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“Well come on, tell me. Maybe I can help you.” Monica pulls him towards her, holding his hands gently. “Just cus we had sex doesn’t mean I don’t want to help you with your love life. And it’s not pathetic to be hung up on someone, you know that, right? Besides, you know I give good advice." She ends sternly, eyes narrowing at him.
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After London, Monica and Chandler talk, learn that they're both in love with their roommates, and make a bet about who's better at matchmaking. Shenanigans and Tomfoolery ensue.
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I don't know if I'll make it (But watch how good I'll fake it) by brain_babs
Fandoms: Friends (TV)
09 Aug 2025
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Joey's always known who he is, but knowing who you are and having the courage to share that with someone are two different things.
This will probably make more sense if you read part 1, but it's not necessary.
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Coming out of my cage (And I've been doing just fine) by brain_babs
Fandoms: Friends (TV)
26 Jun 2025
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Joey steps out the door of his apartment. He smiles, waves slightly, and opens his mouth and–
“I need you to kiss me.”
Rachel cuts him off before he can start. This is what she needs. This’ll work, it has to work, and then everything will go back to normal, and she can face Ross and Monica again, and it’ll all be fine.
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Joey reaches towards the tap, turning off the water, one hand still on Chandler’s knee, balancing.
“Okay, ya ready?”
Chandler sighs, and looks towards the tub. He can feel the warmth of the water from where he’s perched, steamy air inviting and enveloping him, but he can’t muster up the energy to move. To take his shirt off, much less undress completely. To slip into the warm water and hope that it washes away his sweat and his mopery.
But he can’t move.
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Chandler's depressed, and Joey helps him by giving him a bath.
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He finds it under the couch. Eddie’s not entirely sure how it got there, but he pulls it out and shakes it off, folding it and placing it on the counter, next to his binder of Hellfire notes (and song lyrics, and to-do lists, and cool concepts he needs to work on) so that he can’t forget it when he leaves tomorrow. It’s a beautiful coat, very obviously well-made and expensive, durable and sturdy, but also soft. Eddie’s also not entirely sure how Steve manages to keep losing/forgetting/leaving it at Eddie’s, but he does.
or, Selkie Steve keeps hiding his pelt at Eddie's
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Placebo by LogicalBookThief
Fandoms: IT - Stephen King, IT (Movies - Muschietti), Carrie - Stephen King
16 Nov 2019
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"Mommy," Eddie rasped, shivering all over. "I’m scared."
"That's why you have to take your pills." His mother’s smile wobbled on its axis, churning his stomach. "Do you understand? I lied, but it was to keep you safe. To keep everyone safe."
Safe from you.
Her fingers curled under Eddie's chin, tilting his face up to meet hers. "You want to be a good boy, don't you?"
The thought of hurting anyone, especially his friends, was unbearable. His tears slid over her thumb as he nodded, fervently.
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14 Jul 2026
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BJ writes Hawkeye a letter one day, only six feet away, so Hawkeye writes back.
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12 Jul 2026
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the sun will come up, the seasons will change by mosaicofhearts
Fandoms: IT - Stephen King, IT (Movies - Muschietti)
25 May 2020
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He opens his mouth to speak again, and this time Richie doesn’t beat him to it. He’s expecting himself to say something like ‘no, nothing, I’m good’ or ‘I just needed to talk to a friend’ or even something more alarmingly honest like ‘I woke up and I really just wanted to hear your voice’.
Instead, he says: “I think I need to get out of New York.”
He realises immediately that he means it; that it’s the truth. The revelation drops like a stone between them in the ensuing silence, laden with honesty.
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Or the one where Eddie returns to New York after Derry but doesn't stay, and Richie deals with the consequences of living with the person he secretly loves.
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09 Jul 2026
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“Eddie, what are you whispering?” The wife says, tossing her hair around and giggling. “You don’t have any surprises for me, do you?”
Eddie visibly chokes back another round of land-lover vomit. “Actually, Myra. I do have a surprise.” He reaches into his suit jacket with trembling hands, and Richie doesn’t really want to see what he pulls out. They’re already fucking married, according to this broad, so what else could they possibly do in front of him?
“Why don’t I get you two started off with something to drink?” Richie says, remembering he’s here working and not actually trapped in a torrid love triangle with two strangers.
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05 Jul 2026
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the phrases that keep it all going by eddiespaghetti (foxwatson)
Fandoms: IT (Movies - Muschietti)
08 Nov 2019
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Richie just looks kind of sad, and tells him to stay awake while he runs off shouting, and Eddie thinks I don’t think I’m going to make it that long, but he doesn’t have the strength to shout. He just watches Richie until he can’t see him anymore, and he quietly wishes maybe he’d said something different after all.
And then there’s just darkness.
He wakes up, startled, in the Town House, with his face in his hands and his elbows on his knees.
“What the fuck,” he says, looking down at his own hands.
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