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BOOK 2 - Still Learning the Shape of Us [Rowan & Lucas Duology] por theharringtonpages
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Love doesn't end when the choosing is done. Sometimes, that's when it begins. After finally finding their way to each other, Rowan Hale and Lucas Whitaker aren't learning how to fall in love - they're learning how to stay. In shared mornings and borrowed space, in silence that no longer needs filling, they discover that intimacy isn't built on grand moments, but on repetition, trust, and choosing each other again and again. Still Learning the Shape of Us is a soft, domestic boys' love story about what comes after the almosts - about love that doesn't rush, doesn't demand, and doesn't disappear when things get quiet. Some stories are about discovery. This one is about keeping what you've found. TRIGGER WARNINGS / CONTENT NOTES * Emotional vulnerability * Anxiety surrounding intimacy * Fear of abandonment * Mild dysphoria (non-graphic, internal) * Relationship growing pains *(No explicit sexual content. This story remains PG-13, with gently maturing emotional intimacy.)* AUTHOR'S NOTE (WITH COMMENT RULE) Thank you for returning to Rowan and Lucas. This sequel is about staying - about the quiet work of love once the fear has softened, and the choice has already been made. It's intentionally gentle, intentionally domestic, and intentionally slow. This is not a story about escalation. It's a story about continuity. Comment Rule (Please Read) I welcome thoughtful, respectful comments - especially ones that reflect on emotion, language, or quiet moments. Please do not: * Rush the characters * Ask for explicit content * Demand faster progression This story breathes in silence. Let it. Thank you for reading with patience. - theo.
The Gentle Bromance of Charlie and Walker por theharringtonpages
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Some connections don't arrive loudly. They don't need labels, explanations, or turning points. This is a story about staying close-about long hugs, shared silence, and choosing comfort without questioning it. Between busy days, quiet rooms, and moments no one else notices, Charlie Bushnell and Walker Scobell build something steady and unspoken: a bond rooted in trust, gentleness, and presence. This isn't a love story. It's something softer. A bromance that doesn't ask for more-because it's already enough. --- Author's Note This story is about softness. It's about male closeness without tension, affection without escalation, and connection without labels. There is no romance here-only care, presence, and trust. Please read this as it's meant to be read: slowly. Kindness only. This story centers platonic intimacy-please respect the genre and the tone. Thank you for choosing gentleness. 🤍
BOOK 2 - How to Love a Vampire (and Survive It) por theharringtonpages
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Nick Nelson survived a vampire attack. That doesn't mean he survived unchanged. Weeks after Charlie Spring is forced to turn him to save his life, Nick wakes into a body that isn't finished becoming anything yet - not human, not vampire, not whole. Healing is slow. Pain lingers. And the world has already decided he's dead. Charlie refuses to leave his side. He watches, waits, and loves with a desperation that frightens him more than blood ever did. As Nick recovers, his senses sharpen, his instincts shift, and grief settles into places he doesn't yet know how to name. Loving a vampire is nothing like dating one - it's quieter, heavier, and full of choices that can't be undone. Some love stories end with forever. This one begins there - and asks what it costs to stay. Trigger Warnings; Recovery from severe injury Blood and healing Grief and loss Emotional distress Identity crisis Trauma aftermath Staged death Immortality themes This is Book Two of How to Date Your Vampire Boyfriend (and Not Die). This book focuses on aftermath, healing, and grief, rather than action. Turning into a vampire is not instant or easy here - it is painful, slow, and deeply emotional. Thank you for being patient with a quieter story. Love doesn't end when the danger passes - sometimes that's when it really begins.
Fill me up por PuraidoEustass
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Deku is a vigilante now. Katsuki is trying to find his childhood friend and Eijiro wants to stop his best friend, he knows that Katsuki's heat is near and they have to go back, but then Deku finds them instead. OR Badass alpha Deku finds horny omega Katsuki and Eijiro and fucks their brains out. (They are in third year here and it's at an undisclosed point where everyone is 18)
BOOK 1 - How to Date a Vampire (and Not Die) por theharringtonpages
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When Nick Nelson transfers schools, he expects new classes, new people, maybe a fresh start. He does not expect Charlie Spring. Charlie is quiet, strange, and keeps his distance like he's afraid of something. He never eats lunch. He never gets cold. And sometimes, when Nick is close, Charlie looks like he's fighting something inside himself. Charlie has survived centuries by following rules: don't get attached, don't lose control, and never fall in love with a human. Nick doesn't know the rules. Nick doesn't know what Charlie is. But he knows how Charlie makes him feel - safe, seen, chosen. Some love stories begin with a kiss. This one begins with a heartbeat that shouldn't exist... and ends with a choice that changes everything. Trigger Warnings Graphic violence (vampire attack) Blood and feeding Loss of control Near-death experience Emotional distress Grief and trauma Death (implied / staged) Immortality themes This is Book One of How to Date Your Vampire Boyfriend (and Not Die). This story is a Heartstopper AU with original vampire lore. It's a slow burn, character-driven romance focused on love, choice, and the cost of immortality. Each book in this series is designed to be read on its own while building toward a larger story. Please mind the trigger warnings, and thank you for trusting me with these boys.
