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Kinda think that I might be his type by kiwiana
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
12 Nov 2023
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“Bea.” He clambers onto his knees, grabbing her hands in his own. “Bea, take me to Thanksgiving with you.”
Bea blinks. Blinks again. “What?”
“Bea, I could terrorise your gran until she’s begging you to stay single forever.”
Or, Alex agrees to be his friend's fake boyfriend for a weekend. He is not prepared for his friend's brother.
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23 Sep 2025
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But I love him, whether or no. by Leaves_of_Laurelin
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
26 Oct 2023
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Henry moves to New York City to help Pez with the opening of his new bar in the East Village. The location—fortunately for business, but unfortunately for Henry’s sanity—is directly across the street from a fire station. The sound of sirens is bad, Alex the gorgeous firefighter is worse. But when Alex helps Henry avoid a near catastrophe the night of the bar’s opening, the two form a tentative friendship that starts to develop into something more.
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18 Sep 2025
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That's What You Get For Waking Up in Vegas by bleedingballroomfloor
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
16 Jun 2023
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The bartender slides Alex the whiskey and shot of water before turning her attention to the person behind him. He turns around at the same time as the person speaks, “Gin and tonic” in all rounded vowels, a distinct English accent shining through, and he swears his heart stops.
“Holy shit,” Alex says before he can stop the words from slipping out of his mouth. “Henry?”
When Alex is celebrating June and Nora's bachelorette party in Vegas, the last person he expects to see is his ex-boyfriend Henry, who moved back to London nearly a year ago.
Waking up next to him the following morning, naked and sated with a marriage certificate poking out of his pocket, he starts to wonder if he's truly over Henry.
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18 Sep 2025
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Let Loose Your Glow by athousandrooms for clottedcreamfudge
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
12 May 2023
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“Seems like my liege was caught in a situation where he’d rather the ground swallow him whole.” Pez nods towards a spot to the side, and Alex follows his gaze. He spots Henry easily – a tall lighthouse of tousled blond hair – talking to a girl who is clearly into him. His expression looks perfectly polite, but he’s subtly leaning away, and he looks tense.
So, Alex makes an impulsive decision.
Whatever happens, this is going to be fun.
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Or: Alex is so very definitely straight, so pretending to be Henry’s boyfriend to get him out of an awkward situation should just be a fun little pastime - except that he doesn't really want to stop, and he has no idea why. But maybe it's okay to not think too hard and let himself go with the flow, for once.
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17 Sep 2025
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Confidential Memorandum by sherryvalli
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
12 Oct 2023
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"Hello, Mr. Fox-Mountchristen's office. How may I help you?"
"Hello, can I speak to Mr. Fox-Mount-krishen, please?"
Alex blinked. After two weeks of hearing nothing but the voices of snooty men and frazzled secretaries calling in, the person on the other line now sounded decidedly neither snooty nor male nor in any way adult.
It was a little girl.
"Mr. Fox-Mountchristen's unfortunately in a meeting right now,” Alex began slowly, “but I could take a message?"
"Oh." The girl paused. "You're not Mr. Hunter."
Alex starts a new job as Henry's new assistant. Henry's daughter keeps calling the office and leaving him messages.
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- Part 1 of Mr. Alex & Miss Fox-Mountchristen
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16 Sep 2025
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Fifty First Dates by LolaLand (Lola_di_Penates) for celeritas2997
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
04 Sep 2023
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Henry has used a dating app exactly one time. Predictably, the date turns out to be terrible. The bartender, however, is not.
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A cute stranger’s solution to Henry’s woeful dating life is to set him up on fifty first dates.
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- 4/4
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16 Sep 2025
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Making a List, Checking it Twice by LolaLand (Lola_di_Penates) for ifyoustay, athousandrooms
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
20 Dec 2024
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When Alex lands a job house-sitting for an international man of mystery, he’s more than a little intrigued. According to Nora, the owner of the Brooklyn brownstone is a spy. According to June, he’s a prince. Alex is convinced his employer is a fifty-year-old man who loves tartan and ugly, porcelain homewares.
Also, Alex might be flirting with his boss via a handwritten grocery list. Just a little bit.
