Geralt has carried Jaskier's love for him in his saddlebags for over two decades, bound in the pages of an overflowing leather journal. It takes a Child Surprise, a furious fight on a barren mountain, and the reconciliation of his responsibilities for Geralt to realize that he feels the same.
“Potion’s not wearing off like it should.”
“I can see that,” Jaskier said. There was a note of deliberate calm in his voice, but Geralt knew how it normally felt when Jaskier helped him undress after a hunt. His fingers were shaking.
Geralt didn't mean for Jaskier to see him like this, but... perhaps he won't regret it.
It feels as though Jaskier has carved his chest open with a knife, rummaged through his insides and pulled his heart out to hold it in his hands. The bard’s thumb traces the spot just under Geralt’s eye and the witcher chokes on air.“I see you, Geralt. No matter how many walls you put up to hide behind, I still see you.”Geralt shudders. “I just don’t understand,” he whispers.“Then let me show you,” Jaskier says. “Let me show you how deeply I care for you. Will you let me do that?”With the way that Jaskier is looking at him, Geralt doesn’t think he could say no even if he wanted to.
Winter is fast approaching and Geralt suddenly starts buying gifts for Jaskier. It takes Jaskier an embarrassingly long time to realize Geralt is trying to tell him something.
Jaskier figures that now that Geralt has him, well? The comments about Jaskier earning the right to tag along with something other than his excellent reputation-rehabilitation campaign and the sheer delight he is to be around? He figures that the whole 'witcher's whore' moniker won’t bother Geralt anymore.(spoilers: it does)//Geralt and Jaskier are sleeping together. Geralt tries to keep it a secret, and Jaskier? He's use to being kept secret. Doesn't mean he likes it.
Encountering a witcher from the School of the Cat is the perfect opportunity for Jaskier to get over that retched dragon hunt, forget and start anew.It's all going well until Lambert joins them, another wolf with eyes like Geralt's that also seems to hate him.*The Mountain Archives December 15th prompts: Getting down the mountain + crying + first kiss.
“It’s been such a long time, Julian. When will you be over him?” Jaskier’s laugh, muffled and humorless, followed the question. “I’ll let you know when I figure it out.”“I don’t enjoy seeing you hurting.” “I’m fine. Most of the time.”“Most of the time,” Valdo echoed, and then, “oh, fuck.”The progress bar stopped.Error loading. Tap to retry?Geralt tapped.This video is unavailable. After Jaskier goes viral for being a pining mess during a livestream, Geralt’s family tries to figure out exactly why the couple broke up, given that Jaskier is clearly still in love with Geralt. Meanwhile, Geralt is in denial, Jaskier is absolutely fine, thanks, and the internet is having a bit of a breakdown.
They're several weeks into...whatever this strange new intimacy between them is, when Jaskier admits he's never been fucked by a man before. Geralt takes the responsibility very seriously.
Geralt accidentally finds out Jaskier has certain preferences in bed and can't figure out why the bard's sex life is stuck in his head like a bad song.
Refusing to accept Geralt's death, Jaskier jumps at the chance to fix it, even though it means trapping himself in a time loop. There are warnings, of course. Events happen as they happen. Time tends to resist alteration in the places where it matters. He will be trapped until he accepts the outcome. Jaskier ignores them all and pits his resolve against destiny itself, convinced his refusal to give up on Geralt will be enough. It isn’t. Jaskier fails over and over and over again, destiny course correcting every single time. Determination isn't enough to change events, he comes to find.But maybe love is enough to bend the details.
"Why do you go with people who hurt you?"He looked at Jaskier, and kept looking at him after he looked away and the smile dropped off his face. After a long silence, Jaskier said, in a much more tired voice, "I don't exactly have a lot of options, Geralt."On the face of it it wasn't true--Jaskier could find a willing young woman or man in any half-crowded tavern without lifting a finger--but that wasn't what he meant, of course. He meant when he needed...that particular sort of person. That particular experience.Without the slightest forethought or intention, Geralt frowned and said, "You have me."
Trudging through a forest during the haze of a heatwave, all of Geralt’s stifled wants feel all the more pressing, intoxicating.
Especially when Jaskier rips off all his clothes and jumps into a river.
Jaskier made a deal with a witch in exchange for eternal youth. He didn’t mind paying the price at the time, but if he ever wants to break the curse he must find “true love”. In other words, someone who loves him for the person he is. He’ll never want to undo such a gift, so it really doesn’t bother him that the curse goes unbroken for decades. No, it doesn’t bother him at all.
“It’s been such a long time, Julian. When will you be over him?” Jaskier’s laugh, muffled and humorless, followed the question. “I’ll let you know when I figure it out.”“I don’t enjoy seeing you hurting.” “I’m fine. Most of the time.”“Most of the time,” Valdo echoed, and then, “oh, fuck.”The progress bar stopped.Error loading. Tap to retry?Geralt tapped.This video is unavailable. After Jaskier goes viral for being a pining mess during a livestream, Geralt’s family tries to figure out exactly why the couple broke up, given that Jaskier is clearly still in love with Geralt. Meanwhile, Geralt is in denial, Jaskier is absolutely fine, thanks, and the internet is having a bit of a breakdown.
Geralt is--despite his best efforts--Jaskier's best friend.
So he doesn't understand why Jaskier's suddenly so very flirty as soon as he's in his cups.
"Twenty years is a long time for a human," she says softly, voice as bereft of emotion as her face, "sometimes I forget."
"A bloody long time," Jaskier agrees, matching her volume as he breaks her gaze, staring down into his all but forgotten ale.
Jaskier recovers from the events on the mountain. Things get worse before they get better.
Geralt has memories of taking shelter in this cave before. Jaskier apparently does, too. Nearly a year after the mountain, a storm brings the two of them together again.
So,” Jaskier begins, as casually as he can, “you are telling me, that in theory, if I were to be in love with someone — anyone — that person could well be in terrible danger?” ---Of all terrible and ridiculous things that have threatened Geralt’s safety, Jaskier’d never thought that loving him might be what will get him killed.
“Oh, thank the gods,” Jaskier breathes.“Name’s Lambert, actually,” the witcher corrects, his lips breaking into a crooked grin, “Though I certainly won’t stop you from worshipping me.”Complete!
He has a highly regressive personality and may be impulsive, engaging in acts of compulsive and pleasurable wish-fulfillment. He is secretly a moralist, though he will act to save others even as he judges them. However, his is a personality always on the verge of disintegration: he does not have a strongly drawn line between "self" and "other" and is likely to engage in acts of reckless self-disregard. Very probably homosexual.
He's just about to suggest a before-dinner quickie when the Canadian pulls away and squints up at him, and says, a little breathlessly, "You hit your head, didn't you?"
John gets stuck in a time loop, and his one chance at getting out is for him and Rodney to work together to solve it. How hard could that be?(aka Window of Opportunity, but make it McShep)
"Eren holds him down, wordlessly, as humanity’s strongest writhes. Ties his wrists and ankles to keep him still, and resets his leg with one, swift movement. Levi screams, calls Eren everything he can manage in one breath, and passes out." Eren never meant to hurt his friends.Least of all Levi.
