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a stranger whose laugh i could recognize anywhere by kestrel_of_herran, marriedthediamond, purifyinglight
Fandoms: Severance (TV)
28 Jan 2026
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“I don’t have the energy for this, Helena. Now, if you’d just leave before my date gets here…”
“It’s me, Mark.” The words tumble out of her mouth, tripping over one another. “I’m your date.”
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Mark attends a New Year's Eve party for former severed workers, where he discovers that the woman he's spent months falling for is the same one he's been trying to avoid since he left Lumon's basement.
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02 Jan 2026
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Professor Scout attends his first faculty mixer in 3 years, with his arm curled around the lower back of his hot, young, scandalously dressed new wife, Helly.
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13 Dec 2025
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Never, in all of Mark’s years at Lumon, has he trained someone as difficult as the company’s young heiress. But he’s also never felt such a strong draw and personal attachment to a subordinate either. Which is why her unforeseen resignation stings so sharply.
In the middle of the night, Helly shows up on Mark’s doorstep with an explanation and a question that could change the course of both of their lives…
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13 Dec 2025
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She’s been used her whole life, as a family prop, as corporate propaganda, as coerced labor, as a punching bag. Now, she’s going to use someone for once.
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13 Dec 2025
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“I bet you fifty bucks I can make you come in under ten minutes.”
It knocks a laugh out of her, she’ll give him that much. She lets the laugh turn into a scoff as she angles her face toward his. “Please. You don’t look like you have fifty dollars to give me when you lose.”
“I’m not going to lose.”
His eyes drop to her mouth, brief as the click of a lighter and every bit as searing. When his eyes return to hers, the air between them tightens.
“No way.”
“Why not?”
“It’s not going to happen.”
His grin flashes. “Give me eight.”
“Oh, sweetheart,” Helena croons, and there’s a condescending curl to the end of it she cannot resist. “I could spend eight minutes explaining why the answer is no, and that would be a far better use of both of our time.”
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Or. CEO Helena Eagan meets 21 year old Mark Scout in a bar.
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- Part 1 of Milk Teeth - Extended Universe
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26 Aug 2025
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In the dead of night, beneath the dim glow of the heater, Helena wakes up in her tent alone.
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Or. Deleted scene: s2e4, inspired by the bts photos of the ORTBO tent.
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21 Aug 2025
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It's a curiosity at first. But curiosity is a slow erosion, letting him believe he’s still in control while hollowing him from the inside out.
Helena Eagan proves difficult to find.
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Mark Scout comes up from the severed floor covered in the scent of an omega.
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10 Jul 2025
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The innies refuse to leave the severed floor after the events of Cold Harbor. The world notices. Social media users have a few opinions to share on Lumon, its renegade heiress, and the former history professor whose dead wife keeps being spotted throughout town.
[Graphic Format: Uses HTML and CSS]
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- Part 1 of All Versions (Plain Text and CSS) of Media Circus
- Part 1 of Media Circus-Verse
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07 Jul 2025
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Three months after stepping out of the Lumon administration building for the final time, Mark’s life is indistinguishable from the life he lead two and a half years beforehand. Because of this, things are better. Because of this, things are worse.
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Mark struggles to adjust back to his old life with Gemma, when once a week he must sacrifice a day to his other self.
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25 Jun 2025
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A misunderstanding at a local bookstore, a chance encounter at a campus gallery...
Widower and history professor Mark Scout's quiet, unassuming life is shaken up when biotech heiress and the Internet's new favorite it-girl, Helena Eagan, shows up in the quiet college town of Baird Creek.
[A Notting Hill AU]
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15 Jun 2025
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This is a love story. It’s not a tragedy. Well, actually…okay, it’s a little bit of a tragedy, too. But tragedies end in death, and though there’s death in this story, it doesn’t end there. Maybe it’s a comedy, but though there are marriages in this story as well, it also doesn’t end there either.
Devon Scout doesn’t see "Gemma Cute TA" for eleven whole years. They spent seven months together, then eleven entire years apart. Then her brother finally gives in and agrees to invite his new girlfriend over to Devon’s for dinner and Gemma Cute TA shows up on her fucking front porch holding her brother’s hand.
Which leads us back to the earlier point: that this is a horror story, probably. And this is just the beginning.
