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this desire to possess her is a wound by ladystxrdust
Fandoms: The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone (TV)
24 Aug 2025
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When her powers were revealed at fifteen, the Lantsov tsar and tsaritsa promptly whisked Alina away to the Grand Palace, keeping her there in secret while they moulded her into the perfect Saint, the perfect princess, the perfect weapon. Hiding her from the Darkling, the infamous bandit and leader of the Grisha, lest he carry her away into the night for his own nefarious purposes…
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the gift of life au by deathprobably
Fandom Shadow and Bone (TV), The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo
20 Aug 2025
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“How presumptuous is the gift of life? What arrogance is implicit in the act of love that calls another into existence? This world, my love, I give it to you. All of it. You’re welcome, and I’m sorry.”
― Jacqueline Holland, The God of EndingsShort stories and vignettes from an AU where Aleksander sacrificed Malyen to save Alina and in the process made her immortal. Includes loose inspiration from Leigh's The Familiar.
See the Spotify playlist here.
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let your heart be light by deathprobably
Fandom Shadow and Bone (TV), The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo
22 Nov 2025
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Through the years, we all will be together
If the fates allow
Hang a shining star upon the highest bough
And have yourself a merry little Christmas nowA faculty Christmas party sets the scene for a little more than merrymaking between Public Policy grad student Alina Starkova and Econ professor Dr. Aleksander Morozov.
Or, a Yuletide University AU.
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Happily Ever After by artemisscribe
Fandom Shadow and Bone (TV), The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo
01 Sep 2022
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Pas De Deux by artemisscribe
Fandoms: Shadow and Bone (TV), The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo
23 Jan 2022
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In the run up to the opening of the Season, the newest member of the Ravkan Imperial Ballet, Alina Starkova finds herself once more at the mercy of her Ballet Mistress and gains an unlikely friend or two as the entire ballet company waits with baited breath to see who will win the role of the Sugar Plum Fairy.
All Alina knows is, it certainly won't be her.
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- Part 3 of Sugar Plum
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Enlighten me by EmillyRaquelFerreiraNascimento
Fandoms: The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone (TV)
30 Aug 2025
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One night when sleep is not coming and loneliness seems to be swallowing him, Aleksander decides to walk around the camp to distract himself. On the way, he ends up finding something that piques his curiosity: a woman, drawing alone, completely lost in her thoughts, with tears falling on the paper.
His curiosity makes him return there every day for a week to see the girl, who also seems to be being swallowed by loneliness.
He knows it's a bad idea, she's an Otkazat'sya, fragile, mortal, sick... and she's his light, he'll let her light him, and maybe he can light her in return.
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While I'm burning in the atmosphere like ashes... by Sad_outsider
Fandoms: The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone (TV)
14 Dec 2025
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Having learned that the Darkling is the third amplifier, Alina agrees to meet with him and discuss the terms of her surrender, secretly hatching plans to kill him. But will her contradictory feelings and traitorous heart allow her to destroy her sworn enemy?
The story of how a secret meeting without titles, responsibilities and witnesses that weighed heavily on both of them radically changed everything.
Or AU Ruin and Rising where the Darkling is the third amplifier.
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- Part 3 of The Sun, The Moon and The Truth
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Alina shouldn’t be here. At her (almost) father-in-law’s house.
And definitely not in her shortest dress.
(Or: Alina Starkov intends to seduce her ex-fiancé’s father as an act of revenge. She gets a bit more than she bargained for—but perhaps everything she needed.)
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Various oneshots in an AU where the Darkling and Alina navigate an arranged marriage “for the sake of Ravka ;)”
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Sankta of Light and Sharp Teeth by maisiemouse613
Fandoms: Shadow and Bone (TV), The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo
04 Feb 2026
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Aleksander is very, very old when he finds the sun summoner. She is very young. And very angry. And she bites.
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It's Not My Burden to Bear (But I'll Share it With You) by JustALilBookworm
Fandoms: Shadow and Bone (TV), The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo
15 Mar 2023
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It was having too much time, she supposes, that made him into this.
All the time and everything he lost during that time.
She knew he never asked to be this – the terrifying creature children hide under their blankets from in the dark. It was the world that forced him to mold into it and stay that way with every single new life he took for himself. All the names he used as his own.
The world only gave him pain…
…So she would give it right back.
