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Eliza Scarlet has finally started to find her footing again. However, when Detective Inspector Alexander Blake – her once-reluctant employer, now turned-partner (dare she say friend?) – invites her to work on an international investigation, Eliza suddenly finds herself on shaky ground again. Scotland Yard must partner with the NYPD to catch a violent and prolific serial killer, but that comes with a personal catch for Eliza, who is not prepared to face her ex-partner and ex-almost-fiancé, Detective Inspector William Wellington. The past and future collide for Eliza as she navigates a contentious partnership with William and a blooming relationship with Blake, while racing against the clock to apprehend a serial killer before someone she loves becomes the next victim.
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Alexander is ready, but Eliza is dragging her feet. Perhaps some negotiations are in order?
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Just Say Yes by something_borrowed
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, The Mandalorian (TV)
05 Sep 2025
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The Armorer has decreed that Bo-Katan Kryze Walks Both Ways, and now, she and Din have ventured off to find her mercenary Nite Owls. Their mission is to unite the clans of Mandalore and return to their home planet. There’s only one small, little problem: the Dark Saber. Din has no interest in claiming its power to become the Mand’alor, but Bo cannot claim her birthright without it. However, Din may have a simple solution that’s so NOT simple: marriage. When duty mixes with desire, everything becomes complicated but also so much more interesting.
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Just Sign Here by something_borrowed
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, The Mandalorian (TV)
30 Aug 2025
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Bo-Katan Kryze has done the impossible: she has defeated the infamous Moff Gideon and has reclaimed her home world, Mandalore. She had help, of course, from both her Nite Owls and Din’s Children of the Watch. However, her long awaited aspiration hits a snag when bureaucratic red tape prevents her from reclaiming her title as Mand’alor, the leader and defender of her people. As luck would have it, the title still belongs to the most unlikely person: Din D’jarin – her traveling companion, her friend, and the man who haunts her dreams most nights. When Mandalorian law backs Bo into an impossible corner, is contractual marriage to Din really a tenable solution? After all, they'll just be signing on the dotted line… right?
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The Proposal Exception by something_borrowed
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, The Mandalorian (TV)
22 Aug 2025
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A whole battalion of Mandalorians witnessed Din D’Jarin bend the knee to Bo-Katan Kryze, and now they have returned to the Covert to unite the Children of the Watch and Bo-Katan’s Nite Owls. With the Dark Saber on her belt and a trusted warrior at her side, what could possibly go wrong? In which Bo and Din unite the Mandalorian clans… unintentionally. Cultural shenanigans and misunderstandings ensue, and yes, the helmets come off.
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In Which Din and Bo Accidentally Get Married by something_borrowed
Fandom Star Wars - All Media Types, The Mandalorian (TV)
05 Sep 2025
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Exactly what it says on the tin.
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Aporia (n): an expression of real or pretended doubt or uncertainty especially for rhetorical effect; a logical impasse or contradiction; especially a radical contradiction in the import of a text or theory that is seen in deconstruction as inevitable
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30 May 2026
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“I’m right here,” she whispered, her breath ghosting over his lips. “I’m not going anywhere, Matt. You hear me? Not today. Not ever.”
Outside, the world is screaming for the man who just outed himself as a vigilante. Inside a cramped storage closet, Matt and Karen find a moment of desperate, blissful clarity before the war begins in earnest.
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10 May 2026
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It takes him a single moment, hearing her voice again, to fall back in love with Karen Page, it takes him three weeks to decide what to do about it.
The answer is simple in the end, it’s Karen’s choice.
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They are being hunted and are in hiding but Matt and Karen find a way back to each other.
(Set pre-season 2 of DD:BA - the story of how Matt and Karen get together)
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02 May 2026
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“Karen, I…”
“Don’t okay, whatever you’re about to say, please don’t.”
Matt is silent for a moment, his hands on his thighs as he nods mutely to himself, “Okay.”
“Do you think it will ever come easily to us? Being friends?”
“It’s not the friends bit we are struggling with.” Matt points out, “It’s the rest of it we are leaving unsaid and pretending doesn’t exist.”
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The five times Matt and Karen stick by their friendship code and the one time they don't.
(Or the one where Matt and Karen pretend they can be friends and only friends (and fail spectacularly)).
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17 Apr 2026
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Covering Matt’s rent, losing her job, starting a new firm — it’s all adding up to financial disaster for Karen. She needs Matt to pay her back, but resurrecting his life has left him short on cash too.
One obvious way to save money? Move in together.
Karen can’t think of a better solution, but she also can’t shake the fear that getting too close will only break them apart again.
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13 Apr 2026