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  1. Rec 71

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    Tommy stared down at the picture and didn’t move an inch as he tried to process what he was seeing. 

    It was of Evan, his pale skin glistening with sweat as he smiled, holding the door open for someone outside of his apartment building. 

    Mason put down another picture and then another, making the cold shock in Tommy’s veins turn brittle with each one being presented to him. It was obvious from the photographs that Evan hadn’t known his picture was being taken. It had to have been captured with a long lens of some kind. Evan, at his apartment building. Evan, by his Jeep outside of the grocery store. Evan, in his uniform, taking out the trash at the back of the firehouse, alone and surrounded by shadows. 

    “I really wished you’d said yes, man.” Mason leaned back and tipped the picture up to stare at him. “Cute kid. Got that birthmark thing? He’s a firefighter too? Calls himself Buck, right? Let’s take this somewhere else, huh? You can tell me all about him.”  

    An old army buddy of Tommy’s comes into town with a proposition. When Tommy refuses, he learns that Evan Buckley is a pretty good tool for persuasion.

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    13 Feb 2026

  2. Rec 42

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    Mickey likes his life. He likes his flower shop, working with his hands, the people around him, and most of the time, even the fucking hipsters who stumble into his store.

    What he absolutely don't like is that unbelievably rude, disrespectful, insanely hot firefighter asshole with no manners and no spine. The prick who moved in next door and is literally robbing him his sleep and driving him up the fucking wall.

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    15 Jan 2026

  3. Rec 63

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    “Oh Christ. You’re the baker?”

    His words pluck Alex’s most sensitive nerve. It’s the same pompous skepticism people use when they’re trying not to say the offensive thing out loud. You’re a bit young, aren’t you? or Someone like yourself should have more realistic expectations. and his least favorite Maybe you should tone yourself down a bit to appeal to a wider customer base. Annoyance vibrates through him.

    He crosses his arms. “That’s my name on the building, sweetheart. Is that going to be a problem?”

    OR, Alex is hired to make a wedding cake and Henry is his most annoying customer ever.

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    03 Dec 2025

  4. Rec 70

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    Henry averts his face to the side, and Alex watches as his eyes catch sight of the signet ring. Taking a deep breath, Henry closes his eyes. When he opens them and turns to face Alex again, his eyes have a steely determinedness to them. “You should leave."

     

    A Kensington Divergence fic.

    Fully written, updates Tuesdays and Fridays.

    Title from Ariana Grande's "we can't be friends"

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    21 Nov 2025

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    Buck signs the NDA and takes the LAFD offer and doesn’t go back to work.

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    04 Nov 2025

  6. Rec 28

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    Alex hates twitter.

    He has it because Steve, his manager, physically restrained him and downloaded it on his phone, he jests...

    ‘Have a social media presence Alex’ Steve says

    ‘Tweet what you think’ Steve insists.

    ‘You’re a comedian Alex, it shouldn’t be that hard’

    Well, Steve is twenty fucking five. Steve is hashtag hip and cool and how actually, in the ever living fuck, does he think that the things that Alex thinks won’t get him landed in prison.

    And Alex is 40, well actually 41 turning 42 in March, and Alex cannot think of anything worse than having a social media presence.

    Let him live ! Let him have his time away from writing and touring and writing and touring just to cook and lie in bed and watch the housewives of orange county, or the kardashians, or- he’s recently discovered YouTube- commentary videos on how the world is about to end because of how much we’ve destroyed it, or how to bleach your hair without it all falling out, or- he desperately despises this one- how to knit.

    Because now he sits in bed, losing patience, as he knits things that he will never use.

    Or Alex is a 41 year old comedian who realises he has been in love with Henry since they were kids.

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    12 Aug 2025

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    It’s been a little over three weeks since he dumped Evan, and in hindsight Tommy could’ve handled the whole situation so much better. They never talked about their long term plans, goals and wishes, or set any specific ground rules for their relationship, but Tommy always assumed they were on the same page.

    They were enjoying their time together, for however long it was going to last. Six weeks, six months, a year. But at some point Evan was going to get bored of him, or he’d outgrow Tommy and start looking for somebody else. Somebody with the qualities Evan wanted in a long term partner.

    OR: Tommy is a trainwreck. He still gets his man back. (Eventually.)

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    01 Aug 2025

  8. Rec 37

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    Buck's nesting urges get a bit out of control as his due date looms and then passes, Tommy couldn't be more in love with him if he tried.

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    26 Jul 2025

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    20 Jul 2025

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    Firefighter Evan “Buck” Buckley doesn’t expect to survive the prison riot, until inmate Tommy Kinard steps in and saves his life. Buck can’t stop thinking about him, and the deeper he digs into Tommy’s case, the more wrong everything feels.
    Tommy was convicted, forgotten, and written off. Buck wants to know why.
    What starts as a search for the truth becomes something more, something complicated, dangerous, and impossible to ignore.
    A firefighter looking for answers. A convict who’s lost all hope. In the ashes of one fire, another spark ignites hope.

