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Two weeks after Claire Bennet's televised leap from the Ferris wheel, the 12th handles it's first case delving into the strange world of specials. Evidence points the investigation toward a former Company agent, a man Noah Bennet would swear up and down doesn't exist.
(More than 40 chapters of this have been written, and another one will be added every Sunday.)
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- Part 3 of Zeitgeist
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The Stockings She Wore In November by girlwiththeradishearrings for lestradespenis
Game of Thrones (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
19 May 2013
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After recovering from massive head trauma in a hospital outside London, Sansa is sent away to a country estate to wait out the war under the Tyrell family's protection.
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Lover, War is Done (in More Ways than just One) by Lispet
Captain America; the First Avenger (2011), The Avengers (2012), Iron Man (Movies)
19 May 2013
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In a world where people are required to submit to others because of the way they were born, there are exceptions to the rule. Aren't there always?
Steve Rogers, Alpha. Everyone thinks he's Omega due to his size and temperament, until Project Rebirth. Cue in a seventy year jump and the return of an unrequited Bond mate, and maybe this century's too much.
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Edinburgh, 1940.
Two weeks after her wedding, Nancy Foley waves goodbye to her husband as a train carries him off to join the fighting in France.
With the world at war, Nancy faces her own turmoil when she meets May, a brash, jive-dancing young woman who both frightens and excites her. Nancy soon finds herself torn between her role as wartime wife and her blossoming relationship with May.
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It's Only Human Nature After All by LadySomething
The Avengers - Ambiguous Fandom, The Avengers (2012)
18 May 2013
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Inspired by British novel and the BBC mini-series "Tipping the Velvet". A story about Steve and his long journey as the butcher's son with Sharon, a vaudevillian with Bucky Barnes, a kept companion with Mr. Stark and a male suffragist with Mr. Coulson in Progressive Era New York. Eventual Stony and eventual Capsicoul.
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Kurt meets Blaine at a railway station in 1940s Britain. They are both married to women but they fall in love regardless. This is Kurt's story.
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They fall back asleep, legs tangled and skin flushed. Outside the world is falling to pieces and Grantaire is more than happy to stage protest after protest from the comfort of Enjolras' bed.
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- Part 1 of Plutôt La Vie
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Summary: Tom Riddle hates going back to the orphanage for the summer, but he has little choice in the matter. He might have spent the summer reading and avoiding others, but an incident makes him more than willing to get even.
Excerpt: I never thought he would hurt me…but he takes after his father after all. He wants me gone in a permanent kind of way, which is something I can't overlook. But killing him outright—
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John is the greatest trapeze artist and contortionist alive, Bane is the strongest man.
Bane is enamored with John and John seems to feel the same but the ring leader, their boss Mr. Foley is enraged that a freak show beast like Bane would hold John’s affections.
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John Watson and Sherlock Holmes, two kids grow up in War ridden America.
Together, they discover their own struggles.
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Frostiron. It's 1973. 19 year old Tony Stark, whose living on the road and out of his car with his best friend Pepper after a falling out with his father, falls into the glam rock scene courtesy of one beautiful and strange Loki Lauff, who lives dangerously and is more dangerous than Tony can even begin to imagine. Warnings for drugs, sex, violence, the slowest burn, & rock n roll.
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AU. Madrid de finales de 1935. Isabelle French acaba de llegar de EE.UU. a terminar sus estudios en Literatura Española en la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la naciente Ciudad Universitaria. Habiendo dejado ya de creer en cuentos de hadas y príncipes azules, la aparición del prof. Nicholas Gold y la inminencia de algo terrible probarán su capacidad de luchar por aquello que ama.
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- 4/?
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In 1932 America is still in the grips of the Great Depression and Blaine Anderson is fed up with his bland life in Lima, Ohio. When he decides to head to New York City in search of adventure he meets a performer named Kurt Hummel at an illegal speakeasy, and gets more excitement than he ever dreamed possible at The Oasis.
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There and Back Again Sunnydale Style by Cleo
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Avengers (2012), Captain America, Marvel
17 May 2013
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Xander kills a demon one night while on patrol. Nothing new there. That is, not until its mate decided to get revenge on Xander by sending him into the past. It’s a good idea, as far as curses go. There’s one small problem, Xander and magic has never work as expected.
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John and Sherlock are the elite of the elite KGB undercover units in 1980's Washington DC. Their cover: gay British couple. Their reality:highly skilled Soviet spies sworn to topple capitalism from within. Of course, their cover is completely separate from their professional life. They have to live with each other...for the Cause. They're definitely, absolutely, positively nothing more than colleagues. But the FBI agent moving in across the street and the increasingly impossible missions assigned to them by Moscow make alliances murkier than ever before. Who's side is everyone on and for goodness sake how does Ronald Reagan have a 52% approval rating right after a major international crisis? Enter: Feminism.Cold War Politics.Gay and Civil Rights Movements.
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WWII era Crowley & Aziraphale
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We would just sit there for hours talking, sometimes we would actually swim in the creek, sometimes one of us would pack food, and sometimes we never said a word at all. It was just nice to be in the presence of each other. To feel him around, my best friend, the one person I cared about the most without even realising it.
But that’s when I ruined it!
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Jane Crocker is dead. Dear, sweet, precious Jane - your best friend in the whole world - murdered, and left for dead in a pool of her own blood.
Your name is Roxy Lalonde, and you're gonna find the bastard that did it. You're gonna find the bastard, and you're going to make him pay.
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It's the 1920s, and Prohibition is in full swing in America. Grantaire, a disillusioned drunkard, joins up with a group of feminists led by the extraordinarily attractive Enjolras. Hijinks ensue.
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A story of love and war set in the era-defining end of the 1960s. When Neal is drafted into the army and leaves his entire life behind him, he keeps a grasp on his friendship with Andy through letters and, inevitably, through music. But holding onto each other isn't easy in a world on the edge of revolution.