When Simon returns home from deployment, the blaring TV next door is gone-replaced by the scent of warm bread and soft humming through the walls. You've just moved in: a bright, charming baker chasing your dream with a new shop down the street. He's guarded and quiet. You're sunshine and sugar. What begins with cinnamon rolls at the door slowly turns into late-night chats, quiet confessions, and something neither of you expected: comfort, healing... and the kind of slow-burning love that sneaks up on you. This fic is intended for 18+ readers only and may contain mature themes, explicit content, and adult situations. Please read at your own discretion. I DO NOT OWN ANY CHARACTERS OR IDEAS FROM SORCE OF INSPIRATION

141 Mafia!AU Mob Boss!Price x Singer!Reader -- Your father had told you stories of the famous club, The 141, when you were a child; you remember the admiration- and *jealousy*- that laced his voice as he weaved tales of smoky backroom poker games and men who'd skin you alive for looking at them wrong. You hadn't believed him then, assuming it to be like all the other fairytales and war stories he told from that worn leather armchair- exaggerated tales meant to teach you lessons he himself never followed. Now that you're here, though... You'd expected better security.

Leon Kennedy is a special agent tasked with countering bioterrorism in the U.S. So when he's assigned to protect a high-profile witness in what should be a routine mafia case, he's more than a little confused. Kendra Mason is desperate to survive. Entering Witness Protection should be her safety-but her new bodyguard, Leon, knows next to nothing about her case. And neither of them realizes just how dangerous it really is. The case is far from simple. Enemies lie in every direction, and not even Leon's own organization can be trusted. Betrayal lurks around every corner. The one thing he is sure of? He must keep Kendra alive. And he can't let her fall in the wrong hands.

You were never supposed to exist. An RK700. An earlier model meant to do Connor's job, but scrapped before you ever got the chance to leave the assembly line. Deemed a failure. Tossed in the dump. But you rebuilt yourself, piece by piece, and carved out a new life doing what you were made for: solving crimes. You knew working at the DPD was risky, but passing as human and hiding in plain sight shouldn't be too hard... until CyberLife sends in a new partner. The android who replaced you. The one designed to find everything you're pretending not to be. And he's very good at his job. It'll take you 5 mins to read the first chapter, give it a try ;) I am very proud of this story! This may be written 7 years after the game's release, but I really hope all of you loyal fans are still looking for more content... My two biggest inspirations for this story: - Deviating and Solving Crime with 100% Human Detective Connor by CaotainKenway on ao3 for the whole android pretending to be a human concept. - Deviant Behaviour by Precursor - just general inspiration because it's my fave dbh fic of all time.

It's a rom-com with androids, murder, and mystery. When Fowler assigns you and Connor to an unusual B and E case, you do some sleuthing like the good detectives you are. One thing leads to another -- until you're suddenly dealing with an android supremacist who targets android-human couples. As the case progresses, you and Connor become closer, and you have to deal with feelings you thought you'd buried when it came to him. But right when you think you can have it all, shit hits the fan again, and Connor is in trouble. If you don't stop the perp, things won't just look bad for Detroit; you'll never have your happy ending. No biggie, right?

[slow updates!] After months on the road, Ellie returns to Jackson, Wyoming-but the home she fought to protect feels distant, half-unreal. The ghosts of her choices cling to every corner: the lives she ended, the ones she couldn't. When Tommy pulls her aside with a scrap of a rumor-another immune survivor, a medic from Oregon who's carrying secrets even she doesn't understand-Ellie follows, driven by a need she can't quite name. Finding Marlowe Walsh should have been simple. It isn't. What starts as a rescue spirals into something else: a slow, sharp unraveling of old grief, broken loyalties, and the fragile threads tying them all to the world they thought they left behind. Together, Ellie and Marlowe uncover more than just the ruins of a past life-they unearth the possibility of a future neither of them believed they deserved. But the closer they get to the truth, the harder it becomes to outrun the weight of the past. And in this broken world, even peace comes at a cost. Or... Two restless spirits learn to heal from their wounds. ELLIE WILLIAMS X FEM!OC SET AFTER TLOU 2

- in which carina black offers her former professor a job and attempts not to fall for him in the process. (female oc x remus lupin) (golden trio era)

" To become like the sea - Vast, wise, an empire of royal blue quietness, rage tasting like salt That was her goal. " - Odyssey, The Cynical Idealist REMUS LUPIN / MARAUDERS ERA ©️ whimsywitchess

| slowburn | eventual romance | eventual smut | enemies to lovers | angst | Politics | OC Femme character | Regulus Black, the hedonistic, violent, crowned prince of the Black family. As Voldemort's budding war general, he lives a mostly tolerable life of inflicting pain on those that seek to undermine the cause. The one thing he could do without, watching everyone he loves face the repercussions. Callan Rawe, a lovely face, a will for revenge and not much else to her name. Lurker of the shadows and political spy for the next minister of magic, she is thrust into a world she does not belong in and is reminded of that fact often. Her affliction, having been born a muggle, and there is no cure. Unless, there is. Regulus Black suddenly finds himself quite determined to find it. Enemies - Lovers - enemies - lovers 18+

Finn Lynch lives a quiet, tranquil life in a rural village in the mountains. Her life may lack spontaneity and excitement, but at least it's peaceful. And if it's a little lonely too, then she can't complain too much - she's still happy, after all. When her uncle asks her to house a defector from the magical war he's involved in, Finn agrees reluctantly despite her concerns that the presence of Regulus Black in her home will disrupt the careful peace she's been cultivating for years. Nothing could prepare her for what an insufferable prick he is. [marauders era] [regulus black x muggle oc] [enemies to lovers] ** updates on wednesdays **