everybody knows (you're my sickness and the cure)

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• mine forever, just in case it exists by racingincircles for quietbatpeople, dickovny

  Fandoms: The Thick of It (TV)  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • F/M
  • Complete Work

  25 Feb 2021

  Tags

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  • Nicola Murray/Malcolm Tucker
  • Nicola Murray
  • Malcolm Tucker
  • Nicola Murray's Children
  • response fic
  • Coffeeverse
  • Complicated Relationships
  • Getting Back Together
  • Vulnerability
  • Post-Canon Fix-It
  • more like post-post-canon fix-it-again
  • Fluff and Angst
  • Malcola
  • gratuitous references to their height difference and her freckles (you're all welcome)
  • inevitable references to Jamie and Sam
  • this went from one-shot to three-shot to four-shot because Malc doesn't shut up and neither do I
  • Emotional Baggage
  • seriously ungodly amounts of it
  • POV changes at the end
  • dad!Malc owns my soul
  • ...and now it's a five-shot dear lord

  Summary

  If an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind, what does a heart for a heart do? For Malcolm and Nicola, it just left each of them with gaping holes in their chests that only the other could repair, and even after everything they’ve put each other through, Malcolm’s at a loss for why he ever thought otherwise.

  Series

  • Part 1 of everybody knows (you're my sickness and the cure)

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  15,505

  Chapters:

  5/5

  Comments:

  42

  Kudos:

  36

  Bookmarks:

  6

  Hits:

  956

• but i've got to have you to rely on by racingincircles for KidneysAsCufflinks

  Fandoms: The Thick of It (TV)  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • F/M, F/F
  • Complete Work

  02 May 2021

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Nicola Murray/Malcolm Tucker
  • Nicola Murray
  • Malcolm Tucker
  • Original Characters
  • Nicola Murray's Children
  • Malcola
  • Coffeeverse
  • workplace shenanigans
  • office gossip
  • Protectiveness
  • Bets & Wagers
  • none of these OCs are mine
  • i just got unnecessarily attached to them
  • imagine if Selina Meyer and Amy Brookheimer had a MUCH healthier relationship
  • and no lesbian subtext
  • that's Nicola and her closest adviser
  • featuring Malcolm's emotions on display in spite of himself
  • dad!Malc owns my soul
  • more pop culture references than originally intended
  • staircases and lifts became a plot device here by accident
  • Nicola is a MILF and everyone is aware of it

  Summary

  Malcolm does not let go of Nicola as she turns to her staff and says breathlessly, “So, any questions?”

  Series

  • Part 2 of everybody knows (you're my sickness and the cure)

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  12,292

  Chapters:

  2/2

  Comments:

  8

  Kudos:

  14

  Hits:

  436

• us against consensus by racingincircles for MindBoggling, SweatingHerLadyBollocksOff

  Fandoms: The Thick of It (TV)  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • F/F, F/M, Gen
  • Complete Work

  01 Mar 2022

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Nicola Murray/Malcolm Tucker
  • Jamie MacDonald & Malcolm Tucker
  • Sam Cassidy & Malcolm Tucker
  • Sam Cassidy/Original Female Character(s)
  • Jamie MacDonald & Sam Cassidy
  • Jamie MacDonald
  • Malcolm Tucker
  • Nicola Murray
  • Sam Cassidy
  • Original Characters
  • Coffeeverse
  • Malcola
  • Bars and Pubs
  • Protectiveness
  • Sam has a wife
  • Jamie used to have a wife and still has inadvisable anger management skills
  • Male-Female Friendship
  • gin & tonic appreciation
  • blasphemous references to Jamie's religious background
  • I rewatched Spinners and Losers as research for this
  • Established Relationship
  • this is actually a sequel to more than one fic
  • because I'm that extra
  • Flashbacks
  • seriously so many flashbacks
  • gratuitous Scott & Bailey and Strictly Come Dancing references
  • because those were some of my distractions from finishing this fic sooner
  • Forgiveness
  • Second Chances
  • Fight Club but for Malcolm's feelings
  • Non-Linear Narrative

  Summary

  “Don’t pretend you had to choose between Malcolm and Nicola. I know your mate Sam didn’t.”

  Series

  • Part 3 of everybody knows (you're my sickness and the cure)

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  22,012

  Chapters:

  4/4

  Comments:

  27

  Kudos:

  19

  Bookmarks:

  1

  Hits:

  531