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Hey, y'all should join my Discord! It's multifandom, kinky, and queer as fuck.

Visit my website to see where else you can find my work, follow my socials, or support me on Patreon!", "writing": "This wasn't the kind of place that Noelle would usually go. The air was damp and filled with an almost omnipresent chill that seemed to sink through her sweater and into her very flesh. The venue was dark with only a few beams of scattered light managing to filter through the cracked and filthy glass of fractured windows. Detritus and refuse cracked under her heavy boots with every step that she took.\n\nThe warehouse hadn't been used in years, that much was obvious.\n\nSusie glanced back at her, smiling. Or at least, Noelle assumed that she was smiling. Her eyes creased as if she were doing so but it was impossible to tell due to the mask that hung over her snout. A mask which Noelle also wore.\n\n``Thanks for tagging along,'' Susie said.\n\nNoelle nodded and attempted to smile back. ``Thanks for letting me tag along.''\n\nThe beauty of this venue was hard to see but it was there, told in tiny stories upon an otherwise bleak canvas. There were tiny colourful flowers which grew within the many cracks with pedals illuminated by truly feeble light. There was graffiti which mingled with moss, mosaics created by a union of the natural and monster worlds coming together as one.\n\nIt might not be Noelle's scene but she could appreciate why Susie enjoyed something like this so much.\n\nHer girlfriend reached for her bag and grabbed a camera from inside, popping open the lens cap and aiming it at a mural that read: `fuck society', which had a jagged scar of cracked concrete cutting right through the middle of it. Moss and other organic material grew out of this crack, seeming like the forerunner of nature once more overcoming said society as it started to eat at this gruesome message with a deep rejuvenating green.\n\nOr at least, that's how Noelle was choosing to view it.\n\n``How did you even find out about this place?'' Noelle asked.\n\nSusie shrugged and snapped a photo of a row of dandelions that were growing out of a crack in the ground. ``Mostly from local Telegram chats. It's not a super popular hobby but there are a few urban explorers in this city.''\n\nNoelle nodded. ``Didn't even think a community like that existed.''\n\n``Cool right?'' Susie asked. Even behind her mask, Noelle could tell that she bore a huge smile. ``Some of the dudes break into some pretty hardcore places. You know the old powerplant down in Eastwood?''\n\n``The coal one?'' Noelle replied.\n\nSusie nodded. ``That place has a razor wire fence and they brought bolt cutters to get through it. The photos that they took looked pretty amazing. Straight up like something out of a horror movie with this black mold covering pretty much everything.'' She shook her head and her eyes immediately creased. ``Sorry, sorry, probably shouldn't run my mouth.''\n\n``No, no, no, run away!'' Noelle beamed, lifting her hands. ``I love hearing you get invested in this sort of stuff.''\n\nSusie smirked. ``Kind of wild that we used to power this city with coal.'' She shook her head. ``Downright deranged that every city used to use it too.''\n\n``Was a different world back then,'' Noelle said. ``We didn't know how that stuff messed up the planet.''\n\nSusie continued ahead, moving towards a door off to the side of the room. \n\nNoelle followed behind, keeping pace with her as they headed into the adjoining space. It was a stairwell, leading up to the second floor and the roof above. It would seem that water had flooded this room as it was covered in moss and mold with the concrete stairs now eroded, cracked, and torn open with exposed and rusted rebar brought to the surface.\n\n``Watch your step,'' Susie said, carefully ambling up the stairs. It was honestly a bit nerve-wracking to watch her climb. There was a ton of loose material which rolled under her feet, sending pebbles bouncing down below. ``Seems like it's mostly stable.''\n\nMostly...\n\nThat word was doing a lot of heavy lifting here.\n\nThough if Susie felt confident taking the stairs then Noelle felt pretty secure doing the same. After all, she was considerably lighter than her girlfriend. So, she took in a breath and started on her way up, being just as careful as Susie. Thankfully, the stairs were in good enough shape that she didn't worry that they'd crumble under her.\n\n``How does this place even get like this?'' Noelle asked.\n\nSusie shrugged. ``It gets abandoned and monsters stop maintaining it.'' It started to get dark. So, she grabbed a flashlight and used the beam to venture ahead. ``The paint starts to chip and it exposes the concrete below. Then water gets in and when it freezes it expands, forming cracks. Then water gets into those cracks and it freezes and expands and the cracks get bigger. Year after year it gets worse and worse until bam, here we are.''\n\n``You know quite a bit about this,'' Noelle said.\n\nSusie chuckled. ``You pick up on a thing or two.''\n\nShe stepped into the hallway of the second floor and Noelle followed behind. Once more, daylight returned to them as they moved along a tiled floor which had very little of its original tiling left. It seemed that the space up here was mostly dedicated to abandoned offices. Plenty of them even still had old furniture and discarded paperwork within.\n\n``There's this one place that I've always wanted to see,'' Susie said, pausing to look back at Noelle. ``This island where a volcano erupted like thirty years ago. Half of the island got turned into this exclusion zone as magma poured through it and started to get into some of the buildings. The pictures I've seen make the old towns look pretty gnarly.''\n\n``Oh, I think I heard about that place!'' Noelle beamed.\n\nSusie ducked into an office and scanned the space with her light. Yet, it wasn't very necessary as there was a gaping hole torn into the ceiling with a pillar of light pouring into the room. It was a column of suspended illumination with swarming particles of dust and pollen floating adrift, reaching for the sky above as if trying to escape this prison.\n\nThere was a pile of dirt upon an old table with little flowers sprouting out of it. And at the base of the table mushrooms were starting to grow, sprouting out amongst the moss and crawling up its legs as if it were a narrow tree trunk.