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Surviving Sawtooth was only the beginning. Whispers of a new threat springs Cole into action, forcing him to form a reluctant alliance with a girl unwilling to help. As Cole tries to unravel the mystery, he realizes that he needs to figure out who he can trust - even if it's himself.
NOTE: This story is divided into five parts, each part is written as a separate book of a continuous five-part sequel series set after In The Afterlight.
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The Rising Light by Whiteshadow_cat
Fandoms: The Darkest Minds Series - Alexandra Bracken, Original Work
29 Jul 2026
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Jaiden has spent the past four years of her life inside the camp system. From a regular psi at a normal camp to the top-performing Red in Project Jamboree, she's seen it all. She knows her life is nothing but drills, training, and torture, but every day she stares up at the mountains surrounding her camp and wishes she had the courage to run. Maybe that's what brought her to the fence one fateful night, that dream of freedom.
Once in the outside world, though, Jaiden learns what it means to be a Red and how those around her really view her color identification. She knows Clancy's true motivations behind East River, no matter how much he lies to everyone about the hideout's purpose. Jaiden must rally her friends, dangerous ones and not, and do everything in her power to stop this plan from coming to pass.
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- Part 1 of This Burnt Game
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Saudade; the Love that Remains by ge0rg33eeee
Fandoms: The Darkest Minds Series - Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds (2018)
19 Jul 2026
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"Nobody heard you when you were struggling. Nobody took a good look at you. Nobody saved you. You killed or you were killed, that’s just how it was."
or; Ruby Elizabeth Gray, previous first lady of the United States has left her husband with nothing more to her than herself, and it's more than she's ever had in years.
She's walked three days- anything to put more distance between her and her past- and on her way she meets a genuine, southern, blonde man named Liam Stewart.
Ruby, in her desperation to be seen and prove to herself she is real without Clancy by her side, accepts his offer of help. Ruby thinks she's all the bad in the world for doing so because nobody as kind as he is deserves someone cruel enough to accept his offer knowing that it'll corrupt him beyond repair.
As the two spend more time together, Ruby learns that love wasn't the fists that beat her, but the arm that stretched out towards her and gave her a hand.
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"don't cry, big brother's got you now." by ge0rg33eeee
Fandoms: The Darkest Minds Series - Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds (2018)
09 Apr 2026
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"Every moment since that day, I had waited for him to show his true self. To give us something other than the regulation and kindness a parent gave, something other than an equal to our mom in strictness and love, but it never happened. I hated him for it, for all that he gave us because it reminded me of what I wasn’t able to provide."
or; a study on Cole's life as a big brother to his biological siblings, and a girl despite being so very alike to him, he can't help but love.
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Somewhere Between Red and Yellow, or, The Last Shreds of Orange by carpecroissant
Fandoms: Twenty One Pilots, The Darkest Minds Series - Alexandra Bracken
22 Feb 2026
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They stand on a precipice. There is only so long the 'rebellion' can hide under Eastern codewords and campfire chants. And Clancy intends to be there to watch it burn.
For my pilots fans: set pre-Clancy album.
For my TDM fans: set during the East River arc.- Language:
- English
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Playing With Fire by UglySwan65
Fandoms: The Darkest Minds Series - Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds (2018)
11 Feb 2026
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I wrote this fanfic as a depressed and emo little middle schooler. It's horribly written. The plot sucks. It's also inspired by/a rip off of lik every single other Darkest Mind OC fic. If you can't tell I was reading hella YA books at the time. I will accept no hate on this, I swear I'm not this ass of a writer now. Just trust. TRUST ME!!!!
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A Weekend in Virginia Beach by Funnybuz
Fandoms: The Darkest Minds Series - Alexandra Bracken
30 Jan 2026
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Liam is on vacation with his family (including Cole) where they rented a Beach house on Virginia Beach for the summer. Ruby convinces her parents to let her go to Grams house on Virginia Beach for a long weekend to visit Liam. Grams understands they're just crazy kids, so she lets them get up to their shenanigans, afterall, he is a well-mannered southern boy.
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The Girl in the Green Dress by ge0rg33eeee
Fandoms: The Darkest Minds Series - Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds (2018)
29 Jan 2026
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"My heart swelled with so many emotions, so many heavy emotions, and whenever I tried to place a name on them the only thing my brain said was Ruby. Ruby, Ruby, Ruby."
or; Liam Stewart can't stop thinking of that day at Virginia beach, only the dream tended to take different form each time. It still had the same people at the beach. It was just, the girl in the green dress, he just couldn't quite make her face out. The only thing he could make out from her, despite the dress, was that his heart beat it's own rhythm and emotion for her, to which his heart named Ruby.
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- Part 1 of The Darkest Hauntings
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The Open Road Just After a Storm by ge0rg33eeee
Fandoms: The Darkest Minds Series - Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds (2018)
13 Jan 2026
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"I can’t be angry at you anymore, Nico. You were just trying to do what you thought was right.”
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or; Nico finds Ruby late at night in the hospital, Nico begs for forgiveness that was granted long ago.
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Blue Stains on the Washcloth by ge0rg33eeee for heartstopperstrike
Fandoms: The Darkest Minds Series - Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds (2018)
20 Dec 2025
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Six months later, something started between us beyond the casual formalities neighbours shared, and it went as smooth as it could considering I was without a shirt, my hair soaked in blue dye, and my upper body not any cleaner.
