10 Bookmarks by insistentbass
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“I am not eager to throw myself upon another altar for naught but scraps in return.” Gale steels himself with a deep breath. He speaks his peace to the wilds and the cosmos rather than his lover's face. “And yet. Marble skin, silver tongue... eyes like Moonsea rubies. Oh, you cast a fine altar, Astarion.”
With two discerning appetites, a deal to keep each other fed is the one thing that ties Astarion and Gale together. But the proverbial collar slips all too easily around Gale's throat, the lead feels right in Astarion's unchained hands, and both men think they've bested the other in a game neither should be playing.
In any case. As the greats say in lanceboard: there is no shame in losing to a stronger foe.
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21 Jul 2025
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An endeavour to find a missing Tem-Pad in 18th Century London is derailed, forcing Mobius and Loki into close quarters. Mobius is confronted with his affection for his companion as their brief mission blooms into a rather more intimate venture than either of them had anticipated.
If Mobius was being frank, he only remembered watching Loki stand across from him. How his chest had heaved with each panicked breath rattling his lungs. His eyes achingly sincere as he clutched Mobius frantically, unsure of what to do for once in his long life.
Isn’t it rather humiliating that the beauty in those eyes is what captured Mobius’ attention, not the pain splintering his side.
Mobius gasped as pure, unadulterated agony stole his breath and he toppled down to one knee.
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10 Nov 2023
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It started with the spin of a bottle, and now Harry and Draco have gotten themselves so far into their own game there's almost no way out again. Except to keep playing.
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- 17/17
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- 24
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15 Sep 2023
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It never seemed like the right time. And then time ran out.
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- 24/24
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- 1
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15 Jan 2022
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Sherlock is tired.
John senses a shift.◒
“I’m tired, John,” He murmurs. Barely a whisper. John swallows, feeling irrationally helpless.
“I can see that,” He responds quietly, tracing an eyebrow with the pad of his thumb. “Sleep, then,” He can hear the crack in his own voice—a perfect match for the one in his chest. He hopes that Sherlock won’t notice, won’t try to pick it all apart.
“Not what I meant,” He rumbles, as he drifts off and away, leaving John alone in wakefulness to wonder what the hell had just happened.
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- 48,552
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- 32/32
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- 2
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25 Nov 2020
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Sherlock comes back from the dead, and he's not sorry.
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- Chapters:
- 10/10
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14 Sep 2014
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No damage could ever be truly repaired. John would not be the same.
Or, what happened after the tarmac.
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- Part 1 of Damage
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- English
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- 46,830
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- 10/10
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24 Jul 2014
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Sherlock never expected to see John Watson again. So when the plane landed on the tarmac, there were a whole lot of uncomfortable truths that all three of them were going to have to face - the least of which was why Mary Morstan Watson was being targeted by a newly-returned Moriarty.
John smiles but it’s a tight, small, smile that Sherlock knows means that he can hear the lie in Sherlock’s words. John will sort it out, he always does, eventually, and when he does there will be hell to pay. Mary looks sympathetic. She knows. She understands the price paid for her freedom, even if she knows it had nothing whatsoever to do with her at all.
Always for John Watson. His pressure point.
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25 May 2014
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Sherlock, John and a lifetime of falling together and apart.
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- English
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- 48,412
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- 2/2
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- 2
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05 Aug 2013
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Sherlock takes a remarkably early retirement at 47, and convinces John that a change of pace would do them both good. They buy an old cottage on the South Downs, and exchange their nonstop life in Baker Street for quiet contemplation, bee studies, and book writing.
They might go completely insane, but sometimes it takes stepping outside of the life you're living to find the life you want.
Sherlock takes one last look out to the horizon, mouth downturned and brow furrowed, before seeming to shake himself and catching up to John with a few long-legged strides. John turns back toward the path cut into the cliffs, climbing steadily toward the rolling downs already green and lush in the weak April warmth.
They reach the top and Sherlock strikes toward the west, back to where their hired Land Rover sits a mile away in a public carpark. John falls into step beside him and takes a deep breath.
“I expected a case,” he starts. “A bit chilly for a walk, really, so. D’you mind telling me what we’re doing out here?”
Sherlock doesn’t even pause, simply tucks his head down against the wind and continues walking.“I’m retiring,” he says simply.
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- Part 1 of Through The Clouds
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- English
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- 20,004
- Chapters:
- 6/6
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- 2
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Bookmarked by insistentbass
07 Jul 2013