Sakura seeing Sasuke blush for the first time? i couldn't stand thinking about how it happened by myself anymore haha (Blank Period Please :,))
I got excited at imagining this too! I got several ideas but somehow the prude and pure one felt more fit? hope you enjoy this one!
It is not exactlythe first time she sees Sasuke blush, she’s had plenty as they’ve grown up. He’sa human and he had also had moments when he had been embarrassed. She had grownfond of them, like every other memory of the boyish and younger Sasuke she fellin love with. Like when he was caught saying something that would be more fitfor Naruto to say; or like when he had tried to act like he knew when heclearly didn’t, she had seen him blush and she had loved him every time.
This timeit is different, because he’s blushing at her.Their trip lead them to a stop at a festival near where they were wandering,they had no intention to stay too long, but the festive people seemed torejoice at their visit and had insisted in them to stay.
They hadbeen traveling together for a while now, and Sakura had taken that as a signthat Sasuke was finally accepting her feelings. Along with his company, she couldtell in the way he glanced at her with fondness. She had always answered bysmiling back.
However shecame into experiencing a twist to their interactions that day, when they werelooking around during the festival.
They were busyninjas, working in a busy world; whether it was back at Konoha or now, as theytraveled, they had been so invested in lending a hand whenever they could, thattheir interactions were sensed as one that comrades have, affection kept to theminimum besides the casual tugging of his sleeve every now and then, or endingup curled next to the other without noticing.
Both ofthem had known better than to let those things affect their progress, becausedespite of knowing where they were meant to get, they were still new toexperiencing the closeness of the other, and they wanted to take their time inlearning this new side of them.
So ithappened that night, while Sakura was taken away from him by the lodge maidsand Sasuke was taken by the old man owner of said lodge, they experiencedsomething similar to what some people would label as ‘date’.
Minuteslater, Sasuke was chatting with the old owner as they exchanged some tea, whileSakura continued to get ready but then the maid announced her arrival andSasuke was pleased he had time to gulp his cup of tea or he would have choked.
He blushedinstead.
This wasthe first time in a long time that he had seen Sakura dressed up, he recalledthat he had seen her maybe once or twice when they were young genin; but thatmemory was faint, almost bizarre, since it was from long way back. But thisSakura, this mature, feminine and… and beautiful image in front of him did nojustice to any memory he had had of her.
He wasblushing and he was speechless.
Sakuracouldn’t help but to blush too, like a couple of first timers, they stood infront of the other without knowing what to say, and their little audience wasnow swooning at the pure scene in front of them.
For acouple of badass worldwide top ninjas, they were still pretty inexpert.
Sasukebroke the silence when he finally stop his wandering gaze to meet her fidgetingone, clearing his throat as he fumbled his previously arranged locks.
“You look…good” he gulped, his blush still present and hot and flaring.
Sakura bither lower painted lip, and Sasuke licked his without realizing. Something inhis throat ached, and maybe something in his chest too.
She had toblink several times before she regained her composure, she was not dreaming,those words had really come out of Sasuke-kun’s lips and they were directed ather. She had never found Sasuke so alluring like right now, when he embarrassinglytried to compliment her.
“Thank you,you… also look well” she brought up one of her hands up to cover her own tintedcheeks, well was not even remotely close to how she found him at the moment,but sincerely she didn’t know the words to describe him right now. She didn’tblame Sasuke for his attempt either; this was all too new for them.
Noting thatneither of them seemed to be in their full senses to move on and head to thefestival, they were interrupted by the old man and rushed out of the small house.
As theywalked side by side though, their hands brushing with every step they took,Sasuke felt like he needed to be clearer, to let her know what he had figuredout just recently.
“You lookbeautiful” he watched from the corner of his eye her reaction, his handfidgeting to reach hers, but finding some kind of relief when he noticed her embarrassedgaze lower as she held his hand, clenching it.
“So you’vesaid…” he barely heard her in the middle of the noise, but he ignored it,halting their steps and stopping so he could stand in front of her and make herlook up at him.
