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    This is all set in the Winners Take It All universe, where we see Riddle and Floyd's life progress from all sorts of POV's.

    These will mostly be one-shots and missing moments that aren't in the main fic.

    All the fics under the main one will be sorted in chronological order.

    And if it's referenced in a main chapter, in the end notes I'll add a link to the fic it's mentioning. And vice versa, I'll link/tell you which chapter of the main fic the fic is referencing!

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    Leonard Mitchell travels to the past but quickly finds a way back. Klein is the one to come get him. They both spend some time with their younger versions who are absolutely repulsed by their relationship. Their other colleagues are surprised but amused.

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    Step 1: Reunite with Leonard
    Step 2: Make him part of the Tarot Club
    Step 3: Make use of his connections to Pallez Zoroast and the Evernight Church
    Step 4: Fall in love
    Step 5: Wait, that wasn't part of the plan
    Step 6: ???
    Step 7: Profit

    Or, Audrey and Leonard try to trick Klein, but fail.

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    Bookmarker's Notes

    “Just wanted to confirm something. Oh, and I might need your help.”

    “Ah?” Leonard said this, while Klein thought it.

    “You see, my psychiatric session with Mr. World is going to start very soon after our conversation. I’ve been experimenting with dream therapy, and I’d like your assistance.”

    “Oh, you want me to enter his dreams?”

    “Yes.” Her lips slowly curled up into a smile. “You are free to express your true feelings and make his experience as exciting as possible.”

    Leonard’s eyes shone. “I didn’t know you were this type of person. I like you.”

    They shared a conspiratorial gaze that made Klein want to sweat profusely.

    “Of course, we need approval first.” Audrey turned towards the tall mottled throne. “Honorable Mr. Fool, may we request your aid in bringing Mr. Star to Mr. World as well? Temporary deception will be useful for his treatment. We will inform him once the operation is over.”

    Klein swore he was about to lose control on the spot.

    “We will humbly accept your refusal,” said Audrey quickly, bowing her head even more.

    “I will provide assistance.” The low voice hummed a (barely) monotone approval.

    “Praise The Fool!” said Audrey piously.

    “Praise The Fool,” said Leonard as well.

    “Help,” thought The Fool. (What a loser, ruining his own surprise confession/jk)

    ~

    They shared a laugh, and then Leonard pulled him closer. He looked deeply into his eyes, and said, "Humans love each other despite our mortality, my dear Klein. I'll love you until I lose you, and when I do, it'll be beautifully depressing. I'd rather hurt from loving you than from regretting I did not."

    Despite himself, Klein smiled. "You should write a book. Your poetry is getting better."

    "I didn’t know you were so good at provoking people." He laughed. "I'll take it as a compliment."

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    Because every day after he woke up still in pain, and he couldn’t even tell his own family (because what if I can’t be a firefighter anymore? what if they don’t let me?). And then he’s hugging Eddie and they’re welcoming him home and maybe, just maybe, for a second he believes that it won’t be so bad.

    Because then he was choking on his own blood staring into Bobby’s eyes thinking this is it, isn’t it? And then he woke up because damn, he always wakes up and somehow that’s always worse. And he wants to laugh at himself because how did he think, even for a moment, that anything would ever be ok?

    Because then he was on blood thinners and they wouldn’t let him home, and he just wanted to go home (what if I can’t be a firefighter anymore?)

    Because then the lawsuit happened and he just lost everything all over again.

    Because

    “You’re exhausting.”

    (Or Buck's always been sad but it's post lawsuit, and Buck just can't handle it anymore)

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    Bookmarker's Notes

    And so he wept with his son in his arms, whispering into his hair. “He didn’t want to leave you. He promises he didn’t.”

     

    “He saved me,” Christopher mumbled some time later. “Why couldn’t you save him?”

     

    And Eddie’s heart broke.

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    Today 4:57 AM
    I miss you

    You've been dead for a month and I fucking miss you

     

    (Or, a series of texts Eddie sends Buck's phone after he dies.)

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    You believed me and those were the last real words I said to you
    I just hope you know now, wherever you are. I hope you know that I didn't mean it. That none of it was true.
    You were amazing, Buck. You were everything.

    I call you Evan a lot, when I text you.
    I was going to send a picture of Chris with the Lego set you got him for Christmas. He finally got it back out of his closet, and I was so excited to tell you and I started the message with "Evan."
    I called you it once. Maybe more, but it was all then. It was all when you were leaving.
    I wish I had said it more
    You had such a beautiful name, Evan.
    You were so beautiful

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    He knows he could have called Maddie and she would have been there, though the memory of her disappointment last time stopped him. As for everyone else—even if he weren’t prohibited from talking to them by his lawyer, Buck doubts anyone would have come. The last time they talked was when they ran into each other in the grocery store a week back, and, since Buck is not eager for a repeat of that interaction, he doesn’t even consider calling anyone in to hold his hand for what is, he tells himself, probably just another little blip on his road back to the 118.

    He is able to convince himself of this up until the moment Dr. Gutierrez walks into his room and says, “Well, Evan, you just can’t seem to do anything the easy way, can you?”

    Because, as it turns out, there is a circumstance under which a tiny clot that doesn’t cause you to vomit blood in front of all of your friends and family is worse than three big ones that do: that circumstance is called ‘being on blood thinners.’
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    In the midst of the lawsuit, Buck is diagnosed with cancer. Dropping the lawsuit is easy. Finding forgiveness, less so.

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