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  1. Public Bookmark 52

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    People always look at Alhaitham in different ways. He's grown used to it, accustomed to the myriad of emotions that he seems to inflict upon people. More often than not, it tends to be annoyance. Disdain. Confusion. His grandmother looks at him with love, though, and that is all Alhaitham has ever known on the subject of love and hate.

    That is, until he's sixteen, and he's standing before the shredded remains of his—their—thesis, and there is an acrid taste at the back of his mouth and a burning in his eyes.

    The first person who ever looks at Alhaitham with hatred is the one person he had wished never would.

    Five times Kaveh says he hates Alhaitham, and the one time he actually says what he means.

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    16 Aug 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 28

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    “Why are you even here?” Macau asks.

    Pete swallows; he doesn’t have a straight answer to that question. He doesn’t even know himself. How can he say that, when Vegas fucked him in the safehouse, he carved out his heart, and now it belongs to him, that he’s just a loyal lap dog, following his owner? He’s like the dog at the station in Shibuya, the dog at the graveyard in Edinburgh, waiting and waiting for his master to return.

    “Because he needed somebody,” is how Pete manages to sum it up. But really, he needs Vegas as much as Vegas needs him, maybe even more so.

    After Vegas is shot, Pete, Vegas, and Macau navigate what comes after...

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    21 Apr 2026

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    At twenty one, Khem finds himself being offered to the ancient naga god who dwelled in the depths of the forest.

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    09 Feb 2026

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    Alhaitham can tolerate Kaveh being his roommate to a degree.

    But sharing a tent and sleeping bag with him while being trapped in the desert during a sandstorm?

    Archons, he's not gonna make it.

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    06 Dec 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 32

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    The problem is that in trying to be better, Vegas is mostly trying to not be himself. As though through sheer force of will he can erase the man that existed before and rewrite an entirely new one in his place. And Pete gets it, he does, the same way he knows that it isn't going to work. You cannot outrun the things that have been done to you.

     

    The problem is a pattern starts to calcify between them where Vegas insists he's going to treat Pete right, that Pete deserves to be loved and treasured and Pete says that the seed of this thing they have was grown in a dark room, wrapped in chains and that he does not need Vegas to unmake himself from the foundations up.

     

    Vegas survived. Now Pete has to show him how to live.

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    25 Apr 2025

  6. Public Bookmark 80

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    Pete and what he needs is at the bottom of the priority list. Vegas will always be at the top, and by proxy, Vegas’s little brother will come immediately afterwards. So Pete doesn’t voice how anxious it makes him to be banished to the sofa on the other side of the room where he can still see Vegas but his view of the window isn’t as clear and he’s a little too far away from the only exit. He doesn’t intervene when Macau climbs all over Vegas even if he can see how the man goes pale and winces, how his muscles tense like he might try to squirm away.

    Pete doesn’t protest when he’s regularly and unsubtly shooed from the room so the brothers can spend time together alone.

    He doesn’t say a damn thing even if he wants to. Even if he’s realising that he’s not entirely sure who he is anymore when he’s not in Vegas’s direct eyeline. 

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    02 Jan 2024

  7. Public Bookmark 53

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    13 Apr 2023

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    Pete lunges for the phone again but this time Vegas doesn’t move backwards or try to dodge. He grabs Pete around the waist with one arm and leans forward, holding the phone up to Pete’s ear.

    “Say goodbye,” he murmurs in Pete’s other ear, his breath hot on Pete’s skin. “Before I hang up.”

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    Pete is a professional boxer and Vegas is mafia; Vegas overhears Pete with his grandmother lying about his boyfriend. He takes the opportunity to invite himself home for the holidays, where they must fake their relationship with only one bed.

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    27 Jan 2023

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    “Can’t sleep?” Pete echoes back.
    “Without you, no,” Vegas says quietly. “I can’t.”

