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Charlie was a conundrum. Castiel had only spent significant amounts of time around a few certain humans, and it was safe to say that Charlie was unlike any of them. She was at times hyperactive, spoke in far too many references, and flirted as much as Dean did with pretty girls. But she was also caring, and fiercely protective of the WInchesters, as well as himself. It was odd, as he’d only known her for a day.
Charlie takes Castiel out to lunch, and conversation ensues.
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- Part 16 of By Grace, We Are Saved
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Quinn finally sees James in that museum after becoming Quartermaster and learning that his husband is a 00 agent.
He's also learned about Vesper and all the other women in James's life. And now he's wondering if there's a reason he should even remain married to the agent.
He hopes James can give him that reason.
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- Part 67 of 00Q Tumblr Prompt Fills
- Part 3 of Meet the Bonds
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Set after 3 x 19: One Watson, One Holmes.
Joan isn't okay. Sherlock is concerned. The most important relationship in both of their lives has swung dangerously out of balance. Two people who only have each other to turn to are facing the hard truth that no single person can be everything for someone else.
But oh, how they try.Series
- Part 1 of Within These Walls
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2015 and the road that leads to it...
Dani's arm isn't fixed and it's really making him think.
Marc's life has been a whirlwind and it never really gave him time to think.
“Did something happen over winter?”
“Why?”
“Just…” I feel like you let me back in again, and just… “You seem different.”
Note: Some characters are tagged how they are so they don't show up in Google etc [they awkwardly end up top results other wise!].
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There was a gift.
There was a curse.There is a power in the house of Hale, given to the firstborn son of every generation - the ability to turn everything he touches to gold. Though the original intent of the power was thought of as a gift, in reality, it is a dreaded curse that causes the bearer a life of fear, isolation, and danger.
Thus, Prince Derek is born.
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[Excerpt from Chapter 22]
He didn’t think much of his hands, or any part of his body, really - but Stiles gaze had lingered enough to make Derek wonder what Stiles’ thought. Now, Stiles honey eyes were fixated on Derek’s hands, running over them like they were something precious rather than tools of death.
“Hmm.”
“What.”
“Nothing, I just - I thought they wouldn’t look like normal hands.”
“Why.”
“Because they’re magic,” Stiles said, looking up to meet Derek’s eyes.
“They’re not magic, they’re cursed,” Derek said, tucking his hands back into the sheet.
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A patchwork quilt of comforts, big and small, that mean something to Sam in his and Dean's retired life.
Part of my Wyoming series.
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- Part 9 of Wyoming
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It doesn’t mean a thing to you when he apologizes. Mostly because he’s pretending it was an accident, mostly because he’s only pretending because he’s in front of a crowd, mostly because you know he’s not sorry. That’s okay. Nothing would change even if you didn’t hate him with a passion. The fake apologies, the harshly spat words, the bruises and scars and everything he did...they all still linger with you even when he's long gone. You can't shove the thought of him out of your mind.
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The one where Dave has trouble accepting that not everyone is like his brother and has just a little bit of a mental breakdown.
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Viktor overhears some fans saying not-nice things about Yuuri. It makes him angry.
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walk in the shadows and laugh in the sunlight by back_in_a_bit for Rinusagitora
Fandoms: Bleach
03 Mar 2017
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"If you've finished observing me, Toushirou, let's go get that ice cream," Karin grins.
Autumn is a good time for confessions.
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"Mrs Busby arranges to meet Patsy alone to give her Delia's missing letters and get to know her better"
Set after Patsy's return from Hong Kong.
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Malia is not hurt, she's not jealous and she's not angry. She's just....uneasy about something and that scares her but everyone assumes its because of Stiles and Lydia's relationship. Perhaps that is partly the cause but something.....that tiny inkling tells her she should know what is wrong with her. Except she has no idea. Scott wants to know. Scott wants to find out. Scott wants to protect her.
Set in the summer before 6B but may stretch into 6B.
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- Part 1 of Unpopular Pairings
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He couldn't help the smile that crept onto his face at the memory of Yuuri, blushing slightly and constantly glancing to Victor as if to check that this was still ok, explaining that they'd been discussing it for a little while now but that they'd wanted to wait until Yuri was officially legal for the sake of everyone's image and safety. And Victor cheerfully adding the bit about how they'd rehearsed what to say for, like, an hour the previous night.
