On January, this year (2018) my cousin Karen (20 years old) and I (20 years old) left Venezuela looking for a better future. We only had money to go to Peru and so we did.
After 6 days travelling on a bus, we arrived to Lima, which we decided to leave because we didn't find a job, we were left almost homeless by some people we are no longer talking to which by the way are way older than us, we didn't have nothing to eat (our dinners consisted of popcorn) and Peruvians were treating us horrible just because we were Venezuelans.
So we came to Arequipa, we took a bus with the little money we had left and arrived here, a friend of my mom was the one who told us to come here. The same day we arrived we luckily found a room for the two of us and even if the room wasn’t the best it at least had a bed.
My cousin found a job almost two weeks after we arrived, I found a job almost four weeks later and while we didn't have jobs we were selling candies on the street. Which we are doing now too.
My cousin's boss was underpaying her and she was working more than 12 hours a day. She had a wage of 450 soles a month, when the minimum wage in Peru was 850 soles (now 930) a month.
Meanwhile I worked on a clothing store but they were blaming me for stuff that weren't my fault, and when the minimum wage raised they told me they weren't going to pay me that because ''I was Venezuelan and I didn't deserve to have the same pay as all the Peruvians.''
We started to look for another job because we deserved better, but her boss was starting to take notice of what she was doing, so she lent us a kitchen and said she was going to pay her a little bit more because she didn't want her to leave.
One day we were really done with our jobs and that same day the opportunity of another job was presented to us, we said yes immediately because they offered us one meal a day and the pay was better.
When we both quit, her boss took away the kitchen and said she wasn't going to pay her half the moth she worked, which was 425 soles. Meanwhile my boss told me they weren't going to pay me for about a whole month, we were really upset but we were hoping the best for our new job.
But nothing was better, we found out that the Restaurant was also working as a secret whore's place. We didn't want to be part of that so we decided to leave the restaurant, they paid us but to this day they still owe us 50 soles.
My cousin found a job first and some days later I found a job as well. She is now working as a part time waitress on a nice restaurant. Meanwhile I got tricked by the place I was working at.
I started to work but at the end of my first week they told me ''thanks for your collaboration but the girl who was taking a rest is coming back to work this Monday, you can come for your pay next week''. I had to be paid 150 soles and they just paid me 90 soles.
Now we are really, really worried because we have to leave Peru on July, the reason is the Visa they gave us expires on July 17th (they only gave us 180 days to stay here) and we don’t want to be here illegally.
Peru has been really rough with us, our ex bosses together owe us more than 500 soles and we can't do anything about it.
So we are asking for your help because we really need it, so if you could please donate us at least one dollar (or whatever currency you have) so we can buy two bus tickets to get out of Peru on July 10th that would be amazing. We have to go to Bolivia or Chile, where we have friends and family.
We would be so thankful with you if you donate and if we only collect money for at least one ticket that would be amazing as well, please help us and thank you so much if you do.
Our names are Jul and Karen, two 20 year old girls who left their country, family, friends and whole life to find a better future, we would be really thankful if you can share this with your family and friends as well!
Here is the link to the PayPal fundraise i just opened, please help us
Description: Basically, we get a closer look on how are things going for Mae 4 years later and Loki is about to fuck it up big time.
Warnings for the whole fic: yes, a lot. Strong language such as cursing, violence of course, death yes, also spoilers for all the MCU movies already released to date, and also a lot of fluff cause yeah lol I love fluff. AND ANGST.
Words: 3.044 (omg lol)
Note: maybe some chapters will be written on third person. And oh my fucking god, I’m so sorry, I’m like months later for this but trust me, moving to another country by yourself and starting from 0 really fucks up with your feelings and your mind. And I’m not saying I’m good now but I’m better than some months ago, and I feel like I got my muse back, so yep. Sorry, but I’m here!
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4 years later.
2017, actuality. Earth time.
It was hilarious.
I could hear the guards screaming at each other while getting frustrated as they kept running and chasing me down the halls, or more accurately, chasing my illusion down the halls. Meanwhile I was calmly watching them, sitting just a store above them. I was in that part of the castle that only royalty or high military could get in, and they were chasing me because I was neither of those, but I always managed to get my way in.
I always did because that was the part of the castle I had to see Loki almost every night, after everyone in there went to sleep, except the guards of course.
I was already upstairs and running a little late to my training but oh, it was so much fun to see how confused and frustrated they kept getting, but now I really had to go so I just made the illusion go away and seconds later I could hear the guards arguing about who missed me out of sight first while I just walked away of them. I let out a little chuckle as I started to hear the fight that was starting between them.
It was a classic, and almost every night they still fell for it.
But it wasn’t always like that, I remember how the first time I tried to sneak up on them they nearly killed me, for real, because they caught me so easily. They had their swords ready to slay me but they were stopped by Loki dressed up as Odin just seconds before they did, I was scared to death but he said that I needed to get over it and learn how to sneak up on people because that would help me in my training.
I didn’t want to do it the first times, but when I finally succeeded I knew that he was right, every time it just got easier and easier to sneak in without them knowing and for me it started to be a hobbie. It was actual, real fun.
