Under the Ash and Lies

Caidence Remulus Werewolf. Bartender. Cursed Indepdenent Original character based upon ABC's Once Upon a Time. Sister to Burymeinprettylies.

[undertheashandlies]

Relocating here : @indissoluta, feel free to follow me over!

[undertheashandlies]

Relocating here : @indissoluta, feel free to follow me over!

[undertheashandlies]

...Either that was a loud truck going down the road or there is a dragon on the basement. 

[undertheashandlies]

opheliajumped.

“I wouldn’t be surprised.”

     Astoria lets out a brief snort of laughter, setting a drink down for one of the patrons sitting at the bar. She wouldn’t have imagined she’d end up working here, but – she’s been here as long as she can remember, and it’s practically a second home to her now.

     “Or one of those twenty-sided dice. It’s ridiculous. And i’m pretty sure some of the customers are just making shit up to see if we’ll go along with it. Has anyone asked you for a – god, what did she order? – a Green Sparkle Dust? It was basically just a Midori sour but she insisted.”

     “ A Green Sparkle Dust?  I have a lot of inappropriate jokes about that one. But I doubt the patrons would enjoy any of them. Except him.” she pointed down the bar to someone who was getting close to being plastered enough to enjoy a dumb joke. “ He might appreciate them.”         It was wonderful for Caidence to have someone else to work with aside from her brother, so when she got a shift with someone who wasn’t him? Oh, Caidence was on air. “ There are days where I admit - I can’t tell if some of them are drinks or they’re really lame pick-up lines. The joys of the job.”

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@corruptedones | Grady ( continued from here ) 

    “ You saved me from half-off tequila night.” Caidence adjusted her scarf and cuddled herself into her jacket loving the view of the night. The full moon, the scent in the air, the snow trickling from the sky. “ So if anything, I should thank you for kidnapping me.” Her gloved hand would fall into his as she smiled brightly.       “ You’ve not given me a reason yet to not trust you.”

[owenelliot]

[undertheashandlies]

I still need to think of a tag for a handful of characters over here...but I may try that tomorrow because woooh I need sleep. 

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Lyndsy Fonseca by Tyler Shields (2011)

[fyeahsylveride]

[Antonio:] You ever going to settle down, Kelly?

[undertheashandlies]

tellme-your-wishesthree.

That certainly qualified as close, if the relationship was anything like the one he had with his own brothers in the past he could only imagine.  “He never mentioned much in way of family, then I never thought to ask either.”  Cyrus was one for allowing people to keep their secrets after all; asking meant sharing and some things he still was not ready to share with others.

If he ever would be was a whole other problem, but he’d cross that bridge if he ever came to it.

Grinning, he laughed softly.  “That he did mention; it would likely be well and good he avoided the royalty here as well; off with their head is a common phrase that is normally carried through with, from all I have heard.”  Cyrus knew people exaggerated at times, often so much so if there was a grain of truth in the story it was so lost one may never find it again, but that one he believed.  “I believe one has a habit of catapulting the head as well…its somewhat disturbing here despite the wonder.”

Maybe the wonder in Wonderland stood for wondering how anyone managed to survive.

The realm was rather vibrant in hue, even Cyrus had found it a little much at first.  Then he figured that had more to do with where he’d come from, but with what Caidence had to say on the matter perhaps the colours really were that bright. “Well, so long as he doesn’t find himself on the wrong side of Alice.  I believe their first meeting involved him being threatened with a sword.  Our first meeting involved being poked with a stick, but that is a completely different story.  He seems to know how to make a first impression.”  Cyrus didn’t have an issue with the way they’d met though; probably a better way of checking to see if someone was more dead than alive anyway.

“The colours seem to be less overwhelming once you grow accustom to them, for the most part anyway.”

“ It doesn’t surprise me.” and she didn’t seem so surprised to hear that Caiden didn’t speak of her. “ I think he feels the less he talks about me the safer I am. I don’t know the ‘big brother’ mentality. Even if he is only older by some odd minutes.”  She rolled her eyes but she laughed anyway. And sadly, she laughed even harder when he mentioned the catapulting of heads. “ Wow... It does seem like you get a crown on your head and you go a little crazy.”  Though she knew it wasn’t funny. It was more disturbing. 

