uh. i’m currently working on 4 hours of sleep so forgive how incoherent this is.
just a super short au based on this gifset, because apparently i’m still obsessed with how the spell merlin uses to make the butterfly means “create a life”
Someone: I don’t want to sound like a jerk, but why don’t you try shipping the straight, canonical ships for once?
Me:
Prompt: Caroline goes to NOLA, sees Klaus' new life, unicorn baby and all, and decides to do Rome, Paris and Tokyo on her own? Angst with happy ending please? Thank you! :)
24 hours and 10,344 word later and I finally finished this one!
Even Though.
“So, is this everything youwanted to show me?”
Klaus felt his heart stop atthe sound of her voice, hope filling him even as he heard the scratchy qualityto it. Even as he spun around to find her standing within the shadows of thefloor to ceiling open window of his New Orleans home, knowing once she steppedfurther into the light spilling out from the room, her face would show the sameevidence of her tears as her voice held.
“Caroline.” He utteredreverently, still holding out hope that his senses were not playing tricks onhim. That she had truly come for him, even though he stood so close to Camillethat he could hear the hurt hitch in her breath and feel her body give apainful shake against his side at how he worshiped this other woman’s name.
“Is it?” Caroline sneeredangrily in attempts to reign in her pain as she came into full view.
His heart began to crack andfizzle. He had seen her in different stages of pain, some caused by him, somecaused by others. And yet the force of her pain there in the open now was ofthe likes of which he had never seen on anyone. The devastation nearly equalto, if not more so, than that dreadfully, fateful day that changed the courseof his family’s entire history.
His mouth floundered open andclosed, like a fish chasing a hook, searching for it even though knowing allthe while it could be its last move and that death awaited at its sharp andtwisted end.
The room was filled withothers, none of which uttered a word. Some looked between the heartbrokenblonde and the quickly shattering Original Hybrid in confusion. Others withmenacing glee, others with sympathy at what they knew was about to come.
“Answer me dammit!” Even thehitch in her voice due to her pain didn’t take away from the pure viciousnessof her snarl.
She stalked her way to himand like the glutton he was for pain and anything Caroline, he still didn’tutter more than a croak as he stepped to meet her in the center of the room.The center of the audience that all waited with baited breath, in stunnedsilence for what would come.
Her head lowered, her eyes ablazing fire that cut him more than any knife or sword ever could as shegrowled with her demand, “Is. It.”
“No.” His voice trembled overthe single syllable word.
His eyes widened as hersnarrowed. The entire room sucked in a soundless breath, holding it as the onlysound that followed his reply was a resounding crack as her palm met his cheek.The force of it twisting his neck to the side, nearly stumbling before herighted himself. Not caring that everyone waited, some expecting him to drawblood, some expecting him to meet pain with pain. But none knew just how deeplyhis own pain was in the face of hers.
None expected the stutteringbroken sounds to be released from his shattering chest, “Ca-Caro-Caroline.”
This time his face was metwith her fist. Her enraged snarls beginning even before he could right himselfagain.
“You don’t get to talk! Youdon’t even get to breathe!”
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The beginning of this story, covering the events leading to their first match and the forming of the Golden Lovers (2006 - 2008)
The Golden Lovers’ adventures in DDT (2009 - 2010)
Their first foray into NJPW, the beginning of the end, and Budokan (2011 - 2012)
The end of their tag team, and Kenny’s last match in DDT (2013-2014)
Kenny joins the Bullet Club and breaks Kota’s heart (2015)
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When you try to get into a fanfic but your notp in it.
I totally agree. Everybody going straight to sambucky right after honestly pissed me off. Like ship whatever you want and all, but don’t compare them.
ok so i'll just say it: i don't like that everyone just replaced stevebucky for sambucky after endgame and feel now entitled to judge the few remaining shippers. like i get it, the ending canon gave us was awful and i will never forget about it but those pairings don't have the same energy AT ALL. i am not saying you can't ship them, go ahead, but everyone just keeps going like "sambucky is superior!! stucky sucked anyways lol" and like.... mmmm... no. you were literally shipping them yesterday, karen, wtf.
i honestly like sam but what bucky had with steve will always be incomparable to anything else. they grew up together, know everything there's to know about each other and long to be together, even if it's only as friends. and they keep finding the other across space and time, first in a 70 years old gap, then in the run, then one of them needs to heal, then he dies. but they always come back. bucky always goes back to steve because he ultimately loves him and before engame, steve used to love him too. he would love him so much that it would influence him twice, once when he took down an entire criminal organization and then again when he opposed to 117 countries to do what he felt right. he didn't do it for bucky, but even implying that he didn't play a BIG role at the moment steve took those decisions is just unrealistic. their plots were driven by each other's, every little thing they did related to their brooklyn days when things were different. steve's whole Thing is based entirely on the life he experienced next to bucky. their bond is UNBREAKABLE, endgame can suck it. i can literally name like five straight couple with direct parallels to stevebucky key moments and that's why they, in the core, were written to be together. as buddies.
and i won't sit here and make a list of why you shouldn't ship sambucky or diss on them because that's not my point. y'all forgotten about stevebucky! what really drew everyone to them and how passionate we all felt towards them! im lowkey drifting away from the mcu too, which is cool you know, but i refuse to replace a ship that mattered so much to me just because half of the stucky fandom did and have also decided that now bucky and steve are problematic and sambucky is interracial!!!1!
TL;DR: sambucky is nice but if you gonna ship them don't do it in spite or resentment against stucky, that's just petty, and especially if you're only doing it to look fake woke and poke fun of the same fanbase you were in like ten days ago