"I know you are a man who has lost a great deal, Mr. Shelby. And I know that fear is the only language you think Birmingham speaks. But I have spent ten years with the Sisters; your shadows don't frighten me nearly as much as the thought of a child going without a coat tomorrow." She is a woman of cloth and conviction. He is a man of lead and whiskey. Mabel is the lead teacher at the Grace Shelby Institute, a place built on the sins of the Shelby family. She isn't under any illusions about who pays her wages; she's seen the blood on the notes. But while the rest of Small Heath trembles at the click of iron-shod heels in the night, Mabel simply keeps her needle moving. When Thomas Shelby wanders into her classroom at two in the morning, he's looking for the silence his own mind refuses to give him. Instead, he finds a woman who refuses to be his victim or his devotee. To Tommy, she is a sanctuary he doesn't deserve. To Mabel, he is a soul that no amount of prayer can fix-but that doesn't mean she won't try. A story of faith, fire, and the mending of a man who thought he was beyond repair.

SQUEEZE IT APART, THATS FINE. - FEM OC. started 20/12/24 finished n/a

"𝐃𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐝𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐦𝐞?" A scandal forces Aerion to take a wife, he chooses the one woman who wants nothing to do with him. Alys Karstark only wanted a quiet life of prayer and duty. Instead she's sent south, into the city of sin and married to the very temptation she spent years trying to pray away. ------ aerion targaryen x oc!karstark

December 23rd, Thomas Shelby requested someone new come to his room. But when he meant new, he didn't mean her first day on the job. That night, for the first time since Grace's death, a woman numbed the pain. Katherine is desperate for money and eager to keep her in his bed, Thomas makes a deal with her to keep her there until she pays him back. Katherine soon becomes a very bad habit that he can't kick.

I think he did but I just can't prove it No, no body no crime But I ain't letting up until the day I die ( h. abernathy X fem!oc ) hunger games sunrise on the reaping / the hunger games cover by: (C) g1rlwhosb0red. 3/29/25 - ?

in which a runaway stark bride becomes a septa and is sent to summerhall to wrangle prince maekar targaryen's six children, and accidentally, his heart. a sound of music au set several years before the tourney of ashford, told with the humor and narrator style of my lady jane.

All the sudden she was all he dreamed off, never a night but always a dream. Will Daeron Targaryen finally pull himself away from his own demons and accept love or lose himself?

How does a plain, insignificant girl come to marry the Heir to the Iron Throne? Many will say it was a match fated by the Gods, but the Gods play by their own rules... Kaestyra Velaryon, a girl of no notable birth, was set to marry a man she had never met: a betrothal organised by her despotic uncle. Baelor 'Breakspear' Targaryen, Prince of the Realm, must too seek a political alliance. However, one chance encounter brings about a storm of jealousy; rebellion and obsession, forever changing the history of Westeros.

"You refuse to relieve me by your death. You will grow to be old, withered and grey just to spite me." (a knight of the seven kingdoms au)

The Butterfly Effect: a situation in which an action or person that does not seem important has a very large effect on future events. Or A situation in which Eveline Jane Watson falls head‑first into a fictional world and, by simply existing, manages to derail events that were supposed to remain fixed in time, dragging chaos, inconvenience, and several migraines into the life of Prince Maekar Targaryen, a man who prefers his world orderly, predictable, and entirely free of strange women who refuse to behave.