Eleutherophobia
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Tom survives Rachel's assassination attempt; the yeerk in his head does not. Now he's left dealing with the aftermath of his infestation in a world that is still reeling from the revelations of the yeerk-human war, although all he really cares about is looking out for what's left of his shattered family.
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- Part 1 of Eleutherophobia
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Two weeks after the end of the yeerk-human war, people struggle to understand the realization that the alien invasion came and went—and most of the world never even noticed. Tom, meanwhile, doesn't give much of a crap what everyone else thinks and just wishes he could go back to nice boring life before he had his brain got invaded and his kid brother went and became a war hero.
“Seriously, though,” David Letterman told a live studio audience. “It was a multi-billion dollar organization, had over fifty thousand members at its peak, and the best tagline they could come up with was ‘Sharing is caring?’ Sharing is caring? And no one ever thought that maybe, just maybe, it was being run by aliens? I mean, what was it going to take before somebody noticed that—”Series
- Part 2 of Eleutherophobia
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The yeerk-human war may be over, but the boys' struggle to deal with a late-night intruder into the Berenson household proves that adjusting to normal life after its end is not easy. Tom and Jake respond to a threat to the house in an utterly characteristic way.
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- Part 3 of Eleutherophobia
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Six weeks after the yeerks discover the Animorphs' identities, a month after they get hold of the morphing cube, humanity has never been closer to losing the war. It's under these circumstances that Tom's path briefly crosses with that of the yeerk inside Rachel's dad, and Essa 412 lets his newfound power as Visser Seventeen go to his head.
Ficlet is set during canon, and canon-compliant, but mentions several details from Eleutherophobia.
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- Part 4 of Eleutherophobia
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With a yeerk in his head, Tom can only watch, utterly helpless, as his family falls apart. Tom's perspective on what happens to Jake during the war.
(Loose prequel to "Day the Earth Stood Still.")
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- Part 5 of Eleutherophobia
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Tom's not an expert in neuropsychology, or child care, or much of anything outside of the best way to throw a layup. In fact, he doesn't have much going for him outside of a snarky attitude, a wealth of experience in being used as an alien puppet, and a determination to have his revenge on the yeerks by living well. Still, if a kid harmed by the yeerks needs his help, he'll do what he can.
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- Part 6 of Eleutherophobia
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Tom tries to encourage Jake's irresponsible side for once after yet another inane press event contains too much honesty for his liking. Stupid decisions about alcohol turn into overly honest conversations about controller mentality, war crimes, drunk birds, accidental cannibalism, the true meaning of irresponsibility, and what it means to have already fulfilled one's purpose in life by age sixteen.
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- Part 7 of Eleutherophobia
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In which Tom Berenson learns that DNA allergies are a pain in the butt, that Jake has a surprising number of obscure and apparently useless morphs, that especially in this family stubbornness is not always a virtue, and that there's a difference between surviving the war and living through it.
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- Part 8 of Eleutherophobia
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Someone decided to get the entire extended Berenson family together for some reason (i.e. tradition!) and now there are over twenty of these crazy people in one house at one time, three months after the end of the war. Tom, for one, is pretty sure he's not going to get through the day without stabbing someone.
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- Part 9 of Eleutherophobia
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Tom isn’t quite sure how he ended up helping Eva run a support group for ex-hosts, or why his high school crush is still interested in him given their complicated history, or how he managed to become so fascinating to tabloid reporters, or why Jake feels the need to feel guilty for so many things that are not his fault.
But he’s going to have to figure everything out pretty quickly, because ex-hosts are dying at an alarming rate, and no one but him seems to notice or care. Much as he doesn’t want to get involved, Tom is pretty sure he sees a pattern emerging: that someone, somewhere out there, is getting the worst kind of revenge.
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- Part 10 of Eleutherophobia
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As if getting subpoenaed to go testify at Visser One’s trial halfway around the world wasn’t enough of a pain in the butt, now Tom also has to put up with Jake and Cassie’s utter inability to communicate with each other like normal human beings. Worst Eurotrip ever.
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- Part 11 of Eleutherophobia
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From the point of view of the U.S. Military, Tom Berenson is an ideal candidate to act as temporary field commander and liaison for the Animorphs as they investigate a downed alien ship: he’s a law-abiding citizen, a legal adult, a morph-capable human who has a solid track record of catching murderers, and just about the only person for whom Jake Berenson has expressed open respect. From the point of view of Tom Berenson, putting him in charge of these crazy teenagers while also dealing with a brand-new species of deadly alien is the stupidest decision the U.S. Military has ever made.
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- Part 12 of Eleutherophobia
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A Straight Line Down Through the Heart by SoloMoon
Fandoms: Animorphs - Katherine A. Applegate
07 Feb 2018
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Cassie is a lot of things: a former child soldier, a current leader in Resident Alien Affairs, the youngest-ever Special Assistant to the President. An Animorph. An advocate. A one-woman army. Sometimes, however, she just wants to be a teenage girl, the kind who takes a break from changing the world to go for dinner at her boyfriend's house. This is one of those times.
(Cassie's point of view on the post-war Berenson family.)
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- Part 13 of Eleutherophobia
- Part 1 of Everybody's Free (to Fear the Future)
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Professor Jake's first day of class, from Tom's point of view.
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- Part 14 of Eleutherophobia
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Tom was expecting to come home from the massive ex-host demonstration in Washington and relax. He wasn't expecting a disgruntled extremist to mail a bomb to Matter Over Mind, leaving him and Eva to deal with the fallout of the explosion. Too bad the fallout proves to be stranger than either of them could have ever expected.
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- Part 15 of Eleutherophobia
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There's someone walking around looking like Rachel. When Tom finds out who, it proves to be the last person he could have expected. Now, faced with the knowledge that there are human-controllers once again on Earth, he is going to have to confront one of his worst fears if he wants his family to survive the next few days.
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- Part 16 of Eleutherophobia
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Rachel is back — back on Earth, back to life, back to being an Animorph. Complications ensue, as they always do, but luckily Tom is there to clean up the mess.
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- Part 17 of Eleutherophobia