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It was supposed to be just a brief visit to check in on the TV to make sure he knew the plan.
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at the end of every tether by hlaalus
Fandoms: Trigun Stampede (Anime 2023), Trigun (Anime & Manga 1995-2008)
24 Jun 2024
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“Enjoy your Mother’s Day gift?” he mumbles.
She has to stop herself from laughing—not at the gift itself, but at the fact that he went to the trouble to write her a song for Mother’s Day. Her hand drifts up to his neck, fingers wrapping around and scratching at his hairline.
“What a sweet little gift,” she coos. “You wrote a whole song just for mommy.”
His breath shudders against her.
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- Part 2 of death to any other mother
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Charon clutches his oar. He grumbles, catching their attention.
Clotho, the more personable of them, looks at him with her silver hair shifting in the low light. "Brother, you don't—"
Atropos doesn't turn to him, only continues her shearing of the threads. "—often come to us."
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death to any other mother by hlaalus
Fandoms: Trigun Stampede (Anime 2023), Trigun (Anime & Manga 1995-2008)
27 May 2024
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“What the fuck did you just say?”
There’s a hint of fear in her features—her lip trembles lightly and her eyes go wide—before she catches herself and breaks into a smirk.
“It wouldn’t be…” she enunciates clearly, her lips moving around each syllable. “…the first time.”
Something in Nai snaps.
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- Part 1 of death to any other mother
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tight leash by hlaalus
Fandoms: Trigun Stampede (Anime 2023), Trigun (Anime & Manga 1995-2008)
29 Apr 2024
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Having two more pups in the house really solidified his position as the lead of the pack. Everyone else followed his example and learned the ropes from him. Vash was no leader of people—but a few puppies? He was in his element.
And it’s not as if it was that hard to acquire them. Meryl is small and easily overpowered, while Wolfwood would follow anyone who offered him food.
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lucky roll by hlaalus
Fandoms: Trigun Stampede (Anime 2023), Trigun (Anime & Manga 1995-2008)
22 Apr 2024
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He pulls at the leather cuffs, testing the hold to make sure he can’t get out even if he changes his mind an hour in. The stall is locked, the vibrator in place, and the timer starts with a fumbled push of the button on his phone.
Two hours to go.
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devouring your shadow by hlaalus
Fandoms: Trigun Stampede (Anime 2023), Trigun (Anime & Manga 1995-2008)
21 Apr 2024
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Can an alternate self even have different preferences? He wonders as he bites into the bread. If there are multiple personalities, he supposes. But Nai is not an alternate personality. He’s a facet, an expression of Vash’s psyche that protects him, his—
Knife. He remembers when a patient in his dream state went off the rails and attacked him. Nai destroyed him with a flurry of sharp, otherworldly knives, turning him into nothing but specks of meat. The patient quickly changed therapists, and Vash almost lost his license over it.
In his own dream that night Nai put his hands on Vash’s face, cupping his cheeks and rubbing his thumb over their shared, mirrored beauty mark, promising that it was better to lose a job than to suffer the lasting mental effects of a traumacase stabbing him to death, even if the most lasting physical consequence was waking up shaken. Nai kissed the corner of his lips and promised to be a weapon, a blade, a knife. To make sure that they’re always safe. That no one would hurt them again.
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But he hears. He hears every time.
It’s becoming a problem. So he decides to do something about it.
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“Miley,” Phoenix says flatly. “What are you doing?” It comes out more an accusation than a question, even if that’s not how he intends it. Miles chuckles so softly it could pass as a throat clearing.
“Trusting you.”
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He's tired of being Chief Prosecutor.
He's tired of the city council on him for a lower crime rate and higher convictions.
He's tired of being Mr. Edgeworth.
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A wet kiss to his neck tips him into wakefulness just a little more, enough that he inclines his head to the warmth behind him.
The hands on his hips—he knows the shape of those hands, intimately.
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Their year away was necessary, they think in the back of their head. It was the only way to find themself without anyone’s influence, and they had to know for sure before they made their decision—and they can’t say they regret it, because they know they made the right one after all.
They only wish that they had communicated better, told him what their thoughts were.
But finally, it’s finally the right way.
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- Part 3 of caenus and mnestra
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This is not going to work, he thinks to himself. Not if she wakes him up early. Not if she tries to make him eat raw egg.
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That asshole always had to prove he was the smartest. Prove he could work his way out of everything.
He wouldn’t be able to work his way out of anything Phoenix had planned for him, if he had ever actually done it.
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Phoenix looks more peaceful than he’s ever been. The dark circles under his eyes have finally lightened, the furrow in his brow which Miles thought had become permanent is erased by sleep. It makes his chest tighten with warmth; Gumshoe said for the past year, Phoenix seemed to be in a perpetual state of insomnia. Now, he looks for all the world a content dog curled around his pack.
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“Apologize,” Phoenix says, enunciating very clearly. Like he’s talking to a child, Miles realizes. Anger bubbles up in his throat. “If you do, I can be convinced to let it slide for now.”
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- Part 7 of the contract
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“I think you’ve had enough,” Phoenix mumbles, gently prying the stem of the wine glass out of his fingers. Miles grabs for it, and… misses entirely.
Wait, what? He glances at his hand. His fingers are trembling.
“Wright.” His tongue feels too thick in his mouth. “What did you do?”
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- Part 6 of the contract
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Phoenix comes up behind them, putting a hand just over the spot on their abdomen above their groin. He nips at their ear, asking if they’ve been checking.
“Checking what?” Miles asks, vaguely irritated Phoenix would bother them at work.
“Checking your calendar, baby,” he hums.
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- Part 2 of caenus and mnestra
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It is not an immoral thing to have one’s identity be nebulous, fuzzy at the edges; but what is he to do about it? Suddenly request the judge call him Miss Edgeworth at times? Ask the Chief Prosecutor to call him she or even they? Von Karma would laugh him out of the district.
He is in the manner of Mnestra. Who else but Caeneus will ever understand?
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- Part 1 of caenus and mnestra
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Phoenix always seems to sleep soundly, unless something is truly bothering him. He attributes it to his healthy appetite, and tries to poke the same kind of food into Miles’ mouth given the chance. He can’t deny that his diet also gives him something of a soft paunch over his muscled abdomen. He lets his eyes rake down Phoenix’s body—the line of his collarbone, the flattened scars that circle his chest, the gentle curve of his stomach covered in a dusting of black hair.
Miles’ hands itch.
part of the contract series.
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- Part 5 of the contract