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like we are children by LaurynVi
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
13 Sep 2026
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She introduces him as their leading Astrophage expert. He swallows the liquorice dangling from his lips and tries to hide his shirt – apparently featuring an obese cat – under his lab coat as he comes over to greet them.
"Why does he speak to us like we are children?"
"No matter. You get used to it."
Or: The one where Eva Stratt finally lets her guard down long enough to remember what she’s actually fighting to save.
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14 Sep 2026
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A few weeks after starting the Nice Guys agency March gets drunk, Healy gets a strange inkling, and Holly watches The Parent Trap.
Not for the first time, Jackson wonders why he agreed to this partnership. But there’s something he can’t quite put his finger on, something about the soft, hapless, helpless way March loves his daughter and knows what a screwup he is, that makes something funny happen inside Jackson’s chest. He hasn’t eaten yet today but it feels almost like his stomach is twisting, like he’s about to do something stupid and completely out of his own control even though Jackson Healy has always prided himself on how well he keeps himself under control.
Not food poisoning, Jackson thinks. March poisoning.
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31 Aug 2026
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Valuable: adj. having desirable or esteemed characteristics or qualities; of considerable importance or worth.
March doesn’t understand why Healy’s stuck around this long. He can’t do anything right, surely he’s not worth the hassle?Series
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29 Aug 2026
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“You should’ve been a nurse.” Healy smirked, a glaringly obvious joke. “Such stellar bedside manner.”
March snorted at him, sliding a finger lightly over the cuts in Healy’s hand, “don’t think I’d suit the uniform, man.”
“Well,” Healy said quietly, as if he was speaking to himself more than anything, “I don’t know if I’d say that.”
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or: healy’s mildly battered after a case. who better than march to patch him up?
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23 Aug 2026
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The Side Effects of Sobriety (They Didn’t Warn Me About You) by Lucky_Van084
Fandoms: The Nice Guys (2016)
15 Aug 2026
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Holland March has been stone cold sober for almost two months, shockingly enough.
It’s been rough but manageable all things considered, the shaking, the headaches, the nausea and insomnia, it’s all relatively easy when he reminds himself all the reasons he’s doing it, for Holly and the cautious, faintly hopeful look in her eyes that gets bigger everyday.
The uncontrollable raging urge to kiss Jackson Healy at pretty much every turn? That’s going to his undoing
If someone had warned him that the side effects of sobriety included wanting to kiss the living daylights out of your business partner, he- well, he still would have gone through with it but it would have been nice to have the warning.
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18 Aug 2026
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Blackmail. Illegal porn. Undercover at a gay bar. The Nice Guys sure are at it again.
“Porn? I can throw a rock in this neighborhood and I’m gonna break the window of a porn store.”
March gestured anxiously, waiting for the other shoe to drop.
Healy paused. “Ohhhhh. The nasty stuff. Whips and handcuffs. Girls and animals.”
“Close,” March said, grimacing. He really, really didn’t want to have to explain this. “Think more like…. Disco.”
“Disco?” Healy raised an eyebrow. “What, like the queer music? You think the back room of that store is full of porn for… For disco fans.” He nodded thoughtfully a couple of times. “And you’re an expert about this?”
For a second the whole world went white around the edges and March thought he might pass out. He was too sober for this conversation. What exactly had Healy noticed that morning, how obvious exactly had his full-body reaction to Healy’s hand on his neck been? “I was a happily married man!” March said, and as soon as it came out of his mouth he knew it was wrong. Too fast, too high-pitched, too loud.
Incriminating.
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29 Jul 2026
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“He had a sharp nose and head with full, healthy hair, and was dressed in a white button-up shirt that looked crisp and too tight on his body, with slacks hanging low on narrow hips. There was stubble along his jaw and exhaustion beneath his eyes despite the well-kept mustache and soft blue tint of his irises, but somehow neither of those things took away from him. If anything, they added something unfairly charming. He smelled faintly of cheap cologne and cigarette smoke, and something sweeter underneath that reminded Healy vaguely of oranges.
Healy frowned when he noticed that the man’s blond hair was exactly the same shade of June’s usual beehive hairdo.”
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Four times Jackson Healy thought about kissing Holland March, and one time Holland March kissed him. (Plus one bonus chapter at the end)
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17 Jul 2026
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“…You serious?” Healy scoffed, disbelief nestled into the edges of his face. “Come on, March, that’s-“
“An in-depth investigation tactic,” March finished for him, brain too buzzed to think about any potential implications right now, “I work best when I’m in the zone.”
“And you want to get in the zone of someone I’m… Wooing?”
“You make it sound weird.”
Healy started to smile. Because of course he fucking did. “It is weird, March.”
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or: healy, supposedly, has more skill than march in the seduction department. like any seasoned p.i. worth their salt, march investigates this claim. thoroughly.
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04 Jul 2026