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Three weeks after ending a ten month situationship, Trinity Santos transfers to night shift hoping that new routines, new people, and a new shift will be enough to outrun one heartbreak.
Instead, she finds Jack Abbot loudly claiming her as one of his own, John Shen making coffee that should qualify as a controlled substance, Parker Ellis providing an endless running commentary, Crus being Crus, and Emery Walsh appearing often enough that "coincidence" starts losing all meaning.
As impossible traumas, 3am coffees and endless night shifts slowly become routine, strangers become family and nights begin to feel like home. For the first time in a long time, Trinity starts building a life she never thought she'd have.
But healing is rarely linear, and some ghosts don't stay buried just because you've changed shifts. When the past finally catches up with her, Trinity is forced to decide whether letting someone truly know her is worth the risk of losing them.
Sometimes the hardest part isn't surviving what happened to you. It's believing someone could know all of it and choose to stay anyway.
Emery Walsh has decided. She isn't going anywhere.
Or: The slowburn walshtos I want in the world
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“The easiest way to clean you up, besides keeping you away from the club, for the love of God—” Trinity opens her mouth to argue, but Samira just holds up a hand and shakes her head, “—is to give you a love interest. And people love a co-star romance. They’re hot right now and we think if it seems like you and Yolanda are dating—especially with Yolanda being as serious and respected as she is, we can have much more support for you before you even start filming.”
Trinity nods, processing the words for a moment before they actually begin to settle within her. “Wait—you want us to date?”
Trinity Santos, longtime film actress stuck just below the level of true awards acclaim due to a bad reputation for never shutting her mouth and never leaving the club before dawn, finds herself signing onto a PR relationship with the goal of cleaning up her image. Of course, this fake relationship is with none other than Academy Award winning actress—and her future co-star—Yolanda Garcia.
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Memory can be funny like that. Trinity looks at her and remembers the Yolanda from months ago, sat across from her with a drink in hand, their knees brushing every time one of them leaned in to say something. The dim lighting of the bar had softened her eyes, painting her face into an expression that could almost be mistaken for the same longing that echoed inside Trinity’s chest.
A lot can change in ten months. Not all of it for the better.
Or: It happens in increments, like all the worst things do.
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“You think that she went in on the water on purpose?” Langdon asked quietly.
“She knows how to swim” Garcia felt her own voice trembling “she's a good swimmer.”
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someday i'll be falling (without caution) by somefinditodd
Fandoms: ใจซ่อนรัก | The Secret of Us (TV 2024)
01 Jan 2026
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“You need housing,” she said, as if reading from a mental slide deck. “And I need a companion for the next few months. Someone consistent. Someone who can attend events with me. Someone who won’t make my life more complicated.”
Orm blinked.
The rain hissed against the glass.“A companion,” she repeated slowly. “Like… a roommate?”
A corner of Ling’s mouth moved—too small to be a smile, too human to be nothing.
“No,” she said. “Not a roommate.”
She took a step closer.
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Ling needs a companion for public image. Orm needs somewhere to sleep.
It’s not romance—it’s logistics.
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The client hadn’t really requested anything at all; their emails had been almost overly polite, if not jarringly formal, and had selected only the most vanilla options on the questionnaire she provided. Certainly a far cry from the standard practices of her usual clientele, but this one had paid upfront and picked this expensive hotel, and Mira’s fees are dear enough on their own that she had been coloured intrigued.
Mira takes a left down the hallway after leaving the elevator and finds herself at the door to the room. She doesn’t steel herself—doesn’t need to. She can handle anything. Has handled most things. Mira swipes the keycard and lets herself in.
The person sitting on the bed is probably the last thing she expects.
In which Mira is a professional, Rumi is socially inept, and Zoey is also there. Let's hope nobody catches feelings.
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After the shocking revelation that Enid Sinclair was the Hyde, manipulated by Marilyn Thornhill and nearly killing her, Wednesday thought she had closed that chapter for good. Now locked away in Willow Hill Psychiatric Hospital under maximum security, Enid is considered “non-cooperative and extremely manipulative,” a predator behind a sunny smile.
But when a string of new murders shakes Jericho, the trail of clues points Wednesday back to the last person she ever wanted, or secretly wanted to see again.
