a companion piece to "i thought the plane was going down (how'd you turn it right around?)"
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on ao3 here x
Her room is painted with sunflowers, the bedspread is covered with sunflowers, it is bright and the windows are open and there is the sound of the waves, mingling with the sound of their breaths. He sets her on the bed and she pulls him down on top of her and he fits like he was made to be there, his hand finds her waist and it lights her up, just that simple touch, just that brush of skin-on-skin where her shirt rides up and his fingertips meet her body. He pulls away long enough to tear his glasses off and put them on the night stand and then he is back, his lips on her lips, his body against hers, his shoulders under her hands as she yanks up his tee and runs her fingers across his back, feels the movement of his muscles and the ridges of his spine and the warmth of him, of James, warmth she has wanted to know for longer than she has wanted to admit because it felt wrong, falling for a man when she’d just broken off an engagement, but it doesn’t feel wrong now.
Hi! I just finished reading Backpfei... again (it was awesome 😍😍😍😍) and I was wondering if you had any headcanons for what happens next, especially everyone's reactions when they find out about JB's relationship 🥰🥰🤣🤣🤗🤗🤗
:D I do, indeed, have headcanons and I’ve played with the idea of writing something out and this message gave me the impetus to do it, so thank you!
Tagging @brynnmck for funsies
Backpfeifengesicht: Ten Minutes Later
Margaery: JOY
Margaery: JOY HILL ANDWER YIIR PHONE
Renly: JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOY
Margaery: I CANT BELIEVE SHE IS MISSING THIS. JOY!!!
Renly: SEND IT TO HER
Margaery: I can’t just send it! This requires preparation we aren’t there to catch her if she falls over
Margaery: Think of the children!
Margaery: JOY
Margaery: EITHER PUT ROSALIND DOWN OR HOLD HER REALLY TIGHTLY BEFORE YOU SCROLL DOWN
Renly: shes not kidding joy
Renly: gird yourself 😱
Sansa: Okay with the hysterics. Calm down, for sevens sake.
Margaery: SANSA DONT THINK INDIDNT NOTICE YOU NOT FREAKING OUT
Margaery: HOW COULD YOU NOT TELL ME
Sansa: Margaery, I’m sitting right next to you, just speak to me.
Renly: SANSA KNEW??????
Sansa: I’m right here. In person.
Sansa: And we were a little distracted, in case you don’t remember.
Renly: JACCUSE 😡😡😡😡😡
Joy: Goodness gracious. What in the world is going on?
Margaery: joy!!!!!!!!
Renly: JOY!
Joy: I was setting Rose down for a nap and suddenly my phone went mad.
Sansa: I am so sorry.
Renly: YOU BETTER BE 😡🤬😡🤬😡🤬
Sansa: I was speaking to Joy.
Margaery: joy
Margaery: Joy my love
Margaery: Sit down.
Joy: I’m becoming concerned.
Renly: but r you sitting or not???
Joy: I am now.
Joy: And I’m very concerned.
Sansa: Don’t be. It’s a very good thing.
Sansa: These two are just in shock.
Joy: Margaery? In shock?
Renly: I KNO RIGHT?!?!
Joy: Renly, less alarming.
Renly: 😤
Margaery: Without further ado…
Sansa: So much ado.
Margaery: image.png
Joy: …
Joy: …
Joy: …
Joy: Oh my goodness.
Renly: RIGHT?!??
Joy: 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣😂😂
Sansa: ?
Joy: Who did that? Tyrion?
Joy: Jaime?
Joy: Gods, is this why Brienne punched him?
Joy: LOL It’s really good!
Sansa: ?????
Renly: 🧐
Margaery: Isnt it absolutely WILD?
Joy: It’s really something.
Joy: Some of my wedding photos could use touch ups, whoever put that together should give me a hand.
Joy: That’s hilarious!
Joy: Sorry, Brienne, when you read this, but it’s an excellent mock up.
Renly: …
Sansa: …
Margaery: …
Sansa: Joy. That’s a real picture.
Renly: TOO REAL
Renly: oh gods i just saw tyrions face
Renly: right there in the corner
Margaery: HAHAHAHA
Margaery: He still looks like that, look at him.
Renly: like hes been smacked on the face with atrout
Joy: You’re joking.
Joy: You must be joking.
Sansa: We definitely are not.
Joy: But
Joy: No
Margaery: She’s getting it.
Joy: But that’s Jaime and Brienne.
