Amethyst's Whumptober 2024
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Scott had broken his heart before.
Plenty of times, actually, to the point that Martyn had joked that maybe he was just addicted to the feeling. Maybe he was. But he sure as hell hadn’t been seeking this. In another life, he could've married his best friend, heard the jokes at the wedding reception from high school friends that they'd dated everyone around them, not realizing what they needed most was at their sides all along. Because when he and Martyn worked? They worked. There was this incredible sense of ease that had come from dating Martyn, something that he'd never found with any of his other boyfriends through the years. Martyn knew how he took his coffee, he knew never to dogear his books, and he knew what Scott's favorite brand of yarn was, and would surprise him with pretty stationery 'because why not'. He knew Scott. Knew him so well he could care for all his disparate parts.
He also knew exactly how to tear Scott apart. And maybe that had always been the problem.
{In which Martyn gets left on read, Scott finally finds his keys, and a couple updates are made to the favorite contact list}
(Whumptober 2024: Day 1 - Alternative - Finding Old Messages)
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“You tell me that you need me, then you go and cut me down” by Amethystfairy1
Fandoms: Hermitcraft SMP, 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series
02 Oct 2024
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There was a lot going on that he didn’t understand.
Which was particularly disorienting considering he’d felt, just a handful of days ago, like everything was finally settling into place. She was here now. He'd timed his morning flight to avoid having to see her, because that felt like a problem for another day. Another day, when he wasn't so paranoid about hearing that familiar click-click-tap and knowing who it was, knowing it was time to have that conversation, and he'd have to bow his head and accept whatever was said because he knew his place.
But that was just the thing, wasn't it? He didn't know his place anymore...and maybe that was for the best.
{In which Grian is forced to put his sweater on, Mumbo is barely keeping it together, Scar having a rough time, and Pearl and Gem have some errands to run, so they'll be back later.}
(Whumptober 2024: Day 2 - Role Reversal)
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- Part 47 of Traveling Thieves {Dark Fantasy AU}
- Part 2 of Amethyst's Whumptober 2024
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“I never meant to start a fire, I never meant to make you bleed” by Amethystfairy1
Fandoms: Hermitcraft SMP, 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series
03 Oct 2024
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He’d done a lot of bad things in his life.
Or well…define bad. He’d stolen and killed, he’d cheated and lied, and not for a single one of those things was he regretful.
Scar was unfamiliar with such a feeling as regret.
Yet now? He thought maybe he’d drown in it. There was a cold, writhing pit in his stomach, a fearful sensation creeping up like he was awaiting someone to grab his shoulder. Spin him and shake him and demand in the same pitchy cries that howled within his own head again and again and again.
How could you do that to him? When he'd just laughed, just smiled, just joked with you only three days ago, only three days ago...? How? How could you? How will you ever fix this, make it right? Will he ever let you?
And the answer to all of those question? Scar didn't know.
{In which Scar can't move forward, Grian doesn't want company, and Mumbo is still doing his best.}
(Whumptober 2024: Day 3 - Alternative - Regret)
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- Part 3 of Amethyst's Whumptober 2024
- Part 48 of Traveling Thieves {Dark Fantasy AU}
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“I’m not gruesome, just human, and I’ve made a few mistakes.” by Amethystfairy1
Fandoms: Hermitcraft SMP, 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series
04 Oct 2024
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Mumbo thought maybe after a few years with the guild he’d get used to the dark…that is to say it’s not like he wasn’t used to it.
It was an old friend.
An old friend that had protected him, steady on his shoulders, but also hauling him down into deeper waters, till he was barely staying above, gasping and struggling, trying to hold on to the slivers of light that ebbed and faded from him. It was always like this to some extent, maybe now it was just worse because he was bowing his head to it.
But then…when he’d tried to live in the light, it’d been made pretty damn clear the light didn’t want him.
