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What if the intervention at beginning of ACOSF went a little differently?
Nesta doesn’t know how long it has been since she was abandoned at the Respite, only that she has not seen her sisters nor her... Cassian for what feels like an eternity. When Azriel learns the extent of Nesta’s isolation, he knows he needs to rescue his sister. But as unrest is growing in Prythian and beyond, will he be able to rescue her from herself, or will it all be too little too late?
An alternate telling of ACOSF from multiple perspectives focusing on Nesta's journey to healing.
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19 Jul 2025
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I don't know anything, but I know I miss you by jsmelodies
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
22 Jul 2025
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“Come here,” he said. So close to a plea. “Everything else aside, just…come here, Nes. I’m still here.”
He wasn’t—he’d been more distant than ever. Coming to bed late, and leaving for the dining room before she even had the chance to wake up properly. It felt like their last conversation had been ages ago, before the girl fell onto Rhys’ lawn.
She remembered the night before it all happened. Their last night together: her hands held above her head, and him smiling and whispering words against her neck while he made love to her.
“You are the most precious thing in the world to me,” he’d said, under the bright moonlight.
She missed his steady presence, and the physical comfort he gave so easily.
She missed him.
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Or, Nesta and Cassian struggle to come back to each other after the events of CC3.
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18 May 2025
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Two Of Us by ChelseaMorningGirl
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
02 Mar 2025
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All she knows with absolute clarity is that she is burning. That she feels white-hot anger sluicing through her veins, that silver fire stoked higher and higher as Cassian’s words barrel into her like a battering ram.
“Well, everyone fucking hates you, so well done, Nes.”
Nes. Everything seems to quiet. As if what he just said is of no consequence at all. As if the little nickname has no effect. As if she hasn’t asked him to stop calling her that more times than she can count. Everyone fucking hates you. All at once, the anger is replaced by hurt. It starts small, a fissure in her heart that travels through her body like a spider crack.
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Cassian’s words affect Nesta so deeply that she closes herself off from him, from the inevitable hurt he will inflict. Will Cassian be able to convince Nesta of his feelings, or will they crash and burn?
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29 Apr 2025
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Fissure and Thaw by TheTeaQueen
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
28 Apr 2025
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Masks had always been familiar to Nesta Archeron.
Less shiny, less deadly than the one that occasionally framed her face, these were smaller, meant for everyday wear that hid her identity in different, more vital ways.
‘Stop bouncing on your toes, Nesta. Stay still.’
The earliest effort – to stop her body from constantly moving. Constantly needing to sway or rock up and down, be it at tea, or on the promenade.
‘Sound sweet when you talk. Simpering. No one likes a monotone. And for my sake, smile.’
The bane of her mother’s existence – that her voice was not light and melodic, like Feyre’s, but rather deep-toned and inherently cold. How her face rested in a perpetual scowl regardless of her mood.
‘Watch me, copy me. That’s right.’
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In which Nesta masks to conform to her peers, until she can't anymore.
Post-HOFAS fix-it, ft. Autistic!Nesta
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- Part 2 of Nesta Week 2025
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29 Apr 2025
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Grieving The Mother's Daughter by TheTeaQueen
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
25 Apr 2025
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“Children would liven the place up,” Azriel said, when Cassian had commented how quiet the House of Wind was one morning.
Her mate had brushed it off with a laugh, but Nesta began to wonder if he was simply holding his tongue. If he, too, desired to stop taking contraceptives and try.
It took a long time, she’d been told. Years, even.
And still, she closed her eyes and saw those women. Saw her sister. And her body revolted.
They never discussed it. Never voiced aloud whether or not either of them agreed with their family’s teasing – whether the idea of a child had become too tempting to ignore. Other than her initial declaration, at the beginning of all of this, that she wanted to wait a long, long while, they never had the conversation.
Instead, Cassian was content to brush off the teasing remarks with a smile, as if it were nothing.
And Nesta was content to keep drinking her tonics like clockwork, as if were everything.
