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    What if Alex’s life had taken a very different turn during his mother’s first presidential election? Differences that made him be in a very different place in life and have very different priorities. When Henry and him cross paths at a certain wedding with an overpriced cake, what if Alex is the one always trying to run away?

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    20 Aug 2024

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    Alex knows what he wants, and boy he's gonna get it.

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    Social Media AU! told entirely through text messages and Instagram posts (and the occasional additional iPhone app).

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    13 Aug 2024

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    As Alex is cleaning up the table Henry vacated, he finds a crumpled piece of paper left behind, and quirks his eyebrow in surprise. Henry has never before left trash outside of his tray. Maybe he really was out of it today. Alex did notice that he looked worse for wear earlier – his voice was very quiet when he ordered, there were darker bags under his eyes, he moved lethargically, and he looked paler than usual.

    Picking up the crumpled piece of paper, Alex notices that it looks like a page from a fancy notebook. His curiosity prevailing, he opens and smooths it out. 


    Dear Orion,
    I wish I could see you.

     

    Or, Alex goes to London to escape his own problems and falls in love with a handsome man with sad blue eyes.

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    13 Jun 2024

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    One of the world’s largest retailers is opening a store on his street. A bookstore. He looks down at the article in his hand again and catches sight of a phrase: “We hope that people will see this as more than a bookstore, and hope to foster a sense of community.” As if Henry Fox-Mountchristen has any concept of what community means.

    Alex very narrowly does not break something.

    (When global mega-retailer Mountchristen opens a new location—led by the infuriatingly attractive and insufferable Henry Fox-Mountchristen—near his LGBTQ-focused bookshop in Soho, Alex's comfortable life is turned upsided down. Luckily, he has one of his best friends to turn to: a guy he met online and knows only as H. Meanwhile, Henry is battling against his family to make a positive difference in the world and falling further in love with a man he's never met. But... what if they changed that?

    Yes, it's a You've Got Mail AU.)

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    31 Mar 2024

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    That day at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, Alex comes across the very same Prince Henry who just dismissed him having a panic attack in a bathroom. The choice Alex makes then has ripple effects neither of them could have ever expected. What's the story like, when they actually are friends all along?

    “So, you’re going back to England tonight, and you’ll spend the next three days pretending you two are the closest and best of friends until we can put this mess behind us.”

    And there are reasons he hasn’t told anybody this, good reasons, even though he’s sure June and Nora saw through him ages ago. Faced with his mom’s disappointment, though, and with the realization that the entire world apparently thinks he hates Henry and would willingly shove him into a fucking cake, he can’t stay quiet.

    “But we are friends,” he says, vehement and serious. “We have been for years. He’s—he’s probably my best friend, actually, along with Nora.”

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    24 Mar 2024