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With You and Us by cowgvrly
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
27 Jan 2026
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Over the course of three centuries, vampire nobleman Ilya Rozanov has survived the rise and fall of kingdoms and covens alike.
He does not know if he can survive Shane Hollander's stupid fucking smoothies.
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- English
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- 58,977
- Chapters:
- 16/16
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27 Jan 2026
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something you can build by some1_around
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
21 Jan 2026
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Six months ago, Shane’s intimate conversation and break-up with Rose Landry was recorded and leaked. In those six months, his life had completely upended and everything had changed, for better or for worse. Except for Ilya. He still has Ilya, and he’s beginning to understand that he always will.
It’s 2018. Shane Hollander has to figure out his new life, in a new city, on a new team, while being out to the world but not by his own choice. Ilya, along for the ride, also has to learn what it means to be connected to a place, to a person, and to his own inner truth.
(Sequel to “something you can fix,” set post-Heated Rivalry, pre-The Long Game)
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- Part 2 of something you can fix
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 96,881
- Chapters:
- 13/13
- Collections:
- 4
- Comments:
- 8,720
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- 45,625
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26 Jan 2026
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Let Loose Your Glow by athousandrooms for clottedcreamfudge
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
12 May 2023
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“Seems like my liege was caught in a situation where he’d rather the ground swallow him whole.” Pez nods towards a spot to the side, and Alex follows his gaze. He spots Henry easily – a tall lighthouse of tousled blond hair – talking to a girl who is clearly into him. His expression looks perfectly polite, but he’s subtly leaning away, and he looks tense.
So, Alex makes an impulsive decision.
Whatever happens, this is going to be fun.
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Or: Alex is so very definitely straight, so pretending to be Henry’s boyfriend to get him out of an awkward situation should just be a fun little pastime - except that he doesn't really want to stop, and he has no idea why. But maybe it's okay to not think too hard and let himself go with the flow, for once.
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- English
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- 45,000
- Chapters:
- 8/8
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- 1
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- 983
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07 Jun 2025
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Cure Worse Than the Disease by Winifred_Zachery
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)
02 Jun 2025
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After one too many near-scandals, Henry finds himself trapped. The Queen has decided it’s time for him to marry, but to keep him out of trouble in the meantime, she arranges for an escort for him. Henry has no intentions of taking advantage of that particular, rather humiliating offer. His mind quickly changes, when Alex’s dossier catches his eye.
Alex never intended to become an escort; he was just helping out a friend. But here he is, facing Prince Henry, the embodiment of privilege. Alex hates everything Henry stands for—until he finds out what the deal with the other man really is.
Their initial meetings are more than awkward, but soon sparks fly. Yet, their relationship is doomed from the start, and when tensions come to a head, both Alex and Henry have tough choices to make.
***COMPLETE AS OF JUNE 2, 2025!***
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- English
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- 167,665
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- 35/35
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02 Jun 2025
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I Knew You Were Trouble When You Walked In by doeyedgirlyevil
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)
23 Dec 2023
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There he stood. Frozen. In the presence of a man who Henry was willing to swear before Queen and country, under pain of death, was the single most beautiful person on the face of the planet, and possibly several galaxies beyond. A man who possessed the kind of magnetic pull that could persuade Henry to believe in a Catholic God. A man Henry needed to get at least 800 kilometres away from before he caused an international scandal in a tea room at Kensington Palace.
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Henry has a new equerry. And he's too hot for Henry's fragile, gay heart to handle. (AKA the Alex as Henry's equerry AU that I'm sure someone asked for)- Language:
- English
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- 72,506
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- 10/10
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- 2,126
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- 7,334
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27 Dec 2024
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Ever Thine, Ever Mine, Ever Ours by Ziggy12
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)
29 Nov 2024
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“Oh, sweetheart,” Henry breathes, sitting beside him in the lounge chair, quickly grasping Alex’s hand in his own.
Immediately, Alex knows what Henry is going to say. “No, I know,” he says quickly.
Henry shakes his head at him. “No, I don't think you do,” he says in a hoarse voice. Alex looks closely at his husband and observes the dark circles under his eyes. It doesn’t look like he slept at all, and a pit forms in his stomach at the thought.
“And even if you do,” Henry continues. “I need to say it. We are going to fight this,” he says firmly. “And we are going to go wherever we have to go, see whoever we have to see, and we are going to win. Because I'm not going to let anything happen to you.”
