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Sugar & Spice by vampydollzzz
Fandoms: Death Becomes Her - Mattison & Carey/Pennette, Death Becomes Her (1992)
08 Sep 2025
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In a sleek modern world where Helen and Ernest seem to have it all, two young children — Constance and Oliver — keep their hands full. Enter Madeline, a vibrant college actress hired as the babysitter, whose effortless charm and unfiltered energy upend Helen’s carefully controlled life. Between midnight feedings, playground chaos, and quiet stolen moments, Helen finds herself feeling things she never expected… and the line between propriety and desire begins to blur.
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babysitter!Mad falls for gorgeous milf!Helen and gets the girl
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the age-old curse (I love you, i'm sorry) by Notevenaproperword
Fandoms: Death Becomes Her - Mattison & Carey/Pennette, Death Becomes Her (1992)
05 Sep 2025
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By now, Virginia Ashton-Sharp knows how to present herself depending on which coast she’s on. In New York, she is Helen’s daughter. She's smart, sharp-tongued and meticulous. In L.A., she is Madeline’s, charming, funny and perceptive.
The truth is, Virginia doesn't really know who she is sometimes. She knows what she wants however.
It's really simple, Virginia just wants her family back.OR
Madeline and Helen's divorce near its four-year anniversary, their eleven year-old daughter knows in her heart they're still in love. She watches a movie and hatches a plan. Trouble ensues.
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- Part 1 of the age-old curse (i love you)
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sour apple baby, but you taste so sweet by helenssharp
Fandoms: Death Becomes Her - Mattison & Carey/Pennette, Death Becomes Her (1992)
03 Sep 2025
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She knows all of the things that make up a good story — when to use contractions to make the story flow more naturally, where to place a good em dash, the right combination of fluffy, pretty sounding words and clinical things that drag the reader down a rabbit hole they don’t want to put down — and somehow she just can’t apply it to her own writing.
But editing brings in a steady paycheck, Helen reminds herself, and it’s a safe, stable career.
No one tears her work — her novel, her baby, her life’s work compiled into two hundred and forty letter sized pages, twenty six chapters, 1.5 spaced and thirteen point font with serifs because it’s easier to read — to shreds and rips it apart like it took an hour and not the better part of a decade and a half.
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OR: milf editor!Helen, younger actress Madeline, and four chapters of pining and suffering
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What Happens When The Credits Roll? by Dooms_in_spring
Fandoms: A Series of Unfortunate Events (TV)
31 Aug 2025
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After the Baudelaire’s manage to survive the shipwreck, where do they go?
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um inconformado e duas doidas varridas by jenhardings
Fandoms: Death Becomes Her - Mattison & Carey/Pennette
29 Aug 2025
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Madeline and Helen never made sense to anyone that wasn't close to them, they were a package deal for a long time, but they just didn’t make sense as friends or anything really. Madelie loves the attention, she loved to be perceived and adored, meanwhile Helen didn’t really like to stand out, she loved being left alone to read and to her own thoughts, she didn’t like parties or the beach, she liked picnics with Madeline and her family dog. Madeline was always surrounded by people, always invited to every event there was.
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the one where Madeline finally gets the girl
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- Part 3 of convite de casamento
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the fire and drive (that make dreams come alive) by sarahtlou
Fandoms: Death Becomes Her - Mattison & Carey/Pennette
28 Aug 2025
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All her life, Madeline Ashton has harboured a competitive streak. It’s driven her to podium position many a time throughout her skating career, but something is missing - she’s never been the first to do something, and her prime years are fading away fast. However, when she runs into former rival Helen Sharp after a particularly disastrous practice, an idea blooms. Will Helen accept, or will Madeline be condemned to eventual anonymity once her career ends?
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Room 6o'9 by vampydollzzz
Fandoms: Death Becomes Her - Mattison & Carey/Pennette, Death Becomes Her (1992)
28 Aug 2025
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Madeline and Helen get paired in the same room in college and surprisingly get along!
Until they realise they like like each other.
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- Part 1 of College madhel
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Sunshine Baby by Nataliurrr
Fandoms: Death Becomes Her (1992), Death Becomes Her - Mattison & Carey/Pennette
28 Aug 2025
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“Hi, Madeline. It’s Helen Sharp, your sister rang me about—”
“Oh yes, come up.”
The line cuts before she can finish her sentence or respond, and she’s stood blinking at the door. Not exactly rude, just… abrupt. Helen makes her way upstairs, forming an opinion of Madeline which, so far, leans to the unflattering. Brisk, overly assertive, probably a nightmare to have a balanced conversation with.
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Helen finds herself babysitting Madeline's young daughter. It's supposed to be a one-time quick fix, but the women can't stay away from one another.
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it's me and you and you and me (and him) by LightLeadingMe
Fandoms: Death Becomes Her - Mattison & Carey/Pennette
27 Aug 2025
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Helen observes the ease between Madeline and Ernest and the familiarity of a couple married for 10 years. She feels jealous, but who is she jealous of? Madeline? Or Ernest?
