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Valentine's Day Special!
A collection of unconnected one-shots and slice-of-lifes exploring every ship in the Ruby Redfort universe!-- 11 ships at last count!
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(say goodbye) to the heart you break by sappho_e
Fandoms: Ruby Redfort Series - Lauren Child
25 Oct 2025
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In the end, the very end, LB did not take Hitch out of the steel coffin that had caged him for two weeks. Zuko, in his flight leathers and cockpit helmet that was as familiar to Hitch as his husband’s loving smile, did not save Hitch. Nor did Ruby, and her dojo karate moves or secret gadgets or child prodigy plans.
Alternate Hitch POV where he is held captive and tortured for Spectrum intelligence. With a cyanide-laced molar in his mouth as a last resort, and diminishing hope of Spectrum ever coming to get him, he is faced with a difficult choice: his own life, or the safety of the few loved ones he calls family?
-HAPPY ENDING/HITCH LIVES
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- Part 2 of to the end
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when the revenant came down (the flashing at night, the sirens grow and grow) by sappho_e
Fandoms: Ruby Redfort Series - Lauren Child
06 Oct 2025
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Hitch seeks out the elusive Mothman after their first meeting in the SPIDR base, and extends a gesture of good will. He finds out something about himself in the process.
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The Little Green Diner was the largest eating establishment that Little Mountain Side had to boast about, just down the street from the Daily Supplies shop that Mo Loveday had once worked at, and across the square from the little flat above the barbers’ that he had called home for ten years, and around the corner from the cafe that Hitch had idly stirred a mug of coffee when Bradley Baker, long-dead and long having forgotten everything about him, walked through the door. Hitch had tried not to think about it during his car journey, a losing battle fought every time he had to retrace the mountain roads that unspooled ten years earlier to the crash-site where Bradley Baker’s shooting-star plane had crashed in the frozen wilderness, and where Mo Loveday had walked out nearly unharmed, save for the massive head trauma.
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- Part 2 of the spaceman says everybody look down
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i love you more than the world can contain in its lonely and ramshackle head by sappho_e
Fandoms: Ruby Redfort Series - Lauren Child
07 Aug 2025
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After months of radio-silence during covert operations, and back-to-back midnight chopper drops, Hitch and Zuko are finally on the same side of the Atlantic for a long-overdue rendezvous at their favourite speakeasy that asked no questions.
There were many things Hitch can face without fear- enemy fire, kidnap and laying his life down for his job and country- but the weight of being seen was an op he can't train for. With drawn curtains, and behind closed doors, Hitch shows his partner just how much he's been missed.
-- fear, intimacy and longing to say 'i see you' when the world can'tSeries
- Part 8 of at the end of the world
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It's April 1974 and the 19th Annual Eurovision Song Contest is due to begin in Brighton, England.
In the fear that the Soviet Union will sabotage the contest to undermine the power of Europe and descend the world into World War 3, Ruby Redfort is given her mission: to go undercover at the biggest music competition on Earth and decipher the code before hidden operatives can act.
With time running out, she must act quickly to solve the code and save lives, all to the soundtrack of ABBA's hit single Waterloo.
-- 4 years ago this week, I did not know anything about Eurovision, and had to ask on the Discord if this was the ‘finale’. And now look at me, writing a whole plotted fic about it. How times change.
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the spaceman says everybody look down by sappho_e
Fandom Ruby Redfort Series - Lauren Child
06 Oct 2025
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"I would know him in death, at the end of the world.” (Series Name from Madeline Miller's 'The Song of Achilles' because I am gay.)
AU where Zuko and Hitch have been married for eight years by the events of BAYD. Hitch's early Spectrum days, and events of BAYD and other RR books, mostly through Zuko’s outsider POV. An excuse to write Hitch being looked after and out for, for once in his life.
Zuko/Hitch is the main focus here, so lots of fluff and probably a lot of angst too whoops.Lots of the backstory is covered in the different stories and they’ll be posted in chronological order once the first part is finished! I’ll get a general history and timeline up on Tumblr at some point I promise!
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A Role-Swap!AU, where Ruby & Co are Spectrum Agents, and Hitch, LB and Bradley Baker are kids, who did not wait to be invited into Spectrum but made their way in with brute force. Set in a nebulous 1950s period, for convenience of me making fun of Hitch for going to boarding school.
Ruby is Head of Spectrum 8, with Red, Elliot and Mouse working under her as agents. No one's checked in on Clancy for a while, but he's fine.
Hitch, LB and Bradley are taken from the Australia scenes in BAYD: Hitch is exactly seven and a quarter years old. Bradley and LB are both thirteen (LB is older though).
Quent and Vapona are starring villians in this, but honestly Quent shouldn't even get the title of villain, he's just there with his silly little games.This is inspired by a chat on the Discord late 2021, inspired by an idea Kitty had in 2017!
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When There’s Nowhere Else To Run, Is There Room For One More? by P234age
Fandoms: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic
27 Jan 2026
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“It’s a little difficult to think clearly with a knife pressed to his jugular, but Neil manages to wonder if he should’ve let the FBI send him to jail instead of here.
It makes sense, unfortunately, that after finding Neil bruised, burnt, and bleeding out on the cold cement floor of his father’s basement, Special Agent Todd Browning might have had some concerns for Neil’s health.
Neil just didn’t expect that concern to include his mental health, too.
Browning had offered Neil a choice that day - after listing out, like, fifty reasons why he thought Neil might benefit from some therapy.
Life in prison or a sixty day stay in a psych ward, followed by freedom.
Neil thought the answer was obvious, but his new roommate still hasn’t removed his blade from Neil’s throat - which Neil is now realizing isn’t actually a knife, but a razor blade taped to the butt of a toothbrush - so he’s rethinking that answer a bit.”
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The one where Neil and Andrew meet in Easthaven.
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Like my mirror, years ago. by betterslightlysedated
Fandoms: Ruby Redfort Series - Lauren Child
19 Jul 2023
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Bradley felt strangely calm about all of this. Perhaps it was the matter of fact way they all talked, like this was nothing out of the ordinary, the spy agency and the plots and the plane crashes. Maybe it wasn't, for them, and that, if anything should've spiked panic, should've set alarm bells ringing. It didn't though. He wondered what that said about him.
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A collection of missing scenes from BAYD, starting with a direct continuation of the coffee shop scene on little mountain side.
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Alpha-Dave has everything anyone could want: fame, fortune, legions of adoring fans, and a shitty hatchback car.
But behind the shades is a man who knows the world is ending, and who wakes each morning expecting to see a lover who isn't there. Someone he's never even met.- Language:
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this is the debt I pay by white-water-rapids (locheia)
Fandoms: Ruby Redfort Series - Lauren Child
19 Jan 2021
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The story is relatively simple, to tell the truth; short snapshots of a life unlived but that could have been. When someone devoted to their cause finds reason to doubt, their life can change for the worse or for the better - it just depends on which side you're on.
This fic is a villain!au about Hitch and has been written for the Ruby Redfort 2020 Big Bang! It updates weekly, planned to end on the 12th of January.
Thank you to Kitty for the art for this fic! You can find her, and the art, on tumblr at @agentredfort!- Language:
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17 Dec 2020