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Lady in red

My trade part for @phoenix-the-mistfit-fire-bird, hurt/comfort oneshot featuring her OC Amelia and someone's else OC Katie and her child.

TW: tiny bit of gore, shooting, alcohol mention.

Also WLW ship and author's first language is not English.

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Lady in red

At the morning Amelia is sitting in the kitchen and drinking her coffee. It’s black and bitter, so she adds balsam. Not too much, just a couple of drops. Maybe a little more but not more than usual. She sips her drink, quiet and calm. A few precious moments of peace she’ll miss all day. Air smells bitter, just like her coffee, and also a bit rotten. It’s fall.

The skyline is painted red, yellow and purple, sunlight casts golden flares on the windows. It makes her eyes hurt a little. Not more than usual.

The fox leaves her house, slowly slipping in her officer Holmes persona, cold and relentless like nature around her. Officer Holmes doesn’t stop, doesn’t hesitate, she’s watching, listening, investigating and then she acts, quick and clean. She’s not afraid to get herself in danger. She’s not afraid of blood.

But Amelia is.

Amelia fears, shivers and breaks every time she sees blood, her ears crack and ache with every shot, her paws feel so so heavy when they raise up a gun. She doesn’t even realize at first that one of the bullets hit her. But when shootout is over, officer Holmes bursts and underneath this shell appears hot, pulsating, wet flesh of Amelia. It’s her who bleeds all over her already red fur, not the hero of the day. Shot didn’t get to her bones, but muscles burn with pain, and blood just keeps pumping making her shirt red too. “Talk about one splash of colour” the fox thinks tiredly.

When tight stitches cover the wound, she exhales. It’s almost like at the morning, but instead of soft rustle of leaves there’s sharp buzzing of the lamp. It makes her skull itch. Soon some of her colleges come in, they ask how she doing, wish her to heal fast. They congratulate officer Holmes, she did great they say. Officer Holmes is grateful and proud. Amelia feels lonely. Maybe a little more than usual.

A few hours pass when suddenly she hears a knock at the door. It crack the silence and cracks her loneliness. It’s Katie.

- It’s me, - she says.

- It’s you, - Amelia smiles weakly.

Katie apologizes for making her wait for so long, gives her homemade Toad in the hole, inspects her wound. Bobcat’s paws are warm and her touch is gentle. It rebuilds Amelia piece by piece, quiet and calm. They drink coffee together, and there’s no balsam in the hospital, only cheap and plastic cream. But Katie is smiling back at her and jokes and laughs and the tips of her ears shake a little, so it tastes better than what Amelia had at the morning. The visitor gives fox a painting, clumsy scribble from her kid. It shows an animal, splash of red colour, crooked but happy. Little Amelia replica eats the biggest cupcake ever made. Katie says, they really had some at home but David got so scared and worried for auntie Mia, he ate it all. It’s okay. None of them are mad.

And then it’s unexpectedly so late already. Amelia wants to stay up, but she knows it’ll slow her healing and Katie will bite off her ears for this. She also knows David needs his mom. They share goodbye and then last it a bit longer.

- Pass David from me, - the fox asks, ruffling other’s fur.

- And you take it from me, - Katie grins coyly before giving her quick peck on the cheek.

The light still buzz even louder in now asleep and quiet hospital but it doesn’t bother Amelia anymore. Tossing in bed, fox can feel herself turning red.

Blep.

Prince Pip(squeak).

For @chelseyelricjr

In addition, a bunch of sketches in varying degrees of freshness with the Madoka OCs. Unfortunately, I don't have the opportunity to re-photograph some of them, but I tried to edit it more or less.

Actually, all of this wasn't planned for posting, I was persuaded, so there are a lot of mistakes here, but dang it.

Probably, since I'm throwing it in, I should say a few words about who they are. I won't go into Madoka's lore here, but there are some spoilers.

The first girl, Jakki, sold her soul to talk to someone. In general, it isn't surprising, having been born as part of a sect that worships Kyubey, she spent her entire childhood memorizing mantras that the pleasures of ordinary people are not for her rank, and in general she cannot enjoy life, and communicate with people outside the sect either, because she lives only in order to die one fine day for the greater good. She made a contract, but didn't endured this for a long time, realized that she did not want to die for the sake of energy economics and turned into a witch. Now Jakki is convinced that she is in her own personal Hell and deserves all her torment.

The second girl, Kimiko, also doesn't have the best relationship with the Incubators. She made a contract back in the days when samurai were relevant, but has not yet turned because her wish included the inability to harm people, which means that becoming a witch is impossible for her. Instead, she turns into a doppel, and this cleans her.

Kimiko is a girl with very weak magical potential, who compensates for this by not shying away from using brute physical force, wearing armor and devoting all her time to improving her skills and finding new ways to use her abilities. Over the years, she has become skilled at killing witches and has become a problem for Kyubey, since she cleaned out important members of their energy pyramid too quickly. Now they periodically persuade other girls to try to hunt her.

The hood lady - Tsukimi, is just one of these hunters. She's not very good at long-range combat, but is excellent at tracking and spying. A fairly short time after concluding her contract, she decided to simply rob other girls rather than go into battle herself, and by doing so she not only takes away precious resources, but also brings the loss of faith in others closer, so PG&E Corporation really likes her. Unfortunately, they didn't expect that Kimiko would be able to buy Tsukimi over to her side.

(Last pic text: Catholic guilt, internalized homophobia, abandonment issues, escapism.)

Bilbo Baggins, (not) at your service.

it is so funny to me how i started learning english on my own age 10 because the manga i was reading was turning so so so bad i went to fan content to cope with how shit it was. and 15 years later this pays off as my boss tells me i'm an essential asset in the team as the only fluent english-speaker.

Hunter is the one, who reacted first, of course. I love all of those little details.

Now in colour.

Really slight redesign Jimmy.