\n\nSusie grabbed her camera and carefully took a step back, snapping a photo of this. Then she took a second and third just for good measure. \n\nOnce Susie had finished, Noelle then went forward and took a knee, looking at the little flowers. She carefully plucked one of them and twirled it between her fingers, taking a closer look at the little yellow bloom. It was pretty, so she decided to place it in the breast pocket of her plaid shirt. \n\nIt was one of Susie's which made sense since her girlfriend was wearing a matching article of clothing. Both of them were dressed in pretty ratty stuff, hand-me-down shirts and worn jeans that were coated in paint. It was the kind of stuff that they wouldn't be hard pressed with losing.\n\n``Kind of wild that nature is just taking this place back,'' Noelle said.\n\nSusie nodded. ``It always finds a way.'' \n\n``That's kind of deep, babe,'' Noelle said, bumping into her girlfriend. ``Did you come up with that?''\n\nSusie blinked. ``Babe?''\n\n``Yeah?'' Noelle asked.\n\n``We really need to get you to watch something that isn't cartoons or anime, I swear to God,'' Susie said, shaking her head.\n\nNoelle whined. ``What does that mean?''\n\n``It means that you didn't even understand that I was quoting fucking Jurassic Park,'' Susie chided, still shaking her head. She poked her head back into the hallway and snapped another photo. ``And everyone needs to see that movie.''\n\nNoelle rolled her eyes. ``I'm sorry that not everyone has watched the same obscure films as you.''\n\n``Obscure?'' Susie asked, cocking a brow. ``Babe, it's literally one of the most famous movies of all times.''\n\nNoelle blinked. ``Huh?''\n\n``There are literal theme parks that are built to it down in Swamp Home City and Home City Dotonbori,'' Susie added. She let go of her camera and the strap sagged into her neck. At which point, she turned and headed back towards the stairs. ``Let's head up to the roof. I want to see what the hole looks like from above.''\n\nNoelle nodded and followed after her. \n\nThe two of them re-entered the stairwell and continued upwards, carefully climbing the half-rotten stairs once again. The higher they got, the more precarious it seemed with less concrete and more exposed metal contained within. It made sense, in a way, with this being closer to where the water would've first hit the building however many years ago that happened.\n\nAs they reached the top, there was a heavy door which blocked them from the outside world.\n\nSusie pressed against it but it didn't budge, merely creaking against her body weight. She then tried to press a little harder but it still appeared stuck, bending under the pressure but not breaking against the force of it.\n\n``Motherfucker,'' she grumbled to herself.\n\n``Everything okay?'' Noelle asked.\n\n``The doors stuck,'' Susie growled, forcing her shoulder into it yet again. She huffed as it still didn't budge, practically snarling as she did so.\n\nAngel, I wish that was me...\n\nOkay, Noelle, what the fuck did that even mean?\n\n``Hey, babe,'' Susie huffed.\n\nNoelle stirred. ``Huh?''\n\nShe saw that Susie was taking the camera off from around her neck, holding it out to her\n\n``Can you hold this?'' Susie asked.\n\nNoelle nodded and took the camera, carefully cradling it within her hands. ``Just be careful, okay?'' \n\nSusie grunted an affirmation.\n\nNoelle watched as Susie really reared back, yelling as she slammed her body into the door with a lot more force. It still didn't budge, so she did so again, forcing herself against it even harder. And again. And...\n\nThe door finally creaked and gave way, snapping open with a deathly squeal. Susie went flying through, propelled by her own momentum. Thankfully, she remained upon her feet and didn't fall as she stumbled to a halt.\n\nNoelle followed her, clambering onto the roof. It was the most pot marked part of the building with more than a few holes torn into the concrete and what little of the original paint remained. There were puddles all over the place and a solid layer of moss seemed to cling to every surface with a few hardy flowers added to the mix. Hell, there was even a lone sickly sapling which seemed to be desperately searching for a soil that was many metres away.\n\nAs she looked beyond the building, she couldn't help but notice that the view from up here was beautiful with this being one of the taller buildings in this part of town. Sure, it was only a few standard stories but the view it provided stretched all the way across the neighborhood and well into the downtown core with its glimmering skyscrapers.\n\nNoelle offered the camera back to Susie and she took it. Though her girlfriend paused to peel away her mask, leaning in to give her a kiss upon the forehead in exchange.\n\n``Thanks for coming with me,'' Susie said.\n\nNoelle tugged her own mask down, wearing it around her neck. She smiled at Susie, nodding. ``This has been a lot of fun.''\n\nSusie looked out upon the city before glancing down the lens of her camera, snapping a couple more photos for good measure. \n\nShe seemed to be in the zone and Noelle didn't want to interrupt her. So, she started to stroll around the roof, being careful with every step that she took. After all, she had no idea when the roof might give way and break her neck.\n\n``Hey babe!'' Susie suddenly called.\n\nNoelle perked up and looked back at her. ``What's up?''\n\n``Let's take a selfie!'' Susie said, holding up the camera.\n\nNoelle nodded and made her way back over, ensuring that she carefully retreaded the path that she'd just taken.\n\nOnce she got close to Susie, her girlfriend reached out and draped an arm across her shoulders, using it to hold her tight. She then extended her arm and turned the camera to face both of them. There was a bright smile upon her lips and Noelle decided to match it, flashing a peace sign for good measure as she leaned against her girlfriend's powerful frame.\n\nThe camera clicked and Susie then turned it around, showing off the preview to Noelle. It was a cute photo. The two of them were smiling wide with the city in the background.\n\n``A keeper,'' Noelle said, glancing up at her.\n\nSusie nodded. ``Totally.''\n\nShe then let go of the camera and let it sag against her chest. Instead, she made her way over to the ledge that circled the roof, plopping down upon it with her legs dangling over the edge.