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We have the Stars by PinkUniverse
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)
06 Oct 2024
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Prince Henry is somehow both everything and nothing like Alex expected him to be. He looks perfect, even though he is staring at his phone when Alex enters the room and takes a seat far out of the way.
And then Prince Henry looks up, his eyes darting around as if he has no clue where he is, and lands on Alex’s face. There’s nothing there, though. No curiousness, no interest, no disdain, not a shimmer of any emotion. Prince Henry just looks at him with a blank stare until Mrs Hughes takes it upon herself to introduce Alex.
“Henry,” the man responds. His eyes widen for a second before his face falls into a closed expression and says: “pleasure,” as if it’s anything but, and looks away.
Right.
Rude.---
Life has been throwing many challenges at Alex. The biggest one so far is becoming a single father. That might change, now that Alex has started a job as a solicitor for His Royal Highness Prince Henry.
Prince Henry turns out to be different than Alex thought at first, and it doesn’t take long for them to become friends.
But is that all they can be?---
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21 Sep 2024
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(i’m rocking you to sleep) the water’s dark and deep by saintsnames
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
11 Jul 2024
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He turns on instinct, just in time to catch sight of their daughter— their tiny, precious, perfect three-year-old who’s due to start swimming lessons next summer but at the moment relies on floaties that she isn’t currently wearing— teetering on the corner of the dock, her light-up tennis shoes all the way at its furthest edge.
Ice-cold fear tears through Alex and in the same instant that Henry calls out their daughter’s name, he watches as she loses her fragile balance and tumbles headfirst into the glittering water of the lake.
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12 Jul 2024
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Henry is a boring person.
This is an objective fact. It’s been such a constant in his life that it hardly bothers him. He prefers the mundane. Thrives under routine. Tolerates many things poorly: surprise parties, capsaicin, loud noises.
Another objective fact: Henry loves Alex. Alex is not boring at all.
Unfortunately, everyone else in Henry’s life seems to think that a bore like him is incapable of a relationship like theirs— and, more distressingly, that this must mean that Alex simply doesn’t exist.
Or: Five times that no one believed that Henry and Alex were an item, and one time that they all did.
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- Part 1 of Tattoo Alex AU
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11 Jul 2024
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the stolen hearts of things by ninzied
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)
29 Jun 2024
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Alex is a philanthropist. He’s also, technically, a thief. But he only ever steals to help others; he’s never taken a thing for himself. That is, at least, until now.
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Or, the royal wedding serves as the perfect cover for a heist, but what Alex ends up stealing is a kiss from Prince Henry instead.
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30 Jun 2024
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Lost and Found by sherryvalli for Softheart777
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
23 Jul 2023
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“Now, I don’t know about you, but I distinctly remember telling you to stay.”
“Sorry,” she said, not sounding very sorry at all. Henry made a mental note to teach her how to at least pretend to be contrite.
“You’re… she - you can speak English?”
Henry looked up. The man was turned towards him now. His eyes were the first thing Henry noticed. Wide and a deep brown, with impossibly long and dark eyelashes that seemed to touch his cheeks every time he blinked. And his mouth - it was open now in surprise and disbelief, but it was perfectly curved and bitten pink, and Henry had no problem picturing it curled into a smirk. A handsome serial killer, then.
Single dad Henry loses his daughter at the Met and ends up finding more than he bargained for.
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24 Jun 2024
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Be still, my love, and savor the last moment when the worst is only fiction. For the truth is only fear until breath becomes words.
Henry thought the hardest days of his life were behind him. Alex never thought something like this would happen to him or his family. But a week before their eldest daughter is set to graduate from Oxford, she proves them wrong.
This is the story of the months that follow.
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- Part 10 of ifigo's RWRB Kidfics
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30 May 2024
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Repetition by Tsukino_Akume
Fandom: Red White & Royal Blue (2023), Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
26 May 2024
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Examining a world with the more emotionally mature, competent version of Alex from the movies and Henry with a little less resolve.
