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A Fair Exchange by ValentinesWritings
Fandoms: House of the Dragon (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
14 Apr 2024
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From one day to the other, her uncle's ambivalence had turned to cruelty until Aemond Targaryen's presence was enough to make her cower. But when she comes face to face with him in the halls of Storm's End, she has to be braver than she ever thought herself capable to protect her little brother.
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01 Jul 2026
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She’s so tiny. Her hair is cut close to her head, coiled tight and smattered, and when she smiles up at him lines crinkle outward from the corner of her eyes and disappear into the soft divots of her dark temples. When she leans in close, she smells like fresh pie.
“It says here you’re a ex-vet,” She’s got a bit of a snaggletooth. Unseemly for a Viltrumite, but she’s no Viltrumite. Conquest feels his tongue prod at where the gaps in his teeth used to be. Her excitement blossoms into a rich flower. “Don’t need’ta worry, honey. We don’t bite here.”
(Alternately titled: the many ways to love a life)
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24 May 2026
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Mags-verse by thankyoufinnick (mildred_of_midgard)
Fandom Hunger Games Series - All Media Types, Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins
05 Nov 2017
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This is my canon-divergent District Four-centric universe.
It ignores everything about Mockingjay. Plot-wise, it takes the 75th Hunger Games as its point of departure, but since it ignores the backstory provided by Mockingjay, characterization also looks different.
Major departures include:
* Mags is a strategic mastermind who's been plotting a rebellion in District Four for decades.
* The forced prostitution is a lot more limited in scope.
* District Thirteen is much less organized, and there is no President Coin.Mags' Weapon is set when the rebellion is still being planned. Chapters 4 and 5 were rewritten on June 10, 2017. You'll want to reread them if you read this fic before then.
Mags' War is the sequel, an AU to Mockingjay.
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27 Aug 2025
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The universe where Finnick moved to live in District Twelve, found love in a really unlikely place, challenged everything Haymitch thought he knew about himself, and caused a lot of things to turn out just a little differently.
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14 Aug 2025
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“You could’ve scored the winner,” his dad says, and suddenly he’s right in front of Jamie and cuffing him around the head. Jamie doesn’t say anything, doesn’t do anything, is not even sure he’s breathing anymore, and he’s just thinking that this numbness is sort of nice, when the door opens and in walks Roy Kent.
“What the fuck is going on here?” Roy barks, and Jamie flinches again, but then he realises that Roy’s not looking at him. He’s looking at his dad, and he seems fucking pissed.
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After Richmond gets relegated, it's Roy who spots Jamie's dad yelling at him. Unlike Ted, he doesn't walk past.
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02 Dec 2024
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“Well alright,” Ted says from where he’s stood on the stage, emceeing this year’s gala. “Sold, to Roy Kent, for ten thousand dollars. Pounds. Y’all know what I mean.”
Next to Ted, Jamie’s face is doing something rubbery and cartoonish. Next to Roy, Keeley starts laughing.
There’s a beat, and then another, and Roy’s brain catches up to speed. “Fucking what?”
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19 Jan 2024
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“Right,” Jamie says, nodding and shaking out his hands again, “okay, so it’s like- I’m straight, but I’m also not, and I’d love to be gay like Colin because it would piss off me dad so much, and if I came out in public that prick might actually have a heart attack, which would serve him dead right, you get me?”
“I- sure,” Trent says, when it becomes clear that Jamie’s waiting for an answer. “Yes, I can- see how that might be a beneficial outcome.”
Despite everything, he finds that he is weirdly pleased that Jamie is coming to him with this. He isn’t usually someone people ask for advice. Especially footballers. Especially footballers he's written articles about. Usually, they prefer to yell profanities at him and threaten him with bodily harm. Jamie, though - Jamie just seems to want some advice on how to suck Roy Kent's dick.
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14 Jan 2024
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They're steadily climbing the table of the Prem, Jamie's playing the best football of his life, things would be GREAT, except Roy won't stop putting his hands on him and his dad's gonna start drinking again any minute now. So if Jamie's a little tense, it's not his fault.
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13 Jan 2024
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So when Jamie got the call from Roy’s sister, and an astoundingly clever and important little girl invited him to a sweet and silly little celebration, just them four — that was that, really. He didn’t think too hard about it. Two hours of travel to get here in the middle of a whirlwind training with the fucking National team and he follows the draw, the pull, the immeasurable force guiding him here. Not a single thought of protest, of resistance, even occurred to him. He just made it happen.
He’s really fucking gone, ain’t he?
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12 Jan 2024
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The one where Jamieʼs not a therapist and Roy is not scared of horses. Really, heʼs not.
