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• When the Clock Strikes Midnight by acrux_al (Riste_Acrux)

  Fandoms: Original Work  

  • Not Rated
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Major Character Death
  • F/F
  • Complete Work

  22 Oct 2025

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Major Character Death
  • Original Female Character(s)/Original Female Character(s)
  • Original Female Character(s)
  • Hanahaki Disease
  • Tragic Romance
  • Unrequited Love
  • Not Actually Unrequited Love
  • Angst
  • Bittersweet
  • Bittersweet Ending
  • I Wrote This Instead of Sleeping
  • Sad Ending
  • Ambiguous/Open Ending
  • Non-Linear Narrative

  Summary

  She understands the words, even if Rory doesn’t mean them that way.
  She hears what isn’t said.

   

  "Love is naive.
  Love is reckless.
  Love is dying with a flower in your throat."

  Language:

  English

  Words:

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