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❝ infect me with your love and fill me with your poison ❞

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[ The show must go on, even if she's her family to the conflict following Robert Baratheon's ascension to the Iron Throne, even after—when she'd been relieved of her position among a friendly troupe of mummers who'd kindly taken her in, on the off chance that she might've been reunited with her brother—

They're all lies, in the end, and she heaves a sigh as she's called to appear before her new "employer," hailed as a fine specimen from far-off lands, a worthy jewel among his collection. She doesn't even speak, and though dressed prettily for the occasion, she merely hangs her head, and sighs. ]

[ You can't call it just another day at Preventer when you've hired a particularly flirtatious astrophysicist into your team. Sure, she may be confined to the labs for most of her employment, but damn if that hasn't made her a little…eager for more of her lovely employer's company. She's had her eye on Lady from the very beginning, though it had been more out of a sisterly sort of affection at first—the woman needed to loosen up, all right?

But days turned into weeks, months, and…so maybe she's getting a little crush now. No reason why she can't pursue it, and Mina's very aggressive when it comes to what she wants.

Insisting on working overtime in the lab when everyone else's gone home? Totally not suspicious at all. Neither is the fact that she'd called Une over on the pretext of some kind of breakthrough. ]

It'll change everything! [ She'd said excitedly, forgoing politeness for the sheer excitement of her idea. Better not to keep her waiting. ]

[Twenty-two years ago, there was a little boy born to two loving (and wealthy) parents. Not that it mattered, because soon enough he disappeared, and Robb Stark soon became known as the missing Stark heir. One year passed, then two, then a decade had gone by, and there was still no sign of the boy, or any ransom note, for that matter. By now, it's all too certain that he's dead and gone, the victim of some random crime.

Except that's the official story, the one most everyone knows. The one behind the scenes is that the kid's alive and well, working as a barista in a Starbucks somewhere in New York, and even that one's got a story underneath it as well.

See, up until he was nineteen, he thought his last name was "Baelish", a notion that was quickly disproven when he started looking closer at his papers and noticed something just slightly off about them.

How do you react when you find out you're not who you thought you were? In Robb's case, he starts digging, looks for more clues. Along the way he packs up, changes his name (he always did like Edward Scissorhands), and moves to New York--for uni, he tells people, and it's acceptable enough that they don't ask any further. That much, he's thankful for.

He's a wolf, he was born one, he's got wolf's blood running through his veins, probably why he's always liked dogs. On the other hand, though, he was raised by a mockingbird, he can lie and bluff and bullshit just fine.

It's a crisp autumn day, and a slow Saturday as well. Robb's not really expecting anything to happen today, but then he glances out the window and feels--well, not exactly a chill, but it's an unwelcome feeling. He takes off his apron, tells Loras, "Can you cover for me, there's something I need to take care of, I'll make it up to you tomorrow," and walks out to meet someone he'd thought he wouldn't be seeing around.]

What do you want? [He's wary, and just a little tensed.]

[Joan Watson has gotten used to living in space. Crazy as it was, at least there was always a job to be had so she could take care of rent and her current residence was beginning to feel rather homey (it wasn't the brownstone though since it wasn't reeking with oddities that had Sherlock's name all over it). And most importantly of all, this crazy spaceship has given her the opportunity to meet all sorts of unique individuals, from different worlds, timelines, lifestyles... Different EVERYTHING really.

There are some things that stay the same though and observing people's habits and those small blips of abnormalities are one of them. Joan has been working at the clinic (clerical work, she's done with practicing) and of the patients that left seems to have forgotten a scarf of some sort. Watson thinks it would be a shame if she didn't get it back so she takes it upon herself to return this nice clothing item to its owner.

... And it's led her to the seedier part of the ship. Maybe this wasn't such a good idea. ]

[Honestly, this feels to Ros like an inevitability.

Not because of the complex dynamics of the situation at hand, no -- those were never her business and she never really asked, because she is not the kind of woman who often plays the kind of role that allows her to ask questions that aren't "is there anything more I can do for you?" or some variant -- but because honestly, whose brilliant idea was it to have her look after someone at all?

She is not by nature a traditionally protective woman. She is caring, but that's at best a tertiary quality, one that's easily pushed aside if need be. She is decent at taking responsibility for others in a professional context, but for all that her life has required her to fake interpersonal dynamics, she is not the greatest when it comes to the real ones, the ones that aren't just about sex and lies, the ones that require her to behave like just a regular person. It's no surprise she was so stupid as to let Robb slip through her fingers.

This is what she's telling herself in her self-directed frustration, at least. (She's no mother hen, but she's often better at this than she gives herself credit for.) It's mostly fear talking, fear and angst, and she's been unable to sit still for worrying about the inevitable fallout that she just knows is coming when Petyr finds her.]

[So guess who, on his very first day on the SS Thor, proceeded to look for a good bar and get smashed on all kinds of alien liquor?

Yep. To be honest, though, Grantaire's threshold is surprisingly high, but it isn't like he's in any hurry to leave. He is, after all, dead, and enjoying his afterlife, as strange as it is.]

