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    “You were dying when we found you,” Brand says and Rune knows he’s not seeing the yard but the cell they found him in. “If you’d had an open wound it would be called bleeding out, in water it’s drowning, but you...you were starving.”

    “It’s slow and it’s painful and it’s something that takes so much longer to recover from than it does for it to kill you.” Brand finishes, finally looking back at Rune who wishes he hadn’t. Because he sees the end of that statement in those eyes – he's been home for almost the same amount of time he’d been slowly dying.

    After seventy-three days, Rune was found.
    This is his second month home.

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    A collection of short scenes from the boys' early (and later) years.

    Rune is twelve the one time he beholds his father’s Aspect.
    “You’re such a fucking jerk,” Brand hisses at him, arms crossed over his chest. “And you’re not fucking funny.”
    “I’m a little funny,” Rune teases, grinning like a madman despite telling himself that he would not lose his composure. He leans back against Brand’s door, attempting nonchalance. “Admit it.”
    “You’re not,” the other boy huffs. “And for the record, I wasn’t scared. I was just… a little taken aback, okay?”

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    Little more than skin stretched over bone, and what skin there was so grimy they’d mistaken his crumpled form for debris left in the cell. His carefully maintained shaggy haircut had grown long and scraggly, matted and clumped with filth none wanted to consider closely. But he had recognized Rune. Just as Addam had. Recognized the body on the floor even as Rune turned from them, refusing to open his eyes and see they were there, that they had come for him.

     

    After seventy-three days, Rune is brought home.
    This is the first thirty days he's home.
    This is the start of his recovery.

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    19/19
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    Addam is six when his sister is born.
    Addam is nineteen when the Sun Throne falls.
    Addam is forty-one when Brandon Saint John gives him the Talk.
    Mayan is nine the first time he attempts to kill his scion.
    Mayan is one hundred and forty-five when they encounter a true monster, in the swampy, dark depths of the Ecuadorian jungle.
    Mayan is six hundred and two when the Sun Throne falls.

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    1,100
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    Waking up to a pounding hangover headache was not a completely foreign concept to Max, but it wasn’t a frequent one, so he still found it to be a nuisance. Waking up in an unfamiliar dimly lit room with foamy, soundproofed walls, though, was indeed foreign to him, so that he found to be a bit more worrisome.

     

    And that was before he tried reaching up to rub at his temples, only to discover the enchanted silver cuffs around both wrists. The chains threaded down through the back of a chair and around his ankles, securing all four limbs behind him.
    --

    Max is kidnapped by an old acquaintance of his, on orders from his uncle. Rune gets caught in the crossfire.

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    2/2
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    “You’re allowed not to like things even if we do, you know? You’re fucking allowed to come and complain, and if you get on my nerves too much I’ll probably throw youー Can you swim?”

    “Yeah.”

    “So I’ll probably throw you in the lake if you’re too annoying, but I don’t see why you’d be. It’s not likeー It’s just going to be the three of us, like right now, but somewhere different. It’s not a test, Max. We don’t have expectations or anything, ok?”

    Max nods, and he’s already panicking about what to respond to that when Brand continues:

    “To tell you the truth, I don’t think Rune likes camping either. So, really, it’s more likely that I’ll be the one at a disadvantage, having to hear the both of you complain.”

     

    alternative title is Max goes on a field trip - what could go wrong (lots)

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    Quinn goes to Max after a night plagued by nightmares

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    19
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    Brand’s look makes Rune’s grip tighten on the phone but it doesn’t matter as Brand ducks inside and plucks it from his grip.

     

    Holding Rune’s gaze, Brand informs the Tower, “Rune took a baseball to the face and is having some memory problems.”

     

    Or how Rune loses the found family he's acquired over the past eighteen months and gets found by them again.

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    10/10
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    47
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    8
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    A lot of things change after the disaster in the Westlands. Rune is getting courted. He has a teenager to somehow see through to adulthood. Eyes are swiveling back to the son of the fallen Lord Sun, which is hardly what he wants, but their jobs keep money flowing into Half House, and that's good enough.

    The only anchor in Rune's life is the one he's always had: Brand, ready and willing and able to go to war.

    OR, after The Last Sun, the secret Rune buried in the bottom of his heart at 13 years old slowly breaks out.

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    1/1
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    26
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    Addam gets rescued by a hot firefighter and finds out that finding this hot firefighter is a bit harder than in those cheesy movies. But just a bit.

    (It's kind of Rune's fault since he's not an actual full-time firefighter but only a volunteer, it's complicated but Addam will get to the bottom of it.)

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    1/1
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    Ciaran would be lying if he said this came as a surprise. The moment Ciaran decided to reveal himself as the lord Magician, he had started anticipating this face off. What he could have never imagined was how far Warren would go for power. It was late at night when he was pulled away from his dream world by a phone call. Accepting the call from Quinn, what Cairan heard took his breath away.

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    Max and Quinn spend the evening listening to music

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    1/1
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    16
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    Magical and mundane animals at the Misfit Court.

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    27
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    So when Brand wakes up to the sound of crying… He knows it’s not Rune. It takes him a minute to remember that him and Rune now have a house guest, a teenager, and a minute longer to realize the whimpering and wet gasps are coming from said teenager.

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    1/1
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    14
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    59
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    5
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    320
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    Rune has a bad habit of not sleeping when life gets busy.
    And it turns out sleep deprived Rune is significantly less adept at recognizing his fiancé then usual.

    Or: Sleepy Rune assuming the safe people in his house are his fiancé, but they get progressively less likely.

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    3/3
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    12
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    54
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    A collection of moments, in no particular order, throughout the life of Brandon Saint John and the people he holds close.

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    2/?
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    8
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    43
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    2
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    Max crept downstairs as quietly as he could, careful to avoid the fifth step that was loose, that Brand kept saying he was going to fix at some point, but hadn’t gotten around to in the five weeks Max had been living there.

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    1/1
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    7
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    50
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    3
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    331
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    Brand didn’t always come to the Green Docks on his days off. There were times he just wanted to hole up, turn everything off and be still and quiet for one godsdamned hour. But sometimes - like today - all he wanted was a quiet drink and a no-strings fuck.

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    Chapters:
    8/8
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    14
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    90
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    11
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    “No but really,” Quinn said, when they’d finally stopped, “when you’re evil? I defeat you. It’s always us, no matter what order or how upside down we are.”

    "Is that so?" Max asked.

    Quinn shrugged. “Also after we get to this point.” He held up their hands, where their pinkies were still locked together, “You’re not allowed to become evil. I said so.”

     

    Aka:Three, mostly disconnected Hearteyes drabbles for the Spotify Wrapped Challenge from 5 months ago

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    1/1
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    4
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    226
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    Non-magic boarding school AU. Possible vague spoilers for The Last Sun.

    “Boarding school?” Rune looks at Brand, desperate for backup.

    Brand provides it, as always. “We are not going to boarding school. We will run away. You will never find us.”

    Their new guardian, aka Anton, aka the Tower, does not look impressed. Or in any way swayed.

    “Well,” he says, his voice infuriatingly calm in the face of the two defiant teenagers standing in front of him. “Then I suppose it’s a good thing your new school has more security than the Crown Jewels.”

    And, okay, Rune knows this is a serious discussion and the last thing he wants is to be shipped off to boarding school, but the Tower said Crown Jewels and that’s clearly an opening for a joke.

    So, he opens his mouth to make one.

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    20,651
    Chapters:
    9/9
    Comments:
    48
    Kudos:
    25
    Bookmarks:
    2
    Hits:
    435

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