9 Works by Light_In_Shadows
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Murphy's Law, and Other Universal Constants by Light_In_Shadows
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
05 Aug 2024
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The payday alone would have been reason enough to pull this job, Ed had thought. Never mind how eager Stede had been to give it a go. And combined with what it would mean for Izzy, for what Ed would be able to offer him... It would have been well worth the effort of slightly breaking his own ship, if all went to plan.
But then, maybe he'd forgotten just how rarely things ever went to plan for the three of them.
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- Part 3 of so we'll define our own ontology
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And This the Shape of Your Electrons by Light_In_Shadows
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
11 Oct 2023
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Ed's head spins with the pain and the first dark tendrils of genuine panic. If he can't get the bullet out…
But there is no if. No other option. Either he sorts himself out, or he dies where he's lying, and leaves Izzy trapped forever in the mainframe of an empty ship, drifting through the black until the day the Anne's power cells fail and take Iz with them.
Ed picks up the scalpel again.
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- Part 2 of so we'll define our own ontology
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The EMP goes off with an understated pop followed by a brief and nearly-imperceptible whine, but the effect is instantaneous. The two security drones hit the ground, and so does Izzy.
Ed's boots ring out against the floor panels as he throws himself down the corridor at a dead sprint. Get up, he silently demands, as the poorly-recycled air burns in his lungs. Fucking get up! But Izzy remains an unmoving black shape crumpled on the grating.
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- Part 1 of so we'll define our own ontology
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Izzy wakes in a pitch-black room with a leather-clad palm over his mouth and a blade at his throat.
“Not a sound, Hands,” a rough voice growls. And Izzy silently curses his own stupidity and Edward’s in equal measure. “I’ve got a proposition for you.”
It's not the first time a man with too much greed and far too little sense has attempted to take Blackbeard's ship for himself—in the five or so years since Edward had taken the name, a number of fools had tried. But no man had yet been fool enough to seek Izzy’s help in the matter.
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- Part 2 of Stay the Night (like an execution)
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“You always used to stay,” Edward says, “on nights like these.”
Nights like these. Nights where thick clouds and driving rain blotted out the moon and stars, turning the Queen Anne into the only real and solid thing in an endless sea of black. Nights when the entire world was reduced to a creaking ship and rain spattering against the windows, to Edward’s pain and Izzy’s attempts at distraction, to a warm cabin sweet with opium smoke. Those nights had been common, a lifetime ago.
But this isn’t the Queen Anne. And Edward hardly needs Izzy for distraction now.
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Body Like Glass, Tempered by Fire by Light_In_Shadows
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
22 Jul 2022
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Stede Bonnet has never been inclined toward violence—he rather likes to think that his strengths as a pirate captain lie elsewhere. He is, however, strongly inclined toward ensuring the safety of those he cares about.
Izzy Hands has some experience in that regard.
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There are a great many things one learns about a person when one starts sleeping with them.
The first thing Stede thinks he learns about the business of sleeping with Israel Hands turns out to be incorrect.
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- Part 1 of Stay the Night (like an execution)
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Ignis has only ever had one job, and it’s nearly at its end. It isn’t though, not yet, not quite.
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It starts off as a fairly straightforward case. That is, until the explosion goes off down the street. It takes only a second for DI Lestrade to loose all control over the situation, for John to find himself transported back to a land of blood and sand and car bombs, and for Sherlock to know exactly how to handle it.