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Like a Boomerang - chapter 9 by @jaybear1701 and @haughtbreaker
Waverly nods and whispers, "Please don't." Her eyes sting from keeping more tears at bay. "I mean, I get it." Shrugging her shoulders up, she lets out a strangled laugh. "Relative safety with a beautiful woman versus danger and revenants and the chance of death." She bobs her hands up and down as if they're weighing scales. "The choice is obvious."
Nicole blinks at her slowly, brow smoothing out. "Is it?"
"It is," Waverly says, bracing a hand back against the door. "But I… I don't want you to leave."
A peal of thunder crashes, so close it startles Waverly. She feels it reverberate deep in her bones. Nicole, however, remains unfazed. "Waverly…"
"I know that's incredibly selfish of me, after everything I've put you through, but…" Waverly takes another deep, shuddering breath. "Please stay." Nicole's lips part, and Waverly pushes forward before she can respond. "I'm sorry, Nicole. I'm sorry for hurting you. For pushing you away because I thought I was protecting you when really… I was protecting myself."
Oh man, it has been awhile since I praised these two. I am a sucker for angst with a happy ending and Jaybear & Haughtbreaker are the absolute best at writing angst that cuts away at you like a knife and then gives you this perfect, happy ending that heals all the pain caused by previous chapters.
Get Lost - Chapter 1 by @sensitive-pigeon
“Yes . Yes, god, yes.” Tears fell from her face, splashing against Nicole’s. “We did it.”
She was too scared to leave Nicole and attempt to resurrect the fire. Instead, she pulled both sleeping bags into one tent and made a nest like structure with their supplies. Have to wait till morning to get the firearms. The night cooled their damp clothes and Waverly stacked all of their extras against their bodies, huddling close to keep warm.
After emergency bandaging aided by a lucky recovered flashlight, they lay there, Nicole’s head cradled in Waverly’s arms, waiting for sleep to finally come. Both of their injuries were non-fatal, but they would have to signal rescue to avoid succumbing to infection.
“Ah, ah, ah, ah… ” Nicole’s lips moved and her diaphragm jerked with the effort.
“Nicole, what ?” Waverly responded, leaning down. Seizure?
“Stayin’ alive, stayin’ alive... ”
It has been over a year since I first read this fic and even til this day I cannot listen to ‘Stayin’ alive’ without thinking of this fic, of Nicole half dead singing it in the middle of the woods. The world Pigeon created here is absolutely amazing. Every chapter grips you tight and refuses to let go, you feel their fear, their desperation. Pigeon makes you feel like are running from the beast right along side Waverly and Nicole. This fic leaves me awestruck.
We’ll Break Till It Gets Better by @thewaywedo33
It’s Wynonna’s turn to sigh. “Look dude, I get it, you’re scared. Me too, obviously, but disappearing isn't going to help a damn thing.”
Nicole hates the way the truth cuts through her. For all her confidence, the self-assuredness that laces it’s way through her everyday life, she is beyond scared about this. When she opens her mouth to speak the alcohol in her veins forces a truth out that Nicole intended to keep buried indefinitely. “I couldn’t save her Wynonna. Again.”
“No, you couldn’t.” Wynonna says, and it hurts to hear someone else say it out loud. “And neither could Doc, or Dolls, or Boobs McSeltzer over there.” She gestures across the bar.
I said I was a sucker for angst with a happy ending and I meant it. This fic is filled with so much angst, sooooo much but dammit if it isn’t worth it. I love Wayhaught in this but that’s not my favorite thing about this fic, it’s the Nicole and Wynonna brotp. They are there for one another throughout this whole fic, when things get tough they turn to one another, they call each other out on their shit and it is such a beautiful friendship.
let me down slow - Chapter 1 by @sunspill
Waverly steps back to keep the shirt out of Nicole’s hands. “Did you get shot?”
“No,” Nicole says swiftly, and then, “well--”
“Not really,” Nicole hedges, “I mean look, no blood!” She tries for a smile, cheerful.
“Oh,” Waverly says, “there’s gonna be blood.” She takes a meaningful step forward and Nicole retreats.
“I was wearing a vest,” she says, hands up appeasingly, “it was already so late when I woke up, and you can’t use cell phones in the hospital--”
“You were in the hospital?” Waverly’s voice is approaching supersonic screeching, and Nicole winces. Waverly props her hands on her hips. “Take off your shirt.”
Nicole’s eyes go incredibly wide. “What?”
Nicole’s fingers play with the buttons, nervous. “Coffee first, maybe?”
“Oh for god’s--” Waverly yanks at her shirt, impatient.
“You’re really fast at that,” Nicole says, surprised.
There is so much to love about this fic that it is hard to pick just one thing to put up here. Waverly owning a dry cleaning service and falling in love with Nicole over dirty uniforms was something I did not know I needed until I first read it. This is and will always be one of my favorite wayhaught fics. Also check out lucky dutch which is my favorite Hogwarts au for the Nicole and Wynonna brotp alone (Wayhaught is really adorable in it too)
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