bubblesbythebeach



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  1. Summary

    There are so many things Sherlock Holmes cannot read in your face or your hands or your hair. Years upon years of data, and you're glad Sherlock Holmes doesn't concern himself with matters of the heart because the last thing you want to do is tell him all about your ex-wife or the fact that you've gotten engaged to yet another sociopath.

    Stories about BBC Sherlock's supporting characters, rarepairs, pre-series, and missing scenes.

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  3. Summary

    Part 1 is a 30 Day OTP Challenge, following a few years of Molly Hooper's quotidian life with her fiancé, Tom.

    Part 2 steps it up a notch.

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  1. Public Bookmark 34

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    As summer draws to a hot and sticky ending, a new café-concert singer performing under the name La Suédoise holds the imagination of Paris in her golden hands. Little does the city know of the strange music that lives in her head. Little does the city expect what will happen when the source of such music confronts the young chanteuse in front of a packed audience.

    Written for POTO Fluff Week 2022, Day 2: Concert!

    UPDATE: Now with a smutty follow-up for 2023!!

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    26 Jan 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 54

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    "She felt the strong impulse to look beneath his mask. She wanted to know who he truly was, and seeing only half his face felt... unsatisfying. After last night, when he had brought her here and shown her his "Music of the Night," the mask felt misplaced. As if it upheld a distance that was no longer needed. But she resisted that urge."

     

    What if Christine hadn’t torn off the mask?

    This story begins after the events of “Music of the Night” and offers a fix-it take on the original tale. Christine and Erik slowly begin to understand each other outside the shadows of the opera house. Their relationship develops step by step, shaped by trust, conflict, and growing affection. Alongside them, other key figures—Raoul, Meg, Madame Giry, Nadir, and Darius—play important roles as they each navigate the changes brought by Christine’s choice.
    A character-driven exploration of love, redemption, and second chances.

    Smut can be skipped, I'll put it in the chapter notes.

    COMPLETED

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    29 Dec 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 5

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    This is a Phantom of the Opera fix-it that began with "Safe with You", imagining a gentler story for Erik and Christine—full of music, love, and second chances.

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    14 Nov 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 34

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    Oh yeah, it's an Aziraphale/Crowley marriage proposal.

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    07 Nov 2024

  5. Public Bookmark 37

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    It began with that most innocuous of evils: a whim.

    Ah, you doubt me, I see. Surely, I must have orchestrated the entire ploy. Plots I have laid, inductions dangerous, et cetera, et cetera.

    I shall have you know that you are sorely mistaken. My sole focus was simply her Voice.

    Initially.

    …I have never been accused of being a sensible man. After all, how was I to know a thing of love?

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    11 Sep 2024