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Alina finally realizes that there are many things about her that Mal will never understand, and that only the Darkling can.
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Clarity by goblins_riddles_frocks for buries
Fandoms: Nikolai Series - Leigh Bardugo, The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo
08 Aug 2024
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Alina goes to see the Darkling one last time.
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of sunlight, eclipsed by BlondDragon for Asilvermoment
Fandoms: Shadow and Bone (TV), The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo
30 Apr 2024
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After accidentally using Merzost, Alina and Aleksander find themselves waking up in each other’s bodies. Reluctantly, they discover that the only way to swap back involves merging their energy in delightfully depraved ways.
“And how do you propose we swap back?” Alina reaches out to prod a finger against his chest, shadows creeping towards them in her irritation. “This is your fault.”
“Alina,” he begins, reaching up to stop the incessant jabbing, unthinkingly brushing away the darkness with a flicker of light. “I hardly think I’m the sole—”
The Darkling cuts off at the sudden, jarring, change in perspective. No longer is he staring up into his own face but staring down at Alina’s instead. It lasts a moment before he’s thrown back into Alina’s body.
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His Creatures by goblins_riddles_frocks for jammerific
Fandoms: The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo
27 Apr 2024
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After fleeing the Spinning Wheel, Alina receives two visitors: Nikolai, and the Darkling.
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- Part 1 of His Creatures
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Little Light by Kinky_NessaC (NessaC)
Fandoms: Shadow and Bone (TV), The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo
24 Apr 2024
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Tsar Nikolai has been at war with Shu Han for the past years and he finally gets to celebrate his victory, with the conquest of the capital city of Ahmrat Jen. Among the spoils of war is a scrawny little princess, Alinayen Kir-Taban, and he gives her out to the second army general who won most battles for him but he despises. But what was meant as an insult turns out to be quite a gift to the Shadow Summoner.
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for some kind of contact (nobody has to know) by midwinterspring for firecat
Fandoms: Shadow and Bone (TV)
14 Feb 2024
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Now he expects her to argue, like she did in the dreams. So she won't.
"Touch me," she says.
(A Season 2 enemies(?) tether smut fic.)
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When the world hears it by StarlessSinner
Fandoms: The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone (TV)
15 Nov 2023
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“Are you sure?” Aleksander asks.
The Alina in the vision nods, smiling like a schoolgirl as Aleksander goes in for another devouring kiss.
“We could have had this,” a voice from beside her whispers. Real-Alina’s head snaps to the side where she sees another Aleksander smirking down at her, this one wearing the scars she’s grown accustomed to.
“Alek—“ He steps behind her, wrapping one hand over her mouth as the other holds her arms behind her back.
“Shh. Watch.” The hand over her mouth moves to her chin, forcing her head to face the couple on the war table.
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Feel You With Every Move by aewgliriel
Fandoms: Shadow and Bone (TV), The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo
06 Sep 2023
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After Alina breaks free in the Fold, she and the Darkling each think the other dead. They find each other in dreams through the tether.
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A Yearning So Isolating by nocteacakes for cheddarplums
Fandoms: The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone (TV)
06 May 2023
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After the battle with the Darkling, Alina heals slowly in the tunnels. In her dreams, she remembers, and yearns.
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Enough For Now by Holyshipster
Fandoms: Shadow and Bone (TV), The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo
05 Apr 2023
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Alina and Aleksander haven't quite learned how to manage their shared connection yet and keep popping into each other's lives at less than ideal times (or perfectly ideal times).
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No. Shelter. But. Me by GrannyWeatherwax
Fandoms: Shadow and Bone (TV), The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo
01 Apr 2023
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Alina finds herself in Morozova's cave, trying to find out more about the Firebird, before taking The Darkling on in a final battle. Meanwhile, the Darkling, infuriated with Alina's attempt at seducing him to sever their connection, finds her in his visions - to exact revenge.
TL;DR: A smutty reindition of the cave scene in Shadow and Bone (TV) series season 2, episode 6 - Ni Weh Sesh (I Have No Heart) - where The Darkling attacks Alina.
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The Clockwork of Eternity by starlessweb
Fandoms: Shadow and Bone (TV), The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo
22 Mar 2023
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His dreams of her are always the same.
They are back at the Winter Fete. He sees her smiling at him, her eyes just as hungry as his own. Her thin nightgown does little to hide her body underneath. And then she runs, and soon he is running after her. Svetlana, who was in his arms moments ago, forgotten. He chases her through the halls of the Little Palace. Always getting close but never quite catching her.
On the night of the Winter Fete, Alina Starkov dies. A year later she shows back up to the Little Palace. But something is amiss. Did she really come back from the dead? Was it a miracle or some sinister calculated plan? What are her motivations?