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A study in Tokophobia, for Nesta Week 2025 Day 5: Mother
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- Part 5 of Nesta Week 2025
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25 Apr 2025
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Runaway by ChelseaMorningGirl
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
25 Jul 2025
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The declaration slams into her. Shackled. The fissure of her heart is so stark and sudden, she’s surprised nobody hears the resounding crack echoing through her. She staggers back a step, putting distance between them. It makes that bond, that thread attached to her rib, linking them together, ache painfully.
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When Cassian breaks Nesta’s heart, she leaves Velaris, determined to leave everything and everyone behind for once and for all.
Unbeknownst to him, Cassian is at risk of loosing not only the love of his life, but a chance at having the one thing he has craved ever since being dumped at the Illyrian war camp as a youngling as well.- Language:
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25 Apr 2025
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Conformity by becauseofreading
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
22 Apr 2025
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Post HOFAS - Spoilers mentioined so be warned
TW: body dysmorphia, depression, self-image issues, self-harm, ED references
Nesta is dealing with the fallback of giving the Mask to Bryce. Intent on finding a way to get back into her mate's and family's good graces, Nesta realizes she needs to change. She needs to change every single thing about herself.
As the Nesta they all know slowly begins to disappear before their very eyes, the IC and especially Cassian realize how much they value the eldest Archeron. Cassian wonders if he'll ever be able to get that version of her back.
Last chapter is for Nesta week 2025
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22 Apr 2025
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If you say so by A_Bookish_Morning
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
22 Apr 2025
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Nesta breaks down while on the Hike with Cassian, but it wasn't the kind of break Cassian was hoping for.
Nesta remembers her grandmother's words, her cruelty. And forces herself to put on her old childhood mask;
Obey the man of the house.
Don’t speak, unless spoken to.
Don’t resist.
Just be quiet.
Just endure.For Nesta Archeron Appreciation Week, Day 2: Mask
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23 Apr 2025
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Hell Hath No Fury Like a Sister Scorned by TheTeaQueen
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
21 Apr 2025
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Feyre had made this child out of love, with the notion that she’d be there to raise him. Nesta had thought, as High Lady, she’d have been granted the utmost care, the ability to make every single decision, to have a full working knowledge of her world.
Instead, they treated her sister no better than they did herself. With secrets.
Nesta closed her eyes, readying for her abduction off the streets.
Instead, the earth trembled, tilted, and abruptly, the male she felt too much for yet no longer knew how to deal with was stumbling away, flames erupting between them.
“Put your hands on her and you’ll lose them.”
Nesta blinked, pushing herself upright on the wall of whatever building she’d been leaning against, and looked over the barrier to see her sister in all her glorious fury, her hand outstretched.
“Feyre,” Cassian croaked, looking as shocked as she felt, something agonized in his eyes. “Rhys told me to-”
“Speak his name to me again, I dare you.” Her sister hissed. “I know exactly what he told you.”
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Or, a different take on Nesta revealing Rhys' secret, and how Feyre reacts.
For Nesta Week 2025 Day 1: Bonds
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- Part 1 of Nesta Week 2025
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22 Apr 2025
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Three Little Words by TheTeaQueen
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
25 Jan 2023
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“Do you love me?”
The question rang out in the empty silence of the House, filling the space with the nervousness it carried, the unsurety. It’s speaker stood stiffly, hands clasped together, brows furrowed, her eyes carefully schooled but hollow enough to indicate that she’d already expected a certain answer.
“What?” He asked, bewildered, as if he hadn’t heard her correctly. "Did you just ask me if I loved you?"
“It’s just…” she started, but stopped, and suddenly that anger evaporated. Nesta never stuttered, never fumbled over her words. “It’s just, you’ve never said it before. The words, I mean.”
Cassian stared at his mate for several seconds, blinking rapidly. That couldn’t be true. After everything they’d been through, it wasn’t possible that such a thing could have been missed. Surely, he had-?