Five years after moving to Austin, Henry and Alex are new parents to a beautiful baby boy, the light of their life. Alex is a stay-at-home Dad, while Henry is President of the Okonjo Foundation, breaking barriers to open a new shelter in Austin. Being new parents while balancing their career shifts is challenging enough. But when Alex receives a devastating diagnosis, will it bring them closer together, or drive them further apart?
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- English
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- 186,986
- Chapters:
- 50/50
- Comments:
- 343
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- 1,360
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02 Dec 2024
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24 Nov 2024
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looks like gold to me by indomitablelove
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
13 Feb 2022
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Henry isn’t fine. He’s had his private words, his most intimate thoughts and feelings broadcast to the entire world. Of course he isn’t fine.
He gets to love proudly now though. He gets to spend his life vocally loving Alex. He gets to stand up for himself and for what he believes in. He gets to live openly, without shame.
He’s healing. Slowly. Achingly slowly, but he’s getting there.
Alex, though? Well, that’s a whole other story.
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Chapters 7-16 of all that glitters (is not gold), from Henry’s POV.Series
- Part 2 of all that glitters (is not gold)
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 24,120
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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- 130
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- 267
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09 Nov 2024
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all that glitters (is not gold) by indomitablelove
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
09 Jan 2022
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Alex Claremont-Diaz has it all. His mom won the election, he’s got the perfect boyfriend. He gets to love Henry out loud. Everything is great. Perfect.
Except for the itch under his skin every time he goes outside, and the tightness in his chest when he goes online, and the fact that he can’t fucking sleep.
But it's fine. He's fine. Really.
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Or: after the emails, Alex Claremont-Diaz isn’t fine.Series
- Part 1 of all that glitters (is not gold)
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 111,709
- Chapters:
- 30/30
- Comments:
- 2,863
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- 7,970
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- 2,760
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- 378,847
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09 Nov 2024
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Wait for me (to come home) by Sophie1973
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)
15 Nov 2024
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When he inherits a lakehouse from his late aunt, Henry doesn’t hesitate and book the first plane to Texas, leaving everything behind, including years of abuse by his grandmother, ceo of a vast hotel empire.
Henry begins a journey of healing and self-discovery, seeking to reclaim control over his life and unearth a renewed sense of purpose.
And if he finds love in the sparkling brown eyes and charming smile of a handsome veterinarian, well, it’s an unexpected, but welcome, bonus.
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08 Nov 2024
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“Papi, what are you doing?” he whispered, and Alex smiled at him.
“Remember how, when I started working here, I told you there was a coworker who talked a little differently than other people because he couldn’t hear? That was Henry,” Alex explained gently.
Henry watched the two of them carefully, obviously trying to keep up with the conversation, and not for the first time, Alex wished he had a better grasp at British Sign Language.
“OH!” Antonio exclaimed as he looked back at Henry. “He’s the man you’re learning the funny hands for!”
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AKA the deaf AU that literally no one asked for
- Language:
- English
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- 35,685
- Chapters:
- 17/17
- Comments:
- 476
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- 2,100
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- 370
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- 48,005
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08 Nov 2024
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a shard or two by Aeithalian
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)
03 Jan 2025
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Valerie Jarrett, senior advisor to Barack Obama, once said “If you break glass ceilings, you’re going to get scraped by a shard or two.” Alex has got to agree. This shit hurts sometimes.
Or: If Red, White, and Royal Blue got a political-drama-esque sequel.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 299,953
- Chapters:
- 6/8
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- 1
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- 217
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- 325
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- 169
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06 Nov 2024
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you're such a masterpiece (that's something we should celebrate) by judasofsuburbia
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, The Idea of You - Robinne Lee
31 May 2024
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Alex closes his eyes, puts his hands in a prayer, and presses his fingertips to the middle of his forehead. Through those fingers, he says, “Let me lay out what I just heard. Not only is Hayes Campbell into men‒”
“Well, he’s into everyone‒”
“Henry.”
“Sorry. Keep going.”
“Not only is he into men, but he’s into us? Me? And he signed. The NDA we drafted mostly as a joke. That permits him. To sleep. With us. And he... he wants that. He signed that into fruition. And he’s in our living room, awaiting that. Do I have that right?”
“On the money, darling.”
or: after learning about alex's august moon phase, henry decides to test his luck by inviting hayes campbell into their bed. but little did he know, hayes was already one step ahead of him.
