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from within this gaping wound of ours

geralt/jaskier post S2 fix-it, cause i’m real emo about the bard, gang. 1.6K words, rated T. spoilers for season 2, obviously

Kaer Morhen was, slowly but surely, returning to its usual state. The monsters had been dragged down into the laboratory for study, the fallen witchers returned to the earth, and the damage done to the great hall was steadily being righted. There was still far more to do, but for now, it was time to rest.

The remaining wolves were in the hall, laughing and drinking like it was any other winter's evening in the keep, the sound following Geralt as he made his way through the corridors to check on Ciri before he turned in for the night. He paused at the sound of a quiet sniffle coming from the darkness of the hall to his left.

"Jaskier?"

Jaskier was stood alone in the shadows, leaning against the wall and peering into the great hall below. He didn't answer. As Geralt stepped closer he could see Jaskier's eyes were shining in the light spilling from the hall. The scent of shed tears was thick in the air.

"Why aren't you down there with the others?"

"It isn't meant for me," Jaskier said.

He hugged his arms to his chest and dropped his temple against the stone as he watched the others, and Geralt hung awkwardly a stride's length away from him. He wasn't sure he'd earned the right to step into Jaskier's space again yet.

There was still something off between them, as much as they both tried to act as if nothing had changed. If Geralt could sense it, no doubt Jaskier was well aware of it, too. They didn't get too close to one another; always remembering themselves and coming to a stop a respectable distance away; always moving as if to reach out, to touch, but thinking better of it. Geralt didn't know what to say to make it better.

Maybe all it needed was time. But the longer this strange holding pattern they were stuck in went on, the worse the ache in Geralt's chest grew.

An ache that Geralt had created himself. Because he'd been hurting, and Jaskier had been the one there to face the consequences. The pain caused by this distance between them now was the least Geralt deserved.

"If you don't want to stay here," Geralt said, even as the thought of Jaskier wanting to leave seemed to constrict his lungs, "I'll take you wherever you want to go."

"I don't have anywhere else to go."

Jaskier finally met his eyes then, a little laugh rattling his chest as he wiped at his wet cheeks.

"I'm being maudlin, sorry," he said. Lambert's shout rang out below, followed by a peal of raucous laughter from the others, and Jaskier smiled down at them, even as his eyes welled with tears again. "It's just hard, sometimes, watching everyone else surrounded by the people who love them – the people who give a shit when they're not there. And then there I am, just… on the periphery of it all. I don't have anyone."

You have me, Geralt wanted to say. But maybe that wasn't true anymore, after everything Geralt had done to drive this wedge between them. Maybe it had never been true in the first place. He'd give anything for Jaskier to believe it, though.

"You have people," said Geralt. "Everywhere you go, they always love you."

"They love the songs, Geralt. Nobody cares about the one playing them." He looked down at his hand. The burns were still an angry, painful-looking red. "And I can't even do that anymore."

"I'm so sorry, Jaskier."

Jaskier nodded. He curled his fist and lowered his hand back to his side, like if he could keep it tucked out of sight he wouldn't have to think about it. "I'd still do it again," he said. His mouth quirked in an attempt at a self-deprecating smile, but it didn't reach his eyes.

Geralt couldn't remember the last time he saw anything but sadness in them.

"You shouldn't have had to go through it at all."

Some part of him had always known it would go this way, though. Geralt's life was too fraught with violence for the people closest to him to pass through it unscathed. It was why he tried to keep Jaskier at a distance; why he'd buried his own feelings too far down to let himself be tempted to act on them, even when Jaskier would flirt and leave lingering touches and look at Geralt that way he did sometimes, like he was considering asking Geralt to join him for the night. And despite it all, Jaskier had still been hurt because of him.

Jaskier's gaze drifted back down to the rest of the wolves. Coen was by now slumped over the table and Vesemir had disappeared out of sight, but the others were still going strong. Jaskier should have been at the centre of it all; sharing every lewd song or story he knew; doing an impressive job of keeping up with the others as they drank into the night. He didn't belong up here, on his own in the darkness.

