13 Works by stutter
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“I know who you are, all right?” Trixie says. He shifts his balance. Knife, lyre, sachet of holy herbs, wineskin. He marks them mentally on his body, makes a sundial of himself, tells time by the tools he carries.
Katya strokes the bird’s tiny head. “Oooh.” He’s mocking him, his eyes bright with laughter. Trixie knows calm is the deadliest weapon in his arsenal, but it’s one of the few he hasn’t mastered.
“Yeah,” he goes on, “and your whole thing isn’t gonna work on me.”
“Oooooh!” He waggles his fingers in the air. “Not my whole thing!”
Trixie's a champion on an endless tour of the sea. Katya's a witch living on an enchanted island. The rest is (ancient Greek) history.
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a what we do in the shadows AU. katya is a beautiful, centuries-old vampire. trixie picks up her dry cleaning, and waits.
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“Katya,” she says, mouth dropped open, ¡escándalo!, and that’s when Katya realizes - she’s gonna do it.
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His spine has been prickling for an hour. He glances in the rear-view at their drag bags in the backseat. If they weren’t both bald - if they were in face, be-wigged - Trixie suspects their hair would be floating all around them like they were mermaids.
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- Part 5 of civilians
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on the paper, she had written “you” and she told me “that’s a list of the people who are standing too close.” (i ain’t your pal.)
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"my five year plan is to maybe go out for ice cream this afternoon? (Live every day like the ice cream store is closing.)"
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“Are you going home for Christmas?” Katya asks out of nowhere, a few days into December.
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- Part 4 of civilians
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“Believe it or not, bitch, there was a time when men would pay good money for a taste of all this,” Katya says when they break apart. She draws hoops in the air around her face, her tits, her tuck. Trixie blows a raspberry.
“Girl, if you found ‘em in the psych ward, I don’t know if it counts,” she says.
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- Part 3 of civilians
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Trixie lays the bills out in neat piles by denomination. “Hang on.” He counts them again, just to be sure. “Oh my god.” A breathless laugh knocks out of him. “I’m taking you out,” he decides aloud.
“Oh, please. I’m not gonna be that easy to kill,” Brian scoffs. “I’m tenacious, bitch.”
(Trixie sends a very late-night text. Brian's up.)
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- Part 2 of civilians
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“You’re a drag queen?” Brian repeats, hand over his throat, clutching invisible pearls. Trixie’s chest constricts.
“Yeah, Mary, a crossdresser,” he drawls. “I wear lady clothes for fun and profit. Heard of it?”
“Oh my god, no, don’t get the - no, it’s just perfect,” Brian says quickly. “I’m not laughing at you! I’m - I love drag. Don’t get sensitive.”
(Trixie's a semi-successful drag queen living in LA. There's this yoga instructor he really likes.)
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- Part 1 of civilians
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Otabek smiles. “I think I like you like this,” he muses. “It’s nice, standing above you for once. Seeing you look up at me.”
(Post-competition, Yuri gets what he's been asking for.)
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- Part 3 of adventures in personal growth
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“He said,” Yuri begins, trying to sound cavalier, “Victor goes, ‘Otabek Altin needs to come here and smack the hell out of you,’ and.” He forces a laugh out of his gut and barrels on, like an idiot, “and I was like, good, please, I'd love that, sounds a hell of a lot better than this.”
At that moment, either the Skype call fails or Otabek is stunned into a long silence. Yuri can feel his pulse in his eardrums. He thinks he might throw up. Why the fuck did he have to say that? “Hey, ah, Beka?” he says. “Are you still there?"
Otabek is motionless. Yuri’s terror hardens into rage. “VICTOR!” he bellows. “Your SHITTY INTERNET just went down again!”
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- Part 2 of adventures in personal growth
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"When Victor was his age - younger, even, Yuri thinks, shame blooming in his chest - he’d made the whole world fall in love with him already. The long hair, the soft smile, the way he moved like he had a secret in his skin and he couldn't wait to share it with you. Yuri’s watched the tapes over and over. He could skate any of Victor’s early routines in his sleep. But he can't - the thing Victor could do so easily, the casual, guileless charisma he threw like a shadow - Yuri can't manage it on a single person, not even some moody Kazakh with a dumb haircut whose eyes are too far apart anyway - "
(In Park Guell, Yuri takes a hard fall. Otabek picks him up.)
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- Part 1 of adventures in personal growth