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Message @sam
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Message @sam
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Message @abby
@ sebastian, zuzunative
Message @zuzunative
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Message @sam
@ sebastian, zuzunative
Message @zuzunative
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Message @sam
@ sebastian, zuzunative
Message @zuzunative
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Message @sam
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Message @zuzu
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Message @sam
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Message @sam
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Message @sam
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Message @zuzu
@ sebastian, sam
Message @sam
@ sebastian, zuzu
Message @zuzu
@ sebastian, sam
Message @sam
@ sebastian, zuzu
Message @zuzu
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Message #solarian chat
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Message @zuzu
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Message @sam
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Message @sam
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Message @zuzu
@ sebastian, sam
Message @sam
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Message @sam
@ sebastian, zuzu
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@ sebastian, sam
Message @sam
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Message @abby
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Message @abby
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Message @zuzu
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Message @sam
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Message @sam
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Message @sam
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@ sebastian, zuzu
Message @zuzu
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Message @sam
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Message @abby
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Message @abby
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Message @zuzu
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Message @sam
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Message @abby
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Message @sam
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Message @sam
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Message @zuzu
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Message @sam
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Message @sam
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Message @zuzu
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Message @sam
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Message @abby
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Message @sam
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Message @zuzu
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Message @zuzu
@ sebastian, abby, sam
Message ASS TRIO
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Message @sam
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Message @zuzu
@ sebastian, abby
Message @abby
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Message @zuzu
@ sebastian, abby
Message @abby
@ sebastian, zuzu
Message @zuzu
@ sebastian, sam
Message @sam
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Message @zuzu
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Message #solarian chat
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Message @zuzu
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Message @abby
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Message @sam
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Message @sam
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Message @abby
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Message @sam
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Message @zuzu
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Message @sam
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Message @sam
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Message @zuzu
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Message @abby
@ sebastian, zuzu
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Message @sam
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Message @abby
@ sebastian, sam
Message @sam
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Message @abby
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Message @maru_gadget
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Message @abby
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Message @maru_gadget
@ sebastian, zuzu
Message @zuzu
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Message @abby
@ sebastian, zuzu
Message @zuzu
@ sebastian, maru
Message @maru_gadget
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Message @zuzu
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Message @abby
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Message @sam
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Message @sam
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Message @sam
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Message @sam
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Message @sam
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Message @sam
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Message @sam
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Message @abby
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Message @zuzu
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Message @sam
@ sebastian, zuzu
Message @zuzu
@ sebastian, sam
Message @sam
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Message @abby
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Message @zuzu
@ sebastian, abby
Message @abby
@ sebastian, zuzu
Message @zuzu
@ sebastian, abby
Message @abby
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Message @zuzu
@ sebastian, sam
Message @sam
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Message @zuzu
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Message @sam
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Message @sam
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Message @abby
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Message @zuzu
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Message @zuzu
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Message @sam
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Message @abby
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Message @zuzu
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Message @abby
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Message @zuzu
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Message @abby
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Message @zuzu
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Message @sam
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Message @sam
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@ sebastian, sam
Message @sam
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Message @abby
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Message @zuzu
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Message @abby
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Message @abby
@ sebastian, sam
Message @sam
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Message @abby
@ sebastian, zuzu
Message @zuzu
@ sebastian, abby
Message @abby
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@ sebastian, sam
Message @sam
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Message @abby
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Message @zuzu
Notes:
The video games that Seb and Zuzu talk about are alternate names of games that exist irl:
- Biohazard = Resident Evil (Japanese name)
- Animal Forest = Animal Crossing (Japanese name)
- Solipsis = Halo (original title)
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Message @abby
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Message @sam
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Message @zuzu
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Message @sam
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Message @sam
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Message @zuzu
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Message @abby
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Message @zuzu
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Message @sam
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Message @abby
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Message @zuzu
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Message @abby
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Message @sam
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Message @sam
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Message @sam
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Message @sam
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Message @sam
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Message @sam
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Message @sam
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Message @sam
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Message @sam
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Message @sam
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Message @abby
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@ sebastian, abby
Message @abby
@ sebastian, sam
Message @sam
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Message @zuzu
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Message @sam
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Message @abby
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@ sebastian, abby
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@ sebastian, sam
Message @sam
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Message @zuzu
@ sebastian, sam
Message @sam
@ sebastian, zuzu
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Message @abby
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Message @zuzu
@ sebastian, sam
Message @sam
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@ sebastian, abby
Message @abby
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Message @zuzu
@ sebastian, abby
Message @abby
@ sebastian, zuzu
Message @zuzu
@ sebastian, abby
Message @abby
abby is typing...
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Message @sam
@ sebastian, abby
Message @abby
abby is typing...
@ sebastian, sam
Message @sam
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Message @zuzu
@ sebastian, sam
Message @sam
@ sebastian, abby
Message @abby
@ sebastian, sam
Message @sam
@ sebastian, abby
Message @abby
@ sebastian, sam
Message @sam
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Message @sam
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Message @sam
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Message @sam
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Message @abby
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Message @zuzu
@ sebastian, maru
Message @maru_gadget
@ sebastian, sam
Message @sam
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Message @zuzu
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Message @maru_gadget
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Message @zuzu
@ sebastian, sam
Message @sam
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Message @abby
@ sebastian, zuzu
Message @zuzu
@ sebastian, abby
Message @abby
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Message @maru_gadget
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Message @abby
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Message @zuzu
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Message @sam
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Message @sam
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@ sebastian, zuzu
Message @zuzu
@ sebastian, abby
Message @abby
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@ sebastian, abby
Message @abby
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Message @sam
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Message @sam
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Message @sam
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Message @zuzu
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Message @abby
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@ sebastian, abby
Message @abby
@ sebastian, zuzu
Message @zuzu
@ sebastian, abby
Message @abby
@ sebastian, zuzu
Message @zuzu
@ sebastian, sam
Message @sam
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Message @abby
@ sebastian, sam
Message @sam
@ sebastian, abby
Message @abby
@ sebastian, zuzu
Message @zuzu
@ ASS TRIO
Message ASS TRIO
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@ sebastian, abby
Message @abby
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Message @zuzu
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Message @sam
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Message @sam
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Message @abby
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Message @zuzu
@ sebastian, abby
Message @abby
@ sebastian, zuzu
Message @zuzu
@ sebastian, abby
Message @abby
@ sebastian, sam
Message @sam
@ sebastian, zuzu
Message @zuzu
@ sebastian, abby
Message @abby
@ sebastian, zuzu
Message @zuzu
@ sebastian, abby
Message @abby
@ sebastian, zuzu
Message @zuzu
@ sebastian, abby
Message @abby
@ sebastian, zuzu
Message @zuzu
@ sebastian, abby
Message @abby
# solarian chat: talk about all things solarion chronicles here!
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# solarian chat: talk about all things solarion chronicles here!
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@ sebastian, zuzu
Message @zuzu
@ sebastian, abby
Message @abby
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@ sebastian, abby
Message @abby
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@ sebastian, abby
Message @abby
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@ sebastian, zuzu
Message @zuzu
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@ sebastian, zuzu
Message @zuzu
@ sebastian, abby
Message @abby
@ sebastian, zuzu
Message @zuzu
@ sebastian, abby
Message @abby
@ sebastian, zuzu
Message @zuzu
@ sebastian, abby
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Notes:
I know some of you have been really looking forward to more Sam/Alex. That stuff is really going to pick up next chapter, so that's something to look forward to!! :D
Fun fact, save for Sam everyone in this group has nitro. Have I put too much thought into this fic? Possibly!!!
And on that note, thank you so, so much to everyone who has been taking the time to comment on this story each week. It means the absolute world to me!! 🥹❤️
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Message #solarian chat
@ sebastian, abby
Message @abby
@ sebastian, sam
Message @sam
@ sebastian, abby
Message @abby
# solarian chat: talk about all things solarion chronicles here!
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@ sebastian, abby
Message @abby
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Message @sam
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Message @abby
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Message @abby
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@ sebastian, abby
Message @abby
@ sebastian, zuzu
Message @zuzu
@ sebastian, abby
Message @abby
# solarian chat: talk about all things solarion chronicles here!
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@ sebastian, abby
Message @abby
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@ sebastian, abby
Message @abby
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@ sebastian, abby
Message @abby
@ sebastian, zuzu
Message @zuzu
@ sebastian, abby
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Notes:
APOLOGIES for the slightly downer ending there... they'll figure it out eventually, promise <3
Chapter 8
Notes:
We're upping the spice level with this chapter, but not even remotely close to how spicy things will get!! Also, just fyi, in this chapter especially all the typos are fully intentional 🫡
(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)
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Notes:
There is a very subtle lie that Seb tells in the end conversation between him and Zuzu. It won't become more obvious what this lie was until next week, but you can figure it out this week if you look really, really, really closely.
