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  1. Public Bookmark 29

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    Jane Shepard, the heiress to Normandy House, has always and will always regard marriage to be nothing more than a sham. She'd rather live the life of a spinster than the life of a wife. But when the future of Normandy House is thrown out of her favor, she begrudgingly enters the marriage mart. After months of failure, a sliver of hope presents itself in the form of Viscount Garrus Vakarian, known playboy, rake, slut, and all other like terms. He proposes a daring plan: pretend to court and marry for a span of four months, before Garrus fakes his death and abandons the Citadel for good. It secures Shepard's claim to Normandy House and offers the benefits of widowed life, while favoring Garrus and his all-too secretive plans he shares with no one, including Shepard. But through the fake longing gazes and fabricated dates and the tense waltzes in balls, Shepard begins to fear the one thing that could scare her more than the prospect of marriage.

    That through it all, she was falling in love with the Viscount.

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    17 Jan 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 31

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    AU.
    Amidst the raging First Contact War between turians and humans, Garrus Vakarian is tasked with capturing the crew of an Alliance vessel that crashed in the Terminus Systems. What begins as a straightforward operation rapidly devolves into a desperate struggle for survival.

    This story unfolds in a universe of what-ifs, where Shepard is no soldier, and Vakarian is on his way to become a bad turian.

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    17 Jan 2025

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    “You sound nervous, Viktor. Is something –” Then he caught sight of the small hand clutching the side of Viktor’s vest. Jayce’s words stuck in his throat as a face peeped out from behind the scientist, a young girl with startlingly blue hair looking up at him with fear. “Um – who’s this?”

    . . . years later . . .

    “Just this once,” Jinx whispered, “Can’t I prove that I can help my family instead of watching them die?"

    On the night Jinx loses her family, Viktor finds her and takes her in as his apprentice on the Hextech team. But when he falls ill, the lengths she’ll go to save him might just drive her mad…

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    13 Jan 2025

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    Stephanie Rogers isn't happy to be in the 21st century, but she's even less thrilled to be on a team with Antonia Stark who seems as spoiled and self-centered as people come. She and Tony do their best to ignore each other, until their mutual insomnia causes them to bond over the new American pastime: late night television watching. Eventual Steph/Tony.

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    17 Sep 2024

  5. Public Bookmark 24

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    “I got this. It’s gonna be fine,” Bucky repeated under his breath. As a tracker, he’d hung off cliffs, infiltrated a cult, been shot by mobsters, stabbed by a jealous spouse or two, and almost had to cut off his own arm during an avalanche. How hard could teaching a bunch of kindergarteners be?

    “Everyone say, ‘good morning, Mister Barnes’,” the principal instructed.

    “Good morning, Mister Barnes,” came a chorus of tiny voices in perfect unison that left him feeling like he’d stepped foot in a Stephen King flick.

    Crap.

    Maybe he didn’t have this.

    Or: A Kindergarten Cop/Tracker mash-up AU where sparks fly when rewardist Bucky crosses paths with teacher Sam while searching for a missing child.

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    20 Aug 2024