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MISFIRES

a rambunctious duo in salt has stuck their nose where they shouldn't and now you can all reap the rewards! this is a MISFIRES meme. post a header for your character, and receive accidental texts from your local saltburntian guests. nudes, nasties, confessions of a certain persuasion? things you'd otherwise never write or send? they're all on the table. (meme threads aren't game canon, but they're not not game canon either, right)

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[haggle]

( amateur hour: it's only now, panting and blotchy-faced from exertion, she realizes he's called forfeit. dealt her the missing card she needed for a royal flush, staring face-up at her: embry, ash. call it extortion, blackmail, whatever the fuck — ani just calls it jackpot. the right price to buy her freedom. the ticket to a clean getaway from the natural disaster that is embry moore's concept of love and consideration and generosity. realization skitters behind her eyes, overlapping the bright, burning match of hatred in her pupils.

he's everything she said he was. broken, pathetic — crawling to her like a vulture who's decided he wants mercy now that it's his own death he's circling, like he wasn't picking apart every entrail of insecurity that lives inside of her just seconds ago. setting her thumbs right to the beating beast of his carotid isn't satisfying, too much like putting down a sick animal who's given up the fight — much as she wants to bear down harder, split her knuckles open on his pearly, polished, public office teeth. make his outward face match his rotten insides.

her empty laugh grinds like hollow glass, because — )

God. You're perfect for each other. Go rot in hell together, you fucking monsters.

( ani doesn't have to do the heavy lifting for them — one day, they'll eat each other alive. two starved cannibals with bottomless hunger, a line of bodies stacked behind them. it's not ani acting like she deserves better; it's embry acting like he doesn't already have exactly what he deserves, his brother's first and loyal victim, too ruined to recognize it.

rearranging her grip, she latches onto the hinge of his jaw. unflinching through the bile churning in her throat, the sweet-sick smell of copper, the splatter of blood seeping wet heat into her nightgown. firm pressure wrenches his head down to the crime scene he's made of her body, forcing his eyes to investigate every violent detail. every line crossed. )

You did this. Take a good look, asshole. You still think you're better than me? You still think you're good for anything? Yeah right.

( don't make me hurt you. her fault in his twisted brain, even now. a flare of her nostrils, bullish. embry's hands palm clammy skin, slick-sweat beads of perspiration clumping wild strands of hair to one cheek. )

I want what I always wanted. For you to leave me the fuck alone. How many times do I have to tell you?

( sharper-voiced, a stab wound in the same wound, so the message will stick. )

Here's what's gonna happen. Okay? You're gonna go to Ash. You're gonna forget I exist. You come for me or Jake again, you even breathe in our fucking direction, you can kiss Ash's ass goodbye. I took everything from you? Think again, motherfucker. Got it now? Do you fucking understand me?