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Gerri was going to hate him.
That’s the first thought that runs through Roman’s head as his body hits the tarmac. Gerri already hates him. She’ll hate him even more now. He can practically hear her voice ringing through his head, momentarily masking the throbbing sensation in his forehead.
The second thought he has is that his body has just been hit by 2,930kg of Mercedes-Benz metal. That was going to leave a bruise.
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It’s 2:13am when Gerri’s phone rings on the bedside table of her hotel room. She momentarily considers throwing it across the room. Technically she no longer works for Waystar Royco, even though she’s confident Roman wouldn’t have bothered with the paperwork. Her resignation letter is sitting in the drafts of her inbox, ready to go at 9 am tomorrow morning.
She was done. Out. Off the team.
The phone keeps ringing. A fourth ring. A fifth. A sixth. Until her hand shoots out from under the duvet and she instinctively answers it without looking at the caller ID.
Somebody better be fucking dying.
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- Part 1 of Say You Will
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A potentially company-destroying cruise scandal she could handle. Navigating the mounting pressure of legacy media to make way for tech was a breeze.
But dealing with a four-year-old? Absolutely not. She hadn’t even dealt with her own daughters when they were that age.
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Gerri Kellman dies. For 67 seconds her heart stops beating. There’s nothing but darkness. No promised land. No one standing waiting for her at the edge of the water. But it’s as peaceful as simply falling asleep.
Until it isn’t.
Until Gerri isn’t dead anymore. When the air is forced back into her lungs and her heart starts to beat again.
Those 67 seconds change the course of her life - and send her crashing full steam into Roman Roy.
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Waystar’s A.C. system breaks as a cold front moves into New York. A mishap with Gerri’s choice of emergency clothing raises eyebrows. Why is a Yale graduate wearing a UC Berkeley hoodie?
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It’s a fight or flight response. Roman remembered reading about it once - an automatic response in the face of danger.
His lips moved and the words were out of his mouth before he even realised.
“Well you see, here’s the thing Dad - Gerri and I have been dating,” Roman announced, the words came out more confident than he thought they would. Perhaps all those years of being a cocky idiot were coming in clutch now.
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Fake dating AU | Roman lies to Logan that he and Gerri are a couple after he sends the picture to Logan. Roman and Gerri agree to fake date for six weeks until the dust settles, breaking up after the RECNY ball, but lines quickly become blurred along the way.
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- Part 1 of The Lies We Tell
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He was there, and then he wasn’t. The portal opened and closed faster than Hetty could begin to blink or protest and he was gone, and for her own sanity she decided to pretend that she did not see him reach for her as he disappeared through the floor.
In a fleeting moment of anger over something trivial and objectively silly, she had managed to send Trevor to Hell.
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16 Nov 2024
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Seth is working in the emergency room when a car crash victim is transported to the hospital. The woman has a lot of similarities to Jessica. One-shot. Seth/Jessica.
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28 Sep 2024
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if you feel like falling, catch me on the way down by snakelinguine
Fandoms: Succession (TV 2018)
19 Aug 2024
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Short small thing based on the BTS Hungary photo. Starts mid-buttons.
“What are you doing on the floor?” Roman asks when he turns around, because what is she doing on the floor?
Hand to her forehead, she sighs through her nose and says very astutely, “Thinking.”
“O…kay,” he says with a slow nod. “Weird.”
And then he gets on the floor, too. Lays down next to her, close enough that his cheek just about touches the edge of her sprawled-out shawl.
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19 Aug 2024
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Romangerri Bridgerton AU that no one asked for. Dash of Jane Austen on the side, historical accuracy not sought.
~~~ In a perfect world, they would continue on down the walkway and go through that door together. Instead, he watches her disappear inside, wondering what on earth goes on in that head of hers. One minute she’s breathless from lovemaking and returning his wanton stare and the next she is all prim and proper, nothing out of the ordinary going on here, go and see your horses, Roman.
She vexes him, sometimes. Drives him mad. It is a mutual vexation, that much he knows, and he loves her in spite of that and in spite of every circumstance working against them. At one time he believed maybe their arrangement would no longer be appealing once it was no longer forbidden, but now that’s the furthest thing from his mind. He craves a life with her, whether that’s spent leisurely on the grounds of this very estate, or entertaining the ton at his townhome in London, or traveling Europe together once her daughters have married off. ~~~
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11 Jul 2024
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“Someone named Kathy is calling you…?”
How Roman consistently gets to Gerri’s phone before she does, she’ll never understand. He’s become her personal messenger service, announcing incoming calls and texts which she sometimes thinks is a dig at her age—implying she can’t see very well, hear very well, or both—and other times just his latest attempt at finding another way to simultaneously annoy and charm her all in one go.
“I’ll take that,” she swipes the phone from his open palm, ignoring the questioning look in his eyes as she heads toward the stairs. Who’s Kathy? Wouldn’t he like to know.
It isn’t every day that Gerri receives a call from one of her sisters. Isn’t even every week, or every month. Someone would have to be dying or dead for Deborah to reach out to her.
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30 May 2024