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So back in February, when painted originally finished watching Gargoyles for the first time and had murdered me with feels from her fics before I'd ever seen a single minute of the show, one of the things we discussed was Alex undoing Oberon's punishment on Puck when he was old enough and strong enough. I loved this idea more than words could say, and I figured "Hey, that'll probably be a short little one-shot, like maybe 3k-6k, I can do it after I actually watch the series."

And then I started outlining the fic and thought "oh...maybe 10-15k." And then I started writing the fic and realized, no, there was not a way in hell I was getting out of this in under forty thousand words because do you know how many feelings I have about the Xanatos family in general and Alex and Owen in particular?

(Well, you will, because I put 90% of them into this story right here.)

I'm just lucky it stayed under 50k, in all honesty.

Couple of other notes:

1) As in my other fics and based on painted's fics, Xanatos is poly and he and Fox have an open relationship.

2) Since this is basically a sequel to painted's series Then Fate O'errules, Owen has Alex heal his stone hand when he's about eighteen months old. So pre-1998, Owen has the stone hand; after that, he doesn't.

3) The working title of this fic was "Hey Oberon Fuck You" and I feel like that tells you everything you need to know about my state of mind while writing it. The actual title comes from A Midsummer Night's Dream, like 90% of my Gargoyles fic titles.

I hope you all enjoy!