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Helga Pataki impulsively walks away from her six-month job with DCFS, burnt out and disillusioned by a system that puts budgets above children. Caught between guilt, survival, and the ache of old traumas, she leans on her best friend and cousin as she stumbles through the messy process of healing. But recovery isn’t linear—and every step forward comes with its own setbacks, false starts, and unexpected detours.
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1972. Ed Teach meets Stede Bonnet in a gay bar. He's the perfect man-- or he would be, if it weren't for one thing.
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Louis Tomlinson is a single dad and burned-out pediatric ER doctor juggling a custody battle, relentless shifts, and his six-year-old daughter Junie’s chronic illness. When the weight of it all becomes too much, they trade the city for a small town, a gentler hospital, and the hope of more time together. Between medicine and mischief, one determined little girl is on a mission to bring a little light back into her dad’s life with the help of her new hospital best friend--Harry Styles.
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In the kingdom of Hancastle, beauty is currency—and Oikawa is priceless. Shackled in silk, owned by a Viscount, and paraded like an ornament, he survives only by dreaming of a world he’ll never see: snow, pines, mountains, freedom.
But the night he’s dragged into an alley behind a tavern, everything changes.
Rourke Black—feared pirate captain of The Black Cage, a man carved from scars and storms—sees him. And Rourke is not a man who looks away.What begins as a single violent rescue spirals into open defiance, war on the horizon, and a hunted fugitive aboard the most notorious ship on the eastern seas.
Oikawa learns of the freedom he had dreamed of for his entire life. The man who gives it to him would never dare to take it away again.
Oikawa doesn’t know whether Rourke is his salvation or his ruin.
But for the first time in his life… he has a choice.
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It’s taken Steve and Natasha a long time to get here but they have decided to give each other a chance. A chance to love and start anew. .
There are many surprises along the way. One in particular changes everything in a way they never thought possible.
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“Lucius Abraxas Malfoy,” Kingsley continued, and the formal use of his full name felt like a tolling bell, “you are found guilty on all charges. For your crimes against wizardkind, for your willing participation in murder and torture by the use of unforgivables, for your financial support of Lord Voldemort's regime, this court sentences you to life imprisonment in Azkaban.”
The gavel came down with a sound like thunder.
Hermione watched as the verdict hit Lucius. For a moment, his carefully maintained mask slipped, and she saw the man beneath. His eyes found Narcissa’s, and something passed between them, a lifetime of words compressed into a single look. Then the mask reassembled itself, and he straightened in his chair, accepting his fate with what remained of his dignity.
“Narcissa Malfoy and Draco Malfoy,” Kingsley continued, his voice gentler now, “in light of the testimony of Harry Potter and Hermione Granger, and considering the mitigating factors in your cases, this court finds that while you are guilty of lesser crimes, you will not be sentenced to Azkaban.”
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After defeating Steve Cobs for good, all of the cast moves in the hotel, including Taco. Taco has a hard time to call the hotel her home, or to even form relationships because of her past. She later decides to leave the hotel for good and form a new start for her and to meet new people.
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Throughout your human life, you were alone, only finding company in Vincent Whitman. Even though you were now free to be who you sinfully were, emptiness still banged in your chest. How many years would it take before you saw him again? He had to show up here eventually. After all, he was a killer. You knew that now.
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- Part 2 of No Good
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One would really think the happy ending would last for more than 24 hours but in the real world happiness is a fleeting thing. For Betty, Marc Amanda, and Daniel the choices of the past are going to bite them on the fashionable backside. Sometimes, to move forward, you have to start over. This is the story of when happily ever after doesn't go as planned.
Sequel to: Gossip Mode Style
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- Part 4 of The Gossip Universe
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Following the aftermath of the trial against the Sins and Vox’s execution, Valentino finds himself stripped of his title and status as an Overlord, is powerless and lost his contracts and home, and is unsure of what to do now in a world that hates him.
