Three years after returning from military service to discover his fiancรฉe was pregnant with another manโs child, Katsuki Bakugou has dedicated his life to leading one of Japanโs elite private security firms, refusing to risk his heart again. But when his daily interactions with the companyโs client relations specialist, {y/n}, slowly evolve into genuine friendship, he begins wondering if trusting someone again is worth the fear. Sometimes the strongest relationships arenโt built through grand gesturesโtheyโre built through quiet conversations, consistency, and the courage to try one more time.
Y/n is an honorably discharged U.S. soldier. After her final deployment, the government makes her an offer that isnโt really a choice: they can no longer send her overseas, so they place her in Miami under an unofficial arrangement with the young heir of a powerful Russian-American crime family. Officially, she is his personal security and handler. Unofficially, she is a deniable asset. Jack Volkov is in his early twenties โ already feared, already sadistic, and already unstable beneath a polished surface. He is aggressive, possessive, psycho, and a known playboy who treats women as temporary entertainment. He is deeply invested in the image that he is the most dangerous person in any room. When the government drops a highly trained soldier into his life without his full consent, he reacts with open hostility. He doesnโt want her. He doesnโt trust her. And more than anything, he resents the implication that he needs watching โ or that someone else might be capable of matching or exceeding him. But the longer sheโs near him, the more the dynamic shifts. Jack is drawn to Y/n not because she is soft or good, but because he begins to suspect she is something darker and more controlled than he is. Another monster. Possibly a worse one. The playboy charm he usually weaponizes starts cracking around her, replaced by something far more aggressive and obsessive. The arrangement forces constant proximity. Miami heat, late nights, violence, and the slow, ugly realization that the government may have paired two people who should never have been left alone together. Tone is dark, aggressive, and slow-burning. Jack is sadistic, psycho, and a playboy. Y/n is the trained, disciplined variable he cannot predict or fully dominate โ and that is exactly what pulls him in.
You have spent your entire life standing half a step behind your twin sister Ellie. Even though you were born only minutes apart, your family always treated her like the future of the householdโbeautiful, charming, delicate enough to protect, while you were expected to adapt, endure, and quietly carry whatever burdens were inconvenient for everyone else. It never mattered that you were sharper, calmer under pressure, or the one constantly cleaning up the familyโs disasters behind the scenes. Your parents built their entire social standing around her. So when her arranged engagement finally becomes official, everything should have gone perfectly.
When Agent Fowler announces his retirement from active command, the Autobots are stunned to learn that his replacement isnโt another government officialโbut his niece, Y/N, a former Texas Ranger with a reputation for calm authority and zero tolerance for chaos. Newly appointed as the head of Autobotโhuman operations, Y/N steps into a role few humans have ever held: commanding alongside Cybertronian warriors.
Y/N's been working for the NCIS now for 2 years, she get along with everyone & they made her feel welcome especially considering y/n moved to America from Canada only a month before she started working for NCIS...Y/N and the team are currently at Fort Carson, which is a military base in Colorado after a lead on a recent case. Unfortunately,they're refusing to cooperate, a staff sergeant and a corprol start to shut up/interupt/dismissing some of the team..and that all it took for y/n's military mode to switch on. Y/N is a military captain that works for NCIS when not needing to be a the Pentagon. The team could tell y/n was just kind and innocent, but they had never seen y/n in military mode. The team didn't even know y/n is a Captain or a military persevere. On y/n's files (that nobody paid close attention to) it was hidden from NCIS that y/n is a current Captain. Y/N born in America, family moved to Canada, but y/n has always been a Military Captain for the United States.
Y/N's been working for the BAU now for 2 years, she get along with everyone & they made her feel welcome especially considering y/n moved to America from Canada only a month before she started working for the FBI...Y/N and the team are currently at Fort Carson, which is a military base in colorado after a lead on a recently unsub. Unfortunately,they're refusing to cooperate, a staff sergeant and a corprol start to shut up/interupt/dismissing (and kinda hating) on the team..and that all it took for y/n's military mode to switch on. Y/N is a military captain that works for BAU when not needing to be a the Pentagon. The team could tell y/n was just kind and innocent, but they had never seen y/n in military mode. The team doesn't know y/n is a Captain or a military persevere. Y/N born in America, family moved to Canada, but y/n has always been a Military Captain for the United States. Hotch and Y/N are husband and wife. Hotch is the only one who knows that y/n is a Captain, he also knows when to listen to y/n when she's in military mode. y/n is the cuddly type with Hotch, they both steal each other's food/drinks, y/n asks for kisses instead of taking them (only because of childhood trauma).
