Fic: just to know you're still here — Frank/Hazel

just to know you're still here

Fandom: Heroes of Olympus
Ship: Frank Zhang/Hazel Levesque
Characters: Frank Zhang, Hazel Levesque
Word count: 1259

✧ Summary: After all these years, Hazel's done wondering whether or not she deserves all this happiness—all this peace that felt far away when she was young. The only thing that remains are the nightmares.

✧ Notes: I feel like I've always hated myself whenever I write short fluff pieces and one-shots because they're not "good enough" or "substantial", but I want to learn how to convey a message and something special about these characters in a short word count. I think there's still a lot you can do even within something brief like this... I wanted to explore what it would be like for these two post-canon with Hazel actually finding inner peace and happiness. I think I got it across pretty well. There's a sweetness with these two that I'm not very good at writing, but I like this one. I hope others do too.

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Day log: 09/12

There are academic strikes today so class has been cancelled. I'm getting a video of a lecture instead, which is in some ways worse. But at least I can lounge around at home for just a day later, which is what I'm best at.

I missed some work that I was supposed to submit a few days ago (oops) and I have to drill it into myself that it won't happen again. I have a presentation due tomorrow but the work seems really simple so far and I'm already halfway done with my part, so it shouldn't be any stress. I also need to work on readings for Law, but that's a problem for future me.

Once I'm done with this work I'm going to make Buldak and continue reading Anna Karenina. I'm on page 590-ish so I hope to be done by the end of the year. I have a lot of thoughts on it, so I'm thinking I might write a review of it as well on here; I could do it on Storygraph as well but I like that this journal is more personal and it's way easier to keep track of my own thoughts.

If I can resist the urge to play Minecraft some more, which I doubt, I might continue writing the Reynazel fic or get started on the Frank/Nico one-shot. If I don't... well.