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    Fairytale/Castle AU 💝 Pining Draco, bookish Hermione.

    Hermione lives a sheltered life behind castle walls, but her desire for adventure sometimes gets her into trouble.

    Draco Malfoy is a member of the Royal Guard, fresh off a highly-decorated stint as an elite soldier. He thinks about Hermione a lot, but that's just because it's part of his job to protect her, right?

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    03 Jul 2026

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    "So…." He awkwardly starts, "What exactly seems to be the issue here, sweetheart?"

    God, he's so…dirty. His arms are covered in grease, smeared all the way up to his shoulder. He can barely wipe his hands clean with the blue cloth. His hair? It's greasy. Probably from all heat and well, being under all the cars that are here.

    "Uh—I can barely get her to start lately," Penelope mutters. "There is this awful screeching when I get her to start. If I keep trying, eventually it starts. I'm sorry, I don't really know a ton about cars."

    The one where Penelope Featherington breaks down and meets pervy mechanic Colin Bridgerton.

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    01 Jul 2026

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    “What I was saying is that I believe the G-spot orgasm is a lie. It’s a myth. Something told to teenage girls to entice them into having sex so they’ll lose their virginities in so-so fashion in the back of a car only to be left a few weeks later by some loser looking to repopulate the penguins in Antarctica and —” She trailed off as Eloise started to poke her in the ribs and Daphne mumbled “Girrrrrl” into her drink quietly. 

    Colin’s brain felt fuzzy as he absorbed her words. He knew she was referencing her terrible ex-boyfriend Alfred. But now he knew that fucker took her virginity and did a terrible job and what was he supposed to do with that information? File it away, probably, so that he could unpack it at 3:00 in the morning on a random Tuesday. 

     At twenty-seven years old, he’d had his share of sexual experiences. None of it had been particularly mind-blowing, and as he thought harder, he couldn’t actually remember a partner getting off entirely in that way. Or had they? Why was he suddenly not sure?

    Was it actually possible that Penelope was right?

    No, that couldn’t be true.

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    Let's have some *platonic* orgasms, like besties do ✌️

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    31 May 2026

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    "Bet I could still catch you," he tells her and she glowers at him but he can see the little twitch in her pout. She wants to smile. He feels good. "Now, come on. Give me a hug. I haven't seen you in forever."

    As he wraps his arms around her, gathers all her plushness to his chest, his nose is filled with her scent.

    And Colin Bridgerton forgets the performance. Forgets that he has to be careful with her. Forgets that his family are about two feet away.

    Because she smells fucking divine. Not the right word, surely — too exalted for the earthiness, the rich salt that makes his jaw work and his tongue press to the roof of his mouth and his fingers dig into the rolls on her back. Does she always smell like this, he wonders — this dirty, bright and cloying — or did she just forget deodorant? He can't recall — can't recall anything, except the vivid musk of her, fresh and sweet like the cut stalks of flowers, sweat and tang and — fuck — he's hard. Hard and leaking, immediately and so profusely it kind of feels like he's pissed himself. Fuck. Fuck.

     

    OR: Colin comes home from travelling and realises he likes the way Penelope smells

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    16 Mar 2026

  5. Rec 20

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    suffuse - to spread through or over something completely

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    He whispers something against her skin. He doesn’t know what. Her name, maybe.
    Or mine.
    Or I’ve got you.
    He’s not sure it matters.

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    02 Mar 2026