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Spencer Reid is used to being the smartest person on the room.
He wears his intelligence like a badge of pride over everything that happens to him, a shield from reality, a quiet claim of superiority he rarely admits.
Until she comes along.
Doctor Autumn Rhodes is hated by him since before she even met him.
The similarities are uncanny. Autumn is also a child prodigy, a science genius with two PhD's and a bunch of masters at the young age of twenty-four. Young, pristine, charming and utterly infurating for him.
It's like she's everything he would've been if life had been nicer to him.
And he hates her for that. In just some days, the feeling is mutual.
But the more they work together, the more the lines between rivalry and something else blur...
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15 Jul 2026
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He curls in on himself, tucking his legs under the bench, but his knees knock against the table, too long, too big, and it sends his eyes burning. It makes everything within him burn. “It’s not exactly possible, but I’ve always wanted…to feel small, sometimes.”
“Just sometimes?” II says.
His face burns. “It doesn’t matter. Most people laugh like it’s some sort of inside joke, but I get why. Those are soft things and I'm the furthest thing from that. I don't get to be.”
“But you wanna be?”
He swallows, looking away. “Doesn’t matter. No one’s wanted to.”
“What if I did?”
He blinks once, then twice. “Huh?"
Or, the one in which Vessel keeps getting confused for an alpha, II keeps getting confused for an omega, and somehow, that is the starting place of everything.
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15 Feb 2026
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Alina Vale dreams of escaping her dead-end life as a diner waitress, finding solace in painting Gotham’s haunting shadows. But when a routine trip to the bank turns into a living nightmare, she finds herself face-to-face with the Joker—a man as captivating as he is terrifying.
As his twisted games unravel her defenses, Alina is forced to confront the pull he has over her, a collision of fear and desire she can’t control. Trapped in his world of chaos and power, survival means facing not only him but the darker parts of herself he’s brought to life.
A story of obsession, control, and the intoxicating allure of letting go.
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01 Aug 2025
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You're a Muggle who owns and runs a bakery. Your grandfather passed not too long ago and you've been feeling depressed and quick to anger. Still, you manage to run things as normal. You're normal. Everything is normal. Until the man in black enters your bakery on an early morning after the Christmas holiday. After an unpleasant experience with him, you're sure he'll never come back. But he does. Again and again. A hesitant friendship forms, magic is revealed to you in the most uneasy way, and suddenly the very handsome, brooding man in black attaches himself to you over the holiday.
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15 Oct 2024
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One of Joker's hostages recognizes a favorite painter of hers who now works for the Clown Prince of Crime. Starstruck, she can't help but voice her admiration, forever changing her life in the process.
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