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There were moments he thought he saw John and Paul look at each other and something would shimmer between them. He couldn’t be sure, and perhaps he was only indulging in wishful thinking or seeing something that wasn’t there, but - John’s face lost all tension when he looked at Paul. Paul stood a little straighter when John was telling someone to shut their gob and let him sing his song. He knew the signs.
Brian meets a group in the Cavern, and they change each other’s destinies.
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I Am Not A Morning Person opened at 4:30 AM. Usually. Their menu was obscene and ever changing, and they offered shots of tequila in their coffee to anyone with an ID.
Hannibal fell in love with their grouchy baker anyway.
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Nicolò looks sheepish. "I killed you yesterday, and you awoke at the same time, the same place. But when I die, I wake at different times, different places. This bolt," he tosses it to Yusuf and it lands in the dirt by his knee, "it killed me yesterday, but I woke up many years from now. I lived several lifetimes in those places before returning here and pulling it from my neck."
Nicky's lives and deaths are different. He is unstuck from time - at every death he revives into a different point in his life. Each time he is struck down he wonders, will he awaken to deserts and swords? Will it be gunshots in cities? Joe and Nicky build a fractured life together, falling in love across two different sets of centuries, then patiently waiting for the other to fall in love too. He meets the rest of their little family out of order, but they still build a family around Nicky's involuntary time-traveling.
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If Never Again, If Every Day by gallifreyburning, takiki16
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
02 Jun 2022
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Current-day Nicky wakes up one morning to find himself re-living the first day he met Yusuf in 1099, and Nicolò from 1099 finds himself with a stranger named Joe in 2021. Time-crossed and facing old and new challenges, the two lovers have to find their way back to each other.
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loved it. ♧♧♧♧♧♧♧♧
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Paul had heard about it from Tara. And Tara had heard it from Groovy Bob, and he had heard it from one of his other artsy friends.
Apparently John had been fooling around with men.
Paul didn’t buy it. Not really. It was just too out of character, too absurd to be true. The thought of it—John with another man—it was ridiculous, wasn’t it?
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Rumours were going around about John—and Paul just needed him to say they weren’t true.
He hadn't expected them to be.
It never made the papers. But things spiralled, all the same—just between them. And Paul wasn’t sure whether he could handle it all.
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He wants Yusuf to hold his hand again. Grab his ankle. Flick his ear. Thrust his sword into his chest and breath into his mouth.
Yet, they have the long ocean of eternity ahead of them. These whims are nothing but a swell under their ship: gone as soon as they come. Nicolo knows better than to jump overboard and drown alone trying to chase them.
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Alternate title: "You'd Feel Pretty Weird If You Developed a Crush on the Only Other Immortal You Know, Right?"
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Through the Trees, the Sky Is Visible (Woodland Sprite Paul) by Crepe_Suzette for Overthetowans
Fandoms: The Beatles (Band)
14 Jul 2025
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The story of the Beatles, and John and Paul, in which Paul is a Woodland Sprite.
Thank you for the spectacular beta, bookofapril!
“I feel so close to you, so tamed in my blood and taming yours, so deep in the forest, so restful in rest, that one doesn’t really want to say anything, but that up there through the trees the sky is visible, that’s all.”
—Franz Kafka, 1920
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On the cusp of their popularity, John and Paul are caught in a compromising position.
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It's the summer of 1969 and the vibes are atrocious. AU where Paul and John actually communicate minimally instead of whatever the fuck 1969 was. But of course they're still very problematic because it's John and Paul. They decide to live in the moment for once and stop caring about consequences.
Spoiler alert: they fuck in Yoko's hospital bed.
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‘Stop it,’ Paul hisses.
