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    Steve gets a message on a job board from a woman looking for a husband for her son so he can get extra money from the government for college. And Steve so totally does not fall in love with his husband. (Except he really, really does.)

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    23 Oct 2025

    Bookmarker's Notes

    The one where Bucky's messed up from being a POW and his mom hires Steve to be his husband for tax and emotional benefits

  2. Public Bookmark 35

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    Maxwell felt…strange.

    Not bad, necessarily. As far as he could tell, he wasn’t in any pain. But he didn’t feel particularly good, either.

    Mostly he just felt a whole lot of…nothing.

    That in itself wasn’t strange. Maxwell would be remiss to call himself an emotional man. He was a passionate one, however, and typically this time after a fight would be spent mentally going over each second of battle, relishing in the spiderwebs of pain that still stretched over his cracked knuckles.

    But now? Now he wasn’t even positive that the hands he was looking at belonged to him.

    It was all just very…strange.

    Or: Maxwell (doesn't) deal with his newfound bloodlust. Van helps.

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    15 Oct 2025

    Bookmarker's Notes

    The one where Van helps bring Maxwell back from dissociating

  3. Public Bookmark 33

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    They are closer than they have ever been to finding Comfrey McLeod.

    The Ectic Research is abandoned by the time they arrive, but only very recently. The footprints are still fresh, the documents strewn carelessly about, the booby traps still untriggered. Comfrey and Mordecestershire are chasing each other, or perhaps both chasing the same thing separately, with the crew of the Zephyr always a beat behind. Their next destination will take them to the bottom of the sea, and for that they need a submersible.

    Fortunately, they know exactly where to get one. Unfortunately, it is all the way in Oda.

    “Two weeks!?” Maxwell exclaims.

    “Two weeks,” Van replies. “Marya just triple checked the math.”

    Maxwell feels a blood vessel about to burst on the inside of his skull. A two week pause after five days of nonstop chase makes Maxwell want to pitch himself off the side of the Zephyr. His hands twitch under his gloves.

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    Canon divergence! Everything is the same, except they can't fast travel to Oda! Maxwell and Torse have two weeks of ship confinement to figure out their feelings for each other!

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    15 Oct 2025

    Bookmarker's Notes

    The one where Maxwell and Torse dance around each other on the way to Oda

  4. Public Bookmark 72

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    Look. Pretending him and Torse were engaged had just seemed like the best idea at the time. And in both of their defence: Marya had been the one to accept the offer.

    (Torse and Maxwell pretend to be betrothed so that Maxwell doesn't have to marry some duke's daughter. Things escalate.)

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    14 Oct 2025

    Bookmarker's Notes

    The one where Maxwell and Torse pretend to be engaged

  5. Public Bookmark 32

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    “Torse,” sighs the bosun, a flicker of frustration in her eyes. “You have to let us help him.”
    He should let them help. He can’t help Maxwell, he’s not built for helping, he’s built to destroy, to shatter bones and rend metal and and and…
    And Maxwell is dying in his arms.

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    14 Oct 2025

    Bookmarker's Notes

    The one where Maxwell gets very sick and Torse never leaves his side