Plastic Hearts - Prologue

plastic hearts - prologue

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a/n : this is my first ever fanfiction that i’ve written on tumblr, so i hope that most of you if not all of you enjoy reading my story. also quick side note if you didn’t know before but during this book (much later) i plan for the main character to have a love interest. based on what you’ll know about the mc, please feel free to share your opinion on who you think her love interest should be.

chapter warning(s) : none so far

prologue : job hunting

song : sunlight by hozier

It was days like today that made it hard to get up, the woman’s body, who was laying in her bed, ached with every breath she took. She was tired, exhausted and if she had it her way she’d go back to sleep, but it seemed that every time she closed her eyes she was plagued with the feeling of terror. Stretching her arms out, she pulled the warm covers off of her just to rest her feet on the stinging cold hardwood. Trying to wake herself up she took a moment, running her palms over her eyes trying her hardest to rub the sleep out of them.

Though she ended up taking more than a moment as she got lost in her thoughts, lost in the feeling of the coldness that enveloped her in a hug. Finally after trial and tribulation, she managed to stand up on her feet. Some how her body caring for itself as she was dressed and ready to go about her day. Stepping out into her hallway, she ended up shutting her front door with her wallet and keys in hand. Double checking that her apartment was in fact locked, she looked down at her watch covered wrist only to see that it was fifteen minutes to two.

Racking her brain she calculated the time in her head, estimating that she should be back home at the latest by six thirty. Tucking her hands in the pockets of her jean jacket, she started her journey of trying to get outside, her feet themselves carrying her down the stairs. Once making her way outside, she started to trek to her destination. She had one objective today and that was to find a job. And with the rate she was going she honestly wouldn’t be able to survive off of the money she had left in her bank account.

By now an hour had passed and she hadn’t had any luck with jobs. Continuing to search the streets of Washington D.C. to find help wanted signs, the corner of her eyes seemed to catch a blur of black. Sharply turning her head, the woman got whiplash as she looked down the street only to see a black suv with tinted windows pointed in her direction entirely. She wanted to get a closer look as she couldn’t see who was in the car but knew someone was as the engine was running.

Trying to not look into it too much, she started to walk again turning her head back to it’s original position only to take a quick glance back at the suv. Though the moment she did, she was filled with surprise as the spot it previously occupied was now vacant. Huffing under her breath, the woman received weird looks as she spoke to herself silently but not as silent as she had though, “it’s nothing Alek, it’s nothing.”

Continuing with her task for the day, (the now named woman) Alek walked down every street of the metropolitan area. With that, her luck had gotten better as she managed to score a couple of interviews on the spot. Though, with every interview she was only told that they would call her in the next couple of days with the news if she got the job or not. And to be honest with how everything has been going lately she’d be surprised if she actually somehow got hired.

Furthering her quest, the sun had now set as it was close to six pm, the city of Washington D.C. busier then it had been before. By now Alek just wanted to get back to her apartment and take a blistering hot shower as her whole body was numb from the frigid cold weather. Trying to get some feeling back in her feet, she started trekking back to her apartment.

About to cross the street, Alek looked towards her right and left to make sure no cars were near by and that it was safe to cross. Looking around it was clear to the naked eye that the street was safe to cross but only to that of the naked eye. For a second she too had thought it was safe until she saw something reflect in the darkness of the night.

As her eyes couldn’t depict what exactly she had seen her feet started to carry her towards the reflective object. Alek had only taken about 3 steps when all of a sudden she seemed to realize that the reflective object wasn’t an object at all but it was actually a car. The black suv that she had seen earlier in the day to be exact. Usually, she wouldn’t be so concerned about the suv but having seen the exact same one more times this week than she really has with any other cars, it bothered her greatly.

Shaking her head, she knew exactly what the source, causing the suv to follow her every move, was. Knowing that it wasn’t going to stop until she put an end to it, she ended up turning around changing her destination to that of a bus stop instead of her apartment. Alek honestly couldn’t believe that it had to result in this, at first when she noticed the black suv she wasn’t at all worried. It was pretty normal to see suvs all around Washington D.C. it was a sight everyone sees everyday.

Though, to have seen the same suv multiple days in a row and to see it almost everywhere she went, irked her in more ways than one. Reaching the bus stop, Alek was fortunate enough to have arrived right as a bus pulled up. As the doors opened, she climbed on in only to see more than a dozen people occupying the seats.

