18 Works by hideyourfires
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The story without ending is I love you by hideyourfires
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
06 Jan 2025
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They're figuring it out. Emilia and Emmrich, Emmrich and Emilia. Her on top. His gloved hand. The ghostly, spectral touch of his magic. His voice in her ear.
But mostly, mostly, she goes to kiss him and meets the glamour of his lips, and her fingers on his hard skull find themselves clutched in his hair.
When she looks up at him, though, it's not the same Emmrich she is used to. Undone, slightly. Breathless wonder, soft, on his features.
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“There’s a man,” she finally gives in.
“A man? He got any defining traits, sweetheart?”
A smile breaks wide across her face, but it’s a sad one. “Smart. Handsome. Kind. Doesn’t love me back.”
Nick could laugh. Laugh, a loud bark of a laugh. Because this confirms it – whoever he is, the man is clearly an idiot.
“This young man of yours. He got eyes in his head? Brain rattling around his skull?”
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- Part 3 of Old Time Romance
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Be still, my indelible friend by hideyourfires
Fandoms: Fallout 4, Fallout (Video Games)
19 May 2020
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It’s in her handwriting. Nicky, in her rounded cursive, scrawled across the holotape in black marker. Of course, he knows it’s from her. He had found it in her pocket.
“Hey, heartbreaker.” Her tone is teasing, playful, so out of touch with the awfulness of the situation. If he needed to breathe, he’s certain the air would have caught in his throat.
“It’s me,” her voice goes on. “If you’re listening to this… well. You already know the rest.”
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The girl out of time gets the chance to lay out some things they never say. They don't talk about it.
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- Part 2 of Old Time Romance
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Oh, my last, sweet dream, are you finally asleep? by hideyourfires
Fandoms: Fallout 4, Fallout (Video Games)
11 May 2020
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Three nights and one morning between the girl out of time and her synth detective.
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“You fancy a drink, Nicky?”
He cocks his head to the side, gives her a look. “You forgetting something, toots?”
She rolls her eyes. "You know what I mean, Valentine. Celebrate. Make a night of it."
(He briefly imagines saying alright, partner, you’re on. Imagines sitting across a table from her, clinking their bottles together, trading barbs and anecdotes until the early hours of the morning. Her leg resting familiarly against his under the table. Walking her home at sunrise.
There will be other nights, he figures.)
“This wouldn’t have anything to do with your sudden aversion to getting some shut-eye, now, would it?”
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- Part 1 of Old Time Romance
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No Language Left to Say it by hideyourfires
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: Inquisition
12 Jul 2019
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Qunari don't love, but dwarves do. It doesn't matter until the door closes behind him.
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It happens like this: Vex says it's not right to make Scanlan stay at a hotel. Percy agrees; it isn’t right that he should sleep in a hotel. Not when they have a perfectly good kennel going unused. He smiles, pleasantly, at Vex, who shoots him a look that would have melted the skin off the bones of a lesser man.
So Pike says, “He can stay with me.”
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Percy and Vex are getting married. Who better to be their wedding singer than Scanlan Shorthalt?
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No Other Version I'd Rather Be Tonight by hideyourfires
Fandoms: The Arcana (Visual Novel)
04 Sep 2018
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Julian looks down at her, his face cracking into a smile. “What a shame. It seems we have the place to ourselves.”
Cass grins, and Julian leans down and kisses her. It’s just a peck, at first, but he’s soon pulling her into another, and another, deepening it into something more passionate.
Cass pulls away from him slightly. “Julian,” She says, a little breathless. Julian is undeterred, his lips kissing a trail from her jaw down her neck. Cass laughs, cupping his face. “Julian, wait a second.”
Julian pulls away, smiling. “Yes?”
“I want to see you,” She says.
Julian’s face breaks into a wicked grin. “Why, of course.” He begins immediately, all too happy to oblige, his fingers unfastening the buttons at his front.
Cass laughs, and lays a hand over his eager fingers. “That’s not what I meant.”
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She doesn’t speak, at first. She just stares, her doe eyes wide and afraid. Asra has seen wounded animals less timid. There must be some part of her, though, that still knows him, that calls out for his touch – when he reaches out to her, she doesn’t shrink away. It’s a start, but it doesn’t make his heart ache any less.
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Recovery, from rebirth to the Lazaret.