\n\nNoelle approached but didn't do the same, anxiously looking down at the vast expanse of nothing which existed between Susie's legs and the ground below. She wasn't usually afraid of heights but being in a dying building had a way of reframing her anxieties.\n\n``If I can safely sit on the ledge then you can safely sit on the ledge,'' Susie teased, shaking her head. ``I'm a little bit heavier than you are, babe.''\n\nNoelle gave herself a few more seconds to come to terms with the fact that Susie was probably telling the truth. She was more seasoned and this was her hobby, after all. So, she knew what she was talking about. \n\n``Alright,'' Noelle said as she clambered upon the ledge and let her legs dangle off the side of it.\n\nThe air up here felt nice, a light breeze brushing against her complexion. This kiss of fresh air felt like such sweet relief after being confined to that mask for so long.\n\nSusie once more draped her arm over Noelle's shoulders, and in turn, Noelle leaned against Susie for support. Her presence was comforting, doing away with any unease that the height may have provided.\n\n``So, how are you doing?'' Susie asked. She shifted and unclipped a water bottle from her belt, twisting it open and taking a sip. ``Like in general, I mean.''\n\n``I don't know,'' Noelle replied, sighing. ``I really don't.''\n\nSusie nodded. ``Cutting ties with your mom isn't all it's cracked up to be?''\n\n``I don't really know how to describe it,'' Noelle said, burying her face into her hands. She could feel the sweat left behind from the mask upon her fingers as she dug them into her complexion. ``I can't help but think that I'm still making a huge mistake with all of this. Like mom never wanted me to fail and I know that if I would've seen it through then I wouldn't have failed at life. I just...'' She sighed. ``I wouldn't be doing what I really want to be doing with it either.''\n\nSusie scoffed. ``That kind of sounds like failing to me.''\n\nNoelle went silent, unsure of what to really say to something like that. She worked her jaw, hopelessly searching for the right answer. In the end, it didn't feel like there was anything that she could really bring about to make this sit right within her head.\n\nSo, she tried an alternative strategy.\n\n``How have you been doing?'' Noelle asked.\n\nSusie stirred but promptly scoffed. ``You're trying to deflect.''\n\n``Just a little bit,'' Noelle teased.\n\nSusie shrugged off her backpack and placed it upon the ledge between the two of them, unzipping it and reaching inside. She pulled out a case for her camera, starting on the process of putting her setup away.\n\nNoelle, on the other hand, reached inside and grabbed the box of berry granola bars, grabbing one for herself. ``For real though, how have you been? We haven't really had much of a chance to talk since the Dark World.''\n\n``I don't know,'' Susie replied, wincing as she realized her answer. ``Sorry, that probably wasn't super helpful.''\n\nNoelle unwrapped her granola bar and took a bite of it. She didn't say anything, giving Susie the space she needed to do the talking herself.\n\n``I guess I still feel pretty listless with my life,'' Susie admitted, fiddling with the zipper on her camera case as she flicked it back and forth with her claw. ``I don't really know how to fix that either. It's kind of haunted me since like... well... at least grade twelve and probably even earlier than that.'' She worked her jaw. ``Like back before I met you and Kris, I was the big bad bitch of Hometown High. I might not have liked who I was but at least I had something. I had a personality, a character, some sort of motive in my life that I could point towards and say: `hey that's me, that's Susie'.''\n\n``Just not the best motive,'' Noelle said.\n\nSusie nodded. ``Hurting people doesn't feel particularly great nowadays but it was still something. Now I kind of just exist and I don't really know what I'm going to be in like five, ten, or even twenty years from now.''\n\n``You're going to be with me and Kris,'' Noelle answered.\n\nSusie smirked. ``I guess.'' She winced. ``Sorry, that sounded better in my head.'' She placed her camera back in her backpack, grabbing a granola bar for herself instead. ``I just... I wish I knew who Susie was nowadays aside from just being the girlfriend of Kris and Noelle. Like I want her to be something on her own and not just an extension of others. If... if that makes sense.''\n\nNoelle frowned. ``Is there a way I can help?''\n\n``I mean you're already doing your best,'' Susie replied, motioning behind herself at the dilapidated roof of the building. ``This hobby is probably the closest thing that I honestly have to a personality at this point.''\n\n``I'd say it's a pretty cool hobby,'' Noelle teased.\n\nSusie scoffed. ``Yeah.'' She rubbed at her arm and went silent. For a second, it seemed like she wasn't going to say anything at all. Then, she sighed, almost sounding defeated. ``Can I admit something to you? It's not going to be easy to hear so I get if you don't-''\n\n``Yes,'' Noelle interrupted, reaching out and placing her hand on Susie's leg. ``I can take it, I promise.''\n\nSusie drew in a breath and looked down at that hand before glancing up to meet Noelle's eye. She seemed to be reading her girlfriend's face as if trying to detect the sincerity of her remark. Whatever her assessment was it seemed to be enough to put her at least a little bit at ease.\n\n``I know it's something you said back when we were just dumb kids,'' Susie began, rubbing her arm. ``But I've kind of come to resent being the good kind of scary.''\n\nNoelle blinked. ``Huh?''\n\n``Like I get that you think that the butch is supposed to be big and tough and scary and the big domme who's going to make you cum a billion times in a single session,'' Susie grumbled. ``But I always... I just...'' She growled and threw her hand out in front of herself. ``It just constantly reminds me that you fell in love with me because I was a bully and...''\n\nShe motioned vaguely as if hoping that the wild gestures would do the rest of the speaking for her. Sadly, it didn't, simply leaving that suffocating silence lingering behind. \n\nNoelle was about to interject but Susie lifted her hand, making it known that she wasn't done just yet.\n\n``And I always resented who I was,'' Susie murmured. ``I hated making other monsters miserable and I hated myself for making everyone's life just a little bit worse with my presence.''