um…hold onto your hats, y’all…had to split this in two parts because it grew into a monster. next part is queued to come right after this, so it’ll be up in a few hours!
Everything was muffled and chaotic as you struggled to suck in a breath. You felt like a fish out of water as you gasped wetly. You coughed and felt the saliva pool around your mouth and trickle down your cheek towards your ear. You could not breathe. Why couldn’t you breathe? You blinked—when did you close your eyes?—through slitted eyes and struggled to comprehend what was over you. Your body rocked as someone pressed against your torso. Someone else was by your head and you felt warm drops hit the side of your face. Another gasped breath. Was it raining? No, the sky above you—that was sky, right?—was a brilliant blue. It was so blue. You closed your eyes and felt something press against your cheek urgently. You struggled to shake off the intrusion. You were so very tired all of a sudden. You weren’t sleeping. This was a good place to sleep. Everything faded even more, but before you were pulled down into darkness you heard frantic yelling.
“Nick! Nick!”
Everything faded to black and sound cut out abruptly.
fifteen minutes earlier
“…doesn’t suspect anything, Carmen said.”
You tuned back into the conversation and shook your head to refocus your gaze on Sonny. You looked up at him in time to see him throw a dirty look Matty’s way. Matty stared ahead at the menu written on the wall. You knew he was pretending to read it in order to avoid Sonny’s accusatory glare. You all had been coming to this coffee shop for ages and although they had begun to introduce holiday drinks recently to combat the big chains, Matty always ordered the same exact thing. Black coffee, medium roast with two sugars. No cream.
“That’s good.”
You licked your lips and replied to Sonny as you jiggled your leg impatiently. You had twenty minutes to get your coffee and some kind of pastry before you had to go into work and the line was longer than you had expected. Maybe the holiday drinks were really helping to improve business.
yes, nick would have snake & randy on her, most likely. he wouldn’t tell his fiancée why until after sonny’s fiancée gets rescued, tbh. he is still trying to keep her kind of separate from this life/not scare her. (but let’s be real, he can only do that for so long…and don’t worry, there’s waaay more drama for nick & his girl after the plot with sonny wraps!)
he’d also just be calling a lot, texting, having her check in all day so he knows she’s okay. which is pretty annoying when she’s trying to get work done or steps away to go to the bathroom and doesn’t take her phone with her for that 3 minutes.
you just inspired me to add another scene to the plot where the old ladies reunite/talk after the rescue. 🙂
and there are kiiiinda spoilers if you go to my au masterlist, scroll to mc!au under and sonny and see what parts of this storyline are filled and which parts are left. 🙂 hoping to get another part up tonight!
anon asked: I’m so excited for new mc stuff!! I’m dying to know about how the issues with AB affect sonny and his fiancée!
this takes place right where this left off and we’re going to see a couple more storylines entangled. just a warning that this will get more violent in the near future, but I’ll put trigger warnings on those fills when we get to them
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“What makes you think that?” Sonny asked with a furrow between his brow. The way he saw it, ATF was just looking to make their presence known. They’d come sooner or later and he’d rather sooner so that he could figure out their angle.
“The timing. We meet up to discuss shutting down the ‘happy endings’ and they happen to come by? They were trying to catch us in something,” Nick stated. “More importantly, they knew that they could catch us in something. We’ve been careful about who we let come here and not even all of the customers know that there’s two sides of this operation. Has to be an inside job. That fed looked disappointed…too disappointed. We’ve got a rat, for sure.”
Sonny leaned against the bar and scrubbed his hands over his face roughly. The last thing they needed was even more trouble on top of things. A rat in one of the clubs could only end one of two ways: with that person dead or almost everyone in jail. He sighed and pushed himself back up, straightening as he thumbed at his phone. He frowned a little at the lack of messages when he saw the time, but looked back over at Nick.
SVU addict 