When Eddie's dark past with the fight club resurfaces, he calls Buck for help. Together, they face a race against time to repay Eddie’s debt - and save Christopher's life. As the clock ticks down, their adrenalin-fueled journey unveils shocking revelations about the limits they are both willing to go to for Chris’s sake.
As things go terribly wrong, Buck finds himself cast into a time loop, forcing him to consider the consequences of their choices. With each reset, he races to achieve the impossible, altering his actions to change the outcome.
Is he destined to win – or will he lose everything he holds dear?
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[Fic is fully written, chapters will be posted weekly]
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🤔🤔 how about time travel fics! They're my big jam. Or for want of a nail first. To be specific: I really like it when it's not an easy immediate fix but more an explanation of how alternate circumstances can butterfly....
once more i feel like not reading many longfics is probably blinding me to some great fics of this nature, but here's one that does address the "practical" problem of having two of one person in a single timeline due to time shenanigans!
Relativity (Or the Mutable Nature of Time) by alpha_hydra, geo039 - trying to fix sy's future death, lbh jumps far, far back into the past, all the way to when he was still a young boy. this does not displace that young lbh, though - older, time traveling binghe is just an addition here. a cool magical/witches AU, with really incredible ghibli-esque art through the whole thing!
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AU Thursday: Smiler's Otherland -- Not-Incorrect Quotes Collection!
Because you know me and these by now XD
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Alice: [taking Victor and Smiler on a tour of the Vale of Tears] All right, next we're heading to the Duchess's house -- not particularly because I want you two to meet her, but because the path provides some perfect opportunities for you to practice your jumping and --
Insidious Ruin: [bubbles up out of the ground in front of them, squealing and screeching]
Alice: Oh damn it. [pulls her Vorpal Blade, motioning for Victor and Smiler to hang back] You two get behind me, I'll --
Smiler: Hang on, let me try mine! [pulls out the Inoculator and hits the Ruin with a stream of bright yellow liquid]
Ruin: [stops in its tracks, blinking and dripping yellow] ...
Ruin: [lurches forward again and, with a happy noise, grabs Alice around the legs in a hug]
Alice: [jerking backward] What the --
Smiler: [grinning] Aww, it loves you!
Alice: [desperately stabbing it in the head] I DON'T WANT IT TO LOVE ME
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Alice: [looking around Smile Street and seeing a familiar swirly-eyed grin everywhere -- painted on houses, trimmed into bushes, on people's clothing] ...
Alice: [looks up and spots the same smile on the freaking sun itself]
Alice: [taps Smiler on the shoulder and jerks her head toward it] Really?
Smiler: [gives her a look] You're giving me that when you have all those statues of yourself scattered around the Vale of Tears?
Victor: [raising a hand] If we're having a narcissism contest, my Otherland is almost entirely populated by copies of myself.
Alice: [pause] ...that is pretty bad.
Smiler: Yeah, I think you have to win that contest.
Victor: Hey!
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Alice: [climbing aboard the SS Gryphon] Mock Turtle? Are you here?
Mock: [popping out of the captain's cabin with a giant grin] Hi Alice! Great to see you! Isn't it such a spectacular day?
Alice:
Alice: [peering around them suspiciously] Smiler? Did you use the Inoculator on Mock?!
Smiler: [calling from the cabin] He asked me to!
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Victor: [standing with Smiler and Alice in front of Mr. Explorer's treehouse in the Butterfly Jungle] And this is Smiler! Which you might already know, but we wanted to introduce you properly.
Smiler: [beaming] Great to meet you!
Mr. Explorer: [looks Smiler up and down, focusing on the yellow-and-black-spiral-pattern waistcoat under their jacket] Oooooh! You're the reason for them!
Smiler: ?
Alice: Beg pardon?
Mr. Explorer: Just a moment! [hurries away into the undergrowth, and returns with a butterfly -- sporting yellow-and-black spiral-patterned wings] They showed up a little while ago! They're really sweet, and all the other butterflies really seem to like watching them flap around.
Alice: [lightly nudging Victor] Gee, I wonder why.
Victor: [nudging her back, whispering while slightly pink] Let's not corrupt my inner child.
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Alice: [standing beside one of the swirly portals from the first game, now set into a rock in the new and improved Vale of Tears] And so these allow me to travel between various locations nearly instantaneously, instead of having to rely on the rail line.
Smiler: [grinning at the portal] Oh, that is neat! And they look so cool too -- don't you think so, Victor?
Victor: [staring at the portal, doesn't reply]
Smiler: ...Victor?
Alice: Victor! [snaps her fingers in front of his nose]
Victor: [starts, blinks rapidly, blushes despite himself] Oh, uh, ah, t-they're -- they're very -- n-nice.
Smiler: [slowly growing predatory smile] Oh, are they now...
Alice: [also grinning] Perhaps we could use one to find a slightly more private spot for you to stare?
Victor: [going even deeper pink] Shut up.
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[the trio are watching two Inoculated Menacing Ruin throw fireballs at a very confused Colossal Ruin in the Dollhouse]
Alice: [to Smiler, as the Colossal Ruin tries to run away, only for one of the Menacing Ruins to slam into its side] I've changed my mind, your weapons are great.
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