“Where to”, a voice called out causing her to snap her head towards the direction the voice came from. Her eyes stumbled across the face that went with the voice, recognizing them as the bus driver.

Pulling a five dollar bill out from her right back pocket, Alek handed it to the burly looking man. “Virginia”, she said but she could tell that wasn’t enough from the look on that of the man now holding her once five dollar bill. Swallowing hard, she set her shoulders back while looking the driver in the eyes with a look that could only be described as blank. Though it was hard to tell as her eyes were covered by that of a baseball cap but that didn’t matter as she finished her sentence, “Quantico, Virginia”.

Just as she had uttered her sole destination, the driver closed the doors and started driving again. Seeing that almost all of the seats were taken, Alek ended up heading towards the back and taking a seat that was up against the window. As soon as she sat down she closed her eyes, taking a second to just relax and let everything soak in.

It wasn’t that she was feeling overwhelmed it was just the fact that she still wasn’t use to this life. The life of an everyday normal United States citizen, where people have real 9 to 5 jobs and don’t have to worry about the enemy. Overall, it was too much sensory overload for her body, it wasn’t just the change in environment but the people along with it. Going about their day as if everything was fine and dandy, they had families that they could go home to, people that would miss them.

Just thinking about it she got a little jealous, it was an emotion that Alek haven’t experienced that much in her life until she moved to the D.C. area. Trying to shake it out of her body, she opened her eyes and scoped around the bus. Casting her eyes to the left of her she could see that there was a middle aged man who kept tapping his foot on the floor of the bus.

By the looks of it, he had just gotten off work as he was covered in a grey tailored suit with his briefcase resting at his feet. To everyone else he might look well off that of a wealthy man and he probably was. But upon seeing his left ring finger Alek seemed to notice that there was a slight tan line accompanying it. That in and of itself was enough to tell her that he use to probably be wealthy, but all his wealth was taken away in the divorce.

Hence the tailored suit, the leather oxfords obtaining his feet, the bright silver diamond watch on the inside of his left wrist, along with his sleek black suede briefcase. It seemed that whomever he was married to, had gotten to keep everything including his car because it wasn’t everyday you saw a man like that on a bus like the one both the man and Alek were occupying.

Having glanced at the man long enough, she turned her attention back towards the window that occupied the right side of her body. She sighed as she watched the streets of D.C. wiz on by, though it turned into a blur as she was now lost in thought. She hadn’t even realized what was going on until the bus stopped and out yelled the bus driver, “we’re here”.

Slowly she lifted her head, expecting to be met with many faces only to be met with one and that being the driver of the bus. Getting up, she made her way to the front, thanking the burly looking man as she made her way down the steps and out into the crisp cold air. Taking a deep breath, she looked at her watch for the third time only to see it was closer to eight pm than it was to seven. Wow, a total of about two hours and she still didn’t even realized how long she had been on that bus for.

Pulling her denim jacket tighter around her body, Alek started her journey to her now almost reached destination. It took about 15 minutes to arrive, but once she had she couldn’t pull the door open any sooner. Stepping into the building she was met with warmth, the one thing her body had been lacking all day. Making her way towards the elevator she was quickly stopped short, “excuse me miss, but where are you going”.

Pivoting on a foot of hers, she looked at the woman who stopped her. “I was told to just make my way up, I’m here for a meeting”, Alek lied to the woman in front of her causing the unknown woman to bunch her eyebrows in confusion.

“Meeting with who? Im sorry but that can’t be visiting hours are over”, the small statute of the woman was now just getting on Aleks’ nerves.

Hearing the elevators open Alek started to walk backwards towards them. “My meeting”, Alek said just before taking a step back into the elevator, “is with SES Erin Strauss”. With that, she watched as the other woman’s face turned bright red. Whether it was from the fact that Alek was now standing in the elevator or the fact that Alek had a meeting with Strauss, she had no idea. And she didn’t stick around to find out as the elevator doors closed and she was now headed up towards the floor of the BAU.

Honestly, she couldn’t remember the last time she was in the FBI headquarters, but she knew that it was long ago. If her memory serves her right she hadn’t stepped foot in the building since she was in middle school. All in all it’s been almost two whole decades since Alek has seen the inside of the building and she wasn’t unhappy about it either. Before she knew it the doors to the elevator slid back open and she was now one step closer to her destination.

