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• There's No Place I'd Rather Be by ReptileFerretHybrid

  Fandoms: Malevolent (Podcast)  

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  11 Oct 2025

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  • John/Noel | Charlie Dowd
  • John (Malevolent)
  • Noel | Charlie Dowd
  • this one's called "oops Noel gets my paranoia" in the Google doc
  • i get spider paranoia so noel gets tendril paranoia
  • he'll be fine tho i threw john in the bug jar with him
  • im so tired
  • sleep deprived paranoia
  • the paranoia isn't very extreme i would say
  • intense may be a better word
  • Hurt/Comfort
  • Pre-Relationship
  • Post-Canon
  • malevolent 56 spoilers just in the tags
  • arthurs dead oops sorry
  • noels alive tho
  • Living Together
  • Other Additional Tags to Be Added
  • John (Malevolent) Has His Own Body
  • kinda has to for this one
  • noel gets the same kind of migraines i do so weird complicated ones that ill explain if you really want me to i guess
  • or maybe if they come up in the fic
  • john is like a weighted heated blanket physically and metaphorically even tho hes a human
  • Mutual Pining
  • for now
  • background hc but john reads medical books and stuff in his free time
  • no beta im dying
  • migraine bad goodnight
  • ugh I said I would add more tags but I'm so tired
  • noel really wants any reaction out of John so bad
  • he gets kissed for it
  • that was his own evil plan though
  • the paranoia is a little bit worse in this chapter but just at the beginning
  • Fluff
  • I just threw the inside of a pillow at you that's what this chapter is and the next one? two pillows.
  • Flirting
  • Teasing
  • First Kiss
  • Noel keeps distracting him but John will rub this man's shoulders if it's the last thing he does
  • homoerotic tension probably

  Summary

  Noel is very sleep deprived but wouldn't ask for help if he was being held at gun point. John is very insistent on helping Noel solve all of his problems, whether Noel likes it or not.

  Maybe it was worse than Noel wanted to admit.

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