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“I win again, Branwen.”
Blake shot her weapon, and soon her ears fluttered quickly to the unfamiliar feeling of the harsh breeze. She stepped back when she saw where she was, she was in Vacuo, this wasn’t right. When she turned around, the Branwen she knew was nothing like hers.
Yang watched her girlfriend point her weapon at the other version of herself, “How did you get here?”
“What do you think?”
“...Dust.”
“See? We’re the same, no need for questions we already know. I was going to reverse what happened but,” turning her head around, “There are a few things I want to try with this one.”
/// Or Yang trying to survive her girlfriend, Blake, and the other Blake that came from alternate reality.
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- Part 1 of Love Meets Hate
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05 May 2025
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At the end of the fucking world, Beatrice is beautiful.
Not in that pseudo-glamorous way vampires always are when they’re the subject of movies and television shows, or the gothic elegance of how they’re described in books, but in a simple, effortless way that makes Ava’s heartbeat feel at home a little too close to the surface of her chest. To Ava, the entire apocalypse is a vivid, vibrant neon, from the city's kaleidoscopic street signs to the complicated collision of elements that spark inside of her body whenever Beatrice runs her tongue over the edge of a fang, or laughs at one of her stupid jokes, or brings her lips to the delicate skin of Ava's wrist and drinks.
If you want my blood this badly, Beatrice, Ava says with a smirk, you can earn it.
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11 Apr 2024
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In another life, Beacon never falls and Blake is a little less haunted.
She doesn't even know when it starts, to be honest; the attraction seems to always just be there, like a possession she's owned forever with a long-faded label, the maker's mark now washed out and forgotten. Let me take you out, Yang says with a smile. Another day and it's Blake, fingers knotted in Yang's hair, sighing against her mouth.
Sun never stood a chance, and the thought doesn't bother him at all.
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11 Apr 2024
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It’s been a year but Yang knows her, knows what her body means in the way it moves, knows every tilt of her mouth, every blink, every beat of her heart, every chamber of it, the way it bruises and bleeds and bumps against her chest. I’ve lived there, Yang thinks of telling her, please let me leave. But Blake is silent and doesn’t move.
The truth is easy for Yang to see until it isn't. I love you, Blake says. It's the only reason I've ever done anything.
There you go, Yang says, lying again.
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11 Apr 2024
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She’s staring at Blake like she’s giving up, like she loves her, like she’s handing her that sky. Take this, she’s saying, this clap of thunder, this wildfire waiting to start. Take this like it’s my heart.
Blake runs away, and only after realizes what she's been running to. I've seen enough destruction, Yang says. Sometimes it's nice just to watch the flowers bloom.
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11 Apr 2024
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It starts at a party on a Friday night, as things in college ordinarily do. She's drunk with a loose grip around a series of bad habits. One of them takes her to bed, and then does it again, and again, and again. They've all seen the movies. Yang should've interpreted them as warning signs.
I don't want to talk about love, Blake says.
Well, Yang answers, I don't want to feel it.
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11 Apr 2024
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It's always supposed to be simpler than it is: a contract, a kill, a payment. Maybe the world's a little safer; maybe the vampires retain their peace just a little longer. That's what used to count as a good day.
But now Yang steps too close, smells like salt and rosewood, looks like the kind of sex that ends with Blake’s fangs sinking into the side of her neck, blood filling up her mouth. Let’s open the windows to the rain, she thinks of saying. Let’s flood the room, let’s turn down the lights.
Let me see you in the dark.
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11 Apr 2024
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She kisses Yang back just as furiously, teeth biting on her bottom lip hard enough to hurt, and when they part her swollen lip is the only thing Blake’s able to comprehend - how pretty Yang looks without her cocky smile, when her mouth is relegated to other things and can’t fucking speak. How pretty she looks when she’s so close Blake can barely see the details, cataloging the sun setting against a lavender sky and the tip of her tongue slipping out to wet her lips. Oh, but that’s later; they’ll deny this, first. It’s just better for business.
What, Yang says, do I look like I'm made of money?
Yes, Blake thinks of saying. Yes, you kind of do. Like the world owes you just for living.
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11 Apr 2024
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Blake Belladonna looks exactly like the music she plays: heavy beats and low bass lines and a voice that sounds like a caution sign. Yang rolls the ball of her tongue piercing against the roof of her mouth, watches Blake sing with her lips against the microphone, a calling, a turning point. Blake falls into her arms with a laugh; Yang's more pop-punk but now she's getting into love.
I figured out what I believe in, Yang says.
Music? Blake asks.
You.
