iluvroadrunner6 | fandom weekly { 2021 } entry tracking part 3

Fandom Weekly part the third.

101 and we all lose our charms in the end | leverage | 617 **SECOND PLACE**
102 the choice is yours | dctv | 698
103 we got fun and games | original | 830
104 i've been sleeping with a cloud above my bed | leverage | 1,000 **FIRST PLACE**
105 never shall we die | original | 553 **FIRST PLACE**
106 harder better faster stronger | original | 971 **AMNESTY**
107 give me all of your prayers to sing | tvdverse | 929
108 it's who we're doing them with | original | 861 **AMNESTY**
109 friends are like an old shirt that always makes you smile | dctv | 879 **WINNER**
110 take a look, it's in a book | tvdverse | 997 **SECOND PLACE**
- - - AMNESTY - - -
111 wouldn't you like to see something strange? | tvdverse | 756 **WINNER**
112 let me know if you're really a dream | uncharted | 760 **AMNESTY**
113 winter wonderlands weren't made for one | tvdverse | 934 **AMNESTY**
114 you love how i keep you guessing | teen wolf | 942 **AMNESTY**
115 speak up, take a stand | dctv | 911 **AMNESTY**
116 stay alive until this horror show has passed | teen wolf | 842 **AMNESTY**
117 it's love that makes me walk way | everyone lives | 960 **AMNESTY**
118 and i'll be you | tvdverse | 898 **AMNESTY**
119 i hear your heart beat to the beat of the drum | teen wolf | 981 **AMNESTY**
120 there's no rescuing now because you're falling apart | dctv | 996 **AMNESTY**
- - - AMNESTY - - -
121 stuck in the real world, nothing comes free | original | 979 **FIRST PLACE**
122 i couldn't compete with the spell you were under | tvdverse | 561 **AMNESTY**
123 let my heart be the teacher | the magicians | 589 **AMNESTY**
124 you better trust me when i tell you | suits | 729 **AMNESTY**
125 say the word and i'm already there | teen wolf | 832 **AMNESTY**
126 the wheel is spinning me | marvel cinematic universe | 1,000 **THIRD PLACE**
127 it all started with a big bang | dctv | 667 **AMNESTY**
128 am i past repair? | tvdverse | 910 **AMNESTY**
129 it was lost long ago | dctv | 982 **AMNESTY**
130 and for you, darling, i'll hang the moon | teen wolf | 967
- - - AMNESTY - - -
131 i would never fall unless it's you i fall into | izombie | 680 **AMNESTY**
132 this is the life that we choose | dctv | 996 **AMNESTY**
133 no porch light on to pull me home | supernatural/tvdverse | 866 **AMNESTY**
134 i'll pretend my ship's not sinking | original | 607 **AMNESTY**
135 does the fun ever start? | tvdverse | 972 **AMNESTY**
136 play me time and time again | original | 997 **AMNESTY**
137 when i closed my eyes, i was so surprised | original | 765 **AMNESTY**
138 and the journey's been so rough | original | 935 **AMNESTY**
139 you think you're on your way | original | 840 **AMNESTY**
140 now the pain has cut too deep | original | 840 **AMNESTY**
- - - AMNESTY - - -
141 it's some kind of secret plot | wynonna earp | 710 **AMNESTY**
142 we could steal time just for one day | marvel cinematic universe | 824 **AMNESTY**
143 the dream is over | dctv | 990 **AMNESTY**
144 i'm a porsche with no brakes | marvel cinematic universe | 979 **AMNESTY**
145 tempted but the truth is discovered | leverage | 538 **SECOND PLACE**
146 your faith was strong but you needed proof | white collar/leverage | 984 **SECOND PLACE**
