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    When a pandemic of Runespoor Fever sweeps through the wizarding world at the end of 2003, leaving a full quarter of its victims infertile, the International Confederation of Wizards takes drastic action. A marriage and reproductive law is enacted, throwing the wizarding world into upheaval.

    Lightly inspired by the 1989 film The War of the Roses, (but without the animal death,) and our own recent pandemic.

    She was wearing one of her neat, buttoned-up outfits as always; brown herringbone trousers and a silky cream blouse that covered her from throat to wrist, her hair braided around her head but not quite as neat as usual. He stopped several feet from her and frowned. “Why do you smell of smoke, Granger?”

    “Does it really matter, Malfoy?” She skewered him with a glare, arms folding across her chest. “Perhaps I took up smoking.”

    “And did you?”

    She gave him an ‘are you mad?’ look. “No, I burnt down my office,” she said exasperatedly, as if it should’ve been obvious, and he tried to refrain from giving her an ‘are you mad?’ look in return.

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    16 Feb 2026

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    A Kaz and Inej 'Different first meeting AU'
    Inej is just trying to get by day to day in the Menagerie when Tante Heleen assigns her a new client: the mysterious Mr. Brekker. The infamous Dirtyhands, a man cloaked in myth and rumor with a known disinterest in whores, is now trailing Inej up to her room. What could he possibly want from her?

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    13 Sep 2025

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    Yelena Belova is a football player for the English women’s team, Thunderbolts FC. The team had enjoyed days of total glory, led by Yelena’s sister and club legend, Natasha Romanoff.

    For years now, since Natasha’s passing, the Thunderbolts have been struggling severely, and Yelena’s new role as captain has been criticized and doubted not only by fans and the media, but also by herself.

    As Yelena tries to navigate her self-doubt, grief, and love for her profession, Bob Reynolds—the newest member of the Thunderbolts’ coaching staff, who is dealing with his own battles—enters her life.

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    09 Sep 2025

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    The worst part of being on assignment with Malfoy isn't guarding Neville, living in a tent for two weeks, or traipsing through dense Scottish forest. It's that Malfoy’s an incorrigible flirt intent on driving her barmy.

    So Hermione does what any good partner would do.

    She flirts back.

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    He grabs the sleek leather straps of her wand holster. A faint brush of knuckles along the swell of her breasts makes her breath hitch. Did he just—?

    He clears his throat. “Sorry.”

    Is it her imagination, or is his voice more gravelly than usual?

    He pulls on her straps and tugs with all his strength. “There,” he rasps. “Nice and tight.”

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    07 Sep 2025

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    It turns out that hope is a costly thing; peace, perhaps even costlier.

     

    Belgium, 1923. Inej and Kaz Rietveld adjust to a changing world and, perhaps, learn to grow something new.

    (A brief coda inspired by Whitherward’s brilliant WWI AU, “save the undone years.”)

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    19 Jul 2025