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    There is something wrong with Dazai Osamu, Atsushi realized, besides his obvious penchant for suicide. He didn’t realize it all at once. It had crept up on him. A slow, crawling certainty that lodged itself under his skin and refused to leave.

    Atsushi had noticed the small things first. The way Dazai sometimes lost track of conversations, then rejoined them a beat too late. The way his smile didn’t quite match his eyes. The way he seemed tired in a manner sleep couldn’t fix. Sometimes he seemed distant for no reason at all, present but not entirely there.

    Dazai smiled when Atsushi asked after him. His giggle was a thin, hollow sound that echoed in the air. It sounded like the start of his usual teasing except it was something rehearsed, wrong.

    “Ah, Atsushi-kun,” Dazai said, lips curving faintly, though his eyes remained dull. “Didn’t you hear? I’m dying.”

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    Giyuu finally comes to, waking up to a new day free from demons forever. With shoulders that are learning to be weighed by burdens no longer, he strives to find and discover the strength to live on, from within and from those who remain. And that includes a certain cantankerous person that he least expects to find companionship and comfort from.

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    “Shinazugawa.”

    Sanemi lets out a heavy sigh, his chest sinking with weary resignation. “Will it kill you to at least say hello?”

    “...Hello.”

    [Rating and tags updated for Chapter 4]

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    “Oi, Dazai, what are they saying, anyway? Too many people. It gets confusing.”

    The detective smirks.
    “They are just discussing the budget for the next mission. Kunikida insists he wants an ice cream, a drone, and a goat.”

    From the Port Mafia dungeon to the depths of Meursault, Dazai and Chuuya keep finding each other.
    They fall in love all over again — or, maybe, they never stopped.

    That’s all.

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    As Severus is about to start his last year at Hogwarts, a familiar stranger encountered on the train platform spurs him to try, for one last time, to mend his lost friendship with Lily.

    “Otherwise Harry will die”, they said.

    Well. He has no fucking idea who 'Harry' is, and Black is a particular pain in his ass even post-graduation, but Severus just cannot run from a challenge, can he?

    After all, winning a war couldn’t be that complicated.

     

    The updates are for fixing grammar, typos and overall errors. @Nordremo my wonderful beta does it for me, as much as she did the summary.
    The only new thing is the wonderful art at chapter nine.

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    Severus Snape has traded what might be one of his last peaceful summers for a tumultuous few months housing the Boy Who Lived after Hogwarts' student registry notified him of a potential abuse case at Number Four Privet Drive. If that wasn't bad enough, he finds himself revealing far more than he ever should have—and far more than Albus Dumbledore ever would have allowed—to the boy about his past, and his mother. When Sirius Black reveals himself with the intent of saving his godson from Snape, the three of them end up standing begrudgingly together to find Peter Pettigrew and clear Black's name before the proper authorities can be involved.

    Harry finds solace in the unexpected care of an unjustly convicted man and an ex-death eater; meanwhile Black grapples with repressed attraction to the man he'd spent his childhood tormenting.

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