Walking towards the glass doors that led to the bullpen of the BAU, Alek swung it open only to be greeted by the stares of strangers. Minding no business to it, she continued her journey up the steps of the bullpen and walked down one of the long corridors that led to Strauss’ office. Stopping in front of her office, Alek raised her hand and knocked on the door lightly only to be met with a, “Come in”.

Opening the door, she shoved her body into Strauss’ office. As she was now in, Alek watched as Strauss looked up from her paperwork and pointed to the door behind Alek, “please shut the door and take a seat”.

Doing as told, she shut the door and sat herself down in one of the chairs opposite of the SES herself. “So to what do I owe the pleasure of you being here”, Alek could just see the cocky smirk Strauss had on her face the moment she got done asking Alek that question.

Shrugging her shoulders, Alek clasped her hands in front of her. “I don’t know, you tell me”, she wasn’t going to play Strauss’ game if that’s what she thought, “first the phone calls now the suv, what do you want from me Strauss”.

Taking her reading glasses off, the once cocky smirk on the SES’ face was now wiped off clean. “I didn’t want it to go that far, but how else was I suppose to get your attention? I tried calling bu-“.

Right as Erin mentioned the phone calls Alek cut her off, “The phone calls should have been enough of a clue that I didn’t want to talk, that I just wanted to be left alone”.

“Well you should have known that I wouldn’t stop just there”, by now Strauss had a pointed look on her face her eyebrows raised all the way to her hairline. Both of the woman were now just staring each other down while sitting in silence until Strauss let out a deep breath and continued from where she left off, “I want you to join the team”.

Shocked would be a pathetic word to describe the emotion that passed over Alek. She was more so bewildered, why on earth would Strauss say such a thing. “What, why”, where the only words that Alek could get out of her mouth at the moment.

“You’d be a great asset to the team, we could use someone like you especially with your background”, by now Alek still didn’t know how to process this all. As she still had yet to say anything Strauss decided it would be best to ask the woman opposite of her a question, “Don’t tell me you haven’t thought about it?”

The moment that question left her mouth, Alek was all too quick to respond, “I haven’t”. That seemed to shut the SES right up as she now looked flabbergasted. Shaking her head Alek stood up, her heart was racing through her chest almost caught in her throat, “I can’t do this”. Making her way towards the office door, Alek ended up practically slamming it open and hurrying down the corridor as she could feel the walls closing in on her.

Just as she was about to step on the floor of the BAU bullpen Alek was pulled back into reality as the voice of the person she was just speaking with rung out behind her, “Miss. Vultaggio, I understand that you’re going through some things right now but please give it one day, that’s all I ask”.

At this point Alek was fuming with anger, clenching her fist so tight she cut off the blood circulation only to turn around looking SES Erin Strauss point blank in the eyes. “I mean no disrespect ma’am, but going through some things?”, Alek all but spat out at the woman. “You have no idea what I’ve been through, the things I’ve seen, the things I’ve....done”, Alek had uttered that last word with what some could think was disgust. At that Alek closed her eyes trying to calm herself down before opening them up again, now calm Alek took a deep breath, “But, I’ll think about it”.

With that, Alek didn’t have the time to see the look on Strauss’ face as she just wanted to get the hell out of there. Turning back around Alek made her way towards the doors of the BAU only to catch out of the corner of her eye the stares of four people.

From the looks on their faces it seemed clear to Alek that they had caught the conversation or I guess the banter she just had with Strauss and to say that they were pleased would be an understatement. They probably have never heard anyone talk to Erin that way before as she was their superior, one that they weren’t very pleased with.

Though just as Alek was about to turn her attention back to getting out of there, she ended up catching the eye of the youngest one in the group. She could feel him profiling her as soon as their eyes met, though he wouldn’t be able to profile much as he probably had no idea where to start. Having been through enough during the day, Alek ticked her jaw in agitation and set her eyes forward again just to walk out of the BAU and back into the elevator.

Looking at her watch for what should be the last time that day, Alek slightly chuckled under her breath. How wrong she was about the time she would make it back to her apartment only just seemed to annoy her more than ever.