“You do” heinsisted, his face leaning closer to her and Sakura found it hard to place whowas tinted in a redder shade, him or her.
“Mommy!They’re about to kiss!” it seemed, a little boy was better judge because beforeher mother could place a hand on his loud high pitched voice, he managed tostate: “They look like tomatoes!”
Avertingtheir gaze from the other, they tried to even their heartbeats as the fireworksstarted to display above their heated heads.
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Hi your writting is amazing as always. could I request an arranged marriage au with Kylo and reader ^^
“What are you doing here?”
Kylo looms over you, his arms crossed over his massive chest. It wasalmost sexy to see him that way, almost, although you would never admit tothat. Kylo Ren was your husband, although you hardly treated each other assuch. It had been a forced diplomatic arrangement in order to ensure protectionfor your planet and you both treated each other with the mutual contempt anddisdain that such an occasion warranted.
You both even kept separate quarters, which is probably why he was soconfused to see you stretched out on his bed.
“It’s too cold in my room,” you tell him. “There’s something wrong withthe-” You gesture your hand towards one of the vents. “-central vents orsomething, and it’s blowing freezing air into my room. They said someone willget right on it tomorrow morning, but it means that I had to find alternativesleeping accommodations for the night.”
Kylo studies you for a moment and seems to find some truth in your wordsas he takes off his helmet. His expression wasn’t altogether unfriendly, buthis jaw was still stiff as he regarded you.
“The couch in the antechamber is perfectly comfortable.”
“That’s good to know,” you reply evenly. “Thank you for being sounderstanding.”
It takes a moment for your words to sink in. His fists clench in anger,but you were hardly afraid of him. Any maltreatment from him would result in animmediate dissolution of your marriage and the First Order would lose all ofthe resources that your planet had to offer. It was one of the clauses that youhad insisted on sneaking into the contract for your own security. General Huxseemed amused, but supported the measure. As did Captain Phasma. Kylo Ren wasthe only one opposed.
“You are not sleeping in my bed.” He grits his teeth, but you just shrugas you roll over onto your stomach. “Leave.”
You don’t answer.
“I’m serious. Don’t make me use the Force.”
Silence.
“I’ll hurt you.”
Silence.
“Do you really want to test me? Do you not know what I am capable of?”
You turn around and shoot him a look. “I’m aware that you have thecapability to be extremely annoying while I’m trying to sleep.” You let out a discontented groan as you pull his pillow towardsyou, wrapping both arms around it.
Time seems to stretch out for an eternity. You don’t know how long hestood there for, just watching you, but it was long enough that your anger hadmelted away. You were honestly considering just getting up and going somewhereelse for the night when you heard Kylo Ren start to move about the room as heundressed. You closed your eyes and decided that he had finally decided tosurrender and accept his fate on the couch when your stomach bounced slightlyoff the bed as he climbed in beside you.
“What are you doing?”
“This is my bed.” His voice sounds vaguely triumphant. “And I’m sleepinghere.”
“Fine.” The bed was big enough that there was at least a good foot ofspace between you. “Just don’t touch me.”
“Fine.”
You both fall asleep that way, each turned in opposite directions. Whenyou awake, however, the situation is much different. He has his arm around you.Your head is nestled in the crook of his arm. One arm is stretched across hischest while your leg is stretched across his body, trapped between both of his.
You let out a slow exhale as you try to pull your leg out between bothof his without waking him. Unfortunately, his eyes open just as you’re about topull free and you freeze in place, not sure what to say or do. He seems to takestock of the situation as neither of you moves, neither of you says anything.
But the silence had to break eventually.
“I thought I told you not to touch me.” Your voice is low, cautious.Kylo’s eyes burn into yours, as if he’s trying to see straight through youreyes, into your thoughts.
“Do you want me to stop?”
“No.” You can’t help but sound petulant as you burrow back into him.Kylo doesn’t move for a moment before he slowly places his large hand on yourhead, smoothing back your hair. Both of you still, but upon hearing no verbalrebuke from you, he continues.
