With the world in shambles following the outbreak of The Illness, spoiled rich girl Thea Queen puts her years of childhood training in marksmanship and gymnastics to work leading a private militia out Starling City to fight back against the zombie uprising.
Six grueling years of loss, heartache, and overwhelming responsibility later, Thea finds an unlikely ally in serial arsonist Mick Rory when he roves into town with his own private anti-zombie force, The Rogues.
Consolidating what little remains of their resistance armies, Thea and Mick work tirelessly together to hack and slash their way through every square inch of Starling and take the city back for the living.
Neither of them expects their relationship to turn from strained and professional to intimate and personal the longer they’re forced to work side by side. Yet, for all their losses, there’s something thrilling in tragic times about having someone to hold on to.
Nixie’s Rare Pair AU Challenge, Day Eight: Speedywave - Pirate AU.
“How dare you,” Thea snapped, very nearly snarled as she shoved her finger into the large, broad chest of the pirate standing before her. “How dare you treat me like this!”
Curling her fingers into a fist, Thea drew her arm back before hitting the man standing before, then again and again, but on the forth attempt, the man reached out, gently curling his hand around her wrist and halting her mid strike.
“Y’have’ta understand,” Mick rumbled, voice pitched low and hushed, “This ain’t your world, Princess, it’s mine.” Gently, he pushed her hand back towards her body before carefully prying his fingers from her and stepping back to create more distances between them. “Best we both start remembering that, m’lady.”
Here’s a master post of all the aesthetics I did over the course of August (and a few days of September!) I had a lot of fun doing this! Thanks for all the love and support you all should for these babies! I’m super proud of them! I’m thinking, maybe in the future, I might do something like this again. Though, I think next time it won’t be AUs, maybe I’ll just do up pairing aesthetics. Though, I do love me a good AU, I guess we’ll see if I end up doing this again.
Below the cut (since its a touch of a long list) is the official (and finished) list of aesthetics and pairings I did!
Day One, DCTV: Lisa x Cisco - Spy AU.
Day Two, Marvel: Valkyrie x Thor x Bruce - Teachers AU.
Day Three, Teen Wolf: Scott x Lydia - Historical AU.
Day Four, DCTV: Iris x Sara- Mob AU.
Day Five, Marvel: Fitz x Mack - Titanic AU.
Day Six, Star Wars: Rose x xRey - Royal AU.
Day Seven, Marvel: Alex x Darwin - 1940s AU.
Day Eight, DCTV: Thea x Mick - Pirate AU.
Day Nine, HPVerse: Percival x Newt - War AU.
Day Ten, Marvel: M'Baku x Bucky - Coffee Shop AU.
Day Eleven, DCTV: Slade x Oliver - Dystopian AU.
Day Twelve, Shadowhunters: Maryse x Luke - Engagement Party.
Day Thirteen, Marvel: Sif x Darcy - Assassin AU.
Day Fourteen, DCTV: Felicity x Laurel x Iris - Werewolf AU.
Day Fifteen, The Good Place: Eleanor x Tahani - Fairy Tale AU.
Day Sixteen, Good Girls: Beth x Rio - Tattoo Shop AU.
Day Seventeen, DCTV: Sara x Lena - Fantasy AU.
Day Eighteen, Mag7: Vasquez x Faraday - Speakeasy AU.
Day Nineteen, Marvel: Sam x Bucky - Flower Shop AU.
Day Twenty, DCTV: Lisa x Laurel - Mermaid AU.
Day Twenty One, Teen Wolf: Allison x Lydia - Witch AU.
Day Twenty Two, Rizzoli & Isles: Jane x Maura - Family AU. AU.
Day Twenty Three, DCTV: Iris x Eddie x Mick - Beach Vacation AU.
Day Twenty Four, MacGyver 2016: Mac x Jack - Bakery AU.
Day Twenty Five, Marvel: Thor x Valkyrie - College AU.
Day Twenty Six, DCTV: Caitlin x Iris x Mick - Summer Camp AU.
Day Twenty Seven, Shadowhunters: Clary x Maia - High School AU.
Day Twenty Eight, DCTV: Thea x Jax - Star Trek AU.
Day Twenty Nine, Marvel: Jemma x Bobbi - Quidditch AU.
Day Thirty, DCTV: Lucy x Kara - Model AU.
Day Thirty One, Pacific Rim: Nate x Jake - Autumn/Fall Season AU.
Day Thirty Two, DCTV: Lisa x Thea x Laurel x Iris - Musicians AU.
Day Thirty Three: Napoleon x Illya - Hockey AU.
Day Thirty Four: Diana x Lois - Personal Trainer AU.
Speedywave, College/No Power AU. Thea Queen x Mick Rory.
For @asexual-fandom-queen, Happy Birthday!
I didn’t have time to actually write this out, so here’s a not fic of what would have happened had I actually written this out. Waring, its long.
Okay so firstly it’s a no power/college AU.
Oliver still goes on the trip with Robert and gets lost at sea, but only for a few months. But during that time Moria became super overbearing, and after Oliver came back, she souped it up to a level 20 on the scale.
Thea who can no longer deal with it, decides on attending college in Central City, even though she's already a year into college in Star, so she transfers, needing to put as much distance as she can.
