the_99th_problem



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    The journey to Tau Ceti is a long one.

    Or: For the low low price of clicking a red button, you can pilot the Hail Mary.

    [A HTML-fied interactive game.]

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    "I tried really hard, but... I just can't help it."

    Yuna and David always knew their son was different. The odd habits, the quiet social life, the romantic void he lived in. They never wanted to change him. They only wanted him to be happy. But the longer time went on, the more they worried about Shane ending up alone. Trapped in his insulated little world of hockey and routine.

    For twenty years, they worried. Until something finally changed.

    Summer, 1997 - July, 2017

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    The morning after Shane's heat breaks, he wakes up in an empty bed with a deep, throbbing mark on his neck and a text on his phone from Ilya that says, I am sorry. We should break the bond.

    Or, a bite in Vegas ruins everything, for a while.

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    And there, Phillip's voice echoed in his head: “When you lose a child, you… you see him everywhere, in all the people he could have become, in all the lives he could have lived. It’s something you can never recover from, someone who can never be replaced!"

    Because that was the point, wasn't it?

    Buck didn't know how to be a son because he was never anyone's baby; just a reminder of what his parents had lost.

    He knew that, but what scratched the walls of his brain was the annoying thought that crept under his skin and whispered the fateful question: did Bobby also see him as nothing more than what his kids could have been?

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    Or, If being someone's son meant living as a fallback, Buck was destined to die in someone else's shadow.

    Bobby won't allow that.

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    “How far away are we?” Belly asks the paramedic closest to her, the one who’d cradled Belly’s jaw in her hand when they’d first arrived.

    “Only a few minutes out, miss,” the paramedic says. “We should be there very shortly. You don’t have to worry. The doctors at the trauma center will take excellent care of you.”

    Yeah, she’s sure they will but it’s not really her she’s worried about.

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