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Having an entire room to himself, even if it's not in use, makes him feel guilty. The idea of a private room, a space entirely for him, is an incredibly foreign concept to him. Living on a farm, being the youngest of four, and a copious amount of nieces and nephews always romping around the place during family gatherings did not allow for a semblance of privacy. Dennis is used to sharing rooms, bathrooms, and even beds when space was tight. A farmhouse did not correlate with personal space. During his undergrad, he even shared a room with other students.
He has no idea what he’s supposed to do with space beyond a bed. In the abandoned wing, he didn’t get much time to dwell on having his own space, because it wasn’t really his in the first place. Always on the lookout, over his shoulder, switching rooms to avoid guards and being caught.
But now Dr. Robby is offering an entire room. And rent free at that.
And maybe that is where the guilt stifles him a bit.
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Or, Whitaker finally makes it back to Robby's place, and gets to have a real shower.Series
- Part 2 of Sanctuary
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Chaka Khan’s music is nothing like the chaos was he just subjected to, nothing like the thick scent of fear in the air and shoutings from his attendings that all blurred into one big sound that ricocheted around his brain until all he could focus on was the medicine, and the upbeat tune of Like Sugar is no expectation.
Dennis scrunches the side of his face to keep his outdated AirPod from falling out of his ear as he slides backwards out of the attached bathroom, letting his heel spin against the smooth tile, twisting his torso into a twirl that matches with the rhythm of the song. He brings his hands up to stick two fingers right behind his ears, lost for just a moment in the beat, and he faces the half open door of the room he’s sequestered himself in.
And instead of the flickering lights of the hallway, he finds himself face to face with none other than Dr. Michael Robinavitch.
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Or, instead of Santos, Dr. Robby is the one to find Dennis squatting in the abandoned wing after their shift.Series
- Part 1 of Sanctuary
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“Joshua,” Elijah finally says, hip leaned against the rounded table, and Josh stiffens for just a moment as he slides leftover stew into the fridge. “Your hands are shaking.”
“It’s fine,” Josh murmurs as the fridge clicks shut, the typical, yet aggravating assurance slipping from his lips. “Tired.”
Oh, the flare of irritation that has to be soothed with a sharp swallow to prevent a curse from being mumbled to his husband. Always fine. Always tired. Always so put together when pain threatens to tear at the seams.
“I think you’re lying,” Elijah says instead, pushing forward on socked feet to place a palm over Josh’s forearm. The skin ripples as he feels his muscles stiffen, curls falling in his face as brown eyes turn away. “I’m a doctor. I can read the signs of pain as well as iron burns a witch.”Or
Before Canyon Pass, before the bombs, before tragedy and grief twisted and bled into the events of Book 1: Decay, there was cabbage soup, quiet breaths, ugly sheets, and one very stubborn soldier of a husband who refuses to admit to a headache stretching for days. Thankfully, Elijah is an obstinate man unwilling to let him ruminate any longer. It's nothing a careful massage and some cuddles can't fix.
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Covenant of the Damned by AnotherInternetUser
Fandoms: Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Cartoon)
12 Jan 2025
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Instead of escaping Tantiss and reuniting with her family, Omega and Crosshair are shot down on an unknown plant wrought with ice and snow, injured, starving, and with no way of contacting the outside world.
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Omega must grapple with her newfound relationship with her wayward brother, thaw out his icy exterior, and decide what she will ignore, what she will hold onto, and what she must sacrifice for survival, suffering the consequences of morality. Crosshair must come to terms with the crippling loss of agency, his continued worth as a human being with the decisions he made, and accept his struggling love for a sister that never gave up on him. Together, the two clones of the long lost Bad Batch must come together to fight the depravity of humanity and their own moral codes to ensure their survival in an unforgiving world wrought with cold and starvation, hunted by an unknown force that shines of an aching familiarity.
Not all is as it seems out here in the ice and snow.
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Though, even in her excitement, she did not miss the slight haziness of her Papa’s mind, nor the flush of his face. She had peered curiously at him then, ignoring Becky’s annoying swooning thoughts over her Papa (she was so weird sometimes) and tugged at his sleeve, dressed in a toga style outfit that dwarfed her hands.
“Are you okay, Papa?” She asked with wide, brimming eyes, soft with worry, trying to dig deep into his mind. Her Papa had simply clasped his hand over hers briefly with a gentle pat and smiled, nodding his head.
“Just fine, Anya,” he assured, and walked away, and Anya furrowed her brows in confusion.
Papa is lying.
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Instead, he flips to the next page, and his stomach drops, and for the second time that day, his breath is pulled from him.
