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Somewhere I'd Rather Be

Chapter 10: Wind and Rain as a Sign That Things are Getting Worse

A critical mistake, and a choice made Things change quickly...

Authors Note:

ON TIME BABEYYYYYYYY

And whuh-oh :) Status Quo change!

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Somewhere I'd Rather Be

Chapter 8: Steady Rain as a Simile for Steadfastness

Wuh Oh! Looks like there's a new variable to take into account! With more questions, more answers, and more questions on top of those answers. The steady rain before the wind kicks in.

Author's Note: Phew! Did it!

There's a note at the end about the slight adjustment in schedule to make this a little easier for me to maintain - just going from Friday to Saturday!

Hope ya'll enjoy it!

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Pssssst

There’s a “Someplace I’d Rather Be” spoiler below the line :)

It’s just a rough draft, but the first official chapter goes up fridayyyyyy

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Your OC Tatianell seems interesting. I'm looking forward to reading more about her. Can we get some art of her please?

She'll get a full color spread in her next chapter but here is a verrrrrry rough draft of her design - this is subject to change!

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Man, taking a break from posting for SIRB was absolutely the right call, I feel so much better taking my time to write

Still on hiatus, but if you don't mind spoilers, and would like some Dadyero angst....

Below the cut :)

Samhain reached, grabbing his brother's shoulder - the first touch they'd shared in many years "You are right. I would be no different, if it were Yuletide. Because he is my son, and I love him more than anything on this earth"

Fiyero seems to know where his brother is going with this, and swallows almost nervously.

"And you would- are - prioritizing Dorothy, because you feel the same about her" Samhain paraphrases himself "Because she is your daughter, and you love her more than anything else on this earth"

It sounded so simple, when Samhain said it. Like it was something he'd pretended wasn't real. He loved her, of course he loved her. She was so easy to love. But… as a daughter? Oh, that had been what he'd pretended didn't exist piratically since Shiz. Even then he'd been called out, teased, chastised, but he'd stood firm. He wasn't her father because she'd had one, and he'd died, and his death left such a painful mark on the girl. How dare he even pretend to fill up that space?

He told himself so often that he loved her, but it was like an uncle, or an older cousin, or anything else platonic that wasn't that paternal, deep affection that clawed its way past his uncaring facade and clenched his heart like a vice. With Elphaba, it was different. She was his great love, his lover, his wife. But Dorothy… She had been the real beginning of the end for the uncaring prince mask, she'd tossed it aside and he'd never been able to wear it quite the same.

And then she'd come back, and then she'd gone and he'd sworn it was for good.

And then she'd come back again, hurting and crying because she was relieved to see him after being so thoroughly betrayed by people that were supposed to love her more than he did. Elphaba called him out about it as she always did, and now, here he was, in front of his brother, a father himself with a son he would lay down his life for, telling him that they were alike. For the first time in their lives, they had something in common.

And Fiyero couldn't even bring himself to say anything about it. Not an affirmative, not a denial. Nothing.

All he could think about was that little girl from the star called Kansas was in danger, under the hand of a power he had no knowledge of. Not just any little girl from the star called Kansas - his little girl from the star called Kansas. He hoped, somewhere, Brendon Gale wasn't upset with him about all this.

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Somewhere I'd Rather Be

Chapter 14: The Eye of the Storm is Not Safe

We check in with Dorothy and the Odd Nome

Note: And with that - SIRB will be going on an extended hiatus, probably until the end of summer so I have plenty of time to play catch up on various projects, as well as build up a backlog of this story so I can better stick to the schedule

Thank you all for reading so far, and I hope you stay tuned! <3

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Caption:

Gotta wave the flag-

(I’m having a tough time rn…)

SIRB will not be be updated this week- Sorry! We will resume updates the week after next (5/16)

So yeah I’m having a rough go of it mentally right now- have been for a while- but it manifested last night as some really, really bad insomnia - as in I think I got two hours of sleep last night….

I’m going to give myself some grace and take a little break from scheduled stuff this week so I can relax and play catch up on my sleep.

Thank you all for understanding <3

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Tomorrow in the next chapter of SIRB, I get to introduce you guys to a fun new character :)

hee hee....... Have a preview