\n\nNoelle nodded and looked at Susie, leaning to the side and nuzzling against her. Her girlfriend scoffed but still found it in herself to throw an arm around her, using it to pull her in close.\n\n``Can I talk now?'' Noelle asked.\n\nSusie nodded slowly. ``Yeah, sure...''\n\n``I'm sorry,'' Noelle said, biting her lip. ``I had no idea that you felt that way and I wish that you would've said something sooner.'' Susie opened her mouth to speak but Noelle lifted her hand, making sure that she got her point across. ``That being said, I think you might be taking that statement a little bit out of context here.''\n\nSusie sucked in a breath. ``Oh?''\n\nNoelle reached out and placed her hand over Susie's, giving it a squeeze. ``I...'' She worked her jaw, trying to think of the best way to put it. ``I always saw you as independent and brave and not giving a fuck about what other monsters thought. You seemed to have so much confidence growing up and I always thought that was honestly kind of inspiring.'' She closed her eyes and sighed. ``You had the freedom to be who you wanted to be and I always found that concept pretty terrifying. I found the idea of telling my mother to shove it a scary thing but I knew that it wasn't something that you would've been afraid of. So, you were the good kind of scary. The kind of scary that gave you the freedom that I always wanted to have but never did.''\n\nSusie drew in a breath. ``Huh...''\n\n``But if it caused you issues then we can work on fixing them,'' Noelle stated, opening her eyes and leaning up to kiss the underside of Susie's snout. ``But don't think that I fell in love with a bully. I fell in love with you and I love every version of you. I love you as a protector, I love you as a girlfriend, I love you as someone I can trust, and I love you when you're vulnerable enough to tell me the truth about all of this.''\n\nSusie went silent, simply nodding along. In the end, she sighed. ``Thanks babe.''\n\n``It's what I'm here for,'' Noelle teased. She slowly drew away, placing both of her hands within her lap. ``So, how are we going to go about finding the Susie that you want to be?''\n\nSusie smirked. ``Ain't that the million-dollar question?'' She worked her jaw, going silent and looking deep in thought. It seemed that nothing was coming to her, yet the pain remained etched so clearly upon her face. ``I don't really have an answer.''\n\n``Well, what makes you happy?'' Noelle asked.\n\nSusie started to kick out her legs, looking down at the ground below. ``I like making you and Kris happy... I like making monsters in general happy.''\n\n``That's a good start!'' Noelle beamed. ``And how do you think you could go about making other monsters happy?''\n\nSusie chuckled. ``By helping them out?''\n\n``And what ways do you think would be the easiest for helping them out?'' Noelle then asked, stroking her girlfriend's attire in gentle little motions. ``What ways would you enjoy?''\n\n``I mean I can think of a ton of ways that I could make other monsters happy,'' Susie replied, shaking her head. ``Cooking, hanging out with them, being funny, doming dumb little does who have a weird complex that makes them total sluts?''\n\nNoelle's cheeks brightened. ``Okay! Maybe not that last one.''\n\nSusie snickered. ``I guess cooking seems like the one that I'd be most comfortable with though.''\n\n``Then how about we figure out how to get you a job in cooking,'' Noelle said, leaning against her and nuzzling her arm. ``Though I hope you know that the job usually involves some pretty early mornings.''\n\nSusie sighed. ``Yeah... I know.''\n\nThe two of them lingered like that, enjoying the silence.\n\nNoelle liked the view from up here, watching the entire city laid out in front of her. It was surreal to think about how many souls lived, worked, and enjoyed themselves in a place like this. Each building felt like a story just waiting to be told.\n\nAnd hey, maybe she would be the one to tell it.\n\n``Come on,'' Susie said, pushing herself up. ``We should probably get out of here before it gets dark.''\n\nShe turned and offered her hand to Noelle. \n\nNoelle looked at it and gladly took it, using it to spring to her feet. Instead of moving away from the ledge, however, she instead leaned in and gave her girlfriend a little peck upon the lips. \n\nIt was a gesture which Susie returned, melding her lips against Noelle's own. Soon both of their mouths parted as their tongues ventured forth to fill the void. It was a hungry and passionate union, brimming with an undercurrent of a raw lustfulness that Noelle honestly wished that she could lose herself to.\n\nUntil finally, Susie drew back. ``Missed that.''\n\n``Me too,'' Noelle whispered, biting her lip. ``Say... do you want to maybe...''\n\nSusie scoffed. ``Absolutely not.''\n\nNoelle blinked.\n\n``Come on, babe, I enjoy fucking you as much as anyone else but doing it here is just asking for a bad case of sudden onset tetanus,'' Susie chided, kissing the top of her head. ``Save it for when we're back home, okay?'' She chuckled. ``I'll rock your world there.''\n\nNoelle nodded, feeling her cheeks warm as she couldn't help but giggle. ``Okay.''\n\n[hr]\n\nIt turned out that there was something else to distract them when they got back home. It was a simple cardboard box placed in front of their apartment door with only a shipping label telling them what it was.\n\nNoelle picked it up and read the top of it as Susie opened the door, gesturing for her to come inside.\n\n``Hey babe?'' Noelle asked as she stepped through the threshold.\n\nSusie hummed and glanced back at her. ``Sup?''\n\n``Do you have any idea why Kris would order VHS tape cleaner?'' Noelle then asked, looking away from the label and at Susie. ``Do they have a new hobby?''\n\n``Yeah...'' Susie sighed. ``Yeah, I have a bit of an idea.''\n\nNoelle nodded. ``And?''\n\n``I'll tell you when you're older,'' Susie teased.\n\n", "writing_bbcode_parsed": "This wasn't the kind of place that Noelle would usually go. The air was damp and filled with an almost omnipresent chill that seemed to sink through her sweater and into her very flesh. The venue was dark with only a few beams of scattered light managing to filter through the cracked and filthy glass of fractured windows. Detritus and refuse cracked under her heavy boots with every step that she took.

