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Diego elbows Ava lightly in the side to get her attention. "Ava? How come you don't have a boyfriend?" he asks.
What if it’s because of him? What if she’s so busy always trying to make sure that he’s taken care of that she’s missing out on all the things other nineteen-year-olds get to do?
"Huh?" There's a pause, and he can almost see Ava's brain stutter into stillness before lurching back to life. "Well, um, Diego, it's like — I'm really — if I thought that — see, it’s more like —"
He hears Lilith scoff and turns towards her. "It's not that hard. Kid, Ava's down bad for —"
"Shut up, Lilith," Ava grinds out, cutting her off.
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After leaving St Michael’s, Ava does everything she can to support Diego, including taking him to extracurriculars. Beatrice is his aikido instructor, and it changes everything.
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- Part 1 of Land Upright
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22 Oct 2024
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Because it turns out the Halo can want things now, sort of. Not the way a human would, with thoughts or motivation or articulable desires. The Halo wants things the way a tree wants water and shoves a taproot through flagstone to get it, which is all well and good for the tree, but less so for the idiot trying to keep her patio intact. Unfortunately for Ava, she’s both the idiot and the taproot. The flagstone is her dignity. The water – for reasons becoming rapidly and unavoidably apparent – is Beatrice.
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the one where the halo imprints on beatrice like a duckling and is dead-set on making it ava’s problem
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- Part 1 of sentient halo au
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29 Sep 2024
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there's something in the static (i think i've been having revelations) by explosivesky
Fandoms: The Wilds (TV 2020)
13 Aug 2024
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Kissing Fatin is like a sedative; not in the way where someone’s forcibly injecting some cocktail directly into her bloodstream, but like something that sinks into her gums, makes all the edges and corners of the world look like around, not through; around, not over. Kissing Fatin is the opposite of smoke and mirrors, the opposite of gunpoint, the opposite of pressing her thumb against the sharp side of a knife just to see if it’ll cut.
Kissing Fatin makes every moment after something to look forward to. It’s so simple, so miniscule, so inconsequential: Life can be good again, if she lets it.
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28 Jun 2024
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babe, i know that it's your soul (could you bottle it up?) by novel_concept26
Fandoms: Yellowjackets (TV)
15 May 2024
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Five times Van and Tai hooked up without talking about it (and one time they actually used their words).
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27 May 2024
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Van finds herself stranded on the side of the freeway. Rescue comes in the form of a beautiful stranger with a truly idiotic price:
She just needs a fake girlfriend. Just for a little while. Just to avoid a few unfortunate feelings.
(A Tumblr prompt fill [owltrifecta]: Taivan meet cute.)
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04 Feb 2024