And you had to admit, you liked it. In fact, you found that you sleptbetter that night you spent with Kylo Ren, better than any other night that youhad spent on the Starkiller Base. Kylo apparently felt the same. You knew thathe would never directly ask you to sleep by his side again, he was much tooproud for that, but when you showed up in his bed again, he did not object.
He didn’t object the night after, either. Or the one after that. Or theone after that. And so on, and so on, until you couldn’t imagine spending anight without Kylo Ren by your side.
Sakura was, without a doubt, the center of her team.
Always with a focused and calculating mentality, she had the gift to be able to see for the rest of the members of her team when they needed her support. Menma always strayed away from the team, and Sakura respected that; however despite his absence in the integration moments, she knew the way to keep in touch with him and make him feel like part of the team.
The contrary to Sasuke, who being blessed with good looks and charm, he needn’t the kind of comfort Menma did. Surrounded by girls either civilians or kunoichis, the Uchiha prodigy did not require her attention like the reserved Uzumaki did.
Regrettably, the dark haired boy’s charisma had just one big flaw: his huge egocentrism. Flaw that for the girl of team seven, was just enough to unnerve her patience, since he not only envied her relationship with the Uzumaki boy —which was really only and exclusively defined as fraternal, but also that in every opportunity of being the two of them alone in the same space, he did nothing but overwhelm her with his attention and presence.
No matter how many times she clarified that she didn’t hold any kind of preference for neither of her teammates, the Uchiha seemed certain of the contrary.
“Then prove it! Go out with me like you do with him” Sasuke declared one day, while they picked up their stuff to finish their training.
Sakura narrowed her eyes when she noticed he was playing with her by defying her. He had learned her weak points, being conscious of how she despised to lose.
“If you have that much free time, then you should spend it by training” she counter attacked on the Uchiha Clan heir’s weak point, knowing that he was constantly nagged by his father to improve his skills —although to be honest they weren’t all that bad.
As she expected, the boy remained silent for a second, but immediately recomposed with a new resolution.
“Alright, Lady Sakura” he mocked with the nickname that she had been given since she was the daughter of the current Hokage. “Let’s do this: If I beat you in a fight, you’ll go out with me” he challenged her once more, now determined to show that he was as good as his other two teammates.
Sakura seemed entertained as she bent incredulously her head to one side.
“And if I’m the one who beats you?” she crossed her arms, resting her weight on one leg while she observed entertained the confidence of the boy.
By now, both of them had forgotten the presence of their third member of the team, who observed with nuisance the scene unfold before him.
“If I lose, I’ll be the one who trains in the mornings with Kakashi-sensei for a month” he finally declared, and at such statement, both Sakura and Menma looked surprised at their teammate; both aware of how intense and competitive their teacher turned during his morning routines.
Sakura smirked with arrogance; it would be a great view. To see the ever impeccable and handsome Uchiha reduced to a panting and sore common boy on her way to her shifts at the hospital.
Did she just think ‘handsome’?
The kunoichi cleared her voice before accepting.
“Fine. Let’s start” she agreed by stretching her hand so the boy could grasp it.
Twenty minutes later the two of them kept on giving and taking strikes. With Sasuke’s aim and Sakura’s strength; Sasuke’s speed and Sakura’s concentration, this was looking like a very even fight —much to Menma’s distaste, who kept on being present as judge of their quarrel.
“Alright, enough you two” the Uzumaki interrupted by intercepting both strikes with his palms after hour and a half without seeing any change in their strikes. “It’s a tie”.
“This will not end here!” both of them rattled towards their third member once they pull apart. As response, Menma scoffed and retired from the training fields. Apparently, he was done with the actual situation.
One more hour and their abilities kept increasing, an audience forming little by little as time went by just like the circulation of curious looks from the rest of the habitants.
“You want to win that much?” Sakura wondered aloud, not just wary of the strikes she received from her teammate, but also of the wounds that little by little started to form on his figure, as a result of her counter attacks.
