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A/N: A lot has happened, I wrote this then it got lost and I thought maybe I wrote it in a dream, you know those kinds of dreams where you go about your day but I didn't give up, I was SURE I had written it. Anyways, save a horse ride a cowboy
warnings: sex jokes. cowgirl pose reference, if I am missing any warnings please let me know. there're some hints for the future đ
Minors stay out or read at your own risk! I'm not responsible for your consumption!
Do not copy, translate or claim this story as your own. Thanks!
"Rise and shiiine!" Your dad flicked the light switch on and off repeatedly, making the room flash like a faulty strobe light. You jolted awake immediately.
"Jesus fucking Christ!" you groaned, yanking the sheets over your head. It was way too early for this.
Your dad chuckled as he walked over and ripped the blanket off. "Come on now, gotta make the most of the day."
"What time is it?" you mumbled, your voice thick with sleep.
"Almost 5 a.m.," he said, clapping his hands as he headed for the door. "Making some coffee downstairs before driving you to Joel."
Shitâright. You had to work with Joel today. The only thing motivating you to get out of bed⌠and simultaneously, the one thing making you want to stay buried under the covers. Because having a crush on your dadâs friendâthe one you had to work withâwas both exciting and painfully embarrassing.
You head downstairs, dressed in comfortable clothes for the ranchâpractical, but with just enough effort to look cute and put-together. Not that youâd admit it was for Joel, but if it made him do a double take, well⌠that wouldnât be the worst thing.
Something had been off about him last night. He wasnât his usual self. And maybeâjust maybeâyou were a little too tempted to poke at whatever was bothering him, like pressing on a bruise just to see how much it hurts.
Your dad drives you to the ranch, and after a quick goodbye, you step out, making your way toward Joel.
Joel turns when he hears your voiceâor maybe itâs the sound of your footsteps crunching against the packed dirt and gravel. Either way, he does, in fact do a doubletake.
He plays it off like he hadnât thought about you last night after dinner. Like he hadnât pictured your face, your lips locking with his in the dark, or the shape of youâyour waist, the way you moved. Like he wasnât just caught looking.
"Iâm shocked you actually showed up," he says, his voice edged with something unreadable.
"Oh, come on," you tease, tilting your head. "Why the bad image of me? Thought you had a better impression."
Joel shakes his head with a smirk, wiping his hands on his jeans, but his eyes linger on you a second too long. âUh-huh,â he mutters, clearly unconvinced by your teasing. His eyes linger on you a second too long before he turns away.
âCâmon, letâs get to work.â
He leads you toward the stables, where the horses are saddled up. You already know whatâs coming.
âNope,â you say, shaking your head. âNot happening.â
Joel lets out a low chuckle, resting his hands on his hips. âWhat, you scared?â
âIâm not scared,â you scoff, folding your arms. âI justââ You pause, glancing at the horse. âI donât ride.â
Joel raises an eyebrow, voice edged with something unreadable. âYou forgot how to?â
Your stomach tightens at the way he says it, slow and deliberate. You pretend not to react. He doesnât need that kind of power.
âWell, Iâm not about to relearn today,â you mutter.
Joel ignores you completely, adjusting the saddle straps before turning to you expectantly. âPut your foot in the stirrup.â
You donât move.
He sighs, stepping behind you. âHere,â he says, voice lower now, hands settling firmly on your waist. Before you can protest, he lifts you effortlessly, guiding you up onto the horse.
It happens fastâone second youâre on the ground, the next youâre settling into the saddle, straddling the horse, legs spread over either side.
You struggle for a second, adjusting yourself in the saddle, shifting your weight, fingers fumbling with the reins. This is harder than it looks.
Joel stands nearby, arms crossed, watching as you awkwardly try to mount the horse. Heâs ready to step in, but heâs clearly trying not to overstep.
Finally, after a few wobbly adjustments, you settle in. You exhale, trying to play it off like youâre totally in control.
âWell, Iâm definitely not a professional cowgirl,â you mutter, still shifting slightly, âbut I guess Iâm figuring it outâkinda like when youâre learning a new position.â
You laugh awkwardly. And then it hits you.
Oh. Oh.
Joel freezes. Blinking at you like he just misheard. Then his expression changesâhis lips twitch, his shoulders shake slightly, and suddenly he lets out a deep, unrestrained laugh.
âDid you justââ He snorts, shaking his head. âDid you really just make a cowgirl joke?â
Your eyes go wide. âOh. My. God. Why would I say that?!â
He exhales sharply, grinning as he drags a hand down his face. âChrist. Now thatâs stuck in my head.â His voice dips slightly, eyes trailing over you, slow and unreadable. âAnd I canât decide if thatâs a problem or not.â
And thatâs when your brain fully malfunctions.
You freeze. Your whole body burns.
Joel smirks, clearly aware of what he just did to you.
Now youâre both in full-on awkward mode, avoiding eye contact like two people who just walked straight into something dangerous and are pretending it didnât happen.
You focus very hard on getting comfortable in the saddle, adjusting your posture, gripping the reins, trying to seem like you have a clue what youâre doing. But every small shift you make, every slight adjustment in the saddle, feels too much, like you can practically feel Joelâs gaze flicking to youâwatching, thinking, replaying.
Meanwhile, his brain is racing.
Heâs staring straight ahead, jaw tight, but heâs not thinking about the horse, not thinking about work. No, his mind is looping one single thought over and over againâwhat you just said.
You clear your throat, desperate to move past this. "Okay. So. How do weâuhâstart moving?"
Joel takes a second to respond. Maybe because heâs still forcing his brain to reboot.
He exhales, stepping beside the horse. "Just a light kick, let her know youâre ready."
You do as he says, and the horse starts to move at a slow, steady pace. Crisis averted.
Or⌠not.
Because as you walk alongside him, your hand accidentally brushes against his arm. A small touch, barely anything, but itâs like an electric shock.
You both flinch, just slightly.
Neither of you say a word, but you know. You both know.
Youâre not thinking about the joke. Except you are. So is he.
You try to act normal, cool, indifferentâbut the tension is palpable, crackling in the air between you.
One accidental glance at each otherâjust oneâand everything feels like fire. And suddenly, you need out.
The second you get the chance, you slip away, finding a quiet room in the stable, shutting the door behind you.
You lean against the wall, pressing your hands to your face.
"Did I really say that? What is wrong with me?! What just happened?!"
The secondhand embarrassment is real.
You groan into your hands, replaying it all over again.
But then the overthinking starts creeping in.
"Did I just make it super weird?! Or did he? Was he actually flirting with me, or was he just messing with my head?"
You think about the way his eyes lingered on you. The way his voice dipped just slightly. The way he said he didnât think he wanted to forget it.
You shake your head to yourself. No. No way. He was just teasing.
Right?
Meanwhile, outside, Joel is definitely not as unaffected as heâs trying to be.
He goes back to work, hands busy, mind not busy enoughâbecause he keeps thinking about what you said.
Heâs still smirking to himself, shaking his head every now and then like he canât quite believe it. He should let it go. Should pretend like nothing happened.
But heâs aware of you now.