    Or the prison AU, you didn’t know you wanted.

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    17 Jul 2025

  11. Rec 84

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    A freak accident turns Evan Buckley's life upside down.

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    16 Jun 2025

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    Smell is an interesting thing, as far as senses go. He learned in undergrad anatomy that it’s actually responsible in part for encoding memory, and it’s a powerful trigger for it. Alex has experienced this plenty of times; his mother’s perfume reminding him of their years in Texas, his father’s cigars. This time, with the smell of this room, Alex is hit square in the chest with the memory of short blonde strands of hair sliding between his fingers, a perfect mouth opening against his own, a smooth accent curving a dulcet voice that whispers into his ear. Alex is spinning suddenly, as though he’s in midair and falling, and the nostalgic feeling in his chest is replaced with something far more intense and less pleasant. Alex steps backwards suddenly out of the room and slams the door shut, his breath shuddering and fast, and he rakes his hands through his dark curls as he storms off down the hallway.

    Alexander Claremont-Diaz returns to the White House the first day of his presidency, intent on carving a new future for America and laying the ghosts of the previous administration to rest. He stumbles on a ghost of his own, one that's never quite stopped haunting him since the summer of his mother's second campaign.

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    01 Jun 2025

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    Tommy's nails dug into Buck’s waist, the momentum of yanking Buck back driving his cock deeper up into him. A strangled sound burst out of Buck’s throat. He grabbed the side of the cabinet, mouth falling open.

    “Quiet,” Tommy gritted into his ear.

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    or, what if in an alternate universe babyslut Buck joined the 118 when Tommy was still in his closeted asshole era and they had a torrid affair??

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    29 May 2025

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    Buck is standing in the middle of Eddie’s living room.

    No. His living room.

    At least for one more week.

    It’s almost empty...

    But it’s in this space, this room filled with memories and ghosts, that Buck decides he’s never really had a friend.

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    26 May 2025

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    Watch Buck and Tommy’s life together through their instagram posts and texts. Join them on major milestones through their lives and everything in between.

    A BuckTommy storyline SMAU.

    (Tags will be added as we go on to avoid spoilers...)

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    23 Apr 2025

  16. Rec 55

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    Alex has spent the last 5 years actively avoiding everything and anything relating to Henry and his 'charming' new fiancee, but when an invitation lands on his desk he knows he has finally run out of time to run.

    As he sits in west minster abbey at the man that he love's wedding, will everything go to plan for Henry? Or will the universe intervene and if she does, will the secrets Alex has tried to keep buried for half a decade finally be told?

    As their lives fall apart, again, could they ever fall back into each other or does the secret that tore them apart run too deep?

     

    A reimagining of my 'In The Ashes Of Us' from my other account (Pixie Wilson).

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    19 Apr 2025

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    “I'm getting married,” he mumbled to himself, trying to make the words fit in his mouth without tasting like ash.

    “I'm sorry, sugar. You are.”

    Alex turned and nodded to his mother.

    “When?” he asked, and she winced.

    “Tomorrow.”

    He nodded one more time.

    “I’m going to be sick.”

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    The Aphrodite and Hephaestus story, but with a twist.

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    15 Feb 2025

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    The Only Thing Updates @TOTUpdates
    Sorry for the lack of professionalism but what the absolute FUCK. WHAT. THE. FUCK.

    The Only Thing Updates @TOTUpdates
    Alex on the red carpet: “Henry has been an amazing partner. It’s so easy to just be when he’s next to me. He makes sure I’m always comfortable and he never rushes me. Really, he’s such a pleasure to be around. I don’t think I’ve had such a good time when I’m working, but I guess working with your husband comes with certain privileges… Oh. Fuck. Oh, fuck. Fuck.

    or,
    The world thinks Alex Claremont-Diaz and Henry Fox are best friends when they're casted in a romantic comedy together. Only, nobody knows that they're actually married.

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    20 Jan 2025

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    “Oxford, like twenty years ago—” Twenty-one, actually. “I was there for a term abroad. We had a class together.” Alex huffs a disbelieving laugh and pushes a hand back through his curls. “We, uh, well. There was that party after final exams…”

    “I’m so sorry, I don’t recall that one” Henry lies, flashing an apologetic smile. “I don’t remember the details of most of those uni parties these days.”

    (Twenty years ago, Henry met—and let go of—his soulmate. Now he's in his 40s, with a new job in a new city, and certainly not expecting said soulmate to come barreling into his life again. A small white lie seems like the simplest way to keep things from getting awkward, but real life has a way of getting complicated.)

    12/23: New holiday epilogue added!

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    26 Dec 2024

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    It becomes a thing, Evan often showing up for karaoke night, or trivia, or on one memorable team outing, a rage room. The kid is around all the time. And yeah, Tommy knows it’s the same as any of his other colleagues, and that firefighters spend a lot of time together by design, but all of a sudden it feels like it’s all Evan, all the time.

    It all comes to a head for Tommy.

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    13 Dec 2024

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