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    When a part of the cerebral cortex dies, it’s inevitable that the function that correlates one part to another loses its purpose.

    But all you need is a reconnection.

    ~+~

    A part of him was scared. Is scared. He could live a life beyond this. Could live a life forgetting Derek, a stranger he’s searched for longer than he’d even come to know. It would be easy, to forget. It would be simpler.

    But simple is New Year’s Eve spent alone at home playing Minecraft off a laptop he’d picked up in a locker he was never meant to pry open. Simple is watching hours worth of video content, of the gameplay of a man solving puzzles in a seemingly impossible situation on that sandbox game. Simple is being alone.

    Derek was always meant to reach Avery, and Avery was meant to be reached.

    This time, Avery means to do the opposite.

    OR: Post-DAWTDE Fix-It featuring the rehabilitation of mind, body, and soul.

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    19 Apr 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 37

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    “I read your note, by the way,” Avery said with a scoff, hanging his head. “A goodbye letter? Are you fucking kidding me?” He leaned back in his seat as far as he could without letting go of the hand in his own, “I hate you. I’d only just met you, and you were killing yourself for me. For no fucking reason. Seriously, that monster thing better be dead and gone, otherwise I’ll kill it myself, man."

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    Avery's all Derek has, now. And by God, he's gonna be a damn good fake hospital boyfriend. (And maybe just a good friend too.)

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    12 Apr 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 37

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    In hindsight, he couldn’t believe he’d fallen for it. The oldest trick in the book, and he’d barely thought twice. If D3rLord had told him that gullible was written on the ceiling, he probably would’ve fallen for that too.

    He had sat there for what felt like hours, staring at his laptop. The screen seemed like it was laughing at him. ‘You Died!’ was displayed in large, classic Minecraft text. That was it. No button to respawn or quit. No option to come back, no shot at stopping the King and Derek from merging. No second chance to save his friend.

     

    He heard the fireworks going off. They’d been going for a while now. Some distant, some close. Every loud bang reminded him, with a stab to his heart, that his friend would probably never get to experience another new year.

     

    You are real.

    You are special.

    Remember who you are.

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    12 Apr 2026

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    Oh, you have got to be kidding me.”

    Derek froze. “…What?”

    The King’s voice dropped into something dangerously flat.

    “I dragged a mind across eternity. I filled it with the collapse of stars, the birth of civilizations, the end of all things. I gave it knowledge so vast it shattered under the weight of it.” The eye flicked toward Derek. “And you—”

    Derek straightened slightly, like he was bracing for something.

    “—you used your final coherent thoughts to leave behind cryptic warnings… carefully designed pathways… intricate systems meant to guide the next subject…”

    A pause.

    “…and instead of properly instilling fear, you accidentally set up a romantic narrative.”

    Avery choked. “A what—?”

    Derek made a sound that could only be described as a system failure. “That’s not—what are you—no, that’s not what I—”

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    the romantic feelings between Derek and Avery mentally kills The King in Yellow

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    08 Apr 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 6

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    Cole has been awake for upwards of twenty-four hours, his feet feel like he's back to being a guard at a bank, his head is absolutely pounding, and the dozens of buckets of different kinds of flowers are all blending together.

    Not his favorite way to start the day.

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    Cole and Zane's anniversary, with a few bumps along the way.
    (Cole/Zane A for the Valentine's/White Day exchange over on tumblr! @/ninjago-valentine-exchange)

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    04 Apr 2026