“I’m fine. This just happens sometimes. It’s normal for me.”
Hey! I just saw your prompt post and this one reminded me so bad of like something Gale totally had thought was normal (be it like a childhood trauma result or smth) and then John just going “uhhh… no.”
Love your blog btw !
Hi anon! Thanks so much for the ask and for saying you love my blog! @joeyalohadream requested the same prompt (tysm for the ask as well!!) and I had this almost completely finished before I got yours. I'm glad we had the same idea! This is set a couple of weeks after Gale and John first meet as flying cadets at Randolph Field, TX.
Prompt: "I'm fine. This just happens sometimes. It's normal for me."
Word count: 1081
Despite the sun having already dipped behind the horizon, the darkness does nothing to relieve the sweltering heat of the Texas summer as their small group makes the short walk to the bar off-base. With the day off tomorrow, Bucky had managed to convince several of the men to accompany him in letting loose tonight.
Most impressively, Bucky had managed to convince his straight-laced, new roommate Gale Cleven, or Buck, as Bucky had taken to calling him. The minute Bucky had laid eyes on the gorgeous, golden wonder that was Gale Cleven, he knew he had to stake his claim before it was too late. And so, he’d slung an arm around his shoulders and fumbled out some story about Gale looking just like “his old friend Buck, from Manitowoc, Wisconsin.”Â
As it turned out, not only was Gale the most beautiful person he’d ever laid eyes on, he was also a damn good pilot, surprisingly shy for his looks and skill, and somehow impenetrable to any of the vices that regular people fall victim to. He doesn’t drink, doesn’t smoke, doesn’t dance. And yet, here he is, braving the stifling Texas heat with the rest of them only to inevitably stay seated quietly for the evening, likely nursing a ginger beer.
It had taken surprisingly little pleading from Bucky to get him to agree to come. While they’ve only known each other for the couple of weeks they’ve been flying cadets, their status as roommates means that they’ve been living out of each other's pockets for that time, and Bucky already knows he’s found a best friend for life in Gale.
He can be happy with that—a best friend—despite the way his heart pounds in his chest everytime he so much as looks at Gale. He knows he has to be happy with that, unless he wants a one way blue ticket home before he barely even gets started. Yet, he can’t help but wonder if Gale would have still agreed to come out tonight if anyone other than Bucky had been asking.
Shaking himself out of his thoughts, Bucky realizes they’ve reached their destination. After ordering their first round of drinks—several whiskeys, and, as Bucky predicted, a ginger beer for Gale—the men scatter around the bar.Â
Bucky stays with Gale for a while, chatting aimlessly about everything and nothing, before deciding it’s time to take to the dance floor. Despite Bucky’s best efforts, Gale refuses to join him. Bucky figures he ought to cut his losses and just be grateful that Gale came out with them at all, so he leaves him be. He finds a beautiful blonde to dance with who looks a little too much like Gale to be a coincidence, and they have fun together for a few songs before Bucky finds himself longing to get back to his friend.
He slides into the booth next to Gale, knocking his shoulder against his friend’s. Two other guys from their program sit on the other side of Gale, but they’re engaged in some sort of animated debate and seemingly don’t notice Bucky’s approach.
“You having fun?” Bucky asks.
Gale shrugs. “I reckon you’re having enough fun for the both of us,” he says teasingly, a small smile gracing his lips.
Bucky opens his mouth to respond, but he’s cut off by the sound of a glass shattering across the bar. Some idiot must’ve dropped their drink, he thinks, not yet noticing the way Gale is tensed beside him. But then, the man on Gale’s other side tosses his hands up in the air in whatever conversation they’re having, and Gale flinches hard.Â
“Hey, you okay?” Bucky questions worriedly, trying to catch Gale’s eyes. When he looks into them, they’re glassy and despondent. Bucky notices the way Gale’s breaths are coming shallower, his hands shaking where they rest on the table. “Buck?” Bucky tries again, with no luck.Â
“Okay,” Bucky breathes out, running a hand through his hair. “Okay, come on.” Slowly, so as not to startle him further, he wraps an arm around Gale’s shoulders and encourages him out of the booth, guiding him outside into the fresh air. There, they sit on the curb of the sidewalk, Gale seemingly still lost in his head, if his unsteady breathing and faraway gaze are anything to go by. Bucky strokes a hand gently up and down his back and waits.Â
Finally, Gale lets out a shaky exhale, pinching the bridge of his nose briefly before speaking. He doesn’t look Bucky in the eyes, instead keeping his gaze fixed on the street in front of them. “Sorry about that.”Â
Bucky drops his hand from Gale’s back, not wanting to push his luck. “No, don’t apologize,” he says, shaking his head. “What was that about?”
