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John has loved Paul since he was seventeen years old, and at thirty-four he finally faces it.
Things fall apart, and then, eventually, come together.
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23 Apr 2026
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John had to focus on the situation before him and stop thinking about things that didn’t matter. He was there to record, and march, and be a good husband. Paul wasn’t part of the equation. Paul was uptown, probably looking for some rich bitch from an old New York family to soften the blow of his wife throwing a drink in his face and asking for a divorce. John wished him good luck in finding his second wife and prayed that Paul would leave him alone. The old times were over; the old gang had split up. They were all adults now. There was no going back to what they’d once had.
AU: After two years, Paul’s marriage ends and he moves to New York City in 1971. John doesn’t take it well.
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20 Apr 2026
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Paul has always been sort of vaguely aware of the fact that he loves John, in the same way that he’s aware that John loves him, in the same way that he’s aware that it doesn’t matter. He knows that they can’t be together – they can’t be queer – so it’s not worth dwelling on, is it?
If he thinks about it too deliberately, it hurts. So he doesn’t think about it.
It would have been perfectly fine going on that way. He might have done it his entire life with ease, even. It would have been fine, it not for the fact that one day he just – forgets, for a moment. And he kisses him.
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21 Mar 2026
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Nearly three decades after the breakup of The Beatles, John and Paul have long since worked through their conflicts of the seventies. After Linda’s death, Paul is a wreck and John moves in with him to help. The fact that he’s been in love with him for just about his entire life isn’t important – Paul is grieving a tremendous loss, and John is only there to be the friend that he desperately needs.
Things have a way of getting complicated, though.
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21 Mar 2026
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"Once, John gave me a compliment. Once, the whole time."
– Paul McCartneyJohn pays attention for just a fraction of a second longer after he’d given Paul that one compliment, and he notices how flustered it makes him. And that’s all that John wants, really – to make Paul react – so that’s all that it takes to change everything.
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21 Mar 2026