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The pipa fades away, until the only sounds left in the garden are the rustle of leaves and the wind stirring the long grass. Jin stands on her tiptoes and leans forward, dropping a kiss on his cheek.
There’s just a hint of jasmine in his hair. Jin breathes it in.
When she draws back, Li looks a little surprised and a little indignant, the way he had when she’d ruffled his hair so long ago. It makes her hide her mouth behind her fingers so he won’t see her smile.
“It was good to see you again, Li,” she says, and turns to slip back through the hedge.
Written for Jinko Week 2022
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- Part 7 of city of walls and secrets
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22 Jan 2023
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There’s a small yellow flower on the table, the color of the sun, encircled by a row of fat, ruffled petals. Zuko stares and stares. He doesn’t know what to do with it. If the flower had been wilted at all, he would have just tossed it out the open window into the street to get trampled by the carts and rickshaws without a second thought. But this flower isn’t wilted. It’s fresh.
It must have been an accident, Zuko argues with himself unconvincingly. Maybe the flower fell out of Jet’s pocket, maybe it was dropped by some other customer entirely.
But this was Jet’s table.
Written for Jetko Week 2022
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- Part 6 of city of walls and secrets
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16 Jan 2023
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Zuko goes over the wall again tonight.
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16 Jan 2023
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Zuko smashes crystals with his fists until his knuckles are wet and ragged with shredded skin, then he slams his head against the jagged rocks over and over until his vision goes white, until blood trickles down his chin.
And Uncle never says a word to stop him.
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- Part 9 of city of walls and secrets
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22 Oct 2022
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Zuko sweeps and his thoughts swirl and rise and descend, like leaves caught up in an eddy of wind. He finds himself thinking of old memories, ones he hasn’t thought of in many years. There’s something he’s close to remembering, some thought he’s close to uncovering.
But he always shrinks away before he can discover what it is.
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- Part 8 of city of walls and secrets
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22 Oct 2022
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Zuko’s a different person when they’re alone like this. He’ll talk to Aang, quiet and serious, his dark hair falling in his eyes. He is patient with Aang’s mistakes, and his hands are gentle when he guides Aang’s faltering movements. He isn’t anything like Aang thought he would be as a teacher.
If only the others could see him like this, Aang thinks with a pang. They’d like him.
Written for ATLA Gen Week 2022.
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- Part 1 of western air temple
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11 Sep 2022
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Lee’s been lying all night long. Lee’s lied about his name and the village where he’d spent his childhood, he’s lied about how he’d gotten his scar and about how much he’d liked the meal he’d ordered after one hasty glance at the menu at Jin’s favorite noodle shop.
But Jin doesn’t really mind. She had known that he wouldn’t tell her anything about himself from the moment she’d first asked him to dinner. She’d looked into Lee's handsome, wary face and known right then and there that he was going to spend the evening lying to her as though his life depended on it, and that she was going to let him.
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- Part 5 of city of walls and secrets
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31 Aug 2022
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Only a moment, Iroh consoles himself, only a single pearl on a string, ephemera. It will pass. He tries to focus on what Zuko needs, how to make Zuko comfortable, to distract himself from the engulfing chasm of fear that seizes him whenever he considers the possibility of losing Zuko the way he’d lost his wife and Lu Ten.
But then Iroh’s eye catches on the sprays of pale pink cherry blossoms that drift across Zuko’s hospital gown, the fabric faded and worn from use.
And he drifts.
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27 Mar 2022
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They'll find that the answers are inside them, Jack had said.
Dean’s not even sure that he knows the question.
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- Part 17 of song of songs
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07 Feb 2022
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They were drunk the first time they fucked.
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30 Jan 2022
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Sometimes Zuko breathes fire when he kisses, little flickering flames that lick against Sokka’s skin and never burn; sometimes a shower of golden sparks flies away from his lips when he breaks away and gasps for air.
His fire flares up when Sokka first pushes him up against the crumbling stone columns of the courtyard. Zuko kisses like he’s expecting a fist to follow but doesn’t care; he’ll take everything Sokka is offering him for as long as he's allowed, kisses with all the recklessness that Sokka maybe should’ve expected from the boy who throws himself at danger like it's the only friend he has.
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25 Dec 2021
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Iroh takes his nephew and flees.
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10 Oct 2021
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He fears that he will awaken one morning to find that he is alone in their small apartment in the refugee tenement, that Zuko has disappeared over the walls of Ba Sing Se, vanished to somewhere Iroh cannot reach him.
Another day, Iroh begs. Let him still be here when the sun rises.
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- Part 2 of city of walls and secrets
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10 Oct 2021
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His nephew stands underneath the diamond-patterned window, blinking in the brightness. He often keeps the still-tender burn on his face shielded from the sun, but now he tilts his face up to catch the light. For an instant, with his wide-open eyes and softened expression, Zuko looks the way he might have been if terrible things had never happened to him.
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- Part 1 of city of walls and secrets
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05 Sep 2021
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You’re not moving on, Death says. Not yet. You have something to finish. But I promise you this. When you finally move on, you will die happy.
And Dean remembers the curse.
(Previously published in the Dean/Cas anthology "Tarot")
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07 Aug 2021
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Castiel has been human for seven days when he first sees his own blood.
He is standing over the corpse he just created and touching his fingers to his neck. They come away bloody.
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07 Aug 2021
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In the moonlight, the Blue Spirit begins to rise inside Zuko, craving things, wanting things. Things easily taken, valuable things, things a prince deserves; but there are other things he yearns for when the moon is burning full and bright, longings he cannot name.
There is nothing of Agni in Blue Spirit.
And behind the mask, Zuko hungers.
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01 Aug 2021
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Dean wakes Castiel up in the middle of the night to do some stargazing.
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23 May 2021
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Dean's not leaving Cas behind.
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11 May 2021
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And when he’s alone, when Sam’s gone, or he’s lying in bed… no matter how hard he tries to avoid it, every time he closes his eyes Dean keeps flashing back to that last, horrific moment—Cas smiling as he’s consumed by darkness. “You changed me,” and “I love you,” and “goodbye.” He tries to reconcile it in his head, Cas loving him so much that just expressing it was enough to trigger his deal. He tries—and fails. He must have missed a step, lost in the grief and horror of the moment, because it just… it can’t be real. Every time he tries to take it out and examine it, his mind shies away, throwing up an impenetrable wall of “impossible.”
In the weeks following Chuck's defeat, Dean tries to come to terms with Cas's confession and death. But having your kid become god turns out to have some perks.
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- Part 1 of to be free
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09 May 2021