Chapter 9
Notes:
Last week's question about Seb's lie is given an answer right at the beginning of this chapter! Huge kudos to ActuallySoSilly for taking a magnifying glass to Seb's messages and figuring it out early!! Abby would be proud!!!
(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)
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Notes:
I'm sure it's obvious what Seb was going to say at the end there...
Has anyone figured out what the 🦐 medication is that Sam keeps referencing? It's extremely obscure Stardew knowledge so I'm very curious if anyone has pegged it!
Fun fact, this is the longest day in this fic! it takes up the whole chapter and thus took several days (!!) for me to code! The next two give this one a run for its money, but even they aren't quite as long as this one.
Another fun fact: there's a very obscure video game reference from the Persona series from Abby in today's chapter! If anyone caught it, let me know 👀
Chapter 10
Notes:
Another fun fact: It would have been impossible for me to post this whole fic as a oneshot because AO3 literally just refuses to have that many characters in one fic. Legitimately, when I first tried (for the purposes of beta-reading), AO3 gave me a message that I have never seen before:
We salute your ambition! But sadly the content must be less than 500000 characters long. (Maybe you want to create a multi-chaptered work?)
The most I could post at a time was a few days (depending on their length). This day, for example (much like the last and the one that will follow), is so long that it cannot be posted with any other days. there is THAT MUCH coding. I actually considered changing up the coding at one point into a look that was a good bit more elaborate but that actually would have been too many characters and wouldn't have fit!
(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)
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Notes:
One of my favorite things in writing this fic was making it essentially be the very opposite of therapy speak. Even when characters give each other advice (especially when characters give each other advice tbh) their own personal views and biases leak through and end up affecting how they communicate with others. In this way, all of Seb's friends fill wildly different roles for him!
Chapter 11
Notes:
(See the end of the chapter for notes.)
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Notes:
And with this we conclude the three longest days in this fic! Penny may have... seen some things… 👀
Fun fact: The Winter Star assignments were entirely randomized! I set up a spreadsheet for this fic that would allow me to randomize results for different things. For example, when everyone played the King's Game and then Seven Minutes in Heaven in chapter 5, I also randomized all of those results and acted accordingly to see who would do what with whom in that order. In the instance of Seven Minutes in Heaven, the farmer would have had things to say to any of them!! She just happened to end up with Seb and so of course they made out :D
Chapter 12
Notes:
So! As it turns out, AO3 set comments on this fic to "registered only" by default. I was entirely unaware of this until some people in comments mentioned having made an account just to comment. To those people, I am so fucking sorry that my fic made you jump through those hoops!! You can now comment without an account!!! I lovelovelove all of your comments so much, the last thing I want is to gatekeep there!!
(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)
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Notes:
Sorry for the emotional distress... they unfortunately did have to make it over this particular hill, painful as it may have been...
Also, as Seb mentioned, his typing does indeed change depending on his level of distress! I did my best to craft voices for everyone in this fic via typing styles, and any inconsistencies in that are entirely deliberate and usually indicative of something plot relevant!
Chapter 13
Notes:
Fun fact! This fic is spread out over no fewer than fifty google docs to keep their size manageable and also to keep them organized (much-needed). They're also all color-coded! (Which is the only thing that made it even remotely possible to code all of it.) I always write my fics in a color other than black, but here every chat got its own color :D
(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)
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Notes:
And with that, we've hit the title drop! Just two more chapters to go. Some of you may have noticed that the big relationships in this fic all sort of... mirror each other, namely Seb/Zuzu, Sam/Alex, and Seb and Maru. There's an obstacle to overcome in all those instances, but once they do, joy is waiting for them on the other side ♥
Stardew supernerds: there's something in this chapter that links to something pretty obscure in canon. What is it! 👀
Chapter 14
Notes:
Eagle-eyed viewers will have noticed that Maru's display name has changed in a few places (something similar happened in the last chapter as well) and that Seb's writing stylistically changes depending on how he's feeling emotionally 👀 fun fact, this is the longest chapter in the fic (closely followed by next week's chapter)!
(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)
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Notes:
This is your friendly reminder that this fic does have a happy ending tag attached to it. Apologies for the week-long wait before a resolution, I have anticipated how much everyone is going to be upset with me after I post this chapter for some time now ❤️
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He'd already been asleep by the time that Zuzu had sought to erase any trace of her existence, and insomnia meant waking up at four in the morning in a cold sweat only to see the messages. The notifications.
How long has it been since then? The ceiling looks no more friendly than it did two hours ago—or maybe two minutes ago.
Time has ceased to exist entirely.
It's still dark out by the time that he finds himself outside and in the rain, his feet carrying him to the farm. His steps are slow and sluggish, but he hardly feels like he's making them of his own accord, his heart leashed only to be led there like a dog.
He is nothing if not loyal and true.
A part of him is half-worried that he dreamt up the farmer's existence altogether. That he's about to step foot on the farm only to find it in disrepair, deserted.
But it isn't.
Several coffee bean plants look ready to be harvested, and the slow beginnings of strawberries seem to have made themselves at home in her garden. Another plant, far taller than the others, has been growing along a trellis. Green beans, maybe.
Everywhere else, new life flourishes. Plants he couldn't possibly recognize grow in well-organized rows as though nothing had happened at all.
Did he truly have so little of an impact on her? He's felt like a mess over the last week, and meanwhile...
He decides to try knocking, steps leaden as he moves up to her front door.
Knock.
Knock.
He hesitates for a beat.
Knock.
Nothing. Not even subtle sounds of movement inside. Only a faint meowing, as though he woke her cat with the noise.
She wouldn't abandon her cat. That comes as a small consolation, if nothing else. She's still here, even if she is just out of reach from him.
A little after six in the morning. She normally wakes that early, doesn't she?
The people who don't wake up that early are his best friends, generally sleeping at least until nine or ten before getting up. On rainy days, Sam is almost always guaranteed to be sleeping in later than usual.
He could knock on his window, maybe. Sam might end up thinking that Alex came by for another booty call, but that's only if he actually hears the knocking and wakes in the first place. And he knows his best friend could sleep through anything.
His steps slow as he approaches the house. What was it that Zuzu had said?
all the more so after one of his best friends figured it out
right at the beginning, too
Sam's always been terrible at keeping secrets. If he had figured it out, he would never have been able to keep it to himself. Maybe—
"You're up early."
Shane. One of the few people awake at this hour.
"Headed to work?" he asks, the words leaving him as if on autopilot.
"Mm. Good ol' JojaFart." Shane lets out a sigh. "Nothing quite like stocking and restocking shelves every day. It's not enough that I already do that every day, this week I get to look forward to playing vendor at the desert festival too."
Fuck. That's right. That is this week, isn't it? The bus got fixed up. Before last night, he and his friends had been planning on going. Now...
Maybe he just won't go. He's been living in the basement for so long. Returning there will feel like a comfort, really.
Maybe.
For a split second, Sebastian feels Shane's eyes on him, longer than he's usually comfortable with people staring at him.
"No offense, I know I'm hardly one to talk, but... you don't look so good."
"Mm."
"I hear ya. Just gotta sleep it off if you can. Would if I could."
"Right."
"See ya."
He watches Shane walk off, feeling no less numb than before. What was he thinking about just a moment ago?
Abby. Abby must have figured it out.
As if on cue, several things ratchet into place all at once. Abby's strange behavior at times, the way she'd taunt Zuzu in the chat in ways he could never decipher before.
He's at the general store's front door before he realizes what time it is, Sebastian feeling himself freeze. Fuck.
The bulletin board to the left of the door has a few requests posted on it, Dr. Harvey asking for some kind of fish to alleviate knee pain and Clint asking for a grape so he might make a taco. To the left, the calendar shows that it's Haley's birthday today, which is inconvenient.
