down and pushed it deep within him. He would morn for the man later, right now they had a job to do.
Rounding the corner, was an open plan room full of laptops, monitors and a mini lab. Scientists in white lab coats huddled together in the furthest corner with their hands raised. Danny motioned to Alpha team. Two of them pulled out zip tie cuffs and secured the hands of the scientists in front of their bodies then ordered them to sit in silence on the floor.
Danny approached a young blonde man who shook with terror. A whine broke through the man’s teeth as Danny crouched down and grasped the man’s chin.
“Where are they being held?” Danny asked quietly, however the deadly edge to his tone was unmistakable.
“L-level 3, sub-basement. The main theatre room there. T-they’re conducting the auction now.”
“Auction?” Danny queried as a cold chill ran through his body.
The scientist restrained to the floor in front of him didn’t elaborate further, he just nodded in a quick jerky fashion.
The team burst into life and ran for the stairwell, they pounded down the steps two at a time and hurtled through the door labelled ‘BL3’. Danny was expecting bare concrete and dungeon like cells. The stark white cleanliness of the corridor took him aback.
Danny raced down the corridor with Joel and Harris on his heels, he rounded another corner and came face to face with a set of large double doors. He paused momentarily to look through at the scene in front of him.
Banks of monitors filled with people in suits. They looked to be arguing and shouting over each other. Several lab coats stood around different stations. Dr Hudson worked on an open body lying on the surgical table and Calvin stood beside him. A specimen box ready to receive its horrific contents.
Bile rose in Danny’s throat, anger burned brightly inside of him and a violent rage propelled him through the doors and into the room gun raised.
Dr Hudson was the first to react. He spun away from the body, gloved hands coated in thick blood. As he registered Danny’s face, he flung himself toward the figure on the table as if trying to protect it.
‘Protect his work more like.’ The thought flew through Danny’s mind as two bullets fired from his pistol in quick succession. One hit Dr Hudson in the shoulder, the second buried itself in his chest. The doctor mangled to scream out a strangled “Nooooo”, he fell to the ground clutching his chest as he bled out. Alpha team secured him and dragged him from the room. Danny found he didn’t care if he was dead or alive.
Camera feeds burst into static as the tactical team swept through the room. No one would want to be associated with this, not now the operation had been exposed.
In the fray Calvin had vanished and Danny seethed at the loss, the container he had been holding lay smashed on the floor. Danny ran to AJ and gasped in horror at the sight of his body lying hacked open, organs spilling out onto the table as they were sold off.
“Oh AJ, no”, Danny stroked a hand through his friend’s hair. He bent to pick up a sheet and cover him, give him the shred of decency he’d deserved in life.
Tears fell from Danny’s eyes as he draped the sheet over AJ. As he was wrapping his body, he saw a flicker in AJ’s chest, as the ruined body took a shallow breath.
“Holy shit”, he whispered as he tracked the movement. “HARRIS, get over here, QUICK.”
Harris bolted to Danny side and balked at the state of AJ.
“He still alive. He’s under anaesthetic. But…. We might…. We might be able to save him. Help me.”
They took up position either side of the table and donned latex gloves. Danny carefully probed inside his friends open abdomen. Pausing his inspection to put the intestines that had spilled out, back into AJ’s body.
“It doesn’t look too bad”, he commented. “There’s a few things that appear missing. I think we got here just as they knocked him out to take the major organs.”
Danny and Harris worked together as they checked AJ a final time before stapling the Y shaped incision back together.
“I think that’s the most we can do for now. Let’s try bring him round and get some fluid into him”, said Danny.
Harris disconnected AJ’s cannula and was attaching it to a saline bag when Joel burst back into the room. He dragged a thrashing man who had been cuffed with his hands behind his back. Blood ran from a wound at his temple and streaked down his face.
Danny stood as Calvin was shoved in front of him. He snarled in his face. “You absolute mother fucking prick.” Danny punched Calvin across the face, his head snapped back and more blood flowed.
Danny couldn’t conceal his rage, especially as Calvin recovered from the blow and smirked at him through bloody teeth. He drew his pistol again and put a round in each knee. Calvin yelled in agony as he buckled to the floor.
“Get him out my sight”, he instructed Joel. “Before I put a bullet between his fucking eyes.” Joel snapped a salute and dragged Calvin back toward the doors, his collar bunched in his first. He ignored the cries Calvin made. He could fucking suffer every moment.
Danny took a steadying breath as he turned back to AJ. Harris had found the regen serum shots in an unlocked draw. Danny injected it into AJ’s arm, followed by a shot of painkillers. A further needle pumped antibiotics into the fluids already flowing into AJ.
Danny stood back and cupped AJ’s cheek again as he looked across him to Harris.
“We’ve done what we can for now. Let’s do a quick sweep, get the tac teams to gather notebooks, laptops, hard drives, whatever and then have them seal off the building.
