#shortdrabble

The ones where the camera's all unstable, with the main characters running hand in hand on the beach with the sun setting across the horizon. The ones with the fireworks exploding in the background while the main characters are too busy looking at each other, realizing just how much love exists between their two mortal bodies.

It's the kind of love that aches—the kind that kills him everytime.

He sees you and everything else turns into useless blurrs. He hears your laugh and all his body can really feel is the warmth of your hand on his skin because believe it or not, you are his soul—his very essence.

He loves you so much it fills him with dread. The love he holds has thorns, but how could it really hurt him when the petals are grazing against his fingers so lovingly—so gently like it was meant to be cut and thrown into his embrace.

He looks at you, and it hurts. It hurts because he knows it will never be a happy ending. This poor delicate flower in his hands, one he wishes to keep forever—to love and to care for, to hold and to love until the end cannot have her happy ending because fate will never allow him to rest.

Each time you wear something white and turn to him with this gentleness that strips him vulnerable down to the very core of his being, he imagines you in your wedding dress, with that smile that wrecks him down and crushes his bones.

He cries and holds your hand, this misery—this despair turning his beating heart into ashes.

"I can't give you a wedding." The strongest murmurs, his tears spilling onto the ground with an echo only he can hear. "I can't build a family for us. I can't—"

He takes a moment to breathe. To ground himself back onto earth.

Crosshair stared across the barren landscape. He was only separated from his brothers by a distance of 100 m., but they may as well have been on other sides of the galaxy. No one moved. No one spoke. Even Wrecker, who always had something to say, just stared and his face conveyed more emotion than Crosshair ever remembered seeing there before.

alright guys so this is a little something for y'all while i take the time to perfect my stories. this is emotional & pure as fuck. i almost cried writing this. much love! 🖤

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holding your billy close to your chest, you could not help but let the tears fall from your eyes. he was beaten, sobs wracking his toned chest and blood covering his face.

if you could kill neil hargrove without facing any jail time, the deed would have been done a very long time ago. he single handedly ruined any chance of happiness for billy, and became the face of his own son's nightmares.

"i don't know what the fuck i did to him. i don't know why he hates me so much." billy sobbed. you can't answer the question he's been dying to have answered. you can't tell him why his father became bitter, heartless, and cruel.

you can only hold him as close to you as possible, and play with those beautiful curls knowing that it soothes him and keeps him grounded in that moment. why did this have to happen nearly every night?

you were tired. tired of seeing the light of your life in pain, and anguish that only you knew about. tired of acting like everything is alright when it's clearly not. you wanted him to live a life of happiness. it's what your billy deserves and you are the only one to see that in this shithole town.

so, you made your mind up, right then and there. he was going start living with you from this day forward.

if that monster wasn't going to show him tender love and care, then you would do it. you would do anything for the boy who was currently wrapped up in your arms.

"you're moving in with me. tomorrow, we are getting your things from the house and you're coming back here.. with me." you declared, knowing that neil would never ever lay his hands on max, in fear of ruining his marriage with the only woman that is dumb enough to stay with him.

"this is my problem, baby. i am not going to push any of this bullshit onto you more than i already have. because this is my fault. if i wasn't such a fuck-"

you grabbed his handsome face gently, showing that it's not your intention to harm him but also not wanting this little speech to continue, because he was wrong. he was so wrong about himself and it really upset you.

billy had tried to flinch away from you, tried to avoid eye contact with you, but you wouldnt let him this time. you wanted him to hear this and understand it completely. it was breaking your heart in half to see him so broken.

"billy, baby, look at me. this is not your fault. do not think for one second that you deserve this. you are smart, you are funny, you are loving, and you are compassionate. i'd give you the whole world if i could, because guess what? i believe in you my love. i want you to know that you are not your father." you concluded, watching the tears fall.

billy has never in his life heard those words.. not even from his mother. who had left him in the dust without caring about what could happen to him.

he could not help but cry over your speech, he could not help but thrust his body towards you and hug you with a strength that was unbeknownst to even him.

4:08 Peter: Hey Ned, it’s me, Peter. Guess what just happened?!?!?! I came home from school and you know how I got my suit taken away by Mr. Stark? Well, turns out, he returned it to me! I walked in my room and there it was, sitting in the middle of my bed in a paper bag. It was signed, “This belongs to you. -T.S.” I can’t believe he let me have it back!!! Okay, I’ll see you later to finish that Death Star! I’m going out for a swing. And before you ask, I guess I’m kind of an Avenger now :)

Short little drabble that came to mind yesterday, because now they’ve given us the potential for something like this...well maybe not my extra little add, but it’s my fic so I can have my secret marriage.

A03 - https://archiveofourown.org/works/11964951

“Take him and get out of here!” The demand is harsh but quiet through the earpiece.

My jaw locks and I let out a frustrated huff of air, pressing to activate my line, “I’m trying, but there are a thousand other people trying to go out the same exits, so this is as fast as we can go.” I grab William’s wrist and pull him over towards the staff access doors, “This way, there should be another-“

A gunshot roars through the room and time seems to drag.

Short fragment of a fic I’m trying to pull together. Posting helps motivate me to actually keep working at it so this is just the first of the four pages I’ve cobbled together from a couple images that popped into my mind...though I’m kinda thinking I’ll work the Halloween/cosplaying as Rose/Ten/Tentoo I have a few paragraphs on as the start rather than beginning with this. So many options... 

Scanning my eyes back over the crowd, I try to figure out why doing that the first time sent a crawling wave of unease through me. Happy or bored people, a scattered bit of applause and laughter as Oliver hints at a joke.

They’ve taken it surprisingly well, like it was the whole city’s inside secret or wink-wink-nudge-nudge-joke that only the oblivious didn’t know, when, courtesy of Chase’s multi-level-deep backup plans, the press painted the scandal that Oliver is the Green Arrow. More than anything there was a collective ‘meh.’ Of course there were the denouncers, decrying that there was any way Oliver could possibly be a masked hero, photoshops done over the years to make it seem ridiculous, or the strangers they insist have to be ‘The Real Green Arrow.’ The candid photos someone somehow got of him shirtless, from who knows where, but I can see it’s recent, shut most of them up. The damage to his body isn’t something you get by being Mayor. I’m sure when he was first accused of being a vigilante it surprised them, the second, then third time though… There!

William gives a startled yelp as I yank him towards me while gasping his dad’s name. The small dot leaves the center of his chest, stops glinting off the zipper on his jacket, as time slows. There is a thunderous noise, at least in my mind, and the glass window that was behind the boy is a glittering, crumbling spider web.

Someone screams, and another too loud sound starts to echo, then everything bursts into chaotic noise.

The momentum, the centrifugal force is too much, William starts going past. I grip tighter, pulling as hard as I can to move him so he’ll end up behind me by the time Oliver will get in front of both of us. His arc is broken when he suddenly slams backwards against my chest with a sharp pained cry that pierces rest of the noise. NO! We crash backwards through the broken glass.

“NO!” Oliver’s breathless denial feels like it takes minutes to hear, not fractions of a second.

Not beta read (not even spell/grammar checked or read over, just a straight transcription from a stack of sticky notes), last bit I had followed down the stream of consciousness path...

I am woken by a voice against my ear. “I hear you wish to wed my husband.”

Blearily I open my eyes, “Nyssa?” She’s ok. If she’s ok, the others…