20 Works by AlexRuby
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After emerging from rehab, Shane was determined to live a healthier life. He was sober, medicated, and attending therapy sessions. Even his relationship with the town’s resident author was going well. Still, life in the valley was difficult for those who didn’t conform to society’s expectations of alpha, beta, or omega, and Shane was about to be challenged yet as bigotry, injustice, and his own inner demons raise their ugly heads. Sequel to A Man Worth Fighting For. An A/B/O fic.
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- Part 2 of Break Me Down
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In a world where one’s status of alpha, beta, or omega defined the types of lives they lived, Shane always thought that his status as a male omega was the universe’s idea of a cruel joke. He would rather pitch himself off the southern cliffs than become a stay-at-home father, barefoot and pregnant with snot-nosed children tugging at his clothes. He had Jas and that was enough, but she wasn't his child, and his biological clock wasn't ticking -- it was booming. After a powerful heat leaves him needy and vulnerable, the town’s resident writer swoops in and saves Shane from himself. Who would’ve thought that a small act of kindness would be the push that Shane needed to fall head over heels in love.
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- Part 1 of Break Me Down
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As Morgan prepares for her second year on the farm, her life and everything she knows is turned upside down after she sees a mysterious, apple-shaped sprite disappear into the woods while she is tending the animals. Suddenly Morgan is thrust into a hidden world in which she discovers that witches are not just things in fairy tales, wizards do in fact live in remote towers, and someone’s past can never stay truly hidden, only forgotten.
Sequel to Where You Belong
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- Part 3 of Making a Legacy
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Seven months after the Institute’s fall and the Brotherhood’s disbandment, Nora the Sole Survivor is enjoying a quiet life doing odd jobs for the wasteland settlers, the Railroad, and the Minutemen. With Nick and Hancock’s help, the Commonwealth is starting to be a place where future hopes outweigh past traumas. However, the gang quickly learns that another faction is encroaching on the Commonwealth, and this group of slavers has taken up residence in Nuka World. Rumor has it that the new Overboss is a former Vault Dweller too, and she is planning on taking the Commonwealth as her own.
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- Part 8 of A Woman Out of Time
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Nate Pendleton was on the road to having a happy life. He had a beautiful wife, a healthy infant son, a steady job, and a comfortable house in a good neighborhood. He was living the American Dream. But the night before the bombs fell, Nathan’s luck runs out. He is attacked by a monster wearing the face of a man and now, 212 years later, Nate runs across the one woman he thought he would never see again on the arm of a synth detective. Can Nate overcome his bloodlust, anger, betrayal, and longing, or will he cave into his darker nature and become the very thing he hates?
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- Part 1 of Blood Ties
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Nick isn’t used to his new Gen-3 body or the physical urges that come with it. With Nora away on a personal quest with MacCready, Nick’s feeling a little pent up and doesn’t know what to do about it aside from drinking his problem away in the Third Rail. Hancock finds him and learns that Nick is suffering from a prodigious case of ‘blue balls.’ What’s a good friend to do but offer to give Nick a hand in releasing some tension? And what will happen when Nora learns that her two lovers have been having dalliances behind her back?
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- Part 5 of Nick/Hancock/Nora One Shots
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The year 2077 is known as the year that everything changed. It's the year that the apocalypse began. The year the bombs dropped. But it was also the year that Jack and Edward fell in love.
(A Jack/Edward mini love story told in six parts).
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With the Commonwealth on the brink of war as the ever growing Brotherhood of Steel threat looms on the horizon, Nora must somehow reform the Institute’s ways from the inside as their new Director. Negotiations, charisma, and tact will be just as useful in the upcoming battle as guns, ammo, and soldiers. But Nora will learn that being the leader means that she’ll have to make some tough choices which could put her friends and loved ones in danger. Can Nora unite the Commonwealth together or will everything crumble into ashes and mark the ruins of another civilization?
Sequel to Remember How We Forgot and The Dark I Know So Well
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- Part 5 of A Woman Out of Time
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While on a job with Preston, Nora discovers something from her past at the Fraternal Post 115 which sends her into a depressive state. Finding this, along with remembering the trauma she experienced at the Institute’s hands, throws Nora into a whirlpool of pain, guilt, and anxiety. How does she cope? She finally gives Jet a try and finds herself wallowing in a pit of loneliness, regret, and despair. Thankfully a certain ghoul mayor is there to help her see the light again.
