Jacob: Finally, you get to me-
Me: *mutters to Altaïr* What a fucking baby.
Jacob: Ash, what did you just say? Because if you said what I think you said, I will fucking kill you-
Me: I said nothing child.
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So it's a modern high school kind of thing with the Frye twins as new kids because I ran out of ideas-
(gender neutral, there might be a little bit of steamy stuff I'm going to test it out and if I like it I might write smut for you guys)
Note: I will be seeing Eivor as genderfluid so I'll use any pronouns but mostly they/them, Malik has both arms, Edward, Haytham and Connor are siblings (triplets, obviously fraternal)
TW: Swearing, blood, violence, drugs/alcohol, graphic description, some steamy stuff, mentions of prostitution, mentions of toxic relationships, anxiety, panic attacks, mentions of SA, SA, trauma, mentions of suicide and death, weapons (I know some of you are saying, "Ash, why so much violence and other stuff?" I'm not forcing you to read this and I won't ever do that. If you're not in the right headspace right now, please read this later.)
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Your POV
You wake up at 7:30, groaning as you realize you have to go to school. No worry, you could probably just sneak off to a wine cellar with Arno or make a fake ID to get into a bar with Edward after first period. Again.
Or you could read Dante Alighieri's Inferno and The Divine Comedy with Altaïr and Malik, get a lesson in seduction from Ezio, sketch with Leonardo, get Connor to finally take you out hunting, go book shopping with Aveline, annoy Shay by giving him Lucky Charms and calling him Leprechaun Patty, go to a café with Arno, get Haytham to buy you a hat identical to his (the one you call the Taco Hat, much to his frustration), go do archery with Bayek, go axe throwing with Eivor or go out for Greek food with Kassandra.
You decide to think about that later and get dressed in a white T-shirt, F/C sweatpants, F/C sweatshirt and black Doc Martins (change it if you want), then grab your phone, earbuds and backpack.
Timeskip, Your POV
You get to the school and see your friends, all bunched together and causing chaos. As usual, Edward had a hangover, Ezio was flirting with every girl he saw, Connor was brooding, Aveline was listening to music on her phone, Shay was talking to Haytham, Arno was also flirting with girls, Leonardo was sketching random stuff in his sketchbook, Bayek was reading a book, Kassandra and Eivor were talking about axes and as usual Altaïr and Malik were arguing about something.
Your friends all stopped what they were doing and saw you. They all said hi to you and exchanged pleasantries until Edward brought something up.
"There's a pair of new kids. Twins, if I heard correctly."
"Maybe Y/N will finally find someone." Ezio jokes.
You stop, feeling panic set in. "Guys, don't mention that. Remember what happened last time they were in a relationship?" Aveline said.
"That figlio di puttana (son of a bitch) should have hung himself a long time ago. Or he should have been aborted. It's like he's fucking insane." Ezio spat.
"But he didn't, unfortunately," Altaïr said. "The fucking rapist walks around freely."
You feel tears sliding down your face at Altaïr's remark. You knew he was right, but it still triggered your trauma about what had happened. That sick cunt never got charged and it was all the goddamn judge's fault. He took one look at you and dismissed Eric with no charges immediately.
Eric. That was your ex's name. The one who had controlled you, abused you, used you for all those years, making you believe you loved him. You wished you had the strength to say no when it happened, but you were too blind to realize what had happened and by the time you realized, it was too late.
Your friends were livid. Especially Ezio, Altaïr, Edward, Haytham and Connor. All five of them snuck into his house and beat him to near death with swords, then left like shadows. You see Eric and his group of jocks walk past and you tense.
His cold blue eyes lock with your panicked E/C ones. "Well, well," he says, walking towards you, trying to pin you against a locker. "If it isn't the little whore themself." You could see everyone else getting absolutely riled up, but the rest of Eric's little group block them from getting to you.
You try to slink away, try to disappear but Eric still held your gaze.
You were trapped.
He tries to kiss you, but you punch him in the face and spit in it.
"Motherfucker!" he seethes. "You'll pay for that, whore."
The sentence felt like a slap to the face.
He backhands you, sending you staggering across the floor. You feel the panic setting in, your vision giving off laces of black around the edges. He picks you up, choking you and your panic sets in instantly.
You aim for the nearest vital area, which happened to be his neck. You grab the knife in your pocket, flipping it open to the serrated blade.
Then you stab it deep into his neck, barely missing the artery by mere inches. He roars, his blood spraying onto your clothes.
