IntoTheMiddleDistance



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  1. Public Bookmark 34

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    The Phantom sucks in a breath and releases it. "You recognise I am a monster."

    She opens her mouth but he holds up his hand and she miraculously remains silent.

    "You know what I am capable of yet you ambush me here, in this dark forgotten crevice where no one will find us. If you scream, everyone is too far away to arrive in time, if they even bother."

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    In which, the Phantom is the most feared man in the criminal underworld and Meg might have bitten off more than she can chew.

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    20 Jan 2025

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    Geralt remembered, dimly, the feel of gentle hands on his skin. A hand in his. A kiss pressed to his forehead. A hand touching his sticky, sickly face, and recoiling. A cry of shock and pain. A glimpse of blistered skin.

    “How long has it been?” Jaskier said. “Since somebody touched you?”

    The mutagens used to make boys into witchers leave poison in their skin, in their hair, in their blood. To touch a witcher is agony. To get too close to one is deadly.

    Jaskier doesn't seem to care.

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    07 Dec 2024

  3. Public Bookmark 50

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    It’s going to be a good day. A smooth running day. No stress and no distractions. It’ll fly by.

    And that’s exactly how the day went. For all of five minutes.

    Oh dear. He thinks to himself, as he catches Arthur Parnassus strolling directly towards his desk. Maybe it’s not me he’s coming towards. Maybe he’ll walk straight past me.

    “Late night, Mr Baker?” Arthur asks him, a playful smirk on his lips, as he stares down at Linus with those ridiculous intoxicating eyes.
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    the you've got mail/coffee shop and flower shop au that absolutely nobody asked for!!

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    08 Sep 2024

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    Greg and Mycroft talk on the phone. They talk a lot. But they never meet.

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    07 Aug 2024

  5. Public Bookmark 92

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    He punches the outer wall of the dilapidated apartment he's squatting in until his knuckles bleed, something he hasn’t seen in a long time. As he looks at the raw, broken skin, he remembers the calloused hands that used to dress his wounds, rough and dragging on his skin despite the delicate bones of the fingers that cared for him.

    The memories of Steve taste like copper, the feeling of skinned knees and scraped knuckles coming back to him at the same time that he recalls sad blue eyes and a drop of blood falling from full red lips.

    There's nothing he wouldn't do for Steve and yet, he's been avoiding him for well over half a year now.

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    Or: Bucky tries to stay away from Steve and protect him all at the same time. Steve won't let Bucky get away that easily.

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    22 May 2024