There, a loose paper taped to the top, was a picture of a young female. She couldn’t have been much older than twelve or thirteen, and it was obvious she was unaware she was being photographed. Underneath her photo was a list of information ranging from height and weight to blood type and eye color. And, right along the bottom, scrawled out in dark ink, were the words:
Unable to attain specimen due to RI-429 pregnancy. RI-429 retired to breeding. Transmutation will occur with JA-710 and specimen EE.
Mustang feels his blood run cold as his brain absorbs the words.
They were making chimeras.
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Hello Satan, I Believe that it's Time to Go by AnotherInternetUser
Fandoms: Supernatural (TV 2005)
31 Oct 2023
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Whumptober 2023 Day 31: Emptiness/Setbacks/Take it easy
Sam thought he could tough it out. He thought he could live with the horrible images the Cage projected into his mind and the pain that ravaged his body. In the beginning, after Lucifer tore his soul from his body to bind it to his own body, saying that the cage would warp and ruin him without protection, Sam wanted nothing to do with him. He fought and screamed and avoided the angel, argued and taunted and spat, aggressive and fighting, and Lucifer did nothing but look at him with weary eyes and offer anything to please him. He was there for him, he said, because even if Sam had ruined everything and thrown them back in the Cage, he understood. He had watched over him for so long, even deep in the Cage, and wanted nothing more than to keep him safe and sane as time ticked on in Hell. He cared for him. He truly did.
It was a confusing, horrible notion that Sam could not understand.
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A look into how Sam lived in the Cage, and the complicated, confusing relationship between him and the Devil.
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- Part 31 of AnotherInternetUser's 2023 Whumptober
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Biting Wind by AnotherInternetUser for Dusweet
Fandoms: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga
30 Oct 2023
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Whumptober 2023 Day 30: Borrowed Clothing/Bridal Carry/Not much longer
Edward expected to be belittled and teased, but Mustang made no such comments as he took his first steps forward, and Edward instinctively gripped to the man’s chest to keep from falling, head against his cheek. Stubble was rough on his temple and Ed felt his cheeks flush with embarrassment, but Mustang was silent beyond a heaving breath as he maneuvered Ed.
It’s…weird. Being held. Ed hasn’t been held in so long, not since his mother died and probably not so closely since Alphonse was born, and the feeling it causes in his chest is warm and off and strangely longing. The touch, the affection, though not really freely given, ignites a long stuffed down, childish want for touch. It soothes something in his chest and calms his breathing, like a balm against the torrent in his mind.
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Broken automail and painful nerves means Ed can’t walk, and chilly weather makes being carried all that more humiliated. Especially when it’s the bastard Colonel.
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- Part 30 of AnotherInternetUser's 2023 Whumptober
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Right is Wrong, Wrong is Right by AnotherInternetUser
Fandoms: モブサイコ100 | Mob Psycho 100
29 Oct 2023
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Whumptober 2023 Day 29: Scented Candle/Troubled Past Resurfacing/What happened to me?
Mob knows he's wrong. He's know since the day he could speak, the day he ventured outside his family unit and spoke with peers, that he was made incorrectly. His very core, his very way of speaking and habits and interactions, were bathed in a sense of malpractice he could hardly understand. Students and friends and adults would forever gaze at him with a curious look, fretting and whispering, full of scorn that he could not be like the rest. He's not human he feels, even if he wasn't an Esper, because he cannot act like a person, nor does he feel people treat him like one, and for good reason. He must try at what comes naturally to humans, to being a person, and he fails each time.
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A candle bleeds introspection, and Mob struggles with his role in his life and how others perceive him, despite his best abilities to be someone that people can love.
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- Part 29 of AnotherInternetUser's 2023 Whumptober
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Sacrifice by AnotherInternetUser for Dusweet
Fandoms: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga
29 Oct 2023
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Whumptober 2023 Day 28: Bloody Knife/Sacrifice/You’ll have to go through me
Edward Elric stares with those large, golden eyes, brimmed with tears and shaking, face awash with terror.
Roy Mustang stares back with defiance, thick and strong but wavering, resolute in what has been said and what must be done.
Edward has yet to argue.
Mustang has yet acknowledge the consequences his trade will have.
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Mustang will do anything to keep Ed out of harms way. No one is coming for them this time.
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- Part 28 of AnotherInternetUser's 2023 Whumptober
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Whumptober 2023 Day 27: Matches/Scars/Let me see
“Quite the scar, Fullmetal.”
It’s not tinged with douchery as the Colonel’s voice tends to be, layered with teasing and needling as it so often is when they speak to one another. No, it’s a simple observation today, eyes pointed half at the gnarled bump of tissue on the back of his head, poking of from the bright red sleeve he’s using to cover it, half on paperwork.
