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• Home is the Boy with the Coffee Eyes by Rompeculos4000

  Fandoms: The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch (2019)  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • M/M
  • Work in Progress

  30 Aug 2026

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Theodore Decker/Boris Pavlikovsky
  • Theodore Decker & Pippa
  • Theodore Decker & James "Hobie" Hobart
  • Kotku & Boris Pavlikovsly
  • Theodore Decker
  • Boris Pavlikovsky
  • James "Hobie" Hobart
  • Pippa (The Goldfinch)
  • Kotku (The Goldfinch)
  • Mr. Pavlikovsky (The Goldfinch) (mentioned)
  • Xandra (The Goldfinch) (mentioned)
  • Larry Decker (Mentioned)
  • Popchyk (The Goldfinch)
  • Alternate Universe - Different First Meeting
  • Alternate Universe - Coffee Shops & Cafés
  • Theo's dad doesn't die (ig for now idk)
  • Running Away
  • Stalker Theodore Decker
  • Oblivious Boris Pavlikovsky
  • Theodore Decker Loves Boris Pavlikovsky
  • Boris Pavlikovsky Loves Theodore Decker
  • eventually
  • kind of slow burn
  • (it depends on the length of the fic)
  • Tags Are Hard
  • English Is Not the Author's First Language
  • This is the author's first work
  • im sorry
  • Happy Ending
  • Comical(? ending
  • Fluff and Angst
  • Fluff and Hurt/Comfort
  • Boris is 19 and Theo is 18
  • POV Theodore Decker
  • mostly - Freeform
  • i love popchyk
  • Popchyk is the GOAT
  • how are those not a tag??
  • Tags may be added eventually
  • Boris seems like he's flirting (and he is he just doesn't notice himself)

  Summary

  Theodore Decker runs away to finally go home. He finally feels happy, and that increases significantly when he meets a boy who works in a coffee shop. And he may or may not start following him everywhere, even if the other boy doesn't know.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  3,143

  Chapters:

  2/?

  Comments:

  3

  Kudos:

  3

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