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Aurora is there to be a menace.

Dew does everyone’s piercings.

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“You wanna do what?”

Aurora was frozen, staring over the top of her phone at Swiss like he had just told her he wanted to rob a bank, stunned. And suddenly he felt rather silly, like the words that had left his mouth nearly seconds ago were the most ridiculous thing anyone could have possibly heard. Aurora had a talent when it came to making you feel like a fucking moron…but maybe she was just that way with him.

“I want to get my belly button pierced,” Swiss repeated, staring back at her, trying to match her energy right now, but there was no accomplishing that and he knew it. Being under that relentless stare made him antsy, shifting his weight from hip to hip, tail swaying restlessly behind him. Aurora had mastered her ability to make his skin crawl and boy, did she know it. She was an evil little thing, that one.

A grin broke out across her pretty pink lips after another moment of silence, and she was up off her bed in seconds, phone discarded onto the blankets below her. “Ugh, finally! I’ve only been saying you should do this for months.”

Unfortunately, the ghoulette wasn’t wrong and Swiss knew it. It had started when the group went to the lake and Swiss had suddenly become rather enamored by Aether’s piercing, though he had seen it plenty of times before. What followed was months of Swiss going back and forth and back and forth whether he wanted to get his own belly button pierced, and who was usually the victim of his babbling? Aurora. So who could be surprised by her initial reaction?

”You mean it this time, right? You’re not just saying this and then gonna come back in three hours saying you’ve changed your mind?” Aurora questioned, standing in front of the larger ghoul with her arms crossed in front of her chest. He scoffed.

”What- no, when have I ever-“ the look she gave him shut him up real quick, his tail falling still between his legs, “okay, fine, so maybe I did that…a couple times but! I mean it this time, I want to do it.”

Aurora looked him up and down, a slow inspection of his body language. It felt like she could see into his soul. But all she did was shrug, giving him a smile that could rival his own.

“Fine, if you say so. C’mon.”

And with that Aurora breezed past him, nearly skipping out of her room and into the hallway, leaving Swiss to clamor after her like always.

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Now, everyone always went to Dew for everything piecing related. He’d given himself nearly all of his, and eventually the others started to ask him to do their piercings as well. And of course he said yes, because why say no to a free excuse to stab your beloved pack mates with needles, especially when they’re pissing you off.

So here they were, Swiss laying on Dew’s bed while the fire ghoul sterilized the needle while Aurora was sat next to him, laying on her stomach with her chin resting on her palms.

”So how badly does it hurt?” Aurora questioned, her feet swinging behind her in time with her tail, the spade tip flicking about curiously. Swiss immediately gave her a sharp glare, paired with a series of annoyed clicks. It’s not that he was scared of the pain, that was far from a problem with him…but something about it was making him a little more nervous than he thought he would be.

Dew laughed at the tiny ghoulette’s question and Swiss’s reaction, turning to look at the two of them as he moved his nightstand closer, a metal tray placed atop it.

”What, you scared big guy?

He was trapped in a room with the worst people imaginable for this, and if Dew wasn’t about to stab a needle through his belly button, then Swiss would’ve been an insufferable asshole right now, even he wasn’t that stupid, despite what others believed.

“No, I’m not, Aurora is just trying to start shit.”

”Am not.”

Swiss gave her another glare which the ghoulette brushed aside like it was nothing. Why was she even here if all she was going to do was make comments like that? Well, it’s because she likes to cause problems, no one is surprised.

“It won’t hurt anymore than the bridge did,” Dew said, referring to Swiss’s favorite piercing. And that managed to smooth his nerves just a little bit as he relaxed, sitting up to tug his shirt off before folding his arms and resting them behind his head as he waited.

Dew slid those awful rubber gloves on, and Swiss was constantly questioning how his claws didn’t rip right through them. The ghoul grabbed a small disinfectant wipe and turned to Swiss, leaning over the other’s stomach as cleaned the area of skin. It was a little cooler than Swiss would’ve liked it to be and his body tensed in reaction, a reaction that made Dew snicker.

”Oh shut up,” Swiss grumbled, rolling his eyes at the laughter. Aurora scooted a little closer as Dew grabbed the needle, not long enough to be terrifying but certainly thick enough to know it wasn’t going to feel very great. The ghoulette watched with wide eyes as Dew pinched Swiss’s bellybutton between two fingers, lining the needle up with the red dots he had marked on the other’s skin.

”Deep breath in, on the count of three.”

Dew watched with expectant eyes as Swiss leaned his head back and took a deep breath in.

”Three.”

Now Swiss should have seen that coming from a mile away, but he didn’t, and he was left hissing through his teeth as Dew jabbed the needle through flesh. The pain really wasn’t that bad, at least the dickhead hadn’t lied about that, but the sheer surprise of it all had gotten the better of him. And the sound of Aurora’s laughter only made his cheeks burn.

”You fucking-”

”Hey, I’m doing this for free, you should be thanking me,” Dew hummed as he attached the piercing to the end of the needle, sliding it into place as he pulled the needle out. Swiss could only scowl as the fire ghoul finished up, screwing the gem of his chosen piercing in place before leaning back, sliding his gloves off.

”There, all done.”

”Oh, it looks great!” Aurora cooed, a wide grin on her face as she stared at the fresh piercing. Swiss couldn’t disagree. He sat up and swung his legs over the side of the bed, pushing himself upright and standing. It stung a little as he moved but he ignored it, stalking over to the mirror in Dew’s room.

It looked better than he could’ve hoped. Gold was his color, so of course that’s what he went with. The way it shined against his skin, calling attention to itself like the attention whore that he was. Swiss couldn’t help the smile that slowly spread across his lips as he stared at his reflection.

This is my first nsfw piece ever so bear with me

Re-Impera ghoul line-up!

I adore each and every one of them. They mean more to me than anything.