Anna Greene has spent fifteen years loving the same manโand almost as long learning how to survive him. Now thirty-three and separated from a husband she still canโt quite let go of, Anna has gotten very good at holding everything together: her salon, her family, her little New Orleans house, and the increasingly dangerous consequences of Chrisโs addiction. Then Jon Mercer walks into her salon needing a haircut. Heโs older, scarred, infuriatingly quiet, and gives suspiciously vague answers about what he does for a living. Anna asks too many questions. Jon answers approximately three of them. He isnโt supposed to become her friend. She definitely isnโt supposed to start noticing his hands. And Jonโwho knows better than to want a married womanโcertainly isnโt supposed to fall first. But the more time they spend together, the harder it becomes to ignore whatโs growing between them. Jon wonโt ask Anna to leave her husband. He wonโt rescue her. He wonโt even tell her how long heโs been waiting. Because this isnโt a story about choosing between two men. Itโs about what happens when a woman whoโs spent her entire life saving everyone else finally realizes she might be worth saving, too. A gritty, Southern Gothic slow-burn romance about addiction, marriage, grief, friendship, unbearable sexual tension, and the terrifying intimacy of being truly seen.
It was the middle of work when y/n got a message. When y/n read it she was in disbelief, then another text came telling her to come outside. Y/N simply said โOh My Godโ then she grabbed her phone and ran down the stairs, not even bothering with the elevator. The team was confused so they watched what she was doing from the window in the bullpen. They saw her run across the parking lot to a man standing in a Navy uniform. She jumped up and hugged him. The team remained confused because they thought y/n wasnโt married. When they went down to the parking lot to see who it was, they found out that it was y/nโs father who had come back from a 23 month deployment.
Y/N was enjoying the day with Gibbs, she often spent her afternoons with Gibbs because they had a very close bond. Truth was that the bond wasnโt just friendship, it was a bit deeper, almost like love. Then there was a knock and y/n got confused, she wasnโt expecting anyone but Gibbs and Gibbs was already. When y/n got up and went to the door, she saw the sight she never wanted to seeโฆ y/n saw a man in uniform, holding a 2 folded flags and 2 sets of dog tags. Y/Nโs parents had been killed during deploymentโฆY/Nโs mother was murdered by a lower ranked medic. And y/nโs father was murdered by the Lieutenant of the Marine Corps. Y/N fell to her knees, clutching the flags to her chest, and held the dog tags in her hands, til her knuckles turned white, she was crying. It broke y/n, she had already lost her two brothers and only sister to the military.
The team knew that y/n wouldnโt be there for the celebration but still went because y/nโs parents had invited them. Y/N hadnโt been home or at work in 8 months because she was out on deployment. Y/N is a E-6 Petty Officer First Class for Navy SEALs. Though y/n works for NCIS she also holds her position in the Navy SEALs. Vance and the team was alright with it, so she was allowed to be apart of NCIS and Navy SEALs. The celebration was going great, Y/Nโs parents Robert and Rosalina, are very kind. Y/Nโs brothers and sisters (y/n has older 7 siblings) Maxwell, Alex, and Kara the triplets, Jacob, Kaylee and Clara (not sisters by blood, married into the family) and Camren. At first when they heard the door they thought someone was breaking in but Y/N walks through the door, exhausted, in uniform, and happy to be home. >Robert was a lieutenant in the Marine Corps- 30 years of service. Rosalina was the Cheif Medic for the Army- 25 years of service. Clara a Coast Guard E-4 Petty Officer Third Class- 19 years of service. Camren a E-3 Seaman for the Navy- 17 years of service. Y/N a high ranking officer for the Navy SEALs with only 10 years of service, going on 11. Jacob a farmer, 6 years in military service for the Air Force. Maxwell a Welder, not in any military service. Alex a teacher, not in any military service. Kara a surgeon, not military service, but surgeon for 5 years. Kaylee is a Firefighter, no military service. Kaylee married to Jacob- 2 kids, Macy (8) and Josh (7). Clara and Maxwell are married with three kids- Mayla (5), Jared (6), and Kiva (9). <
After mysteriously waking in the post-apocalyptic world of Death Stranding, {y/n} must navigate a terrifying world filled with BTs, Timefall, and mysteries she cannot begin to understand. Her arrival, however, catches the attention of Clifford Ungerโa man trapped between life and death who becomes convinced she is his long-dead wife, Lisa. As Cliff becomes increasingly protective of her and Higgs takes an unsettling interest in the anomaly she represents, {y/n} finds herself caught between ghosts, terrorists, and a world where death is far more complicated than it should be.
From the day you could walk, every part of your life belonged to the Hybrid Military Program. They called it an achievement in science. A revolution in modern warfare. The perfect balance between human intelligence and animal instinctโฆ now you are struggling in the grocery store
In a high-pressure emergency room, Dr. Jack Abbotโan experienced physician with a controlled exterior and lingering PTSD from his military pastโcrosses paths with Emilie Carter, a new ER nurse who keeps her distance after surviving a deeply abusive marriage. Both are skilled, composed, and determined to bury their pain in long shifts and relentless work.