Joy: Kissing.
Joy: Brienne kissing Jaime.
Joy: My cousin, Jaime.
Renly: do we kno another jaime?
Joy: What?
Joy: WHAT?
Margaery: And now you understand
Joy: WHAT
Sansa: Give her a moment.
Joy: WHAT
Joy: …
Joy: Brienne isn’t answering my texts.
Renly: well yeah shes a little busy
Renly: jaime stole her away
Renly: BECAUSE THEY ARE DATING
Joy: …
Joy: WHAT?
Margaery: Take a seat, take a breath, this is not a drill.
Renly: 🤯
Renly: 🤯🤯🤯
Margaery: Though Sansa APPARENTLY KNEW AND DID NOT BOTHER TO SHARE THE NEW WITH US
Sansa: I didn’t know! Brienne just said something yesterday that made it make sense today.
Joy: But she punched him!
Joy: Like we always warned him she would!
Renly: het mating dances are weird
Sansa: 😑
Sansa: Rude! And not true!
Renly: oh like it matters to you now
Joy: Will someone PLEASE explain this to me?
Joy: I’m half convinced you’re messing with me because I’m not there.
Margaery: Definitely not. We’d have Tyrion confirm but he’s refusing to talk to any of us.
Margaery: Plus: photo evidence
Sansa: OK
Sansa: She did punch him? I think?
Renly: where else would he have gotten the shiners
Sansa: But it seems they’ve been friendly for a while and Jaime’s been visiting her in KL.
Joy: HE HAS?
Sansa: He says they’ve been dating for at least six months.
Margaery: Brienne says six hours.
Sansa: I’d say it’s somewhere in the middle of that.
Renly: with punches
Joy: I… I am flabbergasted.
Joy: But that sounds exactly like Jaime.
Joy: And Brienne.
Margaery: ANYWAY
Margaery: This morning we were teasing Jaime, it seemed deserved
Renly: overdue
Margaery: And we joked about how he’d have to make it up to her, whatever he did
Sansa: He probably still does.
Margaery: And HE said that maybe Brienne should kiss it better
Renly: AND SHE DID
Margaery: We laughed about it but then Brienne got up and walk
Margaery: Fucks sake Renly just let me tell the story
Margaery: she walked over and kissed him
Renly: the end
Renly: 😏
Margaery: 😡
Joy: Just like that?
Sansa: Just like that.
Joy: Then they just dropped the bomb that they’ve been dating for - possibly - months?
Renly: hours
Margaery: It’s all very amorphous
Margaery: But yes
Margaery: They’re dating
Joy: Wow.
Joy: Wooooooow.
Joy: OMG!
Joy: ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Joy: JAIME AND BRIENNE!!!
Sansa: It’s very cute. They are so cute.
Renly: WEIRD
Margaery: Very weird and also very cute
Joy: I’m still processing!
Joy: Gods, I should have known. He mentions her all. The. Time.
Renly: and brienne was a vault
Renly: until this morning
Renly: and perhaps last night
Sansa: Renly.
Renly: tell me im wrong
Renly: if thats not ff hair i dont know what is
Sansa: 😦
Joy: RENLY.
Renly: im not sorry
Joy: You’re never sorry.
Renly: but im consistent
Joy: Very true.
Joy: BRIENNE AND JAIME!!!!!
Joy: 🤩🤩🤩
Renly: they r stupid gross
Renly: n cute
Renly: i admit that
Renly: TYRIONS FACE THO
Joy: Tyrion won’t answer my texts, either.
Renly: he left with tysha
Renly: well he left and she went after him
Renly: very 😵
Renly: i think hesin a fudge
Renly: fugue
Joy: His worldview has been as rocked as ours has. At least you tried to prepare me.
Joy: Brienne, we are going to discuss this. At length.
Renly: HAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHA
Joy: What?
Renly: OMH OMG OMG
Sansa: Oh gods.
Renly: IWAS RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT
Sansa: Renly NO.
Margaery: 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Renly: RENLY YES
Renly: JON JUST WOKE UP
Joy: Jon?
Sansa: RENLY. NO.
Renly: AND SANSA AND MARGIE TOLD HIM WHAT HE MISSED
Joy: Is that Sansa’s boyfriend?
Sansa: Uh.
Renly: AND HE SAID
Renly: HE SAAAAAAAID
Margaery: He said “is that who i heard in the laundry room last night?”
