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Falling for My Brother's Fiancée by toinkeroo
Fandoms: Wicked - All Media Types, Wicked (Movie 2024), The Wicked Years Series - Gregory Maguire
28 Sep 2025
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A While You Were Sleeping AU
Elphaba is a good friend. So when Prince Taven Tigelaar of Winkie Country begs her to pose as his fake girlfriend and meet his family for the upcoming Ember Vigil, she reluctantly agrees to (strictly) one week of lies and resigns herself to her fate.
But fate has other plans: an accidental engagement, a comatose fiancé, and a royal family determined to adopt her—and a certain brooding prince who's determined not to be charmed.
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- Part 2 of Wicked Romantic Comedy Multiverse 💚
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The Banshee and the Prophet by grimmskur for Crymsy
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
25 Sep 2025
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Aira Sawai dreams of death. Kai Kurokawa's brush captures the futures no one can avoid. Bound by visions they cannot escape, Aira and Kai struggle against fate itself—and the feelings that have always tethered them.
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- Part 1 of Kai Kurokawa and Aira Sawai
- Language:
- English
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- 7,830
- Chapters:
- 4/?
- Hits:
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crushing on you for nearly forever by mae, onthewaytosomewhere (mae)
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)
24 Sep 2025
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Alex is there after Bea gets injured and somehow ends up in the hospital room when her family arrives. The family that includes, her bother, Henry.
Alex is suppose to be there for Bea, he can't be falling for her brother. Someone should tell that to his heart
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spells that drowse my soul by birdie_kwiat for properrugbynerd
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
22 Sep 2025
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A doctor steps in and blocks his way. “Sir, you can’t go in there!”
“No, no, no,” says Charlie, “you don’t understand—”
“Are you family?”
“No, but—”
“Family only,” he informs him sternly, disappearing behind the glass door. The doctor joins the throng of medical personnel surrounding the man’s body, and when they wheel the gurney out of sight, Charlie staggers back from the glass wall like he’s been punched.
Shock and helplessness coalesce within him. Inexplicably, he finds himself laughing, his trembling fingers lifting to his lips to contain the mirthless giggles that spill forth. “Oh, God,” he whispers. “I was going to marry that man.”
The nurse at the desk drops her jaw. “Oh, luv.”
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i find myself runnin' home to your sweet nothings by ceruqlean
Fandoms: Addicted Series - Krista Ritchie & Becca Ritchie, Like Us Series - Krista Ritchie & Becca Ritchie, Webs We Weave Series - Krista Ritchie & Becca Ritchie
14 Sep 2025
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When Harriet Fisher saved Ben Pirrip Cobalt's life, her only concern was saving his life, and possibly taking his wallet. She had not known that the nurse would misunderstand her words and tell his huge family that she was his fiancée. Then, she did not expect the hockey player extraordinare to wake up and suddenly be an amnesiac. But most importantly, she did not know Ben would fake being an amnesiac, not when she was planning to con him.
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Andy Sachs worked for the New York City Metro Transit Authority and nursed a crush on a beautiful stranger for nearly a year before she unexpectedly saved that stranger's life. As a result, her life gets turned upside down in a whirlwind by that stranger's elegant, but cantankerous boss and the actual family plus found family that surrounded her. The title was taken from a moment in a scene in the movie 'While You Were Sleeping' This story will be very loosely based on the story in the film. You do not need to have watched it to follow along, but it's a fun watch.
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One Magnificent Kiss by tuliptoes
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms, Game of Thrones (TV)
15 Aug 2025
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After rescuing a man being attacked, Brienne finds herself engaged to Tywin Lannister as he works to regain his family's love.
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What It Means To Lean by GuiltandInk
Fandoms: Thunderbolts (Movie 2025), Marvel Cinematic Universe
29 Jun 2025
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Lights are out. Alexei’s revolutionary, infamous, multi-purpose invention — part borscht pot, part pressure cooker, part, allegedly, “device of the future” — has broken the fuse box.
Now everyone’s arguing. About the pot. About whether Alexei’s so-called “culinary revolution” is a front for chaos itself.