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11 Apr 2024
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Blake looks at her and swears she can see the particles of the universe settling, can see them laid out and miraculous like a map of fates for gods, can see the stars all spinning at her from underneath a sky that could very well be a dark, murky ocean. The truth is that it's been six years of too much fear and not enough skin. This is the anatomy of breaking down.
Date me, Yang says, which seems like a great idea at the time.
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11 Apr 2024
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Yang's fourteen the first time she meets her soulmate, but not according to the color of her eyes. Her heart, though - her heart's a different story. Blake turns her back on fate, wants to believe there's a love that belongs to her. It's one more thing they don't talk about.
I swear, Yang says, I swear it should've been you.
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11 Apr 2024
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Your perfect match, the test results read, and Blake's name imprints in its bold, black type against the backs of her eyelids. Honestly, neither of them are even remotely surprised. It's been two years. An official excuse doesn't make it any easier, until it does.
Do you know what this means? Blake asks.
Yeah, Yang says. I'm so in love with you that even a fucking machine can tell. Ugh.
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11 Apr 2024
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They’re twenty when Blake breaks up with her; they’re twenty-one when Blake comes back. And, well, Yang’s method of dealing with that isn’t really conventional, even if it works.
If you keep fucking me like this, Blake says, I won’t run away again, because I won’t even be able to walk.
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11 Apr 2024
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listen: there's a hell of a good universe next door; let's go. by explosivesky
Fandoms: RWBY
27 Feb 2019
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Sometimes they grow up together; sometimes they don't. Yang takes the dare, knocks into a girl at a club and finds the rest of her life; Blake stumbles onto the back of her motorcycle, misses death by minutes. They're inevitable and they like to prove it.
a collection of one-shots from my tumblr.
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11 Apr 2024
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Maybe she's tired of the limitations of wealth, the grandeur, the opulence. Maybe she's tired of seeing the same people day in and day out whose only substance is composed of the drugs they snort. But without that, there's only Yang - Yang who smirks at her like there's a joke she's never in on, who shows up in spaces she doesn't belong and makes them want her.
Belladonna, Yang says, her eyes glittering as if opalescent. I’ve been bored.
Nobody ever talks back to rich kids, and Blake loves it a little more than she dares to admit. That doesn’t last. It never does.
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11 Apr 2024
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Yang's untouchable; Blake's anything but. The first time they meet can't be the first at all, not with Yang lighting up every billboard on the Sunset Strip and Blake's voice crooning through the radio regardless of the station, not when every motion of Yang's is achingly familiar and every turn of Blake's mouth leads like a staircase. It's Hollywood, and Yang's spent years learning how to get exactly what wants her - Blake's spent years running from it.
If I could, Blake says, I'd kiss you right now.
If I could, Yang says, I'd let you.
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11 Apr 2024
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Bounty hunting's a tough career to make a living out of - or it has been, until now, when their hauler pulls in the wreckage of an escape pod containing a well-known, high-ranking White Fang member. Blake's got a heavy price on her head, but it's nothing in comparison to the people she could lead them to.
Millions of stars out there, Adam used to tell her, and they all belong to someone. Just like you do.
Not anymore.
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11 Apr 2024
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The worst part of the Hunger Games, she’s starting to understand, aren’t the Games themselves. That’s going to awaken their basic survival instincts, trigger their desperation for life - primal, unhindered urges. No, no, the worst part of the Games is now, these few days before, when they’re taken care of so exquisitely, when shiny, beautiful things are dangled in front of them and cruelly ripped away.
If any one of us deserves to live, Blake says quietly, it should be you.
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11 Apr 2024
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I’ll never leave you, even if it’s me. Yang makes a promise in spite of fate; fate makes her regret it.
Eight teenagers run away from home, bound by a duty to return for a ritual in which one of their lives will be traded for the rest of the world’s peace. At least, that’s what they’ve been led to believe since birth: Be strong, be smart, and be alone. If you are to die, it is an honor.
Or maybe it’s a lie.
Eight teenagers run away from home, and upon returning nine years later, they’ve broken a few too many rules to go quietly.
(Blake thought she was seeing things, then. Thought she loved a girl so much she made her a god, mythologized her, created a folktale so gorgeous and enormous it’d surpass the one they actually lived in. Now she knows she wasn’t.)
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11 Apr 2024
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She’s strangely aware of her lifelines - do they mean anything to you, she wants to ask, does my life mean anything to you now and if it doesn’t, will my death - she leans in, their noses brushing, Blake’s breathing as if she needs to, Yang isn’t and she does; teach me about magic, teach me about memory, tell me how I knew you before I knew myself--
What would you do if I kissed you? Yang asks. You're a goddess. Is that even possible, or would the world end?
Well, Blake says, let's find out.
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Bookmarked by EmberBombshell
11 Apr 2024