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a kiss with a fist is better than none by sofrito_writez
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
28 Jun 2026
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Melanie just sighs. Her grip doesn’t loosen. “Just fight me. I– I can’t do this. I can’t watch you act like you’re just going to stop waiting for her.”
“What will she even come back to?” Basira responds a bit less despondently. She’ll never win, but Melanie’s grip loosens. “We’re not doing anything. Our manager is a deadbeat, Jon is functionally dead and Martin visits him six times a week and when he’s here we barely see him – we still don’t know what Helen is doing here. Daisy wouldn’t fix that.”
“That’s the spirit,” Melanie hisses. “It’s all wrong. All of it. We’re stuck here, and we can’t do anything.” By Basira’s dad’s logic, if they can’t do anything, then they can’t be complaining, but maybe there’s something they could change.
It’s stupid, but as Melanie fully lets up, Basira speaks. “I didn’t say we couldn’t do anything. I said we aren’t doing anything right now.” Basira just needs to feel something, and she doesn’t care if it’s Melanie’s hand on her throat as long as someone’s touching her.
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Melanie and Basira argue. Basira thinks that she wants Melanie. It goes badly.