Harris saluted and began giving out the orders to the teams. Joel returned to the room moments later.
“I found an office just off to the side holding reams of official paperwork. Thought you might want to see this”, and he held up a file for Danny to read.
Danny’s heart sank as he read the header. A copy of WRU paperwork, Darius’ signature scrawled shakily along the bottom. He let out a deep sigh and the sadness in Joel’s eyes echoed in his own. They were too late. Darius was gone. He swallowed past the lump in his throat and turned his attention back to AJ.
AJ was beginning to stir. Danny picked up a pen light and shone it into AJ’s eyes repeatedly. Both pupils were equal and reactive. It didn’t look like he had a head injury.
AJ cracked open an eye, he struggled to bring anything into focus as he whispered out a question.
“Am I dead?”
Danny took hold of his shoulder. “No AJ, you’re not.”
AJ focused his eyes on Danny unsure if the face that hovered above him is real. Danny reached out and cupped AJ’s cheek, rubbing his thumb back and forth over his clammy skin.
“Shush, shush, it’s ok AJ, you’re alive, you’re ok. We’ve got you now.”
“Danny?”
“Yep it’s me AJ. Ive got you now, you’re going to be ok.”
AJ focused on him again and winced as he pulled in a deep breath. “Danny. Where is Darius? Do you…. Do you have him too?”
The question Danny had dreaded. He steeled himself and gave his friend the blunt truth.
“No. I’m sorry AJ but no. He’s at WRU, he has been for a few weeks now. We’ve received a location from command on his whereabouts. He’s in WRU facility six.”
“Go get him then!” AJ tried to shriek, his voice came out broken from the hours he’d spent screaming. “Get him quickly, he won’t remember us even now…… go get him…… please.” His shout turned to sobbing gasps.
“I’m sorry AJ, we can’t. We can’t break into a facility as secure as that. Our best chance is when he is transferred to his owner. I’m sorry but he stays at WRU until his training is complete. It’s suicide otherwise.”
AJ’s thoughts raced round his head. The overwhelming relief that his team was here and he was somehow still alive paled at the realisation that his brother was stuck in hell with no way to get him out. What they were doing to him was unthinkable. His body shook, his skin went pale and clammy. His eyes rolled back in his head. He couldn’t hold onto his sanity anymore. He’d finally reached his breaking point. Something shook loose in him and he began to howl.
“Fuck, he’s going into shock….. and hysteria.”
Harris passed a sedative to Danny.
“AJ it’s ok, I’m going to put you back under, I’m going to sedate you so you don’t hurt yourself and we can get you out of here.”
AJ let out a broken whine as yet another needle pierced his skin. Tears rolled from his eyes as the sedative took effect and he lapsed back into unconsciousness.
They transferred AJ to a stretcher as Alpha team finished bagging the first initial set of evidence.
As they carried AJ unconscious from the lab, Danny kept reassuring him, even though AJ couldn’t hear the words.
“It’s ok AJ, you’re ok. We will get Darius, we’ll bring him home for you.”
Harris glanced at Danny, a skeptical look written across her face.
“Let’s just hope WRU break him quickly.” Danny muttered to her.
“As painful as it is to wish for that. At least we’ll stand a chance of getting him back sooner. Like I said before, we can’t invade WRU. He’s gonna have to go through the process and go to his buyer before we even attempt a rescue.”
A range of emotions battered Danny. But as they carried AJ from that awful place he savoured the fact that they had got one back. In time they would get the other too.
And that’s it for Febuwhump! Over the first two weeks of March I will be finishing what has now become a book 🤣 I have roughly 5 chapters left to write, which will be the conclusion of Darius and AJ’s story. I just need a day or two to relax and then do the ending justice! Stay tuned, let’s see if the brothers survive their ordeal?!
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Febuwhump Day 28
Breaking point
How to Train Your Dragon | Astrid, Hiccup, Viggo, Tuffnut, Ruffnut, Snotlout, Fishlegs, Ryker | CW: implied torture | 561 words | AO3
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Dedicated to @emachinescat, who requested this scenario! Thanks for always cheering me on 💕
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Astrid was ready to punch something – or preferably someone. She was a warrior, so if there was one thing she hated, it was feeling helpless. But here she was, stuck in a cell on the Grimborns’ ship, without her axe, her armour or her dragon. Fishlegs, Snotlout, Ruff and Tuff were locked in other nearby cells, in various stages of anger, boredom and anxiety. And Hiccup…
Another thing she hated was worrying about Hiccup. He’d given her plenty of reasons to worry over the years, but for the most part he could look after himself (or, at least, Toothless could be trusted to keep him out of trouble). But given that an hour or so ago, they'd all just watched impotently while Ryker had dragged Hiccup out of his cell and up the stairs, she was godsdamned worried.