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“I thought…” George says and then stops. Is it weird to tell someone you thought they were dead? Probably. Alex Albon feels like far too much of an impossibility to be real. “I didn’t know where you went. You never called me back.”
And then suddenly he’s that little kid, sitting on Alex’s doorstep in the pouring rain, wondering what he’d done wrong, how badly he’d messed up as a friend that Alex would leave and not even think to tell him.
Fourteen years after Alex Albon had left him and racing without a word, George finds him at an art gallery.
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21 Nov 2025
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“I’m not in denial,” John B tells his doctor. “I know JJ’s dead.”
The old analogue clock ticks loud and incessant. It’s driving him nuts.
“Knowing a fact and accepting it are two different battles.” The clock gleams off his doctor’s glasses. Then she tilts her head, and the reflection shows the wall. “Some part of you won’t let go.”
John B slumps in his seat. “Your clock’s really loud,” he says.
Over in the corner, JJ rolls his eyes.
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02 Nov 2025
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Six years after joining the US Marine Corps, Cope has built a life around discipline, duty and silence. Once a combat Marine, Cope becomes a Drill Instructor to move closer to his best friend's family. He has become everything the Corps expects of him: unyielding, efficient, untouchable. But behind the composure lies a broken man, weighed down by the ghosts of his past and the secrets he keeps.
He's survived combat, he's buried friends, he's been broken down into pieces and put back together, each time a new piece missing. He mourns the life that is, and the life that could have been. He mourns the blue eyes that haunt his dreams, the strong arms that provide a safe haven in the deepest corners of his mind. He trains, sleeps, eats on autopilot, keeping his mold from cracking by gluing it together every night. He is fiercely loyal to his brothers in arms, a pillar when someone needs a place to rest.
And, through it all, there is of course, Liam.
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26 Oct 2025
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It’s the profound tragedy of Lando’s life, he thinks, to realise he’s in love with his teammate – just as Oscar Piastri makes a habit of standing one step higher on the podium, forcing Lando to crane his neck to look at him.
Oscar hates watching the light fade from Lando’s eyes with every victory he takes from him. He accepted the inconvenient truth long ago: he loves Lando. But he loves winning more.
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10 Oct 2025
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Here is the ocean village. He can’t remember its name, but he can remember someone saying that it was surrounded by deep water on all sides. It’s the second they’ve come to, the second they’re tearing to pieces, the second they’re searching. Here, is among screaming, panicking villagers.
Here is under the scrutiny of so many people, expecting so much from him.
Maybe if he was a bit more…normal. A bit more like them, what was happening around him wouldn’t seem as bad. The violence wouldn’t be as shocking.
It wouldn’t make him feel as if he’s about to be sick over his own toes.
He really doesn’t want to be here.
“Translate.”
That’s growled at him, most likely to intimidate and scare him. It’s deep and low, like the growling of the ship’s engines just outside the reef. But, like the first two times, it just makes him confused.
Translate what? No one’s spoken, how can he–
“That is a forest clan member,” the man before him says, slow and pronounced over the crackling of flames. “They do not come here. Please, tell him!”
Oh. What? No, that’s not the sound of flames it’s–
Everything he knows breaking apart.
Or!
The Amnesia AU I promised
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18 Sep 2025