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Of all the diners, in all the towns, in all the world, she walks into his.
And Jason had thought dinner with his estranged older brother was going badly before he spotted that familiar face.
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Lucy tells Natsu and Gray the story about how she lost Aquarius
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- Part 1 of Gratsulu Week 2018
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The Ways of Paradox by Narya (Narya_Flame), Narya_Flame
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms
16 Sep 2020
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How do you pass the time when you know you're facing eternity?
Maglor agrees to appear in a student production of The Pirates of Penzance, and gets more than he bargained for.
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- Part 14 of The Wanderer
- Part 74 of Nárë a Lindalë
- Part 2 of The Ways of Paradox
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To Make Fire by DragonflyxParodies
Fandoms: Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics), Under the Red Hood, Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics)
27 Apr 2020
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“If I cannot trust him with the son he does know, why would I trust him with the son he does not?” Red Hood’s got a sidekick now, apparently, and the Batfam reacts about as well as expected. AU in which Talia sends Damian to Jason instead of Bruce after Jason’s homecoming. This is much darker than this summary makes it sound. Lots of sibling fluff.
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- Part 9 of Capricorn
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“i love you.” mandy whispers, and ian’s heart shatters into ten billion pieces inside the cavity of his chest. he can feel it piercing his lungs, the spaces between his ribs. those words have never been as fucking heartbreaking, not ever, he’s sure of it. he can’t open his mouth to speak, just sort of sobs into the space between their faces. there’s snot collecting in his nostrils, disgusting but he can’t bear to move his arms from where they’re wrapped around her ribcage.
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Feferi finally drags Eridan off for a talk, under the guise of showing him cute sea life.
(They maybe both cry a little.)Series
- Part 3 of A side of Amporafam, hold the sauce
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How does one deal with change and realizations?
Some do it better. Others, well, not so much.
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“I wan’ ta be selfish though.” He said.
Vegetas neck snapped to him, his eyes wide, the only indicator of his surprise. His shock? Disbelief?
“Loh?” Even his voice sounded normal, gruff, grumbling, dark, sharp.
Goku smiled.“I don’t wan’ ta keep it in here.” His heartbeat was pounding in his ears. So loud, erratic. He tried to calm down. Breath in. Hold. Out. Slow.
He looked at Vegeta. Tried to tell him without words what he meant. Because there were no words that could accurately describe what he wanted to say anyway.
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John didn’t know what to do. This anxious feeling would not leave him, but Lafayette wouldn’t discuss the prayers he was answering and it left him feeling sick. He retired early that night, but only stared at the ceiling for hours, even after Lafayette came to bed.
He didn’t understand why this made him feel so awful. Lafayette had left to answer prayers before, so why was this any different?
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- Part 2 of Kingdom Come
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Talking is Easy, Communication is Hard by Illiad_And_Oddity for quetzalpapalotl
Fandoms: Voltron: Legendary Defender
11 Nov 2018
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Keith finally talks to Shiro about his feelings, and what happened at the clone facility. Within a month, everyone knows that Shiro and Keith are dating.
Except, as it turns out, for Shiro.
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Gift fic for quetzalpapalotl!
Bookmarked by Winsister
13 Nov 2018
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“Just the team for now. We haven’t talked about it, but I think Shiro would rather be discreet,” Keith smiled, an almost dreamy expression, “He’s shy. I would never have expected that, but it’s so cute. He gets flustered whenever I compliment him or hold his hand and it’s just… it’s so different from Shiro in confident leader mode.”
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"I love you."
For so long, he had felt like a planet in orbit around Shiro’s blazing sun, but Shiro had always looked at him as if he thought Keith was the sun. Now Keith felt they’d become more like binary stars, in orbit around each other, and saying those words aloud was going to bring them crashing together.
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- Part 2 of Illiad works out her S6 emotions
Bookmarked by Winsister
13 Nov 2018
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Keith smiled at her. Over the last two years, they had learned a lot about each other. She understood him so well now.
