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Hold Me Like You Used To by NextToSomething, SouthSideStory
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
07 Jul 2025
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Anything Jinx asked for, Silco gave to her. Even this. He owed her comfort, whatever kind she desired, and she desired a kiss. He couldn’t reciprocate, but he could let her take what she needed of him.
Jinx soon pulled away, hanging onto his vest, and said, “Please, Silco. Kiss me back.”
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Paint the Town Blue by NextToSomething, SouthSideStory
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
23 Jan 2025
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Silco finds his muse in a cramped alleyway, vandalizing Academy property with a macabre painting of great talent. As Chair of the Arts College, it’s within his prerogative to admit her, no questions asked. And after the smallest taste of a girl named Jinx, Silco knows he has to keep her close.
Years after she ran away from (what’s left of) her family, Jinx has finally messed with the wrong enemy. Now that she’s on a chem-baron’s bad side she needs somewhere to lay low, and the Academy is the last place anyone would look for her.
That’s the easy explanation for why she takes a place at a Piltie school. The full truth isn’t so simple: that she craves the electric charge to the air while posing in Silco’s art studio, loves handing over her wavering control to this kind yet demanding man. With every day she spends in the classroom and every night she spends in his bed, Jinx wonders if this mysterious topsider might be the first person to truly see her.
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The Longest Night by NextToSomething, SouthSideStory
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
04 Aug 2021
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The Winter Solstice is a time for gift-giving, love, and new beginnings. Elain wants none of those things from Lucien. She didn’t choose to be his mate, no more than she chose to be High Fae, and she’s not used to either yet. The only way to guard her heart is to keep her distance. But then a blizzard hits Velaris, leaving Lucien snowed in at the town house. And whether Elain likes it or not, she’s spending the night with her mate—the longest night of the year.
(A Court of Frost and Starlight canon-divergence.)
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Asking Price by ReyloTrashCompactor (NextToSomething), SouthSideStory
Fandoms: Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens (2015)
22 May 2021
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The girl was powerful in the Force; this was what Senator Ben Solo realized first. What he noticed second was her lilac lipstick, marking her as a courtesan. His third realization was the most important: he wanted her like he’d never wanted anything in his life.
Rey from Jakku quickly learned things about the Senator as well. He was on nearly every viewscreen in Hosnian Prime, he was foolish with money, and he wanted to buy her. It took her longer to figure out that he was a liar, as powerful as he was breakable, and the home she’d always wanted.
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Loathe Thy Neighbor by ReyloTrashCompactor (NextToSomething) for SaintHeretical
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Sequel Trilogy
21 Feb 2020
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Rey's neighbor is the worst. He listens to terrible music, he's impolitely large, and he smells incredible. She hates almost everything about him.
Especially the smelling good bit.
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Make It Through the Night by ReyloTrashCompactor (NextToSomething), SouthSideStory
Fandoms: Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, Star Wars - All Media Types
27 Jan 2020
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"You're dead," she said. "I saw you--leave."
His lips twitched and she knew that he was overpowering an impulse. He was a chaotic mess when left to his own devices, laying destruction in actions as easily as words. But with her, he always took another breath. Telling her something truer than what his compulsory nature would usually allow.
He'd never lied to her.
"I'm dead," he agreed. "But…" He trailed off, opening and closing his mouth around all the words that weren't quite right.
"But?" she prompted. Her palm didn't itch for her saber like it used to when he was near. He never lied to her and he wouldn't start in death.
"But I'm here."
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Rey tucks herself away in a snowy village to grieve the loss of Ben Solo. But she soon learns that no one is ever really gone. -
One Small Eternity by ReyloTrashCompactor (NextToSomething), SouthSideStory
Fandoms: Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, Star Wars - All Media Types
24 Dec 2019
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Rey has wanted Ben Solo for longer than she'd like to admit. A Sith temple wasn't what she had in mind, but she is done with waiting.
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And Light to Meet It by ReyloTrashCompactor (NextToSomething), SouthSideStory
Fandoms: Star Wars Sequel Trilogy
06 Dec 2019
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Kylo Ren has abandoned the First Order. He did it to regain his freedom, to slip out of the noose Snoke had wrapped around his neck. Mostly, though, he joined the Resistance for Rey. She’s his equal in the Force, an ally he can trust, and a woman he has no business wanting. But his defection from the First Order doesn’t mean he returned to the light. He’s still committed to the dark side, and has every intention of using it to give him power in the fight to come.
After the Resistance takes refuge on Ahch-To, Rey’s connection with Ben grows stronger. When they’re alone, it’s hard to remember the things he’s done, or the darkness he still clings to. The Force itself draws them closer, two disparate pieces that fit together better than she ever could have expected.
