NOOOOOOO I NEED TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS BRI PLS NO
Give me a Reason: Chapter 17 - "Thad"
Computer Literacy was blessedly easy at least, she thought as she stumbled into the classroom, taking a steadying breath.
Her eyes almost automatically glanced up at N, who had nearly always given her a wave when he saw her enter, though today it looked like he was completely absorbed in conversation with someone else, a boy in a red backwards hat, brown peeking out from underneath it. Who was leaning on the back of her usual seat with his arms crossed.
She warily approached, was she going to have to find somewhere else to sit? There were a couple of others still free but, her and N were partners, how would they still work together?
She ignored the second train of thought, the one that was making her heart ache slightly at the prospect of having to go elsewhere, bring replaced by a more interesting friend so easily.
But, she didn't even have time to question it before N noticed her, and he gave her a radiant smile. “Hey Uzi! Sorry Thad, that's her seat your leaning on.”
The boy looked back at her, his eyes a dull green, like grass that had been shocked with weedkiller. A sports jacket clung to his shoulders, ‘Copper Football Team’ emblazoned on the front in yellow letters.
“Oh Hey, I'm Thad, sorry for taking your seat.” He moved off the back of her chair, dunking his hands in his pockets as he smiled, it was friendly, not as bright as N's but still warm and inviting.
“It's… fine.” She said awkwardly, in no real mood to socialize with the pain in her side.
“N said you two went ghost hunting last weekend. It's Gnarly, you two are braver then I am. I still get scared by the raccoon that lives under my house.”
Uzi blinked, taking a moment to register that she was being talked to, and a second more for her to realize it wasn't negative.
“Oh uh- Yeah, we did.” Uzi replied after a moment of struggling to bend down to put her backpack under the table, she didn't catch the way N looked at her worried lying when she flinched. “I wouldn't call N brave though, he got scared of an itty bitty spider, hehehe.”
“Hey!” N protested, pouting but not in a way that suggested he was actually upset.
“Aw she exposed you dude!” Thad laughed, but his attention was quickly back on her. “You're Uzi right? N mentioned your name, it's super badass. I wish I shared my name with a gun.”
Uzi felt herself blush, still not used to being complimented. And she couldn't really find the words to say to it either.
“I don't think Thad's a bad name.” N came to her rescue, thankfully. And Thad looked at him deadpan.
“When you find any character named “Thaddeus McFlynn” who isn't just in the background, or doesn't die a horrible death. Let me know.”
Uzi winced, man had a name like an old british man. She didn't envy him. N just shrugged.
“Anyway, I gotta get back to class, coach will chew my ass if I'm gone too long, I just came here to pick up his prints.” He picked up a stack of what looked like sign up papers, and turned back at N.
“Hey, I'm serious about signing up for one of our teams, you'd be great!” Thad gave him a finger gun and Uzi a small salute before he left the classroom, Uzi watching as he left.
N didn't really reply to that, just looked a little sad before shaking his head and returning all his attention to Uzi.
“Sorry about that. He was talking about me joining the basketball team since I'm so tall, then we somehow got onto what we did over the weekend and… yeah.” He rambled, but Uzi just nodded softly, it wasn't like she was expecting to remain N's only freind or anything, not with his personality. It's what she expected… honestly.
“It's fine.” How much had she said that today? It felt like a lot, her side throbbed uncomfortably as she tried to adjust.
“Hey uh. I know you told me to stop asking. And I promise I totally am, but… are you okay, you've looked uncomfortable all day.” He spoke up again after a second, and Uzi felt every single muscle in her body tense up, she was fine. She'd been through worse, way worse.
She turned to glare at him, words of vitriol bubbling up in her throat, but she only halfway opened her mouth before his soft, warm expression made them die into nothing, a gentle smile worn on his face and genuine concern behind those caramel eyes.
She sighed.
“I'm fine, really, just… had a run in with someone. I've been through worse.”
“Oh… well um…” N really didn't know how to help, that answer was… vague at best. But he didn't want to scare her off from opening up more by pushing her. “Do you wanna talk about it?”
She looked at him for a beat, taking in his nervous smile.
“No.” She replied simply, and the window he'd had was abruptly shut in his face. His smile fell a little.
“You can keep distracting me though. That's helping.” She added after a minute, and his head snapped back up, she was avoiding his eyes, but he caught a small smile gracing her face.
And with another brilliant smile, thats what he did, dragging her into a conversation about dogs that she did her best to listen intently to, the pain being slightly buried under the weight of his voice.
When it was finally time to go home, Uzi was bracing herself on one of the brick pillars in front of the building, knowing all she needed was to walk home and she could treat herself with some sweet, sweet painkillers. It was just… actually getting there that was going to be the difficult part.
It wasn't that far away, but with how difficult walking had become, she knew it was going to be complete and total agnoy. Stalling, she was stalling.
What were the chances of her dad actually being home for once to drive her back? Probably slim to none, but… she could check.
She pulled out her phone, Khan being the first name in her contacts, the second, and last, being N.
Uzi: Hey Dad, just wondering if u could pick me up from school today.
