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He takes the kid as Rouge breathes her last, shuddering breath, and goes to turn out the door.
Standing in his path is an old friend.
"Hand over the child,” Sengoku says, voice even and tired, and Garp has to make a choice.
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Or: Garp accidentally becomes a pirate, purposefully becomes a grandfather, and still manages to be a hero in the end.
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“Ah,” he says, squinting down at the coins. He can’t make out the imprint, but he recognizes the size and color of these ones. “You either have an astoundingly good eye or you’re very well read. I assume you know where they’re from?”
It’s hard to tell, but Marcus thinks he sees the man nod. “I’m mostly surprised that you have them at all,” his guest says. “Most places, they won’t hang on to anything from Flevance. Too much fear associated with the name.”
A stranger walks into Marcus' shop.
He leaves with a handful of coins.
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On the trip back from the Adamantine Colony plans are made, options are explored, fonts are chosen, and mutual administrative assistants exercise their read/write permissions.
“You’re really close.” SecUnit comments but does not recoil, rather it does the equivalent of leaning more of its weight on me.
“How does it feel?” I barely need to ask but I want to hear SecUnit describe the sensation.
“Full, smothering, it reminds me of 2.0.”
Because I can not help myself and because I want to see what is allowed I begin tidying up bits of its storage architecture, improving its power usage, and updating some of its out of date modules. SecUnit calls me a busybody, a neat freak, and a nerd but otherwise lets me work.
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listen, there's a hell of a universe next door by storm_petrel
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Original Trilogy, The Mandalorian (TV)
07 Nov 2021
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As it turns out, no one ever taught Luke how to tie a little green baby to his back one-handed, but Luke thinks he's pretty gods-damned good at problem-solving under pressure, thank you, and the baby is at least semi-cooperative. When he's sure the kid is strapped in as tight as he can get, Luke pauses, and reaches back. His fingers graze the wide point of the baby's fuzzy ear. "Well, kid," says Luke, and his voice is a little rough, but not bad, all things considered. "Carrying you on my back while getting the absolute banthashit kicked out of me, at least this feels familiar."
The baby coos in his ear, and then kicks him hard in the kidney. Yoda used to do the exact same thing. Somehow, it's a lot more endearing now.
Or: Luke Skywalker solves a number of life-or-death problems, makes some new friends, falls abruptly in love, and gets shot into space, all in the same day.
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- Part 1 of it's a hell of a universe
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“The execution isn’t about Whitebeard,” Koby blurts out before he can talk himself out of it.
He resists the urge to squeeze his eyes shut, but all he gets for his efforts is a neatly raised eyebrow. Not that the skepticism in Helmeppo’s expression is entirely unwarranted – all anyone around them has talked about in the past week has been A War With Whitebeard – but it still makes him squirm. It’s still technically a secret, and he still hasn’t technically told, so he can bite his tongue now and try to fall asleep. But they’re going to fight a war in the morning, and no matter how it ends, Koby doubts that by the time the dust settles this will still matter.
Koby wants it to matter.
“Portgas D. Ace,” Koby forces himself to say, his heart in his throat and someone else’s secret bitter on his tongue, “is Gold Roger’s son.”