11 Works by Callmetiny
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“I don’t know why I’m still acting like this.” Minho leaned back, tipped his head against the bathroom sink and winced at the thud. His knees throbbed, dull and distant.
“That’s okay.” Chan’s words were too kind, too soft. “There’s no rush.”
But there was. Minho wanted to get over it, was trying to, but he couldn’t change everything he’d done to bring him to this point. Now, he was stuck with the consequences. Now, Chan was stuck with him acting like this. “I should’ve left sooner,” he said towards the floor.
“You didn’t know, baby.”
“I should’ve.” It was sharp, sharper than he meant. He sighed. “Should’ve figured it out.”
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In which Minho blames himself.
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- Part 2 of Wasteland, Baby
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Minho ran a hand over the dog- over Berry’s ear. “She just wanted to say hi,” he said, watching her through the new crack in his glasses. “Right?”
“Well, she should say it nicely,” the stranger said with a pout. Then, softening, “Again, I’m really sorry. She’s usually better at listening, just not used to the birds yet.” Guilt still shone in his eyes, eased with a smile. “Can I get your name, at least? I’m Chan.”
Minho ran another hand over Berry’s ear. The man’s words did explain why Minho hadn’t seen him before; yet implied newness, an intent to familiarize. Minho couldn’t help his intrigue. Strangely, he didn’t mind that it had come at the expense of a sore tailbone or fractured glasses.
He offered a small smile in response. “Minho.”
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In which Minho gets knocked over by a dog, and sometimes things get better slowly.
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- Part 1 of Wasteland, Baby
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“Jisungie keep you up?” Changbin grinned, and the harsh fluorescents overhead caught in the corners of his mouth. “Does he kick?”
Minho glanced up, and his glare must’ve been harsher than he meant it; Changbin’s joking smile faltered in a blink. Minho softened his gaze with a shrug. “Couldn’t sleep,” he lied, and the rumble of his voice through his head hurt.
This migraine was a bit worse than his usual, but he could—he would—get through the day. If that meant lying to the others, then so be it. When the day was done, he could take some painkillers and sleep the rest of it off. Until then, he would be fine.
Changbin tilted his head. “You look like Channie-hyung,” he said, thoughtful. “Doesn’t suit you.”
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In which Minho doesn’t want the others to worry about him, and they take care of him anyway.
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“All you ever do is work on this shit,” Tommy said, grabbing at the piece of paper. He held it up close to his face, squinting at the geometric shapes scrawled in the margins. “The hell even is this?”
“It’s an important document-” Tubbo moved for the page, and Tommy whipped it away with a teasing laugh. “Tommy-”
Tommy hopped off the desk, still holding the paper up high and out of Tubbo’s reach. “Take a break, would you?” he said, and he couldn’t help how sincerity leaked into his voice at the edges, how worry lingered in the back of his throat.
In response, a frown tucked into the corners of Tubbo’s mouth, a tight and sullen little thing that made him look like a displeased pigeon. Tommy pushed, and Tubbo sat there without so much as a twitch.
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In which Tubbo doesn’t take care of himself, and Tommy can’t figure out how to help.
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- Part 4 of rises the moon
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“Listen, Wilbur.” Quackity’s voice was firm. “Whatever you’re planning- I’m not just going to stand here and play your little games.”
“I’m not playing any games,” Wilbur said, and there was a strange sense of grandeur in his voice, one that Wilbur couldn’t remember actually feeling in a while. “I found a bench, and I sat on it. Unless you’ve outlawed loitering, I’m perfectly within my rights.”
He didn’t mention how long he’d been there on the bench, that he didn’t quite remember when he’d sat on it or how he’d gotten there. He didn’t mention how he hadn’t slept in a while, his eyelids stiff with sleeplessness and vision hazy at the edges.
Wilbur didn’t know how or why he’d turned up at the edge of Las Nevadas, but he pretended he did.
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In which Wilbur doesn’t take care of himself, and he doesn’t want Quackity's help.
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- Part 3 of rises the moon
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“There’s someone- there’s someone outside.”
Phil glanced over. “Nobody’s dumb enough to be out in this, Tommy.” It’d been snowing hard for hours, leaving them cooped up in the cabin all day. Through the window, there was only a white haze of snowflakes—no people, not even the occasional rabbit.
Still, Tommy was exhausted and paranoid, the bags under his eyes a deep purple that sank deeper as the fireplace flickered across his face.
Phil didn’t quite know what to do about it.
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In which Tommy doesn’t take care of himself, and it’s hard to get help.
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- Part 2 of rises the moon
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Tommy narrowed his eyes. “Why beets?”
“It’s funny,” Tubbo said, shrugging. “And they’re good in cold weather, I think. C’mon!”
“I don’t think they are, actually.” Tommy never planted beetroots when he was living up in the arctic. For the most part, he and Techno toiled over carrots, which survived the frost, and the occasional potato. Not… beets.
But Tubbo was already tugging him off towards the door. It seemed he didn’t have a choice—today, he would be planting beets.
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On Tommy and farming.
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“I sleep enough.”
Ranboo shook his head. “You’re exhausted, Tubbo,” he said, taking Tubbo’s hand in his own, holding it softly. “It’s not good for you.”
Still, the stubborn look stayed fixed on Tubbo’s face. Despite the purple smudges under his eyes, despite how he was barely able to hold his pen, he seemed to truly believe that he was sleeping enough.
He wasn’t. Ranboo knew he wasn’t. But it seemed like he’d have to wait for Tubbo to realize that on his own.
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In which Tubbo doesn’t take care of himself, and Ranboo is there to help.
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- Part 1 of rises the moon
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“Tubbo!” Tommy called. “Where are you?”
Tubbo hollered back, still poking around on the first floor. And so Tommy wandered back down the hall, away from that eerie chill and that guitar propped up, somehow still in tune, against the wall.
He didn’t hear the sound of the strings strumming behind him, didn’t hear that distantly familiar melody, as he walked away. He didn’t even think to listen for it.
Why would he?
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In which Tommy comes back to his family’s old home five years after the fire, Tubbo at his side. He didn’t expect to find much, if he was being honest.
He never imagined he’d find the ghosts of his dead family, still there after so long.
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“If something bad was going to happen,” Tubbo said, waving a hand through the air as he spoke, “then it would’ve happened already.”
Ranboo shifted his weight from foot-to-foot and watched Tubbo lay there in front of him. Now, it seemed, he was stuck between a stubborn Tubbo and a hard place—a truly unfortunate place to be. “Well, I don’t know-” he started.
But Tubbo simply held up his hand, stopping him before he could even try. “It would’ve. Shut up.”
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In which Ranboo and Tubbo walk into an enchanted forest, and things get a bit... strange.
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Techno has heard voices in his head as long as he could remember. They were a part of him, as much as any other thought in his head was. Sure, it’d taken time, but he could control them, kept them at bay more often than not.
There were still days when things got to be too much, of course.
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In which Techno learns how to take care of himself—and how to take care of others—with a little help from Phil and exile-arc Tommy.