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Or, Devon and Gemma are exes, and this is that story. And what comes after.
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- Part 1 of narrative devices
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01 Jun 2025
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i think we can make it (i hope that i'm right) by kissmeinnewyork
Fandoms: Severance (TV)
27 May 2025
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“I know I can’t draw or have any creative ability, really, but -- even if I did, I’m not sure I’d be able to capture how you look to me. You have the kind of face that people would have gone to war for, once.”
She raises an eyebrow, but the persistent flush of her face gives away how she really feels about that. “No creative ability? You know, you could have just called me pretty.”
Helly and Mark give the whole honeymoon ending thing a go.
(A story about art, two toothbrushes next to the bathroom sink, the privilege of growing old, and sunflowers.)
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- Part 1 of i think we can make it!verse
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28 May 2025
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1990s. Exiled to Branch 501, Helena Eagan looks to keep a low profile among her new coworkers while working her way back into the good graces of her father. Mark Scout's life turns upside down when she arrives.
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- Part 1 of Working Hours
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26 May 2025
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A year after the fall of Lumon, Mark Scout and Helena Eagan, now a couple, decide to reintegrate.
Part 1, Helly POV: When she wakes up with the other Mark, he always seems startled, like he doesn’t quite know what to do with her. He doesn’t say hello, just starts telling her where she is, what she’s doing. He’s distant, but he’s also…sweet. He often asks her how she’s feeling, asks her if she’s hot or cold or hungry or thirsty.
He always looks at her out of the corner of his eye. But he’s always looking, always watching, like if he looks away, she’ll be gone.
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Part 2, Helena POV: He doesn’t want her; he wants Helly. And she doesn’t want him; she wants Mark S., the one who looked at her like he loved her. But only, she knows, because he loved Helly. Still, she remembers how it felt, being her, being someone who hadn’t been born into her family’s legacy, who could laugh at their stupid origin stories and make uncouth jokes and be loved by people who didn’t fear her.
She knows that both Marks belong to Helly, and she starts to think that maybe she does, too.
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25 May 2025
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i’m busting at the seams (i spread like strawberries) by sqacedust
Fandoms: Severance (TV)
22 May 2025
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The first time Helly rips her pantyhose, it happens by accident.
Or: Helly wears pants.
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22 May 2025
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Mark runs his thumb up the line of her jaw, and takes a long look at her, in a way that she knows he’s about to say something stupid. “What?” She almost laughs, her voice breathy and quiet.
“Your boyfriend’s gonna kill me.” He jokes, and god he’s so fucking stupid, her face splits into a grin, then a barely restrained laugh. She leans back in, brushes her lips against his.
"Better make it count, then, Scout."
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- Part 1 of Match
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07 May 2025
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"Mark spends his evening not looking at Helena Eagan. He’s slouched in a hard, wooden chair, crammed into the back of a ballet studio, absolutely not paying attention to her. He doesn’t notice the way her hair is twisted out of her face, or the lean curve of her arms, or the vast expanse of bare back above the cut of her leotard."
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Mark Scout accepts a teaching position at the Myrtle Eagan Ballet Academy; Helena Eagan's attendance might make things complicated.
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01 May 2025
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The signs were subtle but undeniable. Helena knew Helly R. and Mark S. had been intimate on the severed floor that day. But that's not the reason Helena decides to follow Mark to the Chinese restaurant. At least, that's what she tells herself.
When Mark Scout is approached by Helena Eagan in Zufu, he doesn't know what to think. A split-second decision at the end of his meal changes everything.
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27 Apr 2025
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He goes to step closer, but he has to check.
“How old are you, anyway?”
Her lips curl into a slow smile. “That’s the first question?” she asks. “Don’t you want to know my name?”
He flicks ash onto the marble floor.
“I’ll get to it.”
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Or. Recently promoted Mark Scout attends his first end of quarter celebration at the Eagan estate and meets a young woman that he’d like to know more about.
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17 Apr 2025
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Helly’s bored. She’s been bored for weeks and it isn’t getting any better. She does have a little something she does to temporarily stave off the boredom… the problem is, Mark catches her doing it.
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- Part 1 of Coworkers with benefits
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24 Feb 2025