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"A Safe Place to Land" by insignificant457

Word Count: 5832 Chapter Count: 1 Neither Kaz nor Inej ever carry the name “Mother” or “Father,” but they do their fair share of parenting anyway.

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"Dandelion" by Imoisok

Word Count: 51219 Chapter Count: 29 He didn’t look, but Jesper could sense Wylan had just blushed. “Why- why do you like sitting with me so much?”

Jesper almost laughed. “Don’t know. Maybe it’s the way you say my name.”

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Living in a sleepy town was Jesper's worst nightmare, so when a mysterious boy moved into the haunted, abandoned house next door, he had to investigate.

Finding a new friend was not the original plan, and finding the physical embodiment of an angel to fall in love with certainly wasn't either.

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"Hold Me, Touch Me," by cassianendor

Word Count: 4283 Chapter Count: 1

He, like Wylan, was unsure about Alys at the start. Her airiness made Kaz weary about having her anywhere near official gang business, but unlike Wylan – who rapidly warmed to his step-mother without the shadow of the elder Van Eck looming over him – Kaz was slower to come around.

Inej told him to take pity on her, after all, Alys was notably with child and without husband. And since Kaz was technically responsible for the latter of those two circumstances, the least he could do was let her wallow around the Crow Club a few times a week.

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"say it right" by ev0lution

Word Count: 18351

Chapter Count: 1

CW for Gambling Addiction.

Jesper had gone into a casino three months ago. He’d only placed one bet, but one was enough.

He’d come back to their then-hideout, bug-eyed, hands fiddling with anything they could reach. He told Inej that he’d had a relapse. She remembered how his mouth had looked as it formed the word, how painful it seemed to be to admit it. His hands wouldn’t stop shaking.

In the last two years, Inej had learned to run on rooftops like they were high wires. She’d learned to slide her knives in the soft tenderness under ribs, to wear black so she could move in and out of buildings unnoticed. She’d learned how to plant her knee into a groin and how to bite back. And now her hands were shaking and her neck was stiff from sleeping in a corner after being too afraid of a bed.

Relapse. The word was coppery in her mouth.

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After a close call with Heleen, the Crows lie low. The bunker comes with some ghosts.

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"you give love a bad name" by annesbonny

Word Count: 10144

Chapter Count: 2

Like a not insignificant amount of Kaz’s plans, it inevitably went pear-shaped. Which wasn’t to say Kaz didn’t have back up plans he hadn’t fully divulged. Inej was above them on a rooftop, and Kaz’s maneuvering had seen another corrupt, foolish merch cornered. Really, they were a hairsbreadth, a heartrender, and a dead Fjerdan away from it being just like old times.

Right up to the part where it all went wrong.