Keith got out of the pilot’s seat and let his mother take his place. He yawned widely enough he heard his jaw pop, and sank to the floor to lay next to Shiro. A day earlier and he might have hesitated about doing something like that, but he had just gotten Shiro back from the dead, and he wasn’t going to waste that miracle by being embarrassed about wanting to be close to him.
With Shiro against him and Krolia at the controls and the Black Lion’s comforting presence in the back of his mind, Keith could finally close his eyes and rest.
And that was what it came down to. He’d called Shiro his brother before, but there was no single word that encompassed everything that Shiro was to him. Friend, brother-in-arms, partner, mentor… Shiro was all those things and more. The one who’d always had faith in him, the one he could always trust. He loved Shiro so much he had been ready to die with him rather than let him go again.
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Hanahaki: the disease of unrequited love. When feelings manifest into the physical, one afflicted grows flowers in their lungs, coughing up flower petals. Though rarely fatal, left long enough, it will eventually claim the victim’s life. As surgical removal strips all emotion along with affection, many consider it a fate worse than death.
In a twisted way, Keith was granted a stay of execution: you can’t have hanahaki for someone who’s dead. It’s been a year since he’s coughed up petals, a year since “Pilot Error” flashed across his television screen.
But Shiro returns. Shiro isn’t dead. And Keith had decided, months and months ago, that if he were ever given the chance, he wouldn’t let his feelings go unspoken. They have another chance—he thinks.
Hanahaki takes years to kill, yes. But the Galra didn’t care; they saw it as only weakness. And any weakness within the Champion was to be removed immediately.
The man named Shirogane Takashi is alive. But the Shiro that Keith had known, and laughed with, and loved, is gone. Logical, practical, and efficient: a perfect commander. Incapable of any emotion.
And Keith is about to remember the taste of wisteria petals tickling at the back of his throat.
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- Part 2 of The Monument of a Memory
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Bookmarked by Winsister
30 Nov 2018
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“Shiro… are you—are you back?” he asked tentatively. “Please say something.”
“I love you,” Shiro said, voice trembling, and the tears rolled freely down his face. “God, Keith; I love you so much, and I don’t know how I ever stopped.”
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In which all is truly well.
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19 Dec 2018
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The door hisses and slides open, only to reveal Shiro reclined in his bed, propped up on half a dozen pillows with a tablet in his hands. When Keith looks at the back of the transparent device, he sees… a chat. Instant messages from someone--someone Keith doesn’t know. A pair of glasses even sits low on his handsome nose--when had he gotten glasses? Had he ever needed glasses to read?
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Dean didn't react well when he found out Cas had once been married. Now Cas is gone, and Dean's falling apart.
Turns out there's more to a relationship than just deciding you've got one.
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- Part 6 of Good Books, Bad Movies
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A Convergence of Apollos by Keyseeker
Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types, The Trials of Apollo - Rick Riordan
20 Jun 2019
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Percy had been hoping for a quiet afternoon celebrating Grover's birthday with him. Then Apollo arrived, and their peaceful afternoon got a lot less peaceful. It got even weirder when two kids popped out of thin air who both seemed to know him.
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Cass is not Robin. This probably makes her the best candidate for understanding it. (Day 5: Identity Reveal)
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- Part 5 of Batfam Week 2020
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Jason's been in the manor for a few months now. Bruce is a pretty cool guy, sure, but he's not exactly sure what to expect from him.
And then they go to Siberia in the winter on a case. It goes horribly wrong, and then pretty well.
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27 Apr 2022
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this was so cute. so sweet. they are cold and Jason is sick and Bruce is hurt but they watch the northern lights and they are happy as long as they are with each other. merry christmas
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Three shots ring out.
Steve hears them before he feels them; a warm, wet pain burning in his torso, intolerably excruciating.
There’s a bundle of squawks and screams, outbursts of panic and anger, and it’s only when Hopper falls forwards to take Steve up into a slightly rough, protective hold, does he realize that two of those shots have lodged themselves in his own flesh and bone. (Realizes that he’d moved, instinctively, to shield El, despite never having spoken to her, who’d the gun had been so precisely pointed at, aimed for.)
