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    A place for all my stories set before Billy & Max move to Hawkins. None of them are related to, or a continuation.

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    Jason Lee Scott and Billy Hargrove are twins, back in each other's lives when an accident occurs in Angel Grove. All he has to do is keep his head down, too bad Hawkins has its own need for a team of heroes.

    Series title suggested by TheKingOfBabylon.

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  1. Public Bookmark 45

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    An existential crisis drives an old friend of Bella's to seek her out, and she realises just how much there is to learn about life from friends who have already died.

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    04 Jan 2022

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    Title: Beast at My Side
    Author: ToffeeTaffy
    Word Count: 25,187
    Summary: An existential crisis drives an old friend of Bella's to seek her out, and she realises just how much there is to learn about life from friends who have already died.

    Notes: gorgeous, haunting prose with eventual Jasper/OFC. Once he realises who I am Jacob is quick with consolation. He should have recognised me, he says, he has heard so much about me. I mirror his words back but they are not wholly true. There is no way to reconcile this boy with the one that Bella has described. Her Jacob is lanky and shy, a giddy smile on a childish face. But this Jacob is a wall of muscle, a twitching fury in a coat of skin. She loves him. I wonder which of the two she fell in love with.

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    Shmi Skywalker from eight different perspectives in the days leading up to A New Hope. Some things change, and others do not.

     

    “You do have a habit of getting into trouble, don’t you,” the woman says after K-2 takes out the last of the stormtroopers.

    “Who are you?” Jyn finally demands.

    The woman raises an eyebrow. “That’s a rather rude way of putting it,” she says. “But then, I’ve been rather rude myself, haven’t I?” She nods to Jyn, something that may have been half a bow and may have just been a nod. “My name is Shmi.”

    (Prior knowledge of the AU not really necessary.)

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    06 Jun 2021

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    Title: Composing Hallelujah
    Author: MirandaTam
    Word Count: 6,110
    Summary: Shmi Skywalker from eight different perspectives in the days leading up to A New Hope. Some things change, and others do not.

    Notes: Jedi Shmi! sad, wonderful ending

  3. Public Bookmark 66

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    “Listen, Max,” Billy said, “this shit should not have happened. You get that, right?”

    Max shrugged awkwardly. “It’s whatever.” That was what people who were not weak said. It’s whatever that your dad gave me a black eye. No big deal, really.

    ; (When Max breaks Billy's rule never to defend him, she realizes there are more reasons for it than just the obvious one.)

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    18 May 2020

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    Title: Twenty-Five Degrees
    Author: trippingatthedazeinn
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    Summary: When Max breaks Billy's rule never to defend him, she realizes there are more reasons for it than just the obvious one.

    Notes: perfect Max voice and POV, Neil's A+ parenting

  4. Public Bookmark 73

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    “Is this art show more important than not being kidnapped?” he asked. “I just wanna make sure you’re aware that that’s what you’re saying to me.”

    Amy blinked, then her famous Palavi resolve hardened. “My parents are coming. It’s the first time my dad will ever see my art. It really is that important.”

    “Alrighty then,” Hardison said. “Lemme see what we can cook up to let you go to your art show and also not get kidnapped. In that order.”


    Or, the time that none of the team was available to watch out for Amy Palavi, so they call in someone who's definitely not Eliot.

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    16 May 2020

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    Title: I'm trying to paint your face in my brain
    Author: lovebeyondmeasure
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    Summary: the time that none of the team was available to watch out for Amy Palavi, so they call in someone who's definitely not Eliot.

    Notes: fake dating/bodyguard AU feat. Mr. Quinn

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    She feels like a ghost in her own house, but Billy is the one who haunts her.

    Billy has done some horrible things, there's no way around it. However, this story is about a little girl who lost her brother and the way she copes with his death and how she gets to know her brother after he dies. Being the only one left is frightening, and Max has to come to terms with a lot of things that are difficult for even adults to admit, especially when those things are grounded in abuse.

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    07 Jan 2020

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    Title: The Patron Saint of Lost Things
    Author: mac_haze
    Word Count: 17,363
    Summary: She feels like a ghost in her own house, but Billy is the one who haunts her. Max has to come to terms with a lot of things that are difficult for even adults to admit, especially when those things are grounded in abuse.

    Notes: Do you ever find a story that's so perfect you just cry? This. The quintessential Billy & Max siblings story of my heart. Future fic.