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    "It's okay Mike, hey, it's okay."

    "No it's not!" Which—okay—fair enough, it didn't feel very okay to Jonathan either, but he was so out of his depth right now. He'd comforted Will countless times, he'd comforted Nancy, El. Hell, he'd even comforted Mike a bunch of times when he was younger.

    A lot younger.

    He'd comforted Mike over a broken crayon, or a scraped knee, or Will being sick and not being able to go to school for a week—that one had required a lot of comforting—but that had been a long time ago and those were all just silly, trivial things kids cried over. Now Mike was crying on a dirty bathroom floor, blood tainting his arms, and Jonathan couldn't just give him a new yellow crayon to make him feel better anymore.

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    26 Jul 2024

  2. Public Bookmark 13

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    Hand over mouth.

    He breathes slowly, trying to make as little noise as possible. Crawling further into the corner he is sitting in, hugging a hammer to his chest. Someone knocks on the door, and he flinches, but picks himself up quickly. He does not intend to open. Knows that it makes no difference either way. His wildly staring gaze refuses to leave the red, old-fashioned telephone that stands opposite him in the corridor outside his bedroom.

    He takes a deep breath and waits for the door to give way. Waiting for the bang, but it never comes. Instead, a loud, piercing sound.

    Tears well up in his eyes.

    The phone rings.

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    25 Jul 2024

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    “Did I do something wrong?” Mike questions, mouth twisted in a frown, eyes less wide than they were a few moments ago, sleepiness gone. His arms stay at his sides, although his fingers fiddle with his sleeves. “What did I do wrong?”

    Will frowns back. “You didn’t do anything wrong.”

    Mike doesn’t look like he believes him. Will doesn’t blame him. “Then why do you keep leaving?”

    The world ends, and then some. Mike and Will find each other again, amidst the debris and distance.

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    25 Jul 2024

  4. Public Bookmark 28

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    “I can be brave for you too, ‘Brina. I promise. You tell me what you’re feeling, and I’ll take some. We can drag it around together, dead-horse style,” he says fiercely.

    “The expression is beating a dead horse,” she says.

    “Well, we can beat the shit out of whatever you’re feeling, too. If you think it’ll help.”

    “None of that made any sense at all,” Sabrina laughs, even as she hugs him closer. His speech was stilted but genuine, meaning spilling out between words that aren’t quite right for what he’s trying to tell her, but she knows. She knows just like he does.

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    25 Jul 2024

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    Nina looks at him like he’s an idiot. “Just keep the gloves on, then.”

    “What?” Kaz blurts.

    Or: Kaz Brekker conquers intimacy. It's both easier and harder than he planned.

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    25 Jul 2024