Every time you move, every time you speakâhell, even when youâre silentâhe notices. Every small brush of your arm, every glance that lingers a second too long.
And then he realizes youâre gone.
He frowns, scanning the stable before heading toward the room where you probably went in hiding. He hesitates for a second before knocking lightly.
âYâalright in there?â
You freeze.
Shit. Shit.
You take a second before responding, forcing your voice to sound normal. âYeah! Justâuhâchecking something!â
Joelâs voice is too casual when he replies. âRight. Well. You done checkinâ yet?â
You swear you can hear the smirk in his voice.
You swallow hard. Your heart is doing something ridiculous.
You open the door just enough to peek out, avoiding eye contact.
Joel is standing there, one hand resting on the frame, a steaming cup in his other hand. His eyes flick over you, watching the way you shift on your feet, the way you won't look at him directly.
He notices.
He doesnât say anything about it. Doesnât push.
But he doesnât leave either.
And thatâs when you realizeâyou can pretend all you want, but whatever this is⌠it's not going away.
"Don't hide from me next time."
Then he walks away.
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You spend the next couple of hours pretending that moment never happened. You avoid looking at him for too long, focusing on the horses, the work, anything but him.
Joel? He doesnât say anything about it.
Not at first.
You think, Okay, maybe weâre just moving past this.
Then, mid-task, while youâre standing side by side, working in comfortable silence, he suddenly leans against the fence and says,
âSo, Iâve been thinking about that cowgirl jokeâŚâ
You freeze.
Your heart does something stupid, and you turn to him way too fast.
Joel just watches you, waitingâexpression unreadable, but thereâs a flicker of something mischievous in his eyes. Heâs baiting you.
Your mouth opens, but nothing comes out.
He smirks. "What?" he says, voice slow and knowing. "You donât wanna talk about it?"
You flinch. "Iâno, I justâWhy are youâ"
He leans in slightly, arms crossed over his chest.
âYou know,â he drawls, way too amused, âIâm not sure Iâll ever look at a horse the same way again.â
Your jaw drops.
You gasp, whipping around to glare at him. "Joel!"
He laughsâlow and entirely too pleased with himself.
You slap his arm. "Oh my God, youâre the worst."
He doesnât even flinch. Just grins down at you, eyes still flickering with something unspoken.
You groan, dragging a hand down your face, but youâre laughing too.
And he just watches you, smirking, shaking his head like he knows exactly what heâs doing to you. And he knows he shouldnât.
But the thing is?
Joel doesnât seem to care. Not right now.
Because for some reason, none of that matters. Not the age gap. Not the fact that your dad trusts him. Not that this is a bad, bad idea.
Because he likes this. Likes watching you get flustered, he likes the way youâre pretending youâre not thinking about him too.
The workday finally comes to an end and the tension is still hanging thick in the air.
Joel doesnât say much when you get into the truck, just a quick glance your way before starting the engine.
The drive is quiet. Not awkward, not exactly. Just⌠charged. Like thereâs something unspoken pressing against the space between you.
Joel parks his truck in your dadâs driveway. You could get out now. But you donât.
You sit there, stealing glances at him, pretending youâre not hyper-aware of how close you are.
Joel keeps one hand on the wheel, the other resting lazily on the gearshift. He looks calm and composed, but you notice his fingers twitchâlike heâs thinking.
And then, he glances at you.
No, he's looking at your mouth.
For a full minute, his gaze lingers there. Slow. Deliberate.
You donât move. You donât even breathe.
Your pulse pounds, and suddenly, you can feel every inch of your skin.
Joel shifts in his seat. His grip on the wheel tightens.
Heâs debating something. You can see it. Feel it.
And thenâjust as he makes his decision, just as he starts to lean inâ
Your dadâs voice cuts through the air.
âJoel!â
You jerk back, the moment shattering instantly.
Your dad walks up to the truck, leaning against the open window, completely oblivious.
Joel exhales sharply and immediately leans away, one hand gripping the wheel like he needs to ground himself. His eyes snap forward, blank, unreadable.
Your pulse is thundering. You donât look at him. You canât.
âHow was the workday?â he asks.
Joel inhales sharply, blinking like he just snapped out of something. He clears his throat.
"Good," he says, voice a little rough.
Your dad grins. "How was she?"
Joelâs eyes flick to you for just a fraction of a second before he answersâtoo smooth, too casual.
"She was a really good girl."
Your breath catches. That fucking sentence.
Your dad smiles, then playfully taps the roof of Joelâs truck, a familiar, warm gestureâone that feels easy, trusting. Like Joel is just some guy your dadâs comfortable sending you off with.
Like this is nothing.
âGuess Iâll be sending you off to work with Joel often then,â he says, still grinning.
Joel just nods, his smirk barely thereâbut his eyes?
Theyâre still on you. Burning.
And as you step out of the truck, heart pounding, you realize:
This isnât over.
Not even close.
THAT LAST SENTENCE WHEN I TELL YOU I WAS SCREAMING GNAWING AT THE BARS OF MY ENCLOSURE!!!! UH UHUHU AAAH AH AH
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can not believe i am a fully grown adult and many people my age have kids and degrees and serious careers. i can barely make dinner
Please please please! Stop white washing the clones, let them have their melanin! Let them look like theyâre supposed to, like Temuera Morrison!
pedro pascal doesnât owe you shit.
it is absolutely fine to be disappointed by his absence at cannes. i am too. but he does not have to be there.
for whatever reason heâs pulling away from the attention. the esquire article talked about how guarded he is and his socials have really slowed down. maybe heâs unprepared or overwhelmed by all the tlou hype. i mean his follower count went up by the tens of thousands the day after the premiere. thatâs insane.
but some of you have lost the plot. the ones wearing d*ddyâs little girl shirts in fucking public and yelling d*ddy at him at events and trying to convince everyone whether heâs queer or not and complaining there isnât an explicit scene of him fucking in the strange way of life. itâs not a gay porn made for your fetish. âoh but narcos!!â thatâs called characterization. read literally any article from almodovar and understand why sex isnât the point.
interacting with paparazzi content and making cute little edits - jfc. thatâs creating demand and supply and paparazzi know no fucking boundaries. manâs got anxiety and no doubt the paps and fans watching his every move are probably making that worse.
let him make movies and rotate through his four shirts in peace. pedro pascal doesnât owe anyone shit.
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Yeah, I....
Could? Would I? I can't...
Who Says It?
Modern Crosshair would be a Chappell Roan bisexual. Not enough people are talking about this.
Tech: did you allow our eleven-year-old sister to listen to a song about becoming a stripper at a queer nightclub?
Crosshair: âŚyouâre being homophobic.
