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“Whoa, whoa, not so fast, you two,” Lockwood’s voice carried over from across the room.
“What?” Lucy asked, turning back with genuine curiosity.
“Aren’t you forgetting something?” Lockwood grinned and pointed above their heads. George followed his direction and saw the mistletoe hanging in the doorway above them.
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Or: five times cot4 kissed under the mistletoe, and one time they dropped the pretense.
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“Lucy?” Lockwood shook her by the shoulder, bringing her back to the present. To the horde of alien zombie frat boys making their way into the house. “You ok?”
“Here,” George shrugged the tank for the flamethrower off of his back and held it out for Lucy to put on. “Take this. You’ll feel better.”
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not so lone wolf by TenuousnessLess7
Fandoms: Lockwood & Co. (TV), Lockwood & Co. - Jonathan Stroud
07 Oct 2025
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Lucy and Lockwood exchanged a look, still unsure of exactly what Kipps was confessing. “Bite?” Lucy asked. “You mean you…oh my God, Quill, are you a -“ her voice fell away, as though she felt it impolite to continue.
“The preferred term is ‘lycanthrope’,” George finished for her, and Kipps sighed as though the weight of George’s many reference books on cryptozoology held him down.
Quill Kipps was a werewolf.
And tonight was a full moon.
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“Not that I’m complaining,” he murmured against George’s skin, “but you couldn’t give a man a little notice? I’m in the middle of something.”
George started, pulling back enough to see Kipps’ face. “What are you in the middle of?” He asked.
“Lunch.”
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George goes to Kipps' apartment to pick up where they left off. He gets a bit more than he expected.
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- Part 2 of backhanded love song
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“I was complimenting you, George,” Lockwood chuckled, an unfamiliar grin on his face - too sharp, too biting.
George knew what Lockwood’s compliments felt like. He gave them freely enough, and they always filled George’s chest with a sort of fluttering pride. This felt…different. Like back when he was still in school, and he would spot the other boys across the yard, laughing with each other, their glances cutting over to him. He knew he was the butt of the joke, even if he didn’t understand why.
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Lockwood comes home from a job, and something is wrong.
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Lucy Carlyle did not survive Wythburn Mill. Not really.
Oh, the newspaper articles had referred to her as the sole survivor. Those were the exact words. “Sole Survivor afflicted with Vampirism.” Afflicted. That was the customary term, and Lucy hadn’t realized just how inadequate it sounded until she’d been turned, herself. Until she’d felt every nerve on fire, like her body had been flayed apart, bit by bit, pushed to the brink of death before being stitched back together, sutures over an ill-fitting skin, trapping a monster inside.
...Or: a Vampire!Lucy AU
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George grunted in acknowledgment, already turned back to his books. His eyes had been bloodshot and tired when he’d looked up, and Kipps’ back hurt just to see his posture in that chair. Lockwood and Lucy probably thought they were giving him an evening off to get some rest. Kipps shook his head - they really should’ve known better.
“Don’t take this the wrong way, but you look like shit,” Kipps told him.
“What exactly is the right way to take that?” George asked, eyes still glued to the notebook he was scribbling in.
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- Part 1 of backhanded love song
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“I could help you with that, too.”
George held his body rigid. Lockwood couldn’t be offering what he thought he was offering.
“What?” George practically squeaked.
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- Part 1 of Georgewood FWB
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“Sure. Maybe.” Again, despite his lack of shoulders, George could swear Skull shrugged. He clearly didn’t find the subject as fascinating as George did. “But who cares about that. I’ve got much more important matters to discuss with you.”
That was surprising. Did Skull have some message from beyond? Some vital piece of information about The Problem? “Like…?” George prompted.
“Like, why you three are still playing hand-hold like you’re all in primary school when you could be doing something about all the unbearable sexual tension in this house.”
“Skull!” Lucy reprimanded.
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George has a theory. Skull has had enough.
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- Part 2 of if the fates allow
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Ever since one Lucy Carlyle had entered their lives, they’d needed to blow off steam a little more frequently. George almost wanted to be offended that Lockwood was clearly using him as a proxy for his attraction to their Listener. Unfortunately, it would be a bit hypocritical of him.
