Hard Feelings
Series Metadata
- Creator:
- Mangoshorthand
- Series Begun:
- 2022-07-07
- Series Updated:
- 2024-09-28
- Description:
What starts as a casual relationship soon comes to mean everything to him, but what can Five bring to a relationship? After 45 years alone, (or almost alone), how do you rebuild your understanding of partnership? Five has to listen, learn and face the future as well as his past.
- Notes:
What started as a smutty idea developed into a pretty long saga. Who knew?
I want to dedicate this whole effort to my husband. Though he will never read this, he has been there while I agonise over syntax and picking just the right word. *Were* he to read this, no doubt he would recognise some part of himself in the Five I've written; that's both a compliment and an insult.
- Stats:
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- Words:
- 306,464
- Works:
- 7
- Complete:
- Yes
- Bookmarks:
- 30
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You're Five's latest assassination target, but things don't go to plan and now he wants you as his fuckbuddy. Funny how what we want and what we need are rarely in line.
Set around six years after the events of Season 3 with everything resolved and Umbrellas back in the right timeline. Spoilers for season 3 around the presence or non presence of characters. The protagonist is halfway between a Reader Insert and an O/C.
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- Part 1 of Hard Feelings
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Part 2 of Hard Feelings series. As your life begins to grow around Five's, you're not sure what you find more sinister: the machinations of an evil soda corporation or the ideology that Five is starting to encourage in his bullied nephew...
When does protection become suffocation and when does taking matters into your own hands become betrayal?
Trigger Warning: Childhood terminal illnessSeries
- Part 2 of Hard Feelings
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As winter rolls around and Christmas approaches, everything between you and Five is perfect...until a destructive temporal anomaly gets in the way. Five is convinced another permutation of himself is to blame. Nothing's simple when you're in a relationship Five Hargreeves: could your loyalties be tested in a way unique to him?
I have gifted this work to eonjekkaji because I just wanted to acknowledge how much their support has meant when writing parts 1 + 2.
Third instalment in my 'Hard Feelings' series. This one goes to some darker places. To avoid spoilers, tags will be updated and trigger warnings will be placed in authors notes prior to specific chapters.
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- Part 3 of Hard Feelings
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Now that you're actually getting married and have a fifteen month old baby together, it's not possible to avoid it any longer: Five has to meet your parents. It goes more wrong than you could possibly imagine, spiralling to bring up secrets he'd rather stay buried.
The fourth of my Hard Feelings series. If the tags didn't make it clear enough, we are going to some uncomfortable places here. The non-con is more centred on psychology than the physical acts. The sex act tags reference acts performed consensually. We're looking at 50% fluff and 50% hurt/comfort. Why yes, I DO have a tone problem, thank you for noticing.
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- Part 4 of Hard Feelings
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Despite Five's best efforts, your daughter can't do math to save her life...but she doesn't see why that should stop her from time traveling. When the mother of all teenage tantrums causes time itself to fracture, Five has to travel back to 1831 to repair the damage.
But will he be able to cope with what he finds there?
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- Part 5 of Hard Feelings
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You’ve both been busy building Five and Luther's fledgling foundation, not made any less challenging by an uptick in media attention. Meanwhile Five’s nephew returns to the academy with a secret and no idea what to do with his life.
But one trial will dwarf the rest, one that will test Five's formidable strength and determination: your teenage daughter getting a boyfriend. 😱
[EDITED AUG 24 ]
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- Part 6 of Hard Feelings
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Daddy Five family-focused oneshots set in the 12 years between Five's marriage and that time his daughter broke time.
Chapter 1, No Blinking!: Five takes his three year old daughter to softplay
Chapter 2, The Changeling: Five and his little family visit County Clare, Ireland. Five pays a visit to a certain butcher's shop.Marked as complete for now but more may be added.
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- Part 7 of Hard Feelings