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In an alternate universe, Harvey's still the best closer in New York but Mike's not a runner for Trevor: he's a pizza deliveryman, Harvey's favorite pizza deliveryman. And Harvey's discovery that Mike's more than he lets on will change everyone's lives...
Told and retold through Mike, Donna, and Harvey's point of view, with new scenes and reactions each time.
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15 Jun 2026
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There is a picture in Harvey's mind that formed the day Mike told him about Trevor. It will always be the same, he suspects, and even when Trevor is a distant event in Mike's past he knows Mike will remember with clarity. So Harvey holds the memory as well, because Trevor was a part of Mike, and his death is a part of Mike. He and Mike -- at least he hopes, he believes -- will grow old together, and with Mike back from Harvard now he has assurance of that. So Harvey needs to remember that there was a time Harvey wasn't there, and Trevor was.
His image is certainly not Mike's version of Trevor. Harvey doesn't know the good parts, if there were any, of the dead boy.
In Harvey's mind he's a cruel-faced young man, dressed better than Mike, a fast-talker depending on his friend for any serious thinking he needs done. Someone constantly on his cellphone, constantly disappearing and reappearing, no steadiness, no reliability. Someone who used Mike and abandoned him. A bloody body on a table that Mike had to identify, a boy who left behind a girlfriend Mike had to grieve with.
Harvey knows better than anyone there are no shortcuts in life; the best one can expect is guides along the way, like Jessica was for him, like he has tried to be for Mike. Trevor was not a guide. Trevor was an object lesson. Even Mike wouldn't deny that -- he might be hurt, might protest he wasn't only a lesson, but Mike knows he was a lesson all the same.
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Harvey Specter, second year law student at Harvard, was walking home one night when he found a teenaged runaway named Mike freezing to death on his doorstep.
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15 Jun 2026
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bereavement by fullmetalruby
Fandom 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
21 Nov 2021
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Jiang Cheng, courtesy name Wanyin, Sandu Shengshou and Sect Leader Jiang, dies six months before his brother comes back to life. The best healers in the world can't explain it, but his golden core gives out under him.
Jin Ling feels left alone in his grief.
series is ordered chronologically, but written in alphabetical order by title
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28 Feb 2026
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He turns the bell over in his hands, tracing the delicate engravings with his fingernail. His skin against the body of the bell would normally dull the sound, but not with this bell. Clarity bells are special for a reason. The tongue of the bell strikes and rings true.
At the first peal of the bell, Zidian jumps to life on his wrist, sparking like a dying fire but Jin Ling knows that she’s not mad. She’s relieved. Elated. Zidian sat next to a clarity bell-- next to this clarity bell for 16 years. How could she not be happy to have it back, the bell’s metal against hers?
My bell! her sparks shriek to him, lighting up the room with violet joy. My bell, my bell, my bell.
Zidian’s bell. Jiang Wanyin’s bell. Jin Ling’s bell.
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