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Jason wished he could shrink into the couch. He wanted to deflect. He wanted to make a joke, to change the subject. But the words were burning a hole in his chest and needed out. Had been burning since his English teacher had told him he could go anywhere he wanted.
If he couldn’t say it to Dick now, he couldn’t say it to anyone else.
“I heard back from Princeton,” he said.
In which Jason gets his college acceptance letters. It’s not a big deal. No, really, it isn’t.
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27 Jul 2026
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Zuko goes into exile with a scar, a mission, and a wife.
The girl wears ill fitted ceremonial silks. She is too thin, with jutting bones and hollowed eyes. Dirt smudges her cheek. Her lower lip has a healing split in it. Gaudy as her finery is, she wears it like prisoner’s rags.
All of this Zuko registers in the time it takes him to reach the dais and bow. Every muscle aches with the remembrance of what happened the last time he knelt before Father. This time there is no begging, no roar of the crowd, no burning. Still—Zuko’s grateful to stand once more.
Slipping into soldier’s parade rest, he waits for what will come next, all too aware of the girl’s defiant body next to his.
“I am told that this is Katara of the Southern Water Tribe,” Father says, cruel amusement oiling his words. The phrasing makes the girl sound like a thing. “The last waterbender of their pathetic tribe.” Flames conceal all but his shadow, yet Zuko knows from long experience the exacting blade of his father’s smirk. The smirk he must surely wear now. Because he has built up his insult and now he lets it fall. “Your bride.”
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28 Mar 2026
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Jason knows that he's far luckier than most. Being taken in by a king, raised as a prince, given a life of comfort and safety that he never would have come close to on the streets? It's the stuff of fairy-tales, and, like most fairy-tales, Jason knows it all comes at a price. It's restrictions, manners, an eventual marriage to a mate that probably won't bother trying to pretend they're interested in more than his title.
Having that marriage be to a king, and having an entire peace treaty hinging on Jason being exactly the kind of perfect, obedient, quiet omega he's never been, was not supposed to happen.
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05 Feb 2026
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What you do when there are no more worlds to conquer.
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- Part 13 of Smallville works
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04 Dec 2025
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“Hey, you’ve reached Clark Kent. Leave me a message and I’ll talk to you soon.”
A thick lump threatened to swell in Lex’s throat and he swallowed it down.
“You wouldn’t believe this, Clark,” he said, beginning a circuit around the terrace garden, “Even if you were here to see it. For as long as my father has been dead, it's never stopped him from meddling in my life.”
The next words were hard to say out loud, even to someone who wasn’t listening.
“We have a child. A son, to be exact. Your DNA combined with mine.”
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Blessing and tragedy have always walked hand in hand for Lex Luthor.
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25 Nov 2025