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- Part 2 of Georgewood FWB
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“What do you think you’re doing?” George asked.
“I’m just helping Lucy see your form more easily,” Lockwood explained as he lifted the shirt up and off.
“She could see my form just fine.”
“No, he’s right, it’s much better this way,” Lucy grinned as they both moved into Warrior Two.
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When Lucy wakes in a room she doesn't recognize, sleeping next to Norrie, she assumes she's dreaming.
But the longer she stays in this place, the more real it feels.
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But, they’d kissed last night. They’d kissed a lot last night. Hadn’t they? In the bright light of day, the night before felt strangely like a dream, and Lockwood found himself growing more and more unsure. Between falling into a frozen lake and watching his best mates crawl into bed with him in little more than their underwear, the whole thing had felt so surreal. Maybe it hadn’t really happened? No, it had. Hadn’t it?
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- Part 2 of steam heat
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“Are you hustling me?” George asked.
“What?” Lucy said absently, counting her winnings.
“Oh, I don’t know how to play poker, you’ll have to teach me.” George recited in a high pitched voice that even he had to admit sounded nothing like Lucy, but that wasn’t the point. “There’s no way you haven’t played this before.”
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Not to sound arrogant, but Lockwood wasn’t used to people not liking him. With the exception of a few stubbornly by-the-book authority figures, he was usually quite adept at winning people over. But ever since George had agreed to be Lockwood & Co’s first and only employee, Lockwood had struggled to get the other boy to warm up to him. He’d done his best, turned his charm up to eleven, but he was only ever met with blankly inscrutable looks and minimal, laconic conversation.
So seeing George examine his old, disused stove with the excitement of a kid on Christmas morning was a very welcome sight.
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“What do you mean the haunting only occurs on Christmas Eve?” George had asked when Lockwood brought the job to them.
“Exactly that,” Lockwood explained, “364 days a year, it’s an unassuming, if abandoned, Victorian mansion. Christmas Eve is the only time the ghosts materialize. It apparently took decades and several different owners for someone to realize the pattern.”
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- Part 1 of if the fates allow
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“I dare you…” Lucy looked at him and her eyes sparkled with mischeif, “to let me spring your curls.”
“What?” George laughed, “What does that mean?”
“You know,” Lucy shuffled closer and reached a hand up to George’s hair. She pulled one lock straight down, in front of his eyes, then released it to watch it bounce back into shape, “Spring!” She narrated the movement.
George chuckled softly and felt his cheeks heat. Hoping it wasn’t noticeable, he said, “How many ciders have you had?”
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when you wake up, another sunrise by TenuousnessLess7
Fandoms: Lockwood & Co. (TV), Lockwood & Co. - Jonathan Stroud
07 Nov 2023
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“Lucy,” Lockwood called. Lucy turned to see him facing the center of the room, rapier held aloft. And Norrie was right in front of him.
Not Norrie. The Fetch.
“You must be the knight in shining armor,” the Fetch said, “I’ve heard all about you.” She turned, and Lucy’s breath caught in her throat. “Haven’t I, Lucy?”
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The Cat Distribution System by TenuousnessLess7
Fandoms: Lockwood & Co. (TV), Lockwood & Co. - Jonathan Stroud
28 Oct 2023
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“Hey, what does Skull think about this?” George asked, waving at the cat currently purring up a storm on his kitchen table.
“What do you mean?” Lucy questioned, eyes still on the Thinking Cloth before her.
“Is he upset that you’ve got a new pet?”
Lucy closed her eyes and George saw the skull move like a tornado of plasm in his jar. The cat shot up into the air like it was on a trampoline, hissed, and ran from the room. Lucy got up, walked over to Skull and shut the jar’s valve.
“You did that on purpose.”
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“Lucy, what-” he tried to create some distance as she kept moving toward him, and found himself backed into the wall. Lucy cradled his face and he saw her eyes, pupils blown wide as she looked at his lips. She moved in to kiss him, but he turned his head at the last second, and she redirected to his throat, mouth hot and open. He sucked in a breath but moved his hands between them, getting just enough space between them to see her face.