"I try so hard," said Jaskier, and he sounded so exhausted Geralt wondered how long he'd been fighting to keep all this in. He closed his eyes as more tears spilled down his cheeks.

Geralt's hand twitched with the urge to wipe them away. But he remained rooted in place, feeling as if his heart might break just from the pain in Jaskier's own.

"I don't need to be loved," he went on. "But is it really so much to ask just to be seen?"

Finally Geralt forced himself to take a step closer, but there was still too great a distance between them. He ached to reach out for Jaskier; to pull him into his arms and take back all the hurt he had caused.

"I see you," he said. He took a breath, preparing himself for what he knew he needed to say – what Jaskier needed to hear. "And I know it isn't the love you want, but you have mine."

Jaskier let out a tiny, bitter laugh. "Right," he said as he met Geralt's eyes, his own still shining. "For helping you save your child surprise."

Geralt opened his mouth to argue, but Jaskier was already pushing himself away from the wall and their conversation with a shake of his head.

"Goodnight, witcher."

His footsteps echoed off the stone as he walked away.

Geralt stared after him for a long, awful moment. He would have left it alone once; let Jaskier wander off to lick his wounds and in the morning it would be as if nothing had happened. He couldn't do it this time. He'd fucked things up too many times already.

He found Jaskier in his room, slumped down on the bed with a bottle clutched to his chest and a thoroughly miserable expression on his face. Geralt stayed in the doorway.

"It's not that," he said.

Jaskier looked back up at him, but he said nothing in response. Geralt took it as an invitation to keep talking.

"Sometimes I think you're the only one who's ever seen me, as well. Not as a witcher, or a monster, or a protector – as I am. As I could be."

Slowly, giving Jaskier ample opportunity to ask him to leave instead, Geralt stepped into the room and took a seat on the edge of the bed. Jaskier was still just watching him.

"The world's gone to shit, Jask," sighed Geralt. "I miss the days when the worst we had to deal with was bad backwater tavern ale and shit hunts for terrible pay."

He looked over to Jaskier with a smile, and to his relief Jaskier returned it.

"I miss you," Geralt went on. "I'm sorry that all I ever did was push you away."

Jaskier set his bottle aside and sat up so he could lean over his bent knees, and, his hand almost shaking, Geralt reached for him. He brushed Jaskier's hair out of his face to see him – to really see him; all his love and hurt and determination right there on his face. He'd never kept anything hidden. It was long past time for Geralt to do the same.

Their eyes were still fixed on one another as Geralt leant in. And when Jaskier didn't tell him to stop, he pressed his mouth to Jaskier's. The kiss was hesitant at first, barely a brush of lips, their bodies angled too awkwardly for it to be comfortable, but neither of them pulled away.

Jaskier was the one to deepen the kiss. He cupped Geralt's face in his hands, shifting forwards as Geralt wrapped his arms around Jaskier's back to keep him close; to never let him go again. Jaskier tasted of wine and loneliness and want, and Geralt kissed him like he might never get another chance. Even once the kiss had dwindled into occasional pecks and then to nothing, Jaskier's hands stayed on Geralt, his thumb brushing along Geralt's cheekbone as he rested his forehead against Geralt's.

"You deserve someone better than me," Geralt said into the breathless space between them. "You always have."

"I don't want anyone else, Geralt."

"I know."

They sat like that for a while afterwards; just breathing together; just holding each other, the silence old and familiar as it settled around them. They didn't need anything more right now. It was enough just to know. To hope.

Geralt had learnt how to be the guardian Ciri needed. He would fight just as hard to become everything Jaskier deserved as well.

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The Umbrella Academy Release Date, Cast, & Everything Else We Know

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Gerard Way and Gabriel Ba's The Umbrella Academy is coming to Netflix as a live action series. The comic book series, which debuted in 2007, was first optioned as a movie before Dark Horse signed a deal with Universal Cable Productions to adapt the comic as a TV series.

The live action series follows the estranged members of a dysfunctional family of superheroes -- The Monocle, Spaceboy, The Kraken, The Rumor, The Séance, Number Five, The Horror, and the seemingly powerless Vanya -- as they work together to solve their father’s mysterious death while coming apart at the seams due to their divergent personalities and abilities.