Staggering and holding his neck in a pathetic attempt to staunch the bleeding, he lunges at you, but you plunge the knife into his palm.
You quickly get up and try to run, but he grabs your ankle.
"You fucking whore," he seethes. "You deserved everything that happened to you."
He tries to force himself onto you again, but is knocked out by the blunt end of a crowbar to the back of the head. "You all right?" the stranger asks.
You see a guy your age, with slicked back dark brown hair and hazel eyes. "What'd he try to do to you?" he asks, concern written on his face.
"..."
"Jacob, what did it look like?" another voice says, clearly female. She came into view, and she looked like a carbon copy of the guy, just with blue eyes and freckles.
You assumed the pair were twins from their shared hair color and height. "It looks like the guy was trying to rape them?" he replies.
The girl ignores her brother and turns to you with nothing but pure compassion and concern on her face. "Are you okay?" she asks.
You nod, still feeling like a panic attack was coming on. She helps you up and puts a reassuring hand on your shoulder. "I'm Evie and this is my dolt twin Jacob. You?"
"Y-Y/N," you stammer. "Are you two the new students?"
Evie nods and says, "We saw what happened and that absolute dick's group blocking from a large group that looked absolutely livid. They friends of yours?"
"Yeah." you reply.
"If you want, we can skip school Y/N," Altaïr suggests when you walk back to the group with the twins on either side of you. "I for one certainly don't want to see that fucking cunt harassing you again."
You nod and then dig in your bag for a bottle of Aleve. You give a pill to Edward and say, "For your hangover." He nods his thanks in response and takes the pill.
"Do you mind if we join you, Y/N?" Jacob asks out of the blue. "Yeah, it's fine." you reply.
Timeskip, Jacob's POV
He was with Y/N and Evie. The group had split up to do other things, probably a tactic to not get reported by anyone. He and Y/N had talked a bit, avoiding the subject of what happened that morning.
"Where do you want to go?" they ask. He gets snapped out of his thoughts. "The mall?" Evie suggests. "Sure, but there are some people there I'd like to avoid." they reply.
"Is it that fucking dick?" he asks. "I still have my crowbar on me and I want to bash his head in until I see blood and his skull breaks."
"No, it's a trio of whores I'm better off not interacting with," they reply. "And I mean actual prostitutes."
"Names?" Evie asks.
"Maria (not the character from AC 1), Celina, Maddy," they reply. "Trust me, you don't want to interact with those three."
"Do they need a crowbar beating as well?" he asks.
"Maybe," Y/N hums. "Depends on what they do."
Timeskip, Your POV
You, Evie and Jacob were currently at a table in the mall's food court, eating Greek food. You had been talking with the twins, getting to know them and they seemed to be kind people. You see Eric from the corner of your eye and quickly wolf down your food so you can leave before he sees you.
"What is it?" Jacob asks.
Shit. He noticed. "Him," you say, looking at Eric, feeling panic. Jacob grips his crowbar ready for round 2, but you stop him. "We can pretend like we're not here, but I don't know if it'll work," you say. "If he walks up to me, you have free reign to go at him again."
He puts the crowbar away, although he's still tense.
As expected, Eric walks up to you, but with Maddy on his arm. "So," he says. "You're a fat pig now?"
You ignore him, as he isn't worth wasting your time and energy on. "He's talking to you," Maddy said, her voice just as shrill and annoying as you remembered it. "Don't ignore him."
"Funny, coming from a whore," you say coldly. "Why do you hang around with a failed abortion like him? He'll rape you too and when that happens, don't come crying to me."
You feel Eric grip the back of your head and Jacob loses it. He grabs his crowbar and embeds it deep into Eric's head on the sharp side. Blood blooms in his platinum blonde hair and he yells out in pain. People were starting to look, but they went back to eating and whatever they were doing.
"Don't you ever," Jacob says to Eric in a low, dangerous tone. "Call Y/N a whore and a fat pig after what you've done to them. You and that whore on your arm fucking disgust me. How much did you pay to have her on your arm, cunt?"
"This isn't your business," Maddy says to Jacob. "Stay out of it."
"Oh I think it is my business when you insult and abuse my friend." he snaps back.
Friend.
You had only known him for a few hours and he already considered you a friend.
"Y/N, I thought you had better taste in friends than this," Maddy says, turning her attention back to you. "Such a shame."
"I thought you had a better taste in clients," you spat. "But it looks like you don't. Tell me, when he gets you pregnant, will you abort it or face judgement from the entire school by carrying it to term?"
