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This Winter by greygreta (GretchenAgape)
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)
19 Jan 2026
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Fall, 1902, Texas. Henry only wants a roof that doesn’t leak and a life that doesn’t hurt. Alex arrives with nothing but a ruined past, a stubborn sense of honor, and a list of skills Henry desperately needs.
A partnership is the safest solution.
A temporary arrangement, they tell themselves.
Just until spring.But as the long winter closes in, firewood isn’t the only thing they learn to share—and trust isn’t the only thing quietly, inevitably growing between them.
Or, as Alex and Henry are forced to live together to survive, how long can they really stick it out?
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- Part 6 of Everything everywhere all in Firstprince
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27 Feb 2026
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Tell me you love me by CandysPandemonium
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
21 Dec 2023
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“He was warm,” Henry whispered brokenly.
“Come again?”
“Alex. When we shook hands, he made me feel warm.”
(...)
“Maybe you don’t have to be cold anymore, Haz. I know we said we wouldn’t talk about it but I do think you should meet up with him. What do you have to lose?”
Everything, Henry thought bitterly.
Then again, did he?Soulmate AU! What if after years of near misses, they finally did meet thanks to Pez. Follow them as they figure out who they are, individually and together.
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- 49,526
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- 16/16
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18 Feb 2026
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Since I Memorized Your Face by chamel for stutteringpeach
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
23 Dec 2024
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“Oxford, like twenty years ago—” Twenty-one, actually. “I was there for a term abroad. We had a class together.” Alex huffs a disbelieving laugh and pushes a hand back through his curls. “We, uh, well. There was that party after final exams…”
“I’m so sorry, I don’t recall that one” Henry lies, flashing an apologetic smile. “I don’t remember the details of most of those uni parties these days.”
(Twenty years ago, Henry met—and let go of—his soulmate. Now he's in his 40s, with a new job in a new city, and certainly not expecting said soulmate to come barreling into his life again. A small white lie seems like the simplest way to keep things from getting awkward, but real life has a way of getting complicated.)
12/23: New holiday epilogue added!
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- 7/7
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10 Feb 2026
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09 Feb 2026
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there were pages turned with the bridges burned (everything you lose is a step you take) by anincompletelist (soldouthaz)
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
30 Sep 2024
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The entire world has it on video. Alex stumbling forward, straight into Henry’s shoulder, knocking him back into the table and then crumbling to the ground, the cake falling on top of them. Everyone thinks Alex was drunk, or that he hates him, or that he’s immature or unfit for his title, but none of it’s the truth. Everyone’s acting like it’s the end of the world regardless.
And maybe, for Alex, it kind of is.
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[Or, the way things might have played out if Alex had been diagnosed with type one diabetes after the royal wedding.]
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- Part 1 of diabetic!alex
- Part 2 of the chronic illness club
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- English
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- 18/18
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Bookmarked by cumberbatcha
20 Dec 2025
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“Bleeding.” Claire brings her chubby little hand up to point at his forehead.
Henry touches his cold fingers to his forehead, realizing the bandage he’d placed over his eyebrow has been bled through. He thinks he’s got more in the center console. He hopes.
“Daddy’s alright,” he assures her, finally snapping the buckle together over her puffy pink coat. He gives her the best smile he can muster. “Ready to go for a drive?”
Claire nods at him, big blue eyes inquisitive as he palms her hair, thumb brushing blonde locks off her forehead. “Where’s we goin’?”
“Somewhere better,” he says, and closes the back door tight.
-young single father henry fox leaves in the middle of the night with his daughter in the hopes of finding a better life for them both-
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- Part 1 of tiny hands universe
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- English
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- 16/16
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29 Nov 2025
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To Love a Lemnos Man by starry_pisces
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)
25 Jan 2025
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“I'm getting married,” he mumbled to himself, trying to make the words fit in his mouth without tasting like ash.
“I'm sorry, sugar. You are.”
Alex turned and nodded to his mother.
“When?” he asked, and she winced.
“Tomorrow.”
He nodded one more time.
“I’m going to be sick.”
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The Aphrodite and Hephaestus story, but with a twist.
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Bookmarked by cumberbatcha
14 Nov 2025
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In 2002, four-year-old Alexander Claremont-Diaz is kidnapped and killed.
In 2021, twenty-three-year-old Alejandro Salazar starts his new job as curator at the V&A.
A story of loss, love, and the inevitability of destiny.
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20 Sep 2025
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Finding Peace by devaderp
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)
18 Aug 2024
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What if Alex’s life had taken a very different turn during his mother’s first presidential election? Differences that made him be in a very different place in life and have very different priorities. When Henry and him cross paths at a certain wedding with an overpriced cake, what if Alex is the one always trying to run away?
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- English
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- 140,105
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- 30/30
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18 Sep 2025
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The Dancer and The Captain by Mssmithlove for alexisriversong
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
29 May 2015
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Ballet has always been Sherlock's first love, but when a certain rugby captain starts hanging around, well, that may just change.
