Pls snippet/tell me abt European butter, awkward roommates, beth x phoebe & champagne room 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙇🏼♀️🙇🏼♀️🙇🏼♀️🙇🏼♀️🙇🏼♀️🙇🏼♀️🙇🏼♀️🙇🏼♀️🙇🏼♀️🙇🏼♀️🙇🏼♀️🙇🏼♀️
Oh gosh, this is going to be such a long post 🤣 (but thanks to y'all I got to re-read very confused bullet points lists and half-written paragraphs, it was extremely amusing)
European butter
This one was supposed to come after Tacos & Tequila in the now-defunct food series. Basically Beth and Rio start fucking again post S4, along with a vague money-laundering partnership. One night Beth asks Rio mid-fucking if he'd like to go get dinner sometimes (because she's a freak) and he agrees.
They go on a dinner date, and Rio picks that pretentious restaurant Fitz took Beth to once, hence the title. Obviously, the date is a complete disaster of awkwardness, they're distraught in the end because they were both secretly hoping to start an actual relationship, they make out angstily in the street as a result, and the ending is sweet and full of hope although things are left a bit unresolved.
It's a pity I'll probably never finish it because I have more than a thousand words written already... have this snippet that made me snort because I'd completely forgotten about writing that:
She clears her throat, tries to dissipate the awkwardness.
"Do you have, like, a hobby?" she asks, on the verge of losing her mind at getting to such trivialities. Does she know anything about this man? "What do you do to relax when you're at home?"
"Mölkki."
"Bless you," she responds to the enigmatic eructation.
"Nah, it's the name of a game, mama," he says next, pompous almost.
He then delves into rules and specifics so odd Beth is half convinced Rio just made up this entire Scandinavian game backstory to avoid revealing any actual information on his likings.
God. As if things could get any worse already.
Awkward roomates
I have a detailed outline on this one but not a single sentence written haha, so there are even fewer chances I ever get back to it...
This would have been a post-canon fic where Beth and Rio have parted ways, except that one night he and Mick stumble upon a traumatized Beth while casually disposing of a body in the woods (as bros do). She's barely able to walk or speak so Rio grumpily brings her back to his place so she can rest. In the morning she's slightly better and explains that she's been abducted (there's a whole backstory that I won't detail here), she clearly has PTSD so Rio allows her to stay at his place for the day while he goes on his own business errands and evening plans.
Except that Beth's still there when he comes home at night, because she's panicking and developing some sort of agoraphobia due to her trauma, leaving her unable to leave Rio's apartment. At this point they fuck, which I guess gives Beth a free pass to stay longer, lol.
Awkward domesticity ensues. Rio's still grumpy but secretly enjoying it. One day he comes home and she's gone, having finally recovered enough, and he realizes he misses her.
I found this line in my doc:
Things get weird. He's aware that from an outsider's perspective she looks like the perfect stay-at-home wifey, while he's precisely the only person with whom she ain't... that.
Beth x Phoebe
I *think* it was supposed to be an S4 canon-divergence where Beth sleeps with Phoebe during one of their little hotel room drinking dates? I honestly don't recall much of how it was supposed to end, or start, or what was happening beyond that, except that it was a Phoebe POV.
I shared a fair bit of it here already so here's another line:
She texted Dave 'I have company 🍆 '.
He answered with 💦💪 which she isn't sure was meant for her or him given that he's spending the evening at the gym as a result.
Champagne room
Ah. The infamous fuck-or-die fic... This one got reaaaally close to getting posted, my draft has more than 3k written words of it... maybe one day... the main concept was that, through extremely convoluted circumstances, mid S3 - early S4 (aka sworn enemies) Beth and Rio end up in a situation where they have to fuck in front of an audience at the strip club not to blow up a cover (that would get both of them in real danger).
Obviously dark-grey dubcon ensues here, they're both extremely reluctant but also extremely into it because they're freaks. Power plays also ensue. There's some grumpy but soft aftercare in the end. The people around are extremely gross. Also there's a dude named Gene who's way too much into Beth and Rio's sex life.
There's already a chunky snippet here, but have another one:
They've been ten minutes or so in this mockshow of foreplays — and by then Elizabeth's breathing has quickened, her cheeks reddened, and his body fucking responded cause there's only so many times she can smash her tits at his face and expect him to remain impassible — when Gene decides to be a cunt again, probably to impress Mr. Bad Guy or some shit. The way Gene's got the mentality of a fucking puppy is genuinely baffling.
"Hey, man, are you going to fuck her or what?" he asks, his own hands roaming all around the dark-haired girl Rio's pretty sure goes under the stage name of Gloria who's kneeling in front of him, decidedly undoing his pants.
Elizabeth straightens a bit at this to look towards Gene with a disgusted expression, mimics a retch before she brings her lips close to Rio's ear. "Ew. Who even are those guys?"
Right? At least someone else gets it.
Kun Pao Chicken
I'm doing this one as well since I didn't want to start splitting comments in half.
This one would have been the third installment of the food series (after European butter, unless it's the other way around, I don't remember) and would have focused on Mick and Annie's relationship. Initially it was supposed to be a judgmental Brio witness to snacking buddies to friends to lovers kind of sitch, alas season 4 ending made things quite harder in this regard.
The title was supposed to reference the fact that Mick and Annie would order Chinese food to share during stakeouts. Basically, it would have been both their POVs roasting Beth and Rio and slowly falling in love with each other.
I have nothing really written besides these two lines of dialogue right before their first kiss:
"You know, your sister ain't the most interesting girl in the room."
"She's not?" Annie's voice breaks a little in her throat. "Well, your boss isn't the most interesting boy in the room either."
