Penthisilea



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    Steve's chest rises and falls with a sickening stuttered rhythm. His face shines, soaked with sweat, and Will remembers what it looks like wet with blood. Sweat is just as horrifying. Steve's enemy is no longer one that he can beat back with his fists, with a weapon in his hands and a loyal troop at his back. This time, the danger is coming from within. Will envisions strong, tanned hands grasping desperately at his own thin, pale fingers, imagines holding on as Steve mumbles and shakes in fever-induced delirium, thinks about how he would be the constant, the lighthouse on Steve's dark ocean as he fought back the infection and came clawing back into reality. After a long, sleepless night, Steve would blink his eyes open, looking first at the hand enfolded in his own, eyes following the arm up to find Will, the silent sentinel, by his side through it all. He would smile, an exhausted, exuberant grin, eyes shining with devotion, opening his mouth to say—

    "You’re insane."

    Jonathan heaves a long-suffering sigh, the same one Will hears every time they stop for gas and Jonathan sees the prices. "I've taken care of Will a dozen times when he came down with something just like this, I know what I'm doing."

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    Steve made his choice, hiding behind his too-big Letterman jacket and later that overpriced Members Only while his friends went out of their way to make Jonathan’s life hell; or what he thought, in the ninth grade, was hell.

    Hell actually came two years later, when they dragged Will’s body out of the quarry.  When Lonnie came home.  When his mother sat him down like he was three years old again and said, smiling tightly, I’m going to have a baby.

    Benjamin, the magnificent life-fixing-grief-resolving-replacement-baby, was born nine months later.

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    Kiyoomi finds himself in an unusual PG-13 version of a friends-with-benefits relationship with Miya Atsumu, of all people. The only reasonable conclusion is that he must enjoy the taste of Kiyoomi’s new lip balm.

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    29 Dec 2025

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    Though no time in their line of work could be called peaceful, nor could vacations really be vacations for anybody (especially Twilight) she just… she just never expected an… emergency of this scale would arise. A setback this adverse. This disastrous. Almost catastrophic, even, considering how much Twilight shoulders on the daily for peace between two nations. This vacation was meant to be a rest and rebuild for her busiest and most efficient agent. Her best.

    “Twilight broke his neck?”

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    Or, how the Handler found out.

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    For a moment, all Mydei does is stare. He wants to see Phainon drop that veneer of professionalism. He wants to see what Phainon's real laugh looks like. He wants to see Phainon, truly see him without all the shine and glamour obscuring his vision.

    Slowly, deliberately, so that his intentions can't possibly be misread, Mydei says, "If you have nowhere else to be, you could come over to my place."

    Or, Phainon is the Flame-Chase's top-rated host, five consecutive years and counting, and Mydei can't seem to keep his eyes off him.

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