CHRISHHAAAAAAA!!!!! here's one out of the many asks KJHDFSJDHFSKDJFH i’ll slowly get these done but thank you so much for sending them in 👉👈🥺 i hope you like this!!
18. kisses where one person is sitting in the other’s lap
“Must it be you?”
Adam doesn’t quite comprehend - Edith has mentioned one too many times how, in her own words, “sketchy” Bobby Marks is, how he’s turned around to stab her in the back at every opportunity presented to him, and how irreparable their friendship has become since their falling out in university. And even though he’s only met the reporter a few times - not once at all did he bother to interact - Adam’s found that those claims deem true more than they do false.
So why, pray tell, is it that Edith has agreed to a dinner with the very vermin himself?
“Detective Lin would have been just as competent a candidate,” he mutters to himself, folding his arms before sighing in realization at how pathetic he sounds. He’s doing it again; since becoming intimate with Edith, things have … changed, to say the least.
Though, admittedly, things have changed in the best of ways.
Walking out from behind the false wall partition at the back of her bedroom, Edith opens the door that leads out to the front part of her apartment and tosses a pair of flats over. Adam can’t help but notice how the lilac of her wrap dress compliments the colour of her skin, and he is physically incapable of resisting drawing his eyes over the length of her body, marveling at the elegance she radiates with every move made.
Meanwhile, Edith gathers her hair up at the top of her head, looking around the room briefly as she does so, before asking, “have you seen my hair clip?”
Adam twists around where he’s sat at her vanity and spots the pink accessory - its vibrant colour pale and muted, evidence of its frequent use. Making a mental note that it would benefit to get a new one for her, perhaps something more long lasting in quality, he picks it up and waves it in her direction.
“Thanks.”
Before he’s able to return her gratitude, Edith makes a move to sit on Adam’s lap, her expression completely nonchalant except for the ghost of a small smirk that dances on the corners of her lips. She styles her hair in silence, concentration fully trained on herself through the mirror, as if sitting on his lap is part of a routine they’ve always done.
To be fair, and contrary to his shocked reaction, Adam isn’t actually opposed to the idea at all. Having her in this way, positively forward without being even one bit overbearing, he continuously finds himself wrong about every presumption he’s made before.
Edith… She’s truly a special one; as though she has a book of secret codes, she’s somehow aware of all the combinations to the buttons he has, aware of which ones to press and in which order so to produce an outcome that is both new and uncharted for him, yet only just teasing at the limits of his comfort zone.
His arms move on their own, snaking around her waist and pulling her a little closer to him. As she thoroughly inspects her hairdo, turning left and right and back again, Edith catches his eyes, her own pair glimmering bright and reminding him of iron ore in its most organic form. Resilient. Genuine. Raw.
Exactly like her.
Exactly like her love.
“It was the mayor’s idea.”
Edith’s voice breaks through his rumination, holding his gaze through the mirror. She reaches for her jewellery box, pulling a few studded earrings and begins to adorn them.
Adam rests his chin on her shoulder, rolling his eyes slightly as he continues to watch her. “I was informed.”
“Then you see why I couldn’t say no.”
He does, but that doesn’t help ease the idea of her having to dine for an hour or so with Bobby Marks. The image of them chatting away in a restaurant, sitting across from each other, is one he could do without having to experience for another 900 years - or at all if possible. But he supposes he understands why the dinner must be done.
Gossip through the grapevine has been brought to attention that Marks has succeeded in rallying supporters through his articles and that consequently means unwanted attention onto the Wayhaven Police Department that not only the Agency cannot afford, but apparently the Mayor as well. This meeting Edith’s going to is set up with the intent to find out more about what he plans to do with such a considerable number of following.
A sigh escapes from him - Adam looks back at Edith from where his gaze has dropped momentarily and decides he’ll just have to tolerate the tattler for one night. Besides, he plans to keep within hearing distance, to remain at the ready to retrieve Edith out of the situation if Marks so says one thing out of line.
“You look beautiful,” he comments sincerely in an attempt to wave away his concerns about the upcoming meet, and like a blossom, Edith’s smile blooms gracefully across her features; Adam finds himself taken by her sophisticated simplicity.
Still smiling, Edith leans forward to grab a necklace. “Can you put this on for me?” She asks him, giving him a side glance this time instead of meeting his eyes through the mirror. “Please don’t break it,” she adds in jest when he takes the jewellery from her dainty fingers.
He chuckles. Working the clasp, Adam lays it gingerly around her neck before fastening it. He sees the way her skin responds to his fingers, goosebumps rising in their wake, herself shivering slightly under his touch. When he’s done, he spreads his hands along the length of her shoulders and kneads them gently; Edith moans softly, the sound of it absolutely delightful to his ears.
Moving down her arms, he interlocks his fingers with hers right as he begins to pepper soft kisses on her back, each one pressed harder than the previous, trailing them from her shoulder blades, to the crook of her neck, and up it. With her eyes closed, Edith tilts her head to the side to allow him more access, her moans almost an endless melody; a particularly loud one hums in her throat when he reaches the sweet spot behind her ear.
She leans into him, sighing in content. “I have to leave soon,” she whispers, though the tone in her voice portrays anything else but the urgency of her statement. Adam echoes her sigh - but his is more in minor annoyance that she’s got to go already.
Edith stands up and grabs her purse from her bed, and instantly Adam misses the weight of her against him. He tries to hide it as he follows her to the front door where she’s putting on her shoes; he holds out his hand out of reflexes and she takes them even though Edith’s perfectly balanced on one foot.
