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In which Warren wants to know why Layla only calls him by his name, even though she's capable of coming up with a nickname for any living being on earth.
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09 Sep 2025
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This customer, forcing him to linger at the restaurant so close to close on Christmas day, when he could be at home on his couch watching the moderately holiday-themed horror marathon he’d been planning for weeks, is his least favorite web order yet.
(Future fic vignette where Warren owns the Paper Lantern and Layla just got back to town.)
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14 Aug 2025
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It’s 2016. The gang is in their mid-late 20’s, and it’s been a while since they’ve all been able to get together.
Layla has done her best to keep everyone in her life - she chats with the always-busy Will and Ethan on the phone occasionally, grabs a coffee with Magenta and Zach about once every few weeks, and still meets Warren at The Paper Lantern for dinner more often than the balance in her bank account would prefer. Still, she misses the times when she had everyone in the same room. So, she hatches the perfect plan: their first annual Friendsgiving dinner.
Meanwhile, Warren has been sitting on his feelings for Layla longer than he would like to admit. No other woman compares to her, but she’s been his best friend for years - potentially messing that up by admitting everything is something he’s hesitant to risk. The odds that she feels the same way for him are probably just as slim as the odds of her ever getting back together with Will after the two decided they just weren’t compatible with each other… I.E., close to zero.
But maybe at Friendsgiving - with enough liquid courage - Warren can work up the nerve to finally tell Layla that he’s always wanted to be more than just friends.
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14 Aug 2025
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A protest of the government use of superheroes goes sideways, as they so often do, and when "Flames" goes to catalog the aftermath, he finds "Vines" unconscious but alive in the wake of a bombing.
Vines wakes patched up but in rough shape in the house of a stranger she recognizes by reputation. Worse than her burns and cuts is the knowledge that someone betrayed her so she ended up engaging in a fight with the feds when she's never gone over that line before.
The person who's sheltering her now has murky allegiances, but in a way she relates to all too well.The attraction they feel is perfectly wrong in timing. The question of why Vines is on the run is terribly right as an opportunity. The way plants and fire shouldn't go together is obvious, unless you know what's under the surface of both.
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A slightly grittier world where adult supers don't get to keep tidy lines around what's right to do. Primarily a vehicle for a Layla/Warren romance dynamic that's a little less wholesome--sometimes plants (and pseudo-captivity) are intoxicating.
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14 Aug 2025
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