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The line inched forwards, and soon Grantaire was watching Gavroche cheerfully receive a bowl of soup and some bread from a blond man.
The man was gorgeous, with soft hair and a sharp jaw. Infuriatingly handsome in a way that gave Grantaire butterflies and a fight or flight response. As he took an empty bowl, Grantaire snarked, “How much are you spending on shampoo for those curls nowadays?”
Shit. Talk about biting the hand that feeds. The man looked straight at Grantaire, and he felt like a butterfly pinned to a board.
The man spoke levelly, “That was a weak excuse for small talk.” He gestured for the bowl and Grantaire’s hand drifted forward automatically. Their fingers brushed as the bowl changed hands and Grantaire could swear his brain shorted out. At least that would be a good excuse for the next words out of his mouth.
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Title from The Hand That Feeds by The Crane Wives. Not technically a Boys In the Boat AU but same era, same place, and I stole the main character's car so.
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Do you permit it?
Dying hand in hand
this was never the plan
but we did what we can
and I see now
you were always just a man
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He has sworn never to go back to the ballet world. He has no intention of dancing again. But somewhere the Fates are having a real party laughing down at him, because one minute Grantaire's living his life in peace and the next he's - choreographing a new ballet of the Iliad?
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- Part 1 of Arcadia ballet!verse
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26 Feb 2026
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<33333 ilium ballet lives rent free in my brain 24/7
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we need something to hold us (during and after) by zippys
Fandoms: Les Misérables - All Media Types
31 May 2025
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Suddenly, everything had gone to shit. Grantaire had been distracted— someone had snagged his attention, maybe they were trying to get him to take a picture of them or something, but the next thing he knew, he was hearing screams. A crowd was rushing past him, violent and fervent in their urge to scatter; all Grantaire could see was Enjolras. He reached for him, grabbed his arm, and held on tightly, keeping both of them in place. He tugged at Enjolras’s sleeve, pulling him close, wrapping his arms around him in the way he was allowed only in disasters such as these; Enjolras permitted it, sinking his face into Grantaire’s chest, breathing in the sweat of his t-shirt, finding the things that made Grantaire human— the fast, yet steady, thrum of his heartbeat, the pulsing of his biceps against Enjolras’s skin, all of it. Enjolras held back a shaky sob and looked at Grantaire with something unfamiliar in his eyes: fear. Enjolras had never looked at him with that much fear written all over his face— typically, Enjolras looked at him with disdain, something fierce, but the way he looked at him in that crowd was, to say the least, distressing.
(aka, my first ever barricade day fic, even tho ive been here for 9 years)
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21 Jun 2025
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You're too sweet for me by pumpkinspiceprouvaire for funkeepeach
Fandoms: Les Misérables - All Media Types
24 May 2025
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He can deal with a little discomfort. Maybe a lot, if it comes down to it. None of that matters as much as proving to the world that Grantaire is loved.
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Enjolras starts acting strange on the walk home on Thursday night.
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17 Jun 2025
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When Wit and Youth is Come to Harvest by pumpkinspiceprouvaire for writingsyrup
Fandoms: Les Misérables - All Media Types
18 Aug 2024
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“Why don’t we?” Enjolras says.
Cosette frowns. “Why don’t we, what?”
“Swap,” Enjolras clarifies. “The two of us can swap roles.”
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When Enjolras and Cosette are misgendered in the school play casting, the two of them take matters into their own hands.
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Dancing with the Devil by ShameDumpster for pumpkinspiceprouvaire
Fandoms: Les Misérables - All Media Types
15 Feb 2025
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Backlit by the cave’s entrance, his face is mostly in shadow, but Grantaire can just make out the white of his teeth, lips set in a terrible smile. Even in the dark, his eyes glint with mirth.
It’s an expression of pure, cruel glee. It twists his beloved face into something strange and chilling and wrong.
Grantaire doesn’t even have time to process, frozen for one second, one precious second that leaves Enjolras enough time to pull his leg back and drive it into Grantaire’s stomach. Grantaire wheezes, the wind whooshing out of him. His head spins, and his lungs burn, and his stomach aches, but through the haze of sudden pain and confusion, he manages one coherent thought:
Enjolras is capable of many, many things, but hurting his friends like this simply isn’t one of them. Grantaire is perhaps not his favorite person sometimes, but—he wouldn’t. Not even when they’ve fought. Enjolras wouldn’t.
Which means it isn’t him. It can’t be.
This isn’t Enjolras.
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- Part 2 of Supernatural AU