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Something In The Orange Tells Me We're Not Done by Guardian_Rose
Fandoms: Just Roll With It (Podcast)
25 Feb 2024
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Spoilers for episode 98!!
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"I don't know how to go on without him anymore, Jay."She tilts to look at him, at the ragged edges of her always haunted friend, her brother. She's so scared, so so scared. A deep, terribly dark part of her whispers:
To lose one of them is to lose them both now.
She says nothing. Squeezes Chip's hand and then Gillion's.
Together they watch the spell start to dissipate.
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He wonders who will tell Edyn. John. Caspian.
Who will tell Ollie why Chip himself is nothing but a ghost, lost as surely as Gillion.
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It's a race against the whole world for Jay and Chip as Gillion Tidestrider lies alone but for a stranger he's never met. Dying alone.
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Spoilers for up to ep 90!
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Ollie's return startled Jay enough that Chip could slip past her, finally able to look for their missing counterpart.
Gone. Was the answer. Just.
Gone.
Again.
Admittedly, down through a hole by the looks of it this time. But there was no mop of green hair spread across the surface to let Chip know Gillion had survived the fall and was cheerfully swimming his way back to them.
Not even the ripples of their impact remained far, far, far below.
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She's dozing, gazing up at the occasional star peeking through the dark night-time clouds above, when Astarion steps over her and stays there, just looking down at her. The moonlight is near vanished tonight but the firelight catches in his hair and warms his pale skin.
"I died?" She asks tentatively.
"You didn't die this time."
'This time' bounces round her skull on repeat as he takes the time she gives freely for him to put together his words.
"We were camping outside the city, in the...dream. I left you by the fire, we'd just- I knew we'd just...Hells, why is this so hard?"
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Astarion doesn't necessarily sleep but that doesn't mean he rests easy. Sometimes the mind goes to the worst case scenario and only their voice, their touch, their care is comfort enough.
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- Part 7 of Getting Through It and Getting Over It
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"What?" He snaps. "The truth not meeting your expectations? Lie to yourself, Tav, but don't you dare lie to me, I've had enough of that in my life. I thought- Gods! I honestly let myself believe you when you said you wanted to live with me, that you wanted our future. Together. But no. Of course not. Why wait until now? Why now, after everything?"
"I haven't lied to you," she repeats, knocked off balance by just how bad she has let it get, just how much she has hurt him, and, because she can barely find the courage to look at him with the guilt on her shoulders, she falls back on cursed old habits. "Astarion, my love, I have been busy, too busy, and I am sorry about that but can't we just-"
"Busy? Busy? With what, Tav? What could there possibly be left to do? What is more important than even just saying a gods damned cordial hello in passing? You know Gale came by trying to find you earlier?"
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They're miscommunicative idiots, Your Honour.
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- Part 18 of Getting Through It and Getting Over It
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"Astarion- As- Astarion- Please- Shadowheart, please, where- where is he? I need him safe, I need him here."
"He's here, Tav, see? He's here. You need to breathe for me, your lungs can't take this for much longer. You are going to knock yourself out."
Elizia looks a mess. Her babbling is worse still.
A complete and utter bedraggled mess. Cheeks stained with tears, eyes manic yet unblinking as she darts her gaze over Astarion over and over again. The loose night braids he put in earlier are sleep mussed and he can only hope she hasn't been scratching at her scars again. Shadowheart isn't restraining her wrists so he tentatively guesses not. She is clutching at her stomach though, like she's in physical pain, which she likely is. Her chest is delicate nowadays, the exertion of the panic she's drowning herself in cannot be helping.
"Snap out of it, spawn," Shadowheart hisses, not unkindly.
"Right. Sorry. Yes."
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- Part 17 of Getting Through It and Getting Over It
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I'll Make It Through The Winter If It Kills Me by Guardian_Rose
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
08 Oct 2023
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She's near tranquil when the door is opened and cold air spills in. She cracks an eye as the intruder closes it behind them.
"I locked that," she says pointedly, voice hoarse from finally having rested for the first time in days.
"And I unlocked it," Astarion replies primly.
He looks…unsure. And she hates that. She hates it so much it shreds at her insides, worsened by the fact that she is the reason he is doubting himself. How many times has he told her that she's the first person he has ever cared for? How many times has he laid himself bare to her to rip him apart or help hold him together, trusting her to be gentle, to keep him whole?
The least she can do now is do as he asked.
"Come with me," she croaks at last, "please. Stay with me whatever happens tomorrow."
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He doesn't know if it was deliberate action by Elizia or just pure luck that it's the four of them and Orpheus who make it to the brain stem together. Him, Elizia, Shadowheart, and Lae'zel. The first together at the last.
