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Like You're Pouring Salt On My Cuts by that_was_tedious
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)
27 Sep 2025
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He’s just about fallen asleep when he hears June gasp. He forces his eyes open and looks up at her, giving her a curious look. June looks back at him, hesitance clearly written on her features. He doesn’t have the energy to do much, but he manages to raise an eyebrow at her in question. After having an internal debate with herself, June relents and holds her phone over his face so Alex can read what’s clearly a headline.
Beloved Queen Mary Dead After Reigning for Fifty Years. Daughter Catherine Set to Take Over Throne.
Well fuck.
Or; Henry tells Alex to leave that night at Kensington, and neither of them are prepared for the dealing with it. Then their emails leak anyway.
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- Part 2 of Ficlets, Snippits, and Pieces - RWRB
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The Invisible Life of Henry Fox by that_was_tedious
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)
24 Sep 2025
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"Alex had been…a mistake. A moment of weakness. A misjudgment on his part. Henry let himself get in too deep, and broke his own heart in the process. Leaving Alex alone in Texas is the hardest thing he’s ever had to do, and there was a good amount of competition on that list for the top spot.
Henry left, taking memories that he and Alex shared with him, and tucking them away behind his ribcage, only taking them out in moments of weakness when the longing got so bad that it physically ached. Henry will always cherish the time that they had together, and keep those memories safe, and the fact that Alex wouldn’t made him ache so much that it was sometimes hard to breathe."
Or; Henry is immortal and can never stay in one place for too long. When he leaves, the memories of him vanish along with every trace of him. Too bad Alex didn't get the memo.
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- Part 1 of Ficlets, Snippits, and Pieces - RWRB
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"As he looks up, he smiles softly at Buck, a grin attempting to fight its way onto his face. Buck looks back at him, eyes already a little hazy and lips parted as his breathing gets heavier. He whispers a please, hand reaching out to grab at Eddie’s and tug him closer. He goes easily, crawling on top of him and trailing his own lips across Buck’s face then ghosting over his mouth. Buck lets out another low whimper, and Eddie barely registers his own in return as he lowers his lips to the hollow of Buck’s throat. "
OR; Eddie and Buck's first time.
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You and I Will Always Belong by that_was_tedious
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)
13 Oct 2024
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Alex:
i’ve got to be 100% honest here
i made this dating profile last night with my best friend when we were drunk as hell and up until about five minutes ago my bisexuality was completely theoretical
like god damn man
i’m not convinced you’re not a catfishOr: Alex downloads a dating app, fills it out while drunk with Nora, and finds the love of his life purely by accident.
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- Part 4 of RWRB Social Media AU's
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I Keep My Mouth Shut Tight (Cause I Don't Want To Lose What's Not Even Mine) by that_was_tedious
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)
27 Apr 2024
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"Being affectionate, he has always used certain pet names with me. He’s called me sweetheart since we met, and I have used several in turn. That night he used a new one... I realised that he had woken me, saying it was time to take another dose of medicine. It was the way he said it, though: “Baby, I need you to wake up for me...” I am only slightly ashamed to admit that I whined pathetically at him calling me that, but he seemed to take it as protest that I didn’t want to wake, and not for what it really was—me absolutely losing my mind over that word coming out of his mouth and being directed at me. The cherry on top of it all was when he kissed me on the forehead and my brain promptly stopped working completely."
OR: At hit wits end, Henry decides to turn to reddit to ask the internet if his roommate likes him back, or if he's going insane. Then Nora intervenes.
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- Part 3 of RWRB Social Media AU's
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Ficlets, Snippits, and Pieces - RWRB by that_was_tedious
Fandom: Red White & Royal Blue (2023), Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
27 Sep 2025
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RWRB Social Media AU's by that_was_tedious
Fandom: Red White & Royal Blue (2023), Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
13 Oct 2024
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A collection of different social media AU's with the Red White & Royal Blue Characters
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Buck has always had a weird itch under his skin. Even when he was just a pup, he always felt like he didn’t quite fit. He was never the son his parents wanted him to be, never a good enough student, a good enough athlete, or just plain good enough. And then he’d presented as an alpha, and for once his parents had been happy with him. For the first time, it had seemed like maybe he could be what he was supposed to be. What everyone expected him to be.
Except that had never quite fit right either.
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Bookmarked by that_was_tedious
03 Nov 2025
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“Is this…” he could hear Eddie hesitate. “Is this because of Bobby?”
If Buck had the capacity to laugh, he would. For once, he wasn’t an emotional disaster because of Bobby. He had an excuse this time.
Buck shuddered, and more tears fell, coating his cheeks and Eddie’s neck.
“No,” he croaked. He squeezed his hands tighter in Eddie’s shirt, as if begging him not to leave. “It’s because of the baby.”
“Robbie?” Eddie prodded, sounding concerned. “What’s wrong with Robbie?”
“Not Robbie.”
“Then who—”
“I’m pregnant,” Buck blurted out.
Or, the one where Buck finds out he's pregnant, confides to baby Han, has a breakdown, has to watch Eddie jump off an eighty-foot bridge with no regard to his own personal safety, and definitely doesn't lose his mind about it.
A s9e01 "Eat the Rich" coda fic.
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15 Oct 2025
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After the firetruck incident, Buck moves to a small town and opens a bookstore, hoping to find some peace. Eddie is a nurse who moves to the same town with his son.
They meet, become friends, fall in love and almost lose each other.
But some things are just meant to be.
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Don’t say anything about missing Eddie, he thinks as he chops veggies to hide in Bobby’s ragu sauce. Don’t say anything about wanting him and Christopher back. Don’t say anything about El Paso, or facetime calls, or any feelings.
“I think Eddie and Chris are haunting my kitchen,” Buck blurts out.
In 2025, Evan Buckley is living at 4335 South Bedford Street and missing his Diaz boys. To compensate, he starts cooking.
In 2017, new firefighter academy recruit Eddie Diaz is starting to believe his son when he says that their new house comes with its very own kitchen ghost.
In every time, there is a kitchen, food for three, and love, and love, and love.
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They were engaged.
And they hadn’t even said a single word to each other.
“You can, uh…you can call me Buck,” he offered a little awkwardly through his PR smile, still plastered across his face. He was trying not to make it too obvious to the cameras that he was speaking.
There was a pause, long enough for Buck to think he already ruined everything, before he heard the regent offer back,
“Eddie.”