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yiqiie · 4 years

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wangxian fic rec list

y’all knew this was gonna happen at some point alkdjasld

i’ll put this under a keep reading so it doesn’t clog up everyone’s feed! i have created a full summary of basically all my bookmarks and am slowly writing reviews so take a look at that if you would like hehe

this post is mainly to track my favourite fics but it will be constantly updated!

here is the summary: notion fic rec page (i spent so long on this omg but it looks pretty :))

something to make your heart ache

series: long way home by @idrilka

angst, fluff, smut, multi-chapter, post-CQL

honestly one the best fics i have ever read; it captures the pining and the longing so perfectly and we get a wangxian marriage and domestic wangxian in future chapters so basically the perfect fic to soothe your heart post-CQL

and so my heart beats wildly by lily_winterwood

angst, fluff, smut, multi-chapter, modern AU

THIS FIC IS INSANELY FANTASTIC; the attention to detail is absolutely incredible and i really respect the amount of effort it would have taken to create this universe (basically modern cultivation); also the pining is just ASLKDJ

your heartbeat across the grass by fakeplasticlily

angst, fluff, smut, modern AU

footballer!LWJ + photographer!WWX literally enough said; this was the first fic i read and it was the one that dragged me down the rabbit hole of wangxian angst, i literally needed 3 days to properly function after reading this

series: forget everything, but the flowers and my love for you by leffy

angst, fluff, smut, mutli-chapter, modern AU

the first part of this ENDED me; it’s just such a nicely written fic with just the right amount of angst but we also get a domestic wangxian and they adopt [redacted] so it’s just NICE OKAY I LOVE THIS FIC also the smut is A+++++

shadows in the sun rise by @glenflower

angst (so much omg), fluff, post-CQL

this angst killed me, like if you want something that really makes your heart just ache and ache this is the one; but it’s also unbelievably sweet and really shows how well wangxian know each other and how good wwx is to lwj ;;;

爱不释手; never let me go by yiqie

angst, fluff, light smut, post-CQL

THIS FIC *mindblown* like genuinely wow what a well-written fic, i literally stayed up till 2am to finish reading this it was so captivating; basically wangxian are husbands (but not really bc ????? they are dumb) and it’s a fantastic case fic that just makes your heart whole again

hunters seeking solid ground by @attilarrific

angst, fluff, smut, post-CQL

if you want something that makes your heart break for wwx, this is the one; it deals with some pretty heavy themes of PTSD and trauma but it’s so beautifully written and it features domestic wangxian (who aren’t together but like they’re together) and i just come back to read this one again and again

something to soothe your heart

a settling into his bones by walking_through_autumn

fluff, light smut, post-MDZS

THIS ONE RIGHT HERE GUYS; this was a recent read of mine and it’s so perfect, domestic wangxian at its peak, just them being husbands and dealing with the past together and then just being in love even more

your heart, two doors down by @neiljortsens

fluff, modern AU

*slams fist on table* GIVE US THE DOMESTIC WANGXIAN WE NEED; guys this is so fluffy i cannot i literally live for domestic wangxian being husbands (but not husbands) and this is literally that; also dad!WWX gives us all life and we thank the writers who give us this gift

facilitated diffusion by chinxe

fluff, modern AU

in wangxian being dumbasses we trust; LWJ bby use your words pls but asldiajsd this is just a cute short sweet fic that makes my heart feel whole again after all that angst

i hope that you will come and meet me by feyburner

light angst, fluff, smut, post-CQL

DOMESTIC WANGXIAN STRIKES AGAIN; pls wwx use your words stop being a dumbass but this fic just makes my heart go 🥺it’s so beautifully written and the pining just is argh my heart ACHES

something yet to learn by glitterbombshell

light angst, fluff, post-CQL

ANOTHER DOMESTIC WANGXIAN (can you tell this is my thing???) but wwx teaching the baby lans is something i want to see every single day for the rest of my life it’s so wholesome and it fills and soothes my heart; also lwj being proud of his husband is my new kryptonite

sleep in your bed by copperwings

fluff, smut, modern AU

WANGXIAN BEING DUMBASSESS AGAIN; wwx finding every opportunity to tease lwj is my favourite thing and lwj finally taking the initiative to just KISS wwx to shut him up is just *chef’s kiss*

from me to you by @lynxxed

fluff, modern AU, social media

THIS FIC IS ONE OF MY ALL-TIME FAVOURITES; perfect use of social media to convey how dumb WWX truly is, but it’s just perfect pining and wholesome fluff wangxian being boyfriends is just always welcomed

it’s the little things, you see by geraldinegrenadine

fluff, modern AU

WWX BEING A DUMBASS WE LOVE; dad!WWX + teacher!LWJ is the pairing i never knew i needed in my life but i’m so glad that it is omfg, domestic wangxian strikes again in this fic

one good thing by @glenflower

fluff, light angst, modern AU

this was one of my recent finds! i absolutely love the concept and premise behind this fic + wwx being a chaotic mess without realising lwj is there is literally what wakes me up in the morning, i’ve probably re-read this fic way too many times by now oopsie

something to make you laugh

the simplest way forward by harriet_vane

fluff, smut, light angst, modern AU

wwx reaches peak dumbass in this fic and that is not an exaggeration but we love him for it; lwj pls use your words sweetie but honestly i LIVE for this fic it’s so wonderfully written as well and incorporates all the other characters really well

not just netflix and chill (or lan zhan's lack of grasp of euphemisms) by misscam

fluff, light smut, modern AU

CUTE, SWEET, WHOLESOME everything you would ever want, someone pls save lwj the poor bby, but this is just something short and sweet to soothe your heart from all the angst in this list hehe

grace and a tender hand by feyburner

fluff, modern AU

wholesome, tooth-rotting fluff and the complications that come with first dates BUT IT’S SO CUTE wangxian being boyfriends is the aesthetic we live for

#mai's fic rec list!#the untamed #fytheuntamed #mdzsnet #the notion page honestly organises this a lot better!#wangxian fics #wangxian #chen qing ling #cql #mo dao zu shi #mdzs

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eirabach · 4 years

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When might the last chapter of Just Like Heaven post? I am so excited. Your story has been lovely. I love all your CS writing :)

Here you go, lovely. Thank you for your patience <3.

This chapter -- more than anything else perhaps -- goes out to the Captain Swan fandom. It goes out to the people who left, the people who linger at the edges, to the people still deep in the creative world and those who only ever lurked. To the Rewriteathon team, the Big Bang Team, the CSSNS crew -- everyone.

It goes out to Phira, to Kate, to Alana and Becky and Fran and Casey, to Devon and Devvie and Saira and B. To Alma and Monica, Mandy and Svenja, Ro and Shea. To Julia and Tessa and everyone who ever chilled in the Hub no matter how briefly. To everyone who I squealed with, and everyone I ever had a stand up row with. To con friends, to lifelong friends. To the Captain Charming Trashcan of ultimate perfection and to those who found us deeply odd.

It’s for Katie, for everything, always.

For Chinx, for saving my life with a prompt and who is the kindest heart I ever met.

I don’t know when or if I’ll write for Captain Swan again, but you guys -- all you guys -- you made me a better writer. Thank you.

Now, here’s an ending. <3.

Just Like Heaven [8/8]

Death stinks of antiseptic and bile and what little he can see is blurry, cold and grey. This neverland world populated by shadowy figures without faces who stutter into existence before fading away into the fog beyond.

He isn’t frightened though.

There’s a warm hand on his cheek and a soft breeze against his forehead, and it’s all right. It’s all right.

There’s a bright light above him, blotting out the faceless men and the darkness prickling at the corners of his vision. That’s all right, too. He’s ready, now.

He lets the light guide him home.

READ THE REST ON AO3

#captain swan #cs crew #cs fic #csrewriteathon #killian jones #emma swan #clare vs writers block #Anonymous

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ssuibian · 4 years

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ssuibian’s mdzs fic rec

It looked like there was a few interested in some mdzs fic recs so here I am. I’ll divide this into mdzs verse and modern au so scroll to what you like. Some of these will be the infamous ones, but they’re known for a reason so on the list they go.

Before we begin some info about my preference’s: I read a little bit of everything, almost exclusively completed works and mostly wangxian-centric.

