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  1. Rec 40

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    She keeps her eyes on Vi the whole time, from when she’s peeled from Loris’s arms, her skin so, so pale. Soot and ash painting her, oil staining her. A humorless laugh bubbles out of her and her legs shake under her. 
    Oak doors close and the ringing in her ears recedes, only to be filled with what can only be a sort of disciplined panic. One that comes with toying with death. The halls reek of it now. 

    “Commander, you should rest.”

    She almost doesn’t recognize Loris’s voice, the deep rumble of it. Far kinder than she deserves to be spoken to. She leans against the wall, sinking to the floor that holds speckles of blood. Her hands tremble against her knees, her eyes stay trained on the door. Hoping to hear anything. Because if they’re still shouting and talking, it means she’s not lost– that she won’t lose Vi for a second time. 
    She isn’t yours to lose, a cruel part of her brain seeks to remind her.

     

    OR: After the explosion in Viktor's commune, Caitlyn can do nothing but wait. 

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    06 Jul 2026

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    Slender fingers find her own in her mindless grazing over Caitlyn’s skin. They trail over the top of Vi’s hand, her touch pointed and gentle where Vi’s skin is split open.

    “We should–” Caitlyn clears her throat, the sound almost shy. She’s holding Vi’s hand now, thumb taking inventory of Vi’s self-inflicted wounds. “We should take a look at your hands.”

    The suggestion is so soft. So tentative. And in some less hazy part of Vi’s brain, she knows Cait’s right.

    It isn’t even a thought when her arms wrap around Caitlyn’s waist, pulling them even more flush together. She buries her face in the crook of Caitlyn’s neck, shamelessly breathing her in before murmuring, her voice a cracked and low hum, “Later, Cupcake. Let me have this first.”

    Because there was a moment– several moments, all of them scattered in broken glass bottles on an apartment floor she never wants to see again– where she never thought she’d get to have this.

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    The moments after they reconnect

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    06 Jun 2025

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    As the two of them kneel covered in dirt and blood and sweat, Vi finds that she still has it in her to cry one more time.

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    through everything, cait and vi find comfort in each other

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    24 Nov 2024

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    They stay that way for a long time, Catra’s face tucked into Adora’s shoulder, Adora gently cradling Catra’s head. Adora is careful not to hug Catra too hard or make her feel restrained, anticipating the moment that Catra will start to pull away — but Catra doesn’t. She hangs on so tightly it hurts, her claws digging through Adora’s jacket and into her back, latching into her like she did when she was a kitten and didn’t know how much her claws could hurt. Adora tries not to wince, tries not to move a single muscle, worried that if she does the spell will break and Catra will struggle away, appalled at having shown weakness.

    But Catra doesn’t let go. And so neither does Adora.

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    09 Oct 2024

  5. Rec 49

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    Percy doesn’t hold her to high standards, standards that became a normality for Annabeth at a young age. It can be frustrating because it just tells her that he lacks maturity. Sometimes Percy’s mischievous grin pays off though, like when they skip dinner to sneak into the Big House storage room, inserting VHS after VHS into the old TV until they fall asleep.

    or - Annabeth has never seen a movie before. Percy changes that.

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    27 May 2024