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or: Ruby Daly hasn't truly spoken to her cute neighbour next door beyond a few hello's and a how are you here and there, but after a mishap with blue hair dye, she finally gets the push she needs to speak to him properly. Somehow, in the process she makes a best friend, and maybe something more than that.
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The Darkest Game by In_an_hour_sunflower
Fandoms: The Darkest Minds Series - Alexandra Bracken
14 Dec 2025
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There are some things you never forget.
The way blood stains hands, embedded under fingernails.
Pleading words begging you not kill them.
A torn scream in the Night, echoing through the trees breaking the silence.
A cannon going off.
I cannot forget, and I will not be forgiven.
Cole Stewart won his hunger games at age 15.
6 years later is the Quater Quell
This years reaping pool will consist only of living victors next of kin 12 and up.
Volunteering isnt allowed
The victor, the tribute is related to will be their mentor
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"lose your dreams and you will lose your mind, ain't life unkind?" by ge0rg33eeee
Fandoms: The Darkest Minds Series - Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds (2018)
30 Aug 2025
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It wasn’t him. Not really. I reminded myself as I attempted to focus on the feel of my fingers grazing up and down the worn blanket that covered my lower half. But as his eyes bore into me making my skin crawl as if the temperature lowered drastically, I knew it’d be futile.
–A fanfic in which Ruby Daly, just before setting off to find Liam Stewart and the flash drive, gets haunted by Liam as she tries to sleep.
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- Part 2 of The Darkest Hauntings
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“It’s not fair to him,” Ruby said. “I can’t just... just put myself back into his head. It’s not right. I took them out in the first place.”
Mara scoffed. “What, like it was right for you to take yourself out without asking him first?”
Ruby froze. She had not known she had gotten that far in. She raised her gaze to meet Mara’s unbothered one, swallowing. “You knew about that?” She asked, weakly.
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A confrontation more needed than not.
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(all my friends) stay up past midnight by ghostmaggie
Fandoms: The Darkest Minds Series - Alexandra Bracken
09 Nov 2024
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The Black Betty crew, but they're vampires.
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- Part 1 of we get colder as we grow older
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I’m Sorry, Judith by bluehearts2x
Fandoms: The Darkest Minds Series - Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds (2018)
28 Aug 2024
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The worst part about losing your best friend is that you can’t tell your best friend about it.
"One day I won’t have to get my back realigned from his death grip."
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And now, Vida would give anything just to feel his arms wrapped around her one more time.
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Pull me close, and I'll hold you tight by atmospherex
Fandoms: The Darkest Minds Series - Alexandra Bracken
06 Aug 2024
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'But when she took a pause, in the quiet moments between lucidity and dreaming, she admitted the truth to herself: she could see how it hurt Liam the worst. Liam. The person who knew her better than she knew herself, the one who had assured her time and again that he loved her, all of her: past, present and future. She felt it with each nightmare she kept to herself, each time she pulled back when the memories got too much and the shadows clouded her eyes, each half-truth and tiny smile. She was breaking two hearts at the same time.'
Ruby and Liam were fine, absolutely fine (except when they weren't).
With the world resting on their shoulders and an ocean of memories to battle, can they find their way back to each other?Or: The Hesitate songfic that needed to be written.
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The Right Place and the Wrong Time by Glitched_In
Fandoms: The Darkest Minds Series - Alexandra Bracken
18 May 2024
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"I'm just not safe. I'm like a... a ticking time bomb. One wrong move and your life has slipped right through your fingers." Liam stared at me, incredulous.
"So this is about you being Orange, again? Ruby, I thought we talked about this, none of us care—"
"If the only way to make sure you guys are safe is leaving, then—"
"We want you. How hard is that for you to understand?"
"Have you ever, and I mean ever cared to even consider that you were wrong about that?"
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Ruby tries to leave. Liam makes her stay.
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Camp East River by frogo5459, Loony_moony438
Fandoms: The Darkest Minds Series - Alexandra Bracken
21 Apr 2024
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Camp east river is the place to be for Cole Stewart, he is thrilled to be returning back now as a cabin leader to bring his team to victory and maintain his camp champion title.
Camp east river is not the place to be for Clancy Gray, who has been sent there by his father to prove himself by being a cabin leader and winning that title.
Will Cole and Clancy learn to get along or will there past rivalry haunt them? After all there can only be one camp champion.
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Two decades after the main storyline ends, Ruby and Liam have started a family. But it turns out that their firstborn child, Jaime, also has IAAN powers. Their first instinct is to freak out, but luckily enough, thye've got the support of their fmaily members to muddle through it.
Otherwise known as "let's try to do things right this time around".
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Orange is a Burning Color by TheArxh
Fandoms: The Darkest Minds Series - Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds (2018), The Darkest Minds
10 Jan 2024
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When Elliot was Eleven the world fell apart. She survived the disease that killed those close to her but now she and the others emerged with something far worse; uncontrollable abilities.
Betrayed by her own father, she's eighteen. She's one of the dangerous ones.
But now finding others like her and fighting for freedom, she will do the most for her freedom and to find her brother.
But she also has to hide what she is.ALL CHARACTERS EXCEPT FOR A FEW ARE THE ALEXANDRA BRACKEN'S AND ALL CREDIT GOES TO HER.
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- Part 1 of Orange