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(or, 9 Alternative Boyfriend Uses)
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‘Focus,’ Blaine said. ‘Focus on what you care most about in this world with–’
Sebastian jackknifed awake, instantly restrained by the cuffs around his wrists, the strap across his chest, tied down to a gurney that left a permanent chill at his back, an ill foreboding of whatever else his interrogator had in store.
[While being tortured in virtual, Sebastian falls back on his Envoy training, remembering every lesson Blaine taught him about getting back to the real.]
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Oftentimes Sebastian will pretend to fall in through his bedroom window, and Blaine will shoot up in bed, calling, “Boy, why are you crying?”
“I lost my shadow, Wendy, darling,” Sebastian will answer seamlessly, long before he realizes ‘darling’ is Wendy’s last name and not a term of endearment.
They may not have a clan of Lost Boys, but they have a Neverland, an island in their minds where fairies exist, especially if they clap hard enough, where mermaids are a little mean, and pirates get scared of something as simple as a ticking clock.
[Peter Pan is Sebastian's hero. So he's Blaine's hero too.]
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- Part 1 of Seblaine Week 2020
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How has he given Sebastian this power? How has Sebastian figured out all these things about him when they haven’t shared anything but each other’s bodies? If he weren’t so convinced Sebastian’s shame mirrored his own, he’d think him a spy. He’s let him too close. He risks too much.
He forces his pistol between their bodies, where it settles snug and reassuring at the small of his back. “I wish I could hate you.”
Sebastian’s hands fall away. “You do.”
He takes a deep breath. “Not enough.”
[Sebastian Smythe and Blaine Anderson are members of rival gang families. Any interaction between their family that isn't business or murder is unthinkable. But the two of them crash together and start a dangerous relationship that could prove their undoing. The relationship they build could mean their deaths.]
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- Part 2 of Seblaine Week 2016
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Like a Sour Diesel (She Burn, She Burn, She Burn) by define_serenity
Fandoms: The Flash (TV 2014)
05 Apr 2020
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Caitlin Snow couldn’t use the leverage of a smile to put him under her spell, yet her black-and-white portrait ran his mouth dry at the prospect of meeting her in person. Gazing into the camera with sultry dark eyes, the subtle hint of a smirk pulling at her lips, she looked like entirely too much trouble for him to be getting mixed up in.
And yet—
Girls like her didn’t tend to disappear into thin air.
[ Private Investigator Barry Allen is hired by Millie Foss to find her friend Caitlin Snow, who disappeared not long after Tommy Moran was shot dead in his apartment. His search leads him from the Moon River bar down to the Hemlock Motel, but will he like what he finds? Or are there other things at play? ]
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- Part 2 of Snowbarry Week 2018
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Killer Frost crouches down and meets his eye. “Do I make you uncomfortable?”
Barry licks over his teeth. Between Zoom, Savitar, and the Thinker no one would blame him any unease, but he suspects the question is meant to catch him unaware— she means to make him uncomfortable, and knows exactly how to keep him off balance.
“I make it a rule to steer clear of metas.”
“And yet you stumble into my humble abode with nothing to offer but words.”
[Bartholomew ‘the Chemist’ Allen begs help from the metahuman underground to help him pull off a challenging heist. Little does he know this will put him in the path of the underground’s beguiling leader, Killer Frost.]
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“I can speed to Chicago for our favorite pizza,” he interjects, “and then maybe that cute bakery in New York to—”
“Barry!” Frost calls, Caitlin’s eyes flashing white.
He stops dead in his tracks.
Then, in Caitlin’s voice, “I think we need to talk.”
“Look”—he rubs the back of his neck—“I got a little carried away, okay? I shouldn’t have said what I said when I said it and—”
SERIES OF UNRELATED DRABBLES
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“Didn’t anyone ever teach you it’s rude to snoop?” Caitlin’s voice rings behind him.
His heart about jumps out of his chest. Busted.
“You’re the one who let in a CSI,” he says and turns in the same breath, greeted by a picture perfect tableau— or, it would be, did he not suspect Caitlin of being one of the greatest criminal masterminds this city had ever seen.
[Caitlin Snow and Barry Allen are the best at what they do, and they admire each other for it. Problem is she’s a criminal mastermind better known as the Chemist and Barry’s a CSI working for the Central City police department tasked with catching her.]
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- Part 1 of Snowbarry Week 2019
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“Ministerul Magiei vă dorește o zi plăcută…”—a woman’s voice greets him, well before his feet touch solid ground and the uncomfortable pull around his navel dissipates. Blaine doubles over and clutches his stomach, drawing in a few deep breaths through his nose to stop his breakfast from spilling all over the parquet floors. Oi.
Travelling by Portkey hadn’t been his preferred method of transportation.