Headcanons

majority of these are NSFW, read at your own risk

Steve Harrington 

↳ jealous steve

↳ falling for his best friend

↳ steve’s daddy kink 

↳ first date 

↳ make outs with steve 

↳ playing with his hair / him playing with yours

↳ couple things

↳ girl time

↳ first time

↳ sub! steve

↳ proposal nerves

↳ eating you out

↳ dating dustins older sister

↳ dustin being a cockblock

↳ dating hoppers daughter / extension to this hc

↳ blowjobs

↳ calling him “baby boy”

↳ shower sex

↳ proposing to dustins older sister / extension to this hc / extension 2

↳ thigh riding   

↳ torture

↳ dance parties

↳ coconut (modern! steve)   

↳ skater girl

↳ high

↳ married by twenty-five

↳ fuck your shitty dinner

↳ skin care

↳ cockrings

↳ webcam girl 

↳ NSFW alphabet

↳ pegging

↳ stupid fights

Robin Buckley

↳ jealous robin

↳ make outs with robin

↳ thigh riding

↳ her kinks

↳ teaching her to drive (ft. steve)

↳ NSFW alphabet

Billy Hargrove

↳ moving to california

↳ jealous billy

↳ falling for his best friend

↳ phone sex

↳ protective sister

↳ NSFW alphabet

↳ thigh riding

↳ domestic! billy

↳ protective! party

↳ breath-play

↳ sneaking around with hoppers daughter

↳ zombie apocalypse

↳ little things to make you smile

↳ pregnant (hopper! reader)

✧✧✧

Drabbles

STRANGER THINGS

Robin

↳ Nerves 

In which, Robin is super nervous to ask you on a date, but with some help from Steve Harrington she’s able to steal your heart.

Billy Hargrove

↳ Perfect 

In which, Billy finds safety in you.

↳ The best I can be

In which, you’re pregnant and Billy has his doubts.

Steve Harrington

↳ Blush

In which, Steve gives you swimming lessons and you make him blush.

↳ Choose me

In which, Steve see’s you with Billy Hargrove and slightly overreacts.

✧✧✧

Fics

MARVEL

Peter Parker

↳ If I Die Today (Stark! reader):

In which you were supposed to die today, instead; your father kept his promise.             

STRANGER THINGS

Steve Harrington

↳ Oh Me, Oh My! (Henderson! reader):

In which, you didn’t expect to be kidnapped by Russians, yet again, you didn’t expect to have your best friend confess his love to you because of ‘truth serum.’

↳ Polaroids 

In which, Steve catches you trying on lingerie and a risqué photoshoot ensues 

↳ His Moment (Henderson! reader):

In which, Steve struggles to find the right moment to confess his feelings 

↳ Nobody Else (slight billy x reader):

In which, you both know that you belonged together, so why the hell is it so complicated?

↳ For Whom the Bell Tolls (apocalypse AU):

In which the world is chaotic, but steve manages to find you

Billy Hargrove

↳ Late Night Devil:

In which, Billy doesn’t know how to express his love.

Billy x Steve x Reader

↳ Sorry, Not Sorry  | PART TWO

In which, dating your best friends ex-boyfriend after they break up is hard. Falling for the new boy while still dating your boyfriend is harder.

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OMG I AM IN LOVE!! THIS IS THE BEST, THANK YOU!

Um hey, I’ve never requested a ship request but if you could ship me with hp, tw, and marvel I would greatly appreciate it. Please & Thank You. Anyways, I’m a she/her, I’m 5’8”, bisexual, very long dirty blonde straight hair with blue/grey eyes, and I’m a hufflepuff! Most people that don’t know me usually say that I look stuck up/mean, but once you get to know me you love me. Very honest and am known to give great advice, also really laid back chill person who just goes with the flow but don’t let that fool you as I do have anger issues. Another thing is that I love to read, I just love to live life in general and view it as art, btw family means everything to me. I thing that’s it, though if I had to add one more thing it would just be that I’m an ambivert when it comes to everyday life, but when it comes to relationships I’m a total introvert. All in all, thank you and hope you have a great new year!!!

thanks for requesting! hope you like this and happy new year to you as well! :)

hp: i ship you with hermione granger!

you two give the best advice ever

ron and harry would be absolute disasters without you two

gives you books as presents all the time w lil dried flowers and handwritten notes

tw: i ship you with isaac lahey!

you’re both so shy at first

but as soon as you get used to it you’re basically attached at the hip

he definitely becomes a part of your family and loves coming over your house

mcu: i ship you with wanda maximoff!

combined you’re like the most badass couple

will both absolutely destroy anyone who harms any of the avengers

obsessed with your eyes bc why wouldn’t she be grey/blue eyes are Stunning

with 2021 fast approaching, it time to have another mini sleepover!!

this sleepover will last till january 4th!!

last time i did character ships i was super busy and couldn’t finish them but i’m free now so i can actually do them!!

