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Title: Found All My Masks Were Stolen
Fandom: Sky High (2005)
Rating: M
Length: 12858 words
Characters/Pairings: Warren Peace/Will Stronghold/Layla Williams, Alternate Universe Will Stronghold, Alternate Universe Magenta, Alternate Universe Ethan, Original characters
Tags: Comic Book Science, Ethical Dilemmas, Established Relationship, Pregnancy, Multiple versions of characters, Supervillains, Superpowers, Alternate Universe - Dark, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence

Notes: This crosses over the universes of two of my Sky High series, All the Faces We Were and Not Ready to Swallow Oblivion, with the characters from the former accidentally ending up in the latter and having to cope with alternate versions of themselves and a completely different set of problems than what they've been dealing with in their own universe.

Knowing All the Faces We Were is more important to this story making sense than is knowing Not Ready to Swallow Oblivion because the POV characters are discovering the backstory of this new-to-them world. There may be sequels to this story eventually; if so, they'll be posted as part of the To Us a Thorn, To Them a Rose series.

There are some additional content warnings in the author's note at the beginning of the fic. They are possibly not all-inclusive but are all for things referenced or discussed as opposed to anything directly in the story.

Summary: Will recognized the voice, but the cadences weren't right. He opened his eyes and tried to lift his head. "Maj?"

"Stay flat. It'll be easier. And... I am, but I'm not the one you know."

Will thought there was more than a hint of bitterness in the last sentence. Right. He'd started to say that they weren't in Kansas any more after the lab dissolved around them and the corridor replaced it. Some things had looked familiar, but-- "Where am I?"

There was an almost imperceptible hesitation before the woman who might or might not be Magenta answered. "Sky High. Used to be anyway, and nobody's renamed it."

Story on AO3.

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I'm still not reading here regularly. I'm reading more library books, both ebooks and paper, and finding other ways to fill my time. I get a bit overwhelmed when I think about trying to catch up.

I'm also still having a lot of hand/wrist issues. I've figured out how to minimize the pain and numbness, but I'm still prone to misjudging how long I can afford to keep typing. It doesn't usually hit me until hours later, sometimes, even a day later. The problems accumulate.

Cordelia took part two of drivers' training last week. It was several hours of lecture followed by a test. The class was held in the parking lot with each student bringing their own chair. They skipped the films they'd normally have shown.

We haven't tried to schedule the actual licensing test. Cordelia wants more time to practice parallel parking since she's not comfortable with that yet.

I've written a couple of exchange stories that haven't yet been revealed, and I'm working on three different writing projects and trying to figure out how I want to deal with UCon. That last requires some experimentation with platforms and with what our WiFi can handle in terms of me and Scott running games at the same time. I've asked Scott for help, but this is the worst time of year for scheduling anything that needs his participation.

The two probable options are him running in BlueJeans while I run in Discord or both of us running in BlueJeans. He's spending a lot of time working on investigating other platforms so that UCon can give their potential GMs some solid information about their options. I could probably get by with audio only and maybe some stuff on Gdocs, but I'd like to have video, too.

My body has reset the clock on menopause again. This period has been going for two weeks now.

( Stuff about writing )

( Cut for COVID discussion and risk taking relatives )

I'm having trouble managing my library holds. The decontamination delays and low staffing levels make it difficult to judge how long something will take. I've been trying to request only things that are actually on the shelf at the branch where we pick up holds, but it still sometimes takes two weeks for those to be available. I don't think there are good options in that direction in terms of predictability.

I want 4-8 CDs, 1-3 DVDs, and about 10 books (counting comics/graphic novels) a week. I'll only ever finish about half of those books, but it's usually not due to running out of time as much as there being a lot of things that I get a little way into and just don't want to finish.