Tech: âŚ
Crosshair: just be grateful I didnât let her listen to the one about getting eaten out in the front seat of someoneâs car
doing this reminds me of older fandom culture so i hope its nostalgic for y'all too
summary: the summer heat brings out the worst in people. and so do family reunions. (or, in simpler terms: A Southern Gothic Porno about things you shouldnât say to your step-daddyâs brother, but do anyway.)
warnings: step uncle!joel miller (not your cup of tea? just scroll! <3), girthy age gap, obvs taboo relationship, religious guilt/blasphemy, power dynamic, smoking/alcohol, southern gothic themes (rotting morality, decay, etc.), emotional manipulation/guilt, emotional whiplash, unresolved shame spiral energy thingy whatever, a lot of smut... like a lot soooo (praise kink, degradation kink, public sex, dubious consent vibes, daddy kink & uncle kink, fingering, oral, some slight edging, possession, breeding kink, mentions of bodily fluids, lots of dirty talk, etc.)
a. note: this fic contains no actual blood relations, but it feeling wrong and depraved is.... kinda the point. anyways, god is not present in this fic and if you ever see me in public after this, no tf you did not!
July in Texas meant the kind of heat that makes the devil himself sweat, and the kind of family gatherings that make you wish he'd drag you back to hell with him.
The front porch of grandma and grandpa's old home sagged, tired of carrying generational secrets and trauma, its broken wood planks littered with cigarette butts and broken beer bottlers. Grandma June's cross-stitched Jesus watched over the house from the kitchen wall, thick and smudged by the steam of collard greens and cast iron grease.
The tea was sweet enough to make your molars ache, the gossip between your aunts somehow even sweeter. They wore their linen dresses and bickered like fighting crows over potato salad, their unruly kids screaming around the pool like a baptism gone wrong. Somewhere in the distance, a bloodhound barked loud and shrill, and somewhere even closer, Uncle Joel lit an American Spirit like he was trying to smoke out an ache from his chest.
You hadn't meant to look at him like that.
Well, not at first.
He wasn't supposed to be the one. It should've been Tommy- your mamma's brand new, shiny second husband, all clean smiles and thick forearms. But Tommy never looked at you the way his brother Joel did, like you were temptation dressed in a pair of cutoffs, like you were his Eve and he was getting real sick of apples.
He was the oldest brother, Joel. The grizzled one. The one with broad shoulders that blocked out the sun and rough hands that looked like they could rip Bibles in half.
He came in reeking of sweat, smoke, and the kind of loneliness that settles deep into a man's bones after too many years of pretending he doesn't need anybody or anything.
It was a tale as old as time. You should have been scared of him.
Instead, you sucked the melted ice cream off your fingers, looking at him from behind a pair of long fake eyelashes, cherry red lips stretched into a pretty, perfect smile. "Hi, Uncle Joel."
He flinched the first time you ever called him that.
Good.
You shouldn't have enjoyed it. The way his jaw clenched, the way his fingers twitched and nostrils flared. But you did. And you would continue to enjoy it.
The first time you saw Joel- really saw him- was on the third day of that godforsaken family reunion, right as the sun bled out over the backyard and turned the skies to bruised peaches and dying lilacs. You'd come out of the sunroom for more sweet tea, barefoot on cracked concrete as a symphony of cicadas beckoned you forth, the hem of your sundress- same color as Joel's shirt- clinging damp against your sticky sweet thighs.
He was by the smoker, beer in hand, sweat darkening the collar of his flannel even though it was too hot for sleeves.
Joel was watching you. There was no attempt to hide it. Just a dark, sleezy pair of eyes following you, a hawk zeroing in on its prey, like you were nothing more than a rabbit trying to scurry away in time.
There was a raw, quiet sort of hunger, and you watched his jaw tick ever so slightly as he drank you in, as though he was memorizing every step you took in case the good Lord gave him one more chance to turn his back on you, on the taboo hunger that stirred deep in his belly.
"You shouldn't be wearin' that around me." His voice was a mutter, half to himself, as though he were conversing with a pesky little devil that had perched itself on his shoulder.
"Shouldn't be looking then." You quipped back.
There was a pause.
That same muscle ticked in his jaw.
Joel turned around and walked off with a huff, as though you had slapped him clean across the face.
You couldn't help but smile into your tea.
The next night, it stormed.
Texas thunderstorms never knocked politely. They rattled the windows like judgement day.
You watched from the dining room as the rain spilled down the glass, almost everyone else tucked in to bed for the night. You could hear over the lighting your grandma muttering prayers. Cousins were passed out on couches, your mother deep into a bottle of wine with Tommy in the sunroom, both sure no one else would be awake to hear them giggling.
It was quiet. The eerie kind of quiet the seeped into the walls of old Texas homes, the kind of quiet that only ever accompanied lonely nights like this.
Joel stood on the porch, the lightning carving out his silhouette into the screen door every few seconds, painted across the house like a ghost hungry for something other than vengeance.
You found him like that. Smoking, brooding, thinking some dark, unholy thoughts that you craved to learn for yourself.
"Can't sleep?" He finally asked, voice full of gravel. His back was to you, but he could sense you, he could smell you.
You didn't answer. What was there to ever say? You stepped out into the night air, rain cooling your skin, and leaned against the porch rail. The white cotton of your nightdress stuck to your back. No bra. No panties. Nothing.
Joel noticed.
Of course he did. He always noticed you.
"You walk around like that on purpose?" Joel inhaled a thick line of cigarette smoke, an eyebrow raised as he watched the old dirt road begin to turn in to mud.
"Would it matter if I did?"
The porch light flickered as the hum of the moths grew louder, the rain only darkening the sky even more.
"You're playin' a dangerous game, baby." His words sent a shiver right down your spine and straight between your legs, your thighs clenching at the hate that peppered his voice, the annoyance. It only made you want him more.
You tilted your head up at him. The same devil that plagued him with all those nasty thoughts danced behind your eyes.
"I was raised in a house full of liars and preachers, Joel. Danger is a game I know well."
Joel snorted out a response, turning back to the horizon.
You stayed quiet, listening to the hiss of rain and the gentle smolder of his cigarette, watching the way the smoke curled around his knuckles, hazy and Baroque. He didn't look at you, but you knew he saw everything- how the thin cotton clung to your skin, how your thighs rubbed together each time he lifted his smoke to his lips, how you licked the expanse of your plush lips like a girl who didn't know any better.
But you did. And he knew you did.
"Why're you always lookin' at me like that?" Joel's voice was low and rough, the words scraping their way out of his tobacco singed throat.
You shrugged. "Cause you always look back."
Oh. Oh. Now that got him.
Joel flicked the cigarette into the muddy yard with a sharp little motion that made your lips twitch, his jaw clenched so tight you swore you heard his teeth grinding down like stone on stone.
Then he stood. He walked over. Too close. Close enough to feel his heart thrumming, close enough to breathe in that second hand smoke that always lingered around him like an aura.
The wood of the porch creaked beneath his worn leather boots as he boxed you in- one hand on the rail behind you, the other ghosting down your side, not touching, not really, but just enough to burn you like the sinner you were.
"You ain't got a fuckin' idea what you're doin'." Joel's voice was a warning, like smoke and sin, and it hit you like a brick.
"I think I do." Your words were more of a moan than a whisper.
"Is that right?"
You didn't break eye contact. You couldn't. You wanted him to feel it, all of it. That heavy thrum beneath your skin, that ugly, ugly craving, that part of you that yearned to be ruined by his hands, and his alone.
Before you knew it, that very same hand was wrapped around your throat.
Not tight- just testing. His fingers, calloused and thick, resting there like a cautionary tale you would never quite learn.
