Whumptober Entries: Day 1, 2, and 3

[feckyeslife]

I was going to post these with the other updates tonight but since they're all for the same event, I figured they belonged in their own post. And it's my journal, so that's what I decided to do!

Title: Hang on for Dear Life
Rating: M
Pairing/Characters: Tris Prior
Critical Tags: Insurgent-Era, Hanging
Summary: "You’re gonna hang,” I had been told. Peter’s face had been gleeful in a manic sort of way when he said it.
Excerpt:

I wondered, just for a moment, what excuse he would have given Erudite for the sentence they had handed to his own daughter. I wasn’t stupid enough to think that he wouldn’t, either. For all his critique, for all his poorly-if-at-all-concealed anger at the dinner table, for all that Erudite had done even in the moments leading up to his death I knew that something in Andrew Prior didn’t allow him to truly believe that his faction was wrong.

After all, there were people like my mother helping those like me or like Evelyn slip through the system. And didn’t that mean that the system was being undermined? Didn’t that mean that somewhere in the depths of the vitriol and libel there was a kernel of truth?

Title: Trapped like a Rat
Rating: T
Pairing/Characters: Kylo Ren & Rey
Critical Tags: Post-The Last Jedi, Canon-Typical Violence, Imprisoned, Collared
Summary: The great and powerful Kylo Ren, Supreme Leader to the First Order, learns what it's like to be captured by the Resistance.
Excerpt:

He glared daggers at the interrogator. He didn't recognize the man but he did know the stamped metal on his chest. His mother's Resistance couldn't resist using the old insignia apparently. Sentimental to a fault.

"You're not to ask about her again," the interrogator insisted once Kylo's ears stopped ringing. Another smattering of blood drops joined their fellows on the durasteel surface in front of him.

Kylo bore his teeth in a mockery of a smile. It didn't match the furrowed brow and narrowed eyes that he leveled on the man. Pushing as hard as he could on the thread of Force, Kylo snarled, "You will bring her to me!" He could barely feel it. The Force. What should have been a roaring, crashing river in his veins had been slowed to a trickle, if that.

Title: Voyage of the Damned
Rating: T
Pairing/Characters: Blue, Red, White
Critical Tags: Major Character Death (idk if that matters in Among Us), Held at Gunpoint
Summary: When Cyan's body was found, things could easily have gotten out of hand. Thankfully, Blue and White worked well together. There was nothing to worry about when you had an assigned buddy, right?
Excerpt:

Red had called a meeting as soon as he found the body. Of course he did. He thought of himself as their de facto leader even as MIRA refused to declare one for voyages. Everyone works better in a flat organizational structure, according to HQ. Everyone except for this crew of nine.

Things had threatened to fall apart. Finding out there was a killer among your crewmates would do that. Red pulled things together at least for a little while. The crew had broken out into teams of two. All the better to watch one another's backs, right? That was all well and good until someone had to fix faulty wiring in one compartment and their assigned buddy had to address an overheat in the reactor.