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    The first night was agonizing. So was the second night. And the third, and so on. In truth, there really hasn’t been a night in the months since losing Yaz – losing that future, that chance to make amends with the person she’d loved most in the world – where she hasn’t sobbed right through her pillow, or wailed her throat into a rough, aching state, or wondered when she might fall asleep and hope not to wake up. At least that way, she’d run the chance of catching up to Yaz.

    She keeps all their memories close, tucked against her chest and etched into her skin so that no one can take them from her. If she could, she’d have torn the flesh from her bones and nestled it all within, wrapped up whatever remained of a heart she’d given up too much of in every instance of joy and pride and comfort they’d shared in their time together, just to make sure that something could keep it beating.

    After all, being with Yaz had been so much of her life; the hell is she supposed to do now that it’s gone?

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    Inspired by LooksLikeVespa's comic from earlier this summer - in which Sammy visits Yaz's grave and reflects on what she's lost.

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    Sammy doesn’t meet Kenji's remark with an answer, instead lowering her gaze back down to Smoothie as he gorges himself on snacks. He is important. He’s the first good thing that’s come from this whole affair, and he’s cute as a button, at that. Most importantly, though, he’s a calf who’s got no idea how to look after himself, who could very easily get snatched by some meat-o-saurus with teeth bigger than his whole body.

    She kneels down and skates her palm over his head, and he chitters in response, blue juice staining the blunt tip of his beak. “I’m sorry, little buddy. You do matter.” Then, she looks up at Kenji, whose expression softens quickly. “I’m sorry. It’s just hard.”

    “Yeah,” Kenji chuckles faintly, leaning back against the thin railing. “I bet it is.”

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    in which Kenji and Sammy finally address the Yasammy breakup, Brooklynn being alive, and how distant they've both become during their hardships.

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    Brooklynn presses her lips in momentary worry before looking down at the area just beside Soyona’s hand. It’s hardly something to be worried about, really. More a nasty scratch or shallow cut than anything, and it says a lot about her partner that she would go so far as to try and stitch her up despite it not being so bad. Painful, sure, but not threatening.

    Brooklynn doesn’t mention that, instead choosing to lean back slightly and wonder, “Why did you save me?”

    Soyona glances up, and the look she gives Brooklynn is ringed with the same dread and panic that had urged her earlier.

    “Why do you think?”

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    Seeing the Handler down here in the catacombs had struck her with a terror she’d long since hoped to have exorcised. After all, how the hell is that even supposed to be scary when she’d already survived the previous attempt on her life?

    She could have said something. Should have said something. Let the Handler know that she was working with the Broker now and they were supposed to be on the same side, but the look she’d set upon her with those piercing, glacial, beady eyes told her that she likely wouldn’t have cared. Brooklynn standing across from her was just another sign that she’d failed, a loose end to tie up, an opportunity to satisfy some sick, demented, violent urge.

    And then it had all been over, even if it still doesn’t feel over.

     

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    Soyona takes Brooklynn aside to comfort her after a panic attack, and Brooklynn decides it's the perfect time to make her move.

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    It can be infuriating, being Shauna Shipman. Despite all the ways you might even surpass Jackie – in speed, in performance, in lit class grades – you can never shrug off the permanence of your own inferiority, never catch enough gazes to not be overlooked.

    And despite it all, Jackie still chooses to look at her like that. Irises swallowed up by a gaze both swelling with affection and darkening with hunger. Shauna Shipman has never felt more important than when Jackie chooses to look at her, see past everything that makes her second best, and draw her up from her own gloom, pull her into the orbit of her captivating radiance.

    And it makes Shauna want to tear her fucking face off.

    Suppose, then, making out with Jackie Taylor is as close as Shauna will ever get to realising that vicious little fantasy.

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    just another one of those slumber party makeouts that Jackie remembers so fondly, apparently

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    Soyona levels the remote towards the opposite end of the suite, and its characteristic shrill whirring soon follows. Red’s head perks up at the call, and Brooklynn watches as she trots almost mindlessly into a separate room, fear still clung to her attention.

    She’s eased down by Soyona onto one of the chaises opposite the kitchen, softly squeezing Brooklynn’s shoulder in reassurance, before her attention darts to the table in front of them. Atop it sits a small metal tub, the fluorescents of the penthouse shimmering in its polished reflection, and within it several layers of ice cradle a fizzing bottle of golden champagne.

