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Just my interpretation of Malcolm’s inner thoughts during the end of season 2 and his father’s ‘new self’.
Nothing earth shattering, just totally hooked again and sad that we aren’t seeing the fallout of this shocking blow to Malcolm’s sense of self/reality. Poor guy needs a hug.
Unbetaed, rough draftish
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The Demise of Marcus by pennilessmare
Fandoms: The Bastard Son and the Devil Himself (TV)
09 Jan 2023
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‘Is the prophecy true?’
He felt his heart freeze and plummet when his father abruptly changed the subject.‘It’s your birthday…’ Marcus said ducking his head, voice raw with emotion.
A rabid wolf is put down, and Nathan is secretly relieved.
It’s not until he’s finally caught up in sleep, weeks later, and he lying in another strange bed between Annalise and Gabriel, does he realize and startle in horror. His father never answered the question.
AU to books.
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Annalise and Nathan manage to avoid mentioning the chicken incident to Gabriel for several weeks. But one’s baggage tends to return eventually…
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Maybe It Is That Kind of Story… by pennilessmare
Fandoms: The Bastard Son and the Devil Himself (TV)
23 Dec 2022
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Maybe it IS that kind of story…in a messed up way. Typical, thought Nathan.
Follows the story The Ties That Bind, but can stand alone. But AU because Ceelia.
A crack at the post-finale, featuring a more involved Marcus and a living Ceelia.
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The Past is Past, But Never Dead by pennilessmare
Fandoms: The Bastard Son and the Devil Himself (TV)
15 Dec 2022
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“The Memory dust—Night’s Breath,” said the healer Hildegard. “But our memories are not truly lost. The powder just simply blocks or erodes the pathways to those memories. Its effects can be reversed by a Mind Delver.”
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blood is running deep, some things never sleep by ninzied
Fandoms: The Empyrean - Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing
25 Jul 2023
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The first not-quite-morning after with Violet.
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Even before the war, before the unfathomable loss of—everything, Xaden Riorson did not know peace.
At least not, perhaps, until now.
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03 Jul 2026
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Fond Memories by The_Passion_of_the_Angst
Fandoms: Slow Horses (TV), Slough House - Mick Herron
21 Oct 2025
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He led her to an aisle of thin, colorful books. Children’s books. He tapped one. “Voila. You see? La Barbe bleue. Yes?” He picked it up and handed it to her. She opened it, flipped through a few pages. Inside were disturbing black-and-white Gothic illustrations.
Fairy tales are so fucked up, Isobel thought. She shut the book and tipped her face to him, chewing her bottom lip. “I don’t understand. I’m sorry,” she told him, then corrected herself in a belated attempt at politeness. “Desole.”
Amusement tugged at the corners of his mouth, but Isobel bristled at the pitying look in his eyes. “You, ma louloute, you are inside his castle, eh?”
Isobel fic that nobody fucking asked for. In an act of rebellion against her father, young Isobel Cartwright runs away with her secret older American boyfriend, but discovers he has secrets of his own.
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08 Aug 2025
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Sid asks River to be her date to fool her friends into thinking she's moved on from a bad break up. In a surprise to no one who's ever read a romance novel, the only one she's fooling is herself.
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08 Aug 2025
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At the end of 4x05, Patrice abducts River at gunpoint. This time, they go to a remote, isolated manor where Frank is waiting for them. The slow horses do not see or hear from River again for almost five months. During that time, Frank does his level best to break River and rebuild him into a tool he can use, with Patrice as his assisting shadow. This… doesn’t really work. In fact, the process ends up breaking not River, but someone else.
Meanwhile, Slough House is on overdrive trying to find a missing colleague who the Park is all to quick to deem presumed dead and rubber-stamp his file as such. Louisa almost quits, and finds an odd solace in working alongside Lamb to try to bring their missing agent home. She is having a bad one - the maybe-loss of her best friend is tearing her apart.
It all comes to a head when Louisa follows a lead that she knows better than to follow. She is meant to be the last blow that destroys River's resolve. It doesn't shake out like that. By the time they're both rescued, it's a long road to recovery. But there is a road, and there's help along the way.
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04 Aug 2025
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Everyone thinks that they know all there is to MI5's biggest disappointment, River Cartwright. And that's just how he wants it.
But when River's sanity starts to unspool and figures from his past randomly pop up in London, everything that he had painstakingly built begins to fall apart.Series
- Part 13 of Candle's Whumptober 2024
- Part 5 of Candle Makes Bad Things Happen
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04 Aug 2025