The Last Drop is newer and shinier than Jinx has ever seen, but mostly it feels like home. The nightclub Silco turned it into never felt right, a shimmer-stained bastardization.
All three of her fathers are at the bar, her first dad sitting on a stool, Vander and Silco serving drinks. Her mom is there, too, bouncing baby Vi.
It’s fucking weird. Everything about this is crazy, even by Jinx’s standards, but she’d take all the crazy in the world to see Silco and Vander again. They’re so young—and still friends, no betrayals between them.
Jinx tugs her hood lower over her face and makes her way closer to the bar. Vander has disappeared down the other end to tend to an arguing couple, but Silco stands nearby, polishing glasses.
She always knew Silco was handsome—had noticed it more than she should have—but she never imagined he was once beautiful too. He keeps his wavy dark hair pulled back in a low bun, which Jinx immediately feels compelled to take down. If she gets the chance, she might never stop running her fingers through it. His skin is clear and unlined, his thin lips quick to smile, sea green eyes bright with mischief when he says something that makes Jinx’s mother laugh.
Who is this man? This stranger-but-not, wearing a face she loves but barely knows.
His eyes flick up, searching out the intense stare he can likely feel coming from her direction, and Jinx retreats into her hood.
Damn.
She checks again after a moment, only to nearly jump out of her skin.
Silco is coming straight for her.
Jinx gets eyes on the exit, a moment from shimmering out of there when an absurdly strong hand wraps around her upper arm.
“Are you following me, darling?”
Her chest tightens, breath trapped and throat closed. Darling. Thank fuck her blushes never show anymore.
“Well?” he asks, his smooth, deep voice sharpening a bit.
“I just heard this was the place to be,” Jinx says. “Was I told wrong?”
“You were told?” Silco pulls her an inch closer. “By the same person who told you about me?”
She can smell him, a mix of whiskey and cloves, nothing like the cigar smoke and fine cologne she’s used to. Different, but entrancing in its own way.
Get it together.
“You gonna interrogate me all night, or can I get a drink?” Jinx asks.
That pisses him off. But it does something else, too. It’s not an expression she recognizes from her world’s version of Silco. Something that makes his gaze heavy and slow, like suspicion but sexier.
“Your name?”
“Jinx,” she says, because it doesn’t matter in a world like this. The truth means nothing and everything, but at the very least, her name is worthless.
“Your real name.”
She grins up at him, the dazzling smile that always throws her enemies for a loop. “I’m as real as they get, toots.”
~~~
Excerpt from a Jilco time travel AU I'm co-writing with NextToSomething aka @reylotrashcompactor 💜💜💜
This Reylo Hades/Persephone retelling was so good! Check out A man called winter by reylotrashcompactor and then listen along to your favorite Star Wars Fanfiction book club girls! Also, check out the Fanart made by @southsidestory!
Next month they are reading another crossover! This one is Star Wars (Reylo) meets Animal Crossing! Read that HERE!
Asking Price by @reylotrashcompactor and @southsidestory
The girl was powerful in the Force; this was what Senator Ben Solo realized first. What he noticed second was her lilac lipstick, marking her as a courtesan. His third realization was the most important: he wanted her like he’d never wanted anything in his life.
Rey from Jakku quickly learned things about the Senator as well. He was on nearly every holoscreen in Hosnian Prime, he was foolish with money, and he wanted to buy her. It took her longer to figure out that he was a liar, as powerful as he was breakable, and the home she’d always wanted.
Happy birthday to my dear Reylo wife @southsidestory, and belated birthday to my dear Reylo wife @reylotrashcompactor!
-this is something i’ve been working on for a while! i figured it would be a nice way to welcome the new reylos and also for us seasoned two-years to read some of our favorite works again before the last jedi.
-the list is separated into three categories: one shots, multi-chapter works (1 to 10 chapters) and novel length (anything more than 10 chapters)
-there are also separated lists for alternate universe and star wars universe stories. (a few could go either way, but if it’s based in a galaxy far far away, it goes in the second category.)
-every fic on this list is complete. there are many great works not on this list that deserve recognition, (i’m looking at you, thwarted and satan wears a rolex) but they will appear in later volumes.
-many volumes to come! vol. two is being worked on right now. feel free to send me/share any other completed fics you love or have written and i would love to include them in the coming volumes. happy reading!
