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Your life is not your own: this is your oldest truth, your foundation.
You learned it first at three years old, when your mother arranged your arms to hold your newborn sister in your lap, and whispered to you the words that would change you. This is your sister, Nom, you still hear her say in your dreams. You'll take care of her, won't you?
You promised, and you meant it, and you failed; but you tried. Oh, you tried. Katie looks at you now with fear in her eyes. She tries to hide it, looking down at the table, but she can't stop glancing up at you between dice rolls. You look away, trying to make it easier on her. There's so much you want to tell her, so much you still want to talk to her about, but the words get tangled up on the branches growing inside you, caught in your throat, building into one silent, desperate cry: I love you, I love you, I love you, I'm sorry. It's for the best; there's nothing you can say that won't hurt her more.
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Nom, what he's made to be, and what he chooses to do.
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"You're not fooling anybody," 4C says with a sniff. He isn't even looking at him, studying his own nails. "We all know you won't bother."
"Maybe I should," Nom says. "I can talk to Scott. He… he'll understand."
"But why bother? Talking won't fix what's wrong with you."
"Because I can't talk to you."
That gets his attention. 4C turns a withering look on him. "And whose fault is that?"
It always comes back to this, talking to the ghost. "I still miss you," he says, twisting his fingers together so he doesn't reach out for him. He hasn't quite hit that low, yet. "I wish you could be here."
The ghost scoffs, and then Nom is alone again, to brush the crumbs off the table and stand with a sigh.
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Nom is being haunted.
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You dream of coming home: not to the high ceilings and magnificence of the monarch's quarters that shouldn't be yours, not to the bare room in the new knights' barracks that waits for you to mark it as your own, or your cozy cottage hidden below the well; not even to your old bunk, in a barracks long since reduced to rubble, where you spent the worst years of your life. You dream of the home where you used to have a family, back when you were a person. But you open the door and they aren't there: instead he is, sitting on the table, kicking his feet.
Hi, Nom, he says, in a sing-song voice. You shouldn't hurt this much, in a dream. Hey, you dropped this. He cocks his head and smiles; you know, because you know him, that he's taken something from you. He always takes things from you, but he always gives them back, doesn't he? He holds out his hand and sitting in it is your own beating heart.
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Nom is sick, in body and soul.
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"I'd love to know, actually," Pearl said. "Because it looks a whole lot like the Doc's come back to life. Or un-life, I guess."
"Hi," he said, before Cleo could muddy the waters. "I'm Eight. I'm not the Doc—thank god—but I would very much like to get back to where I'm from, and get him back here. And if you help me, I'll even get him back alive."
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Eight wakes up in a grave, and his day only gets more complicated from there.
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- Part 4 of broader horizons (legswap au)
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"Hmm," Viking hummed, disappointed again. But as Legundo fixed him with a level gaze, interest flared in those odd-colored eyes. "Vintage was right," he pronounced. "You are different."
Legundo swallowed. It was inevitable, he knew, that any prolonged contact with his other self's neighbors would betray the differences between them. He wasn't hiding who he was, exactly; it was more like, he wanted to be careful about how the information spread, so that he had a chance to explain himself to the extent he was able and stem outlandish or even dangerous rumors. He wanted to tell people in person, after he'd met them and taken their measure.
He did not want to tell Viking Pilot.
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Viking takes an interest in Doc, and Doc's culture shock hits a breaking point.
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- Part 3 of broader horizons (legswap au)
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Viking went weak with relief. He collapsed back on his heels, shoving wet hair back out of his face. "Oh, thank god. Apo. Do you not know how to swim?"
Apo scowled and mustered the strength to slug him in the shoulder. She was weak as a kitten, but he took it as a good sign. "No, you jerk," she said, and wrapped her arms around herself. "Next time I'm staying home. You can keep your stupid gummy worms."
He wheezed a laugh, strained and pathetic. "You can have all the gummy worms you want," he said. "As long as you don't die in a lake."
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Apo, Viking, and drowning.
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"Legs?" Mig prompted again, urgently. "We have a problem. A very… milky problem."
Legundo blinked and came back to himself, taking in his partner's appearance with a quick sweep of his gaze. Mig was on edge, shifting his weight from foot to foot, a nervous, preoccupied look in his eye.
"Tell me," he said, already moving to join him at the door. Mig hopped back to clear the space and lead him out into the open air.
"He's here," he said ominously.
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In which Dr. Legundo finally gets a win.
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- Part 2 of broader horizons (legswap au)
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Apo heaved a sigh, and Viking waited to hear the explanation of just precisely how stupid he was and how he was gonna get frostbite and lose all his fingers and wouldn't even be able to scroll TikTok anymore, but instead she used her teeth to yank off her left glove and shoved it into his chest without looking at him.
"Here," she grunted. "Now we'll both half freeze."
Viking thought he might cry, which would really suck with how cold and dehydrated he was. He didn't trust himself to say anything without bursting into tears, so for once he said nothing and just tugged on the glove and pressed his shoulder against hers as hard as he could. Her bare hand found his and he clung back with all the strength in his frozen fingers.
It could be worse, he thought, staring into the fire until his eyes stung for other reasons. At least we have each other.
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On the other side was a precipitous drop into — nothing. For a moment Legundo wondered if he'd actually fallen, and was looking at the sky instead; but he was upright, and yet the sky was below them. He stamped a booted foot, hard, on the wooden planks under his feet, and his stomach dropped at the hollow sound.
