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“Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t” — [idiom] meaning it is better to endure a difficult person or situation one is familiar with, even if it is painful, than to take a risk with an unknown person or thing.
Ethan is still speaking—yelling—and Adam is—he’s a little nauseous. Part of him doesn’t want to be a part of this conversation at all, and a more traitorous part of him wants to call her back, but Ethan still has his cell phone.
Adam thinks, isn’t this how everything went long last time? Adam hid paycheck stubs from his parents and got caught in his own web of lies. Now he’s lied to Ethan and he has been caught for that as well. He never learns. He always makes the same mistakes.
Adam dampens his lips and chooses his next words carefully. “I don’t understand why you’re angry.”
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08 Dec 2025
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Part I: The Body Count - Chapters 1-2
Hermione sets out to raise her 'body count' under the esteemed guidance of Pansy Parkinson and Draco Malfoy. Until one traumatic night changes everything.
Humour, pining, hurt.
Part II: Ease - Chapters 3-6
Comfort, healing, romance.
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09 Jun 2025
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He’d lost people too, Sakura suddenly remembered. He’d never told the details, not to her, but—
“You know how this feels,” Sakura said, tilting her head towards him in something like curiosity.
Kakashi’s fingers squeezed her shoulder. He didn’t move for a moment—but then he slowly nodded.
“I—know how this feels,” he murmured, agreeing.
Paperwork didn’t help. Lying in her bed didn’t help. Sparring helped. Healing helped. The hospital helped. Drinks at a bar bought for her from across the room helped.
This, Sakura realized, helped. This made it easier.
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23 May 2025
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Hermione Granger has always carried an embarrassing secret: she gets turned on by learning. What happens when a tattooed Draco Malfoy shows up to Eighth Year and won't stop whispering interesting stories in her ear?
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13 Apr 2025
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Months after Ron has been killed in the line of duty as an Auror, a grieving Hermione takes notice of another widow in her world, one who also lost a spouse far too young: Draco Malfoy.
"Two souls in the blue of evening, missing parts of themselves now, one half drawn to the warmth of the other, wishing only to be whole again in some way."
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23 Mar 2025
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“You and Nev did Herbology together, right?” Hannah prompts with a smile, glancing between the two of them.
It’s second nature to downplay and deny it after all those years of trying to keep her interest in it under wraps. But just now, the solid warmth of Neville’s thigh presses against hers and she feels the shift beneath her ribs, like latches clicking into place and giving space for her lungs to expand normally for once.
“We did,” she says, letting herself meet his eyes for a fraction of a second.
“He told me you were better at it than him, which I find hard to belie—”
“That’s because it’s not true,” Pansy interrupts, turning to Neville. She raises a brow, feigning confidence when her insides are a twisting, pulsing mess of something with a terribly long wingspan. Pixies? Doxies? A fucking hippogriff? “Are you taking the piss?”
Neville shakes his head, eyes bright with mirth though his mouth stays serious. “No, are you? You’re brilliant. Always have been.”
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22 Mar 2025
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“If you’re going to be a prick, then you’ll get no sympathy from me.”
“Well, good thing I don’t want your sympathy in any form as that.” He tilts his head, eyes alight dangerously. “Much rather have you bent over, clutching a wooden beam as previously mentioned—but wherever would we find one—”
He cuts himself off, lets his gaze flick pointedly over her shoulder, and smirks.
“Granger, you’ll never believe our luck.”
Or: Draco follows Hermione after the Quidditch game so they can "discuss the kiss" that happened between her and Ron.
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10 Mar 2025
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After Hogwarts, Hermione Granger finds a new friendship with a fellow Healer Trainee. He’s everything she thinks she wants but he has his eyes set on someone else. With her potential love life crashing around her, she may end up missing what’s right in front of her eyes.
A coming-of-age story that sheds light on what it’s like to have your emotions turned upside-down. Told in 1st person POV.
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07 Feb 2025
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What Dreams May Come by firethesound_HP_archive for slytherco
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
17 Dec 2020
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If Harry had to get called into work on his day off, at least he was able to get Malfoy called in too.
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01 Feb 2025
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The first night at dinner, Ron places his and Padma’s joined hands on the table and announces that they’re looking for flats together. Which is surprising, but she thinks it shouldn’t be, because Padma is incredibly well-read and could probably easily explain the benefits of split rent, especially in a place like Crystal Palace. Of course, they’d be living there—it’s truly an up-and-coming neighbourhood, rich with culture and history—the perfect place for a new young couple to start their life together–
Hermione’s spiralling thoughts are interrupted by a cheerful voice.
“Oi, Charlie is here!”
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21 Jan 2025
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Something Else Entirely by Zeebee3 for AngleHeadedHipsters
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
24 Dec 2024
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The curve of his mouth is fond, eyes amused.
She likes the way he looks at her; likes the person she’s become around him. It reminds her of how she used to be, ten years and two relationships ago, when every thought heralded a world of new possibilities.
What would she have been like, had she met him then? What would she have been like, had she never had her heart broken by Ron? Had never settled down with Viktor?
Inside, a tiny voice whispers: you can still find out.
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Or when estranged, pregnant Hermione goes on a solo babymoon and meets someone.
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25 Dec 2024
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15 Dec 2024
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Hermione dies and comes back as a ghost to see both Draco going through the different stages of grief and Scorpius growing up.
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18 Oct 2024
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Nine years ago Draco Malfoy and Hermione Granger became unwilling partners when they applied for positions at the same company, with time they became unexpected friends who took the world of experimental potions by storm, and now, at the dawn of a decade, faced with one goal and two very different ideas about how to reach it, they become enemies again.
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Two idiots in love deny it to the point of madness and suffer the consequences.
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20 Sep 2024
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02 Sep 2024
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Sakura gets abducted shortly after Team Seven passes the bell test, falling into a dark void of endless grey stone where time passes differently compared to the outside. She must learn to navigate her new life "Inside" if she is ever going to stay sane enough to escape.
Kakashi loses one of his genin shortly after they pass the bell test, and the clock to find her is running out faster than he realises.- Language:
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21 Aug 2024
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While Sakura was focused on healing his hand, Kakashi looked up at her again, the image of a cute twelve year old already in mind. Always (in appearances) pleasing and gentle.
Instead, he was met with what felt like a stranger. Had it been so long since he'd actually looked at her?
This… was no longer the Sakura he had once known.
Who was she, then?
If she wouldn't show him, then she'd show Sukea.
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Canon divergence: starts after the fight with Sasori and then mostly follows canon.
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21 Aug 2024
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Sakura and Kakashi are assigned a mission that will change the path of their lives forever.
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21 Aug 2024
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A mission goes awry, as they are wont to do.
At least this time it's in the fun way.
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(Kakasaku; explicit)
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20 Aug 2024