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Pop icon Lauren Lace is the reigning queen of the music industry and the hearts of billions of adoring fans. But there’s a darker side to being the world’s favorite it girl. It’s impossible to know who to trust and everyone wants something from you. Some might even be willing to kill for it.
Dr. Jack Abbot is used to crazy disturbances during the night shift at Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center, but having the world’s biggest celebrity in his emergency department due to a stiletto accident takes the cake. When she sparks a flame in him he thought had burned out long ago, Jack finds himself thrust into close proximity with the pop star. As his feelings for Lauren grow stronger and her stalker closes in, he realizes he’d burn the world to the ground to protect her, Hippocratic oath be damned.
***Please note that this story contains some heavy themes. Please check the content tags. There may be some additions to these as I go on, but I wanted to make sure to include as many as I could think of now. Please read with care. Your mental health comes first. <3***
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05 May 2026
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When he boards the elevator he’s upset. By the time he leaves the elevator he’s angry, each reverberation of his feet hitting asphalt felt in the remaining bones and surgical grade titanium in his right leg, all the way up to his hip. It takes him less than sixty seconds to walk from the parking deck to the ambulance bay. Ten feet from the entrance, he sees Robby walk through the first set of doors, past Ahmad, and then through the second set of doors. His pulse roars in his ears, his heart pounding in his chest. For the first time in years, Jack Abbot feels something approximating rage, an emotion he has long assumed to be medicated out of him.
His hands furl into fists.
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Robby commits the critical error of making Samira cry. Jack reacts.
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05 May 2026
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"We crossed a line, didn't we? And I don't want to go back." Jack's voice is low, quiet in the shell of her ear, more of a rumble than anything else.
His finger traces the curve of her waist, the dip of her navel, the ridges of her ribcage. They didn’t use protection. Neither of them asked. They are both board certified in emergency medicine; all risks they take are calculated. They have been avoiding this moment for years now, brakes squealing on a freight train, barreling towards a car stuck on the tracks.
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04 May 2026
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They were friends.
And yeah, maybe the ring on his finger sort of burned when he looked at her sometimes, even though it was just for show, now.
It was just easier to let her keep thinking he was still married to Abby. Safer.
It raised less eyebrows about the nature of their friendship when the ring stayed on while he was at work, the weight on his finger reminding him not to say or do anything stupid.
It also made it a little less creepy when the pet names started slipping out.
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07 Apr 2026
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"Sirius Black is like drinking whiskey; you don’t want to do it, but you love the way it feels when it goes down."
Or: After her four-year relationship goes spectacularly up in flames, Hermione Granger finds herself living in Grimmauld Place with her best friend, Harry, and his infuriatingly attractive godfather.
There’s also the tiny, inconvenient detail that she may or may not have dragged Sirius Black back from beyond the Veil using ancient magic she definitely wasn’t supposed to touch.
Hermione prefers not to think about that part.
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