I liked it so much that I didn’t sneak in that part of the castle only, but in many other places too. I’ve seen places of Asgard no one has been able to see before, because they are restricted areas and I’m proud of myself for doing it, and Loki should be too… but he doesn’t quite know about that.
I mean, not that he cared neither.
‘’Miss Mae’’, I heard as I entered the room and a dagger flew to my face right away. ‘’You’re late’’
‘’Fuck off’’, I said as I quickly took the dagger just before it hit me and threw it back at him. I tried not to smile as I saw him taking it again with such ease. It was weird to see Odin moving that smoothly.
‘’Why are you late Mae, are you playing with my guards again?’’, he asked while making the dagger disappear in thin air. I smiled in response and he just smiled back, knowing that he was right.
‘’Why are you still in your Odin disguise, anyway?’’, I asked as I left my stuff on the table and looked at him, I learned that I always had to be aware of everything. And more if Loki was around.
After all he was the God of Mischief, so things could turn… an amusement for him, dangerous for me.
‘’I wanted to trick you’’, the Odin figure quickly vanished as Loki suddenly whispered in my ear. He tried to attack me but I quickly blocked him, rejecting his punches and trying to punch him back. ‘’But I see you’ve gotten faster… and stronger, and smarter too’’. Loki said as he smiled and we both took some steps back.
‘’Yeah, I really don’t like to be taken by surprise… for example, being stabbed, that hurt a lot by the way’’, I said as I frowned and remembered what happened some nights ago, Loki just smiled at the memory and I made a face remembering the pain I had to go through for some days.
‘’My bad, I’m sorry’’
‘’You’re not sorry Loki’’. I knew he wasn’t, I didn’t have anything against him though. Even after all the things he has done, like throwing knifes at me and major things like when he threw me off the stairs just for, and I quote ‘’training’’. I just, from the bottom of my heart, didn’t hold anything back against him.
‘’No, you’re right, I’m not. Besides it was for training… and fun’’, he let out a laugh as he walked towards the table and served himself a cup of wine. ‘’You survived, and that’s what matters Mae’’.
‘’Oh yeah, I think that’s not the right thing to say to someone you stabbed… actually, you shouldn’t stab people on the first place but alright’’
‘’Again, it was for training and you’re perfectly fine!’’, Loki said as he put down his empty cup of wine and looked back at me. ‘’Now come on, stop whining and get in position’’
‘’Already am, Lo, I already am’’, I whispered as I smiled and looked at him, my gown disappearing as I just made the change of clothes to some more comfortable, it was a simple magic trick I learnt the first weeks we started to practice with the Asgardian Magic.
Loki smiled kind of proud of me and the magic trick I just performed, and then the training begun.
Sometimes it consisted of him teaching me his tactics during fights, some other times it was just him trying to teach me his mind tricks, most of the times it was just physical fights and some other occasions we just focused on training the mind, such as perfecting my astral projection and my illusions, which got better with time, of course. Sadly the magic lessons stopped when he noticed that I learnt everything that he could teach me.
And to be honest, the training was fun most of the time, but sometimes it really wasn’t. Like when he stabbed me or maybe kicked me too hard that even the next day it was still hurting, so yeah, sometimes it wasn’t really that nice. But I still looked forward to it; training was almost like an addiction.
Because after all, even the bad things would help me to be stronger and better for the reason he was teaching me all of this. I still didn’t know the whole plan, but I knew it had to do with the avengers and with the fact that I had to pull them away from the inside.
I knew it was going to be hard since the day he told me about it, but I agreed because I felt Loki trusted me enough to do so… oh, and also because he threatened me to agree, so I really didn’t have many options, besides it was still going to take some more years till I was completely ready for the task.
And for going back to Earth, which was my less favourite part of the plan, if I was honest.
‘’You need to be faster with your comebacks, I’ve always said it’’, Loki said as he kept directing punches at me and I rejected them.
‘’I am faster’’, I whispered as I took one dagger from my boot and threw it at him. He unexpectedly took it and redirected it at me, as soon as I saw it coming my way I just closed my eyes and tried to protect my face as much as I could, it took me completely off guard because he has never redirected the daggers I’ve thrown at him before.
I mean, he has thrown me daggers, of course. But his daggers, never mine.
‘’Huh… exactly, that’s what I’m talking about’’.
So I just opened my eyes, a bit confused at what he said and a lot confused as why I didn’t feel the familiar sensation of the blade going through my skin. The first thing I saw was the dagger floating in the air just centimeters away from me, it was being held in a purple matter as it moved weirdly.
‘’All right, you can stop it’’, Loki said as he started to walk my way.
‘’Sure’’, I said as the matter disappeared and then the dagger just fell on the floor, when it hit the floor it just became ashes. ‘’Ow man, no way, that was my favourite dagger’’.
‘’So you’ve been practicing with your ability’’, Loki said as he stood next to me. He knew he didn’t teach me how to do that, and if I was honest I really didn’t know how I did it.
‘’Everyday’’, sometimes I even felt like it practiced on its own. And did things on its own, too.
‘’Impressing, I got to say’’, he nodded and then just smiled a bit. ‘’You are more ready than I thought you would be by now’’
‘’What?’’, I asked immediately, totally confused. We both were panting a bit and my hair was a total mess so I just started to put it in a pony tail.
