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A very belated closing note for Widojest Secret Santa 2023 - all 11 of the gifts have been posted, so take a scroll down the page and in the Jester/Caleb tag on AO3 to check them out if you missed any.

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Chapters: 1/? Fandom: Critical Role (Web Series) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Jester Lavorre/Caleb Widogast Summary:

Molly waved a hand. “Old news. This is about the ten million gold reward for finding the missing prince.”

Jester’s ear perked up. Her tail perked up. And she noticed, because she was standing very close to him, that Caleb went very still.

“The what now?” Beau said.

“Ten million gold reward. For finding the missing prince. Apparently King Dwendal has a little secret,” Molly said, tapping the side of his nose. “And he wants to find him.”

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Or, the Nein decide to run a con on King Dwendal and there are Consequences. *** Happy Widojest Secret Santa @agentmintea!  You had a note on your heist fic that there was an Anastasia AU waiting to happen and…here…it is…as I write it… :D also thanks quark for betaing, I’ll get you into the A/N at some point ENJOY

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Bright like fire

Hi @jadesabre301!! Merry @widojestsecretsanta and I hope you enjoy! Title is from Feels Like Home by Auliʻi Cravalho. I'll post on ao3 later today but I wanted to start the day with giving your gift.......

In the Blooming Grove, Caleb sneaks away from the group to say goodbye to Frumpkin and dismiss him from being Caleb's familiar. Matt narrates that Frumpkin looks over at Sprinkle on Jester's shoulder, and there's a brief moment of fey connection between them before Frumpkin walks away.

The Fey realm is a dangerous place. Shadows curl and creep without the need of light to pin them down. If there was any constant, it would be the whispers twining around the trees. But even the whispers would rearrange themselves into surprising silences.

It is precisely the place where tricksters can thrive.

Jester felt her necklace begin to warm, and she recalled Arty’s promise to bring her back home. Home, with cinnamon pastries and the paint shop around the corner and no more wobbly time stuff when she messaged her friends. Home safe.

But then was a blur of movement rushing towards her and– 

“Lumpy!”

Her favorite cat in the whole wide world had pounced right into her arms. He scrambled down to wind around her ankles, purring the whole time.

“Frumpkin, it is so good to see you. So very very good! But I am about to go and the Traveler has a really powerful spell for me that is about to kick in so you’re going to have to scootch a few feet away so you don’t get swept up because I am just about to leave the Fey Realm.

Jester had spent many hours and miles with Frumpkin nearby. There was something slightly different about him here in the Fey Realm. A slight shift in his posture or size or something else she couldn’t quite put her finger on. His head tilt made it clear, as clear as if he had messaged her, that Frumpkin had arrived in the place and time entirely on purpose.

“This will just have to be our little secret for a while, okay. I don’t think Caleb will be angry that you are returning – you know he did agree I could have you for forever – it’s just that he gets scared sometimes. But we won’t let that keep us away, will we?”

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Caleb heard a chuckle behind his shoulder. “Artagan,” he called out without looking, “what brings you to my humble classroom?”

“She worries about you.”

“Is that your answer?”

“I check in on all my followers from time to time. Gladly, it’s a much more manageable itinerary since our little shindig at the volcano. Even so, I still have my favorites.”

“Is that what I am?”

“As I recall it,” Artagan said before slipping into a cheap Zemnian accent. “We are all low key acolytes of the Traveler.” His voice slid back to the usual grandeur. “Don’t tell me your keen mind has suddenly lapsed?”

“If you were paying attention, you would know the context. I would be her disciple while she is being yours.”

“Oh, you can assume I’ve heard far more than you’d like me to, Caleb Widogast. You... amuse me.”

Caleb finally looked up from his stack of student parchment. The Traveler was twirling a few quills in a serpentine motion and flicking his wrist to aim them at the desk in the corner as if it was a dartboard. 

“Sprinkle saw all your unexpressed expressions, little wizard. I certainly know the context.”

“Is that why you are here?”

“Excellent question. Firstly, I am here because I want to be. I am only ever where I am because I want to be.” Artagan flashed a wink and reappeared close at Caleb’s side. “I want to be here because there’s this thread hanging. I simply can’t resist tugging.”

Caleb smirked. “Tug away, Traveler.”

“You have your students, your schnitzel, your small small apartment with the east facing window. But woven into this retirement of yours is this insistence to send away certain companions.”

“I have learned to hold loosely.” He looked down at his weathered hands. “I do not need to grasp and claw any longer. This is my hard fought truth after so many years of desperately grasping for the ones who departed.”

“Ah, but have you learned who wants to be held?”

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There was just enough of a snowdrift collected on his windowsill for that tender glow of winter to reflect with the candlelight. It was a small apartment, yes, but he had already filled two bookshelves and that was home enough for now.

Caleb knelt by the books now, weighing a few in his hands. Would she like the Port Zoon romance? Had she read it before? Would she want to see the notes for his lectures, the new cantrip he employs?

He stacks both books in the ‘bring’ pile. Because after all, isn’t the point of his trip to set everything before Jester and let her decide what she wants to keep? He is resolved to tell her.

He is also resolved to bring pastries, so he really should go across the street to place an order at the bakery to pick up tomorrow. At this precise time in the evening, Greta should still be rolling out the twists to set overnight.

When he opens the front door, his breath freezes.

“Can I stay here?” 

Jester is at his doorstep with snowflakes settled in her dear blue hair. She looks warm with that purple flush in her cheeks. She has more freckles than the last time Caleb saw her, he is sure.

“Well, I guess my real question is can we stay here?” She gestures behind him, to the cat already curled up on his window seat.