Sasuke, hearing her question, looked at her with determination “Of course, I’ve never been more serious in my life”.
“Why?” Why her? —she wondered again out loud, now on purpose so he could answer.
“Because, Sakura-chan” he said as he pounced in her direction so he could blow a strike “, you make me want to be better”.
Taken by surprise, she widened her eyes as she froze for a second. Enough time for Sasuke to hit his last strike.
However, it never came.
Her lips were half shut from her surprise, her fists in the air. Suddenly, she felt the locks —that inadvertently covered her view, being tossed away from her face. She blinked, staring in front of her to the usual and annoying teammate smiling at her kindly.
“I won” he spoke softly, his gaze still showing affection in his eyes.
Ignoring completely the audible exclamations of surprise from their little audience, Sakura averted her stare now blushing.
She clicked her tongue and crossed her arms while she listened to Sasuke talk to her again.
“I’ll see you soon, Sakura-chan”.
Her lips tightened trying to suppress the squeal that could be confused as one from the girls in the audience.
No, she refused to look like them. No matter how warm and tender his smile was, she was not just another girl, because she was Sakura Haruno, friend and true love of the prodigy Uchiha Sasuke. She could tell now that he had shown it with a determination that she had not seen in him before, at the idea of spending more time by her side.
As the center of her team, as daughter of the Hokage and apprentice of the legendary Sannin, Sakura Haruno could not allow herself to have any kind of preference for either of her teammates; she had an image to keep, a goal to reach. However, Uchiha Sasuke was a shinobi that slowly made his way to her heart with every little gesture in her direction.
Note: this prompt was sent to my spanish accounf on ffnet, since i kind of liked it i brought it here but im not sure how accurate the translation was so mistakes on me oops
Prompt: Hi can you write Rey/Reader with Rey's first crush on a girl, :3
Requested by: Anon
Word Count: 992
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People said that you were tough. Sand had polished your skin smooth, but yet your hard eyes were as rough as the jagged rocks that jutted out from underneath Jakku’s sandy landscape. You were a smuggler by trade, and Unkar Plutt often managed to obtain parts that you couldn’t find in other areas of the galaxy.
Well, not for as cheap, anyway.
As you headed away from your ship, you noticed a girl headed in your direction on the back of a speeder bike. You could tell by the shadow of a stick that stood against the silhouette that it was Rey who was coming towards you.
Rey, she had said when you had asked her name. Just Rey.
You had offered to give her a lift, trying to scope out where she was from, but the girl had remained quiet. Much too quiet for a girl who made a living scavenging for parts. In your experience, people liked to talk tale: adventure, scavenges, finds.
Rey was different, though. You knew without asking that Rey wasn’t born here. Rey was made of something different, cut from a different cloth. She could speak with the common jargon, but there was something underneath her accent that even Jakku’s turbulent weather hadn’t managed to bury.
If you didn’t know any better, you would have asked her if she had been from the Core Worlds.
If you were the type to ask questions.
You weren’t.
“Rey,” you say as she slows her speeder near you. You throw up an arm as Rey hops off her speeder, her caf-colored boots kicking sand this way and that as she shuffled her way towards you. Her staff was slung over one shoulder: you had offered a hefty staff for that stick once upon a time but Rey had refused you with such immediacy that you reasoned it must have been an heirloom. Behind her, she dragged a sack.
You didn’t have to ask what was in it.
“Looks like quite a haul today.”
“Y-yes.” Rey glances back at her bag, as she had momentarily forgotten that she was carrying anything at all. “Suppose so.”
Your thumb toys with your bottom lip as you look it over. Rey seems to watch the motion with muted interest, but you pay it no mind.
“Got anything worth selling?”
Rey glances from your mouth to your eyes and then back again before she seems to have snapped out of whatever daze she was in. “Some,” she says as she snaps back to the conversation. “Not worth more than a few half-portions today, I believe.”
“Let me take a look.”
