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The first thing he notices is the smell. A mouldy, encroaching damp, thick and cloying as it catches in his throat. It lingers there, festering in the trapped air behind his lips, seeping into his lungs. The years have not dimmed his memory; he knows it for what it is with a single breath. Rot. Decay. Corruption.
The second thing he notices is the cold. A bone-deep chill permeating the air around him that sends goose flesh erupting down his arms and a shudder running up his spine. There is a blanket wrapped tight around his body, but it does little to ease the cold. He pulls the blanket closer. It doesn’t help.
The third thing is the knock.
Or: Time Travel Fix-It #14238529435-7, but only Martin goes back.
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Ever since Eddie was a kid, he's known that he would die at nineteen. He never really came up with a plan for how to spend his last year. But if he'd had to guess, it would have involved spending lots of time with Wayne, and his band, and the Hellfire Club.
He certainly couldn't predict that he'd fall in love with Steve Harrington over a summer of early morning swims and smashing shit in the junkyard. Or the whole monster fighting thing.
(Or: Eddie and Steve navigate a little-to-the-left world where technology exists to predict the age a person will be when they die. Don't worry, no one stays dead.)
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17 Apr 2025
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It took a few moments - quite a few, in fact, most of them spent huddling on his office couch, cuddling his favourite desktop organiser - to get over the whole ‘so close to death, he probably owed it flowers’ thing, well enough to fully grasp what had happened.
He had gone back in time. He was no longer the Pupil of the Eye, but plain Elias Bouchard, the Heart of the Magnus Institute, with a plan for greatness which he now knew was absolutely, one hundred percent, going to work.
If he wanted it to.
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31 Jan 2025
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"No, I— I’m an esper. A psychic.”
Half an hour ago, Martin would have thought that was completely ludicrous, an obvious attempt to deflect, or the words of a delusional man. Now, though—
“Now you’ve seen it in action. You know that I can hear your thoughts. How else would I know you’re a spy? How else would I know your name is Martin?”
His breath catches in his throat.
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What was supposed to be a simple reconnaissance mission takes a dramatic turn, and one Agent's life will never be the same again.
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29 Jan 2025
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Life is loss and nothing more. In the late 1940s, local killer-for-hire Faroe Saltzman returns to her hometown of New York. While there, one Andrew Larson hires her to kill a familiar name - but it has to be a coincidence. After a brush with Arthur Lester leaves a manipulative, angry demon called John in her head, Faroe realizes there is so much more to this world than she thought.
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As long as he’s known Arthur – as long as he’s hated and tolerated and liked and loved him – John has wanted his own body. An identity all his own. When he and Arthur find a way to make it happen, it should be perfect. It needs to be perfect. But Arthur still can’t see, and John makes some unfortunate discoveries about his new body, and they’re both having a hell of a time of it. They aren’t alone, but it’s hard to remember that when you don’t share the same moral frame anymore. Hard, but not impossible.
Written for the 2023 Malevolent Big Bang!
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