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The Seabird by noyeahforsure
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
07 Jun 2026
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The bond snaps for Cassian and Nesta the minute they meet, with serious consequences when Nesta goes in the Cauldron. When she comes out, she knows she has been inside a long time, but she cannot remember anything. Nothing from the two years before the Cauldron, and certainly not what happened in the Cauldron itself, or why it feels like a piece of her was left inside.
(Not central, but part of this AU is what if the Archeron sisters actually loved each other like real sisters).
(Or… the secret baby plot where the baby is secret from everybody because of some time and memory magic. Does that work? I genuinely don’t know. Come find out.)
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03 Jun 2026
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The Ministry of Magic passed the Wizarding Marriage Act of 2002, requiring all unmarried witches and wizards of a certain age to marry their Ministry assigned matches and produce an heir within two years.
It was met with outrage, which fizzled into acceptance, which slumped into compliance, except from two very outspoken powerful opponents of the law, Hermione Granger and Severus Snape.
And it had absolutely nothing to do with the fact that they were matched to each other.
By mid-2003, they were some of the last holdouts of the early matches, and the Ministry took it into their own hands to force the pair together.
Faced with an impossible choice, Azkaban or marriage, they decide the best way to defeat the law is from within it.- Language:
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03 Jun 2026
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“Still think you belong here, little witch? Not even those leathers make you look convincing. I could still snap you like a toothpick.”
The male – not quite as tall as Cassian, but perhaps just as bulky, had been eyeing her from the moment she’d first arrived in this gods’ forsaken place for training. She knew he’d just been biding his time before taking a shot.
Typical male behavior, if she ever saw it.
“I belong where I please,” Nesta replied, making an effort to step around him.
Instead, he stepped towards her, and a large, rough hand landed on her shoulder, heavy through the fabric of her jacket, pushing her back.
“I’m not finished.” He snarled, leaning in close enough that she could smell the ale on his breath. “Someone ought to remind you of your manners when a male is speaking to you.”
“Do not,” she warned, angling out from his hold, “put your hands on me.”
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In which Nesta beats up a man and Cassian learns that constant resilience has a price.
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23 May 2026
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The Long Fall by noyeahforsure
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
10 Jun 2026
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Nesta falls off a cliff and dies while she’s on that terrible hike. There is also more of a plot, but honestly a big part of this is me getting mad yet again about the hike scene.
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08 May 2026
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An Angry Man by noyeahforsure
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
25 Jun 2025
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Nesta has a realization on the hike. Just maybe not the one Cassian is hoping for.
Or, what we’ve all been wondering… what if Nesta just said “fuck this"?
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22 Apr 2026
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Two Unspeakables have an unspeakble adventure
A giftfic for WayamynarfBookmarked by impossibleusay
21 Mar 2026
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Hermione doesn't have time for a relationship. Snape doesn't have the patience. It's a good thing they are not having one... A raunchy romp that was not supposed to have a plot.
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21 Mar 2026
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Being stressed in the Magical World can lead to accepting the irrational as being perfectly rational. Dealing with a phobia can lead to accepting the irascible as being perfectly irresistible.
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21 Mar 2026
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Avalanche by ChelseaMorningGirl for dustjackets, TheTeaQueen, This_Immortal_Hope, JellybeanJellyfish, xxValkyriesxx, ACourtofLadyDeath, Pumpkinspice_Lou, janearts, wishcamper, moodymelanist, jsmelodies, Daughterofthesea
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
23 Dec 2025
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“Nesta.”
She doesn’t turn. Doesn’t move.
The bond in his chest is screaming. Her emotions crash over him in waves—despair, worthlessness, exhaustion, and underneath it all, a terrible calm. The calm of someone who’s made a decision.
“Step down.” His voice comes out harder than he intends. The voice of a general. But inside, he’s begging for her to listen.
“Go away.” Her voice is hollow. Empty. Nothing like the sharp, cutting tone he’s used to. Nothing like the fire he’s always admired.
