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Fandoms: Bloodlines & Vampire Academy Canon Divergent Fix It Fic - Post Silver Shadows Longfic: 82,000+ Words so far Rated T - Hurt/Comfort, Whump with a Happy Ending, Heavy Situations, Mental Health, PTSD, Guns, violence, (see tags on Fic) Sydney & Adrian Alternating POV , Sydney/Adrian, Jill/Eddie, Trey/Angeline, incidental Lissa/Christian, Incidental Rose/Dimitri

Chapter Summary:

Sydney, Eddie, Jill, Trey and the children find their way out of a maze and away from the Warriors and Alchemists. Jill gets to do a lot of magic, Sydney gets to combine Magic and Science, Eddie gets to do what he loves doing best, and Trey is a little bit of a contortionist.

Also I am sorry for this one... You've been warned.

Circle Interrupted Chapter 9 Link

Excerpt:

“I thought moroi couldn’t compel other moroi.” 

“Usually they can’t. Unless the compulsion is really strong,” Eddie said.

“Maybe kids are more susceptible,” I reasoned. 

“Have either of you ever seen anyone use compulsion that causes a full-blown brainstorm?” Trey asked. 

“No,” I said. Eddie hesitated. 

“Once. Just one time,” 

Jill, who had seemed lost in her own head until now turned to listen to Eddie with us. 

“I’m sure you were briefed about the battle at St. Vlad’s, Sydney.” He glanced towards Trey. “Basically, the strigoi teamed up – largest group we’d ever seen – fifty, I think. They attacked my school after convincing some humans to weaken the wards. We were holed up in the moroi senior dorms. Last line of defense. I think I was the only one of my classmates who’d ever seen a strigoi before, and I had quite the chip on my shoulder after… my first encounter with one. 

“Our teachers were doing a good job of holding them back for a while, but eventually we needed to evacuate through a utility tunnel to the next dorm over. There was a weakness though – an egress hatch,” Eddie scoffed, indicating to the escape ladder above our heads. 

Another reminder that we really needed to get going. But I was engrossed. Eddie rarely talked about his time in school. 

“We’d almost gotten everyone through. I was towards the back, but not quite. I turned around to do a quick check, and when I did, I saw one of my classmates, Moira, get pulled into the shadows where the stairwell was. So I followed. When I turned the corner, I interrupted her talking with the strigoi. I don’t know why they were talking. No idea what was even said… But he’d already ordered her to ‘Go,’ – go to their base, maybe – but when the strigoi saw me, he reversed course – told her to stay, to fight. To attack me.”

Fandoms: Bloodlines & Vampire Academy Canon Divergent Fix It Fic - Post Silver Shadows Longfic: 63,000+ Words so far Rated T - Hurt/Comfort, Heavy Situations, Mental Health, PTSD, Guns, violence, (see tags on Fic) Sydney & Adrian Alternating POV , Sydney/Adrian, Jill/Eddie, Trey/Angeline, incidental Lissa/Christian, Incidental Rose/Dimitri

Chapter Summary:

Sydney and Eddie prove to be less than successful lawyers, and Jill gets a bit upset. Also there's a sewer escape!

Circle Interrupted Chapter 7 Link

Excerpt:

I tried to look flippant about it all. In my position Adrian would have been confident about such conquests. I tried to channel his energy.

“My placement… had me working very closely with them. They seem so human at times that it's easy to forget.” I had never forgotten that Adrian wasn’t human. He shined too brightly, laughed too roughly, loved too sweetly… 

“We were told you were pulled from that assignment,” said Master Ortega, brimming with scornful curiosity. It was so hard to tell what they did and didn’t know. The best lies were born from truths. Rather than bluff, I played my hand again. 

“I was,” I said, matter-of-factly. “I was sent to a facility to be purified.” I smiled haughtily, as if psychological torture and manipulation was somehow more civilized than whatever physical punishment they might use to “purify” Trey later. 

“They have you back in the field?” 

“Our methods are very effective,” I said, bluntly.

Fandoms: Bloodlines & Vampire Academy Canon Divergent Fix It Fic - Post Silver Shadows Longfic: 73,000+ Words so far Rated T - Hurt/Comfort, Whump with a Happy Ending, Heavy Situations, Mental Health, PTSD, Guns, violence, (see tags on Fic) Sydney & Adrian Alternating POV , Sydney/Adrian, Jill/Eddie, Trey/Angeline, incidental Lissa/Christian, Incidental Rose/Dimitri

Chapter Summary:

Adrian's family gets a little bigger - but not like that. Also Angeline wins a classical linguistics award.

Circle Interrupted Chapter 8 Link

Excerpt:

We decided to switch it up and play Chess instead. If Dimitri was surprised I knew the rules, he didn’t show it. I wasn’t exactly a prodigy, but I usually won because people were apt to misjudge my skill level. 

“You know, I might have to start timing the rounds,” Dimitri chuckled. I dunno if my focus surprised him but I guess I’d been taking a while analyzing the board between moves. So sue me for not wanting to lose after fumbling checkers so bad. Finally I moved my knight to F3, thinking I might be able to take his last pawn next turn. Unfortunately, he noticed and decisively replaced it with his piece. Now we had an even board: A King and a single pawn each. 

“So Olive is pregnant,” he said. I looked up to see the corners of his mouth turned up slightly. Our pawns faced off directly, with the opposing king flanking only a square away. 

“Seems that way,” I said vaguely. I picked up my piece to move it closer to his pawn. I hesitated in the air though. Why choose now to try and distract me? Some nagging feeling told me to move my king one square up instead, so I switched course and did just that. Then it was Dimitri’s turn to take his sweet time. I could almost see the calculations in his head as his eyes moved across the board. That smirk was gone, and he moved his king next to my pawn instead. I copied the move without thinking. 

