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Draco Malfoy has never been redeemed. He’s simply been patient.
Hermione Granger ruined his chances of being the top of their class, outshone him at every turn, and then—like the perfect, insufferable angel she was—saved his family from Azkaban. She was a Mudblood, and she was better than him. That contradiction marked him forever.
For the past seven years, he has played the long game. He became respectable in her eyes, carved out a role for himself at the DMLE, and slowly, carefully, made himself indispensable. He became her confidant, her best friend. He cultivated every part of their friendship—curated what she needed, what she liked, what she deserved.
Because Hermione is exceptional. She’s brilliant, sharp, devastatingly capable. And no one around her—not her fiancé, not her friends—ever made her feel like she was more than a burden to forgive or a standard to resent.
Draco doesn’t just see her. He feeds the pride she’s always been told to swallow. And he’ll do whatever it takes to bring her into the world where she belongs—his world.
Because she deserves better.
And she deserves him.
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- Part 1 of Exception to the Line Universe
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Arrows of Apollon by astro_penguin
Fandoms: The Iliad - Homer, Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
02 Nov 2025
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“Down from the peaks of Olympus he strode, angered at heart, bearing on his shoulders his bow and covered quiver. The arrows rattled on the shoulders of the angry god as he moved, and his coming was like the night. Then he sat down apart from the ships and let fly an arrow: terrible was the twang of the silver bow. The mules he assailed first and the swift dogs, but then on the men themselves he let fly his stinging shafts, and struck; and constantly the pyres of the dead burned thick.”
When Apollo's plague sweeps through the Achaean ranks, physicians Machaon and Podalirius are thrust into a different kind of war.
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Healer Hermione Granger has survived war, bureaucracy, and fourteen separate fundraising galas for her experimental research at St. Mungoes. None of that prepared her for an onslaught of increasingly unhinged letters from Narcissa Malfoy.
Now she’s halfway across Romania, tasked with dragging Narcissa's dragon-hunting, dirt-streaked son back home.
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After a terrible week in which Crookshanks died and Ron left her via four words on a scrap of parchment, 30-year-old Hermione is forced to take a leave of absence from work. Unfortunately, it quickly becomes clear her job was the last thing keeping her sane.
When she finds out Harry is investigating the unexplained disappearance of Draco Malfoy—now an Unspeakable in the Department of Mysteries—she finally has a problem to solve. The case sucks her in in more ways than one, and she finds herself tangling with a powerful magical object, as well as Draco's weird and wonderful subconscious.
tl;dr Hermione gathers extensive material for an inevitable 'Am I the Asshole?' post
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Bucky Barnes didn’t expect Thursday to begin with a pretty astrophysicist named Dr. Darcy Lewis demanding he meet her in a DC coffee shop to discuss a possible alien invasion. Darcy Lewis didn’t expect Bucky Barnes to listen to her paranoid worries, but a week later—when she's attacked for digging into the mystery and calls Bucky for a rescue—he assigns himself as her bodyguard and pulls in the other New Avengers to help untangle the nefarious plans of a sinister company. And he does it all while he also tries to work through his intimacy issues so he can have what he really wants: Darcy. (Special note: The non-con warning is for Bucky's past with HYDRA. The actual acts do not occur in the fic and are not discussed in detail. See the author's note for more info.)