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Isaac Walker and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

Relationship: Cyril Ashley/Monica Everett/Isaac Walker Word Count: 9,308 words Additional Tags: Sickfic, Hurt/Comfort, Established Relationship, Fever Dreams, Post-Canon, Additional Warnings In Author's Note A/N: Written for Day 5 of @polyshipweek! Mind the info in the beginning notes.

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Isaac wakes up with a pounding headache and a sore throat.

His first response to this is to assume maybe he had gone out with Silas and gotten so drunk that he’d forgotten all about it, but no, he’d been home last night because Cyril is in town. Neither Cyril nor Monica can hold their drink to save their lives, and as funny as it is to watch them drunk on a few sips of wine, Isaac had actually wanted their conscious company—and Monica has an appointment bright and early today at the Mage Association building that she can’t afford to be hungover for. So it had been a sober night, and they’d all gone to bed right on (Cyril’s) schedule.

The second, worse possibility is the more likely one. He’s caught a cold somewhere. He almost never gets sick, so of course it’s going to happen on a long-awaited holiday weekend where all three of them can be in the same place at the same time. With all the excitement, he guesses he must have missed the signs that his body was about to betray him.

He slips out of bed carefully, stifling the cough that threatens to come up the moment he’s vertical. There’s nothing for it, unfortunately—it’ll just have to be time for an emergency trip back to Erin.

He’s not going to inflict this on the other two, who are already weaker than him as is.

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can you hear me, achilles?

Relationship: Cyril Ashley/Monica Everett/Isaac Walker Word Count: 6,423 words Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Cyril Ashley Gets Targeted By Gluttonous Zoe, Spoilers For Gaiden (Secrets of the Silent Witch), Angst and Hurt/Comfort, it's zoefic y'all know what you're getting A/N: Written for Day 7 of @polyshipweek! Based on this fanart/AU by @ni-ien!

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A black rain falls on the streets of Sazandol just a day or so ahead of schedule.

Isaac is still resting after having the remnants of the Gluttonous Zoe’s spell peeled off by Monica. She feels a little bad about testing it on him before it’s been reviewed and approved by the other Sages, and she wants to make sure there’s no sudden complications, so she’s sitting by his bedside when the rain starts to fall. She goes very still as she watches it, grip tightening on Isaac’s blankets.

She can’t imagine how much mana that must have taken. She can’t imagine how many people might have been caught out in it. Her mind turns to Melissa, to Lana, to Nero… The prophecy from the Starseer Witch had called out a black dragon and a dragon disaster. Despite every reassurance, Monica feels as though she’s simply counting down the days until Nero turns on her, cursed and puppeted by the Gluttonous Zoe. She doesn’t know what she’ll do when it happens.

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leave the light on when you go

Relationship: Cyril Ashley/Monica Everett/Isaac Walker Word Count: 1,654 words Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Established Relationship, Post-Canon, Past Child Abuse, Flashbacks A/N: Written for Day 6 of @polyshipweek! I posted this one a couple days ago and forgot to make the tumblr post for it haha

Some days are harder than others, even now.

Some days she’s fine. She doesn’t think about it, even when she moves the wrong way and her shoulder twinges with pain, even when Ike passes her too closely in the kitchen and crowds her against the counter by accident. Nothing floats to mind at all, she’s not suddenly sad or frightened, and later when she realizes it she feels very proud of herself for finally letting things pass.

It’s not always so easy.

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catch me walking with the ghosts again

Relationship: Cyril Ashley/Monica Everett Word Count: 3,778 words Additional Tags: Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Cuddle Pollen, Past Child Abuse, Dissociation, Canon Compliant, set just post the end of the anime, Monica Everett Needs a Hug, Additional Warnings In Author's Note

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Tonight’s incident was one of those simple ones that nevertheless took the entire night to solve for no good reason. A hired hand—who, Louis claims, must have come through a chain of hirings three or four deep, because nothing else would explain his incompetence—had attempted and failed to drug His Highness.

The intended method of delivery was a flower that Monica determined to be imbued with a “knockoff” version of the spell that formed the basis of the Witch’s Love Potion. It was to be presented as part of a bouquet from one of His Highness's secret admirers, delivered in one of the Serendia-standard vases to scatter enchanted pollen across his room.

It wouldn’t have killed him, nor ruined his chance at the throne, but it certainly would have been a miserable several hours and could have humiliated him terribly. His mana level is low enough that even Monica has heard about it, and his resistance to this sort of spell would have been next to non-existent. If he’d reached out to the wrong person in the throes of that kind of enchantment… Well, it’s a weight off Monica’s chest to have it handled.

But she’s unhappy that the warning of an attack on His Highness was so vague that it took her half of the night and a covert venture into the boys’ dormitory courtesy of Nero to figure out what the attack was. And she’s equally unhappy that the hired hand in question was under the influence of his own spell by the time they found him, incoherent and useless for the time being and out of his mind with need besides; he’d flung himself on Monica as soon as he laid eyes on her. Nero had to bodily drag him off her and hold him down until Louis arrived to cart him off, leaving Monica holding the bouquet with the flower.

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