8 Works by TheLibraryBat
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It's been almost four years since Michael Shelley succeeded Gertrude Robinson as the Head Archivist of the Magnus Institute. Almost four years of relative peace and quiet, interspersed with the odd bout of supernatural bullshit. Michael is engaged, document storage is tidier than it has ever been, and things are looking... good.
But the Web has been biding its time, and now it's ready to make its next move. It may have lost the battle to place Jon in the Archivist's chair, but there are still ways to get its plans back on track, and it has plenty of pieces left on the board.
(This is a sequel to Break Me Like A Pattern. I recommend reading that first, or you will be very confused.)
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- Part 2 of Archivist Michael AU (BMLAP)
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Or, the Afterlife of Hannah Geist.
When she starts coughing blood, they give up on the lipstick and move her out of the Mayerson, to a large and private manor where she can convalesce in secret. Hannah doesn’t remember the transfer. It happens during a spell of delirium, when she’s slipping between worlds, her hair a sweaty tangle, her skin burning white-hot and radiant like the star she is.
Hannah Geist is a dead girl walking. But there's a stranger out there with her blood in his veins. And when she learns of him, she knows that - one way or another - he is how she's going to survive.
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Alternative Title: The one where Tim and Gerry wrestle in a ball pit.
In an alternate 2015 where Gerry didn't join forces with Gertrude (or die of a brain tumour), he's still out there working for Mary as Jon's Archive crew gear up to stop the Unknowing. His path crosses with Tim's in an abandoned shopping centre where both of them have gone to find a Leitner.
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Gerry rubbed his back. The skin was cold – too cold for Atlanta in late summer – and Michael flinched a little before relaxing into the touch. There was a scar on his spine, long, raised, muddling the bumps of vertebrae.
“Are you okay?” he asked, when it occurred to him that he should.
“It’s been a long time since anybody asked me that.”It's August, 2014, and Gerard is two-thirds of the way through a doomed road-trip.
Michael plays at being human for a night.
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"I don’t want to be a parasite anymore.”
Renfield starts collecting paint cards from the local DIY store. The paint cards make him think.
(Set somewhere between the 2 Be Loved montage and Dracula crashing the support meeting.)
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The year is 2011. Michael Shelley is living his life in circles, blissfully unaware of the betrayal that awaits him in the summer. Gertrude Robinson has plans to enact and plans to destroy. Emma Harvey is hiding a book in the dark place at the back of a cupboard.
When Gerard Keay walks into the Magnus Institute - two years sooner than he was meant to - everything changes.
This is an (eventual) Archivist Michael AU, exploring how certain events might have played out, had one key player been in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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- Part 1 of Archivist Michael AU (BMLAP)
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“I told you before. I want to be your friend."
Sasha James is brilliant and doomed.When the monster that calls itself Michael begins following her around - saving her, a few times, from danger - she can't help but wonder why.
As Sasha unravels the mystery of Michael Shelley - falling deeper into the clutches of Beholding all the while - Michael searches desperately for a way to save her from her fate. After all, Michael knows better than anyone what it is to be an assistant, and what it is to be doomed.
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“It wanted to kill me,” Jon answered in a breath.
“What, Michael?”
“Yes. And I – I think I was going to let it.”
The Spiral has deserted Michael Shelley. But life hasn't.
When Helen deposits Jon back in the Archives, it decides to discard Michael with him.