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    Jaskier had wanted Geralt to love him back for years, and now he did... but it wasn’t real. It was all just implanted thoughts, re-wired pathways, magic. Jaskier wished he could believe the things Geralt was saying - wished they were true - but they weren’t, and he knew they weren’t.

    After vanishing in the middle of the night, Geralt returns changed, with love on his lips. Cursed, bespelled, or maybe just concussed, Jaskier has to get him to a mage - for both their sakes.

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    This fic is absolutely gorgeous.

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    He simmers on this thought as he walks, turning it over and over in his mind until the sorrow has been smoothed away, leaving only a core of hurt that he can refinish with anger. It will be so much easier to carry this grief if he can cover it with rage.

    (Jaskier after the mountain is determined that he's done with witchers. All of them. Every last one.)

    (Naturally an injured witcher falls right in his path shortly after he makes this resolution.)

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    21 Jan 2022

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    The smile on Jaskier’s face is gentle. Too kind.

    “We can talk about it,” he tells her, setting his own spoon aside. “Or, if you’d rather we didn’t, we can just sit here.”

    Some conversations are easier to have in the dead of the night.

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    19 Jan 2022

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    "Did you really leave him on that mountain?" Yennefer asks.

    Geralt shifts uncomfortably. There's much he regrets about that day. "It was not my finest hour."

    Yennefer smiles without any humor. "No. No it was not."

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    “I would like to borrow a shirt, please.” Jaskier says again before he waits expectantly. Geralt stares at him blankly. They’re parting today for the winter. The entire reason Geralt is going through his pack is to make sure nothing else of the bard’s has gotten mixed in with his things; Jaskier has a longstanding habit of sneaking things in for Geralt to carry, and the bard is far too spacey to be counted on to remember them all.

    “We’re separating today,” Geralt points out at last. Four years into whatever it is he has with the bard makes him almost say ‘until spring,’ but a lifetime of watching people walk away stays him. He knows better than to put fragile hopes out into the world. People smash them far too easily. Jaskier, for his part, sighs as if Geralt is missing an obvious point.

    “Yes, precisely!” The bard says, moving one hand to his hip so he can swing the other out widely. “And there’s a giant world of creepy crawlies out there! Beasts that would love nothing more than to devour a succulent specimen such as myself.”

     

    (Jaskier asks to borrow a shirt to protect himself from monsters) (things escalate from there)

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