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His gaze drifts to her, wherever she is, any time she's around.
Travis Hackett has his future laid out: step down from active piloting, work as an instructor at the Jaeger Academy, and mentor the next generation of rangers until he dies or the world ends--whichever comes first.
Then the new recruits arrive, and he meets a cadet whose existence threatens to derail his retirement plans.
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- Part 1 of scenes from the drift
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The day after the kaiju attack on Anchorage, Laura Kearney has her first drift compatibility trial with her partner. It doesn’t go well.
Seven years after the apocalypse begins, Laura Kearney enlists in the Jaeger Academy on Kodiak Island. There, she meets Travis Hackett, her instructor and a retired Jaeger ranger. To achieve her dream of piloting a Jaeger, Laura must find a drift-compatible partner. It's just not as easy as she thinks.
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- Part 2 of scenes from the drift
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"You can unlearn what was taught to you," The Stranger said, his voice almost gentle. "We will do it together."
Osha discovers her strength in the Force with The Stranger to guide her.
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the ties that bind by absentheart for genevievedarcygranger
Fandoms: The Quarry (Video Game)
09 Dec 2022
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She met his gaze through the driver’s window. The wariness in her expression slipped into shock, those wide blue eyes staring at him with an impossible familiarity.
With that one look, he knew.
Travis never wanted a soulmate. She found him, anyway.
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“You’re still the best option I got.”
“More like the only option.”
Travis exhales. “Yeah. That, too.”
Post-game. All the counsellors die except for Laura, she chooses not to shoot Travis, and Travis locks her up again. This is what happens after.
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spare just a day for the weeping by essektheylyss (divinationwizard)
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
20 Nov 2022
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Criminal punishment among the upper echelon of the Dynasty is determined by the court, but implemented by the umavi of the den of the convicted.
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- Part 1 of my cruel friend is a funeral bell
Bookmarked by absentheart
02 Sep 2024
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all the ways i'd keep you safe, i keep you safe from me. by ohmaggies
Fandoms: The Quarry (Video Game)
29 Sep 2025
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The whiskey lightening her head and narrowing her field of focus to solely Travis, she says, “Kaylee and Chris aren’t dead. We get to fix it.”
A deep sigh. “I know.”
One hundred and ninety-five days. How many times have they already tried, already failed? How many loops have gone the same in some ways, until every August twenty-third blends into one singular nightmare with its creeping hands looming in Laura’s mind every night?
How many more is it going to take?
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after travis kills laura in the hackett house, she wakes healthy and alive in her cell, as though none of it ever happened. and then she wakes healthy and alive in her cell, again. and then, again.
or: it's only after killing each other half a dozen times that they finally realise the only way to make it to the sunrise of august 23rd is to work together.
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- Part 1 of hackearney collection.
Bookmarked by absentheart
19 Aug 2024
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Travis opens the door as quietly as he can and stares at her lying on the cot, her back to him. He can’t remember the last time he had someone in here. Even before the fire, more than six years ago. He had to move boxes of crap out of there to make place for her. And the boyfriend. Max.
Laura. He says her name in his head and then breathlessly forms his lips around it.
She’s a veterinarian. No, she’s a college student. No, she’s a camp counselor.
When he leaves to clean the blood and dust of his face, he has already forgotten what the boyfriend is except for bitten.
Bookmarked by absentheart
15 Jul 2022