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1. i’m a running car (you’re a closed garage) by helenssharp

   Fandoms: Death Becomes Her - Mattison & Carey/Pennette, Death Becomes Her (1992)  

   • Explicit
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • F/F
   • Complete Work

   26 Apr 2026

   Tags

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   • Madeline Ashton/Helen Sharp
   • Madeline Ashton
   • Helen Sharp (Death Becomes Her)
   • Ernest Menville
   • Drug Addict AU
   • Age Difference
   • Hurt No Comfort
   • Unrequited Love
   • Drug Use
   • Recreational Drug Use
   • Drugged Sex
   • body image issues
   • Hurt very little comfort
   • no one is happy
   • borderline dead dove
   • the dove is ashes and Madeline is snorting them off of Helen’s tits

   Summary

   And if Madeline's life were a fairytale, there would be a happy ending to all of this.

   There would be a kiss over the center console of her car, a hand in hers, a dance shared in the rain to music that only her and Helen can hear moving through their veins with the gentle thrum of blood rush.

   But Madeline's life is not, after all, a fairytale and she is not a damsel in distress nor is she a princess in charge of changing her own destiny.

   She only plays one in the movies.

   ———

   OR: the AU where they’re both drug addicts, hot messes, and no one is happy

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   English

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