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Four days after killing Shroud, Invisigal appears in Robert’s wrecked apartment, injured, with a cursed mask in her backpack, and every reason to run - only for him to become the reason to stay. As new enemies rise and her dead boss’s tech still claws at her brain, the two of them — scarred, sleep-starved, and stupidly soft for each other — have to decide whether they’re a disaster waiting to go off or each others best chance for redemption.
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22 Dec 2025
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Each shift after the battle with Shroud felt lengthened. My thoughts were filled with the way he would hold my hand gently, chastely, and kiss my forehead as he walked me to my car afterward. It was the kind of utter decadence that I wasn't used to.
It almost felt wrong, somehow, to be cared for so, ugh, innocently?
Maybe it was because I was helplessly in love with him.
Or he was just fucking with me and I was falling for it.
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08 Dec 2025
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“Am I supposed to just wait around for you then?”
Ada can see it so clearly in that moment, every question he has ever thought of but never voiced aloud, all rushing to the surface at once, all screaming the one fact she was too blind—willfully or otherwise—to face: that these mortal attachments, these petty sentimentalities other people indulge in and she scoffs at, they were always meant to lead toward a particular destination. The strings bound both ways, and the carousel never did quite spin endlessly.
Would that she had the answer Leon wanted to hear.
(Or: For Leon and Ada, what looks like the end is merely the beginning. Sometimes, in order to fix something, you have to take it apart first.)
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27 Feb 2025
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She looks at him meaningfully, and when she speaks again there’s a candor in her voice that he desperately wants to believe but isn’t sure he’s ready to. “Would it be so hard to believe that I simply wanted to see you?”
He laughs, and it sounds so foreign that he’s momentarily taken aback. “Considering I’ve heard nothing from you for the last six years? Kinda, yeah.”
“Still holding a grudge over that, aren’t you?” Ada says, and the levity of it all is enough to set him on edge again. “Evidently you didn’t need my help figuring out the truth.”
Leon shoots her a look. “Doesn’t mean it wouldn’t have been nice to hear it from you.”
(Or: In the aftermath of Spain, Leon and Ada struggle to rebuild their trust in each other.)
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27 Feb 2025
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time heals everything by steambend for bellarchives
Fandoms: High School Musical: The Musical: The Series (TV)
09 Jul 2023
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Her sickness could’ve been due to the realization that Ricky had gotten her the chocolates to begin with. On Valentine’s Day. After she had just expressed to him that she was feeling upset that her mom had forgotten. After she had told him that any girl would love a big gesture. After she had told him to go spend the day with Nini. He had gone out instead to get her chocolates.
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Gina discovers that Ricky was the one who bought her the chocolates, and suddenly her summer of firsts is turned upside down by second thoughts and second chances.
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08 Sep 2024