Steve Harrington watches his own blood pool and trickle over a series of hands pressed against him, small and large, soft and rugged, and for a moment, wants to stay like this. He can’t.
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Ladybug goes to confront Chat Blanc once more.
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22 Oct 2022
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Chat Blanc -"why aren't i enough?"
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fear and hatred, love and forgiveness by SupposedToBeWriting
Fandoms: Malevolent (Podcast)
02 Sep 2022
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(Spoilers Up To EP25)
Arthur and John manage to escape Addison, finding themselves in a small cabin in the middle of nowhere. They find a bath, some food, and some tea. As Arthur relaxes for the first time in months, feeling both the metaphorical and literal dirt get scrubbed away from his body, he and John finally talk. -
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Diluc and Adelinde are arguing. Kaeya tries to mediate, sort of. Long conversations and unwelcome moments of emotional vulnerability – unwelcome on his part, at least – ensue.
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- Part 11 of the angel’s share’s cat
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"How old are you anyway?"
Bruce smirks a little, “Pretty old.”
“How old am I?” Dick rephrases the question. Realistically, given the lines on Bruce's face and the grey in his hair, he has to be more than a decade or two in the future. But, well, Dick's still reeling from being twelve. He can't begin to imagine a world where there's anything past tomorrow.
Bruce's smirk sinks a little, but not quite to a frown. It's a distant smile, fighting through the shadows of whatever it is Bruce sees when he looks down at him. In a quiet, mournful tone, he says, “Not that old. Not old at all.”
(A young Robin and Nightwing swap places; Batman is always the constant.)
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your hand in my pocket to keep us both warm (the moment I knew I'd no choice but to love you) by abstract_psychopomp
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
08 Oct 2023
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Quin stood still, looking at him, something incomprehensible in his eyes.
"What if he's hurt and doesn't want to tell me- what if he fears my reaction? It has happened before, and I told him he shouldn't be afraid, but what if he doesn't understand? What kind of Master am I if he's afraid to tell me things like that? What if he wandered around at night and they attacked him? He's already done that too, and he's already too mature for his age, how-"
“I don't know man, have you tried just asking him?”
The dirty look that came Quin's way didn't move him, but only because he had been receiving similar ones for twenty years by now.
"Of course I have, otherwise why would I be here complaining that he isn't talking to me?"
"The boy is smart, as stupid as he is. He will tell you if something is wrong. And you should ask him seriously. Something like, sit down and have some tea, look serious and contrite and ask him. He loves you too much to say no to your big sad eyes."
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that time a young padawan said "no" to his master's big sad eyes and fixed everything with tea- and that time his master fixed everything with honestySeries
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Hunter goes away for a week without telling anyone where he's gone.
He is very confused when he returns to find everyone angry with him.
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Day 19 - Found Family by fanfictiongreenirises for AuroraKant
Fandoms: DCU (Comics), Robin (Comics), Nightwing (Comics), Batman: Gotham Knights (Comics 2000)
19 Oct 2020
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Bruce has some difficult conversations with Dick and Tim after certain documents are dropped onto his desk.
Alternative Prompt - Found FamilySeries
- Part 19 of Whumptober 2020
Bookmarked by whimsysful
26 Mar 2025
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“Bruce,” Dick said. “This… this was…”
“It was never meant to reach me,” Bruce said. “I know.”
His words had the opposite effect to what he’d intended. Dick finally met his eyes, something resigned in them. His fingers held the letter carefully, as though he was restraining himself from fiddling with it.
“I know it’s… not really what you wanted to hear—”
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There was an array of post-it notes from Dick, ranging from messages like “Don’t forget to remind Bruce of your birthday. We don’t want a repeat of your 16th!” over “Remember: Self-care is fucking off when he is being an ass!” to “Better me than anyone else”. There was one Dick didn’t even remember writing, one that just said “Make sure they need you, so they keep you around”. -
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“Kaeya—!”
“You left me!” Kaeya screamed. “And now you stand there like you have the right to—!”
SLAP.
The sound rang out like thunder in the alley.
Kaeya froze. His head snapped to the side, cheek burning.———
Or, On the anniversary of their father's death, buried emotions erupt between Kaeya and Diluc, leading to a night of conflict, confession, and quiet reconciliation.