Though as the thought of flung heads continued to play in her head, Caidence was brought back at the mention of her brother and his ability to make an impression to which Caidence nodded but she didn’t seem impressed. It was his first impressions that often got him into trouble but he seemed to be okay with the punishment of those situations. Or he was just that good at hiding it. Since she was his twin, she knew it was the latter. 

“ I have never seen a place like Wonderland. I know there are so many other realms but I feel this one certainly takes on a personality all of it’s own.”

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southerncomfortoutlaw.

          “I am honest.” He didn’t want to show what he held inside, because it was dark and black. Things that haunted him in the middle of the night only to leave him turning to Red for support when those nightmares became a little to much for him to handle. He didn’t show anyone else all of the sides to himself. That was for to know and keep a secret. He didn’t want Caidence to see that darkness that lurked in his body. The only thing the wolf could even begin to think of that he wanted to do was drag Whale out of the hospital and use him as his own punching bag. Mostly out of the mere fact that Cerberus nearly came unglued when he found out that Whale was purposely hurting Annie and Maddy when they got their exams or were sick. 

         His brows slid downward, that rage was slipping out of the darkness at the mere thoughts of what had happened. The loss of their baby, the fact that his two pups were being hurt by a doctor that everyone was supposed to feel safe around, angry that fate took something so precious away to rip the family into shambles and pieces. Fist curled not hearing Candice at that point. The touch brought Cerberus out of his chaotic though. Taking that second to let out a long breath. “I’m honest with Red. Just right now I wanna give her the space she wants ‘cause she is hurtin’ too and she aid she needs some time.” 

    “ Maybe space is the last thing she needs - but I don’t know. I’ve never been in this position. I just know what anger feels like when it’s intertwined with Sadness and that sense of hopelessness.”  Was there her own darkness lingering behind the bright blue eyes? She couldn’t tell you if it was a darkness or just a hallowed out heart that was there. Unlike her brother who seemed to smile through the pain until no one was looking, Caidence couldn’t fake how she felt. Whether she liked it or not her heart was on her sleeve.  Sometimes she hated that more than she could possibly express.     “ I just know that this is what I can offer to help you. A space where if you need to let it out you can. “ 

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Actions || Grady & Caidence

[undertheashandlies]

Grady.

The kiss had not been something that he had completely planned.  Despite all of his rather set in stone ways, he did have an impulsive side to him.  It had been one of those days at work that made him thankful for the right to still breathe.  Immortal or not, he knew that he wasn’t completely immune to death.  He had seen too much of it.

Grady heard Caidence, and he grinned against her lips, pulling back and moving to take his seat at the end of the bar once more.  “Very sober.  Just…glad to be alive, and thought that taking a chance on kissing you was worth it for celebration.  If I did something to make it awkward between us, forgive me.  I didn’t mean for that.  I do promise I’m sober though.  I have a bit of brain left in this head.”

She wasn’t put off by the kiss - just surprised. It wasn’t every day a girl got kissed while she was the one working the bar. “ So you’re sober ... “ she smiled “ ... Is this your way of getting out of leaving me a tip because it might work.” and then of course she had to tease him a little. Seemed to be a Remulus trait. Get affection, make jokes. But it came from a very good place.  “ Naw, it was just a kiss. Nothing awkward about it. Being alive is a very worthy thing to celebrate. And I have something else that may make it better. “ She took just a moment to reach under the counter and pull out a bag of her favorite cookies. “ The least I can do is give you a cookie for a kiss.” 

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[otpmusings]

Rough first kiss things:

Colliding with the wall so hard one of them is gonna have bruises

Moans of pleasure mixing with a single moan of pain as one of them bites the other’s lip

Teeth being dragged along necks, mouths being dragged along jawlines

Hands fumbling at hems, zippers, buttons

One raking their fingers through the others hair before gripping at the root, hard enough to be painful

Butt grabs / thigh squeezes

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