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All Chapters of Once Upon a Tryst: Chapter 21 - Chapter 30
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Gwendolyn
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[Arthur] When I wake up my room is mostly dark. I am not alone, Queenie sits slumped in a chair sleeping in what looks like a weirdly uncomfortable position, snoring loudly. It’s a miracle I didn’t wake sooner. I guess the drugs they gave me were strong enough to block out that boar mating call coming from her mouth. No offense meant to the boars. I wish I knew what Queenie is doing here, messing with my life. We’ve known each other since kindergarten, our parents practically raising us together. She was always a bit of a bossy little brat, able to convince her parents and anyone else around her to do whatever she wanted them to do, even from a fairly early age. I’ve always been amazed at how well she could
Last Updated : 2024-01-10Falling Forward
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[Faye] I know it might sound strange, I still am and have always been a little afraid of the dark. Actually no, that’s not quite accurate. Terrified would be the appropriate word. Terrified of the dark. I know all little kids fear the dark a little bit at some point, but the terror I feel go beyond the regular childhood fears of monsters under the bed or in the closet. I don’t fear being in the dark. I have an honest fear of the darkness itself. When I stare out into a complete deep shadow, it doesn’t feel empty, it feels overwhelmingly full. And I know that when I look at the dark, the dark is looking back. But try explaining that to any
Last Updated : 2024-01-12Lost and Found
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[Arthur] After Queenie left, I wasn’t expecting anyone else to enter through that door so quickly. To be fair, she didn’t actually use the door when she entered. Sitting here in my bed, stunned at how Queenie took pleasure in my situation, a blackness forms in the space that should be my door. The darkness expands, like a large mouth opening. I see a figure running towards me, first small, and then bigger and bigger. A blur of red rushes towards me and then there she is. Standing in front of me, breathing hard and shedding shadows is Faye. Faye Archer. My girlfriend. My fate. She found me.
Last Updated : 2024-01-13Doubletap
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[Faye] I feel the shadows curl around my ankles protectively as I stare ahead at the figure before us. Tendrils swirling at my feet, they create a circle of impenetrable darkness. The darkness calls to me, wanting me to become one with it, to use its power again. It’s call continues to sing to me as these shadows whip around us, flowing into me, filling me from the souls of my feet, to the whites of my eyes. The man begins to stalk forward. I just stand there, unblinking, watching him approach. Waiting. “Faye” Arthur shakes me. “Faye, we need to run.”
Last Updated : 2024-01-14Gilded Cage
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[The Queen] Kneeling before me is one of my best horsemen, or so I believed until this evening. He came back to me with a story, and as I listened, I found myself growing more and more angry.How did this little mongrel keep escaping my efforts to bring her here? What is so different from this version of herself than any others? First I send out my Merlin, then I send out my horsemen, and nothing has worked. I love watching him wither under my gaze as he mumbles. When I took him into my court, binding him to my power and trapping him and the others with the curse of the shadowborn, I gained the power of each of their magics, enhancing my own, leaving them a withered husk of their former selves. Spellbound, they belong to me entirel
Last Updated : 2024-01-15Visions of You
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TRIGGER WARNING: Descriptions of DEATH, VIOLENCE, and RACISM. Please read at your discretion. [Faye] The drive south is quiet. I can hear the sound of the cars moving past, and the growing sound of the waves on the ocean. My eyelids feel heavy. I yawn and… [England, 1595] …I hear music and can smell roast boar. There is singing and laughter around an open flame. I look down and see a slim dress of simply woven cotton, onion-dyed a faded yellow, and hand embroidered along the borders with roses and bluebells--a symbol of my position as one of the Queen’s Ladies. My stays
Last Updated : 2024-01-16Broken Mask
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[Devona] I can see it in her eyes. She recognizes me. Her spirit recognizes me. In all the times I have watched her awaken, this is the first time I’ve seen this clear look of recognition. Yes, there have been embers, sparks but this…. This is fire. Could it be that she remembers me? I feel my heart rate increase as I watch her blink
Last Updated : 2024-01-16Playdate
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[Arthur] After pointing Embyr towards a room at the end of the hall, Faye and I rush up one more flight of stairs to my own private suite. In many ways, this room is more like my childhood bedroom than the one I have in my father’s house in Kensington. This is where we came every summer, where my mom would sing me to sleep. I twist open the door. The maids kept the room looking immaculate, just as I left it. Since my mother died, I have only been here a few times, and never with anyone else. The memories made all this too painful. As I watch Faye enter before me, I feel myself smile a little. It gives me joy to see her in this place that is so special, so private to me. It feels r
Last Updated : 2024-01-18Revelations (part I)
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[Embyr] So apparently the hot chick in the top hat is some kind of wizard. OK, I can go along with that. She’s also in love with my best friend. I know she hasn’t said it out loud but I know sad puppy eyes when I see them and she’s got it bad. It’s like just looking at Faye breaks her heart. And that must really fucking suck. Yeah, love can be the worst muthafucka of them all. So I guess I was feel
Last Updated : 2024-01-19Revelations (part 2)
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[Embyr]None of us know quite what to say. Slowly, Arthur’s face starts to turn red, as the words finally sink in. Going into full alpha dude attitude, he pounds his fist on the table, spilling half the food. I jump out of the way as he screams “What do you mean you betrayed her? How? What did you do? How is that even possible?” He then practically leaps across the table to grab her by the collar. What I can’t believe is that Hot Chick just lets him. In fact, she just leans in, her face in full “resting-bitch” mode, not saying a damn thing at first. Her expression is completely flat, her eyes expressing that she has absolutely no-fucks left, she stares Arthur down. She either has no fear, or she has no
Last Updated : 2024-01-20