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14 Sep 2025
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A Year of Living by AnchoredArchangel
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)
11 Aug 2025
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As far as big romantic gestures go, Alex isn’t sure it’s even possible to top standing on a global stage and practically declaring your love for someone on the tail end of a history-defining speech that will probably be printed in textbooks for years to come.
Never let it be said that Alex is a quitter though. He’s fully prepared to give it his best fucking shot.
Or: the epilogue - because the best part of the happy ending is getting to live in it.
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- Part 7 of The Consequences (of our Actions)
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- 5/11
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12 Sep 2025
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can't forget the way you made me heal by theprinceandagcd
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)
07 Dec 2024
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The rest of Alex’s head appears from beneath the blankets, his face scrunched as he squints up at Henry. His skin is flushed and glistening, evidence of the fever that is making his expression twist in discomfort. His exhaustion is visible in the lines around his eyes and the heaviness of his eyelids.
It’s clear that Alex has seen better days, internally and externally.
Yet, he’s still the most beautiful person Henry has ever seen.
or, a flu-ridden Alex and a hopelessly in love Henry
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10 Sep 2025
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the first fall of snow (and how it glistened as it fell) by theprinceandagcd
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)
11 Dec 2024
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It’s Henry that comes out on top in their struggle, finally getting Alex on his back and straddling his hips. Alex bucks upward out of reflex, and Henry’s grip tightens on Alex’s wrists while his knees squeeze at Alex’s waist, restricting his movement.
And Henry is smiling at him, pink-faced and pleased, his weight pressing down into the apex of Alex’s thighs. Something sharp and hot sparks at the base of Alex’s spine as he realizes that the curve of Henry’s ass is directly over Alex’s dick, which is responding to the touch as if—
Oh.
Oh, shit.
Alex stops moving underneath Henry, letting himself be restrained as he blinks up, trying to figure out how to proceed. Because he is absolutely getting hard with his best friend on top of him in a snow-covered courtyard on a random ass Thursday afternoon.
And he doesn’t really know how to feel about that.
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or, a snowball fight, a sexuality crisis speedrun, and custodial closet shenanigans- Language:
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10 Sep 2025
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no more keeping score, now I just keep you warm by theprinceandagcd
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)
18 Sep 2023
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Henry is quiet for a long moment, but his arms stay wrapped around Alex and his fingers are tracing tiny patterns into the small of his back and he's really about to start crying.
Lips brush against his forehead. "I love you, Alex."
It's all he says, but the words are tender and unmistakable, and they settle into all the exhausted parts of Alex's brain, pushing out all the dark thoughts and replacing them with Henry, just Henry. And he does cry then, a small sob slipping from him because God, he doesn't deserve Henry but he'll never stop being grateful for him. Henry's arms are steady and strong and Alex feels home there, every time.
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10 Sep 2025
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you and me, forevermore by theprinceandagcd
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)
11 Sep 2023
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"He pushes up on his toes to kiss Henry, who returns the kiss immediately, greedily, tongue brushing against his in a way that makes Alex's brain short circuit just as much as it did a year ago.
A year ago.
It still does something to him, stirs something deep inside him that makes his entire body feel like pure mush. It's a memory burned so bright in his mind - cold air, a buzz in his veins, a tree in a quiet garden, fingers gripping his face, soft lips against his.
The night his world turned on its axis and shifted toward Henry, altering his path and forever tilting him closer."
Or, Alex and Henry on New Year's Eve, one year after their first, and Alex wants it to be special.
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10 Sep 2025
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take my hand, wreck my plans (that's my man) by theprinceandagcd
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)
14 Feb 2024
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He's not actually that upset anymore, he thinks—their dinner had been nice and more intimate than an overcrowded restaurant would have been. The wine they drank has made some of that previous tension fade, but it’s still there, lingering in his body in a way that maybe a good orgasm could dislodge.
Plus, Alex has been so stressed, and he kind of really wants to not fucking exist for a while. Giving Henry control seems like the perfect solution on all fronts.
He licks his lips, his dick twitching when Henry's gaze follows the movement.
This makes sense. The physical buzz is one he can deal with, process, focus on. “Do whatever you want to me, baby.”
