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“Oh, gods forbid they respond positively to you doing a good thing,” Neve deadpans. She squeezes him a little again. “That’s sort of how it works, Astarion.”
She can’t even see it. Believes the best of them all so earnestly, himself included, that she can’t see how it would all fall away without her at the center. It’s enough to make a person feel like they might actually deserve it.
“And by it, you mean…?” he asks instead.
Her huffed laugh of disbelief ruffles the hair at his neck. “Friendship, you idiot,” she answers. “And the general acquisition thereof.”
Astarion cuts a sideways look at her as best he can with her still nestled so close. “And is that what we are? Friends?”
He’d meant it to tease her, and yet finds that the silence before her answer twists his stomach. Because…he doesn’t actually know, either.
“Yes, Astarion,” Neve says gently, after a moment. “I think we’re very good friends.”
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Neve and Astarion, continued. She's not a victim. Not a target. Not just one night it's better to forget. But then...whatever in the world could she be?
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- Part 2 of Mercurial World
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22 Sep 2023
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Some part of Tav had hoped, however foolishly, that her beauty would be paltry to an incubus. Hoped that it would take no pleasure in mimicking her form, not when it had so many others at its disposal.
How wrong she had been. The incubus seemed to take to its new body like a child to a shiny new toy. The touches had been testing until now, never dwelling long or straying far, as if the incubus was committing the very shape of her to memory.
Tav had not told anyone. Not even Astarion, despite having what Tav would hesitantly call “intimate relations” with the man. Frequent bloodletting and passionate trysts were not the kinds of activities she indulged in with the rest of her traveling party. Tav looked to him now, his bed not far from her own.
The phantom hands began to roam, more freely than they ever had before. Dragging slowly up and down her sides, sending shivers across the surface of her skin.
Somehow Tav knew. Knew this time would be different.
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15 Sep 2023
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Steve was still adjusting. Definitely not quite back to normal – probably wouldn’t ever be normal again, if he were honest with himself – but he was on his way to something normal adjacent, and that had to count for something.
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As Steve navigates the complicated twists and turns and backslides of recovery, he slowly learns what it's like to have people he can rely on. It's a novel concept.
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- Part 3 of Nowhere to look but inside
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31 Aug 2023
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As part of his penance program after the war, Draco returns to Hogwarts to retake seventh year. The Ministry is not at all kind (why would they be), his professors seem to both loathe and pity him, he's anxious all the time, and Harry Potter will always be a thorn in his side. Even if Potter is pretty okay at tutoring. Honestly, Harry is just trying to not make things worse.
A story of PTSD, recovery, and redemption, with a touch of dark magic and curses.
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31 May 2023
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Things were weird in Hawkins. The fields were rotting, there was something in the woods, and Steve Harrington's Beemer had a new problem every week.
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- Part 9 of masterlist of my stranger things works
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30 Mar 2023