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Missing and Missed

She doesn't think she's stopped smiling since Aunt Jenny met them at the train station. It's so, so wonderful to be back in New York and to see everyone again.

Happy WIP Wednesday! Here’s a whole bunch of things I’ve been working on because I have no restraint ever!

03 Mikey + Arm Injuries + Don's SAINW trauma

Rules: Share a line from your story with zero context.

Tagged by @punctuated-equilibrium-t33la! I have soooo many wips, so I'll choose a few from different iterations:

Hope Unfaltering, but the Body Wavers (A post-Battle Nexus IDW fic)

“Slash, buddy.” It hurts to sit up, to smile and talk, but Mikey does it anyway. “Welcome home, dude.”

Clarity (An 03 Angel-centric fic)

“Hey, Angel!” Casey bends down to meet her eyes, hands on his knees like she’s a child.  His face suddenly feels very punchable.

Duped (An 07 Mikey-centric fic)

Then, he takes two long strides and leaps for the window.

My friends call me Casey (A Rise Casey-centric fic)

Taking charity from someone?  Especially someone from a life she abandoned in the name of the Shredder?

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heads up, seven up!

rules: post the last seven lines you wrote, then tag seven people. reposting, as the reblog chains get long!

Interpreting seven lines as last seven paragraphs just so y'all can have a somewhat coherent snippet from the end of a scene I wrote for the Roadtrip AU. We got some gayyy boys over here /aff

Fingers intertwine with his, the matching rings clinking together softly. Usagi brings the hand up to his lips and kisses his knuckles lightly. Leo chuckles and mirrors him, feeling the warmth of his husband’s fingers against his mouth. “How was your day, Hamato-Miyamoto-san?” Usagi whispers into the darkness. Leo’s heart thumps, “It was Wonderful. How was yours, Hamato-Miyamoto Usagi?” “The same,” Leo can practically see Usagi’s smile. “And More.” Sleepily, he leans his head forward until their foreheads touch, “I’m glad.” “Me too,” Usagi breathes. Connected physically, mentally, and spiritually, knees knocking together and hands still linked, Leo and Usagi fall asleep with ease.

The crew announced recently, in our latest chapter of Reunion, that the main fic will be going on hiatus after the next chapter. Plans are to get our backlog built up again and potentially finish writing Book 1 before coming out of hiatus around Late 2026/Early 2027. Until then, Rest Stops will be posting on their usual schedule, and we’d like for writing request snippets to be posted under a new fic titled Roadside Attractions starting on Aug 15th!

So, my ask box is open for anyone who wants more of a perspective on certain scenes from other characters or elaboration on what happened between time skips or EVEN divergent takes on what could have been (if something had just gone a little bit differently or if someone chose to do something else). Honestly, they’ll be just like Rest Stops but with the added prompting from readers, lol! I ask that my inbox not be spammed (a handful at once is fine, but lots more than that’ll be overstepping) and that the requests don’t go beyond the tags we have on the series (so no explicitly gory or sexual snippet requests) and to try not to overlap with Rest Stops too much (I'll let you know if you do, then you can request something else). I’ve turned my anons back on for this, since I know there are folks who are shy, but I’ll turn them off at my own discretion.