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  1. Public Bookmark 80

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    “Petya,” Papa sighed, exasperated. He wiped his hand down his face, then dropped it and looked back at his son. “What’s wrong? Bad dream?”

    Peter wished he could say that it was. Let his dad keep thinking that he was the nice little boy who never did anything bad, except for the times he was forced to. But he was bad now, and that realization caused a lump to grow in his throat.

    “There’s something wrong with me,” Peter gasped.

    ***

    It had been years since they were rescued. Peter grew older, became thin, sad, and violent. But violence was good. Violence maintained order. Order prevented chaos. Chaos had no purpose, unlike Peter, whose purpose, like violence, maintained order. And some people have to die to preserve that order. Dying is just their purpose. Peter was choosing to fulfill his.

    (or: Peter’s struggling, Bucky’s overprotective, the worst video goes viral on twitter, John Walker is an empathetic asshole, Valentina tries to control the narrative, and Sam saves the day)

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    18 Jun 2025

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    They called the soldier into a training room where he saw his son hanging upside down on the ceiling.

    “Hi Papa!” He cheered, waving with a big smile even though the soldier never gave one back.

    “Look, Soldat, your son is a miracle,” an agent cackled, yellow teeth shining in the fluorescent lights, “crawling the walls like a little spider!”

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    The soldier doesn’t remember his son’s birth or how he came to be. He doesn’t remember bedding a woman and watching her belly swell, but they said the boy was his. He does know that he will protect and teach the boy within the confines of their cell walls. Even when the handlers berate him. Even when the good guys take him away

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    17 Feb 2025

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    100 delinquents got sent to Earth and battled for survival against the odds. They landed in Trikru territory but that is not where they stayed. After weeks of battle and war, the Sky People finally lost. They were sent to a land far away, where a group of Grounders unlike any they've met waited for them.

    *This is a terrible summary...I don't know how to describe this story. It's a mix of canon and AU. But if you like arranged marriage and enemies->friends->lovers and friendship and love and fluff and angst, then this is the fic for you.

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    22 Jan 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 50

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    Jack finds it Ironic that as she stands here trying to explain that people don’t think women capable of making surgeons—her movements and her body language fight against her to prove their notion right. Too proper. Much too delicate. Yet, despite what he assumes is a lifetime of training and the idea of being a surgeon consistently beaten out of her, here she is. And despite her dresses, hats, parasols, and the way she places her hands, he knows Belle is anything but delicate.

    As he looks at those hands, he finds himself intrigued to see what they could do—if they were allowed to.

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    A novelized version of the show and beyond from Jack's perspective, and Belle's later on.

    (1-24 are the events of the show with more of a focus, and Jack & Belle+ additional scenes with them. Chapter 25 - and on is post-cannon.)

    The few chapters with explicit/mature content will be marked.

    UPDATE 9/20

    Work has been really insane with my new job. Things should slow down after November and around the holidays, so I'm hoping to get back to writing then!!!
    Thanks for sticking with me. I promise I'll be back to writing Artful Dodger soon.

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    10 Jan 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 20

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    Her eyes meet his, shiny with tears, bottom lip trembling as she lets out a shaky breath, like she’s relieved that her secret has been set free. And she’s the strongest person he knows, will stand up for what she believes is right, has told him off in all manner of ways, and she isn't afraid to get her hands dirty. But this—this isn’t something that she can fight or scheme or talk her way out of.

    He doesn’t ever recall being so overcome with emotions before, unable to stop tears from blurring his vision. And then she says words that he knows he can’t ever erase. Words that he’ll hear in the depths of his worst nightmares, the memory of her small hands on his cheeks, her tears dripping onto his fingers, a whooshing in his ears.

    “I’m dying, aren’t I?”

     

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    Or, a missing moment between episodes 7 and 8.

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    08 Jan 2025