˙ ˖ ✧・* @killquest slides a knight into play ─── plotted starter
“You’re enjoying this way too much.”
Stiles watched Boy’s hands move—sharp, precise gestures that spilled words between them without a sound. With a disapproving huff, he wiped sweat from his brow and narrowed his eyes at Boy through the dim emergency lighting. Though slightly obscured by the shadows cast by the flickering light, Boy’s face remained as expressive as ever, ensuring that Stiles felt every ounce of disapproval laced into his silence. He’d never heard anyone be so loud without making a sound.
The bodies left in their wake weren’t even cold yet, but adrenaline still thrummed beneath Stiles’ skin—like something alive.
Admittedly, things had gotten a little out of hand.
They weren’t supposed to spill any blood today. But at some point, the scale had tipped, and the mission had gone south. Stiles had felt provoked, and without much hesitation, he’d given in to the itch beneath his skin—quick to ignite at a wrong word or a wry look. He supposed part of why he struck so quickly was knowing Boy would have his back—however reluctantly. Today had been no different. When Stiles had let himself get backed into a corner and things turned dicey, Boy had been there—reliable as ever. Together they’d adapted. As always, Stiles had thrived in the chaos. And as always, Boy had frowned upon it.
“This was supposed to be clean. In, out, no trail,” Boy signed, his movements tracked by Stiles’ watchful eyes. Each word dug itself right under his skin. “You just had to go overboard.”
Stiles drew in a breath, nostrils flaring. The sharp stench of blood overwhelmed his senses, slick and slowly cooling where it pooled beneath his feet. They’d had this conversation a million times before, and it always went the same way. Like actors stuck in a play doomed to repeat the same script. It was such a non-issue that discussing it felt increasingly ridiculous.
“I don’t know how many more times you want me to say this,” He ground out, tensions rising. “You don’t see me judging you for your methods, or do you?”
Except there was hardly anything to judge about Boy’s methods. He was quick, efficient, and straight to the point. And Stiles had never gotten the sense that he took any pleasure in what they did. All the blood that they’d spilled was merely means to an end to him. Something born out of necessity. Must be nice to be so in control. For Stiles, it had never been like that. Every time his slender fingers curled around the handle of his trusted knife, something took over—not exactly enjoyment but a certain rush, a thrill, something almost exhilarating at times.
“You think you’re so much better than me because you have a reason?” He scoffed, lifting his knife and pointing the blood-crusted tip at Boy like it was a natural extension of his finger. “Well, newsflash: Your reasons don’t make you noble. At the end of the day, your hands are covered in blood just the same as mine.”
They had the same pieces inside them, just arranged differently. And he was tired of Boy pretending that they didn’t. Like he was somehow above Stiles.
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Stiles: Fight me!
Boy, standing behind him and holding a knife: *mouths* Do not.
Boy: If I die first, promise to wait up for me, okay, Stiles?
Stiles: Oh, Boy. When I die, I’m taking you with me.
Boy: I can’t tell if that’s a threat or a compliment.
Stiles: I’d think of it more as a grim inevitability.
Boy: I feel like I can be myself around you.
Stiles: You’re weird and quiet around me.
Boy: Yes.
Stiles: Boy, I beg of you. Please, please go to the doctor.
Boy: Hey, I'm sorry. Is this OUR stab wound?
Boy: When I first met you, I thought you were weird and annoying.
Stiles: And?
Boy: And you are.
Stiles: Okay, but what if we went to dinner not as friends this time?
Boy: AS ENEMIES?
Stiles:
Boy: Just a minute. I need to go take out the trash.
Stiles: Oh. We're going out?
Boy: Wh…
1. The Stone. Boy once gave Stiles one of the carved stones from his collection because Stiles particularly liked it. “Ooo, this one’s nice,” he said. Boy handed it to him without a word. “Wait, I can have it?” Boy didn’t answer. Stiles still keeps it with him. Always. In his pocket, in his backpack, in his palms on rough days.
