#i did not see that coming
https://archiveofourown.org/works/26748730/chapters/66069583
Prompt: I Did Not See That Coming, Dirty Secret; Alt Prompt 3 - Comfort
Fandom/OC: Original Work
TW: body horror, caged, fire, possession, blood
Dangerous Attraction
Response to this prompt by @nuttynutcycle
CW: Blood, stabbing, mentions of death, murder, and manipulation
“I feel stolkholm syndromed!” The villain pressed their face against the bars. “There’s only one cure. Let me out so I can take you to dinner. I totally won’t escape.”
The prison guard sighed.
He’d received training for this. A whole seminar on resisting the wiles of villains. The inland capes had put it together a little while ago because apparently these days criminals seduced opponents like children ate sweets. And it never ended well.
Only today, a new headline had been playing on the tv in the breakroom. The hero who ran off with that bank villain a few weeks ago had turned up stabbed to death and dumped in the harbor. Before them, it was that officer poisoned in plain sight at a steakhouse. Security cams showed their date–a well-known member of a super crime syndicate–getting up and walking right out during the chaos. People never learned. They all wanted what they couldn’t have, all the more attractive because it was forbidden.
Guard had ignored Villain’s flirtations for three full months now: a record for this particular criminal. Though they could thank the seminar guidelines for that. Stare straight ahead. Don’t talk back. Treat all sounds, speaking and screaming alike, as if they were the wind. Picture their crime as if it were done to you.
Guard had a little trouble with that last part since he had no idea what Villain had done, but seeing as they were on The Island–the top security prison in the city–it must have been pretty bad.
“Oh, come on,” Villain said, throwing themselves forward to dangle their arms outside the bars. “Pay attention to me. I did my hair all pretty this morning and everything.”
yall i’m reading this book about an assassin and a prince pursuing this princess and i spent half the book being so angry that the main character was falling for the bad guy and completely ignoring the good guy only for it to be revealed that the guy i thought was bad was the good guy all along and all the “hints” the author left were actually just there to trick us into thinking he was the assassin
>:( and now i have to reread the first half of the book with the context that he’s the prince instead of assuming he was the assassin
