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“Will I see you around, Madeline?” Wally calls after her.
“I don’t know, maybe?” She whirls back around to stop the door from fully closing. “It’s actually Madison, if you care.” She doesn’t know why he would, but she wants him to know her correct full name. For some reason.
He grins, as if they’re both in on a joke. “Right, Madison. And I’m Jeff, short for Jefferson.”
She squints. “Huh?”
Wally backpedals, flustered. “Sorry, I thought you were joking around, ‘cause Madison is like, a last name.”
This is really throwing her for one final loop. “Well… it’s my first name.”
“Oh. Rad. Respect. Never heard of that before.”
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Maddie Nears, class of '24, meets Wally Clark, class of '84.
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10 Oct 2025
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Maddie loved horror movies, until her life became one. Now all she wanted to do was keep her best friends safe and get the hell out of Wisconsin. The universe, as usual, had different plans.
AKA Maddie and Wally and the zombie apocalypse.
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06 Oct 2025
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Quantum Superposition describes the possibility that opposing realities can be simultaneously true. Simon is living, but trapped amongst the dead. Can the Split River ghosts affect the nature of the scars and recreate the accident that trapped him in the first place?
Meanwhile, Maddie attempts to pick up the pieces of her fractured life while clinging to her afterlife connections. However, moving forward is nearly impossible without first letting go.
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03 Oct 2025
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After a small argument, Maddie and Wally start ignoring each other, driving Charley and Rhonda crazy with their obvious but unspoken feelings. Mr. Martin steps in with a special assignment, forcing them to confront what they’ve been avoiding. Tension builds, emotions explode, and when words fail, actions take over—leading to a long-overdue moment that changes everything.
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24 Sep 2025
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Very AU and yet very canon, I know it sounds weird but you’ll see. It’s mostly Mr. Martin and the ghosts being trapped that’s the AU. Another AU is that Maddie, Simon, Nicole, Claire, Xavier, etc are juniors in high school.
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22 Sep 2025
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This story is a time jump after the ending of season 2.
Maddie lost Wally when she got her life back. Everyday it haunts her, and one day, she swears she sees Wally at a bar in New York. Or is that just him haunting her like he has all these years.
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21 Sep 2025
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“What the hell are you doing, Walter?” Rhonda yells at him once she shakes off her shock, stomping across the hashmarks of the field until she reaches the big idiot.
Charlie, always a little softer in his delivery, elects to address the obvious. “Your door, Wally. You can move on.”
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Wally Clark has two options in front of him, walk back off the field or walk through his door. Frankly he's pissed about both.
What if there's a third?
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21 Sep 2025
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Uh,” he said, pausing in the doorway. “Is this Pre-Calc?”
Only one other person was in the room — a girl, sitting at a desk in the back corner, casually flipping through a worn paperback and sipping what looked suspiciously like cold coffee from a water bottle.
“Nope,” she said, not even looking up. “This is a classroom with the lights off and no teacher in sight. Try again.”
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21 Sep 2025
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a blade of grass, a grain of sand, the moonlit sea, to hold your hand by 8ethespider8itch
Fandoms: School Spirits (TV)
08 Oct 2025
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Hit or miss, that is the question.
Another take on the end of S2E8 - as a jumping off point for a long-form fic.Bookmarked by howthoughtful
21 Sep 2025
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By the time Wally Clark gets to high school, he has all but given up on the possibility of having a soulmate. He had never gotten a single bruise that didn't belong to him unlike everyone else in his life. But then he died, and 32 years later the universe finally decided that he did have a perfect match out there actually- one that he would never get the chance to meet. Or so he thought. Aka a Mally soulmate AU that has been rattling around my brain.
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21 Sep 2025
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Alternate version of my other story
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20 Sep 2025
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When Wally types Ready for Homecoming? in the chat box, Maddie's initial reaction is a twinge of irritation. She's certain his next question will be if she minds finishing up their lab report by herself.
Are you? she types back.