The door opens as if out of nowhere, Sebastian startling out of his brief reverie as he turns to look at Pierre.
"Huh?"
"I asked if you wanted to come in? No point just standing around outside, especially if you're here to buy!"
The laugh that leaves Pierre barely even reaches Sebastian's ears as he follows him inside of the store.
"I'm not... uh."
"You take your time now. Don't mind me just doing my inventory." Pierre claps him on the shoulder before going to sit behind the counter.
"Right." Hesitating for a beat, Sebastian steps away from the aisles he was unceremoniously led to, albeit somewhat awkwardly. To his left sits produce—the farmer's produce, if he's not mistaken—at a ten times markup. "I'm actually here to talk to Abigail."
"I see..."
Pierre really shouldn't look that eager to guilt-trip him. The despondent stare cast down on the ground, the unnecessarily dragged-out sigh, the impatient rapping of his nails on the counter.
"I'm just... gonna go," Sebastian mutters, making his way to the door, hearing Pierre saying something about how she'll still be asleep.
Yeah, he knows.
"Abigail, dear, is that you?"
As tempted as he was to just start knocking on Abby's door until she woke up, Caroline's voice stops him short, and he steps out of the hallway into the vast, mostly empty living room.
"Sorry, it's just... me. Sebastian."
"Oh, Robin's kid. You must be here to see Abigail." A beat passes. "I don't suppose you want a towel?"
Shit. One glance down finds him leaking onto the wooden parquet flooring. Sebastian looks a bit sheepish, suddenly desperate to more effectively hide behind his hair. "Only if it's no trouble."
Shaking her head, she goes to grab one for him to dry himself off with. The bare minimum, maybe, but even so. Better than nothing.
"You can tell me if I'm overstepping here, but you seem a bit out of sorts. I assume that's why you're here to talk to Abby?"
"Uh. Yeah."
"I can wake her up if you'd like, though she does usually wake up around this time..."
"I don't mind waiting."
"The farmer usually just goes on in even if Abby is still asleep, so I doubt she'd be too upset if you did the same."
Right. The farmer is dear to everyone in this town. Not just him. She's everywhere, impossible to forget. It's—
His phone lights up in his hand.
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Ah. Caroline disappeared. Presumably she finished their conversation for them, and he just didn't notice.
Knocking on Abby's door, he doesn't wait for an answer before opening it, Abby's voice calling out as he steps in.
"Uh, hi? Still in bed but come in I guess?"
"You knew."
Movement. Abby clambers out of bed to walk over. "What?"
"About Zuzu. The farmer."
She doesn't have to confirm it for him, he can see it written all over her face.
"... yeah. And I assume this means you also know."
"She told me."
"You know, I really wanted to be jumping for joy when this finally happened, because it would have meant that I could finally be free, but this feels... bad."
"Uh-huh."
Allowing himself to lean back against the door, he slides down, down, down. To his old friend, the floor.
"I'm going to call Sam."
"He's not going to be awake yet, it's raining."
"Ughhhhhh, of course. Well, we can call him once he's awake."
Watching her look at her phone, Sebastian catches sight of the way her eyes widen as she swipes on the screen. "She what?!"
"Left. Every. Server." Letting his head drop back against the door to punctuate every word, he closes his eyes. "Didn't open her door either. That was the first place I went."
"I didn't think she was going to just burn every bridge here, what the hell is this?"
"Why didn't you tell me?"
"Because I'm a good friend."
"What?"
"You asked me not to. Do you have any idea how many times I tried to bait you into realizing? Vaguely alluding to shit in the hopes that you might put two and two together? Because it was not fucking fun!"
"Sorry, I guess."
A rolled up pair of socks hits him on the side of his head, Abigail letting out a huff. "Nope, not going down that road. It's past ten; I'm calling Sam."
"Sure."
Why didn't he get high before this? That would have helped.
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"Well, at least Haley hasn't changed."
"Sam's on his way. I haven't told him what's going on yet."
"Great."
Abby clears her throat. "You do realize that he's gonna have to come in through that door, right?"
Letting out a pathetic little whine, Sebastian drags himself further into the room, far enough to starfish out on the floor.
This ceiling doesn't look any friendlier than his own in his current state.
"I see you're doing great. Guess we're hanging on the floor now?"
"Mm."
"I honestly wanted to tell you so fucking bad. I tried to push Zuzu in the right direction, but... she knew this fallout would hit at one point and she really thought that she wouldn't be able to undo any of the damage."
"I mean, I don't—"
The door opens, a wet Sam stepping in, clearly breathless.
"Whew! Abby said that it was an emergency, so I came here as fast as I could!"
"Even put your shirt on backwards."
"Aw, man!" Joining them on the floor, Sam pulls off his jeans jacket before scrambling to right his shirt. "Anyway, what's going on?"
"The farmer and Zuzu are the same person," Abby says, as if it's really that simple.
"What?" It's something of a relief that Sam sounds exactly as shocked as he expected him to be.
"She left the server and every single group chat."
Out of his periphery, Seb can see Abby nod at his words. "Yes, that too."
"And now she's not talking to me anymore."
That catches Abby's attention. "Wait, really?"
"Can't even message her anymore. I tried going over to her house, but she didn't answer the door. Doubt you'd be able to message her either."
"Shit," Sam mutters, running a hand through his hair. "How didn't we notice?"
"Abby did."
"Yeah, none of the messages are going through," she says, allowing herself to lean back against her dresser. "She really went and burned every bridge including the one out of town."
Fuck. He hopes not. He hopes she won't just run from this, from him.
"It's kinda weird. I'm not even... that angry about it. Just kind of sad."
A guinea pig is unceremoniously placed onto his chest, Sebastian watching David's little nose wiggle.
"Thanks?"
Abby nods. "David always makes me feel better. And since we all know that experiences are universal..."
"It's like, she's everything I ever wanted," he continues, one hand now absently petting David. "I was so worried about choosing one of them, and now it turns out they're the same girl. Like, I had dreams where that was the case and I remember being so fucking happy in those. But I—"
"She did lie to you."
"Is it bad that I don't give a shit about that? I spent so long lying to her outright or by omission and I felt like such shit about it and now I don't have to anymore." A sigh leaves him, heavy. His lungs feel leaden. "Nothing happened between me and the farmer, Zuzu, don't worry! We definitely didn't make out within an inch of our lives or anything. Fucking hell, I feel like a moron."
"Nah man, you shouldn't," Sam tells him, with all the conviction in the world. "You know I didn't realize either, right?"
"Penny figured it out, I think," Abby says, grabbing an amethyst from out of a box labeled Gifts From The Farmer. "Not sure though. We'd need to ask her."
"All that time, she knew I was lying to her. And it didn't change a fucking thing. She just... was okay with it? Because she was also lying, I guess? Fuck." Running his free hand down his face, he catches sight of Abby breaking off a sliver of amethyst to toss in her mouth to Sam's considerable shock and horror.
Crunch, crunch, crunch.
In record time, the horror fades, Sam visibly shrugging before picking at a thread on his jacket. "That musta sucked for her, huh."
"Sam. We're prioritizing Seb right now."
Feeling himself shake his head, he pulls a face. "No, I keep thinking about that too. How much this must've hurt her. And I—I can't even tell the girl I love that it's fine, that I don't care, that I just want to hold her and make her feel better because she won't let herself fucking talk to me!"
That got a bit loud.
His free hand lands, fist side down, on Abby's carpet. Harder than he'd intended, though the thud is no less dull and empty for the force behind it.
Abby raises a brow, infinitely skeptical as she regards him. "You really should be angrier, you know."
"Yeah, well. I'm not. So fuck me, I guess."
"What if she's just worried that you'd be mad? Like I assume you didn't shout I LOVE YOU in her window or something earlier."
"No, Sam."
"Maybe write her a letter?" Abby tosses out. "Or just lie in wait here at the shop until she comes by to buy more seeds. You can share sleeping quarters with David."
"Gee, thanks. Unfortunately that's only relevant if she does actually want to buy more seeds."
"What?" Sam blinks. "She's gotta, right? In Summer at the latest, I guess. Though I guess she might have a seed maker? Man..."
"What if she leaves," he hears himself blurt out, his chest tight. "What if I don't even get a chance to talk to her?"
"She's not gonna just leave, bro. She kinda lives here."
"She didn't always." He slings his hand over his eyes, letting out a withering sound. "Fuck."
