Love Wins: Grace Arias (06/28/15)
In honor of the Supreme Court decision on June 26, 2015, Iâve started a series of stories depicting what the Power-ups and Trade-offsâ LGBTQ+ characters did when they heard the decision. First up, a homicide detective receives an early morning phone call and news she did not expect.
      For the first time in a long while Grace can actually sit to enjoy a cup of tea, perched on the counter in a way sheâs always forbidden her children from doing. Summer means Aaliyah and the kids take their time waking up in the morning, but she doesnât mind all that much. It means she can do almost anything she wants in these early hours. More still, itâs a welcome break from the hectic environment of the station, or the cacophony her house falls into when school isnât there to keep everyone occupied.
      She wouldnât say sheâs basking in the silence, but itâs a near thing, leading her to nearly fall off the counter when her phone rings. Glancing irately at the Caller ID, she almost throws the thing across the room. Technically, itâs her day off, but as her partner so often reminds her, homicide waits for no man.
      âWhat do you want, Gregson?â she asks in lieu of salutation.
      âHave you heard?â
      Grace leans her head back against the cupboard. âHeard what? Use proper nouns, Tony.â
âTurn on your TV, Arias.â
      âWhy the hell should I? Do we have a case or not? Otherwise, Iâd like to enjoy my quiet before the children wake up.â
      She could practically hear his temper fraying over the line. âLook, Grace. Just turn on whatever news channel you prefer. Probably not Fox, unless you want the headache.â
      âThis better be worth it, Anthony, or Iâm coming to your apartment to castrate you myself.â
      âCross my heart, partner. Youâll be thanking me soon enough.â
      Vaulting from the counter, Grace crosses the short distance from her kitchen to her living room. âGive me a minute. The kids managed to misplace the remote again.â She finds it a few seconds later, wedged between an armrest and a sofa cushion. âTurn it to the news, you said? Why canât you just tell me?â
      The frustrated sound he makes sounds almost like a tea kettle going off. âYou have to see it. I promise itâll all make sense.â
      âDonât give yourself a heart attack? Iâm on it.â Luckily for her partnerâs continuing cardiac health, she and Aaliyah had been idly watching some late night news last night before heading to bed. The first thing she sees, scrolling across the bottom of the screen: SUPREME COURT LEGALIZED GAY MARRIAGE IN ALL 50 STATES. Images of kissing couples, rainbow flags, and general
      âOh my God. Youâre shitting me, Gregson.â
      âSadly, I donât have the paycheck of someone who controls MSNBC.â
      âItâs real.â Her free hand makes its way to her cheek, where she finds them already damp and sheâd be lying if she said she didnât hear tears in his voice too. âItâs finally happened, Tony. I mean, we have a long way to go, but thisâŠHow long have we waited for this?â
      âToo damn long, Grace.â
      In a moment, sheâll wake her wife and tell her the news theyâve waited their whole lives to hear. In a moment, itâll be time to celebrate.
      âYouâre coming over tonight and weâre going to break out the special scotch. The âclose a big caseâ scotch. Eight oâclock sharp. Be late and face Aaliyahâs wrath.â
      âI wouldnât miss it for the world.â
      âGood.â
      They take a moment more, stare at their televisions, and watch as history is made.
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Prompt me!
Iâve been really bored and uninspired lately so Iâm taking writing prompts because I can. It can be anything and everything: original fiction, fanfiction, whatever. So if thereâs an otp prompt or something you want to see just send it my way and Iâll see what I can do with it!
The only thing I wonât write is smut, but other than that, I do pretty much everything. Also, I wonât write fic for fandoms Iâm not a part of, for the obvious reason that it would suck. (you can see a list what I watch and read here). If you want to see what my writing is like check here for fanfiction and here for original fiction.
I figure this is a good way to share my writing with everyone and get some inspiration so bring on the prompts!
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I wrote a thing based on this thing! You should read it. Warnings for strong language and mentions of violence and blood. Also, obvious death.
Transitioning to Past Tense - by Isabel
      Fuck.Thatâs it all there is to say, pure and simple. After all, you arenât reallyone for mania or monologues. Some might call you stoic, but you donât really think thatâs the right word. Youâre careful. You just know the power of an overblown emotion, a misplaced word, and youâre careful not to give anyone that leverage over you.
         But if you were really careful, you wouldnât be here right now. Careful people donât let their guard down long enough to let goddamn assassins get close enough to stick a knife in their abdomen. So, maybe stoic is the right word, because you sure as hell werenât careful.
