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She played softly, fingers gliding over the ancient keys of the piano the Room had conjured — her mother’s salon, reborn in flickering candlelight. Notes drifted through the air like smoke, curling around the dark figure in the armchair behind her.
Tom Riddle sat with one leg crossed, firewhisky in one hand, a lit cigar in the other. He watched her through the haze, silent, as if trying to memorize every gesture, every sound. The flames caught in the glass and in her hair, and for a moment, he looked less like a boy destined for infamy and more like someone who had almost forgotten how alone he was.
“You don’t play for them,” he said quietly.
Hermione didn’t look up. “No.”
“But you play for me.”
A pause. Then: “Always.”
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A war is lost when an opportunity is presented to her. Aberforth offers Hermione a chance to go back to the beginning to undo everything that has come to pass. Can Hermione Dumbledore alter the fate of one young man, can she turn the tide to a better future? Or is she fighting a losing battle, one where she looses herself in it?
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09 May 2026
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Dark Hook Comes to Storybrooke by HollyeLeigh, Winterbaby89 for Kmomof4
Fandoms: Once Upon a Time (TV)
01 Jul 2018
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Moments before the Evil Queen’s Dark Curse whisks our beloved fairytale characters to Storybrooke, Captain Hook finally gets his revenge on the Crocodile.
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06 May 2026
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In Dreams by acaseofthemondays
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain America (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Thor (Movies)
05 May 2026
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Darcy Lewis knew she had a soulmate, had known since she was four years old and the first burn of his consciousness bloomed across hers.
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06 May 2026
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a goddamn blaze in the dark by Em_Jaye
Fandoms: Thor (Movies), Thunderbolts (Movie 2025), The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025), Marvel Cinematic Universe
03 Jun 2026
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“So, your robot picked up on some weird space activity and you…” she squints. “Just decided to take a spaceship to see what’s up?”
“Well…yes,” Reed says. Again, like it’s obvious. “That’s what we do. We’re—” he stops and studies her. “You really don’t know who we are?”
Darcy glances around the lab, where half her monitors are filling with information being scanned and gathered from their docked ship, at the nervous interns who insist on wearing full hazmat suits clustered near the door. “I feel like it’s pretty obvious that no one here knows who you are,” she says after a moment.
“We’re the Fantastic Four.”
She stares at him for a moment. “Did you come up with that name yourselves?”
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06 May 2026
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Hermione Granger dies at the end of the war, but instead of passing on, she is reborn in a near-parallel world. Raised in an orphanage, she grows up with magic she cannot explain and dreams that feel like memories of another life. At Hogwarts, those visions begin to take shape, hinting that her past, her death, and a future war are all deeply connected.
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06 Mar 2026