Code: personal fave - ♛ / explicit, contains smut - ♞ / fluff - ✿

All of these are on ao3, so check them out on there for more info.

Mdzs verse (set in the same era as the novel/cql)

Tame by rikke ♛✿

Tags: teenage wangxian, canon divergence, humor

Length: 11.7k words, oneshot

Summary: When Wei Wuxian wakes up in Lotus Pier after the Xuanwu Cave it’s with a souvenir in the form of a Xuanwu egg. Wangxian end up as young parents.

A civil combpaign by ariaste ✿

Ariaste has a lot of good fics and is a wonderful writer so check out their other works too!

Tags: Jin Ling x Lan Sizhui, background wangxian, humor, teenage drama

Length: 19.6k words, oneshot + a sidefic from wwx’s pov

Summary: Jin Ling tries to arrange his own marriage and thinks Lan Sizhui could be a suitable match. One problem: he’s a teenager, the matter is handled accordingly.

The lotus defense society by mondengel ✿

Another good writer with a lot of content!

Tags: humor, background wangxian, background yanxuan

Length: 3.4k words, oneshot

Summary: Jin Zixuan and Lan Wangji start a club to help them ensure the Jiang siblings stay single until they can confess.

Phantom leashes by mondengel ♛

Tags: vampire au, horror elements, set in canon

Length: 3.1k words, 2/2 chapters

Summary: Lan Qiren can’t help but be cautious of his youngest nephew who inherited his mothers bloodthirstiness.

An effect (without a cause) by astrobandit

Tags: post-canon, amnesia

Length: 15.4k words, 10/10 chapters

Summary: Lan Wangji knows that something is wrong. Maybe the black and red clad man saying his husband is missing has something to do with it.

Unexpected by nanodayolo ✿

Tags: princess and the pauper au, wangxian, mo xuanyu x xue yang, humor

Length: 68.2k words, 22/22 chapters

Summary: The Jin clan is on the borderline of bankruptcy and arranges a marriage between their third son Mo Xuanyu and the second master of Lan, Lan Wangji. Sabotage is in the works and Mo Xuanyu is kidnapped, luckily they have look-alike Wei Wuxian to step in as a stand in. No one will notice, right?

Baby of mine by pupeez4eva ♛✿

Tags: time travel, humor, a-yuan

Length: 3.3k words, oneshot

Summary: A-yuan has time traveled to his parents teenage days in Gusu. Cloud Recesses is in chaos by what their visitor from the future implies.

Another writer with many good works. My personal faves also include The haunting of Wei Wuxian (ghost’s follow wwx around post resurrection and are witnesses to wangxian)

and the Wangxian’s time-travelling shenanigans series (they time travel to Gusu school days in the middle of the Guanyin confession. doesn’t stop wwx)

Where the winds of change blow by merakily

Tags: post-canon, humor and a dash of angst, hurt/comfort, juniors, family

Length: 17.4k words, oneshot

Summary: Lan Wangji and Jiang Cheng is always a second away from stabbing the other. Who would’ve know a discussion conference and sect leader Yao’s loud mouth was what it took to make them get along.

The twin jades’ mother by drjlecter

Tags: post-canon, mild angst, twin jades, canon compliant, TW! mentions of suicide

Length: 11.8k words, oneshot

Summary: Wei Wuxian does some experimenting and somehow manages to use inquiry to call upon a very dear spirit.

The father trap by jinko ✿

Tags: post-canon, juniors plotting, humor

Length: 3.6k words, oneshot

Summary: The juniors are frustrated that wangxian isn’t together. They start plotting to make it happen, overlooking the fact that they might be engaged.

Asympotic by chinxe

Tags: canon divergence, pining, angst w/ happy ending

Length: 26.6k words, 3/3 chapters

Summary: Lan’s have a history of having tragic love stories. Lan Wangji follows tradition by falling in love with a ghost.

Some days. by jollytortoise ✿

Tags: emotional hurt/comfort, post-canon

Length: 8.3k words, 4/4 chapters

Summary: Wei Wuxian is sick, and the entire Cloud Recesses is thrown into disarray. It’s a bad day and all he wants is his husband.

Conversations: this mending fences thing by alcove_words ✿

Tags: post-canon, moving on, family

Length: 4k words, oneshot

Summary: Wei Wuxian and Lan Sizhui have to stop at Lotus Pier when wwx is injured on a night hunt. Jiang Cheng tries to pick up the pieces of the relationship he once had with his brother.

Lan Sizhui sees dead people by darkbrokenreaper ✿

Tags: background wangxian, canon divergence, humor

Length: series, 7 stand alone works, ongoing

Summary: The time a-yuan spent in the burial mounds has left its mark by giving him the ability to see ghosts. As a result he shocks the people around him when he talks about things he shouldn’t know.

Recompense for the martyr (wicked nights howl) by anemonii ♛

Tags: post-canon, family, emotional hurt/comfort, memories, brotherhood, forgiveness, canon typical violence

Length: series, 3/3 parts

Summary:

Part 1: Jin Ling is cursed by a sword and witnesses the owner’s memories. As a result he’s taken back to the Lotus Pier of his uncles’ childhood, their teenage days in Gusu and their fallout when the Yiling Patriarch appeared.

Part 2: Wei Wuxian decides it’s time he and Jiang Cheng talked.

Part 3: It’s time to lay Mo Xuanyu’s body to rest.

The Yiling Wei clan by scifigeek14 ♛✿

Tags: canon divergence, family of choice, fluff, everyone lives/nobody dies, getting together

Length: series, 6/6 works

Summary: Lan Wangji decided to stay at the end of the visit to Yiling. It changes everything, for the better.

Modern au

Unstrictly ballroom by ariaste ♛♞

Tags: competitive ballroom dancing au, background songxiao

Length: 47.5k words, 4/4 chapters

Summary: 13 years ago Wei Wuxian was involved in a scandal and thrown out of the competitive ballroom dancing scene, and Lan Wangji never stopped looking. Faced with the heteronormativity within the field, Lan Wangji and his dance partner decide to make a change. It’s something so fitting Wei Wuxian, and Lan Wangji really wishes he was there now.

Lightning in a bottle by bigbabyjeno ♞

Tags: photographer lwj, wedding crasher wwx

Length: 10k words, oneshot

Summary: Lan Wangji is the photographer for a wedding and catches Wei Wuxian sneaking in, claiming to be the bride’s brother. They disguise him in as Lan Wangji’s assistant so he can see his sister get married. The night ends with some smutty times.

By mistake or design by allurie ♛♞

Tags: fashion designers au, slow-burn, sexual tension

Length: 51.7k words, oneshot

Summary: Lan Wangji is the head designer of the haute couture division of the fashion house Nuage, while Wei Wuxian is the head designer for ready-to-wear. Circumstances have them end up working together, and the result is an explosive collaboration.

The best of you by sysrae ♞

Tags: university au, mutual pining, emotional hurt/comfort, mental health

Length: 41.9k words, 17/17 chapters

Summary: Wei Wuxian rents Lan Wangji’s spare room after being thrown out by the Jiang household. Living together makes Lan Wangji learn to know Wei Wuxian on a much deeper level.

So take my hand (take my whole life too) by cicer ♛✿♞

Tags: university, kid-fic, accidental baby acquisition, mutual pining, humor

Length: 92.3k words, 13/13 chapters

Summary: Wei Wuxian was waiting for his package. What he finds on the doorstep instead is a baby in a car-seat with no one else in sight. Wei Wuxian juggles taking care of a baby and being in love with his co-parent/ roommate/ best friend Lan Wangji at the same time.

Let’s you and me go for a ride by rinsled05 ♛✿

Tags: racing au, a-yuan, brotherly love, fluff, hurt/comfort

Length: 21.4k words, 5/5 chapters

Summary: Competitive motorcyclist Wei Wuxian meets his very handsome sponsor Lan Wangji, who despite not liking racing still comes back to watch. He wonders why.

Love wakes me by dea_liberty ♛✿♞

Tags: childhood sweethearts, famous lwj, coffee shop owner wwx

Length: 42.8k words, 4/4 chapters

Summary: A teenage bet was all it took for Wei Wuxian’s life to fall apart. As an adult he’s working in Yiling cafe, and he’s doing fine in his new life. That’s until Lan Wangji walk in the doors and make his heart ache again for everything in the past.

