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1. The Truth's Expensive by MyotragusOClock

   Fandoms: The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald  

   • Not Rated
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   31 Jul 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Nick Carraway/Jay Gatsby
   • Jordan Baker & Nick Carraway
   • Daisy Buchanan & Nick Carraway
   • Jordan Baker & Daisy Buchanan
   • Nick Carraway
   • Jay Gatsby
   • Original Male Character(s)
   • Daisy Buchanan
   • Tom Buchanan
   • Jordan Baker (The Great Gatsby)
   • Original Female Character(s)
   • Meyer Wolfsheim
   • Chester McKee
   • Minor Myrtle Wilson
   • Alternate Universe - Modern Setting
   • Anxiety
   • Slow Burn
   • Internalized Homophobia
   • Family Drama
   • Wedding Drama
   • Destination Wedding
   • Religious Guilt
   • Protective Gatsby
   • Friends to Lovers
   • Fluff and Angst
   • Panic Attacks
   • Nick needs a Hug
   • Forced Proximity
   • Mutual Pining
   • Lavender Relationship
   • Identity Crisis
   • Emotional Hurt/Comfort
   • Greece
   • coming to terms with sexuality
   • Idiots in Love
   • Other Additional Tags to Be Added
   • Psychological Drama
   • Gay Panic
   • Aromantic Daisy Buchanan
   • Blackmail
   • Organized Crime
   • Domestic Fluff
   • Touch-Starved
   • Homophobia
   • Trauma
   • Healing
   • Consent is Sexy

   Summary

   Nick Carraway has built his life around control—his career as a journalist, his careful distance from his family, and the belief that staying composed means staying safe. That belief starts to crack when his brother’s death makes him the unexpected heir to a family business he never wanted.

   Sent to Greece for work, and stuck attending his cousin Daisy’s destination wedding, Nick meets Jay—someone who makes “control” feel a lot less important than it used to.

   Maybe life could actually be fun.
   Or at least… less predictable.

   (This is a completed Modern AU! Bonus chapter incoming lol)

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   94,422

   Chapters:

   49/50

   Comments:

   128

   Kudos:

   83

   Bookmarks:

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