being the bait

🥍 - Kira becomes the lacrosse team's captain (Malira)

"Do you think if I tell Coach I don't want to be captain, he'll give it back to Scott?" Kira asks because she's only 30% sure it might work. Coach is, after all, unpredictable.

"You don't want to be captain?"

Kira doesn't look up, feeling too vulnerable right now. She continues playing with her fingers nervously. "I… I dont know. No? I kinda prefer to be… in the background, you know? The right hand man."

"The side-kick." Malia hums in understanding.

Hearing this, Kira raises her gaze with a frown. "Well, no… Maybe not side-kick."

"Then what?"

"I don't know but not the main person! Being captain is so much responsibility and I don't want to rip that away from Scott. I know he loves being the captain. So maybe I should-"

Malia shrugs. "From what Coach said, it sounded like he hasn't been a great captain in some time."

Letting go of her fingers as anger rises in her, Kira can't help but exclaim, "He has had a lot going on."

Malia raises an eyebrow at the words and the intensity of them and, after a quick glance towards Kira, says, "You too, but you're still going to practice. Still showing up to games. You missed one game and it was because you were kidnapped in Mexico!"

"Just like Scott!"

"Didn't you bring donuts for the whole team three weeks ago?"

Kira looks down again at her comforter. "We had lost a big game."

😏 - Brutus 2 (Theo is Liam's beta)

Covered in ash and still a bit wobbly on her feet, Hayden traps a crying Liam into her arms and they stay there for a minute, both relieved to see each other. About ten paces away, Theo stares at them, his grip around the tall green syringe growing tight. A flash of envy unlike any he's ever felt before overpowers him and it takes every inch of strength in his body not to go there and separate them himself. Almost as if she could tell, Hayden suddenly opens her eyes and tightens her hold on Liam as her eyes squint towards Theo.

He's not sure if he truly meant to do it but Theo's eyes flash once in warning and, seeing the blue glow instead of his usual gold, Hayden suddenly takes a step back, finally distancing herself from Liam.

"What happened?" she asks.

Liam laughs a bit nervously before wiping the last few tears. "It's a long story."

"How long have we been dead?"

I hope you still like a little bit of angst haha

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Theo groans and lowers his head, bracing his hands on the table. It pains him, the words coming out through gritted teeth, but still he forces himself to ask, “do you want to talk about it?”

Nolan jerks up to look at Theo for the first time all morning, eyes wide and startled. “Do I—?”

“Your nightmare.”

“Oh,” Nolan relaxes back in his chair, his gaze returning back to his hands. “It’s okay. I mean, it’s not…” He takes a deep, steadying breath, but even as he does his body shudders. “It’s not real.” His voice is a haunted sort of quiet, ghostly thin, and Theo wonders who those words are trying to convince.

What money can't buy

Moodboard by @thiamsalpha ;)

Summary:

"Hello?" he asked only, his voice still hoarse with sleep, but not hiding his irritation at all.

No answer.

Just silence.

Theo was about to hang up when he finally heard a thin voice.

"Hello."

Theo waited.

A name. An explanation. A request.

He got nothing.

"Who is it?" he asked, confusion momentarily overcoming his tiredness and frustration.

"Liam."

Theo frowned.

"I don't kno-"

What money can't buy

Moodboards AND beta reading by @thiamsalpha. Thank you so so much pookie ❤️

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