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    Alexander doesn’t have good dreams. Not anymore. His waking moments aren’t good, so why would life give him a break as he sleeps? It’s all in his case file. The fights he picked, the ones he won, mostly the ones he lost. The bruises and the broken bones. The nightmares. The screams. The way you can count each one of his ribs, lost under the sea of purple mottled across his chest. The twelve sleeping pills in one straight line.
    The ten placements in three years.

    His social worker is at her wits end with the kid who will just slip through the cracks, who will end up on the streets, behind bars or in the ground before he reaches eighteen. He wishes he could reassure her, tell her that he’s different, that he’s not just some statistic, that he’s a person who’s going to be more, who’s going to break the cycle of violence upon violence. But he can’t lie between gritted teeth. He doesn’t have it in him

    Another Washington foster care fanfiction.

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  2. Public Bookmark 77

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    Harry has been living with Snape for a few weeks now; settling in is a tricky process, but one that he's grateful for regardless.

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    Snape places down a small sideplate next to Harry's essay, two chocolate Digestives sliding across it as he puts it down.

    "Don't forget to get yourself a glass of water if you're thirsty, Potter." The words aren't harsh, if anything they're almost soft, like the feeling of a wool blanket, not quite scratchy, not quite soft, and it's enough for Harry to blink up at the man once, twice, before ducking his head again, nodding.

    (Snape's expression was nigh-on blank, but his eyes... The light in them was worried, Harry thinks. He could have been wrong, admittedly, but it's something about the molten-soft edges, the furrow of his eyebrows, the way his attention had lingered on Harry, on his dry lips and too-thin wrists and on the papers splayed out over the table.
    It felt like he was analysing Harry, but not necessarily for the sake of actually pulling him apart afterwards.)

     

    (Belladonna represents silence in Victorian Flower Language.)

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    07 Nov 2023

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  4. Public Bookmark 83

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    Ethan is secretly taking a designer drug, but how long can he keep it from Mark?

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    08 Aug 2022

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    Three's a crowd, but it could be worse, as the Doctor finds out...

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    19 May 2020