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    This is the tale of a year in the life of Sarge’s person, AKA James Buchanan Barnes, as he tries to recover from everything that’s happened to him over the past eighty years. During that time, he is forced to deal with bad therapists, people with their own agendas, memories he doesn’t want, horrible losses from his past and almost insurmountable odds.

    But this is also the story of all the crazy people Bucky meets along the way, who help him when he’s at his lowest, point him in the right direction when he feels lost, make him laugh, grow to love him for who he is, and most importantly, give him hope when he needs it most.

    It’s a long and difficult journey, as Bucky works not just to let go of his past, but to also rebuild his own identity and a future for himself. And with Sarge at his side, Bucky slowly comes to realize that not everything he once loved is lost, and if he can just have enough faith in himself and those around him, he might, just might, get his very own happy ending.

    Bucky IS Sarge’s person after all. As the once abandoned puppy Bucky saved one night from freezing to death, he knows, more than anyone, just how much Bucky deserves it.

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    11 Dec 2024

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    CUTE

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    These are the things that Alec knows:
    1. He has always been able to feel magic in a way he knows isn't quite normal
    2. The New York Institute isn't just home, She's family (see 1)
    3. Living in a world with Immortals skewes one's perception of the aging process
    4. Now that he's paying attention, Alec is fairly certain he isn't (aging, that is)
    5. There is something strange going on (see 1, 2 & 4)

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    19 Nov 2024

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    For a long time, Alec had felt like his life was held together by strings tied on him by the Clave, his parents, his siblings. Strings that pulled and tugged him in every which direction, heedless of the bruises and blood left behind. As much as they hurt, some days they’d been the only thing to hold him together.

    That is, up until the moment Alec stood on the shores of Lake Lyn and faced the death of the one person who held a piece of his soul, and the lies that followed his mysterious resurrection.

    There, on the shores of Lake Lyn, those strings finally pulled too hard, and Alec broke.

    With the permission of the Inquisitor, and the help of the warlock who Alec had wanted so desperately to allow himself to fall for (and had been terrified to do more than smile at his flirting) Alec walked away from everything and everyone. He left New York behind and made himself a home in the small town of Prayer – a joke Magnus found particularly funny.

    But, two years after that fateful night, Alec’s old life comes knocking, and those strings he thought he’d finally cut are tugging him home. Back to the place he never wanted to have to see again.

    At least this time, he’s not facing it alone.

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    17 Nov 2024

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    Alec had always sort of known it would be his fate to die young one day. All shadowhunters lived with that knowledge. They went out each night fighting against demons, never knowing if this night might be the night they were that split second too slow, the demon just a little bit faster.

    Becoming Institute Head lessened that chance, but it didn’t take it away entirely. Alec still went out into the field, he still fought when the need was great. He put himself at risk over and over again against demons, and against those who sought to destroy the world that he and his family were working so hard to bring about.

    Never once had Alec imagined that he’d die while sitting safely within the comforts of his office, drinking from a bottle gifted to him by a friend.

    Nor had he expected that his death would somehow prove to be only the beginning.

    (temporary character death - read tags)

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    12 Nov 2024

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    It never should have happened. That was all Alec could think as he knelt on the floor of the Ops Center and felt the cold metal of the adamas cuffs that closed around his wrists. Even as Aldertree stood there in front of him, smirking down at Alec with that smug superiority that Alec ached to knock off his face, part of Alec couldn’t move beyond stunned.

    He’d known things were getting worse, that the Clave was going too far in their fear to stop Valentine and control everything, but he hadn’t thought they’d go this far.

     

    When Alec finds himself arrested and tried under the crime of treason, he realizes that the Clave isn't going to change. Not unless he forces their hand. Unfortunately for them, he's not afraid to do just that. By any means necessary.

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