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"How - how dare you?" She stammers, pushing him away with both hands. Riddle backs away as though she is brandishing a hot poker, a horrible little smile on his face. Her thighs burn white hot from where his hands have been trailing up. Hermione yanks her dress down and continues, finding her voice through the fog of insanity that has clouded her judgement. "How dare you just show up to my house and threaten me, then kiss me!"
"In my defence," Riddle says mildly, with a strange expression. "I only planned on the first."
"That is a dreadful defence!"
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Or, Tom and Hermione start their sixth year of Hogwarts entirely off on the wrong foot.
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30 Sep 2024
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Jesper says it must be blackmail. Maybe murder. There’s no other way Kaz Brekker could already be holding a full professorship at the University of Ketterdam, no matter how many books he’s written. Inej, trapped by an adjunct’s contract which is the only thing standing between her and deportation, is willing to risk the obvious dangers of his company in exchange for the advantages, professional and otherwise. But when the department’s budget comes up suspiciously short, Inej’s job is on the line, and Kaz isn’t ready to let her go without a fight.
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14 Jul 2024
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Building Bridges by Elizabeth Culmer (edenfalling)
Fandoms: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
06 Sep 2020
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If sentient rivers experience bridges as chains, how do you establish a functional transportation network? Joanna Baker, a girl from Port Paravel, sets out to answer that question with the help of a mechanically-minded naiad. Also featuring a brief diversion into the post-Miraz Narnian tax system!
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28 Feb 2024
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playing out a lot of hypotheticals (in my mind) by lady_ragnell
Fandoms: Tortall - Tamora Pierce
31 Dec 2023
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Neal, second son of the duke of Queenscove, heals a squire on the progress, and isn't quite surprised to find himself falling for her.
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02 Jan 2024
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Rey and Finn go out on a cold night to participate in the grand New York Jewish tradition of Banging These Bastards A Kettle About It, and the police, they don't like it so much. Caught with a fake ID and no residency papers, Rey is dragged into a scheme to infiltrate and spy on activist groups. Detective Kyle O'Ryan, who would very much prefer you didn't inquire too closely about his legal name or his family background or why he never seems to mind working on Christmas, is supposed to be her police liaison, but his badge is getting heavier every day.
The righteous and the wicked, they will be judged together.
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- Part 1 of Ketuvim
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- 108,327
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- 18/18
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17 Nov 2023
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25 May 2023
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The strange thing between Lily and Evan starts as sex, but doesn't end that way. It never ends at all.
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- Part 1 of Scenes on a Darkened Path
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14 Sep 2021
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"The truth is Amina would never, ever imagine that anyone would be interested in her. But Saira’s not going to be the person who changes that."
Between 2004 and 2023 Saira loses a sister, starts a band, gets and regrets a social media presence, breaks up the band and puts it together again, writes her first love song, headlines(ish) a music festival, listens to the worst song in the world over four hundred times, and falls in love for real. But this story is not about that. This is about music.
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01 Sep 2021
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Hermione becomes Bellatrix's Horcrux. A love story in twelve parts.
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- Part 1 of A Home at the End of the World
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14 Aug 2021
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Ava turns up in a tux to her birthday party. Deborah’s not weird about it at all.
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13 Aug 2021
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Ava’s one point ahead now, fuckup-wise. And because she’s conflict-avoidant (which her therapist says is because she’s an only child who had to be the peacemaker in her family), and is also stewing in her extremely problematic feelings about Deborah, she can’t do anything except sit and smile and wait for shit to hit the fucking fan.
Ava and Deborah, on the road together.
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13 Aug 2021
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If Paxton had any expectations about what would happen when Devi pulled him into an empty classroom after school, they all hinged on the room actually being empty.
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27 Jul 2021
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This War of Attrition by syntheseas
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Trilogy | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
16 Aug 2021
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attrition (n.):
1. sorrow for one’s sins stemming from a motive other than that of the love of God
2. frictionOr, put simply: Dios Apate. Major.
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24 Jul 2021
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Midnight at the Mithraeum by zoicite
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Trilogy | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
03 May 2022
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It'd been two years since Gideon Nav gathered her wine key and her gaming license and escaped The Locked Tomb, a speakeasy-style cocktail bar managed by the hateful Harrowhark Nonagesimus. Now, dealing tables at The Mithraeum Hotel & Casino, things were really looking up. So when Gideon scored a date with the most beautiful showgirl in the Gilded Halls of Ida, the last thing she expected was to wake up married to her old nemesis and former coworker.
The story starts the night of Gideon's date and alternates between the events leading up to the wedding and the weeks that follow as Gideon tries to navigate life married to someone who claims to want nothing more than to forget she exists.
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24 Jul 2021
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Rachel, bottoming out completely, is doing a show in Vegas and, as a distraction from her life, gets dragged to a strip club by Puck. She hasn't seen Quinn in 8 years. This isn't how she wanted them to see each other again. Warning: D/s overtones.
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24 May 2021
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Michelle slammed her tray down on the lunch table. "Meghan O'Malley's been telling everyone she thinks you're a shit girlfriend, Erin," she said, and ripped open a bag of crisps.
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18 May 2021
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the blood of you bleeding as you try to let go by notonly for attheborder
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
18 Dec 2019
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Throughout her childhood, Harrow sees one specific ghost. Gideon is as helpful as she ever is.
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02 May 2021
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After Miryem's feat of high magic, the Staryk lord lays his hand on the flow of time and grants her a full day's relief.
But a full day has a night at its end, and that has its own consequence.
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06 Oct 2020
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It should've been simple: Severus loves Lily, Lily loves Severus, and they live happily ever after - but their dreams are shattered when powerful anti-Muggleborn laws are introduced and Lily's promising career in the Ministry is ruined.
Unwilling to leave the magical world, disgraced brewer Severus struggles to keep them afloat - but when he uses the profits from his illegal potion deals to pay their rent, Lily's terrified that the aurors will swoop and send him to Azkaban.
Fearful of fending for herself in a hostile society, the pressure of being a second-class citizen pushes Lily towards the only people fighting for her rights: Severus' sworn enemies.
Severus, haunted by his Muggle upbringing, is determined not to let history repeat, but can the two of them succeed when the magical world is paved with danger - from the rich promises of Lucius Malfoy to the lure of the Death Eaters, and the ever-seductive call of the Dark Arts?
[On hiatus: author illness. Explanation at the end of chapter 162.]
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17 Sep 2020
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In 1991, Harry Potter begins his time at Stonewall High, unaware that he is anything more than a boy prone to freakish accidents.
When he turns fourteen, he will receive a letter that will change his life. He will learn he is Harry Potter, and be invited into a world where belonging is his birthright. Until then, he stumbles on, two steps forward and one step back, out of the cupboard and into the life he was never meant to have.
[Series Update May 2022: Grey Space + sections I (Hermione), II (Ron), III (Draco), and IV (Ginny) of Glasslight now complete.]
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- Part 1 of Grey Space / Glasslight
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- 7/7
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22 Aug 2020