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Several months after that strange dream about Henry, I received a perhaps even stranger reminder of my former life.
I’m audaciously writing to ask if you would do me the honor of coming to New York to be my best man. I know it’s sort of sudden and short notice. I may have no right to ask this of you. You would be doing me a huge favor.
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how not to sleep at night by orpheuswasabadkisser
Fandoms: The Secret History - Donna Tartt
14 Dec 2025
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Henry had always considered himself to be above anything carnal.
As a master of the stoic mind he wouldn’t allow an innocent crush to dictate his life.
However when Julian pairs them for a translation, a half-drunken mistake sets Henry into a spiral and uncovers the obsessive nature restraint breeds.In two days Henry is to discover that desire sounds almost noble when you call it restraint and passivity is a two edged knife that harms whoever yields it.
He should’ve known better — but then again, so should Aeneas.
a retelling of Aeneas and Dido’s hate crime of a relationship.
(warning: Henry-centric and soon to be edited properly)
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“No, no, there’s no use in leaving if you’re already here,” Francis said, waving at the air as if batting my suggestion away. “I need a model anyway, and I could pay you whatever Julian’s carved up for the modeling department.”
"Alright,” I said, pulling out my own wallet. “Where do you want me?”
“Preferably naked on the white cloth.”
“Very funny.”
“Go get ready and let me ponder,” he answered. “I wasn’t expecting you to be here, after all.”--
Or, the Hampden students are art majors and Richard doesn't understand why Francis wants him as his muse. -
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When Margaret Deveroux arrives at Hampden Collage, she intends to escape the noise of New York and immerse herself in ancient languages. Instead, she finds herself in Julian Marrow's exclusive Greek class and the strange, magnetic circle of students who haunt it. As Margaret weaves herself into their world of beauty, intellect, and excess, she finds her loyalties tested, her desires revealed, and morality blurred by none other than Henry Winter.
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It was only supposed to be a weekend getaway to Francis’ country home…
Francis invites Richard and Henry out to the country for a weekend, and things quickly get out of hand.This is basically just TSH smut with my three favorite characters. Hope you enjoy. :)
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LASCIATE OGNE SPERANZA, VOI CH'ENTRATE.
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And Though I Burn, How Could I Fall? by apolloniansorrow
Fandoms: The Secret History - Donna Tartt
05 Dec 2025
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“The intensity of the sin, however, the crime of letting oneself get in too deep and going much too far to protect that depth, was far too much to bear.”
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Years after the events of The Secret History, Richard reflects on his accounts of that year at Hampden, and consumed by guilt, decides to recount what really went on behind the scenes with one Henry Winter.
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You, Reader, are a student at Hampden University in rural Vermont under the name Elizabeth, who goes by Lizzy. Pursuing a career in writing, you are a hopeless romantic who dreams of creating art for everyone to love. Though, what happens when you stumble upon a group out in the woods, precariously close to a cliff? Is that Bunny with the other students from the Greek class on campus? What are they doing-? Bunny's body plummets to the ground as you bear witness.
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Ever since the aftermath of Richard's, well, adventures in the Hampden winter, Henry is very cautious when going out with him in the cold.
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“'Charles, really, I am not that kind of guy.' I laughed nervously, which definitely did not make me sound convincing."
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During their stay at the Corcoran house for Bunny's funeral, a walk around the property leads to a tick check, which in turn leads to a threesome.
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The Greek class is settled around a table, homework is laid out (as well as you and Henry's relationship, though thats just Bunny being Bunny) when it's interrupted by a new face.
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The 14th Letter of the Greek Alphabet by selfindulgentangel
Fandoms: The Secret History - Donna Tartt
27 Nov 2025
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Bunny challenges Henry's word in Scrabble. He's very determined to make Henry lose his turn.
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How could she not yield to the gravity of him, the way he occupied the spaces no one else could enter, the way his presence threaded through her mind as if it had always been there, stitched into the very pattern of her being?
After being met with Richard's presence in the twins' apartment, Camilla and Charles navigate the perilous intimacy of their bond, haunted by the bacchanal and the blood that lingers between them.
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Henry has a migraine; he's doing great, though.
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At Hampden College, Richard Papen just wants a quiet life: lectures, books and the promise of a degree. However, a single line on his application form – 'Knows Greek' – thrusts him into a group of students whose brilliance is as unsettling as it is alluring. Under the spell of a professor whose elegance conceals a colder authority, Richard finds himself drawn into a world that is both intoxicating and dangerous.
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Henry takes Richard on a vacation back to California. It brings up hard memories for Richard, but they overall have a good time.
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THAT LITTLE BASTARD RICHARD LEFT ME OUT
Whether it's of great importance or just another misunderstanding I do not know. What I'm certain of, is that I need to set the record straight. I WAS there when everything happened and whatever that lying bastard wrote was a lie to some extent.
My name is Léon Potocki-Champvent. I arrived at Hampden a year before Richard and I have my own story to tell...so brace yourself.
If it were an interrogation, I'd say that I don't know everything and they should dig up Henry's grave and ask him, for I was the one always left out— just like Richard.
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always in time but never in line (for dreams) by pladoski
Fandoms: The Secret History - Donna Tartt
18 Nov 2025
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From the darkest pit of my mind, thoughts started coming up, jumping back and forth in the most Pindaric way I knew of, as I looked, really gazed upon Francis’ features, which I thought in that instant i must’ve missed up until then.
Ginger freckles danced all over his cheeks and collarbone, probably covering up his covered torso as well, and I wished for a moment to lift his grey sweater and look for each one myself.
Richard can’t seem to help himself. The feeling of Francis’ lips on his reminds him of broken porcelain pieces: recomposed in perfect harmony, glued until they might again break.
(What might’ve happened after their first, very dubious kiss, if they’d both felt even a tiny bit of attraction towards each other.)
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five sentence drabbles | prompt: pain
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- Part 5 of tumblr five sentence drabbles
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- English
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- 93
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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five sentence drabbles | prompt: eyes
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- Part 3 of tumblr five sentence drabbles
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 80
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 7
- Hits:
- 75