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1. Learning to Breathe by victoriaandalbert for Annis, indestructress, KatyTheInspiredWorkaholic, dusksbuckley, EliotQueliot

   Fandoms: The Magicians (TV)  

   • Explicit
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   23 Jun 2025

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Quentin Coldwater/Eliot Waugh
   • Quentin Coldwater & Julia Wicker
   • Eliot Waugh & Julia Wicker
   • Quentin Coldwater & Eliot Waugh & Julia Wicker
   • Julia Wicker/Female Character
   • Quentin Coldwater
   • Eliot Waugh
   • Julia Wicker
   • Ted Coldwater
   • Jane Chatwin
   • Pre-Canon
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • Alternate Universe - College/University
   • Angst and Fluff and Smut
   • Love Confessions
   • Mutual Pining
   • True Love
   • Mindwiping
   • Prequel
   • Healing Sex
   • Happy Ending
   • Matchmaking
   • Sexually Inexperienced Quentin
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • First Time
   • Declarations Of Love
   • Picnics
   • Kissing in the Rain
   • First Dates
   • Oral Sex
   • Museums
   • Food as a Metaphor for Love
   • Quentin Kicks A Cart
   • Wet Clothing
   • Falling In Love
   • Eliot Waugh's Canonically Huge Dick
   • Visions
   • Heavy Angst
   • Relapsing
   • Quentin's Canonical Suicidal Ideation
   • Eliot's Canonical Drug Addiction
   • References to the Canonical Sexual Harrassment That Eliot Endured
   • Attempted Sexual Assault
   • with a warning on the chapter it is in and what section if you want to avoid!
   • Porn with Feelings
   • Confessions
   • Protectiveness
   • Cuddling & Snuggling
   • Found Family
   • Character Study
   • Fix-It
   • Panic Attacks
   • Magical Boat Ride
   • Blow Jobs
   • Romantic Gestures
   • bigazz multichapter epilogue after chap 20
   • Angst with a Happy Ending
   • Smut

   Summary

   Quentin, a student at Columbia, and Eliot, a student at CUNY, meet at a coffee shop in Harlem and find themselves incredibly drawn to each other. Despite their prior traumas, romance isn't able to escape them, and an all encompassing love blossoms. But the ghosts of their pasts, in particular, threaten everything that they have.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   78,476

   Chapters:

   21/?

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