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uh, oh those summer nights by AmazingAngie
Fandoms: Rutshire Chronicles - Jilly Cooper, Rivals (TV 2024)
26 Jun 2025
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“I’m not going to fuck the nanny, for fucks sake, Helen.”
or: he does, in fact, fuck the nanny.
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I Am What I Am by peterpparkrr
Fandoms: Rivals (TV 2024), Rutshire Chronicles - Jilly Cooper
25 Jun 2025
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Emma Grey is the golden girl of British show-jumping.
After a spectacular debut at the same 1984 Olympics where Rupert Campbell-Black became a true legend of the sport, she skyrocketed to the top of the sport, and she’s remained there ever since. But next year’s Olympics pose a new challenge.
And Emma Grey hates losing.
Declan O’Hara is an asshole. He doesn’t give in to politicians, celebrities, or anyone else. Married to the work, they all say, and his wife and children would agree.
He’ll do whatever it takes to win.
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Even in the midst of Venturer's fight for the Franchise, Declan has thoughts on Rupert Campbell-Black's 'friendship' with his daughter.
They are far from favourable.
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A RuTag (AngelBlack) drabble inspired by a prompt by @AngelBlackPrompts on BlueSkySeries
- Part 2 of Random's Rutshire Rutag Chronicles
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I'm Confessin' (That I Love You) by luvjOi1188
Fandoms: Rivals (TV 2024), Rutshire Chronicles - Jilly Cooper
23 Jun 2025
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With Cameron off recording Declan's Yeats documentary, Rupert has surgery. With no one around to take care of him, Taggie is the only option.
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Angel I just want everything to be perfect for you.... by Three_mice
Fandoms: Rivals (TV 2024), Rutshire Chronicles - Jilly Cooper
22 Jun 2025
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Taggie mesmerises Rupert when she appears for a intimate dinner before their wedding.
Fluff with a bit of lust, groping and sex.. Wedding plans, wedding nerves, wedding, honeymoon, pregnancy
I have read all the books since they first started. Long wanted to see it brought successfully to the screen, true to the original characters and this with a few gripes is an amazing effort. Getting RCB and Taggie right were always going to be key.
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A Truth Universally Acknowledged by newtboot465
Fandoms: Rivals (TV 2024), Rutshire Chronicles - Jilly Cooper
20 Jun 2025
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It’s a Rivals Regency AU!
It's May 1808, and the O’Hara family has just moved to the countryside from London.
Agatha, their only child, is in for a wild ride.
After a meet-ugly with Mr. Campbell-Black, rake extraordinaire, in the Bluebell Wood, Taggie experiences a complicated range of feelings over her first few months in Rutshire. By that fall, she finds herself in love for the first time.
However, her family’s financial situation, the strict rules of society, and her own principles make her path to her happy ending more convoluted than she ever thought possible.
More information in the note. I've tagged all eventual ships/tropes here and will add more as I go.
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Loneliness Used to be My Only Companion by GnawingAtMyEyes
Fandoms: Rivals (TV 2024), Rutshire Chronicles - Jilly Cooper
16 Jun 2025
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“Of course Taggie can fucking read!”
And therein lies the one terrible downside of coming round to the O’Hara residence: dealing with the matriarch of the family.
Or, the one where Rupert has finally had enough of Taggie's family taking advantage of and bullying her, and he just wants her to see how extraordinary she really is.
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no need for prisoners by breaddalton for thehoneydoll
Fandoms: Rivals (TV 2024), Rutshire Chronicles - Jilly Cooper
15 Jun 2025
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after maud walks out on the family when she's 9, little taggie has to take on the emotional burden of being not only a daughter but a mother figure to her siblings. but with patrick and caitlin away at school, it's just taggie and declan all alone in this big house. it's inevitable what happens, but when rupert learns of this illicit affair, he decides to get a taste of taggie for himself.
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this romeo is bleeding (it's nothing but some feelings) by AmazingAngie for ginvael
Fandoms: Rutshire Chronicles - Jilly Cooper, Appassionata - Jilly Cooper
15 Jun 2025
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Marcus knew it was odd to see a nude man and think of his father, but he couldn't help it.
The similarities between them made the comparison so easy.
And the similarities in what they made him feel...well, those were present, too.
This sort of desire for a man’s attention mixed with admiration was familiar to Marcus, since it was something he had felt every time he was in the presence of his father.
But now, with Alexei, it was mixed with something else. Something more.
Arousal. God, he was so aroused.
or: we answer the question posed by Marcus Campbell-Black in Appassionata, p. 656: "Did all gays fall for men like their father?"
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- Part 6 of Welcome to (almost) Paradise
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Just to See You Smile by luvjOi1188
Fandoms: Rivals (TV 2024), Rutshire Chronicles - Jilly Cooper
14 Jun 2025
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Rupert is beyond happy to find Gertrude running towards him during his walk in the Bluebell Woods, knowing it means Taggie is somewhere near by. However, he isn't ready for her to put him in his place, yet again. In his constant efforts to be worthy of Taggie, he resolves to do something insane. Just to see her smile.
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tragedy, when you lose control and you’ve got no soul (it’s tragedy) by Moriarty4life
Fandoms: Rivals (TV 2024), Rutshire Chronicles - Jilly Cooper
13 Jun 2025
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Tony Baddingham never stays late to confront Cameron. He never gets into a fight with her and never gets the shit knocked out of him by that trophy. He never bleeds out in his office.
Instead, Tony uses his brain and goes home to his wife in an attempt to fix his marriage and everything that’s threatening to crumble apart beneath him.