         Your assassin, damn her to all hell, was good. Too good. With a bullet lodged somewhere in your shoulder by a careful sniper in the rafters and a long knife shoved into your stomach, you wonât make it to see tomorrowâs sunrise. Hell, you wonât make it to sunset, and thatâs in maybe fifteen minutes. Youâll be lucky if you have any more than a handful of them, and thatâs only if God decides to smile upon you today. Given His track record in that department, you arenât going to count on it.
         Your cellphone sits in your pocket, a final taunt from the girl who has just murdered you. The ambulance will take at least ten minutes to find you in this mass of warehouses, especially since you can no longer remember which one youâre in, memory foggy from the blood youâve already lost. Ten minutes you no longer have.
         Still, you dig it out of your pocket anyway. It beeps out a charming little reminder: low battery; 19%. You giggle at thatânot at all hysterical, of courseâbut it quickly turns into a hacking cough that splatters blood over the already stained concrete floor. 19%. Even with your phones pitiful battery life, you wonât need that much anyway.
         If youâre going to thank God for anything today, itâll have to be speed dial. You save precious seconds not typing in those six other numbers, simply pressing 3 and letting it ring. Please pick up, you think, at the same time realizing; Mom is going to kill me for not calling her. You would laugh at the irony of that too, if you hadnât already learned how much it hurts.
         It doesnât sound into infinity as you feared. After five nerve-wracking rings, he picks up. âHey, sweet cheeks. I was just about to call you. What do you want for dinner?â
         âDonât call me sweet cheeks,â you gasp out. God, why does everything hurt?
         âYou okay, dear?â A momentâs pause. âShit. I know you hate terms of endearment. Is that any better?â
         âYes.â Keeping things as monosyllabic as possible, thatâs the way to go. Itâll make goodbye easier.
         On the other end of the line, he chuckles and for a moment, the insistent throb of pain is replaced by warmth. âWhich question are you answering?â
         âI donât know.â Words get harder and harder. One at a time.
         âHow about you answer this one: are you okay?â
         You will not cry. People like youâthe stoic, the careful, the somethingâthey do not cry. âAsk me something else. Please.â
         âWhy?â You live for the moments of confusion in his voice, because the next step is desperation, and you donât want it to get that far.
         âJust need to hear your voice.â I donât want my last words to you to be a lie.
         Heâs wary now. âWhy are you being so sweet? Tell me whatâs wrong.â
         âNothing.â You wince, half from the pain, half because heâs managed to make a liar of you yet.
         Of course, after all your years together, he knows that voice; the one you put on when youâre being held by hostage-takers in the south of France and he texts to ask you about your day, or when youâre stuck in an elevator in Taiwan with the mark and a broken leg and he calls because âbabe, I canât remember the Netflix passwordâ. âDonât lie to me.â
         You sigh theatrically, and it feels as though your lungs have shriveled to zero capacity. You manage to suck enough oxygen to speak but itâs not going to take long until you truly can no longer draw breath. âYou want to order Chinese, donât you?â
         He hesitates a moment. âHow did you know?â
         âBecause you had that meeting with the Unitech execs and whenever things go well for you, you eat sesame chicken from that place down the block. Not the one that gave me food poisoning.â
         âHow did you know things went well?â
         âBecause youâre you.â You attempt a shrug but your shoulder screams its protest and the knife in your stomach isnât much quieter. Your free hand migrates toward it, ready to pull it out, but logic prevails. You need little more time, and removing it will ensure your entrails decorate this bloody warehouse floor before he finishes his next sentence.
         âWell, whatâs wrong with Chinese? You havenât decided to hate it again, have you?â
         âI-Italian.â The world begins to go hazy around the edges, all the nebulousness of drunkenness without the fun. âAnd wine.â
         It seems you donât need verbs to make your point clear. Thatâs why you work so well together. Or is it worked? Verb tenses always seem to go wonky when youâre dying. âWe can do that instead. We still have that nice bottle your sister gave us for your birthday. Tonightâs as special an occasion as any.â
         You shake your head before you realize he canât see it. âNo. Eat your chicken. But order some fortune cookies too.â
         âWhy? We both hate them.â
      So someone can tell your where your life is going to go without me. You donât say that, of course. Might as well play at normalcy while you still can. Or at least, make sure he can be normal when youâre gone, whatever the hell that even means. âBecause your taste buds are replaced every seven days.â
      Here it is: the desperation. âWhat does that even mean?â
      âThings change. Sometimes, we like new things because of it. Sometimes we have to.â
         âDo I have to?â
         God, you donât want to answer that. The world starts to go dark around the edges and youâre fairly certain you canât: your voice wonât let you and you just donât have time. But there is one thing âYou know I love you, right?â
         âOf course I do. How couldnât I? You were the best, angel.â Heâs crying now, isnât he and God, doesnât he realize the irony in what he just called you? This was not at all how you planned this to go. You guess normal goes out the window when on the pinnacle of death, and so do plans and so does everything because youâre losing your goddamn life.
