come home to my heart
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Everything & Nothing by allicanseeispink
Fandoms: 大逆転裁判 | Dai Gyakuten Saiban | The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles (Video Games)
15 Apr 2025
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Barok seated himself but made no move toward the coffee. Across from him, Kazuma was picking at the edge of the paper—not out of nerves but out of detachment, the idle ritual of someone who didn’t intend to read it at all. And it was always this—these gestures without conclusion, this domestic half-life. The shared quiet was not camaraderie, not exactly. But it was honest. And for Barok, that had become a sort of necessity.
The fire gave a reluctant pop. Outside, something metallic scraped—a horseshoe on stone, perhaps, or the shifting of a carriage shaft. All of London, turning in place.
(In which Barok and Kazuma spend a winter in London, argue about the country estate, and navigate silences that speak too loudly.)
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- Part 1 of come home to my heart
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it's golden, like daylight by allicanseeispink
Fandoms: 大逆転裁判 | Dai Gyakuten Saiban | The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles (Video Games)
18 Apr 2025
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Kazuma looked over at him then—really looked. Barok had one gloved hand braced on the sill, the other resting loosely on his knee. He was watching the house as they approached it, but not with nostalgia. More like a man bracing for weather.
The horses slowed again. The front doors were visible now—tall, arched, dark wood polished to a gloss. Someone stood just inside, silhouetted by lamplight. More than one figure moved beyond the windows.
Kazuma exhaled slowly.
“It feels like the kind of place that forgets people if they leave too long.”
Barok turned to him at last, something flickering behind his eyes. “Then it will remember you sooner than it does me.”
(In which Barok and Kazuma weather the winter in the country, and learn—slowly, without ceremony—what it means to stay.)
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- Part 2 of come home to my heart
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and carry your baggage up my street by allicanseeispink
Fandoms: 大逆転裁判 | Dai Gyakuten Saiban | The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles (Video Games)
21 Apr 2025
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They passed a row of shuttered cafés, the scent of yesterday’s coffee still clinging faintly to the windowsills. Barok didn’t press further. That, more than anything, made Kazuma’s mood turn sideways—not Barok’s disagreement, but his restraint. That damned composure.
Kazuma stuffed his hands deeper into his coat pockets.
“She’s not grieving,” he said at last. “She’s… calculating. Watching. I don’t like the way she looks at you.”
Barok stopped walking.
Kazuma took two more steps before noticing.
He turned.
Barok met his gaze, brow slightly furrowed—but not angry. Just measuring.
“I didn’t notice she was looking.”
“I noticed enough for both of us.”
(In which a trial concludes, but nothing really ends; the fire burns low; and Barok learns that Kazuma is irrational in all the ways that matter.)
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- Part 3 of come home to my heart