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    There were very few things Husk hated more than waking up in the morning with a hangover. On that shortlist was waking up to Alastor making coffee in his kitchen with a job application in hand.

    A human AU where Husk is a disgraced former jazz bar owner, Alastor has a Podcast discussing the Arts, and the New York Ballet Academy is in desperate need of a piano accompanist. Husk finds himself caught in the orbit of the Academy's most vicious instructor, Valentino, and his golden student, Anthony. Alastor wants corporate secrets. Valentino wants perfection. Husk just wants to get through the day without a drink.

    A story about old debts, toxic perfectionism, and cruelty wearing perfume.

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    5/?
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    “This is going to end in bloodshed, isn’t it, Angel?”

    “We weren’t meant to last,” Angel said after a long silence, voice small but firm, “We never were.”

    After the Vees' alliance crumbles, the Tower is stripped of Vox's static. In the silence, Valentino reverts to what he knows best: the studio, the stretch, and the suffocating intimacy of the past—the terrifying tenderness of a director obsessed with his final muse.

    Angel finds that muscle memory is the hardest habit to break, and that stepping back into the center of Valentino’s frame feels dangerously like coming home.

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    “You’re not really playing it cool, are you?” Angel said, but she was still smiling that same little smile, a flash of a golden tooth behind her perfectly pink lips. Husk couldn’t deny she wanted to kiss the gloss right off of them. But she played it innocent.

    “Not sure I know what you mean,”

    “Yeah, right,” Angel said, turning her body fully towards Husk, eyes trailing down her body as if she was reading her, and Husk opened her arms to let it happen. Grinning. Angel’s smile widened. “The whole cool cat behavior is transparent as fuck. Let me guess, baby, you flash the girls a smile and they fall at your feet? I’m not that easy.”

    (spoiler: she is that easy, and they have sex and it is great.)

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    When Husk quit drinking, he promised himself a quiet life: no liquor, no noise, no drama. His tattoo studio keeps him steady, his art keeps him grounded, and the Hazbin Café next door knows his order by heart. He has his interns, his friends, the small community he’s built around ink and morning coffee — it’s enough. It’s peaceful.

    Then Anthony walks in, all pink coats and nervous smiles, asking for magnolias to cover what love left behind. What starts as a commission becomes something slower, softer: easy conversations, quick-fire banter, and the dangerous return of warmth.

    Some things can’t be rushed — not tattoos, not recovery, not love.
    The color comes later.

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    5/?
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    Angel should perhaps not be so comfortable in the presence of the very Overlord that held a personal kill record in Hell. But Angel generally had a pretty bad taste in men and an even worse case of curiosity. It wasn’t a mystery to Angel why he kept coming back.

    Post-Season 2. Angel is vibrating with the lingering static of Vox’s hypnosis, and the noise is becoming deafening. Alastor, who despises the dissonance, offers a solution. Not a deal, not a favor, and certainly not kindness.

    Alastor requires a silent room. Angel requires a place where the world stops spinning.
    It’s not redemption. It’s housekeeping.

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    “I think that you think you’re bad,” Husk said, “and I think we have to deal with that.”

    It started as a stray comment over a drink—a joke about discipline that neither of them took seriously. But with the pressure from Heaven mounting and Valentino becoming unbearable, the joke stops being funny. Angel is spiraling, and when he finally snaps at Charlie, the guilt threatens to swallow himwhole.

    In which Angel asks for a spanking to get out of his own head, and Husk proves that while his paws might be soft, his hands are steady enough to catch a falling spider.

    (Or: The art of grounding, and finding a place to land.)

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    1/1
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    “I think that you think you’re bad,” Husk said, “and I think we have to deal with that.”

    It started as a stray comment over a drink—a joke about discipline that neither of them took seriously. But with the pressure from Heaven mounting and Valentina becoming unbearable, the joke stops being funny. Angel is spiraling, and when she finally snaps at Charlie, the guilt threatens to swallow her whole.

    In which Angel asks for a spanking to get out of her own head, and Husk proves that while her paws might be soft, her hands are steady enough to catch a falling spider.

    (Or: The art of grounding, and finding a place to land.)

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    English
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    Chapters:
    1/1
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    45
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    Valentino suffers from ennui and goes to therapy ... ???

    it helps yay!

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    1/1
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    [Angel Dust Origin Story]

     

    Anthony should have stayed dead.

    Instead, he wakes in Hell - inhuman, eight-eyed, a spider-bodied sinner adrift in a world of smoke, neon, and sin. With nothing left but charm, hunger, and the will to survive, he claws his way into infamy as Angel Dust: star of the screen, darling of the underworld, caught in a dangerous love affair with a man who promises the world but binds him in chains.

    Fame is sweet. Love is poison. And every star must fall.

    [excerpt]
    Looking back on it, Angel could see clearly every single moment where he had misstepped. From the moment he had died, to where he was now, he could identify the markers of a naive, stupid man, who had allowed his desperate desire for being seen, for being wanted, for being loved, to run him to ruins.

    Fic is completed.

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    Chapters:
    25/25
    Comments:
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    Bookmarks:
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    “The whole sex doll performance doesn’t do it for me,” Husk said, straightening and stretching languidly, before cracking her back, her shoulders, then her neck. “But my friend, who is smart, funny, and too hot for her own good?” Her eyes met Angel’s, and her following grin was as soft as it was amused when she stepped from behind the bar, “I wouldn’t mind doing her a favor.”

     

     

    Angel is wound up and Husk helps her take care of it. They take care of it in multiple ways and positions. That's it that's the plot x

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    It should’ve been a normal night. Cards. Laughter. A kiss or two.
    But Husk’s kissed Angel enough times to know the difference.
    Tonight’s kiss is too perfect - too neat. The lie of it hums beneath his hands.
    His touch does not feel like want. It feels like survival.
    And this time, Husk says no, because he knows Angel won’t.

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    “I’m sorry,” Angel pulls his legs underneath himself, sits down with his knees folded tight, stays right where he is, “I thought you would want to.”
    “It’s not that I don’t want to,” Husk immediately says, “Christ, you come out there looking like a dream on legs and I wouldn’t want to? You don’t want to.”

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    The last thing Charlie expected to see when she woke up in the morning was Angel and Alastor doing gymnastics. She didn't really understand what was happening, but the two seemed to have an arrangement, and it seemed to help - and that was all that mattered.

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    English
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    Chapters:
    1/1
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    47
    Bookmarks:
    6
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    284
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    Recently it seemed to Angel that the only things he had were long days. These days, if he slept for four hours, it was a luxurious night. And it was starting to weigh on him.

    It is a story you've heard before. Angel is sleep deprived, and Alastor gives him a place to crash.

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    English
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    Chapters:
    1/1
    Comments:
    13
    Kudos:
    155
    Bookmarks:
    22
    Hits:
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