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1. What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits by VoluntarySubmission

   Fandoms: The Nice Guys (2016)  

   • Explicit
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   28 Jul 2026

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Jackson Healy/Holland March
   • Holly March
   • Jackson Healy
   • Holland March
   • Holland March's Wife
   • Period-Typical Homophobia
   • Getting Together
   • First Kiss
   • Police Brutality
   • Flashbacks
   • Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism
   • Canon-Typical Behavior
   • Other Additional Tags to Be Added
   • Explicit tags to be added once they are finalised in the draft
   • 1950s
   • 1960s
   • 1970s
   • Internalized Homophobia
   • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD
   • please read the content warnings and take them seriously
   • violence done to the gay community by the LAPD will be explicitly depicted in at least one chapter
   • and homophobia perpetuated and learned from the police is a major theme across the whole thing
   • Vice Squad Raids
   • Bisexual Holland March
   • Bisexual Jackson Healy
   • Not a casefic
   • But There Are Cases
   • Post-Canon
   • Closeted Character

   Summary

   To take the private investigator exam you needed 6000 hours of logged experience working directly under someone already licensed. Holland March thought he'd be annoyed at needing to supervise every one of those hours for Jackson Healy, but he's finding himself much more appreciative of his partner's company than he expected.

   But acknowledging the depth of those feelings is also unburying some ugly history from March's younger years as a policeman with the LAPD, when he learned what was needed to survive as a cop.

   Can he break down some of his painfully taught defense mechanisms enough to risk finding something deeper with Healy? Can he ever feel safe enough to realise feelings deliberately crushed down for more than a decade? Or is realising this potential connection worth it all?

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   4,206

   Chapters:

   2/14

   Comments:

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   Kudos:

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