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When she runs her thumb across its plastic case and asks why this (which sounds certifiably girly) and not another Stephen King novel, he snorts. “The movie version is coming out in October, and I’m still holding you to that movie date.”
Despite herself, the corners of her lips turn up.
“Plus,” he continues. “I heard it has a happy ending. And I kind of want one of those.”
Before she can reply, there’s a deep pang in her side, like the twist of a knife, but she smiles anyway. It’ll fade soon enough. “Yeah, me too.”
Or, Max in the aftermath.
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- Part 2 of meanwhile the world goes on
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all that is shifting by egrets
Fandoms: Lockwood & Co. - Jonathan Stroud, Lockwood & Co. (TV)
19 Jul 2023
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In one hand, Lockwood gripped the spare rapier they kept in the old chipped plant pot, and with the other, he twisted the doorknob. When he swung it open, he tightened his hold on the sword hilt, because a figure stood just behind the iron line, cloaked by the shadow of night. Then, his eyes adjusted to the darkness, and he recognized the sheared bob of hair and the roundness of cheeks and that weary, crooked smile.
“Lucy?”
Or, just after midnight, Lockwood receives an unexpected visitor.
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- Part 3 of no one wins this kind of thing
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quillis interruptus by egrets
Fandoms: Lockwood & Co. - Jonathan Stroud, Lockwood & Co. (TV)
14 Jul 2023
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As Kipps squinted at the brightening sun, he had to wonder: had Lockwood forgotten he was there? Or did he not care? Knowing Lockwood, he probably had seen Lucy and everything else fell by the wayside. There was no way Lucy hadn’t noticed him there, underneath the patchwork quilt on the floor. But then again, Lucy was not particularly observant, and there was a good chance she thought he was merely a pile of blankets tossed aside.
Or, Quill Kipps and his unfortunate penchant for disrupting private moments.
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- Part 4 of no one wins this kind of thing
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a victim of the same disease by egrets
Fandoms: Lockwood & Co. - Jonathan Stroud, Lockwood & Co. (TV)
12 Jul 2023
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“I just don’t understand why you do this,” she muttered.
“We got the Source, at least.”
Holly let out a long breath through her nose. “And I’m sure Lucy was impressed by you tearing apart a kitchen and bolting into the hall to single handedly fight a very powerful Visitor in the process.”
Or, the Ealing Cannibal case, from a different perspective.
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- Part 2 of no one wins this kind of thing
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of pinafores and poltergeists by egrets
Fandoms: Lockwood & Co. - Jonathan Stroud, Lockwood & Co. (TV)
05 Jul 2023
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Of course, Lucy shrugged off his concern, said something about it being fine, about Holly being there to look after her. As if Lucy would ever let Holly look after her. There was a tightness to Lockwood then—a warring of his features that underscored the doubts he had over Lucy’s reassurances. Holly wanted to scream, ask to switch partners, but at Lucy’s intractability, he faltered, gave them a smile, and said they’d meet back up in a half hour before he left.
Their psychic survey continued. In dead silence.
Or, Aickmere's (Holly's Version)
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- Part 1 of no one wins this kind of thing
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no one wins this kind of thing by egrets
Fandom Lockwood & Co. (TV), Lockwood & Co. - Jonathan Stroud
19 Jul 2023
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a collection of outsider povs to some of my favorite locklyle scenes with some extension of canon
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The Fractured Face by HelsieMoon
Fandoms: Lockwood & Co. - Jonathan Stroud, Lockwood & Co. (TV)
09 Jun 2024
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(Post-canon case-fic set after TEG. I've spent months writing and editing this damn thing, so it's nothing if not ambitious lol. Give it a chance if you like. I think the story is pretty decent)
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If you'd told me at fifteen that the end of the Problem would come, not because the ghosts were gone, but by some stupid political decree—I'd had taken you for a conspiracy loon. Perhaps it's always up to children and wierdos to point out that the emperor is parading around in his birthday suit. We bloody well noticed.
This is the story of Lockwood & Co's last major case in the old world, and the first proper one in the new one. A case which—if I'm being perfectly honest—might be better described as a heist.
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i'm half crazy (all for the love of you) by blackjack_15
Fandoms: Lockwood & Co. - Jonathan Stroud, Lockwood & Co. (TV)
24 Jan 2024
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Lucy is freshly 17, has been at Lockwood and Co for a year now and is having a pretty good time living in the here and now, all things considered.
After a routine job forces the past down her throat -- literally -- Lucy's got to figure out why she's coughing up flower petals before she suffocates from them. Add in George, stuck in a research whirlwind, Lockwood, kept purposefully in the dark, and Kipps, who'd happily be anywhere but in the middle of it all, and Lucy's only sure of one thing: she's really, really sick of daisies.
Or, Lucy's refusal to acknowledge her feelings for Lockwood might just kill her. And that's if actually acknowledging them doesn't kill her first.
Bookmarked by egrets
06 Jul 2026
Bookmarker's Notes
so very realistic in that it is so british in its themes of repression and miscommunication
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and i keep hitting repeat-peat-peat-peat-peat-peat by blackjack_15
Fandoms: Lockwood & Co. (TV), Lockwood & Co. - Jonathan Stroud
12 Jul 2023
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After the day from hell -- fights with George, insults from Skull, no time with Lockwood, and, worst of all, skipping dinner in a fit of pique -- all Lucy Carlyle wants is for it to be tomorrow.
A relic that Lockwood & Co found in their basement has other ideas.
Or, Lucy gets stuck in a time loop and has to figure out exactly what opportunities she's been missing before she goes crazy -- or before she does something stupid like kiss her boss-slash-roommate.
Bookmarked by egrets
06 Jul 2026
Bookmarker's Notes
i’m so sorry this is the sweetest time loop ever!!!
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The first job after Lucy’s abrupt departure, Lockwood calls Holly Luce twice without thinking and bites his tongue hard enough to bleed. Holly’s unfailingly polite about it, because Holly’s unfailingly polite about everything, but he can’t miss the way she flinches, or the way George refuses to look at either of them. He can taste his embarrassment on the backs of his teeth, bitter and coppery where it mingles with the blood from his tongue.
It's just an adjustment period, he tells himself. Sure, there’s an empty space at his right shoulder all night where he keeps looking for Lucy entirely on instinct, one he hasn’t the first idea how to go about correcting, or even if he wants to—but it’s the first night. It’s to be expected. He thinks: It’ll get better.
But really, it just gets worse.
(or, the black winter fic in which lucy's absence haunts lockwood and the narrative both.)
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in what i have done and what i have failed to do by zipadeea
Fandoms: Lockwood & Co. - Jonathan Stroud, Lockwood & Co. (TV)
29 Mar 2023
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“It was always going to happen,” George said gravely. He didn’t seem too depressed by it. “Happens to everyone eventually.”
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The end of Lockwood & Co.
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- Part 1 of confiteor
- Part 7 of lockwood & co. deserved a second season pass it on
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Bookmarked by egrets
25 Jun 2026
Bookmarker's Notes
oh brother i’m bookmarking this for a reread later.