‘What?’ John says in mock surprise. ‘I thought you liked being good for me?’-
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Set in Hamburg in the pre-Ringo days, but everyone is retconned to be 18+. John and George have never acknowledged the way John touches him at night, but George knows that's how this kind of thing works, that things like this– intimate, embarrassing, electrifying things between two men – will always be relegated to silence and shadow and isolation. He does his best to be okay with that, to put reason to that, even as the guilt and confusion are taking over his life. He only wants to understand the rules, to do everything right, so John can't look at him like a child and make him feel utterly stupid and worthless. Because surely this must mean he's worth something to him. Even if it's against the rules to think that.
And then he finds out what exists between John and Paul, and the rules all fall apart.
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Paul’s reflection was like a film strip cast onto empty, black air, and he watched it, spellbound, wondering who exactly had created that shimmering image.
An encounter with John in front of a mirror brings up strange feelings for Paul about image, reflections, and the parts that usually go unreflected.
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“Ahoy,” Eddie says, his voice low and amused as he flicks his fingers over the brim of Steve’s hat. He leans further down, feels the brush of Steve’s upper thighs against the ass of his jeans, hears the way Steve’s breath catches in his throat. He slaps away the dumb hat, watches it fly to the other side of the van. “Never mind. You look better without it.”
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Steve and Eddie don't get along. Never have, never will. One night, after their shifts end at the mall, Eddie finally releases some of that pent up aggression that he's been harbouring for years.
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John was having a good day. Then he opened Paul’s sock drawer.
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“Maybe if John pretends he never saw it, things can go back to how they were.”-
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She tried to console herself with the facts of the affair: she would never step foot in that house, or in all of England, ever again. Her daughter was safe with her, as was the little boy, living with his mother, and both children didn't know what had really happened in that grand, beautiful, terrifying house. And, the most important thing of all, what comforted her as she began to let herself fall asleep again: she would never see John again.
When Yoko marries John and moves with him into a grand house in the country, she doesn't expect the ghost of his old flame to follow them. A Rebecca AU.
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When Paul finally has his LSD trip with John, this has unexpected side effects. Unfortunately, the ability to literally read each other's minds solves absolutely nothing. On the contrary. Or: an alternative explanation for what happened in India, contributed to the break-up and so forth.
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I’ll always be a bridesmaid (and I’ll never take one home) by paleredheadinascifi
Fandoms: 9-1-1 (TV)
15 Apr 2025
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“I told you my partner was coming,” the man says, shifting awkwardly. He turns and gestures towards Buck. “Here he is.”
Oh shit. It’s happening. It’s happening. The Universal Rom-Com Allocation System has finally found him and deemed him worthy.
He’s going to be the best Fake Boyfriend this beautiful man has ever seen.
Or, Eddie needs a fake boyfriend. Buck is about to deliver the Oscar-worthy performance of a lifetime.
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A few months after his self-absorbed brother runs off to the continent with his fuck-up of a songwriting partner, Mike receives an invitation to spend Christmas with them in Paris. Bitter with wounds that have been lifetimes in the making, but determined to repair his relationship with his brother, Mike accepts, dragging a chagrined George Harrison along for moral support.
This is the epilogue of the Cast Iron Shore and the Reeperbahn, but I've been told by some lovely beta readers that it works on its own as well. So if you're coming into this with full knowledge of all the baggage, thank you for still being here, you're a saint. And if you have no idea what those stories even are, welcome and thanks for giving this a shot!
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The Reeperbahn (Part Two of The Cast Iron Shore) by M1ssunderstanding
Fandoms: The Beatles (Band)
09 Jul 2024
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The Cast Iron Shore wraps in early spring of 59. The Reeperbahn starts in early fall of 60. In the year past, John and Paul have established enough trust that they can
fuck each other without hiding behind money transactions, and the band has grown enough to be asked to go to Hamburg on a performance contract. Other than that, everything is as it was. John and Stu still hook up on occasion. Paul still works the Cazzy most nights. And neither of them has found the courage to say how much they really love each other.-
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loved it ♧.
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Based on that really long Beatles kink meme prompt that was basically "John pays Paul to have sex with him. This complicates things for some reason".
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my heart, god. ♧.