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    Beginning just after the end of "A Friend in Need," this story finds a way for Xena and Gabrielle to have their baklava and eat it too. Sometimes it pays to have a Greek god who's halfway at least in love with you.

    Or: how we get Xena back without invalidating her sacrifice.

    Note: I tagged it for Major Character Death because, well, because "A Friend in Need," but the whole point of the story is fixing that, so....

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    28 Feb 2024

  2. Public Bookmark 23

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    It was the same question Gabrielle wanted to ask. In so many ways, it made no sense. Why now? Why not the hundred other times when passion and need had surged between them? Why not some later date, in the aftermath of some other tragedy?

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    20 Feb 2024

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    As soon as Aubrey Thyme, psychotherapist, had opened her office door and seen her new client, Anthony J. Crowley, sitting in her waiting area, she was observing and assessing him. At first glance, she paid attention to the following:

    --His clothing was expensive and stylish;
    --He wore very strange but noticeable cologne;
    --His relationship to the seat he occupied could only, very loosely, be described as “sitting;”
    --He looked angry;
    --He was wearing sunglasses.

    What Aubrey Thyme, a professional, thought, upon first seeing her new client was: you’re going to be a fun one, aren’t you?

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    18 Sep 2023

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    I forgive you.

    Aziraphale watched as Crowley walked out the door. He'd seen the demon walk out of the bookshop a million times, always knowing that he'd walk right back in the same door tomorrow.

    This time, the door closed with a stifling sense of irrevocability.

    This time, Crowley wasn't just walking out of his bookshop.

    This time, Crowley was walking out of his life.

    I forgive you.

    Foolish. Stupid. Cruel.

    Those hadn't been the words sitting at the tip of his tongue. Far from it.

    But it didn't matter. Those had been the words he spoke, and he couldn't take them back now.

    ~oOo~
    Or, the one where Aziraphale realises he needs to ask Crowley's forgiveness this time. Meanwhile, Crowley is just trying to make the Bentley stop playing Taylor Swift.

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    09 Sep 2023

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    It would be a gross understatement to say that Crowley simply didn't like Aziraphale. He was posh and stuffy and arrogant, and Crowley couldn't figure out why everyone else in the program liked him so much. It hardly mattered; they were competitors, and Crowley didn't need to make friends to become a surgeon.

    It takes several unleasant encounters, the excessive use of house plants as a coping mechanism, and getting stuck in an elevator for Crowley to start reconsidering his priorities.

    Or...

    Crowley and Aziraphale are surgical interns with competitive streaks a mile wide each, and they really do not like each other at all.
    Until they do.

    (This whole fic is pre-written and completed, and updates will usually be weekly on Saturdays!)

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    12 Aug 2023

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