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“Marge takin’ good care of you, Buck?” he finally asks, lips barely moving.
“Yeah she really is, John. She looks out for me.”
John nods a little, stops when Gale tuts and rests a hand under his chin, featherlight restraint.
“She said you asked her if I’m takin’ good care of her too.”
“Yeah. Gotta make sure, you know?”
Gale hums, a sort of breathy ‘uh-huh’ through barely-parted lips as he carefully cleans the rewetted blood, swipes so gentle they don’t hurt even when he’s working right up next to John’s throbbing nose.
“You need someone to take care of you too, Bucky.”
“No point really,” John argues, definitely slurring now as everything catches up to him at once, adrenaline draining away to leave him nothing more than drunk and exhausted. “Not much here to care about. ‘S all back there.”
“That ain’t true.”
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John Egan has survived hell and returned to America after the war to find some promises have been kept, but most have been hollow. The one bright spot in his disappointing return to 'normal life' is his next door neighbor Gale Cleven and Gale's wife Marge, both of whom somehow still find John to be worth knowing, even after everything.
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- Part 2 of This You Will Be The One Worth Knowing
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31 Mar 2026
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Before Darkness Claims Our Souls by TheThirdAmell for pastelplugins, ArcaneFeathers, geidheal
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: Origins
13 May 2023
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Alistair was given to the Chantry as a child - and knew everything the Chantry taught about mages. Their hubris brought darkspawn into the world when they sought to usurp Heaven, but instead, they destroyed it. They were cast out, twisted and cursed by their own corruption, and returned as monsters. They were something to be feared. They were something to be hated.
They weren't something to be loved, but Alistair loved him anyway.
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- Part 1 of The Darkness In Our Souls
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17 Aug 2025
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The Wretched and Joyful by Bennybatchy
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022), Interview With the Vampire (Movie 1994), Vampire Chronicles Series - Anne Rice
01 May 2026
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The book sold fast, and Louis de Pointe du Lac hated it. It wasn’t the sales themselves he disliked—no, those were a blessing; he suddenly didn’t know what to do with all his money, which was a relief after years of barely scraping by.
But what decent human being, with even a shred of literary taste, would willingly buy something so utterly vapid as The Vampire Lestat? A memoir, of all things, written by that self-proclaimed “vampire”. Printed on the front, on the last page, being all over the news since September last year. The absurdity of it all was enough to make him want to throw the entire stock into the fireplace.Admittedly, the author had the looks. And Louis hated him on first sight.
Until he didn't, that was.
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- Part 1 of Loustat AU
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21 Oct 2025
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We Are Seven by llamallamaduck
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
10 Mar 2026
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Aleksei is seven when his father remarries. He is nine when Yulia is born.
If things had been a little different, he would have hated her. He was prone to envy at that stage: restless, anxious, without purpose. Jealousy would have eaten him through and left room for something uglier to move in. It doesn’t, because Yulia loves him first.
Aleksei is nine and furious at the world, and he doesn’t stand a chance. His heart cracks, breaks and swallows her whole.
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- Part 1 of Still I Rise
- Part 3 of Set in Heated Rivalry-verse
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- 14,384
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- 3/3
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22 Feb 2026
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If anyone asks, they're just two old buddies having an unexpected reunion while on vacation. That's all there is to it. Or: Kattigan tries to navigate through life, a profoundly changed relationship, and being in a house again.
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31 May 2026