Infinity Smashed: Coming Out to the Family Rodriguez

Hey everyone!  This story has been posted previously, but I wanted it in editable post form, so I gave it a quick revision.

Coming out to the Family Rodriguez
Prompt: Stuff100 ‘Family’
Summary: Thomas comes out bi and poly to his family.
Notes: No matter how cool your family is, I think there’s still just a twinge of anxiety for almost everyone who comes out, whatever it is they’re coming out for.


Thomas sits Raige and M.D. down to talk about his plan first.

“You’re going to tell your family?” Raige’s eyes are wide. “Wow…”

“Yup.”

“Jeez, Thomas, I mean, good luck, I can’t imagine telling mine…”

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Giant Robots: Cigarette Break

Cigarette Break
Prompt: H/C Bingo “magical trouble”
Word Count: 2166
Summary: Summer has come to the Jaeger Academy, and Biff and M.D. share a cigarette on the roof.  They also meet Mako Mori.
Notes: A Giant Robots fic, takes place a couple months after Dirt-Bike Made for Two; M.D. is eighteen and Biff is twenty-three.  Biff’s powers are one of the vestigial remains of the original Infinity Smashed draft, back when magic was a huge part of the story.


“You gonna freeze,” Biff warns from the top of the stairs.

“Shut up.” M.D. is still working her way up, placing her crutches and bodily hauling herself up each stair.  Three months ago, she would’ve been puffing and sweating, but now, all she has is a look of studious concentration. “I haven’t had direct full-body sunlight since 2014.  If I’m going to freeze, I’m going to freeze happy.”

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