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Chapters: 6/9 Fandom: Original Work Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Sébastien Dupont & Jack Outlaw | Jack McQueen, Sébastien Dupont/Luc Aubin, Hal Peacock/Jack Outlaw | Jack McQueen, Original Male Character/Original Male Character, Original Male Character(s) & Original Male Character(s) Characters: Sébastien Dupont, Jack Outlaw | Jack McQueen, Luc Aubin, Original Characters, Original Male Character(s), Original Non-Binary Character, Natalie Peacock, Original Female Character(s), Ivana Cutabitch, Andromeda 'Andy' Sinclair, Nicky Marino, Lawrie Weston, Violet Peacock Additional Tags: Pride, Gay Pride, Pride Parades, Friendship, Past Trauma, Eating Disorders, Self-Esteem Issues, Genderfluid Character, Drag Queens, Grief/Mourning, Found Family, neurodivergent character, Mental Health Issues, Grandmothers, Generational Trauma, Bilingual Character(s), Multilingual Character Series: Part 38 of Two of a Kind Summary:

Sébastien Dupont, sparkly extroverted gay French rock star, is in Manchester to support his friends Jack and Hal through a difficult time. Entirely coincidentally, it's also Pride season!

  Written for Writers' Pride Month Bingo 2026.

1: past/future 2: equal 3: parade 4: fluid 5: pride 6: club 7: grief 8: umbrella 9: new

Chapter 6: The Overseas Touring Branch of Crochet Club In which the grandmas of crochet club have turned up at Pride, and they've brought their crochet with them. And Seb checks in with Violet and Natalie.

This chapter fulfils my @writersmonth Writers' Pride Month bingo card prompt 'club'. Of course it was going to be the grandmas. :D :D :D

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Chapters: 5/9 Fandom: Original Work Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Sébastien Dupont & Jack Outlaw | Jack McQueen, Sébastien Dupont/Luc Aubin, Hal Peacock/Jack Outlaw | Jack McQueen, Original Male Character/Original Male Character, Original Male Character(s) & Original Male Character(s) Characters: Sébastien Dupont, Jack Outlaw | Jack McQueen, Luc Aubin, Original Characters, Original Male Character(s), Original Non-Binary Character, Natalie Peacock, Original Female Character(s), Ivana Cutabitch, Andromeda 'Andy' Sinclair, Nicky Marino, Lawrie Weston, Violet Peacock Additional Tags: Pride, Gay Pride, Pride Parades, Friendship, Past Trauma, Eating Disorders, Self-Esteem Issues, Genderfluid Character, Drag Queens, Grief/Mourning, Found Family, neurodivergent character, Mental Health Issues, Grandmothers, Generational Trauma, Bilingual Character(s), Multilingual Character Series: Part 38 of Two of a Kind Summary:

Sébastien Dupont, sparkly extroverted gay French rock star, is in Manchester to support his friends Jack and Hal through a difficult time. Entirely coincidentally, it's also Pride season!

  Written for Writers' Pride Month Bingo 2026.

1: past/future 2: equal 3: parade 4: fluid 5: pride 6: club 7: grief 8: umbrella 9: new

Chapter 5: Start From Here In which, after the Pride parade, Jack wants to apologise to Seb, and to ask Luc something.

Jack, apologising? Is the world coming to an end?!

No, he's just still learning how to be a real boy. I'm very proud of him. <333333

This chapter fulfils my @writersmonth Writers' Pride Month bingo card prompt 'pride'.

Warning for a tiny bit of discussion of Seb's food issues, and Jack's worry from way way back in book 1 that he only reminds people of what they used to be. And for Seb almost letting the cat out of the bag as to who they're talking about, although I managed to suppress him (although it's probably fairly obvious by now). And, again, for Seb criminally overusing the word chéri. That's just his favourite word for Jack and there is very little I (or indeed Jack) can do about it.