B-side by suspicious_popsicle ✿♞

Tags: band au, metalhead wwx, music teacher lwj, juniors

Length: 47.3k words, 15/15 chapters

Summary: Wei Wuxian disappeared right after graduation and Lan Wangji never saw him again. That’s until Lan Jingyi’s favorite band is performing nearby and Lan Wangji sees his first love again.

My dreams are playing softer now by fleurdeliser ♛✿♞

Tags: modern w/ cultivation, drunk lwj, humor, fluff

Length: 8.2k words, oneshot

Summary: Lan Wangji is drunk and his older brother decides he doesn’t want to deal with that and makes Wei Wuxian take responsibility. What follows is a cupcake date.

Congratulations, get rich by attila ♛✿♞

Tags: party, sibling shenanigans, big dumbass energy, humor

Length: 9,2k words, oneshot

Summary: Wei Wuxian really wants to kiss Lan Wangji at the chinese new years party. If mixing traditions and making his siblings go along with his scheme for it to happen, so be it.

The simplest way forward by harriet_vane ♛✿♞

Tags: kid-fic, accidental baby acquisition, green card marriage (except not), pining

Length: 71k words, 8/8 chapters

Summary: Wei Wuxian wakes up with an a-yuan in his care and he has no idea how. Lan Wangji helps out and Wei Wuxian tries not to fall in love with his husband.

Operation old men by chiharu ♛✿

Tags: juniors, matchmaking, family, doctor wwx, scheming

Length: 37.6k words, 6/6 chapters

Summary: It turns out Lan Sizhui’s father Lan Wangji and Jin Ling’s uncle Wei Wuxian know each other after a chaotic parent/teacher conference. The juniors decide to do some investigating that soon turns to matchmaking.

Your heartbeat, across the grass by fakeplasticlily ♛♞

Tags: football player lwj, photographer wwx, a-yuan, mutual pining, sexual tension

Length: 44k words, oneshot

Summary: After graduation Wei Wuxian has done his best to avoid everything to do with Lan Wangji. Not easy when Lan Wangji has become a world known fotball player and a-yuan’s favorite.

Other faves by this writer: Love on 35mm (lwj is a film student and anonymous famous vlogger who’s in love with his best friends younger brother)

and When we’re full of stories to be told (wwx went undercover for an article and cut contact with everyone. years later he ends up meeting childhood best friend lwj who has become a famous author.)

Wei Wuxian is the actual bogeyman (no really) by chatonnerie ♛✿

Tags: rise of the guardians crossover, humor, juniors, mystery

Length: 57.3k words, 6/6 chapters

Summary: Literal bogeyman Wei Wuxian was exiled by the guardians 1300 years ago. A mystery à la mdzs canon welcomes him back to the world for some buddy-cop holiday fun.

Our reflections as seen (when the water stills) by chatonnerie ♛✿♞

Tags: tokyo ghoul crossover, university, gore, humor, mystery

Length: 121k words, 10/10 chapters

Summary: Lan Wangji attends university and works for the ccg. His new course brings the annoyance that is Wei Wuxian into his life, who eventually turns out to be his new best friend. Lan Wangji is very concerned for his friends safety when he finds out Wei Wuxian’s brother is a ghoul. But that’s just the tip of the ice berg.

[This one is hands down one of the best fic’s i’ve read ever. Incorporates the mdzs and tokyo ghoul verse so well.]

And they were roommates... by harriet_vane ✿♞

Tags: fem wangxian, college/university, roommates

Length: 41.2k words, 4/4 chapters

Summary: Wei Wuxian is without housing for the semester and fellow student Lan Wangji has a room available. Based on infamous reddit post "I (21f) have a crush on my roommate (20f). I can't figure out if she actually likes me back or not or is just being friendly. She cooks for me and knows all my favorite foods, and brings me lunch. (...)”

Jiang Cheng’s terrible summer by hellohln ♛✿

Tags: camp rock crossover, getting together, humor

Length: 3k words, oneshot

Summary: Jiang Cheng tells his therapist about the disaster that was summer camp. Mostly because he had to witness his brother getting together with fellow camper Lan Wangji.

Let the streetlights guide you home by tellthemstories ♛✿♞

Tags: street racing au, pining, sexual tension

Length: 22.6k words, 5/6 chapters (steady updates so far so it should be done soon)

Summary: Wei Wuxian was the best street racer of his time and he was known for danger and recklessness. A fateful night with his sister beside him turns out to be his death. 10 years later Mo Xuanyu enters the scene.

Window shopping by thunderwear ✿♞

Tags: quarantine fic, single dad wwx, a-yuan, “long distance”, phone sex

Length: 18k words, oneshot

Summary: Lan Wangji looks out of his apartment window to see a sign from the neighbor across the street asking what his bunny’s name is. The interaction turns into more than a one time occurrence and introduces him to the attractive single dad and his adorable son.

A perfect match by elliemoran ♛✿

Tags: juniors, college/university, humor, gossip

Length: 2k words, oneshot

Summary: Professor Wei Wuxian overhears the students discussing in the library. It’s less about academics and more about how good he looks with professor Lan. But which Lan?

Make it count by wearing_tearing ✿♞

Tags: actor wwx, lawyer lwj, pining, fluff, light angst, background songxiao, background yanxuan, TW: attempted rape, stalking

Length: 46.9k words, 12/12 chapters

Summary: Actor Wei Wuxian makes his way back into the acting world and prepares for his new role by working at a lawyers office. It brings him back to an old acquaintance.

Grandmaster of demonic party games by trickster_angel ♛✿

Tags: college, paranormal, occult, light horror, mutual pining, humor

Length: 50k, 27/27 chapters

Summary: Wei Wuxian likes to try out paranormal games but is always interrupted by Lan Wangji. He keeps wondering how the other knows what he’s up to.

Scienter by synonemous ♛♞

Tags: serial killers au, dark, explicit, smut, flirting, crime, murder husbands, murder siblings

Length: series with multiple verses within the au, most can be read as stand alone’s

Summary: Serial killer Wei Wuxian aka the yiling patriarch has been flirting over text with the infamous fellow serial killer hanguang-jun. He has no idea who he is, but that doesn’t stop him.

#700 followers \(^_^)/#mdzs fanfic #mdzs fanfic rec #cql fanfic rec #mo dao zu shi fanfic rec #chen qing ling fanfic rec #the untamed fanfic rec #ssuibian.txt #my faves

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jingyilan · 4 years

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Hey, I was wondering if u had any more wangxian fic recommendations? The catfishing one killed me and the footballer au one was so good too. Thank you and I love your blog!

hi thank you!!!! i’m really glad you liked those (and my blog hehe) i got a similar ask a while back so first i’m gonna link you that one bc those still stand, here you go! (”never let me” go is one of my favs btw)

now i’ve read...way too many fics since then lol so here are some more (quick warning that i’ve been in a very soft and mushy mood these days so....):

through a window softly by impossible truths (i loved that one bro)

one good thing by yuu_chi

beneath six layers of silk by darkredloveknot

some of you by tangerinechar (chaotic bi disaster wwx at his peak)

common love isn’t for us by feyburner (rly love that writer btw!)

linger in the sun by etymologyplayground

like gravity by misscam (this one’s not finished yet but it’s not exactly an open end and i loved it too much to not put it here)

just one minute more by dandelion_san (this one’s REALLY short but i read it multiple times bc.....as i said soft and mushy)

the secret ingredient by queen_gee

facilitated diffusion by chinxe

ok i bet i forgot abt 20 but i hope there’s something to your liking in here

#yiikesmin #mail #i should make a fic rec tag #fic recs #ok done #i‘m rly happy how u all liked that catfish fic it‘s hard to top tbh

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ge · 5 years

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I must read those fics where lan qiren is nice to wwx!! (And if you want to rec anything else I’ll love you forever )

OK listen… when i said that i was like hoping someone wld get the hint …. i never ACTUALLY read a fic like that i dont think but i daydream abt it sometimes :/ but i will rec some fics just to make it up to u :(

mdzs fic writers if ur reading this……… ANYWAY ok i rec’d a whole bunch of mdzs fics on my main here but ive got some wip fics open that i didnt rec before so here u go u.u

looking at you always, all ways by keysmashed [4/6]

family and forgiveness and everything in between by rinsled05 [22/?] (this fic is just a bunch of one shots so they can be read individually)

despite it all by novalotypo [7/?]

a melody to eclipse the sun (a song to restore its light) by fuchsite [4/?]

here again (spirits rise, unbroken) by thedefenestrator [1/7]

cradle by dragonesque [13/?]

a stone to break your soul, a song to save it by rikke [19/23]

unabashed indecency by quags1re [6/?]

the impracticality of zithers as weapons by sushicorps [10/12]

implicit differentiation by chinxe [3/?]

dignity and animality by anielka [12/]

fly by night by starscry [1/3]

cryptids are not permitted in the cloud recesses by crossdressingdeath [3/?]

the pearl of a soul by sushicorps [1/8]

across a river of stars by jiangnan [1/3]

oscillatory by chinxe [¼]

#GIVE US OOC NICE UNCLE LAN QIREN!!!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE

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cssns · 6 years

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Drum roll please!!! Welcome @captainstudmuffin to the CSSNS!!!