         âWe were good, werenât we? We were so good.â
         âWe were the best. We could still be.â
         âNo. We canât.â
         âCanât you call for help?â You learn in that moment, as you have so many times over the years, that stupid questions do exist, but you canât bring yourself to be furious. If youâre being honestâand whatâs the point of lying to yourself when youâre about to die?âyou would ask the same thing.
         âNo.â
      This is what it boils down to. Five years spent waltzing around each other, then seven more doing the dance together. After all that loving, fighting, kissing, crying...this is all you get? A phone call and a few words? And what use are words anyway? They arenât permanent. This phone call isnât. The memories. Those years. None of it. Death is the only thing heâll remember you for and it isnât fucking fair!
      âYou deserved better.â
      You can practically feel him shaking his head over the line. âNo. You donât get to decide that. Nobody gets to decide that but me and I deserved you! Only you.â Heâs so quiet. Or maybe thatâs just the world fading ever so quickly away.
      âWell, I didnât deserve you. But you loved me anyway. And I loved you so much.â
      âLove. You love me. You told me youâd never stop.â
      You did. But you canât stop death either and thatâs decided to come before infinity. But maybe, you can pretend this time. After all, youâre not quite dead yet. âI wonât. I love you. Present tense.â
      âThen stay with me.â You hate hearing him beg you like this. At least you can take solace in the fact you wonât have to much longer. Taking what seems to be your final breath, lungs aflame with lack of oxygen and heart flaring with grief (for yourself or for him you are unsure), you find it doesnât help much at all.
      You should have been more careful. With that assassin. With your heart, because now youâre crying and that was the one thing you promised never to do. Through your tears, you manage, âIâm so sorry, darling.â
      âDonât apologize, please. Just donâtââ
         Your phone dies just before you do. Itâs the last thing you have a chance to be grateful for.
Transitioning to Past Tense (Writing Update 2/20/15)
Person B knowing theyâre undoubtedly about to die within the next few seconds, likely from the gaping wound theyâre bleeding out from. Instead of calling for help, they phone Person A and carry on a casual conversation as if nothing is wrong, making sure to mention how much they love them before their time runs out.
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Safe Across the Border Part 2: #019 & #020
We've decided to scale our updates back to once a week and you'll probably see a fair few more letters, just because we have a huge backlog of them ready for your enjoyment. So here are two more (finally), that kick off a more plot-filled part two! Check for part one on our various other sites until I can get them posted over here. Enjoy, share and tell us what you think in an ask!
-Isabel
#019
3/34
Dear Kaleb,
       Iâm not sure when this will reach you, but it is late spring here. I have found a courier to deliver things across the border. Not government approved, of course, but desperate timesâŠIt took a bit of sleuthing in the Journey District, but many people had the same idea, so it didnât take long. I hope those letter readers donât miss going through our correspondence! I hope you wonât have trouble returning your letter. Some stupid war wonât stop us from speaking.
       Most people here are trying to stay out of the war. The Night District guards are mostly lenient. Nobody wanted war. Sure, there are a few angry people in the streets, but they are quickly silenced by passersbyâs glares or a move by the guards.
       If things get worse, weâll probably move east out of the city temporarily. A lot of families have tried that. Still, it seems wrong to abandon the city. I want to stay as long as I can. Gods help us.
~Marisol
#020
04.11
Dear Marisol,
           Receiving your letter was a great comfort. Itâs been a long spring without your letters, I will admit. Our city has descended into a militaristic state. Soldiers patrol the street, keeping an eye out for Catalysts and anti-war protests alike. I donât think the irony of that is lost on anyone here. There have been whispers about conscription in the near future. Luckily, I am still not old enough to be drafted, but my parents and Kara are. They wonât take both of them, because Conrad and Essy are still so young, but the thought is still scary.
           Despite this, life goes on. I decided on magic theory for my specialization (how surprising) and weâre learning charm creation by working spells of war. Itâs interesting, but I feel I would enjoy it more if I didnât know what they are used for. Though still rigid in their formula, they offer more opportunities forâŠimagination, for lack of a better word. Until now, I didnât know there were this many forms of destruction.
