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You're the One (I Want to Go Through Time With) by AlwaysPining
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
30 Jun 2026
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In a classroom.
For the war.
In their bed.
To pretend.
For real.
Not at all.Or: Five times Remus Lupin and Sirius Black get married, and one time they don't.
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And if Remus has to sing the songs which he ordinarily avoids singing, if he has to plaster on a smile and pretend his heart is not still broken, if he must perform as half an act for someone who once loved him as part of a whole, then he will do so. There is, as it turns out, very little he would not do at the moment for a hundred thousand pounds, minus taxes and fees.
"Alright," he hears himself say, still staring at Google images of Godric's Island on his small computer screen. "I'll do it."
In the seven years since Wolf/Star's final performance, Sirius Black's career has skyrocketed, while Remus Lupin is counting the days until his bank account dwindles to nothing. When an eccentric millionaire requests a private show on the remote Godric's Island, Remus can't say no.
Soon enough, he'll wish he had.
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One of the Boys by AlwaysPining for lowspokenpages
Fandoms: Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
15 Jun 2026
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Shane Hollander and the Montreal Voyageurs are playing in the Stanley Cup Final.
Game Seven, at home. Ilya Rozanov is in the crowd, watching. He's not here as a WAG or a partner or a player or even a fan. No, he's just one of the boys.
Loosely inspired by Seth Jarvis and his friends.
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"The new member might need some assistance with the transition," Jacob says, cryptic again. Then comes the sentence that will permanently alter the course of Leah's life. "Sam thinks you're the best person to talk to her."
One word and Leah understands.
Her.
A year and a half has passed since the Volturi came to Forks and everything is quiet. Everyone is happy. Everyone is settling into a life of domestic bliss. Everyone except for Leah.
When a new wolf joins Sam's pack, Leah hopes it will be the start of something new. Instead, she comes face to face with someone from her past—someone she never expected to see again. Old feelings resurface, forcing Leah to look at her life from a new perspective.
Or: Leah finds herself and falls in love.
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- Part 1 of Happy Endings
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Would You Still Love Me if I Were Polyjuiced Into Someone Else? by AlwaysPining
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
18 May 2026
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"Just say yes to the Polyjuice, Remus," Sirius sighed. "Say yes. Meet me again as a stranger, lie about your life, I'll lie about mine, and see if you match with me in the end. If you do, I'll let this go."
"And if we don't match?"
"Then, I don't know. Then at least we'll know."
Remus turns forty-two. Sirius has a crisis about it.
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Even after more than fifty years together, Andy still feels exactly the same whenever he looks at Nick.
Andy hasn't known many happily married couples in his life—not that he and Nick are married, although Nick started, privately, referring to Andy as his husband sometime back in '91, and Andy had been too charmed to correct him. It's a technicality, really. A piece of paper. What is marriage if not the person you come home to every night? The person you share a bed with, a life with, your heart with—that's marriage.
It is the summer of 2011 in New York City. Same-sex marriage is legalized, leaving Nick and Andy contemplating the future of their lifelong partnership. Nick starts acting weird, and Andy knows.
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If the Day Won't Last (b-sides from If the Night Runs Over) by AlwaysPining
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
07 May 2026
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Cut scenes, alternate POVs, and first drafts that didn't make their way into the final version of If the Night Runs Over.
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- Part 2 of If the Night Runs Over
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The Stories We Tell (The Secrets We Keep) by AlwaysPining
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
13 Apr 2026
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We were together…I loved him…Sirius and I…
The words land square in Harry's chest and he can't breathe. Can't get his lungs to work properly. Because there it is, clear as day, that missing piece of the puzzle—only it's a very critical piece, like a load-bearing wall, and everything Harry thought he knew about Sirius…is wrong.
Not wrong. Just…not the full picture. They'd had so little time together, and still, Harry had deluded himself into thinking he knew Sirius.
What did he know?
Nothing, it seems.
After the war, Harry returns to 12 Grimmauld Place. Someone else is already there.
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Teddy Lupin is a fourteen-year-old cancer survivor with a passion for true crime. When the opportunity arises, he has one impossible-sounding request for Make-A-Wish: “I wish to meet Sirius Black.”
Sirius Black is thirty-three, freshly freed after twelve years wrongfully imprisoned, and still figuring out how to exist in a world that moved on without him. When his solicitor (and little brother) sends him the request, he agrees without knowing why.
Remus Lupin is a widower doing his best to raise his only son. When his carefully managed life is upended by a reckless, disaster former prisoner, he is surprised by how much they share in common.
A love story unfolds with granted wishes, true-crime podcasts, hospital stays, endless grief, and a lot of people trying their best to be okay.
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- Part 1 of If the Night Runs Over
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Sirius doesn’t know how else to say this other than with honesty.
He doesn’t know how to tell Remus that sometimes, when he looks at him in the right lighting, he still sees that little boy he met on the playground in third grade. Those same freckles—he’s got more of them now in the same places. He still has that same shy smile, always keeping his teeth covered except for the rare occasion you catch him off guard and make him laugh, really laugh. He is taller now, but he was already tall then—Sirius has spent more than two decades looking up to Remus in every possible way.
Sirius has maybe loved him since that first day of school and he doesn’t know how to say that except for always.
alt-summary: Sirius Black has been in love with Remus Lupin for as long as he can remember. It takes him a long time to finally get out the words.
alt, alt-summary: author listened to Big Deal by Lucy Dacus 1,000 times then wrote a fic about it (kind of).
