Friends to Lovers to Strangers to Friends to Lovers
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"Hi, sorry to bother you but my daughter is a big fan of yours, do you mind giving me an autograph?"
Or the one where Jimin and Jungkook finally meet again after seven years.
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Lan Zhan looks down at the essay. He doesn’t get any further than the name before he hears the soft sound of fabric rustling from the doorway. The second set of breathing betraying that he is no longer alone.
Before Lan Zhan can turn, an aching familiar voice says, “Hello, stranger.”
Every nerve in his body locks down for impact.
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Eight years after their breakup, Wei Ying shows up to collect on an old agreement: if they aren’t married by 30, they’ll marry each other.
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A Lapse in Thought (and Time) by A_Lonely_Gay (VertiligoMist), FloofyTMCCWritez (VertiligoMist), HunterMGold (VertiligoMist), VertiligoMist
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
18 Jan 2021
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Todoroki Shouto had been having a somewhat normal day. He’d been working on a shift that matched up with Izuku’s, and having married him, he decided to patrol with him.
Shouto didn’t know if that was a good decision or a bad decision, considering he got sent back in time after seeing Izuku die.
Now, he’s going to make sure Izuku’s safe and happy, despite his Quirklessness. Maybe he can have the same relationship with him again.
One day...
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- Part 5 of Forget Them, Move on
- Part 6 of Fics I’m never gonna finish but don’t wanna out officially abandoned
- Part 17 of Cishetn’t
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remus and sirius used to date in high school but remus had to move out because of his family (and his father being homophobic piece of shit lol). after a few years he comes back to london and whether he likes it or not... has to face his old friends and his ex lover.
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Eda Clawthorne is finally transferring to Hexside University from the local community college, after working hard and somehow staying out of trouble for two whole years. She plans to major in English--a discipline she never thought she'd enjoy, but found herself excelling in.
Raine Whispers has been juggling music and the rest of their life for twenty-one years, and it's certainly not going to stop now. They are double majoring in music and English, and filling their extra time with plenty of other activities. And they definitely haven't thought about their highschool girlfriend in years.
Roommate assignments this year might mess things up a little bit.
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Ties That Bind by ridingthemagic2arpet
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
07 Aug 2022
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It's been years since the downfall of the League of Villains, but Midoriya Izuku is still facing enemies who are calling for his demise. As he rises through the ranks of heroism, it can be harder to define the lines between friends, strangers, and something more.
Todoroki Shoto is tired. Even as young as he is, the life of hero doesn't get any easier -- his bones ache, his heart hurts, and he struggles to protect two of his closest friends from the onslaught of villains that are coming for them. Even worse, he struggles to rein in his feelings, and risks the threat of ruining everything in the process.
--> a story of how Todoroki and Midoriya get lost and find each other again.
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Homecoming by quirkyscholar
Fandoms: Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types, Wiedźmin | The Witcher Series - Andrzej Sapkowski, Wiedźmin | The Witcher (Video Game), The Witcher (TV)
01 Apr 2023
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There is one song that Jaskier never plays when Geralt is around. What he doesn't consider is that the witcher might hear it from someone else. After all, Jaskier is a popular bard by now. The song is what is needed for Geralt to regain his memories of certain things from his past that he had thought he already remembered completely. Needless to say that he had been wrong.
Or,
They got it all figured out once. It wasn't easy to say the least. Then, by a twist of fate, it all started over. It seems that this time it will be even more difficult. Especially since they never seem to be in the same place at the same time.
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Castiel Novak is 27 when he suddenly loses his twin brother Jimmy, and his whole world turns to ashes. How do you deal with losing half of yourself when your whole life always revolved around the two of you, like yin and yang and black and white? How do you deal with a broken soul and old demons looming over you with no one to hold you back anymore?
After 10 years as a Navy Special Warfare Operator and more than a dozen deployments in both Afghanistan and Iraq, a battlefield injury forces 28-year-old Chief Petty Officer Dean Winchester to choose between being stuck behind a desk for the rest of his career or going back to civil life. When he learns about his friend Jimmy’s death, Dean makes his way back to Kansas with his heart in his throat and broken pieces at his feet.
Things are already complicated and painful enough as it is, but when former lovers Dean Winchester and Castiel Novak meet again after 10 years of radio silence and a galaxy of wounds and scars solidly standing between them, it feels like both a curse and a blessing has been placed on them both. Is there any hope in putting back their broken pieces together after a decade, and how do you deal with grief and broken dreams?
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- Part 1 of Patient Love verse
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Hirano is almost kissing the dirty tile when he's grabbed by the arm before that happens.
He is met with wide and mature eyes windowed by black frames, but is this the same person he knew then?
Who is he kidding? Of course it isn't.
He inhales. "Kagiura."
His savior, his past, exhales. "Hirano." -
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Tom, back in Newcastle after six years in the army, has to come to terms with lots of things. How many things have changed in his absence and how little he has. The fact that his one-time best friend and lover is now engaged to be married. How he has to live in his brother's house and play babysitter to his kids.
But things always find a way of reverting to how they once were, no matter how much you might try to move on.