After getting beat up by some thugs in an alley, Valentino wakes up in a room at the Hazbin Hotel, having been found and brought there by Angel. While the rest of the hotel residents are wary of him, Val is struggling with his new lot in afterlife. However, a new employee at the hotel might be the fresh start he needs…
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- Part 2 of Val’s New Lease on Afterlife
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And When The World Remembers by ms_katonic
Fandoms: Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games)
13 Dec 2025
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When two Dragonborns fight, the results are never trivial, and there can be only one left standing. With the Last Dragonborn all set to be the victor, an unexpected disaster far away gives the First a chance to cheat death yet again, escaping Oblivion only to find himself in a completely different land with no hero to save it from unfolding catastrophe. No one but Miraak. Can the First Dragonborn overcome the habits of millennia to be the hero Thedas needs? Or will he prove to be a villain greater than anything Tevinter ever managed? Only time will tell - that and the efforts of one of Tevinter's outcast sons.
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In 2002, after the Second Battle of Little Helga, Cassius Warrington makes the difficult decision to leave his elitist family and strike out on his own. But he'll need the help of newfound friends to avoid floundering in the post-war wizarding world.
Part of my Stolen Moments series and no, it won't make sense unless you read the preceding stories in the series.
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- Part 21 of Stolen Moments
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Instead, the count unwrapped the paper packaging of a rectangular shaped band-aid (since when did he even take it out?) and peeled it from the plastic. While Cherubim was blinking slowly, confused by the count’s actions, the count delicately applied it on Cherubim’s cheek, where the ugly scab was.
Cherubim was shocked by the gesture.
The gesture was kind and odd at once.
It almost reminded him of the gentleness Gumina reserved for him.venokar/satikarch/poisonedblade fic where instead of killing sateriasis, karchess just damages sateriasis enough to break the contract and takes care of cherubim :o (if that even makes sense)
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Maren Vale moved to Boston to escape the wreckage of a small-town scandal and the ghosts of a corrupted sheriff’s office. She wasn’t supposed to love it so much. She came to disappear quietly, bury herself in night shifts, cold rooms, and the predictable order of the dead. But her first night at the morgue doesn’t go according to plan.
Dr. Zayne’s been buried under his own backlog—paperwork, bodies. Together, they’re learning that silence can be its own language… and that control doesn’t always look like restraint.
What began as a professional pairing starts to feel like a test of composure, respect, and something neither of them are ready to name.
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There's your first day at the Belvedere. You're fifteen when your uncle sells you to the whorehouse. Says it will be your new home.
There's your last day at the Belvedere. A bright future awaits, out on the frontier to run your own brothel. But first, you need to bury the past.
There's your first day in Blackbird. This is where it begins.
A companion fic to Blackbird.
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- Part 4 of Blackbird
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Mauve moves in her late Grandma's house, and everything is good. Nothing to hide, no missing family member, no crippling guilt, no magic suppressant, no impromptu crushes on two men, that's so not happening. The Ostrich Strategy still has bright days to come, and she definitely won't need any help to keep the past from resurfacing, and the stupid acrobatic number of her heart when she happens to get out of her house in check. Nothing to see here.
Or: a lost soul moves in a quaint little village, runs from her problems and herself thinking that all she needs is a fresh start. But she finds oh so way more than that, and ends up navigating the sinuous path of healing and self-discovery. Fortunately, she couldn't be more well-accompanied for that.
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Set during the imaginary S5 playing in my head. Carmy invites Syd over when the power goes out on her block during a snowstorm.
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When Revenge Isn't an Option by Lovely_Number_7
Fandoms: Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon), Helluva Boss (Web Series)
12 Dec 2025
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The Exorcist Army is no more. With no purpose or direction and no way to take revenge, Lute finds other ways of coping with her losses.
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"Do I have to ask first." He whispered, his hair feeling cold in the room since he didn't properly dry it, but not enough to make him willingly get up and fetch a towel.
"I know nothing I say can be good enough for you…" Jaeho started off, his eyes looking sullen as he finally glanced at Hyunsoo with a small frown.
"I rather hear it than nothing at all." Hyunsoo bit at his fingertips again, his nails already down to the flesh, but still trying to bite off any skin that felt wrong. He rather not make himself bleed, but this was a sober type conversation and he didn't want to crack open a beer right now— He just needed something to do.
"Did you regret it…?" He questioned and stuffed his hands inside his sleeves so that he could put them under his thighs to stop himself from biting too deep.
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Tsunade spent her life holding everything together. At fifty-two, she’s finally coming undone.
One man left too often. Another arrived when she stopped looking.
Second chances don’t come clean. Some burn, some linger, and some force you to choose.
(Modern AU)