Line Without A Hook (Ben x Kenji series)
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the wind is a-pounding on my back, and i found hope in a heart attack by Double_Trouble_36
Fandoms: Jurassic World: Chaos Theory (Cartoon)
07 Dec 2025
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December 2022
He sits. He stands. He paces. He sprints out of the hospital like it’s on fire and gulps in the sharp relief of the chill December air until his face is too numb to feel tears rolling down it. (He’s not crying. He can’t cry. He’s too numb, but the wind drags moisture from his eyes like claws snatching it from him.)
For some time — minutes, hours, he doesn’t know and doesn’t fucking care — that is all Kenji does. Stuck in a loop, neverending. Time doesn’t carry on. Not without a ticking of a clock, that metronomic certainty Kenji used to loathe. Not without a heartbeat. Not without his heartbeat.
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In which Kenji, waiting and wishing for Ben to make it out of surgery alive, reflects about their relationship and past regrets.
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- Part 1 of Line Without A Hook (Ben x Kenji series)
- Part 26 of DT's Jurassic World fics
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i don't really give a damn about the way you touch me when we're alone by Double_Trouble_36
Fandoms: Jurassic World: Chaos Theory (Cartoon)
25 Jan 2026
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March 2023
Yes — tonight is the night he talks to Ben.
Because what happened in the hyperloop... that isn’t what friends do. That isn’t what friends feel. And take it from someone who, alongside his friend group, has spent years pushing the traditional boundaries of what friends do with each other, he knows the difference.
But with Ben, it felt... different. Platonic affection doesn’t make his skin burn, and his heart flutter, and his stomach twist into knots. Platonic affection doesn’t fill him with a weird sensation that feels like standing on the edge of a cliff looking down at the dizzying depths below — and Kenji has to acknowledge that.
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It's been a few nights after Ben came home to the camp fam, and Kenji and Ben have a lot to talk about.
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- Part 32 of DT's Jurassic World fics
- Part 2 of Line Without A Hook (Ben x Kenji series)
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you can hold my hand when no one's home by Double_Trouble_36
Fandoms: Jurassic World: Chaos Theory (Cartoon)
11 Dec 2025
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March 2023
Kenji is slow and careful, wriggling the fabric off one arm, then the other, before tossing it on the floor behind him. Ben suddenly feels very exposed. The warm air turns cold, as if his skin was scraped off and glistening flesh was left in its wake. His wound dressing conceals what Ben knows to be an ugly, twisted scar.
Yet the way Kenji looks at him, like Ben has the body of a warrior... if he were so bold, he would call the look admiring. But he isn’t bold. He isn’t brave. He’s scared.
He’s so fucking scared.
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After his injury, Kenji helps Ben shower.
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- Part 10 of prompts for a Herd
- Part 3 of Line Without A Hook (Ben x Kenji series)
- Part 33 of DT's Jurassic World fics
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tell me is it worth it by Double_Trouble_36
Fandoms: Jurassic World: Chaos Theory (Cartoon)
28 Aug 2025
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June 2023
Kenji’s heart has been crawling up his throat since Ben invited him on a picnic. “Just us two,” Ben said lightly, like those words didn’t kick Kenji’s heart up to the start line of the racetrack between his ribcage, and his loose–cannon mouth. Confessing the long–brewing feelings Kenji’s done his best to ignore since Italy seems inevitable, like a ticking time bomb in the corner of the bedroom they share now— and Kenji can only blush at Ben's every touch, and listen to the time bomb beeping, slightly faster, every night.
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In which Kenji grapples with feelings that are getting harder and harder to ignore, and the sunset just makes Ben look beautiful.
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- Part 42 of DT's Jurassic World fics
- Part 4 of Line Without A Hook (Ben x Kenji series)
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he’s a, he’s an angel, and i am just a boy by Double_Trouble_36
Fandoms: Jurassic World: Chaos Theory (Cartoon)
25 Dec 2025
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August 2023
Kenji is on stage, the crowd buzzing at his feet, yet all he wants is to sneak a glance at Ben behind his shoulder. Gorgeous, perfect Ben, the mid-afternoon sun outlining his slightly crooked nose as he adjusts the dials on his drumkit. Kenji’s sure those little parts have a name, but he can’t think for the life of him what they are. Ben probably told him, and Kenji was probably too busy staring at his insultingly cute little face to have paid attention.
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The camp fam are performing at their local food festival, and Ben and Kenji join in to keep their minds off their recent... disaster. But the longer they wait, and the longer their feelings brew, the more they threaten to boil over. And God, Kenji just looks stunning on stage in the sunlight.
Sequel to tell me is it worth it
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- Part 45 of DT's Jurassic World fics
- Part 5 of Line Without A Hook (Ben x Kenji series)
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was it something i said to make you feel like you're a burden? by Double_Trouble_36
Fandoms: Jurassic World: Chaos Theory (Cartoon)
14 Feb 2026
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February 2024
There’s no pattern to it. No way of predicting whether Ben wakes up more or less at his normal, or whether he struggles to consciousness. He's lucky if he can get out of bed at all. Ben’s body just does what it wants when it wants, leaving him at the mercy of his own symptoms.
So he wakes up on what’s supposed to be the best day of the year feeling dizzy, sore all over, his abdominal wound screaming, and so fatigued it feels like his bones are sinking into the mattress.
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Ben and Kenji have amazing plans for their first Valentine's day as a couple... until Ben has a flare up, and that throws a wrench in their plans. But they'll find a way to make the day just as special.
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- Part 55 of DT's Jurassic World fics
- Part 6 of Line Without A Hook (Ben x Kenji series)
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if i went and hurt my body, baby, would you love me the same? by Double_Trouble_36
Fandoms: Jurassic World: Chaos Theory (Cartoon)
15 Jan 2026
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May 2024
Ben’s face hardens. “So you’re fine?”
“Yep.” Kenji nods. The motion makes stars swirl in his vision, and he blinks them out of his eyes.
“One hundred percent?”
“And not a percentage number thingamajig less,” Kenji says with too much confidence.
“Then get out of bed. Right now.”
“Seriously?”
“As a heart attack.” Ben gives a grim smile. “Now get out of bed, and prove that you’re fine.”
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Ben has to take care of a (very) stubborn Kenji when he's sick. Disaster ensues.
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- Part 58 of DT's Jurassic World fics
- Part 7 of Line Without A Hook (Ben x Kenji series)
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i need you here to stay by Double_Trouble_36
Fandoms: Jurassic World: Chaos Theory (Cartoon)
25 Dec 2025
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September 2028
They’re out on a pretty ordinary picnic, absent-mindedly eating sandwiches (and Kenji downing a protein shake), when it happens. The mountains gnaw at the horizon, and the sun is crawling to bed beneath the soft, grey clouds. Ben slips an arm around Kenji’s shoulders, and Kenji instinctively nestles his head into Ben’s chest, listening to the sound of his heartbeat.
And it's from there, Kenji’s safest place in the world, that Ben asks a question that changes his life forever.
“Do you wanna get married?”
And before Kenji can stop himself, he’s blurting, “No.”
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Ben asks Kenji the most important question of his life... and Kenji asks one of his own.
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- Part 66 of DT's Jurassic World fics
- Part 8 of Line Without A Hook (Ben x Kenji series)