FANDOMS I WRITE FOR: Harry Potter, Julie and the Phantoms, Criminal Minds, Stranger Things, Narnia, and Marvel

RULES:

first, because i think it be fun, you’ll give me a character you’d ship me with (i’ll leave stuff about me below)!!!

you must clarify what fandom from the ones i write from (you can do more than one if you please!!)

YOU MUST LEAVE YOUR PREFERRED GENDER OF YOUR S/O OR I WILL NOT DO YOUR SHIP!!!

also please leave some facts and such for you and pronouns!!!(some can be hogwarts house, zodiac sign, hobbies, etc.)

if you feel comfortable please give a name, otherwise i’ll put (y/n)!!

i think it would be fun swapping ships so i thought it’d be a nice touch is all

FACTS ABOUT ME:

my name is abby!!

i go by she/her

i am straight

i’m 16

my 5’1 (short short i know)

brown hair and brown eyes

i’m a ravenclaw

i’m a leo sun

i’m an infp (weird contrast i know)

i love writing (obviously)

i obsessed with true crime, like love that stuff

my dream job is acting

i’ve always wanted to learn guitar!!

i do super good in school (all a’s)!!

i make friendship bracelets when bored or stressed (weird i know)

i’m the therapist friend

i’ve been compare to sunshine since i was little

i tend to be loud and obnoxious (nothing wrong with that)

VERY SARCASTIC (like always at the wrong times)

i never talk about my feelings to someone unless i feel super safe with them

my favorite band is “the 1975” but i literally love all music

have fun with the ships and HAVE AN AMAZING PERFECT NEW YEARS WITHOUT GETTINGS OTHERS SICK!!!

i love you all deeply and wouldnt wanted to end this year another way!!

<3

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basement discoveries

in which a young girl has an epiphany 

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The door creaked open as the soon to be adult rushed down the stairs that lead to the basement. It was dark and cold, the only thing that one could hear was the girl’s feet hitting the stale M&Ms from when she was a kid. 

Walking around, not being able to see anything, she ran headfirst into a beaded string that hung from what might have been the ceiling. Grabbing fistfuls of air, she finally grabbed ahold of the string, pulling on it only for light to illuminate the once dark but still cold basement. 

Forgetting what she came down to the basement for she heard something heavy drop, looking for what caused the noise she saw an army green dust-covered photo album laying on the ground. Curious she picked it up only to notice a picture to be hanging out of the album, plucking it out she had seen that it was marked November 17th, 1952 in neat cursive handwriting on the back. 

Flipping the photo over to the front was an image of a young man, that seemed to be in his mid-20’s, standing next to a maraschino cherry red fire engine in front of the house that the girl staring at the photo was currently standing in the basement of. It wasn’t the blinding color of the fire engine that had caught her eye instead it was the color of the young man’s eyes or to be more specific his iris’s. 

They had shinned like sapphires under the sun, beautifully blue that they had almost seemed fake. However somehow, she knew that she had seen those eyes before as if they had been in her dreams haunting her. Taking her gaze off the man she came across another person in the image that of a woman that was maybe a few years younger than that of the man.

The woman was on the other side of the blazing red fire engine, her porcelain skin contrasting against the man's naturally tanned skin. Anyone who looked at the image could tell that the woman loved the man across from her, maybe it was the way she gazed at him longingly or the way her face lit up when looking at him. 

Either way, even if the woman was not completely and entirely in love with the man it was known that the moments shared between them were cherished. Shaking her head slightly, the soon to be adult put the photograph back in the photo album only to set the album next to a hideous sand-colored leather handbag that she assumed belonged to somebody with a horrid taste in fashion. 

Walking back to turn off the source of light that was illuminating the basement she had caught her reflection in a mirror that hanged on the wall and was supported by one short studded nail. Making a B line for the mirror she took more and more steps closer to it, the closer she got the more frightened she had become. 

In her mind it was all an illusion though, in fact, it was every bit of reality, she knew from the very beginning that she had seen those blinding blue eyes before. She had known because they were staring right back into her own.