5 Works by luck_ofthedraw
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"Why are you doing this?" Multi asks, forcing down the desperation that scrapes his throat. "What- what did you even do?"
"Nothing. Not that it's your business." Fabric rustles, and a moment later a lighter clicks, fire briefly illuminating their grungy surroundings as Q lights a cigarette. "At least, nothing to deserve this level of a fucking manhunt. You smoke?"
"You kidnapped me at gunpoint and you're offering me a fucking smoke?"
Q shrugs. "It's more of a temporary detainment. And I know it doesn't seem like it, but I do feel bad. So, do you want the damn cigarette or not?"
Multi is just your average guy with a complicated relationship with his religion. He didn't do anything to deserve getting abducted by the most wanted fugitive in the country, but here he is. And for whatever reason, being in the company of an alleged murderer is a lot better than going home.
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Quackity had snapped out of it just as the first explosion went off. Nuclear bombs, all around the island. Every important location, even the unimportant ones. One by one by one, like dominoes, like stars blinking into existence as day fades into dusk. Explosions like stars all across the landscape. Explosions like the reflection of a meteor shower in Multi's eyes, that one, good night.
Afterward, he asked why. Why this. Why everything. Dark Federation had promised freedom for the islanders. Oscurucho simply folded his hands behind his back, tilted his head as the eyes of his mask glowed faintly red, and he smiled. Infuriating, smug fucking smile.
"They are free, aren't they? You yourself said death would be freedom."
Quackity had meant that for himself.
Dark Federation caused a nuclear apocalypse. Amongst the aftermath, Quackity and Nacho search the ruined island for Multi, who disappeared two weeks before the bombs. In the process, they discover secrets both organizations kept from their people, secrets that may have been hidden for a reason. In the process, Quackity learns how to live again.
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"Oh." Tommy runs a hand down the cover. It's a rough texture, pleasant against his hand. "Thanks, Wil."
"Course, kid." Wilbur smiles at him, fond but tired. Tommy smiles back and wishes this could last forever.
Eventually, they walk down the beach together. Tommy picks shells while they talk. They talk about meaningless things, like the heat this year, Tommy's plans for the summer. Stupid things that will mean nothing in a year or two. In a year or two, maybe Wilbur will be gone again. Maybe Schlatt will be dead. Maybe Tommy will take his siblings and run from this place, as far away as he can get. Maybe Tommy will learn how to be angry at everything that's happened to him. In a year or two, maybe Tommy will kill himself with a dull knife on the kitchen floor.
Tommy doesn't understand why his foster brother Wilbur is always writing. In the years that follow, he slowly learns why, and he learns that everyone lies, and everyone leaves, and all you can do is try to be good and hope you don't fail.
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A character study of hf!Wilbur, from Tommy's perspective. Yet another foster Tommy AU.
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- Part 3 of Hang Fire
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It's a goodbye, but it's a lot more than that. It's a a hopeless plea on Quackity's part, and a haunted regret on Wilbur's. It's the sky in the rearview mirror and the inescapable knowing that they will not see each other again for a long, long time, if ever.
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For the first time, Wilbur's vanishing from Quackity's life is a kept promise, and not a broken one. Quackity hates it.
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- Part 1 of Hang Fire
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Six months after escaping his abusive boyfriend, Quackity meets Karl and Sapnap, and as the seasons progress, they show him that love isn't synonymous with pain, and that you don't always need thorns to survive.
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A study of roses: how they bud, how they bloom, and how they burn.
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- Part 2 of Hang Fire