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An entity wears the face of whoever they desire most, and solitude gives it room to hunt. Bound together by fear, Naim and Ryan travel through coaches and cheap motels, trying to outrun a punishment shaped exactly like love. But as guilt, grief, and unspoken betrayal follow them, Naim begins to wonder whether Ryan stays because he loves him — or because the monster wearing Naim’s face has left him no other choice.
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Yet Naim knows it’s watching, waiting to rip him open like spoiled fruit. He hears the flies buzzing and feels himself rotting into something sticky-sweet and dripping, splitting down the middle.
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08 Aug 2026
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a certain step towards falling in love by buttonupshirt
Fandoms: Lockwood & Co. - Jonathan Stroud, Lockwood & Co. (TV)
08 Feb 2025
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‘After a silence of several minutes he came towards her in an agitated manner, and thus began,’
Lucy knew this one, even without having read the book before. The infamous proposal scene. Lockwood had explained it to her once, trying to stay awake on a long case.
‘In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.’
He’d underlined it three times.
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Lucy reads Lockwood's copy of Pride and Prejudice
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24 Mar 2026
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I would weather all embarrassment for you, my dear by justice_for_skull (hyper_fix)
Fandoms: Lockwood & Co. - Jonathan Stroud, Lockwood & Co. (TV)
08 Jul 2023
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Before Lockwood learns that the Skull can actually listen and talk, the ghost jar is the main thing to which he spills his secrets…
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Five times Lockwood talks to the Skull, and one time he talks to Lucy.
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Lockwood grinned at the skull. It was a charming grin, if he did say so himself. Although if anyone was immune to his charming grins by now it would be the ghost in the skull jar, since the old brown skull was what he practiced his charming grins on.
“And, don’t lie, I saw the way you looked at her!”
The swirling in the ghost jar stilled for a moment.
“But, Mr Ghost, she’s a colleague now, so it doesn’t matter if you think she’s pretty. You have to keep that to yourself.”
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14 Mar 2026
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Lockwood & Co. The Other Side by itripandfallalot
Fandoms: Lockwood & Co. - Jonathan Stroud, Lockwood & Co. (TV)
11 Apr 2026
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Continue to follow the adventures of Lockwood & Co after the events of The Empty Grave as they wrestle with the fallout.
Lucy and Lockwood reckon with their feelings, as the team continues to solve cases, eliminate Visitors, and consider what the future might hold.
But does the conspiracy run deeper than they thought and will the Problem ever truly end? As Lockwood & Co. work towards patching society back together, will they discover Marissa’s true past and what lies beyond the Other Side? Strange new Talents and Visitors plague the team, as they collaborate with Barnes in secret. It's a matter of life and death, of hope amongst darkness, and of growing up.
This story is 35 chapters, but it is COMPLETE — I’ll be posting chapters weekly on Sundays.
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02 Dec 2025
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In Her Thrall by WhimsysInkRibbons
Fandoms: Lockwood & Co. - Jonathan Stroud, Lockwood & Co. (TV)
14 Nov 2024
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"I saw pale kings and princes too / Pale warriors, death-pale were they all; / They cried—‘La Belle Dame sans Merci / Thee hath in thrall!’"
When Lockwood is enchained by Tufnell’s ghost, Lucy confronts the feelings she’s buried for years in order to bring him back.
Afterwards, with danger and darkness closing in and the weight of everything left unsaid between them, Lockwood and Lucy must each make a choice.
A game is afoot, whether they know it or not.
And time is running out.
A reimagining of the “La Belle Dame” case from “The Empty Grave” and what came after.
Inspired by John Keats’ poem, “La Belle Dame Sans Merci”
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01 Dec 2025