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James doesn't remember much more than his first name when he wakes up in the maze. In fact, it's the only thing he remembers—and meeting Regulus for the first time almost makes him forget it again, but that's neither here nor there.
Regulus has been in the maze for much longer than James, knows its dangers and enigmas well enough by now—but when he stares down at their most recent newcomer, he can't possibly predict that everything is about to change.
Neither of them knows yet why they are trapped in this deadly puzzle, or what lies beyond it; and neither can fathom how far they will have to go to get out of it alive, nor how it will cost them so much more than what they are willing to pay.
Pawns trapped in a deadly game of riddles whose only solution seems to be death, love so brutally challenged it can only turn into grief, and a world falling apart in tune with its people, who can only watch as the fresh blood on their hands dries into sorrow.
Welcome to the Maze.
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“You cannot love the person who takes everything away from you."
Charles watches him, because he can’t take his eyes off him even if he wanted to. Youngest ever driver accepted into Formula 1. Skipped past Formula 2. Toro Rosso. Red Bull. Always in a Red Bull. The safety car. P1. Champion of the world.
But he’s more than that too. He’s angry, and he’s a teenager, and he’s someone whose face turns red under the affections of his sister.
Max hasn’t taken anything away from him, because Charles has never really had anything in the first place.
Or,
The one where Pierre sends Charles into a quarter-life crisis during the active racing season.
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01 Aug 2023
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put me in the movies (on a king sized silver screen) by khalasaar
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
05 Aug 2022
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It feels a little stupid coming in alone. The ticket person seems unfazed, and no one else is paying attention, but parking in a half-empty movie lot at midnight just in case Robin can sneak away is actually kind of a huge embarrassment.
C’est la vie.
Robin’s standing with her forehead pressed against the soda machine when Nancy walks in. As if she was doing something truly heinous, Robin snaps to attention at the sound of the door opening, but the brief flash of I-got-caught! panic in her eyes fades as she realizes it’s Nancy.
“Oh!” she says brightly. “It’s you again.”
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or: robin works at the drive-in and nancy turns into a movie buff.
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01 Sep 2022
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“Yeah, great job, Henderson,” Steve says. “Risk your life for the ticking time bomb. I don’t foresee a way this can go wrong at all.”
“Uh, no man left behind,” Dustin argues, which would be kinda sweet, except, “even the ones with a hundred murder charges.”
“Thanks, dude,” Eddie says to him, anyway. In his peripheral, Steve rolls his eyes.
or, Eddie escapes the Upside Down. Problem is, he’s still wanted for—well. Pretty much everything. So he hides out in Steve's basement.
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28 Jul 2022
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Eddie doesn’t know how to act around Steve, doesn’t know how to reciprocate the openness. Truthfully, he doesn’t think he’s done anything to deserve it.
But there’s something in Steve’s eyes, gears that are shifting and turning behind them, like he’s trying to deduce something. And Eddie wants to tap into it, wants to take a chisel to his skull and excavate it. Why are you always looking at me like that? he wants to ask. Tap tap tap. Why are you still giving me the time of day?
Or, Eddie's never had a friend like Steve before.
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23 Jul 2022