A/N: As stated, Doctor of Demons/Set Your Heart Ablaze should be updated tomorrow/Thursday.
I'm pushing real hard to update "Enemy", "What Could Have Been" and "Dystopia", too.
As ever, the Embers Rule Persists; if folks truly don't enjoy this tale, then...I'll not continue it. I can't bear to write something folks don't like, and working two jobs on a near back-to-back basis leaves my energy at an all time low. So by all means, speak up! Raise your voice! Make yourself heard!
As ever, I own no references, themes or memes!
Now then, with that said...awaaaay we go~!
Again, this is merely a fragment.
And a warning.
This? This is very much an alternate future.
"Heroes do not fall! They rise!
They live! They love! They laugh! Even in the face of death.
For you see, heroes, they never die. So long as they are remembered...
~?
Sixth Fragment
"You gonna bang Caitlyn or what?"
Vi spat out her drink.
"Why?!"
It was a fair question, Naruto thought as he wiped away the whiskey staining his face and jacket. They'd been dancing around the subject for nearly nine months now. It was adorable...at first. Now? Awkward didn't even begin to describe this beautiful disaster. Honestly! They were fumbling about like a pair of teenagers. Even Jinx was starting to get annoyed, and she loved sappy shit like this. The less said about Mylo and Claggor the better.
Vander? He'd threatened to throw the ex-enforcer in a closet with Vi and be done with it.
"I'm just saying." Naruto laughed as his sister-in-arms continued to choke and sputter. "She's been "powdering her nose" upstairs for the last fifteen minutes. If that's not an invitation, I don't know what is."
Her face drained of all color. "You don't know that!"
Jinx plonked down beside her sister and slapped her shoulders. "We gotta lock you in a closet or something? Go!"
Vi got, face pinker than her hair.
Bemused, the couple watched her tiptoe her way up the stairs, then give up entirely and clear them two at a time. A minute passed. Another. If one were to strain their ears, they might hear the faint buzz of conversation upstaris. The sheer din of the Last Drop made it almost impossible to tell.
Naruto hummed into the relative silence left behind. "Hundred bucks say she cracks in the next hour."
Jinx tapped two fingers against the bar. "Nah. They're awkward idiots. I give it a day.
"You're on!" Heh. Easy money. "I'll take that bet!"
"Done. Ain't no chance those two will-
A sharp moan echoed upstairs.
Jinx's jaw clicked open.
Naruto quirked a brow. "You were saying?"
She swore, slapped a wad of money into his hand and sat herself down in his lap.
Her lips crushed against his before he could gloat. "You're such an ass."
"I know." he winked at her. "You're grabbing it...
She laughed and kissed him again.
A/N: And there we go. A fragment, something that may or may not come to be.
A little wholesome goodness in which everything worked out.
As ever, reviews keep this old man alive during this dark and crazy time. I ain't joking.
Seriously, we're all locked away in isolation or worse these days, words are all that sustains me.
So in the Immortal Words of Atlas... Review...Would You Kindly?
And enjoy these previews! Remember those hints?
Yes? No? Hope you paid attention. Because!
SPOILERS! SPOILERS! SPOILERS!
PLOT DETAILS AHOY!
YE BE WARNED!
Read at your own risk!
Separate ideas, these are~!
Hope you're ready to smile, because they're a blast!
(Preview)
How cute. You think you matter-why did you punch me?! Why?!
"Buddy, I'm about to do a whole lot more than punching...
"Foul! Fiend! Fool! Unhand me!"
"Nope. You're getting the hands. All the hands."
"Children, the both of you!" He danged Vander and Silco by the scruff of their necks. Why whouldn't he? They were children, after all. "Apologize to each other! Say you're sorry!"
"To him?!"
"Never! I'd sooner-
"APOLOGIZE OR SO HELP ME I WILL SHAVE YOU BOTH BALD!"
R&R~!