(again)

Fear clambers into his mouth and tastes bitter on his tongue. “Who are you?” It takes him a moment to register the sound of his own voice. She stares at him. Blinks. “Lance, please, this isn’t time for one of your jokes--” He furrows his eyebrows and struggles to sit up, to stop leaning into the cradle of her arms. “I’m not--I’m not...joking.” * After sacrificing himself to save Allura, Lance wakes up in a strange new world where the only thing he knows is a deep connection to a boy he doesn't remember.

Cas comes back. It's not exactly the reunion that Dean is expecting. ~~~ Dean stares at him, flummoxed. Cas quite literally poured his heart out to Dean, gave a truly sappy and distressingly romantic speech and everything, then proceeded to give his life so that Dean could live his. And he wants to act like he doesn't want to see Dean, be around him, touch him? Actually, Dean's ninety-nine percent sure that Cas probably wants to fuck him, and while he has no clue how he feels about that, he's pretty goddamn sure that means Cas doesn't get to act like this and make it authentic. It feels strangely real, though, as if Cas wants nothing more than to get as far away from him as possible. This is a blatant contradiction. Even someone as weird as Cas doesn't want to get away from the person they have the desire to fuck five ways to Sunday, that they're in love with. That's not how these things work, so Dean isn't buying it.

Dan Heng cups Jing Yuan’s face. His touch is grounding. The look on his face is tender, full of worry and concern. “Jing Yuan,” he whispers again. “Why should I care about Blade?” Jing Yuan’s heart breaks but he answers. “Because he is, was, Yingxing.” Dan Heng draws in a sharp breath. Jing Yuan is aware he knows Dan Feng’s crime in detail, and knows that Dan Heng recognizes the name. Slowly, Dan Heng closes his eyes, hiding whatever he is feeling behind closed lids. “What was Yingxing to Dan Feng?” he asks. “I don’t know,” Jing Yuan confesses.

Courting one's Beloved is a difficult enough process at the best of times, with complex customs and many steps to remember. For Thorin Oakenshield, it's a whole lot more complicated than that. For a start, his Beloved is a hobbit who has absolutely no idea that he even is Thorin's Beloved, let alone the steps of courtship. Secondly, Thorin may or may not be completely invisible to said hobbit, for reasons only the Maker knows. As Thorin is swiftly learning, Mahal has ever laughed upon his sons of the Line of Durin.

Out of all the things that you expected to do today, crawling out of an egg (An egg!) was not one of them. Unfortuntely, it seems you don't really have a choice in this matter. Bummer. (Will hopefully update on Mondays and Fridays. Beta read by FreakOfYourNature and set in her Hollow Knight Isekai universe!)

After a year in Overwatch, Hanzo has gotten comfortable with the group. But not comfortable enough not to jump at the chance of medications in lethal doses. Fuck