2. Stiles narrates their scavenging trips like it’s a nature documentary. Boy is quietly cracking open a locked drawer and Stiles is behind him whispering: “Here we have The elusive Boy in its natural habitat, sniffing out a possible cache of beans—oh! Another predator must have beaten The Boy to the stash. It will have to go hungry another day. Tragic.” The bit hasn’t made Boy smirk yet, but Stiles swears it will one day.
3. Stiles gets offended on Boy’s behalf before Boy even notices anything’s wrong. If someone so much as looks at Boy funny, Stiles starts vibrating with righteous indignation — arms crossed, jaw clenched, already rehearsing insults.
3.1. Addition: But if it’s about Boy being deaf or mute? If there’s even a whiff of condescension or some smug little comment? Stiles skips the buildup entirely. He once broke a guy’s nose before the sentence was finished.
4. They share a flask. There’s only one rule: don’t finish it without refilling. Stiles breaks the rule constantly. Boy now just wordlessly shakes the empty flask it at him like a judgmental mom.
5. Stiles secretly tries to copy Boy’s fighting style. He would never admit that he’s impressed by it. (Not even under threat of death.) But he is. So sometimes, when he thinks Boy isn’t looking, he’ll try to mimic one of his signature moves. It never looks quite the same, and if he gets caught, he mumbles something about “trying out new techniques.”
6. Stiles makes Boy birthday cards. They’re always terrible: Stick figures, jokes about murder, glitter made of crushed foil. Sometimes they’ll say “Happy 14th birthday”, other times they will congratulate Boy on his 70th. And because neither of them know Boy’s real birthday, Stiles just makes them whenever he feels like it.
Miriam stills the moment she catches the movement of his hands. She’s not fluent, not really — but she knows enough. Enough to understand the shape of his fingers. The slowness of it. Intentional. Careful. Meant for her.
❝ The cicadas went silent when you touched me. ❞
It hits her like a gut punch wrapped in silk. She blinks. Once. Twice. Eyes locked on his hands like they might start glowing, like they’ve pulled something holy and terrifying out of the air. The breath she takes is sharp — like it surprises her.
A beat passes. Two. Then, finally, her lips part. ❛ . . . Jesus, ❜ she breathes, and there’s a hint of a laugh behind it. Soft. Shaken. The kind of laugh you make when your heart trips and forgets how to land.
She steps forward before she can stop herself, just barely into his space, chin tilted as she looks at him — really looks.
Her voice is quieter now. Like a secret. ❛ You can’t just go saying stuff like that. ❜ A pause. ❛ You’ll undo me. ❜ But her expression is gentler now, eyes flicking between his face and his hands. And though she doesn’t say it, the truth is in the way she stays close, in the way her hand lifts — hesitating, then lightly brushing the back of his knuckles.
The cicadas really had gone quiet. And maybe that silence meant something.
the last two weeks haven't necessarily been kind to zeev — abducted by a strange organisation he had never met before nor had held any intentions to do so, life might as well could have ended. with no idea as to why all of this had happened in the first place, he isn't quite sure what to make of it when a stranger breaks in, adds another set of trauma onto zeev's list of experiences and at the same time seems to have rescued him as well. or so the witcher thinks. what if it's just another person trying to play their cards right for their personal gain? | @killquest
There was hardly an explanation for what Zeev saw before him that would not result in muddled justifications or apologies. On the other hand, Zeev doubted that the young man had any sense of remorse. What had happened was a serial offence. There was a skill and precision in the execution, there was no doubt that he had been trained in it. It took a special kind of person to master the art of killing. A kind of person Zeev didn't really want to meet in his life and yet he now found himself sitting on the cold, barren ground, surrounded by people he didn't know and in all likelihood would never meet again. Not that he necessarily wanted to; after all, they had also promised brutality and brought him into this situation in the first place.
Being kidnapped hadn't been part of his bucket list, but that was how fate sometimes played out, he guessed.
Cold light wavered over their heads, the halogens hanging with their last strength from red cables, torn from the crumbling ceiling. His sanity hung similarly from a taut semiconductor cable, threatening to shatter his skullcap in equal measure. A bitter taste settled on his tongue, he didn't know if it was his own blood, but feared an answer to the contrary.
