when_the_pawn
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- The Beatles (Band) (14)
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‘You can, Bri,’ Paul says. ‘Go on. Pretend it’s the day you first saw us in Cavern, when I was nineteen-and-something. You’re watching us from the back and I catch your eye. Pretend you knew I wanted you then. What would you have done with me?’
1967. Paul and Brian come to a new understanding of each other. -
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1967. John and Paul step out of a party.
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It’s a dare; the memory of Stu’s fingers on Paul’s bite mark rolled loose and left spinning in the floor between them. Up to Paul, what he does with it.
Paul shifts on his other foot, studies Stu. He must know, must have felt what Stu did when they were at each other’s throats. Must understand now, how desire has teeth.
Humbug, 1961. Paul becomes Stu's muse.
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as it is, i'll dream of her tonight by when_the_pawn for lilbigbeans3610
Fandoms: The Beatles (Band)
24 Dec 2025
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1960. John and Paul go hitch-hiking together before Christmas.
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wild and fluorescent (come home to my heart) by when_the_pawn
Fandoms: The Beatles (Band)
05 Dec 2025
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When he’s thirteen, Paul wakes up with a hickey. It’s mottled and purple, and it’s not his.
Or; a soulmate au where your body mirrors the body of your soulmate. Any cuts, bruises or scrapes one gets on their body, so will the other. Of course, no one believes in that anymore.
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Paul and John share a few drinks after a long set at the Kaiserkeller. Things get out of hand.
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29 Jun 2026
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John was still standing there with that infuriatingly thoughtful expression, glasses slipping halfway down his nose now, like he was genuinely considering it.
“No, I mean it,” he says as he folds his arms, attempting to make some deeply serious point. “I’d definitely shag you if I'd seen you in the street, like. Proper beaut.”
OR: The fic where Paul wakes up one morning as a full blown woman. That's it. That's the entire plot.
Series
- Part 1 of She’s A Woman Verse
- Language:
- English
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- 12,814
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- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 50
- Kudos:
- 311
- Bookmarks:
- 39
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- 3,457
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12 May 2026
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March 1967. After dropping acid with John, Paul begins to see a little blue hole. He doesn't know how to fix it.
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At the end of 1967, Paul realizes that his relationship with John has been growing ever more distant. He's not the only Beatle to pick up on the tension, and George happens to know the best way to get them on the same page again.
Take a deep breath, feel the floor beneath your feet, and come go with me.
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20 Jan 2026
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“So I was beating the shit out of him, and hitting him with a big stick, too, and it was the first time I thought, ‘I could kill this guy.’ I just saw it, like on a screen — that if I hit him once more, that was going to be it.”
In which John hits Bob Wooler once more.
Bookmarked by when_the_pawn
13 Dec 2025