"Where — " he began in a shaky voice. "Mig, where is the ground?"
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When Legundo died, he hoped for oblivion, and expected torment; what he got was neither. Instead, he finds himself in a world where islands hang in the sky, and strangers wearing the faces of his dead friends treat him like someone they know. Finding his footing is a difficult task, and figuring out how to reverse what's been done even more so, and there's something wrong with the man who claims to be his partner...
He should have known better than to think he could rest.
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- Part 1 of broader horizons (legswap au)
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When Elle was nine years old, she dared her best friend to follow her into the woods, and he died.
That's how she remembered it: the eyes in the dark, the moving shadows, the flash of fangs, and screaming, both of them screaming — and then clutching Avid to her chest, half-carrying, half-dragging, his blood soaking through both their clothes. And the whole way home, thinking, He's dead, he's dead, he's dead.
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Elle and Avid, through her eyes, after one end and before the other.
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"Well, what do we have here," Owen's voice pierced the silence, deceptively light with that ever-present undercurrent of menace, and sent a jolt of fear down Avid's spine. "A little bat, stuck in a cage."
He lowered himself with leonine grace onto his haunches, bringing himself down to Avid's eye level, and gazed at him through the bars. The white hair was still a shock, every time; so different from the nondescript dark-headed lumberjack who had teased him on his first day in Oakhurst. Red eyes narrowed at the corners, studying him like a particularly vexing puzzle. "Hello, Avid."
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Avid locks himself in the vampire holding cell. Owen pays him a visit.
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"It's not him I'm worried about missing out on things, dummy." Marm leaned over to flick him in the forehead, right between his eyes. "To be honest, I thought you'd change your mind about hiding. Aren't you lonely, Avid?"
The building they were standing in - plank for plank a replica of his Jungle Kingdom home - was an obvious enough answer as to make the very question ridiculous. Of course Avid was lonely; he missed his friends, desperately. He missed Doovid, his wayward partner; He missed Vintage and Ruby and Viking and Trog and he even missed Milkman. But there was no fishing his friends out of the void - and he certainly didn't miss himself.
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Marm thinks Avid is silly for hiding from the other version of him; Avid is very bad at winning an argument with her.
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Ben promised to help Kaine find a cure for his condition, and he has one idea for where to start: the lab where he and Seward Trainer worked and kept data on Ben himself. But the lab holds Ben something he wasn't prepared for - an apology and a goodbye from the man who saved and betrayed him.
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The computer beeped. Identity confirmed: Reilly, Benjamin, it read out in a robotic voice.
Ben froze from grumpily inspecting his healed hand and looked back up at the screen. "Uh. What?"
Commencing playback.
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- Part 3 of you're in my blood, i'm not a lonely man
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The Unfair Persecution of One Addie Morris By Orlando Hurricanes Management by Crewe
Fandoms: Digital Football League (Video Game)
25 Apr 2025
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Okay, so Addie is... seeing the Blasters quarterback on her own time. That's nobody else's business. That is, until management start putting a series of increasingly aggressive anti-fraternization posters, and her best friend decides to stick his nose into her personal life.
Retirement can't come soon enough.
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When Jax and Roanne decided to use the offseason break to go ghost hunting, the last thing Lona expected was to get a call that they'd found something... or that they were bringing it home with them.
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The investigation into the Phoenix Sanctum and Undefined turned up answers, but not the ones Roanne was looking for - until Undefined themself shows up to raise even more questions.
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Cleo, and Etho, and Bdubs, and the things she thinks she knows.
A (somewhat abridged) Cleo POV of the events of The Lonely Hearts Club.
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- Part 3 of the afterlife verse
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The Life Series: the world's biggest smash hit reality competition show. Utilizing cutting edge respawn, augmented reality, and memory-altering technology, a group of ordinary people enter an arena to compete to see who will be the last man standing. Five seasons in, the cast has been catapulted into stardom, and having their lives and relationships temporarily ripped away from them has become routine - but returning to normal life is still an adjustment...
Skizz wrestles with what his actions in the games mean for his relationship with his brother; Gem is doing just fine after her first season, even though no one seems to expect her to; Grian, the showrunner, agonizes over his responsibilities to the cast.
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"You all right, dude?" Skizz asked, after a beat of quiet in which Impulse did not immediately volunteer what was bothering him.
"Yeah, I'm cool," Impulse said automatically, and then added quickly, because he was feeling way too exposed up here, and highly aware of his precarious position up on the wall, and how easy it would be to be overheard by someone wandering by below them, "You wanna take a walk with me?"
It was almost dark, and their neighbors in every direction were enemies of the Red Banners; it was an inane request. But Skizz just said, "Sure," and held out a hand for Impulse to help him up.
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Impulse just wants to stay alive. The time has come to leave Dogwarts for the Crastle, and the biggest obstacle standing in his way is his best friend, who would see through any lie he tells. It's a risk to ask for his help, but it's one he has to take.
Skizz is as loyal as they come; he would never dream of turning against his king or brothers in arms. But when Impulse asks him to be an accomplice to his betrayal, Skizz is forced to choose between loyalty to his friend and loyalty to his king... and the choice just might break him.
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Skizz just couldn't leave it alone.
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Skizz POV set during chapter 5 of The Lonely Hearts Club, when he goes to ask Martyn about the fate of Team T.I.E.S.
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- Part 2 of the afterlife verse