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Chapters: 9/9 Fandom: Original Work Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Sébastien Dupont & Jack Outlaw | Jack McQueen, Sébastien Dupont/Luc Aubin, Hal Peacock/Jack Outlaw | Jack McQueen, Original Male Character/Original Male Character, Original Male Character(s) & Original Male Character(s) Characters: Sébastien Dupont, Jack Outlaw | Jack McQueen, Luc Aubin, Original Characters, Original Male Character(s), Original Non-Binary Character, Natalie Peacock, Original Female Character(s), Ivana Cutabitch, Andromeda 'Andy' Sinclair, Nicky Marino, Lawrie Weston, Violet Peacock Additional Tags: Pride, Gay Pride, Pride Parades, Friendship, Past Trauma, Eating Disorders, Self-Esteem Issues, Genderfluid Character, Drag Queens, Grief/Mourning, Found Family, neurodivergent character, Mental Health Issues, Grandmothers, Generational Trauma, Bilingual Character(s), Multilingual Character, Jewish Character, LGBTQ Jewish Character(s) Series: Part 38 of Two of a Kind Summary:

Sébastien Dupont, sparkly extroverted gay French rock star, is in Manchester to support his friends Jack and Hal through a difficult time. Entirely coincidentally, it's also Pride season!

  Written for Writers' Pride Month Bingo 2026.

1: past/future 2: equal 3: parade 4: fluid 5: pride 6: club 7: grief 8: umbrella 9: new

Chapter 9: Made Again In which Seb reaches breaking point. Luc picks up the pieces, and provides a solution.

And here's the flashback. Seb really really wanted to talk about this episode, having alluded to it a few times in the other stories.

This chapter fulfils my @writersmonth Writers' Pride Month bingo card prompt 'new'.

Teeny tiny bit of a warning for what a state Seb is in, although if you've read the rest of this one, you'll already know.

(there will probably be further chapters incorporating the rest of the prompts but this is where my bingo card is COMPLETED :D :D :D )

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Chapters: 8/9 Fandom: Original Work Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Sébastien Dupont & Jack Outlaw | Jack McQueen, Sébastien Dupont/Luc Aubin, Hal Peacock/Jack Outlaw | Jack McQueen, Original Male Character/Original Male Character, Original Male Character(s) & Original Male Character(s) Characters: Sébastien Dupont, Jack Outlaw | Jack McQueen, Luc Aubin, Original Characters, Original Male Character(s), Original Non-Binary Character, Natalie Peacock, Original Female Character(s), Ivana Cutabitch, Andromeda 'Andy' Sinclair, Nicky Marino, Lawrie Weston, Violet Peacock Additional Tags: Pride, Gay Pride, Pride Parades, Friendship, Past Trauma, Eating Disorders, Self-Esteem Issues, Genderfluid Character, Drag Queens, Grief/Mourning, Found Family, neurodivergent character, Mental Health Issues, Grandmothers, Generational Trauma, Bilingual Character(s), Multilingual Character, Jewish Character, LGBTQ Jewish Character(s) Series: Part 38 of Two of a Kind Summary:

Sébastien Dupont, sparkly extroverted gay French rock star, is in Manchester to support his friends Jack and Hal through a difficult time. Entirely coincidentally, it's also Pride season!

  Written for Writers' Pride Month Bingo 2026.

1: past/future 2: equal 3: parade 4: fluid 5: pride 6: club 7: grief 8: umbrella 9: new

Chapter 8: Under My Umbrella In which, at the end of the evening, Seb is thinking about all the umbrellas he and his friends are under, and what it means to shelter beneath them together.

This chapter fulfils my @writersmonth Writers' Pride Month bingo card prompt 'umbrella'. Technically this is the end of the story, as the final chapter is actually a flashback... (but he may have something to say about the rest of the prompts as well when they're released...)

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Chapters: 7/9 Fandom: Original Work Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Sébastien Dupont & Jack Outlaw | Jack McQueen, Sébastien Dupont/Luc Aubin, Hal Peacock/Jack Outlaw | Jack McQueen, Original Male Character/Original Male Character, Original Male Character(s) & Original Male Character(s) Characters: Sébastien Dupont, Jack Outlaw | Jack McQueen, Luc Aubin, Original Characters, Original Male Character(s), Original Non-Binary Character, Natalie Peacock, Original Female Character(s), Ivana Cutabitch, Andromeda 'Andy' Sinclair, Nicky Marino, Lawrie Weston, Violet Peacock Additional Tags: Pride, Gay Pride, Pride Parades, Friendship, Past Trauma, Eating Disorders, Self-Esteem Issues, Genderfluid Character, Drag Queens, Grief/Mourning, Found Family, neurodivergent character, Mental Health Issues, Grandmothers, Generational Trauma, Bilingual Character(s), Multilingual Character, Jewish Character, LGBTQ Jewish Character(s) Series: Part 38 of Two of a Kind Summary:

Sébastien Dupont, sparkly extroverted gay French rock star, is in Manchester to support his friends Jack and Hal through a difficult time. Entirely coincidentally, it's also Pride season!