"Say the word. I'll stop."
"You won't."
"You don't know me, honey."
"Maybe not. But I know what you're thinking when you look at me like that." He felt your pulse against his palm, erratic and wild, hungry for more.
There was silence for a moment that felt too long, thunder rolling low in the back like the ground itself was growling, a desperate animal lurking and watching you two dance a dangerous tango.
Then he kissed you.
It wasn't gentle. Wasn't sweet. It was messy and hungry and depraved, teeth scraping lips, his tongue forcing its way into your mouth like he was starving and you were the only thing on his dinner table. Like he'd held back for too long and hated himself for it.
And God, of course you kissed him back.
You moaned into it, melting into the depths of his chest, his cheap cologne and aftershave meddling with the stench of ash filling your flaring nostrils as his mouth claimed yours. He dragged his lips down your neck, shoving the hem of your nightdress up to your hips with no remorse. Joel's rough hands pushed one of your thighs over the rail without a word, and he pulled away, staring at you for a beat too long, at your pussy that glistened in the shaded moonlight just for him, polite and pretty and intoxicating.
"Ain't gonna fuck you." He growled, his breath hot on your skin as he nipped across the soft skin of your jaw line. You felt the tip of his middle finger trace along your wet folds, gathering up that slick that was just for him. "Ain't gonna do it, not yet."
And then he knelt, like a sinner offering himself up before god, but not before slipping his finger in your mouth, allowing you to taste just how sweet your sin tasted, allowing your own moisture to coat your tastebuds, salty and sweet and damned.
Right there, on that forsaken porch, rain pounding down around you, lightning flashing, he tasted you for the first time. Your shift bunched around your waist while he pulled your leg over his shoulder and devoured you, like he was punishing you for existing, angry that you were there and stirring up so much trouble in his life.
He started slowly, gently, allowed him to explore every inch of you, and then you felt his mouth on your clit, sucking hard and rough, a wild wolf that finally caught his prey. His dull nails dug into your hips, holding you tight and hard as though the storm winds would whisk you away from him. You wanted to cry out his name. Joel, Joel, Joel. That was who was worshipping at the altar of you, that's who was making you feel this good, this... heavenly.
Your hands slipped down, found his own, and as he ran his tongue back and forth across your swelling clit, you traced the veins on the back of his hands, explored the divots of his knuckles, felt the tips of his rough nails worn down from years of labor, you memorized the way he felt against you.
You memorized the way his tongue felt in your pussy, his teeth on your thighs- and right there on that porch he made you his, ruined you for any other man. The pretty flesh of your lower belly was bruised by the markings of his teeth, tattooed by his incisors, purple and pretty and all for him, your arousal dripping down your legs, thick and heavy with the weight of your crimes.
You orgasmed with your hand tight in his hair and his name bitten into your bottom lip, you tasted the metallic tang of blood as he tasted your honeyed cum, flowing all because of him.
After you finished, he stood up, wiping his mouth with the back of his hand, and he stared at you, not saying a word, inspecting you like a sculpture in a museum.
Your chest rose and fell as you caught your breath, but he had nothing else to offer in terms of aftercare or remorse- he simply walked back inside, and you caught a glimpse of that cross-stitched Jesus watching you from the kitchen window.
The next morning came thick and hot, humid from all that rain, the air thick like syrup. The morning songbirds chirped like they hadn't just witnessed a crime against both God and family values on that porch, their melody delightfully pretty and annoyingly cheerful.
You padded into the kitchen barefoot, wrapped in an old robe that might have once belonged to your mother, but now hung open on you in a way that was clearly an act of war, devious and lustful.
You didn't have to look up to know Joel was there. You could feel him. Brooding in the corner like the storm hadn't quite ended.
He was leaning against the counter, arms crossed, his black coffee in one hand. Joel wouldn't look at you, in fact he refused.
"Moooornin', Uncle Joel." You grinned, your voice as light and sweet as the peach jam your grandma had laid out on the table. You didn't miss the way his teeth clenched together.
He nodded towards you. Didn't speak a word.
Coward.
Grandma was flipping pancakes. Tommy and your mamma were nowhere to be seen, which felt like a small mercy. The smell of butter and shame hung low in the air as you slid onto a stool at the kitchen island, your heels crossed just so as you poured yourself some apple juice.
"Sleep alright?" You asked him plainly, as if your thighs hadn't been wrapped around his handsome face a few hours ago.
"Slept fine." He muttered.
"Are you sure? You seemed a little... tense last night."
Joel slammed his mug down on the table a little too hard.
Your grandma looked up from the griddle with a startt, her voice a disapproving tut. "Now y'all better be gettin' along now. Ain't no room for drama in this house, except what's on daytime TV." She pointed her spatula between the both of you, he eyes glossed over with seriousness.
"Oh, don't worry, Nan. We get along real well." You calmed her with a big smile. "Don't we, Uncle Joel?"
He walked towards you, and you suddenly felt small against his shadow, tiny and powerless as he towered over where you sat. His face twitched. You smelled like that sweet coconut shampoo you always used, and that pretty vanilla perfume he could always pick out from a mile away.
"Go put on somethin' decent," he warned through gritted teeth, voice quiet and low. Your nan hummed naively in the background, whistling as she continued making breakfast.
"This ain't decent?" You blinked innocently, your voice like sugar.
He finally looked at you then, eyes locking, his irises dark and dangerous and far, far away.
That's when you felt it. That nasty tension, that heat that settled between you two- undeniable, like a bruise beginning to bloom beneath the skin of a polite conversation. The memory of his mouth and how it felt hung in the space between the both of you like humidity.
"Don't start," he growled beneath his breath, low enough that only you could hear.
"I'm not startin," you whispered, leaning in close enough to make him flinch. "I'm just finishing what you-"
"Stop."
You held his gaze for a beat too long. The word tumbled out low, dangerous- any other peep from you and he would take matters into his own hands, that much you were sure of.
Then you stood, slowly and deliberately, the robe parting just enough to show the curve of your hip.
"Fine." You relented, chewing on the inside of your cheek. "I'll go change."
You didn't miss the way his eyes dragged down your body one last time, and before either of you could turn away, he caught your wrist in his hands.
He nodded for a moment, eyes boring into your own.
"Good girl." Joel whispered, those simple syllables knocking the air right out of your lungs. His thumb felt soft as it caressed atop your knuckles, and you watched him saunter off to his coffee cup before you scurried towards your room.
For a long while you stood in the hallway, lips parted, trembling from the ghost of his voice against your ear.
Good girl.
He said it like a threat. Like a confession. Like the kind of thing a man only says once, or forever- either or.
You stood there dumbly for a moment, blinking.
The house buzzed around you- grandma humming over pancakes, a child screaming about a lost toy- but it all faded into static.
Because Joel Miller had just called you good girl, and you knew the world would never be the same again. At least not yours.
Your skin buzzed like live wire, chest tight. Between your legs was an entirely different story- a slow, throbbing mess. That damn robe clung to your body like it was trying to apologize for failing to cover enough, as though it wished it could have saved you from your recent conundrum of both the heart and the pussy.
