An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Raven Cycle - Maggie Stiefvater
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Blue Sargent, Richard Gansey III, Henry Cheng, Adam Parrish
Additional Tags: Minor CDTH spoilers
Summary:
Blue, Gansey, and Henry travel to Cambridge to visit Adam, only to find him missing. Takes place at the end of Call Down the Hawk.
For the final week of the Mister Impossible countdown: Mister Impossible predictions.
She found out by accident. Someone else’s mistake.
She had just left the market, struggling under the weight of too many shopping bags, and she almost literally ran into the pharmacist. He was new in town, a man she knew by sight but not to speak to. She no longer filled any prescriptions, so she hadn’t been into the pharmacy in a long time, and certainly not since old Dr. Murphy had run the desk.
“Aurora! Glad I bumped into you. I’ve got that medicine for Declan.”
Mór looked at him in confusion. She had never talked to this man before. He did not know her. Obviously he didn’t, because he called her by someone else’s name.
Aurora.
“You must be mistaken,” she said.
I finished my mór / niall / aurora character study! as I say in the notes, this leans heavily on the book the echo wife by sarah gailey.
it’s also relevant for @pynchpromptweek lynch family week :)
not sure why I put the smiley face there, since the lynch family is so happy and functional and all…
We’ve only have just over two weeks left until Mister Impossible releases! So close!
Reminder : This is open to all content creators (writers, artists, cosplayers, moodboard makers, etc etc), as well as all ships!
The fifth week of the countdown is :
May 4th - May 11th
The prompts is :
Fake Dating/ Enemies to Lovers
Just a couple of classic faves easy to put to use with any ships/rare pairs within The Raven Cycle/Call Down the Hawk realm. Use them separately or together, the choice is yours!
Guidelines :
When you post, tag the @pynchpromptweek blog so we can reblog your creation. Please also tag any warnings and if it’s nsfw (not safe for work).
**We realize that a sample from Mister Impossible was released earlier than expected and booksellers in Australia have already sold copies of the book. Please understand many fans are trying to avoid spoilers, so we are asking creators to please give warnings and tag for spoilers in content containing any. Thank you.**
You can continue to post for the previous prompts (Adam’s College Experience/ Missing Sarchensey Moments, The Ladies of CDTH and TRC, Coffee Shop and other media AUs, The Lynch Family) just tag the blog! We’ll continue to reblog as long as we’re tagged.
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week 4 of the mister impossible countdown by @pynchpromptweek is about the lynch family so please enjoy this kidfic in which niall dies when ronan is 10 and the lynch brothers get shipped to foster care! (also on ao3!)
Things were getting out of control.
Mom told him all the time that he needed to learn how to let go and to accept that sometimes you couldn’t have everything nice and tidied up like you wanted, and that if he kept making that face he’d get wrinkles on his forehead.
Declan secretly thought wrinkles made you look older, and people took you seriously when you looked older, but he’d never told this to mom and now he might have lost his chance.
“She’s just fallen asleep,” they’d said, and expected them to just accept that. “So you boys have to think very hard of how much you love her, so that she hears you and knows to come back home, all right?”
Ronan and Matthew had believed all that nonsense, because they were stupid like that, but Declan knew better. Mom was not waking up, because dad was dead.
Dad was dead, and Ronan had found him, and Declan’s job now was to make sure Ronan didn’t fall asleep.
It’d been easier last night, when they’d all be shipped into the same room at that group home. Declan had just nudged on Ronan’s leg every half an hour—he’d been checking with Matthew’s glow-in-the-dark watch—so that his brother didn’t go deeper than a nap.
Declan had then fallen asleep himself on the ride here, but that was okay because Ronan had been entertained counting red cars with Matthew.
The problem was there were too many people in the house.
Declan knew he should count himself lucky. It wasn’t uncommon, he’d heard, for siblings to be separated when they went in the foster system. It was to be understood—most people were up for caring for one child, but three was probably too much.
Declan was glad they were still together. He was, very much so.
He just thought everyone would be better off if he shared with Ronan and Matthew took Declan’s place and shared with the Czerny boy. They’d even get along, Declan thought, despite Noah being ten years older than Matthew—for what he’d seen of the room, it had lots of sparkly and unnecessary things. And Noah had even taken the time to take down all the posters in the half of the room now assigned to Declan—he was probably a nice enough guy.
It just wasn’t a good idea to have Ronan bunk with Matthew, all by themselves. Because Matthew also fell kind of asleep when Ronan did, so who would wake them both up if something went wrong?
Mister Impossible is so close, and this event is close to its half way point — week four is on its way!
Reminder : this is open to all content creators (writers, artists, cosplayer, moodboard makers, etc etc), as well as all ships!
