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    “Have you considered the possibility that Neil has chosen you, but believes you have not chosen him?” Renee says. "Have you ever explicitly told him what you want?”

    “Neil knows what I want,” Andrew snaps. This is not Andrew’s fault.

    “How do you know?”

    Because Neil always knows. He is as fluent in Andrew’s micro-expressions as he is in German and French. He knows which head tilts mean “go on” and which ones mean “shut up.” Without ever asking, he learned what it meant to see Andrew wearing double layers of long sleeves, or taking multiple showers in a day, and learned to hand Andrew the car keys.

    That has always been the most terrifying thing about Neil — his patience to wait, watch, listen, learn. The prospect that if Neil were given enough time, there would be no part of Andrew that was just Andrew’s anymore.

    “He has to know,” Andrew says.

    “Does he?” Renee says. “Have you ever known Neil to assume that he is wanted?”

    Five times Neil tells someone that he and Andrew aren’t dating, and one time Andrew uses his words to set the record straight.

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    01 Sep 2025

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    Adam's coworker is worried about his love life. Adam is more worried about his neighbor burning down his apartment.

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    29 Aug 2025

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    'The worst part about all of this, Ronan thought bitterly, was that being kidnapped proved Declan had been right about something.'

    A purveyor of magical objects adds a dreamer and a psychic to his collection of curiosities.

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    The AU in which Adam and Ronan only meet for the first time after they’ve both been kidnapped by Greenmantle.

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    22 Aug 2025

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    "Straight answers are boring," Cheng says, "and yes I do mean that for all values of straight. I do not need Ronan to share his tragic backstory, I would much rather deduce it on my own."

    "Who says I have a tragic backstory?"

    "With your fearsome glower and troubled good looks? If you did not have a tragic backstory it would be a waste."

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    21 Aug 2025

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    Adam gets trapped in a time loop with a morbid twist and finds an unlikely ally in Ronan Lynch.

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    15 Aug 2025