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[jetsteeleyourheart]

Circle Interrupted Chapter 8: Casa (With Excerpt)

Fandoms: Bloodlines & Vampire Academy Canon Divergent Fix It Fic - Post Silver Shadows Longfic: 73,000+ Words so far Rated T - Hurt/Comfort, Whump with a Happy Ending, Heavy Situations, Mental Health, PTSD, Guns, violence, (see tags on Fic) Sydney & Adrian Alternating POV , Sydney/Adrian, Jill/Eddie, Trey/Angeline, incidental Lissa/Christian, Incidental Rose/Dimitri

Chapter Summary:

Adrian's family gets a little bigger - but not like that. Also Angeline wins a classical linguistics award.

Circle Interrupted Chapter 8 Link

Excerpt:

We decided to switch it up and play Chess instead. If Dimitri was surprised I knew the rules, he didn’t show it. I wasn’t exactly a prodigy, but I usually won because people were apt to misjudge my skill level. 

“You know, I might have to start timing the rounds,” Dimitri chuckled. I dunno if my focus surprised him but I guess I’d been taking a while analyzing the board between moves. So sue me for not wanting to lose after fumbling checkers so bad. Finally I moved my knight to F3, thinking I might be able to take his last pawn next turn. Unfortunately, he noticed and decisively replaced it with his piece. Now we had an even board: A King and a single pawn each. 

“So Olive is pregnant,” he said. I looked up to see the corners of his mouth turned up slightly. Our pawns faced off directly, with the opposing king flanking only a square away. 

“Seems that way,” I said vaguely. I picked up my piece to move it closer to his pawn. I hesitated in the air though. Why choose now to try and distract me? Some nagging feeling told me to move my king one square up instead, so I switched course and did just that. Then it was Dimitri’s turn to take his sweet time. I could almost see the calculations in his head as his eyes moved across the board. That smirk was gone, and he moved his king next to my pawn instead. I copied the move without thinking. 

“You would put us both in Zugzwang?” He asked, an incredulous look on his face. 

“Bless you?” I said. The word sounded more like a sneeze than anything. 

“Zugzwang – Reciprocal Zugzwang?” 

He kept saying it like it was supposed to mean something to me. 

“I just figured… you know – you take my pawn, I take yours…” 

“You don’t even know what you just did?!” I’d never seen the man so stunned. It was one thing to be outsmarted. Another, I guess, to being out-hunched. Dismally he flicked his king over. 

“Did I just win?” I asked. 

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[acesydneysage]

Me hiding my Declan fanfic from the Bloodlines fandom:

Olive seriously deserved better though, her story makes me so so sad.

She loved her family and gave up being a Guardian because she couldn't get assigned to them since they weren't royal. She got turned into a Strigoi fighting to protect them. She got restored then within about a year she got pregnant, the sister she cared so much about lost her mind and got catatonic trying to find her, then she dies painfully after giving birth.

Possibly the worst example of downfall/death by sex in all 12 books, and there's real competition.

Olive is also the only character that's described as looking native American, so that leaves a bad taste in my mouth considering her ending, though I might be overthinking it. But she deserved better than dying having a boring british boy's baby. She barely got to be a character. If I was gonna change that aspect of TRC instead of having Neil keep Declan, I'd have Olive survive.

I mostly have a problem with Sydney and Adrian's age in the ending, I tell myself that they're in a four adults household so they'll still get some freedom to be young and heal. But I'm obsessed with post canon and Alchemist revolution, so I made my peace with the ending, and I made myself fond of Declan by writing about him.

But Olive still makes me so sad.

Justice for Olive!

[thegoldenlily]

I wish the subplot about Nina and Olive had actually been about them and maybe made some parallels to the Sage sisters and what they would do for each other instead of Neil and showing Adrian what would happen if he burned himself out on spirit. It would have been okay if Richelle gave Romitri the surprise pregnancy a few years down the line! Nina could have had an arc that wasn't about what Adrian learned from her trauma!

Agree entirely, and am very much exhausted of women being used to advance plot and then immediately being killed off (or in Nina's case, made permanently comatose).

Adrian knew he was powerful. We know Adrian's powerful because we see him master Spirit abilities rapidly, and we see him perform Spirit abilities we didn't know existed (dreamwalking, aura reading, his telekinesis). We also know Adrian himself is aware that Spirit is dangerous, because he quite literally feels the effects of it and has voiced his fear of it. We didn't need Adrian to witness the traumatic demise of another Spirit user just to caution him from using Spirit. It's also a gross end to Nina, since she'd been seen to have a crush on Adrian and then the whole kissing...thing happened. A gross way to discard a character you were done writing for. She did deserve better.

The love Nina had for her sister was very Sage sister-esque. Sad that they were both tossed to the side. It would've been nice to see them all have a happy ending, Neil included. They all could've been reunited and lived together with Declan. Pull an Edward Cullen and say Declan was Neil's nephew that he took in when his brother died in duty.

Also, yeah, I think it was a bit silly that the Romitri surprise pregnancy option wasn't thought of. We know that they are in a sexual relationship because we have seen it twice (SK, LS). I mean, if they make it a regular thing, or even just an occasional thing at certain times, without any protection because why would they when they know for a fact* that they can't get pregnant or get diseases...I mean, that seems like a recipe for disaster. It is likely that they would've had a pregnancy scare before the end of the Bloodlines series. I think that idea should've been better handled.

[sydneysageivashkov]

au where olive lives and sydney gets her and neil hooked up with marcus, and nina ends up joining them in their safe house instead of richelle fridging two women and ruining the trajectory of sydney’s arc just to make it crystal clear obvious that romitri can have kids

[a-crack-in-the-universe]

Does anyone else wonder about how the genetic makeup of those Strigoi/former dhampirs changed when they were restored to their original selves? Two dhampirs can’t have kids, yet Olive and probably Dimitri too are able to reproduce with other dhampirs. What does that mean for them? Was their entire genetic makeup altered when they were restored? Then again, technically their genes would’ve been altered when they became Strigoi. Maybe some of those changes couldn’t be fully reversed when Spirit restored them back to being dhampirs.    

[readingabookmostofthetimes]

Olives death was so beautiful. You did feel all the love Olive had for Declan

[adriyanibelikov]

The baby is coming...!

OLIVE SINCLAIR : I think . . . I think the baby might be coming after all.

ADRIAN IVASHKOV : *blanched* When you say ‘coming,’ do you mean now or kind of in the near future?

OLIVE SINCLAIR : I don’t know! I’ve never had one before!

ADRIAN IVASHKOV : *looks at Sydney* So . . . um, you know how to do this, right? Deliver a baby?

SYDNEY IVASHKOV : *panics* What? Why would you even think that?

ADRIAN IVASHKOV : Because you’re so good at everything else. All I know is what I’ve seen in movies. Boil water. Tear up sheets.

— Chapter 10 | The Ruby Circle (Bloodlines book # 6 by Richelle Mead)

[sydneysageivashkov]

Adrian: It must be strange, having a living creature inside you. Do ever think, what if it has a knife?

Olive:

Olive: I never do.

Adrian: Hm.