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'“Have you done this before?” Blake asks her and Gina meets her gaze.
“Nope.”
Blake does not disguise her smile.
Good.
“Don’t fuck it up.”'
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Underground Wastebasket’s tour comes to an end in the backwater town of Devil’s Kettle. Suture are amongst their audience when a fire breaks out on stage and changes the trajectory of both bands’ futures forever.
'“I wish you could have been there, Seven. I wish you could’ve heard it. It was so beautiful. The fire, the wind in the trees.”
A lump forms in Seven’s throat.
“The screaming?”
Riley opens her eyes.
“The screaming,” she agrees.'
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Late-competition, Riley has a nightmare. Blake is there to witness it.
'“Your heart is racing,” Blake murmurs, lips brushing the shell of her ear. “Were you having dirty dreams?”
She nuzzles closer with the question, inspired, and hooks one leg over her hip. Riley feels her mouth against the nape of her neck, the lazy drag of kisses that Blake weaves into her hairline. In the landscape of her panic, a single spike of adrenaline fights above the rest, causing her eyelids to tremble open.
She wills her voice to behave.
“No,” Riley whispers, and winces at the way it shakes out of her like a confession.'
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- Part 9 of I see you better in the dark
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Post-competition, Blake and Riley steal a moment together in the midst of their increasingly busy schedules.
'“Good,” Blake answers immediately, as if there exists no reality in which her making music isn’t successful. “Almost halfway there now, actually, it just needs some fine tuning.” There’s a pause over the line in which Riley makes her interest known, and Blake holds her breath. Her hesitation flavours the call until she speaks again. “There’s something I want to ask you. It’d be better if I did it in person.”
Riley blinks, suddenly very awake.
“Damn, girl, we haven’t even gone public yet and you’re tryna put a ring on it?”
A snort of laughter blows through the phone speaker.
“In your dreams, baby.”
Some nights, Riley privately concedes, sure.'
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In which Riley runs into a charismatic stranger just before her BOTB audition, and Blake Winter has never let anything go in her life (including, but not limited to, the cell phone number of her biggest competition).
'Text me some time, Blake had told her.
Well, so much for that.'
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In which Blake gives Riley unrestrained access to her Spotify account.
'“This is like looking at the inside of your brain, you know?” she says while scrolling, her gaze darting up just long enough to catch Blake’s expression of amused incredulity. “It is. It’s intimate, especially for us. It’s like reading a diary, kind of.”
“It’s nothing like that,” Blake says, but she sounds too much like she’s disagreeing just for the sake of it. “I put everything in a playlist, then I might not listen to it again for years. It’s not special.”
“You’re a filthy liar, Blake Winter. The evidence is quite literally in my hands. You’re anal as fuck about how you organise your music.”'
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Riley discovers the limits on her capacity to process the BOTB bullshit. Blake makes sure she doesn't bury them.
'“Yeah,” she says, and scratches at her nose. She looks about as uncomfortable as Riley feels, suddenly, but forces herself to hold her gaze. “I didn’t really want to leave you, while you were…”
Angry, Riley thinks she’s going to say.
“Upset,” Blake settles on.
Well.
That, too.'
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- Part 8 of I see you better in the dark
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In which Blake lets Riley brush her hair.
'Riley slides an arm around Blake’s shoulders and imagines the lifetime they could carve out for themselves, right here, in the space of just one night. There is something about their relationship that is best suited to the stars. Often, she wonders how long Blake will remain content with hiding it behind locked doors.'
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- Part 7 of I see you better in the dark
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Blake falls asleep in Riley's bed, and they're both a little stupid about it.
'They’re not allowed to have this. They don’t do sleepovers. They do quick fixes of each other when they won’t be missed—sometimes, even when they will—until they can put it out of their minds just long enough to focus on the competition. Until it gets bad, again. Until their gazes start to linger. Until all it takes is the briefest, barest brush of Blake’s fingertips ghosting over her knuckles to make her ache.'
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- Part 6 of I see you better in the dark
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we made a home in this state of mind by Luthor
Fandoms: Infamous - Amy (Interactive Fiction)
12 Aug 2025
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In which Blake has a surprise for Riley, and Riley comes face to face with the mortifying extent of her feelings.
'As always, Blake’s mouth has to ruin the moment.
She wets her lips, grins, and tilts her chin up towards Riley until she captures her attention.
“Like what you see?”