“No, you don’t-”
“You’re skinnier than the last time I saw you.” You push your own canteen into her hands as you lean down to take a look at what she had brought, talking as you do so. “Unkar’s been restricting the rations he’s been giving out lately. Something to do with the First Order and some business they might have in the Outer Rim. I don’t know. I don’t ask questions, but you should probably get what you can now, before he makes his belt any tighter.”
“Thank you.” Rey looks at the canteen, gnawing at her lower lip. You can almost hear her thirst.
“Drink up,” you say. “I’ve got plenty more where that came from. You, obviously, don’t.”
Rey gives a small shrug as she relents, lifting the canteen to her lips as she drinks. You turn back to her sack as something small and chrome catches your eye.
“I like this,” you say as you turn it over in your hands. It was a small spherical object, chrome, with a small bronze peg sticking out one end. You couldn’t quite put a name to this part just yet, but you knew valuable when you saw it, and this was it.
“Take it.” The words are off Rey’s lips before she can stop them. You look up at her strangely, and Rey herself seems to understand the gravity of her own outburst. “Fair trade.” She waves the canteen. “For the water.”
“Food’s going to be scarce for a while,” you tell her, unable to keep the suspicion out of your voice. “You want me to just take it for some water? It’s not a luxury everywhere in the galaxy like it is here on Jakku, you know.”
“I know.” Rey seems to be searching for something, anything to say. “I just want you to have it, that’s all.”
“For this?” You toss the small object between your hands. “I don’t know, I feel like I should give you something else for it.”
“You don’t have-”
“Close your eyes.”
Rey lets out a small laugh as she glances around, but everyone is more or less going about their business. No one is paying attention to the two of you, standing in the middle of a junkyard.
Without waiting, you quickly lean forward and press your lips against hers. You can feel the brush of her eyelashes against your cheek as they flutter open. Your hand slips around the back of her neck, but she doesn’t even try to pull away. Instead, she runs the tip of her tongue along your bottom lip before she leans in to kiss you again, stepping a little closer until your bodies are flush against one another’s.
You don’t know how long the moment lasts, but you let Rey be the one to pull away first. She’s standing there with an almost dazed expression on her face before her eyes suddenly drop to the leather cuff on her wrists as she fiddles with it in a desperate attempt to remain nonchalant.
“Fair trade?” you ask as you hold up the bauble between your fingers.
Rey looks up at you, letting a sly grin slowly overcome her features.
Imagine being Kylo Ren’s apprentice, & he shows you Darth Vader’s helmet for the first time. He seems so nervous when you enter his quarters, but you can sense latent excitement. As Kylo approaches the helmet, there’s a sense of respect that he has not shown anyone else, even Snoke. Kylo bends down on one knee, & speaks to the helmet as if Vader was still alive, standing before you both.
“It’s time.”
You had never entered the private room in Kylo Ren’s quarters before. He disappeared there often, particularly to sulk, although he had expressly denied you entry. You were curious as to what was back there, as anyone would be, but a part of you almost didn’t want to know. What if what was back there was so terrible it changed how you saw him? What you felt for him?
But it seemed Kylo trusted you not to turn away from him now, and you had to honor that. You had to show him that no matter what horrors the room held, you would stand by his side no matter what.
That was, of course, easier said than done.
He kept his helmet on as he entered the room, and it suddenly occurred to you for the first time that he always kept his helmet on while he entered this room. You silently cursed yourself under your breath for not realizing such a thing sooner.
You didn’t understand what it meant, not right away. Kylo stood behind you as he opened the door with the Force, stretching out one hand as he gestured for you to enter first.
It took your eyes a moment to adjust to the dim gloom around them. The room was smaller than you had expected, the dark walls making it look only slightly larger than its original size. There was a chair in the room, and a table that held some small object.
There was a feeling in this room, a tangible charge that you could not begin to describe if you tried. The tiny hairs on your arm stood on end as you ventured further into the room to get a glimpse of Kylo’s most treasured secret.
There, sitting on the table in front of you, was the charred remains of the helmet that had once belonged to Darth Vader.
