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“Are you my daddy?”
Jason peers at him with those wide, beseeching eyes and something in his chest clenches.
He wishes it wasn’t just selfishness that leads him to say yes.
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the night wears a brand new skin by thegoldensun (thesecondsmile)
Fandoms: Captive Prince - C. S. Pacat
12 Nov 2022
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Heaven is Arles. Heaven is quiet mornings in his room with the warmth of the sun on his skin, heaven is peace and love and smiles, and heaven is Auguste.
"Oh brother, I'm so sorry I had to go. Will you hold me Auguste?”
After his attempt to end his life, Laurent wakes up, and Auguste is by his side. Both brothers are still shattered. Is there healing after hurt?
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Ch 2:
Jason’s heart is one where love and loss meld together and all he feels is a fire in his chest and a roaring in his ears when he thinks of Bruce’s words.
Distance has not been kind to us. I need you so much closer. Please come back to me.
(dumping grounds for various sad-jason pieces! will be sporadically but likely somewhat-frequently updated)
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- Part 1 of toss a coin to your witcher
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He is an eight year old boy, standing alone in an alley, covered in his parents’ blood.
He is a vigilante and father, holding onto the broken body of his son.
Bruce has always been too little, too late.
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it's time the tale were told (of how you took a child and you made him old) by therisenbird (thesecondsmile)
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
05 Jun 2022
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Bruce is racing across Ethiopia to save his son. Bruce is fighting in the Batcave to stop his son.
Bruce is 34 years old. Bruce is 39 years old.
Then Bruce is looking at ...Bruce. Uh oh.
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hold me 'til I die (meet you on the other side) by thegoldensun (thesecondsmile), thesecondsmile
Fandom Captive Prince - C. S. Pacat
12 Nov 2022
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Two brothers, through the years. A bond, through anguish.
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toss a coin to your witcher by therisenbird (thesecondsmile)
Fandom Batman - All Media Types
23 Jul 2022
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Assorted angst pieces!
Mostly featuring my beloved child, Jason Peter Todd, in various forms of suffering.
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slack your rope, hangman by thesecondsmile
Fandom Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
10 Feb 2021
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A series of unconnected fics that all have the running theme of angst and hurt/no comfort.
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a tiny prayer to father time by thesecondsmile
Fandom Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
03 Feb 2021
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In sickness and in health.
Bucky and Steve navigate a relationship built on years of love even as Steve's body slowly shuts down.
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raccoon revolution by thesecondsmile
Fandom Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
25 Apr 2021
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“Consider how this looks. The Senju proposes peace at the height of their power. The Uchiha, already losing, don’t have the resources to match the Senju. If the Senju provides us with food and armour, the Uchiha must become subordinate. Is that what you think of as peace, Senju? Over at the Uchiha compound, we call that subjugation by the most powerful.”
“It seems that there is only one possible solution: the Senju must choose a symbol to subjugate itself to the Uchiha to balance out the scales. For that role, I volunteer myself.”
The wise ones know: fires can warm and not burn; and rivers, if given strength and permission, will carve the land.
(Or, the one in which Tobirama becomes Madara’s concubine, and peace is won and held through neither power nor love, but food, water, clothes, and medicine.)
Complete.
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Bookmarked by thesecondsmile
08 Jul 2026
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Stop messing with time, Tobirama!
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07 Jul 2026
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It is an unkind fate to be bound by blood magic to your most fearsome enemy. But since it already happened, they have to make do with what they have.
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How Madara's accidental acquisition of a snarky blood mage, who is more than capable of turning his world upside down, forces him to reassess anything he thought he knew about their enemy. A terrible, horrible, no good, very bad way to fall in love.
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- Part 14 of Random MadaTobi
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06 Jul 2026
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The death of Tajima’s twins causes ripple effects none could foresee, when Amaterasu Okami listens to her child’s grief and curses Butsuma Senju’s wife and her subsequent progeny.
Months later, Tobirama Senju is born into the world, red eyes and white hair, cursed to spend the daylight as an albino crow and by night a man. Growing up in the shadows Tobirama becomes a shinobi built for stealth missions and spying in the Capitol, never allowed to head off to battle against their ancestral enemies.
Despite the horrible curse he’s been saddled with, Tobirama still holds a fairytale heart and longs for a chance to have his own happily ever after.
Somehow along the lines saving an Uchiha boy becomes part of his story.
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04 Jul 2026
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Hashirama just shrugs, a sad, resigned half-smile on his face as Madara says, “He took one of my roses.”
Something wells in Tobirama’s throat. “Anija…” he whispers. Hashirama reaches out and brushes their knuckles together.
“Anything for you, Tobi,” he says. Tobirama’s heart clenches. Anything for you.
“I presume a sincere apology will not suffice,” Tobirama says, finally looking back at Madara, who snorts.
“Your brother has beaten that horse to death,” he says. “No. It will not.”
“Fine,” Tobirama says, meeting Madara’s eyes and steeling himself. “Then I offer myself in his place.”
“What?!” Hashirama demands, outraged. “Otouto! No!”
The thing about Tobirama is, when he makes a promise, he sees it through.
—it’s a tale as old as time. / mdtb, beauty and the beast style
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03 Jul 2026