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    Chief Arnook never assigns Sokka to protect Princess Yue, so he goes to fight the Fire Nation with the other men. When the moon dies and the ocean spirit takes its revenge, Sokka is caught standing on the deck of a Fire Nation ship. Sokka should have drowned… and he would have drowned, if not for a certain Fire Nation raft fleeing the North Pole.

    [An enemies-to-lovers season 2 rewrite, where Sokka is separated from the gaang during the Siege of the North, and travels the Earth Kingdom with Zuko instead].

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    12 Jun 2026

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    “Blessed Spirit, we thank you for the gift of this child’s life. We are forever in your debt.” The whole village is kneeling now, even the tiniest toddlers flopped down on their stomachs doing their best approximation of a bow. “Please, won’t you give us a name to call you? We would like to properly express our gratitude.”

    Oh.

    Well shit.

    (Where Zuko saves a little Earth Kingdom girl from drowning, the villagers think he's a Spirit, build him a shrine, and long story short, a fake story about the Blue Spirit who dances with dragons suddenly becomes very real.)

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    11 Jun 2026

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    Light footsteps, soft rustling of fabric. A thump against one of the other doors in the hall, like a foot or an elbow, followed by a quietly snarled curse.

    Damian lets out an irritated sigh.

    He jerks the door the rest of the way open, fixing a glare into the dim light of the hall. “It is four in the morning,” he hisses at the small shadow now frozen in the doorway across and one down from his own, wide eyes staring back at him in the moonlight. “You understand that the time after patrol is intended to be for sleep?

    Todd hunches his shoulders. Were he a cat, his back would be puffed up defensively. “Then go to bed,” he hisses. “It’s not my fault you have freaky bat hearing!” His eyes dart nervously towards Father’s door at the end of the hallway.

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    09 Jun 2026

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    "Hey," Jason says, poking his head in through the door, making sure his body is angled so that there's no way the boy inside will be able to see Bruce.

    That's as far as he gets before he falters.

    The boy inside the dim-lit cell is tucked as far back into the corner of the cot as he can get, scrawny limbs wrapped around himself like the curled husk of a spider. His teal eyes are locked on Jason, but he doesn't move — not even a flinch.

    He's as perfectly frozen as a bird in the brush as a hound sniffs closer.

    Jason swallows, his throat abruptly so tight it's hard to breath. He's not sure either of them are.

    The boy's eyes flick just a fraction past him, to the open cave beyond. One of them is surrounded by a dark bruise.

    Jason steps cautiously into the cell, closing the door behind him, and watches his own eyes dim as his escape route closes.

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    09 Jun 2026

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    The valet opens the door as he places a ticket under the windshield, a hot breeze lazily snaking its way into the backseat. Then, he climbs out and shuts the door behind him, and the air falls as still as a crumpled quilt.

    He doesn’t so much as glance at the backseat window as he walks away, leaving Tim alone to wait.

    And that’s… that’s probably fine! His parents did say that going to a gala with them was something for big kids to do, and he already knows big kids are supposed to be able to be able to be apart from their parents without throwing a fit, so maybe this is why. Maybe waiting like this is part of every grown-up event, and that’s why he needed to be a big boy before he could come with them.

    So yes. He can be a big boy. He can wait, alone.

    It’s even kind of exciting! He’s not sure he’s ever been completely alone, without even a nanny nearby.

    He just… well, he wishes they could have left the AC on while he waits.

     

    Day 15 - FEED A COLD, STARVE A FEVER
    delirium | fever dreams | bees

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    09 Jun 2026