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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

  2. Rec 59

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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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    19 Jan 2022

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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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    19 Jan 2022

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    Geralt knows it’s only a matter of time before he has to leave the bard behind.

    He’s had human friends before, but none have followed him like this boy has: simply because he wishes to follow. Geralt can’t account for it.

    He knows it’s selfish, but he likes having Jaskier with him. Even though he knows it won’t last.

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    18 Jan 2022

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    The one where Geralt doesn't realize he's in love with Jaskier.

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    The problem wasn’t really the talking. Geralt had heard humans talking constantly every time he’d been within a quarter-mile of civilization his entire adult life. No, it wasn't the talking at all. The trouble with Jaskier was that he cared about the answers.

    In which Geralt learns to face himself, his relationships, and his place in a human-dominated world. Taking place in the gap between the meeting in Posada and the banquet in Cintra, this story explores growth, trauma recovery, mental health, friendship, family, and societal bigotry.

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    When he gets back, two bowls of stew and a jug of wine balanced precariously in his hands courtesy of a grateful mother, Geralt is exactly where he left him. He’s fast asleep, chest slowly rising and falling beneath the blanket still draped over him.

    Roach glances over and nickers at him softly. “You and me, girl, we’ve got a hell of a job on our hands,” Jaskier whispers to her. “Don’t you worry, though. I’ll stick around for a bit. Help you out.”

    Roach flicks an ear at him, and then goes back to her hay. Jaskier heaves a sigh. “Sometimes I feel so unappreciated.”

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    15 Jan 2022

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    Jaskier saves roach from a barn fire. Love this fic!

  8. Rec 77

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    When Yennefer comes barrelling back into their lives in response to a desperate plea, Jaskier is honestly glad to see her—right up until he realises that her idea for curing Geralt has nothing to do with magic and more to do with holding a knife to Jaskier’s beautiful throat.

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    15 Jan 2022

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    “Geralt!” Jaskier breathes and waves his hand. It’s made difficult by Geralt still holding it, but Jaskier tries his best. “My hand moves! Without me moving it!” He looks up at Geralt, his eyes massive. “Have you ever heard of such a thing?!”

    “Yes, you’re very talented,” Geralt says, and Jaskier thinks he would like to kiss him for that, but the witcher seems very high up away. “Now go to sleep.”

     

    (After an attack, Jaskier is under the influence of painkillers). (It goes about how you would expect).

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    15 Jan 2022

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    “Chaos,” Geralt had said. "Give me chaos." He’d thought he'd made it clear: chaos magic to help him build his realm in exchange for his aid in the war against the giants.

    Now, looking at the boy wrapped in spring green chiton sleeping in his bed, he realizes he should have been more specific.

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    11 Jan 2022

  11. Rec 79

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    Sandpiper's team is the best of all the Aves- they work silent and fast, make great distractions when needed, and have connections on connections to get their charges to safety.

    Sometimes things go wrong, though.

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    11 Jan 2022

  12. Rec 44

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    Jaskier is sick, Geralt comes to comfort him (among other things)

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    09 Jan 2022

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    En route to game night, a beautiful, mysterious woman falls on Julian Pankratz out of nowhere. She mistakes him for a real bard and then starts talking nonsense about "portals," as if they haven't been outlawed on the Continent for half a millennium. She gifts him magical dice, urging him to "save the White Wolf."

    Julian, playing Dungeons and Dragons as the fabulous bard Jaskier, rolls a Nat 20 while trying to gain an ally in the murderous Butcher of Blaviken - and is instantly transported to a very strange world similar to the Redania of centuries past. There, he meets the real Butcher, a stoic and sarcastic Witcher named Geralt. Julian also quickly discovers that in this world, he has something that other bards don't: Jaskier the bard really does have magic, and quite a bit of it too - something that both interests and worries Geralt.

    The Witcher and the bard's quest for answers brings adventure, surprises, heartache, magic, healing -- and maybe a little bit of true love.

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    07 Jan 2022

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    Jaskier's coat as a hole in it.

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    06 Jan 2022

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    “I wanted a point of comparison,” she said. “Because he looks at me like he really – loves me, or something.”

    “Yeah,” said Jaskier, resigned. “He does that sometimes. Isn’t it a bitch?”

    They were half way through the second bottle by now, and their shoulders were touching. She could feel the hard line of Jaskier’s thigh against hers. She was very aware of the chest hair visible at the open neck of his shirt, and how he could probably see down her dress from here. She hadn’t moved to put any distance between them and neither had he.

    “Why are we still talking about him? I don’t care about Geralt of Rivia any more,” lied Yennefer.

    “Nor do I,” Jaskier lied back.

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    02 Jan 2022

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    “You have sex with half the people you meet! Why would doing it with me make any difference?”

    “Because we’re friends, Geralt! I know you like to deny it, but I promise you that we are friends.”

    “According to you, you have sex with your friends all the time. I didn’t ask you, you just volunteered that information.”

    “Ok, right, well, yes. Alright - I do have friends I can just sleep with, and not change anything. That’s true. But you aren’t one of them.”

    “Why I aren’t I one of them?”

    “You just aren’t, alright?”

    “That’s not an answer. Why. Aren’t. I. One of them?”

    “Because if I slept with you, then - ” he looked away from Geralt and blinked fast, several times. When he turned back again, there was a clear challenge in his eyes. “If I slept with you, then I’d probably end up falling in love with you, which is the last thing you want. No don’t deny it – even admitting we’re friends is too much commitment for you. You definitely don’t want me to be in love with you. If you think I’m too much now, just wait and see what I’d be like then!

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    02 Jan 2022

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    30 Dec 2021

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    Jaskier's burned hand gets infected in the aftermath of everything.

    It complicates things, a bit.

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    30 Dec 2021

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    More than a year after the dragon hunt, Jaskier rescues Geralt.

    A remix of Homo Homini Lupus Est (Man is Wolf to Man) by inexplicifics.

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    28 Dec 2021

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    “Geralt,” Jaskier tries, feeling more uncertain by the second, “this is weird even for you, my tight-lipped friend.”

    The witcher considers this for only half a second. Then he purrs, low and loud, and Jaskier knows they’re really fucked.

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    28 Dec 2021

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