Kinda? I was so focused on the game part that I forgot about the dance part lol. I don’t have a date.
Well, he'd better find one. It'll be super awkward if he wins Homecoming King and has to do the spotlight dance alone, and she tells him so.
He takes a long time to respond. Then, Want to come with me? If you don’t have plans
Maddie stares at her computer screen in disbelief. She’s not sure which part is crazier: that Wally Clark just asked her out, or that he did it via a shared Google document.
-----------------Maddie's plan for senior year is simple: keep her head down, her grades up, and focus on getting the hell out of Split River.
Making new friends isn't part of it. Neither is trying new things. Wally Clark- star athlete, most popular boy in school, and now Maddie's lab partner- definitely isn't part of her plan, but she's learning that in both life and science, there are always a few unexpected variables.
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20 Sep 2025
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Who knew that it would take Maddie dying to feel the most alive she's ever felt?
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19 Sep 2025
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AU- everyone is alive and in school at the same time. Wally is the football star, jock, most popular guy in school. Claire is cheer captain. Everything else is more or less the same. Xavier cheats on Maddie with Claire, but Wally catches them. Nicole overhears a conversation between Wally and Charley and comes up with a plan for revenge.
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18 Sep 2025
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“I read once that when Guillermo del Toro was a kid, he saw The Creature from the Black Lagoon, and he wanted the Gill-man and Kay to be together.”
He frowns. “I’ve never . . .”
“They don’t end up together. Gill-man and Kay. They’re not supposed to. So, Guillermo del Toro, when he grew up, he wrote a movie of his own, The Shape of Water, and in his movie, his version of Gill-man and his version of Kay, they live happily ever after.”
“Maddie.”
“I’m not just gonna walk away,” she says.
post-season 2. Maddie isn't ready to move on.
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17 Sep 2025
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Maddie (standoffish and not a joiner) and Wally (widely adored football star) agree to pretend to date in the week leading up to homecoming to teach Maddie's overbearing friends a lesson and help Wally appear off the market to his very dedicated admirers.
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- Part 1 of Wally Clark, Dream Boy
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16 Sep 2025
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All These Butterflies Make Me Sick by HadABreakdownBonAppetit
Fandoms: School Spirits (TV)
29 May 2025
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“Look, Maddie, I’ll be honest here.” They’re at a red light now, and Wally takes the opportunity to turn toward her. “I was fishing when I asked if you had a date for the dance, because I was selfishly hoping the answer was no.”
"Wait what? Why were you hoping the answer was no?”
He cocks his head a little, like he can’t believe she hasn’t pieced it together yet. “I was going to ask you myself.”
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Or: an AU where Maddie and Wally are both alive and they go to homecoming together.
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10 Sep 2025
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jumping in the deep end (it’s more fun to swim in) by blehmehehhehneh
Fandoms: School Spirits (TV)
03 Aug 2025
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Maddie Nears is missing, Wally Clark is alive, and somebody’s gotta let Janet out of the fallout shelter.
Or: Janet doesn’t steal Maddie’s body, but she goes missing anyways.
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08 Sep 2025
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She glances up from writing the author’s purpose in Ode to a Nightingale to see that Wally isn’t circling the examples of auditory, visual, and tactile imagery in the poem like she'd told him to.
He is staring at her.
“What?” she asks.
“Are you coming to the game tonight?”
She raises her eyebrows. But he doesn’t bat an eye, waiting on her expectantly, like he really doesn’t know what her answer will be. She huffs. “Football isn’t really my thing,” she says.
“You don’t want to support me on the field?” he asks, with big, puppy dog eyes.
“I think you get plenty of support on the field.”
AU. Maddie Nears, class of '84.
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07 Sep 2025
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Buffy agrees to donate some of her blood to heal Spike's paralyzed legs, and Spike vows to take Dru out of the country and she'll never hear of them again. So why is it that now he's gone, Buffy can't get him out of her head?
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31 Mar 2025