Adding to the Second Best stormpill AUs cause this fic has been occupying my head rent-free. Second Best not a required reading.
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Ambiguous Reality by rachiemcd
Fandoms: Shadow and Bone (TV), The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo
20 Mar 2023
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Post Season 2 Fix It Fic. Alina has summoned shadow and now has to face the world as a Saint who has lived past her expected Martyrdom. A Saint who lost her blessed powers, only to become the new Darkling. As her regrets fill her, she begins to see Aleksander again. Unsure if he is flesh or spirit, she clings to him regardless.
A connection that powerful cannot be severed. After all, there is no light without shadow.
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A Saint's Release by c0smic_angst
Fandoms: Shadow and Bone (TV), The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo
19 Mar 2023
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“It aches.” She admits. He nods sagely, bottomless dark eyes fixed on her own. And she can understand him in that moment. He does know; he understands this power, understands her. “I feel it too.” He whispers.
“What do you do?”
His voice drops another octave though he keeps it just barely above a whisper. “I give myself a release.”
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Rising Ruin by TurduckenSandwich
Fandoms: Shadow and Bone (TV), The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo
18 Mar 2023
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The Darkling catches Alina alone, pouring over books and maps. He's going to show her just how much he's missed her. And he won't let anyone or anything stop him.
“Let me go or I’ll kill you. I swear it.” The steel in her voice is impressive, but he can’t think much of the threat. It’s not as if she’ll stop trying to kill him if he does let her go. If only it were that simple.
“This cunt.” He lets his fingers trail down her slit, as lazily as if they had all the time in the world. “Tell me, Alina. Have you let your little toy soldier in here? Or perhaps your puppy prince?” -
Something True by Pookaseraph
Fandoms: The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone (TV)
10 Mar 2023
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Aleksander is in need of a Shu translator, a smart one, to help with an intercepted cipher. Luckily he finds Alina Starkova just sitting there in Poliznaya. He feels an instant connection with the talented woman and invites her to join his oprichniki, but it turns out she is nothing like she first appeared and navigating that will be a challenge all on its own.
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On reflections and refractions by ItWasSomethingAbout
Fandoms: Shadow and Bone (TV), The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo
24 Jan 2023
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Aleskander might not be pleased by what he was seeing, in his room, across the tether, but he’d have to be a fool surprised by it. And, as Aleksander was a criminally unstupid man, with a jealous character to boot, this was, technically, something he’d seen coming.
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The Shadow Fold has endured for more than six hundred years. Now in the twenty-first century, the Darkling serves under greedy politicians as a five-star General of the Second Army. Until he can make his move towards power, until he can finally find his fabled Sun Summoner.
Alina Starkov is just an entry-level intelligence analyst for the Ravkan First Army, watching massive screens of satellite footage for hours on end. Mostly handling documentation, cross-referencing incoming intel, outlining small skirmishes on digital maps. The minutia kind of stuff. She'd be the first to tell you that she isn't anyone special, certainly not Grisha.
Or: A modern retelling of Shadow and Bone.
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A Handmaiden by TurduckenSandwich
Fandoms: Shadow and Bone (TV), The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo
31 Jul 2022
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“So Alina Starkova is the tsar's beloved,” the woman repeats carefully, her measured voice cutting off all the currents of conversation. “It seems like you all know her as that. But how?”
The maidservants stare at her. “Haven’t you been listening to everything we’ve been saying?”
“But you don’t even know if he’s slept with her.”
“Oh,” one of the girls says, tipping back her last thumb of vodka. “You’ve never seen them together. If you had, you would know.”There are two sun summoners. The Darkling chose the more obedient one as his queen, and made Alina Starkova her handmaiden.
But that's how this story starts, not how it ends.
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- Part 3 of knockverse
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The Scent of an Alpha by FormerlyIR (Irony_Rocks), Irony_Rocks
Fandoms: Shadow and Bone (TV)
12 Jul 2022
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Everything in her appearance exudes neglect – which only makes Alina flinch and look away. A few weeks ago, she’d thought she’d never look this way again. Aleksander had her convinced. If she closes her eyes, she can still sense his smell, the scent that screamed all yours, a promise he’d whispered to her the night of the Winter Fete before things had gone so horribly, horribly wrong. Staring at her with a breathless wonder, his scent like that of warm weather, an aromatic uplift of juniper berries, and something spicy too, rounded out with sandalwood and musk. Alpha. A perfect refreshing scent that used to make her mouth water, her legs weak with slick. She can still recall her own faint gasp when he swept her up in his arms, put her on that war table like she barely weighed a thing, the rumble of his voice against her chest – my Sun Summoner, my Omega.
Except it had all been a lie.
And she can feel it coming, her first heat. And there’s not a thing she can do to stop it.