Somewhere between one train station and the next, the world ends. After a long shift and a momentary distraction, she blinks - and finds herself in a city stripped of everyday people, social rules, and certainty. Tokyo becomes something else entirely: a place where survival is decided by deadly games, trust is a calculated risk, and every choice carries a cost. In the Borderlands, survival depends on more than reflexes. It requires patience, perception, and the ability to trust the right person at the wrong time. Chishiya is not the right person. He is calculating, sharp-tongued, and dangerous in ways she understands too well. And yet, in a city emptied of certainty, reluctant alliances begin to blur into something quieter and more complicated. Liminal is a slow-burn Alice in Borderland x Reader story set in the space between fear and fascination, where connection is both a risk and a refuge.

For twelve years, Amari Sakura was held hostage in a hidden room down in the basement by her stepfather. When a sudden blackout finally sets her free, she stumbles into an apocalyptic version of Tokyo, where she has to fight for her life playing deadly games. Chishiya Shuntaro is a brilliant doctor who hides behind cold smirks and distant walls. He built them after his childhood best friend Sakura, vanished without a trace twelve years ago, only to be found 'dead'. Her disappearance left a void he could never fill, and now he hides behind indifference, refusing to let anyone close enough to hurt him again. What will become of two childhood best friends when fate reunites them in a world where love and friendship were never meant to exist?

𝐋𝐈𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐀𝐋 Between one heartbeat and the next, there exists a space: liminal, fragile, infinite. It's the line between what was and what could be, between memory and oblivion, life and whatever echoes after it. 𝑴𝑰𝒁𝑼𝑵𝑶 𝑹𝑬𝑰𝑵𝑨, a young rehabilitation psychologist with a fractured past, wakes to find herself in a world where rules have no meaning, only survival does. She doesn't remember how she arrived, or the life she left behind. All she knows is that every choice is a gamble, and every loss takes more than blood. 𝑺𝑯𝑼𝑵𝑻𝑨𝑹Ō 𝑪𝑯𝑰𝑺𝑯𝑰𝒀𝑨, a prodigy of the mind and a man built from silence, moves through that same world with surgical precision. Logic is his weapon, detachment his shield. But when paths collide, something within that liminal space, between fear and curiosity, intellect and instinct, begins to shift. In the stillness between chaos and truth, Liminal tells the story of two people standing on the edge of reason, where love and survival can no longer be told apart.

A Bones fanfiction totally in character, with LOTS of sexual tension. The best kind.

About the growing love between a genius and an almost normal person. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Life is different, when someone really cares for you. It's more fun, more sadness, more real life. It's like people say, love can change everything. And it's impossible to calculate. Humans are impossible to calculate. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - "All the data from what happened speaks for, that it is a fact, that you like me. Everything. But it does not concur with my calculations." "Your calculations?" "After them, it was most likely, that I would find someone I really like, who likes me, earliest in 8 years, probably at work." "Why?" "Why what?" "Why would it have to take that long? Why do you think you could calculate... that?" Jesus. He calculates everything. He tried to calculate love. It was about time, that somebody understands this genius. And teaches him a lesson... - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - (This is not a 'real' xReader, but it contains love, sex, drama... and a few bad words, maybe)

"𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮'𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐦𝐞? 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬 𝐧𝐨 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞?" "𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐢 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐛𝐞? 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐭 𝐦𝐲 𝐧𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐩𝐮𝐭 𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐱 𝐢𝐧 𝐦𝐲 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐢 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞." ‧͙⁺˚*･༓☾　　☽༓･*˚⁺‧͙ 𝐒𝐋𝐎𝐖𝐁𝐔𝐑𝐍 in which a grouchy vampire is unwittingly wrapped around the finger of a very stupid cupid [ begins season 2 ] [ side buffy x omc]