“I’m fine. This just happens sometimes. It’s normal for me,” Gale responds casually, brushing off Bucky’s concerns. “We can go back in, if you want.”
Bucky stares at him incredulously. Not two minutes ago, Gale had been shaking and unresponsive despite Bucky’s best efforts, and now he’s suggesting they go back into the bar like nothing happened? “Do you want to go back in?”
Gale looks sheepish. “Well, no, not really. But I don’t want to ruin your guys’ night.”
“You’re not ruining anything. You’re the one I wanted to hang out with anyways,” Bucky says, trying to ignore the faint blush rising on Gale’s cheeks at his admission. Though it makes Bucky’s heart flutter with hope, now is clearly not the time to dwell on it. “Seriously, though, are you alright?”
“Yeah, it’s just… My dad liked to drink,” Gale starts hesitantly, wringing his hands in his lap. “And when he drank he got mean. Violent. Sometimes, things remind me of it, I guess.”
Bucky’s stomach drops at the implication in Gale’s words. The thought of anyone, especially Gale’s own father, intentionally hurting the kind, thoughtful man in front of him is enough to have him seeing red. Gale’s father better hope Bucky never crosses paths with him or he’ll have another thing coming. But, for now, Gale needs him, so Bucky pushes his anger down.
“C’mon, let's get you back to the bunks,” Bucky says softly, standing and offering a hand to Gale to help him up. Gale takes it, allowing Bucky to pull him up from the curb.
And if they stay there a little longer than necessary before letting go to start their walk back to base, well, that’s no one’s business but theirs.
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so a few months after the Aklove incident, Silver decided to kinda sneak in(raid) the cube corp to free Aros(completely unprepared and alone yeah she was moving out of emotions not thoughts)
And because of her poor prep time she got caught by Fey who imprisoned her in a cube, but wait it's not just a cube. It's more of an labyrinth with abnormally morphed pokemon hybrids, and a creature that looks like Darkrai(but it's just her hallucinations, I'll reveal more about it in another lore drop)
So in the labyrinth all she had to do is escape, but those things are out for BLOOD. They will hunt her down, no time limit, no restrictions whenever she's near they chomp on her, so if she's caught she's dead. But the thing is the place had a respawn button, so she can't die(but she can feel the death) so she's kinda fucked(mentally and physically) so after months (maybe years) of being chased, caught, killed and revived she's gone a little crazy
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Hi Tumblr, how are we? How about I post snippets of an alien!Syndicate fic I'm writing here from time to time >:3
Phil is just gonna be a pathetic little human man adopting aliens cuz I said so.
Snippet:
"Now, don’t get him wrong, Phil absolutely despised his old life. Being stuck in a nine-to-five desk job simply to keep a roof over his head and food on his table-for-one was the fucking worst; he had no friends, only acquaintances and distant relatives he couldn’t give less than a fuck about. It was slowly killing him. But he would literally do anything to get that back now.
Anything to be slowly dying again at his own hand instead of very obviously quickly dying but being kept alive by outside forces.
Alright, I think we’re all a bit confused as to what’s happened and what’s going on right now, so how about we turn back time a few Earthen months, ey?"
hmm ok so i don't usually post anything anywhere B U T
recently I've been writing an au focused on spicynoodles from lmk and idk I think it's interesting
i call it wartorn, bc it's basically a big ol what if of like
red, instead of staying around pif, has a big ol fight with her and at the ripe age of like 13 (which is like. Hundreds of human years but mentally my boy was a lil tween) goes to war with dbk's old army and shit
and when mk gets the staff and all that happens he isn't present
nor is he there for most of the plot thats happened in the show
and like 5 or so years after all this starts red returns bc he's finally gotten word that his dad is BACK and he wants to show off all his lil war crimes and other such accomplishments
and yk he's a ptsd-riddled maniac by now so upon learning about mk's general existence he's like FUCK YOU LETS DUEL
and mks like "ok fuck dude fine but if i win u have to like. Not be a bloodthirsty villain? I have enough trauma" bc atp hes just tired
and reds like "ok whatever u have to leave if I win"
and did I mention this started as just a crack idea I had at like 1 am?
bc mei throws in "oh you have to be mks HOUSEWIFE if he wins el oh el"
and yk, red being an arrogant bastard thinks it's funny and is like "sure lmfao"
and well.
it kinda just descended into pure chaos from there and just mk and red both being traumatized and accidentally married idk i feel the need to share the silly goofy little ideas my little wrinkled chicken breast comes up with
