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  1. Public Bookmark 7

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    Back from the arctic, Fitzjames returns to society and is persuaded to allow his intimacy with Crozier to fade. Only, six years later, Crozier takes up the house next door and puts them in close quarters again. Missed opportunities become second chances.
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    A post-rescue-but-make-it-Jane-Austen's-Persuasion AU

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    19 Feb 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 3

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    All extracts taken from WRITING THE ROMANTIC COMEDY: From Cute-Meet to Joyous Defeat (Billy Mernit, 2000)

    Or: our story starts with James Fitzjames.

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    13 Aug 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 47

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    James helps an unlucky-in-love sailor to change his unfashionable ways, in a transformation that could prove life-changing - but for whom?

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    21 Feb 2025

  4. Public Bookmark *

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    “Finish it out,” he grits between clenched teeth. “Go on. Ask it.”

    Nolan shifts in his seat. “Are or are you not attracted, at the very least, to Wilson?”

    House knocks his forehead against his cane. “I don’t know. Maybe.”

    [In which Nolan pulls at the Wilson thread, and House can't stop it all from unraveling. Repression is a hell of a drug.]

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    11 Aug 2022

  5. Public Bookmark 61

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    What was it that Fitzjames had that Francis didn’t that so endeared him to Franklin? Everything, clearly, Francis’ stomach curdling. Fitzjames was English. He was elegant, witty, charming. Francis’ tongue involuntarily touched his teeth, feeling the little gap, as opposed to Fitzjames’ handsome, mostly even smile.

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    After the confrontation in the wardroom, Captain Crozier and Commander Fitzjames have it out, in more ways that one. But self-loathing and infatuation do not mix well, particularly in the Arctic.

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    05 Dec 2020

  6. Public Bookmark 23

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    A friendship grows in ink and paper, and a future after the Expedition blossoms in words.

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    20 Nov 2020

  7. Public Bookmark 44

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    What kind of man makes advances in a foyer?

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    14 Nov 2020

  8. Public Bookmark 34

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    "I'm going to see Francis, and I'm going to do it now," James says, very clearly. "Do you really think anything that you can do will stop me?" 
    He meets the doctor’s gaze. He lets him peer inside: see the ugly rage, his luminous lack of sensibility. He lets the boy glimpse a flash of what James has seen – chewed-on bones, hasty graves cut into the ground: the horror and softness of things so immense they would warp both past and future. 
    Turns out, James has no need to say anything more.

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    09 Aug 2020

  9. Public Bookmark *

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    Tritter's case against House still depends on subpoenaed testimony from Wilson. To save House from losing everything, the doctors of PPTH decide on an unusual solution, which in turn leads to unexpected consequences. This is a story about the sacrifices we make that turn out not to be such great sacrifices after all. (Contains spoilers for everything up to and including "Merry Little Christmas.")

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    01 May 2020

  10. Public Bookmark 81

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    With a thriving business in central London, Francis Crozier has got nearly everything he wants – until one day, when a surprise visitor turns his world upside down.

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    08 Apr 2020

  11. Public Bookmark 98

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    Something was forged in that Arctic Ice, something Crozier will carry with him always, something that gave him hope, and the strength to get home. It was love... But the moment of its existence was cruelly brief.... and what is he without it now?
    Haunted by and faithful to its memory, he tries to carry on, but how does one continue when faced with its ghost, every day?

    COMPLETED!

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    06 Apr 2020

  12. Public Bookmark 31

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    Amid debility, the Second Sight showed Francis Crozier a possible rendezvous with James Fitzjames. Although the whole truth stays unseen as they prepare for the long walk, Francis remains determined to look after his second-in-command.

    (A sort-of sequel to 'the book of love', but could also work as a standalone.)

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    06 Apr 2020

  13. Public Bookmark 91

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    James Clark Ross brought Francis Crozier back from the Arctic, but he finds Francis a changed man - perhaps the most striking change being Francis's constant companion, James Fitzjames. James discovers, only partly by accident, the true nature of the relationship between Francis and Fitzjames.

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    02 Apr 2020

  14. Public Bookmark *

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    The one where they're married but it's still Victorian times and also it's an accident.

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    23 Mar 2020

  15. Public Bookmark *

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    There is a tale that James hasn't told yet.  Francis wants to hear it.  Perhaps, there's time.

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    23 Mar 2020

  16. Public Bookmark 39

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    April 1847: While trekking across the ice, Francis slips and falls. Luckily, James is there to lend a helping hand - or arm, or two. James is smug; Francis hates him.

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    23 Mar 2020

  17. Public Bookmark 40

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    “I don’t think there are coconuts in Ibiza,” Francis muttered, looking over the mess of macaroons. He wiped his forehead with the back of his hand, Cornelius eyeing him from the counter. “Don’t even consider it. These are not for cats, and if they were, they would not be for ones who bite.” Cornelius meowed and began washing himself.

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    Grumpy Francis, flashy James, and an anonymous baking blog. What could go wrong?

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    22 Mar 2020

  18. Public Bookmark 63

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    The arrival of an unfamiliar piece of arctic flora brings on a curious new form of tension between Captains Francis Crozier and James Fitzjames.

    Set between "Punished, as a Boy" and "First Shot a Winner, Lads."

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    22 Mar 2020

  19. Public Bookmark *

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    Captain Parry’s third Arctic expedition takes a year longer to prepare than planned. It leaves in 1825 with ship’s boy James Fitzjames aboard HMS Hecla. Master's Mate Francis Crozier takes him under his wing.

    This changes everything.

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    22 Mar 2020

  20. Public Bookmark 34

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    They had all died. Then they came back. And they were not what they were before.
    (Less, Francis would think in the following weeks – staring at the thick leather gloves he now wore everywhere so no skin would touch his, at the arabesques of frost on them, like the signature of ghosts. I am less than I was.)

    Or, Victorian superheroes, badly-repressed feelings, and ice meeting fire (and not losing quite as bad as it had expected.)

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    22 Mar 2020

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