You walked towards your room, chest pounding with every step, every bone in your body warning you to turn back before it was too late.
But it already was, and it already had been.
You didn't hear him follow you, you didn't have to. You could feel him, you could feel the air pressure shift and change, like the house was tilting in his direction. The hair on your arms rose, skin prickling with the heat that rolled off of him in waves.
You paused outside your bedroom door, fingers curling around the frame. And then, before anything else, came his voice: low, thick, full of grit and threat.
"You like actin' up in front of people?"
Slowly you turned your head.
He was standing there, arms cross, coffee mug long since abandoned. His gaze was darker than it had been at breakfast. It was predatory. That porch-slick, tongue-between-your-legs version of Joel... he had never left, in fact he was alive and well.
"Wasn't tryin' to act up-"
"Bull. Shit." Joel snarled, backing you up into your room, circling you like a hungry wolf. He kicked the door closed with the heel of his boot. "You think I didn't see what you were doin'? Wearin' that-that... thing. Lookin' at me like that in front of your grandma?"
You were backed into the wall now, the torn floral wallpaper a stark contrast to the energy that dripped off of your bodies. His hand came up, cupped your jaw- not hard, but firm, his thumb brushing against your bottom lip as though he were weighing whether to shut you up or make you moan.
"Maybe I wanted your attention." You muttered, gently chewing on your bottom lip.
Joel breathed hard, nostrils flaring, before his thumb dipped past your lip, just slightly, resting tenderly on the tip of your tongue. It was enough to make your knees wobble and your heart beat hard against the cage of your ribs.
"Keep talkin' like that," he growled, "and I'll take you apart right here, right now. With your mamma in the livin' room and the Lord watchin'."
You whimpered.
You hated yourself for it, loved yourself for it.
He leaned in, lips grazing yours, not kissing- hovering. Making you beg for his very touch with your breath.
"You gonna be a good girl for real this time?"
You nodded, wordless.
And then- He pulled away, snatched his hand back like you were poison and he had been cut.
"Then get dressed. We're goin' into town. Gotta pick up beer for the grill."
Just like that. A simple command. As if the little room hadn't nearly erupted into flames.
You stood frozen, skin flushed, thighs trembling, every nerve screaming his name over and over and over again. You wanted to scream after him, wanted to brand the word coward into him with a red hot iron. You wanted to pull him back against you and make him finish what he started.
Instead, you slipped into the closet and reached for something short, tight, and pretty. The shorts barely counted as fabric, and the little gold cross dangling around your neck was perfectly ironic, pretty and dainty between your collarbones.
Joel was already waiting by the door, keys in hand, a muscle twitching in his jaw like he'd been chewing on the same thought all morning. His eyes dragged over you once, and that was all it took.
He inhaled deeply through his nostrils before speaking. "Get in the truck."
A warning.
The ride started silent.
He didn't look at you as he drove, and you didn't bother pretending you couldn't notice the way his fingers tightened around the steering wheel every time your thighs shifted against the hot leather seat.
"You always this quiet?" Your words were meant to poke the bear, a shit eating grin stretched cutely on your mouth.
"You always this loud?" He shot back.
You smiled something innocent. "Only when I'm ignored."
Joel scoffed. "Ain't ignorin' you," he muttered, eyes on the road. "I'm tryin' not to fuckin' kill you."
You tilted your head. "Oh?"
"You think this is funny?"
"Oh no, not at all. I think it's... fun."
Another twitch. His fingers grasped the steering wheel so tight it looked like it hurt.
"You don't got any idea what you're doin'." Joel rasped.
"I'm wearing shorts in the summer, Joel. It's not a crime."
He laughed a short, dry laugh. "Not a crime? Oh baby. It is when you're sittin' next to your step-daddy's big brother with your legs wide open. I'm supposed to be your uncle."
You spread your legs a little wider, your grin only widening. "You lookin' or something?"
"Jesus Christ." He growled, umber irises clinging to the turf ahead.
You allowed the sweet kiss of silence to stretch long and painful between the both of you, the heat between your bodies thick enough to chew. The radio was off, the only sounds were the rumble of the engine and the occasional sharp exhale from Joel, like he was trying to exorcise something demonic from within him.
Eventually you reached over and turned the dial, letting some old country song roll in, low and moody.
"She got a body like a backroad..." The man crooned on the radio.
You smiled wide. "You like this one, Uncle Joel?" Your words were a taunting challenge, a hook and bait you were begging him to grab ahold of.
Joel said nothing.
You leaned in closer, close enough to feel his shoulder against your arm.
"Don't like it when I call you Uncle?" You asked softly, your voice a hot whisper that fanned across his face.
He shook his head. "No."
"Fine. What about... daddy?"
Joel turned and looked at you. Really looked at you.
Dark brown eyes wild. Breath short. Sweat kissing at his temple.
"You keep talkin' like that, and you're gonna learn what the word daddy means real fuckin' quick."
You licked your lips. "I was hopin' I would."
He pulled over. Fast.
His truck skidded into a shaded shoulder off the side of the road, gravel crunching like bones beneath the tires. He parked. Threw it in gear. Then turned to you wild and raging like he was about to do something illegal.
"Get in the backseat." He rasped.
You shifted. Slow, testing, leaning into his space. Your heart pounded.
"Make me." They were only two simple words. Soft. Defiant. But they were enough to bring the whole universe crashing in on you.
Joel stared you down, caught between deciding whether he wanted to kiss you or kill you.
He made his choice.
You didnât even have time to squeal before heâd reached over, grabbed you by the waist, and hauled you over the console like you weighed nothing. You hit the backseat with a soft grunt, denim-clad hips scraping across the warm leather, and before you could blink, he was on top of you.
âYou donât know what youâre askinâ for,â Joel growled, voice like thunder rumbling in a storm cellar. His fingers were working the buttons of your shorts, rough against your exposed skin in a way that was deliciously dirty.
âI think I do,â you whispered, smiling up at him like the liar you were.
His hand was on your thigh, pushing it openâwide. Exposing the lacy little excuse for underwear youâd chosen just for this moment. It was soaked through.
Joel groaned like he was in pain.
âFuckinâ hell.â
He leaned in, forearm braced beside your head, the other sliding under your thigh, hoisting it up until your knee nearly touched the fogged-up window and your foot was resting on his shoulder. His breath was hot on your face, the scent of coffee and cigarettes and something darker, something animal, wafting across your face.
âYouâre drippinâ,â he muttered, eyes locked on the spot between your panties that pulsed for his touch. âYouâre gonna tell me this ainât what you wanted? That you didnât walk outta that house like a fuckinâ invitation?â
âI wanted this,â you breathed. âI want you.â
He growled. Actually growled.
His fingers hooked under your panties and dragged them aside, exposing your soaked cunt to the hot air inside the truck. He didnât even take them off, just shoved them to the side, rough and impatient and easily forgotten.
Then his fingers were on youâtwo of them, thick and calloused, sliding through your folds, parting you open like you were his to split and ruin and mark.
You gasped.
âJoelâfuckââ
âThatâs Daddy,â he hissed, and then he was inside you, two fingers buried to the hilt, pressing up against that spongy shot that had uncontrollable moans erupting from your throat.