Hello everyone! We now turn the spotlight on @captainstudmuffin for our CSSNS author spotlight! Everyone go say hi!

How long have you been in the CS/OUAT fandom?

Since Season 2!

When did you start shipping Captain Swan?

When Killian bandaged Emma's hand with a scarf and his mouth - I was an instant goner <333

What drew you to this event?

I've had two fic ideas sitting in my Google Docs that fit perfectly in the genre that I've been wanting to finish so I thought what better time to get them done than now? :)

What inspired your topic?

@seastarved (Chinx) and her Pretzel Week forever ago!

Oh man! I’m sitting her with grabby hands over a prompt from Chinx! They are always so awesome! So I can’t wait to see what Liz has for us! You can find the rest of her works here. She is a wonderful writer and I’m so thrilled that she’s participating! So everyone go say hi and welcome her to the CSSNS! Her fics drop on August 1 and 16.

#cssns #@captainstudmuffin #GTKM interviews

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katie-dub · 6 years

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CS Writers' Hub Fic Recs

Happy International Women's Day everyone! What better day than today to celebrate some of my favourite ladies in the world - the girls of the CS writers' hub?

Caesura by @seastarved

Chinx breathes life into every word she writes and this is never more true than in her stunning world war one fic. Her writing is so vivid that I can taste it, smell it, feel it in my bones. It makes me want to pick up a brush and paint, to bring Killian's art to life. Except of course, no picture of no mine could ever live up to a thousand words of this fic. Utterly gorgeous.

A Fixed Point by @mahstatins

Honestly I could just say read Clare's entire back catalogue (you should, it's totally worth it), but in the interests of brevity, check out this utterly incredible tale of time lady Emma and her travels in the tardis with Killian.

Given the Choice by @winterbythesea

I cannot say enough good things about this wonderful season 3 canon divergence. It's got pining pirates (and definitely not saviors, saviours don't pine. Ever. For sure.), the best banter and amazing angst. Read it.

CS 0155 Data Witchcraft by @hencethebravery

Alana's magical modern au is a slice of poetic perfection that apparently makes me want to use excessive alliteration.

The Cuddlist by @the-reason-to-sail-home

A fic that's as cute and sweet as it's lovely author Tessa. Emma needs a little TLC and who better to give it than professional cuddlist, Killian?

I Thee Wed by @justanotherwannabeclassic

Shea's the master of putting a twist on the tropes we know and love. For her contribution to last year's CSBB (don't forget, sign ups are open for this year @captainswanbigbang!) she wrote this intriguing and poetic insight into the political and personal ramifications of the Emma and Killian's elopement. Usually the ending to lieutenant duckling fics, this takes a look at what happens after the happily ever after, and features one of the best OC's I've ever read! I ♥ Leo 5eva!

An Evening Away by @dassala

A witty and mischievous one shot set in the enchanted forest with Princess Emma meeting a very clever pirate. Lots of fun and guaranteed to make you smile.

Serendipitous Melody by @killiancygnus

Musician Killian is such a great trope - and why not make it better with musician Emma too? This cute modern au will keep you guessing and make you laugh, cry and seriously envy Killian's house. (Like, seriously, I want that house!)

Jolly Cafe by @captainswanandclintasha

An adorable coffee featuring Emma, Elsa and the Brothers Jones. A fun, fluffy read.

Should I Stay or Should I Go? by @distant-rose

Eerie and atmospheric Stranger Things au. This story will haunt you in the best possible way.

What We Wouldn't Do by @sambethe

Do you have those fics that you feel like you could read a million times and never get tired of it? This is one of mine - a fantastic friends (with benefits 😘) to lovers story that's smart, witty and steamy as sin.

Take Me to the Church by @optomisticgirl

Speaking of sin, (smooth segway, huh?) can we just talk about this amazing fic by B? We're talking peak priest Killian here people, and it's as hot as hell.

Separate Lives by @lenfaz

A canon divergence that sees Emma and Killian reuniting after leaving Storybrooke separately at the end of season 3. The characterisation is incredible, you'll adore Lena's OCs (the family who "adopted" Killian) and Killian the cop is as hot and sweet as hot chocolate with cinnamon on top.

Flower Crowns by @the-savior-swan

A lovely little future fic about daddy Killian, the prettiest pirate in all the land (😉) spending some time with his daughter.

Anonymous Swan by @swanandapirate

I don't know what I love more here - the fic itself or the story behind the fic. Just kidding, it's definitely Manon's delightfully witty fic with a awesome and unique set up, what if Killian and Emma met when they were bickering in the comments of Dave's Google doc? If you have ever beta'd for anyone, you have to read this.

9 Ways to Eat Radishes by @zengoalie

A funny one shot with some excellent lines telling the tale of how salad-dodging Emma picks up more than vegetables when she is persuaded to get healthy and get fresh produce straight from the farm.

On Sleepless Roads by @euphoric-melancholyy

An angsty season 6 canon divergence with hauntingly beautiful imagery. It'll make you wish this is really how season 6 began.

The One With The Blackout by @imhookedonaswan

Remember that time Chandler got stuck in an atm vestibule with a Victoria's Secret model? Imagine that playing out with Captain Swan and you've got this fun fic! 😊

Bird of Prey by @shoedonym

Oh God this fic has poetry woven into every line stitching together perfect metaphors to produce this beautiful fairytale of shape-shifting swans and the boys who love them.

I only came for the dancing by @ofshipsandswans

I had to single out this cute fic after my own life inspired it (I'm keeping schtum about how). Ruhi is on top form, showing off her wit and her brilliant way with words in this story of maid of honour Emma and "tall, dark, and absent" best man Killian at Regina and Robin's wedding.

The Happily Ever After by @acourtoftruelove (AKA @captainwiley)

Do you need gorgeously sweet fluffy fluff to perk you up on a bad day? Then this is absolutely the fic for you. A canon divergent peek at Valentines Day with Captain Swan to warm your cockles.

A Grande Mocha and a Brand New Life by @phiralovesloki

I reach for this wonderful one shot whenever I'm feeling down. Emma strikes up an unusual friendship with the charming Brit who works the squawkbox at the drive through coffee shop on her way to work. It's bright, breezy and brilliant.

Serious Treble by @businesscasualprincess

A short, sweet and fantastically cute one shot that'll give you heart eyes and the warm fuzzies.

A Wing and a Prayer by @xhookswenchx

Another CSBB fic, this time Cee's magical dragon au. Some of my favourite moments happen later in the fic so suffice it to say that it's got action, adventure, enchanting twists and all the romance your shipper heart could desire.

The Darling Affair by @icecubelotr44

Renée's thrilling story features angst, whump, kisses, bad ass Emma and ex-military Killian that'll make you desperate to see Colin play James Bond (if you weren't already). It's dramatic af and you won't want to put it down.

A Place in Time by @swanslieutenant

This fic is utterly compelling - an intriguing sci fi set up gives way to a fascinating story of a whole host of people out of time - including a certain pirate. The characterisation is incredible and the whole story is a delight.

you are the sea, upon which i float by @thejollypirate

A fantastic one shot that's fluff with a bit of bite. The perfect antidote to a dreary day.

And just to prove that I have earned my spot in a writers hub.. The Masks We Wear

Killian and Emma are colleagues, friends and they’re madly in love with each other. If only they could work out that their feelings are totally requited. But then, if they still haven’t figured out that they work together as superheroes in their spare time, there’s probably no hope for them. Probably.