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18 May 2024
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and now I feel it in my veins (but I don't want to be afraid) by foxjournals
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)
06 May 2024
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Alex hears him, loud and clear, but it’s like his words are suddenly shallow and hollow, coming in bits and pieces as they funnel through one ear and out the other, and he swears he’s listening, swears he’s trying to hang onto every word out of his boyfriend's mouth, but that white hot static is louder than ever. His brain feels fuzzy and his eyes blur and whether it’s from unshed tears he hasn’t noticed yet or for another reason completely, he isn’t sure.
He isn’t sure how he got from point A to point B, but all he knows is suddenly he can’t breathe.
Suddenly, he’s six feet under, water encasing his lungs as they shrivel and expand into nothing.Or: Alex and Henry get into a fight, and the only way out is through panicking
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12 May 2024
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so long, london by amongtheshadows
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)
11 May 2024
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At the palace he only had one picture of Alex. It was formal, one of him in his suit from the polo match when they were still “just friends”. Pictures of them kissing, holding each other, being with their loved ones would have never been allowed, regardless if it was his personal space or not.
But here he was free. He was held and content and could put up as many pictures of him and Alex as he wanted. He could decide to put pictures by the wall and in the entryway and kiss Alex as much as he wanted in the process.
(Henry leaving Kensington for the last time after abdicating and coming home to Alex. Smut and emotions ensue)
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12 May 2024
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Thirteen years after the events of "Little Matters," one night in the Fox-Claremont-Diaz family shows that life means change, but some things never do...
A one-shot sequel (of sorts) in honor of the anniversary.
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- Part 2 of Family Matters
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10 May 2024
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He dials the number and puts the phone to his ear, nibbling on his lower lip as it rings steadily.
“Alex here, how can I help?”
Henry freezes, the phone still pressed to his ear at the familiar voice.
“Uh…hello? Anyone there?”
Henry’s hands shake as he hangs up the phone, tossing it into the dirt beside his parsnip seed. All he can think of as he stares at the darkened screen a few feet away is - stupid bloody tank top.
Henry doesn't expect much when his grandmother dies; perhaps her cabin in Vail or her collection of antique teacups that he always had his eye on. Instead, he finds himself the sole owner of his late grandfather's farm, hidden away in a small town in the middle of nowhere.
Determined to make something of himself, he decides to settle down there, do up his grandfather's house and do something with his life rather than just hide away like he always has.
He will keep his head down, not make waves, and get the job done.
A very sexy handyman is determined to make this very difficult.
A Stardew Valley AU
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04 May 2024
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the smallest man who ever lived by HypnosTheory
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
30 Apr 2024
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Henry somehow folds his long limbs up so tightly he looks small. He reaches up to scrub at his eye, his long sleeve caught in his balled fist. “Robert Graves has written a screenplay.”
“Who’s Robert Graves?”
“The man I lost my virginity to.”
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Henry gets word that the man he lost his virginity to has written a screenplay about the encounter. Alex fixes the problem.
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- Part 7 of HypnosTheory's RW&RB Era's Tour
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30 Apr 2024
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the kind of book, you can't put down by toadsdrool
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
21 Apr 2024
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Henry and Alex are happily settled in Texas, raising their perfect little girl, steady jobs, nice house. Mediocrity suits them. They couldn't ask for anything else, until Henry gets a call from an acquaintance begging him to take in a teenaged girl who's found herself in a bad way. The pair are eager to put their fostering license to good use, as they'd been tiptoeing around the idea of adopting another child. Between Emma's delicate situation and her unfortunate past, things get a little bit... complicated.
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Part two of the 15 years later au, regarding the adoption of Henry and Alex's second child, unless.