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- Part 7 of A Woman Out of Time
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In an impulsive decision after her grandfather’s sudden passing, Morgan decides to move out to the country and take over his farm. With hardly any farming experience, she has to learn quickly and tough farming life out. She hoped this would be the start of new beginnings, but it was also the start of new friendships, a new romance, and new experiences. Can Pelican Town become her home as it once was for her grandfather? (Rated M to be safe. Rating and tags will fluctuate in each chapter.)
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- Part 1 of Making a Legacy
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After discovering the truth behind his creation, Nick Valentine leaves the Institute feeling more unsure about himself and his place in the world than ever before. While Nora is hellbent on redeeming the Institute through protecting them from The Brotherhood’s upcoming attack, Nick knows he can’t stand by idly. A missing person’s case comes across his desk that speaks of a settlement of synths just off the coast of Maine, so with Piper’s help, Nick goes to track down the missing girl in a place called Acadia. It just so happens that another unsolved case is on this same island, and Nick is determined to finally meet the synth called DiMA and learn the truth about his creation and recruit some extra help in the upcoming battle.
Set in the Woman Out of Time universe.
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- Part 6 of A Woman Out of Time
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After a stressful trip with Preston to help the Minutemen reclaim settlements in the swamps south of Quincy, Nora returns home to Diamond City in need of a bit of rest and relaxation, and Nick Valentine is more than happy to help.
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- Part 4 of Nick/Hancock/Nora One Shots
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To celebrate her birthday, Nora plays a game of “Never Have I Ever” with the gang at Sanctuary Hills which escalates into her own private version with Hancock. Secrets get revealed and Nora finally asks Hancock for the one thing that she's always wanted to try.
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- Part 3 of Nick/Hancock/Nora One Shots
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Nick Valentine summons Mayor Hancock to Diamond City to help him interrogate a wily criminal that he’s detained. As Detective Valentine interrogates the Vault Dweller, Hancock arrives thinking he’s going to play ‘bad cop,’ in this noir-esque fantasy of theirs, but instead he ends up on the receiving end of Nick’s hard questioning.
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- Part 2 of Nick/Hancock/Nora One Shots
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The two most important men in Nora's life decide to help her fulfill a little fantasy that she's been keeping to herself.
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- Part 1 of Nick/Hancock/Nora One Shots
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After a coup strikes Goodneighbor, Hancock is gravely injured in the fight but miraculously survives. Dr. Amari’s suggests that he tries to resume his life from where he left off, but the trouble is that he doesn’t remember much of the past seven years. The one constant thing in his life are the whispers, memories, and dreams of a certain Vault Dweller from his forgotten past.
This is a one shot fic from my longer work The Dark I Know So Well.
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- Part 4 of A Woman Out of Time
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Four months after the botched events of Greentech Genetics and the fall of The Railroad headquarters, Nora has found herself imprisoned in the Institute. Freedom is a luxury and Nora has unwillingly become a pawn in the Institute's plans. Nick, Hancock, and the scattered Railroad members work tirelessly to rescue Nora from the Institute's clutches and also from herself. Nora's adjusted to life in the wasteland, but can she adjust to her difficult situation, especially when old demons from her past and new monsters from her present haunt her every step?
Sequel to Remember How We Forgot
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- Part 2 of A Woman Out of Time
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Morgan the farmer has been in town for almost three years and is feeling insecure about living up to her Grandfather’s sterling reputation in the town. As a woman who values her privacy and seeks out the solitude that nature provides, attending a large public gathering like the Spirit’s Eve Festival doesn’t sound all that appealing. With Elliott’s help and his often quoted literary advice, Morgan will have to learn that being true to oneself is the only thing that matters in the world, no matter what other people say in return.
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- Part 2 of Making a Legacy
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Nick Valentine has many insecurities, but chief among them is his lack of ... ahem ... equipment. He decides to breach the topic with Sturges who gives him a solution to work around his physical deficiency. This is a deleted scene from my fic "The Dark I Know So Well."
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- Part 3 of A Woman Out of Time
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Nora, the Sole Survivor of Vault 111, had so many plans for her life before the bombs fell. That was until all that she dreamed about was stolen from her by a cruel man with a scar across his face. With her husband dead and infant son lost to the wastes, Nora needs to decide if she will rise to the challenges set before her or simply become another forgotten story of the Commonwealth Wasteland.
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- Part 1 of A Woman Out of Time