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    “Flowers for Algernon” was referenced in the first book Avery found in the library. Avery finds D3rlor— no, Derek, a few weeks later in the middle of a busy street. How is Avery sure that’s Derek? Because he’s rasping Avery’s full name, student ID, and telling strangers how “Left” is a horrible direction.

    A.K.A: He’s alive, but not well. The boys learn what proper communication is as they journey through the stages of brain damage recovery (and the first step of that is acceptance, contrarily).

    (Smut in Ch.8, Ch.10 only)

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    “I am what was done to Michael Shelley.” It says, shrinking from a mother’s intense eye. Then it hunches inward, sinking to the muddy grass so it may pull its skinny legs to its hollow chest. Michael wishes she would stop looking at it that way.

    It wants to tell this man it has no mother, that the son she is looking for is dead, but the person it was born from howls inside its head until Michael cannot bring itself to tell the truth. To become a butterfly, a caterpillar weaves itself a cozy little cocoon to sleep in before its entire body disintegrates and becomes caterpillar soup until that primordial goo shapes itself into a butterfly. The butterfly remembers being a caterpillar, it knows due north and the hand that raised it, but it is not a caterpillar.

    Michael feels like it is a misshapen insect, a big ugly cuckoo bird that thinks it's a sparrow, a barn cat raised by dogs so it tries to bark and only hisses.

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    Michael Shelley goes inside of the-door-that-should-not-be-there, what comes home is something else.

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    The room is too bright.

    It’s quaint, in a nauseating sort of way. Polished floors glint from the gleaming honeycomb chandeliers overhead, make him squint. A few vases sprinkled here and there, filling the room with a sickeningly sweet scent – even a waffle-cone headrest framing the silken sheets of a neatly-tucked bed. Outside, the golden sun gleams, the gentle rays of light spilling past curtains that waver in the afternoon breeze.

    It's meant to be beautiful. Luxurious. Welcoming.

    With one sweep of his cane, Shadow Milk tears it apart.

    [[ Completed ]]

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    “I told them we were engaged.”

    “What.”

    “I told them we were-“

    “I heard you."

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    After one too many attempts at a political marriage pushed upon Pure Vanilla by the Creme Republic, he decides to take matters into his own hands. Unfortunately for everyone involved, he doesn't plan this much. It is especially unfortunate for Shadow Milk, who is now engaged to the former king of the Vanilla Kingdom.

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    Daryan, Klavier, and Apollo, finding their way into a threesome and then a triad.

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