@stillnotfree liked for a starter with Adam
“You should not talk to a prince like that.” Adam said, his voice clear and tone serious. He had never been a fan of women who would talk back at him. And definitely not those who were so attractive that he could actually lose his mind. “You better do apologize now. Otherwise, I fear I have to throw you into my dungeon.” he threaded her. Maybe not a smart idea but that’s what he did when someone got dangerous for him. And it usually worked.

“I make it a habit, your highness, of not apologizing when I do not mean it,” Belle answered calmly. “Especially in these circumstances, for to do so would be a lie, and as I understand it, that is a likewise imprisonable offense, n’est-pas?”
She was speaking a way that was much braver than she felt at the moment. “Throw me in your dungeon, it shall only confirm what I have said; that at best, you are a little worse than a man, and when you are worst, you are little better than a beast.”
✧ VAN HELSING SENTENCE STARTERS !
( FEEL FREE TO CHANGE PRONOUNS AS NEEDED !
- ❝ Vampires, gargoyles, warlocks, they’re all the same — best when cooked well. ❞
- ❝ My life, my job is to vanquish evil. I can… I can sense evil. ❞
- ❝ I’ll find you. I’ll get you back, I’ll set you free! ❞
- ❝ Why can’t I have one of those? ❞
- ❝ A pity your moment of triumph is being spoilt over a little thing like grave robbery. ❞
- ❝ Why can’t they just leave us alone? ❞
- ❝ We never kill more than our fill. And less than our share. ❞
- ❝ I feel no love… nor fear… nor joy… nor sorrow! I am… hollow. ❞
- ❝ I’m at war with the world and every living soul in it! ❞
- ❝ I must find out who our new visitor is. ❞
- ❝ Is this your silver stake? ❞
- ❝ Don’t you understand?! We could be friends! Partners! ❞
- ❝ Did I mention that it was you who murdered me? ❞
- ❝ I hope you have a heart, _______, someday I’m going to drive a stake through it. ❞
- ❝ He’s the first one to kill a vampire in over a hundred years. ❞
- ❝ Some say you are a murderer, others say you are a holy man, which is it? ❞
- ❝ I think if you’re going to kill somebody, kill them. ❞
- ❝ A vampire is nothing like a warlock. My granny could kill a warlock. ❞
- ❝ The air around here is thick with envy… ❞
- ❝ When they ask you to bring somebody back, they don’t mean as a corpse! ❞
- ❝ Actually, I’m still just a friar, so I can curse all I want… dammit! ❞
- ❝ Why does it smell like wet dog in here? ❞
- ❝ I don’t know if you’ve looked in the mirror lately, but you kind of stick out in a crowd. ❞
- ❝ How many commandments can we break in one day? ❞
- ❝ Never too late to dig graves. You never know when you need a fresh one. ❞
- ❝ Vampires only kill what they need to survive - one or two people a month. ❞
- ❝ By exposing me, you have condemned me! ❞
- ❝ Without us, the world would be in darkness. ❞
- ❝ An evil that the rest of mankind has no idea even exists. ❞
- ❝ If you value your lives and the lives of your kind, you will kill me! ❞
- ❝ Now you will become that which you have hunted so passionately. ❞
- ❝ May others be as passionate in their hunting of you. ❞
- ❝ I can feel fresh blood rushing through her veins! ❞
- ❝ You can go when I say you can go. And I say you can go when you’re dead! ❞
- ❝ It is your blood that shall keep me beautiful! What do you think of that? ❞
- ❝ Don’t play coy with me, Princess. I know what lurks in your lusting heart… ❞
- ❝ You’re a big one. You’ll be hard to digest. ❞
- ❝ I’ll take him away, far away, where no one will ever find him! ❞
- ❝ Why don’t you and the order do something about it? ❞
- ❝ To you, these monsters are just evil beings to be vanquished. ❞
- ❝ I’m the one standing there when they die and become the men they once were! ❞
- ❝ So you’re sending me into Hell. ❞
- ❝ For more than four centuries, this family has defended our left flank. ❞
- ❝ Not to worry, got just the thing to put the bit back in your teeth. ❞
- ❝ You’ve never gone after vampires before, have you? ❞
- ❝ Seven years and you don’t know what it does? ❞
- ❝ Because if we kill him, anything bitten or created by him will also die. ❞
- ❝ Oh! You’ll be needing silver bullets, then. ❞
“Not even a little bit?” Adam asked, rolling his left shoulder to make sure it was only sore from falling on it, and not completely out of place.
“Hours? Should I be more offended that it took so long to find me? Or perhaps I should be asking how long it took for you to notice I was missing,” he asked, attempting to lighten the mood somewhat.
“There were no tracks, and I’m no hunter,” Belle scolded, still not in the mood to hear him make jokes as she got to her feet. “Come on, let’s get you home before we miss teatime altogether and send Mrs. Potts to an early grave.”
Cont’d || @stillnotfree
❝ As always. ❞ Comes his response as he moves to take a seat, rubbing at his eyes with the back of his paw before sighing softly. ❝ It isn’t as if I am not used to them. But having them never gets any easier. ❞ He explains.
❝ I suppose tonight they are less pleasant than they are under normal circumstances. ❞