[After numerous invitations sent by owl, Blaine finally takes Sebastian up on his offer to visit the Romanian Dragon Sanctuary where he works. As a Care for Magical Creatures professor he thought he’d seen his share of fantastic beasts. Sebastian, however, is eager to prove him wrong.]
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- Part 1 of Seblaine Week 2019
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[SEMI-RELATED DRABBLES] What if Dalton Academy didn’t exist (
the horror!), and after Sadie Hawkins Blaine transfers to another public high school, William McKinley High. He quickly strikes up a friendship with Kurt, becomes a valued member of New Directions, and come his junior year, Sebastian Smythe is a new transfer student. Star athlete, easy going, frequenter of the only gay bar in Lima, Scandals, Sebastian likes what he sees when he looks at Blaine.Series
- Part 2 of Seblaine Week 2019
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There were cables strewn all over the floor; ethernet, USB, HDMI, some of them stripped down to their copper wiring— and behind one of the two desks in the room she finds her husband, elbows deep in the guts of some old desktop computer he must’ve picked up at a dump somewhere.
“Barry…” she starts, putting two and two together once she notices the rest of the old laptops set up around the shed.
About a week ago Nora’s teacher gave the class a new assignment, using only the words ‘daisy chain’ to describe it— the interpretation and execution of the assignment was up to each individual student, and it’s clear which interpretation Barry picked.
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- Part 1 of Snowbarry Spring
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“Pity chocolate I’ll take,” Caitlin adds, “but that’s it.”
“You’re too sick to eat chocolate,” he says, and looks over the warzone Caitlin turned their bed into over the past few hours; used tissues strewn all over the floor despite the basket he’d strategically placed next to the bed…
SERIES OF UNRELATED DRABBLES.
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Sebastian Smythe. Twenty-two. Pre-law. Post-breakup.
Swipe Left.
“Ouch,” a voice sounds behind him all of a sudden, close enough for him to realize the man the voice came with had been reading along over his shoulder. “Hard no for that one, huh?”
[Stuck at the airport on Christmas Eve, Blaine does what any other single young man would. He opens the Tinder app to pass the time.]
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“What do you say, Barry Allen?” Caitlin’s voice turns teasing, and it curls around the ventricles of his heart like Baby’s Breath—it’s both genteel and suffocating, the way Caitlin manages to play his heart’s fears and desires at the same time. “Do you want to run away with me?”
[Returning home for spring break, Barry and Caitlin quickly sense that home isn’t where they need to be to figure out their problems. The two leave on an impromptu road trip together, hoping to find distraction with each other, and at the end of the road, perhaps, find themselves.]
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- Part 1 of Snowbarry Week 2018
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“My handsome prince isn’t nervous, is he?”
“Sebastian,” Blaine hushes, startling his eyes open. “We’re not supposed to see each other before the wedding!”
“If memory serves”—his eyes narrow—“that didn’t really take last time either.”
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- Part 1 of Seblaine Week 2018
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(excerpt) In the aftermath of creating Flashpoint, Sebastian starts reliving memories he thought he'd erased. Tortured by a world that never was, he faces his greatest foe yet. Himself.
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- Part 9 of More than a Trick of the Light
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“Do you think there’s a world out there where this—?” Blaine looks at Sebastian sideways. “Lasts?” he asks, tears shining in his eyes. “Us?”
“You mean like an alternate reality?”
Blaine shrugs, unsure what he means. Maybe a universe where they weren’t quite so underprepared when they first met, where neither of them endured years of unhappiness before running into each other again.
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- Part 7 of Seblaine Spring Fling
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“Surprise,” soon follows in a singsong voice.
Sebastian throws up his arms. “Of course it was you.”
Turning, his eyes fall to the former foe standing across the street in all his 5’8 glory, in that signature tailored suit with the red pocket square, and that maddening mess of curls that his fingers raked through in fantasies he wouldn’t admit to if his life came under threat.
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New York winters were a different matter; the city’s vibrant rhythm stilled, calmed to a sudden stop, opening space to breathe in a city of millions. No New Yorker enjoyed winter as much as he did, even if the subway grinding to a chilly halt meant walking twenty blocks to work.
Not this year, though.
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It’s there that the queens Nora and Carla happened upon the same romantic idea. From Caitlín’s tenth birthday onward, Barry and Caitlín would be brought together each summer in the hopes that they would fall in love. Both their husbands grew weary of war years ago, and uniting their kingdoms would make their enemies think twice before launching another campaign against them.
Barry would be King, and Caitlin would be Queen, and together they would become fair and just rulers.
It was a new wish, perhaps a somewhat selfish one, but one that grew deep roots in the monarchs’ hearts.
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- Part 3 of Snowbarry Week 2017