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1. I couldn't heal myself with time alone by AutisticWriter

   Fandoms: Inside No. 9 (TV)  

   • Mature
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • F/M
   • Complete Work

   03 Oct 2025

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Damon/Val (Inside No. 9)
   • Val (Inside No. 9)
   • Damon (Inside No. 9)
   • Episode: s09e03 Mulberry Close
   • Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism
   • Drinking to Cope
   • Established Relationship
   • Unhealthy Relationships
   • Complicated Relationships
   • Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms
   • Arguing
   • Apologies
   • Vomiting
   • Past Rape/Non-con
   • Emotionally Repressed
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • Past Child Abuse
   • Whump
   • Angst
   • Angst and Hurt/Comfort
   • Hopeful Ending
   • All Inclusive Promptober 2025
   • Title from a Poets of the Fall Song
   • One Shot

   Summary

   Val and Damon have never had the perfect marriage, but things were going well. And then they move to Mulberry Close, and everything starts to fall apart.

   Series

   • Part 3 of Promptober 2025
   • Part 5 of My Inside No. 9 Fics
   • Part 31 of Help, I can't stop naming my fics after POTF lyrics

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