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    A series of Season 4 canon-divergent AUs, in which David and Patrick say "I love you" for the first time in different episodes.

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    Prince Henry is somehow both everything and nothing like Alex expected him to be. He looks perfect, even though he is staring at his phone when Alex enters the room and takes a seat far out of the way.
    And then Prince Henry looks up, his eyes darting around as if he has no clue where he is, and lands on Alex’s face. There’s nothing there, though. No curiousness, no interest, no disdain, not a shimmer of any emotion. Prince Henry just looks at him with a blank stare until Mrs Hughes takes it upon herself to introduce Alex.
    “Henry,” the man responds. His eyes widen for a second before his face falls into a closed expression and says: “pleasure,” as if it’s anything but, and looks away.
    Right.
    Rude.

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    Life has been throwing many challenges at Alex. The biggest one so far is becoming a single father. That might change, now that Alex has started a job as a solicitor for His Royal Highness Prince Henry.
    Prince Henry turns out to be different than Alex thought at first, and it doesn’t take long for them to become friends.
    But is that all they can be?

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    Update, July '25 - Done some editing and changed a couple minor things, making it more legible overall.

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    21 Sep 2024

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    He turns on instinct, just in time to catch sight of their daughter— their tiny, precious, perfect three-year-old who’s due to start swimming lessons next summer but at the moment relies on floaties that she isn’t currently wearing— teetering on the corner of the dock, her light-up tennis shoes all the way at its furthest edge.

    Ice-cold fear tears through Alex and in the same instant that Henry calls out their daughter’s name, he watches as she loses her fragile balance and tumbles headfirst into the glittering water of the lake.

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    12 Jul 2024

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    Henry is a boring person.

    This is an objective fact. It’s been such a constant in his life that it hardly bothers him. He prefers the mundane. Thrives under routine. Tolerates many things poorly: surprise parties, capsaicin, loud noises.

    Another objective fact: Henry loves Alex. Alex is not boring at all.

    Unfortunately, everyone else in Henry’s life seems to think that a bore like him is incapable of a relationship like theirs— and, more distressingly, that this must mean that Alex simply doesn’t exist.

    Or: Five times that no one believed that Henry and Alex were an item, and one time that they all did.

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    11 Jul 2024

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    Alex is a philanthropist. He’s also, technically, a thief. But he only ever steals to help others; he’s never taken a thing for himself. That is, at least, until now.

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    Or, the royal wedding serves as the perfect cover for a heist, but what Alex ends up stealing is a kiss from Prince Henry instead.

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    30 Jun 2024

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    “Now, I don’t know about you, but I distinctly remember telling you to stay.”

    “Sorry,” she said, not sounding very sorry at all. Henry made a mental note to teach her how to at least pretend to be contrite.

    “You’re… she - you can speak English?”

    Henry looked up. The man was turned towards him now. His eyes were the first thing Henry noticed. Wide and a deep brown, with impossibly long and dark eyelashes that seemed to touch his cheeks every time he blinked. And his mouth - it was open now in surprise and disbelief, but it was perfectly curved and bitten pink, and Henry had no problem picturing it curled into a smirk. A handsome serial killer, then.

     

    Single dad Henry loses his daughter at the Met and ends up finding more than he bargained for.

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    24 Jun 2024