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You are part of the Collective, stringing the world along as it spins. In the wake of Mr. Cain’s death, it is up to you to introduce Asirel to his new life, creating a tentative partnership with him as you face the revelation of truths that shake your worldview and tug at the webs keeping society together. With Mr. Rhoades working on the Kennedy case and a fraudulent company threatening the careful balance Tara upholds in Stockton, things are adding up to a tragedy in the making.
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How Asirel came into power.
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“I worry about you,” Arthur had told him once, and the dismissive reply died on Parker’s tongue as Arthur continued, “I wouldn’t want to be without you.”
“I wouldn’t want to be without you, too,” Parker had answered.
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Parker dies by Arthur's hands.
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- Part 3 of Arthur Lester Has Multiple Bad Days
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I Know Those Eyes by losttosleep
Fandoms: Lockwood & Co. (TV), Lockwood & Co. - Jonathan Stroud
07 Jan 2024
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Norrie — no, the Fetch — took a step forward, not bothered by the metal unsteadily clutched in Lucy’s hand. “I love you,” she said into the thick silence of the room, eyes wide and earnest just as Norrie’s had been on that day.
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- Part 2 of A Collection Of Cases Gone Wrong
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Your Love Is Void by losttosleep
Fandoms: Dracula & Related Fandoms, Dracula - Bram Stoker (Novel 1897)
06 Jan 2024
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Renfield sobbed, gasping breaths escaping him in the stillness of night. Leaping up from his bed, he ran with unsteady legs to the locked door of his room and began pounding on it. “Attendant!” he screamed, sure his yell would be heard by the man undoubtedly dozing on the other end of the hall, “Attendant!”
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Renfield tries to help. Seward does not listen to him.
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“Are we— are— are—?” Arthur stuttered, his throat closing. There was no air in the wooden coffin, none he could get into his lungs, and the pain in his chest made it feel like his heart had stopped beating.
“Yes, Arthur,” John admitted with infinite compassion, “We are buried.”
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- Part 2 of Arthur Lester Has Multiple Bad Days
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Summoned By The Rosary Beads by losttosleep
Fandoms: Lockwood & Co. - Jonathan Stroud, Lockwood & Co. (TV)
04 Jan 2024
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“Tell me again why we took this case?” George’s voice cut through the silence like a knife, startling both Lucy and Lockwood as the whisper echoed loudly through the abandoned building. The nuns had fled long ago. “You should think a Cold Maiden is above our pay grade.”
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Lockwood is reminded of his parents on a case.
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- Part 1 of A Collection Of Cases Gone Wrong
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In the brief instant before his feet left the ground and he was free-falling, Arthur truly thought he had made a smart decision.
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Arthur nearly drowns. John makes sure he doesn't.
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- Part 1 of Arthur Lester Has Multiple Bad Days
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Through Night And Day by losttosleep
Fandoms: Dracula & Related Fandoms, Dracula - Bram Stoker (Novel 1897)
29 Dec 2023
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These last few days of caring for Lucy had left a tremendous strain on John and the uncertainty of Lucy hovering between life and death was taking its toll on his already fried nerves. He was not sure how much longer he could endure the always changing pattern of her health, a welcome change for the better proceeded by a horrible change for the worse in a never-ending cycle that somehow felt like a downward spiral.
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John Seward, on the edge of his endurance.
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Spare Me by losttosleep
Fandoms: Dracula & Related Fandoms, Dracula - Bram Stoker (Novel 1897)
27 Dec 2023
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Jonathan sets up a trap to expose Dracula to the light. It goes horribly wrong.
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I Thought I Heard You Call To Me by losttosleep
Fandoms: Dracula & Related Fandoms, Dracula - Bram Stoker (Novel 1897)
20 Dec 2023
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The words echoed loudly in Jonathan’s mind, but Seward’s academic monotone was replaced by the melodious, accented voice plaguing his nightmares. My good friend Jonathan. They were the Count’s words. He had lost count of how many times he — his tormentor — had used them, abusing the title of friendship to manipulate him and lull him into a sense of false security; abusing him, hurting him, breaking him anew each day, chiseling away another piece of him when the sun set.
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Jonathan Harker has PTSD.
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Lockwood could hardly believe his luck. It was one thing to have the privilege of working together with Lucy — his gorgeous, Talented, and incredible Lucy — it was another thing entirely to have her love him.
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Lockwood struggles with physical affection after he gets together with Lucy.
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Goodbye, My Love (I Will See You Soon) by losttosleep
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
24 Sep 2023
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Elias had been so terribly smug in the panopticon. “My Institute,” he purred like it was the most obvious solution to the puzzle presented to Martin. My Institute. It had always been the most significant part of him. And he had been too confident to win their bet that Peter wanted, more than anything, to prove him wrong.
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Peter dies but he also doesn't. Elias does not know that.
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Death had been an ever-present companion in Elias’ life, as much as he dreaded to admit the fact. He had lost so many people to the simple spell of time. No matter if they were affiliated with one of the powers, one day death would sweep in and steal them away from the face of the earth.
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Although Peter and Elias got plenty out of it, they had a price to pay for their marriage.
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Their patrons hurt Elias and Peter because of their affection for one another.
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Toying with Peter had to be one of James’ favorite pastimes. Well, technically he was Elias now. Elias Bouchard, Head of the Magnus Institute. And he could not wait to meet Peter Lukas in this new body and make him squirm.
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James is Elias now. Peter has to figure that out.
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“I will be the first to succeed at a ritual,” Elias had told him once, when he was still James. Peter had scoffed. “Do you want to bet on it?” Elias had offered, and Peter readily accepted.
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The thoughts of a dying man.
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Elias was so used to the comfort of his meticulously decorated office, the gentle bursts of power from the Magnus Institute itself, that the bleak, concrete walls of his prison cell were making him disturbingly sick with the weeks he had spent in confinement.
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Peter visits Elias in prison. (Or does he?)
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When they broke apart and Peter’s lips twitched upwards minimally, Elias could not help but wish his husband had been there to pick up the pieces in the aftermath of Gertrude’s murder. It was so much easier with Peter around.
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Elias kills Gertrude, then he kills Leitner. It does not leave him unaffected.
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“I’d like to remind you, my dear” he said, cup of tea carefully balanced on the saucer and held firmly in his hands, “that things tend to get worse before they get better.”
Crowley scoffed. “Things get worse before they get better before they get bad again.”
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It was only right Crowley brought his plants, but that did not explain why they stayed inside the Bentley. Aziraphale could see them now through the windows of Crowley’s beloved car, and it puzzled him to no end.
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Aziraphale finds out Crowley is living in the Bentley and invites him to move in.