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No matter what, no matter how shitty, the day’s gonna end at some point, even if it takes its sweet fucking time getting there.
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One by one, everybody goes the fuck home.
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“Those…those are the cases that’ll stick with you, I guess. There were a lot of those today.”
“Tell me about it.” Trinity shakes her hair out of her face. “I’m tough and I kinda feel like a steaming pile of shit, so, can’t imagine how you’re doin’ over there.”
“...Not great.” Dennis answers. “You think every shift’ll be like that?”
“Iiif we’re lucky!” Trinity runs a red light, ignoring the way Dennis jumps at a loud honk from their right.
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Mobius's patience runs out, and in his eagerness to close the gap he mashes his nose and jaw into Loki's, making Loki wince. Mobius pulls back, cringing. "Sorry, sorry didn't do that right—" he mumbles, seeming ready to give up just from that, but Loki grabs his tie, tugs him closer again.
"Can…can we try again?" Loki whispers, trying and failing to sound normal about any of this, to act like someone who doesn't want this far more than they probably should.
Mobius inhales, seems to sense the shaky desperation in Loki's voice even as Loki does his best to smooth out the ripples. "—Okay."
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- Part 8 of Lokius fics <3
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"I don't think…" Kendall trails off. His shoulders hang heavy.
"You don't think, or you do?" Stewy asks, the usual smooth scale of his voice a little softer, like he's talking Kendall off a ledge somewhere.
"I think I'm pretty fucking hollow."
"Yeah. My voice echoes when I talk to you." Stewy agrees, leaning a little closer and knocking his shoulder into his. "That's okay."
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Late October, 2022 (Or The Last Time Joel Saw Bill and Frank alive) by Springandastorm
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV)
11 Feb 2023
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The memories of those visits tend to blend together in Joel’s mind, a soft-focus blur of tastes and sounds and particularly memorable jokes, usually told by Frank. Joel remembers the year that Tess had gotten her hands on some Elton John sheet music and Frank had point-blank asked if she thought all gay men liked Elton John, pretending to be legitimately offended. Tess had apologized profusely, something she rarely did, until Frank had cracked and, face splitting open wide, had admitted that he actually is pretty fond of Honky Chateau.
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The crimsoned world around them lurched as Hermann fell forwards into Newt’s chest, thoughts looping in figures of eight and senses fragmenting as the drift pulled itself apart. He could hear an insect-like chittering, a bizarre clicking sound that seemed to travel up his spine and burrow into his skin.
“This is what it’s usually like.” he heard Newt say distantly, voice awed and all hints of terror gone. “I missed it.”
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Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I'm Yours) by Springandastorm
Fandoms: Knives Out (2019), Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022)
03 Dec 2022
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"In any case, I'd be happy to help you with this…" The man trails off expectantly.
"Blanc," Blanc fills in, holding his hand out for a shake, "Benoit Blanc."
"Very Bond, James Bond of you." The man says, giving his hand a firm shake. "I'm Phillip."
Blanc gives a polite laugh, noting Phillip's lack of reaction to his name and hoping it's authentic. "You're the one who sounds the part." He points out, startled to find that he thinks he might be flirting.
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Trent snorts, which is a sound that Ted has trouble believing he's able to make. "You didn't want to touch the knob?" He repeats.
"Nah, it's got all kindsa nasty germs on it, and I know that you bake 'em out anyway, but this one time in college I got food poisoning from a bad donut and spent about two days straight on the—wait."
Trent waits patiently for Ted to finish realizing, arms folded. Ted feels his face break open wide. "Trent Crimm, are you making a dick joke?"
"...I'm attempting to."
Ted thinks that if there were a little meter for how much he likes Trent, that might've just broken it.
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"I'm a little confused." Danny admits.
Nicholas nods. That's his fault, probably. “This isn’t—it's not a language I know how to speak.”
Danny gives him a funny look. “It isn’t Chinese, is it, Nicholas, you're just…a little worked up, is all."
“Mandarin.” Nicholas corrects, staring at a spot above Danny’s shoulder. "And I just…I'd like for you to tell me how you feel, because I don't know how to…" Nicholas gestures between them, taking another step forward but not daring to cross the rest of the distance, to speak the language that he's never been able to.
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Eddie Munson's Vampire-Slaying Mixtape by Springandastorm for oaseas
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
20 Aug 2022
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“I told them I’d make them a mix, okay?” Eddie looks like he doesn't understand why Steve would find that strange, blinking at him with bright, intense eyes, his fingers still drumming on his legs in an erratic, rapid-fire pattern.
