ms_scarlet
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Something Unsaid (something worthwhile) by ms_scarlet for flashindie
Fandoms: Good Girls (TV)
05 Sep 2021
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"You're embarrassed," Beth blurts.
Rio makes a sound that's part grunt, part snort. But not, she notes, outright denial.
"You are," she says, understanding dawning. "You had to call me for help, and you hate it, don't you?"
"And you just fell your ass all the way down a hill ‘coz you're too spiteful to make sure you don't already have everythin' you need, so how 'bout we call it even, yeah?"
She’s quiet for a moment, the steady, monotonous rhythm of the rain almost like static, enveloping them in white noise. His body moves under her hands, solid and so, so warm.
"I wasn't spiteful," Beth mutters.
Now the sound he makes is definitely a snort, closer to a laugh.
"Not tonight," she says, the admission prim. As close to an acknowledgment that maybe he has a point as she's willing to go.
This time he all the way laughs, and Beth can’t help the way her lips twitch in response, so she ducks her head to the side to hide it from him.
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"I robbed a grocery store."
As soon as she says it, Beth's mouth snaps shut. Her fingers curl around the edge of the bartop, her nails digging into the varnish in an attempt to stop herself from clasping her hands over her mouth and trying to stuff the words back in because that'll only make it worse.
Stupid, stupid, stupid.
She can't go around telling strangers she robbed a grocery store.
His eyebrows shoot up. "That right?"
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prompt: what if the night
beforeafter the robbery beth is just feeling reckless and out of control and can't sleep and she goes out to the bar and meets him and they hook up and she gets off on the total anonymity because she's about to do this other thing she can never claim credit for either and nobody would ever believe she's done these two insane things -
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There’s a pause like a held breath, and then the cellist lets out a long, deep note. The rest of the quartet joins in with a slow, soft melody Beth doesn’t recognize, but the romance of it’s almost enough to make her heart swell and ache.
Or maybe it does as she looks to Rio, her eyes wide, disbelieving, but that’s only because of the irony. He feels it, too; she’s pretty sure. She can tell from the wry twist to the smile that curls up the corner of his mouth.
But even still, when he extends a hand to her, something in Beth flutters and takes flight.
Stupid. She’s so stupid.
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Then Rio's moving, leaning across the console into her space, those long, strong fingers cupping the back of her neck. Independent of intent or any kind of rational thought, driven by some self-destructive instinct she'd never known she possessed before she met him, Beth's hands come up. Her fingers curl around the collar of his jacket, and she pulls herself the rest of the way into him, her body going rogue before any scraps of good sense she may still have lying around can dust themselves off and put a stop to this.
"It's for the alibi, yeah? Don't read into it."
She balks, wordless inquiry building on her tongue. But then Rio's mouth's on hers—his hesitation only perceptible if she were cataloging every move, every breath, every twitch, and sigh (and she's not, she's not she's not)—before she can do more than breathe in his air.
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it's strange what desire will make foolish people do by ms_scarlet
Fandom: Good Girls (TV)
27 Feb 2020
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You should come see us. We play at the Hideout on Tuesdays.
She doesn’t plan to take him up on it. Doesn’t pencil Eddie’s gig into her day planner, or anything, squished between cheer practice and her English paper that’s due next week.
It just sort of happens.
[or: three times Chrissy takes Eddie up on his invitation, and one time she doesn't.]
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01 Aug 2022
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Annie and Greg go to Prom - - Beth and Rio are chaperones.
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What mattered was it had been two months now, and she’d been distracted anyway. Taking over Dean’s - - friend’s - - business and establishing it in their name instead.
What mattered was getting Boland Bubbles operational. What mattered was making sure this worked.
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Set two months after Drive You Mad, Beth tries to launch Boland Bubbles. No one makes it easy.
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- Part 2 of Warm in the Fire of Us
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“What Number Three wants is only what she can’t have. It’s her nature, I’m afraid. She’s a vain and greedy little creature. We’d do best not to encourage these flights of fancy with her, for she will get one thing and only want for the next.”
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Allison wants and wants and wants.
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On the last night before they separate for winter break, Beth's FWB relationship with Rio remains undefined.
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- Part 6 of stay gold: prompts