His face contorted in disgust. His heart was beating wildly in his throat, making it difficult to breathe. He had fallen on his head so hard that he doubted his perception and fervently hoped that what had just happened was only the product of his extraordinary imagination.
Naive as his weakened mind currently was, he imagined that if he didn't move, he would be ignored. If he didn't move, sooner or later he would simply walk out and go home —wherever that was. In fact, anything was fine at the moment, as long as it wasn't here. He didn't know where he had been dragged off to weeks ago, let alone why. He had merely cowered in the darkness and had been more than aware of his helplessness.
Zeev had never been so aware of the uselessness of his abilities, which could not even save him from captivity with his life depending on them. Given this, it was not unlikely that even his captors had realised that he was of no use. He should probably be grateful to them that they had nevertheless spared his life.
Unfortunately, his theory didn't work out. The bloodied stranger turned his gaze to him, scrutinising him in a way as if he wasn't yet sure how to proceed with him. If at all. By hesitating, Zeev—or so he believed—didn't seem to have been the target of his break-in. It remained to be seen whether that was a good thing or a bad thing. Nevertheless, he slid backwards across the floor to get away from him. He raised a hand protectively, as if it would stop something.
“Hey–hey–hey–no, no, no, no. You stay right there and I stay right here, okay? Cool, cool, splendid. Hey, I said don't move!” Or else?
Zeev was not exactly in a position to make demands, let alone issue warnings, apparently that didn't stop him from trying anyway. He crouched on the ground with two weeks' worth of dirt on his body, blood he didn't want to know the source of, and a hunger and thirst that made him dizzy.
The stranger eyed him with an expression of confusion.
“I don’t belong to them, I promise!” he gasped, suddenly realising how croaky he sounded. It hurt to speak despite the fact that he had done so little.
Zeev had rarely felt real fear in his life. In most cases, insecurity had led the way. The vague feeling of uncertainty and the silent hope that everything would be cleared up in no time as a hilarious misunderstanding. However, when he pressed a palm into a pool of blood and crouched right next to a shattered skull, he realised the extent of the situation more than clearly. Zeev was in a situation he didn't belong in and had never wanted to. He didn't even like watching mindlessly brutal films and when it came to horror, as entertaining as they were, he usually hid his eyes behind his hands. Strange, considering his background, but on the other hand, his supernaturalism had nothing to do with the horror at hand—even if death was something natural in his eyes.
But this wasn't a heart attack at eighty or the consequences of a nut allergy.
His pulse was pounding and his breathing frantic. He had always prided himself on his effortless ability to keep calm. It was important to him to be in control of a moment, not to lose his temper. Important decisions could only be made with full understanding of one's own mind, to weigh risks and probabilities. None of this was currently present in Zeev. His brown eyes spoke pure fear, his lungs burned under the strain of his panic and cold sweat clung to his forehead. He didn't dare wipe it away. He didn't want any more blood on his body.
“Please, please, just let me leave… I’m no threat.” Obviously.
He was still being eyed strangely.
This had been going on for so long that Zeev couldn't help but pause.
His hand slowly dropped. The sparse light of the halogens, which were still oscillating, shone on the stranger's face at irregular intervals, revealing only phases of non-verbal communication.
Zeev frowned.
“Are you not speaking english? Êtes-vous français?” Still no answer. “¿O español?”
Unfortunately, he had reached his limit as far as global languages were concerned. Even if he asked him whether he spoke Russian, Cantonese or Mandarin, they would still be stuck in the same situation. Apart from that, he didn't know what good it would do.
Zeev just wanted to get out of this hell and, if he was reading him half right, the stranger had no intention of leaving him there. Or did he?