{In which it gets dark, it gets quiet, and Mumbo makes a few coins in another days work.}
(Whumptober 2024: Day 4 - Sensory Deprivation)
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- Part 4 of Amethyst's Whumptober 2024
- Part 49 of Traveling Thieves {Dark Fantasy AU}
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“High achiever, don’t you see? Baby nothing comes for free.” by Amethystfairy1
Fandoms: 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series
05 Oct 2024
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The golden glow in the bottle beamed for a brilliant hopeful moment, raising hope in his swelling heart.
Then it died out alongside his chances when she pulled the stopper.
Martyn had been trying to graduate from witch apprentice for three years now. This was the third time he’d spent months upon months carefully curating ingredients to create the highly powerful healing potion that was the final hurdle he needed to clear.It was brutally difficult, hair-thinning in it’s finickiness, in how easy it was to screw up.
And he’d screwed up. And he was used to screwing up. But the city was so loud, and the work was so frustrating, and at this moment the last thing he wanted to think about was having to try again. But he would. Because in the end, what other choice was there?
{In which a potion is brewed, a light goes out, and Martyn starts all over again}
(Whumptober 2024: Day 5 - Healing Salve)
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- Part 5 of Amethyst's Whumptober 2024
- Part 13 of Traveling Thieves {Dark Fantasy AU}
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“A quiet voice inside will untangle me” by Amethystfairy1
Fandoms: Hermitcraft SMP, 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series
06 Oct 2024
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I need to kill her.
It was the only way to keep moving, day after day after day.
I need to kill her.
Even after he’d collapsed, shivering, swallowing shrieks, shuddering on the forest floor and wishing he could shatter, that simply wasn’t allowed. He couldn’t break, no matter how badly he wanted too, no matter how much of a relief it might have been, to have simply burst into a thousand pieces, scatter over the frosty grass and rest.
Rest.
When was the last time he’d rested?
{In which arguing is hard when you're all by yourself and the person you hate most is half-way across the continent...and Etho is suddenly grateful he has three tails}
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- Part 6 of Amethyst's Whumptober 2024
- Part 50 of Traveling Thieves {Dark Fantasy AU}
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“I can be obnoxious at times but try and see my heart.” by Amethystfairy1
Fandoms: Hermitcraft SMP, 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series
07 Oct 2024
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Scar was used to being the one who could fix things with the flick of a finger.
The nature spirits were intertwined with how he lived everyday, day in and day out…and sure, maybe he ought not have skipped his trip to the spirit well last year, but he’d been dreading going back to eleven territory, so what could it hurt? He’d never come anywhere near running completely dry of magical strength before. But how could he have predicted all of this? Impossible. That he'd end up with this little avian, so damaged, so beloved, and be willing to do anything to keep him from hurt.
Keep him from hurt, and even still, keep hurting him. Now here he was bedridden, trying to scrape together enough strength to just operate normally, even with just the dredges of magical strength that Gem was able to spare him. And as he laid here, all he could think was that more so than his lack of magic, more so than his lack of strength...hurting Grian was what had rendered him truly useless.
{In which Scar is laying down, and yet he can't rest}
(Whumptober 2024: Day 7 - Magic with a Cost)
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- Part 7 of Amethyst's Whumptober 2024
- Part 51 of Traveling Thieves {Dark Fantasy AU}
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“Maybe we don’t know that we’re broken” by Amethystfairy1
Fandoms: 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series
08 Oct 2024
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When he’d first been put in the tower, he’d thought it was just a waiting game.
Endure the endless silence, the walls that only spoke of his own screams, the rattle of the chains, the clanking of the winch. They were going to come do something to him eventually, something beyond just using him as a living power source, draining him of his golden magic every couple of days.
Surely they would come.
He went a long time without making any noise. Too long. Long enough he started to fear that if he broke the silence? Well...maybe it'd just break him right back.
{In which Scott has a bad dream}
(Whumptober 2024: Day 8 - Isolation Chamber)
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- Part 8 of Amethyst's Whumptober 2024
- Part 3 of The Mad King AU
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A Thousand More by Amethystfairy1
Fandoms: Hermitcraft SMP, 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series
09 Oct 2024
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Etho’s arm was throbbing still. It was the afternoon of the second full day he and Doc had been housing a trio of feathery children. All the work to get them settled in had been stealing sleep, and the kids themselves still hadn't rested well enough after a lifetime of scrounging to survive. He wasn’t sure where such a devotion was coming from. Hell, Etho was barely old enough to be considered a functional adult himself, much less whatever deeply protective emotion was currently winding its way up into his heart and making a home for itself there.
