2, 4, 6, 9 for the song lyric prompts
#4 愛だけが私の生きる意味生きる力すべてなのに、愛だけが私を前へと強く突き動かしてた Love is the only reason I have to live, and love is the only thing that keeps me moving forward (愛だけが) from this prompt list info on Alex and Mihael here and here
cw: vague references to eating disorders and suicidal ideation
No one ever really knows how they'll handle the news of a loss. You can speculate, make educated guesses based on previous reactions and your overall closeness to the person, but until you're in that moment you don't really know. Sometimes, you feel nothing, and then you feel guilty for feeling nothing. Other times, the grief can be so soul-suffocating that it feels like a physical ache in your chest that hurts more the more you think about it.
Mihael had been sitting on the kitchen floor for a full hour now, staring numbly at the ring that had fallen out of the envelope addressed to him. There was no return address, no sign of who had sent it save for the unfamiliar handwriting on the envelope, but it didn't matter. He knew what it meant. Alex hadn't left him - he was dead. Mihael couldn't breathe. He clutched at his chest, struggling to get some air.
He had been so worried about Alex - the months of not hearing from him, the fear that kept gnawing at him like a wild animal as he desperately tried to make sense of the situation, oh god the angry messages he'd left when he'd thought he'd been abandoned. He felt sick to his stomach and he was certain if he'd eaten anything in the past few days he'd have vomited.
Alex was dead.
Mihael felt numb, disconnected from reality, and he wanted to lay down, curl up in a ball, and cry until he, too, was just as gone from this world as Alex. Why the hell did it have to be Alex? Alex had been making something of himself; if either of them was to die young it should have by all accounts been Mihael the way he constantly spiraled into patterns of self-destruction. And why...why hadn't he come home? His ring had made it so someone had to have found his body...where was he now?
The thoughts only made him feel worse. Had Alex died alone? Scared? Was he murdered and dumped unceremoniously somewhere? Had his body been too badly decomposed already by the time he'd been found to bring him home? Did...any authorities know? Why was the ring how he'd found out and not some policeman knocking on his door?
The thoughts spiraled so quickly he felt almost dizzy and his chest tightened until he felt certain it would collapse on itself. He reached for his pack of cigarettes, hands trembling and throat tight as he struggled to keep the tears back. He lit up the first one, and then a second, a third. By the time the sun had set, Mihael was still on the floor and the entire pack of cigarettes was empty.
It hadn't taken the grief away like he'd wanted. It was still there - painful and raw. But Mihael had been too drained for tears; he could only sit, think, and savor the burn from the smoke which seemed to be the only thing he could feel that didn't make him wish he was dead too.
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all the video results for the nhl bff quiz
jack hughes, quinn hughes, cole caufield, auston matthews, trevor zegras, matthew tkachuk, brady tkakchuk, jared mccann, cale makar, mario ferraro, seth jones, connor mcdavid, johnny gaudreau, alexander ovechkin, jacob trouba, jason robertson, josh morrisey, anders lee
im preeeetty sure this is everyone unless i missed one in the source code. enjoy your blorbo being embarrassing
update: ok bc im so generous i went and found the ones from 2022 that werent reused this year: ryan o'reilly, sebastian aho, tyler toffoli, roman josi, thatcher demko, steven stamkos, darnell nurse, jakob chychrun, mark scheifele, mark stone. i know theres even older quiz i will MAYBE go searching for
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1, 3, 5, 8, 9 for the ficlet prompts
"You can take a piece of me, baby; wrap those hands around my body" from this prompt list info on Alex and Mihael here and here
"Dammit." Mihael muttered as his lighter flickered out just before reaching the end of his cigarette. Alex wrinkled his nose.
"You really need to quit, babe. I don't want you dying before me." He joked, taking the empty lighter from Mihael's hand and tossing it in the garbage bin by the kitchen island.
"I will, as soon as the wedding's over. Do we have another lighter around or am I going to have to run down to the shops?" Mihael asked, turning to face Alex.
"'The shops' you're so cute." Alex teased, rummaging around the kitchen drawers.
"Well what else would you say?" Mihael asked, pocketing his cigarette and standing to join the search in the kitchen.
"The bodega. It's a bodega." Alex said with a laugh. "No lighters here. I'll walk you, you shouldn't be smoking in the apartment anyway."
The couple stepped out onto the street and began their brisk stroll to the corner store. The late summer air was cool against their skin and Alex laced his fingers with Mihael's, tugging him closer and planting a kiss on his cheek.
"Now what was that for?" Mihael asked, shooting his fiancé an amused look.
"Just 'cause I love you." Alex said with a shrug and a grin.
Mihael smiled back before pulling away to run into the store. Alex followed him inside where Mihael quickly grabbed another lighter and a drink. They continued walking until they reached the park near their apartment, settling on one of the benches overlooking the lake.
Mihael turned to Alex and leaned in close, planting a sweet kiss on his lips before reclining against him and finally lighting up the cigarette he'd been craving for hours.
"God, I can't wait until we're finally married. Between making arrangements and the cases I'm working on I'm afraid I'll have a heart attack before we even walk down the aisle." Mihael said with a sigh, exhaling a puff of smoke as he spoke.
"Speaking of, do your parents know if they can fly in yet?" Alex asked, holding Mihael closer.
"Mum's been trying to book a flight for months, the damn airlines just keep getting more expensive. I've half a mind to just pay for the tickets myself, I can't imagine marrying without them here." Mihael sighed again, resting his chin on Alex's shoulder.
"Then that's what we'll do. I'll take on a couple extra jobs, shouldn't be an issue." Alex said without a second thought, glancing down at Mihael with a reassuring smile.
Mihael shook his head and returned the smile, leaning up to plant another kiss on his future husband's lips. He had never felt so secure in someone's presence before, only more determined to make the ceremony he'd dreamt of for years just right.
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Galerie de la Gazette musicale N. 2. Celebres from 1842
The engraving shows:
(back row left to right): Jacob Rosenhain, Theodor Döhler, Fryderyk Chopin, Alexander Dreyschock, Zygmunt Thalberg,
(front row left to right): Edouard Wolff, Adolf von Henselt, Franz Liszt.
@chopinski-official @franzliszt-official
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