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“I’m not going home,” she said.
Draco swallowed and nodded.
“Neither am I.”
She turned back to him with a tight expression.
“Well, then come on.”
And Draco followed.
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They were running from their ghosts and accidentally found each other instead
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The seemingly still wave of human connection actually follows an ebb and a flow, as does a variety of other things such as health, mentality, and meaning. So far, the group has managed to overcome life's various obstacles but are now tasked with facing reality and learning to understand the differences in each other, the trauma that follows them, and what it means to have a full wave of connection. Healing comes with costs and consequences.
From a vacation that brings out even the darkest of struggles to beach trips that highlight what it is that makes being in the group a beacon of light, Sunny and Co experience Senior Year like a storm.
Searching for a reason to exist, Loser Committee is only an umbrella term for something much deeper and far more meaningful.This is a part 2, be sure to check out the first part of this fic! I love angst in my fics so please review the tags if you have anything you're sensitive to. I don't like sugarcoating things, but I try not to romanticize them either. I have some ships tagged here but they're not really full blown relationships, more of an implied feelings sort of thing, but they may come to fruition if the fic lets me go that way.
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- Part 2 of Hymnal of Leaves
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what to say by leodoriya
Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 2003)
02 Dec 2025
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In the wake of Leonardo's worst injury yet, the turtles struggle to cope.
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Covenant of Sacrifice by Kujaku_Mai
Fandoms: 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Manga), 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime)
02 Dec 2025
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Kanae Kujaku never wanted power or the parasitic curse that came with it. When Kenjaku’s Idle Transfiguration awakens cursed techniques across Japan during the Shibuya Incident, Kanae inherits the legendary Kujaku clan’s “Covenant of Sacrifice” technique.
But she doesn’t awaken alone.
Kagura, a curse dormant in her bloodline for three generations, wakes with her. Two personalities. One body. And a binding vow that chains them both to the Zenin estate—specifically, to newly-appointed clan head Naoya Zenin.
She refuses to walk three steps behind him. He refuses to admit she’s anything but a weapon. They’re both lying to themselves.
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- Part 1 of Covenant of Sacrifice
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Saparata and Fluixon meet each other in the colosseum for the final time. There on the bloody sands, Flux takes his final breath.
Several hours later, he takes one more.
(Fluixon survives AU, focused on the broken relationship between Flux and Saps, along with Saps learning to return to a society that (mostly) no longer wants him dead. And all of the emotional baggage the events of the past have left them with)
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This is a prequel to my first Murder Drones fic; The Life and Death of Tessa Elliott. It centers around Tessa Elliott, who deserved way more screentime. Like. Two seasons worth.
In this AU, she survived the Gala massacre, albeit with severe head trauma.Now she walks her final days on Earth, and the final days of Earth in its entirety. She strikes up the band again and goes on one last adventure into the unknown, no parents to stop her, nothing left to get in her way. Though she must come to terms with the life she has lived, and accept the feelings she has for the people around her, and the world itself. Can she bring herself to forgive those who wronged her? Or has the pain caused her to become another monster...
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How I met my Husband by Justice4Togo (Okami_Occamy), Okami_Occamy
Fandoms: One Direction (Band)
01 Dec 2025
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When people ask Harry how he met his husband, the answer always throws people off. It leaves them scratching their heads, but then smiling at the sweetness of the story told to them.
Their story is a story filled with love. They have the perfect life. The perfect marriage. They never fight. They rarely disagree. The sex has yet to fade, in fact it's only grown in frequency. They go on dates every week, they are so disgustingly happy together.
Except it's just a story, because while a lot of it is based in fact, there are a lot of truths omitted from the tale. They don't talk about it, the lies built upon lies. No one knows the truth.
Major Triggering warnings, Viewer discretion advised.⚠️
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Light Bleeds Through by know_where_usa
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Spider-Man - All Media Types, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
01 Dec 2025
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Peter doesn’t remember what freedom feels like until he’s given it. Brought in from Hydra’s control and taken in by the Avengers, he’s forced to confront what was done to him and what he’s still capable of becoming. When his past resurfaces, Peter has to understand that healing isn’t about erasing what Hydra made of him, but reclaiming what he couldn’t all those years.
His will, his hope, and his humanity.
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After an attack leaves Las Nevadas in ruins and Quackity broken, Tubbo Underscore declares a Mutual Defense Pact. It isn't a request.
Now, Quackity is trapped in his own casino with a possessive, chaotic force of nature who is hell-bent on protecting him. As they rebuild, a dangerous game begins, weaponizing their shared, traumatic past with a single, loaded word: "Mama."
Caught between resentment and a desperate, growing attraction, Quackity is forced to confront a terrifying question: Is he being saved, or is he just Tubbo's favorite project to fix?
(Or, a story about a fallen empire, a feral engineer, and the transgressive feeling that blooms in the rubble.)
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Andi wakes up in Gotham with no memories, unnatural healing, and blackouts that leave her knuckles bloody and her body bruised.
Jason Todd keeps stumbling across her like a curse he wasn’t meant to break.
Gotham is stirring again, shadows moving in ways they shouldn’t.