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˙ ˖ ✧・* @killquest checks the king ─── continuation of [ x ]
It didn’t happen often that Stiles found himself speechless, but Boy’s reaction—unlike anything Stiles could’ve imagined, much less predicted—had stunned him into silence. For a moment, he just stared at him, jaw slack, expression unreadable as his gaze flitted across the space between them, landing on Boy’s eyes. Still, Stiles didn’t speak. Couldn’t. Not when Boy was still looking at him like that—like Stiles had cracked something open in him and hadn’t bothered to close it back up. Like Stiles was something fragile. Like he mattered.
And maybe he should’ve argued. Should’ve said something clever, or brushed it off with a joke, or told Boy he was being dramatic. Should’ve muttered a sarcastic ❝ you're welcome ❞ under his breath, just loud enough for Boy to catch it. Or spat out some angry tirade about saving his life, only to have Boy scold him in response. But the anger that usually came so easily had deserted him, disarmed by Boy’s restrained tenderness that read in his signs like a scream. There was nothing left. No defense, nothing to deflect with—just the truth that Boy’s signs had spilled between them.
[ I care about you. ]
Stiles hadn’t known how desperately he’d longed to hear the words until Boy said them. And yet, the enormity of that care nearly made him shrink. His shoulders sagged, all tension drawn from them, like he’d forgotten how to exist in his body now that someone cared about him.
Except it wasn’t just someone. It was Boy. The one who had sworn, from the beginning, not to care about anything or anyone. Whose sole focus had always been survival—or the next mission. Stiles didn’t know what to do with that kind of care. Not when it came from Boy. So entirely unexpected, unpredictable, nearly impossible. Not when it looked like grief barely restrained. Stiles didn’t know how to hold it. Didn’t know if he could.
Boy had torn straight through every one of his defenses, and now, with nothing left to shield himself, Stiles gave him the only thing he had left: honesty. Some truths didn’t need rehearsal. They lived in bone and blood and breath—and when they surfaced, they did so quietly. Unshakable. So Stiles spoke. Calm, unwavering, resolute.
“There’s nothing I wouldn’t do for you.”
The statement invited no argument. Left no space for negation or disagreement. It was a fact, and Stiles spoke it as such—not a hint of hesitation or uncertainty in his voice. He let it sit there, heavy between them. Let Boy feel it. Let himself feel it, too. The weight of his undying loyalty, the kind born from a care so deep Stiles could find no words to describe it. The kind that had made him act without thinking, muscles springing forward on instinct alone. Someone had been about to kill Boy. Not hurt. Not harm. Kill. And Stiles was never going to let that happen. There had been no choice to make. No choice at all.
“So don’t ask that of me,” he said. “Because I’ll let you down every single time.” Stiles stepped forward, momentarily losing his footing as the sole of his worn-down Converse slipped in the pool of slowly cooling blood. He caught himself, though gracelessly. Blood-speckled fingers tensed around the knife still in his hand, but it was lowered. Never aimed at Boy. Just at whatever—or whoever—dared to threaten him.
“This,” he said, jerking his head toward the body, lifeless and bloodied where it had dropped to the floor, “won’t break me.” For a second, his resolve faltered. The words clawed at his throat, but he didn’t think he was brave enough to say them. Not until he remembered the brush of Boy’s finger against his cheek, futile in its attempt to wipe away the blood. Boy must’ve known. And yet, he still tried. Like he couldn’t help himself. Like something about the splatters of crimson clinging to Stiles’ pale, mole-dotted skin was inherently wrong. As if Boy thought he was somehow better than that. Worth more than that.
Stiles crumbled. His gaze dropped, landing somewhere at his feet. For a beat—then another—his eyes locked on a single smear of blood across the tip of his shoe. Then he looked back up at Boy. Hazel eyes unguarded, open, vulnerable. Thankfully, Boy couldn’t hear the tremor in his voice when he spoke. “But losing you would.”
And there it was. Out in the open. Raw and irreversible. Too late to take it back—even if he’d wanted to. He wasn’t sure if he did. But it felt too big to end on. Too final. So even though he feared Boy slipping away from him any second now, Stiles raised his voice again. His eyes stayed locked on Boy’s, though his head tilted slightly. “Are you gonna tell me you wouldn’t have done the same?”