But truly, truly, from the bottom of his heart…he was being honest. The bruise was painful, it ran beneath the fur on his forearm and purpled the pale skin of his bicep, aching and sore. But somehow, even now, even after just a handful of hours, Etho had this feeling.
If that was what it had taken to bring these three home with him as he had. To see Pearl standing here in the doorway of the little room she, Grian, and Jimmy would now share, clean and with a full meal in her belly…?
Easily. I’d have taken a thousand more.
{In which Etho takes his lumps, Pearl takes a deep breath, and both of them take a nap}
(Whumptober: Day 9 - Bruises)
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Bullet in a Gun by Amethystfairy1
Fandoms: Hermitcraft SMP, 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series
10 Oct 2024
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A puppet on loosened strings, but strings all the same. Scar knew that's what he was, and he hated it. Sometimes he just wanted to stop, wanted to turn to this crowd, to any crowd that would gather to watch their false bravado, and scream at the top of his lungs that he loved this man and he’d never hurt him and the whole world needed to change. Needed to take away the aches that hurt him as he kept wings folded under an oversized sweater. Ought to demolish how he needed moments curled in the corner of his office, trying to breathe, door locked and blinds drawn, glamor headaches ravaging him.
Loved him. Loved him so, so, so much.
So please. Don't take him away before he can even say it.
{In which Scar has something he really needs to say, and right now? Grian isn't listening.}
(Whumptober 2024: Day 10 - Passing out from Pain)
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- Part 10 of Amethyst's Whumptober 2024
- Part 79 of Through the Sky-Blue Cracks {Hot Guy/Cute Guy Superhero/Hybrid AU}
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Lonely Moments Left Alone. by Amethystfairy1
Fandoms: Hermitcraft SMP, 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series
11 Oct 2024
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Jimmy hadn’t for a moment implied he intended to change their yearly tradition of going to the Writers Conference together despite how he now how a boyfriend. At the worst, it seemed he might’ve been thinking they could head there as a trio, then split off and start networking because that’s how it was anyway.
And again, Pearl was probably projecting.
But all she could see was herself third wheeling for most of the night, and while in and of itself she wouldn't hate that...because well, annoying Scott and teasing Jimmy was always a good time, she just...wasn't feeling that. But she also wasn't exactly feeling like being alone. Unfortunately, she didn't have many other options.
Pearl didn't mind being alone. Truly, she didn't. This was different. This was what she hated. This was nothing more than a lonely moment.
{In which Jimmy and Scott ditch a formal, Pearl needs a minute, and B just has the most impeccable timing.}
(Whumptober 2024: Day 11 - Loneliness)
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- Part 11 of Amethyst's Whumptober 2024
- Part 77 of Through the Sky-Blue Cracks {Hot Guy/Cute Guy Superhero/Hybrid AU}
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Turning Corners by Amethystfairy1
Fandoms: Hermitcraft SMP, 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series
12 Oct 2024
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He thought he could handle it...but when did the night cycle hit?
How long had he been out, again? Why was he just going in circles?
Really, it shouldn’t have been this hard. He’d done it before with Joel, Grian, and Jimmy. But they weren't here. And Mumbo wasn't used to flying alone. The caverns were closing in, his wings were starting to ache...and yet, with every corner turned, he just couldn't find his way back...the night cycle had long since fallen, and he was starting to fear that if he landed to rest, he wouldn't be able to get off the ground again.
{In which Mumbo gets lost, gets tired, and recalls some good advice}
(Whumptober 2024: Day 12 - Underground Caverns)
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- Part 69 of Through the Sky-Blue Cracks {Hot Guy/Cute Guy Superhero/Hybrid AU}
- Part 12 of Amethyst's Whumptober 2024
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She was gasping, trembling, and the first thing she did once she heard the iron door of the apartment seal shut was whirl around, fling herself into what she hoped was the bedroom, and spot the toilet.