#cs ff #cs fic rec #fic list #cs writers hub #if i have missed anyone i'm so so so sorry #international women's day #my superheroes

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not-my-patton · 6 years

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Hey im the artist who drew the soft smii7y and punk kryoz art I wanna know who that chinx person is everyone is talking about cuz i dont know them

@chinxino5. She’s an amazing writer that has a story called Cute, which while it’s mainly H2O Vanoss it does have Punk!Kryoz and Soft!Smii7y as a side pairing and it’s so cute. 21 chapters of (mostly) fluff and it’s amazing and I totally reccomend it.

And for anyone who sees this, it’s @dopple-girl. I accidentally posted this on my side blog for the Sanders Sides. Whoops. Still getting the hang of things.

#Dopple answers

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seastarved · 7 years

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I’m going to sleep tonight with just so much love in my heart? I’m so glad I signed up for this place 4 years ago and I’m so glad I decided to talk to people in the CS fandom and I’m so glad I met some of the best people I wil ever know.

I’m so like ridiculously thankful for tumblr and OUAT because it’s gotten me through some rough shit and brought me friends who I get to keep in my pocket, who are there for me in a way I’ve never really had before. It’s inspired me to write and that has brought me so much joy and made me feel like I’ve somehow made baby-chinx-who-wanted-to-be-a-writer’s dreams happen a bit.

Honestly, being able to sink into the stories we tell here and being able to rely on people who are some of the best relationships in my life rn has been incredible and I’m so grateful and happy and just—

*hugs for all*

#i just have a lot of feelings #desultory typing

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yeehawbisexualold · 7 years

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What are some of the current work in progress fics you're following??

Boy, am I following a lot of fics rn and boy, do I wish my memory was better because I’m tired and nothings coming to me so bear w me here.

I definitely remember I’m following this fic and not because she just updated it but because it’s unforgettable. The Price by @alchemistc is just……. soo good. Lieutenant dark!Swan AU: Once every fifteen years, the Dark One has a choosing in which she selects a man or woman for her kingdom and takes them away until it’s time to chose another. It is said to be a great honor but Killian doesn’t see it that way. This fic is unbelievable, really. She is one of the most talented writers in this fandom or any other. I am constantly blown away by her writing. You know when you read something, imagery or a metaphor or whatever, and it’s so beautiful that you just have to take a moment and sit back and process it because it was just that amazing. Yeah, this is like every damn paragraph in this fic. It’s currently at Ch. 9 w 39.9k words. Rated T.

Special Instructions by @bleebug : Modern AU. A hurt and drunk Emma orders a pizza with specific instructions. The delivery guy is attractive and drunk Emma doesn’t handle that well. Adorableness ensues. Killian is a precious pizza delivering cupcake. Seriously, just a really adorable fic and a really fun read. I can’t wait to see where these two losers go. Currently on Ch. 5 w 15k words. Rated E.

FindEmmaSwanAFriend by @blessed-but-distressed : Modern AU. On a whim, Emma Swan moves to Scottland. Her friends at home, with good intentions, place an ad in the paper and #FindEmmaSwanAFriend goes viral. Killian Jones, a journalist, looking for a new subject for his article, takes interest in her. This is just???? Wonderful and interesting and unique. I really enjoy her writing style and how she switches between the actual narrative of Emma and Killian’s lives and Killian’s column. Currently on Ch 6 w 21k wors. Rated M.

Casualties by @legendofthephoenixcs / @poetic-justice-96 : A fake relationship AU. Emma Swan is the star of a popular tv show based on a military lifestyle like the one she was forced to leave behind. To quiet questions of her past, she must begin a fake relationship with her co-star, Killian Jones. This is one’s a little different from your regular celebrity or fake relationship trope and I’m very interested in seeing where it goes. Currently at Ch. 7 w 23.9k words. Rated M.

Caesura by @seastarved : Historical AU. Set during WW1. Killian is an artist, recovering physically and emotionally from his time as a Lieutenant in the Navy. Emma is a nurse. A story two people finding one another and learning how to breathe again. One of the things I love about this fic is how much effort has been put into maintaining historical accuracy. Very angsty (God, Killian is so angsty) and simply beautiful. Her writing is breathtaking and she does a great job of transporting you to this time. Currently at Ch. 10 w 64k words. Rated T. (Link directs to a consolidated post w all chapters and a set of beautiful manips. Chinx is seriously like the most talented graphic maker in this fandom and her manips for this fic are stunning)

This fic has actually been complete for about a month but there is the possibility of an epilogue, I believe, and I haven’t put it on a list yet and it deserves recognition. A Fairytale Beginning by @pocket-anon : Enchanted AU. Captain Hook, on a quest to kill the Dark One, winds up in the strange land of New York City. There he meets Henry and his mother Emma, who has no time for fairytale nonsense. This fic is just a big bunch of wonderful. I absolutely adore the movie Enchanted and Killian and Emma fit into the roles of these characters so well. 9 chapters w 61k words. Rated G.

And lastly, a fic I am super excited for and that nearly gave me a heart attacked when I noticed it was posted, Cast by the Light by @ripplestitchskein : s3 Canon Divergence. Killian sacrifices himself to obtain the Black Fairy’s wand and Emma is left to reunite Killian w his shadow. I haven’t even read it yet but everything she does is magic so I’m pumped. Currently at Ch. 1 w 7k words. Rated M.

#anon #captain swan #cs fic rec #cs ff

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AFTRschool debuts on SpitFireHipHop with his ‘U.A.E.N.O.’ video.

AFTRschoolis a recording artist born and raised in New York City. Aside from recording and songwriting, he is also a producer, mixing engineer, videographer, photographer, writer and graphic artist who has designed visuals for the likes of French Montana and Chinx of The Coke Boys, Kidd Kidd of G-Unit, Rich The Kid of Quality…

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Renegades [8/10]

Thanks to the wonderful support of the CS Writers’ Hub, particularly Chinx, Julia and Phira who poked me very hard with many figurative sticks to get this chapter done. I love you. Please, untie me now?

We’re nearly at the end of all things! One chapter and the epilogue to go! @losttalongthewayy, @thegladelf, @natascha-remi-ronin, @katie-dub and everyone else who’s been so kind about this story - thank you so much. Hope you enjoy the rest!

Edit courtesy of @seastarved and her very large folder <3.

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Chapter Eight: What We Deserve

One thing is for certain, Emma's first meeting with royalty is not quite what she was expecting.

The throne room is cold and dank, the cobbled floor and flickering torches seem more suited to a prison than a castle. There a few concessions to royalty here and there - some huge, poorly rendered oil paintings of dead eyed ancestors that peer down from the damp stone walls, a long wooden table set with a single set of gleaming silver cutlery, and, on a dais at the very back of the room, a large opulent velvet throne in which her majesty lounges, her legs carelessly thrown over the arm of it, with a smile that reminds Emma of nothing so much as a panther watching its prey.

At least she knows what her role is supposed to be.

The knights drop her, pushing her a little as she falls so that she ends up almost prostrate at the foot of the dais, just at eye level with her boot clad feet.

They swing down, first one and then the other, so that the toes are right in front of Emma’s face.

“Well?” drawls the Evil Queen. “Didn’t your mother teach you how to greet royalty?”

Almost as if a great invisible hand in pressing down on the back of her head, Emma finds herself bowing even further, her face inches from the polished leather.

“Oh that's right,” the Queen croons, and Emma's head snaps back until she can see the viciousness of her smile. “She didn't, did she?”

She chucks a finger under Emma's chin and she wants to move - wants to fight or scream or something - but she's frozen in place, her breath coming in short sharp gasps as the Queen's other hand balls into a fist.

“Oh,” she says, leaning down so that her face is inches from Emma’s. “What’s that? Nothing to say? Pity.”

The Queen stands up swiftly, and Emma falls back, scrabbling across the floor to get away and clutching at her throat.

“You know,” sighs the Queen, “I thought you’d be better than this.”

She lifts her hand and flames spark in her palm. Emma squeezes her eyes shut, waiting for the feel of fire searing flesh. When nothing happens, she risks opening one eye just enough to see the fireball hovering in midair, the Queen’s face nonplussed.

Her blood sings, and she scrambles to her feet, her hands flexing at her sides. The fireball fizzles out to nothing and the Queen’s expression turns dark.

