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    “Well,” she begins, “I need to ask a favor.”

    Which leads to now, Philippe standing tense-fingered and stiff-backed in front of an old mahogany door that he’s sure goes to hell. He thinks about what it means to dread something so badly he wants to bash his head against his briefcase and escape out the nearest window.

    After all, who would want to meet the man who nearly killed you?

    This is for Christine, he reminds himself. Exhaling slowly, he lifts his fist to the door and knocks.


    Weeks after the fateful night at the opera house, Christine asks Philippe to check on Erik. Philippe reluctantly agrees, but he had no idea what he was getting into.

    Or that he'd fall in love.

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    21 Sep 2024

  2. Public Bookmark 38

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    Stede is more than aware of his oddness.
    He talks too loud. He moves too much. He gets too excited. He avoids crowds too much. He is too soft.
    Stede speaks and rambles and babbles - about pirates and plants and lilies and the sea. And yet nobody listens. And so he quiets down. Because what is the point of talking if there is nobody who listens?
    (the arranged marriage doesn't help.)

    (or: listening as a love language - or lack thereof)

     

    (previously known as: "Keep going, love")

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    28 Jan 2023

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    It was an unfortunate trait of Viktor’s to overfocus on a nagging problem until he solved it.

    This made him an excellent scientist but overly distant at some times and too hyper-aware at others. It had been easier as a child — not any less hurtful, more actually — when not many people had wanted to associate with him.

    Yet now, there was Jayce whom he cared about a great deal. He did not want to ruin anything about their burgeoning friendship and partnership by poking and prodding him.

    He would hate it if Jayce was to do the same to him.

    Early in their partnership, Viktor takes Jayce to a spa.

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    27 Feb 2022

  4. Public Bookmark 28

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    The giant sat up, still holding Louie tight. Said duck writhed and wriggled in his grasp, pushing against the meaty hand holding him captive.

    “I don’t think so.” He whispered menacingly, his sharp teeth illuminated in the moonlight.

    or

    the one where Gavin or "Tenderfeet" is a little bit more malicious than you'd think, Louie's attempt at ridding his home of the bigfoot goes a completely different way, and now he has to deal with a potentially deadly beast in his home, while trying to keep his family out of it.

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    21 Dec 2020

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    “Thanks for coming with me,” Sokka said, leaning against the balcony.

    “Did I have a choice?” Zuko asked, wincing at how harsh it sounded.

    Sokka just scoffed. “Uh, yeah. Nobody can make you do anything, you’re the Fire Lord. There’s like, two people on this planet who can tell you what to do and you’d listen— the Avatar and your uncle.”

    “Three,” Zuko corrected.

    “What?”

    “Three people who can make me do stuff I don’t want to do,” Zuko said, softly. “The Avatar, my uncle, and you.”

    Approaching the 10th anniversary of his coronation, Fire Lord Zuko hopes that by the time they return to the capital he'll have another thing to celebrate: his engagement to Sokka.

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    31 May 2020