‘’Yes… you just need to trust more in yourself. You have the best professor, so you totally know what to do and how to do it’’
I just rolled my eyes at what he said and then just looked at him, he smiled a bit more:
‘’But yes, even your subconscious and your reflexes know what to do. That’s a good sign’’
‘’Yeah… I guess you are right’’, he nodded and then I just saw him putting his arm up as he got closer, at first I thought he was going to pat my back on that weird way he always does but as soon as he got too close I realized he was trying to make a trick on me, or that’s what it felt like, so I quickly pushed him away with a kick on his chest and then just held him on the air for some seconds.
‘’Ouch!’’, he said as he put his hands above the part where I kicked him. ‘’What the hell was that for?’’, he asked while frowning.
‘’You were totally going to strangle me, or something’’, I said while relaxing a bit as he was now in the air and away from me.
‘’Huh… no’’, he said confused and a bit mad now. ‘’I was totally going to congratulate you and give you a hug’’
‘’A hug?’’, I frowned.
‘’Yes, a freaking hug’’, he rolled his eyes and then just looked down at me. ‘’Would you mind putting me down again?’’
‘’Huh, yeah… sorry’’, and then I just made him go down. He fixed his hair as he murmured something about how he couldn’t believe he had to ask that to a kid.
‘’Alright, training is over kid… now, come here’’, I hesitated but I did, and then he just hugged me.
Loki was hugging… me. Okay. Weird enough.
‘’What’s going on?’’, I asked as I hugged him back, weirdly.
It was odd, it felt odd. I really didn’t do hugs.
‘’You’re just… a really good student, the best one’’
‘’The only one too’’, I commented and then he just laughed as he stopped hugging me.
‘’And the best one’’
‘’Alright, thanks… weird of you to say this, but thanks’’
He rolled his eyes and went back to the snack table he always had in that room:
‘’I’m just being nice! Why can’t you take it?’’
‘’Because... when you are nice it feels like it’s error 404 to me’’
‘’Huh?’’
‘’Nevermind’’, I smiled at my own joke.
‘’Alright. Tomorrow there won’t be training sessions, by the way’’, he commented as he took some grapes.
‘’Huh, why not? It’s Friday night’’
‘’Because you have to be up early on Saturday for the theatre’’
‘’Oh… it’s that time of the month already, huh?’’
‘’Yes!’’, I just rolled my eyes as I changed myself back to my gown. ‘’You need to go’’
‘’I always go’’, he nodded.
‘’I know.’’
‘’Good’’, I just walked next to him and grabbed a bit of water from the table.
We were silent for a couple of minutes, until he finally spoke:
‘’So… I really need you to be earlier than ever so you can help with the scenario’’
‘’Oh God, I knew you weren’t being nice just for the sake of being nice’’, I replied as I looked at him.
‘’You’re the only one who knows the right placing of things’’
‘’Alright Lo… I’ll go earlier only if you say the magic words’’
‘’If you don’t, I’ll kill you’’
‘’Geez, no…’’, but he just laughed.
‘’I’m kidding… but please, would you do it?’’
And I smiled, because Loki could be actually nice if he wanted to:
‘’Alright’’
‘’Great’’, and he smiled immediately.
Today something will happen. Like, totally.
I could feel it, it was in the air, in the way the sky looked this morning and more important in the way I could feel the energy around me. It was electric… I could even say it felt… thundering.
‘’I can’t believe you’re making them do this play again’’ I said as I walked to where Loki was already sitting.
‘’Everyone likes The Tragedy of Loki of Asgard!’’, Loki as Odin replied, he was drinking his favourite wine, as always.
‘’Come on’’, I rolled my eyes as I just looked how everyone started to gather around us, they were excited about being there. And he was right, people always cried at that play.
‘’You love it’’, he added.
‘’I don’t’’, I kind of did.
‘’Everyone does’’, he said again with a smile.
‘’I really don’t’’, I repeated.
‘’By the way, good morning Mae’’, he looked up at me as he smiled. ‘’The stage looks amazing today’’
‘’Good morning, my King. And thanks’’, I smiled and then just looked at the scenario, he was right, it looked amazing.
I then looked around and some people pretended to be doing something else, but I knew they were looking at me, because they always did. I sometimes wondered why the Asgardians didn’t ask why the human girl, as they used to call me, was always that close to the King. I mean, they looked at me bad but the way some of them did wasn’t as bad as some years ago.
They looked and talked, but they never asked. They never questioned it.
They rejected me most of the times and sometimes they even laughed at me, but never questioned why Odin always had me around. And I used to think it was maybe a magic trick from Loki, but no, it wasn’t because one day I asked him and he just said: ‘’they never question it because you have never done anything bad to them, if you come in peace they will keep at peace’’.
And even if Asgardians were sometimes weird with me, I liked that about them.
‘’Oh, there we go’’, Loki disguised as Odin said, so excited that he even seemed like a child.
‘’Yep, here we go’’, I murmured.
And the play started. It was the convergence, the battle with the dark elves and then the death of Loki, I’ve seen this play at least some 50 times and the people around me too, and they never seemed to get bored of it.
