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The Pride & Prejudice AU you didn't know you needed // Arranged marriage to love // Slow burn
"Why?" Verso asked, his pale eyes fixed on Gustave's face with unsettling intensity.
"Why sacrifice yourself for her?"
The question caught Gustave off guard. He opened his mouth, closed it again, searching for the right words.
"Because she is my sister," he said simply. "And I would do anything for her."In Belle Époque France, an old promise binds two families. When the promised bride refuses, her brother steps forward instead — binding himself to a man shaped by pride and expectation.
Gustave Virlogeux is practical, dependable, and entirely unremarkable — or so he has always believed. Verso Dessendre is composed, untouchable, and dangerously perceptive.
Their engagement is duty. Their courtship is stolen glances, careful distance, and the maddening warmth of a hand that lingers a moment too long.But what begins as obligation unfolds into a slow reckoning with everything they cannot say — until what was never supposed to be real becomes the only thing that is.
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10 May 2026
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i'll kiss you for as much time as we have by orphan_account
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
16 Aug 2017
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“I gather you have come to slay the beast?”
“Uh.” Sirius stared at the man lying on the grass. There was not a line of tension in his body, and he hadn’t dignified Sirius—Prince Sirius—with a single glance. “Er, yes. Right. The beast. Werewolf. Do you, uh, know where…it dwells?”
The man snorted and turned the page of his book.
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prompt: According to tradition a new King/Queen/Leader must kill a werewolf to prove his worth and here I am to kill you but I just can’t seem to do it
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04 May 2026
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Dear omega,
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- Part 1 of Two-Point Perspective
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03 May 2026
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“He thought he knew all pains, he was wrong.
His breaths came out short. Panting through the thoughts melting into each other. No matter how he shifted, the hurt sharpened itself, screeching through his body. He long wished to ignore it, but there was something so intimate about it that he couldn’t.””
Laying in his bed after experiencing a violating assault, Damian can’t find it within himself to act brave. Unable to be strong any longer, he finds himself calling for his father.
His father, who would let the universe burn if it meant that his youngest was safe in his arms.
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25 Apr 2026
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She had never expected to become a mother. Not since she had left Vernon, anyway. She knew it was probably for the best, the fact that she never had children, especially when Lily had been good at laughing and singing and seeing the best in people and Petunia was sour and panicked and never knew what to do.
She wasn’t Lily. That much was true. But she was all Harry had. She would have to do.
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Petunia Evans never wanted to be involved in the wizarding war. But when her sister saves her from her terrible fiance, she begins to bake for the young soldiers of the first wizarding war. She knows nothing about what they're fighting for, but cares for witches and wizards for the sake of her sister.
And then, when her nephew turns up on her doorstep, Lily and James dead, Petunia does all she knows how to do.
She cares for Harry Potter as though he is her own.
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17 Apr 2026