held under her tongue, kept between her TEETH. ❛ truth is in us all, cradle to the grave. we're just animals still learning to behave. ❜ what difference did the scrubs make? they're made of the same material she wore like second skin for so long.
lyrical sc// @bl4ckdevl
28. five most recent sent text messages @pittmade
Honestly, I can't even do five cause this is it.
❛ we're not going to fight her, she's the devil. and you don't dance with the devil cause you get burned. also in her case, because she has no rhythm and her hands are like little rat claws. ❜
holt & diaz quote starters // @washsins ( this feels like a dean conversation )
I’m not even sure her ass makes up for the collective amount of trauma and baggage anymore…her head game does though.
🌶️ SC // @weaponid ( bucky )
she wasn't entirely sure what parts of herself were even human anymore. she's nothing but want and wreckage spinning out of control. her mind a cruel reverie, reflections of war plastered across her psyche, gunfire, blood, mistakes she couldn't fix. if bloodletting worked, she'd have knelt in a pool of poison, waiting until every drop was expelled from her veins. instead, she's here with her head tilted back, throat exposed like a doe with carnivorous teeth, presenting the prize of willful subjugation. wild eyes pleading from where she's draped across his sturdy thighs.
❛ take it, take it all from me, please. ❜ control. unspoken and kept in the way she whines like a battered hound of war asking to be put down. gloria hates herself for it, how slick and hungry the prospect of ruination makes her. the desperation louder than the ragged edge of a breath she couldn't catch. enough that her body counters vulnerability by drawing blood from his lips with her teeth. enough that her palm flattens and cracks along his jaw to initiate a surge of pain she craves tenfold. ❛ all of it, bucky. ❜ claws threading through his hair, pulling and soothing over all at once. she ground down onto him, rough and frantic, chasing the sharp-edged friction. chasing the violent shudder that tore up her spine. ❛ please. ❜
just getting dinner in then jumping on @docmohan then back here. the muses is screaming.
something deep inside her stuttered to a halt. the words sank like a stone into a part of her that he inhabited…WOULD ALWAYS INHABIT. even after all this time, even after the wreckage they left behind. and god, there was so much of it. love had always carried a price. back then, it had tasted like urgency, like adrenaline and sweat and the marrow-deep sting of guilt after. whispered nothings between flak jackets, fingers curled tight in the dark, kisses and teeth pressed into skin like they were trying to rewrite the ending before it ever came. war made monsters and martyrs of them both. but frank… frank had always made her feel. too much, too fast and still never enough because she wanted him to live beneath her skin. ❛ you think i want to be the reason you suffer ? ❜ he’d split her open without trying, peeled back every wall she’d ever built and stood there like he didn’t even realize he was holding the pieces of her heart in blood-slick hands.
❛ i need you. ❜ so much that it's caustic, it's worn itself into the fabric of her twisted, brutalized soul. she let her gaze trace the battle map of his body, of all the healing that never took, all the scars she could trace by memory. she remembered every night since knowing him. a call never went unmissed, her door never locked. moments where loving him felt like betraying herself, her thin grasp on morality and fuck— betraying the memory of his family. she stepped closer, until her voice was right near his throat, her palm flat to the ribs that never set right. ❛ i don't know how to love anybody else. i don't know how to even try with anybody else. i'm not slipping away. ❜ her fingers trembled where they touched him, but she didn’t pull back. she couldn’t. ❛ if you're not here, i'm nothing. ❜
his body is a mess of old wounds — scarred over, stitched up, bruised as hell. joints crack, muscles pull tight, and there's a constant throb in his shoulder where the bone never healed right. pain is part of him now, background noise he can fight through. it's the guilt that guts him. the guilt that lingers. just having her near feels like a betrayal all over again. her presence is medicine, yeah — she quiets his mind for a moment, her voice smooths the anger in him, but she's also the wound. a reminder he didn’t just lose his family the day they were murdered. no, he lost them long before that. in the missed dinners, late nights staring at the ceiling with the taste of whiskey and her mouth on him, the cold space between him and the man he used to be.
still wanting her, after everything, is his punishment.
