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“What do you want me to do?” Remus says, tiredly. All he wants is to curl up on his bed. Smoke a pack of cigarettes. Get drunk. He can’t stop looking at Harry.
“Remus...” Dumbledore is gentle. Remus hates when he has that tone. Hates that he knows it will hurt. “There is no one else left.”
A bitter laugh escapes him. “So you’ll curse the poor thing with a werewolf for a guardian?”
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05 May 2026
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Football has always been ruthless. The players, even worse.
Regulus Black knows this better than anyone. One of the youngest stars of British footie, the first openly trans player in the league, and the biggest scandal the sport has ever seen. He didn’t ask to be a trailblazer — he just wants to play. But between bloodthirsty reporters, a fractured relationship with his brother, and the weight of a team that wasn’t built to protect him, Regulus is barely keeping his head above water.
James Potter has always been the golden boy, but even golden boys crack under pressure. Evan Rosier plays with fire and can’t decide if he wants to burn or be burned. Marlene McKinnon loves too much, drinks too hard, and fights like hell. And Sirius Black? He’s always been a storm waiting to break.
This isn’t just a game — it’s survival. And on the pitch, love and war are the same thing.
⚽ A gritty, high-stakes AU where football is everything and nothing is fair.
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- Part 1 of Animal Kingdom
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04 May 2026
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Possessive, obsessive, greedy.
All these things nobody had ever thought to describe James with. And all were unmistakably true.
Words not even James himself had known would ever fit him and now they were all he could think about. Taking, keeping, owning.
It was maddening at best, all consuming at worst.
James craved, he had starved and he devoured.
He was still starving. He thinks it will never cease.
Not when it came to his cloud boy, his black coffee and awful tea boy. Not when it came to Regulus Arcturus Black.Regulus in contrast had always known he had greed. So he had refused to even glance at James once too many before he could ask for more. Ask for all of him.
All in vain when James Potter made it his mission to push and pull on his life till it finally let him in. All in fucking vain when James Potter sees the blood on Regulus’ hands, wipes it off with his own clean shirt and helps him hide a murder. Regulus’ murder.
As it turns out it was hard not to demand everything when James cuts out his own heart and lays it before his very feet.
Will Regulus take it or step on it?
Or will he simply do both?
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After a brutal dogfight over a remote Outer Rim moon, both Caitlyn’s ship and Vi’s stolen Rebel craft crash-land in the same desolate canyon. Injured and without communications, they’re forced into an uneasy truce to survive the cold nights and hostile terrain. Caitlyn keeps her helmet on, always—Mandalorian tradition. Vi can't help but wonder what she's hiding… and not just physically.
As the days wear on and survival becomes more desperate, walls begin to fall. One night, as a storm rages outside their makeshift shelter, Vi quietly asks:
“Don’t you ever want to just… breathe?”
And Caitlyn does.
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07 Apr 2026
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“They’re… chaos,” Remus said firmly. “And chaos is—”
“Rock and roll.”
He looked at Sirius sharply, and for once, matched his grin. “Yeah.”
“Maybe that’s my excuse then,” Sirius said. “I cause a bit of chaos now, and maybe one day, it’ll turn into rock and roll.”After losing his mother at age eleven, Remus has spent the better part of the last four years bouncing from school to school or else running around London and pretending as though he wasn't the kind of well-bred boy his father brought him up to be. Now, with his chances all run out, Remus is sent to Hawkings Independent School as a last-ditch effort to clean up his act. There he meets the very people who will set up the rest of his life, and is forced to confront the pieces of himself he'd long thought had been lost.
(genuinely not apologising for the slow-burn in this fic anymore. You've been warned <3)
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26 Mar 2026