last prompt of the year :)

real hot girl shit

"Don't forget to keep her tethered when you're not playing with her." Aleksander rolls his eyes, smiling to where Zoya's little pet is tied up, her brown eyes wide. Fearful? He hopes so. "I know, Zoya. Don't worry. Have a good trip; I'll take good care of your pup for you."

She still hasn’t told them about the tether. Worries if they know, they’ll look twice at the flushes creeping over her cheeks in the middle of boring meetings. The way she shifts and presses her legs together, coughs to hide whimpers; the sounds that slip under her door at night.

One moment she was on the cusp of sleep, and the next she was in Aleskander's room. Alina suffered through his presence enough during the day as half of the long-awaited shadow and sun saint duo. She snorted. Two teens who couldn't stand each other saving Ravka? Fat chance.

Alina should tell her friends about the tether and confess everything Aleksander whispers to her in the dark. But the truth is that he is right – there are no others like them. And Alina cannot bear the idea of losing her connection to the one person who understands her best.

a meteor shower hits their spacecraft while they're doing exterior maintenance :( both alina and aleksander can't get back in time if one of them has to drag the injured other through the wind and debris :( someone has to cut their tether line if they want to reach the airlock :(

Alina’s last day of freedom does not end the way she expects it to. There are no battles, no clash of steel on steel. The ground does not freeze over, fruits do not wither on their trees. Her parents spend the whole day in their room, her mother weeping, her father cursing. 1/

The sun is rising and his little sun summoner is on her feet. She almost jumps around the Little Palace like a bunny. “Where does this energy come from?” mutters one of his Heartrenders as Alina beats the boys a few years older than her on Botkin training.

“It remains for us to ask the Tsaritsa to pray for us, protect us from the wrath of the Tsar and the harsh winter.” The rest of the women in the market agree with the blacksmith's wife. Ana Kuya sighs heavily: “But who will pray for the Sun Saint herself?”

"You're with him! How could you, Alina?" "Don't talk to me like that, Mal! I waited for you, years of hoping that one day you'd see me the way I wanted you to, rather than as just Sticks. But I got sick of waiting." "I see you now." "No, you don't, not really. But Sasha does."

Centuries. He's waited for her for centuries. And now she's here. Starved and frightened, nothing like the sunbeam he met so long ago. He can see it though, smothered behind clouds of loneliness. But in time, those clouds will dissolve. And then, she'll know him again.

Just a father consoling his widowed daughter :)

Genya meets her best friend’s boyfriends

Part 2: Ivan POV He still needs a vacation

Origin: Middle English suster, from Old English sweostor, from Proto-Germanic swistarō, from Proto-Indo-European swésōr — meaning “she who shares your blood, and maybe your fate.” (2)

Don’t give me that look #ocart

Role-reversal AU where Aleksander is the Sun Summoner General and Alina is the newly discovered Shadow Summoner Alina grows up in the Little Palace

"I'm waiting," she says nervously. Her new boyfriend frowns, "waiting for what, Alinochka?" "Waiting to have sex until ... until marriage." This part always ends up driving boys away. But Aleksander only beams, "why didn't you say earlier, baby. We'll go to the courthouse today."

pfp v user. Haven’t done one of these in a while.