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“What are you talking about?” Grace's fingers played quick chords as he spoke. He didn’t even look as he did it, but it did not make them any less purposeful.
“Discussing possible reasons why Tau Ceti is not infected while other stars are,” Eva replied deftly. “I would invite you to join, but we were just finishing—”
“Oh, that’s easy.” His hand twisted a knob, and the notes came out sharper. “It is infected—Petrova Line and everything.”
In Grace's opinion, dreaming about time traveling is no excuse for getting out of practice with his Eridian. To the rest of the Petrova Taskforce, it seems a bit odd that their resident Astrophage expert has suddenly taken to carrying a keyboard around and playing it whenever he speaks. Eva Stratt resolves to figure out what is going on.
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30 Apr 2026
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Someone's Dearest by Taradactyls
Fandoms: Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen, AUSTEN Jane - Works
07 Mar 2026
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A belated contribution for the Janeuary prompt 'Dearest' as requested by an anon <3
Miss Catherine ‘Kitty’ Bennet was the dearest child of neither her mother nor father. Those positions belonged to Lydia Wickham and Elizabeth Darcy, respectively. Yet Kitty did not mind, because that honour seemed to come paired with being the least dear to the opposing parent.
Kitty, accompanying Georgiana in town for the season and staying with Elizabeth and Mr Darcy in their London home, falls in love... with Colonel Fitzwilliam. But his father has certain expectations of his prospects, and Kitty has some realisations about her family to make. Yet her heart just keeps falling for him deeper and deeper.
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13 Apr 2026
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She was a brick, just as he had told her. The corner of her lips twitched, like she could hear him - but she wasn’t looking at him, still tracing shapes in the heavens. Now, Barney decided with more knowledge, she was also a dear. A brick of a dear - that was Valancy Stirling all over.
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Five times Barney dances around the thought ‘love’, and one time he actually confronts it.Bookmarked by taciturn_nerd
29 Jan 2026
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Csethiro broke abruptly free of the pack and came sweeping towards him with hands outstretched, probably hoping to do damage control.
“Serenity,” she said, ignoring her father, who seemed to be wanting to prompt her like a conductor. “We are honoured to have you here.”
Maia had very little experience with the specific social mortifications of an embarrassing family— his own having simply chosen to forget he existed— and it wouldn’t have been fair to make a judgement, but there was already an undeniable tinge of the ridiculous to the entire affair.(Awkward dinners are part and parcel of the Emperor's role... but the Ceredada really are spectacularly embarrassing.)
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24 Feb 2025
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Charles and Jane’s baby meets Fitzwilliam and Elizabeth’s baby for the first time, while Darcy mulls on the joys that a big family of cousins will bring to his little daughter.
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- Part 4 of Elizabeth/Darcy post-canon fluff
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