    Brooklynn regards the drink with surprise, her panic fading as she watches the beads of condensation dribble down the bottle’s curves. “What’s…this?”

    “A reward,” Soyona explains proudly, “for your continued loyalty. I figured a bonus to your cheque wasn’t adequate enough compensation for helping me in Senegal.”

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    What happens when you put a private investigator and a dinosaur broker in a room together with a bottle of champagne between them? Brooklynn's money is on business secrets getting spilled, but Soyona's mind is elsewhere...

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    Without dignity, Soyona snarls, “You.”

    “Looks like you missed your ride, Santos,” Brooklynn remarks, angling her eyes towards the sky above. “Now was it TSA this time? Or just slept in?”

    Soyona flares her nostrils and pinches her lips into a scowl; even while they were working together, Brooklynn’s attempts at jokes were always steeped in a forced cheekiness. Normally, she’d roll her eyes at these flippant remarks. Sometimes, she’d even find them quaint.

    But she hardly has the patience for it right now. She can’t consider anything about Brooklynn beyond reprehension as she stands there, her presence practically a mockery of what they had – and what she took from her.

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    what if Brooklynn was in Malta when Soyona got arrested? better yet, what if Brooklynn killed Soyona after she evaded arrest?

    better yet, what if they had basically JUST broken up?

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    Sammy relaxes into a faint smile, but there’s still something dimmed behind her gaze, something that’s worried Yaz since they reconciled in Wyoming. The Sammy seated beside her isn’t the woman she left behind for all those months, and it’s impossible to say how much of that bitterness was left behind there by her.

    Sammy’s already shared the long months of her isolation to Yaz, sparing no details about the dark and dragging nights, the strong and sour temptations, the growing and restless anger she used sunshine and smiles to suppress. The house they’re in is a sad reflection of that, with posters bearing encouragement plastered all over the halls that have been hammered in just a bit too forcefully.

    Yaz can’t help the guilt that tugs at her chest, but there’s only so much guilt can accomplish on its own. She’s always looked past it towards determination, resolution, empowering herself to fix mistakes she’s made without wallowing in what set her on that course to begin with.

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    Yaz goes to Texas to celebrate Christmas with Sammy since she'll be all alone for the holidays, and aims to make up for how rotten last Christmas was.

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    Caitlyn remembers. Caitlyn must remember all the parts of her that have always twisted sorely, knotted muscles and festered wounds cutting familiar swathes across her body. She works like clockwork to alleviate what Vi can’t reach, or what she’s grown agonisingly used to, all while brushing lathered soap over new layers of gritty, oily shame.

    The shower in her apartment is hardly big enough for one of them, let alone both of them; it’s why Vi’s pressed up so close against Caitlyn, her ass all but perched atop her thigh as she succumbs to the silent tenderness offered to her. So many of the latest memories Vi’s kept of Caitlyn have been marred by violence and anger, each of them still raw but kept tempered by softer, deeper thoughts of the affections once shared between them. Gentle touches over tear-stained cheeks. Soft, plush lips meeting in wordless affirmation of a desired future.

    How could she have said no when Caitlyn asked Vi to join her, when those pleading eyes fell upon her and stripped away every block of defiance she’d put up since their split?

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    Vi and Cait take some time to clean up and get dirty after the events of season 2 act 2

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    for Wolfwren Week 2024: Sparring/Hatefuck

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    Rain, Kay, and Andy have survived their ordeal aboard the Renaissance station and are now living on Yvaga III. But does paradise truly exist on the other side of what they've witnessed, or has it always been a flimsy promise?

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    Rain and Kay explore their trauma while falling in love

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    Brooklynn is dead, and none of her closest friends know how to handle it at her funeral.

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    Mac Coyle beat cancer over a year ago; what's she supposed to do now with her life when she was sure as shit she wasn't going to have one after hitting sweet sixteen?

    KJ Brandman has been itching to tell her friends she's a lesbian for years; why is it so hard to find the right words, then, after practicing them all summer?

    Tiff Quilkin has a lot on her mind; why does she have to spend the week babysitting her friends when she could be at home studying for her advanced placement at MIT?

    Erin Tieng has grown a lot since becoming a camp counselor; what does she have to do to convince her friends she's not the naive new girl they befriended on their paper route as kids?

