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Run Home - Chapter 34 - Post Game Commentary

Dragon Age - Little League AU | The Iron Bull x f!Lavellan x Fenris | Chapter Rating - E (REALLY E)

Chapter Summary:

Time to say goodbye...

The last of the birthday threesome. You're welcome and/or I'm sorry. Mind the new tags!

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Bull wakes to a warm body pressed against his side. Silky hair brushes his shoulder and soft breath puffs against his skin. He smiles when he realizes that it’s not Dust cuddled up against him, but Fenris, one lyrium traced arm thrown across Bull’s stomach. He and Fenris are settled comfortably in the center of the large bed, while Dust has drifted off to the side, sprawled on her belly with one leg hanging off the edge entirely. Bull's black t-shirt, which she had insisted on sleeping in, is bunched up all the way to her armpits, leaving her virtually naked. She’d tossed off the duvet except for a corner of it that’s making a valiant effort to cover her ass. Koslun’s balls it’s a nice view. She’s also managed to pull most of the covers off of him and Fenris, which might explain why the other man gravitated to Bull’s higher body temperature. Either way, it’s an extremely pleasant way to wake up.

The only problem is Bull needs to piss, and he’s not likely to be able to get out of bed without waking one or both of them, and that seems like a real shame. Ignoring his bladder for the moment he shifts his arm so he can run his fingers gently through Fenris’ hair. It’s thicker than Dust’s, without any hint of a curl, sliding cool and heavy between Bull’s fingers. Fenris shifts against him and he looks down to see the other man squinting at him sleepily.

“Feel free to continue doing that forever," he mumbles, and it’s unexpectedly cute.

“Might have to pause to answer the call of nature.”

Fenris grumbles and tightens his arm around Bull. It’s a novel experience to think that Fenris might be able to restrain him if he put his mind to it. It’s actually pretty hot.

“I mean you don’t have to let me up, but I don’t remember watersports being on anyone’s list of things they wanted last night.’

“Ugh.” Fenris lifts his head just enough to glare at Bull, who grins in return. “Fine, but I’m not moving. Roll over Dust, it serves her right for stealing the covers.”

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Run Home - A Dragon Age Modern AU

With all the new DA hype I couldn't resist reposting my Magnum Opus:

Run Home is a modern AU, slice of life fanfic where The Iron Bull is a single dad, Krem is his adopted 11 year old son, and The Chargers are a little league team. When Dust Lavellan (almost literally) runs into Krem one afternoon, life gets complicated.

If you love one shots and short fics, typical kid fics, love at first sight, Dorian as the lead character's Gay BFF(tm), Vivienne as an antagonist or Solas as a wise and tragic love interest? Wow are you gonna hate this fic!

But if you love Bull in all his dad joke loving glory, a child who is an actual human being instead of a plot point, commentary on generational trauma, loving and complicated family and found family relationships, making fun of common tropes, lust at first sight, the Kirkwall Gang AND the Inner Circle hanging out, hot smut, tooth aching fluff, and intensely painful angst? Boy have I got the fic for you! Oh and Fenris. With long hair and an undercut. You're welcome.

Run Home - Chapter 1 - Opening Pitch

“My name’s Dust Lavellan. You can tell me yours, or I can keep calling you kid, either one works for me.”

“Cremisius Aclassi. You can call me Krem.” There’s an obvious “adults are so lame” eyeroll in the statement, even without the actual eyeroll, which makes her smile.

“Okay, Krem, let’s find somewhere to sit down, because your knees look pretty damn gross and I want get them cleaned up as quick as we can. Picking out rocks and crap is going to be a lot less pleasant as they start to scab.” Krem makes a face, winces when it hurts, but nods nonetheless.

“Um… I live nearby, we could go to my house.” He offers the suggestion like he’s not sure it’s the right thing to say, and honestly she’s not so sure either.

“Well lemme grab this sh- er, stuff, and then we can head there. You sure you’re okay to walk?”

“I’m fine. And you can swear around me, I won't copy you. I know I'm not old enough to do it yet.” It’s a little hard to tell with half his face swollen, but he looks rather smug.

“So exactly how old do you have to be before you can swear?” She gathers up the bloody wipes and shoves them in one of the empty sandwich bags she keeps in the kit. It might be an old superstition, but aside from littering being gross, she’s not about to leave some innocent kid’s blood out in an easy to find location.

“Sixteen.” His tone is reverent, as if it’s both an incredible milestone, and a million years away. “Five more years and Pop says I’m allowed, as long as it’s not at school or in front of important authority figures.”

She bursts out laughing, caught by surprise.

“Your pop sounds like an interesting guy. Now hold this and lead the way Ser Krem.” 

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The next chapter of Run Home is with my beta reader right now (aka my husband) and I can see him making edits as he goes through and I'm very excited. I'm back in territory where I'm actually having to write new stuff, and I feel like it's invigorating my interest in working on it again. I'm feeling excited and enthusiastic about writing for the first time in a while, and I'm really enjoying it. I wonder if it's because I've been reading voraciously lately? 🤔

I remember back in 2018 after I bashed out 130k words for NaNo that I felt like all the words had fallen out of my head. It wasn't until I started reading original works again that I felt like my brain was renewing its word supply. Maybe I'm replenishing my words finally.

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WIP Game!

Tagged by @eazzy--pink (Thanks friend!)

RULES: post the names of all the files in your WIP list, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send an ask with the title that most intrigues them and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it. And then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

Run Home is the only thing I'm working on currently, so I'm going to list chapters I'm working on in no specific order.

If you are reading this and want to play the game, consider yourself tagged.

Scoring Position

Contract Negotiations

Three Bagger

Playoffs

Post Game Commentary

Uniform Code

Called On Account of Weather

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NaNoWriMo last year turned out to be a little traumatic from how hard I pushed myself, and I’m not ready to do that again. But to cash in on the burning spirit of the month, I will be doing my own little NaNoEdMo, or National Novel Editing Month. My goal is 30 minutes of editing on Run Home per day. I feel like it’s the right balance of a little bit ambitious but not putting too much pressure on myself. We’ll see how it goes. I will be in LA for one weekend during the trip, so maybe I’ll skip the vacation days and just edit on the plane rides.

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I DID IT!

I FUCKING WON!!!!!

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I've been doing really well with Nano, but I gotta admit the home stretch is being made a little bit harder by my desire to loaf in front of the Christmas tree we put up yesterday doing absolutely nothing.

Normally I'm a bit bah humbug about Christmas, but this year I'm like an extra from Elf, I am READY. Bring on the light against the darkness and all that, I will be merry or else.

On the plus side I just joined my local Nano group's discord and a couple nights if write ins and springs has really helped me make a ton of progress, even if some of the progress was sheer shit. I may hit 50k, I may not, but I've made some really good progress with the story, I have the bones of some excellent scenes, and an outline for the rest of the story, so I think I did really well no matter what.