hot4hel
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Like old friends do by hot4hel
Fandoms: Death Becomes Her - Mattison & Carey/Pennette, Death Becomes Her (1992)
28 Jun 2026
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During the performance her hands would linger atop of her chest for longer than usual, she'd steal glances at them and flutter her eyelashes, though it was difficult to tell at which one of them they were directed at, and Helen was sure that at one point she purposely showed off more of her leg.
The theater was pretty cold around this time of year, yet Helen still blamed the warmth in her chest and stomach on her surroundings.
Or,
AU where Madeline doesn't get together with Ernest but rather Helen after Tell Me Ernest
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Happy birthday, please don't cry by hot4hel
Fandoms: Death Becomes Her - Mattison & Carey/Pennette, Death Becomes Her (1992)
07 May 2026
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It's Helen's birthday. It has been years since she'd last celebrated it, and she didn't expect Madeline to wake her with an avalanche of gifts, but still, it hurt to think that she didn't even remain in bed to greet Helen with a hug and pull her from her sleeping state with a kiss.
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It's canonically Helen's birthday (like I've said around fifty times already), so I had to make a short one shot of the lesbians on her birthday
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What we could have been(Would you ever forgive me?) by hot4hel
Fandoms: Death Becomes Her - Mattison & Carey/Pennette, Death Becomes Her (1992)
10 Apr 2026
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Madeline Ashton was dead. She was dead, and would never return again. Screens would be empty without her. Rooms would miss sound and light without her.
Silence dragged on for too long, the sound of the car passing along the road the only thing to fill the quiet. No one remembered for how long they had been driving down dark and empty streets. Each time Ernest heard a siren flare up, he’d swerve into a darker part of the street, turn off the car and wait until the sound faded.
They hadn’t spoken a word since they’d gotten in the car. Both of them were still in too much shock to process anything.
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Madeline's fall down the stairs ends fatally, Helen lives with her guilt.
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As Madeline’s eyes widened in fear and Helen’s fingers tightened around her shoulders, it wasn’t Madeline “life ruiner” Ashton who was staring back at her.
It was just Mad, her best friend.
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Apparently we got a MadHel kiss at the 8/12 performance of DBH, and my gay ass wanted to write an angsty fic about it. -
in my dreams by wlwgotme
Fandoms: Death Becomes Her (1992), Death Becomes Her - Mattison & Carey/Pennette
26 May 2026
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It was a great sunny day. Helen had her hair pinned up, and she wore a flowing blue dress. The sun made her eyes look like a deep forest, where some sunbeams sneaked through the leaves.
"You know, Maddie… I love you."
"I know, Helen."
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Bookmarked by hot4hel
27 May 2026
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a kiss with a fist (is better than none) by PrimroseMoon11
Fandoms: Death Becomes Her - Mattison & Carey/Pennette, Death Becomes Her (1992)
22 May 2026
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Here, Madeline continues to learn with every man she whisks away from Helen—her name, something that burns the flesh behind her teeth when she says it—is a very unexciting place to be. Overrated, even. He is not soft, or passionate, or even pacing himself; his hands move as though he is trying to build a skyscraper before sunrise—though he is more accurately constructing the Tower of Babel—not like he is “making love,” or like he is invested in anything other than making himself come and maybe her, too, if he remembers how.
It must be worth it, she tells herself, to sleep with these men. Though they are selfish, she is, too, and this is something she must have if it means Helen can’t—or will, all the while knowing where her boyfriend was the night prior—even if it is horrendously nondescript.
the effects of a homoerotic rivalry: an autobiography by madeline ashton
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22 May 2026
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Helen still needs something to be done - something she's been dreaming about for years now.
Thankfully Madeline is a good actress.
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the age-old curse (I love you, i'm sorry) by Notevenaproperword
Fandoms: Death Becomes Her - Mattison & Carey/Pennette
05 Sep 2025
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By now, Virginia Ashton-Sharp knows how to present herself depending on which coast she’s on. In New York, she is Helen’s daughter. She's smart, sharp-tongued and meticulous. In L.A., she is Madeline’s, charming, funny and perceptive.
The truth is, Virginia doesn't really know who she is sometimes. She knows what she wants however.
It's really simple, Virginia just wants her family back.OR
Madeline and Helen's divorce near its four-year anniversary, their eleven year-old daughter knows in her heart they're still in love. She watches a movie and hatches a plan. Trouble ensues.
Series
- Part 1 of the age-old curse (i love you)