"Look, just... start with the letter, yeah? We can always see how things go from there."
The days flow together after that, one blending seamlessly into another. He doesn't sleep much, and when he does it's fitful at best.
His friends drag him out to the desert festival, insisting that it would get his mind off things, but it doesn't prove particularly helpful.
He spends time with a flamingo and gets a sunburn. As far as he's concerned, that's enough.
"You could just break her door down," Sam helpfully supplies at one point while they're hanging out in his room, Sebastian sprawled out on his bed. "Maybe she doesn't know you wanna talk to her."
"I sent a letter."
"Maybe she didn't read it," Sam says, offering a shrug. "You never know."
The worst part is that Sam is right. It's far from the first time that he's considered it, too.
"I don't want to force myself on her if she doesn't want me."
He's not sure what's worse: that Sam gets it, or that he stops pushing him.
"Yeah," he just says, slumping back against the side of his bed with a sigh. "I get that."
No! a part of him wants to scream. Tell me to keep fighting. Tell me, tell me, that it's not all hopeless, that she wants to see me, please--
Abby's seen her, of course. Sam too. Everyone has except for him, or so it seems. As though she only insisted on disappearing from his life.
"It's not like that," Abby insists one day while squarely planted on his couch. "She's been avoiding people, I think. Keeping her head down. Penny tried to talk to her when she saw her in town and she all but fled. On the verge of crying, according to her."
Hearsay from secondary sources. As unreliable as it sounds, he wants to believe it. That she's missing him too, that he's not alone in feeling like this.
She'd transformed his life into a technicolor one, flooded with colors only to later withdraw them all when she exited his life. Bit by bit, tugging at the threads of each until he's sure to unravel entirely.
But maybe that's just wishful thinking, when all that's happening is a return to how his life was before.
He watches colors drain from around him, leaving his life in grayscale.
And him, powerless to stop it.
"Maybe you could text her," Penny supplies rather helpfully one day, having stumbled across him in the rain. "I doubt that she'd care so little as to block your number."
"Mm," he says in response, but stores it away for another rainy day.
But then, the next day ends up rainy, as does the one after that. In a way, it feels like a sign, the weather eager to reflect the storm in his mind.
"Sebastian?" his mother's voice rings out from upstairs. "There's a letter here for you!"
A letter. Who would write him a letter if not Zuzu?
Rushing upstairs, taking them two at a time, he's half-out of breath by the time he comes face to face with the letter—and his mother's hand attached to it.
"Is it—?"
"It's your mail, Sebby, you know I wouldn't open it. It just had your name on it, nothing else."
Sure enough, just his name.
"Thanks, mom."
He's about to head back downstairs when he hears his mother's voice stall him.
"Sebby... I obviously have no idea what's going on that's had you so depressed, but if you want to talk..."
"I know." Does he? His grip tightens on the letter. "Thanks, mom."
His mom looks disappointed, but he can live with that right now, when he just needs to open this letter.
Absolution or heartbreak. Did his messages reach her?
Wait—money?
True enough, paper bills amounting to thirty-thousand gold sit unassumingly in the envelope.
What?
What could he possibly need money for in this instance?
Getting his shoes on, he all but races out the door, rushing up to the train tracks. If she's there—if she'll just talk to him—
There is indeed a cave where she told him to go, and a part of him wonders why he never noticed the gaping hole there before. Then again... didn't it look different when he saw it last?
Not that it matters. Under normal circumstances, he might be more interested, might ask his friends to investigate with him, but as it is he really doesn't care.
So much so that when he sees the glyph Zuzu mentioned, he doesn't even hesitate to step on it, closing his eyes.
Maybe, maybe, she'll be on the other side.
She's not, of course. No one is. He's alone.
The place is unlike any he's ever seen before, a strange swamp-like area of nothing more than a singular path forward, toward a house.
The metaphor at play here isn't lost on him. There's only one place to go: forward.
The hut is smaller than he expected it to be, looking at it from outside. Then again, it's possible that might just be his mother's magic at work, always managing to somehow make things bigger on the inside.
More importantly, Zuzu isn't in here either.
What draws his attention more acutely, however, are the three shrines straight ahead, just as Zuzu said there would be.
Dark Shrine of Memory, the middle one reads upon its front, Sebastian's stomach dropping.
He has a bad feeling about this.
The voice that greets him upon his approach sends chills down his spine.
The relationship between you and your former significant other will be wiped from memory. It will be like you've never met. Would you like to make an offering of 30,000g?
Staggering back, Sebastian manages to trip over his own feet only to land squarely on his ass.
What?
What?
If this is what Zuzu was trying to lead him toward, forward was a mistake.
It barely registers with him what he's doing, not until he's halfway down the path, stumbling more than running.
The glyph takes him back, and Seb feels himself crumble against the wall.
Down, down, down.
The floor here in this dark, dank little cave isn't a friend, holding only the promise of nothing, a way to rewind all of the joy and happiness he'd managed to collect over the last few seasons with her.
Would this erase her memories of him too? Is this really, truly, what she wants?
A sound leaves him, raw and guttural, before he realizes that he's started tearing up.
That he suddenly can't stop tearing up.
Grabbing her letter, he fumbles around his pockets for a pen or pencil or anything similar—even charcoal would do in his current state, he thinks—and finds one. Small, stumpy, barely still capable of writing, its eraser worn down to the point of being nearly concave.
And it's good enough.
He leaves it face-up on her doormat for her to find, the envelope of money underneath it.
She doesn't respond.
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"Where is Sam, anyway? Wasn't he excited for you to kick his ass at pool? I thought he was gonna come in with you two."
Friday night at the Stardrop Saloon is already in full swing by the time he and Maru arrive, Abby and Penny having already claimed the sofa for themselves.
"We thought he'd be here," Sebastian says with a noncommittal shrug even as his gaze keeps drifting toward the door. It's a Friday. She always came here for Fridays before, even if circumstances feel a little different now. Maybe she'll come anyway.
Maybe, maybe.
"You know, I've never been in here," Maru tells him, moving to sit on the other couch before patting the spot beside her. "It is pretty cozy."
"Mom and Demeterius seem to like it."
"Mom looked pretty surprised when she saw us come in, I don't know if you saw."
He shakes his head. Even now, his gaze keeps darting to the door.
"Seriously," Maru starts, her voice dropping. "Do you want me to go talk to her?"
"Who, the farmer?" Another shake of his head. "Won't do anything. If she doesn't want to—"
"Seb," Maru says, cutting him off as her hand hovers over his arm. "I'm pretty sure she's just scared."
He wants to argue the point—no, she just doesn't want him, no, she's not the type to get scared, no, you didn't see her letter where she wanted me to erase my memories of her—but finds his tongue refusing to form the words. Is he really so desperate to believe what Maru is saying? A sigh leaves him, heavy.
"Seriously, where the fuck is Sam?" Abby blurts out beside him, Sebastian pulling his phone out of his pocket.
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"He probably got distracted again," Abby mutters.
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"Is there a reason you're talking in the discord chat instead of out loud?" Sebastian asks, looking at the two of them in utter bafflement.
"So Sam can read our messages, of course!" Penny tells him, all smiles.
"Should we go check on him?" Abby asks after a moment spent chewing on her lower lip, only for any other words to dissipate like smoke as the door opens, a few people stepping in. Leah, Willy, Clint...
"Actually, you go check on him," Abby says, getting up and leaving Maru to take her place beside Penny.
"Fine." Maybe the fresh air will do him good. Zuzu's not here, so chances are good that staying would just depress him more with every single new person that shows up that isn't her.
Spring has always been temperate in the valley, but right now it feels like there's a chill running through him all the same. If Sam did get distracted, it wouldn't be the end of the world. His house is close, a mere ten minutes' walk away, and maybe, just maybe, he might end up coming across Zuzu like this.
Instead, he finds Sam and Alex, little fingers linked as they make their way down Willow Lane, both looking much happier than usual.
The same sort of happiness that he saw in the mirror not too long ago.
"Seb!" Sam's happiness seems to expand further to also encompass excitement as he waves to him, Alex looking more than a little sheepish.
"Hey," he says, and leaves it at that.
Which suits him just fine.
Sebastian turns his attention back to Sam after offering Alex a nod in return. "Everyone's wondering about what's been keeping you. I guess I got my answer."