The warehouse hadn't been used in years, that much was obvious.

Susie glanced back at her, smiling. Or at least, Noelle assumed that she was smiling. Her eyes creased as if she were doing so but it was impossible to tell due to the mask that hung over her snout. A mask which Noelle also wore.

``Thanks for tagging along,'' Susie said.

Noelle nodded and attempted to smile back. ``Thanks for letting me tag along.''

The beauty of this venue was hard to see but it was there, told in tiny stories upon an otherwise bleak canvas. There were tiny colourful flowers which grew within the many cracks with pedals illuminated by truly feeble light. There was graffiti which mingled with moss, mosaics created by a union of the natural and monster worlds coming together as one.

It might not be Noelle's scene but she could appreciate why Susie enjoyed something like this so much.

Her girlfriend reached for her bag and grabbed a camera from inside, popping open the lens cap and aiming it at a mural that read: `fuck society', which had a jagged scar of cracked concrete cutting right through the middle of it. Moss and other organic material grew out of this crack, seeming like the forerunner of nature once more overcoming said society as it started to eat at this gruesome message with a deep rejuvenating green.

Or at least, that's how Noelle was choosing to view it.

``How did you even find out about this place?'' Noelle asked.

Susie shrugged and snapped a photo of a row of dandelions that were growing out of a crack in the ground. ``Mostly from local Telegram chats. It's not a super popular hobby but there are a few urban explorers in this city.''

Noelle nodded. ``Didn't even think a community like that existed.''

``Cool right?'' Susie asked. Even behind her mask, Noelle could tell that she bore a huge smile. ``Some of the dudes break into some pretty hardcore places. You know the old powerplant down in Eastwood?''

``The coal one?'' Noelle replied.

Susie nodded. ``That place has a razor wire fence and they brought bolt cutters to get through it. The photos that they took looked pretty amazing. Straight up like something out of a horror movie with this black mold covering pretty much everything.'' She shook her head and her eyes immediately creased. ``Sorry, sorry, probably shouldn't run my mouth.''

``No, no, no, run away!'' Noelle beamed, lifting her hands. ``I love hearing you get invested in this sort of stuff.''

Susie smirked. ``Kind of wild that we used to power this city with coal.'' She shook her head. ``Downright deranged that every city used to use it too.''

``Was a different world back then,'' Noelle said. ``We didn't know how that stuff messed up the planet.''

Susie continued ahead, moving towards a door off to the side of the room.

Noelle followed behind, keeping pace with her as they headed into the adjoining space. It was a stairwell, leading up to the second floor and the roof above. It would seem that water had flooded this room as it was covered in moss and mold with the concrete stairs now eroded, cracked, and torn open with exposed and rusted rebar brought to the surface.

``Watch your step,'' Susie said, carefully ambling up the stairs. It was honestly a bit nerve-wracking to watch her climb. There was a ton of loose material which rolled under her feet, sending pebbles bouncing down below. ``Seems like it's mostly stable.''

Mostly...

That word was doing a lot of heavy lifting here.

Though if Susie felt confident taking the stairs then Noelle felt pretty secure doing the same. After all, she was considerably lighter than her girlfriend. So, she took in a breath and started on her way up, being just as careful as Susie. Thankfully, the stairs were in good enough shape that she didn't worry that they'd crumble under her.

``How does this place even get like this?'' Noelle asked.

Susie shrugged. ``It gets abandoned and monsters stop maintaining it.'' It started to get dark. So, she grabbed a flashlight and used the beam to venture ahead. ``The paint starts to chip and it exposes the concrete below. Then water gets in and when it freezes it expands, forming cracks. Then water gets into those cracks and it freezes and expands and the cracks get bigger. Year after year it gets worse and worse until bam, here we are.''

``You know quite a bit about this,'' Noelle said.

Susie chuckled. ``You pick up on a thing or two.''

She stepped into the hallway of the second floor and Noelle followed behind. Once more, daylight returned to them as they moved along a tiled floor which had very little of its original tiling left. It seemed that the space up here was mostly dedicated to abandoned offices. Plenty of them even still had old furniture and discarded paperwork within.

``There's this one place that I've always wanted to see,'' Susie said, pausing to look back at Noelle. ``This island where a volcano erupted like thirty years ago. Half of the island got turned into this exclusion zone as magma poured through it and started to get into some of the buildings. The pictures I've seen make the old towns look pretty gnarly.''

``Oh, I think I heard about that place!'' Noelle beamed.