Your eyes drift back towards Kylo, who was wavering in the doorway. He seemed almost nervous, one hand supporting him on the doorway beside him as he watched you.
You don’t say anything to reassure him. What could you say? Instead, you simply bow your head forward in a small little nod to tell him that it was okay.
There’s something akin to relief or jubilance in his step as he comes towards you quickly, standing behind you as he wraps his long arms around your waist and pulls you closer to him. You half-expected him to kiss your neck before you realized he had the helmet on.
“Grandfather.” There’s reverence in his voice that you had never heard from him before, not even as he was addressing Supreme Leader Snoke. He gently moves you aside, out of the circle of his arms as he drops down to one knee before the helmet, face tilted down slightly towards the floor.
“I felt it was time.” Kylo’s voice hesitates for a moment before he continues. “To introduce you…to her.”
For a moment you believed Kylo had been speaking to you. Now, you realized, he was talking directly to the helmet, as if the spirit of Darth Vader was alive and well, standing before you both.
You didn’t sense anything, but then again, maybe you didn’t need to. Maybe this was Kylo Ren’s form of praying, and you weren’t going to rob him of his faith by telling him that his grandfather wasn’t really listening, especially not when you couldn’t know for sure.
You try to silence your doubts before Kylo can sense them, but it seems that he’s forgotten you’re even in the room as he keeps talking, telling his grandfather how loyal you are to him, how pleased he is to have someone so devoted.
You honestly aren’t sure what to make of Kylo talking about you in the third person, while you’re standing right there, but to be fair, this was Kylo Ren. He had done far stranger things in the brief time you knew him, and this was far from the top of the list. If anything, it was almost endearing to hear him speak about you this way, to know how much he valued you when you valued him the same way in turn.
Fortunately, he doesn’t ask if you have anything to say to him. Instead, he rises when he is done and ushers you out of the room with him without another glance back as he shuts the door behind him.
He seems to be waiting nervously for you to say something, anything. In truth, it wasn’t as bad as you had expected it to be. You had been living with him for months, and you had tried to push what could have been back there out of your mind in fear of just how bad it could be.
You look up at him and smile, your voice radiating with sincerity. “I’m glad you showed that to me.”
His shoulders visibly relax. “Thank you.” He slips off his helmet as he presses his lips against yours, wrapping an arm around your waist as he pulls you closer.
No, you could say for certain now that you were glad that he had shown it to you. It showed that he trusted you, that he really did care. In spite of his violent fits and moody tantrums, Kylo felt, and sometimes it seemed almost unfathomable to believe that you were the one he had centered his affections on. While some might have perceived talking to the decrepit mask of Darth Vader unnerving, it didn’t surprise you half as much as you almost expected it to.
Besides, it wasn’t anywhere close to as bad as the table that he insisted be kept in the living room, filled to the brim with the charcoal grey ashes of his enemies, his victims, and any bystander that happened to get in the way of his lightsaber and its prey.
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Prompt: Ok.... so, I think I need some Captain Phasma x Reader with that Pokémon Stop AU <3
Requested by: dacianamusik23
Word Count: 1136
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“Okay, I’m not leaving until I’ve got my Magmar.”
You begin to walk forward again, your phone held out in front of you like a divining rod. Captain Phasma just sighs from behind you as she shakes her head.
“This is ridiculous. You’re never going to find it.”
You glance over your shoulder and let your tongue slip through parted lips. “Don’t be jealous. Just because your phone is almost out of juice doesn’t mean I can’t still have my fun.” You turn back to your phone. “Besides, I told you that you should have brought your charger.”
“And I told you, Ren destroyed it.” She quickens her pace to catch up to you.
“I told you to stop lending him your things.”
“And do you want to deal with the consequences should I refuse him?”
You tilt your head to the side in consideration. “No. I like you alive, you know that.”
The best area of the park was set up in basically the shape of a giant figure-eight, with two ponds set between the curved pathway. You and Phasma strolled together as you kept your phone out in front of you, mapping your route by the line of sight of the small avatar that used your steps to propel her forward.