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- Part 16 of Getting Through It and Getting Over It
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"Do you remember anything, from before?"
She voices the question in the dead of night, safely ensconced in Astarion's arms, the gentle drizzle of the rain making the warmth of his tent all the cosier. He tenses a little underneath her before relaxing again.
"Not particularly, no," he answers, "why the sudden interest?"
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- Part 4 of Getting Through It and Getting Over It
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The Memory Hurts, But Does Me No Harm by Guardian_Rose
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
20 Sep 2023
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He's lengthening his stride to catch up and quietly ask her when Elizia is suddenly not on the ground and is being spun around in a circle by a very handsome, very happy drow. Who is wearing very little.
Elizia is laughing, crying to be put down weakly as she gets spun round and around. Astarion, on reflex, has a blade out ready to take his first opportunity to defend Elizia. Finally letting her go, the man hands Elizia off to a very similar looking female drow who wraps her arms around Elizia's neck and kisses her. For a good time longer than is socially respectable between close friends.
The male drow has a hand on Elizia's back still, terrifyingly low and very, very, familiar with her. Astarion stows his blade as Elizia gently pushes the woman back, saying something he can't quite make out.
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A first visit to the Sharess' Caress has Astarion remembering just how much of a life Elizia has had before the Nautiloid and before him.
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- Part 9 of Getting Through It and Getting Over It
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"Is this your way of telling me to get lost?" Halsin asks, that damnably kind twinkle in his eyes to ease any contention his words may provoke.
It's not necessary, Astarion knows where he stands with Elizia, and she with him. She's got him, and he's got her. This is part of having her back.
"No, though it is sweet of you to be so amenable if it were. But no. You need to take Tav out of the city for the night. The forest or the coast or... I don't know. Somewhere quiet. You aren't tadpoled right?"
Halsin's smile has drifted away, concern clouding his expression as he looks over to where Elizia is curled up with the owlbear near the door.
"Is she okay?"
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- Part 15 of Getting Through It and Getting Over It
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Allow The Ground To Find Its Way To Me by Guardian_Rose
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), baldur's gate 3 - Fandom
02 Sep 2023
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"Do you seriously want me to bite you this badly?'
The framing of the setting sun behind her as the tall grass and flowers part to make way for her would all make for a truly remarkable piece of art. As it is, art wouldn't holler back at him.
"Would you rather I let you starve yourself, you moron?"
He honestly doesn't know how to answer that one. So he hops the short wall and stomps through drought-wrecked wheat.
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- Part 6 of Getting Through It and Getting Over It
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43. A Bloody Kiss by Guardian_Rose
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), baldur's gate 3 - Fandom
01 Sep 2023
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"Then how could I say no?" He says, stepping forward to wrap an arm around her waist.
She threads her fingers into the softest curls at the nape of his neck and mutters her usual reply, "easily, I hope".
He always kisses her hard when they play out this routine and she's got enough of her own problems to have a good idea as to why her snark gets such a fierce reaction from him. The cut on her lip splits open again.
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For the tumblr prompt:
43. A Bloody KissSeries
- Part 2 of Getting Through It and Getting Over It
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A Charmed Life by Guardian_Rose
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), baldur's gate 3 - Fandom
31 Aug 2023
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Elizia folds in half over the railing to press an upside down kiss hello to his lips, leaving him smiling. She tucks her combed hair over her shoulder and vaults over to join him on the sofa. He holds a hand out and the comb is dropped into his grasp before she slips with grace to the floor, crossing her legs neatly. He shuffles to the side so she's sitting inbetween his legs.
"Night braids?" He asks, already splitting her hair into even halves.
"Day braids. Do you still have the clasps?"
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- Part 14 of Getting Through It and Getting Over It
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A Heart Full of Swords by Guardian_Rose
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), baldur's gate 3 - Fandom
30 Aug 2023
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"Your history is meant to be just that, history. You aren't meant to have to do this again. You- love- Elizia-"
"I'm not going to be able to kiss you for a few days after," she says. "Touch in general is likely to be off the table too."
Astarion's face hardens, closing off further than she's seen since the early days, he lets go of her. "No."
"For what it's worth, I'm sorry," she says, tone of voice cooling further with every word she has to force out. There's things he needs to hear before she returns to Haarlep. "If I time this right it shouldn't go too far but I understand if you want time, space, to re-evaluate us. Afterwards. This means nothing to me, I need you to hear that, to know that, Astarion."
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I wanted to flesh out the encounter with Haarlep in the House of Hope more 'cause it struck me as a little odd that your companions have absolutely nothing to say about it, especially if you have a partner.