The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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Wednesday Addams is dying.
The Addams family curse has hit Wednesday Addams, and of course, in a cruel sense of irony, it chose Enid Sinclair. The one person in the whole world that Wednesday can't have, kiss, or hold. Doomed to love Enid tragically from afar so as not to interfere with her slow-going relationship with Bruno. She just wants Enid to be happy, even if it isn't with her. Even if it kills her.
Enid used to always be so sure of what she had wanted or even who. She loved Bruno, and due to how quickly things had heated up between them in school, she wanted to slow things down, just to be sure they were right for each other. She was so certain that Bruno was meant to be her mate, until he got down on one knee at their tenth anniversary dinner and asked, "Enid Sinclair, will you marry me?"
And her whole-hearted response was, "No."
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When Natalie wakes up in jail, she expects a court date, a hangover, and a hellish amount of regret—not Lottie Matthews, fresh out of the mental hospital, posting her bail.
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Tell me, what was I supposed to do when I realized that all this time, the killer I’ve been losing sleep over was sitting right next to me in class, pretending like she wasn't brushing her knee against mine as she chewed on her pen and leafed through stacks of Voltaire?
Nat, a fourth year criminal psychology major, becomes interested in a series of murders connected by a mysterious rune symbol. She meets Lottie, a charmingly sweet girl in her ethics class and is instantly, inexplicably, drawn to her. Little does she know, Lottie carries a knife, a secret, and the capacity to turn Nat’s life upside down in ways she could never imagine.
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'“I see you’ve noticed Satan over there.”
“Huh?” Adora felt her cheeks flushing red as she tore her gaze away from the girl and turned to whoever had spoken. “Sorry, were you talking to me?”
The gorgeous girl strutted past them without a single glance, like she was totally oblivious to how much the world seemed to want her. The girl who had spoken to her followed the other girls down the hallway with her gaze. An intense wave of dislike seemed to emanate from her.
“Satan,” the girl repeated, nodding down the hallway once the other girls turned the corner, “Catrina Driluth, but everyone just calls her Catra. Head cheerleader. All the girls want to be her, all the guys want to fuck her, and she’s completely fucking evil from head to toe.”'
Or, Catra is the bitchy head cheerleader and Adora is the socially awkward new girl. What could go wrong?
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Hermione had thought she was perfectly managing her feelings for her best friend. Everything nice and buried because their friendship was too important to lose, and because Fleur would never see her that way anyway. Until one impulsive act to cheer her friend galvanized those hidden feelings into the type of yearning she could no longer suppress. But maybe she didn’t really want to. And maybe Fleur didn’t want her to either.
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- Part 7 of My Fleurmione Week 2024
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Look, of course she has a favorite customer. There are a couple regulars that she likes, but the tall brunette influencer has to be her favorite. Lottie Matthews — yeah, she followed her on Instagram when she found out who exactly she was from gossip-hungry Ben, so what? — is about as rich and privileged as most of their customer base tends to be, but she’s also insanely attractive, and nice, and will scrunch her nose up all cute whenever she asks Nat which of the baked goods she should try today, as if they don’t sell the same stuff day in and out.
Unlike the other rich assholes that come here, Lottie never treats Nat like shit, never asks her if their oat milk is organic and cruelty-free, and doesn’t expect her to remember her coffee order, even though she totally does.
OR: Nat's only working at the bakery to supplement her income as an up-and-coming photographer. Lottie is gorgeous, famous and infuriatingly down to earth, and kind of every photographer's wet dream, so of course Nat is obsessed with her.
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After the loss of Aemond's eye in Driftmark and the added brutality of the events that came after, Alicent finally realizes what she must do to safeguard her children: abandon the house of the dragon.
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Lottie’s lips brush over her palm again, slow, pressing her teeth softly against the skin near the tiny cut. The sensation sends a jolt through Natalie’s entire body, her stomach twisting at the strange, unbearable intimacy of it.
“Don’t bite it.” Her pulse pounds so loud in her ears she can barely hear her own voice as she mutters, low and warning.
Lottie exhales, lips still grazing her skin. “I want to.”