Inspired by Never Grow Up + Innocent (to a lesser degree Superman, Long Live, Timeless, and When Emma Falls in Love)Series
- Part 3 of so productive — eras tour (lamb’s version)
- Part 4 of taking on the world together
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28 Apr 2024
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another version of me (you'll be alright) by allthelovesaved
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
08 Apr 2024
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Not even thinking about the time, he moves over to the Phone app and hits June’s contact before bringing the phone up to his ear with a shaky hand. He hadn’t even realized it started trembling again. It rings about four times before June answers, voice creaky. June has clearly been sleeping, and Alex only feels a little bad because the building panic wins out.
“Alex? What the hell? Is everything okay?” June asks when Alex doesn’t say anything, just breathes heavily into his phone’s mic.
“June.” His eyes well up with tears at the familiar voice. “I don’t know what’s going on.” Turns out he needs his sister in every fucking universe. Alex moves back toward the stove to work on the drink to distract himself as the kid watches him carefully. He knows where he’d keep the saucepans if it were up to him, so that’s the first drawer he tries, and sure enough.
There is rustling on the other side, June probably sitting up in bed. “Hey, can you tell me what’s happening?” Her voice is softer now than when she’d answered, the one she uses when Alex is really upset or spiraling into a panic attack. And maybe he is. Fuck.
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01 Apr 2024
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Got love struck, went straight to my head by phlebotinxm
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)
13 Feb 2024
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As a librarian, Henry Fox could not say he had to deal with babies often.
At 28 years old, Henry knew what he liked and what he certainly never wanted in his house. He was not picky, thank you very much, he simply had standards. And what if he had no one to curl around at night, no one to hold hands with at the movies and no one he could cry to when he had one of his bad days? He was fine.
So no, Henry Fox could not say he thought about babies very much, up until that cold Monday evening in January when he was quite literally faced with a quite... peculiar client.
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In which Henry stumbles upon his destiny on a cold rainy night, and his life plans are thrown out of the window.
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- Part 7 of Looking for Orion (in every universe)
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15 Feb 2024
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what if all i need is you? by aliwrites07
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue (2023), Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
16 Jan 2024
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Henry’s fingers are tracing a specific pattern along his chest. Meticulously.
Looking down, Alex can see that he’s not touching Alex just to touch him. He’s fixing the chain around his neck, which had gotten tangled without Alex even realizing it.
“Oh.”
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17 Jan 2024
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He continues to mutter ramblings about high society and the impossible balancing act of keeping up appearances before he falters to a tapering quiet, brown eyes coming alight with a realization.
Martha’s stomach churns, sensing a grand idea that could either be pure genius or terribly ill-advised. (With most of Alex’s ideas, it’s usually both.)_____
Alex is Martha’s plus one at her high school’s pre-reunion soirée, and she learns a thing or two about gumption.
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- Part 1 of Alejito y Marimar
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15 Dec 2023
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go the distance by indomitablelove for celeritas2997
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
04 Apr 2023
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His legs are like jello. He’s not entirely sure how he’s still upright. He’s running on fumes and the energy gel he’d been handed about forty minutes ago by one of the secret service as he’d passed by. Fumes, energy gel pouches, the roar of the crowd against New York streets, and pure adrenaline because he can see the finish line. He knows what’s there: June and Nora and Henry.
Henry. The reason Alex is doing this whole damn thing in the first place.
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Alex decides to run a marathon. It's all Henry's fault, really.
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23 Sep 2023
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Time until the end of time by ships_to_sail, yourbuttervoicedbeau (kiwiana)
Fandoms: Schitt's Creek
09 Sep 2022
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“David,” Patrick says softly. Something in his voice pulls David’s eyes to his; they’re full of sympathy and David is awash with foreboding. He hasn’t felt terror like this since before they moved to Schitt’s Creek, when Alexis’ name appearing on his phone meant another round of consulate calls and the occasional hostage negotiation. “I’m very sorry to tell you this, but you’re dead.”
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18 Jun 2022
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TK loves to tease Carlos about being good at everything. Carlos isn’t sure he’s good at everything, but he’s pretty damn good at loving TK.
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Carlos and TK rediscover each other after TK returns home (post S3 E4).
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31 May 2022