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  1. Public Bookmark 46

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    The Gardiners make the match.

    It is not love at first sight, or second, or third.

    It is love that comes later - in the accumulation of shared steps and conversations in the dark. In a stranger becoming, without your noticing, the first person you want to tell things to.

    In having the deeply inconvenient realisation, somewhere in your marriage, that you have a crush on your spouse.

    OR: Mary and Tom have a regency era marriage of convenience

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    19 Jun 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 35

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    Rhodey died in battle—because Peter was a second too late.
    Blinded by grief, Tony cut Peter out of his life. Six months of silence, guilt, and loneliness later, a kidnapping and a cursed spell force them back into each other’s orbit.

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    12 Jun 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 42

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    Peter makes a joke about dying in the car on the way home from a mission. It's the kind of thing he says all the time. Throwaway. Casual. Muscle memory.

    Pepper doesn't laugh. She also doesn't take the exit for the Tower.

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    21 Apr 2026

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    Peter never made any plans to run away, until the day he leaves. It isn’t an idea that slowly creeps up on him. He just stands over the sink one day in early spring, watching his father’s bright red ashtray bob up through the soap bubbles, and feels an overwhelming urge to get the hell out of this place.
    Two years later. Tony Stark has been keeping his identity as Iron Man a secret, successfully hiding behind his spoiled, rich asshole persona. It’s isolating, but he doesn’t even like people anyway, so it’s fine, he’s fine, he’s great. And then he gets saddled with a new intern, who isn’t just hiding secrets: he’s barely holding it together.

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    20 Apr 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 36

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    "And I can tell you with absolute certainty that the only way for you to continue your travel with our dilithium is to come here tomorrow personally – with your husband."

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    05 Mar 2026