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Considering Arthur's future wife will be chosen less for compatibility than for her political value, Merlin may be the only marriage he'll have that won't end in bloodshed or a great deal of fortifying wine.
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26 Dec 2025
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When they try to hang him, he floats.
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They put him on the pyre at dawn.
He doesn’t burn.
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16 Dec 2025
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She thinks about it for years before it happens.
Five first times that could have been - and the one that was.- Language:
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02 Nov 2025
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“You can’t really be this sad over him,” Lucifer said a little desperately. “He’s missed your birthday, twice!”
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02 Nov 2025
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It’s fanon that Sherlock has a military kink. Well, what if he doesn’t? What if he's always had the opposite? What if he had to get over an instinctive recoil when he realized that a. oh God John was it for him and b. oh fuck he was a soldier?
Sherlock has a boatload of preconceptions about military personnel. So when John comes on to him at Angelo’s, he comes out with the “married to my work” line we’ve all regretted ever since.
All the prejudices Sherlock had to discard, one by one.
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02 Aug 2025
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Putting on Heirs by Agentbarkmacklin
Fandoms: The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone (TV)
01 Jun 2021
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Nikolai had set three rules during our marriage negotiations.
The first was simple: He did not care what Mal and I did behind closed doors, so long as there were no witnesses to any whispered conversations and late-night trysts.
The second had been easy enough to agree to, but one that had sent a shock of grim understanding through me when he’d spelled it out. I was never to bear Mal’s children.
Nikolai would never join me in my bed without agreement and understanding from both of us. But it would happen, and as often as required to produce at least one heir. I’d agreed to this too.
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Set sometime in early Siege and Storm, if Alina had accepted Nikolai's initial offer of marriage. And then there's that whole pesky issue of producing heirs...Bookmarked by LikeWater
27 Jun 2025
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“The queen wants to show that the Prince and the First Son are still deeply in love and committed to their countries.” Ellen swallows. “They want you to go on a tour of the Commonwealth together, to get the public to see those emails not as a sex scandal, but an invasion of privacy of a wholesome, loving relationship.”
“It was an invasion of privacy,” Alex says. He swallows. “Did they say what would happen if we say no?”
Ellen’s lips pinch tightly at the corners. “Then they will issue a full denial and Henry will tour the commonwealth himself.”
Alex doesn't hesitate. “Tell them we’ll do it. I’m not gonna let him do this alone."
It would kill him. Henry hates this shit. The public parading, the judgment. Having to do all of that, and deny who he is? Alex at least wants to be there, to hold his hand through it. Even if it's just as a friend.
It might kill Alex to pretend, but that’s a small price to pay to ensure Henry—his beautiful, vibrant, funny-as-hell, brilliant ex-not-quite-boyfriend—isn’t killed instead.
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or, the alex-never-goes-to-kensington-after-the-lake-house, exes-to-fake-dating-to-lovers fic.
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22 Sep 2024
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There are an infinite number of things Kaldur would rather do than sit here and watch.
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21 Sep 2024
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Sadly, he can pinpoint to the day exactly when he began caving to the whims of hopeless peasants with large, tragic eyes.
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14 Apr 2024
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“The first few years, it was a relief to get away from all the stupid family drama,” Alex says, blowing a long sigh. The hand that’s not holding Henry’s slides onto his stomach, a warm, comforting pressure. “Then I started to resent it. It hurt to be stuck out on a mission while everyone celebrated without me.”
“And now?”
A grin slips onto Alex’s face as he walks two fingers across Henry’s bare chest. “Now I have you.”
(Or, 3 times Alex & Henry spent Christmas on missions and 1 when they didn't; or, A Very Nova Christmas Special.)
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- Part 2 of (Super)Nova, Baby
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22 Dec 2023
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(did my love aid and abet you?) by alasse
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)
25 Aug 2023
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That night in Kensington Palace, Henry told Alex to leave. Eleven years later, Alex watches on the news as Henry comes out, and abdicates. A story of what came before, and what comes after.
It’s been eleven fucking years, and Henry is finally free.
It’s been eleven fucking years, and Henry is finally out.
It’s been eleven fucking years, and Alex Claremont-Diaz still hasn’t learned how to be normal about Henry Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor.
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22 Nov 2023
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go the distance by indomitablelove for celeritas2997
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
04 Apr 2023
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His legs are like jello. He’s not entirely sure how he’s still upright. He’s running on fumes and the energy gel he’d been handed about forty minutes ago by one of the secret service as he’d passed by. Fumes, energy gel pouches, the roar of the crowd against New York streets, and pure adrenaline because he can see the finish line. He knows what’s there: June and Nora and Henry.
Henry. The reason Alex is doing this whole damn thing in the first place.
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Alex decides to run a marathon. It's all Henry's fault, really.
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09 Nov 2023
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He continues to mutter ramblings about high society and the impossible balancing act of keeping up appearances before he falters to a tapering quiet, brown eyes coming alight with a realization.
Martha’s stomach churns, sensing a grand idea that could either be pure genius or terribly ill-advised. (With most of Alex’s ideas, it’s usually both.)_____
Alex is Martha’s plus one at her high school’s pre-reunion soirée, and she learns a thing or two about gumption.
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- Part 1 of Alejito y Marimar
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10 Sep 2023
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Déjame Ver Cómo Es Que Floreces by 14carrotgold
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
28 Feb 2022
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Oscar gets in close and bluntly asks, “Earlier. In the bathroom. Did you do it?”
Alex scoffs, “No. Don't be a perv. Why would you wanna know that anyway?”
Oscar rolls his eyes. “Mind out of the gutter, chamaco. Did you propose?”
Ah.
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Henry is introduced to the extended Diaz side of the family at their matriarch's birthday. Shenanigans (and romance and feelings) ensue.
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- Part 1 of Las Flores
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07 Sep 2023
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God Save the Blessed American President Mom by zipadeea
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
29 Mar 2021
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["June stopped by at lunch; she showed me a delightful channel called Hallmark, which repeats the same story every hour after they swap one round of white, straight, small-town conventionally beautiful actors for another. It was entertaining.”
“June and I used to play a drinking game with those. Take a shot every time someone goes ice skating, sledding, or leaves the big city for their tiny hometown.”
“Good lord, you must’ve been sloshed in the first ten minutes.”]
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On December 4, 2021, an attempt is made on President Ellen Claremont's life.
Alex gets shot instead.
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- Part 3 of zip's christmas playlist
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29 Aug 2023
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Jace looks Magnus over, at the weight settled onto the balls of his feet and the loose set of his shoulders. He says, “Looks like you need a sparring partner.”
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26 May 2023
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Books are defaced. But it's all for a good cause. Really.
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12 May 2023
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Arthur is not often furious. Frustrated, yes; irritated, most certainly; even angry when the occasion arises; but he rarely indulges in the full glory of rage, the hot rush of fury beneath his skin.
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14 Mar 2023
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To lose a manservant once may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose him twice looks like carelessness. When Merlin vanishes in the mines of Kemeray, Arthur's search for him uncovers decades of secrets and betrayals. But the sudden appearance of a baby white dragon bodes well for Albion, for Merlin and Arthur, and for the land that they will build together.
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02 Mar 2023
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Rec 110
Mystery Work
Part of in hibernation
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
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03 Feb 2023