Kobra is using her, whispering commands through the cracks in her mind.
Every time she closes her eyes, someone else is wearing her body.Jason sees the monster she fears she’s becoming.
She sees the grief he carries like armor.They keep reaching for each other anyway—two ghosts looking for warmth in a city that swallows hope whole.
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Walking elegy by allen1996
Fandoms: 転生したらスライムだった件 - 伏瀬 | Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken | That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime - Fuse, Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel
02 Dec 2025
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In which the presence of another true dragon make things worse and better for two different universes
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“We are not selling you, Colin. But you are going on a loan to Ajax this whole season. They want you there by the end of the week.”
Colin’s heart dropped. Even though he understood pretty early on what was happening, hearing the words out loud was something else. It was far worse than anything he had imagined.
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When Richmond signed Zava, it leads to Colin being sent to Ajax for a loan the whole season. He struggles with the new team and city, but eventually finds some nice things too.
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Adam awakens as a fallen angel, a sinner in hell, cast away by the angels who had once claimed to ‘treasure’ him. Thinking there is no way back to heaven, he just wants to drown in resentment and spiral toward self-destruction.
Of course, there is no way Charlie is going to let that happen, even when a dangerous enemy is ready to strike soon.
Part 1: Chapter 1 - 6
Part 2: Chapter 7 - 16
Part 3: Chapter 17 - 25
Part 4: Chapter 26 - ?
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In the world of Driodoll, humans and Faes live alongside each other. But when a human king starts a war with the fae, his sons and the sons of his enemy are caught in the conflict. Evander, Prince of Vragary, runs away with a prisoner of war, Saënuk, Prince of Aeothia. Viggo, Evander's brother, and Ariun, Saënuk's brother, must push past their differences to find their siblings and bring them home.
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- Part 1 of Songs of Driodoll
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Say You Won't Leave by Caffeine_Addict3
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
01 Dec 2025
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Prequel to Come Back to Me.
Denki and Hitoshi are two kids with plenty of damaged baggage. They're just trying their best to get through high school. It's not as easy as the movies make it out to be.
Hitoshi finally has a stable home with two loving dads that will do anything to help him accomplish his dream of being a hero. That doesn't mean the anxiety goes away. But he's managing it. Mostly.
It would be better if class 1-A would just leave him alone.
Denki is the class clown that distracts everyone with a laugh. Because if they're laughing then they won't notice that he isn't actually happy. He's terrified of disappointing his parents. Their disappointment can be quite painful but their rules are very clear. He must do whatever it takes to live up to their expectations.
The thing is though. There's this new classmate that he can't stop thinking about.**You do not have to have read Come Back to Me to enjoy this story. It takes place before those events.
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- Part 2 of The Sun, the Moon, and Stars
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Icarus is in their 3rd year of college at Lodestar College. since going back after a break and a year of online classes, they have been known as the weird kid who talks to themself, except it's not themself. Still working to get their two dead friends justice they are a Law Major with a little (or a lot) more information then the police and detectives, one might even call it inside info.
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‘“It’ll be easier, if you stop,” Ragatha admits from her spot beside her on the sofa. They’re all present around where she’s curled up, a small indent against the cushions, watching each ragged breath tear through the round curves of her shoulder puffs. Her eyes are glazed over, dry without reprieve; she fights the urge to close them, because she’s almost certain that if she does she won’t ever wake up again.
She’s pretty sure she’s dying.’
The human body can only survive up to three days without water. As Pomni is forced to acclimate to her new life in the circus, she can feel the tether connecting her to her real body dwindle with every passing day. Lying undiscovered in the remnants of a long abandoned building, her true body withering away to the elements, her consciousness is accompanied by various other trapped souls in Caine’s twisted wonderland. They’ve all been through the same brutal hazing; now they have to be there to sit through Pomni’s.
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Wemmbu and Flame have defeated the army, a battlefield smoldering beneath their feet from their destruction.
Wemmbu is done with fighting and wants to take a break.
Flame isn't going to let him have that easily.
Wemmbu is so so tired.
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Max Verstappen. To the world, a 4x Formula 1 World Champion. To himself, nothing but the child that suffered at his father’s hands, and the adult that has to live with the consequences.
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- Part 2 of it wasn’t pretty like the movies
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In Leehan's whole life he's never felt like enough; abandoned by his parents and a tool for the Agency, his only solace is Taesan. That is until he too disappears, leaving only questions and a hollow ache where his heart had once been. But when a mission gone wrong sends Leehan careening down a path that leads back to the man that had saved him and broken him, he's torn between joy and sorrow. Why had Taesan abandoned him? And more importantly... can Leehan trust him with his heart again?
Taesan left his heart behind the day he left the Agency and he'd regretted it every day since. He tells himself lies to make himself feel better but he knows there's nothing that excuses what he'd done to the most important person in his world. So when two years later he's given a once in a lifetime chance to right his wrongs, he takes it without hesitation. Taesan will protect Leehan, no matter the cost.
Their love could ruin everything but it's the only safety either of them has ever known and neither of them are willing to let it go without a fight.
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- Part 1 of Threads of Fate