Stars of the Milky Way
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Ever since memory took hold, Gavin Reed has seen what others cannot. Auras, bleeding through the edges of the ordinary world.
He learns early that speaking of such things only invites harm. After a single, shattering event leaves his parents dead, he chooses silence. He buries the truth deep and calls it survival. He makes a vow to himself: never to look, never to acknowledge what he sees. Surely ignorance is the price of a normal, peaceful life.
That illusion holds. Until the day it doesn’t.
Or: two broken boys, fitting together like mismatched puzzle pieces. With cracks and all. 🧩Series
- Part 1 of Stars of the Milky Way
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Elijah Kamski finally finds a rare free evening and decides to surprise his little brother with takeout and bourbon.
He expects sarcasm, annoyance, maybe a slammed door.
What he doesn’t expect? The barefoot stranger who answers it instead.
As the night unfolds, Eli realizes Gavin isn’t just surviving anymore. He’s being loved, understood, and protected in a way Eli never thought possible.Series
- Part 2 of Stars of the Milky Way
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Gabriel had always known he wasn’t quite like everyone else. He was seven when Silas showed himself to him for the first time, and suddenly it all made sense. Gabriel had never been alone. Not haunted, not cursed, not followed by anything lost. Just protected. A guardian angel at his side, steady through every stage of his life.
Somewhere along the way, their friendship turned into something more. They labelled it as “casual,” given the fact that this kind of connection was basically forbidden between a guardian and their charge. Gabriel didn’t care what they called it. Silas was with him. That was enough for him.
If only his guardian angel weren’t such a reckless idiot. Because if there was one thing Gabriel Allen couldn’t stand, it was rule-breaking.
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- Part 3 of Stars of the Milky Way
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It’s been three years since Hank Anderson’s life tilted off its axis.
It started with a chaotic thunderstorm in every sense of the word, the kind that kicks your front door in and never really leaves. Detective Gavin Reed, soaked to the bone, showing up at Hank’s house at three in the morning and falling apart in a way Hank still couldn’t forget. A hysterical, ugly break that forced him to see the world differently. Quite literally.
Hank hadn’t known he had Seer abilities back then. He only knew that after that night, nothing was the same. The veil was gone. There was no going back.
He did his best to adjust, to learn how to live with it, to stay functional. Mostly for Cole, whose gifts had never been dormant, who had always been able to see their permanent houseguest with perfect clarity.
Connor. Hank’s very own guardian angel. It should’ve sounded insane. It didn’t. Somehow, it just became normal.
They were family.
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- Part 4 of Stars of the Milky Way
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Tina Chen and Gavin Reed have been friends ever since high school. For years, Tina was convinced she knew Gavin inside and out. She’d seen every version of him, every mood, every defense mechanism he built to keep the world at arm’s length. She knew how he laughed when he meant it, and how he shut down when something hurt too much.
Or at least, she thought she did.
Then one day, the truth revealed itself in the form of a certain celestial who made it painfully clear: there were parts of Gavin’s life Tina had never even dared imagine.
And once you see that kind of truth — you can’t unsee it ever again.
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- Part 5 of Stars of the Milky Way
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Gavin and Nines get married in Gavin’s childhood home, surrounded by the messy, fiercely loyal little family they built, where love is obvious even when half the room only hears it as metaphor. It's chaotic. It's loud. It's everything.
Their honeymoon is the opposite. Soft, private, and unhurried, full of salt air, starlight, and the kind of peace Gavin never believed was meant for him.
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- Part 6 of Stars of the Milky Way
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Just an angel and a human. Spectators. Their roles were the same, only mirrored from opposite sides.
But it wasn’t the only thing they had in common. There was something in Connor’s quiet attentiveness that felt achingly familiar to Tina. Like he understood what it meant to stand so close to the center of a storm.
She found that incredibly intriguing.
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- Part 7 of Stars of the Milky Way
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Gavin Reed was not a cat person. If forced to pick, he’d call himself a dog person, but he’d never actually considered getting one. Maybe once. But he wasn’t the nurturing type. He wasn’t even the watering-plants type.
But he had a husband now. A husband who used to be a celestial being. And apparently, came with a savior complex for filthy alley cats.Series
- Part 8 of Stars of the Milky Way
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It’s been eight years since Gavin Reed's life changed fundamentally. It had been eight years since he fully acknowledged his psychic abilities, and eight years since the truth about the Hidden World became the core of his reality.
In retrospect, not much had changed. He was still the same grumpy detective with a perpetual scowl. He’d just learned how to stop hiding from the unknown. He’d learned how to use his powers to aid him in the field. He’d learned how to accept himself. He’d gained a real family- and a husband. So he had learned how to accept love.
His life was perfect. Balanced. Peaceful. He had slowly, but surely, overcome his fears.
Or at least, he’d thought he did.But then bodies begin to fall across Detroit. Death is suddenly everywhere, striking without warning and with no known cause or connection between the cases.
And in the silent wake of each inexplicable death, the foundation of his hard-won certainty begins to crack, threatening to crumble into the same dark unknown he swore he’d left behind.
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- Part 9 of Stars of the Milky Way