(What could've happened if Aleksander opened up to Alina about his past during Ruin and Rising)
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The Long Road Back to You by JustALilBookworm
Fandom Shadow and Bone (TV), The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo
03 Feb 2026
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First In Your Heart by JustALilBookworm
Fandoms: Shadow and Bone (TV), The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo
18 Aug 2023
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Living an ostracized life in Albany may have created this fractured mess of man before her, but if nothing else it taught Aleksander about power.
How to gain it. How to keep it. How easy it is to lose. And what you are without it.
He takes a breath, “I thought leaving would give you the chance to have what you always wanted, and I was so angry that that was not me. You were everything Alina, and then you weren’t.”
Close to complete year after their breakup, Alina and Aleksander finally have a chance to say some things that need to be said.
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- Part 5 of The Long Road Back to You
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Love Lives On by Jo (winterchild49)
Fandom Shadow and Bone (TV), The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo
02 Sep 2023
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The fic "Would It Be Enough (If I Could Never Give You Peace)" - in which Alina and Aleksander have a daughter but things are complicated - and other stories set in that universe.
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Another Love by Jo (winterchild49) for TheStarkster
Fandoms: Shadow and Bone (TV), The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo
18 Feb 2023
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“Moi soverenyi,” Ivan called even before he reached him.
“What is it, Ivan?” Aleksander said, impatient to get back to Alina.
The heartrender swallowed. “There’s been an incident, sir,” he told him, a slight tremble in his voice.
Aleksander tensed. “An incident?”
The longer Ivan hesitated to respond, the more anxious Aleksander became. The Little Palace was the safest place in Ravka, he himself had made sure of that. There weren’t supposed to be any incidents.
Canon divergence set during episode 5. Marie is not Alina's double.
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The Sky'd Be Falling while I Hold You Tight by Jo (winterchild49) for eighteenqs
Fandoms: Shadow and Bone (TV), The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo
14 Feb 2023
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The earth shook for the first time merely a few hours after Mal and Alina left the Shadow Fold. The first news about a wall of darkness destroying everything it came into touch with followed two days later.
First in Ravka then in Fjerda. Shortly afterwards in Shu Han and even far west in Novyi Zem. Tears in the making at the heart of the world that appeared and disappeared, robbing everything they touched of light and life.Canon divergence post season 1. The fold has got out of control. It keeps expanding and walls of shadows appear and disappear in all kinds of places, destroying everything they touch. As the end of the world seems near, Alina and Aleksander find their way back to each other.
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Somebody to Hug by Jo (winterchild49) for AngstyThumbs
Fandoms: Shadow and Bone (TV), The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo
12 Feb 2023
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The sudden noise of the door creaking drew Aleksander’s attention, and he turned. He blinked. Alina was standing in the doorway. She was dressed in a white nightgown and a robe, and her raven black hair was falling loosely down her back. “Alina.”
“I hope I'm not disturbing you,” she began. “I heard music and wondered where it came from.”
“I'm sorry for waking you.”
“You didn’t,” she replied at once.
Aleksander allowed himself a small smile. “Can't sleep either?”
Alina shook her head. She was still lingering by the door.
“Come in,” Aleksander said and added, “if you want.”The scene in episode 4 where Alina comes to Aleksander in the middle of the night, but things happen a litte differently.
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Evermore by Jo (winterchild49)
Fandoms: Shadow and Bone (TV), The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo
10 Dec 2022
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His anger vanished, replaced by something even more painful - sadness that his dark reflected. She saw that it took every ounce of his willpower to not close the distance between them. And for a fleeting moment, she wanted him to do it, to cross this wide gap between them and take her face into his hands as he’d done earlier. To kiss her and let her forget the betrayal. But that fairytale from earlier was over. There was no happily ever after for them.
“It was real, Alina,” Aleksander said, his voice unbearably soft. They both knew what he was referring to. “Please.”
Alina tore her gaze away, unable to look into those pleading eyes that only added insult to injury. "I cannot stay here, Aleksander."Canon divergence at the end of episode 5. Aleksander finds Alina before she flees from the palace, but he lets her go.
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And For A Moment I Thought I Was Dreaming by Jo (winterchild49) for Morgana (iceque5784), Fiora
Fandoms: Shadow and Bone (TV), The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo
13 Nov 2022
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Based on a prompt by Morgana:
Aleksander comes back to the War Room after dealing with the Conductor and finds Alina in his bedroom.
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A Home for My Heart by Jo (winterchild49) for AngstyThumbs, Spacecadet72
Fandoms: Shadow and Bone (TV), The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo
09 Sep 2023
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It's been over a century since Alina destroyed the Shadow Fold when she meets someone she thought dead.
Alina and Aleksander reunite in a modern Ravka.