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    Nile dreams of a man drowning, over and over and over.

    And—between every other curveball thrown her way in the last 72 hours—Nile realizes she has to draw the line somewhere between passively accepting it and doing something about it.

    (aka The Nicky is the one in the iron maiden au that won't stop haunting me - now complete!)

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    11 Aug 2025

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    Lawrence is considering the benefits of leaving the room to go throw up somewhere when Vincent finally speaks.

    “I wouldn’t call it a crush,” he says, his voice even and calm, brown eyes sparkling.

    Lawrence nods, slightly hysterical. “You wouldn’t?” He asks hopefully. Good, okay. Vincent agrees. All that’s here is friendship. Simple, easy, proper. Appropriate. Friendship.

    “No.” Vincent shakes his head and sets his teacup down. “I would say that I am in love with you.”

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    02 Jul 2025

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    The IFT Plaza security team wasn't what John would have called the brightest stars in the firmament. (Written for the tech support AU prompt.)

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    01 Jul 2025

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    When Thomas Lawrence came by the papal apartments that evening, he came, unsurprisingly, with a bundle of papers under his arm.

    Vincent tried on and discarded four separate teasing comments about it, but didn’t get to decide on one before Thomas silently handed them over, and he realized they were newspapers, opened and refolded over the weekly comics, his favorite. Three of them, one for each week he’d been away.

    Ah, he thought, with the feeling of a sudden hard deceleration in his chest, the press it put on his heart. Ah. All right then.

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    06 May 2025

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    Goffredo Tedesco is having one of his usual crisis of shame during the late hours of the night when he stumbles across a very drunk, very sad and very miserable Bellini. It feels like the answer to his prayers (in all the bad sense of the expression)

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    24 Apr 2025