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The Sharpening

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"What honor is there in living the life of a mountain lion?"
How Do I Break You Before You Break Me?

Part XVII - Choices

Bullseye x Reader

Summary: Stockholm syndrome isn't real.

Word count: 1.5K

A/N: Moving to a new apartment? Check. Survived summer depresso? Barely. Had a killer writers block? Whoopsie.

The choice was made.

Or well, it wasn't so much a choice as it was the only path to follow.

Steam rises in the air, heat swirling briefly before dissipating. Breakfast sits neatly on the bed, a cafeteria tray holding eggs, bread, and coffee, balancing everything on the mattress. All waiting on Dex while he searches the bottom of the weapons bag.

I want to show you something first, he insisted.

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kind of weird how parts of your soul are left in various locations without any warning… like yes i’m always at the top of that hill, sitting at the bus stop, in the cool light of the Japanese restaurant, standing at the pier etc etc

when the persona you made eats you; when the performance youve been putting on eats you; when the name they gave you eats you; when the image people made of you eats you; when the role you were assigned eats you; when the you that other people see or even made for you or you made for them takes over the you that you know and eats you alive.

Ok guys, im gonna do some job application and then FINALLY try to finish the next part of my dex fic

I know we talk a lot about the literacy crisis and the horrible anti-intellectualism happening rn but I think we need to talk more about how much of an entitlement complex the stupidest among us have developed