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General Madam Secretary prompt fills and fic requests. (Tags will be updated as more prompts are being filled.)
-Note: Some chapters are part of a monthly prompt challenge, others are unfinished pieces, first drafts, drabbles and other miscellaneous writing.
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The Light We Cast by voltives for boiledorangejuice
Fandoms: Passion - Sondheim/Lapine, Fosca - I.U Tarchetti
16 Aug 2024
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As December rolled around, it was the same angels that led her back through the forest. They chided her gently, falling to the wind as it swept across the mountain. The same angels were hidden in the gaps of snow, wings drawn from the dirt beneath the hollows. She breathed life into the halos even as her insides bled and burned, blood coating the inside of her mouth.
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In which Fosca ponders the condition of love, death and the nature of one's own end.
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When she closes her eyes, unassuming ghosts and demons are lurking permanently around the corner.
In the end, there’s still nothing that’ll scrub away the lingering guilt she feels, the tiny bit of her that feels filthy for being unable to separate the thoughts.
Nadine decides she will hate him for it for the rest of her life.
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At the cusp of everything, Nadine still remains the girl with the mousy hair. A woman in the shadows. An ominous second-thought, barely a ripple in the vast ocean.
In an act of perfect verity, she accepts these long forgotten truths.
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Her body fights against what her mind tells her. Everything she knows - understands, comes down to her. Why she fills so much of her mind, why her body screams the way it does, constantly fighting - why confusion, loss and forgiveness sit at the very cusp of her everything.
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When he left, her world began to creep slowly into static. Her headache had crept from a dull throb to a fast-rolling migraine. She stood, motionless - staring into space as reality washed over her, lapsing at her feet.
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In the throes of a negotiation, Nadine finds herself fleeing into the warm arms of comfort.
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That night, she had seen something so utterly inexplicable that it had made her think. A moment that had sealed her final decision to stop them both from unravelling, to prevent them from falling so far they would never have reached the bottom.
“I see you, Nadine. I’ve always seen you,” she whispers, craning her head to kiss her forehead sweetly. “I’m not going anywhere.”
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In the aftermath of a finished term in office, Elizabeth ponders the ease into domestic life she finds herself living in.
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He has trust in faith to keep his marriage intact, trust in Elizabeth that she will keep face for as long as it never breaks to the press. A war is brewing, he thinks–all with the wrong kind of people on the wrong kind of sides. The world around him is crashing and burning, digging into the fiery depths, but maybe there is still something to be saved amidst the chaos.
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A story about betrayal, holiness and sacrilege in the wake of personal union.
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Hot flushes run across her arm, her legs ready to bolt. She trains her eyes back and forth between a blur of bodies. They will hold her down. Tell her words she doesn’t want to hear. It terrifies her that it has to come to this.
She remembers bodies. Loudness. A ringing of something in her ear. In the here and now, there are too many memories that flash behind her eyes, bleeding and leaking against her skull.
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in which reality bleeds away, and elizabeth searches for the dimming light.
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“You never really feel like you can stop, can you?” He says, so much softer than usual. Maggie has no idea if he is talking about his relationship with the Secretary, or something else. Attraction to older women wasn’t foreign in her vocabulary, no– she had taken chances when she could.
“I don’t think I could. Maybe down the line but– now? No. It’s addictive.”
Something about the deliciousness of women in power.
-In which maggie and blake have a (small) conversation.
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- Part 2 of madam secretary: after hours
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nadine endures a special evening after-hours when everyone else is gone.
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- Part 1 of madam secretary: after hours
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They’d barely touched, or even conversed, communicating with as few glances as possible. The only best thing they had in common was an unspoken loyalty to Julia. They’d never spoken about it further beyond that. They never needed to. In a professional light, they were acquaintances at best.
Avis had even claimed it to be sisterhood the day after. Alice chalked it up to that alone and called it a mere chance.
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In which Avis makes an imprint of a first impression on Alice, amidst awry times.
[In-progress!]
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repose - a state of rest, sleep, or tranquillity.
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Her touch is almost sacred, and she cherishes each stray moment they have like it’s in limited supply. There is no guilt for hurting, not here, where every touch has meaning and opulence and warmth.
Her touch is in fact so warm she forgets even summer.
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a series of one-shots + prompt fills into the tumultuous lives of dr. sternin and her companion, ms. howe.
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Nadine is the spring after a long, dark winter. Somewhere down the line, she will be her summer, too. Until winter rolls around again, she will hold her closer than ever.
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The thoughts run unbidden in her head. Maybe she is addicted to this, the pain. The faint line between fiction and fantasy- he takes what he needs and she will listen to him.
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in the aftermath of murder, nadine gains a visit from a familiar face.
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pre season one au (s1 inclusive) - in the uneventful aftermath of the secretary's failed plane hijacking, all evidence and fingers point to one woman. she swears on her own life it isn't her.
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a new age of love (amongst rose-tinted glass.) by voltives for wavytossings
Fandoms: Cheers (TV), Frasier (TV)
02 Jan 2022
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Love is permanent.
Love is forever!
Love is weak.
These are all statements that simultaneously exist within a hair's breadth away from each other. There is no ability to hold it, and yet it is so magnanimous and omnipresent, held in the possessor and the possessed.
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a character study of lilith sternin, through longing, pain and the adverse complexity of human relations.
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the four times kelly gaffney has ever yearned for her superior, drowning in the depth of her love and smouldering still in the aftermath.
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a single second is all it takes for kelly's world to crumble into pieces and fragments. amidst it, are shards of red.