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10 Jan 2024
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Roy folds his arms, glaring. "All right, what the fuck is going on here? Why have you suddenly decided to fancy me?"
"I haven't suddenly decided, I've always fancied you. Just didn't know until today that you'd be up for it."
Roy reminds himself sternly that he cannot murder their star striker the day before a match. "Just because I'm interested in blokes doesn't mean I'm interested in you."
Jamie looks confused. "It doesn't? But..." He gestures at his face as if it's incontrovertible evidence, then down his body like a closing argument.
Roy cannot murder him. The media would be intolerable.
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04 Jan 2024
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The energy of the room shifts suddenly as Jamie’s eyes widen. It’s as though he’s just waking up, looking around quickly to get his bearings straight- as if he doesn’t remember coming to Roy’s house at all. Maybe he doesn’t. When his startled expression finally lands on Roy just off to the side, Jamie’s eyebrows raise even though his shoulders relax. He looks down at the bath again.
“What’s this?” Jamie asks as he combs a hand through the beer head of bubbles on top of the water.
“A bubble bath,” Roy says gruffly. He stares straight forward at the open-faced cabinet in front of him that has piles of fresh black towels on each shelf.
A pause. “You put me in a bubble bath?”
or the one where roy and jamie have a run in with tarrt senior and roy has no idea what he's doing even though he's trying really hard
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01 Jan 2024
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Natalie cracks open a bottle of sparkling Moscato with an audible pop! and remarks, “Just look at the muscles in those forearms. He could hold you up against a wall, no question.”
Roy, who has never once looked at Jamie Tartt’s arms with anything other than detached professionalism, and really only during the rare instances when he was on spotting duty at the weight bench, downs an entire glass of wine and resigns himself to what amounts to psychological torture every Wednesday evening for the foreseeable future.
Roy reluctantly watches the entire season of Lust Conquers All.
Despite that, he doesn't really figure out how to deal with Jamie Tartt until months later.
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01 Jan 2024
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30 Dec 2023
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Walking to the caf for tea means passing the wall of photos from when they won the Premiership, and Roy stops for a minute, like he always does, letting his eyes wander over those familiar faces. Most of them he hasn’t seen in person in years, though they still have group chats and video meet-ups and all kinds of shit that he hates that he understands.
There’s one picture at the very end, him and Jamie Tartt with their arms thrown around each other, laughing next to the trophy. Roy always lingers on that one for a moment, and thinks about how that’s another phone call he could make, and should, and has been putting off for too long.
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- Part 2 of throw it back to you
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20 Dec 2023
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19 Dec 2023
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They fucked drunk, Roy on half a case of 8% and Jamie on his disgusting flavoured spritzers. Roy couldn’t even remember how it happened, afterwards. Not at first. He remembered snippets, like Jamie taking off his shirt, and unzipping Roy’s trousers with his teeth. He remembered laughing a lot. He remembered being almost dizzy after he’d come, and his vision swirling back into focus to see Jamie raised up on his knees straddling Roy’s hips, stripping his cock fiercely with one hand while he gripped Roy’s wrist so hard he could feel the fucking bones grinding together, and Jamie’s hungry gaze on him the whole time. The way Jamie’s eyelids fluttered, and the pinkness of his open mouth that had just had Roy’s fucking cock in it.
He remembered kissing Jamie, when it was all over. The strange lurch in his belly as he realised they hadn’t done it before, not properly. The way Jamie still tasted of raspberry and vanilla, and kissed like he wanted to devour Roy whole.
They didn’t talk afterwards for a month.
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19 Dec 2023
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It starts with a random bruise and ends with, well, cancer. But sometimes, life's hardest challenges illuminate life's biggest blessing.
Aka a sickfic with the happiest of all endings, but with many feelings along the way.
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18 Dec 2023
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The Case of the Unwelcome Owl by FayJay
Fandoms: Sherlock - Fandom, Harry Potter - Rowling
24 Sep 2010
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"So," said John, feeling out of his depth once again. "An owl." It was the same mild, politely curious tone of voice with which he had previously found himself uttering such things as: "So – three bags of frozen AB negative," and "So – a selection of human ears."
"Goodness, John, with deductive prowess like that you'll soon be putting me in the shade," Sherlock said tartly. "Can't sneak anything past you, can we?"
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05 Nov 2022
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After the Blue Spirit frees the Avatar from the Pohuai Stronghold, Admiral Zhao captures Prince Zuko under suspicion of treason. Isolated from his Uncle and his crew, Zuko has only one ally: the chatty prisoner one cell over.
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- Part 1 of Birds of a Phoenix Feather
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11 Apr 2022