Then she retched into it.
Oli was crying. He wasn’t wailing, screaming, crying. He was just crying quietly, occasional hiccuping sobs escaping him as he sat by the door, staring at the mess that was lying in front of it.
Pix was unconscious. Sausage wasn't moving. There was scarlet on the fake wood floors, and Fwhip was grunting, whimpering, struggling to pull Sausage out from beneath the prone body of the man who'd saved them all. False watched it all with that sickening swirl still in her stomach....but she had to move. Because this was all they had, and soon might be all they ever knew.
But for now, she'd work with it.
{In which False has to step up, Sausage and Pix are down, and they just have to believe they'll be ok...eventually}
(Whumptober 2024 Day 13: Multiple Whumpees)
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- Part 13 of Amethyst's Whumptober 2024
- Part 52 of Through the Sky-Blue Cracks {Hot Guy/Cute Guy Superhero/Hybrid AU}
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Violence.
You know, people typically underlined it by bloodied hands and broken bones, but did that even hurt half as bad?
Well, to be fair, Zed had never broken a bone before.
But standing inside the darkened hallway of his small apartment, staring down at the sheaf of papers, yet another overlong, overly polite, overly unfair series of rejections from all the various research companies he’d applied to…he thought maybe he’d rather have a broken bone right now.
{In which Zed has to figure out what to do when his entire life's work has been put through a paper shredder.}
(Whumptober 2024: Day 14 - Blackmail)
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- Part 14 of Amethyst's Whumptober 2024
- Part 65 of Through the Sky-Blue Cracks {Hot Guy/Cute Guy Superhero/Hybrid AU}
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“With this heart of mine that’s guilty, not remorseful” by Amethystfairy1
Fandoms: Hermitcraft SMP, 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series
15 Oct 2024
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It was like coming home. Coming home in the sense of something familiar, because Pearl had never understood home as something warm. She’d always understood it as somewhere she could feel at least, if nothing else, useful. Useful to her Master, because what else was she good for anymore?
Talons breaking skin.
The heat, the spray, the spatter, the thud of a body suddenly so much heavier hitting the floor. It was like home, but then again, Pearl knew she wasn’t a very good frame of reference. It was familiar in the way an ache was after a long day of work, for previous Masters who had rented her strength out by the hour to adventurers who wanted to pack some extra muscle. It was familiar like the itch rising between her wing roots after hours and hours and hours of staying still.
Did it feel good? No. But it felt like home. And that was enough for her to manage.
{In which Pearl steps in, Gem steps up, and as per usual when it comes to these two...heads roll.}
(Whumptober 2024: Day 15 - "I did good, right?")
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- Part 15 of Amethyst's Whumptober 2024
- Part 5 of Traveling Thieves {Dark Fantasy AU}
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“When your heart bleeds it’s not breaking down” by Amethystfairy1
Fandoms: Hermitcraft SMP, 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series
16 Oct 2024
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Maybe it was because they were alone now? It felt like Impulse was nervously rambling just to fill the silence. They’d parted ways with Gem and the raven-winged avian, intended to speed up in pursuit of Tango and Zedaph. Or so that was the mission as far as Skizz had been made aware. He’d been involved in all those conversations, if not…well…if not exactly contributing. The goal here hadn’t changed. In the meantime, as they carried into the steep ascent toward the mountain pass, Impulse had been telling him another story from his childhood days in the Nether, and Skizz would love to insist he wasn’t paying attention.
But it wasn't the truth.
He’d been listening...and feeling...in all the ways he couldn't stand to do for even a second more.
{In which Skizz crosses some things out, Impulse tries to fill the silence, and it's still a long way to Silversvale...but it's not nearly as far as you'd think.}
(Whumptober 2024: Day 16 - "No, I can't feel anything")
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- Part 16 of Amethyst's Whumptober 2024
- Part 52 of Traveling Thieves {Dark Fantasy AU}
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The rail cart took another sharp rounding corner and then continued climbing. Katherine had been down for a visit, as she often did nowadays. Shelby adored seeing her. Not only did she always bring flowers or some kind of new sweet for Shelby to try, but she was also just a light in and of herself. Was that a fitting description?
