11 Works by tenderhooked
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A month after France and Frank Harkness, Slough House is floundering beneath the weight of grief none of them quite know how to deal with. Fortunately, Catherine has returned, and she’s determined to fix things — starting with River, who’s carrying a secret that’s affecting how he acts both with her and with Lamb — until she and River are kidnapped from Slough House by a group of former slow horses that have a very serious bone to pick with Jackson Lamb.
It will be fine. Catherine knows that Lamb will come for River, and River knows that Lamb will come for Catherine, and until he does they simply have to keep the other alive long enough to be found. But what they’re not expecting is that these former slow horses don’t just want to hurt Lamb; they want to break River, and force Lamb to watch it happen.
But the former slow horses have made a significant error of judgement. With every recording they send of River’s torture, the more determined Lamb becomes to rescue his boy, and when he finally does get River and Catherine back he is never going to let them go. It’ll be a long, difficult road to recovery, but they’ll walk it together, all three of them.
[ or: the camcorder kidnapping fic, at last. ]
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the sun is only a God if you learn to starve by tenderhooked for altschmerzes
Fandoms: Ted Lasso (TV)
17 Aug 2024
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’Cause, see, it’s been nearly a month since Wembley and no one’s said a word about it. They were all there in that room with him, weren’t they; they witnessed what happened with their own eyes. The horrible words, jagged and serrated like a knife’s edge. The prowling, commanding grace of a predator that’s caught its prey between its teeth but hasn’t bitten yet. And then—
Then Jamie, knuckles bruised before he even realized he’d thrown a punch. Jamie, standing there in his socks. Jamie, looming above his Da as his Da skittered back across the tile, fingers to his jaw, curled protectively around the soft parts of his stomach. Jamie, the monster. The one that nobody can get close to. The one that destroys everything it touches.
He can’t sleep. When he tries, that’s the only thing he sees, in the dark behind his eyelids: Ruin.
[ post-wembley, jamie is drowning and terrified of asking for help he doesn't believe he deserves. cue a fretful team, a lot of well-meaning but fumbling attempts at connection, one thousand bajillion hugs, a few homemade brownies, and a jamie tartt on his way to something like healing. ]
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- Part 2 of gift fics!!
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to your joy I tether (not a lot, just forever) by tenderhooked
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
02 Aug 2024
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“I’m not in love with you.”
“Ah,” says Edwin, succeeding a pause that goes on longer than he plans it to. “I see.”
“Shit, no, sorry, that’s not what I—”
“Charles, you mustn’t apologize—”
“No, Eds, wait, wait. That came out all wrong.” And Charles clutches Edwin’s hand tighter, so Edwin clutches back, taking strange comfort in the curve of Charles’s fingers, the ridge of his knuckles. Terrain that is somehow more familiar to Edwin than the paths he’s carved through Hell. “What I meant is, I’m not ever gonna be, like, in love with you. Romantically. I just—” His inhale is a juttering scrape of breath excavated from deep inside, and Edwin feels it as though it is his lungs that draw it in. “I love you, Edwin. I’ve always loved you. And after you confessed in Hell, I thought—well, I thought what I felt for you had to change. But it didn’t, and it won’t. I’m never gonna have a romantic notion towards anyone in the entire world, and I love you, and it’d be aces to kiss you.”
[ or: an aromantic awakening, a kiss, several bouts of crying, and a long cuddle on the couch. more or less in that order. ]
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Things Are Different Since You’ve Been Here Last by tenderhooked
Fandoms: The Bear (TV 2022)
09 Jun 2024
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After the walk-in debacle on Friends and Family night, Carmy is trying to make up for his mistakes by pushing himself to be better. But between the voice in his head telling him he’s worthless, his own wholehearted belief in everything that voice is saying, and his desperation to not let anyone see that there’s something severely wrong with him, things are going to shit fast — so when the hospital calls to inform him that his mother’s been in an accident and is going to need a caretaker for a while, Carmy takes the chance to do something right for once. It’ll be fine. He can handle it, and it’ll be fine.
He cannot handle it, and it isn’t fine. One night at Donna’s, everything goes catastrophically to shit and Carmy’s left with an open, bleeding wound in his hand and the suffocating realization that nobody’s coming to save him. But the people who love him are nothing if not determined to prove him wrong. They’re going to get him out of that house. They’re going to be there as his hand heals. They’re going to hug him, and cook for him, and remind him how it feels to laugh. And whenever he begins to believe that he doesn’t deserve any of it, they’ll be there to prove just how much he matters to them.
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“Quit fucking with me,” Jamie said. The backs of his eyes burned. “Both of you look like you’ve gone through a goddamn time machine. I don’t know where the hell I am. Just. Just. Just, c’mon, tell me what the fuck’s going on. Did he—did I get a concussion? Is that what this is? I fell into a coma and now everything’s turned on its head?”