147 this time did it feel like thunder | wynonna earp | 753
148 this is one unhappy diva | original | 994
149 no medicine to procure | dctv | 821
150 it's just a jump to the left | paper girls | 998
- - - AMNESTY - - -
151 some things are meant to be wynonna earp | 882 **AMNESTY**
152 such a lonely word | supernatural | 683 **AMNESTY**
153 i breathe in on the tick and out on the tock | dc extended universe | 1,000 **AMNESTY**
154 just searching for a world with some soul | the umbrella academy | 630 **AMNESTY**
155 the past was much more fun | tvdverse/teen wolf | 942 **AMNESTY**
156 it took so long to leave | original | 560 **AMNESTY**
157 when you feel so tired but you can't sleep | tvdverse | 826 **AMNESTY**
158 had to get away | original | 642 **AMNESTY**
159 pressed between the pages of my mind | tvdverse | 542 **AMNESTY**
160 i've come to you 'cause i need guidance to be true | haven | 925
- - - AMNESTY - - -
161 if you still have a place for me | haven | 968
162 i'm not gonna stand here and wait | original | 632 **FIRST PLACE**
163 you say it's your birthday | original | 655 **THIRD PLACE**
164 i made this whole world shine for you | tvdverse | 709
165 what do i do when lightning strikes me? | tvdverse | 741 **THIRD PLACE**
166 the loneliest number that you'll ever know | teen wolf | 998
167 i know you've got your reasons | leverage | 830 **RUNNER UP**
168 maybe you've been watching me too | original | 915 **SECOND PLACE**
169 you can read me anything | original | 713 **THIRD PLACE**
170 oops there goes another rubber tree plant | original | 613 **THIRD PLACE**
- - - AMNESTY - - -
171 and you better come to play | the umbrella academy/marvel cinematic universe | 778 **RUNNER UP**
172 but you were history with the slamming of the door | dctv | 659 **RUNNER UP**
173 you got nothing to do and even less to lose | leverage | 721 **FIRST PLACE**
174 you got your head in the clouds | the umbrella academy | 662 **AMNESTY**
175 and i wish that love could save us | original | 846 **SECOND PLACE**
176 gravity is pulling me closer to your heavenly body | leverage | 713 **AMNESTY**
177 that you may be my problem not my love | original | 995
178 but your apathy is like a wound in salt | original | 798
179 they're calling you a fool | original | 845
180 careful what you wish for | original | 555 **FIRST PLACE**
- - - AMNESTY - - -
181 i can't be trusted around you | original | 667
182 you're just harder to see than most | original | 881 **FIRST PLACE**
183 send out the call and join the fray | original | 949 **AMNESTY**
184 gonna lure you into the dark | tvdverse | 706 **AMNESTY**
185 and i'm damned if i do and damned if i don't | tvdverse | 859 **AMNESTY**
186 won't you let me in? | tvdverse | 761 **AMNESTY**
187 you were only killing time and it'll kill you right back | teen wolf | 825 **AMNESTY**
188 say the world and i'm already there | tvdverse/teen wolf | 912 **AMNESTY**
189 let's not wait for armageddon | original | 607 **AMNESTY**
190 i can't think of what else i need to see | tvdverse | 780 **AMNESTY**
- - - AMNESTY - - -
191 as clear as the sun in the summer sky | marvel cinematic universe | 840
192 are you ready to watch me be legendary? | original | 585 **WINNER**
193 somebody's judgement was poor | original | 888

