#stormveils

❆ OC Countdown to Christmas ❆ - @noonfaerie + @veisshaupt

OOH thank u i was hoping someone would ask this bc it's my favorite title of the list 👀 uhh ok a little backstory first but this is a cleo one (of course lol) from maybe halfway through take this to my grave. a few weeks prior to this there's an Incident at the arklay lab in which a cerberus prototype Breaches Containment and bites her, so of course she decides the best course of action is to inject herself with a completely untested vaccine prototype and hope that it works. wesker is...not thrilled about this plan, but it's definitely just because it's a risk to the rest of the facility and it does NOT have anything to do with him actually being concerned for her or caring or anything. that would be ridiculous.

so she quarantines at NEST and he spends two weeks pretending he's not worried being super normal about it, until she lets him know that she is officially not t-virused and he can come yell at her for being an idiot in person if he wants. he goes down to her researcher dorm (she practically lives there anyway like she does Not want to go to the place she's renting), and they argue about it, and uhh. the tension building from a year and a half of constantly being at each others throats just kinda snaps sidkdjd

idk yet if it's going to end up being Spicy and i probably won't decide until i get around to rewriting it in the context of the rest of the fic, but right now it's just snippets of dialogue from various points throughout The Whole Thing, here's my current favorite bit:

"just so you know," she says, setting the glass down and pressing her now-damp hand against her forehead, "i would've done that for anybody who injected me with an experimental vaccine against their will."

the corner of his mouth twitches. he can't help it. "anybody?"

"mhm. you're not special." she slides down further under the covers, arching her back and groaning quietly when something cracks. her fingers clench in the sheets above her head. he fights the compulsion to look away. "i will let you stay over, though. i'd be kicking anyone else out by now."

"how generous of you."

she smiles wide, eyes closed, and the implicit trust of that stirs something behind his ribcage, more than anything else they've done tonight. "i know. my benevolence is second only to my intellect."

Radioactive - Imagine Dragons

RAVE - Dxrk

Really Wanna Dance With You - New Rules

The Red Means I Love You - Madds Buckley

The Rumbling - SiM

Honourable Mentions: River - Bishop Briggs || The Road - Faouzia || Rejects - 5 Seconds of Summer

lord, give me grace and dancing feet; turn off my mind, i beg you. no one asks me for dances because i only know how to flail, i'm at my best when i'm at my worst. what happens when the dream is better than the waking?

[the prayer - bloc party / claude's girl - marika hackman / no care - daughter / from the hips - cursive / fight like gods - chelsea wolfe]