[The last things Catelyn remembers are blinding pain and red, so much red. But now she finds herself in a richly furnished room, the warmth of the sun seeping through the wide window. Confusion clouds her mind as she runs her hand down the pale red stones of the wall. Only one place is specifically built like this, but she couldn’t possibly be in the Red Keep.

Catelyn is supposed to be back in Winterfell, bringing her fifth child into the world. But she has no time to dwell on the implications of her circumstances before she feels a presence behind her. She turns quickly, not knowing what she’s about to face, but face it she will.]

❝ So all these years—since when?—he had been seeing the light of dead stars, long extinguished, yet seemingly still in their appointed places in the heavens.

An immense sadness as of loss invaded his spirit, a vast homesickness for some immutable refuge of the heart far away where faded gardens bloom again, and where live on in unchanging freshness, the dear, dead loves of vanished youth. ❞

[ When Emery shudders awake in the wee hours of the morning it's on a sigh that would make a nun blush. He'd been having a dream — a wonderful dream filled with formless eroticism and a firm, possessive touch — enough to have his cock is rock hard in his boxer-briefs and his throat lightly dusted with sweat. It's ridiculous, of course, because he's not some horny teenager, but after ten minutes of wrestling with his conscience he decides that fine — fine.

It's his flat, right? And Elle will be fast asleep. If he can rub one out quickly and clean up quietly, why shouldn't he do just that?

And that's how Emery ends up kicking the blanket off onto the floor and pushing his pants down around his knees; how he ends up spitting into his hand and wrapping his palm around his dick. It's good. He starts slow, teasing himself, pushing his pyjama tee up a little way to slide his free hand across his abdomen; wandering down towards his balls as he begins to work himself with thorough strokes.

If he groans, it isn't intentional. If he gasps he tries to stifle it. But, as Emery gets more invested in his "alone time" he finds it more difficult to keep quiet — when he presses two fingers over his perineum he moans sharply into his pillow, dark curls sticking to his neck as he pants into the fabric.

Gods ... ]

[It's been a stressful week for Jim, and seeing as he's the captain of the USS Enterprise (also known, throughout Starfleet, as that ship where all the weirdest shit happens, among other things), that's kind of saying something. First there was the first contact gone awry, then there was the unknown pathogen and everyone going nuts (he's pretty sure he can never get that 21st-century musical out of his head now, damn you Lt. Hannity), then there was the diplomatic incident with the Arvions, then there was the accidental almost-marriage between Chekov and a very old princess, and then there was that guy named Q who tried to screw around with his ship.

So of course he's not going to pass up an opportunity to relax on Risa. Come on, steam pools, good food, hot girls, the chance to forget the week he's had? Hell, no, he's not letting that pass him by.

So, after beaming down and giving the usual "come back safe, don't do anything I wouldn't do" spiel to the crew (not that there's anything he wouldn't do on Risa), the first thing he does is step into one of the planet's many, many bars.

And--oh, hey, there's one very lovely lady at the bar. He slides into a seat near her, wearing his best, most charming smile.]

So, what's a lovely girl like you doing alone at a bar like this?

[It had taken far too long to convince the king to grant her audience. It had she suspected less to do with her apparent age or the fact she was a foreign ruler, and far more to do with the fact her hair was that pure white, tainted with the reputation that came from those that ruled before King Robert.

But her kingdom was rich and, out of the goodness of the little Empress's heart, she wanted to help the squandering kingdom. To refuse would be suicide and her lack of relation to the Targaryens had been proven several times. The white hair was the only link between them.

So she had crossed the sea to visit, a tiny little thing appearing of only 12, with regal bearing, a sweet smile, and solid-gold colored eyes. Around her neck hung a necklace of two snakes, one white and one black, in an oval, biting each other's tails.

The meeting had gone well enough, Empress sympathetic without being condescending and promising an alliance and aide-- all she wanted in return was the surety that should aide be needed by her own kingdom, they would provide.

"Not that such a thing is likely to happen, but the thought is what counts," she'd said with a peaceful smile.

Perhaps they'd thought her a fool; she had no other way of securing an alliance except on word alone. She had no king; no husband or consort or anything of the like, so all she could hope for is the word 'marriage' did not grace the lips of any of them.

Throughout it all she had given no name, being referred to only as 'Empress' or 'the Childlike Empress' by even her own people and brushing aside any attempt to learn it as though she hadn't heard. They had a Master of Coin to hash out the details, and the Empress had simply said:] I'll be in the gardens, if that's all right. Tell him he may find me there when he is ready and we can discuss the details further.

[Having no equivalent to a Master of Coin, she would do it herself. So she waited in the garden in the flowing light gown that seems far out of place among the stiffer, heavier fabrics she'd seen, and waited. A guard stood careful watch nearby]

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LITTLEFINGER 8V

LADY UNE...figured it was easier to just keep it all in here. 8Ib

TELENOVELA!GOT aka effy stalks old plurk convos and tl;drs too much; idk go with who you like

That one guy who's a pimp or something (GBverse)

so I don't even really know what I'm doing but here.