| 1. | [100moods] 92. Surprised | Sparrow x Frost, last-name basis | 2. | [15pairings] look who's on top | top!Simon x Frost not during groupsex | 3. | [50harlequins] Spoiled Rich Girl and Poor Boy | Circle!Sparrow x Victor!Frost | 4. | Alduin x F!DB x M!DB, corruption & Shout!Sex | 5. | [15pairings] indecent exposure | Galen x Frost, seduction |
| 6. | Avery x Rylan x Jackson, dubcon & sex pollen | 7. | Caderyn catches Charon x Adrasteia | 8. | [15pairings] men | Simon x Sam, first time | 9. | [citrus-taste | Kinkier Table] 44. masturbation | Sparrow x Frost | 10. | [alphabetasoup] Hades | Sparrow x Frost |
| 11. | Dark!Hera x everyone AU | 12. | demon!Rylan x Avery x Ion, dubcon (Susanne & Myles Die AU) | 13. | Dom!M!Dragonborn x slave!Ancano x slave!Ondolemar, mindbreak | 14. | Domme!Esmeralda x slave!Scorpius x slave!Octavius, noncon & mindbreak | 15. | Dom!Sigurd x slave!Charon x slave!Caderyn x slave!Zephyrus (+ Adrasteia) |
| 16. | [citrus-taste] K-2. table | Sparrow x Simon x Nadia | 17. | [citrus-taste] 26. harems | Harem/Parabellum Crossover | 18. | [paranormal25] 23. writer's choice, tentacles | 19. | Malene x Ancano, fantasy AU & arranged marriage | 20. | [Maze of Fiends] Mate or Die AU |
| 21. | M!DB x M!Werewolf, hentai physiology & urethral penetration | 22. | [over-look] play dead | Izzy x Octavian, necrophilia roleplay | 23. | [smut-69] oil | Sparrow x Frost | 24. | [smut-69] orgy | Sparrow x Frost x Simon x Nadia x Loretta x Izzy | 25. | [lover100] S-61. secret | Sparrow x Frost |
| 26. | [lover-100] S-27. threesome | Sparrow x Frost x Galen | 27. | [citrus-taste] K-47. in public | Sparrow x Frost x Galen | 28. | Zevran x Lyna x King!Alistair, roleplay/raceplay #1 | 29. | Zevran x Lyna x King!Alistair, roleplay/raceplay #2 |
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Evermore [5/?]
But that, of course, was a problem for another day. For now, he found himself struggling with quite a different task. Now that he was free of the mind-numbing fog of the Otherrealm, Avery could only wonder what the hell he had been thinking. Not only had he failed to kill Ion, as he'd wished to do from the start, but he'd also managed to coax the monster out of hiding. He was now walking through the pine barrens with two literal demons at his back, one of whom killed his sister and destroyed his best friend--and the other of whom was had been his best friend until that destruction fell upon her. He didn't trust either of them--wasn't even sure if he would be able to match them if it came down at a real fight--and now they were back among the living, roaming free and set to the task of tracking down their next victim. He feared he'd made a horrible mistake.
"Are you alright, Avery?" came Rylan's voice, breaking through his silent worries in that same gentle tone she'd adopted after her... after her conversion. She seemed so different now, nothing at all like herself, and there was a part of him that even now wanted to believe that it was a lie equal and opposite to what he had believed about his sister. He had been convinced that because it had been Jaslyn's body, it had been Jaslyn's spirit wreaking havoc at Ion's side when in fact he really couldn't have been more wrong; now, he was begrudgingly willing to admit that this was in fact Rylan, in spite of what had happened to his sister... and yet wouldn't it better, he asked himself again, if it weren't? He could kill someone else in Rylan's skin, just as she had killed Jaslyn.
But he couldn't kill Rylan herself, not in her own skin or anyone else's, not even with this strange, sedated personality she had manifested since her change.
"I'm fine," he answered gruffly, though he was far from it. The worries were just piling on now that his mind was back to normal. He was going to be stuck with them, he realized, stuck playing babysitter to two bloodthirsty maniacs, and he had no delusions about having any ability to keep them in line. If they wanted to abandon him, kill him, or do anything else more suited to their natures than helping, he didn't think he was going to be able to do anything about it. He had been an idiot, he decided, and he was going to have to come up with some way to deter the inevitable for as long as he could. Assuming such a thing was even possible.
"No," Rylan countered, a hint of something a bit more obstinate flooding back into her voice, "you're not. You regret this already, then?"
Avery pretended he didn't hear Ion laugh. "No."
"Good," she said, sounding far from convinced. "Then what do we do next?"
"We get the fuck out of this forest," he answered coldly, his eyes on the horizon. He shouldn't leave his back to them, he knew--shouldn't take his eyes off them for a second... but what did it matter now?
"And then?"
"Then we find a hotel, get ourselves a room--rooms," he corrected quickly, "and start trying to figure out who the hell murdered our friends. Unless someone wants to make a confession, of course. Then I'm all ears."
He glanced back at Ion, only to find the man giving him an easy grin that did nothing at all to ease his frustration. "We told you, Avery," Ion reminded him with an almost sing-song cadence. "We didn't do anything. Neither Rylan nor I have set foot in this realm since the last time you saw us. So let's focus on finding the real culprits, shall we?" His wide grin couldn't have made it more obvious that he wasn't taking this seriously, and that only made Avery more sure that this was going to be an enormous waste of his time. "I haven't played solve a mystery in a long time. This should be fun."