tag dump
just getting dinner in then jumping on @docmohan then back here. the muses is screaming.
EDITS// dr. gloria de lima ( mutuals my reblog )
hc + birth
HEADCANONS// ACCEPTING
I think theres a few scattered answers for her on that so i'll break those down. or i'll attempt to…
BIRTH ( medically ); it's another procedure she believes isn't taken as seriously as it should be. she was trained as any medic would be while serving but she didn't actually imagine she would be using this skill. she genuinely thought it would be a simplistic ( and horrifying ) as tournoquits, field procedures and stabilization. but when she was dropped into zones that required extra humanitarian aid, it was something she had to do and i think it was an absolute shock. you can say you understand that not every place in the world has the same access to medical care but when it was right in front of her in a hostile zone, you can't ignore it. she's delivered babies unsure of what happens to the mother and baby once they leave, and that gets brought back home with her. those are the moments that stick with her, and it becomes an advocacy point within her profession. if someone comes into the ER ready to pop, she's in there very calmly and focused on providing the best care with the best equipment that simply wasn't a luxury in a war zone. the matter of care for women, in particular within the medical system, is abysmal at best. the most dangerous thing a woman, or any person with the potential to give birth, can do is, in fact, become pregnant and give birth. alternatively, anyone who comes from a state where abortion isn't legal, she's working with efficiency and empathy to make certain the CHOICE is exercised and they are in control of their reproductive health. while i have not written her verse in its entirety, she would certainly be volunteering days and free time to women's clinics, shelters, veterans' hospitals and planned parenthood. this is an aspect she's willing to go to jail for or be reprimanded for.
BIRTH ( personally ): in saying all this, it's still something she wants for herself. she loves children, and her instincts to nurture are incredibly strong, but she doesn't ever imagine it's something she will get to do. the process itself, she would probably approach as very...clinical and almost obsessive in how she suddenly takes better care of everything within herself because she has a soul bound responsibility to her unborn baby.
✱˚。⋆ ↪ 𝐏𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐄, 𝐏𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐄, 𝐏𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐄 . ( a collection of dialogue prompts centered around saying "please". feel free to modify phrasing as desired. )
please just be honest with me.
oh, please explain how this is my fault.
please don't look at me like that.
please, let's not do this here.
for once, could you please stop pretending?
please just kiss me, i can't stand it.
please don't walk away from this.
all you have to do is say please.
please, i dare you to try and stop me.
please don't tell anyone i said that.
i said please, so technically you have to say yes.
please tell me you brought snacks.
please don't take this the wrong way.
please, i've waited so long to hear you say it.
i said i'm fine, please just drop it.
please don't lie just to make me feel better.
please don't judge me for what i'm about to do.
please just let me help you.
if you love me, say it. please.
just stay here with me all day. pleaase?
please don't ruin this for me.
please just leave me out of it.
tell me you love me ... please.
can you please slow down?
please tell me there's still a chance.
can you please just get some sleep?
please, i don't want to lose you again.
i'm not asking– i'm begging you. please.
please don't make fun of me.
i want you to leave. please leave right now.
please, it's nothing.
i don't like to beg, but... please.
pleaase? i promise it'll be fun.
tell me it's a lie. please.
come on, please? just this once?
please don't jump to assumptions.
please, [ name ], just stay here.
you promised ... please.
please. i need you to trust me.
please don't go.
i know i don't deserve it, but please forgive me.
please, let me fix this.
did i hear a 'please' in there somewhere?
please. one more minute, that's all i'm asking.
oh please, as if you've never done it.
don't ask me to choose. please.
please don't tell them where i am.
saying 'please' over and over won't change my mind.
please? ... pretty please?
please don't make me beg.
please tell me i'm wrong.
can you please give me a hand with this?
rushed and desperate, messy on the couch because they were too impatient to even make it to the bedroom. / frank @weaponid
an echo of the lock snapped shut, no measure of time between a wordless greeting and their bodies tangled together. his mouth was on hers, rougher at the edges, soaked in silence and too much time apart, every hunger of his met with her own. she doesn't ask where he’s been, doesn’t ask what he’s done. his hands could be drenched in saintly blood, and she'd still lick them clean. the couch creaks beneath them, a mess of tangled limbs and desperate friction. she claws at him, at the layers between them. there’s no finesse, no slow unravel. just the brutal honesty of two people who’ve bled together, burned into one another's souls by the tangle of carnage and war.
his hands are always firm, pressing down and claiming curves with a bruising grip. he smells like gunpowder and warmth, like something feral that’s been living in the dark too long, and she breathes him in like he's her only source of life. her shirt caught, torn and bunched at her waist. mouth breaks against his when he drives into her; no warning, no preamble, just every breath knocked from her lungs. ❛ missed you so fucking much. ❜ it burns in her throat, strangled by the raw truth of her words. the weight of him, the feel of him is more familiar than her own reflection. greed of her hips slithered up, thighs wrapped around a wall of muscle. ❛ harder, frank. that can't be it, common. ❜ she tugs a fistful of dark hair, biting down on his bottom lip hard enough to taste copper. something to coax every violent thought in his head to the surface so she can swallow it whole.
🌶️ SC // @pittmade
weight of the day collapsing on her. days, really, the last twenty-four hours lay over her as a shroud, a haunting in the shape of a double shift. the door closes, and she leans against it, sharp inhale, and the ghost of someone’s last breath is still stuck in her throat. the scent of divinity lingers in the air from his cooking, the sterile horrors fade with the warmth of home. by all accounts, she should eat, she should sleep, she should tuck this grief against the cage of her chest for another time. it's not enough, it's not the kind of sustenance she needs to survive right now. she needs more, she needs real, she needs him. gloria sought out jack like a sinner pines for redemption.
she didn't say anything, didn't have the words. she just reached — hands fisting into his shirt, dragging him down to her. she kissed him like she wanted to tear the breath out of him, like regular oxygen wasn't enough to keep her lungs satiated. fingertips gliding through silver speckled curls, gentle urgency that builds within her, begging for reprieve. between their lips, she breaks with a sundering force and jagged breath.❛ i don't want to think. ❜ forehead falling against his as she clung to him like he was the only reason she could face it all again. ❛ just need you inside me. ❜
❛ are you saying you want to secretly perform scientific experiments on your friends and coworkers to increase efficiency? ❜
holt & diaz quote starters // @vanhornrn
❛ you’re a fucking nightmare. kiss me. ❜ / dex @weaponid
it doesn’t sound like desire, it sounds like a dare. gloria stands there, breath tight in her chest, jaw working like she's chewing down a scream. maybe, once upon a time, she would've flinched. denied it. tried to scrub the blood off her hands and weigh the scales of morality, not anymore. it isn't something she can just outrun. it wouldn't matter how many lives she saved; she still took without mercy when the orders were given. never hesitated, never uttered the realization that she liked it. gloria laughs, and it's a caustic thing. like she's clinging to the last fragments of dignity before she inevitably begs him to dish out pain as personal penance. ❛ aw, am i keeping you up at night, dex? ❜
it’s been a long time since anyone’s looked at her like she’s something real. not a saviour or a soldier. something he doesn’t want to fix, maybe even something he wants. her hand finds his jaw, fingers rough from the violence of trying to hold onto softness. from too many nights spent stitching other people’s wounds while ignoring her own, she tilts his face down and meets his eyes with something broken and burning. her thumb brushes his cheek with the barest touch of reverence—or—warning. it's a slow melt into him, but not an ounce of hesitation. gifting him the taste of something sweet before her fingers curl roughly into his hair, and teeth graze his bottom lip. a fucking nightmare made flesh if he wanted it.
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