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"Then what was the fight about?" he presses, and she can't get the feeling of his gaze off of her no matter how hard she glares at her mug.
Riley forces it out, knows her apple cider is going to be cold by the next time she drinks it. "It was over me being a toxic, self-centered friend who doesn't care about anyone other than myself and don't like change, and how I've been manipulating Maya for... God, for years.
"It's all true, Charlie. I hate change and I'm toxic and arrogant and—and I've been using my best friend in a way that I shouldn't have been, and I'm trying to get better but I just—"
"You're not Atlas, Riley," Charlie cuts her off, pulling her hands from her burning-hot mug and resting them, red palms up, on the table. "You're not meant to shoulder the world alone."
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The road to recovery takes a long time and a shit-load of patience, but Riley doesn't mind—she's spent enough time rushing headfirst into things without thinking, she thinks, and patience is a virtue.
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to look in somebody's eyes, to light up the skies (to open the world and send it reeling) by anneblacks
Fandoms: Anne with an E
12 Nov 2019
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Anne Shirley-Cuthbert has always been drawn to Gilbert Blythe—the honest and earnest, tall and dark dancer of a young man with those warm eyes of his and more pure empathy than she knows doctors to have. It had always seemed ethereal, or ancient—something that had been carved into her bones over the ages; something that felt like life's tug on her strings of fate.
She had just never known exactly how right she was.
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Anne Shirley's imaginary friends, fanciful names and women carved out of magic and fairytales are remnants of past lives, and they are all drawn to every Gilbert Blythe like moth to a flame.
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if this could be us (and the words inscribed can't keep us from flying) by anneblacks
Fandoms: No Good Nick (TV)
29 Feb 2020
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Nick feels the person who's just passed her whirl around, the breeze he creates enough to rustle her hair, and waits a moment before doing the same, and there--there he stands, in all his own ruffled glory, his expression a painting of shock.
"I knew--" Will starts, then stops, his voice winded. "I knew I had to have been coming in at the wrong time."
Soulmate AU where the words of the first things your soulmate thinks of you are inscribed on your arms, their most significant thoughts wind their ways around your hipbones and/or torso as they go, and the way they think of you as they get to truly know you etches itself in ink somewhere else. Their last thoughts of you scrawl themselves over your heart.
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all my nights taste like gold (when i'm with you it's like everything glows) by anneblacks
Fandoms: Girl Meets World
10 Jun 2019
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"But what if I'm not--"
"What if you're perfect for them?" he retaliates, searching her expression. "What if your tiny quirks--your being a light sleeper, your sarcasm, the way you make funny voices when you're anxious or scared or sad, what if those are exactly what your soulmate needs? That's the whole soulmate deal, Maya--you're perfect for your soulmate and your soulmate is perfect for you. There's no disappointing anyone."
She stares at him, her chest rising and falling heavily, blue eyes too close for him to focus after his rant. Her gaze flutters over his face like she's seeing him for the first time, and she whispers something he can't hear before speaking, her voice laced with wind and longing. "Would you wait?"
"What?"
"For m--your soulmate, if you had to. Would you wait?" She catches herself as soon as she notices her slip, but she's dazed and she isn't focused on her own words as much as she might have been before he'd spoken.
He doesn't miss it.
(Joshaya Soulmate AU where there are different ways to find out who your soulmate is--the main one being where anything written in ink onto your skin is immediately transferred onto your soulmate's.)
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