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In Plain Sight You Hid by nontoxic
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)
28 Jun 2024
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Miguel's hand is back, slipping over and around his knee so his fingertips brush the soft skin inside his thigh and Alex feels himself getting hard in his trunks.
See, asshole? Some people think I'm so charming they even want to fuck me.
Alex can't stop his whiskey-loosened thoughts from imagining the meeting with Henry going that way, instead, imagines Henry's piercing blue eyes looking at him with an entirely different kind of heat blazing in them, imagines the same challenge and intent written plainly on Miguel’s face playing across Henry’s, blue eyes searing into his.
And then Miguel leans in, and Alex lets him, reveling in the way the attention feeds his buzz and makes him lightheaded. Besides, kissing is fun.
Even if it's with smarmy reporters who aren’t great at it.
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aka Alex falling in love with Henry while Miguel lurks in the background.(or, the author has a headcanon that "we once made out on the campaign, drunk, fully naked, in a hot tub" happened in Rio because someone was frustrated over being rejected, and it turned into 11k of loverboy ACD)
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“The queen wants to show that the Prince and the First Son are still deeply in love and committed to their countries.” Ellen swallows. “They want you to go on a tour of the Commonwealth together, to get the public to see those emails not as a sex scandal, but an invasion of privacy of a wholesome, loving relationship.”
“It was an invasion of privacy,” Alex says. He swallows. “Did they say what would happen if we say no?”
Ellen’s lips pinch tightly at the corners. “Then they will issue a full denial and Henry will tour the commonwealth himself.”
Alex doesn't hesitate. “Tell them we’ll do it. I’m not gonna let him do this alone."
It would kill him. Henry hates this shit. The public parading, the judgment. Having to do all of that, and deny who he is? Alex at least wants to be there, to hold his hand through it. Even if it's just as a friend.
It might kill Alex to pretend, but that’s a small price to pay to ensure Henry—his beautiful, vibrant, funny-as-hell, brilliant ex-not-quite-boyfriend—isn’t killed instead.
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or, the alex-never-goes-to-kensington-after-the-lake-house, exes-to-fake-dating-to-lovers fic.
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"I'm sure Patrick has some stamps here at the store that you can use to send in your registration."
David's eyes are wide when they briefly meet his. "I can't ask P— I can't just use store supplies for personal use, Alexis!"
Patrick wonders if David realizes that he used the printer for his mood board for Jocelyn's shower, or that he takes pens home all the time. Hell, that he thinks he can just damage out a eucalyptus eye serum and ask Patrick to gently apply it to his face…
He shuts down the memory.
But what makes this different? That they're exes (god, it still stings) now and this is for a singles event?
"No worries," Patrick forces himself to say, keeping his voice carefully easy. "It's just a stamp, David."
But before he leaves for the night, Patrick counts the stamps on the sheet in his desk, because he's a masochist, apparently.
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David and Patrick don't get back together after the barbecue and maybe both end up miserable at Singles Week.(an exes-to-lovers singles week au)
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- Part 3 of love is a ruthless game
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Patrick pulls up to the motel and sees the man sitting in the chair outside Room 5, and his mouth goes dry.
Top-tier indeed.
Whatever Trish is charging, she could easily double it.
He swallows hard, and wills himself not to think about the fact that in a few minutes, he will be naked with this guy. If he keeps picturing it, he's either gonna chicken out, or he's gonna get hard and that's just too embarrassing, even for this situation.
Patrick counts to ten, taking slow, even breaths, and steps out of the car.
"Hi," he greets awkwardly as he walks up to the man.
"Can I help you?"
He sounds prickly, distrusting. It makes sense. "Yeah, I'm Patrick. Trish sent me." He realizes too late that he probably shouldn't have given his real name.
"Who the fuck is Trish?"
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a Rooms by the Hour AU where Patrick attends the Greater Elms Accountants Conference, and is given Trish's card in case he's "looking for some fun." -
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He should be excited for a whole month at home — holy fuck, this townhouse is his home — without his boyfriend.
And he is. Kind of. He can sprawl out in bed without Patrick's limbs kicking him back, he can eat pizza several nights a week without Patrick's teasing, he can nap in the afternoon without Patrick's twanging guitar, and, most importantly, he can shower — and face mask and undereye patch and pedicure himself — to his heart's content without Patrick banging on the bathroom door saying he needs to pee, as if his place doesn’t have two other bathrooms.
But the truth is, Patrick isn't here to do those things right now, and David can't deal with that. It makes him… itchy, or something. Like skin healing over from a scrape or like half his heart is in goddamn Tampa, the one fucking place he really, really doesn't want to follow, and he misses him so much.
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an i'd swing with you for the fences coda, aka patrick is in florida for spring training and david isnothandling it super well.Series
- Part 2 of i'd swing with you for the fences
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Eddie loathes the idea of soulmates. The words his soulmate will say the moment they realize they are in love with him sit heavy on his wrist. Heavy like a burden, like a cursed prophet, harbinger of death. Others cry tears of joy when they get their words, Eddie had cried tears of anxiety. The dark letters on his wrist read, “Dustin died.”
On the other side of town and yet worlds apart from Eddie, Steve loathes the words on his wrist just as much. Not because he doesn’t want a soulmate. No, he longs for them every day. And every day is a painful reminder that he hasn’t found them yet when someone randomly calls out his words. The letters on his wrist simply say, “Hey Steve.”
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12 Jan 2026
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Eddie doesn’t like showing it when he’s scared. Wayne always knows, though. He knew every time Eddie appeared on his doorstep with no warning, small and trembling with a dirty, oversized backpack packed with snacks and worn stuffed animals. He knew when Eddie was taller, a little bit too skinny and too tough for his age, when his dad finally ended up in prison and the government finally let Wayne's kid be his kid. He knew when Eddie was in middle school, friendless and angry and paranoid, when Wayne stumbled upon a stash of porno mags while he was looking for drugs.
So he knows now.
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{in which Wayne doesn't meet Steve until quite a while after he and Eddie start dating}
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11 Jan 2026
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Not Looking for the Cure by I_am_but_a_holyman (tally_ho_903)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
08 Sep 2024
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Dustin has decided Steve's chronic single-ness is the bane of his very existence. Dustin won't shut the hell up until Steve asks someone out.
Luckily for Steve, Dustin never said it had to be a girl.
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06 Jan 2026
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A story of scars, shared silence, and the four years it took for Eddie Munson to feel like himself again.
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06 Jan 2026
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“Robin,” Steve says. “I think I might be homophobic.”
Robin- who had just been in the process of shrugging on her Family Video vest- pauses. She blinks at Steve as though he’d just grown another head.
“Uhm,” she says. “I don’t know what you expect me to do with that information.”
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05 Jan 2026