The greatest challenge and most uncertain projection involves the integration of the "soft" legacy with the "hard" one. This would mean slowly, cautiously, allowing the capacity for empathy and connectionโinherited from the ghost of your mother and nurtured by your relationship with Knoxโto inform your life more directly. It might mean permitting one or two carefully vetted individuals past the outermost rings of your defenses. It would be a terrifying risk, a deliberate vulnerability undertaken only if a level of security and self-trust is achieved that currently seems out of reach. It is the path toward becoming a more whole person, rather than just a highly functional system.
Y/N was asleep in the swing, she had her two daughters asleep with her. She had just fallen asleep, after over 36 hours, y/n had finally got both of her daughters asleep. It was one would fall asleep and the other would cry and be awake. So y/n got them both fed (Willow with a bottle, Clover only eats if breastfed) and then they both fell asleep, so did y/n. Y/N used to work for NCIS and is still great friends with all of her team members. But she left so she could focus on her role in the Navy SEALs and her family. But she still invites her team over for any celebration or dinner that her family has, usually the team comes if the have time. Y/Nโs family is big, they all live on the same street, but the family celebrations are always at Alex and Millessaโs house. Today was just another one of those days. }~ All y/nโs brothers are older, taller, should be stronger, have more experience, and even with their jobs, all of them, Jayden, Max, Brandon, Jacob, Mark, and Camern, are all scared of y/n. Y/N still out ranks all of them in the Military. Camern is part of the Navy, Mark is part of the Army, Jacob and Brandon are apart of the Marines. Max is a stay at home dad with his children, usually works on the farm, his wife, Kaylee is a paramedic. Jayden is a Navy Seal. Clara is a Coast Guard. Alex (y/nโs dad) was a Marine-served 30 years. Millessa (y/nโs mother) was an Army Medic-served 25 years. Y/N served a couple years in both the Marines and Navy SEALS, still serving in SEALs. Jacob has three kids, Micheal(7), Mayla(5), and Marcy(5)- wife is Clara. Max has four kids, Hailey(8), Layla(7), Rosie(6), and Leo (9)- wife is Kaylee. Y/N has two daughters Willow (1) and Clover (4 months old)- not married. (Willow and Clover donโt fall asleep unless they are in the arms of y/n. Nobody has been able to get them to quiet down if Y/N isnโt around. Except Alex)}~ >In the living room, there is a shadow box, in the shadow box are the patches, Medals, Ribbons, a folded American flag (from Y/Nโs older sister passing on duty), SEAL tridents, and more ranging from the Navy, to Marine Corps, to Army, to Navy SEALS. All from Alex, Millessa, Jacob, Camern, Mark, Brandon, Jayden, and Y/Nโs service. -Max is a E-4 Corporal for Marines. Millessa is a E-5 Sergeant Medic for the Army. Jacob is a E-1 Private in the Marines. Camern is a E-3 Seaman for the Navy. Mark is a E-4 Specialist for the Army. Brandon is a E-3 Lance Corporal in the Marines. Jayden is a E-5 Petty Officer Second Class for Navy SEALS. Y/N is a E-8 Senior Chief Petty Officer for the Navy SEALS, and was just a E-2 Private First Class for the Marines.<
Even before the world fell she survived on her own. The only thing different now is the monsters in the night. Shes been alone so long acting as a guy in layered cloths. Lets see if when she runs into people and they want her to stay if she will or if she'll just keep going.
Gibbs had arrived early, he let himself in, and waited for the Blackwood family to get back. Just from being inside, the house was warm and kind, but held a since of history in it. He decided to explore a little, finding a coffee pot, still hot, with a propped up note next it saying โhey boss, you probably arrived early so I left the coffee on. Make your at home weโll be back as soon as possible.- y/nโ. So Gibbs got some coffee but when he was walking around, he saw pictures on the walls, and unique things he had seen before, military stars, stripes, ribbons, and two folded flags (one for y/nโs twin sister, and one for y/nโs grandfather). Just from looking at the pictures, he could tell that y/n had hid a lot of secrets that nobody seemed to realize she had. Y/N served in two branches of the military, Marines and Navy SEALs, she was high ranked in the SEALs. When Gibbs kept looking, he decided to look through a picture book that was on the table. It had baby pictures of Amy, Marcus, and Y/N. Pictures of different ages and awards. It had pictures of Amyโs first deployment with the Coast Guards, Marcusโs first deployment with the Marines, and y/nโs first deployment with the SEALs. It had marriage photos, of Marcus and Lily. And many more pictures from each kid in official dress for their branch and rank.