Steve just tilts his head, reaching out to cover Eddie's fingers with his own and get them to still. “...You told the Mind Flayer you'd make them a mix?"
Eddie's fingers curl around his, tight enough that Steve can't tell if it's from nerves or exasperation. “Just make it!”
Steve feels the corners of his mouth creep up in spite of their current circumstances, sappy and helpless.
Eddie's eyebrows draw together, confused. “Why are you looking at me like that?”
“...I just missed how insane you are, is all.”
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- Part 4 of eddie munson's vampire mixtape
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Eddie Munson's Breakdown Mixtape (Vampire Edition) by Springandastorm
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
20 Jul 2022
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Eddie pulls him in for a kiss, and everything is familiar: his rings against Steve’s neck, the glint in his eyes, the tickle of his hair and the smell of clove cigarettes, but there’s also something else: a cold, slimy, screeching bat that comes way too close to touching Steve’s face as Eddie leans in.
“Do—do you have to have her on your shoulder all of the time like she’s a parrot?”
“Oh,” Eddie laughs, turning to look at her. “I kinda forget she’s there sometimes.”
“...Yeah, who wouldn’t?” Steve asks, certain that if he had a twenty-pound creature with a writhing tentacle tail and boney wings and unfathomably sharp teeth and maybe-venomous spit and a tendency for ear-splitting shrieking on his shoulder that he would not forget that she’s there sometimes.
“You don’t have to look so freaked out, Steve, she doesn’t bite.”
“...Yes the fuck she does?”
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- Part 3 of eddie munson's vampire mixtape
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Steve Harrington's Vampire Mixtape by Springandastorm
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
12 Jul 2022
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"Depeche Mode." Steve says, tracing a finger over the messily scrawled titles. "The Eddie I knew a few months ago wouldn't dare—"
"Yeah, well, don't go on about it." Eddie gets up to move to the couch, dropping his feet onto the table with a clunk. "I have a certain reputation to uphold."
"Pfffft, what reputation?" Steve asks. "The biggest baddest meanest metalhead around?"
"Exactly." Eddie says, holding his arms out without a trace of irony. "I'm a tastemaker, Steve, I have to be very careful about becoming…"
"What?" Steve's still grinning. "Touchy-feely? Goth?"
Eddie visibly caves. "...Honestly I may as well just admit it." He gestures over himself with a silver-ringed, black-nailed hand, at his layered necklaces and heavy boots and smudgy eyeliner. "It's pretty obvious. I've gone full bat."
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- Part 2 of eddie munson's vampire mixtape
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"Right." Jane says, sucking her lower lip between her teeth. She tries to channel the bravery she feels as Thor, the adventure of this new life she's getting to spend time in, this new version of herself she's trying to inhabit, at least for a little bit. "So, just to be clear…" She digs her fingers into the thread of the rug. "Are you flirting with me?"
"Would it be so bad if I was?" Valkyrie asks, leaning even closer. Her lips are pulled up at the edges, her eyes half-lidded.
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"Drax is an idiot, Mantis. He is an admirable warrior, and I'm sure he does not know any better, because if he did I'd have to—" Valkyrie cuts herself off, noticing for the first time that she's leaning so intently forwards she's about to fall out of her chair.
Mantis blinks, looking more surprised than she has all night. "I am not ugly to you?"
Valkyrie coughs, grabbing her bottle and trying to drink more despite it being resolutely empty. "No. You aren't."
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"What the hell, dude?" A voice says, rough and tired. "You couldn't have fallen a foot to the left? You crushed my records!"
"WHAT THE FUCK."
"You didn't land on my Zeppelin, did you? Can you check?"
"WHAT IS HAPPENING?"
"Stop yelling, dude, I'm hungover!"
"You're dead!" Steve blinks, rubs at his eyes, blinks again. That's it, he's officially lost it. He's seeing things. Maybe Vecna's back, or something, making him hallucinate, because why else would he be seeing a very much alive Eddie Munson right now? A very much alive Eddie Munson who's staring at him from where he's hunched under his desk, his hair everywhere and his eyes strangely liquid, yelling at him for breaking his records, of all things.
"Evidently not." Eddie says, gesturing a lazy hand over himself and trying a sharp-toothed smile but mostly just looking exhausted and scared.
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- Part 1 of eddie munson's vampire mixtape
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AKA Viago and Anton's impossible quest to have a single uninterrupted date!