The dialogue isn't accurate to the game and there isn't a lot of detail with Haarlep but it's your responsibility as a reader to consider the tags.
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- Part 13 of Getting Through It and Getting Over It
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Whatever Keeps You Around, It Keeps You Around by Guardian_Rose
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), baldur's gate 3 - Fandom
26 Aug 2023
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"It's so ugly, let me fix it!"
"Ugly is perhaps a little harsh, don't you think?"
"I can make it better, give it back." She holds a hand out, palm up, expectant. "Halsin has been giving me tips, and a new knife. I can fix it."
Astarion hides the small wooden statue behind his back as he leers at her. "Oh I am aware. It's not the only knife he'd like to give you."
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- Part 5 of Getting Through It and Getting Over It
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The Two Of Cups by Guardian_Rose
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), baldur's gate 3 - Fandom
26 Aug 2023
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"I'd say you're in trouble, my friend," Gale says ever so helpfully.
Astarion keeps his eye on the barn across camp where he'd left Elizia with Jaheira and Karlach after dinner barely an hour ago, he's watching for her approach as he snaps his book shut and drops it onto the table behind him.
Shadowheart appears at his shoulder, silent as the shadows she was named after. "Oh what have you done now?"
There's movement from the path up from Lae'zel's camp. Yes. Yep. There she is. Storming towards him, fire bright hair in those long low braids and top buns. Adorable, he remembers thinking when he first saw her. She is not quite adorable now.
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A slight mix up of cups leads to an unexpected taste test for Tav.
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- Part 8 of Getting Through It and Getting Over It
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If The Sun Shone On Us It's A Plus by Guardian_Rose
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), baldur's gate 3 - Fandom
26 Aug 2023
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She wholeheartedly expects pain in retaliation, Karlach is clearly thinking the same given her renewed writhing, but instead…
Instead, there's a scuff of shoes behind the door and a brisk knock.
"Elizia Tavaril if you have passed out after day drinking without me around to mock you, I'm going to be sorely disappointed in you. Karlach too for not fetching me."
The lock is picked. The door swings open.
She cannot see Astarion's expression as he takes in the scene before him but seconds later she can see the rigidity in his back and the fury in his movements as he rips Petras away from her, slamming him into the curtained window by a hand around his neck. A sweet sort of vengeful mimicry.
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- Part 11 of Getting Through It and Getting Over It
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Quick Tempers and Elven Hair by Guardian_Rose
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), baldur's gate 3 - Fandom
23 Aug 2023
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"You are," she grumbles into the bartop.
"Can't hear you when you're talking into a table, pet."
With a deeply felt sigh she sits up and looks him dead in his damnably impish eyes. "Yes you damn well can. You heard me call you an idiot across the bloody docks yesterday."
He smiles wishfully as if reminiscing of the moment. "I do recall you called me pretty too, though."
"I said 'at least' you're pretty. It was really much more insult than compliment."
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- Part 10 of Getting Through It and Getting Over It
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Bears Say Rawr (and apparently so do vampires) by Guardian_Rose
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), baldur's gate 3 - Fandom
23 Aug 2023
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She watches as, back to her, head tilted up to apparently better admire the taxidermied bear looming over the room, Astarion raises a hand and pretends to claw loosely at the air with another quiet fake growl.
She manages a whole three seconds before she's doubled over, wheezing with laughter, the rim of the barrel hurting her stomach but not enough to stop her leaning on it for support.
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A calm moment based on that one failed nature save
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- Part 1 of Getting Through It and Getting Over It
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At Last Fought Free by Guardian_Rose
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), baldur's gate 3 - Fandom
22 Aug 2023
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With a heave she's up and moving again, sprinting the rest of the way to the pointed outcrop Astarion is hovering above.
His nails are digging into his palms so harshly that blood, her blood made his, drips towards the floor before being sucked into the burning ray of raw magic between the markings on his back and its match engraved into the stone floor. It goes through him. She cannot imagine the agony.
And then she's blocking the connection and imagination is no longer necessary
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- Part 12 of Getting Through It and Getting Over It
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Try Not To Panic But... by Guardian_Rose
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), baldurs gate 3 - Fandom
22 Aug 2023
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"You're staring, darling," she told Astarion, deliberately mimicking his inflection on the endearment.
His scowl flickered but didn't disappear. "And you need better armour, my dear."
Elizia shrugged and started picking up their crossbow bolts, deciding to sort them later to pass them back. No doubt some could be salvaged for later use. "When you find some let me know."
He watched her wander the square following where she recalled missing shots or where soot marks on the floor denoted the death of one of the shadows, looting along the way.
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- Part 3 of Getting Through It and Getting Over It