[volume one] [volume two]
one shots
alternate universe
-desire is the drug of the bourgeoisie by UndergroundValentine
✿ but it had come to the last roll of the night. all cards on the table, all in. one roll, and everything they’d put forward was gone.
-rare and imprecise by ReyloTrashCompactor
✿ soul bond au. rey and kylo both have a phrase etched along their backs, the future words of their destined soulmates.
-loveliness itself by cazzy
✿ famous actor kylo ren refuses to see any potential in up-and-coming actress rey until they finally act alongside one another, and then she’s brilliant, so brilliant that his entire philosophy on the crippling emotion of love is altered.
-and all my walls came falling down by cazzy
✿ dealing with years of unrequited love is much more difficult when the object of your affections insists on moving in with you.
-this together, any together by shipatfirstsight
✿ when rey wakes up–unable to use the force–in a strange new world, she’s not exactly happy at first to have to share it with kylo ren.
in star wars universe
-your sweet lips (on my lips) by TheJGatsby
✿ rey looses a bet with poe and has to kiss ben solo.
-he’d let her by Lucidlucy
✿ kylo didn’t allow for a lot of things, except when it came to the scavenger. the leeway he afforded her was a mile long. despite his better judgement, he’d let her do just about anything.
-calm as the sea by Lucidlucy
✿ he’s in her head constantly, refusing to back down on his offer to teach her, and unfortunately for rey, kylo ren has never been one to give up until he gets what he wants.
-denial by cazzy
✿ rey is not dating kylo ren. dating a recently “reformed,” patricidal, emotionally unstable former sith man-baby she barely knows would be a terrible idea.
-the one thing you leave behind (is how did you love) by MostTulip
✿ kylo's orders are to turn rey to the dark side. his personal feelings may prevent him from doing so.
multi-chapter
alternate universe (au)
-the girl in terminal b by nightsofreylo (2 chapters long)
✿ ben solo and rey kenobi have the same taste in suitcases.
-nocturnal studies and other peculiar magic by WaterlilyRose (6 chapters long)
✿ the harry potter au from your dreams. truly a beautifully crafted story.
-blades crossed by the-reylo-void (2 chapters long)
✿ rey’s a hockey player. kylo is a professional figure skater who needs a new partner. need i say more?
-charcoal by luvkurai (7 chapters long)
✿ kylo is an artist. rey is a college student that wanders into a gallery one night.
-janus by englishable (3 chapters long)
✿ rey moves into the apartment beside his, with her flowers and her singing and her brisk optimism, and ben solo knows himself just well enough to realize that a person like him really shouldn’t have anything to do with a person like her.
in star wars universe
-release by WillowsWisp (2 chapters long)
✿ kylo ren wants rey to be his apprentice so badly that he visits her each night in her sleep. he promises to search the entire galaxy in order to find her.
-world without end by disaterisms (9 chapters long)
✿ we are one when together. we are one when parted. we will share all. we will raise warriors.
-shatterpoint by disasterisms (5 chapters long)
✿ n. 1. fault; the weak place in an opponent. 2. fracture; where the unbreakable can be broken.
-peace with a smile by shipatfirstsight (2 chapters long)
✿ after seeing ben laugh for the first time, rey's willing to do nearly anything to see it happen again.
-reckless behavior by shipatfirstsight (4 chapters long)
✿ how about a compromise? she suggested, this time assuming a tone of innocence herself. you don’t reveal that I’m here, and I make it worth your while.
novel length
alternate universe (au)
-she who would be queen by sasstasticmad (36 chapters long)
✿ rey is the last daughter of a once noble house, isolated and yearning for a place in the world. when she receives a letter the day after her eighteenth birthday, it seems her station and her husband have been decided for her.
-unexpected by pontmercy44 (27 chapters long)
✿ ben solo gets rey pregnant after a hook up at a bar. so. well. written!
-epithumia by pontmercy44 (20 chapters long)
✿ teacher/student. “can you make an exception?” a lone eyebrow ascended his lofty forehead into his hairline. “try harder, miss kenobi.”
