love is a tower where all of us can live
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With a flick of her wrist she sets the windshield wipers to a slower speed; the rain is starting to let up, less of a torrent and more of a drizzle. Jennifer doesn’t look at Leon as she asks, “Why didn’t you tell Beau where we’re going? For real?”
A pregnant pause follows her question; Leon’s voice is flat, but she can see him still smiling out of the corner of her eye as he answers, “I don’t want anyone but you to know I’m leaving.”
“What about your family?”
His arms tighten around the backpack in his lap. “I kind of want them to think I’m dead,” he says, and he sounds so casual even as his words are so morose, it makes Jennifer double-take.
“Wow, you’re a piece of shit,” she says without thinking, and then she barks out a laugh.
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- Part 1 of love is a tower where all of us can live
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There was a beat as Ms. Quirke seemed to consider something very carefully, her eyes flickering between Gordy and Serena – who both looked varying degrees of exasperated and pissed off – and Leon. “That’s… sort of it,” as she spoke, she stared into the middle distance between them, like she wasn’t sure who she should be addressing, “A metaphor is a figure of speech, used in a single phrase to compare two seemingly unrelated things to convey a certain image or idea. An allegory, on the other hand, is when the entire narrative uses its characters and events to symbolize something else entirely, usually to teach a lesson. Do you remember what Animal Farm is an allegory for?”
No, Leon thought to himself, right as Gordy chimed in, “Communist Russia.”
“Exactly!” Ms. Quirke said, her bright smile right back in place; she wasn’t looking at Leon at all now, instead focusing her attention entirely on his two classmates.
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a mini-fic about the origins of one of pride's worst habits.
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- Part 2 of love is a tower where all of us can live
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“I’m generating a birth chart for you!” he says, like it’s obvious, like Gluttony should have guessed that from the beginning, “I did this for Wrath, and Envy, and I made my own and printed it out to give to them. It’s important so I know who to like… trust most on this team, y’know?”
“First off,” Gluttony growls, and leans forward onto his knees to loom into Pride’s personal space a bit, an implicit threat turning explicit. “We’re not on a team. It’s just one job."
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gluttony and prides first meeting goes as well as you might imagine it going.
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- Part 3 of love is a tower where all of us can live
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whose heart could i break today? by burnhounds (LittleDragonPrince)
Fandoms: Original Work
04 Aug 2018
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“Don’t - be like that,” Gluttony said with an exaggerated roll of his eyes. As if sensing the question about to leave Pride’s lips - like what? - he continued, words clipped and exasperated, “Don’t act all victimized because people are mad at you. We’re mad at Envy now, too, you should be happy.”
“I am happy,” replied Pride with a glower.
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a study of pride & envys 'friendship' over the course of just over a month
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- Part 4 of love is a tower where all of us can live
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"You're thinking too much about what you want," Greed said, barely managing to stifle a sigh; the book lay forgotten in their folded-up lap, "You want Lust to stop being mad at you. That's not going to happen if you don't consider what he wants."
Pride crossed his arms in an attempt to hide his hurt feelings - he had thought this was a good plan, but the look on Greed's face said otherwise - and huffed, "All Lust wants is for me to like him, though."
From her place in bed, Wrath groaned, a low and deeply frustrated sound, and pulled the blankets up to cover her ears as if to block Pride out entirely, "Make him stop. Every word out of his mouth makes me want to throw him down the stairs."
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with a little help from his friends, prides plan to make things up to lust goes surprisingly well.
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- Part 5 of love is a tower where all of us can live
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Pride refused to reply for a moment, taking a long swig of his drink instead. Envy didn’t seem to be in a rush, however, just took another hit off of xer spliff and let the smoke unfurl from xer lips as Pride tried to think of something he could say that would make Envy drop the subject. “Well, I did just get kidnapped, like, not even a month ago,” he settled on saying, “So forgive me! If I’m not in the best mood. I don’t see why it’s any of your business.”
“Because we’re friends,” Envy said without hesitation, and Pride couldn’t hide his wince; despite their squabbles in the past, Envy had always looked out for him, and here he was, acting like a child. “And because you only get this squirrelly about your problems when they’re really bothering you, ‘cause otherwise you would have told everyone and their mother what was wrong, like, five seconds after we got you back to the hideout.”
Pride scrubbed one hand roughly over his face as his vision started to blur. It made him feel pathetic. “I’m sorry," He blurted out, "You’re right.”
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pride and gluttony get kidnapped. that's not even the worst part.
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- Part 6 of love is a tower where all of us can live