“Defensive magic,” she spits. “Is that how you plan to defeat me?”

“No,” Emma says without thinking, “I was planning on stabbing you through the heart.”

“Well that rather presumes I have one, doesn’t it,” the Queen sneers. “A nice little weak spot for you to exploit, that would be convenient wouldn’t it? Unluckily for you, I paid attention in my lessons.”

She reaches a hand into her own chest, Emma stares horrified at the sight, and then pulls it out - empty. She wriggles her fingers in the air, her lips curled in laughter.

“Never bring your heart to a witch fight.”

Emma gapes. She’s never seen such a thing - could barely have dreamt it possible - but then she remembers Killian’s face in the firelight, and the way his voice had cracked and stumbled over the words.

How the Dark One murdered the woman he loved. How he crushed her heart.

Reflexively, her hands come up to protect her chest. Regina grins, her eyes glittering.

“Oh don’t worry, Princess. I’ve much more thrilling plans in place for you.”

He waits until dusk falls and the sky bruises purple-black with the threat of rain, to creep out of the loaming, counting the steps of the two guards as they continue their circuit around the castle walls.

He's been watching for hours, or so it feels, making note of every deviation, every cough or moment taken to piss against the stonework, until he knows their every step, can predict their every move.

Is it always violence with you?

How little she’d known him then. How little she still does.

He withdraws his sword from the first man’s stomach with a wet squelch, ignoring the splatter as he spins to bury his hook in the other guard’s jugular.

They collapse in a bloodied, twitching heap at his feet, but there’s no time to do more than wipe the gore off on his coat before he’s breaking through the small wooden door he’d chosen and striding up the stone staircase within, destruction in his wake.

There will be no safety in numbers for the Queen’s guards this night. No mercy given by the callous Captain Hook as he dispatches them beneath blade and hook.

No quarter.

He can feel it already, the darkness creeping up on him as each step takes him closer to his inevitable conclusion, the taste of iron in his mouth a not unfamiliar distraction from the fear he stamps down with every thrust and parry.

By all the gods, he is afraid.

Not of his own death - no that's been a long time coming, a debt to the universe long unpaid - but that he might not live long enough to see Emma come to hate him, and hate him she must.

He'd give all the gold he's ever plundered just to know she’ll live to loathe him.

“Do you love her?”

He spins at the top of the staircase, swearing bitterly as the point of his sword stops inches from the woman’s neck.

She watches him with cold, calculating eyes, and even if she weren’t wearing something a whore wouldn’t be seen dead in he’s still know her for what she is.

“What do you want, fairy? Haven’t you done enough?”

“Perhaps,” she says, “perhaps not. Have you, Killian Jones?”

“Don’t call me that,” he spits. “That name’s not for the likes of you.”

“Just for Emma?” she says, and nods, her chin bobbing closer to the sword. “Perhaps she was right. Perhaps there is more to you than meets the eye.”

“I have no time for your ridiculous mind games,” Killian growls. “Emma needs me.”

“Does she?” Blue takes a half step closer, moving the sword away from her neck without touching it. “Then I ask you again, pirate. Do you love her?”

“Yes.” he doesn’t hesitate, the word falling from his lips before he even thinks about forming it. “Yes. More than she will ever know.”

The fairy smiles at that, still cold, but with the hint of something else in the curl of her lips.

“Then listen very carefully, Captain. There’s something you may need.”

Her magic burns through her, drops of blood glistening on the throne room floor and wiped haphazardly on the edges of her cape from where she’s burst a blood vessel in her nose, her face screwed up tight in concentration as Regina prowls around the edges of the wavering protective bubble she’s managed to conjure.

“Aren’t you bored?” Regina calls, reaching out a finger and sending flames skittering over the bubbles surface, flames that Emma feels like lightning against her skin. “I’m bored. Know any other tricks, Saviour?”

“How do you know I’m the Saviour,” Emma pants. “It was supposed to be a secret.”

“Oh those dwarves of your mother’s never could keep their mouths shut, and anyway,” she learns forward to leer directly at Emma, “you have your father’s chin.”

She send off another wave of fire and Emma bites her own lip, hard, to keep from screaming.

“Such a sweet boy,” muses the Queen. “I wonder whatever happened to him.”

She laughs, delighted, and Emma sees red.

She throws herself at the Queen, the protection spell collapsing around her as she pulls every ounce of feeling to a single point within her and then -

She lets it out.

The Queen flies across the room, landing with a crack against a huge oil painting of a man dressed in green and tearing it clean in half as she slides, crumpled to the floor. Emma stands over her, chest heaving, and the Queen smiles, spitting blood at her feet.

“Oh,” she says, “you’re going to pay for that.”

She lifts her hand, and Emma realises a moment too late that she’s defenseless, exposed, her magic not yet controlled enough to come at will as the Queen forms another fireball. She juts out her chin, determined to die on her feet at least, the Queen’s lip curls and then -

The fireball splutters away to nothing.

“Now, now dearie,” sing-songs a horribly familiar voice, “you’re not the one who collects debts around here.”

The Queen roars, launching herself away from the wall with flames licking at her fingertips, but the Dark One just laughs, a tinkling, terrible thing, and sends her flying back against the torn portrait, the ragged ends forming themselves into thick vines that wrap around her wrists and ankles.

Emma backs up against the wall, her hands out in front of her.

“How the hell did you get out?” she spits.

“Why, at the hand of our mutual friend,” he says. “That is what you call the enemy of your enemy, isn’t it? A friend?”

The Queen struggles against her bonds, spitting like a trapped cat, almost feral in her helplessness.

“I’m not your enemy!”

The Dark One smiles, cruelty in the play of his hands as gestures to himself.

“Well dearie, you kept me locked up in a dungeon for the best part of a year. Hardly the way to treat your oldest pal now is it?”

The smile drops away, and he lifts his hand, the fingers white as they claw at the air. The Queen splutters, then gasps, tearing at her own throat with wide, frightened eyes. Emma can’t look away, the opportunity to flee for her life slipping away as she stares, half aghast and half terribly, ghoulishly delighted at the Evil Queen’s rapidly purpling face.

“What are you - you need me!” she wheezes, furious and desperate, and something within the Dark One seems to snap.

“Need you?” he shrieks, dropping his hand and thundering towards her as if he intends to squeeze the life from her flesh on flesh. “I needed you years ago! I needed you to find my boy for me! But no, you failed me. You failed me like you always fail. Well now I’ve found something stronger than your lust for revenge, Regina. Something that’s going to bring me my son back.”

There’s a thunderous cacophony outside the doors, and Emma realises just a moment too late that she’s missed her moment to run, the Dark One and the Queen both turning their attention toward her as screams echo from somewhere down the corridor.

“Her?” Regina hisses.

“Never,” Emma says, her head held high, her chin jutting out. “I’ll never work for you.”

The Dark One shakes his head, tutting in disappointment.

“Lets test that theory shall we?” he say with a toothy smile, tilting his head as the sound of crashing metal gets closer. “After all, maybe something will make you reconsider.”

“Not likely,” Emma snorts.

If the Dark One had eyebrows she’s sure they’d be somewhere in his hairline from the incredulous look he gives her.

“Oh really? Not even him?”

‘He’ bursts into the throne room, sword drawn and chest heaving, his eyes wild and hair blood slicked. He looks like a madman - is a madman - but Emma can’t help the way his name falls from her lips like he’s the answer to her every prayer.

“Killian!”

“Swan?”

Killian freezes, his eyes flicking between Emma and his crocodile. The Dark One claps his hands together in glee.

“Isn’t it romantic! True loves reunited! I’m quite overcome, you know.”

The Evil Queen manages a snort, somehow still superior even when helpless.

“The pirate? True love? Now I really have heard it all.”

“You!” Killian growls, his sword trembling slightly as he points it at the Dark One’s heart. “Emma, keep away from him he’s - ”

“Yes, yes dearie,” the Dark One says with a dismissive wave of his hand. “I’m afraid you’ve missed the introductions, we’ve moved on to act two.”

“Which is?”

“Why your very timely death, I’m afraid.”

Emma tries to bolt forward, her magic finally answering her call, burning through her bones as she tries to reach for Killian, but it’s like running through molasses, her legs heavier than she’s ever known, each step a desperate, futile struggle to reach him.