She stared at the messaging app for almost a full minute with no response before she grumbled, leaning against the brick and closing her eyes for a moment.
When she did eventually bring her head back up, she realized that she'd been standing against the pillar for way too long, the second wave of busses already on their way out, meaning she'd been there for at least ten minutes.
Maybe she was in more pain than she thought…
“Uzi?” A voice caught her attention, and she spun around to be face to face with N's stupidly tall figure, Thad was right… he would be good for basketball.
She was starting to feel warm, and slightly nauseous, neither were any good signs, bit both she ignored.
“O-oh hey N.” Shit, her voice was a little shaky now too, she placed a palm onto the brick behind her, feeling a bit like she might pass out. Crap, that probably meant Lizzy pinched something in her somewhere, that was great.
“I thought you would've left already. Don't you walk home?” One of his brows were raised, he looked behind her, Tessa had pulled in and was waiting for him.
“Just… enjoying the day…?”
“Why did that sound like a question?” He asked, clearly not believing her in the slightest. Uzi blinked, trying to stifle the painful tremble in her voice.
“It didn't.” She tried, trying to begin to walk away, only to stumble and nearly trip over nothing.
Fuck
“Woah hey! Uzi!” His hands were on her now, she didn't want them to be, she didn't want to be seen as weak, but her stupid body had at this point completely betrayed her, she felt the bile begin to burn it's way into her throat.
Oh shit not he-
She scrambled over to the nearest bush, throwing his hands off her and completely emptied her bruised stomach, holding onto one of those weird round concrete nubs for support.
When she finished, she shakily stood up, wiping her mouth, a small amount of blood coming off onto the back of her hand.
Still… she did feel marginally better.
N was behind her, looking between Tessa's car and her franticly, a hand gently resting on her back. She tried to catch her breath.
She heard a car door slam and rushing footsteps coming her direction before light invaded her vision
I'm about to pass out…
She thought before she felt herself begin to slowly fall backwards, before all her senses went to static…
So I'm a bit afraid to ask, but is Delilah aware of Tera and Kiara's feelings?
She chuckles, wiping a stain off the kitchen counter that looks suspiciously like oil.
"You'd have to be blind to not see it." She's smiling fondly. "Tera is a lovely young woman, and she always has my daughters best interests at heart, I root for them."
Her face falls "I try to support her however I can, but her father makes her question herself... she thinks the world of him, so it's hard for her to except that he's wrong."
*A single tear will run down my cheek.*
I’m happy for you *Sniff*
(I swear to fucking god I tried to shove myself in a bucket because of all this depressing sadness :((((()
*I speak nervously, stammering often.* H-hey, Tera. Uh, how's... How's Kiara doing... right now?
"I'm okay!" Kiara whips the ask away. "Really! I'm fine!" She seems happy.... really happy.
"Are you okay? I'm not mad at you or anything!"
ITS CHATON
Kiara are you gonna take care of her for the rest of the day? And Tera what are your nightmares about?
"I'll probably have to. She won't let me leave anyway." Tera is curled around her, staring up at the ceiling.
"Uh-Uhm." Her voice is slow and dreamlike. "I'm hunting down... drones. My freinds." She knits her brow. "I don't want to hurt my friends."
"Worst ones I'm...hurting Kia... don't want to hurt her. Like her." She hums, voice trailing off as she forgets what she was talking about.
Now isn’t this interesting?
Did you know that some pet owners refer to their pets as their babies. Does that mean that Mars bar is your’s and Kiara’s…
"Please stop..."
Oh shit… well, it ALL GOES DOWNHILL FROM HERE BABYYYYY Good luck Tera cause once you get older you’ll have a truck load of trauma just waiting to hit you which all it’s got
Oil is Thicker Then Blood (Part 68)
N slowly pulled himself out of sleep mode, limbs feeling heavy and sluggish, he'd been awoken by… something? Not alarming enough for him to snap awake but enough for him to be roused from consciousness.
His gaze fell to the warmth cradled beside him, her tail swaying lazily as she purred softly, she was facing away from him, but both his arms were already wrapped around her, her head resting near his shoulder.
Riiiiiip
Ah, so that was the sound that woke him up, his head roving around the room to place the source of the sound, eventually finding Tera in the corner of the room, tearing a small pillow to shreds with her teeth.
At first, he almost went back to sleep, something in the back of his mind telling him that he shouldn't worry, she was just practicing hunting, and was in no danger.
Before the less primal part of his brain caught up, and realized she shouldn't be trying to rip something apart at all. And he sprung up and forward to separate her from her cotton-filled prey.
“No! Tera! We don't destroy things!” He lightly scolded, grabbing her by her onesie-scruff. She only tried to wiggle her way to freedom in response, kicking and pawing into the air at him.
He took a look at the pillow, sighing as the fake-cotton fluff fell out of it, she'd made a decent hole in it, and it was covered in teeth marks and drool where she'd tried over and over to rip it.
“How'd you even rip it?” He asked, more to himself as he looked back at her, she was snapping in the direction of it as if it had wronged her. Bearing her teeth.
Teeth that… looked way sharper then they had just yesterday.