With her eyes blazing, Maddy slaps you across the face. Jacob, who's already past his limit, explodes.
With the blunt end of the crowbar, he strikes her across the face. Hard. She staggers to the floor, blood dripping from her nose. Definitely broken. Evie, who was packing the stuff up, interjects. "Let's go before these two hurt Y/N more." she says to Jacob.
It didn't look like he heard his twin. He struck Eric in the head with the sharp end of the crowbar again and you can't help but burst out laughing at his helplessness. "You come near Y/N again, your dick's getting chopped off." he threatens.
"Jacob, let's go." you say.
Timeskip, Jacob's POV
Ah, the end of the day.
Where he could wind down.
Y/N, as he had recently found out, was in the apartment across from where he and Evie lived.
He tentatively knocks on their door, waiting for a response.
They open the door, looking a bit scared, but when they see him, they relax.
"Hi," they say. "Come on in, make yourself at home, get a cup of tea if you want."
He smiles and walks into their apartment.
He can see that Y/N isn't the most organized person, but they try to keep everything in one place so they don't lose things. A tuxedo cat is sitting on the couch in a loaf, watching his every move.
"Do you want some toast?" Y/N asks from the kitchen, poking their head into the living room. He nods and they go back to whatever they were doing.
He looks at the cat and sits down next to it.
Y/N comes to the couch with his toast and a coffee for themself.
"You like P/N (pet name?)" they ask. He nods and tries to pet the cat but it slinks out of his hands and goes to Y/N's lap. "She's a bit skittish around new people," they explain. "But she likes me."
There's an awkward silence between him and Y/N for a while, but they break the silence and ask, "Want to watch The Witcher?"
He nods.
Timeskip, Jacob's POV
The TV was off and it was about 2 in the morning according to his phone. He sighs and knows Evie's going to lecture him for staying over at someone else's place, especially if he didn't come back for the night. He tries to move, but realizes that Y/N is cuddling into his chest.
He smiles a bit and texts Evie, telling her he's at Y/N's and that they're the neighbor across the hall from their apartment. She's probably going to blow up his phone saying that he needs to study, but he didn't really care.
He felt Y/N shiver and he puts his arm around them so they're warm. They nuzzle into him a bit more and he feels some heat reach his cheeks. Was he actually in love with a person he had just met hours ago?
The more he contemplated about it, the more it became far fetched to him that they liked him back. They clearly had trauma from their ex-Eric, they had called him-and he didn't want to hurt them or make their condition even worse.
So, he settled on not telling them yet and tenderly kissed the top of their head before drifting off to sleep.
Timeskip, Your POV
You wake up, realizing it was Saturday. Then you slightly panic, realizing someone's sleeping next to you. You look at the face and realize it's Jacob, who's out cold. You realize that you had cuddled into his chest during the night and he had an arm around you, which made your face heat up.
You hear the sounds of Jacob waking up and he looks at you through half awake hazel eyes. His hair was all messed up which added to how good he looked.
Damn it, you think. Why am I thinking this?
"Morning, love." Jacob says to you a bit gruffly with a groggy smile plastered on his face. Shit. Why did people have to sound so good when they just wake up?
You give him a small smile in response, as you were still groggy.
"Can I stay with you for the day?" he asks you out of the blue.
"Yeah, for the weekend too if you want."
"We can binge something for the day," Jacob suggests. "We just need snacks."
"Snacks are in the kitchen pantry," you reply. "I'll be right back."
You head to the bathroom and wash your face with cold water to help you clear your head. You silently wondered to yourself if you had a crush on Jacob. It seemed like it, with your thoughts of him recently. But you didn't know if he reciprocated your feelings-or if he was trying to manipulate and use you like Eric did.
After you get out of the bathroom, you go to your room to look for P/N. Sure enough, she was on your bed as usual and she gave a small meow to greet you and say good morning. You pick her up and say, "Good morning baby." with a smile.
You walk back to the couch, petting P/N as you see Jacob waiting for you with snacks. You sit down and relax.
Timeskip, Jacob's POV
After 2 hours of binging Family Guy with Y/N, he hears a knock at the door. "Do you want me to get it?" he asks them. They nod and pause the show, patiently waiting for him to come back. He opens the door to see Evie holding his crowbar, which was caked with dried blood.
Before he can open his mouth, she hands him the crowbar and says, "Eric's coming for Y/N. Keep them safe and protect them with your life. And if you make it out of that, tell them you like them."
