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Fire, Blood, and Shadow by CrochanCursebreaker
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
10 Jun 2025
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Nesta has finally agreed to train with Cassian, and as she grows stronger, so does the tension between the two of them. But when she watches Cassian and Azriel spar in the training ring, a fantasy takes hold, one that she never expects to play out.
Cassian and Azriel both see the way her body reacts to the sight of the two Illyrians, and while it's not the first time a female has lusted after them both, Nesta may be their undoing.
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Enjoy my take on Nesta's fantasy, one where she doesn't have to choose, and where everyone gets their happy ever after!
I also try to be as true to the original work and canon events, but I've rearranged some minor events and information to make more sense within the story.
Happy Reading!
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- Part 1 of Fire, Blood, and Shadow
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Free - Nessian Version by NeheMikkele
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
06 Jun 2025
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Tarquin has offered Nesta sanctuary in the Summer Court while she is in the middle of Valkyrie training and working in the library.
Cassian still can't keep away.
A/N - if you've read my Dramione fic 'Free.' this is 95% the same.
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- Part 18 of Nesta and Cassian: Standalones
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- English
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“Nesta. Let go. Can you be a good girl for me?” Cassian asked. He held her throat now, a gentle pressure to remind her what she had agreed to.
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Nesta comes home stressed and sore after training. Cassian decides that his mate shouldn’t have to be in charge of anything else.
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While Azriel was happy, he rarely ever participated in so-called “pack bonding moments”. The relationship he has with his brothers was built upon collective hardships. His ultimate language being violence, he was not used to the softness. Nevertheless, a chain of deliberate actions will change that forever.
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- Part 3 of Northern Lights
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A Court of Stars and Foxes by SilverReedzo9
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
19 May 2025
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When Feyre and Rhysand plan to kill his sentries and shatter his mind, Lucien is forced to make a bargain. He knows he is a prisoner, a dead man walking in a Court full of shadows almost as heavy as his own grief. Lucien must find a way to escape the Night Courts clutches and return home to Spring Court to salvage the shattering Court.
Cassian knows one thing, and that is anger. Anger at a dead Amarantha, who tore his family apart. Anger at Tamlin, for all he did to hurt Feyre. Anger at his Emissary, the prisoner now in Night Courts clutches. But overtime, Cassian begins to question the mask the clever fox wears day and night, and searches to find the truth.
This is a part of a series, but you don't have to read the first part to understand or enjoy this one!
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- Part 2 of The Fox Who Dared To Dream
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Fetters of the Divine by detessa
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
04 May 2025
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Nesta Archeron died in the Blood Rite.
The Rite was a trick, set up to kill her the moment she touched the monolith at the peak.
But Ramiel, the mountain that had witnessed millennia of death and rebirth, did not bury her.
It resurrected her.Where the Cauldron had forged her through theft, Ramiel gave freely. From its grace, she rose—part creation, part destruction, part balance.
But something happened after she stepped off that mountain - something she doesn’t remember.
To Rhysand and Feyre, she’s a danger to the fragile peace they’ve fought for, and to their newborn son.
But in the Court of Nightmares, they see something else: divinity. Nesta is a vessel—her power pure, inheritable, sacred. A tool to build a new world, one born of legacy, blood, and powerful elites. -
what is bred in secret longing by paroxysmal
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
28 Apr 2025
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Elyssia is born among the cruelty of the Illyrian Mountains and, after finding solace at the hands of an otherworldly creature, she dedicates her life to give her fellow females and their wings the safety she was blessed with - only to have it all shattered by the well-meaning but, in her eyes, clueless aid of the Night Court’s general and the Inner Circle he’s a part of.
Life, and the clusterfuck of drama Cassian brings with him, would’ve been easier to navigate if the mate bond hadn’t snapped the second they crossed eyes…. or if he didn’t have a lover at home he refuses to part with.
Now Elyssia has been thrown into the thick of heartache and unavoidable longing while trying to remain faithful to her self-imposed duties and keeping her distance from the found-family of the mate that doesn’t want her.
Add in a mix of High Lords drama with their unresolved issues, weird demonic creatures breaking havoc all over Prythian, and seductive High Fae that have no issue expressing interest in what Cassian so carelessly dismissed, and you have the making of the perfect recipe for absolute disaster.
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Hunting For You by inkedinshadows
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
26 Apr 2025
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When you don't come back home, Cassian grows worried and comes looking for you.
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- Part 5 of 1k follower celebration
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If I'm Not Brainwashed, Man, I'm Trying to Be by sssoulsuckerrr
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
26 Apr 2025
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What if when Azriel walked in on Cassian and Nesta in a ACOSF, her fantasy (and ours) actually happened? This is just a oneshot completing that scene in the way we all thought it was going to go.
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When the Abyss Stares Back by Presephone
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
25 Apr 2025
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When the Inner Circle eliminates a war camp that has allied themselves with Hybern, the last thing they expect to find was to find a weapon of Hybern. Especially when that weapon comes in the form of a scared female who has been seemingly chained up and tortured. Agreeing to take the female under their protection, they must now find out what Hybern had intended to use the woman for; and why was she being kept in an Illyrian camp?
Friendship will be tested, and new relationships formed. But through it all, one question will sit in the back of the Inner Circle's mind...
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A Court of Death and Wisteria by Alysha_Gager
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
12 Apr 2025
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This is my a fandom sixth book to the A Court of Thorns and Roses series by Sarah J. Maas in short form. This story deviates from the love story between Rhysand and Feyre, and takes a new course, still involving Rhysand. To avoid spoiling the story, all I will say is that, as someone who loves ACOTAR and the characters and lore within it, but always felt as though Rhysand was far out of Feyre's league, I took it upon myself to continue the story in which the main romance is between what I feel are two better matched characters. There is death, war, smut, and so much more. I hope you and enjoy!
