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End of one road, starting the next.
Thanks to the wonderful Cygfa for betaing.
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- Part 4 of A Long Way Round
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the first post
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- Part 3 of A Long Way Round
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First messages, from Voyager to the Alpha Quadrent.
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- Part 2 of A Long Way Round
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Paul and Hugh, about to start their shared posting on the brand new science vessel USS Voyager.
Thanks of course to the lovely Discord fam!
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- Part 1 of A Long Way Round
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It's a college party and Paul has managed to get cosy with the cutest guy there.
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Mary drew her awareness to the way her shoulders relaxed and her heart rate slowed as she dutifully performed the sham effort of joining the back of the long line to the counter. It didn’t seem to matter that she was always dressed in unflattering bright blue scrubs, or that she wore a garish surgical cap featuring Bluey characters, Tom reliably caught her eye, gave her a slow, admiring wink, and set about prioritising the order he knew by heart over the demands of all the other waiting customers.
Dr Mary Bennet, paediatric trauma surgeon, knew of only one source of reprieve for the heavy burden she daily bore in the operating theatre - the kind eyes and easy charm of the Irish barista at Cup & Clover, the hospital café.
(Someone who has worked for all he has and made a success of himself would surely be far more attractive to a current-day career woman than some manchild with a trust-fund.)
Hence I give you the Surgeon/Barista AU you never knew you needed.
Bookmarked by thewatch
21 Jun 2026
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Hospital Cafe romance and an excellent sandwish spreadsheet.
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Theory, practice, application — and everything in the margins. Mary/Tom one-shots, in roughly chronological order.
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Bookmarked by thewatch
19 Jun 2026
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A growing love and relationship, from the first night and their lives thereafter.
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pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, by Vellinae
Fandoms: The Other Bennet Sister (TV)
20 May 2026
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Tom and Mary have been married for many months now.
This does not make the sight of her in the bathtub any less appealing to Tom. In fact, it is definitely the opposite. -
I hear the Echoes through the mountains throng, by Vellinae
Fandoms: The Other Bennet Sister (TV)
21 May 2026
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“You’ll understand one day. When you have a daughter just like you.”
Mary has a daughter just like her.
She doesn’t understand. -
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The Gardiners make the match.
It is not love at first sight, or second, or third.
It is love that comes later - in the accumulation of shared steps and conversations in the dark. In a stranger becoming, without your noticing, the first person you want to tell things to.
In having the deeply inconvenient realisation, somewhere in your marriage, that you have a crush on your spouse.
OR: Mary and Tom have a regency era marriage of convenience
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05 Jun 2026
Bookmarker's Notes
Arranged marriage, but Arranged by people who love them. Tom and Mary falling in love, afterwards.