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    Viktor felt, for a second, somewhat sated. This was not the life he had dreamed of, but only because he had, on some level, not really expected to have a life to dream about. He had a comfortable job, a kind employer, he had more time than he ever really expected to read, to study, to learn. He had, of course, a yearning for something more, but while their travels interrupted his personal experiments, they also funded them. He could imagine a better world for himself, and simultaneously accept the hand he had been dealt, as much as he disliked it.

    None of this was new—they were the facts of his life.

    But after that feeling of being sated came another. Something deep, twisted, terrifying, awful. There was no evidence to support it, only a sensation across his fingers, down the back of his neck, clutching at his chest.

    Something—and he was not sure what—was about to change, it said.

    When his employer is hired to tutor a young woman, Viktor hardly expects to meet anyone interesting in the process. Instead, however, he meets Jayce Talis: wealthy, handsome, a scientific genius—

    And an asshole. That too.

    (A Pride and Prejudice AU.)

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    05 Jan 2026

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    Admittedly, he’s a bit young to be thinking about siring, but Jayce Talis has never been one to give up on a dream over trivial matters. He’s freshly eighteen—there’s nothing in the world that can take him down. Not when his potential mate is so close.

    Except for maybe the tundra-like conditions that threaten to cut the circulation from his fingers and nose. Or the cops.

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    The holiday fic featuring a silly alpha and his lovely omega

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    28 Dec 2025

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    "With respect, your Highness—”
    “Jayce. Please call me Jayce.”
    “...Jayce.” How ridiculous, that even then the single syllable tasted of home. “Respectfully, you cannot want this. I am broken. I assure you, it will be far more trouble than I am worth.”
    Jayce had touched him again, then; those same warm calloused fingers brushed the hair aside from Viktor’s forehead. “I think,” he’d said, “that I will decide for myself what you are worth.”

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    27 Dec 2025

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    Viktor bites off more than he can chew when he purchases a 'service animal'. This puppy is quite unlike any other vastaya pets he's ever encountered though. Something is... not right about him, and Viktor intends to get to the bottom of it.

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    19 Dec 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 46

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    "They are not us, Jayce."

    "But they were! They were and now they're not. And without knowing how we got from this to that— It makes me uneasy."

    "Is that why you tried to pick a fight with yourself?"

    It's meant to be a joke, a tease, but the look Jayce levels him with wipes the small smirk right off Viktor's face.

    "I don't like the way he looks at you." His voice is so deadly serious, Viktor feels the words more than hears them. "Like he knows you."

    Maybe he does, Viktor thinks dangerously, failing to banish the image of time-petinaed eyes from his mind. After all, he was you once.

     

    -or- Early in their partnership, Jayce and Viktor manage to break time and meet their future selves. Chaos ensues.

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    06 Dec 2025