“Yes,” Riley immediately answers, with a look of complete sincerity that stuns Blake almost as much as it charms her. “You’re beautiful.”'
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- Part 2 of very slowly, then all at once
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Riley and Blake share a meal (and a little history).
'“You need to take better care of yourself,” Blake says, surprising her, and rolls her eyes when she notices. “Take your breaks. They’re contractually obligated not to let you starve.”
“I don’t remember that being in my contract, actually.”
“Did you even read your contract?”
Riley blinks. “I’m sure Oriana did.”'
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- Part 5 of I see you better in the dark
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Blake surprises Riley with an impromptu visit to her hotel room.
It is early evening, mid-week, and they can’t be doing this.
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- Part 4 of I see you better in the dark
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Riley finds herself alone with Blake, backstage.
It doesn’t happen often.
'Bite, she wills her, even if the idea of Blake doing just that sends a shiver of fear through her body. If Blake wants to play shark, then Riley can make herself bait—can make herself prey. She sees the exact moment that Blake considers it, as the amusement slips from her face, lips parted, her gaze caught at Riley’s mouth. She cannot stop the smile that turns there, and ultimately that’s what drags Blake out of her tunnel vision.'
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In which Riley plays guitar and Blake keeps her mouth shut (for once).
'“Why do you always do that?”
Blake is sitting on the bed, now, and about to stand when the question makes her pause. Riley feels her gaze on her, hot like something intending to brand flesh, and cannot resist the urge to meet it. Blake doesn’t look annoyed, exactly, but her expression is significantly more closed off than it had been moments prior.
“Do what?” she asks, and begins combing her hair over one shoulder.
Riley smiles at her, wry.
“Pull away just when things get interesting.”'
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- Part 3 of I see you better in the dark
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Blake and Riley steal a night together, mid-tour.
'That makes Blake laugh, which makes Riley laugh, which makes her want to cry. She gulps the sudden well of emotion back, but Blake must see it in her face. Her own does the strangest thing—slackens, then softens, then smiles so gently that time bends in on itself, knots itself like rope, all while Riley stares.'
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- Part 2 of I see you better in the dark
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Towards the end of the BOTB competition, Riley and Blake have a conversation on a bus.
'“Are you…” She stops herself just in time, but Riley’s never claimed to be any good at self-preservation. “Are you worried about me?”
There it is, the mine.
Riley holds her breath and waits to see how her life will blow to pieces, this time.'
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In which the Infamous MC is my favourite co-dependent weirdo and Blake Winter is Blake Winter.
'Blake had laughed in her face, when she’d first seen what she was wearing.
Riley almost thought she’d close the door on her and make her trudge back to her own hotel room, tail between her legs. They’ve talked about this in the way that they talk about a lot of things—briefly, and so flippantly that Riley can never really tell if Blake is joking. But she’d been knuckles-deep inside of her when she’d brought up the idea, and Blake hadn’t tried to smother her reaction.
Besides, she isn’t laughing now.'
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- Part 1 of very slowly, then all at once
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Riley takes herself off somewhere quiet to write without distraction. Blake fixes that.
'The longer Riley stares at the words, the more she feels the threat of a blush creeping up her throat. Blake’s Song, that Riley is writing for her. There’s almost something intimate about it; her words in Blake’s mouth. She wonders how her lyrics will be shaped by Blake’s lips, how her tongue will curl around the vowels.
Confronting the mostly blank page in front of her quells the thought.
That’s right.
She’s got to write it, first.'
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In which Riley likes her too much to call it a hate-fuck, but Blake makes sure it’s not far off.
‘“You don’t have to pretend when it’s just the two of us, Riley. We both know what I am to you.”
When Riley does not immediately accept it, Blake scoffs, disbelieving.
“I’m a bottle, baby. I’m the best pill on the market.”’
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Blake and Riley share an introspective moment mid-tour.
'There’s something different about Blake when it’s just the two of them.
Something Riley thinks even she’s not meant to see.
To call her ego a disguise would be disingenuous, but she’s seen how Blake wields it like it is, smug and satisfied, the smile that barely hides the solid contempt within her eyes. There’s a hardness to her, a pit in the centre of the woman, that Riley knows better than to bite her way down into for fear of breaking something.
It’s more obvious, on nights like these.
Blake doesn’t try to hide it in the dark.'
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- Part 1 of I see you better in the dark