For the past thirty minutes, if Beth says she’s been inspecting inch by inch of her kitchen, living room, all the little and big drawers her needy paws could reach to find those goddamn Oreos -the ones Dean used to hide in various places behind her back months ago- isn’t an exaggeration. And baking is not even a considerable thought cause that's how miserable she feels. And it’s not like she could leave the house looking like a hot mess; it’s simply not socially acceptable, especially for a councilwoman! So, she really needs to find those Oreos!
OR
Beth's uterus is killing her and Rio helps in more ways than one!
can I request flipped POV from any point in chapter 14 or 15 warm water please cuz I'm cheeky cheekerson 🤓
tay you are absolutely unhinged for this
........anyways so here we go. warm water (end of) ch 14 rio pov. below the cut bc they just had SEX for the FIRST TIME and theyre IN LOVE
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She’s frantic. Awake. Body still, mind rushing. It’s the ever-so-slight tension to her. Tension he wants nothing more than to kiss—touch—fuck better.
Is this night real?
“Rio? Are you awake?”
He squeezes her hand. (Touch her, touch her, you get to touch her.) Tells her yes. Holds his breath.
She shifts around to look at him. Those goddamn eyes on his. He never stood a chance. Not today (out of this world: slipping inside of her—sinking inside of her perfect pussy, the little breathy moans leaving her lips as his cock slides in and out, putting his mouth on hers to catch every last sound—the roar of lust and easy warmth of her sending his pulse running), not ever.
“What if I ruin this? I don’t want to be without you.”
He swallows, knot of cowardice and truth in his throat. Traces the inside of her wrist. Doesn’t want to scare her with this big thing that sits on his chest. This undeniable shaky beast of a feeling he can’t rid himself of, not with her hand in his, not with her eyes on him, not with Elizabeth in his bed, not now that he knows what it’s like: being inside of her while her eyes roll back as she moans his name.
“You won’t. I don’t wanna be without you either,” he confesses. Body sinking into the mattress, into relief, as the truth slips out. “‘Sides, it’s the two of us doing this. We gonna work on this together.”
“Yeah?” Her voice sounds small.
“Yeah,” he tells her.
“Rio?” “Yeah?” “Do you—what do you want?”
He can’t help it. Grip tightening, gut clenching, beast trembling so much he can’t keep it in.
“You.”
She squeezes his hand so tight, eyes wet. Clings to him. Elizabeth. Naked. Tangled in her sheets together. Heartbeat of night leaving them to each other. The beast at ease as she clings, its movements like bursts of waves kissing the shore at last, tide turned, sun gone, night anew. A slow, inevitable rhythm. A slow, inevitable love.
#the way his eyes trail up her is like. this intense mix of betrayal and nostalgia#like he's not checking her out. he ISNT. but his eyes also move slow enough that he isnt just checking for a wire#like he's REMEMBERING everything they've shared#and he's upset that this is where they are now#THIS is the only way he gets to see her now??#naked of clothes but covered in lies and betrayal?#whew. - im crying and LOVE THIS
A LOT WAS HAPPENING THAT SCENE OKAY
but for real i like how we all are essentially making the same tags on that post. because the way he was looking at her was SO MUCH. and because manny played it perfectly. it wasn’t gross and sexualized. but it wasn’t clinical either. he did a PHENOMENAL job. and the way beth was looking back at him—not like she felt put on display, but like she was scared he was going to find the truth even in the absence of the wire? perfection! christina and manny really did such a great job with that scene.
This this this!!!!!!!! one on one he went down so he has him restrained and uses a wooden stool 🙃 the worsttttt
Totally! It’s honestly one of my favourite and most efficient antagonist / villain shorthands in writing, and it was really effectively done, especially given there was such a bounce to the interaction overall! Manny and Ignacio play really well off each other and I felt like the scene really built to it especially with Rio winning fair and Nick visibly not taking that well. It made me totally hate Nick in a way that felt delightfully earned, haha.
He’s the worst, but I am excited to have a charming but awful antagonist again though – Turner left big shoes to fill! The fact that it lead to Beth actually asking Rio how he’d gotten hurt too - - I just feel like this is going to go in a fun direction, haha.
Queen, WE GOT ONE BOP! but anyway, i must again request your services in finding the music from the 4x06 promo cause i love it and again it will not be in the episode lol
LISTENNNNN the way I’m eating up these lone bops/bangers every four episodes we’re blessed with one... 4x05′s gets bonus points for being paired with a crime montage!!! And for being called ‘mommy can’t sleep’ idk it’S JUST EVERYTHING I’VE BEEN LOOKING FOR IN A GG SOUNDTRACK SONG SINCE S3!!!!
More importantly.... you are MY queen for requesting the 4x06 promo song because I only spent the *entirety* of Monday tracking it down. Like I went so far as to use two different pairs of noise-cancelling headphones and a tempo detecting app... (Mr Leahy, please. I’m so desperate for bops/bangers that I’m thirsting after these made-for-tv/trailers generic tracks??? IT’S SAD. FOR ALL OF US. AND I’D ARGUE IT’S VAGUELY MISLEADING THAT THE EPISODES THEMSELVES ARE MUSICALLY DULLLLLLLL COMPARED TO THE PROMOS. Ahem, xoxo your friendly neighborhood gg soundtrack aficionado) .... Anyway, I DID find the promo song and I was THIS close to posting about it, but I decided to wait and see if anyone else wanted it. And well, HELLO, YOU!!!
That said, the 4x06 promo bop is called ‘Can’t Stop Me Now’ but sadly, doesn’t seem to be available anywhere beyond the Extreme Music website??
