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    After the Blue Spirit frees the Avatar from the Pohuai Stronghold, Admiral Zhao captures Prince Zuko under suspicion of treason. Isolated from his Uncle and his crew, Zuko has only one ally: the chatty prisoner one cell over.

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    05 Jun 2026

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    Ilya’s hand wraps around his bare wrist and squeezes. Shane barely stops himself from collapsing to his knees.

    The pressure lights up every receptor of his touch-starved nervous system, wrenching a small, pained noise from the back of his throat. Every muted sensation comes flooding back so intensely that it almost hurts. He needs Ilya to hold him down until there’s nothing inside him but quiet. He wants to sink into him and disappear.

    It takes Shane an entire beat to remember where they are. Fighting against the fog in his mind, he manages to drag his gaze up to meet Ilya’s.

    There’s a slow-dawning horror and understanding on Ilya’s face.

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    Or: Shane is in subdrop after their encounter in Vegas. Ilya fixes it.

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    21 Mar 2026

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    “What’s the fun in a masquerade if you don’t flirt outrageously with the prettiest person in the room?” the young man says flippantly, and then winks at Keith. Keith huffs a laugh, amused.

    “You keep saying things like that, but you haven’t seen my face,” he says, gesturing to his mask. “I could have warts under here. I could have spots, or scars.”

    “You’d be lovely even with all of those,” the young man says, and he suddenly sounds serious. It takes Keith by surprise, makes his heart twist along with his stomach. “Your eyes,” he continues, tilting his head. “I’ve never seen eyes like yours before.”

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    25 Oct 2024

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    With his daughter away for the year on a magic show tour, Phoenix’s life is upended enough as it is. The realization that his childhood best friend and courtroom rival may be in love with him, and the complicated feelings that come with that, are the last things he needs.

    Written for narumitsu week 2020, each chapter loosely based around the prompts: family, marriage, free day, pining, opposites, AU, hurt/comfort, and future.

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    07 Mar 2024

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    The first time Nicholas sees the guy it almost kills him, right there and then. Quite literally.

    You see, these kind of things just happen to him. He’s come to the conclusion, after strenuous research into his own misfortune, troubles, and tribulations, that the universe must be rearing up for some big cosmic joke, one of astronomical proportions, and he’s the punchline of it. The idea that some higher being put him on this bitch of an earth to serve as a barometer for transcendental humor for whichever other beings might need a little pick-me-up, let it be entropy or just the vast vacuum of space, is the only thing that would explain why, in the middle of a perfectly good breakfast, doing nothing more than just sipping his coffee and listening to Livio ramble on and on about some long deceased Norwegian poet or another, his wayward gaze wanders around the cafeteria and lands on one guy in particular, The guy, and he promptly chokes on his breakfast, sending spit and croissants crumbs and coffee droplets flying everywhere on the table.

    Cosmic laughter ensues, he’s sure.

     

    Or, the college au nobody asked for but that maybe – just maybe – someone might need.

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    14 Oct 2023