Natalie almost jerks her hand away this time. Almost. But she doesn’t—because Lottie’s looking at her like she’s starving, like she needs her, and maybe there’s something deep, deep inside Natalie that likes that. That likes the way Lottie clings to her like this, like she’s something holy, something worth consuming.
“Lottie, don’t.” She grits her teeth, voice sharp.
Lottie tilts her head, her thumbs stroking over the back of Natalie’s hand, soothing, coaxing. There’s something almost reverent in the way she holds her, but beneath it—hunger.
Not just hunger. Desperation.
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After Ben's trial, Natalie grapples with the brutal reality of survival while becoming increasingly entwined with Lottie in ways she never expected.
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Natalie's life has been a rollercoaster of extreme lows and incredible highs. She makes meaningful friendships that run so deep in her she can't just throw them away. Not even after what Jackie said that one winter. Or when Natalie pulled the trigger that night and tried to push them all away. She's never known a sense of peace and yet, it's all she feels when she's around Lottie Matthews.
Lottie Matthews life has been one of loneliness. Absent parents, voices only she can hear, and no meaningful connections. Her mind seems to be her enemy most days and she knows it'll never give her peace. So why does Natalie Scatorccio call her mind beautiful and says she can't sleep at night unless it's with Lottie?
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Goblet of Fire but in a different year. Fleur Delacour comes to Hogwarts to take part in the Triwizard Tournament not realising that her life is going to change drastically, by the simple presence of Hogwarts' All-Time Smartest Witch, Hermione Granger, who she finds to be her lifelong mate.
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1. This is a rewrite of my unfinished original story that I have picked up again after years of inactivity - for anyone who recognises it :). It's being posted both here on AO3 and FF.net
2. Timeline is not the same as the books. This was set in 2015, so kinda modern AU.
3. No Horcruxes in this story -
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Ms. Goodkind stands up, and walks up to Toni. She’s taller even without her heels on, as if her power over Toni was genetic, natural, something that couldn’t be changed.
«It’s no problem, ma’am.»
«I’d like you to call me Shelby, when we’re alone.»
Toni feels the dangers of that. But again, she cannot disobey, so she nods once, and keeps silent.
Ms. Goodkind’s lips turn upwards, as if understanding straight away what Toni is doing. If she can avoid punishment, she will, of course. Even beasts like her know self-preservation.
«Say the words, Toni.»
Toni’s heart rate increases, and suddenly, perhaps because of the setting, perhaps because of Ms. Goodkind’s assertiveness, Toni feels like challenging her all over again, like she’s been doing for the past few years, until Andrew’s death.
«I’d really rather not.»
It’s what happens next, that has Toni’s breath knocked out of her lungs.or: the handmaids tale x the wilds au
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The Silver Queen and the Lady in Green by WanderingFan
Fandoms: House of the Dragon (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
07 Apr 2024
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Welcome to most AU to ever AU (some weird bastard hybrid of high fantasy and sci-fi).
Alicent comes from the most patriarchal nonsense world imaginable, and her planet (Westeros) began a war with Rhaenyra’s planet (Valyria) because Criston Cole is a homophobic ass.
Following the war’s end, Rhaenyra realizes during treaty negotiations that Alicent (Cole’s fourth wife) is living her worst married life, and so demands that Alicent remain on Valyria as a sign of goodwill.
Alicent is scared out of her mind (Rhaenyra gained a terrifying reputation during the war) and traumatized beyond belief.
Rhaenyra is determined to show Alicent that she isn’t a threat (while also dealing with her own baggage on the side).In short, this is a hurt/comfort, eventual romance slow burn wherein Alicent finally gets some therapy and Rhaenyra just wants to hug her and wrap her up in a warm blanket (as do we all).
They will eventually fall in love.
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Rhaenicent set on a world I’ve spent the past 20+ years building because I have no life or chill.Series
- Part 1 of The Silver Queen Verse
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The Long Road Home by ReynardtheFox
Fandoms: House of the Dragon (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
10 Feb 2023
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"You need not watch," Mysaria reassured her as Rhaenyra stumbled back in horror, her breathing coming quick. "The breaking of a bed slave is an ugly thing—but I assure you the method is sound. She will be perfect by the time her training is complete."
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Mysaria broke Alicent; Rhaenyra tries to put her back together again.