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This is silly, Hecate thinks and almost turns right back around. It’s not as if Miss Bat has been particularly kind to her this year. She's suffered quite a bit of scares since Mildred Hubble’s begun to sleep under their roof, but Miss Bat and Hecate have never developed the type of relationship to exchange birthday gifts.
So why is she here in the dead of the night with her fist raised to knock on Gwen’s door?
(Is it Gwen’s birthday, already? Oh, I had hoped to give her something special this year. She always was one of our favorite singers as children, don’t you remember, Hiccup?)
And of course.
Of course she knows why she’s here.
The long nights laying on the cobblestone, feet propped up against the wall as Pippa charmed the ceiling to look like the evening sky, just as the sun was about to set. The way her eyes drooped and her cheeks hurt from smiling, the heavy weight of Pippa’s hand in hers. The red and orange and pink of the sky behind her eyelids, and Esper Vespertillo’s calming voice drifting through Hecate’s small room.
Hecate takes a nervous breath, remembers Pippa’s kind and open face, and knocks once.
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hecate learns to make friends with the help of pippa
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She hears Mildred’s feet shuffle loudly to the door – the girl is barefoot and still manages to make more noise than Sybil’s socked feet – and doesn’t close her timepiece until she hears her near the door.
“Uh,” Mildred’s voice startles Hecate into looking up. She’s halfway out the lab, stands in the middle of the doorframe and looks like she’s dredging every ounce of courage from her heart. “M-miss Pentangle said the same to me, o-once. To be kind to myself? Except she said it about – well, did you learn it from her? When you were children?”
She snaps her mouth closed and her cheeks go red. Hecate feels her own face start to heat up and doesn’t like the way Mildred looks scared but confident that she’ll receive an answer.
“No,” Hecate says, stands very still. “No, I’ve just begun to learn.”
“Oh,” Mildred nods, looks relieved. “Well, I-I’m glad you’re talking to her again, then. Y-you should be kind to yourself, too.”
Mildred looks like she can’t believe she’s opened her mouth and said those things. Frankly, Hecate can’t either.
“Mildred.”
“Hm?”
“Go to bed.”
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you are whatever a moon has always meant by red_streaks
Fandoms: The Worst Witch (TV 2017)
27 Apr 2018
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And as such, Miss Hardbroom would only hear the smeared recounting from three little witches of how it came to be that the ingredients for a levitation potion were spilled on the hallway floor, how Ethel Hallow received the purple bruise she is now sporting below her chin, or how Mildred Hubble is now, somehow, inexplicably, missing a sock.
“500 lines. 'I shall not run in the halls',” she sneers, hoping that the punishment will keep the girls out of trouble for the rest of the day.
If this were any other academy, in which there were not a little witch named Mildred Hubble, and another with the unfortunate name of Hallow, Miss Hardbroom would have been quite right in expecting a quiet day conducive to learning the Craft.
As it is, this is no ordinary academy, and Mildred Hubble is very much still Mildred Hubble, missing sock or not.
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mildred hubble consumes a personality splitting potion (enter ethel), and her other half has a few rough words with miss hardbroom
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“What do you say, Pippa?” Anastasia leans forward, eyes crinkling as she smiles. “Partners?”
I’d sooner marry a toad, Pippa wants to say. She’d also like to wipe Anastasia’s stupid smile right off her face with a good splash of lavender tea, but, she thinks bitterly, she didn’t have the time to buy it.
“Actually,” she stands up and takes pleasure in the way Anastasia startles back to give her room. “I’ve already partnered up with Hecate Hardbroom.”
She turns on her heel and stomps down the steps to the first row, makes a show out of taking long, sure strides towards the lonely witch and dares them all to say something – anything.
“Hello, my name’s Pippa Pentangle and I’m your partner now,” she stops in front of the girl and rather aggressively drops her books on the table. Three pens jostle out of their position.
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or, pippa pentangle is aggressively friendly to a friendless hecate. college au.
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Mildred, who doesn’t quite understand why Maud is wielding a ladle over her head or how the situation unraveled so quickly, stumbles forward and her cauldron goes tipping precariously.
And Miss Hardbroom, who should really be less surprised that a fist fight has erupted at Mildred Hubble’s station, appears suddenly at the end of the table and can’t quite contain her anger at the sight in front of her.
Because directly below her towering frame are four little witches breaking at least thirty subsections of the Witches Code.
Enid Nightshade – one knee resting firmly on the table as she climbs atop – has one hand tangled in Gertrude Merryweather’s smock and another dipped rather unfortunately in salamander eye juice. Gertrude Merryweather, tugging sharply at the end of Mildred Hubble’s braid, has her fist raised high in the air. And Mildred Hubble, face scrunched up with righteous anger and pain, has her entire palm pressed firmly against Gertrude’s forehead, impeding the other girl from advancing any further.
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or, mildred looses her cool and, to the surprise of everybody, punches someone that's not ethel
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flicker of a new light by severedlor
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
17 May 2026
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grace and stratt are working late, again. (a character study)
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let our shadows fall away like dust by erroneous_hedgehog
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026)
31 Mar 2026
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“Don't die,” Stratt says, still having not broken her stride. “At this point, that would be an inconvenience.”
As soon as he thinks she's out of earshot, Grace leans in and stage whispers to Carl. “Did you hear?! I got a promotion! I’m an inconvenience!”
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In the lead up to the launch of Earth's last ditch hope of salvation, Eva Stratt makes a few different decisions about what it means to be human in the face of the end of the world. Ryland Grace is just along for the ride, right? There's nothing particularly exceptional about him. Together, they face the challenges and consequences of saving the entire planet.
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Let’s Dance (For Fear That We Should Fall) by eden_d_box
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
13 May 2026
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“Dr. Grace”
I sighed, turning around as Stratt approached me from down the hall.
“We must discuss your lodging.”
My shoulders relaxed at the thought of sleep.
“Yes, please. I really don’t need anything nice but I would love to shower and I definitely need to sleep. That’s really the main thing, I would love a bed if that’s-”
“Yes, well, that is the issue.” Stratt cut me off, pinching the bridge of her nose. “We weren't expecting to bring another scientist onto the team and therefore do not have appropriate space to accommodate you. We are able to offer you a bed, but the solution is unfortunately unconventional.”
“Unconventional?” I adjusted my glasses as I braced for whatever insane resolution she was about to propose. Sleep in a military jet? Move into a spare astrophage testing chamber?
“You will be staying with me.” She stated flatly.
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Azkaban changes a person. They both know that.
But Hermione promised to stay strong, and Severus promised to stay true.
Can they count on one another, on the other side of everything?
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All she wanted was half an hour’s escapism. Still, Hermione should have known that a Weasleys’ Wizard Wheezes’ product would come with side effects.
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