"Aw man, yeah! Sorry 'bout that, we got uh... a bit distracted."
"Figured." Judging by how sheepish Sam also looks now, he can imagine how they might have gotten distracted.
"Is everyone else already at the saloon?"
"Mm." No, not everyone, he thinks, and bites down on his tongue to keep from blurting out his thoughts. "Yeah."
"All right! Wanna go tell everyone what happened?" Sam asks, and Sebastian watches as any last remaining vestiges of shame seem to leave Alex's body at the sight of Sam's excited smile.
"Ah, what the hell. Yeah, let's do it. Better we tell 'em instead of... the gossip mill."
"Hell yeah!"
Well, at least he won't have to feel like a third wheel back at the saloon.
More like a seventh wheel, if anything—one long missing its partner.
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"God, I've always hated these stupid jumpsuits."
Even after their arrival, his mother didn't stop fussing over his and Maru's outfits, his own tight as could be and about as uncomfortable. In a way, it's a sensory nightmare. Not only do the tags and the fabric itch, nothing feels like it fits right until he's hyper aware of his body in ways he always hopes never to be.
"Ready for a flood?" Abby asks Sam as they make their way over to the far side of the festival grounds, Sebastian glancing down at his own legs.
No, he looks fine. It's just Sam that seems affected, beanpole that he is, his socks widely visible all around.
"Are those ducks?" he hears himself asking, Sam offering a noncommittal shrug.
"Hell yeah! I like 'em. Might as well show 'em off, right?"
"Starting to think that all of these outfits are one-size-fits-all." Which means it could be worse. Sebastian shudders.
"It's why all my muscles end up getting shown off," Alex announces from behind him, clasping him on the shoulder.
"Right."
"What are all the pairings again?" Abby asks, nodding toward the green dance floor not far from them. "Since it's different this year."
The conversation trails off from there, back to Abby's debate—argument, really—with Mayor Lewis about their assigned dance partners. The whole thing was too rigid and comphet, Abby had insisted while Sebastian had kept his mouth shut. Mayor Lewis hadn't been a fan, but somehow, Abby had convinced him. In truth, he'd stopped listening by that point.
This would be the first time that he wouldn't be dancing with Abby. She wanted to dance with Leah. His sister wanted to dance with her best friend, and of course his best friend wanted to dance with his boyfriend. Haley had insisted that they dance together, but that would have been a bad idea no matter the circumstances, so Sebastian agreed to dance with Shane.
One of the few people he knew that wouldn't care whatsoever if they were replaced by a surprise appearance by the farmer.
Not that he's expecting it. Hope springs eternal, but he's always been good at building dams and helping his mother fix up leaks.
The sun is playing tricks on him, that much he knows. Every few moments he thinks he catches sight of her in her incredibly mismatched clothes because, for some reason, no one thought to send her an appropriate outfit for the event—or to even tell her what she might want to wear.
At least there's food here, if nothing else.
"Um, hello? Seb, are you still in there?"
"Hm?" he asks, eyes adjusting to reality once more as he looks at Abby. "What?"
"You okay?"
"Yeah, fine. Just... thinking about... stuff."
"Well, the dance is about to start, so... maybe keep thinking about stuff over there?"
"Sure."
He feels like a fool. His friends lead him over to the dancing area, as though he couldn't have managed himself, and he's left to wonder if he wasn't actually half-convinced that she would show up. That that's why this hurts so bad.
After all, she's not here. One last chance with her denied to him.
"Hey, man. Bummer to have to stop eating just to come dance over here, huh."
Shane's words barely register with him, Sebastian slowly nodding all the same. Mayor Lewis is droning on about tradition or something like it...
"Seb," Abby hisses, eyes wide as she frantically gestures to get his attention. "Seb! Look!"
Her words, despite being mostly through clenched teeth, get the job done as she frantically waves her hand behind him, Seb turning to look—
A vision in white, flower crown on her head. She's still a ways away, but Sebastian couldn't care less about the dance right now.
Somewhere in the distance, elsewhere in this ocean where they are surely the only fish left, his ears pick up on the dull sound of Marnie speaking with Mayor Lewis.
"Well, that's my cue to leave. Have fun, dude," Shane tells him, patting him on the shoulder before stepping aside to join the others around the circle.
A part of him is envious. Right now, he wants nothing more than to blow off the dance and talk to Zuzu, but—no.
She even got dressed up for it.
"Well, it may be somewhat unusual, but I would never wish for us to deny an entrance to our dear local farmer, and after such a tremendous achievement as well..."
He's not listening, instead just watching her take Shane's place.
"Are you really okay with dancing with me?"
"What?"
"Is this okay?" she asks again, voice softer this time, sounding fragile enough that he has to fight the urge to hold her.
"Seb?"
"Yes. I mean—yeah. Yeah."
"Okay."
The steps are easy enough, Sebastian finding himself almost grateful to have practiced them so often and over so many years.
Why is she here? Why did she come at all? Surely not just to say goodbye.
Surely—
The dance is over in a heartbeat of proximity and an eternity of overthinking. The crowd around them claps and the other couples disperse. Mayor Lewis thanks the farmer personally for showing up.
All the while, Sebastian feels rooted to the spot.
"Why?" he finally hears himself blurt out once they're finally alone—or at least somewhat more so. "Why—"
Her hands are wrapped around his a second later.
"Will you go somewhere with me? I know I have no right to ask anything of y—"
"Yes."
For a moment, she looks like she can hardly believe his agreement. Then, her expression softens.
"It's a nice little spot. You'll like it."
They don't speak while she leads him through the forest, as if one word from him could dispel the magic and make her disappear again, never to be seen again.
Instead of risking it, he waits.
Through Cindersnap Forest, past the Wizard's Tower, past the lake—
He doesn't dare breathe again until they emerge in a strange sort of glade, quiet and peaceful and possibly the most beautiful place he's ever seen.
"Just a little farther... I met a bear here once after I found a note asking me to bring some maple syrup here. Taught me all about berries."
A plaid blanket has been laid out in an area with a few ruins, among them a strange, rather surprised-looking statue and a basket.
"Come sit."
An undeniable weight hangs in the air, the only reminder that this isn't just another outing with the farmer like the ones they used to have.
Even so, he sits, Zuzu joining him only for her smile to fade. She looks almost as lost as he feels.
"I don't know what to say," she admits, her voice soft. It's the first time he's seen the farmer and Zuzu blend into the same person. He only ever saw the farmer as confident and unflappable save for the times that she ended up crying, but even then her suffering was silent. The lack of certainty here in her eyes and voice now, her reluctance to even look him in the eyes, that's all Zuzu.
"Are you really moving back to the city?"
"I—" She stops, pulling off her flower crown to place in her lap, fingers idly fidgeting with the petals. "Maybe. I didn't know that you'd heard about that."
"It's Pelican Town. News travels pretty fast."
"I just told Mayor Lewis that I was thinking about it, but I suppose he ran with it. If I stayed, and you hated me—"
"I don't." The words tumble out of his mouth fast enough for his tongue to nearly trip over them, Sebastian reaching out to grab hold of her arm. "I don't hate you at all. You know that, right?"
"You should hate me. Do you know—" He watches her all but curl in on herself, knees tucked in under her chin. "At first it felt like such a... convenient way to get to know you, cheese my way into your heart somehow. Like just by being able to talk to you online, it meant that I more or less had access to a website detailing everything about you, the sorts of things you liked and disliked, what to say and do to make you want to spend time with me."
"You didn't need to do any of that. I already liked you."
Her smile is wry. "Do you remember how you talked to me about the farmer at first? Abby and Sam both insisted that you liked me, but you had me half-convinced that it was actually the opposite. Talking to you online felt like a lifeline, the only way that I could make sure that I'd make a decent impression. I just didn't expect..."
She hadn't expected them to fall in love. It makes sense. Sebastian sighs.
"And then Abby figured it out," she continues, still not quite looking at him. Then again, this is about her, rather different from her usual interactions with him and the other people in town. "She waited a while before letting on to the fact that she knew. Just subtle things in chat. It took me a good bit of time to work up the courage to message her about it. She kept trying to push me to tell you, but I just—I couldn't—"
Tears. The last thing he expected to see here. Hadn't she wanted for them to forget each other? Was this why?
She's in his arms in an instant, Sebastian drawing her close. When her arms wrap around him in turn, he feels like he's won the world.