“Jester, ah, it is good to see…It is very good to see you, but what is Frumpkin? How…?” His voice falters in awe.

She beams up at him. Oh. She beams and she walks right into his home and she is here.

“Well Caleb, you remember I wanted to visit the Fey Realm with Arty, and I finally got to see it and there was lots of really weird shit but also beautiful sunsets but not quite sun setting because it’s so different there.” Jester had her full ensemble on with mittens and hat and scarf and fur lined cloak and she chattered through commentary while taking off each item and setting them down on his shelf, his table, his desk.

“I remember, Jester.”

“So I was just about to return back and I had this whole signal set up with the Traveler so none of the timing would get fucked up. And then, out of nowhere, Frumpkin appeared with me! He really missed you, he told me.”

She ended up sitting criss-crossed on the floor right next to his pile of books. Her hands dance through the air as she talks, fidgeting.

“Because even though you don’t need him anymore, he still wants to be where you are. He understands you let him go because you are stronger and kinder and ready to be okay with change.” Jester holds his gaze. “But he knows he gets to choose too and he would like to choose to stay, with you. He would like a nice quiet life with lots of animals.”

For all of the times that Caleb looked away, held his tongue, flinched from getting nearer. This time Jester is keeping her blue eyes steady with his. Her voice is warm and sure. She sits with her head high and a new ribbon wrapped on her left horn and with all of the courage in the world.

“Of course, Liebling, but not so quiet we don’t see adventures.” His hand shakes, just a little, as he raises his it to her cheek, so it is good Jester brings her hand up to match his. It’s a sharp thrill of heat.

“I am so glad you understand what Frumpkin is telling you, Caleb.” There’s the twinkle, the mischief in her eyes. “Because on the way over, he was a little worried you might be stupid about this. And then he would have to go on and on and on about how much cooler everything will be once you team up together. Instead, we can skip right to our happy ending.”

She winds her hands through his mess of reddish-brown hair and finally, they kiss.

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Artagan checks in on all his followers from time to time. 

Over in Rexxutrum, there is a small small apartment with a large window seat and many bookshelves. A cacophony of rugs overlap on the floor with zig zagging patterns and paint splotches. The window is often open so the colored glass hanging above can twirl and refract and birds with orange and blue feathers can find a soft place to land. There are a great many other animals who wander in and out and there is the constant of one cat who is not a cat and one weasel who is not a weasel.

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Signing on to post my @widojestsecretsanta for @el-huddpudd :D You gave such a lovely and interesting prompt and it was a real joy to re-imerse myself in widojest feels again!

Summary:

With anyone else, she would protest. But I wasn’t alone, I had the Traveler with me the whole time. It’s on the tip of her tongue, well-practiced. But it hadn’t been the whole time and she had been alone, carving dicks into hallways, pressing her ears to the walls and living in books and drawings and in overheard whispers and her own imagination. But it’s Caleb here with her in the kitchen under the dancing lights. They keep things from each other, but they don’t hide feelings. Caleb decides to make Zemnian Winter's Crest cookies and Jester is the only one who sticks around to help.

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Rating: General Audiences Relationships: Jester Lavorre/Caleb Widogast, Essek Thelyss & Caleb Widogast, Jester Lavorre & Essek Thelyss, The Mighty Nein & Caleb Widogast, Jester Lavorre & The Mighty Nein, Fjord & Jester Lavorre Characters: Jester Lavorre, Caleb Widogast, Essek Thelyss, Fjord (Critical Role), The Mighty Nein Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Pacific Rim Fusion, Campaign 2 (Critical Role), Established Relationship, POV Caleb Widogast, Widojest Secret Santa 2023, Background Mighty Nein

“Jester, you know…”

“I just want to see, Caleb. You don’t ever have to pilot, I know you and Essek are so busy in here, and even Beau is in here more, but I just wanna know! Don’t you miss it? I can’t imagine staying away for that long.”

[A WidoJest Pacific Rim AU in which Jester does what Jester does best: get Caleb to come out of his shell and try things he thinks he never should again.]

written for @primrose-path-of-dalliance for @widojestsecretsanta <3 i saw your prompt for a pacific rim au and got pulled right in - hope you enjoy!

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As he took a glass of sparkling wine from a passing waiter, he prepared himself for several long hours of going unnoticed. At the very edge of the room. But before he could settle with his back to the wall, a young blue woman blocked his path. “Hi,” she greeted in her bright Nicodranian accent, “I’m Jester. You should dance with me.”

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Please Have Snow And Mistletoe // widojest

Words: 2825 Words

Characters: Jester Lavorre/Caleb Widogast

Summary:  “When Caleb Widogast had first come to the city, he’d been meaning to only admire the Lavish Chateau from the outside. That had been the case until a young woman had tried to climb over the wall with an old, frail rope that hadn’t quite been able to hold her weight and knocked him out flat."

Notes: My piece for the @widojestsecretsanta this year!! Happy Holidays @pinkevilbobdoesthings I hope you had a lovely time and enjoy this little piece xx

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summary:

Old friends are moving to town. Caleb Widogast wishes he hadn't introduced Jester Lavorre to his past by mistake. (A Dresden Files AU.)

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And that's a wrap!

The end of 2022 brings with it the end of Widojest Secret Santa 2022 as well. Thank you to everyone who participated, you all made the moderating experience a total breeze and fulfilled my secretly selfish goal of having a whole bunch of new widojest content to enjoy over the holidays!!

And thank you to everyone who reblogged/commented as well. These gifts aren't just for specific people but very much for the whole fandom, and lots of work went into them. So if you haven't had a chance yet, go show some love to all the works reblogged here! xo

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