But I did, I mean it was funny to see how everyone laughed, screamed and cried, sometimes all at the same time. But oh god, it was almost always the same play and you know, you grow out of things if they are always the same.
But today, it really wasn’t going to be the same and I could feel it. I couldn’t tell if it was going to be a good thing or not.
‘’Huh’’, I turned around as I heard something in the distance… the Bifrost was welcoming someone… and that was rather strange.
I turned around again as I saw one man already crying out loud at the death of Loki, on the play of course, and the real Loki disguised as Odin totally into the play, saying the lines of the actors before them.
Ugh, sometimes he really could be something else.
‘’Somebody help!’’, the fake Lady Sif ran away of the stage while crying.
I turned around again as I heard people in the distance murmuring something, they were a bit far from the scenario and something was happening in the entrance, but I couldn’t see because so many people were there. And then people laughed a bit as the actor playing Loki mentioned that he was sorry about turning Thor into a frog.
The real Loki laughed as well and I just smiled trying to imagine that moment, but something felt off and no one else seemed to notice it but me.
After not seeing anything weird at all I just turned around again to watch the end of the play for the now 51st time, but something caught my eye and… oh God.
Oh, literal God of Thunder.
Thor. That was Thor.
He was back in Asgard and he was now looking at Loki disguised as Odin, and the way he was looking at him wasn’t the way Thor would look at his beloved father.
Oh shit, he knew it. And I knew that he knew it… but I couldn’t tell Loki, besides he was way too into the play to even pay attention to me and whatever I’d say.
Damn, this will be a mess.
I couldn’t keep staring at Thor, no one else seemed to notice him though but then he suddenly looked at me, I kind of smiled and he did too, but then he just kept looking at Loki in that strange way, and I knew that he knew that wasn’t Odin. People suddenly cheered and screamed, while congratulating the actors when the play finished. Loki stood up, too.
‘’Bravo! Bravo!’’, he said while applauding and smiling.
‘’Loki… Loki, dammit, Loki!’’, I tried to whisper as low as possible, but no, he didn’t even listen.
‘’Father’’, Thor suddenly said, taking everyone’s attention, especially Loki’s.
‘’Oh, shit’’, Loki and I said both in unison.
Oh, real shit.
Next Issue:
Dark Night: The God of Thunder.
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Description: Gert has been secretly training with Molly every night. Until one night Molly is just too tired and finally decides to stop training Gert, leaving her on her own... but is she really on her own?
Words: 4.707... holy fuck, oops!
Warnings: a lot of flulff! And bad words of course, cause I´m the queen of cursing.
Note: Slightly cheesy at the end, cause y’all know I die for the gertxchase feels. And I also need more of that content lmao, can Hulu be faster and start doing season 2 already???? I’m dying for them!
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‘’I think this is dumb as fuck, G.’’ Molly commented as she wrapped her hands on her, now pink colored bends.
‘’What did you just say?’’, Gert asked as she frowned and walked next to her, actually a bit surprised by her choice of words. ‘’Did you just say the word fuck? Since when do you use that word?’’
‘’Ugh, yes I did! Just because it is really stupid!’’, Molly said immediately as she just looked back at Gert. ‘’It’s the 2:00 a.m., in the morning!’’
Gert just smiled at her words:
‘’You know the ‘’a.m.’’ part means morning already, right?’’, she said as she started to wrap her hands on her bends on a soft way. Her hands had some bruises, so it hurt just a little.
‘’Of course I know that, Gert! I was just making emphasis in the fact that I should be sleeping!!’’, Gert just smiled and nodded as she saw how her little sister grew in frustration. She knew it would happen sooner or later, and this time it was sooner than she thought, but right now she just needed half an hour and that would be just fine.
‘’Oh come on Mols, it’s only half an hour.’’
‘’Still G, we could be doing this with the others at normal hours of the morning, you know. Not like if we were vampires or something, and had to do everything in secret.’’
‘’Yeah, you know I can’t do that’’, Gert commented as she blushed slightly.
‘’Yes, you can.’’
‘’Maybe I can… but you know I don’t like to be seen by others. I actually hate it’’
‘’I know’’, Molly said after some minutes of silence. She of course knew about her social anxiety and all her other issues, and she totally understood her. ‘’But still! We could do this earlier in the day, or maybe even at morning and just move to another room, there is plenty of space here. The Hostel is huge!’’
‘’I don’t want them to know either Molly, I want it to be a surprise.’’
Molly just raised her eyebrows and then kind of smiled:
‘’A surprise huh, is it for all of us or for someone in specific?’’
‘’Shut up, Mols’’, Gert said as she rolled her eyes and tried to stop the blush forming on her cheeks.
‘’So, it really is for that someone!’’
‘’No, it’s not, Mols. It’s a surprise for the whole team and for me. Now shut up and let’s start before it gets later, please.’’
‘’Ugh, sometimes I can’t with you’’, Molly commented as her annoyance started to show even more. ‘’I’m too tired.’’
‘’Molly, please!’’, but Molly didn’t say anything as she neither move a single inch. ‘’Molly!’’, but she didn’t answer.