He did a double take, putting one of his hands under her armpit to gently but firmly grab her while he examined her teeth. Poking a finger into her mouth.
There was no denying it, there were now tiny fangs present in Tera's mouth, currently tangled with thread and cotton from where she'd ripped at the pillow, she didn't appreciate her father poking around in her mouth, growling at him as she tried to thrash.
What… did this mean? Tera had picked up some of their traits, sure. The chirping, the growling, the purring. Even his spooky ‘X’ occasionally. But this… this wasn't something she could just learn! She shouldn't have fangs!
Though it did explain the teething…
“Uh…” His mouth fell open uselessly before he pulled the thread and cotton out of his daughters mouth and tossed the pillow through the thick curtain and outside so she couldn't knaw on it anymore. And sat her back down, watching as she continued to crawl around like nothing happened.
He blinked, before crawling back over time Uzi and gently shaking her awake.
“Uzi…”
“Mmmgh, go away…” She mumbled sleepily back, flicking her tail in his direction as if to wave him off, he got a little louder, more urgent.
“Uzi. Uh, There's kinda a problem.” He shook a little harder, making her groan and stretch like a ct as she lightly shoved him off, before flopping back on her stomach, shoving her face into the pillows.
“Tera has fangs.”
“Mmhm.” She made a kind of affirmative noise before her tail went stiff and she quickly moved to get up.
“Wait, what?!” She pounced over in Tera's direction, making the toddler look at her mother in surprise as she was once again put on her back and her mouth was examined, much to her dismay.
“H-holy shit.” Uzi poked her finger with one of Tera's fangs, reeling back surprised when it actually hurt a little. Blinking as she looked back over at N.
“H-how? She shouldn't -she's a normal worker drone-” She released the droneling, who went back to minding her own business, and swatting at some dangling lace.
They both went silent, lost in thought, before N thought back to the moment he'd gotten a small taste of her oil, with a slight irony taste.
“Your oil…” He said slowly, but it seemed like Uzi had already come to that conclusion herself, holding her head as the realization hit her. Tera had been infected since the first moment she'd donated her oil, even before they'd even considered her adoption.
“I… didn't know… It never, it's just code, I-” She stopped herself, knowing damn well it stopped being ‘just code’ when she had a full pair of lungs and was currently growing a baby inside her.
“I did ruin her…” She mumbled, curling in on herself as that thought made a path of destruction through her head. As always, N was there, pressing his head against hers and getting her to calm down.
“You do the best you can, with the information you have.”
“Huh?”
“It's… something Tessa used to say. You didn't know, you were being helpful, donating your oil. If you knew, you wouldn't have.” He admitted, while also stopping her spiral before it could start, he gestured over to Tera; who had begun trying to rip into another pillow, thankfully unsuccessfully.
“Look at her, she's happy and healthy, she's not ruined… just different. Like us.” Uzi watched as her daughter pounced on the pillow, bouncing off of it and rolling to a stop before shaking her head and doing it again, an (albeit aggressive) smile on her face.
“I guess it really makes her ours now huh?” Uzi acquiesced, leaning into her boyfriend as she sighed. She still didn't feel great about unintentionally infecting Tera with the solver but, if they had made her themselves wouldn't it be the same outcome? She'd have been born with the solver, just like Uzi.
“She always was. But… yeah, it does.” N replied, watching their kit try and fail to hunt a pillow, hands interlaced.
Mmm I’ll let you reflect on everything you’ve said and done.
*gives Tera catnip*
If her eyes were blown out before, now their huge, taking up most of the real estate on her visor as she exposes her underbelly to the ceiling, purring like mad. Her tail flicking lazily around her.
Her vision is hazy, a feeling of relaxed euphoria taking over her entire body, Kiara is giggling at the display, which catches her attention.
Tera slinks up to her best freind on all fours, nuzzling her cheek with her own with a sound that resembles a "mrrrap". Before flopping onto her lap, desiring to be pet like the overgrown house cat she was. Kiara laughs lightly, entangling her fingers into black hair as Tera shut her eyes in absolute, drug aided bliss.
"Awww, ma bonne fille, it's so nice to see you so relaxed. Do you feel good Ter-Bear?"
Tera doesn't respond, but the purring is enough.
Almost THERE Jesus Christ
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NOOOOOOOOOO
DREI AND KOBIIIII NOOOOO
DEVASTATED IS AN UNDERSTATEMENT FOR HOW I FEEL
Tama, what do you think of Drei and Kobi?
She tilts her head for a moment before she shakes it.
"...ₙₑᵥₑᵣ ₘₑₜ... ₜₒₗ𝒹 ₜₕₑᵧ 𝓌ₑᵣₑ ₙᵢ𝒸ₑ 𝓌ₕₑₙ ₐₗᵢᵥₑ."
Dear robojesus LEAVE THE POOR KID ALONE she didn’t do anything stop fucking with her for fun
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*she squirms uncomfortably*
Do that again, and I crack you open like a glowstick...
*one of her eyes is now a purple X*
Just another goofy idiot who’s currently obsessed with murder drones Thank you for staying for the ride
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