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“Look, just—here, you can even take the cot, so you don’t have to go all the way home to sleep. Okay? Please just-just lie down?”
“No, Martin. Give it a rest.”
“Be reasonable!”
Finally, Jon huffed and spun around to look at Martin directly.
“And what if I don’t? What, you’re going to make me go to bed?”
“Well, I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve thought about picking you up and throwing you onto a bed just because I know I could, so may as well start now.”
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AU where Jon’s Compulsion powers begin to come into play much, much earlier in the story—early enough that he has no idea what Compulsion is yet, or why everyone around him is suddenly being brutally candid with him. Neither does anyone else.
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In which the big city Bachelor desperately needs a kick in the ass to act on his crush, and Sticky happens to have matchmaking skills which rival those of Cupid.
Alternately: author wanted a Burakhovsky mistletoe fic despite it being the middle of May, so it's a mistletoe trope, the Steppe version.
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The Final Problem Solved by papercaper
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
14 Jun 2017
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Sherlock pays Molly a visit to explain the phone call and show her that she counts.
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“… I’d say good morning,” Dankovsky said at length, a little hoarsely, “but I’m afraid I’ve lost track of the time. Good … something, Haruspex.”
“Afternoon. You look—” Artemy began, and broke off.
“Yes? What ghoulish thing do I resemble today?” Daniil blew out some smoke, staring pensively ahead. “A striga, perhaps.”
“—better,” Artemy finished. “Less like you’d gone already, and are only haunting me.”
That shut Daniil’s mouth.
[Or: a rendezvous with danger, one very cold winter.]
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18 Feb 2026
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Daniil didn’t notice Burakh approach. Not his towering shadow between the can lights, nor the dip of the cushion as he slid into the booth with him. Not until his hand alighted on Daniil’s own. Large, steady. Gentle.
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10 Feb 2026
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"I came," Burakh says, eyes bright and honest as they meet Daniil's, "because you asked."
Intense, Daniil thinks, unbidden—his piercing gaze, his rumbling voice. As if he doesn't know how to be any other way.
"And," Daniil drawls as he steps forward, suddenly emboldened, "does a Warden of the Kin go wherever he's beckoned?"
"No. But a surgeon might, for a colleague." Straightforward, simple, with little hesitation. Burakh looks at Daniil as he moves closer, but doesn't pull away. Then Burakh falters—a rare sight, in the time Daniil's known him—before he continues, quieter than before. "Or a man might, for a friend."
On Day 12, on the cusp of his defeat, the Bachelor asks for one final favor.
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26 Jan 2026
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you wanted to be born; i let you be born by mrcogito
Fandoms: Мор. Утопия | Pathologic, Piranesi - Susanna Clarke
16 Jun 2023
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Resolve renders his face severe again. Like a Burakh, menkhu; like the many demanding names imposed upon him. For a moment, she gets it: she almost feels safe, almost like a real child, in his solid and unwavering presence.
“You are more interesting than I thought,” Clara tells him, half-reluctant.
Something young and merry unstitches Artemy’s expression from its resolute frown. He grins, wide and honest. “Many seem to share this sentiment.”
[Or: Three endings crash into one another. Three Healers are thrust in an unfinished world. The Haruspex walks the House. The Bachelor loses his mind. The Changeling builds a myth.]
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15 Jan 2026
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Whatever it was, the little voice in his head, it told him to go home.
What he’ll find home is a different story. A vast quiet, thick and swathing. A dark hush over the rooms, the kitchen, nothing but the scraping of mice and the stray cat Notkin had brought in. An absence, acute, of Isidor, still lingering in the air.
And somewhere upstairs, far and close, in a room sealed tightly shut, another man sleeping.
Or: a breaking point.
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- Part 1 of nos deux mains
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15 Jan 2026