It took just a few seconds for Gert to finally start thinking on something Molly would never say no to:
‘’Molly! I promise to wake you up with waffles… with a lot of chocolate on... even marshmallows!On bed! Only if you help me one more night’’, she commented, and as she did she also saw how Molly’s smile started to get bigger and bigger.
‘’Are you for serious?’’
‘’Have I ever lied to you about waffles?’’, that comment made Molly smile bigger. It seemed impossible, but for Molly nothing was impossible.
‘’You promise?’’, Molly asked really excited, now extending her arm and offering her pinky for Gert to take.‘’Pinky promise?’’
‘’I totally do, I pinky promise Mols’’, Gert said as she took her pinky and twisted it a bit with hers.
Molly smiled and then after some seconds she just screamed ‘’watch out!’’ while attacking Gert out of nowhere, that made them both fall on the floor, with Molly above Gert, she was looking at her now totally surprised:
‘’Fuck off, Mols’’, she said, now a bit annoyed. ‘’ What the fuck was that?’’
‘’Always be ready, remember that?’’. She said with the biggest of the smiles now.
And that was just because waffles, they always fixed everything.
‘’Yeah, yeah, whatever. Just don’t do that again.’’
Molly laughed and then just helped her get up, some seconds later both totally ready and starting to combat, this time for real. They both did that every night since the team started to train, even though she didn’t train with them and they didn’t know she was training, but it was the same routine and the same movements.
It felt great.
She always saw them when they were training too, she was always with them but watching from afar, while reading a book or listening to music. Sometimes, she was just pretending to do that while she was actually watching them and their movements.
Even O.L. trained with them, especially with Chase just because they had a crazy bond going on; not even Gert knew how to explain how that was happening.
Anyways, they all decided to start training because they noticed that every time they left the hostel to look for supplies or food, they always encountered a new danger. Like for example a new gang of bad guys or some weird and crazy villain, on a lower scale that didn’t need the help of The Avengers or even the police, of course.
Even if the police was as evil as their parents, but anyways!
After 3 minor incidents happened where at least one of them got out of slightly hurt, they decided that they needed to be a little bit more prepared if they didn’t want to die, or worse, be caught by the police and their parents.
Gert decided that she couldn’t be part of it, but two nights after they started training she couldn’t sleep for some reason, so she decided to go for a walk. She ended up going to that part of the Hostel where they usually trained and after some minutes of just walking around it, she just tried some of the movements she saw them making that same morning.
She felt weird at first because she didn’t have any crazy superpowers like Karo, Molly and Nico had. Neither she was strong or muscled like Chase, nor didn’t she know all the weird but cool tactics Alex knew to fight thanks to his video games.
She felt just... out of place.
That was actually one of the main reasons she didn’t want to train with them, but in those few minutes that she was trying to train by herself she even felt worse than she thought she would, just because she felt that she was doing it wrong.
Until Molly appeared of course, she actually just let herself be seen by Gert because she followed her after she left the room they all were sleeping in after watching a movie some minutes ago, so Molly actually had been seeing her for almost 20 minutes.
Gert wanted to die when she saw her, she felt ashamed and shy of herself. But Molly didn’t let that happen, she actually encouraged her to keep going and at the end she even helped her to train, showing Gert how the movements had to be done.
Since that night they had that little system; while everyone was sleeping she left O.L. with Chase, and after some minutes she just reunited with Molly downstairs and started her training.
It was a good system, until Molly started to feel too tired to even try to function right during the days. Even Gert was starting to feel exhausted, so she knew that it was going to happen pretty soon, and tonight she was sure it was the last night.
But at least she learnt from Molly as much as she could, Gert thought. She also thought that she was getting faster; she could even say that she was feeling stronger and if she was honest, she really liked it. It felt just right.
‘’Alright, we are done’’, Gert said 45 minutes later, as she kept lying on the floor. She had bruises all over her body and right now she was feeling like someone was passing over her with a bus, she was really tired.
She already had thousands of bruises, but tonight the list was going to grow. No one noticed her bruises though, or well, maybe that’s what she thought.
‘’Of course we are’’, Molly said as she got up immediately and then just yawned. ‘’Tomorrow Gertrude Yorkes, remember my waffles. If not, consider yourself done.’’
Gert just smiled as she watched her little sister slowly leave the room, she was noticeably tired:
‘’Don’t worry, goodnight and hope you sleep well bruiser!’’
‘’Don’t call me like that!!’’, she said as she frowned and kept walking away. ‘’You know I hate it’’
‘’Sure, thanks for everything Mols!’’
‘’Yeah, yeah!’’
‘’I love you!’’, Gert just smiled at her response and kept lying there; slowly closing her eyes as she tried to gain some more energies again. Tonight it was the last one, so they trained harder than they ever did before.
She was tired; actually more than tired she was fucking exhausted. She had to pretend everything was normal, so she woke up with them every day at 8:00 am, even though she usually fell asleep at 3:30am every night, so she, of course needed more sleep.
She actually needed some vacations.
And the most important thing now, she needed a warm shower.
But right now she was just laying there, without glasses and with her hair on a high bun, something she never did. Also, she was using the sportiest clothes she could find on her little closet. She didn’t look like her best and she knew it, besides she was all sweaty and feeling dirty, but she didn’t care right now because the only one that saw her like that was Molly.
Or so she thought.
‘’Gert?’’, a really familiar voice suddenly asked.
‘’Fuck’’, she thought just as she opened her eyes and looked at him there, looking at her from above. His hair was messy and the way the light was shining above him made him seem like a literal God. ‘’Fuck, fuck, fuck’’
‘’Are you okay?’’, he asked again.
‘’Hey Chase’’, she slowly blushed as she just kept lying on the floor. She could see him and even if she saw him kind of blurry because of her lack of glasses, she knew he was smiling now. That smile she noticed was reserved only for her. ‘’Yeah! Of course I’m okay, why wouldn’t I be?’’
‘’Well, first… you’re lying on the floor and from there’’, he pointed at the top of the stairs where O.L. was now watching them as he sat like a huge, nice dog, ‘’if I’m honest, it looks like you are dead. It’s also 3:30 am, so... you know.’’
‘’Well, as you can see from the conversation we are both having right now, I’m not dead. So yeah, I’m okay Chase.’’ Gert smiled as she slowly sat on the floor, crossing her legs and trying to not maintain eye contact with him.
‘’Then what’s up, dear?’’, Chase asked as he just sat down in front of her. Gert taking a deep sigh immediately as he did that. He was on his pj’s, just as she left him like an hour ago.
Sometimes... well, most of the time they used to fall asleep together, they were sure no one knew about it. But of course everyone did know about it.
‘’I don’t know, what’s down?’’, that comment made Chase laugh, so he just bit his lip. Gert watched him as he did that, and in that moment she wished she had her glasses just to detail him better.
‘’What are you doing here and… like this?’’, he asked again as Gert just looked at him, she really didn’t know what to say so she just looked at him like she was judging him. ‘’By the way, you look adorable Gert. If I’m honest.’’
‘’God’’, she just thought as she rolled her eyes and looked at him, and then she just smiled a bit just because she couldn’t help it.
‘’Really adorable’’, he added with a little smile.
‘’Well, thanks… and nothing, really nothing Chase, I’m just here… chilling, don’t you see’’, she shrugged as she looked down; some seconds later she just heard him scoff.
‘’You’re never going to tell me, right?’’
‘’Tell you what?’’, she looked at him again.
‘’What you’ve been doing, G’’
‘’And what exactly I’ve been doing, Stein?’’, she asked as she raised an eyebrow.
‘’I notice how many bruises you get every day, you knew that, right?’’, Chase said as he raised his eyebrows. ‘We sleep together, G. I notice.’’
‘’So what?’’, Gert asked again, pretending to not know what he meant as her anxiety was growing inside and not slowly.
‘’Well, if you want an elaborated and detailed inform of what you’ve been doing these past weeks I think that’s going to take me more than a bit. But long story short, I know that today you finally perfected that kick you’ve been dying to do since two weeks ago, darling.’’
Gert’s face went expressionless as she felt how her cheeks started to feel warmer and warmer. Holy shit, that’s all her mind could think on right now as now she knew that he knew and that he has probably been…
‘’I’ve been seeing you, and Mols... every night’’, he just confirmed her. That affirmation made her close her eyes as she felt ashamed, but mostly shy of herself. ‘’I also feel when you leave the bed, you know… I can’t really sleep without you.’’
‘’Well’’, she said as she looked at him again, even more blushed by his second confession. ‘’Today is the last night you will ever see that, cause Molly doesn’t want to help me anymore.’’
‘’Yeah, and it’s a total shame G’’, he said as he just smiled and Gert looked at him confused. ‘’But now it’s going to be so much better, trust me’’
‘’What do you mean?’’, she just asked that, looking at him on a weird way.
‘’Yeah! Great you ask, cause now I’m going to be your trainer!’’, he said now with his biggest smile ever as he then kind of did jazz hands. Gert just looked at him on a weird way as her cheeks started to feel hotter, not even warmer but just hotter. ‘’Yayyy!’’
‘’What?! B-but… I’m not asking you, Chase!’’
‘’I know you’re not! That’s why I’m proposing myself, I’m not asking you either. I’m just saying that I will be your trainer’’
‘’But Chase, what the f…’’
‘’Oh, come on muffin lips…’’
‘’Don’t call me like that’’, she cut his words almost immediately.
‘’Alright, Gertrude’’, Chase said on a funny way as he kept smiling and she just rolled her eyes. ‘’We both know you want to keep training’’
‘’Well, yeah of course I do Chase, b-‘’
‘’But nothing, G! I want to be your trainer’’, he said as he kept looking at her, but now with big puppy eyes.
‘’Chase’’, he knew those eyes never failed with her.
‘’Please, let me be your trainer’’, he said or well, more like he begged her.
‘’Ugh, alright Chase’’, she said after some seconds, rolling her eyes and then just looking at him, trying to hold her smile. ‘’You can be my trainer from now on, are you happy?’’
‘’Great! Of course I’m happy’’, he said as he smiled bigger and bigger. He felt that was his opportunity to get closer to Gert again, he needed it to happen even if she seemed to have gotten over him.