“Don’t,” Killian pleads. “Emma, don’t.”

“But my magic - “ she pants, “Killian - ”

“Don’t,” he grits out, his gaze fixed on the Dark One’s skeletal grin. “You need to run.”

“I’m not leaving you,” she cries, and just for a moment his eyes meet hers and she feels her heart shatter.

“I’m sorry,” he says, his voice perfectly calm even as his eyes betray him. “I love you.”

(No one. No one ever -)

“Oh yes,” hisses the Dark One gleefully. “Love’s young dream! The most powerful magic of all, would you believe! And if there’s one thing I know how to use, it’s magic.”

He lifts his claw-like hands toward Killian, and for a moment they all seem to just watch, stupefied, until Killian collapses to the floor, his sword clattering away as he in turn claws at his throat.

“I’ve been waiting a long time for this,” sighs the Dark One. “I was hoping it would be a little more satisfying - wait, I tell you what - ” he lifts his hands, and Killian rises, limp and grimacing, his arms held out strangely at his sides like a marionette with it’s strings cut. The Dark One smiles, and narrows his eyes. “Pick up the sword, pirate. After all, a man unwilling to fight for what he wants - ”

He twists his wrists, and Killian spins on the spot until he’s facing Emma, the sword flying through the air to settle in his hand.

“- deserves what he gets.”

The sword slashes through the air, and Killian take one, two, three long unsteady steps towards her.

“I won’t,” he grits out, his eyes squeezed tight shut in distress. “I won’t!”

The sword flashes again, and Emma jumps back, acutely, horribly, aware of the stone wall at her back.

“Oh won’t you?” titters the Dark One. “How funny, I thought you wanted to kill me. Wanted to be me.”

“I’ll never be you,” Killian spits. “I’ll die first.”

The Dark One’s eyes widen and he turns to Emma, delight and malice fighting for dominance in his expression. “You heard him. He wants to die first.”

Her magic thrums, and she clenches her fists so hard her fingernails draw blood.

“Just do it,” Killian growls, “Swan, just do it. I know you can.”

Realisation twists sharply through her like a sword to the gut - the sickening rush of dread and regret and love making her unsteady on her feet, her vision blurring.

It hurts like nothing’s hurt before - her very bones crying out in horror at just the idea of it - of losing, of hurting -

“Killian no! I don’t want to - I can’t lose you!”

“You’ve got to!” Killian pleads. “He’s right I - I would become him. I was going to. I wanted to. But you - you -.”

The Dark One makes a show of dabbing at his eyes.

“Look at them Regina! Perhaps we should give them their privacy? Or are you enjoying the show. I know I am.” he perches on the throne, his elbows propped on his knees and his chin in his hands. “But then again, a year’s a long time without entertainment.”

“I’m not losing you!” she repeats, determination in the set of her shoulders, in the flare of magic along her spine. Something flashes blue-white in the corner of her field of vision, but she doesn’t take her eyes off him - not the sword, bloodstained and razor sharp - but the agonised blue eyes, the crumpled brow.

The man who loves her.

Her magic fizzles at the edges of her flesh, as if it’s as loathe to turn on him as she is, and the bubble she tries to form flickers and dies as the sword point comes to rest at the hollow of her throat.

“If it’s going to be one of us, it ought to be me - it’s no more than I deserve,” he’s struggling to get the words out, the strain clear in the lines of his neck and the tight clench of his jaw, but it’s the white knuckles she watches, the twitch of the hook towards his own forearm. “I wanted to be a better man for you, Swan.”

“No, no no no. You deserve better. You are better!” she half sobs, the tears thick and cloying as she swallows them down, unwilling to let their audience see her cry. Unable to let him think she’s given up.

“You don’t know that,” he grinds out, the hook moving another inch closer to his sword arm.

“I know you,” she pleads, reaching out for his face, nausea rising up as he flinches away from her touch.

The Dark One rises from his throne, reproaching her with a wagging finger as he nears them.

“Now, now, dearie. Don’t get distressed. Are you ready to make that deal now?”

“What. Deal.” snaps Killian, his eyes flashing dark with rage.

She sees Hook in him then, the man she’d robbed and fucked and watched from afar, the terrible pirate captain that legends and widows are made of.

It changes nothing, only makes her plea louder, her plan more certain.

“Just let him go. Let him go.”

“Emma don’t - ”

The Dark One silences him with a flick of his wrist.

“Hush now, don’t talk for the lady! You want to save him, hmmm?”

Killian’s breath is harsh and his attempts to speak muffled under the Dark One’s spell, but she can still catch the drift of it. Can see how much he wants her to let him die in her place, and nods sharply.

“Anything,” she says.

The Dark One claps his hands in delight.

“Oh I do love it when they say that.”

A scroll appears in a swirl of red smoke, an ostentatiously plumed quill in the Dark One’s other hand.

“Oh dear,” he tuts. “I appear to have forgotten the ink.”

Emma can’t help the yelp that escaped her as Killian’s sword thrusts forward just a little, blood welling up and dripping red from where it breaks the skin at her collarbone. Killian shuts his eyes, but not before a single tear escapes down his cheek.

“Now now, Captain,” the Dark One says as he leans in to dip the quill into the fresh blood. “This is something you really ought to watch.”

Killian opens his eyes, but she can’t be sure whether that’s by choice or coercion. Nevertheless she keeps her gaze fixed on his as the Dark One presses the quill into her hand.

“The long-awaited Saviour, selling her skills to the Dark One” she can hear the grin in his voice even though she only has eyes for Killian. “A cautionary tale, I’m sure you’ll agree. How the mighty are felled by love. How weak you truly are, dearie.”

“Love isn’t weakness,” she says lowly, her words only meant for Killian, “it’s strength.”

Don’t give up, she wills him. Don’t give up.

She half imagines she sees him smile.

“Sign here please,” snaps the Dark One, as the contract - or at least she assumes it’s a contract - is thrust under her nose. “You and I have a lot of work to do, dearie.”

“You won’t hurt him?”

She sees the Dark One’s shrug out of the corner of her eye.

“Well, not immediately. He’s terribly irritating though, and tomorrow is another day after all.”

“Yeah,” she says, offering Killian a tremulous smile. “It is.”

The quill glows yellow-gold in her hand as she touches the tip to the bottom of the parchment and her magic swells, a sudden gasp of energy thrumming through her body desperate to escape, and she realises - realises all too late - that her life isn’t the price here.

It’s everything else. Everyone else, maybe. Everyone else for him.

In that moment, it’s not even a choice.

She scrawls an ‘E’, and the light grows blinding.

When it clears it finds Killian on the other side of the room, his hands on his knees as he gasps for breath, the Queen hanging limp and watchful in her trap, and Blue - full sized and dressed in her most glittering finery - with the Dark One in front of her, cowed like a recalcitrant knight at the feet of his ruler.

“I’m afraid I can’t let you do that,” she says smoothly. “Emma has a duty to this land.”

“You!” the Dark One hisses. “We had a deal! You promised me my son!”

“One you rescinded on as soon as you disobeyed my orders,” Blue says. “The price for my help -”

“Was what exactly?” Emma asks Blue, hot rage pricking at her eyes. “My soul? My magic? My life?”

“No,” Blue answers coolly, and she lifts her gaze to the Evil Queen. “Hers. That’s your destiny, Emma. It always has been.”

“You thought that girl could truly destroy me?” the Queen laughs, twisting in her bonds. “A pathetic, untrained little thing like that?”

“And yet she’s not the one hanging from the tapestries, is she Regina?” Blue says, and a tiny, cold little smile plays at the corner of her lips. “I’ve been waiting twenty eight years for this.”

“I did that,” howls the Dark One. “I played your game, I let this ridiculous pirate take my dagger, I let him guide the girl here just as you asked, and I, I, am the one who defeated Regina. Me! You owe me! We had a deal!”

Blue watches him seethe as though he’s a toddler throwing a tantrum, the hardness in her expression something Emma remembers all too well.

“We did,” she says. “And since your absence is preferable, I come bearing a gift.”

She reaches between her breasts and pulls out a silver necklace, and, on the end of it -

“A magic bean,” whispers Killian.

The Dark One scrabbles toward her on his knees, his hands outstretched.

“Is this..?” he pleads, and Blue nods.