Way began writing The Umbrella Academy just a year after the release of My Chemical Romance's magnum opus, The Black Parade. The series is 15 issues of Eisner Award-winning goodness that has continued to inform Way's career as a comic book writer, especially with his current run on Doom Patrol and his Young Animal line at DC. Artist Gabriel Ba has also done some of his best work on the series. (If you want something really great by Ba, check out Daytripper, which he created with his twin brother, artist Fabio Moon.)

The Umbrella Academy has been on a bit of a hiatus since 2009. Only two volumes, The Apocalypse Suite and Dallas, have been released thus far, although Way and Ba plan at least two more volumes. The third volume is called Hotel Oblivion, and it's been in the works since at least 2013 when Way tweeted out an update with some sketches of new characters. Way and Ba had agreed to begin work on Hotel Oblivion in 2014, but a lot's happened since then. Besides his music projects, Way has his own line of comics and two comic book series to write.

While it's not likely the Umbrella Academy will return on the page any time soon, fans will at least gave the show to look forward to. – Here's everything else we know:

The Umbrella Academy Release Date

Netflix has officially announced that all 10 one-hour episodes of The Umbrella Academy will premiere will premiere on February 15, 2019. Best Valentine ever.

The Umbrella Academy Photos

Here is our first look of actual production stills from The Umbrella Academy. Looks like we've got everything but the trailer now.

Netflix, via the verified (and relatively new) Twitter account @UmbrellaAcad, has revealed the very first look of the show's cast all in character. Sort of. They're faces are a bit obscured but the gang is definitely all here.

Super. Messed up. Family. The #UmbrellaAcademy is coming 2019. pic.twitter.com/MninQscK3l

— Umbrella Academy (@UmbrellaAcad) July 19, 2018

Here we have: #1 Luther Hargreeves a.k.a. Spaceboy (Tom Hooper), #2 Diego Hargreeves a.k.a. The Kraken (David Castañeda), #3 Allison Hargreeves a.k.a. The Rumor (Emmy Raver-Lampman), #4 Klaus Hargreeves a.k.a. The Séance (Robert Sheehan) #5 a.k.a. The Boy (Aidan Gallagher), and #7 Vanya Hargreeves a.k.a. The White Violin (Ellen Page).

This is the first look we've received of the actors in costume and hopefully more teaser-y goodness is on the way.

The Umbrella Academy Character Posters

Fresh from New York Comic Con 2018, The Umbrella Academy has some nifty new character posters. We'd explain who everyone was but the posters pretty much have that covered.

The Umbrella Academy News

Kate Walsh is the latest addition to The Umbrella Academy cast. She will play a recurring character called The Handler, officially described as “a composed and confident leader of a mysterious, bureaucratic company who is always ready to manage any situation — though it's best not to get on her bad side. Her charm is her greatest strength and she uses it to her advantage to complete the business of her organization.”

Walsh is currently fielding a run on the imminently-returning hit Netflix series, 13 Reasons Why. She’s best known from her run on ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy, which was parlayed to the spinoff series, Private Practice. She also starred in shows such as Bad Judge, Fargo, The Drew Carey Show and films such as Girls Trip, The Perks of Being a Wallflower and Legion.

The Umbrella Academy Cast

Netflix has revealed the core cast of the show. Here are the actors who will portray the members of the Umbrella Academy:

Ellen Page (X-Men: Days of Future Past) will star as Vanya, who is estranged from the rest of the family because of her lack of powers. Vanya is a very important character in the first arc of the comics, as she goes through a bit of self-discovery that puts her at odds with the superheroes she once called a family.

Tom Hopper (Game of Thrones) plays Luther, aka Spaceboy. He has super-strength, and after a terrible accident during an expedition to Mars, his head had to be transplanted onto the body of a gorilla. Ehem...

Emmy Raver-Lampman (Hamilton) will play Allison, aka The Rumor, who can alter reality by lying.

David Castaneda (El Chicano) is Diego, codenamed The Kraken. He is sort of a fuse between Aquaman and Batman. He can hold his breath indefinitely, which gives him an advantage when in water, and is an expert knife thrower.