You saw stars.
Back arched. Mouth open. One hand flew to his wrist, trying to steady yourself as he fucked you with his fingers, deep and precise, curling against that sweet spot like heâd mapped it himself.
âTight little pussy,â he muttered, forehead pressed to yours. âSo goddamn wet for me. So fuckinâ pretty.â
You were moaning nowâsoft and breathless and desperate. His name fell from your lips again and again, but it wasnât the one he wanted.
So he slowed down, pulled his fingers out just enough to tease your entrance, not pushing back in until you whined.
âWhatâs my name?â he asked.
âJoelââ
âWrong.â
He stopped completely. Just held you there, fingers resting at your slick, pulsing hole, lips against your neck, teeth dragging against your veins.
âWhatâs my fuckinâ name, sugar?â
You choked on a gasp.
âD-DaddyâfuckâDaddy, pleaseââ
And just like that, he slammed his fingers back in, rougher now. Faster. His palm rubbed against your clit as he worked you open, relentless, filthy sounds echoing inside the cab.
âThatâs my girl. My good girl," he murmured, kissing the corner of your jaw as you writhed beneath him. âTakinâ it so well. Just like you were made for me.â
Your eyes rolled back. Every muscle in your body clenched. Your stomach twisted tight and sweet, and thenâ
You came.
Hard.
Convulsing around his fingers, sobbing his name, thighs trembling against his sides. He didnât stop until he wrung every last spasm from your body, until you were so sure you would pass out if he went any longer.
Only then did he pull his fingers outâslow, sticky, glisteningâand stare at them like theyâd just given him the answers to every question heâd never dared to ask. You watched him slowly sink one into his mouth, lick off the taste that sung of you, his dark eyes peering in to your own, challenging and mean.
âTaste like sin,â he muttered. âSweet, nasty little sin.â
You lay there, spent and gasping, your skin hot against the sticky leather, your mind wrecked, your heart somewhere in the back of your throat, beating and thrumming and clawing its way towards your tongue.
And Joel?
He just leaned back in the front seat and lit a cigarette, breathing hard, not saying a word, allowing the smoke to cover him like a safety blanket.
âWe still gotta get the beer,â he said after a long pause, voice low and ruined.
You blinked at him, dazed.
âYouâre outta your fuckinâ mind,â you whispered, your top halfway off your body and your little jean shorts still unzipped and uncomfortably tight around your hips.
He grinned, crooked and mean. You shouldn't have found it so alluring, but you did. How could you not? "You ainât seen nothinâ yet.â
After Joel wrung your orgasm out like it owed him rent, the truck ride into town wasâunsurprisinglyâtense. He didnât speak, nor did he look at you.
Just smoked his cigarette like it was a goddamn life raft and kept his eyes glued to the road.
But you knew him now. Knew the twitch in his jaw, the flicker of his eyes in the rearview mirror, the way his free hand kept flexing open and closed on the gearshift.
Uncle Joel was seething.
Not because of what youâd let him do to you, but because of how easy it was. How easy it was to sink his thick fingers deep within you, how easy it was for his ears to tune to the pitch of your moans, pretty and wild, how easy it was to get lost in the way your eyes went crazy and wide with pleasure he was giving you.
It was too easy, alarmingly so.
And by the time he rolled into the parking lot, those thoughts were thrumming loud in his ear drums.
The gas station was one of those sad little roadside stops with flickering lights and hand-scrawled beer specials in the window, old and rundown and oh so hick. The air was thick with diesel exhaust and divorced dad regret, heavy with a sort of tension that was unknown to you.
You slid out of the truck, legs still a little shaky, and walked inside like nothing had happened, still trying to adjust your bra straps, as though all of the town had their eyes on you and knew what you had just done. Joel stayed outside, leaning against the driverâs side door, arms crossed, eyes locked on you through the dusty windshield as he opened up his second pack of American Spirits.
You could feel the heat of him even from twenty feet away.
And then he walked in.
Some guyâtwenties, scruffy, boots worn but clean. Too much cologne. You smelled him before you saw him, and he smelled like bad decisions made in the back of a pickup truck. Not unlike the one youâd just made, but something that was- somehow- even more embarrassing.
âHey there,â he said, smiling wide, eyes dragging down your legs, over your ass, lingering just a beat too long on the swell of your tits beneath the tight tank. âYou lost, sweetheart?â
You turned your head slow. Blinked. Smiled like a trap being set.
âNo, Iâm good. Just grabbinâ some beer for the grill.â
âFamily BBQ?â he asked, stepping closer. âMind if I crash? I make a mean brisket.â
You laughed. Sweet and dismissive. But then you glanced out the window.
Joel was still watching. His jaw was clenched, and his arms were still crossed, yet the veins on his arms bulged with something dangerously close to jealousy. You saw it in his umber irises- something murderous. It made your heart beat pick up, made that adrenaline in your belly pound for more.
So you leaned into it. Just a little.
âI dunno,â you purred. âYou look more like dessert than dinner.â
The guy laughed, and his oil covered fingers touched your elbow as his lips parted to say something else, no doubt something boyish and horny.
Joel moved.
You didnât see him come inâbut suddenly he was there, all heat and fury, stepping between you and the stranger with the kind of slow, dangerous calm that made your stomach drop and all that adrenaline fade.
âSheâs taken,â Joel said, voice low and steady, like a hungry dog growling through its teeth, with no cage to stop it from pouncing.
The guy blinked, all of his emotion draining from his face. âWhoa, man. I was- I was just talkinâââ
âYeah, I saw.â Joelâs hand came down hard on the counter as he leaned in, inches from the poor bastardâs face, and you saw the crow's feet narrow alongside his eyes, saw the way his teeth gritted tight together as he spat out his words. âYou ever look at her like that again, Iâll break your fuckinâ jaw.â
âJesus, alrightââ
âDonât bring him into this.â You would have laughed if the situation wasn't so tense/
The guy backed off fast, muttering apologies as he grabbed a bag of chips and vanished down an aisle, his tail between his legs and his head down. You stood there, beer in hand, soaking in the tension like it was bathwater, unsure of what to say or do next.
Joel didnât look at you. Not until you reached for the register. He leaned in close, breath hot at your ear. âWeâre gonna have a problem if you keep lettinâ boys touch what donât belong to them.â
You turned your head, inches from his lips. âI didnât know I belonged to anyone.â Your words were steady, despite the way your heart pounded inside of you.
He smiled, but it wasnât nice, it never was. âYou will.â
He paid for the beer and a fresh pack of cigarettes before hauling you outside, back to the deserted parking lot, back to his truck that was hidden behind the dumpster, the air thick and still with summer heat.
"I don't believe you." You challenged, his hand tight around your wrist.
He stopped in his tracks. Joel looked at you like he'd just made peace with his damnation.
His jaw clenched. His nostrils flared. And thenâhe grabbed the back of your neck and kissed you, it was more of a threat than a declaration. Not soft. Not romantic. Consuming.
You barely had time to gasp before he spun you around and shoved you against the grimy, vibrating hood of his pickup, right there in the gas station parking lot.