Written for Writers' Pride Month Bingo 2026.

1: past/future 2: equal 3: parade 4: fluid 5: pride 6: club 7: grief 8: umbrella 9: new

Chapter 7: We Carry It With Us In which, taking a break from the chaos of Ivana's special Pride edition drag karaoke night, Seb and Jack talk about some of the things they missed out on. And it turns out that Ivana, too, has missed out on things she should have had.

This chapter fulfils my @writersmonth Writers' Pride Month bingo card prompt 'grief'.

This one is a bit of a gut-punch, and we discover something about Ivana that Jack (and, indeed, I) had no idea of.

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Chapters: 4/9 Fandom: Original Work Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Sébastien Dupont & Jack Outlaw | Jack McQueen, Sébastien Dupont/Luc Aubin, Hal Peacock/Jack Outlaw | Jack McQueen, Original Male Character/Original Male Character, Original Male Character(s) & Original Male Character(s) Characters: Sébastien Dupont, Jack Outlaw | Jack McQueen, Luc Aubin, Original Characters, Original Male Character(s), Original Non-Binary Character, Natalie Peacock, Original Female Character(s), Ivana Cutabitch, Andromeda 'Andy' Sinclair, Nicky Marino, Lawrie Weston, Violet Peacock Additional Tags: Pride, Gay Pride, Pride Parades, Friendship, Past Trauma, Eating Disorders, Self-Esteem Issues, Genderfluid Character, Drag Queens, Grief/Mourning, Found Family, neurodivergent character, Mental Health Issues, Grandmothers, Generational Trauma, Bilingual Character(s), Multilingual Character Series: Part 38 of Two of a Kind Summary:

Sébastien Dupont, sparkly extroverted gay French rock star, is in Manchester to support his friends Jack and Hal through a difficult time. Entirely coincidentally, it's also Pride season!

Written for @writersmonth's Writers' Pride Month Bingo 2026.

1: past/future 2: equal 3: parade 4: fluid 5: pride 6: club 7: grief 8: umbrella 9: new

Chapter 4: Sometimes He’s A Girl (Sometimes She’s A Boy) In which Seb and Luc go charity shopping with Jack, Natalie and the grandmas, and Jack makes a discovery, although it's not about the person he first assumes it is.

This is where Natalie got the dress mentioned in the previous chapter, and where Hal's clothes-customising skills get probably their first mention in this whole damn thing, although he's always had them, I just forgot about them XD

There's another little nod to the unhinged AU AU AU in here. :D

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Chapters: 2/9 Fandom: Original Work Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Sébastien Dupont & Jack Outlaw | Jack McQueen, Sébastien Dupont/Luc Aubin, Hal Peacock/Jack Outlaw | Jack McQueen, Original Male Character/Original Male Character, Original Male Character(s) & Original Male Character(s) Characters: Sébastien Dupont, Jack Outlaw | Jack McQueen, Luc Aubin, Original Characters, Original Male Character(s), Original Non-Binary Character Additional Tags: Pride, Gay Pride, Pride Parades, Friendship, Past Trauma, Eating Disorders, Self-Esteem Issues, Genderfluid Character, Drag Queens, Grief/Mourning, Found Family, neurodivergent character, Mental Health Issues Series: Part 38 of Two of a Kind Summary:

Sébastien Dupont, sparkly extroverted gay French rock star, is in Manchester to support his friends Jack and Hal through a difficult time. Entirely coincidentally, it's also Pride season!

Chapter Two: All Equal Here In which Seb knows Hal won't talk about everything that's happened unless someone makes him do it. Luckily, Seb is very prepared to do so.

This one fulfils my @writersmonth Writers' Pride Month bingo card prompt 'equal'. Enormous thank you to the lovely @malkaleh for the suggestion! And a shoutout to the equally lovely @seagull-energy for the unfailing support and encouragement; there is a little nod in here to a conversation we were having the other day. xDDDDD

I was very very amused to find that Seb absolutely still has a crush on Hal. He's still a total ho, even if he's not doing anything about it any more. XDDDDD

Warning for Hal struggling with everything, me being a little cryptic as to who he's talking about because I'm desperately trying not to spoil book 4's big revelation, and Seb overusing the word chéri to an almost criminal extent.