bakerstreet | You give me the strength to carry on.

You give me the strength to carry on.

Through Hell I Met You
a grimdark shipping meme

The fact settles in your stomach like an ice cold rock. There's a good chance you're going to die here.

It's not surprising, really; you're either a prisoner in a most dangerous place possible or stuck in a cataclysmic event, both choices equally terrifying. You are surrounded on all sides by death, torture, despair, and hopelessness...all this, but you are not alone. Through this experience, you have come to meet someone else, someone in the same situation as you, a prisoner or a survivor. Perhaps you are both ruthless fighters, or total pacifists, or some combination of power and a calming influence - an important mix, given than you can't lose your heads.

This complete degradation and mutual understanding has brought you together in in a way no one else can understand. This bond is not platonic; romantic may not be the right word, not exactly, but you are closer to them than you've ever been with anyone else. It's a fire-forged relationship, made in the most dire of times. To you, they are your world. And you've made a promise, to them and to yourself. You'll get them out of this alive.

...even if you can't say the same about yourself.

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Angst
A rare moment of fluff
Action!
Kill or be killed - the first blood on your hands
Separation
Calm down, the bad guys are gone.
Cheer up
Regrouping, refueling, and tending to wounds
"You'll never take them away from me!"
Smut (aka "this may be our last time alive")
Inopportune timed confession
Sacrifice of yourself to save them
Failure. Both of you die in front of each other.
Success! You escape to a new life.

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[ Pretty much the only way to make him get along with you - make his life depend on it. Crosscanon and AUs welcome, or some sort of scenario where current canon events just went more wrong than anyone was ready for. ]

She had zero idea how it had come to this. Honestly, she was fairly certain that both Ruby and Yang would likely stop talking to her if they found out after what they had done. Blake.. might understand, eventually. Cinder had gotten what she'd been after and that meant she had no use for Mercury or Emerald any longer. They'd just been tools to get what she wanted and Weiss had been nearby when Mercury's use had run out, Cinder expressing that if he was weak enough to fall by that then he was useless to her now that she had what she was after, leaving some of the more powerful Grimm to turn on him. It'd been entirely a reflex to send an ice wall in front of Mercury, the Dust-generated shield being so uncontrolled in her haste that it wasn't at all the gracefully crafted work she normally did even in battle. There wasn't time, and with how things had been going, even Weiss knew that a speedy retreat was the only way they were both getting out alive for now. She still hadn't been able to find any of the others after she'd separated from Blake.

For now, Weiss had barricaded them in one of the small lobbies, thick walls of ice blocking the doors to make sure none of the Grimm could get in- at least not immediately. She could tell Mercury was injured, but she didn't know the extent of it. Without some kind of protection to address what was happening, whatever betrayal he was probably feeling would undoubtedly make him the human equivalent of a homing beacon for Grimm.

"How bad is it?"

That'd.. honestly been the first word she'd said since she'd gotten them temporarily away from danger. She sounded ridiculously frustrated, but this whole day had been frustrating, and now she was saving Mercury. Weiss was pacing back and forth in front of him. The only thing she could think of to do was something she honestly wasn't sure she wanted to for him.

Mercury Black || RWBY || OTA

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First time on a shipping meme but omg an aoba