Robert Sheehan (Misfits) is perfectly cast as Klaus aka The Seance, the most morbid character of the group. His powers, which manifest only when he's barefoot, include levitation, telekinesis, and the ability to contant the dead. In the comics, Klaus is killed at one point but rejected from both Heaven and Hell.

Aidan Gallagher (Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn) is Number Five, simply codenamed The Boy. He can effortlessly travel in time and does not age due to a temporal condition.

Colm Feore (House of Cards) will play Sir Reginald Hargreeves, the leader of the Umbrella Academy. He is the billionaire who adopted all of the strange children that made up the superhero team. Hargreeves was known to be manipulative and cold towards the kids, something that has scarred the heroes later in life.

Adam Godley (Breaking Bad) will play Pogo, a genetically-engineered and talking chimpanzee. Pogo is a point of comfort for the Umbrella Academy, acting in much more of a fatherly and nurturing role than Hargreeves ever did.

Ashley Madekwe (Revenge) plays Detective Patch, who is at odds with the vigilantes that protect her city. She prefers to play things by the book.

Mary J. Blige has joined the cast as well. She will play the role of Cha-Cha, the insane time-traveling assassin first introduced in the second arc of the comic, "Dallas," which reimagines the Kennedy assassination. Cha-Cha, along with her partner Hazel, believes in using the most violent method possible to dispatch her prey.

Hazel will be played by Cameron Britton (Mindhunter). According to the official character description, Hazel will become at odds with Cha-Cha at some point after their time-traveling blood-soaked adventures begin to wear on him.

John Magaro (The Big Short) will be a series regular, playing Leonard Peabody, described as “a sweet Average Joe,” who, while dismissed as being somewhat of a milquetoast, strikes up an unlikely romance with Vanya (Ellen Page) that plays out against the backdrop of the larger events of the series.

The Umbrella Academy Poster

Here's the first promo poster for The Umbrella Academy:

The Umbrella Academy Details

The Umbrella Academy will be produced by Universal Cable Productions. Steve Blackman (Fargo, Altered Carbon) will serve as executive producer and showrunner, with additional executive producers Bluegrass Television and Mike Richardson and Keith Goldberg from Dark Horse Entertainment. Gerard Way will serve as co-executive producer. The pilot script was adapted from the comic book series by Jeremy Slater (The Exorcist).

In 2016, Slater talked to Collider about his script:

I definitely wrote the pilot for The Umbrella Academy. I think it’s really exciting. I think it’s really surprising and funny. I took the job because I’m such an immense fan of what Gerard [Way] and Gabriel [Ba, the artist] did with that book. It’s one of those things where I would rather be the guy to screw it up than sit back and let someone else come in and do the bad adaptation. So, I was really adamant about taking the job, but the only way I was going to do it was if I could make it weird and make it true to the spirit of the book. There’s a lot of weird shit in The Umbrella Academy, and it would be very easy to sand down some of those weird edges and make it more familiar to American audiences. I’m fighting very hard to not let that happen. We’re shopping around the pilot, at the moment. We’re trying to find the right home for it and trying to find someone as excited as we are.

Rawson Marshal Thurber (Dodgeball) was originally tied to the project when it was still being considered for the big screen. He told CBR in 2016 that the series would be too difficult to adapt as a film, citing the weirdness of the book as something that could be lost in translation at a big studio.

Slater echoed Thurber's thoughts in his interview with Collider:

I think the relationships and the dynamics are so rich in that book that, if you tried to distill it down to 90 minutes, everyone gets reduced to a cartoon and a caricature. It really is The Royal Tenenbaums with superpowers. In order to do justice to that premise, you need time to unpack those characters, and dig into what makes them tick and the different relationships that they have with each other. There is so much fertile material there to tell really interesting, really funny, really unique stories that to compress it all into an hour and a half and throw in a bunch of giant action sequences, you’re going to wind up with some total mish-mash. It’s going to be Mystery Men. It’s going to be yet another wacky comedic superhero movie that no one really wants to see. It has its own unique DNA, and I think people should respect that DNA, or they should not do the project.

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