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Hob gets run over by a car on his way home, and Dream Does Not Approve. However, it does give him an opportunity to do for Hob what Hob always does for others - to take care of him.
Hob finds he quite likes this, actually.
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- Part 3 of Mine Own Heart
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In which Hob Gadling provides food as a love language, Dream of the Endless is a pathetic wet cat who wants to know his great-niece and -nephew, Rose Walker is touchy about the past and chocolate cake is eaten by all.
Or: the family dinner that Hob suggested in chapter 16 of 'Mine Own Heart'.
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- Part 2 of Mine Own Heart
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When Dream of the Endless comes back to Hob Gadling, Hob is determined to be a Very Good Friend to him, because Dream's been through some stuff, and if what he needs is a safe haven, then Hob is going to give him that.
It's what he gives to everyone else at the New Inn, after all.
And alright, maybe that's not all he wants, but it's not about what he wants, it's about what Dream needs, so Hob is going to look after him as best he can, and try not to break his own heart in the meantime.
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- Part 1 of Mine Own Heart
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For nearly five years Tommy’s been cold, distant, holed up behind a wall he’d built between them. The wall’s gone now, and here he is again, a living breathing man who seems intent on proving himself to her.
Lizzie likes it, the way he seems to want to keep her close. The softness in him. He’d told her, once, that he still wanted soft things. Good things. It seems he’s finally allowing himself to ask for them. Because that’s what this all feels like, to her. It feels like Tommy asking for good, soft things from her.
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- Part 3 of Armistice
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Tommy calls on Sunday, as promised.
She hasn’t told Charles about seeing his father last week. He’s struggling enough, the poor kid, without having his hopes raised. He’s taken the last few months so hard. Losing his sister, and barely seeing his father, and then Lizzie walking away from the marriage…it’s not been easy for him. Lizzie loves him with all her heart, and she’s selfishly glad that he chose to come with her, but she knows he’s having a tough time. She knows she can’t make up for what he lacks. For all Tommy’s faults, he’s still Charles’s father, and poor little Charlie desperately wants his father’s love and care. He doesn’t need to have his hopes raised just to be dashed yet again.
But the telephone rings at eleven o’clock on the dot.
Or: it will take a month of Sundays for Lizzie - and Charlie - to start forgiving Tommy.
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- Part 2 of Armistice
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Cultivation by xxSparksxx
Fandom: The Hobbit (Jackson Movies), The Hobbit - All Media Types
17 Aug 2014
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How to Make iOS Text Messages on AO3 by CodenameCarrot, La_Temperanza
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10 Apr 2016
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This is a tutorial/live example on how to mimic iOS text messages on AO3 without the need to use images. There's also a chapter on how to have emojis displayed on AO3 as well.
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- Part 3 of AO3 Work Skins/Tutorials
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03 Oct 2023
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When Hob spots a sad woman in white through a window of a famous author's house, he gets a bad feeling. Further investigation reveals that she's in need of rescue, but what Hob isn't prepared for is the fact that the woman he sets out to save turns out to be a literal Greek goddess, the ex-wife of the Stranger he keeps waiting for, and a rather lovely person to boot.
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14 Aug 2023
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Hob saw two things immediately, obvious as anything, in what he felt distantly sure must be the wrong order.
The stranger was surpassing handsome: tall as he was, but lean where Hob was broad, with pale skin, black hair as long as a maiden’s, eyes as sharp and bright as the bite of water in winter, and a mouth that made him think, suddenly and irrationally, of wild roses; and more was the pity for all of it, because the other thing, the thing Hob ought to have noticed first, was that he was staring at Hob like he meant to kill him.
In which Hob and Dream make poor first impressions, become fuck buddies, and, somewhere along the way, start trying to save one another. Out of friendship, of course. A love story.
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08 Jul 2023
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"I am willing to...pay...rent," Dream says, each successive word loaded with more uncertainty, until his voice has actually risen on the word 'rent.' Not quite a question, but as near to it as Dream is likely to get in this situation, which is rapidly becoming desperately uncomfortable (for Dream) and confusing (for Hob).
"Do you know how money works?" is the first question that pops out of Hob's mouth.
After making an ill-advised bet with his sister, Dream of the Endless is rendered completely human for one year. In need of a place to stay he turns to Hob, unaware that his oldest friend has been holding a torch for him for the past several centuries. Human experiences! Living life to the fullest! Overcoming depression! Food trucks!
It's going to be a long year.
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