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We could have been that heaven by atouchofnightshade
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
06 Oct 2025
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“Have you killed someone, Harry?”
“Yes.” His voice was barely above a whisper.
“Do you regret it?”
Harry stared at Tom helplessly across the table.
“I don’t know.”
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Knockturn Alley, 1950.
Tom Riddle, poster child for wasted potential, is working at Borgin and Burkes. To most he is just a sales representative, but to the inhabitants of the Alley, he is the man who rules Southside.
Harry James has no papers and no past. He is the new server at The Black Cat pub, twenty years old but with the battle reflexes of a veteran.
Tom wants to know who the real Harry James is. Harry wants to go home and leave old ghosts behind him.
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21 Jun 2026
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They are in Arthur’s rooms, safely tucked away from the rest of the castle, when Merlin casually leans forward in the low burn of the fire and lights a candle with a flick of his hand – an action that would have damned him days ago and that still sends a strike of fear and apprehension through Arthur’s stomach. There is the fear and the magic, and the fear of the magic, and then there is the way Merlin’s jaw looks in the firelight.
It has been days since Arthur discovered Merlin’s magic – days since he first felt the brush against his skin. He is unsure, suddenly, which part of Merlin is which – what is the magic and what is the man (for Merlin has surely become a man). Just what, Arthur wonders, will he risk to find out?
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19 Jan 2026
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Ever since she’d been small, Hermione’s reward for good marks had been a rampage through a bookshop, so the day she tore open her O.W.L.s results and triumphantly brandished the eleven Outstandings, her beaming mother said, “We’ll go to Foyles tomorrow,” without any discussion required.
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- Part 13 of Harry Potter works
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09 Jan 2026
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I Have Never Seen Such A Terrible Room by crownjrose (rosesnblueberries)
Fandoms: Labyrinth (1986)
29 Apr 2022
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She heard him stand up, circling the desk. She gripped onto the arms of her chair. His footsteps stopped just behind her, his hands coming to rest on her shoulders. He brushed some of her hair away from her neck, softly. “I’ve never hidden what I am, Sarah. You just chose not to see it. You wanted a child’s game and I gave it to you, you wanted to defeat a villainous king and I allowed you to. And yet, you didn’t... once... wonder what I wanted.”
Sarah and Jareth, through the years.
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09 Jan 2026
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From Harrenhal, With Love by Sleepless_Malice
Fandoms: Game of Thrones (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms, A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
27 Jun 2025
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Harrenhal wasn’t a safe place. It wasn’t safe for a young girl, for a girl from a rivaling noble house, disguised as a commoner even less. In fact, it wasn't safe for anyone. Whilst the Lord of Harrenhal drank sweet wine from an ornate cup, everyone else drank a far more bitter draught.
The story of Arya Stark, now cupbearer to Lord Tywin in Harrenhal. A tale of innocence and intimidation, of little games, unwisely played.
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09 Jan 2026