❝ You don’t have to tell me anything you don’t want to.❞ Her fingers move to brush the knuckles of his paw for a moment before returning to her book, tilting it to him.
❝ My English isn’t as good as I thought it was. Can you… do you know what it says here? ❞ she asks, indicating the line in question in an attempt to change the subject and distract him from whatever was bothering him. ❝ Would you help me? ❞
- “Is this rain ever gonna stop? I’ve forgotten what the sun looks like.”
- “We should go on vacation!”
- “They’ve got claws like this, teeth like this, and they spit fire like this!”
- “I’ve got a dragon!”
- “Hi! Which way’s the… beach?”
- “Haven’t you guys ever seen a dragon before?”
- “I hate dragons!”
- “How do we get ourselves into these messes?”
- “I’m a faun, you dork!”
- “I, uh, got a little lost.”
- “How can you be sure I really exist?”
- “We have found that hockey is a peaceful and calming sport.”
- “If you stare at it long enough, you might not see anything.”
- “I suppose I could teach you for a small fee.”
- “You see this wall here? I bet you’re dying to know what’s on the other side.”
- “Now I can pursue that dancing career I’ve dreamed of!”
- “Please take this… er… thingamajig.”
- “This submarine is 100% shark-proof.”
- “You can have this little trinket for good luck.”
- “But, um… it’s awfully noisy in there…”
- “Mmm, I love the smell of turtle soup in the morning.”
- “I guess now you think you’re pretty good.”
- “Where are we?”
- “Say hello to your new king.”
- “Bring it on, shorty!”
- “What a wuss!”
- “Boo.”
- “If you help me put him back together again, he’d sure be more fun.”
- “__ is a fool for betting against a dragon.”
- “Well done, grasshopper!”
- “You deserve another shiny thing.”
- “Legend has it that there is a portal to __ here. And, legend also has it that I know how to activate it.”
- “It is urgent! He has our tickets to tonight’s hockey game!”
- “Just hold tight for a second, and look out below!”
- “You’d think those guys could have got me out of here without rolling a two ton snowball onto my head.”
- “I lost my pet snow leopard.”
- “I hope __ didn’t get eaten by draclets.”
- “Looks too scary.”
- “Sorry if it still has clam juice on it.”
- “Now we can proceed with our counter-attack.”
- “How lucky for me that you came along.”
- “Trouble with the trolley, eh?”
- “Ok, __, looks like we’ve got us a bit of a situation here.”
- “What light from yonder window breaks? That window up there dummy.”
- “Wow. What an explosion! It sure is a good thing I had my helmet on.”
- “Hewwo, __.”
- “Well two can play at this bombing game.”
- “You’re pretty cute for a quadruped.”
- “You know how hard it is to find a locksmith at this time of night.”
- “‘Just stand still,’ he says. ‘I’ll turn your boots to gold,’ he says.”
- “Thank you for releasing me.”
- “It just won’t be the same without party hats.”
- “Check out this cool cave I found.”
- “No one’s been through that portal in years.”
- “I thought I’d never find a sucker… er, I mean, you’re a shrewd customer, __!”
- “I’ve been trying to get a berry out of this magic berry bush.”
- “You are really starting to get on my nerves!”
- “So you thought you had gotten rid of me.”
- “I’m perfectly useless without my trusty pencil.”
- “I’m a secret agent!”
- “I’m going to my secret hideout. Only members of my secret club are allowed to go there.”
- “Here, take this secret decoder. It will allow us to send secret messages!”
- “Please take this item, which living creatures seem to like.”
- “These invading sheep in their spaceships must be stopped.”
- “You’ve just sealed your fate!”
β i canβt sleep. β

“Nightmares again? Or something else?” Belle moved over to make room for him on the chaise. “Tell me.”
dark matter is a novel by blake crouch. tw: self-harm and suicidal ideation.
- ‘ how does that feel? ’
- ‘ you should eat something. ’
- ‘ is everything okay? ’
- ‘ you have cuts all over your face. ’
- ‘ we’ll go someplace safe. ’
- ‘ you’re in no condition – ’
- ‘ there’s a car following us. ’
- ‘ you’re burning up, __. ’
- ‘ i can’t sleep. ’
- ‘ we’re all real proud of you. ’
- ‘ don’t touch me! ’
- ‘ i should take you to the ER. ’
- ‘ you’ll be right here? ’
- ‘ i hope you’ll be more comfortable here. ’
- ‘ what does your gut tell you? ’
- ‘ let me take you to the hospital. ’
- ‘ stay with me. ’
- ‘ i told you. we’re a family. ’
- ‘ keep your voice down. ’
- ‘ what about me? ’
- ‘ last night, you asked me how we fix this. ’
- ‘ turn around. ’
- ‘ i don’t need you doing something heroic. ’
- ‘ you’ve been following me? ’
- ‘ by the way, this is going to stay locked. ’
- ‘ they carried you in here a little while ago. ’
- ‘ i’m scared too. ’
- ‘ just fucking do it. ’
- ‘ can’t you see it’s me? can’t you tell? ’
- ‘ you don’t look fine. ’
- ‘ bullshit. ’
- ‘ is something wrong, and you’re not telling me? ’
- ‘ so how serious is it? ’
- ‘ what’s in the bag? ’
- ‘ i just need you to listen for a minute. ’
- ‘ __,are you having any thoughts of hurting yourself? ’
- ‘ you don’t get to – ’
- ‘ i really miss you. ’
- ‘ my phone’s dead, so i borrowed one off this woman on the train. ’
- ‘ because i didn’t sign up for this shit. ’
- ‘ i know. i just didn’t want to wake you. ’
- ‘ i’m not suicidal. ’
- ‘ you live with your choices and learn. ’
- ‘ i feel like i’m caught in a nightmare and i can’t wake myself up. ’
- ‘ go to hell. ’
- ‘ you don’t remember? ’
“I’m sorry. Am I interrupting your endless reading time?”
“No, my reading time has been put on hold because you froze the bookcase and it still hasn’t thawed!”
(Bonus points if you drop subtle hints at who the other parent was.)
I don’t care if we ship, I love the idea of kids