The Madonna and Baby
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For a Better Future, a Better Life by Rhaized
Fandoms: His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials (TV), The Golden Compass (2007)
03 Nov 2020
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"Where's your mummy?" Marisa asked the girl then, voice measured. "We should get you back to her. I'm sure she's very worried about you."
For a reason the toddler didn't entirely understand, she let out a cry. It was a frustrated cry, as if to say, "come here right now." She again put her arms out and practically fell onto the blonde-haired woman in her pursuit of Marisa. It was the only thing in the world that seemed to make sense to the child in that moment. It was instinctual, natural, visceral.
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Where toddler Lyra wanders over to a barn party her teenage mother Marisa is hosting, feeling connected to the beautiful dark-haired woman in a way she can't quite explain and in a way that makes the woman in question completely melt.
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- Part 1 of The Madonna and Baby
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Resolve Yourself by Rhaized
Fandoms: His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials (TV), The Golden Compass (2007)
19 Apr 2020
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Maybe this isn't so bad, Mrs. Coulter thought, leaning over and offering Lyra a three-pronged triangle to finish the puzzle's left corner. Maybe she could resolve herself to this.
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After a global virus outbreak leaves Brytainers forced to work remotely from home, Mrs. Coulter struggles to help her flailing Oblation Board continue its operations while also caring for (and hiding her work from) Lyra, who had just come to live with her in London.
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- Part 2 of The Madonna and Baby
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His Dark Hallowed Eve by Rhaized
Fandoms: His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials (TV), The Golden Compass (2007)
27 Oct 2020
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While living with Mrs. Coulter, Lyra learns for the first time what Halloween and trick or treating is. Mrs. Coulter promises to take her, but she must first behave herself at a party. Lyra obliges, but not without having some fun of her own.
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- Part 3 of The Madonna and Baby
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Pencils and Protests by Rhaized
Fandoms: His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials (TV), The Golden Compass (2007)
08 Nov 2020
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Mrs. Coulter takes Lyra to tour a fancy, posh private school in London. As expected, it doesn’t go well.
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- Part 4 of The Madonna and Baby
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Thermodynamics by Rhaized
Fandoms: His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials (TV), The Golden Compass (2007)
18 Nov 2020
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The heat at Mrs. Coulter's flat goes out and Lyra is the only one who's reasonable.
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- Part 5 of The Madonna and Baby
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Snowfall by Rhaized
Fandoms: His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials (TV), The Golden Compass (2007)
23 Nov 2020
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It's the first big snowfall of Lyra's entire lifetime, so she teaches Mrs. Coulter what it means to have a little fun outside in the snow.
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- Part 6 of The Madonna and Baby
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Coffee Lessons by Rhaized
Fandoms: His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials (TV), The Golden Compass (2007)
16 Dec 2020
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Mrs. Coulter takes Lyra out to try fancy coffee at a new coffee shop, as well as share with Lyra tips about the delicacy of a coffee date.
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- Part 7 of The Madonna and Baby
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Conditional Christmas by Rhaized
Fandoms: His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials (TV), The Golden Compass (2007)
24 Dec 2020
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Lyra's first Christmas with Mrs. Coulter greets her with more presents than she can possibly know what to do with, although Mrs. Coulter has some strange rituals attached to opening presents.
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- Part 8 of The Madonna and Baby
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All a Lie by Rhaized
Fandoms: His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials (TV), The Golden Compass (2007)
06 Jan 2021
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"Mrs. Coulter, what's wrong?"
This was most unlike her. Lyra got up out of her seat and floated over to the woman, putting a hand on her arm. Mrs. Coulter jumped at the touch, as if suddenly remembering where she was and what she was doing. Her clouded blue gaze found Lyra's, and they simply stared at each other for a moment, lost in a conversation beyond words and articulation.
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While Lyra is living with Mrs. Coulter, one day the woman tells her the truth about her parents, and about the demise of one of them. Lyra is struck with more emotion than she could ever be prepared to deal with.
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- Part 9 of The Madonna and Baby
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Maybe This Time by Rhaized
Fandoms: His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials (TV), The Golden Compass (2007)
16 Jan 2021
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Lyra struggles deciding whether or not to leave Jordan College with Mrs. Coulter, as her friendship with Roger is the one thing she promised never to betray.
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- Part 10 of The Madonna and Baby
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- English
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- 2,432
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- 1/2
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- 42
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The "Change" by Rhaized
Fandoms: His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials (TV), The Golden Compass (2007)
04 May 2021
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“Excuse me?” Mrs. Coulter spluttered, right as she was raising a spoonful of clam chowder to her mouth. The spoon hovered mid-air as she simply gawked at Lyra, the golden monkey making some kind of sound crossed between a hiss and a hiccup at his spot near the woman's feet.
"The change," Lyra repeated, placing more emphasis on the word "change" just as her teacher had done. Pan kneaded on her lap in the form of a fuzzy brown kitten, his amber eyes round. "Mrs. Wixom said all little boys and girls go through it but that we should ask our parents about it first."
"Did she now," Mrs. Coulter puffed.
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When Lyra comes home from school one day and shares how her teacher encouraged everyone to ask their parents about “the change,” she gets frustrated at how Mrs. Coulter keeps delaying the conversation. In the end, though, Lyra realizes it’s a much more serious conversation than she would have thought.
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- Part 11 of The Madonna and Baby
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All I Wanted Was You by Rhaized
Fandoms: His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials (TV), The Golden Compass (2007)
12 May 2021
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"All I wanted was you," Lyra finally let out, voice cracking and eyes fighting back hot, heavy tears that threatened to spill at any moment. Pan craned his little wolf pup head up to peer at her, surprised as she kept going. "All I've ever wanted was you, not any of this."
"I know," came Mrs. Coulter's terse reply, but she wasn't looking at her. Lyra watched as the woman's eyes flicked to stare down at the shiny golden tiling of the elevator, her daemon slouching just a few paces beside her. She didn't move, didn't react. She simply gazed down at the ground, face completely immobile.
"But you don't," Lyra responded, and it came out more like a spat. Again Pan stared at her, black eyes wide with concern as Lyra's face twisted into a snarl. "'Cause you never cared about me. All this time. And you en’t doing it now, either."
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Lyra learns the truth about her parentage after undergoing a medical operation and feels it all so acutely.
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- Part 12 of The Madonna and Baby
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Sea (See, See) by Rhaized
Fandoms: His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials (TV), The Golden Compass (2007)
21 Nov 2021
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Maybe it was the hormones. Maybe it was the fact that she hadn't slept in nearly 48 hours. Or maybe it was because, somewhere along the way, Marisa Coulter allowed herself to feel things.
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Shortly after giving birth to Lyra, Marisa flees with her child by boat over the river.
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- Part 13 of The Madonna and Baby
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Play Pretend by Rhaized
Fandoms: His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass (2007)
08 May 2022
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Because it only ever worked when they played pretend.
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- Part 14 of The Madonna and Baby