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a kiss won’t mean goodbye (but hello to love) by eating_custardinbed
Fandoms: Ghosts (TV 2019)
24 Nov 2025
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“I’m married,” he says.
The reaction is instantaneous. Everybody turns to look at him. The expressions range from confused to shocked to straight up disbelief. He does his best not to shrink down into his seat.
“...To a woman?” Julian chances, being the first to speak.
Captain James Hutchins (The Captain to his co-workers) has been working at Button House PLC for a year. The job is... well, it's okay. However, the office does not know about his husband, who has just been re-stationed for six months. When his co-workers find out about his husband Anthony's existence, they become curious.
The Captain is about to have lots of questions to answer.
(title from 'when the lights go on again’ by vera lynn)
(updates daily!)
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Thomas turned to him, excitement written all over his face. “We can prove them wrong! I need to show Isabelle that I’m capable of serious relationships, and you need to show Anthony that you’re emotionally available and comfortable with your sexuality. So we fake date! Each other, I mean. You know, we go to events together and things, make them really jealous. Then, when we’ve got them where we want them, we stage a break-up! We’ll have them eating out of our hands in no time!”
James thought about it. Amazingly, Thomas was right. The beauty of the plan was that it was so simple. It would work in both of their favours. It would make both Isabelle and Anthony realise that they were incorrect. What could possibly go wrong?
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When Thomas and James, mortal enemies and reluctant co-workers at Pat's bookshop, call a temporary truce, their friends are thrilled. Until, of course, the pair reveal that they are faking a relationship to make Isabelle and Anthony jealous. But as the boundaries between real and fake become increasingly blurry, all anyone can do is watch as Thomas and James figure out the real reason behind five years of animosity.
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- Part 1 of Accidentally in Love
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When you're a ghost, there are rules: You can't eat or drink but need to sleep, can walk through walls but sit on chairs, can't touch things or be perceived by the living... Yeah, okay, a lot of it doesn't make sense and some has even been challenged these last few years.
One rule is firmly set in stone, though: You stay how you died, where you died. The only way for a ghost to disappear from the place of their demise is to move on to the great beyond – everyone at Button House is certain of that.Julian would beg to differ.
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An angry Captain is late to class.
And so is Anthony.Series
- Part 2 of Button school fics
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- English
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- Chapters:
- 1/1
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“He’s in love!” Alison said, lying flat on Bella’s bed, staring at the ceiling.
“100%” Bella agreed with her best friend. “There is no way he’s not!”
“But with who…”
The pair pondered, Alison stroking Beans and Bella pursing her lips as she spun round and round in her spinny chair.
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Alison and Bella (my oc) investigate Cap and Havers’ secret relationship.Series
- Part 1 of Button school fics
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Julian and Robin have tried their best to keep their relationship a secret, but nothing stays unknown for long in this household
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Being "The Captain" meant Teddy had to be anyone but himself; he had to maintain that stiff upper lip, resist blabbering on endlessly about tanks and maintain full focus. This is what he needed to do to survive. To not get caught.
He was doing a marvellous job of this, he hadn't shown a drop of emotion since the Great War ended. A certain Lieutenant, however, changed this indefinitely.
Despite his futile resistance, his mask had been lifted just enough for someone to see the loveable man beneath it. -
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They can’t really go on dates. Not properly.
The Captain invites Robin out to the fireworks, even though it can't be a date.
Featuring soft idiots that should probably just talk to each other, and an
unhealthy dose of angst.Series
- Part 5 of Over the Moon
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Help! My husband’s a revolt leader and I just blew up his village! by sonnet_of_anarchy
Fandoms: Ghosts (TV 2019)
07 Nov 2025
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The year is 1276, or thereabouts. Knights are fighting for the glory of the monarchy, princesses are wooed by eager suitors and status is critical. But when the lord sent to put at stop to the peasants revolt ends up falling for their leader, the whole of castle Higham is put at stake.