“ tired doesn't matter. ” he lets the words hang in the air. even if he was, even if he could tire himself out from chasing her like a goddamn dog, he wouldn’t walk away. she needs him just as much, even if she doesn't say it out loud. he doesn't do soft. he doesn’t do pretty words. but with her, somehow, it all feels like the one thing worth fighting for. “ i've kept going this long because of you. i’ll be damned if i let you slip away too. ”
inbox : aren't you tired of all of this? target : @medicbled
she doesn't waste another glance on the brewing storm. she'd spent enough years tending the aftermath of ego; split lips, shattered knuckles, the kind of hurt that clings long after the blood dries. the pressure built from years of silence and pushing war down your throat because it's not man enough to admit it's there. so the marines punch the Green Berets and the SEALS knock both of them to the ground. on and on, like all traditions of broken systems and the bodies they leave behind. it’s an old but familiar ache now, a quiet grief for how easily people throw themselves into ruin, knowing there's nothing she could do to stop it.
❛ smart. ❜ once, she might have stayed. might have tilted her chin up and thrown herself into the fray out of pride or stubbornness, to prove she could survive. it's almost worse knowing she can. worse, even that she might have tried to if she had felt the spark of violence gather close enough to the surface. gloria was grateful for lizzie's presence. a tether to the femininity the former combat medic nurtures within herself as though it might undo every terrible act.
❛ not just that, i have a bottle of zacapa if you think you can handle it. ❜ it's a gentle nudge of words, limbs slipping into her jacket, purse tucked high beneath her arm. gloria bids the rabble behind, leading out the door.
lizzie dons a mask of careful ambivalence, holding the brewing fight in her peripheral as her sights languidly cycle: her present company, her empty glass, the fine lace of condensation wound along its surface. a tattered slice of lime sits at the bottom, sprawled over half-melted ice. she prods at it with the end of her straw, quietly indignant of the acuteness of her awareness so deep into the night, but she avoids the bartender’s eye. tries to stifle the way she stiffens as egos swell, boisterous voices teasing the bounds of violence. she knows this game. could, theoretically, understand its basest appeal: the thrill of a fight projected. life rendered in adrenaline bursts and broken skin. finds herself, suddenly, inwardly, grateful gloria doesn’t seem to share in this interest.
“not much of a gambler.” only in the company she keeps, if murmurs were to be believed— diluting their business to the simple whim of gangsters and murderers. as if she were any better. but, stealing another glance over her shoulder, lips pursing in careful assessment, lizzie inclined to agree. with a little over a foot of difference between them, they weren’t exactly entering on even odds.
“yeah?” she smiles at @medicbled's choice of word, obnoxious, shouldering her purse in silent acceptance.
gloria's cool date idea: a fucking nap and you pretend like she didn't drool on you a little bit cause she's comfortable with you.
Leon’s grabbing her by the jaw |: @washsins
heat curls under her skin, violence biting the edges, like a spark in the air before a storm breaks. his hand was on her, rough and anticipated, fingers clamping around her jaw and tilting her head up like she was something he owned. that's what it was; an ache to be wanted for more than the war in her veins. consumed in a way that suffocates every haunting at her heels. lip curled before her brain could catch up. a smile, slow and cutting, almost sweet in the right light, and he knew better. but the moon cast a shadow, held a spotlight on her. the stuttering of lifted hips interrupted their rhythm; leon catches her before she can torment any further. ❛ did i even stand a chance? ❜ a ragged exhale, amusement flushed as a glow on her cheeks. hand dancing across his chest wraps around his wrist, honey eyes fixated and still taunting in a silent dare. her head tilts, guiding to her throat and pressing into calluses. ❛ you have the stamina for it, don't you? or is age catching up? ❜
it comes from a place she'll never have for herself - CONCERN, sincerity cornering him with tenderness. ❛ take the phone off the hook and disappear for a while. ❜ there with a gentle palm against his chest, a smile that aches. ❛ it's alright, you can afford to lose a day or two. ❜
lyrical sc // @rbnvtch