various storms & saints

val & the hale pack + “not my circus” memes

in which i put these together on my phone in less than 5 minutes and laughed way too hard

Look What You Did chapter update

30: what a girl wants

A heavy, frustrated sigh rattled through Percy’s lungs. It turned Peacemaker’s head where he stood by the wall, bent, hands working an allen wrench into the side of the headboard. Her brows were creased as her eyes fixed on the diagrams printed onto the assembly instructions, and the sight caused him to smirk. “Hard to read?” he asked, a rhetorical smugness in his voice. Percy’s eyes flicked up to find him, and he reflexively stilled. “The numbering system makes no fucking sense.” “It’s alright, we’ve almost got it put together anyway. It’ll be done in time to sleep on it tonight,” Peacemaker tried to sound optimistic. Then, to change the subject—but also because he genuinely forgot—he asked, “When did you say Adrian was coming over?” “He gets off at nine, so he’ll be home around nine-thirty,” she answered. It was all a little too domestic for Peacemaker. Thinking about his least likely friends—those two—playing house made him feel like a little boy who just learned about cooties. But, as far as he knew, they weren’t officially living together yet. The house wasn’t ready. That was why Peacemaker was there, helping Percy put together a bed frame for the master bedroom. He didn’t know how she afforded it, how she closed on it so soon, though it didn’t really matter as long as she was asking for his help.

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10: catch & release & 11: dinner for three

There was no sign of Derek when I returned to the house. The door hung open on his hinges, bullet holes smattering the front of the building like freckles. I found the flash-bang residue on the wall and the shell casings all over the ground by a couple of nearby trees. There were, however, signs of a struggle. Claw marks in the dirt where the leaves had been split and a drag path that only stretched for three yards. But there was no blood. Nothing confirmed that they had killed him. At least, not here. It made more sense to take him alive if killing the whole family was what they wanted. My fingers twitched where they hung at my sides, nails extended as the ugly little territorial thing started swelling up in my chest. If Kate thought she could get away with taking something that wasn’t hers, then I was about to give every member of her family a rude, bloody awakening until she gave it back. I got in my car when the sun was just over the horizon. I didn’t know whatever the fuck Peter was doing the night before that meant his lazy ass couldn’t be there to help his nephew, but I had no intention of cluing him in. Everything was working just fine before he decided we were all going to team up—including me by default—and it was going to be so much easier to leave him out of it. If he actually even gives a fuck about Derek, he can track me down and ask about it himself. I didn’t have time to hold a grown man’s hand.

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"Just makin' sure you don't forget your roots," Rafe quipped, voice dropping with fake cheerfulness. "Speaking of which, have you spoken to Tanselle recently or were you too busy pounding your filthy rich tutor?" "You leav'em both out of this," he growled. "And you better not forget that you're the one who pushed me into this..."

The resources may be non existent - as ever so impressively proven by this post ^^ - but this modern!AU still has me in a chokehold 🫠

Wylla Baratheon as a high society teen, who has just returned from a year abroad - finally out of her braces and fully grown into her body, the world (and exclusive private school) is her oyster. The Maekarlings as her neighbours. Daeron as the troubled rich kid with substance issues, who Wylla's been a little in love with for most of her childhood and who might finally be seeing her the same way. Dun(k)can as the free ride new kid with a troubled home situation and a secret surrounding his presence at the school, who completely turns Wylla's orderly, privileged world upside down...

"It's bad enough you brought that... that witch into our family, but now you're allowing her to cuckold you in your own home; right under your nose? And with the man who destroyed our family?" Aerion sneered. "You pathetic excuse for a man, I should kill you where you stand, before ridding this house of the vermin you invited in..."

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9: girl's gotta eat

Kate Argent was a relatively boring person. She didn’t have a set schedule and her travel plans were a bit unpredictable, but there was nothing remotely exciting about her. Though, she clearly thought she was hot shit, given the ten ton ego she so confidently dragged around. And she thought she was clever. Sneaky. Like she could somehow get away with tailing someone she believed had enhanced hearing and an incredible sense of smell. All the while, the rotten bitch had no idea just what was over her shoulder all day. I followed her from the house. Her green shitbox took her from one place to the next as she lurked behind Jackson’s Porsche at every turn. About mid-afternoon, she traded off with Chris for an hour, and he pulled some pit maneuver like an absolute creep to get the teenage boy to talk to him. Scott and Stiles foiled that plan. They had pulled up in the Jeep and it was the first time I’d seen either of them since at least the other night at the hospital, but they looked fine. Chris took off once it was clear he couldn’t bullshit Jackson into his car in front of them, and I split to follow him instead of sticking around for a conclusion. The Argents were my priority today. When Chris was done, it was back to Kate. The way she sat outside Jackson’s house while he was home felt like an episode of Dateline. To be fair, I was also stalking someone—but if it was to keep track of the bitch who wanted to kill a child…didn’t that make it a good thing? I didn’t care about Jackson as a person. Fuck, I didn’t care about Jackson at all. 

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Look What You Did chapter update

29: small hours

She told Adebayo over lunch. It was the first one they’d had in a while, and there was a lot to catch up on, so Percy let her do most of the talking out of nervousness and habit. She went on about her struggle to get the security business off the ground and vented a little about her strained relationship with her wife. Adebayo was now staying somewhere separate, on her own, while they figured things out. Percy did her best to appear empathetic and like an active listener, nodding along slowly with a softly knitted brow. There was a point when Adebayo admitted she had nothing left to talk about, making a joke about blowing your load too fast as it had only been half an hour, and she urged Percy to contribute. “Alright, come on, out with it,” she prompted, gesturing with her hands and an expression meant to seem like Percy was withholding a secret. “What’s been going on in your life? Things still good with your family? Still ‘casually’ dating Adrian? I wanna hear everything, even that boring ARGUS shit.” It was a kind attempt to include her, but Percy felt her spine stiffen at the thought of opening her mouth. If any of the 11th Street Kids was going to be easy to tell in a general sense, it would be Adebayo—mind you, there would be some skepticism and withheld opinions, but somehow the woman always made it feel so safe to talk. Percy wrung her hands in her lap under the table, pad of her thumb digging into her palm hard enough to feel pressure. 

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"It was my second morning at Ashford. Was lookin' for Egg, when I saw you in the woods. I don't think you knew I was there. You were pluckin' flowers - only now I think it wasn't flowers at all, was it? You looked utterly content there, with your hands in the dirt and the sun on your face and I thought: "That's a lady who wouldn't mind sleepin' under a tree..."

Writing is going... uphill and backwards, while carrying a huge rock. But it is still going and for now I offer you this modest moodboard to let you know the hyperfixation is still real, but so are the horrors ^^'