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The footsteps came out of nowhere. There had just been – the ringing in his ears, for so fucking long. And then suddenly, footsteps, right behind him.
Robby glanced back before he could stop himself.
Knew, the second he saw Jack, that it was over. He’d waited too long. The moment, his chance, was gone.
(my take on the roof scene from s1e15)
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Tit for tat: cooperation for cooperation, truth for truth. Three conversations between team members in which truths are exchanged and trust is reestablished. Draws on the events of The Janus List and Trust Metric, as well as Megan's time at the DOJ.
Set immediately post-s04e04: Thirteen
Chapter 1: Megan & Colby
Chapter 2: Don & Megan
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After everything was settled and Colby had been released from the hospital, he had one more person to thank for saving his life.
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Forgive me, if the Grave come slow by No_Illusions for medievil
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
02 Jan 2024
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“Stede.” His voice cracks on the name. “Stede, c’mon. Take – take your sword and run me through.”
Ed doesn’t have a gun this time, to force the issue. But he won’t need one. Surely he won’t need one. The others will have told Stede what he’s done. How he’s revealed the monster he’s always been.
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Alternate reunion for s2e3: Ed's not in a coma when Stede returns to the Revenge. Instead, he wakes up to find that the ship has a new captain. -
Not to discover weakness, is the Artifice of strength by No_Illusions
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
30 Dec 2023
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Two men stood by the rails, knives against Alma’s and Louis’ necks. Between them was – well, Mary was sure he had to be the captain, dressed in a rich red and gold coat, gun and sword in hand and menacing grin on face.
“Give us Blackbeard, and we don’t slit their throats.”
Which was – which was going to be a problem, Mary thought hysterically, because what the actual fuck. Where did this madman think they were going to find Blackbeard aboard Stede’s ship?
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belated whumptober 2023 fill: prompt #28: sacrifice; alt prompt #7: examination; prompt #26: “you look awful.”Series
- Part 12 of Whumptober 2023
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Whumptober 2023 prompt fills -- probably all for Our Flag Means Death.
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Reworking of s2ep6.
Title from "Body, Remember..." by C. P. Cavafy.
First fic can be read as canon compliant, but second fic moves into AU territory.- Words:
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In broken mathematics (we estimate our prize) by No_Illusions
Fandom The Last of Us (TV)
11 Apr 2023
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Surprise! This entire thing is a finale fix-it!
Essentially, I wanted to explore two things re: the finale: 1) What if Joel didn't feel he had to lie to Ellie? and 2) What if Ellie, by episode 9, had the capacity to understand the choice that Joel made in the hospital?
The first fic in this series tries to answer the question of "what would need to be different for that to happen?" The second fic explores the aftermath of ep 9 and how things have changed.
Later fics will include more hurt/comfort and whump in this AU.
Series title butchered from Emily Dickinson's poem "As by the dead we love to sit."
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“Academics are usually better gossips than this," Nicky said.
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23 Mar 2021
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I LOVE THIS STORY I LOVE THIS STORY I LOVE THIS STORY
Nile: wait wasn’t Joe a spousal hire
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Joe and Nicky being dramatic idiots in a no-powers modern setting, because romcom tropes are FUN, okay.
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17 Oct 2020
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This isn't violence, he repeated to himself for the hundredth time. Steven was his boyfriend and this was lovemaking, even if it left Nicky with finger-shaped bruises on his arms and hips, and with a backache that lasted for days. A fat tear rolled down his cheek at a particularly brutal thrust. This isn't violence.
He wondered why it felt like it.
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14 Oct 2020
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Prince Nicolò is marrying Lady Nile for the good of the kingdom, and everybody has to make the best of it. Or: wlw/mlm solidarity is conspiring with your boyfriend’s wife’s girlfriend to help them produce a royal heir.
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14 Oct 2020
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Nile is in for a shock when Nicky brings up Booker.
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14 Oct 2020