“You would put us both in Zugzwang?” He asked, an incredulous look on his face. 

“Bless you?” I said. The word sounded more like a sneeze than anything. 

“Zugzwang – Reciprocal Zugzwang?” 

He kept saying it like it was supposed to mean something to me. 

“I just figured… you know – you take my pawn, I take yours…” 

“You don’t even know what you just did?!” I’d never seen the man so stunned. It was one thing to be outsmarted. Another, I guess, to being out-hunched. Dismally he flicked his king over. 

“Did I just win?” I asked. 

Chapter Summary:

Adrian has a kinda shit day

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Chapter Summary:

Team Sydney manages to beat the escape room without actually solving all the clues, and Marcus just wanted a ham sandwich.

Fandoms: Bloodlines & Vampire Academy Longfic: 53,000+ Words so far Rated T - Hurt/Comfort, Heavy Situations, Mental Health, PTSD, violence, (see tags on Fic) Sydney & Adrian Alternating POV Canon Divergent Fix It Fic - Post Silver Shadows Sydney/Adrian, Jill/Eddie, Trey/Angeline, incidental Lissa/Christian, Incidental Rose/Dimitri

Chapter Summary:

Adrian makes several rather impressive discoveries, plays with his food, and has another really bad day.

Circle Interrupted Chapter 6 Link

Chapter 6 Excerpt:

“Out late again, aren’t you?” said the familiar voice from under the wide brim of a sunhat. It took me a minute for the spirit muddling Lissa’s features to melt away as I recognized her past her disguise. Perfect! If not Sonya, Lissa was basically the next best thing.

“Au contraire, cousin,” I said, assuming the low profile would mean she wouldn’t want me spouting her name off in public. “I’m playing hooky from work right now. Day shift, remember?” 

“Liss is finally coming down to our level. Though I have to ask, is it more efficient if you two slack off together?” Came the quip from Lissa’s table-mate. I wasn’t surprised to see Rose’s disguise melt away either. It would be actually unhinged to let the Queen out completely unprotected. 

“I’m hardly slacking, Rose. Between summer session midterms and the council meeting this week I deserve chill time.” Lissa looked at me endearingly. “We haven’t had much time in ages to goof off together recently –”  

“Who said I was goofing off,” I said, emphasizing the haughtiness in my voice as I examined my fingernails. The last of the nail polish I’d let Jill try on me before she was kidnapped was flaking off. “I’ll have you know I just discovered a major breakthrough.”

The startled looks on their faces caused my facade to crumble and I cracked the cheekiest grin I could manage. 

“You got a dream through to Jill?” Lissa said, eyes lit up and bright in the glow of the morning sky. My grin faltered. A part of me wanted to tell Lissa that Eddie and Sage were mid-rescue opp, but I didn’t want Lissa to go off on me for keeping secrets. Or undermining her authority. Or letting Sydney traipse around off court grounds after begging her for asylum. Suddenly I was very nervous about how all of this was going to shake down once the rescue crew got back. Jill being found would earn us all a few bonus points, I told myself. We’d be fine. 

“No, unfortunately…” It was technically the truth. “But you’re looking at vaccine genius 2.0!” I said, still very pleased with my own findings. I didn’t even have to fake my shit eating grin as I unfurled the painting of Sydney and my color chart. 

At first they both just looked confused and, if I wasn’t mistaking it, concerned. 

“Um, not that its a bad likeness, but is that supposed to be Sydney?” asked Lissa. 

“I think he might have made it out of Sydney,” Rose said, peering closer at one of the clumps. “Though I don’t know what the blue shit is…”

“It's blood,” I said impatiently. They were missing the point completely. 

“You didn’t make it out of Sydney, right?” Rose said, leaning away to get a better look at me. “‘Cause I was joking before.”

Chapters: 1/? Fandom: Vampire Academy Series - Richelle Mead, Bloodlines Series - Richelle Mead Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Adrian Ivashkov/Sydney Sage, Eddie Castile/Jill Mastrano Dragomir, Eddie Castile & Sydney Sage, Adrian Ivashkov & Eddie Castile - Relationship, Angeline Dawes/Trey Juarez, Trey Juarez & Sydney Sage, Adrian Ivashkov & Jill Mastrano Dragomir, Malachai Wolfe/JackieTerwilliger, Eddie Castile & Trey Juarez, Jill Mastrano Dragomir & Sydney Sage, Rowena Clark/Cassie, Sydney Sage & Jackie Terwilliger, Adrian Ivashkov & Tasha Ozera, Adrian Ivashkov & Christian Ozera Characters: Sydney Sage, Adrian Ivashkov, Jill Mastrano Dragomir, Eddie Castile, Trey Juarez, Jaclyn Terwilliger, Angeline Dawes, Jared Sage, Marcus Finch, Lissa Dragomir, Rose Hathaway (Vampire Academy), Dimitri Belikov (Vampire Academy), Sonya Karp, Nina Sinclair (Bloodlines), Olive Sinclair, Neil Raymond, Sabrina Woods, Zoe Sage, Daniella Ivashkov, Tasha Ozera, Tatiana Ivashkov, Nathan Ivashkov, Malachai Wolfe, Grace Sheridan, Ian Jansen, Debbie Sage, Rowena Clark Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Angst with a Happy Ending, Angst, Rescue Missions, Found Family, Fix-It, Long, Canon Rewrite, Rewrite, The Ruby Circle Rewrite, Mental Health Issues, Psychosis, Romance, Gun Violence Summary: