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Do Shadows Frighten You? by backfiredspells
Fandoms: Lockwood & Co. - Jonathan Stroud, Lockwood & Co. (TV)
05 Feb 2026
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Disturbing forces swirl through the world and put one Lucy Carlyle on edge as she navigates her new life in the big city where she lands a job as Arif's new shop girl.
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My first fanfiction ever, so please be kind! This is a reveal fic where I've skipped over all of the boring set-up and have jumped right into the action. Set sometime post S4-ish, but before S5, only canon characterizations. This fic explores the "two sides of the coin" thing by mixing in a little of the lore I've made for my personal fantasy-epic about soul-magic and relationships
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**EDIT, DISOWNED! I no longer like this one at all, please pretend it does not exist**
Worried about the things his mother's spirit said to him about Merlin, Arthur looks for someone who can unravel the mysteries of his friend's distrust towards his newest knight, and maybe start untangling the threads of darkness hounding him.
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- Part 3 of You Have Been Warned
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Merlin comes to some realizations when Arthur forgets him at the Cauldron. He makes a decision.
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Arthur confronts Merlin after meeting his mother when he blew the Horn.
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- Part 2 of You Have Been Warned
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The Attic of Portland Row by sunny_plays
Fandoms: Lockwood & Co. - Jonathan Stroud, Lockwood & Co. (TV)
27 Aug 2025
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For the first month, they kept saying he’d wake up ‘any day now’. That everything looked good, and it was likely just the exhaustion from years of agent work that was keeping him asleep. That this might actually be good for him in the long run.
Lucy Carlyle finds her way home in a world where nothing seems right anymore. How do you find your way back to normal when everything has changed? What do you do when the one thing you thought you’d always have is just… gone?
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30 Aug 2025
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Anthony J. Lockwood was born in 1839. He was presumed dead after a ghost hunt in 1855.
By all accounts, Lucy Carlyle should have never known a thing about him unless he showed up in a history textbook. But during a ghost hunt in 2023, the Fittes agent is shocked by the young man's sudden arrival. And with Lockwood comes a new world of danger and mystery Lucy was not prepare for.
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20 May 2025
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Home is where you make it by WindsAroundATreeLikeAVine
Fandoms: Lockwood & Co. - Jonathan Stroud, Lockwood & Co. (TV)
17 Mar 2023
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“That’s not my home anymore.”
Barnes felt like he was going to be sick. The incident that cost Carlyle her entire team was hard enough to read through; it was always painful to lose young agents. But the way in which the system and every adult in her life had utterly failed her? No wonder she had thrown in with Lockwood and was so distrustful of Barnes. Too many people – too many adults – had failed in their duty to protect her.
In which Barnes digs into Lucy's past and learns exactly why she would choose to stay with Lockwood rather than take the travel pass he offered her.
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18 Dec 2024
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The Immortal and the Revenant by RileyWilliamsJr
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Merlin (TV)
18 Apr 2020
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As usual, Merlin has utterly failed in keeping a low profile by inadvertently getting himself dragged into a mess of a situation that appears to have something to do with a seemingly unkillable snake man, a toad woman, an order of phoenixes, and a boy named Harry Potter who, he quickly finds, is equally bemused by his current predicament. When he discovers how lost the boy is, he resolves to help him and his friends get rid of this dark lord--as well as their malignant (and worse, ineffectual) new teacher.
Translation by EstherM available on AO3 and at: https://www.lofter.com/front/blog/collection/share?collectionId=16968473
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09 Sep 2024
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"Arthur won't be interested in seeing me after tonight."
The uneasiness grew. "Arthur relies on you." No response. Mordred swallowed and tried again. "He was nearly mad with worry when he realized... when..." There was no delicate way to say when he forgot you and left you behind. "He went out looking for you. We all did. We didn't come home for weeks."
His words faded into silence. Then Emrys said, softly, "Home." He sounded as though he was tasting the shape of it. "Home, yes. Not my home, though. Not anymore."
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- Part 1 of Confession
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20 Oct 2023