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Killian’s a witch. Which (ha!) means his life is complicated enough without his ex rolling back into town. Especially since his ex is a demon.
Emma figures Killian can never forgive her for their disastrous relationship. But with her former boss, the literal Source of All Evil, out to destroy him and his brother, she’s not about to stand by and let it happen when she can help.
Not when the man she loves is in danger.
A Charmed AU (it's on Netflix, kids) for the Captain Swan Supernatural Summer.
[This work is currently abandoned! Was originally meant to be more than one chapter.]
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The Best Things Happen While You Dance by rat_in_the_pool
Fandoms: Once Upon a Time (TV)
22 Jan 2018
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Emma likes to dance. Killian likes that Emma likes to dance. Though it can get distracting when he’s only home because he forgot his phone and he’s trying to get back to his shift at the station and there’s NO TIME to be seduced by his wife, bloody hell, woman...
Day 21 of CS January Joy 2018
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Hook and Emma discuss Deckhand Hook and make Henry uncomfortable.
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Revenge-minded, scourge of the seas Captain Hook has one comically disastrous, drunken encounter with golden knight of the realm Emma, and, whether he’d like to admit it or not, it ends up changing his life. A few years later, the knight tracks him down to enlist his help on a quest that will lead him straight toward his vengeance. But Killian turns out to be much more than Emma first assumed, and Emma proves to be just as dangerous to Killian’s heart as he suspected...
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“He loved making love. Not in the physical, sexual sense - though she could bet he liked that too. But in that old-world, courtly, talking dirty behind a respectable veil of suggestion, way. Except, on him, and with a face he knew looked like it did...Respectable? Only barely.”
Worried about Hook post 4x12, Emma goes to check on him. They talk. They Netflix. They chill.
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the stiff heart by dana_norram, eiseul02
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020), The Old Guard (Comics)
08 Mar 2021
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“Today I met a boy who escaped al-Quds,” Yusuf says, and Nicolò stares back at him this time. His clean face is solemn, his pale eyes almost sad, and Yusuf wishes he could see some anger in them. Anything but this. “They killed his whole family.”
“When you say them,” Nicolò blinks, and there is a twitch in his strong jaw. “You mean me. My people.”
Yusuf feels he has been running his whole life.
He ran from his duties as the family’s heir when he refused to marry the woman chosen by his parents. Yusuf eventually made a new home in Jerusalem, and he thought he was done running. Then the Franks laid their siege and Yusuf was killed and brought back to life too many times. Before he realised, he was on the run again. Only this time, he is not alone.
Or; a road trip around the Mediterranean in which Yusuf struggles with his new life, searches for the women in his dreams and learns how to open his heart. Also, there is only one bed.
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Unfamiliar Endearments by Beulaugh
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020), The Old Guard (Comics)
04 Jul 2025
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Nicolò set aside the water skins to refill at the river and stood to take off his boots and clothes. As he finished peeling off his breeches and socks, he turned to face the river and froze.
Yusuf had just risen from the water. He stood knee deep in the calm current, clear liquid streaming down his skin, setting him alight in a glittering display, like twinkling stars, as the sun highlighted every perfect feature. Nicolò stood transfixed.
Rivulets of water cascaded all over Yusuf’s body. His skin glowed a deep bronze, giving off an aura of vitality and strength. Water droplets fell from the tight, dark curls at his brow, framing his face in a curtain of water, his beard shimmering in the sunlight, and then in a move that had Nicolò’s heart stopping in his chest, he lifted both hands overhead to sweep his hair off of his face, running them up and back over his head, accentuating his broad chest, covered in a light dusting of hair, that tapered into a narrow waist and deep grooves of muscles that rippled around his rib cage.
Or, Nicolò cannot control his reaction to Yusuf and feels horrible about it, but Yusuf is elated to finally have a sign that his feelings are returned.
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“We’re not blind,” Abby says. “I know how you look at me and Ro. Especially when we’re together.”
“I have no idea what you’re talking about,” she snaps, and the bastard has the nerve to laugh at her.
“Come on, princess,” Ro says, and Mira bristles at the nickname. “I thought you just said you didn’t like playing games.”
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30 Jun 2025
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Mira's not afraid of demons. She's choreographed worse.
So what if Abby and Romance are six feet of muscle, demon, and obsession with golden eyes and glowing patterns?
She’s got a sharp tongue, high standards, and zero interest in feeding their egos.…Until they corner her.
And fuck her so thoroughly she sees gods in the mirror.
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30 Jun 2025
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One-shot collection (mostly) of "missing scenes" fitting in and around the episodes in canon, building on Garak and Bashir's relationship (based on the assumption that they fall in love somewhere along the way).
Mostly canon-compliant (other than the slash). Introspective. Garak's POV.
Updated out of canonical order.
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