While classes and friends are a decent distraction, Thea decides to make a bad decision and heads out to the bar, hoping sleeping with a stranger will help clear her head, since her mother hasn't left her alone about needing to be there for Oliver since she arrived in Central, almost three months ago. So Thea asks her Chem TA, Barry, if there's any place she can semi safely just loose herself for a night, Barry directs her to his boyfriend's, Len, bar. Telling her she'd be safe there.
For the most part Barry's right, she is safe. Couple of creeps but nothing she couldn't handle. But the more important thing, she had fun and she took her mind off school and her family and just spent the night relax and chatting with some interesting people.
So she decides to go back. And back. And back. And after almost three weeks of going, a dude finally gets a little more demanding of her, and she's about to put him in his place when someone steps in. She's about to snap at the guy that she was handling it just fine, thank you very much, when she hears him rumbling out a threat.
And okay, normally deep, rumbling voices like that aren't a thing for her, but those shoulders? Those eyes? Thea is like, sign me the hell up.
So instead of going off, she snips, which gets the guy, Mick, to snip back and that's what they do for the rest of the night. Snipping in between talking and playing pull, cutting themselves off from drinking, because Mick decides she needs to know how to properly hustle assholes for their money. And the evening is winding down, when Thea boldly asks if he'd like to come back to her place, which Mick agrees, after ensuring she's sober enough to make that choice.
And they plan for it to be a one night stand...only it turns into an entire weekend fling. But it still just doesn't end, cause the next weekend Mick's back over at her place. Which...becomes a thing then, which Thea isn't complaining about. Not only is Mick fantastic in bed, but he's also amazing in the kitchen.
Slowly they become friends and eventually Thea is officially merged into Mick's social circle, because oddly enough the few friends Thea had made at school were already apart of Mick's circle because of Mick's best friend, Len.
So that's how she spends her school year with Mick Rory. Mick who is fantastic at food and sex. Who also helps her study and lets her cuddle up in his sweaters and tee shirts, who brings her chocolates and goes out in the middle of thunderstorms to buy her tampons because she forgot to pick them up when she went the day before.
And its only when summer hits and Thea needs to decide if she's staying or going home that she realizes she and Mick have been dating since October, even if neither of them is actually willing to admit it out loud to anyone, even all their friends know it to be a fundamental truth of the universe.
(Len and Lisa have been in the background the entire time laughing at these idiots, cause they figured it out by the end of November)
And this is some of the background info that would have also gone into the fic:
Background pairings are Coldwestallen and Lisa x Laurel.
Len is a business owner, owning several things including Saints and Sinners, where Barry directs Thea to go.
Barry is working towards his masters, then onto his PhD in Chemistry.
Iris is a cop.
Lisa works in the local government in Central. She has plans to run for Mayor one day.
Mick is a construction worker. While also on the side selling handmade wooden furniture.
Thea, despite not any real reason why, instantly clicks with Barry, her Chem TA. He kinda reminds her of Tommy and Ollie before the drink and drugs, before Ollie and her dad ‘died’, so when she decides she can’t take the 9th call from Moira that DAY, Thea feels safe in asking Barry where she can go to loose herself. Cause yeah, she wants to let loose, but she also wants to make sure she isn’t gonna end up murdered or anything.
That first morning after, when Thea wakes up to an empty bed, she’s a little disappointed, she’d been looking forward to some morning sex, but she also gets it, it was a one night stand and all, so she’s floored when she stumbles out to Mick cooking her breakfast, wearing nothing but a frilly apron that says, ‘Kiss The Cook’, a gag gift from Laurel before she’d moved away.
Thea isn’t properly introduced to anyone until Barry invites her out in early December, he’s under orders from Lisa and Iris who are curious about the woman who’s kept Mick’s interest for longer than a few weeks.
Thea instantly connects with Iris and Lisa, the three forming a strong and awesome friendship, which develops over months of shopping trips and girls nights.
Len in the middle of April takes Thea out and quietly and in a dramatic way, lets her know he’s happy for her and Mick, because he’s never seen his best friend so happy and he’s added her to the handful of people he truly and deeply cares about.
Laurel doesn’t actually come into until Thea’s second year, when she finally convinces her to get out of Star and away from all the toxic people in her life, which Laurel does just after Thea’s second holiday season in Central, accepting a just as an ADA.
Laurel and Lisa don‘t meet until the end of February, but they instantly hit it off, the group joking it was lust/love at first sight.
Oh, also Thea is studying politics and ends up working for Lisa, who wins Mayor when she finally runs (and Lisa keeps winning until she’s forced to retire). Thea works on presidential campaigns and is awesome at it. (she turns down working at the white house after winning her second candidate the presidency, cause she’s not gonna relocate her family to DC).
The ending:
When Thea finally brings Mick up to Star to introduce him to her family, Moira isn’t happy and doesn’t except that Thea is planning on marrying Mick.
Oliver isn’t thrilled at first but also recognizes that Mick makes Thea happy, and that’s all he wants is for her to be happy and loved, so Oliver is pretty quick to get behind them.
“Why did you let me sign up for an early morning class?” Thea whined as she let her head fall forward, making a dull sound as it smacked against the table top.
Mick paused in whisking the eggs together to glance over at his girlfriend for a few seconds before going back to making her scrambled eggs. “You wanted the professor, that was the only class that you could be put in. Now drink your coffee.”
