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During their post-rescue recoveries, Francis takes an interest in keeping James well-fed.
James believes they've both survived enough harshness to deserve softer lives.
Upon returning to England, Francis keeps asking James to dinner, and James can't help but wish the invitations were part of a courtship. And can't stop daydreaming about being Mrs. Crozier.
(This story includes food kink/weight gain kink/feedist content, and weight gain helping a trans character experience gender euphoria. If any of that sounds like it isn't your thing, will upset you, or is content that will cause problems for you if you read it, PLEASE DO NOT OPEN THIS STORY.)
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Alone Together at the End of the World by vigilantempathy for spilverhare
Fandoms: Chernobyl (TV 2019)
13 Jun 2025
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"For a moment, it’s just the two of them, alone together. The world outside is forgotten.
For a moment, they’re happy."
Or, the slowest of slow burns, as Boris Shcherbina and Valery Legasov work together to save lives after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and fall in love for the first time in the process.
Canon-compliant, but with missing scenes and post-canon that allow Boris and Valery to fall in love and make their respective peace with their lives and deaths.
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BROKEN TRUST (Or, How to Learn to Live With Yourself After Your Exes Have Hooked Up) by vigilantempathy
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
13 May 2025
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Written for the Angsty Edizzy Autumn prompt "BROKEN TRUST."
The weirdest part of Ed's return was finding out that his former Co-Captain and former First Mate have hooked up in his absence.
(Or, Ed Teach decides to become someone he can live with.)
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- Part 5 of Angsty Edizzy Autumn Fics
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(Intentionally overtagged: please take care of yourselves! Heed the warnings and opt whether or not to enter at your own risk!)
Hell isn’t endless suffering; it’s getting a glimpse of Heaven every night only to have it taken away, over and over, forever and forever. A-fucking-men.
I keep having these dreams where you kill me. I call them dreams, but they’re definitely nightmares. They’re these uniquely cruel nightmares where I get these glimpses of us back when things were still good, before all the years of fuck-ups and failures and apathy it took to ruin what we had. You always shoot me, and then I wake up trapped in the life I made.
I’ve been trying to push you there, one amputation at a time. C'mon, Izzy, make my dreams come true.
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- Part 4 of Angsty Edizzy Autumn Fics
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We were never married. Not really. Not like people on land do it, with vows and rings and cake and one man and one woman, and God judging the whole thing.
I mean. There were vows, I guess. Blood oaths. Matelotage promises, inheritance, all of that. And there were rings, eventually. The one you stole for me. My mother’s wedding ring, before it was yours. And you wore it around your neck until the day you died, Iz. I couldn’t bury it with you.
I still wear your ring.
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- Part 3 of Angsty Edizzy Autumn Fics
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Illya doesn’t pick up on Napoleon’s unconventional preferences until they become mission relevant.
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10 Feb 2026
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A modern AU in which James and Francis are two barristers who keep butting heads in court and who happen to live across from one another. Installments follow a chronological order, but by and large, can be read by themselves.
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23 Dec 2025
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To keep spirits up in their first winter, Franklin decides a show is in order.
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Illya kills an American spy in Zurich.
Three days later, he’s staring into the face of a dead man standing in his hotel room.
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10 Dec 2025
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James experiences a late and unfortunate first presentation as an Omega as the crew prepares for the walkout.
The duty to see him through his first heat falls to Captain Crozier.
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17 Oct 2025