Archiving: Jake and Tessa ficlet

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(Jake and Tessa ficlet (and Keiran mostly by implication). Post Wrap-timeline)

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The first time Jake asked Keiran to teach him how to properly service the wyverns, it went like this:

"...There is an entire university program designed around doing just that."

"Yeah, but I'm good with cars. And, uh... mechanical... things."

And he was met with stony silence.


( The second time didn't go any better for Jake... )

Archiving: Steve, Val, and talk of jobs

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(Steve, Val, and talk of jobs. Ficlet, post Wrap-timeline.)

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"...I could get a job," Val offered spontaneously, one morning.

Steve didn't even look up from his paper. "No." It seemed obvious to him that the subject had BAD IDEA written all over it. But Val didn't remember....

"Why not?" Val asked, frowning. "I mean, I know you'll get to go back to work, but I don't want to just freeload, and it wouldn't hurt to have a little extra, right?"

"You can't," Steve said. Because you're not really human....

( But-- )