"I'm not mad, all right? I promise. I'm not going anywhere."
"You should be mad," she whispers through hiccupped tears, his shoulder slowly but surely getting damp. "I have no idea how you're not. I thought you hated me."
Her words startle him into drawing back to look at her, Sebastian taking her face in his hands as he stares. Even now, eyes red-rimmed and swollen, she's still stunning. "What are you talking about? Didn't you read my messages? My letters?"
"... some," she admits, her gaze still downcast. Normally he's the one who avoids eye contact, but now it's almost like looking in a mirror. "I didn't dare read anything at first. I just turned off my phone, shut down my laptop, ignored my mailbox, and cried my way through my chores. Then you left that message on my doormat, and—"
"Yeah, actually, what the fuck was that about? Why the hell would I want to forget you?"
She hesitates for just a moment, still not looking at him when she opens her mouth to speak. "I tried so hard to push you away toward the end in the few days leading up to the concert. And I know how badly you've been hurt—all your life. Knowing that I only added to that hurt—if you wanted an out, some way to escape it, I wanted you to have it. And—selfishly, because I knew it would maybe let me... stay here with you, without the pain of you hating me."
That reply of his had been worded rather harshly, hadn't it?
"But then you said no, and I thought... I can't live like this. I thought I could, maybe, but not if—I'm not strong enough for that. I couldn't go to see your mother for help upgrading any of my buildings because even thinking about taking the mountain pass up there was enough to make me start crying." She takes in a shuddered breath, still fighting back tears. "And then I needed—if I was going to skip town, I would have to call people. So I turned my phone on again, even though I really didn't want to. And your messages came flooding in. I tried to look away, but I still ended up seeing a few of them. About how you deserved to see me, and how you'd be at the flower dance. And I thought—I thought maybe, if it's at the flower dance, maybe there's a chance."
More than.
His hand cups her cheek again, Sebastian allowing his forehead to rest against hers. "When all this is over, you can... go back and look at those messages. I promise you, they're not angry. Not at all. Just like I'm not angry."
"I don't deserve you," she whispers, Sebastian feeling himself smile for the first time in ages.
"Don't be silly. I lied to you too, remember? About... yourself, incidentally."
It's the first time he's heard her laugh in weeks, his whole chest seeming to alight at the sound.
"This has all been so—I'm so sorry, Sebastian."
He shakes his head, a laugh escaping him in turn. "No—no. None of that. Just promise me you won't go."
"But—what about Zuzu City? Didn't you want to leave the valley?"
The city. Fuck, it's been ages since he even thought about that. "Not anymore. Not to be corny, but you're the only Zuzu I need. The only one I want."
"The only one you want to be in?"
He can feel the warmth spread across his cheeks, his smile widening. "Definitely." His thumb trails over her cheekbone, a sigh of relief escaping him. "I love you, all right? I don't want anyone else. Just you. You're everything I ever wanted."
"I love you too."
Not even a beat of hesitation.
"I actually had this... whole picnic set up for us here, just in case things went well, but... if you want, I would much rather be doing something else."
"What?" It takes a few seconds for the words to fully sink in, Sebastian feeling his eyes widen. "Oh!"
"At home and in bed, maybe."
"No, yeah—I mean, yes. Absolutely. Can we?"
She laughs, her smile wider than he thinks he's ever seen it before. "Come on. It's not far. An hour's walk at most."
She leads him, her hand wrapped around his, and Sebastian isn't sure that anything else in the world even still exists other than the two of them, barely even noticing the family of raccoons they pass by on their way to the farm.
A tinge of worry courses through him at the sight of her house, tempering his excitement somewhat as they pass through rows and rows of crops. He has a lot to live up to, doesn't he? After all their conversations...
What if he fucks it all up? Now, at the finish line of all places.
She knows he's a virgin, of course, that his only experience thus far has been with her, so really, she's probably expecting it. Maybe he can promise to get better? Practice making perfect...
The door closes behind them and the thoughts disappear with her mouth on his. This, they've already done together. This, he already knows he's good at.
It occurs to him—vaguely, distantly—that he's never been in her house before. His mother has even expanded it already, and yet the only time he ever took a trip out here was after... well. While he was in a fugue state.
And he certainly didn't make it inside her house at the time.
She draws back, just long enough to pull off her dress before she's back in his arms, the two of them half-stumbling toward the bedroom with her guidance.
Once more, she briefly breaks from their kiss to keep undressing, her smile small. "You too?"
There's a girl in front of him, naked save for her underwear, vast expanses of thighs and belly, chest and arms all visible to him, exposed all at once.
"Seb?"
"Buh," he hears himself say before regaining speech again for half a heartbeat. "Just—sorry. Looking at you."
It's hard not to, in truth.
"You know you can do more than just look, right?"
Swallowing hard, he steps closer to her, his fingertips brushing over the tops of her breasts, the parts peeking out from beneath her bra.
Her eyes are closed, lips slightly parted, and for a moment he wants nothing more than to touch.
One hand slides down her front—between her breasts and lower, moving over her belly—only to settle at her hip. The other hand...
His thumb touches on her lower lip, and—for some inconceivable reason that he can only chalk up to equal parts luck and how amazing she is—she opens her mouth.
The thumb slides in, Sebastian watching as Zuzu wraps her tongue around it, sucks, and opens her eyes to look at him.
An almost compulsive need grips him then, Sebastian withdrawing his finger only to reclaim her mouth with his own, desperately hungry for more of her. Somehow, her hands don't remain idle through their kiss—instead, they find his belt buckle to undo, his pants quick to fall around his ankles.
This is actually happening.
His shoes are all but kicked off, followed by the pants. In truth, even if he was wearing his normal clothes, he wouldn't be able to get out of them fast enough in a scenario such as this one. In this instance, however, he's wearing the worst garment known to man, and the prospect of freedom is a welcome one.
They should have taken the time to change after, maybe. But—at the time, he couldn't have given less of a shit.
The jacket is tugged off fast enough that he briefly worries he might have torn it, only to remember that he doesn't give a shit and that it might just be a blessing. Then the damned cummerbund, the collar, and the itchiest shirt material possible—
"Let me help you out of all that?" she asks with a smile, and for a moment Sebastian forgets all about the flower dance, the sensory nightmare assaulting him right now, or the fact that he's got no experience at all compared to her.
It's just them here—save for perhaps her cat who will no doubt love them disturbing her peaceful slumber atop the duvet. He's safe. Zuzu would never judge him.
Nothing has changed, only the reality of the package she comes in.
His neck freed from the shirt, Sebastian lets out a sigh of relief. Only one layer to go.
One layer that... Zuzu isn't pulling off.
"What is this?" she asks, staring up at him in seeming bafflement.
He blinks. "The jumpsuit that Lewis makes us wear?"
"Okay, but this is shapewear. Nylon, if we're being generous."
"Yeah, it's always tight and itchy. It sucks."
Bafflement transforms into mischievousness on her face until she's grinning, wide, her finger straying over the slow beginnings of a tear at his neckline. How many years has he worn this damn thing now? It's no wonder that it's falling apart at the seams and beyond.
"Can I tear it off of you?"
"Yes," he blurts out almost instantly, something he will almost certainly regret once his mother asks what happened to his jumpsuit. "Please."
The farmer is strong enough to lug four hundred and fifty pieces of wood up the mountain to his house.
Which means that Zuzu is also... that strong.
Grabbing hold of both sides of the tear, she grins.
And rips it clean down the middle. Down, down—readjusting her grip—
"Shall I keep going?" she asks, Sebastian looking down at where the tear stopped, right at the start of his—admittedly rather sparse—happy trail. Any further, and she'll expose the considerable strain of his cock against his underwear. His... frog-patterned underwear.
"Yeah," he says, and watches it finish tearing clean down the middle only for her to stop.
"Seb," she says slowly, looking from his abdomen up to his face and back again. "Are you a redhead?"
Well, his face certainly matches the bill now. He clears his throat. "Maybe... yes... it's what Abby discovered that one day when she kept threatening to expose my great big secret of how I dye my hair black."
For some reason, Zuzu beams. "I love that. I love you." The smile only widens, perhaps in answer to his own smile. "And this pair of underwear."
His cheeks burn, to say nothing of the back of his neck. "Yeah?"
"Mmhmm."
