oh, but my darling
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oh, but my darling, what if you fly? by RockCatTomato
Fandoms: 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series, Hermitcraft SMP
10 Sep 2023
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One moment you’re standing in a cactus ring, sun in your eyes, swearing that everyone will be victorious (they won’t be. You know this even then, that victor isn’t a title for two. Liar liar liar, you lied. But you say it anyway) and the next it’s over.
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Grian wakes up.
Grian wakes up and it’s wrong. It’s wrong because he wasn’t supposed to wake up. It’s wrong because that was it, he jumped, he was on his third life, that was the end. It’s wrong because it was supposed to be over.
But he wakes up, and he’s in a soft bed, no, nest, and his wings are unbound, and he’s alone.
He’s alone.
He’s alone.
He’s alone.
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- Part 1 of oh, but my darling
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When you die, his blood is still under your nails.
It’s ridiculous, really. It’s been days since his death, since you clutched his body to your chest, since you buried him in a now frozen field of flowers.
Nonetheless, in the moment before you close your eyes for the last time, you can see his blood still underneath your fingernails.
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As he wakes up, he feels relief flooding his veins, it feels like a blessing, a second chance. Of course. Of course, it was a dream. Of course, Scott’s waking up next to him and he’s still red, but alive, of course, everything is ok.
It takes Scott ten seconds too long to realise that his bed is freezing cold, to realise that there is no warm body next to him, to realise that he can smell clean pine wood instead of warm earth.
It takes him thirty seconds too long to sit up and look around, to see the four poster bed, the silk sheets, the crown on a lacquered desk next to him.
It takes him a minute too long to realise that everything, everything is wrong.
(Or, Scott wakes up in empires remembering third life. But it's fine, it was just a dream… right?)
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- Part 2 of oh, but my darling