Together, We'll Learn to Breathe
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A Therapeutic Chain of Events by thegirlofthorns
Fandoms: The Shadowhunter Chronicles - Cassandra Clare, The Last Hours Series - Cassandra Clare
19 Feb 2023
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Alastair Carstairs has a broken heart and a beaten-down spirit, and he is losing himself slowly.
Thomas Lightwood almost lost himself once, and he's scared that it could still one day happen.
Luckily, both Alastair and Thomas are about to meet the only other person that can help them find their own souls again: each other.Series
- Part 1 of Together, We'll Learn to Breathe
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You Drew Stars Around My Scars by thegirlofthorns
Fandoms: The Last Hours Series - Cassandra Clare, The Shadowhunter Chronicles - Cassandra Clare
18 Mar 2023
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"Thomas took a deep breath. 'You are the handsomest man I have ever had the pleasure of seeing. You are… Angel, Alastair. I once thought you looked like a prince from a fairy tale, and I couldn’t have been more correct. I always want to kiss you and I always want to touch you, and I…' he trailed off, resisting the urge to bury his face in his hands. 'I want you to feel loved, always.'"
...Or, the one where Thomas makes sure that Alastair feels loved.
Very loved.Series
- Part 2 of Together, We'll Learn to Breathe
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a dwindling mercurial high by thegirlofthorns
Fandoms: The Shadowhunter Chronicles - Cassandra Clare, The Last Hours Series - Cassandra Clare
03 May 2023
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"Sometimes Alastair would talk about how he hated being beaten into a new shape, how he feared that he had lost something precious within himself forever. How Thomas would help him find those jagged pieces again.
(Thomas vowed that he was perfect as he was, but if Alastair wished, he would help him build himself back up whatever he wished to be. Brick by brick by brick).
But he would never talk about those shocks of red hair, the smell of pine needle cologne, the haughty voice of a politician trying to charm and know and hide everything that he found unsavory.
Until, one day, he did.
Until, one day, after over a year of holding his breath, Alastair gave Thomas five snapshots of a relationship that gutted him."Or, a five-act look into Alastair and Charles' doomed abusive relationship.
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- Part 3 of Together, We'll Learn to Breathe
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Closets of Backlogged Dreams by thegirlofthorns
Fandoms: The Shadowhunter Chronicles - Cassandra Clare, The Last Hours Series - Cassandra Clare
05 Jul 2023
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Denial. Anger. Bargaining. Depression. Acceptance.
Thomas Lightwood is intimately familiar with the five stages of grief.
After all, he's grieving two people at once, and he is breaking.Series
- Part 4 of Together, We'll Learn to Breathe
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Bloodsucker, Famefucker by thegirlofthorns
Fandoms: The Shadowhunter Chronicles - Cassandra Clare, The Last Hours Series - Cassandra Clare
18 Sep 2023
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After an accidental encounter that neither of them can ignore, Thomas tells Charles exactly what he thinks of the way he treated Alastair.
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- Part 3 of Alastember 2023
- Part 5 of Together, We'll Learn to Breathe
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Every Tear's a Rain Parade From Hell by thegirlofthorns
Fandoms: The Shadowhunter Chronicles - Cassandra Clare, The Last Hours Series - Cassandra Clare
19 Sep 2023
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Alastair has cPTSD and night terrors. Thomas loves him more than anything and will help him get through it.
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- Part 6 of Together, We'll Learn to Breathe
- Part 4 of Alastember 2023