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The trick to Jack Abbot's coffee was that there wasn't one, and Robby had learned it anyway.
At a quarter to six Robby was at the counter, hair still wet, scrub top inside-out, half-assembled for the day shift, when Jack wandered in. He had no business being awake—it was his night off—but years of working nights had worn the ordinary hours smooth in him, and he'd never quite managed to sleep through Robby's side of the bed going cold. So he got up, the way he always did the mornings he was home, to stand in the kitchen and see the man off. His coffee was waiting on the counter—black, scalding, two sugars he'd deny to his grave that he took. Robby had made it, the way Robby made it every morning Jack was home to drink it: the one with somewhere to be looking after the one without. Jack picked it up without breaking stride, the way you'd pick up your own hand. He didn't say thank you. Thank you was for strangers. He bumped his shoulder into Robby's on the way to the window and that was the whole sentence, subject and verb and object: you, here, this.
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The one where Robby finds out that Jack has been receiving mail addressed to his late wife and decides to do something about it.Bookmarked by bigbadunderclass
15 Jul 2026
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Darnell nodded, glancing over Robby like he was trying to place him in the hierarchy of important to ignorable and it could go either way. "What's this?"
"MSF FNG," Jack shot back. Whatever that meant, he sounded amused.
Darnell scoffed and looked to Robby, expression going decidedly unimpressed. "Oh, yeah? You here to find yourself? Have an adventure? Do something hard?" he asked, each question more mocking than the last.
And there was that question again, like it was haunting Robby. He stifled his instinct to bite back and kept it simple: "I'm here to help."
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08 Jan 2026
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He’s tense like he’s ready to bolt for the door to chase down the new lead but looks to the girl first. Whatever is communicated silently between them isn’t made privy to Marty before she nods, slips off her seat, and comes behind the bar to finish putting the beers in the fridge. Marty is sure he’s not meant to see how Rust ruffles her hair in lieu of a goodbye.
He thinks about it, waiting in his car, how Rust didn’t introduce them. A man out of practice with marking his territory.
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- Part 1 of LOST DOGS
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01 Dec 2025
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Jude Duarte is the High Queen of Faerie, but few people know that. Married in secret then banished to the mortal realm, Jude has to find her footing again. She knows what she wants. She wants retribution. She wants what is rightfully hers. She wants a few other things she shouldn't want.
More than anything, she wants to go back.
But before she can return to Faerie, its High King finds her. And neither Jude nor the rest of the world is entirely prepared for Cardan.
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07 Oct 2025
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Mistakes & Other Choices by floraliarites
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
06 May 2026
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Azriel kissed her top lip, then the bottom one, slow and firm. She heard every click of Lucien’s eye as he watched them. “What do you think, Lainey?”
This was unfair. They had planned this. Had meant to turn Elain into a hot, turned-on mess, then tip her world completely upside down. What the Hell, she thought. If we’re all going mad, here goes.
“What about the three of us?”
(Hot off the heels of her biggest mistake yet, Elain chases her own dreams. Until her dreams turn to nightmares, and her visions to memories.)
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23 Sep 2025
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A Temporary Inability to Go Either Up Or Down by lightgetsin for Eastofthemoon
Fandoms: Queen's Thief - Megan Whalen Turner
19 Dec 2010
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Eugenides was not stuck. A Queen of Attolia missing scene.
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24 Mar 2025
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The ransoun made, the prisoneris redeemit by sshysmm
Fandoms: Lymond Chronicles - Dorothy Dunnett
16 Jun 2019
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St Mary’s — Summer, 1566
Jerott Blyth has not set foot in Scotland since the death of his wife. Francis Crawford has not left since then. Through the intervening years, a building sense of lack finally brings Jerott back to St Mary’s Loch, in the hope of putting an unwanted feeling behind him. Isn’t it the case that there’s nothing like reality for reminding you of your idol’s flaws?
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“It’s good to see you too, Jerott.”
They might have been neighbours accustomed to encountering one another in their daily routines on land and in water. Francis had not been surprised to find Jerott riding alone to his estate on an unremarkable summer morning, and Jerott had not been surprised to find Francis exercising in the cool loch, as content to needle his unexpected guest with ironic verse as if Jerott had only left St Mary’s a week ago.
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For Scotswap 2019, a gift for Lamen-king on tumblr, who gave me the most delicious prompt I could have asked for.
I finished this a little early, and then Chapter 2 sort of wrote itself. If you prefer things to remain one-sided, strictly UST, then please just enjoy Chapter 1.- Language:
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30 Dec 2024
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A Series of Optical Illusions by Fahye for kangeiko
Fandoms: Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
24 Dec 2015
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This is bait, but the best bait is the truth; there is no lie in Jack's arm around her waist, in his fingers tangled through hers.
Miss Phryne Fisher sets a trap, throws a party, and reconciles her differences.
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29 Dec 2024
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You may flinch and rebel all you please; but not against the truth.
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25 May 2023
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fighting vainly the old ennui by Fahye for innie
Fandoms: Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
25 Dec 2014
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The Bowerbird wasn't playing fair; Jack couldn't debate these pieces of paper. He couldn't tell pieces of paper and a growing pile of feathers that he, too, remembered the rare treat that was eating a single piece of tropical fruit in the heavy heat of a Christmas afternoon, stickying his best suit of clothes, which had been so clean and pressed for church that morning.
(In which Inspector Jack Robinson is having a fairly uneventful year, divorce notwithstanding, until he acquires a lady doctor for a drinking buddy and receives a series of flirtatious notes from a jewel thief.)
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- Part 12 of Author's Favourites
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30 Mar 2023
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The Devil Went Down to Georgia (And Then Went Down on Johnny) by notbecauseofvictories
Fandom Devil Went Down to Georgia (Song), Devil Went Down to Georgia - Charlie Daniels Band (Song)
30 Dec 2021
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01 Feb 2023
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far away, my well-lit door by ap_trash_compactor
Fandoms: Star Wars: Thrawn Series - Timothy Zahn (2017)
06 Jan 2019
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"He looks around, around / He sees angels in the architecture / Spinning in infinity." Or: Eli Vanto makes an offhand comment after visiting Yinchom, and it gives Thrawn a bright idea that he takes much, much, much too far. Everything's got fallout.
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- Part 1 of my traveling companion
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28 Jan 2023
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"In war as in love, to bring things to a close, you must get close together." — Napoleon Bonaparte
AU: Arihnda Pryce meets Thrawn in a hotel, not a diner, when she needs advice on Higher Skies. As a stone in still water propagates ripples, one change begets others. It turns out that an ambitious political climber and and an ambitious military commander have a great deal to offer each other.
(Warnings apply to chs 9, 10)
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28 Jan 2023