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    Lance’s posture has gone from somewhat respectable to bad to worse, and his attention span is slowly but surely reaching its breaking point, when the door in the back of the room slides open.

    Blue and gray and black. Long, dark hair. A familiar set of eyes. The same faded scar carved along his cheek.

    Lance jerks upright, nearly jumping out of his chair.

    “I’m filling in for Kolivan.”

    The words strike right through Lance’s sternum. And he didn’t even have his defenses up. He didn’t have time to prepare.

     

    Although somewhere deep down, he knows that no time in the world could’ve prepared him for seeing Keith again.

     

    or: Being stuck with his ex at a diplomatic conference for a solid month is super cool and very fun. Because Lance is over him. Obviously. He so is.

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    28 Apr 2026

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    Fear clambers into his mouth and tastes bitter on his tongue. “Who are you?” It takes him a moment to register the sound of his own voice.

    She stares at him. Blinks. “Lance, please, this isn’t time for one of your jokes--”

    He furrows his eyebrows and struggles to sit up, to stop leaning into the cradle of her arms. “I’m not--I’m not...joking.”

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    After sacrificing himself to save Allura, Lance wakes up in a strange new world where the only thing he knows is a deep connection to a boy he doesn't remember.

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    28 Jul 2025

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    "Lance had watched Keith Kogane win a bar fight with a broken hand, rip open a keg with a knife, and complete a whole wretched ensemble of activities you definitely shouldn’t do with a beer in hand.

    And yet here he was, glittery Sharpie in hand, waiting to sign Lucy’s copy of Altea.

    Lance opened his mouth to say something arguably rude and not appropriate for their current audience. Until he remembered that he himself had either watched or participated in these activities and was now holding a four-year-old containing his DNA. So Lance didn’t have much of a leg to stand on either."

     

    When Lance runs into his ex-boyfriend at a children’s book signing, he not only finds out that Keith Kogane ages like fine wine, but he also apparently wrote his daughter’s favorite book. As Keith lingers in town, Lance frantically tries to keep his daughter from realizing that the writer is not only a person from Lance’s past, but a character in her bedtime stories as well.

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    20 Jul 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 99

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    The war ends. Some things do not.

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    18 Jul 2025

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    “How about a bet?”
    Keith paused.
    “If I can make you fall in love with the holidays by Christmas night, you’ll take the shift.”
    Keith snorted, turning to face Lance. He kept that vaguely annoyed smile on his face, but nothing could hide the gleam of interest in his eyes.
    “You’re not going to make that happen.”
    “Okay,” Lance shrugged. “Then what’s the harm of taking the bet?”
    Keith’s eyes rose to the ceiling, thinking.
    “And,” Lance rushed in, “and I’ll sweeten the deal. I’ll work New Years as well.”
    Now that got Keith’s attention.
    They had drawn straws for who would work New Years Day weeks ago. It was one of the worst shifts for a toy store. Being deathly hungover while listening to kids scream and toys screech was the stuff of nightmares. Keith had lost and was stuck with the shift.
    A slow grin tugged at Keith’s lips. “You’re insane.”

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    When Lance gets stuck with the Christmas shift, he immediately turns to Keith, a self-proclaimed Scrooge, to cover the shift. When Keith refuses, Lance offers up a bet. If he can make Keith fall in love with the holidays before Christmas, Keith will take the shift. Nonsense straight from a Hallmark movie follows.

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    18 Jul 2025