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OVER YOU— a ct holidayish gift exchange fic for @possessingtheproperspirit // some sprinklings of angst + wedding guests + when you repress your feelings for long enough they tend to bubble up eventually / 18k words, rated M

Lily had been interested in someone it was safe to want, because he would not want her back, and then she would not have to consider what it meant to be more than interested, and rearrange the nice little building blocks of her life for someone who could well be a wrecking ball if he wished to.

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literally was rummaging through old docs trying to find my own preferred formatting of text messages in fic and randomly found this banger. written in 2021 btw lmao

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CH. 53: TWO MORE WEEKS

“Oh my God,” Mary breathed, rearing upright. “Oh, Lily, really!” cried Doe. “Merlin’s beard,” said Germaine, whose mouth had fallen open. “You actually—” And then they all began to talk at once.

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CHAPTER 3: A WEAKNESS & A WANT

It was the correct answer. It was the wrong answer. No—it was a prince’s answer, not a mere knight’s. And I am a mere knight’s daughter.

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NO MORE DREAMING OF THE DEAD— a ct holiday gift exchange fic for the lovely @sunshine-lover // (a piece of) the long-promised old kingdom jily AU // 4.3k words, rated T

As the Old Kingdom's Abhorsen, death would always surround her. She banished the waking Dead; she walked in the realm of Death; she quelled necromancers whose magic had been corrupted, and Free Magic creatures who defied the order of the Charter. This was as meaningless as trying to inform Lily that her own hair was red, or her own eyes green.

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CHAPTER 2: A SECRET & A SHAME

He was a man, and a knight, and a lord; and no doubt his blood ran hot, as she had been warned for so many years. But then why does my blood run so hot, too, when he is near?

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THOU AND I ARE TOO WISE TO WOO PEACEABLY...

CHAPTER 1: A SONG & A KISS // jily week 2024: love is in the hair

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FLOWER & THORN, a jily week au—coming soon

—You are quite beyond all mortals, Lady Thorn. You are singularly preoccupying. You are stuck in my side, and I have no way to prise you out of me.