Kalira
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The TARDIS contemplates what has been lost and what has been held, in the aftermath of the War.
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All he's wanted since finding his twin is alive is for Dante to want him in return, for the closeness they once had, but now he's had a look through the mirror. . .
(Vergil from a reality where their positions were reversed steps through a portal and meets this world's version of his brother - and himself.)
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- Part 1 of Bleed of Fates Reversed
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Of souls and how you can be seen, by strangers or by the knowing eyes of those who might even know you better than you know yourself.
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Even for those well-practised at it, sometimes the crisis isn't easy to leave behind after the day is saved.
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Susan may have walked the longer road, but now, at last. . .
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after the scouring by dirgewithoutmusic
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
21 Oct 2016
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When Sam came home, there was a feather in Pippin’s cap, a horn on Merry’s hip. All Sam had was a box of dirt with one large, smooth seed tucked inside. Even in Mordor, Sam had only been fighting for the Shire. He spent the rest of his life helping things grow.
Let’s talk about Sam crying over rabbit stew, because a brace of coneys had been a spot of luck, once; because even then, even when he still had his pots and his pans, when Frodo had not yet snarled at him and told him to go– Mr. Frodo had still been gone too far by then to ever come back again.
Rosie, who did not cry easy, chopped onions so he would not be the only one with wet cheeks to scrub off. She asked him about herbs and spices, about stirring and cooking times, about what loaf would go best with it all. Sam said, “Rosemary, tarragon.” Part of him still rang against the greening metal of a copper pot dropped down a chasm and left somewhere on the edges of Mordor, but she saw him breathe deep and reach for thyme.
(a story for Rosie Cotton)
Bookmarked by Kalira
27 Feb 2026
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Such a sense of depth to Rosie and also everything she's seen - whether herself, surviving the Scouring of the Shire (and what a close and sharp feel of the horrors there, given shape by being seen through a smaller lens) or by proxy by what she sees in Sam, in Frodo, in what they say and what they don't.
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An important figure from Brendan's life finds a way into the book.
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04 Aug 2024
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Beautiful (pair of) missing scenes; Aidan seeing the friend Brendan put in his illuminations, and after Brendan has returned to Kells and to an old friend, showing Aisling her own self in a new form.
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Hold Me. Thrill Me. Kiss Me. Kill Me by Amejisuto
Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)
11 Jul 2022
This work isn't hosted on the Archive so this blurb might not be complete or accurate.
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Xander and Spike meet in the summer after the Master's death while Buffy is in L.A., visiting her Dad and a friendship develops.
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10 Jul 2022
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Starting in the gap between seasons one and two - Spike comes to the Hellmouth, drunk and despairing over Dru, and Xander stumbles across him and . . . hauls him inside so he doesn't immolate at sun-up. It kicks off a series of developments between them, from friends to lovers (with a few fairly small crises on Xander's part), even if they are kept secret for the most part . . . for a long time.
Cordy catches Xander out and befriends him (in her own way) before anyone else finds out, to Spike's amusement. Eventually secrets do come out . . . and Xander (panicking over a missing Spike, among other things) very unwisely accepts a gift from his dead Sire . . . and gets to learn how to deal with the bickering, gossiping stars. . .
Hold Me. Thrill Me. Kiss Me. Kill Me: 133,225 words
(55 chapters on 11 pages)
The Adventures of Nighthawk: 3,608 words
His Worst Nightmare: 398 words -
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Lio can't remember a time when his life wasn't complicated.
Maybe that's why he doesn't expect Galo.
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26 May 2023
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Picks up immediately post-canon; lovely Lio perspective and excellent Galo everything, ridiculous pair.
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There is an unfamiliar heat blooming where Lio's heart is. It comes and goes as it pleases. This is a different kind of burning.
He looks away, to anything. It's a building, one of the battle's survivors. Its windows cast the sunlight to diamonds. But they are reflections; none of that light, dazzling while never blinding, is created by the glass. It is taking something extant for its own. Bettering it.
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26 May 2023
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Post-canon cleanup, Lio is introspective and- and- and Galo is Galo and also, somehow, stunningly dumber than Lio even thought. (Why does this do it for him? But . . . it really does. He really does.)
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