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A kidnapping case turns personal when someone takes exception to the LAPD's involvement. Or maybe it's John and Dorian they don't like. John doesn't care what their problem is, he just wishes they'd stop trying to kill him--until he doesn't, because having an active threat against his life makes Dorian his 24/7 bodyguard.
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- Part 1 of One of the Crazy Ones
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20 Apr 2022
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insolence by Helenish
Fandoms: The Eagle | The Eagle of the Ninth - All Media Types, The Eagle | The Eagle of the Ninth (2011)
15 May 2015
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Esca is bare, reclined on the pillows. He stares up at Marcus and then jerks his chin at the space next to him on the mattress. There is no mistaking his meaning.
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12 Mar 2022
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29 Jan 2022
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The son of the man who lost the Eagle of the Ninth would never be allowed a first command of his very own fort, would he?
Marcus is posted not to Isca Dumnoniorum, but to a wretched and run-down garrison north of the Wall. There he finds that he is the new centurion of a group of scouts and spies, all of them British. He has few supplies and no experience. His men distrust him. His superiors despise him. His second-in-command is an incompetent drunkard. And the local tribes are determined to kill all of them.
But the worst thing of all is one of Marcus' soldiers. He is an enigmatic, dangerous, and insubordinate man by the name of Esca, who makes Marcus yearn for terrifying things he has never before wanted and can never, ever let himself have...
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- Part 1 of Chosen Man
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- 5/5
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28 Dec 2021
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Marcus has always known what he wanted. Esca is sure he knows what Marcus wants. One of them is wrong.
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27 Dec 2021
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Any Man of Mine by honeysuckle22 for Cacilie_Blaas, Hello_Th3r33
Fandoms: The Mandalorian (TV), Star Wars - All Media Types
01 Apr 2021
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“What’s your name?”
“I have a kid.”
“You wanna try that one again? I’m pretty sure that ain’t a name.” He folded his arms over his chest, the unimpressed tilt of his head the man’s best effort at a playful scolding.
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Single dad Din Djarin, having been required to join his friends for a night at the bar, never anticipated spending the evening with the bartender instead.Modern DinCobb AU.
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11 Dec 2021
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a series of late-night encounters in the Mos Pelgo cantina.
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21 Nov 2021
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It’s Raylan’s own fault for never taking vacation days. Apparently it’s such an aberration that his boss actually catches him as he's getting in the elevator, asks if somebody's dying.
He does feel a flicker of amusement at Dan’s expression when he tells him. I gotta go divorce my husband.
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21 Nov 2021
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The light coming through the window behind him was very, very bright. He kept his back to it, looking down at himself. The hole in his chest closed as he watched, and he found himself remembering his name: Boyd Crowder.
And then: Raylan shot me, and I’m dead.
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03 Nov 2021
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"He's lying," Raylan speaks up, his odd tone more than anything drawing Mullen and Boyd's attention. His jaw shifts slightly, molars grinding and tense under the sudden scrutiny, or maybe something else. "He just didn't go because he's a goddamn idiot."
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23 Oct 2021
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Leonard wins the kid in a hand of poker. A hand of poker he plays in the dirty back room of a dive bar in East Bumfuck, Iowa, two weeks after his humiliating divorce is finalized, and on the sixth day of a bourbon-fueled bender that’s somehow taken him from his high-rise loft in Atlanta to a fleabag motel in the middle of nowhere.
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21 Sep 2021
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“Skip to the point, Jim. The sooner you spit it out, the sooner I can refuse and get back to work.”
“It’s really no big deal,” Jim says as the door slides closed behind them. “I just need you to come down to Hearth with us…as my husband.”
The Enterprise has been sent to negotiate reaccession to the Federation with an isolationist religious group known as the Kindred. While there, Jim notices that some of the children seem to be gravely ill. The problem is, the Kindred practice faith healing and refuse to allow a doctor to be brought in. So Jim does what he does best: he improvises.
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- Part 1 of palimpsest verse
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- 8/8
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20 Sep 2021
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Bruce Wayne can't possibly be as dumb as he acts, and Clark Kent isn't as ordinary as he appears.
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19 Aug 2021
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"I didn't plan for this," Bruce says after a few minutes, and he sounds bewildered.
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18 Aug 2021
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unlove's the heavenless hell and homeless home by Yubnubforhire
Fandoms: Young Royals (TV 2021)
08 Jul 2021
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In the aftermath of Wilhelm’s statement, he finds himself bereft of his entire support system: Erik is dead, Simon dumped him, and August betrayed him in the worst possible way. He struggles to cope with the trauma of what he went through, while Simon realizes he can’t just switch off his feelings.
Or: Simon decides to be there for Wilhelm, and maybe that makes all the difference.
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09 Aug 2021
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"So, uh," Wharton said, with a little nervous cough. "You're not so much his mathematician as you are his—mathematician."
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07 Aug 2021
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“Is this Agent Steve Murphy, DEA?” says the voice on the other end of the line, an elusively familiar one with an equally elusive and familiar accent.
“Yeah?” says Murphy, squinting ridiculously into the darkness, as if that would help him think any clearer. He really needs more sleep. More sleep, and less alcohol. “Who is this?”
“It’s Sandoval.”
“The fuck it is.”
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- Part 2 of everybody wants to rule the world
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30 Jul 2021
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The photo has been cut wavy around the edges, decorative as if to distract from the dead body Steve is hoisting half-aloft, front and centre, big sunny grin on his sweaty fucking face.
Steve privately wonders if he’s smiled like that since they killed Escobar.
“Jesus,” Peña breathes, eyes wide as he gapes up at Steve. “Jesus, Steve.”
Steve and Javi and one day in D.C.
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20 Jul 2021
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wicked thing by imaginarykat
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
07 Aug 2022
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There are rumours of yet another Sith Lord hiding among the Separatists. The Council sends Anakin to investigate. Anakin has a bad feeling about this.
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the story of how Anakin exists in a perpetual state of intense embarrassment, Kenobi is enjoying it a little too much, and everything is, generally speaking, a gigantic mess.
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- 124,273
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- 17/?
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12 Jul 2021
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Din goes searching for information on the Jedi, Luke Skywalker. His only lead takes him back to Tatooine and to a shady info-broker in in a dead-end farmer town who claims to have exactly what Din is looking for.
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20 Jun 2021