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    “I like your voice,” Max said quietly. “You say words weirdly.”

    “That’s… good?” Richie asked, his pulse racing again.

    “I say words weirdly too,” Max said it like it was a secret, like he was sharing a deep part of himself and was looking for someone to say they could relate.

    Richie remembered telling Max that his anxiety caused his peculiar speech pattern, then he nodded in understanding. “Skele’un.”

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    The tried and tested 'Richie saves Max' alternate universe, but my version!

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    13 Jul 2026

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    When Max JägerMan died - by complete accident that had nothing to do with him or any of his friends - Richie hadn’t been thinking much.

    All Richie could do is stare at Max’s body slowly going cold right in front of him.

    And then he wakes up.

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    13 Jul 2026

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    “You know, maybe I had you guys figured all wrong, y’know?” Max is saying from the staircase of the Waylon house. Pete is resisting the urge to share bewildered glances with the rest of the group. Can’t take your eyes off the enemy.

    “I thought you were a bunch of nerds, but uh,” Max laughs. The wood creaks beneath him. How the hell is this place even on the market? “You guys throw one hell of par—”

    It happens in a split second. The floorboards splinter. The wood breaks.

    And Pete lunges forward to grab Max’s hand.

    OR: what if max didn't die and they ended up actually having that party?

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    13 Jul 2026

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    All it takes to prevent tragedy is a cat.

    Preposterous, maybe, but nonetheless true.

    Helaena is eight and he freshly seven, tooth faced and smiling. It’s his nameday, and yet he gives the small, black kitten to her. Many people think black cats bring bad luck, she knows it, and she cries over it, despite how Aegon teases her.

    When he presents the small kitten to her, she can’t help but fluster and beam. The kitten captures her heart already.

    “For you, Helaena,” Jace breathes. “I know how you love animals.”

    Or: Helaena and Jace fall in love and stop a war.

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    29 Jun 2026

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    Day twenty-three, change of tactics.

    I feel like you both are being dumb.

    Dad unfolds this one and reads it and stops and reads it again like he's hoping the words will rearrange themselves into something less insulting.

    "Excuse me?"

    "It's my feeling." Chris spears a dumpling with his chopsticks. "You can't argue with my feeling, that's not how therapy works."

    "I can ask for clarification on what you mean."

    "Clarification about what? It's very clear. You—" he points at Dad, "both—" he swings to point at Buck, "dumb. Three words. Simple sentence structure. I learned about that in English class."

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    Chris weaponizes his therapy homework to make his emotionally constipated dad admit he's in love with Buck.

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    22 Jun 2026