This leads to him having to deal with Venturer in a whole new way, including how he’ll handle Cameron’s betrayal while he and Monica attempt to make their family whole in a way it never has been. It’s not going to be easy, not with Rupert, Declan, Freddie, and everyone else in his way.
But Tony’s at his best when he’s in a tight spot.
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i needed tony to not be dead, so i came up with this.
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We Will Forget This Too One Day by Nastasya__Filippovna
Fandoms: Rivals (TV 2024), Rutshire Chronicles - Jilly Cooper
11 Jun 2025
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When Tony Baddingham wakes up in a hospital bed with no recollection of who he was or what he's done, he begins an uneasy journey of self-discovery. With each passing day, he uncovers fragments of a life filled with cruelty and mistakes—none of which he remembers, but all of which he must confront.
Meanwhile, Monica and Tony struggle to rekindle the passion that once defined their relationship. As they attempt to rebuild their fragile connection, the weight of the past and the threat of future heartbreak loom large, when old secrets and new love threatens to undo them forever.
But their story is only one of many. The O’Haras, are trapped in their own world of love, loss, and secrets— facing a pivotal crossroads where honesty could either heal them or tear them apart.
Amidst this, the rivalry between two TV giants, Corinium and Venturer, escalates, pulling all their fates into the spotlight. Behind the glamour of ratings and headlines, the fight for dominance mirrors the fractured lives of those it touches, where competition breeds not only corporate warfare, but personal reckonings that no one can escape. -
treacherous by alsoalsowik
Fandoms: Rivals (TV 2024), Rutshire Chronicles - Jilly Cooper
09 Jun 2025
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When newspaper owner Declan O’Hara dies, he leaves his fortune to his daughter, Taggie. Tony Baddingham, Declan’s former business partner turned competitor, wants that fortune — and the newspaper — for himself, so he designs a marriage between Taggie and his teenage son, Archie. A marriage that Taggie desperately wants to avoid.
After a string of bad investments and lackluster horse bets, Rupert Campbell-Black needs to take a wife — preferably a rich one. Coming off the heels of a failed courtship with Cameron Cook, an American heiress in London for the season, time is running out. So when Taggie O’Hara shows up on his doorstep proposing a marriage that benefits both of them, how can he say no?
or, Devil in Winter by Lisa Kleypas, but make it rutag.
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furious stasis by peachabsinthe for overdead
Fandoms: Rivals (TV 2024), Rutshire Chronicles - Jilly Cooper
09 Jun 2025
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New Year's Eve, 1987, 09:00 P.M.
New Year's Eve, 1988, 10:00 P.M.
New Year's Eve, 1989, 11:00 P.M.
New Year's Eve, 1990, 11:59 P.M.In which Declan dies, and the guilt remains, year after year.
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Family Planning by newtboot465
Fandoms: Rutshire Chronicles - Jilly Cooper, Rivals (TV 2024)
08 Jun 2025
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Taggie and Bas navigate becoming parents and all the accompanying joy and angst.
As ever, they're adorable, nasty little freaks who love each other very much.
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- Part 10 of Rivals: Into the Tasil-Verse
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Secrets I have held in my heart (are harder to hide than I thought) by Tamara267
Fandoms: Rutshire Chronicles - Jilly Cooper, Rivals (TV 2024)
08 Jun 2025
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Taggie had long since decided she was in this for the long run, and she was sure that meant they would each have to give the other a hand from time to time. It could not always be that Rupert was up while she was down. It was time to return the favour.
Or, a Season Two fic that started life as "Five times Rupert saved Taggie and One time she saved them both". Picks up a month and a bit after 1x08.
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- Part 1 of Busy Being Yours
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It's all right, darling by Popjunkie42
Fandoms: Rivals (TV 2024), Rutshire Chronicles - Jilly Cooper
08 Jun 2025
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“Rupert? The fuck ye doing here?”
Declan stalks into the room. Rupert holds up the bottle in a toast. “Drinking, what’s it look like?”
His Venturer partner sets down his jacket and comes to sit, approaching him like a spooked horse.
“Yeah but - why here?” Declan looks measured for just a moment before accepting the outstretched bottle - at least pausing to pour it into a glass. “You have your own place with a whole lot of rooms.” His body settles at the first sip of liquor. “Or is Penscombe feeling a bit crowded these days?”
This is a series of very loosely connected short ficlets and ideas based on what might happen in Season 2.
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taggie goes topless tanning at the beach and gets a sunburn and some punishment from rupert.
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- Part 11 of cotswold love letters
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rupert plays at a polo match that taggie happens to be catering, except he's come to see her at half-time to get his fill of his angel and make some demands of her.
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- Part 10 of cotswold love letters
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you're what i couldn't find by novellysarahwrites
Fandoms: Rivals (TV 2024), Rutshire Chronicles - Jilly Cooper
31 May 2025
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Taggie takes a swig of whiskey, and the burn that scorches her throat and warms her belly is almost as good as smashing dishware. A few sips has her feeling brave and stealing glances at the phone, wondering what might happen if she calls him. If Cameron’s there, or at the apartment Rupert let slip he’s rented for her in the city. If he’ll speak to her in that careful, mild way he’s adopted as of late, as if she’s a constituent and not someone who knows what his mouth tastes like.
Feeling tipsy and a little reckless, Taggie picks up the receiver.
Or, they kissed in the kitchen, and nothing's the same. Follow Taggie and Rupert's lives in the late summer of 1987 as they fight for Venturer and for themselves.