Self-Consistency Principle [6/?]
Pairing: Jesse Faden/Emily Pope
Rating: M (for violence, blood, and injury)
Tags: Temporary Character Death, Canon-Typical Violence, Blood and Injury, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Time Loop (Kinda), Psychic Connection, Development of Powers, Fluff and Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Slow Burn, Worldbuilding
Summary: Time has always been strange in the Oldest House, stretching and contracting, bending around Thresholds and Altered Items. But never folding back in on itself, never creating a loop. And Emily would have continued to believe that too, if a chance convergence of events hadn't landed her squarely in the middle of the temporal relationship between Jesse, the House, and the Board.
OR
Jesse keeps dying, but she also keeps getting better, and for some reason, only Emily remembers.
Chapter Word Count: 4,512
Preview:
Emily turned back to the scanner, but as she did so a peculiar sensation slid over her. A prickle of awareness started at the back of her neck and quickly intensified until Jesseās presence behind her felt almost physical, like she was pressed up against Emilyās spine. (It was a comparison that Emily was fully qualified to make, considering sheād experienced Jesse actually pressed up against her twice so far today).
It felt like the arrival of the presence in her lab at the end of the last iteration. And on cue, that blur appeared again in the corner of her vision. It vanished when Emily blinked, but she was starting to suspect it wasnāt visual at all, merely her brainās best attempt to categorize a new kind of stimuli from whatever sense had been awakened by herā¦ current condition.
The sensation continued, and Emily grew warmer as a blush started to rise in her cheeks. (Thankfully, it was hidden by the fact that she was facing away from Jesse, but Emily was positive the tips of her ears were turning red as well). She tried to put it out of her mind and focus on the task at hand, but theā¦ contact? connection?ā¦ was far too prolonged and far too personal to easily ignore.
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