“I can’t believe how popular this game is.” You say to no one in particular as you stop and step off the pavement to chuck a Pokeball at another Oddish.
“I can’t believe that they’ve finally invented a device that has convinced you to walk with me,” Phasma remarks, her large arms folded across her chest.
You smirk at her from over the screen of your phone as you step to rejoin her on the pavement. “You’re on your feet all the time at work, though. I don’t know how you still manage to stay standing at the end of the day. You-”
You stop talking as you turn to face a man that looked as though he was going to walk by you before he suddenly stopped, starring at you as if he recognized you. You didn’t recognize him. His skin was tanned, as if he had spent too much time out in the sun, and his head was shaved. He was just a bit shorter than you, although his baggy clothes made determining his size a bit difficult.
“Hi.” You force a polite smile to your lips. The park was a popular spot for Pokemon Go players, and this was a place where people frequently placed bait. People had been overall friendly and welcoming of the park’s newest patrons, although you didn’t get this vibe from him.
“Give me your phone.” He holds out his hand for it. His voice matched the tone of someone who was a close friend, asking to check your phone for a quick favor.
He was not a friend.
“Sorry.” You shake your head quickly, as if not understanding. You want to take a step closer to Phasma as you feel the heightened tension suddenly building in the park. It was closer to the end of the day now, and there were much fewer people than there had suddenly been a few minutes ago.
The stranger says nothing. He just stands there with his hand out, eyes drilling into yours, as he waits.
Phasma, however, has no such reservations. She reaches out and takes your arm as she begins to lead you away. Suddenly, the man lunges forward and grabs your shoulder, spinning you around as he makes a grab for the phone.
Two things happened at once. As Phasma had turned you away, you had begun to slide your phone up the sleeve of your jacket, and thus it was secure in your grip as you wrestled your arm free. Phasma grabbed the man roughly by the collar as she shoved him back, her first instinct to make sure that he was away from you.
The man stumbled as he turned before catching his balance on a nearby bench, taking off as fast as his feet could carry him. Phasma looked ready to pursue before you grabbed her arm, clutching the fabric of her sleeve so tightly your knuckles were white.
“Don’t.”
Don’t leave me.
“It’s not worth it.”
I need you right now.
Phasma seems to catch the reflection of your thoughts in your eyes as she stops and nods quickly, turning back to you as she puts her hands on your shoulders, looking you up and down. “Are you all right? Did he hurt you?”
“Just grabbed me.” You bite your lip as you look in the direction that he had come from. He had disappeared up a trail leading to the street, and had probably blended in with a crowd. “I’m okay.”
You want to say it’s a good thing he didn’t seem to have a weapon. Phasma’s thinking it too, you can tell, but neither of you speaks. You just stand there for a moment until a breeze prickles goosebumps on your arms.
“It’s getting late, we should go.”
Phasma silently agrees as she wraps an arm protectively around your shoulders as you begin to walk towards the car. “Better put your phone in your pocket,” she advises as you walk. “Just in case.”
“Yeah,” you agree. “I’m just closing out the app.”
Suddenly the phone vibrates in your hands, and your eyes go wide as you stare at the screen.
“What?” Phasma demands, the alarm in her voice still palpable from your previous encounter. “What is it? What’s wrong?”
“Magmar,” you whisper.
Phasma lets out a sound that’s half laugh, half groan. “If you must,” she says. “I’ll guard you.”
It takes you precisely six and a half minutes and about three dozen Pokeballs to catch Magmar. When you finally look back up at her, your face is glowing as your lips slowly part in a sly grin.
“I got it,” you say quietly. “I got him.”
“Well, I hope he was worth the trouble,” Phasma ribs gently.
“He was,” you reply as you glance behind you. The sun was quickly setting in the sky, the twilight blue being replaced by a starless midnight blue.
“Okay, I don’t want to be here anymore. Can we go home now?”
Phasma laughs as she takes your hand and leads you away. “Gladly.”
