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Things have been good, lately.
Trinity has been good. She likes going to work—likes the thrill of particularly difficult cases, likes the easy back-and-forth she’s starting to build with her coworkers, even likes arguing with Langdon. She likes her little apartment and she likes that she gets to share it with Dennis. (It’s way cleaner, now, and she eats real food half the time. And she has something to do in the evenings other than think about everything she’s lost).
Things have been good.
She should’ve fucking known what would happen if she let her guard down.
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Trinity is cornered on her way home from work. She gets out of it with a stab wound and a whole new wave of old trauma. (And of course, her least favorite coworker is the only one there to talk her down.)
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28 Dec 2025
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Reminders, remainders. All that comes after. And, of course, the math.
A nonlinear braid of trauma, memory, and healing. Dr. Gottlieb struggles to shed the war-forged identity that's holding him back; Dr. Geiszler kickflips (with difficulty) into glam-rock neuroscience; Dr. Lightcap is a ghost in the machine of the narrative; and Gottfried Leibniz gets his day.
The sequel/prequel to Designations Congruent with Things, but readable on its own.
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15 Nov 2025
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There are nights when no one dreams, or dreams are small and life-sized: espresso grounds and science books, the tenure track, or people; broken strings and shipwrecked boats, dishabille, or seagulls.
A story of cognitive dissonance and emotional devotion. Drs. Geiszler and Gottlieb deal with the complexities of the post-drift psychological state in a fine-ass, mature blaze of physics puns, banter, poorly prepared meals, questionable wardrobe choices, and, of course, science.
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15 Nov 2025
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Removed from everything she's ever known, Kleya wanders. Vel finds her and tugs her back from the edge.
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- Part 4 of unseeing, unyielding
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22 Sep 2025
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Draco knows they aren't the only students who will be completing their NEWTs this year, but they are the only ones whose home fireplaces were disconnected from the floo network by the ministry.
At least, Draco assumes as much until he sees the light falling out from the front door of one of the other rickety old houses in front of them and the three figures cast in its warm glow. For a moment they look like some sort of strange, many legged creature. An acromantula, or a particularly massive Blast-Ended Skrewt. Then Draco hears Pansy make a disgusted sound beside him and the light falls in a less blinding way, and Draco can see that it is actually Potter and the Weasel carrying a large couch between them, and Granger fluttering around them with her wand out, seeming concerned.
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03 Aug 2025
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On her way back from the Moscow Invitational, Beth has a layover in New York. She stays at Benny's.
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fianchetto— to move the bishop out to the margins, for a clear sight line across the long diagonal.Bookmarked by ghostovergrounds
01 Aug 2025
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Lamb's heart sank. "You know who I am, Cartwright. River," he tried, not bothering to hide his desperation now. "Look at me. You know me." Nothing; only a vague sense of terror and a distorted reflection of Lamb in too-wide pupils. "Fucking hell, what did they do to you?"
when river gets taken and tortured, lamb takes it upon himself to pick up the pieces.
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- Part 1 of eventide
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26 Jun 2025
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Five times people helped Jonathan Harker reach safety between Castle Dracula and Buda-Pesth.
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02 Jun 2025
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“What are you doing here, Jack?”
Leaning against the hood of Robby’s black sedan dressed in casual clothing and a pair of aviator sunglasses, Jack just smiles, wide and insincere in the way he gets when he's about to be a real asshole. “Going on a trip,” Jack says.
“I don't think so.”
“That's cute,” Jack says. “And denial’s not just a river in Egypt.”
“I'm going on a trip. You're going home, or wherever it is you go after shift.”
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28 Apr 2025
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Trinity Santos is not okay.
She’s never really been okay. But she’s held herself together this long — on caffeine, adrenaline, and silence sharp enough to cut.The Pitt sees it. Langdon sees it.
And for once, maybe she lets herself be seen.They don’t fix her. They just don’t leave.
Sometimes, that’s enough.Featuring: unresolved trauma, a lobster named Greg, a borrowed hoodie, and the terrifying prospect of letting someone care.
Or: the one where she stops pretending she’s fine — and someone finally calls her bluff.
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- Part 1 of And I Said Nothing
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24 Apr 2025
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Somewhere inside him, he assumed, was the man he had been once, the young man who had known how to be himself, who had known who he was so strongly that he had been prepared to fight the world for it, who was told his job was to heal the world and who had believed it was ever possible to do so without breaking in turn, but the years had broken that piece by piece and he had reassembled the pieces, patching them with love and connection and belief in others and when those pieces fell, so too did the edifice they made, the mosaic neshama, and these were all too complicated to say, too hard to name, so he just said “I used to laugh.”
Or, Robby takes a week off. Somehow, the world doesn't end.
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- Part 4 of tzedek, tzedek, tirdof
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24 Apr 2025
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"Doing okay?" The technician behind Irving's head put a hand on his shoulder. He was tilted forward in a procedure chair with electrodes covering his head and needles he couldn't feel in places he preferred not to think about too deeply.
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12 Mar 2025
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The last thing Harry Potter wants is to be lumped with a trainee Auror, especially not one that idolises him. As he guides her through the realities of being an overworked Auror and tentatively settles into adult life with Ginny, a dark plot brews on the horizon...
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- Part 1 of The Theia Higglesworth Trilogy
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22 Jan 2025
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Remus might be going mad -- or he might be bringing Sirius back from the dead.
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19 Dec 2024
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A Heart Full of Headstones by vegarin
Fandoms: Slow Horses (TV), Slough House - Mick Herron
14 Oct 2024
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River gets a visitor. Heavy spoilers for Book 7, Slough House.
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my mouth is choked with worms by breakthemold
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
15 May 2014
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Johnny Watson stood in the middle of the crowded Tube station at rush hour, Sherlock assaulting his mobile with his thumbs, and panicked.
In which Johnny has a panic attack, and Sherlock helps her cope.
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- Part 2 of A Force Far Too Great For Your Size
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14 Oct 2024
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The problem is River.
Or, more specifically, it’s the way that every time Louisa blinks, the afterimage of River laying on the ground between those shelves, covered in debris, is burned into the backs of her eyelids. It wouldn’t have been so bad, probably, if he hadn’t had to take off immediately to deal with that folder, or if Louisa had said fuck the debrief and gone with him. If they hadn’t been separated right after making it out of the hatch, they — or, at least, Louisa would probably be fine.
But they were. Separated.
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Post season 3. Louisa and River share a bowl of dry cereal, a difficult conversation, and a bed, in that order.
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01 Oct 2024
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Post-ep continuation of CJ and Toby's conversation in Full Disclosure. Inspired by what CJ might've meant with telling Hoynes "don't make me
tell the truth about you. Because it will be the whole truth."Bookmarked by ghostovergrounds
26 Sep 2024
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River isn't dealing very well with the aftermath of Upshott. Louisa isn't dealing very well with Min's death. They're colleagues, not friends. But you have to start somewhere.
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A small whumpy coda to S2 (show)/Dead Lions (book).
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- Part 1 of Friendship: A Primer
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15 Sep 2024
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Set immediately following the events of season 3. River isn't feeling great the day after his run-in with the Dogs, and then his second run-in with the Dogs+Chieftan. He decides to go to work anyway.
It doesn't go very well.Rating for canon-typical swearing!
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15 Sep 2024