RiddledWithLies



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    "If life could give me one blessing, it would be to take you off my hands!"

    A long, pregnant pause lingers between them, wherein a small eternity passes before him in a handful of seconds. There's a wrench in his chest, where his heart should be, shattering to pieces. He might choke on it, the blood he knows should be slicking his throat and suffocating him. All very poetic, he decides, and fitting, for the end. Geralt is still looking at him, snarling, tension rolling off him in waves, teetering there on the edge of the cliff, and he makes his decision.

    "Have it your way, then, Geralt."

    Yellow eyes, furious and, if he should let himself indulge, afraid, are the last thing he sees as he takes a step back towards the edge and then he's falling, falling, and there is nothing but blue sky and fog and the edges of the mountains rising to meet him.

    (Or: Jaskier makes a different decision, that day on the mountain. It all just sort of goes to shit from there, really.)

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    09 Aug 2026

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    Everything goes to shit, but Jaskier is given one more chance to fix things, in the form of a small black magic crystal. Fuck destiny, he's going to make sure all of his family survive and live happily. Even if it means changing history itself.

    AKA a self-indulgent time-travel fix-it where I play with cannon like a toddler in a sand pit.

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    07 Aug 2026

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    "Well, here we are." Sirius pushed open the door with a grand sweep of his arms. “Home sweet Hell.”

    Sirius had bad memories of Grimmauld Place, tainted by his own less than stellar family. But for Harry, whose summers had previously involved being locked away either in a cupboard or Dudley's second room--with bars on the windows, no less--it was perfect.

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    With Sirius free from Azkaban and taking up his role as Harry's guardian, Voldemort pursuing a political path to power rather than bloodshed, and a defense teacher that isn't actively trying to kill him for once, Harry has high hopes for his third year at Hogwarts. It'll be nice to sit back and be a kid for once.

    Only Harry's life is never so simple, and he soon finds himself facing a myriad of new challenges: school bullies and new family dynamics, horcruxes all but falling into his lap, his deja-vu brain giving him mixed signals, and hidden murmurs arising from old Death Eater circles that may pose a threat to him regardless of his tentative alliance with Voldemort. Things seem destined to never be easy, but if there's one thing Harry knows by now, it's that he won't have to do it alone.

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    01 Aug 2026

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    Tom’s stance had shifted. His posture was still straight, but too stiff—his spine locked in a way that screamed discomfort. His normally sharp eyes, always scanning the room, seemed unfocused now, like he was trying to blink something away. His brow was furrowed, lips pressed into a thin line as one of his advisors spoke into his ear. He barely responded.
    And then—

    A flicker of movement. Tom stepped back from the group, a murmured apology falling from his lips. The crowd parted for him like water. He didn’t look at anyone. He moved with purpose, but it wasn’t the usual commanding stride he carried.

    It was off-balance. Urgent. Wrong.

    Harry watched as Tom moved past the gold-edged pillars, past the velvet curtains, and pushed open the tall glass doors leading out into the gardens.
    His heart thudded once. Twice. Then faster.

    What’s happening to him?

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    27 Jul 2026

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    Tom has discovered Harry is a Parselmouth, which to him signals the end of his loneliness in the world. For Harry, it’s the beginning of a struggle with his family and a terrifying happiness that he believes he could lose any second.

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    27 Jul 2026