And he also wanted to help her train by the way, because he always saw how happy she was when she was training so he didn’t want that little piece of happiness to stop for her.
‘’But!’’, she quickly added.
‘’Oh my god’’
‘’Yeah, you know there is a but… I only accept if you don’t try to teach me how to kick’’, Gert said now while smiling.
‘’What do you even mean?’’
‘’Oh Chase, I didn’t want to be the one to break the news for you, but you really don’t know how to kick’’
‘’Oh! So now you’re saying you’re better than me, huh!’’, Chase said as he smiled at her.
‘’Well, I didn’t say that but… you’re not lying either…’’ Gert shrugged as she bit her lip on a playful way.
‘’Does this means what I think it does?’’
‘’I don’t know, what’s that?’’
‘’Are you challenging me now?’’
‘’Oh, hell yeah I am’’, she said as she just got up, suddenly feeling all energetic again.
‘’Ohh, alright. Let’s dot this’’ Chase said as he got up, taking his phone from the floor and unlocking it. They all had phones, but none of them worked like they should do, so they were practically just iPods without apps and internet.
Really boring to be honest, but at least they worked for music.
‘’What are you doing… pumpkin eyes?’’, she quickly whispered the nickname she gave him some years ago, just loud enough for him to hear as well.
So when he heard her calling him by his old nickname, his eyes couldn’t get brighter and his heartbeat couldn’t get faster, he just smiled and kept looking for the song:
‘’If we are going to train then it’s gonna be on my rules, muffin lips’’, he smiled as he played the song.
Gert frowned just as soon as she heard the intro. It was Eye Of The Tiger.
‘’Oh my god, what the fuck?’’, and then just laughed. ‘’Are we suddenly inside a Rocky movie, or what?’’
‘’Oh come on! It’s good for training!’’
‘’If we were living on the 80’s, for sure it is!’’, she said, just kidding though.
‘’So what? You love the 80’s!’’ Chase pointed out as he smiled.
‘’Alright, whatever’’, she just rolled her eyes and fixed her bun, all while smiling. Chase couldn’t help but smile like an idiot as well. ‘’I hope the next song after this one gets better, though.’’
‘’It’s the same song.’’
‘’What do you mean by it’s the same song?’’
‘’It’s a playlist, dear’’ he then showed her the phone, scrolling down the playlist as it showed the same song over and over, and over again.
‘’Oh my god, Chase!’’, Gert just laughed as she just kind of leant herself back. ‘’I can’t believe you.’’
‘’Well, you like me like this after all’’, he just shrugged as he left the phone on the floor.
‘’Yep, I do… anyways, let’s start!’’ Gert said quickly again, as she tried to avoid the little affirmation she made after he said that.
This must be Chase’s lucky day… or night, technically. His heart felt like it was filled with emotion as his cheeks got redder. She never admitted it like that; she has actually never said something like that. Ever.
‘’Alright!’’, and then they just got in position.
It seemed like they were actually going to fight, but it was never really close to it. They basically just played with each other as they laughed and playfully bumped each other, they were just having fun and they liked it.
They missed goofing like that.
They all lived under the same roof as a team, it was weird to have those kind of intimate moments with the person you liked, and even trying to make a movement was weird because there was always someone else in the room so you were never really alone.
And the walls were thin, so somehow everyone always knew what was up with the others. Nothing was a secret, and if it was then everyone knew about it but no one talked about it. It was like a non-written rule.
So having moments like those were really appreciated. Chase felt free; doing something he always wanted to do with one of his favorite persons in the whole world was something that made him feel free.
Gert felt completed, for a moment she felt like nothing else but her little game with Chase was what mattered. No anxiety attacks, no panic, no depression pills were even on her mind. She felt good.
Both felt freed and completed, like they finally found the thing that was missing on their lives. The thing that they lost by acting like they never were friends some years ago. But now it was back, and way stronger than before.
‘’Chase! Your phone!’’, Gert said out loud as she kept running. He stopped to look at her as she just hit herself against him just because she didn’t stop, as soon as that happened she fell above him on the floor.
‘’Sorry’’, she said as her cheeks got redder than they already were.
‘’Don’t worry’’, Chase answered immediately as he was gasping and looking at her. None of them moved, none of them wanted to move actually, just because they both were waiting for the same.
But, as usual on their weird relationship, none of them did it even if the desire was showing in their eyes.
Suddenly the atmosphere on the room quiet down. The laughter and banter disappeared as there was only a little tension on the air, it neither was uncomfortable nor weird, just the kind of tension they both have been wanting to break since they started to be friends again.
‘’I-‘’, Gert started to say as she slowly moved to get up, but Chase was faster. And even if she was stronger now, she really wanted that too so she didn’t even made an effort on stopping him.
‘’No, don’t leave’’, Chase suddenly said as he made her get closer, taking her by her waist. ‘’Please’’
‘’… make me stay’’, Gert suddenly said. After that, there was definitely nothing that could stop them.
Gert suddenly took Chase by his neck as he pulled her a bit closer to his face, none of them kissed first; it was more like a mutual and non-spoken decision just because they both wanted it. They both needed it.