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I fall, I fall, and I forget that I am by hideyourfires
Fandoms: The Arcana (Visual Novel)
09 Aug 2018
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Eleanor remembers, and forgets.
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Heaven Help the Fool Who Falls in Love by hideyourfires
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
29 May 2018
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There are two Scanlan Shorthalts. The first is the one the world sees; charming and playful, flirtatious and theatrical. Then there is the other Scanlan. The one that isn’t for show. The one that revealed itself, in bits and pieces, in quiet moments behind the scenes. The one that is only hers.
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The wound itself is tiny; Beau had caught the arrow before it had stuck into him, snapping it over her knee in triumph. Still, it had nicked his skin - at his side, just between the clasps of his armour, a small puncture in the soft material of his clothing.
He had thought it an unusual target. He supposes now that it makes sense.
Now that his blood feels like sludge in his veins. Now he feels drunk with exhaustion. Now his head pounds like a heartbeat, pulsing with a dull ache.
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After the battle, Molly counts to seven.
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Molly is alive. Against all odds, he is alive. Bleeding, and quite profusely, but that’s nothing new. He lifts a hand to his neck to stem the flow. He can feel his pulse – it’s beating like the heart of a hummingbird. It feels like a miracle. He feels unstoppable. He feels like he might throw up.
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- Part 2 of All that Blood was never once Beautiful
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All that Blood was never once Beautiful by hideyourfires
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
19 Apr 2018
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“If you won’t let me help,” He hisses, “Why are you telling me this?”
When he first met Molly, Caleb had found it difficult to decipher his facial expressions. Everything else about him had been too distracting, too many bright colours and bits of dangling jewellery. There was too much of him, all at once, and Caleb hadn’t known what to make of it.
Since then, he has learned to see through it. He knows now that that is its purpose; to distract. Because sometimes, sometimes, Molly looks very young, and vulnerable, and afraid.
Molly looks up at him, suddenly small, his lips a thin line.
“I don’t want be alone,” He says.
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- Part 1 of All that Blood was never once Beautiful
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Molly wakes in a cold sweat, dreams still clinging to his skin. The voices linger, whispering in his ears even as he bolts upright, gasping for breath.
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Before Those Hands Pulled Me from the Earth by hideyourfires
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age - All Media Types
26 Mar 2018
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Blackwall can tell what kind of day the Inquisitor has had by the dirt on her skin, under her nails, in her hair.
In a different life, in another time, there is a version of him that is clean-shaven and not wearing a layer of grime. That version of himself might have looked for something courtly, all perfume and porcelain, starry-eyed over a secret hidden beneath frilly petticoats. That version of himself, he thinks, is young and stupid.
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Cast some light (and you'll be alright) by hideyourfires
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age - All Media Types
23 Aug 2017
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“You’re wearing a dress.” He says, suddenly. Catlin frowns up at him. “It’s good.” He rushes. “I mean, you look lovely. I mean - Maker, is it warm here?”
He laughs, awkwardly. She stays stony silent, staring up at him. Her cheeks are pink. He thinks he might have offended her somehow, and curses his clumsy way with words.
Then, just as suddenly as his own outburst, she says, “Would you like to dance, Cullen?”
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The Inquisitor and Cullen attend celebrations in the Hinterlands. It’s thrilling. It’s maddening. He won’t let time or lyrium steal this memory, this moment, from him, no matter how long he lives.
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- Part 3 of A Love like Religion
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A Love like Religion by hideyourfires
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age - All Media Types
21 Aug 2017
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It was slow at first, the fading, then all at once she was gone. Nobody knows when the cracks began to appear, but once they had taken root it was all too evident. Everything she had once been – a symbol of strength and hope and determination, an unfaltering believer – seemed to have come unravelled in one sharp tug. She fell apart, and all that passion, all that righteous fury, disappeared in an instant.
Her lion-heart, her golden boy. Boy with his heart in his hands. Boy with love bleeding out of every open vein. Boy she had loved to ruin, to so total a destruction.
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- Part 2 of A Love like Religion
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A Gentle Kind of Aching by hideyourfires
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age - All Media Types
17 Aug 2017
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Cullen is no stranger to armour, knows its intricacies – but this is not undressing. This is a prayer, a gentle kind of aching in a candle-lit room. Off with the squared shoulders, the metal breast. With desperate fingers he breaks away the pieces that hold her fragile form together.
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- Part 1 of A Love like Religion