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Coming This Fall by AlwaysPining
Fandoms: Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
24 Mar 2026
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Ilya Rozanov has watched the gay soccer television show four times.
Every time he gets to the end of episode six, he loops right back around to the first episode again. Would you like to start from the beginning? His TV mocks him with the request. Every time he sees it, he tells himself he won't watch again. But he does.
Again, again, again, again.
It is not helping.
Shane and Ilya end their relationship during the 2017 All-Star Game. Years pass with no contact off the ice.
When a new TV show premieres, following two queer professional soccer players in a years-long secret relationship, the show's success creates a ripple effect through the sports world, leaving both Shane and Ilya wondering about what might have been.
Or: Is this f*cking play about us?
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It has been six and a half years since he last saw Sirius Black. Six and a half years since Sirius confessed two things simultaneously: I am in love with you and I can't do anything about it. Six and a half years since Remus, who heard this dual confession as a rejection, shut down and stormed off and broke both of their hearts in the process.
Or: Remus listens to The Great Divide, has a breakdown, and sends a message to an old friend.
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After a while, Sirius whispered, “I think, maybe, I would like to believe in something.” Or someone.
“Maybe that’s a good place to start,” Remus said.
When a prank goes wrong, popular but rebellious Sirius Black is threatened with expulsion. His punishment is mandatory participation in various after-school activities, such as tutoring younger students and performing in the drama club's spring musical.
At these functions he is forced to interact with quiet, bookish Remus Lupin, a boy he has known for many years but to whom he has rarely ever spoken.
A Wolfstar AU of A Walk to Remember
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Mr. Lupin and Mr. Black Are Just Friends! by AlwaysPining
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
21 Jan 2026
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"He could have a wife," said one thoughtful student. "Just because he's married doesn't mean it's to Mr. Black—besides Mr. Black doesn't wear a wedding ring."
Another chimed in, "Mr. Black wears a million rings, one of them could be a wedding ring. And are we forgetting the tattoo?"
A third inquisitive student asked, "Do people get tattoos instead of wedding rings?" Which earned a resounding, shouted, "Yes," from at least six students, although none of them had any idea if this was true.
Mr. Lupin teaches English and Mr. Black teaches French. They are just friends. Unless they aren't. Their middle school students are on a mission to find out the truth.
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Remus Lupin is a mediocre writer for Holly & Mistletoe, the UK's leading holiday-themed subscription-based magazine. Despite his professional investment in all things Christmas, he rather hates the holiday and all it represents.
When he is sent on special assignment to profile a small Scottish town no one's ever heard of, Remus stumbles into The Three Broomsticks only to be greeted by the most beautiful man he's ever seen. Magic ensues.
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how long have I been waiting for you? (all of my lifetime) by AlwaysPining
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
01 Dec 2025
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Sirius Black is thirty, single, and desperately in love with his best friend.
In an effort to move on from his unrequited feelings and distract himself from his crushing loneliness, he signs up for an AI-powered matchmaking service that advertises a success rate greater than 90 percent. Privately, he hopes this desperate effort will provoke a last-minute love confession from his friend. When no such confession comes, he follows through with the matchmaker.
Still, as he sits in his appointment, answering increasingly invasive questions, his mind is stuck on one thing: Remus Lupin
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Leah is a wolf the first time she sees her.
Still, even now, it is easier to exist this way. Easier to simplify her thoughts and run and run and run and never feel tired. The other wolves, her pack, linger along the edges of her mind. Always, like ever-present deities. They have learned to give her an illusion of privacy. So she runs.
In the woods, and deeper than a human should be this time of year, Leah smells her, something foreign and new: lilac and honey and sweat.
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Yes, Hermione Granger has wanted Ron Weasley for as long as she could remember. But, perhaps, never more so than tonight: three nights after their long-awaited reunion and first kiss.
Three nights spent together in her quiet room in the shared tent.
Three nights of proprietary and gentlemanly behavior and nothing more than a bit of kissing and cuddles.
Tonight, Hermione is going mad.
A kind-of epilogue, or, the start of something new.
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- Part 3 of The Past Won't Ever Let Something Lie
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“Fine.” Sirius says. “One more night of complaining and then I’ll stop. And I’ll be the best damn arts and crafts instructor this camp’s ever seen, even if I don’t know anything about arts or crafts or children. And I’ll prove Remus wrong, and I’ll…” he trails off, not knowing where to go next.
James, helpfully, finishes his thought, “...make Remus fall in love with you?”
Or, prompt A19 for Padfoot Fest 2025: After moving in with the Potters, Sirius is forced to join James as a counselor at this summer camp James has been attending since he was a kid. It shapes up to be a boring summer until he meets one of the other counselors.
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Behold the Magnetism Between Two Dead Ends by AlwaysPining
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
06 Jul 2025
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“What’s this then?” he hurls at her, angrily. “Is this the heat of the moment?” Ron gently, hesitantly reaches out to cup her cheek. Strokes his thumb along her jaw before dropping his hand back down to his side. “War’s over, Hermione. Can you honestly say you don’t want to kiss me again right now?”
or: Hermione Granger & Ron Weasley kissed at the Battle of Hogwarts. Then Hermione left—and never came back. Four years later, they're forced to face each other thanks to the Quidditch World Cup... and Harry's scheming godfathers.
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- Part 2 of The Past Won't Ever Let Something Lie