eighth phase - first awakened

Title: Interlude One - Cooking With Haru
World: Chasing A Starlight
Summary: She can't cook. He can't bake. They manage to make the most of it anyway.
Notes: Fits in after Albert's Legacy - clearly, Catherine's bakery puts food on Mao's brain.

( Together they make one whole chef! )


Title: Picnicking in the Rain
World: Chasing A Starlight
Summary: A little rain isn't going to stop Haru from making the most of his afternoon with Mao.
Notes: Fits in after Christian's Inferno; Damien's fierce storm reminds Mao of another place and time.

( Every cloud has a silver lining. Or something like that. )


Title: Five Texts Mao Didn't Send (And One She Did)
World: Chasing A Starlight
Summary: Mao figures it's pointless trying to send him anything - the texts probably won't even go through. But it's worth the risk, at least once.
Notes: Fits in after Malice, though some of the texts are from later in the timeline. Time is a fairly mutable thing in the multiverse, after all.

( Travelling the pluralistic cosmos isn't all sunshine and rainbows, you know. )

Title: Time, or Chicago is So Two Years Ago
World: Exanimare
Summary: Azel's night starts with Malcolm and ends with Malcolm's dead girlfriend.
Notes: The bridge of Fall Out Boy's Chicago is So Two Years Ago inspired this - or at least it inspired the second half, which was going to be its own story but worked well with the first half, which I already had. Azel's seventeen in this, so it takes place about two years after Introduction.

( The only thing you'll get is this curse on your lips--I hope they taste of me forever. )