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  1. Public Bookmark 18

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    hiccup is convinced that jack is the best medicine and no, he will not be taking any questions at this time

    written for the hijack week summer 2025 day 4 prompt: "please don't leave me"

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    06 Jun 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 25

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    Hiccup has always been perfectly content with his quiet, solitary life.

    Or at least, he thought he was... until Jack Frost moves in across the hall and throws his routine into disarray.

    As the two grow closer, Hiccup begins to realize that his once-predictable life may have been missing something important all along.

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    28 May 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 37

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    “We’re speaking of witness testimony here, Will! I cannot—I don’t have the power to force them to speak the truth, and it’d make a poor defense on behalf of your character if I did. Just,” he sighs, something large and fierce wrestling in his lungs, and pushes his fingers through the space between the bars as far as he’s able. As if seeking comfort. As if he’s the one about to die. “Allow me one contingency plan.”

    Warm fingers brush against his in the relative darkness. A breath escapes Strohl before he realizes it, almost fading into the beginnings of a sob. “I’m listening.”

    “That you’ll let me tear these bars off this cell if I can’t find someone willing to speak on your behalf.”

    There always exists a flaw to the quality of one’s character. A hole in their armor. Learning to exploit this usually takes a bit more finesse than the flat tip of a sword—a matter of exposing their blasphemy as the folly it is. Unfortunately, Strohl’s weakness just so happens to be something unavoidably physical: Will.

    or: will is placed on death’s row. strohl reacts in the only way he knows how.

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    16 May 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 83

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    Will’s eyes flick open. Strohl becomes slack-jawed and blissfully absent of thought, looking into them at point-blank range, but grinds his teeth back together. “I’m only kidding,” Will says, running a thumb over Strohl’s cheekbone, and then he laughs.

    Kandera would shock Strohl less than this electric current in his veins.

    Some journeys start in response to an injustice, a breach of faith, and a desire to rectify. A clemar who’s wandered for the past seven years, loosely held together by the pride on his back and staunch stubbornness stumbles upon the start of his own at long last.

    He wouldn’t know it, though. Not many journeys begin with meeting an elda. And nowhere did this clemar write that he expected to fall in love with said elda.

    or: four times will surprises leon strohl, and one time strohl surprises will back.

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    19 Apr 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 59

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    Will brushes with death. Leon Strohl doesn't take it well.

    It's unseemly what Will does to him, the way that Leon thinks of him, fixates on him, with an intensity beyond fraternity, beyond admiration, beyond even infatuation. He is not much – objectively, he is not much at all – yet the way that he makes Leon's heart lurch with something kinder than fear, warmer than loneliness, is ruinous.

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    18 Apr 2026