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we could become, two into one by ShiftyBells

Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: The High Republic: Phase III - Various Authors
08 Jul 2025
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After a year of separation, Burryaga doesn't hesitate to re-acquaint himself with Bell.

The low murmur of conversation leaked through the door, Senators and party goers wandering the halls as the gala continued, but Burryaga didn’t focus on any of that. Didn’t focus on the chatter, the sound of constant footsteps that passed by their room. Not when he had a much better thing to focus on, just below him.

It was dark, the curtains drawn on their balcony blocking out the moon's rays. But Burryaga could just make Bell out below him.

And by the Light what a sight he made.

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Honey, Look at Me by ShiftyBells for JediCouncilMaster

Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: The High Republic: Phase I - Various Authors, Star Wars: The High Republic: Phase III - Various Authors
03 Jul 2025
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Plo had been in love with dark eyes and a gentle laugh for four months. Coincidentally, Shaak has been in love with a gentle touch and masked eyes for four months.
Somehow, neither realise that these are directly related.

Plo hummed quietly, still tapping to the beat of the softly falling rain outside. “You sound like you're speaking from experience.”
Bell smiled softly, tender and his free hand came up to fiddle with that gold chain that always hung from his neck, a simple yet elegant emerald pendant hanging from it.
“Something like that. If Shaak is the woman we both know, the one you've fallen head over heels for, then you have nothing to fear by simply asking her.”
Plo shuddered, heart swelling in his chest. He knew Bell was speaking the truth but- Shaak was his perfect other half in every way, he didn't want to rush and ruin it all.
“Plo.”
Plo looked up, and Bell smiled gently at him, his eyes swimming with reassurance.
“Go for it. You won't regret it.”

In which Bell Zettifar is long suffering in his choices of trying to matchmake two idiots in love.

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- Part 2 of Porter's Parlour
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your face, lit by starlight by ShiftyBells for jadegoldcat

Fandoms: Star Wars: The High Republic: Phase I - Various Authors, Star Wars - All Media Types
18 Apr 2025
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Bell’s eyes were beckoning, grip steady as he urged Loden forward. His body ached from being immobile for so long, but he couldn’t stop. Loden let himself fall from the slab, let himself fall into Bell’s grip. Bell only briefly stumbled, arms wrapping around his bony frame so securely Loden’s entire being burned.
Bell, sweet Bell, took his weight without complaint, shuffling them until his arm was wrapped around his shoulder.
Bell grinned at him, so achingly young and Loden couldn’t help but find comfort in it.
“Let’s get you home.”
Loden smiled back, allowing a tiny amount of hope to bloom further. They stepped forward, step by agonising step.
Only for the lights to cut to black for the briefest moment, alarms blaring so loud they shook Loden’s very core, oppressive as flashing red lights faded in and out of existence. Bell cursed, and a cold shiver ran down Loden’s spine. That blinking light.
Marchion had been watching.
And who knew what he was planning.

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having a tattoo on your left arm and wearing leather constitutes to being a Death Eater apparently by ShiftyBells

Fandoms: Fullmetal Alchemist - All Media Types, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga, Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
25 Mar 2025
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Wizards have a shortage of common sense and are convinced Big Brother is a practitioner of the Dark Arts, or a "Death Eater" in their words. All because he has a Tattoo, radiates, I-Can-And-Will-Kill-You-If-You-Look-At-Me-The-Wrong-Way energy, and is half-feral on a good day. (Courtesy of serving in Briggs for a year, Thanks, General Armstrong.)
If there was one benefit Alphonse missed from that suit of armor, it was being able to hide his expressions from people he didn't like. Because this was -ahem- fucking stupid.

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- Part 1 of A Tale Old As Time; The Uplottables Fight God And Traumatise Some Wizards
- Part 1 of You get a crossover and you get a crossover and everyone get's a crossover!
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If I'm a pagan of the good times (my lover's the sunlight) by ShiftyBells

Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: The High Republic: Phase III - Various Authors
20 Mar 2025
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“I love you.” Bell murmured, hushed in the early hours, and Burryaga couldn’t fight the purr bubbling in is throat.
“I love you too.” He crooned back, finally peeling his eyes open as he pulled back to properly prop himself up onto his elbows.
Bell was always beautiful but- he was still a sight that made Burryaga’s heart thrum faster in his ribs.

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Cutting the Fibrin Netting by SwampSpirit

Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Criminal Minds (US TV)
01 Feb 2024
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After a podcast turns the shoddy investigation of Jason Todd’s death into a national issue, the BAU is left to solve the case and smooth over the scandal.
The deeper they dig, the more suspicious the story seems, and the more clues start pointing in one direction: Dick Grayson.
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The Criminal Minds team knows a liar when they meet one, and Dick Grayson is a liar to the bone. Unfortunately for everyone, ‘Dick Grayson is a cold blooded murderer’ is an easier leap for a team of criminal profilers than “Dick Grayson is protecting his father’s identity as a vigilante.”

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11 Sep 2025
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With the Light Out, It's Less Dangerous by Ploofyy

Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Criminal Minds (US TV)
20 May 2024
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Cassandra Cain is taken from one case to another often, but not like this.
Not after watching an innocent girl get her throat slit, and certainly not to join a team. She has her family - it's the only thing she has, now. It's been years in this new world, but she can't help but hide herself from her new co-workers.
Too bad they're profilers, and too curious for their own good.

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11 Sep 2025
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Dick Grayson: A Case Study by writersagainstwritersblock

Fandoms: Criminal Minds (US TV), Batman - All Media Types, Nightwing (Comics)
25 Oct 2024
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Dick rubbed the back of his neck sheepishly. “I’m mostly used to sparring with my little brothers, it’s kind of just habit, and I was having fun. I didn’t want the match to be over too quick.”
“Too quick?” Derek asked, eyebrows raised. “I’m twice your size, kid.”
Dick shrugged. “So’s Bruce and we’re pretty much tied at this point, or at least according to the score board the kids started to keep for Saturday spars.”
“Saturday spars?” Derek repeated, following him towards the locker room.
Dick flashed him a smile. “What? Don’t have any weird family traditions?”
“Not ones that include hitting each other,” Derek said

OR The BAU gets a probationary profiler who is a little more than he appears at first glance. Or second. Or third. Just how many secrets can Dick Grayson be hiding from a team full of profilers?

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11 Sep 2025
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Close Encounter Of The Fifth Kind by Crazy_Joy_Writes_and_Reads

Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Batman - All Media Types
08 Sep 2025
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After their (dis)adventures with Loki and Ultron, the Avengers thought they couldn’t be surprised anymore by whom would drop in on them.
That evening they had to change their mind.

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08 Sep 2025
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Watermarked by Your Ancestry by Wolvesowl

Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, Transformers: Prime
15 Mar 2025
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In the middle of the war, the Autobots’ Second and Third in Command kindle and create a newspark. For the sparkling’s own safety, his existence is kept a secret. Then Iacon falls, and it doesn’t matter anymore, as the little one is assumed to have been killed in the attack.
Centuries later, on a small organic planet, the last of Team Prime are making their stand when they are surprised by the arrival of an odd youngling.
The gears of fate are turning, and soon everything will come together.

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03 Sep 2025

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