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When the Captain stumbles upon a rusted box buried on the grounds of Button House he doesn't expect it to change anything — he's dead, after all. But as Alison pries it open memories and feelings he'd thought were long buried suddenly resurfaced, in most unexpected ways. But some things tend to linger...
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Alison welcomes a stranger into her house. Little does she know that this stranger may be the key to understanding a certain war ghost better.
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Captain James William had a problem. Right now, had just revealed his innermost secrets (except one, but really everyone could infer this just by common sense), revealed his death, revealed everything about him and left him bare. And when everything just continued on as if nothing had happened.
However, the Captain really couldn’t care right now. He knows that everyone already knew how he died, and he was accepted by Fanny, someone whose opinion mattered greatly to him. She stuck with him to and fro, and was definitely a great companion to be with when dead. He never loved her in the romantic sense, no, maybe it was something to do with… actually, he just didn’t know. But now, he just didn’t care.
No, no—the problem was that someone had come to Button House, and this person brought on a less living, more special (to Captain James) someone.
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Some people reenacting World War II accidentally showed up at the wrong house. Unbeknownst to them, they brought someone special along to Button House with them.
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The second round of Oneshots for BBC Ghosts!
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Recently retired from the army, James is lonely and in need of occupation, so he takes up baking as a means of filling the time. Before he knows it, he’s signed up to be a contestant on his favourite TV baking show and, once inside the tent, he finds himself unexpectedly distracted by a fellow contestant, one Anthony Havers — for all the wrong reasons.
TL;DR: It's a Ghosts x Great British Bake Off crossover with a tasty Capvers-flavoured centre
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A crowd of small faces turned to look at him. Faces which James found it almost hurtful to look into. He shouldn't have felt the gut-wrenching pity that he did for the lads, but he couldn't help it. It was like staring into the sun
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“You love it here. Maybe it's us which won't work.” James spat the last sentence like a wounded animal lashing out.
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James doesn't remember much about his time at boarding school, only that he had despised it. When his husband, Anthony, secures a housemaster job looking after boarders at the local school, James' deeply-buried trauma explodes out of the ground.
(Regular updates: all chapters are completed and ready for posting)
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Through the eyes of Pat Butcher:
James Williamson - The Captain - starts his first year of University on a scholarship from the Army, joins a strange house, gets reluctantly roped into LGBT+ Society shenanigans, makes friends, and finds his life gets better (and then worse, and then better again) because of it.
A story about being brave, about finding your people, and creating yourself in whatever image you want.
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- Part 1 of halcyon days
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Cordelia Edevane has always been an enigma to the other ghosts who haunted Button House, seeming to prefer the company of the living instead of the lingering spirits gathered over many centuries. So when Heather Button, the last inheritor of Button House, finally passes away due to old age, Cordelia is the only ghost who worries over the rundown house's fate while the rest bask in their new freedom.
Months later, the arrival of new homeowners Mike and Alison Cooper rid Cordelia of her previous worries. However, her housemates don't take too kindly to the married couple's plans to renovate Button House into a hotel, resulting in an unsuccessful haunting that ends with a near-death experience for Alison and her gaining the ability to perceive and converse with the dead. The ghosts, led by the Captain, plot to use Alison's new abilities to make the Coopers leave for good. But to their surprise, Cordelia is prepared to keep them from leaving, even if it means foiling the mischief of her fellow ghosts.
Meanwhile, an at-her-wits-end Alison may have found an unlikely ally keeping her sanity in check; Cordelia might be the only ghost of Button House she can just about tolerate.
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- Part 1 of Ghost of a Kind Series
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Caphavers theatre kids!
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Robin knows all the other ghosts’ death days. He makes sure they’re okay when their respective death days come around.
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An afternoon of board games end in tragedy, leaving Alison needing to work out how to deal with her life without Mike. She has however gained her former ghostly housemate Thomas as a regular housemate - but things are a bit different from the last time the Regency era poet could interact with the wider world.