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AKA an ACOSF fix it where Cassian says I love you because sometimes people need to actually hear the words.Ft. Rhys and Azriel telling Cassian he's a moron, Gwyn telling Cassian he's a moron, the House telling Cassian he's a moron, and Cassian making everything better and showering Nesta with affection.
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18 Apr 2025
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To Know That I'm With You by ClimbTheMountain2020
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
07 Jul 2025
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After Feyre Archeron's abrupt disappearance from the manor, Nesta is effectively sold to the Mandrays to save face. But with one sister waiting patiently to start her own life and the other inspiring Nesta to seek more for herself, she flees into the woods.
Fate has a tricky way of picking the Archerons up and setting them down exactly where they belong.
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12 Apr 2025
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An AU where, when faced with an ultimatum by the inner circle, Nesta chooses to be returned to the mortal lands rather than electing to be forcibly rehabilitated at the House of Wind.
This is a darker version of events than Nesta's canon story where she has less plot armor.
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12 Apr 2025
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One Step at a Time by Hecuba1
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
03 Feb 2025
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Starting with the famous Fall on the stairs, my alternative take on ACOSF where Nesta actually goes on a healing journey and a more realistic take on how she and Cassian find a way to each other.
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09 Apr 2025
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Just One Chapter, Not A Whole Book by FluffMonster42
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
05 Apr 2025
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“Her father had died for her, with love in his heart, and though she might not have deserved it then… She would do all she could now to earn it. To deserve not just his love, but that of those around her. Of Cassian” - ACOSF
Every day Nesta wakes up and tries to be better, tries to leave her trauma in the past, tries to live up to the expectations of her family and friends and be deserving of the love they give, though she doesn’t always succeed.
Rated E out of caution. No real smut, but does have some sexual content and swear words.
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06 Apr 2025
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“Are my sisters in?”
Nuala licked her lips nervously then looked slightly over her shoulder. “No, I’m sorry. Lady Elain is out at the shops with my sister, and the High Lady is--,”
“The High Lady is, most unfortunately, held up with the City Council this afternoon,” the arrogant, irritatingly familiar voice interrupted as its owner seemingly materialized from the shadows of the front hall. “But any petition you wish to bring to your High Lady may, of course, be brought to me in her absence.”
Nesta wanted to slap the smug smirk off her brother-in-law’s much too perfectly proportioned face. Instead, she turned to Nuala and said, “Please let them know that I called. I will try again tomorrow.”
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Nesta has important news. Rhysand is most definitely not the person she wants to share it with.
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01 Apr 2025
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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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20 Mar 2025
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Barbarian Bat by Pumpkinspice_Lou
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
14 Feb 2025
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Nesta has no interest being on this snow and ice covered planet, and she certainly has no interest in a resonance mate, least of all with the sa-khui with the cocksure smiles who keeps calling her Nes.
AKA the ACOTAR and Ice Planet Barbarians crossover no one asked for. That's it. That's the plot.
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18 Feb 2025
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Monica Stuart is nothing if not persistent. She doesn't even care if she gets anything else out of Amos anymore, as long as she gets that D...
Set sometime after 3x07, before the plot hits the fan on the Roci
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09 Jan 2025
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Save Me From Myself by legitimate_salvage (ifinkufreaky)
Fandoms: The Expanse Series - James S. A. Corey, The Expanse (TV)
14 Jun 2016
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Spoilers through Book 3 / Season 3. Five weeks on the Roci, execution or a life sentence once Clarissa gets to Luna, how does she not try to bang him?
Warning: potentially triggering description of choking in the final chapter.Bookmarked by impossibleusay
10 Jan 2025
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Of Broken Wings and Promises by jsmelodies for Separatist_Apologist
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
05 Jan 2025
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It’s said that an Illyrian warrior’s wings are his greatest point of pride.
For Cassian, that had always been true. Until they were broken to pieces behind him as he once again failed to protect the female he loved.
Until he learned that there was no coming back. That he would never fly again.
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AU where Cassian loses his ability to fly in the final battle with Hybern, and Nesta and Cassian learn to heal together on more equal footing.
An ACOSF rewrite
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26 Dec 2024