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While Pope Cody was in prison, Aurora Erastis was waiting, counting down the days for him to come home. Not that he's ever felt for her the way she feels for him, but knowing that he's in there, alone, breaks her heart in ways he never could. And so she waits.
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A Heart Left at War by unknown_sunrise
Fandoms: The Odyssey - Homer, Ancient Greek Religion & Lore, EPIC - Jorge Rivera-Herrans (Albums)
22 Apr 2026
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"The Odyssey" by Homer, set in St Albans during/after WW2. Penelope writes to her lover while he is away, begging for his safe return. When Odysseus finally comes home from war, but nothing is the same. Mentally scarred, he struggles to adapt to everyday life.
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Tom Hayward thought he knew what it meant to wait in uncertainty. He had sat outside sickrooms before. Had listened to muffled, somber voices behind doors that would not open for him. He had learned that particular shape of helplessness that came from being close enough to hear pain, but not close enough to stop it. He had thought, at that time, that it was the worst kind of distance. He was wrong. This was worse.
Tom's thoughts as he waits outside Mary's delivery room.
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Michael.
sweet sweet Michael.It's only a matter of time.
until only thing left is the waiting game.
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Tales of wasted time and honey by insonniacaotica
Fandoms: EPIC - Jorge Rivera-Herrans (Albums), The Odyssey - Homer, Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
22 Apr 2026
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"Whoever can string my husband's old bow and shoot through twelve axes cleanly will be the new king, and sit down at the throne of Ithaca."
Penelope thought she knew despair. It had been a constant feeling, a companion every candlelit night as she unraveled the shroud. It was the ache in her chest every day since the ships had left port, or the trembling of her hands every time she saw a new bruise on Telemachus' skin.
Penelope knew despair as a constant feeling, like a patient struggle.
For the first time, despair had betrayed her, showing her a new face and a mouth full of blood.
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Or: one suitor strings the bow AU
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He never asked for her hand; he only asked for the right to wait. She smiled at him once – so small a thing – and he was never the same.
A man falls in silence for a woman who commands every room she enters. After her PhD defense, a single smile changes everything. Late-night calls, honest confessions, and the terrifying beauty of almost.
This is the geometry of drowning in nothing – and calling it ours.
This is a story about the courage that lies in a heart that chose to wait for the right to call her finally his.
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Deidad y Devoto by Dioskouroi
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy
22 Apr 2026
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Es un último intento para salvar a su gente.
Obi-Wan Kenobi es quien se ha ofrecido para llevar a cabo esta tarea. No muchos estaban inclinados a hacer tal cosa, como lo es ofrecerse como sacrificio a un inmortal, pero situaciones desesperadas requieren medidas de igual magnitud.
En pocas palabras: Anakin es un dios y Obi-Wan hace un pacto con él a cambio de que lo ayuden a él y a su gente. (Al final el dichoso pacto no es lo que esperaba, porque tradujeron mal el pergamino.)
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I long for… you by RosalynHenituse
Fandoms: 헌터는 조용히 살고 싶다 - 백삼 | The Hunter’s Gonna Lay Low - Baek Sam
20 Apr 2026
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A poem of Lee Sa-young’s longing for J/Cha Eui-Jae and you could say a short story narrating a bit of his journey.
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Penelope decides that the best way to fight off suitors (until whenever Odysseus gets back-because he has to) is for Telemachus to rise to the throne. The only thing is that for this plan to fully work and for the suitors to back off, he must marry. His reign must be legitimate and foolproof. What will he do? It is expected he will marry a woman, produce an heir, all that stuff that comes along with being king, but what if that isn’t the life he wishes for? What if he doesn't wish to be king, marry a woman, or live this life of royalty anymore?
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An imperfect flower is a rare flower with only one type of reproductive system. This female flower is missing her male counterpart, thus making her quite lonely.
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The princess Lunarian : Tale of Love by Joydaimond04
Fandoms: 超かぐや姫! | Putri Kosmik Kaguya! (Anime)
18 Apr 2026
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what if yachiyo was hiding something all this time
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Her school is attacked for the second time in two years, and hiding in the library trying to protect a baby that can't stop crying, all she can think about is how it ended last time.