Shelby wasn’t sure.
The redstone circuits and dim lighting of the tunnels flashed and flickered, rising and lowering the brightness in sudden bursts.
And she thought maybe she'd say something more...maybe she'd even open her mouth and explain all the things Katherine had brought her aside from tulips and sweets and moments she wished would last forever. Yup. That's what she'd wanted to do. But when she did open her mouth, a sickening cold sweat burst over her skin. And this was going to have to go very differently after all...{In which Shelby manages to say something she's wanted to for awhile now...but that's the only thing that comes up in the meantime}
(Whumptober 2024: Day 17 - Alternative - Motion Sickness)
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- Part 17 of Amethyst's Whumptober 2024
- Part 21 of Through the Sky-Blue Cracks {Hot Guy/Cute Guy Superhero/Hybrid AU}
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They were at the writing conference.It was this big snazzy event put on by an accumulation of the city’s biggest presses, and typically Jimmy went with Pearl. Since both of them had been in the news industry since finishing school, they’d always had a connection over these kinds of events. His cousin had been teasing yet insistent that this year he out to choose different company for the day. So here they were.
As for Scott…well, he looked like a dream, but that was nothing new.
And apparently Jimmy wasn't the only one who thought so.
{In which Jimmy recalls his bad boy phase, Scott thought Jimmy couldn't possibly get any MORE attractive and yet here they are, and this guy really really REALLY needs to take a hint}
(Whumptober 2024: Day 18 - “I see what’s mine and take it”)
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- Part 18 of Amethyst's Whumptober 2024
- Part 78 of Through the Sky-Blue Cracks {Hot Guy/Cute Guy Superhero/Hybrid AU}
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“And you smile, hiding behind a God-Given face” by Amethystfairy1
Fandoms: Hermitcraft SMP
20 Oct 2024
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Scar wasn't sure why Grian seemed so distant today. He was more relaxed recently, for certain...starting to understand the safety that Scar and Mumbo represented. Scar and Mumbo exchanged a glance and Mumbo chuckled softly with a shrug. This was good, after all. Grian was getting more comfortable with them, at ease enough to ask such questions and then abruptly exit the conversation…though Scar suspected that had more to do with his terribly stunted social skills than anything else. Typically at the table, now that Grian had gotten used to being sat there, he ate quickly and then would ask permission to excuse himself. Then he’d go up into the loft to either nap in his rest or flip through one of the poetry books they bought to help him learn to read.
Scar suspected it had a lot to do with how he still wasn’t exactly comfortable at the table, even though he now understood he was expected to sit there. The elf wasn’t a huge fan of that train of thought…expectation instead of invitation…but it was all just small steps.
Small steps.
{In which Grian moves forward, Scar supports, and Mumbo is still just trying to emotion properly}
(Whumptober 2024: Day 19 - Alternative - Survivors Guilt)
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- Part 19 of Amethyst's Whumptober 2024
- Part 38 of Traveling Thieves {Dark Fantasy AU}
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Doc still heard that moment. He heard it in his mind, felt it in his bones, the prickle up his skin, and he knew he’d never felt anything worse. He’d had his arm and his eye taken. He’d been augmented down to his bones against his will when he wasn’t even yet eighteen, still a child under some tormented, twisted version of care. Yet that hadn't been it.
That hadn't been the worst thing he’d ever felt. The worst way he'd ever felt. Because in that moment, he'd have given anything...to save his everything.
Because before he had kids, before he had friends, before he had the labs, before all of that...he'd had Etho. And that had already made it unbearable enough.
{In which Doc has a nightmare, Etho is right there, and there are a lot of bad memories...but none could ever deny that they were broken and bent and built for each other.}
(Whumptober 2024: Day 20 - "It's not your fault")
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- Part 20 of Amethyst's Whumptober 2024
- Part 35 of Through the Sky-Blue Cracks {Hot Guy/Cute Guy Superhero/Hybrid AU}