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    ‘I’m going to take myself to bed.’ Gwen frowned. She pressed her hands to one knee to manoeuvre herself to standing.

    ‘Miss you already.’ Alice said, not looking up.

    About three steps from the firepit, Gwen turned and broke her pointed silence.

    ‘Don’t wake me up.’ She flicked her hand. ‘And don’t come back… wasted.’

    ‘Oh, flip, I forgot!’ Alice gasped. She tilted off her folding chair to fish for her neglected beer can, screwed into the marshy grass. She tipped it back for a test sip, then put her tongue on display, hemmed under her top teeth. ‘Warm.’

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    For Day 4 of Dyhard Week: Holiday!

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    ‘Er. Actually.’ she said, regaining her grip on the money. ‘Could I get something else?’

    This rewarded her with – well, it wasn’t the hate-filled stare she had expected, but – a slight curl of the lip from the worker as they silently returned to the register.

    ‘So scratch the mocha?’

    ‘No, keep it, just…’ Gwen frowned, examining the laminated menu on the counter in front of her. ‘Could I also get… a, uh, regular… large, actually, a large…’

    Large what? What was safe?

    ‘Latte.’ she decided. ‘Double shot. No sugar, please.’ Were all of those things just how the coffee was made by default anyway? Was she rambling right now? ‘And to take away, too. Thank you.’

    ‘Name?’

    ‘It’s for Al- oh, you mean, uh. Gwen.’

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    For Day 1 of Dyhard Week: Coffee

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    ‘If you mix six teaspoons of sugar and half a teaspoon of salt in that water and bring it to me, I’ll tell you a secret.’

    Martin stares, neck twisting to seat his head almost directly on top of his shoulder like a disquieting owl. Jon hates when he does that.

    ‘I… sorry, did you want any… actual tea with that, or?’

    ‘Six teaspoons of sugar.’ Jon repeats. ‘Half a teaspoon of salt. Hot water. Can you remember that?’

    ‘Yeah, I can remember it, but I – just don’t understand why anyone would do that to themselves?’

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    For Day 9 of Jonmartin Week: Free Day :)

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    ‘Tell me what you want, Jon.’

    ‘I… fine. I want to know what you think about all this. Really. Honestly. Just get it over with.’

    ‘What I think about it?’

    ‘Honestly.’ Jon repeats. He presses a fingernail up and down Martin’s thumb, careful not to leave any crescents too deep.

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    For Day 7 of Jonmartin Week: Ace Day :)

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    ‘Cut your losses, Jon. This is a lose-lose situation. I can hug you later. With breakfast. Isn’t that better?’

    ‘No, I can think of an even better idea.’

    Jon, very uncomfortably, shifts one of the arms he has wrapped around Martin’s chest to clamp onto Martin’s shoulder, still holding him captive, but freeing up Jon’s other arm.

    ‘There.’

    ‘Great.’ Martin wheezes.

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    For Jonmartin Week Day 6: Hugs & Cuddles.

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    ‘What do you want?’

    ‘Well, er, Tim and Sasha asked me to ask you to…’

    A silence stretches outwards for a long time before Martin realises that he got too lost in trying to decipher Jon’s facial expression (again) and didn’t actually ask the question.

    ‘… to ask you if it’d be okay for us, uh, them, to go out in the snow?’

    ‘It’s snowing?’ Jon asks.

    ‘Uh, yeah, I think some of Tim and Sasha’s friends texted them about it or something.’

    Jon’s eyes flick from Martin to the door like the bouncing DVD logo until he seems to make up his mind about something.

    ‘Bring them in here.’ he says.

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    For Day 4 of Jonmartin Week: As Long as You Need

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    There’s no doubt about it, then.

    Jon is stuck in a timeloop. The world’s most boring, frustrating timeloop, with the world’s most boring, frustrating man.

    He wants to beat his head into the table. In fact, the only thing that stops him is Martin’s unrelenting presence. Why? Why? Of all the accursed moments in his life, why did it have to be this one? He would rather it be literally any other! Well, with some limitations, but…

    He is absolutely positive that the average human person is not supposed to be exposed to so much Martin Blackwood for such a long time. Not that long, in actual seconds, but again, and again, and again, and again? Watching him say the exact same thing, with only the tiniest of variation, having his mannerisms and the tone of his voice practically driven into his skull? He will go bonkers, soon enough. He’s learning far too much about Martin than he ever wanted to.

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    For Jonmartin Week Day 3: Timeloops!

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    ‘Yes.’ Martin says plainly. ‘Elias says I can keep this job.’

    ‘But I… I really don’t think it’s in the Institute’s best interests to keep you in this… position.’

    ‘Jon. Elias and I have come to an agreement. If you want to take it up with him, you can. Who knows, maybe he’s been using me as a stand-in for you after all. But I’m not going to promote you into my job.’

    ‘But…’ Jon says. He wishes, a little, that Martin would just give his job back, instead of… this. To be honest, he desperately wished, more than a couple of times, that he would be sent back to researching, or even demoted to archival assistant, if only to get out of this mess. But now? It’s Head Archivist or nothing. And this isn’t Head Archivist, and it’s not nothing. So…

    Jon doesn’t know what to do.

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    Jon returns to the Institute to find that a few changes have been made in his absence. For day 2 of Jonmartin Week: Role Swap.

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    ‘And I don’t want to look at your crap, by the way, so you can stop being so cagey.’ Jon mutters, kicking at something at the foot of Martin’s bed.

    ‘Sorry?’

    ‘Your drawings? I’m not looking. Do whatever you want.’ he shrugs. Then he drops to the floor and starts crawling along it like a deranged caterpillar.

    Martin’s pretty sure Jon knows its poetry, but he wants to hear Jon’s views on poetry even less than he wants to hear Jon’s views on art.

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    For day 1 of Jonmartin Week: Feelings realised

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    Mipha talks to Link the night before the Calamity, and Link looks to her 100 years after.

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    Link and Mipha share a dance at an introductory party at Hyrule Castle.

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    Mipha has a replica of the Lightscale Trident forged to use on her journey with the other Champions. Link isn't so sure that that's the right decision.

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    On one of their stops on their tour around Hyrule, Link and Mipha share a moment by the campfire.

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