He’s running
There is someone behind him, chasing him, getting closer with each step he takes, each desperate breath he tries to force into his screaming lungs.
Jaskier knows that it’s futile.
He is no fighter, and though that means that he is the prey, it’s clear that he wasn’t meant for that either, his legs shaking and his muscles twitchting as he’s trying not to get stuck in the muddy forest floor.
“Help!” he screams.
“Someone help me, please!”
But to no avail.
Behind him, there are footsteps, but he doesn’t dare look, knowing that if he gives in, he might just as well slit his own throat.
Is it Rience? Has he found him again, ready to finish what he started?
He can feel his hand starting to burn, can smell the stench of burning flesh and just as his foot gets caught on a root carefully hidden underneath some leaves, he can feel two arms around his waist.
As he closes his eyes to accept his fate, Jaskier lets out one last scream. For himself or the forest, he does not know. Do you really make a sound if no one is there to hear it?
But there is no pain. No fire, no sizzling, no smoke, just warmth.
That, and the two arms still tightly wrapped around his waist, holding him close.
“Jaskier,” Geralt mumbles, his face buried into the bard’s hair.
“It’s okay, I’ve got you. It’s just a dream, you’re safe.”
It takes a moment for reality to catch up with him, but then Jaskier feels it. The mattress below him, the blanket covering them both.
He hears the sound of the last few pieces of wood burning in the fire places, crackling as the fire eats away at it, and dollops of rain falling against the window with a random yet comforting rhythm.
And, loudest of all, he hears Geralt’s hearbeat. Steady and slow, each thud pulling him back into reality more and more.
Thud.
He is safe.
Thud.
Geralt is here.
Thud.
Slowly, he turns around so that he is facing the Witcher, their chests flush. He mimics the sleepy smile on Geralt’s face and leans in close for a kiss.
Thud, thud, thud.
With butterflies in his stomach and chest, he closes his eyes, the song of their hearts beating in unison lulling him back to sleep.
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So I don't think this is actually the case but what if Eliza and Isaac's deaths werent over a petty amount of cash and a robbery gone wrong? What if, instead, Dutch had seen Arthur spending time with them, had perceived him slipping away as a threat: a threat to himself, his gang, his security, his family, afraid of losing his lead enforcer - whether he truly at that point did love him like a son, or not. And in his insecurity or fear or whatever other reason, he finds someone rotten, unrelated to the gang, and he pays them to murder Eliza and her little boy, so no one will ever tempt Arthur away from the flock, and he instead puts all his energy and time into the gang, the only family he has left.
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UMMMMM FUCK FUCK FUCJFCKVKKF I JUST REALIZED SOMETHING
THE WAY I UNLOCKED FRACTURE WAS RIDICULOUSLY WEIRD. LIKE I DID IT BY JUST. BY UH
BY LIKE JUST FINDING THE F
THE FUCKING APOCRITICA CRUSTY RUSTY ARM PLACE WITH BRICK SEALED ROAD STUFF
BEHIND G. BEHIND GUARTANS ARENA
THAT YEAH
AND HAVING KRONOS KEYCARD
AND THEN JUST RELOADIG MY LAPTOP SOMEWHERE THERE APPARENTLY??
IDK BUT MY LAPTOP CEASED FUNCTIONING SO I RESTARTED IT WITH SEKAIJU STILL OPEN AND THE SECOND THATS DONE AND I REJOIN AND LOOK AT ISLANDS. I HAD FRACTURE
I DIDNT EVEN SAVE THERE (KEYCARD WAS GONE) IT DIDNT EVEN HAVE MY PROGRESS THERE SAVED I DON'T KNOW HOW IT DID THAT OR HOW IT REMEMBERED I TOUCHED ANYTHING FRACTURE RELATED SOMEHOW. BUT THAT IS HOW I UNLOCKED IT. I THEN TRIED TO FIGURE OUT THE LEGIT WAY FOR A COUPLE MINUTES OUT OF WANTING TO BE FAIR BUT FAILED SO I JUST DEALT WITH IT I SUPPOSE
MORE SPECIFICALLY I JUST DECIDED "EH THAT PROBABLY MEANS YOU JUST NEED TO TOUCH THE FRACTURE PLACE BEHIND GUARTAN RIGHT?? LIKE TO UNLOCK THE FRACTURE?? AND THAT THE KEYCARD IS JUST FOR THE DOOR IN THERE AND FOR THE FUNNY MAC BASE STUFF THATS NOT RELATED?? RIGHT"
WELL. WRONG. TURNS FUCKKING OUT THAT WAS NOT THE INTENDED UNLOCK. LIKE AT FUCKING ALL
APPARENTLY, ACCORDING TO THE WIKI, TO UNLOCK FRACTURE YOU HAVE TO DO THIS:
THIS
FUCKIG THIS
WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED THERE
HOW DID I UNLOCK IT IN AN UTTERLY ABSURD IMPOSSIBLE WAY
WAS THAT RELOAD I DID TO GET MY LAPTOP TO FUNCTION RESPONSIBLE
DID THEY CHANGE THE ACCESS METHOD OR SOMETHING BY THE TIME THE WIKI THING GOT WRITTEN OR DID I ACTUALLY SKIP THE ENTIRETY OF THE INTENDED ACCESS METHOD THERE BY PURE FUCKING ACCIDENT
WHAT DID I DO
WHAT. HAPPENED.
HOW THE FUCK
WHY THE FUCK
I AAA
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