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every breath you take (my love lies in wait) by rizcriz
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)
25 Apr 2024
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Henry opens his eyes, slams his thumb on the answer button and waits to hear Alex’s voice for the first time in three months, excluding the numerous interviews he’s watched of him. Only, he’s met with silence; the quiet echo of soft breathing stretching out between the ocean that separates them.
He bites his bottom lip. “Alex?”
There’s a soft inhale.
“No.”
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or, there's been an accident.
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18 Feb 2025
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The New York Shadow Market (Featuring Protective Alec Lightwood) by Aria_Lerendeair
Fandoms: Shadowhunters (TV), The Shadowhunter Chronicles - All Media Types, The Shadowhunter Chronicles - Cassandra Clare
14 Nov 2020
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When Magnus brings Alec to the New York Shadow Market, he is expecting a day of fun and possibly an adventure or two with his shadowhunter. He is certainly not expecting the demon attack, or for his people to get a first-hand experience with just how protective Alec Lightwood could be.
EDIT: Now with second chapter because everyone wanted to know what happened after! So enjoy a little coda!
EDIT #2: So this wasn't supposed to get a third chapter, but now it has one, so enjoy the finale!
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- Part 11 of Malec Anniversary Bash 2020
- Part 32 of The Immortal Alec Method List
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06 Feb 2025
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“I’m English, dear,” Henry tells him, and fuck if the nickname isn’t doing something to Alex too. “Our national sport is rugby, and we play it with a lot less protective gear. Though,” he adds thoughtfully, “rugby players do wear mouth guards, which means they have the significant advantage of generally keeping all their teeth.”
“We wear mouth guards.” It’s a common misconception, and one that annoys the shit out of him. “And I’ve still got all my teeth. Wanna check?”
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- Part 1 of The Greatest Game In The Land
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12 Jan 2025
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Henry gets jealous.
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26 Dec 2024
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Green Means Go by indomitablelove for clottedcreamfudge
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
14 Mar 2022
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‘Ah the joys of student living,’ Henry says, smiling at Alex. There’s something warm in his eyes too despite the cool blue colour. ‘I see you found the dress code,’ he says smoothly, giving Alex a sly smile. His voice is smooth, honeyed and rich even over the vibrations of the music.
Alex’s brow furrows. ‘Dress code?’
Henry pauses. ‘You’re wearing green, are you not?’
‘Green?’ Alex asks, looking down at his shirt and then back to Henry, in a short sleeved yellow button up shirt, then to Pez in lime green. He looks around again – two girls on the dance floor dancing together, one in a deep green velvet dress, the other in a khaki jacket; a group next to them, all in red; someone dancing in yellow dungarees. Everyone around them in one of those three colours.
Oh, fuck.
‘This is a stop light party,’ Alex says dumbly.
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Alex is an exchange student and ends up at a traffic light party that he doesn't realise is a traffic light party.- Language:
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13 Dec 2024
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No Consequences by AnchoredArchangel
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)
26 Dec 2023
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"I sort of came out as bisexual to both Nora and myself when we were watching that fucking snoozefest of a Royal Wedding years ago, and I told her with no hesitation that you were on my list.”
Suddenly, Henry looks very present in this previously one-sided conversation, eyes boring into him even if he sounds a little choked as he clarifies, “I was on—”
“My No Consequences Sex List,” Alex confirms brazenly. “Yeah."
Or: During an inadvisable spot of dating years back, Alex and Nora made a game out of making extensive lists of celebrities they could hook up with without it being cheating. One breakup and several years later, Alex meets someone on his list for the very first time at a charity gala and decides it's appropriate to tell him all about it.
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- Part 1 of The Consequences (of our Actions)
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11 Dec 2024
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Backseat Serenade by bleedingballroomfloor
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
03 Oct 2023
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"You seriously don't remember?"
"Alex, for the life of me, I do not."
Alex's face splits into a devilish grin. "Oh, baby." His voice is absolutely sultry. "All I'm hearing is that I gotta make you remember."
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11 Dec 2024
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Summer Abroad by mosscoveredfae
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)
16 Nov 2024
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Alex is a college student, and Henry? Henry is lonely and has more money than he knows what to do with. A vacation sounds nice to Alex, as does having a huge chunk of his tuition paid for. There's a very natural outcome for this- Henry pays Alex to spend the summer with him.
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Sugar Baby Alex
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As always, Chloe, Aga, Leika, Alex, M, Mads, as always, thank you for listening to me ramble and screaming with me.Bookmarked by Insteadofsleeping
08 Dec 2024
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“One more thing you should know,” Pez adds as Henry takes the invitation from him. “June Claremont-Diaz is coming.”
Henry freezes.
June Claremont-Diaz isn’t the problem. She’s a lovely girl, and her articles about their shelter openings have always been kind. Pez has invited her to each fundraiser since the Los Angeles shelters’ opening, and she’s attended every single one, happy to participate in the theme if she can get a good article out of it.
No, the problem isn’t June Claremont-Diaz. The problem is her brother.
Or, Henry and Pez’s new shelter is opening in Brooklyn, and Henry is determined to spend the entire night avoiding Alex, while Alex is determined to do the exact opposite of that.
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06 Dec 2024
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Keep it Casual by meevees
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)
20 Oct 2024
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Alex, feeling bereft and unlovable after a rejection, decides to forgo romance and become a sugar baby.
Enter Henry Fox: president of a publishing house, incredibly sexy, and incredibly rich. He's perfect. Too perfect. Alex should have known he wouldn't be able to keep it casual.