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The Shadows of the Lost by InkognitoDeki
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
20 Mar 2025
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Throughout his life, Azriel couldn’t remember a single day when he wasn’t someone’s property. He never had a choice, never was asked what he wanted. And even if someone had asked, he wouldn’t have known what to say.
The amber eyes that now watched him appraisingly, as if they could see through his carefully crafted mask, made him all the more nervous. As if they could see past the Illyrian leather, beyond the cold facade, and deep into the shadows of his trauma... only to find nothing.
Nothing that could ever be worthy of catching the attention of someone like Eris Vanserra.This story is a deep, intricate character study that delves into the life of Azriel - from his traumatic childhood to the years that shape him into the shadow he has become. It is also the tale of a spark of hope in the form of a redhead who isn't afraid of his darkness.
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And Now She Becomes Death by TheTeaQueen
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
19 Mar 2025
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Months and months have passed since Nesta Archeron cut the King of Hybern's head off.
In that time, the River House has been built, Velaris is once again vibrant, and everyone is enjoying the happiness that was hard earned, and at great cost. Well, mostly everyone.
Nesta, who spirals further and further into her own grief with every passing day, has instead burrowed into her tiny apartment in the city, intent on drinking her sorrows away.
But when she goes missing, a concerned neighbor shatters the relative contentment the Inner Circle had been enjoying. Now, faced with the very real possibility that she is once again in the clutches of the enemy, they must stop at nothing to get her back.
For Cassian, that means tearing the world apart, until he has the chance to make sure his mate comes home safe.
But Nesta is no damsel. She was taken by Hybern once, they will not succeed twice. Now is the time for vengeance, and she will not stop until every last one of her enemies is vanquished.
A post-ACOWAR revenge plot AU, in which Hybern kidnaps Nesta as revenge for the death of the King.
Written for Nesta Archeron Appreciation Week 2024 Day 7: Free Day
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- Part 6 of Nesta Archeron Appreciation Week 2024
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A Court of Power and Healing by CassieWinchester113
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
04 Mar 2025
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In which Nesta's trauma is handled differently
Instead of training, Feyre and Rhys decide to send Nesta to the library for therapy.
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A Court of Debt and Revenge by hollyjanepeters
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
19 Feb 2025
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A strange female is dropped into the Inner Circle’s lives on Winter Solstice. Clinging to life, they help her heal at the House of Wind. Traumatized but now healed, the female pledges her life to the High Lord and Lady of the Night Court. The High Fae shows the Inner Circle her special talents, helping them where she can. Unknown to her, a mate bond is tugging her towards someone.
Following the events of A Court of Frost and Starlight and A Court of Silver Flames, this story will follow our OC as she tries to help quell the Illyrian unrest and figure out the ache inside her chest.
Minor updates Dec. 2024 to existing chapters (no plot changes)
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ACOTAR Modern Zombie AU.
It’s been a while since the end of the world.
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I Know The End by daughterbride
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
16 Feb 2025
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“Can I come in?” He asked, the ghost of a smirk twisting the corners of his lips slightly upward. Gods, she wanted to throttle the arrogance out of his beautiful face.
“I’m naked.” She frowned, pressing the door shut with full intentions of it hitting his big, dumb nose. A strong hand gently pushed it back.
“All the more reason.”
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Cassian is ordered by Feyre to check on Nesta everyday, to make sure she's breathing and eating and getting sunshine on her skin. Perhaps an even harder task than that—he's ordered to bring her to the townhouse once a week for a weekly dinner.
OR- what if Nesta's trauma wasn't left to fester for so long?
In which Nesta learns how to breathe again, and Cassian learns how to love.
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A Court of Souls and Shadows by eatawolf
Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types, A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
11 Feb 2025
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When Thanatos creates a slit between two universes, who says Nico can't shadow travel through it?
When two young fae arrive in the corridors of the night court, how do the High Lord and Lady react to mere children?
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Will and Nico travel to the ACOTAR universe and get ambushed by the inner circle. How will they get back home?
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Mates of Circumstance by ScorpioSunset88
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
12 Jan 2025
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The story focuses on a Princess of Hybern; the events in ACOTAR (first book) occur but after that it diverges. Relevant character information: Rhysand and Feyre are High Lord and Lady of Night Court. Tamlin never went to the King of Hybern and thusly his Court remains intact, Elain and Nesta are still human and do not have much impact on this storyline, other characters exist but are not as relevant.
Mating bond between Princess, Azriel, and Cassian (but not between the bat boys).
Pulled elements from LOTR into the story because I adore Middle Earth as well.This is my first shared fan-fic and I realize there are probably errors that I just did not catch so I do apologize for any frustration when you read. I hope that you enjoy :)
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The Human Sisters by noyeahforsure
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
12 Jan 2025
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An alternate universe of sorts where Nesta and Feyre don’t actually hate each other, they just fight sometimes. Like real sisters. Nesta goes to Velaris while she is still a human to spend time with Feyre at Rhys’s request. Their relationship slowly improves, while Nesta explores her sister’s new world.
What is the same as canon: the world, the characters (not necessarily how they act, just the basics), the plot up until the moment that Feyre asks her sisters for help with the queens
What is different from canon: everyone has at least a modicum of emotional intelligence, Clare Beddor was (is??) Nesta’s best friend, Elain is into Mor (because why not), Illyria is not a terrible place, Nesta and Rhys form an unlikely but ultimately adorable friendship