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Testament to Time by melfires
Fandoms: The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone (TV)
21 Aug 2022
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"I'm not going to kill you, Mal. I don't need to. Time will do it for me"
“All right."
She did little to hide her shock. “What?”
“You can go, Alina.” She narrowed her eyes and opened her mouth but he cut her off before she could spew whatever distrustful comments she had planned. “You and the tracker can go and live out your merry little lives. Have your 50 years, maybe even 70 if you’re lucky, and when your fantasy crumbles around you, you will see that only you and I remain. You will return to my waiting arms.”
OR: The Darkling decides that letting Alina and Mal go is a better plan in the long run. He's gonna die anyway ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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- English
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- 71,544
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- 9/9
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29 Jun 2021
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to hold my name on your tongue by cactusfinch
Fandoms: Shadow and Bone (TV), The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo
30 Aug 2021
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“He’s had many names, served many kings, faked countless deaths, waiting for you. Pyotr Kirigan is just the latest in a long line of aliases.”
On the night of the Winter Fete Baghra brings Alina's world crashing down. But, armed with a single truth in a web of lies, Alina asks a few more questions and gains a few more answers. She knows that Mal is depending on her, that all of Ravka is, and so she begins to weave a web of her own. But where does the truth end and the lie begin?
Or: Alina takes a different path, and she drags all of Ravka with her.Series
- Part 1 of to hold my name on your tongue
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- English
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- 80,488
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- 13/13
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- 6
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- 388
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04 Jun 2021
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Alina Starkov expected to wake up on a ship sailing across the True Sea, one that would take her far from Ravka, far from the Darkling and his mad crusade. Instead, she awoke in Os Alta to a devastating truth: the war was won nearly a century ago, her first love was dead, and she remembered nothing.
Not even that, as part of her surrender, she agreed to a political marriage.
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- 125,600
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- 354
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28 May 2021
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Not Alone by Mercenary
Fandoms: The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone (TV)
16 Oct 2021
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General Kirigan unintentionally romances Alina simply by showing a few soft gestures. It made his intentional romancing a whole lot easier.
A drabble series where The Darkling already has Alina's heart by the Winter Fete.
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26 May 2021
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23 May 2021
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It Being Late, You'd Like Some Company by DoorKeeper9
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Sequel Trilogy
09 Jul 2020
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Rey is trying and failing to live off of an Americorps stipend in NYC, so she’s forced to take a second job off the books at a First Order fast food joint. Ben Solo is the icy manager who happens to own the whole building and live above the restaurant. Rey needs a place to crash and Ben needs to keep his secrets, but both things might not be possible with Snoke running the show.
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- English
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- 109,940
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- 22/?
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15 Feb 2021
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Bird and Bayonet by DoorKeeper9
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Sequel Trilogy
14 Oct 2023
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Rey’s first secret is that “he” is a she. Rey’s second secret is that the bloodthirsty captain she serves, Kylo Ren, is less hateful to her than she wants to admit. Especially since they’ve started sharing a tent.
American Civil War AU with Union main characters. Features two violent people carving a soft space for themselves in the midst of a bloodbath.
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- English
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- 146,596
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- 20/33
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- 2,845
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10 Jan 2021
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Rey is a foundling with no prospects and an affinity for unusual creatures. When she hears the Solos are seeking a wife for their reclusive son, she agrees to marry him on the basis she'll have a real home for the first time in her life, and access to their extensive fortune. Yet when Rey travels to their rural estate, Ben Solo is not what she expects - and their house contains darker secrets still.
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24 Dec 2020
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His hair is unspun silk.
Thick waves of black sea Rey wants to get lost in. It's not a desire that comes frequently.
Celebrities can be spoiled and demanding, and Kylo Ren is as mercurial as one can get. But he sits obediently under her fingertips. Pliant. She wonders if there’s a hidden part of him that could be as supple as his tresses.
Hair reflects the personality, after all.
"Ready, sir," she says, combing a last strand into place with shaky fingers. Time is up and the Oscars await.
His dark eyes meet hers in the mirror.
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- English
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- 84,157
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- 15/15
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19 Aug 2020
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Just a Moment by GrotesqueEnchantment
Fandoms: Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, Star Wars - All Media Types
12 Jan 2020
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“I took your hand,” She grits her teeth, bares them and hisses. “Because I was a fool girl who wanted to love you. Even if just for a moment.”
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12 Jan 2020
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The Empires control grows stronger with each passing year. The decline of births led the established government to breakdown, and adopt the regime to keep chaos at bay. Soulmates are born with a distinguished birthmark. For women the mark is a curse. Once matched to their soulmate, they become his property. Rey a skilled cardiologist has gone to great lengths to make sure her life isn't controlled by anyone. Everything changes when one of her patient's happens to be the father of Supreme Leader, Kylo Ren. How do you escape a man whose army is everywhere?
Rey only knows she'll have to try.
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- English
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09 Jan 2020
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i could have been wild and i could have been free (but nature played this trick on me) by fiddlersvoid
Fandoms: Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, Star Wars - All Media Types
19 Feb 2020
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“Did you know that I did not even learn your name until yesterday, when I married you?”
His face flushed a darker red than it had at breakfast, and he attempted to defend himself with incompetent stammering, “I—I regret that. The situation, of course, would have been,” he wrung his hands together and stared at her feet, “It would have been preferable if we had known one another more. On several occasions, I did attempt to make myself known to you, but you seemed to have other preoccupations.”