His face heats up and he closes and locks the door. He goes to Y/N and says, "Eric's coming for you."
Their face goes paler than a sheet of paper and they hide P/N in the bathroom, locking the door.
"Do you have your crowbar?" they ask, their voice shaking. He nods and moves closer to them so he can squeeze their hand. "You got this." he mumbles to them. They smile a bit and he could have sworn he saw them blush.
The tender moment was interrupted by a banging on the door. "Should you answer it or should I?" he asks Y/N. "I think I should," they reply. "If he sees you, it'll set him off."
They go to open the door and he tensely waits for Eric to step in so he can make good on his threat. He hears slurred words, which probably meant Eric was drunk or high. "Come back Y/N," he slurred.
"No." they reply, firmly standing their ground. Instead of listening to Y/N though, he makes himself at home and then Eric sees him. Without a second thought, he strikes the other guy with the sharp end of the crowbar so hard his head dents inward and he crumples to the ground, unconscious.
Timeskip, Your POV
You and Jacob had stuffed Eric's unconscious body into an extra large black garbage bag and 'accidentally' dropped it onto the road to be crushed by a car. Well, more like you just innocently 'missed' the dumpster that was conveniently located in front of the apartment building. The crowbar was washed off and everything in your apartment was disinfected to hide your connection the assault and murder of him.
P/N was in your arms again as you and Jacob have a conversation. At one point, the conversation turned to love. "So Y/N," Jacob says. "Do you have a crush on anyone?"
P/N jumps out of your lap and slinks off to your room. You feel your face heat up a bit and reply with, "He's sitting right next to me."
He sits in silence for a moment, then asks, "Can I kiss you?" with his face looking like a tomato.
You nod.
"Are you sure?" Jacob asks hesitantly. "I don't want to push you too far, Y/N."
"Yes."
He leans in and puts his lips on yours, which shocks you a bit but you lean into the kiss.
After a bit, the kiss becomes more passionate and you can't seem to get enough of each other. You hands were tangled in Jacob's hair and his hands were on your waist, pulling you closer to him.
Jacob's POV
He had longed for this moment ever since he met Y/N. He wanted his lips on theirs for so long and here they were.
Their fingers were tangled in his hair and he held their waist, pulling them closer to him, but slowly.
Their fingers idly play with his hair, which makes him smile into the kiss. He decides to test their boundaries a bit, gently biting their lip. To his surprise, they deepen the kiss.
He starts to move away from Y/N's mouth, leaving a trail of kisses as he works his way down to their neck. He kisses their neck, which causes them to gently nip at his ear.
He honestly wanted to go further, but he controlled himself, as he didn't want to push their boundaries too far. He lightly sucks on Y/N's neck, making them let out a small moan and arching their neck back slightly to give him better access.
He sucks on their neck a bit harder this time, which makes them grip his hair tightly and they moan again, but louder.
"Goddammit Jacob," Y/N mutters. "You're going to give me a hickey."
He chuckles into their neck. "And why do you care, love?"
"First off, my friends will be pissed at you. Number two, your sister's probably going to tell you to be responsible."
As if on cue, he hears a knock on the door. "Come on Jacob, time to face your demons." Y/N jokes as they take his hand and pull him to the door. They open the door and he sees Evie with a smirk on her face. "Evie!" he says. "What are you doing here?"
"I heard Y/N moaning from our living room," she says with a devilish smile on her face. "Don't forget to use protection."
She hands Jacob something and walks back across the hall. "What is it?" they ask. He takes a good look at it and...
It's a condom.
Y/N sees it and goes crimson. "Your sister knows everything, I swear to fucking God-" they say.
He just stares at it, then at Y/N.
"Well?" they ask. "Are you going to use it?"
"Wait," he starts. "You mean you actually want me to-"
"Yes dumbass," Y/N replies, facepalming. "God, you can be so thickheaded."
He picks them up and bridal style and carries them to their room.
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Me: HOLY FUCKING SHIT. 3.5k WORDS??
Altaïr: Holy shit. You can actually write stuff like that?
Jacob: *applauding* Well done Ash.
Ezio: Mio Dio- (My God)
Connor: Ash, is this what you meant by smut?
Me: Uh-The beginning of it, yeah.
Edward: *EdwardKenway.exe has stopped working*
Haytham: Good God...
Altaïr: Okay, that was great but Ash, YOU NEED TO SLEEP.
Me: ...