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    Eddie made a strangled disbelieving noise, expression flickering. “You are not apologizing to me right now, for like, feeling a normal way about stuff. I can’t believe you.”

    Steve pushed a shaking hand through his hair. His heart rate no longer in his ears meant he felt he could at least think a little more clearly. “Maybe it was the heat. Doesn’t always have to be something messed up, right?”

    Eddie gave him a placating nod. “Sure, heat exhaustion is a helluva thing.”

    It had been happening a lot recently. The… forgetting. Zonking out. Whatever. He was pretty sure he was just extra exhausted, it had been a few weeks since everything but it might have just been the adrenaline or something finally wearing off. Sometimes it was like he just forgot someone was speaking, or couldn’t remember for a moment what they’d been talking about. Like blinking out of a fog maybe.

    It does not get better, in fact, it actually continues to get worse.

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    30 Dec 2025

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    Then Gon said, “Do you want to come with me?”

    Yes, Killua thought immediately and fervently. Yes, I want to go with you, and hang out with you, and have fun with you, and sleep in the same room as you, and it can be like it used to, when everything was easy — 

    (there was another part of him that thought, if you let him in too close again you might get hurt just like before — )
     
    “Yeah,” Killua said, and smiled at him. “Okay.” 

     
    After three years apart, Gon asks Killua to come with him as he investigates a possible way to get back his Nen. Killua agrees, despite everything that remains unsaid between them. And everything goes great.

    Until it doesn't.

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    26 Jul 2024

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    "They run. Killua doesn’t know where, but it doesn’t matter. Alluka is calling after them, but it doesn’t matter. His lungs are raw and breathless, his feet are still bare from when he left his shoes by Mito-san’s front door, his knees still hurt from where they had collided with the hard wooden pier not too long ago -

    It doesn’t matter. All that matters is Gon’s fingers hot and tight around Killua’s wrist. Gon’s ragged breath, matching Killua’s own. Gon’s shoulders, with mossy mountains and vast seas cradled between them, shifting while he runs and Killua runs after him."

    (In which Killua learns how to trust again and Gon learns how to earn it back.)

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    21 Jul 2024

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    After a few weeks of being together, Amy decides it's time to help Jake clean his apartment.

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    23 Jun 2024

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    "Jake Peralta showing any capacity for deep emotion would have been odd enough. Having her childhood best friend openly sob on her shoulder and repeatedly ask her, "What's wrong with me? Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with me?" while Oprah Winfrey's Legends Ball played in the background was, quite frankly, the most terrifying experience of Gina's life."

    In which Jake Peralta is trudging through life with undiagnosed and untreated ADHD dragging him down like 50-pound ankle weights, and things are going Not Very Well™. Jake gets depressed, quiet, and increasingly more isolated. The squad gets worried. Adventures in mental health ensue.

    (Alternatively: Jake Peralta 110% has ADHD and I will fight you on this to my grave.)

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    16 Jun 2024