Rey could feel her face contorting into a sneer to spit out her barbed words, “Perhaps that was your cue not to marry me!”
Or: Ben falls in love at first insult.
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- English
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- 61,439
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- 13/13
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06 Jan 2020
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a duel of destinies by ObviouslyAnonymous
Fandoms: Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, Star Wars - All Media Types
02 Dec 2020
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“Where am I?” she asks, looking around the room and not seeing anything familiar. The forest on Takodana is gone. She’s on a First Order ship, or one of their bases, or even back on Exegol, in a room she doesn’t recognize. Trapped.
“Does it matter? You’re my guest.”
She looks down at the restraints and manages to muster some bravado that she definitely doesn’t feel. “If this is how you treat your guests, I think we have some work to do before we can have anyone over for dinner, husband.”
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Rey was raised a Palpatine, granddaughter of the great Darth Sidious. And to his endless disappointment, Rey appeared all her childhood to be weak in the force. After a Force vision, the Emperor promises Rey's hand to a darksider named Kylo Ren. But all carefully laid plans are seemingly thrown to the wind when Rey escapes Exegol and flees to Jakku. Rewrite of the sequel trilogy.
** REWRITE CURRENTLY IN PROGRESS, RELEASING Q1 OF 2021 **
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- English
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- 45,684
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- 19/19
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- 263
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- 736
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04 Jan 2020
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i’m winning so they had to dump the gatorade (i don't give a f*ck about my family name) by dankobah
Fandoms: Star Wars Sequel Trilogy
30 Sep 2020
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“I’d rather have sixteen teeth pulled than marry you.”
Her cheeks flame as if she’s been slapped. Before she can think, “I can arrange that. Or my fist can. Take your pick.” Forcibly setting her shoulders, Ben’s imposing all by accounts but she’s ready to verbally uppercut him in the throat.
“I’ve never been known to babysit. Especially brats like you.”
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- Part 1 of GLU (Gatorade Literary Universe)
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26 Dec 2019
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Rey Niima has a one-in-a-billion secret. If found out, she'll become the target of religious fanatics and political reactionaries the world over. If they catch her, she'll lose everything, including her career, her freedom, perhaps even her mind. So, she pretends to be a normal, if highly unusual Omega, using her unique talents as an endurance athlete and automotive engineer to make a life for herself and craft a meaningful future.
Ben Solo is finally, finally free of his past. Still young, still a highly dominant Alpha in an Alpha's world, he has enough money from selling his startup to start a new life in Boulder, Colorado, safe from his mistakes, safe from his family, and safe even from Snoke. All he wants now is to be happy and share his life with the right Omega.
It's too bad Ben's past is coming for him. It's too bad his past is coming for Rey.
Completely written. Updates Wednesdays and Sundays.- Language:
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25 Dec 2019
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each one is a burning sun by jeeno2 for walkingsaladshooter, crossingwinter, Yours_Truly_Commander_Shepard
Fandoms: Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, Star Wars - All Media Types
06 Jan 2020
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Ben’s voice is clear and bright in a way voices never are in dreams. His voice is real, it is alive. It is his. He stands there, rooted to the spot, stunned, staring at her like he can’t believe she is real. Like he never wants to stop looking at her.
She thinks she knows the feeling.
(Or: Ben comes back to her.)
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- Part 1 of TRoS Fix-Its
- Language:
- English
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- 11,484
- Chapters:
- 6/6
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- 2
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- 610
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- 3,988
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- 777
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23 Dec 2019
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Laid Between Words by jeeno2
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Sequel Trilogy
22 May 2020
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“It wouldn’t be a real marriage, obviously,” Ben clarifies, as though that’s an important point that might not have occurred to her. “Though we’d have to live together, obviously. And I’m sure there are a lot of other things we’ll have to do to convince people.”
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(Or: Rey is nearing the end of her temporary work Visa. Her friend Ben offers to marry her so she can stay in the U.S. She says yes.)
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- Part 3 of Reylo Multichapters
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 58,410
- Chapters:
- 15/15
- Collections:
- 4
- Comments:
- 2,718
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- 5,870
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07 Nov 2019
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Stop Loving Fire by fear_of_being_bitten
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Sequel Trilogy
06 Dec 2019
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READ THE TAGS- DARK!The Scavenger had shut him out of their bond since Crait, but Kylo still felt her. Her heartbeat haunted him like a ghost.
He finally had her in his grasp on Pasana. Her weight in his arms was more satisfying than claiming the throne. There’s no escape where they’re going. This time she won't tell him no.
____________Ben Solo will be redeemed in canon. He will choose the light. This is a dark fantasy that asks “but what if he didn’t?”
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02 Nov 2019
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31 Oct 2019
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Frankenstein AU. Kylo Ren was born on the night Ben Solo died, a monster made from a dead man's remains at the hands of the mad Dr. Snoke. Though his short life has been cruel, he has found a reprieve in watching the world from a distance.
Rey Johnson has spent her life struggling and picking pockets, living one moment to the next, hoping that she might just catch a break. When a mysterious American rolls into town looking for his long lost son, she's sure that she's found her break. That is, until the American turns up dead and his son-- a doctor in training-- seems to be the likely suspect.
As Rey tries to outrun her past, fate has tethered her to the unnatural Kylo Ren. For better or for worse.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 12,863
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- 3/8
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30 Sep 2019