#mantis!reader

I know I write about secretaries a lot in these little blurbs, buuuuut... secretary mantis reader, because mantis give off secretary vibes.

Now the boys don't really have much time to sit around and talk with everyone in their building, half the time they're off fighting shit or training. The only one who has really talked to you in some way was price, since you relay messages from Laswell to him. But even so, it wasn't anything much.

With the once in a blue moon happening, all 141 boys were off for a couple of days from missions. Just the simple training and paperwork.

Cue to you carrying said folders of papers, God the endless amount of papers and reports to bring to Price. You're walking as fast as you can when WHAM! you run into someone!! papers are flying and slowly fluttering down as you sit up and processed what just happened.

"shit love, are you alright?!"

looking up you saw Gaz crouching down to help with gathering your papers. You couldn't help but squint your eyes at him, shoveling all the papers back in your arms

"Woah there, dont bite my head off!" he joked, clearly poking fun at you being a lil mantis hybrid, but light heartedly.

You couldn't help but bare your mandibles to the pretty face sergeant, standing up and quickly heading to Prices office to deliver the papers.

It just slowly spirals from there with the mantis jokes or puns. You can't lie, some of them are funny but it gets to the point. your breaking point was when Soap found it funny to comment on your size, calling you short for a mantis. (Assuming your female, if not then your still short for a male mantis.)

Cue to now, all the boys in prices office, you behind the desk instead of the captain himself as the four boys were awkwardly sitting and standing around, wishing to be anywhere else but here.

"Don't look so awkward now!" you scolded them as if you were their mother.

Your wide eyes narrowed at them, your arms crossing as your mandibles flickered.

"You all thought it was so funny to make jokes! so now its mantis sex ed."

You cleared your thought. starting to go on about your species mating act and such/

" No, the female mantis doesn't always bite off their mates' head! one, that's rare unless the female is starving with little food and there's a low chance if they're out in the wild!"

you squint your eyes at Gaz

"no we do not bite humans, no I don't thirst for man blood and no I don't just sit around and eat other hybrids! that's illegal. "

clearing your throat, you soon relaxed. A small smile on your face as you looked at their guilty expression. Price being the only one not so guilty as he doesn't have time to mess around, but you still roped him in.

"Much like birds, the males will show himself off to the female. gently touching our antennae or whatever else to see if the lady wants to mate. If accepted, they can mate for hours"

you heard price groan but ignore him.

"The females release a pheromone to signal she is ready to mate. Now are we clear!?"

a chorus of strained 'yes ma'am/sir' rung out.

you thought you got through to the boys! so you left all happy.

It wasn't until a few days later that you caught soap flexing by you with a goofy smile.

"The hell are you doing "

You sighed out, crossing your arms and turning to him in your office chair.

"Don't like the display?" Soap wiggled his eyebrows.

It took you a bit but then it hit you... he was jokingly playing the part of a male mantis and 'courting' you. With a groan you picked up your pen and threw it at him.

Idfk how to draw blood and I think that’s very obvious here. I really like what I did with the blood dripping from the mouth but everything else just makes me annoyed when I look at it ╮(ᵕ—ᴗ—)╭

-Arty draws ₊✩‧₊

(Pstttttt @wollenram I figured you’d wanna see this :D)