Writing is sometimes the best form of therapy. This is actually a true story and I haven’t really played Pokemon Go since that happened and I never really talked to anyone about it (because who wants to dwell on something like that?) so I never really told anyone about it until now…..I did get that Magmar though. So at least that’s something.
(SFW)- Kylo Ren was the most feared person in the galaxy, even more so when he crowned himself Emperor. Truth & rumors were spoken in hushed whispers among his subjects & the troops. Everyone was terrified enough to avoid him when they could. So imagine the shock for a random person if he/she encountered Kylo & you (the Empress) having a quiet moment alone together. It was jarring to see such affection in Kylo’s face as he held you in his arms, listening to you speak. But it was *there*.
His lips graced your cheek so tenderly that you almost couldn’t imagine that this was the same person who had destroyed the navigation console less than a week ago.
Ren was always prone to volatile fits of mood, that was known to both his friends and his enemies. Both had equal right to fear the wrath of his lightsaber, and neither were safe from his wrath. Anyone who crossed him faced the cold hand of death…
…everyone, it seemed, except you.
It was hard to say what exactly Ren saw in you, but then again, Ren’s mind was a complex web of thoughts that seemed to run in opposite directions. Maybe Ren didn’t know himself. It didn’t seem to bother him so long as he could rationalize his decisions, such as when he had deseated Snoke as the leader of the First Order and crowned himself Emperor. It was a move that no one had expected, and you were guessing that Ren had done it the same way he had done everything else, lost in a blind fit of passion.
“You seem nervous,” he says quietly, tucking a stray strand of hair behind your ear. You shiver at the contact, still not expecting how gentle he could be and knowing that his calm exterior could vanish in a moment’s notice. He rarely lost his temper with you, but perhaps you just took greater strides to pacify him. Perhaps he simply tried harder to control his anger around you. Maybe this was yet another thing that he didn’t know himself.
“Not nervous,” you reply as you shake your head. “I’m just happy that we finally have a moment alone together after everything that’s happened.”
The corner of Kylo’s lip quirks upwards in a smirk. “So you’re happy to see me?”
“I’m always happy to see you.” A genuine hint of surprise touches your voice. “I just wish we had more time together. I like how you are when you’re with me, when we’re alone. You’re not like how you are out there.” His eyebrows knot together as he frowns, and immediately you know you’ve said the wrong thing. “I understand why, and it’s okay. You have to keep other people at a distance.”
He pulls away from you slightly, turning his face away. “Does it bother you?” he asks at length. “To see me that way?”
“Would it be wrong of me to say that I expect it?” you ask. “Right now the galaxy is in turmoil. They need a firm, strong leader, and that’s what you provide them.” Ren pauses for a moment, as if he doubted this himself. “It’s true. I know at times you may doubt yourself, but you are powerful. No one can doubt that, and that’s what people respond to.”
“And you?” he asks as he turns back to face you fully. “Are you attracted to my power?”
“Maybe slightly?” you reply teasingly as you step closer to him. “No, I’m attracted to you for how you are, for how you treat me when we’re alone.”
“Which isn’t enough for your tastes,” he notes, although his voice isn’t altogether unkind when he says it.
You just roll your shoulders, letting them rise and drop. “Maybe,” you offer. “But it can’t exactly be helped, now can it?”
“Maybe it can,” Ren replies, reaching out and pulling you closer to him once again. “What if you and I snuck away, just for a few days?”
“Snuck away?” you ask, a slight laugh creeping into your face. “With everything that you have to do here? You’re Emperor of the entire galaxy, Ren.”
“Which means I can do whatever I choose to,” Ren replies smoothly. “And if that means I want to spend a few days with you, and only you, I’m entitled to that.”
You want to refuse him. You want to tell him that he had responsibilities now, that he couldn’t just leave everything behind him for you, but the truth was that you had missed him, and what harm could the Resistance cause in a few short days? Surely not enough trouble to dismantle everything that Ren had worked almost his entire life to achieve.
“All right,” you agree as you reach up and plant a tentative kiss against his lips. “When do you want to go?”