❛ are you saying you want to secretly perform scientific experiments on your friends and coworkers to increase efficiency? ❜
holt & diaz quote starters // @vanhornrn
❛ i'm going to wait until i'm on my deathbed, get in the last word and then die immediately. ❜
holt & diaz quote starters // @walkeddeath
🌶️ SC // @washsins ( russell shaw )
she didn’t think. she couldn’t think. by the time she had crossed the threshold past his door, gloria’s hands were shaking. not from fear, not from the cold, but from something hungrier, meaner. something she couldn’t scrape out of her chest, no matter how hard she tried. it had been gnawing at her for days, weeks maybe. that hollow, bone-deep need that curled under her skin and made her feel too tight, too human, too breakable. heart hammering against her ribs, adrenaline stabbing at the base of her skull the way it used to before firefights.
only this was worse; this was personal.
gloria doesn't give russell a second to breathe or contemplate the brokenness she carried in. she was already on him, grabbing the collar of his shirt and dragging him down to meet her mouth. it was desperate, waking up the part of her soul that had been warped into something caustic and fractured. her teeth caught on his lip, fingers yanking at the fabric over his chest like she could tear her need out by force if she just clawed hard enough. she needed someone real. someone solid, someone that could pin her down when the world spun out and she couldn’t catch her breath. ❛ please. ❜ gloria heard herself say it like a disembodied entity haunting the room. a hoarse whisper, nearly unrecognizable. she hated the sound of it, the crack in her own voice, but she needed him more than she needed pride right now.
30. netflix watch history. // HCS @pittmade
❛ i could never be the one to love you. i can only be the one that kills you. ❜ @putrefacerem
she lets the silence that follows stretch, taut and trembling. notions of self-preservation died with her girlhood; war reconstructed her into a walking grave. making it off the battlefield, alive meant she's really only living on borrowed time, death lying in wait. she’s not a soldier anymore, she’s not even just a doctor. she’s the woman who lets a monster drink from her throat and bandages the bite like it doesn't mean anything. a woman who tells herself she’s doing it out of pragmatism, routine, a mutual benefit — nothing more.
gloria should feel powerful, shouldn’t she? he needs her. her blood, her pulse, her will, and he feeds because she allows it. yet somehow, mínluben is still in control. she watches him, that ruin of a mouth, those eyes that look too long and hard. like he’s piercing the depth of her soul and measuring her worth through every sin, and she pretends it doesn’t hurt. ❛ and why haven't you? ❜ maybe the tragedy is knowing she'd let him because when the teeth pierce skin, it feels like she’s needed, really needed. impossible to count how many times she'd cursed an empty sky, demanding a trade of her life for the fallen beneath her palm. under the heavy framework of her grief, to die as sustenance to life doesn't make her feel any ounce of fear. she steps closer, haunted honey gaze sought him out. near enough that the scent of ichor would invade his solitude. her neck tilts into the smoke of her challenge. ❛ what's stopping you? it's right here. ❜
🌶️ 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. ❜
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 preference for older lovers has never come from a weird insecurity or lack of personal relationships…it’s competency, it’s leadership, it’s attraction to someone with life experience and that scratches the intellectual brain and becomes sensual.
❛ 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.
how are you holding up ? @pittmade
her gaze fixed on the horizon, where the light filters in too softly for the weight in her chest. she stifles any wryness, any iteration that MIRRORS how he might stand in her position. though to her credit, she isn't standing. legs curled over railings, her hands are still, clasped in her lap like she’s holding something fragile there. a memory, maybe. or the version of herself she used to be before the uniform, before the field kits soaked in blood, before the nights that still wake her up sweating through the sheets.
the question lingers in the air, burning through her with guilt. he asks with that arc of militant sureness and grace, but she hears the worry beneath it. ❛ some nights are louder than others. ❜ she doesn't speak it outright, doesn’t mention the dream that clung to her ribs this morning, or the way she caught herself zoning out between rounds, replaying things she can’t fix. but he knows, he always does. the way he sees her— really sees her and doesn’t flinch, doesn’t try to fix her. JUST STAYS. and as long as she's above ground, she'll do the same for him. new as it was between them, it wasn't by way of soul. a synchronicity extended by the universe to make amends for how much it worked them over.
❛ that young private on leave — ❜ it's coarse on her tongue from how it crawled up between serrated edges in her throat. her hand reached for jack, quietly and without rumination, like a reflex her body had already absorbed into its DNA. ❛ he reminded me of someone, felt like losing them all over again. ❜
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