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“It ain’t your fault,” he said gruffly, tying off her bandage. He stayed squatted a moment more, searched her face. Cherubic, in a way. Glossy-soft, like paint. Cracked to a million fuckin’ pieces right in front of him.
Ellie shrugged, scoffed, rolled her eyes. Fourteen, he thought. Her tear ducts welled up, a couple of beads wobbling there. A twinkle in her eye, quivering stars. Too proud, in the midst of it all, to let them tip over. Not again.
A flash, then—her in the bar, scrubbing at her face. The squeeze in his chest. It wasn’t my first time.
The sun beams down on them now. Insects humming, running water somewhere close. Her silence, louder still. Her footsteps his only indication she is there at all.
There’s been an itch, something he’s longed to say, searching for the words. To another person, another child, another life—It’s not on you to save the world.
He aches, words limp in the cage around his heart, draped over ribs. Carcass-like, rotting. That tiny grave.
It’s kind of the whole fuckin’ point.
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“Gerald,” Teeth tells him, apropos of nothing, a crackling fire between them. The last two awake; Scooter swaying in the lull, a grass-blade in the wind. Destined to go wherever other forces push him.
Scooter blinks everything into focus, urging away the sleep-blear that’s smeared everything blurry. Hmm? he croaks. Clears his throat, tries again. “What?”
“My name,” he says. “It’s Gerald.”
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“Thank you.” You look him in the eyes as you say it. You inject it with sincerity, as much as you’ve got. Which must be more than you think. Then again, you’ve always given yourself too much credit.
“What are friends for?” Then he’s out of the car, popping the trunk. A new beginning, maybe. Put it all to rest.
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Will’s eyes catch on his lighter, his pack of smokes. He thinks of Hannibal: his neatly-styled hair, his perfectly-pressed suits, the way he emanates something that borders on inhuman. He thinks of Hannibal and he wishes to see him on fire, chewed like paper beneath flame—wilting into nothingness.
Hannibal’s in Wolf Trap, now, and Will finally knows what he’d like to do with his newfound control.
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Julian leads and Henry follows. This is how it always is.
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october 2016 by an_arcadia
Fandoms: Normal People - Sally Rooney, Normal People (TV 2020)
27 Mar 2021
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connell's finally done with his stupid mfa so these two angst-riddled idiots can fumble their way to a happy goddamn ending
Bookmarked by wiremother
29 Jun 2025
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so actually this was created in a lab by an_arcadia for me specifically
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She likes him, is the thing.
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Bookmarked by wiremother
28 Jun 2025
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obsessed with this on levels never before documented in another human being
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tomshiv scenes written during the run of s4. internally and canonically contradictory.
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25 Nov 2023
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swing low, sweet chariot by marchflower
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
01 Sep 2024
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“How do you feel?”
Ellie thinks, sucks on her lower lip. “I guess- mostly just really sad.”
It’s an understatement if there ever was one. Sometimes the sadness feels so big that she’s not sure how she’d ever manage to escape it, to exist outside of it. It feels like a balloon, constantly growing bigger and bigger and never once popping. Ellie’s terrified of what it’s going to feel like when it finally breaks.
“Sometimes,” Maria says, “Sometimes, sad and stuck are the same thing. And that’s okay. You can be sad every day for the rest of your life, Ellie, and you can still live a rich, full, exciting life. Okay?”
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Ellie Williams at the intersection of grief, faith, and love.
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- Part 4 of out of the mouths of babes