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Since I saw Vienna by Elm (Xx_poetry_witch_xX)
Fandoms: I'm in Love with an E-Girl Series - Wilbur Soot (Song Cycle), Lovejoy (Band), Sex Sells - Lovejoy (Song)
22 Sep 2023
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Inspired by the music of Wilbur Soot and Lovejoy (planned pre Call Me What You Like), I present to you a love story between Wilbur Soot and Vienna Vettleston. There's highs, there's lows, there's love, there's family, there's fights, there's making up, ups and downs, and everything in between, all to your favourite music. She's a work in progress, so just stick with me, but I promise there's a lot to come with what I've lovingly deemed the Vienna Project.
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- English
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- 4,949
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- 1/24
- Kudos:
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- Hits:
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understanding doesn’t mean I still don’t weep at your loss by Beatty_About_Books
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom, The Legend of Zelda
30 May 2024
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He was so utterly in love with her, as both friend and lover, and she didn’t know him at all. Not really. Not anymore.
He understood, he really did, deeply and truly, but that didn’t stop the absence of her from hurting. And his Zelda was absent, in a way, the woman sitting across from him sharing her face but not her mind.
Or: Zelda forgets. Link remembers.
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- Part 2 of Reverence, In All Of Its Many Meanings
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I Wake With Your Memory Over Me (That's a Real Fucking Legacy to Leave) by Marvel_ous_M for Acatcalledmalice
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
21 Oct 2024
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Steve Harrington-Morris is 29 and has his life figured out. He's married to a gorgeous woman who's in her emergency medicine residency, he lives in a beautiful apartment in downtown Chicago, he has a solid relationship with his parents, and he gets to spend his days relaxing as a house husband.
Sure, he's sort of isolated, seeing as he doesn't really have friends, but he has his wife- when she'swillingable to spend time with him.
Yeah, it's definitely not the life he dreamed he'd have back when he was a teenager, but it's the life he got, so who is he to complain?
A series of realizations shakes Steve from this mindset, and has him deciding to attend a Corroded Coffin show, with the hope that he'll be able to reconnect with the man he once loved: up-and-coming rockstar, Eddie Munson.
He... doesn't have much of an idea for what to do after that, but he knows that seeing Eddie is the first step he needs to make in the plan to reclaim his life.
Hopefully, the rest will come easy.
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A Rabbit and Her Ex Walk Into a Community College by Expl0dingR0ckC4ndy
Fandoms: Sonic the Hedgehog - All Media Types
16 Sep 2025
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Cream has finally made her way into college! Full of excitement, she whole heartedly expects this experience to be wonderful. However, the lingering thoughts and presence of her Ex-boyfriend seem to complicate her plan.
But she’s totally over him.
Right?
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"What is love?"
Believed to have discovered it at the momentous age of nineteen, Alayna is given a reality check when the said love disappears.
Now wiser and older, she is forced to face other fears in an exotic, tropical island where she'll be spending her vacation -- except it's full of unfriendly habitants.
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MC meets Leon again after seven years since Raccoon City and face off another threat together.
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Minerva was loud, scary, un-lady like, annoying and difficult to deal with. But Minerva liked being the way she was, she liked doing whatever she liked, she liked getting good grades, she liked learning, she liked quidditch... she loved quidditch. She loved trying new things. She liked the freedom Hogwarts had given her.
Minerva McGonagall
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Lily sought echoes of Narcissa in everyone she met.
Lily wondered if Fate strived to be cruel as it brought them together once again, half a decade later, with the consequences of the Wizarding War strewn all throughout their lives, their ever-crossing paths a reminder of a chance she had forgone.
Narcissa wondered if Lily had forgotten about her.
Ever since she had learned of the prophecy that placed Lily in danger, Narcissa delved her hands into the war and played a chess game of her own, sweeping the Dark Lord’s victory from right under his nose at the sacrifice of the family she grew up in, the family she married into, and the society that had moulded her in her formative years. However, no part of her regretted it, especially with the knowledge that
herLily was alive, even if the war left them scarred, their lives irrevocably altered.Unexpectedly, Narcissa and Lily reignited their long-lost connection, no longer schoolgirls who yearned for the stars to keep them together, but the war-worn women they had become.
As if spring flowers after a harsh winter, their affection blossomed slowly, in a world that wanted them together once more.
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- Part 1 of The Cruel Art of Love, Loss, and Longing
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knowing me (knowing you) by ahecen
Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan
28 Sep 2025
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Imagine one selected day was struck out of your life, and think how different its course would have been.
(or, Percy and Annabeth on the fifteenth of July, over the course of twenty intertwined years)
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“Buck.”
He had no idea why that word left his mouth, where it came from or the meaning of it. Extending his arms as if not to further scare the boy, John felt frightened for both of them.
At the exact moment as he spoke, a pair of terrified blue eyes met John’s gaze and something in his heart clenched painfully when he saw the terror in that clear crystal colour. The moonshine was brightening the flawless features and John realised when he gazed into that captivating face that the boy seemed to be younger than he thought at first, but there was so much suffering in those piercing blue eyes that he looked like he was carrying the whole universe on his shoulders.
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As springs ebbs into summer, Park Jimin unexpectedly spots a familiar face at a pool party - Jeon Jeongguk, his childhood best friend and first love, who disappeared without explanation five years ago and left Jimin heartbroken.
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The 80s are in full swing, and the golden decade of Nintendo Gameboys’ and Sony Walkmans’ has never looked better. In the neon jungle, Stede Bonnet, a young salaryman, meets enigmatic mechanic apprentice Edward Teach, and the pair strike up an unlikely friendship via fax machine, page beepers and gifts in the mail.