           I really hope you donât have to move out of the city. I know how much you love it there and though it probably doesnât mean much, Iâm sorry my people caused this. Hopefully, it doesnât get any worse and youâll be able to stay.
           Iâm sending this letter with a family moving back to your kingdom. There is a mass exodus of people who moved here going back to escape the prejudice. Hopefully I can get letters to you like this until I find something more stable. As for those letter readers, I do feel sorry for them. Theyâre missing out when things are finally getting interesting, granted, in the worst way possible. We must have been pretty boring before.
           Stay safe.
Your friend across the border,
Kaleb
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Not Our Things But Good Things
Hey everyone! This is not an update, but while you wait for me to finally put something up, you should definitely read this story by our friend amadgirlwithablueboxtogallifrey2. It's called "when the time comes darling tell me a story," and it's fantastic.
It's written in the style of letters, much like Safe Across the Border and tells the story of a girl dealing with her depression by writing letters to a stranger  who knows first-hand the tragedy depression can cause. It's a work in progress, expected to be about 15 chapters and it's really good so you should go check it out. It also has an official Twitter account because our friend is way more together than we are. Seriously, just click the links below; you won't regret it. Â
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-Isabel
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Ringing It In (Writing Update 1/17/15)
Happy new year everyone! Now, I know I am a terrible person who should have updated like two weeks ago and never did. Iâm super sorry about that. Iâm incredibly busy right now and Julia is in the same boat. So letâs just say weâll update when we can.
Also in 2015, we're going to try a new thing where we post the text of the story right to this blog, under the break where the links would be. Hopefully, this makes it easier to read our stuff. This may or may not change back; we'll see what happens.
Anyway, enjoy a belated, romantic New Years story with about two adventuring princes/boyfriends ringing in the New Year! (Like it? Hate it? Want us to go back to the way it was before? Drop us an ask letting us know!)
-Isabel
Ringing It In
Night descended upon the world with the force of a giant's footstep. One by one, stars bore through the velvety indigo, glittering like diamonds over the  slowly cooling desert. A walled palace jutted, tall and proud, from the ever-shifting dunes. On a sand-covered outcropping of stone, two men sat a few feet apart, an unopened cask of wine between them. Their faces were travel-weary and weathered. One, with dark hair and the pale skin of the northern kingdoms, wore a strip of fabric tied around his eyes, a collection of angry scars hinting at the horrors beneath. The other, of a darker desert complexion, kept looking at a pocketwatch, ticking down the hours until the fast approaching new year.
The first, a young prince called Miles by those who knew him well, reached up with a trembling hand to untie the blindfold that kept false shadows from driving him mad. His companion, Yosef, reached out an uncertain hand to assist but only made it a few inches before drawing back entirely, knowing his help would not be welcome.
"What does it look like?" Miles asked, breaking the silence between them, as he untied the blindfold shielding his eyes. Though at this point blindfold was perhaps too strong a word to describe it. After months of hard travel across the grasslands of Vrinid and the deserts of the Khesian Empire, all that remained of the once sturdy material was a collection of tatters.
âWe will have to get a new one of these once we resume travel,â Yosef murmured as it was handed to him, tucking it into his satchel before scooping out the salve Frau Holle had concocted for them as a reward for his work in her house. He handed the jar off to Miles, who made it very clear from the moment Yosef gifted it to him that he could make use of it himself and did so efficiently. This night however, Miles let it sit in the palm of his hand, opting instead to stare blankly up at the glittering desert heavens.
"Don't pretend you didn't hear me. I'm no fool, who would forget an unanswered question moments after he asked it. What does it look like?"
"I'm afraid you will have to be a touch more specific. There are quite a few its in this world."
Miles sighed, running his thumb over the cool crystal of the phial. Yosef wanted so badly to reach over and take one of those warm, worrying hands into his own, but he knew that would probably lead to a swift punch in the face. He had left the young prince, alone in a world where he could not see, for weeks. Though he had only the purest intentions, it was not up to him to decide if...when he was forgiven.
Miles turned to Yosef, sensing and shifting as the brilliance of his companion's desire attempted to incinerate the feet between them. "What is there not to see? I want to know of everything: the way the sun strikes the sand dunes as it rises and sets each day, the color of the fireworks as they usher in the coming year in a few hours. I want to know it all."
"You will one day. We will return your sight and we will journey back one day so you can see every inch of the empire, your Highness."
