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Alone Together at the End of the World by vigilantempathy for spilverhare
Fandoms: Chernobyl (TV 2019)
13 Jun 2025
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"For a moment, it’s just the two of them, alone together. The world outside is forgotten.
For a moment, they’re happy."
Or, the slowest of slow burns, as Boris Shcherbina and Valery Legasov work together to save lives after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and fall in love for the first time in the process.
Canon-compliant, but with missing scenes and post-canon that allow Boris and Valery to fall in love and make their respective peace with their lives and deaths.
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BROKEN TRUST (Or, How to Learn to Live With Yourself After Your Exes Have Hooked Up) by vigilantempathy
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
13 May 2025
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Written for the Angsty Edizzy Autumn prompt "BROKEN TRUST."
The weirdest part of Ed's return was finding out that his former Co-Captain and former First Mate have hooked up in his absence.
(Or, Ed Teach decides to become someone he can live with.)
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- Part 5 of Angsty Edizzy Autumn Fics
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(Intentionally overtagged: please take care of yourselves! Heed the warnings and opt whether or not to enter at your own risk!)
Hell isn’t endless suffering; it’s getting a glimpse of Heaven every night only to have it taken away, over and over, forever and forever. A-fucking-men.
I keep having these dreams where you kill me. I call them dreams, but they’re definitely nightmares. They’re these uniquely cruel nightmares where I get these glimpses of us back when things were still good, before all the years of fuck-ups and failures and apathy it took to ruin what we had. You always shoot me, and then I wake up trapped in the life I made.
I’ve been trying to push you there, one amputation at a time. C'mon, Izzy, make my dreams come true.
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- Part 4 of Angsty Edizzy Autumn Fics
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We were never married. Not really. Not like people on land do it, with vows and rings and cake and one man and one woman, and God judging the whole thing.
I mean. There were vows, I guess. Blood oaths. Matelotage promises, inheritance, all of that. And there were rings, eventually. The one you stole for me. My mother’s wedding ring, before it was yours. And you wore it around your neck until the day you died, Iz. I couldn’t bury it with you.
I still wear your ring.
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- Part 3 of Angsty Edizzy Autumn Fics
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PART ONE
Angsty Edizzy Autumn Prompt: "PUNISHMENT"
You only love the worst of me, and it’s enough. I tell myself it’s enough. Not like you could love me any other way. Not like there’s anything better in here to choose from. You only love the worst of me, so I give you my worst. It’s not what you deserve, but it’s what you want, and I love you enough to try to give you what you want.
I give you my worst, but I feel like I’m the one being punished.
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- Part 2 of Angsty Edizzy Autumn Fics
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Post-Series4 by vigilantempathy
Fandom: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
09 Apr 2020
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James experiences a late and unfortunate first presentation as an Omega as the crew prepares for the walkout.
The duty to see him through his first heat falls to Captain Crozier.
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17 Oct 2025
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something here will eventually have to explode by returnsandreturns
Fandoms: What We Do in the Shadows (TV)
08 Nov 2021
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“Sometimes I think about opening your curtains,” Guillermo says, softly, “and waking you up at noon.”
He learned years ago that he can say anything he wants to unless Nandor is choosing to pay attention to him—and he typically isn’t. He can say things like I’m going to lock you in your coffin until you agree to turn me and I want you to do things to my body that I don’t even understand yet and I’ve never been in love before and it’s weird that it’s like this and Nandor won’t even flinch, won’t do more than say, “Hush with the muttering, Guillermo, I’m thinking about things that are far more important than you,” which has always felt like he took a page directly from what Guillermo assumes everyone thinks about him.
“. . .rude, Guillermo,” Nandor says, this time, turning to aim a sad look at him.
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08 Oct 2025
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Francis and James have to resort to extreme measures when the rich and entitled youth who lives upstairs will not stop partying like there is no tomorrow above their heads. OR James teaches Francis the joys of scheming.
(Part 2 of the law au, but can be read on its own.)
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- Part 2 of are we barristers, francis?
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16 May 2025
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“If you are looking for my case files–”
“I am not looking for your case files,” comes the irate reply, followed shortly by the man himself, looking equally irate. He has in his hand a glass of water and a blister pack of paracetamol, which he offers James presently.
Imagine that: being nursed back to health by Francis Crozier.
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In which James and Francis are two barristers who keep butting heads in court and happen to live across from one another.Series
- Part 1 of are we barristers, francis?
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16 May 2025
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In the infinite space between one breath and the next, he waits for his world to come crashing down. He loves Francis like a dog, rotten and helpless and bereft of reason or good sense, and he will finally set Francis free of it, of him, for once and all. It is the least Francis deserves.
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13 May 2025