Penance
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Rid Of The Monsters In Your Head by orphan_account
Fandoms: What If...? (TV 2021), Marvel Cinematic Universe
06 Sep 2022
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He counts his own breaths. He looks out at the dark purple and black that has become his regular view. Sometimes, he gets visitors. More often than not, he imagines them. So when Stephen somehow gets a visitor that is different from his regular hallucinations, he's delighted. I mean, there are only so many conversation topics you can have with the people in your head before running out.
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- Part 1 of Penance
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This Side of Paradise by orphan_account
Fandoms: What If...? (TV 2021), Marvel Cinematic Universe
07 Sep 2022
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America makes good on her promise to go back to that lonely Doctor Strange she found. Of course, she came armed with food. They talk, but mostly, they revel in each other's company.
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- Part 2 of Penance
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Broken dimension perks by orphan_account
Fandoms: What If...? (TV 2021), Marvel Cinematic Universe
08 Sep 2022
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Stephen wonders if this is some kind of misguided attempt at trying not to get him to feel lonely. The Watcher, trying to repay the debt that he perceived himself to owe to Stephen Strange? Regardless, he didn't appreciate his pocket dimension being used as some kind of stopover for misplaced people.
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- Part 3 of Penance
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I have loved you for a thousand years by orphan_account
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, What If...? (TV 2021), Doctor Strange (Movies)
21 Sep 2022
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"I love you, Stephen." She says decisively. "Maybe not in the same way you love me, but I still love you. I think... I think I always will."
Stephen smiles wryly. "I suppose you could call us soulmates, then."
Christine laughs. It's joyful and bright and relieved. She kisses Stephen on the cheek, eliciting a pleased smile from him.
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- Part 4 of Penance
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"You want to go back?" Stephen looked between T'Challa, Scott and Peter in growing disbelief. "Why?"
"It's our world." Peter fidgeted with his sling ring. "And we have a plan to cure the zombies, we just... we didn't have enough time to. Or the resources. But if you're there-"
"Peter, I'm going to have to stop you right there. There's a difference between me hosting you in my pocket dimension and actually leaving it. The last time I left this place, I had to stop a multiversal threat."
"But-!"
"What is this plan, anyway?"
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- Part 5 of Penance
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Like looking in a mirror by orphan_account
Fandoms: What If...? (TV 2021), Marvel Cinematic Universe
24 Sep 2022
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"I had hoped you would visit later rather than sooner."
"Other me." Stephen greeted.
Strange Supreme cracked a thin smile. "Incredibly bold of you to assume you are the original."
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- Part 6 of Penance
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Stop (let's try again) by orphan_account
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, What If...? (TV 2021)
12 Oct 2022
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Peter was having a bad day. No, actually, that was the understatement of his life. If you took the worst day he had since before the apocalypse, then multiplied it by five and spread it out over the course of the zombie apocalypse, you would have what was the smallest fraction of one of his bad days now.
This definitely beat arriving late to school or finding out that your favourite diner had closed down.
[set immediately after Shelter, from the same series.]
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- Part 7 of Penance
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do not pass go, do not collect 200 by orphan_account
Fandoms: What If...? (TV 2021), Marvel Cinematic Universe
30 Sep 2022
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"And I don't want to do that. I've learned my lesson—still learning it, in fact—and I will be staying here."
"Oh." America deflated. "So all the spells and theory I learned are useless then?"
"Of course not. Containment spells are tricky to cast and trickier to master, and the more powerful ones can double as offensive spells too, if you wished. Defense is the best offence, is how the saying goes." Stephen set down his book and sent America a cheeky look. "Want to learn some more?"
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- Part 8 of Penance
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A promise is a promise by orphan_account
Fandoms: What If...? (TV 2021), Marvel Cinematic Universe
05 Oct 2022
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"You said this was unfair." Christine steps closer. "I may not be a therapist, Stephen, but I know you. You're guilty. So tell me, what did you promise me in your world?"
Stephen's eyes close briefly, as though he were in pain. When they open, he had a haunted look in his eyes.
"I promised her creme brûlée." He admits. "On the night of the accident. I've heard that sentence so many times, I don't think I could ever forget it."
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- Part 9 of Penance