Read Blood, Sweat, and Steel → So late last year I started a roleplay that turned out to be balls to the wall amazing, and with the permission of my partner I started posting the logs to AO3. Things have since slowed down since the holidays – school is taking up a lot of Reuven’s time right…
Tag: slow burn
[ITS] Chapter 13: The Guard
Bad news, his email starts. I don’t think I’ll be able to grab you your stuff this time. This time or… for the forseeable future. Holly frowns, though not because she feels entitled to this stuff he’s doing for her. She frowns because it means something’s changed for him, and from what little she knows of his…
[ITS] Chapter 12: The Routine
This is the fifth time that he’s raided that store, and he’s gotten quite good at it over the past few weeks. The key was made from a strip of metal he’d quickly lifted from the back of Tom’s truck, which he’d carved into the appropriate shape with his detailing kit and by gnawing on it…
[ITS] Chapter 11: The Kicks
The fight had dissipated as fast as it exploded in a corner of the schoolyard, and no one was seriously injured. Really, no one was even moderately injured – it had been more a spontaneous act of boyish excitement when someone had said the wrong thing at the wrong time. It’s easy to say the…
[ITS] Chapter 10: The Retainer
He flies down deserted streets as he makes his way through the grid-like arrangement of blocks, heading for Holly’s address. The giant ducks under streetlights as he passes them, and it feels a little bit like a game; he swerves around a single car and remembers that there’s a human sport that looks similar to…
[ITS] Chapter 9: The Store
Stars, how refreshing it is to be carrying on something like a conversation with someone. Not just someone, but a human, at that! Honestly, Galen wasn’t sure that he’d ever see the day when a human would be talking to him like an equal. Sure, she still thinks he’s human too; but that’s just details at this…
[ITS] Chapter 8: The Help
Her eyelids are heavy when the notification lights up her phone at almost 2 in the morning. She’s been texting all evening, and so reaches for it where it sits on the couch armrest with a sloppy groan. “I thought you were in bed,” Holly mumbles, wondering why she isn’t in bed herself. The late-night…
[ITS] Chapter 7: The Bridge
The room is dimly lit from the lower-quality energy that now trundles through the once surging grid of this prefecture’s capital city. It’s been one tritium* since the ceasefire, and the Ntaa are still struggling to rebuild their razed homeworld, called simply Tchanggarec in Common: The Machine Hive. The Ntaarin name for it, obviously, holds the planet in…
[ITS] Chapter 6: The Turn
It’s a training day at EYSAR. The team’s recently gotten all-new GPS gear – the old stuff was apparently getting embarassing to be seen with, but funding is hard to come by and a lot of the guys already part with their own money enough as it is to buy gear. Brett, the new guy,…
[ITS] Chapter 5: The Broken Ties
Honestly, I’m not sure what to say. I’m not even sure if I should believe you… I hope you’ll understand when I say that this is the most ridiculous, far-fetched thing someone has ever told me! I mean, I can’t actually verify this until billing gets a hold of me, but if I take you…