"So…do you guys…remember that joke I made the other day?" Vladislav asks. "About Viago, um…" He drops to a whisper again. "Having interspecies sexual intercourse vith Anton?" He pauses to stroke his goatee some more. "Vell…ve are afraid that it is all very real, very true."
"He's always with him." Deacon says. "Which, yeah, we thought was weird, but we didn't think that Anton was the reason he's acting like he's been brain-scramblied. We thought that maybe Anton was just doing that annoying werewolf thing of sticking his nose in other people's business."
"Now, though, ve understand." Vladislav looks like he's in mourning. "The picnic, the freshly mutilated bodies…there is nothing more romantic than that. That vas the kind of place vhere I might take The Beast if I thought she deserved that kind of special treatment."
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Bonnet's Eleven (aka Bonnet-and-Teach's-Sixteen-or-Maybe-Seventeen) go international!
Now with double the action, double the conflict, and double The Revenge! Get ready for boat chases, even more colonizers, a rival thief, and maybe even a rift in our beloved crew…
Stede sighs. "Chauncey wants us to do a job for him. To pay off Nigel's fines. I'll tell you what it is, but you have to promise not to think I'm making it up."
"Oh, god." Ed says, pressing his face into the back of the couch. "What is it?"
"Basically, um, he wants us to steal a Fabergé egg for him."
"Fuck off." Ed's voice is muffled by the couch. He slowly lifts his head. "He's Ocean's Twelving us?"
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- Part 12 of ed x stede <3
- Part 2 of Heist
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Stede Bonnet has a plan. One that he's definitely-sort-of-mostly thought through. After all, how hard can a museum heist actually be?
"Every great pioneer must furrow their own path forwards." Stede says sagely, trying to sound wise and wondering vaguely if anything he's saying makes any sense at all.
"Who said that? Some colonizer?"
"I said it, actually. But, speaking of colonizers, don't you want to know who our mark is?"
"Not particula—"
"The British Museum."
"...Fuck off."
"That's right. The big guys. Don't you want to take them down? At least a little bit?
Ed swirls his finger through some salt on the table, looking down at it instead of Stede. He doesn't answer.
"Little bit, eh?"
Ed looks up. "...Little bit."
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- Part 9 of ed x stede <3
- Part 1 of Heist
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Talk Me Down (Or 5 times Stede took care of Ed and one time Ed took care of Stede) by Springandastorm
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
18 May 2022
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"Already feeling better, eh?" Stede says, breathless and pleased.
"Mph." Ed says against his lips, crawling over him and sliding a hand under his jaw. Stede is very receptive, pliant and interested underneath him, and he wraps his arms around Ed's back, nails lightly scratching and making Ed drop onto his knees, goosebumps springing up over his skin. The angle that he hits his left knee at sends a sharp lance of pain through it, making him curse and roll onto his back, cursing "fuckingfuckbastardknee" as he does so.
"Oh, bugger, I'm sorry!" Stede says, reaching a hand down to wrap around Ed's knee, tilting it slightly to make sure it looks alright the way he does whenever it gets messed up. "Do you need me to do the clicky-thingy?"
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- Part 11 of ed x stede <3
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He can picture it more clearly than ever: perfect days built on perfect days, a contentment deep in his bones, his hunger both stoked and sated with every taste of Stede on his tongue. In the evenings they'll watch local theatre to get better at Mandarin, which they'll use to haggle with the locals for furniture and other shiny things until their place looks exactly as Stede pictures it. Their bed will be by the window, draped in fabrics of purple and red and gold that glow like jewels in the candlelight.
Later they'll fall into it together, tipsy and pleasantly exhausted, and Stede will press his face into the back of Ed's neck and hold him there, and he'll know what it feels like to be home. In the low light Stede will kiss him sunstruck, take him apart limb by limb like an old marionette, whisper his name like it's the only word he knows. It's so close he can feel it grazing his fingertips, just waiting for him to close his hand around it and hold on.
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- Part 10 of ed x stede <3
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The first time Stede touches Ed again, he feels a bit like he’s been scalded. He has Stede pinned against the wooden railing of the ship, his knife to his throat, but Stede doesn’t look scared, just blinks at him with wide, apologetic eyes and says “I missed you.” Ed feels himself soften despite himself, the burning coals in his gaze shifting, almost going out, and that’s all it takes for Stede to smile, to lift a hand to his cheek. “There he is.” He says, an echo of Izzy’s words that cuts far deeper than it did when he said it.
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- Part 8 of ed x stede <3