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1. smoothing me over by alsoalsowik

   Fandoms: Rivals (TV 2024), Rutshire Chronicles - Jilly Cooper  

   • Mature
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • F/M
   • Complete Work

   21 May 2026

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Rupert Campbell-Black/Taggie O'Hara
   • Rupert Campbell-Black
   • Taggie O'Hara
   • Basil "Bas" Baddingham
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • Not A Fix-It
   • is Make-It-Worse a tag?
   • because this is that
   • spoilers for s2e01
   • Mild Sexual Content
   • minor Taggie/Bas if you squint
   • Angst

   Summary

   "Tag," Rupert says, his voice velvet against the shell of her ear. Something harsh pricks at her skin — the desperate way he says her name. "I'm sorry, angel. So sorry."

    

   Pushing away from the sink only forces her closer to his chest, broad and steady behind her. Futile. Inevitable. Just like the all of the love and hate churning together in her gut, threatening to come up all over the kitchen. She pushes anyway.

    

   When he turns her, gently, Taggie goes willingly.

    

   or, Rupert tries to do the honorable thing and fails miserably.

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