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It’s all because of Susie’s encouragement.
Susie. The girl who insists upon being a part-time detective, apparently, trying so desperately to get them to express themselves.
They bow down to people so easily.
Inferior. That’s what they are.
The plan continues. Kris' thoughts through the duration of it.
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Noelle angles her head to follow Susie's gaze over to the the perforated picnic table where Kris is no longer folded over and slumped like forgotten laundry. It's empty.
She has a sixth sense of sorts that exists specifically for Kris. Kris has always been odd, and maybe it's because of that others haven't been able to distinguish Kris-typical strangeness from what they've started to become. But Noelle can. That's precisely the reason that she can tell something's been off about them for awhile now.
And that's precisely why even while her head was furrowed against the softness where Susie's beating heart pulsed frantically into her ear, all she could hear was the intense rattling of the ferris wheel shaking.
Susie and Noelle find that they lose their footing without their third wheel.
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- Part 2 of distance between two
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05 Jul 2026
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It didn't have to be you who helped her, or fed her, or stayed with her. In fact it probably shouldn't have been, given your promise, and the gaping absence that faithfully awaited you at the story's end – frankly, your mom's household finances couldn't tolerate more than a few days' worth of extra meals. You were just lucky – or, that's the wrong word; really, you were convenient, courtesy of your part in the play, and the sad little vestigial heart inside you that soaked in her kindness like it was the sun. Anyone might've; could've; should've.
But, just for a little while, you had something that was just yours.
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In which Kris tries, and fails, to admit they've lost already.
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01 Jul 2026
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A fragment of Kris climbing ever higher.
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"Kris's breath hitches, the wind snatched away from their lungs as their caplet catches on a rough patch of Titan. Uselessly, they flail both arms up above their head, trying to find purchase in the wall. Their right hand bounces, a harsh impact that sends their gauntlet popping free and tumbling down into the infinite darkness below."Bookmarked by bittertear
17 May 2026
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“S'not your fault that—”
“—I hurt you,” Susie finished. She chewed on the concept, the edges of her voice frantic, her throat thick. “Because you deserved it.”
“Yes.” Kris pressed her hands against their chest. They smiled in a way that failed to be reassuring. Each desperate breath shuddering through their lungs confirmed everything Susie didn't want to know. “S’fine. It’s okay.”
Kris burned like a charred pan straight out of the oven, or an oil fire stoked by liquor. Susie reeled away. “You—you were trying to set me up,” Susie accused, trying to edge words around the chasm opening in her gut. “You were trying to get me to hit you.”
Kris wants Susie to hurt them. They need her to hurt them. Susie isn't as on board with the idea as they are.
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18 Apr 2026
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Some say that eyes are like a window to the soul. It hadn’t ever been something that Susie had been certain of, seeing as her own were a far stretch brighter and more joyous than she herself could ever be.
But she thinks that saying may hold true for Kris.
Theirs are red. A bright, furious shade – like a lit, determined flame that’s unable to be extinguished. There’s a streak of danger within them, aside a small, devious glint – there’s layers upon layers of lived experience and endured traumas in there. Susie’s surprised she doesn’t get lost.
Susie sees Kris' eyes for the first time after months of anticipation.
written for day thirty of krusietober, following the prompt 'eyes' !!!
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- Part 30 of Krusietober fics 2025!
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19 Jan 2026