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In half a second, with one bullet, he became hopelessly entangled with the legend of Mare Sheehan, and she thinks she likes him entangled with her like this. He wrote himself into the story of her life and made a place for himself among the wreckage, and if he dies now, she’ll be left standing at the edge of the crater he left behind.
When he wakes up, she will tell him, “You survived. And I like you alive, and here, and with me.” She will tell him, and she will take his hand and tell him he did a great thing, after all.
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He’s new and has the kind of schoolboy crush that makes him say “hero detective” back at her with barely a hint of irony. They’re both better off if she leads with the uglier parts of herself.
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He’s not expecting her to be as good as she is.
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There are plenty of people to remember her son the rock star.
Maybe Mare just wants to remember her boy, the child she loved.
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The Goodness of Glinda Upland by localgaysian
Fandoms: Wicked - All Media Types, Wicked - Schwartz/Holzman, Wicked (Movie 2024)
04 Sep 2025
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Famously private, the early years of Lady Glinda Upland's life and career are shrouded in rumor and speculation, innuendo and outuendo. She has notably refused to speak about her connection to the Wicked Witch of the West.
Nor is a directionless journalist, struggling to reconcile her unknown past with her ambitions as a writer.
On the eve of Lady Glinda's retirement, Nor receives an invitation summoning her to Pertha Hills, the seat of the Upland Arduenna family.
To hear the entire story.
To know the whole truth.--
Eventual Canon Divergence AU. Inspired by The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo.
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The Terrors of Interdisciplinary Research by veganthranduil
Fandoms: The Terror (TV 2018)
30 Aug 2020
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(or: Professor John Franklin’s Horrible Retirement Present)
Francis Crozier wants tenure. James Fitzjames wants to finish his professorial qualification thesis. The postdocs just want to sleep.
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04 Jan 2026
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“What was it, James, all those men before did that didn’t please you?” Francis asks quietly, a menacing gleam of certainty crystallising in his gaze, and James feels his stomach drop at the warm, queasy sense that some trap has been laid that he’s been far too foolish to see. “Or, rather," Francis whispers, "what did they fail to do? Tell me, so that I may not repeat their mistakes.”
James has a secret, and Francis has a way of seeing far too much.
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“You’ve been gone a while,” James said.
Seven months. He’d set out as soon as the weather cleared up, loathe to be cooped up with the reminders of his failure any longer.
“You know how it is,” Francis said, following the line connecting their bodies, from Fitzjames’s hand, with its smooth skin and long fingers, up his arm and shoulder, to the part where his clavicle was visible under the robe that had slipped, over his throat with the Adam’s apple working as Fitzjames swallowed, and lastly, to his face. When he met Fitzjames’s eyes, everything that needed to be said had been said.The year is 1898. Francis Crozier is a bounty hunter who loves the road more than anyone else he’s ever met. James Fitzjames is a cowboy looking for his place in the world.
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- Part 1 of this western life i chose
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A missing scene explaining 1) the state of deshabille of two senior officers in the late evening at Terror Camp, 2) a series of strange noises from the command tent, 3) the uncharacteristically good mood of James Fitzjames the following morning, especially considering the death of a crewmember, and 4) the exchange of a single mitten.