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    A collection of Hiro/Byakuya fics bc there's not enough of them and I think they work really well together.

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    A look into the lives of a pack of street rats just trying to make it during the turn of the century, and maybe being able to find some happiness along the way.

    A collection of newsies fics I've written over time, because this is my comfort media and I love these boys very much. All of them take place in the same timeline, but any of them can be read on their own.

    Disclaimer: they are written from a movie-verse perspective since that's what I grew up watching; that's not meant to gatekeep/deter anyone, just if there are any inconsistencies with the Broadway musical that's probably why.

    Will update as time permits. Enjoy <3

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    Lula’s a Horseman now, but only because she’s taking a dead kid’s place.

    She’d seen the theories that Jack had survived somehow, that his death had been faked, but the grief on Dylan’s face was too real to ignore. The rest of the Horsemen, too. In hindsight, she probably should’ve known that they wouldn’t take well to a replacement after the last one literally died, that bouncing in with boundless enthusiasm and affection and pretending their confusion and betrayal didn’t affect her at all would make things worse. Stupid of her, right? She got her wish nearly two years after she made it, and it feels more like a curse than anything else. Goddamn monkey’s paw bullshit. If she was a more superstitious person, she’d wonder if that wish is what killed Jack Wilder in the first place.

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    Jack Wilder is supposed to be dead. He's definitely not supposed to be blocking the escape of his former team at the Octa show, and he's definitely not supposed to be trying to kill them.

    But he is--and if the Horsemen want to get him back, they're going to have to outrun him, first. Problem is, no one ever outruns Death.

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    03 Jun 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 81

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    Trevor makes it two weeks before he just has to return to the castle to check if Alucard had eaten any villagers. Sypha would like to know if he is starving himself like they both suspect. It turns out, there was a reason to be nervous.

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    29 May 2025

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    "He's thirsty," Trevor says, and both Sypha and Alucard look at him in shock. "That's it, isn't it? Last time you took a nap, you had those great vats of blood behind your coffin to keep you alive. This time you had only dust and straw."

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    Or, Sypha and Trevor return to the castle to save Alucard from himself.

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    26 May 2025

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    Trevor and Sypha return to Dracula's castle, and discover that something strange and terrible has happened while they were gone. Something that has left Alucard miserable and determined to be alone.

    They're not going to stand for that.

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    22 Apr 2025

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    “Have you ever had sex with a guy?”

    “What?”

    Cherry cleared his throat and tried again. “Have you ever—”

    “No, I, uh, heard you,” Joe fumbled, mind racing. “Uh, giving or receiving?”

    Cherry blinked back in surprise. “I assumed you would give—”

    “You know what, it doesn’t matter,” Joe interrupted. He hadn’t had sex with a guy, mostly because there was only one guy he ever wanted to have sex with and he was currently sitting next to Joe on the couch, staring very intently and asking very bizarre, out-of-character questions.

     

    Joe had fantasized about this happening in a million different ways. Yet somehow he was totally unprepared for Cherry staring straight at him and asking, “Would you have sex with me?”

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    19 Apr 2025