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Mark Scout wakes up alone in the stairwell. The panic is immediate: all the breath pressed from his lungs, his heart knocking wildly in his chest, something like electricity slithering under his skin. When last he’d been conscious, he had Gemma in his arms, her face pressed to his. Her voice still lingers in his mind: I’m sorry, she keeps repeating, again and again.
And now she’s gone.
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A week after the events of the S2 finale, Mark Scout attempts to put together the pieces of his life. An added complication? He's still reintegrating, dreaming in Mark S.'s memories, and attempting to ignore the fact that his innie is trying to tell him something.
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21 Apr 2025
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“I’m, like, your boss.”
“Okay,” said Mark, his patience wearing thin. “Well, in here I’m your boss.”
“In here?” she smirked, “Eagan Hall?”
“In my office.”
“Which happens to be in my hall.”
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Professor Mark Scout takes on the momentous task of educating one the founder’s very own descendants, Helena Eagan.
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07 Apr 2025
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Helena does not kneel. Not before Kier, not before men, not before anything outside herself.
And yet—
The kneeling rail is unyielding beneath her knees, the chill of the polished wood seeping through her stockings. It feels wrong to be here, but not in the way it should. It does not feel blasphemous. It does not feel shameful.
It feels exhilarating.
(Or: Helena Eagan has never known desire—that is, until she steps into Father Mark Scout’s chapel.)
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06 Apr 2025
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He goes to step closer, but he has to check.
“How old are you, anyway?”
Her lips curl into a slow smile. “That’s the first question?” she asks. “Don’t you want to know my name?”
He flicks ash onto the marble floor.
“I’ll get to it.”
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Or. Recently promoted Mark Scout attends his first end of quarter celebration at the Eagan estate and meets a young woman that he’d like to know more about.
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31 Mar 2025
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In retrospect, it’s a miracle he manages to stop in time. He’s not there yet, won’t be for a while. The world goes choppy, galloping alongside his adrenaline-soaked heartbeat. Grey coat, red hair. She’s pretty. She’s pissed.
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Mark meets Helena weeks before his innie gets brained by Helly R. He's gonna need a lot more bandaids.
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28 Mar 2025