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  1. Public Bookmark 30

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    5 times Geralt tried to figure out who Jaskier’s love poetry was about, and one time he did

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    He read some other bits from the book on his way to Kaer Morhen. Maybe because the Path was too silent without Jaskier’s constant chatter or because he secretly hoped to find some proof of the bard’s bullshit.
    The fresh ink on the endpaper said in wavy cursive:
    “Dear Eskel,
    Knowing that my words have touched the heart of a discerning reader such as yourself fills me with joy. And your brother knows nothing! I did mean every word of this book.
    Have a warm winter,
    Dandelion”
    Geralt smiled and flipped the page to the dedication he’d never noticed before.
    "To my Beloved, who will never read these words."

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    08 Dec 2025

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  2. Public Bookmark 26

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    Perhaps this was it? The end of Jaskier the bard, lost the fight to a beautiful brown bear, devoured alive.

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    28 Nov 2025

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    According to Jaskier, they've lived this day almost a hundred times. Geralt doesn't remember any of them.

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    17 Nov 2025

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  4. Public Bookmark 12

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    The alchemist held a bottle of thunderbolt up to the window. The green liquid shimmered in the light.

    “Your potions allow Witchers to achieve incredible feats. What would happen if a human took them?”

    “Nothing good,” Geralt said bluntly.

    “Hmm. I would be remiss as a scientist if I did not test the theory myself.”

    Geralt snarled as the alchemist approached Jaskier, holding the bottle of thunderbolt, intentions clear.

     

    Day 6: "No grave can hold my body down," medical restraints, pinned to the wall

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    16 Nov 2025

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    “Oh shit,” Jaskier muttered. He crawled as far back into his little shelter as he could fit. He hadn’t planned for this to happen. He hadn’t thought this through at all. He didn’t know what to do next.

    In the blink of an eye, the monster had rounded his shield of roots and was staring directly at him.

    Now he’d never know what that look in Geralt’s eyes meant, that quick glance he had chosen to direct at Jaskier when it appeared he’d had less than a second left to live himself.

    Jaskier’s hands were clenched at his sides. He wanted nothing more than to wrap his arms around his head and make himself as small as possible. But if he was going to die anyway, he wasn’t going to spend his last moments curled up in a frightened little ball.

     
    Or, Geralt is doing a fine job of pretending being followed around by a pining bard does nothing but annoy him, until Jaskier gets hurt.

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    29 Oct 2025

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    Geralt remembered a fight, years before, when his leg had been broken. The bone had broken in two places; his knee had shattered. The pain had lasted for days. That had been nine – ten years ago. The bard had been a child then. A tiny child, unable to walk, unable to think from pain. Because of him. It was hard to breathe. When he thought about it too much, it got hard to breathe.

    Jaskier has always known he has a soulmate; a soulmate who is in pain a frankly concerning amount of the time. Geralt isn't sure if he believes that old superstition that witchers have no soulmates, but he knows he isn't bonded to anyone. He is alone, and he likes it that way.

    Or, soulmates feel each other's pain and Jaskier is not having a good time.

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    17 Oct 2025

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    “Sh,” Geralt soothes, rocking Jaskier slightly on instinct as he gathers him closer. He has to fight back his own rage when he catches sight of the rope burns around Jaskier’s wrists, the skin angry and red, some places so raw that blood is welling up.

    “Geralt,” Jaskier says his name around a sob, and Geralt holds him tighter, resisting the urge to track down the man he just let go to crack his skull open like a fucking egg. “Geralt, the world is yelling. It’s yelling at me, Geralt.”

    Geralt, at a loss for words on how to fix it, just tightens his arms further.

    (after a run in with a spiked drink and an asshole who slipped it to him, Jaskier has a bad trip) (Geralt helps him through)

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    17 Oct 2025

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    Jaskier grasped Geralt’s body from under the armpits and tugged hard, attempting to drag his friend away. The acid on Geralt’s armor ate his flesh and Jaskier screamed, yet his hold remained firm.

    He felt his arms and hands burn as he continued to drag the Witcher deeper into the forest, towards the stream. The acidic smell was nauseating, already threatening to pull him unconscious. With slow, painful steps, he dragged the Witcher to the stream, burning his fingers as he ripped the armor off his friend, the acid already eating through his gloves. The pain in his fingers was agonizing, drawing tears from his eyes as he divested his friend from the armor, then dragged him into the shallow water to wash the acid away.

    (A contract turned wrong leaves Geralt and Jaskier injured)

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    14 Oct 2025

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    “You’re making a mistake,” Jaskier says. “Trust me – I’ll be watching Geralt rip out your intestines before all this is over. I’ve seen it before. It’s not pretty.” He draws himself up, shows his teeth. If this is going to go badly, he intends to be as difficult as possible about it.