âGet in the fuckinâ truck,â he snarled.
âNo.â
You didnât flinch. You wanted the punishment. You needed the consequence. You craved him.
His eyes went dark. Dangerously dark. You felt it in your throat, in your clit, in your soul.
âYou think youâre in charge?â Joel stepped in close, pressing the heat of his body against your back, one hand gripping your waist like he wanted to crush you and fuck you in the same motion. âYou been walkinâ around all summer with your little ass hanginâ out, begginâ for attention, and now youâre gonna act shy? Nah, baby. You earned this.â
His fingers trailed down your stomach and popped the button on your shorts with one flick. You didnât stop him. You arched into it, your ass tight against his hardened cock.
âYouâre gonna let me fuck you right here,â he muttered against your ear. âWhere anyone could see. Where someone might walk by and know exactly what you are.â
âWhat am I?â you asked, breathless, barely able to get the words out as he dragged your zipper down and shoved your shorts and soaked panties to your knees.
Joelâs hand slid between your thighs. His fingers dipped into your wetness, obscene and slick.
âMy dirty little girl,â he growled. âMy fuckinâ problem. My cock-hungry little niece.â
You gasped, legs already shaking.
He chuckled darkly.
âYeah. That got you wet, didnât it? Beinâ my brotherâs girl. Beinâ my family. You been thinkinâ about this every night, havenât you? Touched yourself with that pretty little cross around your neck while you thought about Uncle Joel splittinâ you open like a goddamn peach.â
You whimpered. You were already on the edge. Already soaked. Already gone.
âSay it,â he demanded.
âI want it.â
âSay what you are.â
You clenched around nothing. Your mouth felt dry and sinful, tongue aching for words that would never fully form.
âIâm your niece,â you whispered, words broken. âAnd I want you to ruin me.â
Joel groaned. Real. Deep. Like it hurt him.
Then he flipped you over, shoved you up onto the hood, and dragged your legs open with no ceremony, no patience, like a man unhinged.
You watched his eyes drag over you. Soaking. Spread. Wanton.
âI told myself I wouldnât do this,â he muttered, dragging the head of his cock through your dripping folds. âTold myself Iâd be good. But then you started callinâ me Daddy. And nowâfuck, babyâIâm gonna wreck you.â
He didnât give you a chance to breathe.
One thrust.
One brutal, impossible thrust and he was inside you, bottomed out, thick and hot and everywhere all at once.
You cried outâloud, raw, unfilteredâand he loved it.
âShhh, now,â Joel purred. âYou donât wanna get caught, do you? You want someone to see me fuckinâ this little pussy? Want someone to know you got your uncle's cock inside you?â
You moaned. Desperate. Aching.
He snapped his hips forward.
The truck rocked under you.
Gas station lights flickered overhead. The radio inside buzzed faintly, muffled by the sound of you being fucked within an inch of your existence.
âGod, Joelâpleaseââ
âWhat? You prayinâ now?â he growled, grabbing the back of your thigh and lifting it higher so he could go deeper. âYou think Godâs listeninâ? Sweetheart, He left the moment you let me push my cock inside you.â
You clenched around him, sobbing out with how fucking full you were.
âYou like that?â Joel growled, hips slamming into you over and over. âYou like Daddy tellinâ you youâre too far gone to be saved?â
âYesâyesâI want itâI need itââ
Joel leaned in, pressing his forehead to yours, his voice a low snarl.
âIâm gonna cum inside you.â
Your eyes widened.
âYouâre gonna sit at dinner tonight with my cum leakinâ out of you while your step daddy Tommy passes you the fuckinâ potatoes and pretends not to see the way you squirm in your seat.â
âDo it,â you begged. âBreed me, Daddy.â
That broke him.
He fucked you so hard the hood of the truck dented. Your thighs bruised beneath his grip. Your nails scraped the metal like claws, your voice rising in pitch with every snap of his hips.
You came so hard your vision whited out, screaming his nameâJoel, Daddy, Uncle, whatever it tookâas your pussy fluttered around him like it was made to take him, like it was created for the sole purpose of feeling Joel Miller's fucking cock, for taking his cum.
Joelâs hips didnât stop even after he emptied himself inside you. He stayed deep, grinding into the mess heâd made like he wanted to etch his name inside your womb. You could feel himâstill hard, still leaking, still not satisfied.
You whimpered, face pressed to the warm hood of the truck, your legs spread wide and shaking. Every movement sent another hot trickle of him dripping down the inside of your thigh.
âToo much,â you gasped. But you didnât move. You couldnât.
He leaned over you, chest against your back, breath hot against your ear.
âYou donât get to say that,â Joel growled. âNot when you begged for it. Not when you called me Daddy with my cock already buried inside you.â
One of his hands slipped under your shirt and dragged up your belly, sliding rough over your ribs until he palmed your breast, squeezing tight, fingers pinching your nipple until you gasped.
âNow youâre gonna take it.â
He slid outâjust enough to watch your pussy flutter and leakâand then slammed back in, all the way to the hilt, feeling your gummy walls constrict tightly around him.
You cried out. It was too much. It was perfect.
Joel moaned behind you, grabbing your hips hard enough to bruise. He didnât care that you were shaking, that your thighs were already slick with both of your cum, that you were gasping like you were about to cry.
He fucked you anyway.
Hard. Deep. Fast. Dirty.
The truck shook with every thrust. The sound of itâwet and obsceneâechoed through the empty parking lot like a prayer in reverse.
âListen to that,â Joel grunted. âThatâs what you wanted, right? That sweet little cunt of yours suckinâ me in. You fuckinâ hear it?â
You were sobbing now, your face pressed to the metal, your body twitching from overstimulation.
âI canâtâJoelâpleaseââ
His hand slapped your ass. âYou can. And you will.â
Then he spit on his fingers and reached around, finding your clit like heâd done it a hundred times. Like it was his.
He rubbed tight, brutal circles against itâno patience, no mercy, your little bud tight and sensitive, twitching beneath the pads of his calloused fingers.
âDonât you dare hold it,â he growled. âCum on my cock again. Show me just how ruined you really are.â
You couldnât even speak. You splintered. You came so hard your knees buckled. Your mouth opened in a silent scream. Your pussy clenched around him like it didnât want to let go.
And Joelâhe came again.
Harder this time. With a groan so deep it sounded like a man dying and coming back to life at once. He stayed deep, rutting into you, making sure every drop of him was inside, that none of his spend would go to waste.
You felt itâhot and thick and endlessâcoating your walls, your thighs, your soul.
And then⌠stillness.
Heavy breathing.
You, draped over the hood of the truck like a used doll, your body soaked in sweat and slick and shameful satisfaction.
Joel pulled out slow, watching his cum drip from you. A thick string slid down the inside of your leg and he groaned at the sight of it.
He dragged two fingers through the mess and brought them to your mouth.
You opened. You sucked. You tasted everythingâhim, you, the filth of what you wereâand didnât look away once.
âJesus Christ,â he muttered, running his thumb along your bottom lip. âYou're mine now, baby."
You nodded. Smiling like the little sinner you were.
Bent. Fucked. Full. And proud of it.