This is worse than her anger. It’s defeat.
“No.” He takes a careful step closer, hands out like he’s approaching a spooked animal. “I’m not leaving.”
“I don’t want you here.”
“I don’t care.” Another step. The bond is pulling tight in his chest, urging him closer. Keep her safe. Keep her alive. “I’m not leaving you alone.”
He feels a flicker of something. Confusion, maybe. Or frustration that he won’t just let her do this.
“Please,” she whispers, and the word breaks his heart. “Please just go.”
“Not a chance, sweetheart.”
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When Cassian realizes how deep his harsh words hurt Nesta on Soltice, he takes her out of Velaris and brings her to Illyria.
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24 Dec 2025
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Heavy In Your Arms by ChelseaMorningGirl
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
24 Nov 2025
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"Excuse me," she manages, standing abruptly. The room tilts slightly, and she has to catch herself on the back of her chair.
"Are you alright?" Feyre is half out of her seat, concern etched across her features.
"Yes," she says. "I just need some air."
"You look pale," Cassian says quietly. He's watching her with those sharp hazel eyes that see too much. "Maybe you should—"
"I said I'm fine." The words come out sharper than she intends, but another cramp is building and she needs to get out of here before she breaks down in front of them. Before they have more ammunition to use against her.
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Nesta's first fae cycle hits during a tense family dinner, but she doesn't understand what's happening to her body. Determined not to show weakness, she pushes through the pain until she collapses during training the next morning. When Cassian discovers the extent of her suffering, everything changes.
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24 Nov 2025
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The chair scraped against the stone as he stood.
"Everyone hates you! And you know something –"
As he said the words, a bellow that echoed off the walls, Cassian took a step forward, towards her, as if he was unable to resist pulling in her direction, when they fought like this.
But she didn't meet him halfway, as she had in the past.
No, instead, when his body moved, Nesta flinched.
Flinched so violently that she yielded two steps back, her body stumbling over the chair behind her, the silverware rattling with the force of it.
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For Nessian Week 2025: Free Day
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- Part 5 of Nessian Week 2025
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06 Oct 2025
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Beneath Your Fingertips (I Unravel) by This_Immortal_Hope
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
22 Jul 2025
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In Cassian’s mind, he wrote sonnets to this moment. Committed the view, the way she didn’t recoil from his gaze or sink deeper into the water, to his permanent memory. In his mind, he told her how achingly beautiful she was. How brave she was. He fell to his knees, dinner tray be damned, and sobbed. Admitted that the moments in which he thought she had been taken from him were the worst of his 500 years of life. Worse than any pain he could fathom. Cassian was no stranger to pain, always managed it with a stiff upper lip and a few bad jokes.
He knew, in that moment, that if Nesta had not returned from the depths of Oorid, neither would he. He would have rather the Middle claimed his immortal soul than face the reality of leaving that place without her.
In his mind, Cassian said all of that.
Out loud, he barely managed, “I … You.”
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10 Aug 2025
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To Tame A Beast by jsmelodies
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
24 Jul 2025
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When Nesta is sacrificed to the monster in the woods, she doesn’t expect to like him.
Or to trap him in a snare. Or to force him into a bargain. But what’s a woman to do?
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31 Jul 2025
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Stay Here With Me (Lay Here With Me) by Pumpkinspice_Lou
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
27 Apr 2025
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After the War, Cassian gave Nesta a magicked piece of parchment. She never thought she'd actually end up using it.
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31 Jul 2025
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How To Catch A Wife by Pumpkinspice_Lou
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
20 Jul 2025
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Every year, mortals are taken to Prythian to become fae brides. When Nesta wakes up in Illyria, she learns that their bride tradition is The Chase, but what happens when it's the General himself that's determined to chase her down and make her his wife?
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31 Jul 2025
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What if the intervention at beginning of ACOSF went a little differently?