First it was a really wild kiss, both wanting the most of each other as their hands touched the most that they could. They both were desperate, they both were hungry for each other because they have been trying to hide it for so long but at the end nothing could really stop them from doing that.
They both have been craving it since the last time they touched like that, since that night they boosted their parents. But it was also the night they both touched heaven and hell at the same time, and they will never forget about that.
Chase has been repeating the moment on his mind over and over again; meanwhile Gert has been regretting what she told him after what happened. The anxiety won over her that night, and after some time Chase knew that was what actually happened.
Both seemed to have forgotten about it, both tried to forget about it, but none of them really did it. They wanted to repeat it all over and over again.
In the middle of the kiss, Chase suddenly took over; rolling over the floor and getting above her as now his hands were on her neck, showing a slightly dominance as Gert slowly started to caress his back on a slow way, even almost undressing him.
As Chase took over, the kiss also slowed down; it suddenly got sweeter and even romantic.
They felt like old lovers that were finally reuniting after spending some time separated. They were loving it, Gert couldn’t stop thinking on how much she missed his lips, on how much she was craving his touch and on how much she was in love with him.
Meanwhile Chase only had on his mind how happy he was right now; how nothing or no one could compare to her and her touch, her kisses, and her body. How no one could ever be like her and how no one could ever top the love that he felt for her. He was so in love, and he could finally admit it.
Suddenly Chase’s lips took another direction and he soon started to kiss her neck on a really slow way, making her feel better as she wasn’t able to stop smiling. He stopped on the middle of her neck as he whispered something that was incomprehensible for her.
‘’What?’’, Gert said on a fragile and even sensual voice. That voice made Chase get crazy as he has only heard that voice once.
And oh, he missed it.
‘’God, I fucking love you’’, he said as he went back to her lips and started to kiss her immediately. She was shocked about what he said, she couldn’t believe what he just said but the way her heart was racing couldn’t say it more, she fucking loved him as well.
‘’Oh my god!’’, the sound of Karo’s voice made them both stop as they looked at the top of the stairs. Karolina was there, looking at them in total shock as Old Lace was on her feet, moving her tail as a huge dog. ‘’Get a room you guys, what the hell!’’
And just as soon as she appeared out of nowhere, she just left. Her face said it all, it was a total poem and oh, everybody was going to know about it.
‘’Dammit’’, they both thought.
‘’Huh...’’, Chase finally broke the silence.
‘’I- I think we should go back to sleep’’, Gert said as she looked back at Chase.
His cheeks were as red as a tomato and she couldn’t even stop her smile, just because he looked adorable.
‘’Yeah... yeah. You’re right’’ Chase then looked back at her again and then just smiled. ‘’I’m sorry.’’
‘’It’s totally perfect Chase, you know it’’
Both smiled and then they just got up, Chase finally stopping the playlist as they both started to walk upstairs. They were quiet and noticeably nervous, both of them really were.
Gert couldn’t stop playing with her bracelet, meanwhile Chase was breathing on a really weird way. Their minds were racing because both wanted to say many things, but as always no one said anything first, so no one said a single word about what just happened.
Some seconds later Gert suddenly stopped just as Chase kept walking to their usual room, he then just stopped with a sleepy Old Lace next to him when he noticed that she stopped.
‘’I’ll... I’ll take a shower, you know’’, Gert said as she smiled and he started to walk back to her.
‘’Oh’’
‘’Yeah’’, she nodded.
He smiled and after that they both got quiet, it wasn’t uncomfortable nor weird. It was just the fact that they were just really nervous and didn’t want to leave things hanging on like before, of course.
They actually just wanted to keep going. But again, none of them did nothing.
‘’Oh yeah, shower, sure! I should get going... you know’’, he just smiled and then just started to walk.
‘’Wait, Chase!’’, she suddenly took him by his hand and just pulled him back, making him get closer.
She then just took him by his neck and suddenly kissed him, getting on tiptoes as he just closed his eyes and tried not to smile during the kiss, it was the most sincere and sweet kiss ever, and he wanted it to last as much as it could.
It would never stop feeling as the best thing he has ever done, and it felt the same for her.
‘’You know I hope you really meant that thing you said back there... cause I do too... I love you too, Chase’’, she just smiled and then just went inside the bathroom, leaving a smiley Chase outside of it.
They both immediately laid on the door, closing their eyes as they both felt their hearts racing. Now they knew it and they could declare it, they were really in love and nothing could stop them from feeling that way.
‘’Dammit, I love you so much.’’ They both whispered after some seconds, still laying on the bathroom door. They totally heard each other and nothing could stop them from smiling the way they were.
Just as the way they were feeling.
So freaking cuteeeee jhfksjhf I love them so much, I wanna die byeeeee. So if you wanna read more of my work here is my masterlist! (I have another gert x chase imagine) and also if you wanna follow me, you totally can! Thanks for reading lol. By the way this post looks weird af on desktop, but it looks okay in the app!
soooooo mutants are actually gonna be a thing on the MCU and i think marvel's runaways got it together by saying that the thing underground was a mutant fungus! cause at the end molly is a canon!mutant and so that could be it oh my godddddddddd