Still, he can’t help but bristle and hide his hand, tucking it underneath the starch fabric of his overcoat like a turtle crawling back into a shell.
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Ed hates the scar left on his hand. Mustang helps in his own way.
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- Part 27 of AnotherInternetUser's 2023 Whumptober
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Whumptober 2023 Day 26: Seeing Double/Working to Exhaustion/You look awful
He's just...Mob. He's Mob and he feels, but his face does not and he's alright with that.
It's different when Reigen says it. Reiegn is his Master, his mentor, the supposed greatest physic of the 21st century though Mob knows that to be a facade, has for years, and the man knows him in and out. He tells him he's fine as he is, he's fine to act the way he does and listen the way he does and speak the way he does, and there is never any scorn from the man when it comes to his peculiar personality. If Reiegn has picked up on his newfound habit, charged with fear and a desire to protect, then Mob must truly look awful.
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Mob believes a lack of sleep will protect the world from his powers. He didn't count on Reigen catching him in the act.
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- Part 26 of AnotherInternetUser's 2023 Whumptober
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Whumptober 2023 Day 25: Storm/Buried Alive/They're not breathing!
He digs. Water splashes against his back, against his mouth and pulls at his clothes, trying to drag him down the hill and into the screeching river below. He steels himself and keeps his knees buried in the mud, shaking and trembling with the cold, desperate for his brother, for his father, for anyone other than his rampant thought that plague him with inklings of death and punishment. His father is long gone, stolen by demons and the forest and revenge, and his brother is buried, under muck and leaf litter and it streams through his fingers.
Dammit De, why? his brain rages, whirled and troubled. Why did you shove me out of the way? Why did you take the fall? Why do you always do this?
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Buried in the mud, Sam fights for his brother in the midst of a storm, musing over the role of his older brother.
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- Part 25 of AnotherInternetUser's 2023 Whumptober
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A Cumbersome and Heavy Body by AnotherInternetUser
Fandoms: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga
24 Oct 2023
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Whumptober 2023 Day 24: Goodbye Note/Neglect/I thought they were with you
Hawkeye has asked about Al’s absence for the day. Mustang told him that he was out with Edward, busying himself with research when the golden boy came in by his lonesome with a request for library access and inquires about which section his brother was in. Raised eyebrows and rambles words bloomed into mismatched stories, and Mustang could only choke out a single sentence.
“I thought he was with you.”
Now, panicked footsteps and slamming car doors, jangled keys as he gathered and searched for his own, a horrible letter, written in grief, poked through his drawer.
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Alphonse is done living as a shell of himself. He wants to do something about it before his soul slips away forever.
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- Part 24 of AnotherInternetUser's 2023 Whumptober
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Whumptober 2023 Day 23: Shadows/stalking/who’s there?
Unsettlement rolls in Adams stomach as the sounds pick up. It’s just the wind and the trees and the plants, he knows, perhaps a squirrel skittering in the underbrush, but he feels uneasy as his fingers brush the wilting petals of an unknown flower. He licks his lips nervously and plucks it, going to stand. He slips on mud and stumbles, twigs snapping.
Something moves again, on the opposite side and he whirls, heel in the dirt and flower in hand. His backpack falls into the muck and the strap catches on his ankle. A shadow in his peripheral leaps just out of sight when he turns, back into the dark trees and out of the street lamps. Adam swallows, heart picking up and swallows nervously. Despite the air, sweat prickles on his skin.
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It’s a noisy walk home, and Adam is starved for some company and good cooking. Shame that the cracking of twigs and skittering of leaves is causing so much anxiety.
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- Part 23 of AnotherInternetUser's 2023 Whumptober
- Part 1 of Borrowed Time (Adam Milligan Lives AU)
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Whumptober 2023 Day 22: Glass Shard/Vehicular Accident/Watch out!
Reigen clucks his tongue, shifting through his tattered wallet, coins jingling and paper crinkling as he does so, trying to keep a somewhat neutral face as the taxi driver glares at him from the mirror. He’s an angry, ugly man, matted beard and beady eyes that raked down Mob and him in a manner that make Reigen cringe as he waved him down, but there isn’t really another option. He was the first taxi they had seen in ages, and the clock was ticking, and Reigen relented only because he was about seventy percent sure he could crush the dude in a fight. Maybe sixty.
Still, he hopes it doesn’t come to that, because even if he managed to coo his way into the car despite the man insisting he was done for the day, he doesn’t know if he has enough to pay him for the ride. A train, a subway, even a strangers car they hitchhiked with would be preferable to this. Reigen wonders if maybe they should have just walked.
