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Classified Affairs of the West Wing by downtown_girl
Fandoms: The Empyrean - Rebecca Yarros
18 May 2026
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Being the First Daughter should come with perks. For Sloane Mairi, it mostly comes with scandals, security briefings and a new infuriatingly disciplined bodyguard who refuses to laugh at a single one of her jokes.
Add in her media-darling brother Liam, Violet Sorrengail with her inconvenient principles and Xaden Riorson still nursing grudges that could outlive empires.
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aka the First Daughter learns the fastest way to start an international scandal is by grinding on her bodyguard.
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- Part 1 of The West Wing Archives
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18 Jun 2026
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Lady Sloane Mairi never entered the Quadrant or bonded a dragon. Instead, she’s spent the last decade exasperating her aristocratic guardians, who expect her to do little besides mind her manners, smile pretty, and marry well. So when a politically-advantageous betrothal is finally secured, Sloane figures an arranged marriage will at least grant her some autonomy. After all, how hard is it to handle a husband?As it turns out, pretty damn hard, because the broad shoulders waiting at the end of the aisle belong to Colonel Dain Aetos, a jaded officer who gave everything to the war effort...and is decidedly Not Amused to find himself bringing home a tempestuous heiress.
Bound by law for the next four months, the couple merely has to endure their handfasting and they are free to part ways. But past wounds want healing, unexpected bonds demand forging, and blistering chemistry promises to set their plans aflame.
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(Or, the arranged marriage, post-war, grumpy-gremlin AU in which Sloane is the feisty aristocrat who never went to Basgiath and Dain is the decorated war hero who is barely holding it together)
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30 Apr 2026
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The middle of February, the middle of a war...
Damn inconvenient time to fall.
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- Part 1 of yours to keep
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27 Dec 2025
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i came from the crowd seeking you by rain_on_thursday
Fandoms: The Empyrean - Rebecca Yarros
13 Oct 2025
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In every new relationship, the first fight is inevitable.
It's too damn bad that Dain and Sloane's occurred the same day the dark wielders breached Draithus.
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Or, before and after Dain and Sloane’s Big Day
(now, with Series Epilogue included)
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- Part 6 of yours to keep
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13 Oct 2025
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"You can't arbitrarily charge some customers more because you don't like them, that's illegal—"
"You're not in uniform," I point out. "Are you going to arrest me, officer?"
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Or: five times Sloane Mairi (sometimes metaphorically) told Dain Aetos to go fuck himself, and the one time she (literally) told him to fuck her.Series
- Part 2 of The Archives