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03 Dec 2024
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and i know now that i'm so down by dreakawa
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)
21 Jun 2024
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“So, Alex! You’ve been rather open about your bisexuality and coming to terms with that part of you. I have to ask, what was the final catalyst for realizing that?”
“Yeah, I mean, It was something that, like… I think I always knew about myself, you know? I just didn’t realize it until I saw Henry Fox’s music video for The Lake Scene. Seeing him come out of that lake… I mean, come on.”
OR: When Alex accidentally mentions that singer Henry Fox was his bisexual awakening, Henry decides to feed into the internet's excitement by casting Alex in his new music video. Sparks fly.
(Based off of a twitter prompt.)
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- Part 19 of FirstPrince
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03 Dec 2024
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Promises, Promises. by Bugs_are_cool
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)
16 Sep 2023
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“I’m sorry,” he breathes again.
The corner of Henry’s mouth does the thing it does. His walls are back up.
“Sorry doesn’t cut it,” he mutters, before turning on his heel and marching down the hall.
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Alex has never felt so horrible. And 3 days is a long time.Bookmarked by Insteadofsleeping
03 Dec 2024
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take me out, take me home (forever and ever) by theprinceandagcd
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)
31 Dec 2023
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"So, he’s back in his old bedroom as an overnight guest on December 31st, with his and Henry’s suitcases open on the couch while they get ready. It’s strange to be here, in this room that he spent just under five years in, staying in it like it’s a hotel room instead, as if he didn’t call this space home for nearly a fifth of his life.
It isn’t anymore – home feels different to Alex now. Less like a place. More like a person."
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Two years after the first time that Henry kissed him, Alex gets one more New Year's Party at the White House.100% Fluff, Happy New Year!
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02 Dec 2024
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I don't wanna dance, if I'm not dancing with you by theprinceandagcd
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)
04 Sep 2023
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"You want me at a ball?"
"I want you with me as often as possible," Henry says, immediately, as if it's obvious. Maybe it is. "But yes, it would be nice to have you there. I'm not necessarily actively trying to anger my grandmother, which you being there might, but... Well, she hasn't exactly extended an invitation but I have just as much right as anyone to bring a date and--"
"Baby." Henry's rambling stops short on what nearly sounds like a gasp, and Alex grins to himself. Sometimes, his boyfriend is too easy. "Do you want me there?"
"Yes."
"Then I'll be there."
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or, Henry wants Alex at a ball and Alex is anxious about it.Bookmarked by Insteadofsleeping
02 Dec 2024
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we're always going to be okay by bakedcarroot
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)
24 May 2023
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Alex misses another date with Henry after getting caught up at work. Argument ensues, so does a panic attack, lots of comfort and communication.
panic attacks, mention of divorce, abandonment issues, etc.
---what better way to project your feelings than through putting it on your favorite characters?
alex and henry >>>>
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02 Dec 2024
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deep in the dreaming of you by ninzied
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)
19 May 2024
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Alex isn’t sleeping after a recent breakup. Henry tries to be the supportive best friend, because he knows all too well what it’s like to lose sleep over pining for someone.
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Or, Alex is pining. Henry is just very wrong about whom.
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02 Dec 2024
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secrets, secrets are no fun, unless you share with everyone by winterpine
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)
29 Mar 2024
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Henry clicks on the first and is flooded with content. Photo after photo of Alex standing on a roof, in front of a white background, prone suggestively across a small couch. Some in black and white and others in full color. In just briefs, wearing dark-wash jeans, in the midst of undressing, playing with the cut of his muscle tank, leaning down to tie his shoe, and even toying with the button of the denim. Henry salivates.
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or, Henry is a professor and loses his mind when Alex does a Calvin Klein photoshoot
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02 Dec 2024
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can this be a real thing (can it?) by theprinceandagcd
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)
31 Jan 2024
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June huffs. “And I suggested that he does go, and take a date.”
Something uncomfortable gets stuck underneath Alex’s rib cage on his next breath. “It would piss them off,” he muses, staring at the furrow in Henry's brow and wishing he could smooth it away with his thumb. His fingers twitch, and he shoves his hand into his lap.
Henry is almost pouting. “Ah, yes. Let me select from the many suitors banging down my door.”
“Take me.”
It takes Alex a full second to realize that he’s the one who has spoken, and now everyone at the table is staring at him with slightly agape mouths.
Including Henry.
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02 Dec 2024
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someday by rizcriz
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)
25 Sep 2023
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“Where are you going?”
Henry freezes where he’s standing over his overnight bag, fingers still clasped around the tug on the zipper. His eyes slide closed of their own accord, dread pooling low in his gut. This was not how this was supposed to go. Alex is a deep sleeper, he should’ve been out the door and on a plane back to London long before he ever woke up. Not just for Henry’s sake, but for both of theirs.
This was not a conversation Henry wanted to have.
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Or, Alex wakes up before Henry can sneak out.
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02 Dec 2024
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flatline by rizcriz
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)
18 Oct 2023
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Alex gets the call at 7:57am.
It’s from an unknown number, so he answers it with an accent on his tongue and laughter in his throat, ready to troll the scammer for all they’re worth. But the voice on the other side of the line is serious, solemn, when she asks, “Is this, I apologize, all I’ve been given are initials, AGCD?”
He frowns, turning away from the coffee shop he’d been about to enter. “Who’s asking?”
There’s a moment of hesitation on the other end. “There’s been an incident. On the individual's phone, there’s a sticker. It says, if found, return to AGCD, alongside this phone number. Does it sound familiar?”
Alex freezes in the middle of the sidewalk. “What kind of incident?”
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Or, Henry's been in an accident.
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01 Dec 2024