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i don't want to get undressed for a new person all over again by tetheredbelief
Fandoms: Death Becomes Her - Mattison & Carey/Pennette, Death Becomes Her (1992)
25 Aug 2025
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It’s been six years since Madeline Ashton even acknowledged the existence of Helen Sharp. The last time they saw each other was well… to put it delicately… if either of them dropped dead the next day, neither of them would have any guilt over the last words they exchanged. They’ve had their fights before and it usually ended in a make up talk with their tails tucked between their legs. But this time was wholly different.
OR: a series of fights Madeline and Helen have had to together at select stages of their life (at least to me). Angst city, population MadHel.
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let it linger by glindauplands
Fandoms: Death Becomes Her - Mattison & Carey/Pennette, Death Becomes Her (1992)
24 Aug 2025
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From the stage, Madeline—surrounded by warm lights and a roaring applause—looks for her in the crowd. Their eyes meet, and Madeline smiles, wide and bright.
When she bows, it’s for Helen alone.
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From high school to Hollywood, Helen is always there for Madeline. -
You’re my person (And you’re mine) by lanaparillascontroversiallyyoungwife
Fandoms: Death Becomes Her - Mattison & Carey/Pennette
22 Aug 2025
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It was all for Helen- that was the truth. Madeline hated that- hated that truth more than anything else. She wanted to loathe her, to be able to cut Hel out of her life and never spare another thought for her again. But that just wasn’t possible. Helen wasn’t disposable. She was so much more than Stefan or Ernest or all the other hapless nobodies who passed through Madeline’s life over the years. Helen was her best friend. Her worst enemy. Her…
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what if Madeline realized that Ernest wasn’t the person she should be marrying?
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Kiss of Death. by nexttonotnormal
Fandoms: Death Becomes Her (1992), Death becomes Her(musical)
20 Aug 2025
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Her brain wasn’t working- it wasn’t computing what was happening. They had been fighting. They were always fighting. The blonde couldn’t remember the last time they hadn’t been fighting. It was so far off and distant, fuzzy around the edges of her already troubling memory, damaged by years of valium and cocaine.
One beat, two.
Helen Sharp was kissing her.
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aka this is a oneshot based on the performance where Jennifer kissed the Madeline stunt double before pushing him.
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running away together by LightLeadingMe
Fandoms: Death Becomes Her - Mattison & Carey/Pennette
19 Aug 2025
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Madeline likes to run away when she's drunk which means Ernest and Helen have to chase her.
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In the Shadow of the Bandit by trickster_milo for anyaplaysfates
Fandoms: My Time At Sandrock (Video Game)
16 Aug 2025
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Tired of being cast as the side character in his own life, Ernest decides to take on the mantle of Protagonist. His inciting action: the interview he has finally been granted with Logan. Unfortunately, his dream of inspiring the bandit that inspired him don't go so well. What's a tortured artist to do? Pablo has an idea that will send Ernest—although he doesn't yet know it—into the arms of the other handsome bandit in Sandrock.
Eventual Ernest/Haru. Chapters added as they're written.
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you little traitor (keep it going) by mother_gothels_wife
Fandoms: Broadway RPF, Death Becomes Her (1992), Death Becomes Her (Broadway) Cast RPF, Actor RPF
14 Aug 2025
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How come Madeline's stunt double, of all people, got to kiss her before Megan?
What had this world come to?!· · ─ ·✶· ─ · ·
CRAZY THINGS ARE HAPPENING so I had to hop on and do something about it duh??
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all I really want is that good hurt (I know in my head I could do better) by galacticwarmth
Fandoms: Death Becomes Her - Mattison & Carey/Pennette
14 Aug 2025
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Helen soon after turns to Madeline, staring daggers into her with her teeth bared. “Next time, I won’t be so nice.”
Madeline’s face contorts into a disgusting, mocking smile in response. “I knew you didn’t have it in you,” the blonde spits at the redhead.
Those words only fill Helen with even more rage. Who is Madeline to think that Helen was still the same weak and mousy woman from before? Helen is a changed woman now; unlike her old self, she would never let Madeline walk all over her anymore. Never again.
So, in an unthinkable, impulsive act that her old self would have never dared to do, Helen forcefully grabs the blonde’s face and kisses her ferociously. Fuck it. If Madeline was going to fuck Helen over for twenty years and counting, Helen might as well fuck with her too, in her last moments before death.
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In a moment of sheer madness, Helen kisses Madeline just before pushing her down the stairs to her death.
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As Madeline’s eyes widened in fear and Helen’s fingers tightened around her shoulders, it wasn’t Madeline “life ruiner” Ashton who was staring back at her.
It was just Mad, her best friend.
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Apparently we got a MadHel kiss at the 8/12 performance of DBH, and my gay ass wanted to write an angsty fic about it. -
have you ever loved someone just as I love you by Notevenaproperword
Fandoms: Death Becomes Her - Mattison & Carey/Pennette
10 Aug 2025
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Ernest takes a tour of Madeline’s apartment, Helen finds herself in a pickle.
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Joyful union by Anonymous_witch
Fandoms: Death Becomes Her - Mattison & Carey/Pennette, Death Becomes Her (1992)
09 Aug 2025
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Trapped in the mental hospital, on a tv she has no control over, Helen has to watch her person get married to the man she once thought she loved