imagine dragons (flight smp fics)
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After chasing Drift away, AJ tries to find comfort in a familiar face. It doesn’t go quite the way she expects.
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or: instead of allowing aj to fall into bad old habits, ghostie eases her back into a better one.
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- Part 1 of creature comforts
- Part 1 of imagine dragons (flight smp fics)
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It had nearly been a full week of this: of Ghostie orbiting quietly around AJ as she slept like the dead, occasionally waking and groaning through Ghostie’s insistence that she at least drink some water, if you’re not hungry.
It had nearly been a week, and AJ still hadn’t told her what happened. She still hadn’t told Flick — and that, Ghostie decided, could not slide.
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or: tf!ghostie pays flick a visit to tell her where tf!aj’s been
sequel to “creature comforts,” but both can be read separately!
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- Part 2 of creature comforts
- Part 2 of imagine dragons (flight smp fics)
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“I’m glad that she has you,” AJ said on an exhale, eyes fixed carefully on the sky.
She did her best not to chance a look at them, but in the corner of her eye, she watched as Magpie laughed, their two-colored eyes crinkling at the edges with the sudden force of it.
AJ turned to her, aghast.
“What’s so funny about that?!” she demanded, slightly affronted but unable to keep from laughing, too.
Magpie shook their head, plucking the joint from AJ’s hand. “She said the same thing, y’know,” they replied, taking a puff.
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or: tf!rootrot smoke some lavender together :]
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- Part 3 of imagine dragons (flight smp fics)
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AJ did her best to contort her mouth into a smile, but it must have looked as pained as it felt, because Magpie’s expression hardened in understanding.
Magpie nodded, once, with a sobered sort of determination. “Alright,” she said, “what do you need? Did you want to hit me, or…”
Wordlessly, AJ shook her head, folding her hands behind her back.
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or: needing relief, tf!aj takes tf!megii up on her offer - but in a way you may not expect.
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- Part 4 of imagine dragons (flight smp fics)
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“You and the Alien,” AJ started, “what’s the deal there?”
“Oh, do you mean Zam?” Graecie asked, frowning slightly as she added, “I don’t think she likes being called that.”
AJ nodded, immediately dismissing the thought. “Right,” she said, “so, what’s the deal with you two? What flavor of codependency are we talkin’ here?”
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or: tf!aj tries to figure out what’s going on between tf!graecie and tf!zam
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- Part 5 of imagine dragons (flight smp fics)
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AJ’s mouth twisted in annoyance. “You do realize that you’re the one who’s been kidnapped, right?” she asked with a huff, crossing her arms across her chest. “Don’t push your luck, Princess.”
Drift tilted her head up to try and meet her captor’s eyes, studying her expression. While it was objectively true that Drift was at a disadvantage, here, she watched as AJ shifted uncomfortably, refusing to meet her gaze, and Drift knew she’d been right. She bit back a triumphant smile. There it is.
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or: an au where tf!aj learned that there was a ransom for tf!drift and decided to be the one to claim it
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- Part 6 of imagine dragons (flight smp fics)
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AJ threw her hands in the air in mock surrender, continuing to walk backwards. “Alright, alright,” she conceded, “I know when I’m not wanted. See you around, Princess.”
She punctuated her statement with an exaggerated wink before sauntering away, leaving Drift to try and compose herself. There’s no way that she knows, she thought, panic rising in her chest, right? That was just another stupid nickname. But what if—
“Hey!” she called out before she could stop herself, heart pounding as AJ turned around, looking amused. “What did- what did you mean by that?”
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or: an imagined interaction between tf!driftsey back when they were in the denial stage
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- Part 7 of imagine dragons (flight smp fics)
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Drift dug her hands deeper into the Earth, tears blurring her vision as her body shook, unaware of the way that and Earth shook with her, like it, too, was in mourning.
AJ’s blood seeped into the grass, into the Earth below.
The Earth — grass and root and rock and soil and rot — hummed a discordant kind of music, a dirge of the dirt.
Come back to me, Drift thought, and her thoughts became the Earth’s.
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or: tf!aj dies and tf!drift (and the Earth) can’t let it happen
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- Part 8 of imagine dragons (flight smp fics)
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AJ screwed her eyes shut, too ashamed to see the look on Drift’s face. She waited for the outburst — anger, yelling, the rumbling of the Earth below as it shook with the force of Drift’s ire — but when she finally spoke, Drift’s voice was small and sad, void of the fire AJ surely deserved:
“Why didn’t you tell me?”
AJ looked at her in surprise and knew it had been a mistake. She’d do anything to erase the image of the look on Drift’s face: her tear-filled brown eyes, the sad and confused furrow of her brows, the slight tremble of her pink lips.
AJ would have preferred anger.
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or: what if aj had been honest about her magic before everything fell apart?
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- Part 9 of imagine dragons (flight smp fics)
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It was hard, sometimes, to know when AJ was being truthful.
Magpie knew that. They struggled seeing through AJ’s act sometimes, too, though she struggled admittedly less than most.
But this? Right now? No, this was — this was AJ with no one to perform for; this was AJ, looking at Magpie the way Magpie looked at her, actually seeing — this was real.
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or: tf!aj and tf!magpie have a heart-to-heart about tf!amber and some paint-related shenanigans ensue
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- Part 10 of imagine dragons (flight smp fics)