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Henry Fox never expected to have children. As the black—or rainbow—sheep of the family, he accepted that long ago. But tragedy takes the lives of his brother and sister-in-law. Suddenly, Henry finds himself the guardian of his precocious little niece, turning his life upside down!
Alex Claremont-Diaz is just fine, thank you very much. Freshly graduated from NYU Law, he’s ready to kick off his career.
One day, he runs into a handsome man with his little girl.
Sometimes we have to find each other before we can find ourselves.
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- Part 1 of Family Matters
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27 Jan 2026
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If I Loved You Less by therogueskimo
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)
13 Dec 2025
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“What, may I ask, are you doing in here?”
“I’m … setting up my office?”
“I don’t think so. This is my office. Has been for the last several years. I don’t share an office.”
“Oh … maybe I have the wrong one? ... No, no, it says right here. I’m supposed to share an office with Professor Henry Fox. That is you, isn’t it? I think it’s safe to assume you weren’t lying about your name or anything.”
Henry didn’t dignify that with an answer. He instead opened his laptop, navigating to his email. Surely he couldn’t have been so neglectful that he’d missed an email from the head of the department.
But there it was, at the top of his inbox, sent late last night. So it wasn’t some insane mistake, then. What had once been his safe haven away from home was now about to be infiltrated by some overly excitable newbie who probably spent his spare time writing sports romance or fantasy nonsense. And he’d thought this day couldn’t get any worse.
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Henry and Alex are both professors in the English department at NYU. They don’t like each other much.
Until they do.
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20 Jan 2026
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To The God He Loved but Who Forgot by CrownedInLove
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
08 Jan 2026
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“My ring,” Alex whispered, fingers trembling as they brushed the familiar band. “Gods, I remember… I wore it like it was part of me.”
Henry sat up slightly, propped on one elbow, and gently took the ring from Alex’s hand. His eyes were wet, though no tears had fallen yet.
“Only for a brief moment..” Henry admitted. “But you were my husband. Are my husband. Through all of it..”
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Alex, God of desire, sex, and shameless charm, has spent centuries teasing and tormenting Henry—the solemn, impossible God of Death he refuses to take seriously.
But when Phillip, the new ruler of Olympus after Arthur’s fall, banishes Alex to the Underworld, Alex finds himself in a realm he doesn’t recognize… yet somehow feels threaded beneath his skin.
What Alex doesn’t remember is the truth Phillip stole.
He was never just a visitor here.
He lived here.
Loved here.
Belonged—to Henry.Now, stripped of every memory of the man he had vowed forever to, Alex is haunted by dreams—hands he’s never held, kisses he’s never tasted, and a voice whispering his name like a prayer.
And Henry?
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13 Jan 2026
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Let's Take This Offline by jafffacakes for DezInTheCloud
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
19 Nov 2025
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5+1 rival co-workers
5 times Alex and Henry put a pin in it, and 1 time they circle back
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Henry claims it was an accident.
Not including someone in an email chain, when the someone is Alex and the email chain is the link and deadline for submitting your department’s budget request for the next financial year, that’s fucking sabotage.
So not only did Alex miss out on the chance to request an increase in budget, which he fucking needs because his team are working incredibly long hours and he needs to hire more people and also find some ways to streamline their processes, he actually lost budget. No new staff this year, no process simplification, just a team that’s overworked and underpaid and mad at Alex about it.
And, okay, Henry did send him a Teams message — so sorry Alex, it was an accident — the day the new budgets were shared and Alex realised he’d missed a cut-off he’d never been advised of. And that was it. Didn’t offer to give Alex part of his own budget, or to loan him an extra staff member to help out. Didn’t even find him in person to fucking talk it out.
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20 Dec 2025
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“Caramelton John, what the fuck, who named these?” the man laughs, his loud voice circling in Henry’s ears, low and rich.
Years of planning and ideas, months of blood, sweat and literal tears to set up shop in a foreign country, and hours of back breaking work to serve the community — for free — on their opening day, all for some ungrateful arse to make fun of him for it. Henry feels his jaw clench involuntarily, the tightness in his mouth matching the ache in his chest. He’s bone tired and frustrated and now he’s unspeakably angry.
Pez, who has saved Henry’s life in more ways than he can count, and who has not asked for a single thing all day, turns and says “Hen, dear, could you serve these last few for me?”
Henry inhales deeply through his nose, turns his back to the customers, before he looks Pez firmly in the eye and says with zero hesitation, “No.”
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Welcome to Pez & Henry's, the newest ice cream store in Austin.
A Ben & Jerry's AU. I hope you like puns.
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14 Oct 2025