When you arrived home, you walked into the kitchen, the house loud with the clatter of silverware and family gossip. You could feel Joel's cum thick and hot between your legs, stuffed full, your pussy sore and used and humming with pleasant satisfaction.
You walked inside like a new woman. You were freshly showered- sort of- rinsed off by a hose outside on Joel's orders, while he smoked and watched the way your body moved, told you not to get too clean.
So you didn't.
You were still wearing his flannel. No bra. That pretty cross dangling between your pretty breasts, glistening and glimmering beneath the low light of the old rickety house.
Everyone had seated for lunch. Grandma at the head of the table. Your mother, flushed from wine. Tommy, smiling wide. Cousins, loud and sticky with grape soda and sunscreen. The TV was playing some rerun of an old Baylor football game in the living room. A fly buzzed lazily near the screen door, the ambiance unsettling and homely.
Joel sat across from you at the table, his eyes following every movement you made, watched the exact moment your legs pressed together tightly because you shifted and felt that familiar drip, that tempestuous aftershock of all he had done to you.
He was pounding back Coors and sweet tea, doing anything he could to keep his mind off of you.
Your grandma passed the green beans and muttered something about politics. You tried not to make a sound, until your mamma looked at you with concerned and asked, "you alright, baby? You're awfully quiet."
"I'm fine, Mamma. Just sore."
Joel choked on his lager.
"Sore?" Tommy asked with a blink.
"Yeah." You sighed out innocently, raising your cup to your lips as you sent Joel a challenging glare from behind the brim. "Took a real long ride earlier."
Joel hid a grunt with a cough, loud and rough. He dropped his fork and stood up from the table, muttering about taking a smoke break, his face the vision of a man who wasn't sure if he were about to hit someone or fuck you again- and you weren't sure which it would be.
He looked at you. Hard. You grinned, slowly chewing on a spoonful of cobbler, watching as he walked out.
You waited for a bit. Got swept up in the conversation about football and politics and how crazy the world was getting.
You set your fork down after a while, following the blazing trail that Joel had left in his wake.
You found him on the back porch, cigarette lit, a hand in his pocket. The setting sun painted him in gold and ash, air heavy with tension and cicadas and everything you hadn't said.
He didn't turn around. He took a long, heavy drag, finally speaking. "This can't happen again."
You stepped closer, pressed your chest to his back, slid your arms around his waist- you swore he leaned in to it, tilted his head back every so slightly, like a broken man who hadn't been touched like that in years.
"Sure it can."
"No, it can't. You're-Tommy... you're-"
"Doesn't really matter." You hummed.
Joel turned, fast, eyes wild and mouth tense.
"You don't get it- I can't... hold back. Not with you."
"Yeah, I'm kinda counting on that, Joel."
There was a long silence, loud with singing crickets and your heartbeat and every broken thing that the both of you were.
But then?
He kissed you. Soft this time- but it wasn't safe, it never was, it never would be. It tasted like the end of something, like the beginning of something even worse.
Joel pulled back just enough to whisper, "you're gonna be the death of me."
And you smiled, tasting him on your tongue. "Maybe."
You glanced over your shoulder, through the screen door. Lunch was in full swing. Grandma rambling, Tommy laughing, Mamma pouring more wine- everything was normal. Everything was fine.
And none of them knew. Not yet, hopefully never.
You leaned in close, grabbing Joel's hand, your lips pretty against his ear, "but you'll die happy."
I'm a bit of an intense gym-goer. Anime, live-action characters, and other animations have really inspired me to go above and beyond what I thought I could do. Clone Force 99 inspires me so much! They're all so fit, have different advantages, skills, and physical strengths. For fun, I created a workout split based on each of the modified clones. I hope you enjoy it! Thereâs a bit of a fanfic element to it as each Bad Batcher describes their favorite workout routine:)
Wrecker never skips leg day. Whether he's on a mission or with Gonky in the back of the ship, he's always training! Wrecker encourages you to train safely! He says to feel free to train until failure on machines, but to pick a weight you'll be safe with on the free weight work.
Leg Extension - 2 sets of 15
Hamstring Curl - 2 sets of 15
Deadlifts - 3 sets of 6-8
Leg Press - 3 sets of 10-12
Smith Machine Split Squats - 2 sets of 6-8
Gonk Carry (Sandbag Carry) - 3 reps; set a distance youâre comfortable with.
The Daily Bad Batch Burner Finisher (see below)
Crosshair is built to carry his gear and Firepuncher 773 up mountains, towers, and more. His shoulders are strong to sustain his sniper work and throw enemies in close hand-to-hand combat. He suggests getting someone like Echo to spot you so you can work harder, but if you're going it alone, be smart and hang out with the Smith machine.
Incline Press - 3 sets of 10-12
Bench Press - 3 sets of 10-12
Shoulder Press - 3 sets of 10-12
Delt Raises - 3 sets of 10-12
Farmers Carry - 3 reps; set a distance youâre comfortable with
The Daily Bad Batch Burner Finisher (see below)
Hunter knows he has an amazing back to waist ratio and maintains a steady back routine to maintain it. To build out your back, he suggests warming up your abdominal muscles first, then heading straight into heavy rowing work.
Cable Crunch - 3 sets till failure
T-Bar Row - 3 sets of 6-8
Assisted Pull Ups - 3 sets of 10-12
Cable Lat Pulldown (Palms in) - 3 sets of 10-12
Cable Row (Narrow) - 3 sets of 10-12
The Daily Bad Batch Burner Finisher (see below)
Tech may be all brains, but you have to give credit where it's due: the guy is built. He'll climb up vertical surfaces with Echo on his back, overpower enemies with a broken femur, and perform fantastic movements to protect others. Tech suggests performing heavy compound movements to work multiple muscle groups at once and mastering your own body weight. At the end, listen to a podcast, music, or show; or if you can maintain focus and a higher heart rate, read a book.
Assisted Chin Ups - 3 sets of 10-12
Hexbar Deadlifts - 3 sets of 10-12
Barbell Squats - 3 sets of 10-12
Assisted Pull Ups - 2 sets of until failure
The Daily Bad Batch Burner Finisher (See Below)
Entertained cardio - 45 minutes
She may be the little sister, but Omega is a straight up badass and her brothers know it. She's getting used to performing compound movements with her brothers, but enjoys working on accessory movements as it's time for her to focus on herself in the gym and get away from all the "bro" noise.
Calf Raises - 3 sets of 10-12
Preacher Bicep Curl - 3 sets of 10-12
Tricep Pushdown - 3 sets of 10-12
Hammer Curl - 3 sets of 10-12
Front Raises - 3 sets of 10-12
Shrugs - 3 sets of 10-12
The Daily Bad Batch Burner Finisher (see below)
Clone Force 99 has exceptional grip strength and endurance. Here's the burning finisher for the end of each workout. If you don't have access to battle ropes, any free weight arm movement can replace it.
Each exercise till failure x3
Battle RopeÂ
Pushups
Static Hang
Clone Force 99 says good luck on your training. You'll need it.
Note: You don't have to know how to make anything fancy. Just do you know the basics well enough to at least get started?
(Please reblog for a larger sample size)