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- Part 14 of Happiness Awaits
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- 1/1
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Bookmarked by cumberbatcha
13 Mar 2025
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“Caramelton John, what the fuck, who named these?” the man laughs, his loud voice circling in Henry’s ears, low and rich.
Years of planning and ideas, months of blood, sweat and literal tears to set up shop in a foreign country, and hours of back breaking work to serve the community — for free — on their opening day, all for some ungrateful arse to make fun of him for it. Henry feels his jaw clench involuntarily, the tightness in his mouth matching the ache in his chest. He’s bone tired and frustrated and now he’s unspeakably angry.
Pez, who has saved Henry’s life in more ways than he can count, and who has not asked for a single thing all day, turns and says “Hen, dear, could you serve these last few for me?”
Henry inhales deeply through his nose, turns his back to the customers, before he looks Pez firmly in the eye and says with zero hesitation, “No.”
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Welcome to Pez & Henry's, the newest ice cream store in Austin.
A Ben & Jerry's AU. I hope you like puns.
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06 Mar 2025
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Though The Stars Walk Backward by Light_of_Bane
Fandom Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
02 Feb 2024
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20 Feb 2025
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Burn It All Down by AHistoricDistraction, ALittleSideProject
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
08 Jul 2024
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After a few years of living together in New York Alex and Henry's lives are going great, but Queen Mary is an ever looming shadow. When she summons Henry back to England for apology tour for a comment he makes on a podcast, Henry and Alex realize something needs to change. Before they can make that change, though, Henry's plane home from the apology tour crashes in the Canadian wilderness, killing all on board.
Or so Alex is lead to believe. Trapped in his grief, he flees back home to Texas to try and start over. And over. And over. He finally settles in a small town at a small lawfirm, but it isn't until he joins the local volunteer fire department that his life starts to finally turn back around.
Only Henry isn't dead. In an attempt to both smother his "corrupting influence" but still protect the line of succession until Philip has kids, Mary has had him squirreled away deep in the Australian outback.
And, well, it's amazing how often the outback burns, isn't it? Sometimes, it burns so bad, they need help from international firefighters...
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- 42/42
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18 Feb 2025
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Binary Light—The Franchise by Leaves_of_Laurelin
Fandom Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
23 Jul 2024
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09 Feb 2025
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Down By The Water, I Saw You by myheartalive
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
20 Jan 2023
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“Henry straightens up, head snapping over to look at the new arrivals. Then there’s the sound of a voice he’s not heard in ten years, a voice he never thought he’d hear again.
“Fuck, I can’t cook tonight. I think I’d rather starve.”
Henry stares, mouth dropped open. A head of curly brown hair turns slowly his way and his heart explodes.
“Henry?” Alex says, and Henry can’t bring himself to reply, so he just keeps staring. Alex looks at him for a few more seconds, eyes wide, blinking furiously, before swiftly turning on the spot and walking away from him and into the woods, but not before Henry can see the distraught look on his face.”—
Henry and Alex first met and fell in love as teenagers, while on holiday in Jamaica. Ten years later, they run into each other again, and have to deal with the emotional fallout of how things ended last time. And fall in love again along the way, of course.
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- 13/13
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12 Nov 2024
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Wine and Song, Fire and Lust by SinSong
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)
12 Mar 2024
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Alex meets his soulmate at a party and immediately decides that his soulmate can never, ever know. Easy enough when the man flies back to England a few weeks after. But when Henry walks back into Alex's life several years later, and becomes a permanent fixture in it, it throws something of a wrench in his plans. It's awfully hard to never speak to the man who June and Nora have so quickly adopted into the fold.
But it's all for the best.
It's for the best.
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08 Nov 2024
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Alex's daughter wants to learn to play piano. Who does Google recommend? One Mr. Henry Fox.
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- Part 1 of Food for the Soul
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- English
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- 29,068
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- 21/21
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30 Oct 2024
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oh darling, don't you ever grow up by WaterlooLovers
Fandom Red White & Royal Blue (2023), Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
27 Jan 2026
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The various stories of Alex, Henry, Daniela, and their families 💚
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- 129
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29 Oct 2024
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But I love him, whether or no. by Leaves_of_Laurelin
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
26 Oct 2023
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Henry moves to New York City to help Pez with the opening of his new bar in the East Village. The location—fortunately for business, but unfortunately for Henry’s sanity—is directly across the street from a fire station. The sound of sirens is bad, Alex the gorgeous firefighter is worse. But when Alex helps Henry avoid a near catastrophe the night of the bar’s opening, the two form a tentative friendship that starts to develop into something more.
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- English
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- 77,193
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- 14/14
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28 Oct 2024
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You're Home with Me by starry_pisces
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)
24 Jun 2024
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Alex comes across a homeless man one night in desperate need of help. When Pez explains that the man is too old for assistance at the youth shelter, Alex takes him into his own home. He doesn't mind though, when the man has the prettiest blue eyes he's ever seen.
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- English
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- 33,576
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- 19/19
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- 376
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Bookmarked by cumberbatcha
03 Aug 2024