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Too late to walk home, Reigen and Mob head back to the city in a sketchy taxi. Anxiety peaks when Reigen doesn’t recognize the way back.
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- Part 22 of AnotherInternetUser's 2023 Whumptober
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Whumptober 2023 Day 21:Vows/Restraint/Don’t move
He knows biology, he knows anatomy, he knows his muscles and bones and the tendons in his elbows, the buccinator muscle that helps you smile and the cerebellum that helps him balance, the axons and dendrites and his central nervous system prepping him for movement and chaos. He knows it all. He could point out each carpal bone in the wrist and each muscle of the thigh.
It’s an entirely different thing seeing it in real life, on a living, writhing human being that screeches and bleeds and begs. It’s nearly foreign watching tissues and muscle pulsate and groan and sinew snap, skin flayed in pieces and veins popping. Anatomy terrifies and disgusts him as he watches it in real time, cinched to a table as creatures, they have to be creatures, they can’t be human, gnaw on the flailing form of his mother.
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A few years ahead of their time, the ghouls are furious and writhing with revenge, and Adam can only listen and bleed as his mother is the brunt of it.
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- Part 21 of AnotherInternetUser's 2023 Whumptober
- Part 2 of Borrowed Time (Adam Milligan Lives AU)
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Chilly Train Rides by AnotherInternetUser for Dusweet
Fandoms: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga
21 Oct 2023
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Whumptober 2023 Day 20: Blanket/Found Family/You will regret touching them
He sits on the bed in their small roomette, one bed for them both and a table that Ed has stolen to research and write, his body is plagued by aches and throbbing in his head, a high fever that saps the heat from his body. He was warned of this, rambled words from a doctor, and it’s nothing he hasn’t dealt with, but exhaustion is wrought and it’s like Ishval once again, a painful reminder of the wounds he carried and the infections that robbed many soldiers of life.
Edward yawns, and Mustang allows himself to be pulled from the emerging memories to focus on the boy. Eyes are dark and lidded, shoulders sagged and cheek smushed against a metal hand. He gives himself a shake and glances to the clock. The only source of light, a small lamp that illuminates the room with a honey glow, makes it hardly manageable to read the time that ticks on the clock face.
“Bedtime, Edward,” Mustang croaks, a clip in his voice as he shivers. “Nearly 1.”
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A train ride back from a scrabble, Mustang is fevered and cold, and Edward is sleepy and teasing. To his surprise, Edward can be surprisingly sweet and affectionate.
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- Part 20 of AnotherInternetUser's 2023 Whumptober
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Whumptober 2023 Day 19: Floral Bouquet/Psychology/I'm not as stupid as you think I am
“Why, Master,” he whispered to Reigen once, petals in his hair, when he visited, desperate for company beyond that of his grieving parents. “Why do people give flowers?”
His master had looked at him from across the table, a bento in front of him and another pushed towards Mob, his chin in his hands and eyes grieved. Scruff dotted his face, and his tie was undone. “To show compassion, I guess.”
Mob stared at his own bento then, numb to the world. The flowers in his hands he wished would wilt and be with his brother. Compassion was beautiful. Flowers were beautiful. Death was not. Flowers may have matched the emotion, but not the situation.
Or maybe it was just another one of those things he didn’t understand.
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Guilt and blame haunts him, and Mob has no idea how to deal with the looming thought that all of this, all the grief and pain and flowers that taint his house, is all his fault. He should have done more.
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- Part 19 of AnotherInternetUser's 2023 Whumptober
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From the Serpent's Mouth by AnotherInternetUser for Dusweet
Fandoms: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga
18 Oct 2023
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Whumptober 2023 Day 18: Blindfolded/Tortured for Information/Hit them harder
There is a laugh. Hawkeye recognizes it, vile and thick with tortuous joy and something crackles and hits the floor. It’s the man who punched her in the jaw and snapped her tooth, and the man with cruel devices and desires in his hands.
“C'mon, Flame Alchemist,” he jibes, nearly sing song and overly pleased. “Spill the beans already. I’m just dying to know.”
Mustang hacks, wet and likely filled with blood. Hawkeye has little idea of what has been done to him, though few clues have slipped through. “Fuck off,” he growls, and even though his voice is battered with pain, there is venom in his voice. “You’re wasting your time.”
“Be a gentleman, Mustang,” the man sneers, and footsteps sound and a gasp is loud and shuddered. Fabric rustles and Hawkeye strains her ears. “You tell me or I go back to the girl.”
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Flame Alchemy is a well kept secret, and only one can practice it. However, there will always be those who seek power, and Hawkeye must come to the terms of what lengths people will go to for carnage.
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- Part 18 of AnotherInternetUser's 2023 Whumptober