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dami would have been protective of jiwon even if she didn't know him, even if her son didn't talk about him constantly. he's a bit of a pathetic figure before her, bare feet and cold red fingers and a bruise blooming dark on his cheek. she'd kicked the troublemakers out of the bar to keep everyone safe, only to put jiwon directly in harm's way.

"several days," she says softly, tilting his head this way and that. "it'll get worse before it gets better. looks like it won't be as big as i thought it might, though." satisfied, she turns to the bag of ice chips she'd wrapped in a clean bar towel. "here. hold this against your cheek to keep the swelling down." a regular hesitantly calls from the other end of the bar to close out his check, pulling dami away. but when she returns, there's a gentle smile on her face. "want me to call wooyung, sweetheart? i've got almost two hours before i can take you home. once he's awake, he can get here in fifteen minutes."

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to @formorethananame ... for shadow

She couldn’t help laughing, shy and flustered, down at her messy bowl of dough. "I don't—I don't know how I manged this," Taemin said, cheeks flushing pink. "Every time I think I'm getting better at using an electric hand mixer, I fuck it up again. I used to be so scared of Mom's as a kid."

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to @formorethananame … for moonsoo

It didn’t feel real, sometimes. He spent so long pretending that it didn’t bother him, being the town weirdo, being alone. But now he wasn’t alone. Makenzie looked over at Moonsoo, sunlight from the coffee shop window brightening his hair as he sketched his newest sticker design, and he felt—

She felt things too scary to put into words just yet. It was easier, now that he knew she was a wolf. But it was still so new, so fragile. Her wolf was telling her things her half-human heart still couldn’t bear to face. So, she didn’t. Instead, kenz leaned over and sank her teeth into his shoulder—not hard enough to hurt, maybe not even hard enough to feel through his layers of sweaters. But it was enough for now. “Is it going well?” she asked. “You haven’t said a word for at least seven minutes so I assume it’s going well.”

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to @stiiqma ... for jisung

she waves happily to minhyuk as she enters their shop, but it's jisung that she beelines for—as usual, as always. it's always jisung. she makes sure he can see her coming so she doesn't startle him, grin wide and phone already outstretched to show him a tiny, wet, pathetic looking dog. "look at him," makenzie says, speaking carefully so jisung can read his lips while his hands are occupied. "poor little motherfucker. i'm not really supposed to take pictures of dogs at work, but i saw him getting bathed when i was on my way out and i just—i mean look at him!!"

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to @unavernales … for pasha

“svetlana…” manseok calls softly, once he’s taken off his coat and shoes and is quietly padding his way through the house. their house—pasha and svetlana’s, really, not his, no matter how long he’s been here and how much it feels like home.

he knows pasha is present can smell him on the far side of the house. thankfully, because he doesn’t want him to overhear his terrible pronunciation. his daughter, of course, has made no complaints. “lana, kde jsi? mám překvapení.” i have a surprise. because of course he does. of course he can’t stop thinking about her, even when he’s supposed to just be picking up groceries.

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to @loversarcade ... for dasom

Liam watches Valentine leave, stays on the porch with Dasom until the last speck of his friend has disappeared into the distance. Only once he's sure he's gone—only once he can feel Dasom relax at his side—does Liam turn and run. He can't even mumble an apology as he brushes past Makenzie on his way to his room. All he knows is that he needs to get away, get safe, get under the bed where nothing can hurt him.

It's glad Dasom follows, though, glad to see her in human form again. Liam wants to know what she thinks about........ all of it. She doesn't try to say the right thing. She just says what she thinks. It reaches out for her hand and clings tightly.

"Thank you," Liam whispers. "I don't think he was gonna hurt me. But....... felt better. Having you there."

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to @interxstitial ... for otherside!jiwon

"you know..... it's a bit of a drive, but i'd love to take you to my moms' house if you ever feel like you can handle it." jiwon doesn't say why he doesn't like cars. so wooyung doesn't ask. he doesn't smell quite human, and wooyung guesses it might have something to do with that, but he doesn't ask about that either. jiwon is a skittish little thing and he doesn't want to scare him away. "we live right up against the forest, and...... it's beautiful. so green and bright and....... alive. i think you'd really like it."