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Only fools travel in winter. Roads heave, cold kills, bandits lurk at empty inns. He knows, he knows - he’s heard it all before. If he doesn’t leave now, he never will. A month on foot feels easier to survive than one spent at home, sandy path covered in snow, the waves crashing onto the rocks more welcoming than his cold, empty bed.
Devon wants to know why. Asks in every letter, concern dripping like unblotted ink.
‘My wife left me,’ he writes, ‘I’m going to ask the Enchantress for a spell to help me forget.’
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Dark fairytale AU written for Day 3 of MarkHelly Week 2025
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“Helly!” Mark grins at her, relief palpable on his face and she’s immediately taken aback. “Oh my God. Are you okay?”
He steps even closer and she instinctively wants to back up. She doesn't do this. People don’t come into her personal space. She isn't greeted with a warm smile or open arms. But she quickly smooths her expression into something resembling relief, tries to remember that Helly cares for this innie.
He’s so warm, so close, and real when he wraps his arms around her. She’s frozen for a moment in the embrace, her arms hanging uselessly over his shoulders, all of her senses overwhelmed because when was the last time someone hugged her?
But then she reminds herself: they aren’t people. They might look and sound and feel like it, but they’re not. And so she carefully tightens her arms around him like Helly would, curious about his reaction.
Or, a look into Helena's mind as she spends more than three days on the severed floor.
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To piss off her father, Helena Eagan grants Helly R.’s request for a visit with her 12-year-old daughter against her better judgment. Helly and Maeve Riggs form an immediate bond, Maeve finding solace in this kind, caring fragment of her mother she hasn’t seen in a long time and Helly seeing so much of herself in this child she's not supposed to consider her own. Helena tries to stand in their way, only to be undermined by her father's self-serving interests. Helena and Helly each see the other as the villain in this story—Helena the cold, emotionally neglectful parent and Helly the wedge pulling Maeve and Helena further apart—but perhaps the two of them have more in common than they realize.
Maybe they aren't at odds after all.
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A misunderstanding at a local bookstore, a chance encounter at a campus gallery...
Widower and history professor Mark Scout's quiet, unassuming life is shaken up when biotech heiress and the Internet's new favorite it-girl, Helena Eagan, shows up in the quiet college town of Baird Creek.
[A Notting Hill AU]
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Devon Scout, aspiring academic, is just one (1) painstaking credit short. Dr. Harmony Cobel's class promises the remedy, a neuroscience course that is bound to change her brain chemistry. Will she pass without a scratch or find herself enraptured in far more than learning?
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A collection of one-shots set within the Working Hours universe.
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- Part 2 of Working Hours
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Dylan G. knows three things about himself for sure - that he's a sharp dresser, a funny son-of-a-bitch, and a father. A father with no child.
Ms. Huang knows one thing about herself - that she isn't a child anymore. But does everyone see it that way?
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Or,Before Dylan G. meets Gretchen, there was Eustice.
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Mark doesn’t hate his job, not really. It’s more of a comfortable apathy. The hours are shitty and the pay even more so, but it involves absolutely zero responsibility.
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The Severance/Party Down AU that nobody asked for.
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After Ricken’s ideas permeate the severed floor, MDR gets curious about Christmas.
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- Part 11 of Christmas in July - 2025
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While Mr. Milchick sees to the firing of Irving B., Mark and Helly steal a moment in Helly's tent.
Post-Woe's Hollow smut and fluff.
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1990s. Exiled to Branch 501, Helena Eagan looks to keep a low profile among her new coworkers while working her way back into the good graces of her father. Mark Scout's life turns upside down when she arrives.
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- Part 1 of Working Hours
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Lukewarm Hands Wishing That the Snow Would Freeze by mystery_ink
Fandoms: Severance (TV)
22 Apr 2025
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On the night of the ORTBO, Milchick goes to investigate a peculiar noise.
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"My outie's wife," he insisted although some part of him knew she wouldn't budge. The same part that knew it was wrong to want Helly when he had a wife out there. "Nothing's changed. She's been down there the whole time," he reminded her.
She shook her head. Her shoulders slumped in defeat. A tear rolled down her cheek. "That's just it. Everything's changed."
____________When Mark doesn't show up for work, Helly carries on with finding the export's hall alone. Later on, during their reunion, Helly is faced with some startling revelations.
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Helly shakes her head back and forth rapidly, parting her lips silently as she tries to dispel the tears from her eyes and gather her thoughts. “She… she doesn’t have the right to take my identity.” She sounds despondent, like her spirit has been completely drained. Helena took everything from her, Helly realizes, and she chews on the thought until her body begins to tremble.
Mark glances over at Helly, and the anger that was once present is now erased from his expression. He looks at her with pity now, because he knows firsthand that Helena took more than just Helly’s identity. He gulps, quickly realizing that Helly is already aware of this heinous truth.
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Sometimes missing someone very badly leads someone to do something very foolish.
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what would happen if sue sylvester was in severance?
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In the aftermath of ORTBO, each time Mark leaves work, he has been noticing tremors running through him.
It's always brief and stops before the elevator even rises to the main level, so he pushes it off as a side effect of reintegration.
Until one day, he finds himself quickly wiping his eyes from tears he never cried before Judd can see when the elevator doors open.
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It starts with a nosebleed.
Helly hovers nearby, the image of blood smeared on his cheek still fresh in her mind. Miss Huang's voice fades to a dull hum as her gaze catches on Mark's hand, his fingers wrapped around the edge of the desk. Her mind immediately flashes to exactly where that hand was not even an hour ago, and she's sure her face is flushed as she recalls how wonderful he made her feel.
Everything since she returned to the severed floor has been a nightmare that she can’t escape, but this. This is one good thing. Something that belongs just to her and Mark.
Something that no one can take away from her.
But then Miss Huang suddenly calls out Mark's name, her voice shrill with panic. When Helly looks at him, his face is paler than it should be, his gaze vacant, and a thick tendril of fear slithers through her veins.
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or, Mark forgets bit by bit.
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Helena finds out what Helly and Mark have been up to and puts a stop to it. Mark lays everything on the line to get Helly back.
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Helly glances at the clock again. It’s 9:19 now. She must have been so transfixed by the numbers that she didn’t notice the passage of time. Did she somehow miss Mark’s arrival? When she straightens and stares over the divider between their desks, she sees that his is still untouched.
Her mouth goes dry and, in that moment, she’s sure, she’s so sure that they’ve been found out and Mark is bearing the punishment for it. Lumon allows no fraternization between colleagues, and she suspects they’d jump at the opportunity to reprimand someone. And she knows that someone can’t be her, at least not her physical body.
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Or, post-Attila, Mark doesn't return to work, and Helly spirals. Then she decides to do something about it.