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Flowers for Alderaan by ReyloTrashCompactor (NextToSomething) for addictedtoacertainlifestyle
Fandoms: Star Wars Sequel Trilogy
24 Dec 2018
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Ben Solo is impulsive. He impulsively joined the military and he impulsively opened a flower shop when he was honorably discharged. When a pretty girl named Rey wanders into his shop asking for daisies, that impulsiveness drives him to arrange a second bouquet for her. Every blossom is imbued with a wish, and every wish is to see Rey again.
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Only If for a Night by ReyloTrashCompactor (NextToSomething), SouthSideStory
Fandoms: Star Wars Sequel Trilogy
30 Sep 2018
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The night the war ends is a time for victories and change. Maybe, if Rey is lucky, she can win where Ben Solo is concerned. There’s something between them, more than friendship or battle-forged camaraderie, a need that she’s felt threaded along their bond, and she’s tired of ignoring it.
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At the End of Our Thread by ReyloTrashCompactor (NextToSomething), SouthSideStory
Fandoms: Star Wars Sequel Trilogy
03 Jul 2018
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When Rey asks the mirror to show her family, it isn’t the parents who abandoned her that she sees; it’s Ben, and the child they could someday have. Months later, their bond in the Force flares to life, bringing the truth out and drawing her closer to Ben, tempting her with the beautiful possibility of having a real family for the first time.
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The Patient Light, the Troubled Dark by ReyloTrashCompactor (NextToSomething) for NMC
Fandoms: Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens (2015), Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Sequel Trilogy
23 Feb 2018
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Rey would always be here, and the Light as well. Waiting. They always waited on Ben Solo.
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Blood and Water by ReyloTrashCompactor (NextToSomething), SouthSideStory
Fandoms: Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens (2015)
21 Jan 2018
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Rey was twelve years old in a grown-up velvet dress when her cousin Ben placed his hand on her waist in the yearly family picture. The gesture was innocent, but she’s been in love with him ever since. Six years later, when the world is suddenly boiled down to only the two of them, not even the vast emptiness of Alderaan House will give them enough places to hide from what they both want.
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People Will Say by ReyloTrashCompactor (NextToSomething) for bittersnake
Fandoms: Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens (2015)
02 Nov 2017
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In a ditch effort to coax the wary members of the Resistance into accepting the prodigal son Ben Solo back into their fold, General Leia Organa requests a hefty favor from Rey. "Behind every good man is a great woman" is how the saying goes, but the man formerly known as Kylo Ren isn't good, and Rey isn't sure that any manner of hand-holding is going to change people's minds about that.
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Counterfeits by ReyloTrashCompactor (NextToSomething)
Fandoms: Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens (2015)
30 Sep 2017
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His face looks less like his father’s with a smoldering slash through it.
This is Rey’s last thought before the ground opens beneath her and she leaps forward to keep from being swallowed by a planet-turned-monster’s destruction. She sees Kylo Ren's face, soft mouth and smooth skin, and thinks that the wound did something to scratch Han Solo off his surface.
Then the world goes black.
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For a Moment: His Girl by ReyloTrashCompactor (NextToSomething)
Fandoms: Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens (2015)
14 Aug 2017
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Prison was the great equalizer, it would seem.
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Reflektor by ReyloTrashCompactor (NextToSomething)
Fandoms: Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens (2015), Star Wars - All Media Types
01 May 2017
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Kylo Ren isn’t fool enough to believe that her capture was a happy accident. He didn’t believe it was good fortune, and he believed least of all that it had anything to do with the reconnaissance skills of Hux’s half-wit stormtroopers. If they have The Girl Called Rey in custody, it is because she meant for it to happen. It was because she had a plan and this was a step in executing it.
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213 North Mystic Avenue or: A New Career in a New Town by NextToSomething
Fandoms: Labyrinth (1986)
30 Apr 2017
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Shortly after Sarah moves to a new town, she begins receiving strange and wonderful gifts on her doorstep. She suspects the Goblin King is behind it— if only she could find him.
Written in 2013.
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Both by ReyloTrashCompactor (NextToSomething)
Fandoms: Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens (2015)
14 Feb 2017
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“This is the way the world works,” Kylo Ren breathed against her skin as he tugged her tunic over her head. “You are enemies until you aren’t.”
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Make it up to me. by ReyloTrashCompactor (NextToSomething) for lilithsaur
Fandoms: Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens (2015)
14 Feb 2017
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Kira heard the basement door open and close, and knew that it would be one of four people. Daisy, her grandfather, Matt, or Ben. Rey thought the basement was creepy and Kylo knew better than to try to talk to her when she was mad. She hoped it wasn’t Ben.
“Picturing my face, sweetheart?”
Kira’s pace faltered and her fist shot through the upward arc of the speed bag.
“Fuck off, Ben.”