A candle (💗romance💗); an offer (YES); a party (is it my birthday?) The future begins (with a dance).
It's been such a pleasure to revisit John and Sherlock in this universe, and to have you along for the journey. Thank you for reading, thank you for your comments 💕
Imperfect Cadence: The end of a phrase, ending on the fifth chord of the scale. Because it sounds incomplete or suspended, the imperfect cadence is considered a weak cadence that calls for continuation.
Waiting in the wings, Ian remembered a moment towards the start of rehearsals where he’d dreaded that handshake. Wondering if he’d be able to fake even that tiny sliver of civility.
Now he watched Mickey tune, and they shared a grin. The grin was an offer of good luck, as well as a promise for later, and… well, Ian didn’t want to presume anything but it looked an awful lot like love.
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And:
Chapter Eleven: Coda
Coda: A passage that brings a piece (or a movement) to an end.
“Can’t believe I’m back here,” Ian said, glancing out onto the stage. The upright piano looked just how he remembered it, chipped wood and age-yellowed keys. It had always been against a wall, but now he could see the paler wood back. Someone had attempted to dust it a bit, but it still looked like what it was; a sad old instrument, long since past what better days it’d had.
Well, Ian was hoping to give it one last moment of glory.
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Or read from the beginning.
Thank you so much to everyone who's read and commented along the way! It's kept me motivated even while I've been dragged off to pastures new. I appreciate you all. 💜
Didn't quite make it to post the last bit on the fic anniversary, but I did it!
The chapter 9 musical cue is Blue Bell by Golden Daze.
This is the last time I ever "have" to transcribe music for this fic and I had such trouble choosing the last song. I had four options with pros and cons and eventually went with this one... I went more with the mood of the scene it's used in rather than the song itself. Also it was the easiest to transcribe 😆.
Whatever. I'm done. I hope you enjoy the last two chapters! 💜
what we deserve (23158 words) by ghostalservice
Chapters: 2/2
Fandom: Animal Kingdom (TV), ER (TV 1994), The Pitt (TV)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: John Carter (ER TV 1994)/Andrew "Pope" Cody, Jack Abbot/Michael "Robby" Robinavitch
Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Fix-It, Crossovers & Fandom Fusions, Road Trips, Injury Recovery, Caretaking, Various characters from all three franchises appear, Episode: s06e13 Be Still My Heart (ER TV 1994), Episode: s06e13 Fubar (Animal Kingdom), a lot of stabbings actually, There Was Only One Bed, and sometimes there were two though, Angst with a Happy Ending, meditations on forgiveness and culpability and prison abolition a little bit, Established Jack Abbot/Michael "Robby" Robinavitch, a little hint of benton/carter vibes because even noah wyle ships it lbr
Summary:
John Carter gets stabbed, and nobody from his family shows up—except his older brother's husband's brother. It's not as weird as it sounds.
Two years later, he goes on a road trip to rescue a friend in need.
(Or, what if John Carter and Andrew Cody are there for each other in exactly the moments they need someone?)
Faery Godfathers - A Reverse Omens Fae AU - Now Complete
It took a lot longer (and included a lot more words) than I originally planned, but the final chapter of Faery Godfathers is now up on ao3.
Thanks so much to @addledmongoose for her donation to Fandom Trumps Hate. It was an honor to be able to write this story for you. This last chapter is all about joy and promising new beginnings. I hope you enjoy the happy ending all of these characters have earned.
As always thanks to everyone who's read, reblogged, kudosed or commented on this story. It's meant so very much to me.
Faery Godfathers - M, 23/23, 111K
Seelie Knight Crowley has mentored Prince Adam for most of his life. Brilliant, arrogant, and painfully reckless, nineteen-year-old Adam is far from ready to take the throne from his power-hungry father, King Thaddeus. But as the wedding of Prince Warlock, the Unseelie Prince, to his future queen approaches, certain events are put into motion that set the two Princes and their mentors, Knights Crowley and Aziraphale, on a path that could forever change the fabric of both Courts.
It's a reverse omens, fake relationship, double enemies to lovers, Fae AU. Just go with it, okay?
lando/oscar | complete | 17.3k | Rated T (+explicit timestamp)
(post 2025 season, mutual pining, friends to lovers)
After the 2025 season celebrations, a tequila-fuelled mistake sends Lando and Oscar into winter break with a mutual agreement to forget what happened and not make it weird. But on opposite sides of the world, they fall in love anyway, one text message at a time.
written by MeropeMerope
Isak/Even | Rating: E
A Faroes Island AU
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Summary:
I'm squinting against the sun for most of the day, taking in the island, taking in Isak, in these oblique little chiaroscuro glimpses: a flock of hunting fulmars, darkly silhouetted against the pale sky, darting up the cliff face with blade-like speed. Isak's weathered boots scraping over the uneven basalt stone, finding footholds, as he clambers up the final stretch to the peak of Kolturshamar ahead of me.
He has the low sun at his back when he turns to me. His face is mostly in shadow but the sweep of his cheek, the curls peeking out underneath his beanie, are burnished gold by the light.
The rough wind scrapes across the ridge and snatches his words away. I can just about make out his laugh. Then he burrows against me and speaks right into my ear. "Do you want to hear a tragic story?"
Read the completed fic on AO3 here
with art by @peacestew ✨
It's a big chonky epilogue 💜💜💜 I can't believe it's over 😭 BRB crying my eyes out for no reason *sighs*
Title: Growing on Me
Chapters: 15/15
Words: almost 120k
Rating: M
Tags: Human AU, Rockstar Crowley (again!), Writer Aziraphale, Bickerflirting, Comedy, a pinch of Dark Humor, NO ANGST, Crowley as a washed up rockstar addicted to TikTok, Aziraphale as a writer who hasn't made it, Forced Proximity (in a cottage on the Isle of Skye), Music and lyrics as a Metaphor™, Old Married Couple Energy
Playlist: Listen here
Epilogue summary:
It’s a little over a year in the life of rockstar Anthony J. Crowley and author AZ Fell…
Excerpt from the Epilogue:
Crowley huffed, but didn’t try to take his hand back. “You perky people should be outlawed.”
Maggie beamed at him. “You’re probably right.”
“I usually am.”
“Darling, please, don’t lie,” came Aziraphale’s stern voice from the kids’ table. “It’s Christmas and you’re not setting a good example.”
“‘S okay, you’ve bored the kids to sleep, their young minds are safe from me.”
Aziraphale shook his head and proceeded to clear the checkers board. “So rude.”
Read it on Ao3:
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the
Organization for Transformative Works