"Don't call me that," he snapped. "If anything, I should be bowing to you. You're the one poised to take charge of the entire Khesian Empire."
Yosef almost shook his head but quickly decided to scoff loudly instead. "This empire was never going to be mine. I would be an atrocious king. The empire is far better off with Elmira or Lisandra  wearing the crown."
Miles' response cut deep. "I'd have to agree. A king needs to make decisions based upon the good of the people, not running off to whatever strikes his fancy."
Yosef deserved that, he knew it, but it did little to lessen the sting. He bit back. "And what of the lofty dreams of the youngest Aldrairan prince?"
"And what dreams would those be?"
"The reason we set out from Aldrair in the first place? Or have you forgotten what you set out to collect all those months ago?"
Miles scooped up a handful of the desert sand, squeezing it tight and feeling it trickle from his grip, each fine grain standing out in hyper-relief against his skin before spiralling back to the ground. "What do you mean by that? Claiming the youngest son's boon?" He shook his head, overgrown hair brushing his ears. "It's a fiction, of that I am sure. I was not meant to win riches and save the world just because I had the blessing of being born third. How am I to save a world I can't see?"
Yosef cut too deeply, and Miles pulled his bony knees closer, as if trying to absorb them into himself. Cursing his pride, Â he closed the distance between them and laid a gentle hand on the other man's jutting shoulder. "You have done the world so much good already. My sister will forever be in your debt due to your sacrifice for her tower maiden And think of all the others we assisted before them, in the year passed since we left Castle Aldrair. In the year on the horizon, we shall do even more."
"I appreciate your vote of confidence." Miles flashed the smile in his direction,  the one that made all the ladies  (a quite a few of the men) in his brother's court swoon but even then, he could not help the tensing if his shoulder where Yosef touched him.
"There's no need to put up pretense with me."
"You're the one who lied first, darling. I'm just taking my time in returning the favor."
Yosef's fingers tightened around his shoulder. "How many times do I have to apologize for the same thing? I went to Frau Holle to try to undo the curse Gothel used to steal your sight! I was trying to help you!"
Miles whipped in Yosef's general direction, heart thumping as his shoulder wrenched painfully from his grasp."I don't need your help or Frau Holle's or my brothers' or anyone! I am fine on my own."
"Whether that is the case or not, I don't care. You're supposed to walk to the ends of the earth for the people you love. I won't stop doing so just because you believe yourself above my help."
The silence that crashed between was frigid even in the warm desert night. Miles rubbed at the gooseflesh raised on his arms. He could not remember being this cold, not since he woke up in a world of shadows. He wanted more than anything to feel the other man's arms around him as Miles tried to hold onto the memory of his love's face. But as the year slipped away, and the hope, so did Yosef. And like the desert sand, the harder he tried to grasp it, the faster it slipped away.
"Are you going to say anything at all or shall you continue proving my point?"
"You know nothing of how I feel and don't try to pretend otherwise."
"Then, tell me."
Miles bit his lip, the acute pain drawing his mind away from the painful topics the statement ushered in. But the presence of two solid hands enveloping his let him know he would not be allowed to lay this to rest. "I'm not above your help. If anything, I don't deserve it."
Yosef's grip slackened. "What?"
"You deserve far more than the affections of a cursed, crippled princeling. You deserve someone who can tell you you're beautiful and actually know of they're telling the truth. You shouldn't have to go traipsing across half the globe to find a cure for a fool who isn't sure what you look like anymore, who can never see you...who isn't sure he can love you as purely as you want him to." The last few words dropped to a whisper nearly lost on the howling desert wind.
Miles expected the other man to draw away, disgusted that this was who he gave up an empire for. Instead, a scuttling sound and the inches between them were all but vanished. The two were so close, he could feel their knees touch and Yosef's soft exhales against his cheek.
"I think it is up to me to decide what  I deserve and I decided a long time ago that it was you."
Miles shook his head. "But if we love each other so much, then it's not supposed to be like this! You're supposed to cry tears of true love in my eyes and then it's all supposed to be okay. What does this say about us?." He leaned against Yosef's, burying his face in his shirt.
A warm arm snaked around Miles' shoulders pulling him closer. "I think it says you I have read different stories. That is the job of the beautiful princess, is it not?"
"Screw princesses."
"I should hope you are not doing that, especially while I am quite close. That would make things a touch more awkward between us, do you not agree?"
Miles smiled against the hard plane of Yosef's chest. "Shut up, you dolt."
"Would you speak to a king in such a flippant manner?"