Susie ducked into an office and scanned the space with her light. Yet, it wasn't very necessary as there was a gaping hole torn into the ceiling with a pillar of light pouring into the room. It was a column of suspended illumination with swarming particles of dust and pollen floating adrift, reaching for the sky above as if trying to escape this prison.

There was a pile of dirt upon an old table with little flowers sprouting out of it. And at the base of the table mushrooms were starting to grow, sprouting out amongst the moss and crawling up its legs as if it were a narrow tree trunk.

Susie grabbed her camera and carefully took a step back, snapping a photo of this. Then she took a second and third just for good measure.

Once Susie had finished, Noelle then went forward and took a knee, looking at the little flowers. She carefully plucked one of them and twirled it between her fingers, taking a closer look at the little yellow bloom. It was pretty, so she decided to place it in the breast pocket of her plaid shirt.

It was one of Susie's which made sense since her girlfriend was wearing a matching article of clothing. Both of them were dressed in pretty ratty stuff, hand-me-down shirts and worn jeans that were coated in paint. It was the kind of stuff that they wouldn't be hard pressed with losing.

``Kind of wild that nature is just taking this place back,'' Noelle said.

Susie nodded. ``It always finds a way.''

``That's kind of deep, babe,'' Noelle said, bumping into her girlfriend. ``Did you come up with that?''

Susie blinked. ``Babe?''

``Yeah?'' Noelle asked.

``We really need to get you to watch something that isn't cartoons or anime, I swear to God,'' Susie said, shaking her head.

Noelle whined. ``What does that mean?''

``It means that you didn't even understand that I was quoting fucking Jurassic Park,'' Susie chided, still shaking her head. She poked her head back into the hallway and snapped another photo. ``And everyone needs to see that movie.''

Noelle rolled her eyes. ``I'm sorry that not everyone has watched the same obscure films as you.''

``Obscure?'' Susie asked, cocking a brow. ``Babe, it's literally one of the most famous movies of all times.''

Noelle blinked. ``Huh?''

``There are literal theme parks that are built to it down in Swamp Home City and Home City Dotonbori,'' Susie added. She let go of her camera and the strap sagged into her neck. At which point, she turned and headed back towards the stairs. ``Let's head up to the roof. I want to see what the hole looks like from above.''

Noelle nodded and followed after her.

The two of them re-entered the stairwell and continued upwards, carefully climbing the half-rotten stairs once again. The higher they got, the more precarious it seemed with less concrete and more exposed metal contained within. It made sense, in a way, with this being closer to where the water would've first hit the building however many years ago that happened.

As they reached the top, there was a heavy door which blocked them from the outside world.

Susie pressed against it but it didn't budge, merely creaking against her body weight. She then tried to press a little harder but it still appeared stuck, bending under the pressure but not breaking against the force of it.

``Motherfucker,'' she grumbled to herself.

``Everything okay?'' Noelle asked.

``The doors stuck,'' Susie growled, forcing her shoulder into it yet again. She huffed as it still didn't budge, practically snarling as she did so.

Angel, I wish that was me...

Okay, Noelle, what the fuck did that even mean?

``Hey, babe,'' Susie huffed.

Noelle stirred. ``Huh?''

She saw that Susie was taking the camera off from around her neck, holding it out to her

``Can you hold this?'' Susie asked.

Noelle nodded and took the camera, carefully cradling it within her hands. ``Just be careful, okay?''

Susie grunted an affirmation.

Noelle watched as Susie really reared back, yelling as she slammed her body into the door with a lot more force. It still didn't budge, so she did so again, forcing herself against it even harder. And again. And...

The door finally creaked and gave way, snapping open with a deathly squeal. Susie went flying through, propelled by her own momentum. Thankfully, she remained upon her feet and didn't fall as she stumbled to a halt.

Noelle followed her, clambering onto the roof. It was the most pot marked part of the building with more than a few holes torn into the concrete and what little of the original paint remained. There were puddles all over the place and a solid layer of moss seemed to cling to every surface with a few hardy flowers added to the mix. Hell, there was even a lone sickly sapling which seemed to be desperately searching for a soil that was many metres away.

As she looked beyond the building, she couldn't help but notice that the view from up here was beautiful with this being one of the taller buildings in this part of town. Sure, it was only a few standard stories but the view it provided stretched all the way across the neighborhood and well into the downtown core with its glimmering skyscrapers.

Noelle offered the camera back to Susie and she took it. Though her girlfriend paused to peel away her mask, leaning in to give her a kiss upon the forehead in exchange.

``Thanks for coming with me,'' Susie said.

Noelle tugged her own mask down, wearing it around her neck. She smiled at Susie, nodding. ``This has been a lot of fun.''

Susie looked out upon the city before glancing down the lens of her camera, snapping a couple more photos for good measure.

She seemed to be in the zone and Noelle didn't want to interrupt her. So, she started to stroll around the roof, being careful with every step that she took. After all, she had no idea when the roof might give way and break her neck.

``Hey babe!'' Susie suddenly called.

Noelle perked up and looked back at her. ``What's up?''

``Let's take a selfie!'' Susie said, holding up the camera.

Noelle nodded and made her way back over, ensuring that she carefully retreaded the path that she'd just taken.

Once she got close to Susie, her girlfriend reached out and draped an arm across her shoulders, using it to hold her tight. She then extended her arm and turned the camera to face both of them. There was a bright smile upon her lips and Noelle decided to match it, flashing a peace sign for good measure as she leaned against her girlfriend's powerful frame.

The camera clicked and Susie then turned it around, showing off the preview to Noelle. It was a cute photo. The two of them were smiling wide with the city in the background.

