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  1. Public Bookmark 3

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    “Why have you not informed John of your return to London?” Francesca pivoted, “You know he misses you. And to hear you speak of his presence as if it is some… some burden–”

    “It is not his presence I was speaking of.”

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    Michaela manages to avoid her cousin while secretly attending the Bridgerton's masquerade ball, but she cannot escape the knowing eyes of his wife.

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    25 Mar 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 12

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    “What got you so panicked?” Jack reaches out to poke Dave’s temple. “Lemme in that head of— yours.” In Dave's lean-away from Jack’s jabbing finger, the light is able to catch the line of skin beneath his slightly-unbuttoned shirt. It's just enough to make visible the speckled, rosening, clear-as-day outline of teeth on Dave’s lower neck.

    “I give you all my ideas already,” Davey answers, fully oblivious to the realization Jack is battling against. “You can’t be any more in my head,” which would be a real flattering statement, if he’d said it any time but now, Jack thinks. Jack thinks, maybe it’s for the best he’s not in Dave’s head, because he’s not sure he can handle the full truth of the situation, right now. “Look, it doesn’t matter. You’re coming for dinner, right?”

    “Nah,” says Jack, not feeling the slightest bit hungry anymore. “I got someplace to be.”

    Davey is popular. Jack is jealous.

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    16 Mar 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 6

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    He should say no. This isn't what he's doing here; this was not part of the deal he'd made with his parents, of making money and watching over Les and keeping them both away from the more unsavory of the boys. But hasn't he already pushed those boundaries? He's stayed out late, he's drinken, he's held lies in his mouth long enough he can almost speak them convincingly. Sure, the David he was never would have considered the idea, but would that David be here at all, in this alleyway, beer-bucket tipsy and breath-caught-in-chest?

    Maybe this is part of his becoming.


    In which Davey learns some intricacies of newsie relationships.

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    16 Mar 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 1

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    “Tell me honestly. Was it never going to work? Was I the only one trying on something impossible?”

    “No.” It’s the most surety Davey’s ever heard from the man. “I saw those kids, David. Their work, their conviction — it didn’t come out of nowhere. You gave it to them. Your words, your ideas— you did something amazing.”

    He remembers, Jack’s hand curled on the back of his neck, his mouth at the corner, center, side of Davey’s lips, a one-off, a thank-you for that so-called conviction. Davey had felt so solid, then. He was the grounded thing, protecting Jack’s far-off idea of a Strike. Jack had wanted, so desperately, this success. He’d seen all those impossible dreams, and seen them in Davey.

    And then Jack abandoned them both.

    “Then why did he leave me?”

    After Jack scabs, Davey and Denton talk.

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    15 Mar 2026

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    "Forget? You want me to forget?" Eloise replied incredulously. "It would've been easier to ask me to forget that I've grown an extra limb!" It was true, Eloise felt like a dog that just discovered its tail for the first time, spinning itself dizzy chasing after it.

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    In which Eloise is desperately, dramatically, and drastically ill-prepared for a revelation concerning one Miss Cressida Cowper.

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    03 Mar 2026