    [Or, five times Pete is asked about Vegas, and one time he isn't]

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    26 Sep 2022

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    Vegas notices Pete watching him during the torture scene. Intrigued and more tempted than he expected to be, he stalks Pete and succeeds in taunting him into coming with Vegas so they can fuck.

    It starts off as a cat and mouse game for sex, but when the two of them are finally forced to reckon with the fact that they're on opposite sides, they both find themselves more conflicted and drawn to each other than ever.

    Originally gratuitous smut, now with some plot thrown in. Enemies to lovers, Vegas/Pete style. :)

    A/N: This is complete as it stands. Series tag is just for any future one-shots I do after the events of Black Velvet. :)

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    02 Sep 2022

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    In the aftermath of the failed coup, Pete has: an unconscious and possibly dying Vegas Theerapanyakul, a whole lot of feelings to work through, and no job.

    He goes from there.

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    13 Aug 2022

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    Vegas looks down at his hands. Hurt him, his fingers say. Do it while Macau isn’t here. You’ve already exchanged the poetry, the pretty words. So do it now. You can make him cry so prettily. Isn’t that how you’ve always shown love best? Isn’t that the only thing you’re good for? Do it—

    The head on his lap shifts. The breath along his hip skitters, then disappears as Pete turns and looks up. His eyes are black—blacker than black—and he smiles.

    “Good morning, Vegas.”

    Vegas swallows.

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    Pete helps Vegas recover. Vegas confronts what he wants. Pete eggs him on.

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    11 Jul 2022

  13. Public Bookmark 55

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    “There was one more place I wanted to go today if things went well,” Yok said, gliding his thumb over Dan’s cheekbone.

    “Oh do you think this went well?” Dan asked, that soft smile breaking where he showed a bit of teeth. Now Yok knew why it always seemed a bit painful to him to smile. He was always paying a price for moments of happiness. Yok was determined to let him have some free of charge, but it might take a bit more.

    “I think it could go better,” Yok said. “If you let me take you somewhere. How do you feel about motorcycles?”

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    21 Feb 2022

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    Directly following the events of Kings Rising. Damen is on bed rest and Laurent is taking care of him. What follows is their story and the story of two kingdoms becoming one.

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    22 Aug 2021

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    As Eddie lays on the hot pavement bleeding out, his eyes locked on Buck’s bloody face, his hand reaching out towards him, what washes over him isn’t his hard-earned stillness nor is it shock.

    It’s clarity, edging slowly into focus from off-stage.

    And when he wakes up in the hospital bed and registers a soft, slim hand in his, he thinks, "no, that’s not it".

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    Or, Five Ways Eddie's Body Feels Different After the Shooting

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    20 Jul 2021

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    Zhou Zishu opened his eyes, and he knew he had died and gone to hell.

    In front of him sat Wen Kexing, still in a way he should never be, still in a way that froze Zhou Zishu’s just recovered heart. Wen Kexing’s beautiful dark hair, the silken curtain that spilled down his back, had turned white overnight, a deathly shade that flowed from his crown to fall past his shoulders.

    In the aftermath of Wen Kexing’s decisions, Zhou Zishu struggles to save his soulmate. Conversations are had, regardless of whether Wen Kexing is conscious for them or not.

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    21 May 2021

  17. Public Bookmark 60

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    12 May 2021

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    “We’re going home,” Zhou Zishu huffs when he pulls Wen Kexing’s arms over his shoulders, then hitches his legs around his waist. He hops in place to get a good grip under the bends of his knees, then makes sure his robe is covering as much of Wen Kexing as it can. “If you die before we get there, the first thing Shixiong will do when we see each other on Naihe Bridge is hit you.”

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    28 Apr 2021

  19. Public Bookmark 85

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    “We agreed, remember? The ends of the world, all its wines and poems—I’ll take the wine, you can have the poems.”

    The after, and then after even that. Spoilers for episode 36 and the epilogue/coda.

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    21 Apr 2021

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    "I think," Damianos said softly, "that you have not been treated the way you deserve."

    For the first time in his life, Laurent did not know what to say back.

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    17 Jan 2021

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