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Cold has a shape, a sound, a smell.
It blooms in the marrow, weaves webs in the joints.
My body is a room slowly turning to ice —
windows sealed, door ajar,
the radiator long stopped breathing.Wrapped in my coat, I sit on the sofa,
waiting for a warmth that will never come.
The coat is my second skin,
and also the last wall between me and the world.
On that wall: patches, mildew stains, dried sweat,
and the blue tint the light left on me
the moment you pressed the shutter.You examine me —
eyes, teeth, ears, hands.
You ask where I come from.
I say: from a winter that never ends.
You say: winter always passes.
I smile without moving my lips.
My smile is frozen inside my bones,
like air bubbles trapped under ice,
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I Won't Let Nobody Hurt You (It Could Stay This Simple) by plumlots
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
13 Apr 2026
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The clips and photos are everywhere the following weeks. Every sports publication in America and Canada has a headline about Ilya Rozanov and Shane Hollander with Hayden Pike’s toddler at the post-game interviews. Every article gushes about how cute Arthur is, how sweetly he ran to his “Uncle Ilya.”
Shane, off social media entirely, save for his secret TikTok account where he watches hockey play-by-plays and analytics, even shows Ilya a clip of the three of them, huddled together and smiling. Ilya’s heart tugs again in that way it's prone to when he’s with the kids.
(It’s something he’ll think about, when it happens. It felt like the universe was warning them. Priming them).
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After Hayden and Jackie are in an accident, Shane and Ilya are given guardianship of their three kids.
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Virat was in love with Dhoni for two years now, he was too scared to confess but one day when he gathered his courage and confessed
Just to get rejected by him.
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- Part 1 of Sixes of silence (Mahirat)
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Patience by yosasamiya331
Fandoms: 佐々木と宮野 | Sasaki to Miyano (Manga), 佐々木と宮野 | Sasaki to Miyano (Anime)
11 Apr 2026
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The story of a Prince who is forced upon a throne and the maid boy whom he can’t stop thinking about.
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A year after the world watched Max Verstappen's car leave the track, Charles Leclerc receives a letter.
Inside is a key, a date, and a time. It leads him to a restaurant, to a table set for two, and to the ghost of a question he can no longer answer.
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waiting on that sunshine by puzzlepuppy for Ceselle1024, turbulenthandholding, sutherlins
Fandoms: The Bear (TV 2022)
09 Apr 2026
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“I have no idea what you’re talking about.” Syd replies innocently. “But if you wanna kiss me so bad, sounds like you’d be willing to wait.” She teases.
Carmy’s head shoots back slightly, still smiling gently. “How long?”
Syd shrugs, tries to make her eyes dark and her tone sexy, as awkward as she feels. “‘Til I say.”
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sydney wants to try something new, carmy just wants one thing.
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It’s only ever you by Killthe_shot
Fandoms: KATSEYE (Band), Dracula: A Love Tale (Movie 2025)
09 Apr 2026
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The world set in the 15th century, one of the times in which conflicts and wars were common and frequent between nations, kingdoms and everything; lies two lovers who lived in happiness.
That said happiness doesnt last long as the Princess of Wallachia, Sophia Laforteza was ordered to fight for her kingdom in the war.
What was supposed to be victory—quickly turned into sorrow as events happen. Sophia, ever the most God-Centered one, betrayed her faith out of pure sadness and was cursed.
A curse to forever live. While having the power of the damned, and to have a thirst for blood.
Years pass, centuries pass. She waits for her lover to come back to her.
You can never determine what true “waiting” is if you do not describe the epitome of the Princess of Wallachia, Count Sophia.
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Before Everything Broke by HollowedOutHero
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
09 Apr 2026
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Love has always lived easily in their apartment—warm mornings, familiar fights, shared devotion.
Then the sirens start.
And Izuku is left alone with the terrible thought that this might have been the last normal morning of his life.