11 Works by ForReasonsNotKnown

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    The pinprick of Ryland's touch retreats, only to be replaced by the press of his lips against the same spot, lingering there for a moment before dragging across his skin and dipping into the valley of his spine. Casey's breath leaves him all at once— he's still trying to understand what it means to be touched without flinching.

    OR: In the early days of their relationship, Casey struggles to overcome a litany of old demons. Ryland is there to help.

    (a cut scene from austice, the second work in heartmoor)

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    It's a new life that he sees, so different from all the ones that have come before it. More than just an existence. The void that had once defined him filled with the light of Ryland's smile, with the knowledge of having something to come back to— a yellow raincoat on the back of the door to hang his jacket up beside.

    Shoes beside the door, toothbrushes on the sink; so much comes in twos, these days.

    OR: Casey and Ryland start to build a life together, but no matter how fast they run, neither of them can escape the past.

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    “Ryland,” Simon murmurs eventually, drawing him out with a coaxing hand at the nape of his neck. His palm slides around to support Grace's jaw as he reluctantly lifts his head, exhausted. “Are you okay?” 

    “Yeah, I'm fine.”

    Simon's mouth presses into a thin line, his frown deepening. “You're a bad liar.”

     

    OR: A reminder of Simon's mortality opens old wounds, and sets Grace onto a spiral he can't escape from. Falling into old habits, he tries and fails to solve his issues, pushing those around him away in the process. Healing is not linear— Grace contends with the idea that he's been broken since the start.

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    If he drives fast enough, steady enough, he thinks that maybe he could outrun the tilt of the Earth, that he could suspend them somewhere between seconds, somewhere all for them.

    It's a childish want, a desperate one, but one he can't shake. Admittedly, he doesn't try very hard to. Casey wants it so much his teeth ache.

    OR: Things have shifted between Ryland and Casey, but as the days press on, the real world begins for loom around them once more. The undefined nature of their relationship comes back to bite them both, and in the dying days of summer, they're forced to make a choice.

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    “Where are you going?” Grace asks, it takes a while to work up the nerve to.

    “Nowhere.”

    “Huh, guess that makes two of us,” he says, turning to meet Driver's gaze head-on. “I'll race you.”

    Driver's mouth twitches, still not quite a smile. “You'll lose.”
     

    OR: After Denmark, Grace's life is in tatters. Alone, with no direction or plan, he runs away. On the road, he meets a quiet stranger and, against his better judgement, allows himself to be seen, and finds something he'd long since given up on ever feeling again.

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    He'd asked them, angry and terrified and desperate to be let out of that fucking submarine, how many more times they were going to use him, as though he didn't already know the answer.

    Until you break. Until you're more useful dead than you are alive.

    Perhaps Simon's true punishment had been endurance.

    OR: As things start to settle between him and Ryland, Simon is faced with the reality of everything that has happened to him, scars and nightmares and everything in-between. The luxury of choice is new and terrifying, and Simon finds himself teetering on the edge of another abyss every time he looks himself in the eye, Ryland's footsteps embedded into the ash beside him. Healing is slow, and patience has never been one of Simon's virtues.

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    There's no love in placing a blade in a child's hand— there's so much in the way Ryland touches him that it fills an ache that he's known for as long as he can remember.

    Simon's been hungry his whole life. For food, for freedom, to live. He's been starving for this since the day he was born.

    OR: In the aftermath of their reconciliation, perched on the precipice of something new, Simon and Grace have to work out what they want, and decide a path forwards. Neither of them is under the illusion that it's going to be easy— both of them know that it will be worth it in the end.

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    There’s something divine in the way Grace smiles— Simon has been damned since the day he was born.

    Bloodied then, too.

    OR: Simon is adjusting to a new life on Erid. One where things - he - can be different. But he's never known how to want things, how to quell his own desperation, and he fears fucking it all up far more than anything he's dealt with before.

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    Hours later, in the gloom of the lab’s cramped bathroom, Jayce can still feel those metallic fingers, closing around his throat. Crushing his windpipe, seconds away from snapping his neck. The skin is discoloured, bruises blooming like a collar, a brand. It burns to touch.

    So much of him does, these days.

    OR: a study of Jayce's mindset in the hours before the battle. Councilor Crashout doing what he does best.

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    Acceptance, he's realising, is key. Accepting that his old life is gone, accepting that he can't just steal his life back. Accepting that he's not as strong as he'd thought he was, that he'd let things get so bad. That he needed help, and he equally wasn't beyond it.

    Accepting that Loki is gone, and Mobius will never stop waiting for him.

    (OR: Mobius is learning to heal, one step at a time. But that doesn't mean he's forgetting, and that doesn't make him any less a fool. But he'll be one for Loki. Always.)

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    That ugly, unnamable thing looks him in the eye and names itself grief.

    (OR: Mobius tries to let it go. To forget. But he can't.)

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