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    “This is a truce between us. If we bond, neither of us can get out of this.”

    "So you're willing to force us into a bond neither of us would ever want, to risk literal insanity, just so you can get your precious peace?" Megatron says, voice filled with disbelief and disgust.

    "It doesn't matter what I want," Optimus replies, ignoring the freezing ice creeping closer to his spark.

    "And it doesn't matter what I want, either?" Megatron snarls at him.

    "This isn't about us!" Optimus says, louder than intended. He berates himself for losing his composure when Megatron's lips curl into a smirk. "I am willing to do anything to keep Cybertron safe."

    "Safe from me, you mean," Megatron says, gesturing towards the dark halls of the Nemesis outside of Optimus' prison cell.

    "Yes.”

    An arranged bond is a dangerous, loveless union in which one's death can have catastrophic consequences for the other. It's a trap with no way out.

    It's also Optimus' only chance to end the war, so he proposes a deal Megatron is unable to refuse.

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    “I will not apologize for speaking the truth,” the child says. “However, I regret if that truth has offended you.”

    “Jesus Christ, kid,” Jim mutters.

    “I am not offended,” Spock responds, as blandly as he is able. “I was remiss in casting such hasty judgment upon your guardian.”

    ”Father,” she corrects.

    ”Your father,” he agrees.

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    An academy AU + Tarsus aftermath fic in which James T. Kirk ends up accidentally parentally bonded to an orphaned Vulcan child. When the father/daughter duo enroll in Star Fleet, hijinks ensue (mostly at the expense of Spock’s previously immaculate but quickly deteriorating self-control).

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    The right man at the wrong place can make all the difference in the world. Barclay is one such man for Lore.

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    If not noticing Steve was a class, Eddie’d be failing that too.

     

    It's a new year, 1985, and Eddie faces his grief.

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    "Hiding here in camouflage,
    When they say that they want me,
    you love me, you need me,
    Call it casual sabotage..."

    Lies, manipulation, trickery- its what makes Loki, well, Loki. Tony Stark knows that forgiving the God and actually trusting him are two things that are genuinely laughable, only because they'll never happen. After the invasion of New York, Tony would have loved nothing more than to never see that pretentious God and his arrogant smirk ever again. Just knowing Loki was rotting away in chains far away on Asgard was good enough for him.

    Apparently, though, it wasn't good enough for Odin.

    But just because the devious God of Mischief now loomed beneath the roof of Avengers Tower, brooding miserably in his cell, didn't mean that Tony actually had to acknowledge him and talk to him, did it?

    ...Did it?

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