    The alderman glares at him. “Enough of this,” he says, commanding; there’s a heavy dull thud at the back of Jaskier’s head, and a brief burst of pain, and then blackness.

    When Geralt is late returning from a hunt, Jaskier’s the one who suffers for it. Things get worse before they get better.

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    07 Oct 2025

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    No. He couldn’t remember what, but there was something about Dick and owls...he couldn’t...Dick wasn’t…

    “No,” he slurred. It was so hard to think of the right words. “Wing, y’can’t...can’t be here. Owls. Owls, Wing. Owls aren’t safe...”

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    Jason is captured by the Court of Owls.

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    22 Sep 2025

  11. Public Bookmark 76

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    Jaskier contemplates his growing relationship with his Witcher and begins to wonder if he's really enough for the other man. But when an impromptu rescue puts Geralt's life in danger, Jaskier puts himself in harms way without hesitation, not realizing that he's more than Geralt could have asked for.

    *Can be read as a one-shot. Reading the entire series isn't necessary. Past events are referenced, but only in passing.

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    14 Sep 2025

  12. Public Bookmark 48

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    “Jaskier had less then a second to make his choice, and even that wasn’t necessary. It was pure instinct that made him throw himself in front of the barb, blocking its path towards the Witcher.”

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    14 Sep 2025

  13. Public Bookmark 31

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    The inability to distinguish between fantasy and reality.

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    04 Sep 2025

  14. Public Bookmark 32

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    “How fast can you run?” Geralt asked out of the blue, looking at something only he could see, somewhere in the rocky hills above.
    That… sounded bad, real bad, and Jaskier thought that maybe he should have said something about his boots earlier, like before they even left Posada.

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    It's a long way back from Posada, and Jaskier might not have been wearing the right footwear when he decided to follow a Witcher.

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    29 Aug 2025

  15. Public Bookmark 88

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    The first breath hits him like fire, colliding sharply with the water still left in his lungs, but it comes. He takes another, chokes up more foam, and then he must be back in the water because he’s rocking, rocking. There’s a shh-shh in his ear, like the inside of a seashell, a secret thing, warm against his temple, his forehead, his eyelids. 

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    12 Aug 2025

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  16. Public Bookmark 22

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    “Fuck, I’m-” He gasped, struggling to speak, “An incubus-”

    He’d imagined how this would go a thousand times, he’d debated how the Witcher would react, debated whether or not to tell him, and out of all the responses, he could have never expected laughter.

    The Witcher was laughing.

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    Jaskier is an incubus, this isn't a problem. Until it is.

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    08 Aug 2025

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    When someone manages to set Tony's suits to attack mode when he's away at a business conference, and Peter's in the line of fire, he tells F.R.I.D.A.Y to get Tony to activate his protocol, dutifully named 'that's not ideal protocol.'

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    28 Jul 2025

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  18. Public Bookmark 97

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    This is a collection of assorted Geralt and Jaskier stories within the same relative timeline as they find themselves drawn to one another.

    They can probably be read as one shots. It's not necessary to read all of of them to understand what's going on in each story. Past events are referenced, but I don't think they're required to enjoy each one.

    I'm intended to use this series as writing practice for a long AU(ish) Witcher story I'm working on. I tend to bounce around between stories when I get stuck and it's a good place for ideas that don't fit anywhere else. But this has been a really rewarding series to write, so I've been updating it fairly regularly.

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    23 Jul 2025

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    For the thirtieth time in half-as-many minutes, Geralt's eyes darted back to his quiet travel-companion, and apparently this was just one glance too many.

    Jaskier heaved a dramatic sigh and stopped in his tracks. He didn't say anything, but there was a clear and demanding What? in the hands-on-hips posture and dead-eyed annoyance he aimed at Geralt.

    Geralt stopped, too. He frowned at Jaskier critically – appraisingly – and watched as Jaskier's attitude from moments before shrunk back within him, the bard’s arms folding over his chest in an attempt to maintain his image of stubborn petulance while also making himself a lesser target. It wasn't working.

    "Are you ill?"

     

    aka. Jaskier gets sick on the road, and Geralt takes a while to figure it out.

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    19 Jul 2025

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  20. Public Bookmark 88

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    “Close your eyes!” Geralt yelled as soon as they came upon the nest, realizing what creature they were truly in the sights of. “Don’t look at it!”

    It was a rare occasion that Geralt let Jaskier accompany him on a contract, and rarer still that Jaskier was in any danger, and so Jaskier slammed his eyes closed, pressing his palms over them like a child playing hide-and-seek, and waited to be torn apart by sharp claws.

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    14 Jul 2025

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