Renly: IS THAT WHO
Renly: MARGAERY
Margaery: HOW DO YOU LIKE THAT RENLY HMMMM?
Renly: THUNDER STEALER
Joy: No.
Joy: No way.
Joy: NO WAY!
Renly: IS
Renly: THAT
Renly: WHO
Sansa: Don’t say it again.
Renly: I
Sansa: Please.
Renly: HEARD
Renly: IN
Renly: THE
Sansa: Brienne is going to throttle you.
Renly: LAUNDRY
Renly: ROOM
Renly: LAST
Renly: NIGHT
Margaery: I’m pretty sure he doesn’t care.
Renly: !!!!!!!!!!!!
Sansa: BRIENNE WILL READ THIS ALL EVENTUALLY
Renly: THEN MAYBE SHE SHULDNT HAVE HOOKED UP WITH J ON THE WASHING MACHINE
Joy: 😳🤯
Renly: I AM SO PROUD OF YOU B
Renly: SO PROUD
Margaery: 🤯 indeed
Sansa: Is it hooking up if they’re actually together?
Sansa: Brienne, I’m so sorry, I tried to stop him.
Renly: its certainly not tender lovin on a cold tile floor
Joy: Renly!
Sansa: Sorry, Tyrion, too. I guess.
Margaery: I can see him outside, he still looks like he’s having an apoplexy
Joy: I think we’re having a collective apoplexy, to be honest.
Joy: Oh goodness gracious.
Joy: Brienne. The laundry room?
Renly: maybe jaime needed a hand
Sansa: Renly, enough.
Renly: never
Margaery: I think Tyrion has his phone in his hand.
Margaery: Oops.
Margaery: waves at Tyrion
Joy: I can’t stop laughing.
Joy: The. Laundry. Room.
Tyrion: I am muting this thread. Effective Immediately. Possibly Forever.
Margaery: Tyrion!
Renly: bang bang bangity bang
Sansa: Stop singing, Renly!
Margaery: I said uh bang bang bangity bang!
Sansa: MARGAERY!
Joy: 🤭🤣
Sansa: Brienne is going to have your heads for this.
Sansa: You saw what she did to Jaime and she’s actually dating him.
Joy: 😍🥰😍😘😍😘😍😘😍🥰🥰🥰🥰
Margaery: shes humming along brienen
Sansa: Lies!
Joy: I… might be humming, too.
Renly: its her own fault
Renly: for the bangityness in the laundry room
Renly: but that seems the theme for the week maybe
Renly: love and banging all around except for poor jon
Joy: That’s right! Who is Jon?
Renly: margie this is the prt where you tell her about you and sansa confessin ur undying love
Caleb was safe in the tower. Lucien made sure of it. His tail was twitching in the air and his eye markings were glowing as his eyes were unfocused. Caleb was sleeping heavily, having used his remaining magic to create the tower.
Lucien curled around Caleb. "You're such a magnificent soul, Darling." He whispered curling around him.
"Mollymauk…" Caleb mumbled.
"Shhhh" Lucien ran his fingers through Caleb's hair and over tear tracks. He was shivering and pale. "I'm here, I'm here."
Lucien's eyes focused on Caleb. "You're alright."
Bright blue eyes looked up at brighter red. "You stayed."
Lucien smiled and hugged Caleb. "I wanted you to be here and if you died doing so, I wouldn't forgive myself."
"I am fine. But- you are covered in blood." Caleb whispered.
Lucien looked down. "So I am. "
"Use my tub. I will be fine." Caleb smiled. Lucien hesitated. Caleb took a deep breath and pulled Lucien close to him, placing a kiss on his lips. Lucien's tail went taunt. He felt a chirp fill his chest and he leaned into the kiss. With a heavy heart, he had to pull away.
"Caleb. You- I will go wash up." Lucien blushed and stumbled away.
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He came back to Caleb reading a book. Lucien crawled onto the bed, nestled under Caleb's chin.
"You feel better?" Caleb chuckled.
Lucien looked up. "You were the one stabbed."
"I'm sleeping it off."
Caleb turned the page.
"What are you reading?" Lucien whispered.
"A bedtime story I used to hear from my mother," Caleb spoke into Lucien's hair. "I'll read it to you."
"The words are in Zemnian." Lucien mused.
"Do you want me to translate?" Caleb asked.
Lucien shook his head.
Caleb read in Zemnian, his words in a lower pitch and Lucien feeling the words just as much as he heard them.