“You didn’t get a concussion,” Not-Sam rushed to reassure him.
“And we haven’t gone through a time machine,” said Not-Roy, and then, after an electric-wire pause: “But you might have.”
[ or: in the middle of a 33-year-old jamie tartt's retirement party, a fuckery of the universe occurs and a 23-year-old jamie is suddenly standing up on that stage instead - and he's got no memory of the last ten years at all. ]
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all the world is quiet, except the mourning dove by tenderhooked
Fandoms: Ted Lasso (TV)
01 Mar 2024
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“That last owner kept Jude chained in the yard. Wouldn't let him inside the house.”
Jude appraises Dani warily. Dani wonders whether it was only the last owner that kept Jude chained. The dog has the eyes of a creature that’s been left alone far too long.
“I’d like to let him into mine, I think,” says Dani, and feels his chest loosen as though a knot has been untangled.
[ or: dani rojas, and a dog named jude. ]
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from right here, the view goes on forever by tenderhooked
Fandoms: Daredevil (TV), Daredevil (Comics)
24 Feb 2024
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It happens like this:
The pain erupts along every synapse, like each nerve has been lit on fire and set to burn, and Matt crumples in on himself. In one ear, he listens as Hell’s Kitchen explodes simultaneously into a compressing silence and a cacophonous chaos. In the other, Foggy and Karen are telling him to breathe, breathe, please just breathe. But he can’t. He can’t.
His bones are splitting apart—
No. His bones are atomizing. They are disintegrating.
Their heartbeats thrum together, faster and faster and faster until the silence consumes and then—
—Matt stumbles forward and lands hard on his hands and knees.
And he is here. It’s only been a second.
But Karen and Foggy are gone, and they have been for a long, long time.
[ or: matt gets blipped, and karen and foggy are left behind. five years later, matt finally comes back. ]
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On the drive back from school one Friday afternoon, Phoebe asked her Uncle Roy, “D’you think my dad’s still out there somewhere?”
[ phoebe is tasked with writing a letter to her younger self for a school assignment. this brings up a lot of complicated emotions; enter jamie tartt. ]
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- Part 1 of gift fics!!
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hear you calling from some lost and distant shore by tenderhooked
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Thor (Movies), Loki (TV 2021)
09 Nov 2023
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Loki turned up on Thor’s doorstep exactly four months after the end of the end of the world.
“You—” Thor spluttered. “How—I watched you die.”
“Sur-prise,” Loki sang, and received a punch to the face for his troubles.
[ or, post-endgame, loki comes back. and he and thor finally get that hug they've been waiting for. ]
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- Part 1 of when she sings, she sings (come home)
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hey, I'll be goin' today (but I'll be back home around the way) by tenderhooked
Fandoms: Ted Lasso (TV)
01 Sep 2023
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It hasn't been the easiest year for Ted. In fact, you might as well go ahead and call him Avicii, 'cause he's starting to wish he could just fall asleep and wait for some kind stranger to wake him up when it's all over. But he doesn't quit on things, so instead of doing that, he's moving to Richmond—the one in the U.K, not Kansas, because that would sorta defeat the whole purpose, wouldn't it—and hoping that clean slates really are all they're cracked up to be. That's it. A clean slate, and then he'll channel his inner Dorothy and return to Kansas a changed man.
But Ted ain't expecting Trent Crimm, the Independent, and his son Colin. Or Keeley Jones and her insistent, cute-as-a-button pursuit of friendship. Or the enigmatic Rebecca Welton, with her impeccable outfits and biting wit and intense doppio espressos.
Or, maybe most especially, Roy Kent and his little brother Jamie and the way their baggage just matches right up with his own.
[ the football kiddos au ]
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- Part 1 of football kiddos au
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Jamie has this dream, sometimes. It starts, and he can’t breathe, and he can’t wake up.
It’s like: He’s in a car, and he’s driving real fucking fast, and for some reason it’s dark out and he can’t see for shit but he’s still not slowing down.
It’s like: He doesn’t want to slow down.
It’s like: He’s in a car, and he’s driving real fucking fast, and for some reason it’s dark out and he can’t see for shit but he’s still not slowing down and there’s a cliff rising in front of him, closer and closer and closer, and he might not be able to see for shit but for some reason he can see that cliff and the empty abyss beyond it.
It’s like: He knows the cliff is coming and he doesn’t want to slow down.
Jamie has this dream, sometimes. It ends, and he wakes up, and he still can’t breathe.
[ the mom city fix-it. in which james tartt sr. dies, and jamie is haunted by a ghost. ]