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Chapter 80: Doorways (Leon, post-series, prompt: "in the jungle")

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In his dreams, doors open into jungles. He's never sure which one, because he's been in more jungles than he expected living in fucking LA. He could probably guess by the wildlife – even he can tell the difference between a sabre-tooth tiger, a jaguar, and three-eyed monsters from the dawn of time – but there isn't any. No animals. No birds. Nothing but plants and him, and the feeling that if he keeps moving he'll find D, just like every other time.

He never does. But it always feels like D's right there, like he just isn't seeing him —

Notes:

It's been fifteen years and I'm still here for screaming about PSoH. Hit me up on Dreamwidth as Spindizzy or twitter as @spindilly if you want to hear it!

[ETA 11/05/21] Hi! Apparently there are new-to-me people in the fandom, so I figured I'd better give a quick bit of context!

  • The PSoHDrabble prompt community accepted anything shorter than 500 words, so some stories don't fit the strict definition of "a drabble is 100 words long exactly."
  • I started writing PSoH fic when I was fourteen, which was over half my lifetime ago! I'm not disavowing all the work that teen!me did, because she was doing her best and learning from a bunch of really kind and talented fellow fic-writers! But if you think there's a particular tonal or stylistic jump around chapter seventy, that's why.
  • ... Seriously it's been seventeen years and I am still ready to yell about how Pet Shop of Horrors and other supernatural horror/mysteries, just get me started.

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