“It is. A one way trip, Rumplestiltskin. Don’t make the same mistake twice.”

She tosses the necklace onto the floor, and watches as he crawls over it it, clutching it almost reverently to his chest. He looks up, and for a moment Emma sees a flash of the man he once was, lonely and sad and wanting only one thing in the world.

Love.

For a moment, she sees herself.

He closes his eyes, and releases the bean. A great raging green vortex opens in the centre of the throne room where it lands, and for a moment Emma’s terrified that they’re all going to get sucked in and spat out who-knows-where, but the Dark One reaches out for it, his voice breaking.

“My boy, oh my boy.”

He falls, his arms spread wide, and the portal closes behind him with an audible snap.

Killian slumps, and she wants to run to him, take him in her arms and never ever ever - but then Blue’s there, holding out her hand for something.

“You have it?”

Killian straightens his shoulders.

“I do,” he says, and reaches into the inner pocket of his coat. He brings out something that, at first, Emma assumes is a lump of charcoal salvaged from one of their campfires, but then, deep inside it, she sees the smallest flash of red.

The Blue fairy takes the Evil Queen’s heart, and smiles.

“Regina Mills,” she begins, addressing the Queen where she hangs, the heart held between them. “You have committed treason against this realm and against your own family. You are guilty of patricide, regicide, kidnap, murder and coercion.”

Regina sneers.

“Oh, and what are you going to do? Will you kill me, Rheul Gorm? Darken that sparkly little heart of yours?”

Emma steps forward, and snatches the heart from the fairy’s hand.

“No,” she says, turning to the Queen with a sneer of her own. “But I might.”

“Emma - “ Blue begins, but she’s silenced by a wave of Emma’s hand.

“This is my destiny, isn’t it? What you’ve been waiting all these years for me to do?” she shakes her head. “You wanted me a killer, Blue. So let me kill her.”

Blue looks for a moment like she might object, but then her gaze falls on the Queen and hardens once more. “As you wish,” she says. “Find me, after the deed is done. We have much to discuss.”

“Okay,” Emma says quietly as the fairy disappears in a burst of light. “Don’t wait up.”

She give the heart an experimental squeeze and the Queen arches, gasping for breath.

“Just do it,” she hisses. “Kill me. Let the last thing I see be Snow White’s precious princess turn dark.”

“You deserve it,” Emma spits, and tightens her grip. “You deserve it!”

“Emma,” Killian’s hand is soft on her upper arm, but she still jumps, the heart slipping in her loosening grip. “Don’t.”

“Why not?” Emma is ashamed to find her cheeks wet, anger succeeding where terror could not. “You’ve seen the things she’s done, the people - the people she’s killed.”

“Aye,” he says gently, and covers the hand holding the heart with his own. “I have. So let me.”

“You? A pathetic lovesick pirate?” Regina scoffs. “Planning to show your little girlfriend the man you really are?”

He smiles at her, the charming rogue once more, and Emma lets the heart roll from her hand to his.

“It’s really nothing personal your Majesty, at least, not for me, but you see, I made a deal with a young man. A young man whose father’s heart you stole.”

This shocks her, her face draining of colour and her limbs going limp.

“Roland? Roland sent you to kill me?”

Killian nods. “With kind regards from young Mr Hood,” he says, and lifts his hook.

Emma's whole world narrows to the pin prick of steel into charred flesh, the sounds of the Queen’s bitter howls fading away until all she can hear is her own blood rushing in her ears and a voice she doesn’t know that whispers mercy.

“Wait!” Killian stops immediately he hears Emma’s cry, turning to her in confusion, but she addresses the Queen. “His father. What happened to him?”

The Queen seems to sag, turning her face into the remains of the portrait as best she can.

“He - he died. It wasn’t my fault! It wasn’t! I loved him - he wanted me to be good and I tried, I tried - ” she stops, swallowing hard, her cheeks pin from the effort of keeping back tears. “I didn’t steal his heart. He gave it to me. He gave it to me!”

“What about my parents - what about what you did to them?”

The Queen growls, her frustration evident.

“I didn’t kill your insipid parents. I tried, but they were always one stinking step ahead of me.”

Emma’s eyes go wide, her knees weakening so that she has to grab at the sleeve of Killian’s coat to stay upright.

“My parents aren’t dead?”

“Well they might be by now,” the Queen snorts. “How would I know. But I didn’t kill them.”

Her parents aren’t dead. It echoes through her head, throbbing through her veins, her heartbeat replaced with two words over and over, her world tilting on its axis and being made new.

Not dead. Not dead. Not dead.

“Killian - Killian my parents -”

Mercy, mercy, mercy.

“Aye love,” he says, the heart still held tight between his fingers. “I heard.”

“We can’t kill her,” Emma says, with a sudden fierce certainty. “That’s not what Saviours’ do.”

Killian raises an eyebrow, but his smile is a soft, delighted sort of thing, pride tugging at the lines around his eyes.

“But the Blue fairy - ” he begins.

“Can do her own dirty work,” Emma says dismissively. “We don’t work for anyone, agreed?”

“Oh with pleasure, darling.” he says with a grin, “but I do have a duty to the boy. Perhaps the Saviour has another punishment? Or the Princess of the realm, perhaps?”

He grins, and she nods shortly, turning back to the Queen with all the regality she can muster.

“Regina, I henceforth strip you of your lands and titles and banish you from this Kingdom to return on pain of death,” she says, willing the magic through her limbs as she lifts her hands, the Queen snarling as her palms start to glow gold.

“You should have killed me while you could!” she shrieks as the gold spreads and burns, reaching out to envelop her where she hangs. “You’ll regret this! You’ll regret this! I am the Queen! I will destroy your happi - ”

There’s a flash, an explosion of grey-white smoke, and the Queen vanishes.

“Yeah,” Emma says. “I doubt that.”

“Very impressive, love,” Killian says over the rustle of leather as he puts something in his pocket.

She drops back on her heels, wipes her sweaty palms on her cloak, and turns to Killian with a shrug and a smile that makes her face ache.

“Eh. I saw it in some street theater once.”

He steps closer until she can feel the heat of his body against hers, and reaching up to run his thumb almost painfully gently across her flushed cheekbone

“I meant the mercy,” he says softly, and it reminds her of the way men speak in temples, hushed and adoring and awed. Easy pickings, she’s always thought.

Weak.

Well she knows better now.

“Were you really going to become the Dark One?” she asks, her hands coming up to rug lightly at his lapels.

He winces and tries to shy away, but she only clings tighter..

“It wasn’t a life’s ambition, love. Merely an unfortunate side-effect of taking my vengeance. I thought if you knew -”

She shakes her head, not interested in doubt, fear, or recriminations right now.

“And now?” she asks, pressing her breasts against his chest and moves her hand to fiddle with one of the many chains he wears around his neck, watching the way his Adam’s apple bobs as she brushes lightly at his skin.

“Now what?”

“What’s your life’s ambition now?”

His answering laugh rumbles through her, warm and soothing, her skittish magic settling under his touch as he thumb at her chin.

“Give a man a chance, Swan.”

“Really? No ideas at all?” she asks coyly, rising up on her tiptoes to nip at his lower lip. “You can tell me.”

“Well,” he sighs against her mouth. “Perhaps one or two. Or five. Or twenty.”

“Hmmm,” Emma hums, licking at the seam of his lips and melting into the way he opens beneath her, the way he chases her mouth as she pulls back. “I can’t - oh. Oh shit.”

“What’s the matter love?” he mutters, still searching for the ghost of her kiss, his eyes heavy lidded. She gives him a little shake, her voice cracking.

“We just banished the Queen.”

He lifts an eyebrow. “I think that was all your doing, darling, but do go on.”

“I’m a fucking princess.”

He grins, and she knows he’s not going to sympathize with her sudden plight, not when he’s running his tongue over his teeth like that, not when he’s pulling her back towards him, crushing their bodies together and growling low into her ear.

“Would you prefer me on my knees, your highness?”

“Well, now you mention it,” she groans as he grinds his hips against her, before coming back to herself enough to slap lightly at his shoulder. “But not here.”

“No?”

She looks around at the dark, miserable throne room, at the torn portrait, the bloodstains on his hook, the fresh red at the neck of her cloak.

“No,” she says, soft but oh so certain. “Let’s go home.”

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