``A keeper,'' Noelle said, glancing up at her.

Susie nodded. ``Totally.''

She then let go of the camera and let it sag against her chest. Instead, she made her way over to the ledge that circled the roof, plopping down upon it with her legs dangling over the edge.

Noelle approached but didn't do the same, anxiously looking down at the vast expanse of nothing which existed between Susie's legs and the ground below. She wasn't usually afraid of heights but being in a dying building had a way of reframing her anxieties.

``If I can safely sit on the ledge then you can safely sit on the ledge,'' Susie teased, shaking her head. ``I'm a little bit heavier than you are, babe.''

Noelle gave herself a few more seconds to come to terms with the fact that Susie was probably telling the truth. She was more seasoned and this was her hobby, after all. So, she knew what she was talking about.

``Alright,'' Noelle said as she clambered upon the ledge and let her legs dangle off the side of it.

The air up here felt nice, a light breeze brushing against her complexion. This kiss of fresh air felt like such sweet relief after being confined to that mask for so long.

Susie once more draped her arm over Noelle's shoulders, and in turn, Noelle leaned against Susie for support. Her presence was comforting, doing away with any unease that the height may have provided.

``So, how are you doing?'' Susie asked. She shifted and unclipped a water bottle from her belt, twisting it open and taking a sip. ``Like in general, I mean.''

``I don't know,'' Noelle replied, sighing. ``I really don't.''

Susie nodded. ``Cutting ties with your mom isn't all it's cracked up to be?''

``I don't really know how to describe it,'' Noelle said, burying her face into her hands. She could feel the sweat left behind from the mask upon her fingers as she dug them into her complexion. ``I can't help but think that I'm still making a huge mistake with all of this. Like mom never wanted me to fail and I know that if I would've seen it through then I wouldn't have failed at life. I just...'' She sighed. ``I wouldn't be doing what I really want to be doing with it either.''

Susie scoffed. ``That kind of sounds like failing to me.''

Noelle went silent, unsure of what to really say to something like that. She worked her jaw, hopelessly searching for the right answer. In the end, it didn't feel like there was anything that she could really bring about to make this sit right within her head.

So, she tried an alternative strategy.

``How have you been doing?'' Noelle asked.

Susie stirred but promptly scoffed. ``You're trying to deflect.''

``Just a little bit,'' Noelle teased.

Susie shrugged off her backpack and placed it upon the ledge between the two of them, unzipping it and reaching inside. She pulled out a case for her camera, starting on the process of putting her setup away.

Noelle, on the other hand, reached inside and grabbed the box of berry granola bars, grabbing one for herself. ``For real though, how have you been? We haven't really had much of a chance to talk since the Dark World.''

``I don't know,'' Susie replied, wincing as she realized her answer. ``Sorry, that probably wasn't super helpful.''

Noelle unwrapped her granola bar and took a bite of it. She didn't say anything, giving Susie the space she needed to do the talking herself.

``I guess I still feel pretty listless with my life,'' Susie admitted, fiddling with the zipper on her camera case as she flicked it back and forth with her claw. ``I don't really know how to fix that either. It's kind of haunted me since like... well... at least grade twelve and probably even earlier than that.'' She worked her jaw. ``Like back before I met you and Kris, I was the big bad bitch of Hometown High. I might not have liked who I was but at least I had something. I had a personality, a character, some sort of motive in my life that I could point towards and say: `hey that's me, that's Susie'.''

``Just not the best motive,'' Noelle said.

Susie nodded. ``Hurting people doesn't feel particularly great nowadays but it was still something. Now I kind of just exist and I don't really know what I'm going to be in like five, ten, or even twenty years from now.''

``You're going to be with me and Kris,'' Noelle answered.

Susie smirked. ``I guess.'' She winced. ``Sorry, that sounded better in my head.'' She placed her camera back in her backpack, grabbing a granola bar for herself instead. ``I just... I wish I knew who Susie was nowadays aside from just being the girlfriend of Kris and Noelle. Like I want her to be something on her own and not just an extension of others. If... if that makes sense.''

Noelle frowned. ``Is there a way I can help?''

``I mean you're already doing your best,'' Susie replied, motioning behind herself at the dilapidated roof of the building. ``This hobby is probably the closest thing that I honestly have to a personality at this point.''

``I'd say it's a pretty cool hobby,'' Noelle teased.

Susie scoffed. ``Yeah.'' She rubbed at her arm and went silent. For a second, it seemed like she wasn't going to say anything at all. Then, she sighed, almost sounding defeated. ``Can I admit something to you? It's not going to be easy to hear so I get if you don't-''

``Yes,'' Noelle interrupted, reaching out and placing her hand on Susie's leg. ``I can take it, I promise.''

Susie drew in a breath and looked down at that hand before glancing up to meet Noelle's eye. She seemed to be reading her girlfriend's face as if trying to detect the sincerity of her remark. Whatever her assessment was it seemed to be enough to put her at least a little bit at ease.

``I know it's something you said back when we were just dumb kids,'' Susie began, rubbing her arm. ``But I've kind of come to resent being the good kind of scary.''

Noelle blinked. ``Huh?''

``Like I get that you think that the butch is supposed to be big and tough and scary and the big domme who's going to make you cum a billion times in a single session,'' Susie grumbled. ``But I always... I just...'' She growled and threw her hand out in front of herself. ``It just constantly reminds me that you fell in love with me because I was a bully and...''

She motioned vaguely as if hoping that the wild gestures would do the rest of the speaking for her. Sadly, it didn't, simply leaving that suffocating silence lingering behind.

