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    That sickness. It churned relentlessly in his gut. He flicked, flicked, flicked through the cameras, metal fingertip tapping against the monitor to capture you at every angle. He couldn't bring himself to admit how many times he had zoomed in and brought his hand to the screen in a pathetic gesture just to imagine he could feel the warmth of your cheek against his palm. His reason for life, granted to him by you, stunted and stalled by...well. By his death.

    He's back, now. He'd endured countless horrors and torn open the gates of hell to claw his way back to you. At last, he could return to his purpose. To kneel at your feet and present his neck to your boot. Nod his head yes and bow to your every order. Be right where he belongs. But...

    In his absence, you've started taking care of yourself. Poorly. Very poorly. And you're so fucking stubborn, refuting his help. It makes his jaw hurt with how hard he clenches his teeth.

    This night, though, this blessed, perfect night, you finally let him back in. You finally let him further. It's more than anything he could have ever dreamed. He should know better by now, but you make him so hopeless he can’t help himself. He knows good things for him never last.

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    11 Aug 2026

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    Inspired by the Verdant Wetlands Secret Time card.

    A mission strands her in Skyhaven with nowhere to stay but his house. Things have been weird between them ever since he came back different, distant, buttoned up in that uniform. She misses him. She misses them.

    But she's never had the words for the thing simmering under all those years of him raising her as his little sister, so she does what she does best: she curls up in his bed and plays fast asleep, and dares her cold brother to be soft with her again.

    The problem? You don't fake sleep for a Colonel of the Farspace Fleet and expect to win. He knows exactly what his pip-squeak is up to.

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    10 Aug 2026

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    For memories sake, he decided one last cram session in his childhood bedroom would be a justified parting gift. These four walls have witnessed nearly his whole life, the least he could do to close this chapter was return to what was familiar.

    The warm lighting of his desk lamp hummed quietly as he read over the last few pages he had written for his dissertation. If he wanted to obtain his doctorate, he’d have to defend his neonatal heart defect research with his life.

    He needed it to be perfect, no exceptions.

    OR... Zayne has the perfect view into Caleb's bedroom and witnesses the two of you getting it on.

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    “I wish I could see into your head,” you murmur, freeing one hand from his grasp and tapping a finger against his forehead, right between his eyebrows.

    “You don’t,” he says, because god, you don’t. He’s the exact kind of man that he wants to protect you from. But he’s also the only man that can protect you the right way.

    (Once he came back, did what he had to do for Ever, everything would work out. His life, a list of wants: you and nothing else.)

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    After Caleb’s death you become accustomed to scraping by on your own. When he returns to your side alive and whole, you want to spare him from knowing just how much you’ve been struggling—but your brother has his own ways of finding out.

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