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or, Alex thinks he's ruined his and Henry's Valentine's Day (spoiler alert: he hasn't).- Language:
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08 Sep 2025
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you don't know the answer (til someone's on their knees and asks you) by theprinceandagcd
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)
22 Apr 2024
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“This might be the best one yet,” Henry comments, picking up another forkful of cheesecake and holding it out toward Alex. “Cheers to another successful con.”
They clink their forks, sharing small secret smiles over their free dessert before exiting the restaurant with their fingers interlocked and thanking the hostess, while all the servers watch them leave with hearts in their eyes.
Exactly the way they’d fucking planned it.
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Best friends Alex and Henry pretending to get engaged every week to get free dessert, until those pesky feelings get in the way.Bookmarked by Insteadofsleeping
08 Sep 2025
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love thorns all over this rose by theprinceandagcd
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)
21 Jun 2025
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Alex wasn’t made to be the type of person that will cook someone breakfast in the morning. Dancing around with someone he loves in his underwear isn’t something he gets to have. He’s awful at remembering anniversaries and inept at thinking of grand romantic gestures. Candlelit dinners, handmade cards, buying flowers—it’s just not what he’s built for.
And that’s fine.
Alex doesn't need any brave hero to save him, and he sure as hell was never meant to be anyone else's prince charming.
That's why this—his thing with Henry—is the perfect solution.
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- English
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- 11/11
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06 Sep 2025
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finally, a sin worth hurting for by smc_27 for stutteringpeach
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
15 Jul 2025
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Having Alex in his flat is inarguably a bloody terrible idea, but the man is, inexplicably, his soulmate - he can feel it - and he couldn’t very well stay at that dreadful bar a moment longer. So they got the bottle of wine to go, Henry left a sizeable tip, and led Alex back here because it’s close and despite every instinct to the contrary, there are some things he needs to say.
The entire issue is, Alex is the most gorgeous person Henry has seen in possibly all his life, and as much as this is never going to work, Henry would very much like it to for just the night, if nothing more.
He saw the way Alex’s nostrils had flared when they walked in. Henry is nearly certain Alex won’t smell anything here. Henry isn’t an omega. His possessions don’t carry his scent. Hardly anything does anymore.
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24 Jul 2025
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Prince Arthur is struck down by a mysterious sleeping spell and a cryptic message causes all the fair maidens in the land to travel to Camelot with dreams that their kiss will awaken him and win them Arthur's hand in marriage.
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05 Jul 2025
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with all these nights we're spending (my broken bones are mending) by theprinceandagcd
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)
07 Apr 2024
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It’s unexpected, and the softness that Prince Henry maintains is a shock to his system.
It makes him want to say something, even if it’s only to ask how his day was or to request an explanation for why he spent nearly fifteen fucking minutes looking at Cupid and Psyche with a forlorn look in his eyes. When he moves on, Alex gazes up at the sculpture and tries to discern the magic that must have captured the prince’s attention, but he comes up with no answers.
Which makes him want to ask more.
But he isn’t supposed to.
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Or, Alex is the new V&A night guard and Henry is the prince that Alex has been explicitly instructed to leave alone.- Language:
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18 May 2025
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made my peace (damn, ain't it sweet?) by rizcriz
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)
10 Oct 2024
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Alex and Henry are not that couple. The one so disgustingly in love that everyone else around them is slapped in the face with it repeatedly—
“False.”
Henry’s chest shakes with barely restrained laughter, and Alex leans back against him firmer without looking back. “The fuck do you mean false?”
June raises her eyebrows, and motions towards them. “Look at yourselves.”
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Or, Alex and Henry are That couple.
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19 Mar 2025
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call it what you want to by rizcriz
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)
09 Dec 2023
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It’s.
Not a secret, exactly.
It’s just, time fucking flies when you’re having fun and before anyone knows it you’re six months deep in a relationship that feels like its going to stand the test of time and neither you nor your boyfriend know how to sit down your friends and family and tell them the truth. And, okay, this is kind of their faults, in a way, because they had agreed to test the limits of their relationship in the privacy of their apartment and never really in front of anyone else—
Okay, fuck, maybe it is a secret.
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18 Feb 2025