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• and i keep my side of the street clean by agalleryofsuspects (inbetweenrealityandfantasy)

  Fandoms: Jo Gar Series - Ramon Decolta, Jo Gar, West of Guam: The Complete Cases of Jo Gar  

  • Not Rated
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Gen
  • Complete Work

  13 Aug 2023

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Jo Gar - Character
  • Sadi Ratan
  • Original Character(s)
  • The Magician Murder
  • The Magician Murder AU
  • Abuse of Authority
  • not-quite accurate depiction of legal processes in pre-Revised Penal Code era
  • mixed opinions on American-era occupation
  • it's set during the American occupation of the Philippines (duh!)
  • no beta we die like every murder victim of every Jo Gar story ever
  • sadi sounds more like a spurned lover fight me

  Summary

  “And you will be brought to trial for lying to me, a police officer!” Edilberto heard Lieutenant Ratan fiercely threaten Jo Gar.
  “‘Lying to me?’” he repeated the words mockingly as a greeting to the lieutenant. He closed the door behind him a little too strongly and raised a brow at the lieutenant. “Who the fuck do you think Jo Gar is, your wayward husband?”

  When a chat about the case of the murdered magician goes ugly, one of Jo Gar's longtime acquaintances walks up into the scene and chooses figurative violence against the lieutenant of the Manila Police Station who thinks he is right in accusing an innocent man of a murder he may not commit. Or "The Magician Murder" AU in which someone puts Sadi Ratan in his place.
  Title from Taylor Swift's "Karma".

  Language:

  English

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  Chapters:

  1/1

  Kudos:

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• you’ll try to pray (but the jury will decide) by agalleryofsuspects (inbetweenrealityandfantasy)

  Fandoms: Jo Gar, West of Guam: The Complete Cases of Jo Gar  

  • Not Rated
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Gen
  • Complete Work

  26 May 2023

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Jo Gar & Juan Arragon
  • Jo Gar - Character
  • Juan Arragon
  • Sadi Ratan
  • Jo Gar AU
  • Juan Survives AU
  • The Siamese Cat
  • The Siamese Cat AU
  • Implied/Referenced Character Death
  • Implied/Referenced Murder
  • Implied/Referenced Suicide
  • (which is not in the canon story)
  • Idiocy committed by a character towards another
  • Original Character(s)
  • no beta we die like every murder victim of every Jo Gar story ever
  • Juan is alive and well in this 'verse but also angry for Jo
  • Jo is shocked
  • Sadi is a clown
  • The cousin (OC) is so done

  Summary

  “What is it that is bothering you, Manong?”

  “Oh, if only you know, Magda,” he said.

  “Why? What the hell is going on?” Magda’s brows furrowed. “Is it Jo and Lieutenant What’s-His-Name?”

  Lt. Juan Arragon has had enough of Lt. Sadi Ratan’s bullshit, calls him out on it, and defends Jo Gar. Or, “The Siamese Cat” AU if Juan Arragon survives the Von Loffler Heist and tells off the clown of the Manila Police District.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

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  Chapters:

  1/1

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• i cast this spell (we can be so perfect) by agalleryofsuspects (inbetweenrealityandfantasy)

  Fandoms: Jo Gar, West of Guam: The Complete Cases of Jo Gar  

  • Mature
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • M/M
  • Complete Work

  30 Apr 2023

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Jo Gar/Sadi Ratan
  • Jo Gar - Character
  • Sadi Ratan
  • Wong Ling
  • Sidi Kalaa (flashback)
  • Original Character(s)
  • Period Typical Attitudes
  • Period-Typical Racism
  • Period-Typical Sexism (mentioned)
  • Mentions of attempted crime
  • Arguing
  • Which leads to heated makeout session against the door
  • Eventual Smut
  • a bit OOC due to new situations
  • mentions of sad past event
  • My First Fanfic
  • I Can't Believe I Wrote This
  • I'M SO SORRY RAOUL WHITFIELD
  • But I have to
  • no beta we die like every murder victim of every Jo Gar story ever

  Summary

  "He opened his eyes, his vision filled with the intense expression in Sadi Ratan’s face, the darkness of those eyes, his lips slightly parted as though awaiting his next sip of drink. He couldn’t breathe, and how could he, when this man—who had been the thorn at his side and the very vision who haunted him in different, delicious dreams—was all he could think of, could focus on?"

  When an argument over an attempted murder case came to a head, a shift in Jo Gar and Sadi Ratan's tense working relationship takes place, never to be the same again.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  14,625

  Chapters:

  4/4

  Kudos:

  1

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• did some bird flap its wings over in Asia? by agalleryofsuspects (inbetweenrealityandfantasy)

  Fandoms: Jo Gar, West of Guam: The Complete Cases of Jo Gar  

  • Not Rated
  • Major Character Death
  • Gen
  • Complete Work

  19 Apr 2023

  Tags

  • Major Character Death
  • Jo Gar & Juan Arragon
  • Jo Gar - Character
  • Juan Arragon
  • Crimes & Criminals
  • Grief/Mourning
  • Loss
  • Death
  • Guilt
  • Rainbow Murders
  • Rainbow Diamonds
  • von Loffler Diamonds
  • exploration of pain and loss
  • Kind of an introspection
  • Character Death
  • Jo Gar needs a hug
  • even if he thinks he doesn't
  • poor bby
  • other dead characters mentioned in the story
  • no beta we die like every murder victim of every Jo Gar story ever
  • Hurt No Comfort

  Summary

  "No one, not the steward, nor the captain, nor any soul who'd met him in the ship, would suspect the veil of anguish that cloaked him before stepping on the decks of the ship. It was anguish he had kept under lock and key so he could keep himself focused on his mission.

  That didn't mean he wasn't hurting."

  On his way home post-"Diamonds of Death", Jo Gar deals with loss and grief caused by the diamond heist that cost him a friend's life--and others.

  Language:

  English

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