BOOK 1 - What We Called Each Other [Rowan & Lucas Duology] por theharringtonpages
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Some names are easy. Some names are chosen. Some names are never meant to be spoken until everything is ready to change. Rowan Hale believes that language is intimacy - that the words you use can keep someone close or push them quietly away. Lucas Whitaker doesn't think much about names at all, until he realises there are some he's afraid to say, and one boy he's terrified of losing. Set over the slow shift from summer into autumn, *What We Called Each Other* is a soft, slow-burn boys' love story about proximity, silence, and the weight carried by the things left unsaid. Through borrowed clothes, shared nights, and the careful shelter of nicknames, Rowan and Lucas learn how closeness can exist long before it's named - and how one word, spoken at the wrong moment, can change everything. This is a story about almosts and accidents. About learning when language becomes truth. And about how sometimes, love begins not with what you say - but with what you dare to call each other when it finally matters. Trigger Warnings / Content Notes * Gender dysphoria (non-graphic, internal) * Miscommunication * Emotional vulnerability * Fear of rejection * Mild internalised anxiety (No explicit sexual content. Romance remains tender, emotional, and PG-13.) Transphobia, misgendering, or debates about trans people's legitimacy will be deleted. This space is for respectful discussion only.
HARRY POTTER: THE BOY LEFT TO ROT por theharringtonpages
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Harry Potter returns from the graveyard carrying Cedric Diggory's lifeless body - traumatized, shaking, desperate to speak the truth. He never gets the chance. Within minutes the Ministry turns on him. Evidence is silenced. Witnesses are dismissed. Harry is sentenced to Azkaban for life at fourteen years old. Days pass. Weeks. No visitors. No explanations. No rescue. The wizarding world divides. Dumbledore is stripped of power. The Diggorys demand answers. Voldemort rises in the shadows. And Harry waits in silence, losing pieces of himself to the cold and the dark. Until Sirius and Remus realize the truth too late - they were the ones who left him alone. Now the world must face what it allowed to happen. A boy forgotten. A truth buried. A war beginning to burn. This is the story of the boy they left to rot... and what happens when he finally stands again. A dark, emotional AU exploring trauma, corruption, political collapse, and Harry's slow journey from Azkaban victim to the one person who can expose the truth of Voldemort's return. --- Trigger Warnings * Wrongful imprisonment (Azkaban) * Dementor exposure * Trauma & PTSD * Panic attacks * Emotional breakdowns * Government corruption * Violence * Torture implied (Dementors) * Child endangerment * Gaslighting / political manipulation * Mentions of death * Dark themes surrounding mental deterioration
Captured in Moments We Didn't Expect [Asher Angel] por theharringtonpages
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Asher Angel built his body like armor - massive, disciplined, sculpted strength designed to protect him from the world. Millions follow his fitness journey, but no one sees the person behind the muscle... the loneliness, the pressure, the fear of not being enough without the flex. Until Evan Hale walks into his life. A quiet filmmaker hired to capture Asher's transformation, Evan expects perfect lighting, clean footage, and a straightforward documentary. He doesn't expect Asher's shy smiles. He doesn't expect the late-night calls. He doesn't expect the vulnerability behind every rep. And he definitely doesn't expect to fall for the man behind the camera. But the camera catches everything - the accidental touches, the blushes, the shaky confessions, and the slow, tender unraveling of two boys learning what it means to be seen. In the quiet between flexes and breakdowns... in the soft spaces where words falter... they find something neither of them were looking for. A story about strength, trust, vulnerability - and the moments that capture us before we ever think to save ourselves. --- TRIGGER WARNINGS *(All handled gently, without graphic detail)* * Workout exhaustion / overexertion * Emotional vulnerability / crying * Anxiety about body image & perfection * Mild discussions of burnout * Internalized pressure to succeed * Brief mentions of loneliness No physical injury, self-harm, or abuse themes are present.
Terminal Velocity [Book 2 - Break Me Gently duology - Heartstopper AU] por DustyWest28
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The world is breaking. Gravity is wrong. Dreams bleed into the sky. People are rising who should never have fallen. Nick is being watched. Charlie is being worshipped. And somewhere in the middle of it all is a love story trying to survive its own collapse. --- Trigger Warnings: * Grief, mourning, and loss * Emotional breakdowns * Cult themes and obsessive worship * Depictions of mental health instability * Body-based power manifestations * Intense romantic/sexual content * Descriptions of supernatural trauma * Allusions to death, haunting, and psychological spirals
Roommate x Rivalry [Deku x Bakugo: Modern AU] por DustyWest28
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Midoriya is shy. Hung. Constantly flustered. Bakugo is jacked. Pissed. And very, very observant. When a desperate housing crisis pushes them into the same apartment, they agree to one rule only: Don't make it weird. Spoiler: They make it so weird. One shower. One bed. One rapidly escalating power struggle. And the slow, filthy descent of two rivals who were never just friends. --- 🛑 Trigger Warnings This story is intended for mature audiences only. It contains: * Explicit sexual content * Size kink * Muscle worship * Power dynamics (dom/sub undertones) * Mutual obsession * Mild degradation / possessive language * Masturbation * Rough sex * Emotionally charged fights and physical dominance * Language (heavy profanity)