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“Mister Sawyer!” Quinn sniffles, voice wobbling dangerously. “You’re a m-meanie!”
Oh no.
Harley recognises the early warning signs of a full meltdown with the same grim awareness one might recognise an incoming natural disaster.
Quinn’s eyes flood instantly. “I don’t want to be a-alone…”
“Okay, okay!” Harley blurts.
The tears halt mid-deployment.
“I’ll come.”
Quinn blinks.
Harley drags a hand down his face. “God help me,” he mutters under his breath. “I’ll come.” Briefly, Quinn simply stares.
Then he explodes, a firework of gold and gummy smiles.
“Yay!”The boy launches forward, practically climbing onto the desk in his excitement. “Thank you, Mister Sawyer!” Quinn chirps, jumping again. His hair tumbles in his face, strands waving like an ecstatic little chinchilla. “Thank you, thank you, thank you!” Harley watches him with weary resignation, thoroughly outmanoeuvred by a seven-year-old.
“…Yes,” he sighs.
He glances mournfully at the abandoned proposal.
There goes my weekend.
When Quinn implores the doctor to watch him on Sportsday, Harley has many reservations that, unfortunately, come to fruition.
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- Part 5 of The Lion And His Reluctant Tamer
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“It’s quite important what I have to say, we must leave soon.”
Harley scoffs; what is this imbecile on?
“Whatever it is, can wait until I check up on Quinn.”
He reboots the screen, and the other does not protest. He waits patiently, watching the small star spin as the program loads. The camera numbers appear, and Harley flicks through each screen. It isn’t until the third round of searching that he begins to think anything amiss.
Harley’s brows lower, clicks fastening in pace as he fails to spot that familiar blonde ponytail.
White takes a very short, quick breath beside him.
His boy is nowhere to be found.
OR: Little au ficlet inspired by @Eclipse690724 SPOM AU on Twitter, in which Harley adopts Quinn.
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- Part 3 of The Lion And His Reluctant Tamer
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He shouldn’t have given him that book.
The Little Book of Everything. A compact science reader he’d found wedged behind a shelf while cleaning his office, one of those tidy little encyclopedic things that skims across topics without lingering. Space, Molecules, and Animal Breeds.
Naturally, he’d passed it on to Quinn without a second thought.
He loved books. Loved facts. Loved everything.
Which, it turned out, was the problem.
Because nestled between diagrams of cell division and migratory birds was one small, horrifying section titled: Relationships.
Brief. Clinical. Completely unassuming.
And containing the single most cursed sentence Harley had ever read in his life:
‘People who have the closest bonds perform sex, and sometimes a baby can be made!’
That was it.
OR: After giving Quinn a science book with one very unfortunate page in it, Harley spends his day trying to avoid answering the boy’s relentless questions about “the birds and the bees.” Eventually, cornered and outnumbered, he is forced to deliver the most uncomfortable explanation of his professional career—with predictably disastrous results.
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- Part 4 of The Lion And His Reluctant Tamer
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A cave-in cuts the Player from Poppy and Giblet during another scuffle with the Prototype. Thankfully, Poppy is out of Prototype's claws.
On the other hand, the Player is now faced with having to find their way back up to their friends with the help of a very unexpected enemy-turned-ally.
Because despite everything he's done, he is still a child after all, and as much of a victim of this cruel place as everyone else. He deserves to be saved, just like Poppy, Giblet and the others. Even if they won't be fans of this decision of Player's.
Aka; a self-indulgent fic, where the player saves and adopts Ollie/Prototype, because I am feeling massively maternal towards the poor baby and I have to project this out in case someone might be needing the same. Also, you ever get a plot point idea in the middle of the story and don't know how to get there? YUP. It took me 4 chapters to get to the original point SOBBING
So yeah, enjoy I guess, this is my first time posting on ao3, so apologies if it's weird or smtn. I used to be a Wattpad slave.