-’til i hear you sing by copper_nails (16 chapters long)
✿ the coruscant opera house is putting on a production of phantom of the opera! rey kenobi has hopes of playing christine, and rumor has it kylo ren has been seen lurking around the opera house again, humming some of the show’s best known songs under his breath…
-ileenium manor by WaterlilyRose (33 chapters long)
✿ rey decided she hated lord benjamin solo before she even met him. so when he comes to take his rightful place as heir to ileenium manor where she works as a maid, it will test rey in ways she couldn’t have imagined.
in star wars universe
-still by Perry_Downing (15 chapters long)
✿ very original and interesting take on a concept that is used heavily in reylo fics – the force bond. what sets it apart is an unconscious rey, a focused plot and believable characters.
-seldom all they seem by ambiguously (24 chapters long)
✿ after a terrible accident, rey wakes up to discover she doesn’t remember the last five years. this is a WILD ride.
-innocents lost by pontmercy44 (22 chapters long)
✿ ben solo meets a girl while doing community service in jakku.
-commemoration by CharlotteCAgain (54 chapters long)
✿ kylo ren surprises rey in order to commemorate a special occasion, and things go from there. attraction has lead to something far more, and that leads to some dangerous, even desperate ideas as they try to find ways to be together.
-disparate pieces by space_trash_princess (27 chapters long)
✿ this wasn’t a handful of portions or canteen of water being dangled before her eyes, but the fate of millions. she had to take it.
Silco found his muse in a dingy, cramped alleyway. She was a hungry kind of thin, with sharp hip bones edging out of baggy shorts, and skin the color of polished marble. Blue clouds floated over her skin, the same shade as her prominent veins, and her cyan hair was long enough to tie her down with.
She was vandalizing Academy property with art that was of great talent, if not somewhat contrived, her name shamelessly emblazoned at the bottom.
She was perfect.
A lovely anon asked for more info on my jilco and powco WIPs, so I'm making a post for each one! To start us off, an AU I'm co-writing with NextToSomething aka @reylotrashcompactor...
Breathing Underwater
Premise
Powder (2x07) attempts to follow Ekko to his own world, a place where her sister is alive, and instead ends up in a dead and devastated city. Piltover and Zaun are gone, topside and bottom destroyed. The only survivors are holed up at the fortress that was once Stillwater, led by Silco--a man who is nothing like the kind Uncle Sil Powder knows back home.
Anything that was once good in Silco died with his daughter. His perfect Jinx, lost to him forever. Now her lookalike has dropped out of thin air telling lies, and he hates her for not being the girl he loved.
Excerpt
The cable car rumbled and groaned, rattling Powder’s bones. After riding in a wagon, along with what seemed to be scavenged supplies, she’d been unceremoniously led to a sky tram. Now she was sitting with a rag-tag group of strangers—and the greatest stranger of all was the only one she knew back home.
Silco. As good as family in her world, patient and loving, with a penchant for spoiling her rotten.
This man was something else entirely. He had none of her uncle’s kindness… perhaps because the world had been less kind to him. Rather than rogueishly grey-streaked hair, he’d gone entirely silver. Dark scarring spread over the left side of his face, not unlike the way Uncle Silco’s had looked before getting treatment in Piltover, only this was much more extensive. His eye, though, was the worst part by far, entirely black with a distorted, ember-red iris.
The right side of his face was identical to her Silco’s, other than his inscrutable expression and a few extra fine lines. Just as handsome, if in a cold way.
“What’s your name?”
His voice made her jump. She’d been studying him so closely, Powder hadn’t realized that he’d been studying her right back.
“You—you don’t know it? I know yours… don’t I?” His face remained still, stoic, assessing. She’d never seen her uncle look this severe. The Silco she’d left back in her own time had more softness to his face, as if he was always a moment from smiling. “It’s Silco, right?”
His good eye narrowed. Maybe she should have played stupid, pretended he was a mystery to her, but how could he not know her own counterpart here?
“I’m Powder.”
Silco crouched before her, head canted slightly. “You certainly look like her… but that only means you’re a well-masked liar.”
Powder picked at her cuticles. A bad habit she’d started after Vi’s death, one her uncle had helped her grow out of, but he wasn’t here. He couldn’t be farther away.
“I’m not lying,” Powder said.
“We’ll see about that.”
Silence ached in the air between them, so loud that Powder could barely stand it.