Nesta doesn’t know how long it has been since she was abandoned at the Respite, only that she has not seen her sisters nor her... Cassian for what feels like an eternity. When Azriel learns the extent of Nesta’s isolation, he knows he needs to rescue his sister. But as unrest is growing in Prythian and beyond, will he be able to rescue her from herself, or will it all be too little too late?
An alternate telling of ACOSF from multiple perspectives focusing on Nesta's journey to healing.
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19 Jul 2025
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I don't know anything, but I know I miss you by jsmelodies
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
22 Jul 2025
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“Come here,” he said. So close to a plea. “Everything else aside, just…come here, Nes. I’m still here.”
He wasn’t—he’d been more distant than ever. Coming to bed late, and leaving for the dining room before she even had the chance to wake up properly. It felt like their last conversation had been ages ago, before the girl fell onto Rhys’ lawn.
She remembered the night before it all happened. Their last night together: her hands held above her head, and him smiling and whispering words against her neck while he made love to her.
“You are the most precious thing in the world to me,” he’d said, under the bright moonlight.
She missed his steady presence, and the physical comfort he gave so easily.
She missed him.
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Or, Nesta and Cassian struggle to come back to each other after the events of CC3.
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18 May 2025
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Two Of Us by ChelseaMorningGirl
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
02 Mar 2025
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All she knows with absolute clarity is that she is burning. That she feels white-hot anger sluicing through her veins, that silver fire stoked higher and higher as Cassian’s words barrel into her like a battering ram.
“Well, everyone fucking hates you, so well done, Nes.”
Nes. Everything seems to quiet. As if what he just said is of no consequence at all. As if the little nickname has no effect. As if she hasn’t asked him to stop calling her that more times than she can count. Everyone fucking hates you. All at once, the anger is replaced by hurt. It starts small, a fissure in her heart that travels through her body like a spider crack.
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Cassian’s words affect Nesta so deeply that she closes herself off from him, from the inevitable hurt he will inflict. Will Cassian be able to convince Nesta of his feelings, or will they crash and burn?
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29 Apr 2025
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Fissure and Thaw by TheTeaQueen
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
28 Apr 2025
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Masks had always been familiar to Nesta Archeron.
Less shiny, less deadly than the one that occasionally framed her face, these were smaller, meant for everyday wear that hid her identity in different, more vital ways.
‘Stop bouncing on your toes, Nesta. Stay still.’
The earliest effort – to stop her body from constantly moving. Constantly needing to sway or rock up and down, be it at tea, or on the promenade.
‘Sound sweet when you talk. Simpering. No one likes a monotone. And for my sake, smile.’
The bane of her mother’s existence – that her voice was not light and melodic, like Feyre’s, but rather deep-toned and inherently cold. How her face rested in a perpetual scowl regardless of her mood.
‘Watch me, copy me. That’s right.’
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In which Nesta masks to conform to her peers, until she can't anymore.
Post-HOFAS fix-it, ft. Autistic!Nesta
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- Part 2 of Nesta Week 2025
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29 Apr 2025
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Grieving The Mother's Daughter by TheTeaQueen
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
25 Apr 2025
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“Children would liven the place up,” Azriel said, when Cassian had commented how quiet the House of Wind was one morning.
Her mate had brushed it off with a laugh, but Nesta began to wonder if he was simply holding his tongue. If he, too, desired to stop taking contraceptives and try.
It took a long time, she’d been told. Years, even.
And still, she closed her eyes and saw those women. Saw her sister. And her body revolted.
They never discussed it. Never voiced aloud whether or not either of them agreed with their family’s teasing – whether the idea of a child had become too tempting to ignore. Other than her initial declaration, at the beginning of all of this, that she wanted to wait a long, long while, they never had the conversation.
Instead, Cassian was content to brush off the teasing remarks with a smile, as if it were nothing.
And Nesta was content to keep drinking her tonics like clockwork, as if were everything.
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A study in Tokophobia, for Nesta Week 2025 Day 5: Mother
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25 Apr 2025