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04 Nov 2024
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and history remembered. by sherryvalli
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
03 Nov 2024
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Calvin @calvincdiaz
alex and prince henry both at the royal wedding…… they'll be grappling by the dessert table before the night’s overFrom cakegate to the leak - from Twitter's POV.
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- Part 1 of the world watched...
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 144,131
- Chapters:
- 16/16
- Comments:
- 1,980
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- 5,290
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- 1,470
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- 196,856
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04 Nov 2024
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a flicker, a spark by acastle
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)
28 Sep 2023
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“She truly is your daughter, Alex,” Henry sighs, defeated.
“Fuck off, sweetheart,” he laughs, a soundbite of the sun. Henry forces himself not to physically react, the term of endearment sweet and menacingly familiar coming from Alex’s lips. It’s been years. “You know they’re useful.”
“Ah yes, eyelashes, truly a formidable instrument in managing international relations.”
Alex grins, and Henry is too late to catch the slightest downward lilt on the corner of his mouth, “Worked on you once, didn’t it?”
Oh, did that ache.
(Much had happened since the time Henry had told Alex to leave. Alex had passed the bar, gotten married, had the most beautiful daughter. And Henry, well. He stayed right where he was.)
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- Part 1 of orion in your fingertips
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 83,067
- Chapters:
- 6/6
- Collections:
- 2
- Comments:
- 1,317
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- 5,165
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- 1,827
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- 145,666
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03 Nov 2024
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Set My Soul Alight by aforgottennymph for vibrantsaturn
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
01 Nov 2024
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“Come on, angel,” he takes a step forward, staring up at Henry with a smirk. He knows that if they had any need for oxygen, Henry’s chest would be heaving. “You know you want to.”
“Wanting it isn’t the question,” Henry says tightly, only the slightest sliver of blue still visible in his eyes. “We can’t.”
Alex knows he has him, knows that it’s only moments until he finally gets what he wants. What he’s always fucking wanted. He just needs to push.
“Oh but we can,” Alex’s tongue darts out to wet his lips and he watches in glee as Henry’s eyes drop to capture the motion. “You want me. Come get me.”
Alex has hated Henry for a lifetime - but he's wanted to fuck him for twice as long.
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01 Nov 2024
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say you fancy me (not fancy stuff) by coffeecatsme
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
26 Oct 2024
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This is how it happens.
Paul, standing in front of him, hand in hand with Leena. That same pitiful look in his eyes as he takes Henry in and shoos his girlfriend away as if he’s being nice. Him apologizing for coming around when everything is “so fresh, I know, I’m sorry,” and touching his arm, ensuring him that “you’ll find someone eventually, I promise.”
It’s that word that grates him. Eventually. The loaded meaning behind it. The implication that Henry might find someone that loves him but it will take time.
Maybe that’s why he blurts it out, without thinking. The words that’ll surely come back to bite him. The words he cannot for the life of him take back, ever.
“Actually, I already have someone.”
Alex and Henry hate each other, but in a moment of panic, Henry tells his ex he's been dating Alex to get him off his back. It works a little too well.
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29 Oct 2024
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It's 2053, and after a Labor Day cookout at the lake house, Alex and Henry look back over the years, and savor the joy of the life and family they have created together.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 90,091
- Chapters:
- 18/18
- Comments:
- 383
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- 477
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- 141
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- 20,277
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27 Oct 2024
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A New Life, A New Land, A New Hope by RevJohnO
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
02 Aug 2023
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When "Red, White, and Royal Blue" ended, I was NOT ready for it to finish--so until CMQ gives us a sequel of her own, I'm continuing it! This series picks up with Henry and Alex starting their new life together, living at the brownstone they now co-own in Brooklyn--Alex starting law school, and Henry setting up the youth shelter while also beginning his future career as an author.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 102,035
- Chapters:
- 17/17
- Comments:
- 365
- Kudos:
- 416
- Bookmarks:
- 185
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- 34,592
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27 Oct 2024
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Too Much by lga8
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)
14 Sep 2023
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Okay, so maybe Alex talked too much for them. It was fine. He could still sit with them at lunch, he just had to make sure not to talk so much. Just listen to them. He could do that.
The next day, and the day after, Alex sat with the same group of kids. Only, he no longer went on rants about movies or books or what he saw on the news that morning or what his parents talked/argued over at dinner.
Alex stayed silent, desperate to not be too much.
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OR 5 times the people in Alex's life thought that he was too much + one time Henry assured him that he wasn't
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22 Oct 2024