theunforgivingice

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    Missing Chris is less of an emotion these days and more of a physical entity. He’s sure everyone can see that he’s slowly hollowing himself out, that he can’t do much of anything else.

    But when Jee laughs at him trying to get his tongue to touch his nose, and Mara loops one of her arms through his to keep him from tossing the rest of his cup in the garbage, Eddie feels solid again.

    Maybe he likes yellow birthday cake ice cream after all.

     

    (or, gerrard messes with the team's schedules and eddie 'i just drove my son to flee the state' diaz is the only option to watch mara and jee-yun after school on tuesdays, which, shouldn't be a problem at all, right?)

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    Eddie can’t move. Like this, Buck is illuminated by the sunlight streaming through the window; dust motes shimmering around his head, his hair haloed in gold. Beautiful, Eddie thinks. And to his surprise, he doesn’t feel any sort of guilt about doing so.

    Except — he should. Because Buck is dating Tommy, and he’s happy, and Eddie would rather go to his grave repressed and miserable than ever take away from Buck’s happiness.

    Or: Eddie starts to untangle his complicated feelings about himself, and Buck. Mainly Buck.

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    This relationship thing is going great, so they take it to the next level - that is, Eddie introduces Buck to his family and prays the handcuffing incident doesn't come up.

    And then Buck's older sister shows up.

    (In which Buck is loved far more than he even realises, Eddie and Maddie mistake each other for burglars, and Buck is only slightly less accident prone than usual.)

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    Martin scrunches his nose up. “M-maybe don’t, uh. Don’t poke at your knife wounds?”

    Jon’s eyes slip back to him, and then, miraculously, they soften, his face smoothing out as he actually huffs out a quiet laugh, lips ticking upwards. “Sound advice, thank you, Martin.”

    This time, when Martin smiles, it’s real. “Always happy to help.”

    Jon’s smile falls, but not… not in a sad way? Martin sees something genuine and honey-sweet spark in his dark, lamp-lit eyes, and thinks they might be talking about more than just a joke, now. “I… I appreciate it. Really.”

    “I really am glad to help,” Martin tells him, his own voice going soft around the edges. “I just…” What can he even say? That he just wants Jon to be okay? That he’s been so worried it keeps him up at night, tossing and turning as icy fear grips him so tight it feels like his ribcage is constricting inside his chest? “A-anything I can do.”

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    21 Sep 2022

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    “What makes you think your friend is in Eskew?” David asks. He feels he can risk the scrutiny of the city that far.

    “I read that this is a place people end up when they get lost,” says the man.

    “This is a place people end up,” David agrees.

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    The Archivist comes to Eskew.

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    01 Apr 2022