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Patrick Jane knows how to survive.
He has been doing it for years.
After the accident that took Angela and Charlotte, Patrick rebuilds what is left of his life around the one person who still needs him: his son, Oliver. A small house in Sacramento. A yellow kitchen. Dinosaur books. Pancakes shaped badly enough to become legendary. Bedtime stories, grief that never fully leaves, and one little boy who deserves every ounce of love Patrick still has left to give.
Then Oliver meets Teresa Lisbon in a bookstore and immediately decides she is important.
Teresa does not mean to become part of their lives. Patrick does not mean to let her. Neither of them is prepared for the strange, ordinary, terrifying way love begins to grow—not by replacing what was lost, not by erasing the past, but by making room for something new beside it.
A warm, emotional, domestic Mentalist AU about grief, parenthood, slow-burn love, the CBI team noticing far too much, and the quiet miracle of a family becoming three.
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03 Jul 2026
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Every story in this universe begins with the same question: What happens when two people understand something about each other that no one else ever could... and that still isn't enough to make them friends, or enemies?
Set around the canon events of both Dexter and The Mentalist, these stories explore the emotional and psychological consequences of those worlds colliding. Rather than rewriting their journeys, this series follows the spaces between them, exploring how each encounter leaves its mark long after the case is over.
Every story takes place at a different point in their respective timelines, using their canon experiences, losses, and growth as the foundation for everything that follows.
Every encounter changes them. None of them fixes them.
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03 Jul 2026
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This is the story of how Patrick Jane came to the offices of the CBI that fateful morning at the start of the episode Red Dawn.
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17 Jun 2026
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The Unexpected Series, featuring Sadist!Harry and Masochist!Snape: A spell in battle goes awry, with unexpected consequences; 2) in the bath; 3) in the classroom; 4) in the bedroom; 5) in the forest, with Hagrid; 6) in the bedroom, with Lupin this time, 7) playing with candles; 8) Sirius joins Remus and the duo in the bedroom. Hello, Padfoot!; and 9) Snape gets mugged and Harry marks his property. Ranges from impure kink to sharp romance, but it's mainly smut.
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16 Jun 2026
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He studies her for a moment longer before he straightens, apparently content with the way he’s just ripped her worldview into pieces. Her mind is spiraling, and he’s already ready to brush it all to the side. “So you see, it’s just a few weak moments of fantasy,” he says, proving her right immediately. “Perfectly natural. So if we could head home-”
Oh no he doesn’t. This might be her one chance, and it might kill her, but if she can help him and have him for one night, can she really leave the opportunity sitting on the table?
No. The answer is no. God, does she hate herself this much?
“What if it wasn’t just fantasy?”
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aka lisbon calls jane's bluff, and that's the beginning of the end.
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15 Jun 2026