    The girls, now on the cusp of their senior year, take a week away at KJ's uncle's lake house in Vermillion. They're hoping for a fun, easy time like they used to have as kids, but they're not the same kids they were once upon a time, and the beach has a special way of smoothing even the roughest of frayed edges.

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    She can still recall the ways Yaz used to recoil from the slightest noises of bushes brustling near the ranch, eyes wide as she stood stone-still in wait for something to lunge out at her. She still remembers the nights Yaz wouldn’t get herself a wink of sleep, too worried and too scared she might not wake up the next morning if something bigger and hungrier than her decided to crash through her bedroom window. She still knows how fear used to poison her, make her breaths taut and shallow ahead of torrents of terror and dreadful memories stretched beyond the reality of their danger.

    But that’s all in the past, and what Sammy remembers is why she’s out here right now.

    And it’s why she’s still just as alone as she’s been for over a year.

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    sammy feels bad about how she treated yaz, and yaz comforts her about it.

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    Dame Aylin is watching.

    Dame Aylin can do nothing but watch.

    For many endless, restless months, Dame Aylin has stood in the same spot, chained to hardened rock by shackles unbreakable even to her might. In the earliest days, she’d made the constant effort to tear free of these bindings, break the links tethering her to the wretched prison that dared contain her, follow the ideal of vengeance and retribution stoking radiant flames in her chest.

    She would not be broken. She is Dame Aylin: daughter of Selune, right hand of her mother’s divine intent, resplendent and fair and indomitable among mortals and celestials alike.

    And yet the jagged scars of gold streaking across her face say otherwise.

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    Her heart hammers against her chest, echoes in her ears. Hot blood pours through her veins as her body all but radiates with blissful agony. The pads of her feet, the palms she digs her nails into, her lips splitting and bleeding from the heat as sweat trickles down her cheeks to mix in with it.

    She’s alive.

    She’s never been more alive.

    And being alive means she’s just another thing for the monsters to get.

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    Yaz hasn't been the same since Isla Nublar. The world hasn't been the same since the dinosaurs made it to the mainland. Life found a way, and Yaz is still trying to find her own. (aka a study of Yaz's trauma)

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    Most people don’t recognize the subtle intricacies of Falin’s expressions. She’s always worn her heart on her sleeve, but rarely in her features; that brilliant, beaming smile of hers wards off anything else she might be feeling, and she knows she’s doing it, too. Even Marcille has trouble seeing through it sometimes.

    But Marcille has always been studious, always been thorough, and she’s always been able to tell when Falin is upset. Her smile goes faintly limp, the creases in the corners of her eyes fading as she seems to tire of the constant cheer for a split second before remembering who she is.

    And it’s the exact expression she wears right now, across from her, as they wash the day’s blood and bile off together in the bath.

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    the bath scene from dungeon meshi if it were gayer.

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    “How many of those have you had?” Caitlyn asks, and Vi snickers, which makes her dizzy all over again.

    “Enough,” she grunts. “What can I say? I’m kind of a big deal right now.”

    Caitlyn’s frown pulls tighter down her face, a set and angry point to her brows. “That’s it. You’re cut off.”

    “You’re not in charge down here,” Vi spits in protest. “I can drink as much as I want.”

    But Caitlyn’s not listening, just like every other Caitlyn that only ever comes to make her feel like shit about herself. She leans over the bar and waves the tender over, making some kind of motion towards Vi.

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    My take on a (messy) CaitVi reunion based on season 2 information.

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    Max is tired. Tired of always being at the centre of these tragedies, tired of watching those she cares about die, and it feels like the world doesn’t want her to forget that for a second. After all, why else would it stop so suddenly and so endlessly right as she expects even a moment of reprieve?

    But there is no reprieve. Not a shred of it in sight. Here at Caledon, Safi was her reprieve. The beauty of winter — so different from the slush she used to get on the west coast — was her reprieve. And…

    Her gaze darts to her phone, charging on her desk. It wouldn’t be so hard to call, she supposes. Her number’s still saved, and as the world keeps taking from her, she’s reminded of the one thing she was given over a decade ago.

    A second chance.

    A second chance, and she blew it.

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    Safi is dead, and the one person Max wishes she could talk to about it hates her.

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