The fourth week in the countdown is :
April 27th - May 4th
The prompt is :
The Lynch Family
This is the time to explore the dynamics of the Lynch family, or expand on those wholesome Lynch brother moments you’ve imagined.
Guidelines :
When you post, tag the @pynchpromptweek. blog so we can reblog your creation. Please also tag any warnings and if it’s nsfw (not safe for work).
**We realize that a sample from Mister Impossible was released earlier than expected and booksellers in Australia have already sold copies of the book, please understand that many fans are trying to avoid spoilers, so we are asking creators to please give warnings and tag for spoilers if you are considering adding any into your content. Thank you.**
You can continue to post for the previous prompts (Adam’s College Experience/ Missing Sarchensey Moments, The Ladies of CDTH and TRC, Coffee Shop and other media AUs) just tag the blog! We’ll continue to reblog as long as we’re tagged.
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The remaining 2 weeks and prompts in the countdown down are :
Oh ALSO. The title is from this list of lyrics that would be cursed fic titles that I asked people to vote on ages ago. So uhhh 4 months later….here’s your fic @galwaygremlin @tinyarmedtrex @currentfrequency @elaboratebeauty !
Here's the coffee shop au for week 3 of mi countdown by @pynchpromptweek !
Ship: Pynch
Word count: 1.9k
Summary: Before they had to quarantine at Monmouth, Ronan and Gansey had been regulars at the Cabeswater cafe because Gansey thought the pie there was magical, and Ronan thought the same about a certain barista. And now months later, as things began turning back to normal, Ronan finds out that the cafe had reopened through Henry Cheng’s annoying snaps of all things.
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If a year ago you told Ronan Lynch that he would be actually checking his phone every day, and multiple times a day, he would say you had lost your mind, with more expletives of his choice of course, and maybe an added insult depending on who you were.
But as it was the world had basically turned upside down. So his changed habit– which was born of necessity since it's not like there was anything to do at home at all– wasn't actually that surprising considering all things.
Him actually using Snapchat though?
That was all Noah's doing.
At the start, Henry and Noah had been quarantined at their apartment, Noah had convinced Ronan to get Snapchat so they could exchange snaps every day as Noah said it would make him feel less far away from Ronan and Gansey, and saying no to Noah would be like kicking a puppy, so he had agreed. And he admitted that he actually really appreciated getting Noah's snaps. He had taken and dropped so many habits during the months of quarantine and Ronan had witnessed them through every day snaps Noah or Henry sent. Noah also sent selfies with Henry that were sickeningly adorable as being quarantined together finally made those two idiots get their shit together and do something about their pining.
✨ psst I wrote a little carliana ‘there was only one bed’ cabin fic ✨
a taste:
Was it Lock’s idea of a joke? A new way to bond with your assigned Visionary, like some fucked up government-mandated teambuilding retreat? Manufactured bed scarcity was the new trust fall, or whatever.
No, if it was some sort of joke, it was far more Ramsay’s style. He was probably jerking it right now to the thought of the two of them sharing a bed, whispering like schoolgirls and getting into pillow fights in silk pajamas.
She sighed. This was fine. She could handle nearly anything, by this point. And there were far worse things she could imagine—far worse things that had already happened, in fact—than having to sleep in the same bed as a beautiful woman.
At that moment, Liliana swept back in through the door, wind-tousled and bright-eyed, glowing from inside like an ember about to alight. She smiled, and Carmen felt her heart crack.
Just a reminder! Week three of the Mister Impossible Countdown is up next! Again, this is open to all content creators (writers, artists, cosplayers, moodboard makers, etc etc), as well as all ships!
The third week in the countdown is :
April 20th-27th
The prompts are :
Coffee Shop AU/Other Media AU
This week the prompts are very open. Any characters/ships from either The Raven Cycle or CDTH, in either a quaint coffee shop or any media AU of your choosing, or both!
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Sensible Butterfly, in which Blue gets dressed for a date + chats with her mom
Blue went back to Fox Way after her lunch shift and did the best she could to shower the pizza sweat off of her. Then she put on a long, asymmetrical skirt, and, even though she knew she was taking too long in the communal bathroom, Blue spent what felt like an embarrassingly girlish amount of time choosing what to wear with it. Her favorite forest green peasant blouse felt familiar and cozy, but. . . there was this sleeveless, shimmering multicolor top printed so that the front looked like a giant butterfly, with one wing folding over each of her breasts. She’d sewed it herself, two summers ago, and admired the results. . .it left a bare triangle at her midriff and had a built-in shelf bra that actually gave her cleavage. She had then immediately shoved it in the back of the closet because where the hell was she going to go dressed like that?
