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a coherent existence (after so many years of muddle) by Notevenaproperword
Fandoms: Death Becomes Her - Mattison & Carey/Pennette
03 Jun 2026
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One-shots, short fics, anything short of a sequel to "The age-old curse (I love you, I'm sorry)" featuring Helen, Madeline, and their daughter, Virginia.
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- Part 2 of the age-old curse (i love you)
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tes lèvres à moitiés chaudes by Notevenaproperword
Fandoms: Death Becomes Her - Mattison & Carey/Pennette
21 Apr 2026
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“Here you go, Ma’a—Ms. Ashton.”
Her driver rolls her suitcase up to the door, informs her that he’ll be the one to pick her up later that week and offers his condolences as parting words.
The front door swings on its hinges before Madeline has the time to ring the doorbell or school her features to face Helen.OR
Helen's mother dies and Madeline shows up for her ex-wife and their daughter
(2023 divorced madhel, pre-the age old curse)
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- Part 5 of the age-old curse (i love you)
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your love still holds a thread by Notevenaproperword
Fandoms: Death Becomes Her - Mattison & Carey/Pennette
31 Mar 2026
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“None of this is true.” She tells her wife under her breath.
“But it is, my love, from another point of view.” The other answers.
Viola arches an eyebrow.
“From what they know,” Lisle adds in her sibylline way. “From what they could see, it is.”
“But it is not the truth.” Viola argues back.OR
Lisle and Viola marry twenty years after their first meeting. But how, exactly, did they get here?
(The Violisle companion to "The age-old curse (I love you, I'm sorry)")
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- Part 3 of the age-old curse (i love you)
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i can’t find a way to understand (why i’m here again and again) by Notevenaproperword
Fandoms: Death Becomes Her - Mattison & Carey/Pennette
25 Mar 2026
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Madeline squeezes her breasts and winces. She’s sitting in the ridiculously small toilet of her dressing-room in the Palace Theater with the atrocious notion that she might not be able to fit her growing chest in her costumes much longer. She sticks her thumbnail between her teeth and closes her eyes. The rest of her is fine, more than fine actually. Her skin is softer, her hair seems lit from within and she isn’t putting on weight. Only her breasts have begun to inflate. They are sore too. This is the main problem.
It is, Madeline tells herself firmly, the only problem.
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Madeline might be pregnant, her only (apparent) hope is Helen. Everything goes wrong. -
you're blue and sweet by Notevenaproperword
Fandoms: Death Becomes Her - Mattison & Carey/Pennette
05 Mar 2026
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Helen sits on the closest bench to their graves. Madeline goes on and on about how they are meant to sneak into a retrospective of her work later that week. The redhead listens idly, if she does at all. She adjusts the wide rimmed hat she sports every week for that exact event. The only sanctioned outing by the highest instances.
Madeline’s voice drifts in and out of her hearing scope, just as the wind would through old trees.
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50 years after the ending, Helen loses her train of thoughts and Madeline brings her back on the path.
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the age-old curse (i love you) by Notevenaproperword
Fandom Death Becomes Her - Mattison & Carey/Pennette
03 Jun 2026
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the little things you do together by Notevenaproperword
Fandom Death Becomes Her - Mattison & Carey/Pennette
07 Jan 2026
- Words:
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- 2
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with my roots above and all my branches down below by milfscully
Fandoms: Death Becomes Her - Mattison & Carey/Pennette
07 Mar 2026
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“How do you feel about kids?”
The question, understandably, catches Helen off guard. Her hand stills from where she had been trailing absentminded patterns up and down Madeline’s bare arm. She cracks an eye open to look down at the woman curled against her chest, only to be met with a stare way too intense for a lazy Sunday morning. Helen lets out a measured breath.
“Conceptually or in actuality?”
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- Part 1 of i believe in magic
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Seven years into their marriage, Ernest and Madeline (try to) have sex.
Bookmarked by Notevenaproperword
17 May 2026
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I forgot we were fighting (tell me you love me) by SharpAsHel
Fandoms: Death Becomes Her - Mattison & Carey/Pennette, Death Becomes Her (1992)
10 May 2026
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Madeline is making a comeback to Broadway in a desperate attempt to be remembered for something other than marrying her bitch of an ex best friend’s ex fiancé. Would she have done anything? Yes. Would she have purposely fallen down a flight of stairs in front of the entire cast and crew? Questionable.
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Madeline takes a hit to the head, aka falls down a flight of stairs, and forgets that she and Helen hate each other.
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In death and eternity, looking at Helen now overwhelmed Madeline with the weight of a single fact:
She didn’t know Madeline couldn’t die.
She didn’t know.
And she pushed anyway.
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aka, Madeline tries to win back Helen's affections through means of her own. another title of this could probably be ‘the madeline ashton crashout extravaganza’