Noelle was about to interject but Susie lifted her hand, making it known that she wasn't done just yet.

``And I always resented who I was,'' Susie murmured. ``I hated making other monsters miserable and I hated myself for making everyone's life just a little bit worse with my presence.''

Noelle nodded and looked at Susie, leaning to the side and nuzzling against her. Her girlfriend scoffed but still found it in herself to throw an arm around her, using it to pull her in close.

``Can I talk now?'' Noelle asked.

Susie nodded slowly. ``Yeah, sure...''

``I'm sorry,'' Noelle said, biting her lip. ``I had no idea that you felt that way and I wish that you would've said something sooner.'' Susie opened her mouth to speak but Noelle lifted her hand, making sure that she got her point across. ``That being said, I think you might be taking that statement a little bit out of context here.''

Susie sucked in a breath. ``Oh?''

Noelle reached out and placed her hand over Susie's, giving it a squeeze. ``I...'' She worked her jaw, trying to think of the best way to put it. ``I always saw you as independent and brave and not giving a fuck about what other monsters thought. You seemed to have so much confidence growing up and I always thought that was honestly kind of inspiring.'' She closed her eyes and sighed. ``You had the freedom to be who you wanted to be and I always found that concept pretty terrifying. I found the idea of telling my mother to shove it a scary thing but I knew that it wasn't something that you would've been afraid of. So, you were the good kind of scary. The kind of scary that gave you the freedom that I always wanted to have but never did.''

Susie drew in a breath. ``Huh...''

``But if it caused you issues then we can work on fixing them,'' Noelle stated, opening her eyes and leaning up to kiss the underside of Susie's snout. ``But don't think that I fell in love with a bully. I fell in love with you and I love every version of you. I love you as a protector, I love you as a girlfriend, I love you as someone I can trust, and I love you when you're vulnerable enough to tell me the truth about all of this.''

Susie went silent, simply nodding along. In the end, she sighed. ``Thanks babe.''

``It's what I'm here for,'' Noelle teased. She slowly drew away, placing both of her hands within her lap. ``So, how are we going to go about finding the Susie that you want to be?''

Susie smirked. ``Ain't that the million-dollar question?'' She worked her jaw, going silent and looking deep in thought. It seemed that nothing was coming to her, yet the pain remained etched so clearly upon her face. ``I don't really have an answer.''

``Well, what makes you happy?'' Noelle asked.

Susie started to kick out her legs, looking down at the ground below. ``I like making you and Kris happy... I like making monsters in general happy.''

``That's a good start!'' Noelle beamed. ``And how do you think you could go about making other monsters happy?''

Susie chuckled. ``By helping them out?''

``And what ways do you think would be the easiest for helping them out?'' Noelle then asked, stroking her girlfriend's attire in gentle little motions. ``What ways would you enjoy?''

``I mean I can think of a ton of ways that I could make other monsters happy,'' Susie replied, shaking her head. ``Cooking, hanging out with them, being funny, doming dumb little does who have a weird complex that makes them total sluts?''

Noelle's cheeks brightened. ``Okay! Maybe not that last one.''

Susie snickered. ``I guess cooking seems like the one that I'd be most comfortable with though.''

``Then how about we figure out how to get you a job in cooking,'' Noelle said, leaning against her and nuzzling her arm. ``Though I hope you know that the job usually involves some pretty early mornings.''

Susie sighed. ``Yeah... I know.''

The two of them lingered like that, enjoying the silence.

Noelle liked the view from up here, watching the entire city laid out in front of her. It was surreal to think about how many souls lived, worked, and enjoyed themselves in a place like this. Each building felt like a story just waiting to be told.

And hey, maybe she would be the one to tell it.

``Come on,'' Susie said, pushing herself up. ``We should probably get out of here before it gets dark.''

She turned and offered her hand to Noelle.

Noelle looked at it and gladly took it, using it to spring to her feet. Instead of moving away from the ledge, however, she instead leaned in and gave her girlfriend a little peck upon the lips.

It was a gesture which Susie returned, melding her lips against Noelle's own. Soon both of their mouths parted as their tongues ventured forth to fill the void. It was a hungry and passionate union, brimming with an undercurrent of a raw lustfulness that Noelle honestly wished that she could lose herself to.

Until finally, Susie drew back. ``Missed that.''

``Me too,'' Noelle whispered, biting her lip. ``Say... do you want to maybe...''

Susie scoffed. ``Absolutely not.''

Noelle blinked.

``Come on, babe, I enjoy fucking you as much as anyone else but doing it here is just asking for a bad case of sudden onset tetanus,'' Susie chided, kissing the top of her head. ``Save it for when we're back home, okay?'' She chuckled. ``I'll rock your world there.''

Noelle nodded, feeling her cheeks warm as she couldn't help but giggle. ``Okay.''

[hr]

It turned out that there was something else to distract them when they got back home. It was a simple cardboard box placed in front of their apartment door with only a shipping label telling them what it was.

Noelle picked it up and read the top of it as Susie opened the door, gesturing for her to come inside.

``Hey babe?'' Noelle asked as she stepped through the threshold.

Susie hummed and glanced back at her. ``Sup?''

``Do you have any idea why Kris would order VHS tape cleaner?'' Noelle then asked, looking away from the label and at Susie. ``Do they have a new hobby?''

``Yeah...'' Susie sighed. ``Yeah, I have a bit of an idea.''

Noelle nodded. ``And?''

``I'll tell you when you're older,'' Susie teased.

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