Blue took her clothes seriously but the point was for people to look at the clothes, not at her body, and -- well, even at school girls wore more revealing things all the time. Blue was 1000 percent sure that she was a sex-positive feminist and that no one should shame girls for liking their bodies. But if she, Blue Sargent, put on something she had made and deep down loved even while wondering if it was just a little bit too silly, and she went out in the world and all it got her was a lot of eyes on her breasts (the top was even a little more snug and cleavagey than it had been when she was sixteen, take that everyone who said Blue didn’t grow) then she’d just be annoyed and angry and nothing would be worth it.
Now, though, she liked the way she looked and they were going to a theater in the woods and she was going to be with some of her favorite people on midsummer’s eve and Gansey, well. . .
Gansey made her feel good about being watched that way. About being wanted that way.
Screw it. Blue put on the butterfly blouse. She braided some flowers into her hair, went brave and bold with her lip color and eye makeup, and then put some extra of all of these into her bag. She would have a couple hours at Gansey’s before they had to leave for the play, and the idea that they would spend all of that packing seemed . . . unlikely.
On her way out, Blue found Maura in the kitchen, which she wanted, and Orla with her, which she didn’t.
“Looking good, girl,” said Orla, which was somehow more annoying than if she’d said something shitty. “Watch out you don’t stop Richard III’s heart again, though, the boy is not a cat and we don’t know how many lives. . .” She stopped either in response to Blue’s venomous look or Maura’s long-suffering one. “Too soon?”
Blue crossed her arms. “I would like to have a conversation with my mother, please.”
“Oh, sure.” Orla nodded but did not get up to leave. Maura cleared her throat, at which point, Orla gave an exaggerated shrug and flounced.
At this point, Maura might have said something like, “Don’t mind her,” but Blue and Orla had plenty of experience in whether or not to mind each other by now. Instead, Maura pulled Blue into a hug and kissed her forehead. “You look nice. Say hi to the boys for me. I know they’re . . . . busy together, but be sure Adam and Ronan know they’re always welcome here.”
“Thanks, Mom, I’ll. . . listen are you sure you’re cool about me missing things tonight? Gansey was pretty stoked about the four of us going to this show, and it’s a special thing tonight because of the day but I don’t want to leave you and Calla on. . .”
“Nonsense,” Maura answered. “Besides, Friday is still Midsummer on most calendars and I thought just you and I could go to that clearing up the hill and light some candles and listen to a little music like when you were small and --”
“Oh yes!” Blue hugged her mother tightly and tried to blink back tears for the sake of her mascara. “That sounds perfect and. . .” This might make the next part easier to say, casually. “I don’t know how late we’ll get back tonight, the theater’s all the way down in Lexington. I don’t want to interrupt whatever party you’ve got happening and there’s no sense in you waiting up for me so considering all of that, I think it makes sense for me to --” And she rushes the last part. “- stay over at Gansey’s?”
There shouldn’t really be anything to negotiate here. In less than two weeks, Blue and Gansey would be headed out on an open-ended and fully unchaperoned road trip (unless Henry somehow counted as a responsible adult compared to the two of them, which Blue was sure they would all agree he did not). Besides, Maura was the one who had made Blue an appointment to get her IUD, months ago. It wasn’t as though Gansey’s elaborate ritual of returning Blue to her mother’s home with a performatively chaste doorstep kiss was fooling anybody. The only reason Blue could imagine it had continued was that it was all so absurd in the context of the kind of home Fox Way was, and how freely Gansey had come to move in and out of it over the past year and change, that absolutely no one could help being charmed.
Still, Blue could probably count the nights she had spent away from Fox Way in her almost nineteen years. An eighth grade sleepover or the one time the household had scraped together enough money for her to go on the county art program’s two-day trip to New York City -- the Guggenheim, MOMA, and ‘In the Heights’ on Broadway -- were a different quality of experience from “falling asleep next to the boyfriend, in his bed, after having done all kinds of delicious and exciting things to each other.” It was a step in the process of being grown and leaving home that Blue didn’t feel she could skip over lightly.
Maura looked thoughtful for a moment, then said, “Of course. That sounds very sensible.”
This is just a heads up that week two of the Mister Impossible Countdown is approaching! Again, this is open to all content creators (writers, artists, cosplayers, moodboard makers, etc etc), as well as all ships!
The second week in the countdown is :
April 13th-20th
The second week’s prompt is :
Ladies of CDTH and TRC
Have you ever wanted to explore the dynamics of Blue Sargent and Jordan Hennessy meeting? Or a day in the life at 300 Fox Way? This is your shot!
Guidelines :
When you post, tag the @pynchpromptweek blog so we can reblog your creation. Please also tag any warnings and if it’s nsfw (not safe for work).
You can continue to post for a previous prompt (in this case : April 6th - 13th — Adam’s College Experience/ Missing Sarchensey Moments), just tag the blog! We’ll continue to reblog as long as we’re tagged.
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