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    [I’m not a saint, but do I have to be?]

    “So incredibly an arse more like,” Zolf says huffily, and Wilde can’t help but lose it at that, exploding into merry peals of helpless laughter that ring over the freezing cliff. Zolf stares at him indignantly for half a second, and then he breaks too, and Wilde clutches his hands as they catch each other’s eyes and lose it all over again; two grown men giggling like children, helpless and manic with all they’ve seen, sitting together at the darkening edge of the world and holding each other like they might either fall off or fall apart if they let go.

    “Oh, gods,” Wilde says breathlessly, dizzy from laughing, “you brought me back from the dead by promising me a vacation...”

    (In which Wilde learns what he wants, and together they find out how to ask for it.)

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    28 Jul 2021

  2. Public Bookmark 54

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    “I just mean I won’t force you to come with me, Zolf,” Wilde says. He feels Zolf’s fingers still, and even he, who in another life could have been famous for his words alone, cannot put a name to the emotion that that causes to rise in his heart.

    After a moment, Zolf’s fingers begin to move again. “Where you’re goin’ I’m goin’,” he says gruffly, and Wilde can feel the nervousness in it, but he says it with such conviction, such quiet simplicity, like it’s a fact of nature; trees are green, water flows downhill, and Zolf and Wilde will stay together. “‘S my choice.”

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    24 Jul 2021

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    [Following the events of the movie, Alan has to determine where the pieces have fallen. Evolution, it seems, is an inevitable thing.]

     

    Nobody was going to want a tour guide who flinched at loud noises and sudden movements, who limped around with a white-knuckled grip on a temporary cane, whose default expression seemed to be an exhausted sort of scowl…

    Concerned, Alan took up his usual post, watching from a distance and trying to understand the why of the problem (despite the nagging and completely inappropriate thought that paleontologists generally used their hands to figure things out). Still, he was convinced that his involvement would only make a complete mess of what already promised to be a long and bitter recovery. Illogically, he’d been expecting Billy to bounce back, to somehow walk away from Isla Sorna without losing the spring in his step.

    But something had gone wrong even since the island and Billy was getting worse each day.

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    16 May 2021

  4. Public Bookmark 41

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    “How would that work, you think?” Wilde asks quietly, voice neutral.

    “Worked well enough back at the inn,” Zolf manages, feeling as if his vocal chords might give out on him any moment now. “I cook, you do paperwork and berate my taste in literature. With the current global economy, we'll be able to find a place for next to nothing, I'm sure.”

    Wilde lifts Zolf's hand and brings it up to his chin, putting his lips against the knuckles. It's not a kiss, but it's also not not a kiss.

    “Sounds nice,” he says.

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    14 May 2021

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    “Did you find what you were looking for?” Wilde asks finally, into the stillness of the night, when he had been quiet so long Zolf half-thought he was already asleep.

    “Yeah,” Zolf says, finding that his voice comes out hoarse. “I think so.”

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    26 Dec 2020