"I have—Abby calls them my slutty frog pajamas, but they really just match, so I have no idea why—"
And just like that, she sinks onto her knees before him, pulls his cock out of his underwear, and takes it into her mouth.
"Fuck," he hears himself blurt out, self-conscious about the noise for all of two seconds before he remembers where they are—the mountains, where only the farm animals might hear his pleasure.
And Zuzu, of course. But she deserves each and every one of these noises from him, Sebastian feeling his footing waver as he braces himself in the doorway, his free hand finding its way into her hair. Not gripping, not holding, just—there.
It's not enough for her.
Zuzu reaches back to grab hold of his hand only to firmly press it against the back of her head.
Right. He can do that.
His grip tightens on her hair and she lets out a growl around his cock, one that he feels pronouncedly enough as to make him buck his hips into her mouth. It's almost unfair that Sam got to experience this over a season ago while he was left with nothing more than Zuzu's words, his imagination, and his hand for company. The pleasure is blindingly good, so much so that he knows it's a risk to keep this up at the rate she's going.
Her tongue swirls around the head of his cock before she sinks down far enough to gag on the length, Sebastian half-choking at the feeling.
"You—you gotta stop—"
How long has it been since he came last? A week? More? Time ceased to have any meaning in the wake of losing her. Now that it's coming back, his body is slowly regaining an understanding of its needs.
He did what he had to. Ate, drank, showered when necessary. He slept, if barely.
He certainly did not take care of... other things.
It makes sense, then, that right now, nothing feels more pressing than the desperate urge to be with her in the most carnal possible way.
She looks almost worried—apologetic, even—as she draws back, eyes wide. "What?"
"No, it's—" He swallows. Wills his cock to stop weeping precome, somehow. For the love of yoba. A shuddered breath leaves him. "I'm just. I haven't—I've had kind of a bad... however long it's been? So I haven't..."
"Ohhh."
"So I'm... really fighting every part of my body right now not to blow my load immediately."
"I mean." Her smile is coy, her hand slowly stroking the base of his cock as though this isn't hard enough already. "You can, you know? I'm more than happy to swallow all of it and then to keep going while you recover your stamina..."
His cock twitches. "I'm stowing that thought away for another time, but—uh." Seb clears his throat, suddenly painfully sheepish as he stares at the air in front of him. "I really wanted to—the first time—"
The stroking stops, Zuzu slowly rising to her feet as she steps up and close to him, helping him shimmy out of what's left of the horrible, awful jumpsuit.
Taking his hand, she guides it down to her abdomen.
"You want it all in here?"
He forgets how to think all at once, mind blank as he stares at her. His cock twitches and twitches again, hard enough to ache.
"Fuck. Yes." Desperately. "But I—are you—"
"I am on the pill, yes. I wouldn't dream of asking you to pull out."
For a split second, he thinks he might just come in spite of all his desperation not to, and Zuzu, minx that she is, notices.
And smiles.
"All of this," she whispers, walking her fingers down his abdomen and further, down to his groin... before continuing lower still only to gently cradle his balls in her hand, "just for me?"
The noise that leaves him is one he barely recognizes as belonging to him at all, Sebastian nodding as he fights through the urge to come.
"But not if you keep going like that," he mutters, grabbing hold of her wrist. "So if this is something you want too, you'll need to behave."
A thrill appears to run through her at his words alone.
"Make me."
Oh.
If this is how she wants to play this—
Grabbing hold of her, he all but tosses her onto the bed in one fell swoop.
Maybe he should start working out. If only in the name of never getting winded when tossing his girlfriend around.
His mind stutters over the word as he rewinds his thoughts.
Girlfriend.
Is she? Does she want to be?
Climbing atop the bed after her, he grabs hold of the sides of her panties before looking to her for permission.
"May I?"
In lieu of an answer, she giggles and lifts her hips, and just like that, there's only one bit of fabric between them each.
Not that he's worried about that right now. Instead, he grabs hold of her legs and wraps them around his head, his mouth instantly between her legs and where it belongs.
If he sucks at this, it's fine. He can always get better.
Then again, judging by the noises leaving her...
He decides to let them guide him, experimenting with different things to see if one or the other might make her louder.
Then her hand winds its way into his hair, and that's even better.
"Good girl," he tells her, and watches her cunt twitch for him.
Two fingers, then. His tongue flies over her clit as best as he can, fingers pumping and curling into her until her hips start bucking up, desperate for more friction from his tongue.
A third finger.
He's painfully hard between his body and the duvet, but who gives a shit. This is about her right now.
Replacing his mouth with his thumb, he keeps moving his fingers even as he draws back to watch her face in ecstasy, the way she looks when she's pressing her head back into the bed and her hips beg for more.
Beautiful is the answer to the question he didn't even feel the need to ask. She is breathtakingly beautiful like this.
His hand wraps around her thigh and he places a wet kiss to the inside of it, and then another, and another, feeling himself smiling through each and every one. Maybe all that typing was good for something. His hands know how to multitask.
"My Zuzu," he whispers, another kiss landing on her inner thigh once more. "All mine."
She's gasping and breathless by the time she surfaces long enough to look at him. "All yours," she manages to say before grabbing hold of his hair again. "Please—"
"Please what, sweetheart?"
"Please put your tongue on me again and let me come—"
Has he been edging her? He can't say he's all too upset if he has been.
"Mm," he hums, and returns to work, redoubling his efforts all the while—fingers and tongue moving faster, the hold on her thigh tightening—
"Seb, Seb, Seb—"
Well, it's certainly not every day that a beautiful woman chants your name in pleasure.
Come on, he thinks to himself, doing his best to let her guide his head this way and that before she comes, hard enough to wet his tongue.
Well, she was going to drink all of him down, so...
"Fuck, Seb—"
He's about to just continue on to round two when he stalls, drawing back to smile up at her. "More?"
A strangled laugh escapes her. "We have all our lives together for you to make me come over and over and over again all in the span of just a few hours. All I want right now is for you to fuck me."
God help him, he watches as she reaches down, spreads her legs, and holds herself open for him.
"Our whole lives? Does that mean you're—" He stops.
"What?"
"Staying with me."
Her eyes widen, surprise and relief alike written on her face. "If—if you want me for that long. I'll stay as long as you'll have me."
As long as he'll have her? Has she lost her mind?
"Yes," he blurts out, the word leaving him in a laugh. "I love you. I want you. I'd give you a mermaid pendant if only I had one on me."
Tugging him close enough to wrap her legs around his waist, she kisses him.
And when she does pull back again, she's smiling.
"That might freak your mother out if we just skip the bouquet entirely, but—we'll get there. I promise."
"Yeah?"
"I actually—I have a bouquet in one of my chests outside in the shed that's been there for ages. I didn't expect to have any use for it after... everything, but it's somehow still fresh. No idea what Pierre puts in those things to preserve them like that but it can't be good."
"I don't care," he hears himself say. "It's a bouquet from you. That's all I could possibly want."
"Aside from a mermaid pendant?"
"Leave that one to me, all right?"
"And..." Reaching down, she gently wraps her hand around his cock, teasing him with slow strokes. "What about this one?"
"What?"
"What if this is what I really want right now? Will you give it to me?"
As if he requires any convincing. Stealing a kiss, he glances down her body. "Let me just—"
Finally tugging off his underwear completely, he watches her slip off her bra to expose her breasts, temporarily robbing him of any good sense at all.
He's on them in an instant, one hand cupping one breast, his mouth on the other while his free hand moves down to grab hold of her ass to knead.
"Greedy," she gasps, eyes wide as her hips jerk up. Sebastian suckles and bites at her nipple to a chorus of sighs and barely-restrained moans from her throat, restrained enough that he pulls off of her and smiles.
"You'd better not keep quiet when I fuck you."
"So do it."
She already looks breathless and kissdrunk beyond belief, and he finds himself overwhelmed with the urge to make it worse.
Propping himself up on his arm, he watches her lift her hips, all but inviting him to take the next step.
So he does.
Her hand helps guide him to her entrance before he pushes forward, slow, slow, painfully slow—
"You know you can go faster, right? I'm not—this isn't my first time."
A strangled sound escapes him as he pushes another inch inside of her. Warm, wet, tight—"This is mostly to keep from—" He lets out a sharp exhale. "Mngh."
"You're that eager to put a baby in me?"