“Remind me again why Detective Lin is incapable of taking your place?” Adam asks, his curiosity piqued once again.
“She’s busy tonight.”
“With what exactly?”
“Mason.”
Adam huffs as Edith lets go of his hand and opens the door, but he grabs at her elbow before she can step out. She turns to look at him, glancing at his hand and then back to his face.
“If averting this dinner can be done by busying ourselves, you need only ask.”
A wide smile grows slowly across Edith’s features, astonishment clear as day in her expression. The lack of her immediate response tells him that she’s internally debating on it, and as surprising as it may be, he finds himself mildly disappointed when she shakes her head.
“I have to do this, Adam,” she says before moving closer to him, standing on her toes and giving him a small kiss on his cheek. After a moment’s hesitation however, she leans nearer to his ear and whispers, “but maybe after dinner.”
wait pls tell me more about what you think of endless summer
!!!!!! i honestly haven’t seen a lot of people talking about endless summer and idk if that’s because it’s lowkey Not Great or because it’s just an old book/series but i personally find the storyline really interesting! you’ve got a group of college students stuck on a mysterious island with some avatar looking people, and that same island is owned by a company that’s working on a secret mission to play with time rifts
it’s one of those books that has relationship meters like it lives and ame so whatever choice you make will have a positive impact to some characters, and negative impact to others so you have to mentally keep track of who to ‘please’ in order to make sure everyone has a good relationship with your mc by the end of the book and while i usually get really stressed about that feature (esp in ame i hate it so much) i think it makes sense for a situation like endless summer to have it.
and i remember one or two books from endless summer that requires you to figure out a code from the special items you collect in order to unlock the ending scene which i think is pretty cool!
the only downside to it i guess is the animation style, it’s cartoony almost and obviously very different from the styles in other books but once you get past that, it’s completely fine. the female LIs are great ........ but i’ve no comment on the male LIs lol one of them reminded me of mason from litg season 1 :/ HDJDJDKDKDKKD you can also play matchmaker to like three couples i think which is kinda cute no lie and you can even marry (or whatever the term was according to the avatar people) your LI in the last book!
oh and omg personally i really like how you can choose three different endings in the last book too it’s pretty great tbh damn okay i might go replay it now HDJDJKDKDDLLD
sometimes I think about how A always argues with the detective, and then during one particularly heated argument, A kinda just goes "WHY won't you let this go?" or something similar ig idk i haven't really thought of the context but then the detective yells back "BECAUSE I LOVE YOU, ASSHOLE!" with such fervor that she doesn't realize tears are dripping down her face and then A just pikachu memes or uses his super speed to run away lmao
PIKACHU MEME EHJSKSKSHSJSJAKAK that’s tea tho!!! there’s this bit in adam’s route when detective gets a nightmare about murphy, and finds him training. then they can call him out for always avoiding a conversation about their relationship i think because he ruined yet another Moment, and then things get kinda heated hold awn i gotta put up the screenshot bc it’s JOOUICY
but fucking god imagine if detective dropped the L word shsjkdkssjdjjd adam would be that kid warding off evil with a wooden cross meme HEJSKKSKDKS
5. Saying that A has the carnival picture, how do you think your detective will react once they find out they have it?
She’ll be shocked, to say the least, and figure out exactly when Adam went back to get the picture. Could it have been shortly after the mission to the House of Mirrors was completed? Or was it during the time the carnival was burning down and Sanja was kidnapped? It’ll be important for her to know because it’ll somewhat tell her at least a form of timeline of Adam’s feelings lol. She’ll also be pretty distracted with the memory of that photo - how his arm had snaked around her waist without him been given the instruction to do so, and how even though he assured her that them taking the photo is all for their undercover story, his eyes held a different message as she cupped her cheek. Crazy. Edith would think it’s crazy that he’d gone back at all to get the photo. Her heart would be so warm just thinking about it. And at one point, I think she’ll try to get a copy of the photo too.
6. If your detective heard Sanja’s prophecy for A, how would they feel about it?
Not too surprised. I think she’ll be more surprised by Adam’s follow up question, the one where he asks what should happen if he does in fact allow himself to fall. It’s that hope that’ll fuel her I guess? She’ll be secretly happy, no doubt, and it’ll definitely give her yet another insight to what Adam’s truly feeling for her.
7. What does your detective think of the glimpse into A’s past in the house of mirrors and their “guilty” judgment?
Surprised as heck, but also not. She’s mostly intrigued about how he seemed to be enjoying himself during the first half of the memory, specifically when he “[grinned] at someone beneath him, his sword hovering over the figure’s throat.” The Adam she knows now has never, even in happier surroundings, ever shown that many emotions - and now the one time he does is on the battlefield right before he kills someone? It’s weird to her, but if her instincts are right, that perhaps once upon a time, he was ruled by the hunger for power in his heart rather than his head, then it would explain why Adam’s got a fixated monster complex and treating his vampirism like a self-serving punishment.
8. If the detective and A’s first kiss is full of denial afterwards, how would your detective react?
OOOOOOOFFKFDHKJH well. Edith would be too busy being flustered whenever she seems him anyway because what’s worse than one (1) person being incapable of processing his feelings? two (2) people who can’t deal with emotions properly! yay. but for real, I think that once she’s over the shock (and butterflies in her stomach ew) she’ll want to eventually confront Adam to talk about it - and she’d definitely get a little irritated if he continues to deny it.
