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    pañuelo melody by

    Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)  

    11 Jun 2024

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    “It sounds like the Alex I grew up with,” Henry tells him. He pauses, thinking if he can say it, but he holds on to the light, and tries, “The one only I got to see.”

    And Alex doesn’t leave him any room for doubt, telling him, “That Alex will always be yours.”

    Henry closes his eyes, chin quivering in the wake of new tears, grateful and pained, and even all these years later, still quietly in love.

     

    (In which Henry and Alex were children, growing up together, and Henry had always loved him, a little, a lot. And then they weren’t children anymore, and everything changed, and the memories are haunting, all-consuming, and divine.)

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    My Rose-Coloured Boy (Lowkey, No Pressure) by

    Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston  

    16 Jun 2024

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    Henry stutters slightly as he gets his next words out, a flush spreading across his cheeks and Alex does an internal fist pump, “Can I have a bouquet please?”

    “What kind?”

    “You know what kind.”

    “We have oh so many types of bouquets in our wonderful establishment, I truly will need more from you in order to fulfil your order.”

    “You are a menace.”

    “Sir, please do not harass me when I am trying to do my job.” His teeth are nearly drawing blood with how deep they are sunk into his lower lip, trying to hold back his smile.

    “Plague.”

    “Sir, once more and I will have to ask you to leave.”

    Alex is a local florist, and Henry has found a new go to for sending his failed one night stands flowers.

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    30 Jan 2026

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    praying our bridges don't make waves by

    Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston  

    11 Oct 2023

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    He glances down to the word ‘LOVE’ at the bottom. It’s too loud, too harshly written. Alex doesn’t feel harsh or loud. He feels a lot, so much it’s overwhelming sometimes, but the edges are soft, not hard. There’s a glow around it, something hazy and barely tinted gold, and Alex feels like if he could reach out and put his hands near it, they would warm up like they used to when he stood in front of the old brick fireplace back home.

    He glances at ‘LOVE’ and then loops back around to ‘HENRY’.

    Maybe, Alex thinks, hands shaking, they’re one in the same. Whatever the fuck that means.

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    When June gets sick, Alex knows he'll do whatever it takes to make sure she gets the care that she needs. Even if that means convincing his nemesis/sexuality-crisis-inducing/clandestine hook-up partner/somewhat of an actual friend to pretend to be his soulmate in order to pull it off. It's both more and less complicated than it sounds.

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    20 Dec 2025

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    The Art of Losing by

    Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)  

    06 Jan 2024

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    It’s over. It’s really over, and Henry doesn’t even think he’s worth a break-up text. Yet here Alex is sobbing on his bedroom floor, his face buried in a silk kimono with HOE DAMERON embroidered across the back.

    What was it his dad had said to him in Texas, right before everything went to shit?

    Sometimes you just jump and hope it’s not a cliff.

    Well. Alex had jumped. He’d thrown himself head-first over the precipice, and discovered that it was, in fact, a cliff. A fucking big cliff, with big fucking rocks at the bottom.
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    Alex never finds Henry's note; he never goes to Kensington. Mutual heartbreak and pining ensues.

    Another 'what-if they-never-got back-together-after-Texas- fic.

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    26 Nov 2025

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    i hit my peak at seven feet by

    Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)  

    24 Aug 2023

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    He told Phillip first. It was a tremendously stupid idea he can only excuse by the fact that he was thirteen at the time. He thought his brother might help him talk to their parents. He didn’t know how to articulate it feels like there are hands closing around my spine and twisting or sometimes my legs hurt so bad that walking feels like I’ve got glass buried in my feet. He trusted his brother, and even more than that he wanted the desultory and relentless agony to go away.

    Phillip didn’t tell their parents. He told their grandfather.

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    Now that he’s taken a step back from public life, Henry can relax. Without constant pressure to stand up straight and smile through the pain, some cracks start appearing in his facade. Alex starts to notice.

    (AKA 3 times Henry dealt with chronic pain symptoms by himself + 1 time Alex was there to help.)

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