to get attention from a grown up
Series Metadata
Listing Series
-
Tags
Summary
The flap of an inky Burberry trench coat. An authoritative voice, lightly accented and full of power even when kept low for secrets sake, his back to her. A briefcase so neatly made it had to be bespoke. The tall bob of the top of just criminally beautiful hair.
Puzzle pieces. Alina’s favorite. Especially when she was given the chance to assemble them into a whole.
Series
- Part 1 of to get attention from a grown up
-
Tags
Summary
What Aleksander needed, was to remind her exactly how dangerous a game she was playing. He had been lax, he now knew - lulled into complacency for a long moment, believing that her claws would sheath once she knew he had surrendered all of his good sense to be with her. His little Alinochka’s actions today had informed him that she needed a firm hand and a reminder of what their ‘daliances’ entailed.
About what was his. At what others weren't allowed to touch.
Series
- Part 2 of to get attention from a grown up
-
Tags
Summary
"Just a shot. That’s all I’m asking. Give him one, for me."
"Because you love him?"
Her small hand curls a little tighter on the arm of his leather jacket. "Yeah, Kaz. Yes. Because I love him. And I don't think that's ever going to change."
Series
- Part 3 of to get attention from a grown up
-
Tags
Summary
As much as he knew that birthday cake ice cream was her favorite, birthday cake sandwiches were a new one for him, two medium colorful cookies bookending thick french vanilla and sprinkles, but when it drips through her fingers and lands on her thigh Aleksander forgets any novelty. He immediately zeroes in on the droplet instead, eyes always on the prize as had served him so well this far in his life. She swipes it off with a finger, sucking on it, and you know what?
He had more than enough room for dessert.
Series
- Part 4 of to get attention from a grown up
-
a million people in a crowded room by secretsarenotforfree
Fandoms: Shadow and Bone (TV)
10 Jul 2021
Tags
Summary
The table where Alina, having joined Nina in a collar necked black number that laced up her bare back, studiously flicks her attention somewhere else, pulls her hair over her shoulder and actually preens in front of Nina’s fucking eyes. And holy fuck, she’d known Aleksander was hot and sweet for her friend, but it was one thing to know that and another to see them doing a terrible job at not eye fucking each other in public if one knew where to look.
Jesper leans into her side, looking right with her. “Might wanna close that mouth, love. Going to catch flies.”
Series
- Part 5 of to get attention from a grown up
-
this godforsaken mess that you made me by secretsarenotforfree
Fandoms: Shadow and Bone (TV)
24 Jul 2021
Tags
Summary
She has been through far worse than this. There is a bittersweet strength one gains when they were orphaned. When the only thing they could depend on was ripped so swiftly and cruelly away, when home after home stole away any innocence that was left and life reminded you it was just as soon chew you up and spit you out if you gave it the chance. There had always been something burning bright in her breast, a rioting sun of strength that she’d spun from all of Alina’s experiences.
He was but a man.
He could say what he wished.
He would get nothing from her.
Series
- Part 6 of to get attention from a grown up
-
a lifetime of laughter, at the expense by secretsarenotforfree
Fandoms: Shadow and Bone (TV)
05 Nov 2021
Tags
Summary
From the other side of the church, Aleksander feels his reason for living undone and knit anew, rocked to his soul and back again, good intentions mixing with the bad and never to be untangled again.
This must be a dream. Because there is no deity in the universe that would allow an angel like her to come towards him, and yet here she is. Dimpling like there was no one else in the room, in the world maybe, and he was just coming to make sure she ate her dinner.
Series
- Part 7 of to get attention from a grown up