His cock twitches inside of her, pronounced enough that she can feel it judging by the grin that comes over her features.
"No?" The grin widens.
"Don't even joke, I'll come way too fast if you keep talking like that."
Her expression softens, her hand coming up to caress his cheek. "You don't want one?"
"Are you kidding?" He laughs. "With you, I'll have twenty. All you have to do is ask."
His words seem to do the trick. He's not sure if it's the promise of a future together, a bouquet, a mermaid pendant, and a cradle to follow, or simple impatience that prompts it, but just like that, her heels press him deeper inside of her as a gasp escapes him.
"Fuck--"
"Stop being scared of coming too fast and fuck me—"
He's nothing if not eager to please his woman.
Sliding into her the rest of the way, Sebastian lets out a sharp groan only to find the noise mirrored in her, her walls clenching around him.
Shit. Fuck. He's already close.
If she realizes, she doesn't seem to care much, just pressing her heels into his backside to guide him, force him in and out of her until he falls into a comfortable rhythm.
"Zuzu—"
"Didn't you tell me?" she asks, still way too composed for his liking, especially compared to him. "Your stamina is so good that you could fuck me and then just go again right away."
Oh.
She's serious.
His thrusts slow only for her body to complain, a whine escaping her throat.
"You don't know what you're asking for."
Her eyes open. "Bet?"
Fair enough. He can't say that willingness on her part isn't insanely hot.
"Fine," he hears himself say, his hand sliding between their bodies as he kisses her, still thrusting. "But then I'm taking you with me."
Luckily for him, the challenge is met with a grin from her, her hand joining his only to bat it away from her clit. "Let me. You just focus on coming in me."
His cock twitches, and for a split second he thinks he's reached the first finish line already.
Just then, he can see the future just as the fortune teller Welwick might: the two of them, just like this, in this same bed, in this same farmhouse—except married and hoping for a baby. For now, he'll gladly accept this substitute.
Her walls clench and flutter around him, which he can only assume means that she's already close, her fingers on her clit a kindness so he might take her with him just as he said he wanted to.
A gasp leaves her and he kisses it from her lips, his thrusts speeding up as she moans into his mouth. Unlike the difficulties his basement might pose, they don't have to keep quiet here—and even so, he wants to kiss her.
Not a need, just a want. A fierce, desperate want to claim every last part of her for himself.
"Fuck, Zuzu—
When he does break from the kiss to grunt out her name, it's alongside his orgasm, hips stuttering before he buries his cock as deep inside of her as he can. The release is somehow enough to make her follow, Sebastian watching and feeling her body clench and arch and squirm, mouth open as a chorus of noises leaves her. All for his ears to feast on, and his ears alone.
Incidentally, he doesn't even feel himself getting soft, Sebastian only slowing briefly to allow her to gather herself again before he continues thrusting just as hard and fast as before.
"I love you—so much—there's no one else I'd rather be doing this with than you, ah—nhh—"
His words seem to only sink in slowly as she stares.
"You were—fuck-- serious—? Do that again—"
He does his best until the same noise leaves her again. If only he could spend a lifetime learning the ins and outs of her body. "Serious—about?"
"Just—being able to keep going!" she squeaks as he angles his hips just right again.
"Yes—of course?—I wasn't going to lie!" The words are out before he realizes how ridiculous that sounds. "Well—not, ah—not about that—" A beat. "Do I—do I need to stop?"
"Don't stop. Don't you dare stop—"
Right. He can accommodate that.
This time, her orgasm comes faster somehow, and he feels the ebb and tide of her body's pleasure dance with him. Clenching as if to signal, to warn him to be ready.
And he is. By yoba, of course he is.
Hiking one of her legs up—higher, just over his hip and then somehow higher still—he sinks himself inside of her and allows himself to let go again, even as it feels like the first time in years.
A lifetime, maybe.
By the time his surroundings properly register with him, she's still in his arms, panting just as heavily as he is.
And she looks happy.
"Hey you," he whispers, the ghost of a smile coming over his face. "You look sleepy."
"Satisfied." She grins. "Maybe a little sleepy. Pretty sure neither of us slept much in recent memory."
He hardly even thinks he has any memory to show for those sleepless days and nights, not that it matters too terribly much. Those days, the ones without her, are hardly worth remembering at all.
"Sounds like we've earned a bit of rest. Maybe."
"Definitely." Her expression shifts, subtle enough that he's surprised to have caught it at all. Is it just because it's her? "Did you mean what you said earlier? Or was that just you being horny?"
"Hm?"
"About wanting to have kids with me."
Inside of her, his cock twitches as if in reply.
"Are you serious?" A laugh bubbles out of her, and he doesn't think he's ever seen her looking so beautiful. How does she manage to keep topping herself in that regard? "You could go again?"
His laughter joins her own. "You wanna? But, uh—yeah, no, I meant that. If it's you..."
"Mm." Running her hand up and over his face, into his hair, she lets out an exaggerated purr. "Then yeah. I wanna go again."
He beams. From one ear to the next. "Your wish is my command—just because you're being such a good girl for me."
Her smile echoes his own.
Sebastian wakes in the middle of the night to a clap of thunder, loud enough to startle him out of sleep.
It's always dark in his room—one of the benefits of living in a basement with no windows. Here, a bit of moonlight seems to shine even through the storm raging outside, a light in the darkness.
His eyes take a moment to adjust to his surroundings, to process where he is and what happened yesterday before it all comes rushing back.
His light is beside him.
Still asleep, soft inhales and exhales making her chest rise and fall.
For the first time in a long time, he feels strangely lucky. Lucky to have met her, to have fallen in love with her, and, in the end, to have this as well.
After they'd fucked to the point of exhaustion and had taken the time to cuddle properly, she ended up getting out of bed, albeit only once he'd slipped out of her. She returned, sleepy and spent but looking no less excited for it all while holding a bouquet just for him.
Now, it's sitting in a vase on the nightstand beside him, a welcome reminder of the fact that he didn't just inexplicably dream all of this.
It looks exactly like the other bouquets he's seen in Pierre's shop, exactly like the other bouquets he's long stared at, wondering if that would ever be him.
It won't be now, but that's okay. After all, he'll get to propose to her.
The next rainy day, he thinks, he'll get a pendant. Find the Old Mariner and prove that the legend is true—somehow. Then, he can always hang on to it until a time that feels right.
And maybe, just maybe, she'll say yes.
A lock of hair falls into her face, and Sebastian catches his hand reaching out before he can stop himself, gently tucking it behind her ear.
"Mm," she says, her eyes opening just barely as he watches a smile come over her face. "Is it time to wake up already?"
"No." Her smile proves infectious. "Go back to sleep."
"Only if you join me."
Oh, now that he can certainly do.
Shifting slightly, he pulls his arms around her, a soft sigh escaping him as sleep slowly starts to pull him back under.
"I'm so glad you're here," she mutters somewhat sleepily, burying her face in his front.
Pressing a kiss into her hair, he feels himself smiling. "I'm not going anywhere. I promise."
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Notes:
Thank you so much to everyone who has taken the time to comment on this fic. This is by far one of the coolest things I've gotten to do in fandom (and one of the most time-consuming) and I'm so happy with how it came out and how much everyone has been enjoying it 🥹 thank you thank you thank you ❤️
Some last things both about this chapter and the fic as a whole:
- Before Seb and Zuzu make up, you might have noticed that someone joined the Sanctuary chat... 👀
- You also might have noticed that for the last day, Spring 25, the timestamps change. All of them are timestamps to suggest that these messages are being posted ~today, as if Seb has gone back to reread the whole journey up until now :3
- Does this chapter comment a teensy tiny bit on how ridiculous it is that your spouse just stops spending time with their old friends as soon as you marry them? Maybe.
- Yes, I did extract all those assets from the game. I am a clown.
- Whenever I gave time estimates for how long it would take to walk from Place A to Place B I'd boot up the game to actually... time it... again, I am a clown.
- This fic was beta-read five times. Not just to check for stray commas and cogency, but to make sure the coding doesn't have any errors and to decide where to put emoji reacts.
- I was worried about the fact that the word count for this fic would end up looking grossly inaccurate, because... with the coding... the final word count of this fic is... 596,511 words...
- If anyone wants a behind-the-scenes view of what these chapters look like fully coded, as an example here's Spring 25 for your perusing pleasure!
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