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1. Don't Hesitate by sylvansalvia

   Fandoms: The Mars House - Natasha Pulley  

   • Mature
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Other
   • Complete Work

   21 Apr 2025

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • River Gale/Max Liu/January Stirling
   • Minor or Background Relationship(s)
   • (Aubrey Gale/Guang Song lightly implied to have hooked up)
   • River Gale
   • Max Liu (Mars House)
   • January Stirling
   • Angst with a Happy Ending
   • Polyamory
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Fluff and Angst
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • Alternate Universe - Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies
   • Mutual Pining
   • Light Bondage
   • Oral Sex
   • the footnotes stay ON during sex.

   Summary

   “It’s hard, isn’t it?” January said, so gently it hurt to listen to. “Being so in love with someone who is so dead set on doing something terrible to you.”

   Instead of dying, Max is spirited away by House Song, to be used against House Gale at some future date. Things don't go as planned.

   Language:

   English

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   36,922

   Chapters:

   4/4

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