Part 2
Running Word Count: 73,858 words

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Ever since Kahndaq, he’s been having the dreams again.

He rolls over and there she is, in all her glory, long hair flowing as she murmurs sweet nothings like he’s woken up from a nightmare where she doesn’t exist to find her there, the other half of his heart, the thing that makes him feel the most whole. There’s hope, for a moment, happiness that he’s found his way home again, but when he reaches out to claim that happiness, he wakes, drenched in a cold sweat in his manor and alone. He aches for her in ways that he’s needed no one else, and while Kent had filled in for a while, having known a past incarnation or two of Carter, now that he’s gone all of his anchors to the present are gone, leaving him with only the past. And now, he’s finding sleep more frustrating than helpful.

So he doesn’t sleep.

He heads to the gym, needing to find ways of exhausting himself so that he doesn’t dream. A few hours of beating up some of the gym dummies should do the trick, and by the time several of them are decapitated, he hears a quiet voice behind him.

“Do you ever sleep?”

Nerves on high, he almost flings his mace at the sound of the intrusion, but just before the handle leaves his grip, his sleep addled brain makes the connection. Maxine. Friend, not foe. She’s standing in the doorframe, watching him. A little amusement drummed up to hide the concern. He takes a breath to relax and frowns.

“You shouldn’t sneak up on someone like that.”

“Hence why I announced myself.” Her head tips to the side. “You okay?”

He shakes his head. “Bad dreams. Just trying to avoid them.”

Maxine nods, considering, before glancing back at him with an eyebrow raise. “I’ve got a hack for that.”

“Oh, really?”

“C’mon.” She turns and leads the way back into the house, and he has no choice but to follow her—Maxine isn’t the type to share outright her whims with the rest of the class, so he’ll have to wait until she’s ready to tell him.

They end up in the kitchen, and he perches on one stool at the counter, watching as she moves through the motions of whatever plan she has. “What are you doing here, anyway?”

“Math,” she replies simply. “Your computers are faster than anything I have access to at home.”

Carter nods, but doesn’t seem bothered by it. He trusts Maxine. If it were Rothstein, there’d be some concerns. She turns on the stove and begins cooking whatever comfort food she’s conjuring, before glancing back at him.

“So, what are you dreaming about? Kent?”

She asks it so casually that he almost answers immediately, before remembering that there’s so much about him that Maxine doesn’t know. She’s new to his life, in the grand scheme of things, and he doesn’t know how much he wants to burden her. “Not exactly.”

She glances back at him, setting a lid over whatever’s on the stove, and raises an eyebrow. “Context, please?”

Carter raises one in return. “Who’s house are you cooking in right now?”

“Dreams are our subconscious trying to process information. And from what I understand, your brain has a lot of information to process.” Carter blinks at that statement and she sighs. “I read your file.”

“Excuse me?”

“It’s why I agreed to work for you. I had to make sure it would not be—”

Carter understands why she did it—she has her reasons to be concerned. “You could have asked.”

“I’m asking now.”

He studies her again, before sighing and relaxing his shoulders a bit. “I’m not the only one who reincarnates like this. I have a partner.”

“Romantic or superhero?”

“Both.” Partner almost seems like the wrong word for what she is to him. He doesn’t feel grounded until she’s with him, a lesser version of himself in every way. “But we don’t always wake up at the same time.”

“So you don’t know where she is or who she is?”

He nods. “Kent knew a couple of versions of me. He was alive for a long time. We met once when he was a kid, again as adults—you get the picture. Even if I didn’t have Chay-Ara, Kent kept me…grounded.”

“You have nothing to anchor you in the here and now.” Maxine nods. “If you show me what she looks like, I could build you an algorithm. Help you find her.”

That is a tempting offer. A very tempting offer. A part of him is very willing to jump on it and take it, but he also knows he has to exhibit some restraint. “If she’s not awake, she won’t remember. So me walking up to her and telling her she’s my lost soulmate and we’ve been reincarnated hundreds of times together…has not historically gone well.”

“Because you have all the subtlety and tact of a Mack Truck?” She pulls the pot off the stove and spoons some of it into a bowl. The scents of nutmeg, honey and cinnamon rise from the mush of oats as she sets it down in front of him. “I say that with love.”

“You’re not wrong.” Hence his hesitance. He takes the bowl and gestures for her to follow him back through the museum gallery to a private section of his collection that no one else usually gets to see. There is a large portrait from the early nineteen hundreds in the center of the room. He remembers the day he commissioned it. “This is the best picture I have of her.”

“She’s beautiful.”

“She is.” He glances back at Maxine. “You can use the computers whenever you like. Just text me and let me know you’re here.”

“And if I find something interesting in my work?”

He hesitates at the door. “Let me know.” And maybe, with steps in the direction, he might get some sleep.

Edited 2022-12-08 04:11 (UTC)

fandom weekly { 2021 } entry tracking part 3

Part 2Running Word Count: 73,858 words

#153 ~ i breathe in on the tick and out on the tock ~ dc extended universe ~ 1,000

Part 2
Running Word Count: 73,858 words