In contrast, Yosef's joking tones, the next words Miles spat were bitter as the flowers of a green-stemmed icrusblossom."You're sitting in the dirt next to a crippled disgrace of a youngest brother. Oh how the mighty have fallen. You traded in your throne for me, the prince foolish enough to let a witch get the upperhand. I'm not the person you supposedly fell in love with. Do you regret it yet?"
An arm slipped from his shoulders and before he realized what was happening, a gentle hand nudged his chin up. He could feel Yosef's exhale ghost across his face. The hairs on the back of his neck rose as he felt razor sharp stare slice through him. "I suppose we must rehash this one final time. Know this. I regret nothing. You are exactly the man I fell for. Brave, reckless, ridiculous, honorable, beautiful and a galaxy of other words only the gods know. This is true whether you have your sight or not. And perhaps one day, if we are very lucky, you may see the truth in my eyes when I say this."
"I forgive you, for everything. Gods, how did I manage to stay angry for so long?"
"Because we were both too pigheaded to realize this was a simple case of misunderstanding with a dash of hero complex on both ends."
Miles chuckled. "You are definitely Scheherazade's great grand-whatever because you have a way with words that makes me not want to kill you. Now stop using them and kiss me 'til the new year decides to grace us with it's presence."
A clink as Yosef checked his pocketwatch."That is hours from now."
"I know."
"I suppose I can find that agreeable, my liege." Yosef must have gotten closer, as his lips brushed Miles' ear. The prince could think of at least one other place they would be better served.
"Seriously, don't call me stuff like that. That's way more kinky than I'm ready for. Also, less talking, more kissing. You're not supposed to begin a new year angry and since we fixed our issues, I plan to ring it in the best way possible: kissing you until neither of us can breathe."
"That sounds agreeable. As you wish, sir." Yosef's lips cut off any protest he might have made of the honorific. Surprisingly, Miles didn't mind as much as he probably should have.
In their preoccupation, they didn't at all notice the bright bursts of magic over the castle turrets, marking the dawn of a fresh start. But neither man minded. After all, Miles couldn't exactly see them enough to enjoy them and this was far more interesting.
But as he heard them in the near distance, Miles was struck with a thought. Yes, he had more than his fair share of luck in the newly dead year, if the man before him was anything to judge by. But hope had been renewed at the first chime of the clock. Somewhere inside, he resolved to see this new born year, and Yosef's face, Â no matter what sacrifice it took.
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When you live in the forest long enough, you learn that things tend to move in cycles. The elements, the seasons, day and night, and life and death: they traverse their phases day by day, year by year, reappearing just when you think they are forever gone.
Decay by Isabel (x)
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...the Maelstrom skimmed past the stars.
Maelstrom: One by Julia (x)
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âAt least we have day old bread, some kinda mutated ham, and oranges.â said Nye, bringing food from the tiny kitchen. âSee, I made toast, and whatever that sort of meat is.â
Davvok poked at the toast. âI never understood the humansâ obsession with charred bread.â
âI donât think itâs supposed to be THAT black.â said Jonei.
Maelstrom: One by Julia (x)
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âNormal is boring.â Nye stared at her. âDo you like boring? Are youâŠâ - he whispered- âNormal?â
Maelstrom: Introductions by Julia (x)
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Nye! For the love of quantum plasma thermodynamics, get out of my engine room!
Varris, Maelstrom: Introductions by Julia (x)
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His father had taught him how to play the game of life, how to keep a strategic eye on how to win. He had tried to prove to his father he could gain power, and he did. But in the end, there was more to victory than that.
Homecoming by Julia (x)
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Family Ties
 Hope you enjoy and continue having a happy holiday!Â
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Consanguinity or Lack Thereof (Power-ups and Trade-offs Christmas)
Merry Christmas everyone! A man comes to his best friend's aid after he's shunned by his family on Christmas Day.
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Monday Update: Seven Years
Sorry itâs a little late, Iâve had a heck of a day. This is a pretty big project, and my only big solo project that actually has semblance of  planned plot, so expect more. A lot more.
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Saturday Update - Safe Across the Border #013-#018
Julia here again, dearest Isabel's computer is being ridiculous and I was out for the day. That's something to address: Late updates are caused by being honestly busy, not incredibly lazy, though I won't deny that we aren't ever. Have some more letters, this ends Part 1. If I heard correctly from our master poster. Links below!
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Thursday Update -- Happily Ever After Does Not Exist
Julia here, posting Isabel's links because she promised to love me forever.Â
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