Bob is not listening. Bob is thinking about the picture.
Not just any picture. THE PICTURE. Yelena Belova and Kate Bishop. Not hugging.
Leaning.
A moment so devastatingly tender it’s etched itself into his brain like a tragic oil painting.
Someone is screaming about the pot’s “a masterpiece of modern engineering.” Bob pressed himself against the far wall, chest tight. Totally fine.
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A yet another “While You Were Sleeping” bits reimagined. -
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“It’s just romantic,” Dazai grinned. “A secret lover. Doesn’t sound like Odasaku’s style, but I suppose love changes people, ne?”
When a misunderstanding snowballs into a citywide belief that Chuuya is Oda's fiancé, all he wants is to quietly slip away. But with Oda's best friend Dazai arriving from overseas and already suspicious, Chuuya finds himself tangled in a quiet war of truths and lies—all while hoping Oda wakes up from his coma before everything falls apart.
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While Ye Were Sleepin' by TwelveArtichokes
Fandoms: Outlander (TV), Outlander Series - Diana Gabaldon
18 Apr 2025
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Grieving the loss of her beloved Uncle Lamb, 28-year-old Claire Beauchamp takes a break from medical school and finds solace working at a small café in Edinburgh. There, she meets a tall, redheaded Scot who offers an unexpected distraction and a glimmer of hope for her uncertain future. But when a sudden tragedy leaves him in a coma, Claire is thrust into the heart of the close-knit Fraser family, where tangled truths and buried secrets challenge her sense of right and wrong. Now, caught between a lie and her own heart, she must confront her true feelings and face the consequences of choices that could change everything for the people she’s grown to care about.
(Note: This fic is based on the 1995 film, While You Were Sleeping, starring Sandra Bullock and Bill Pullman, with several departures from the movie plot.)
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Helena Eagan, the future CEO of Lumon Industries, has a crush on a guy she meets on her subway route. After an unexpected accident and a miscommunication are forced to bring them together, she will have to go through the holidays not only as an upcoming CEO, but as a fiancée to a man she barely knows.
(aka, the severance x holiday romcom fic no one asked for)
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When Colin Bridgerton had appeared in her library back in September, looking every bit like a fantasy conjured from her imagination, her heart skipped a beat not because she had mooned and pined and yearned for him all those years, but rather because there was a gaping hole in Penelope’s life, a place from which she had ripped her own family, and Alfie. A place where Aunt Petunia had once been, and Eloise Bridgerton, and every other person that Penelope had ever lost, by choice or not, in her relatively short life.
At the precise moment that the hole in Penelope’s life had widened into a gaping maw, the suddenly very real Colin Bridgerton had walked right into it, and had been swallowed whole.
If someone were to ask Penelope what was at the heart of the series of increasingly bizarre choices she would make over the next several days she would probably have blamed the concussion, and maybe that did play a role, but the truth was: it was the maw.
The one that nothing could fill.
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In which Penelope Featherington jumps to the rescue of the love of her life, and falls for his brother in the process.
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Life in London, working a dead-end job to make ends meet, can be lonely, dull even. That is until your world is turned upside down by rescuing Anthony, a handsome, wealthy regular customer, on Christmas Day.
While he languishes in a coma, his family mistake you for his fiancee, and they welcome you into their warm, loving, chaotic embrace. However, matters become increasingly complicated when you grow close to Anthony's younger brother, Benedict.
And then Anthony wakes up, having no idea who you are...
Modern AU romcom. A reimagining of While You Were Sleeping with the Bridgerton brothers.
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Everyone needs a hobby, so Graziella wasn’t overly worried when Riff took up light stalking.
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my train could take you home (anywhere else is hollow) by yoonminute
Fandoms: Formula 1 RPF
18 Mar 2025
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Charles’ life takes a turn when he is mistaken for the fiancée of a man whose life he saves. Things start to get really complicated, though, when he starts to fall for his adoptive brother.
or the while you were sleeping (1995) au no one asked for but i'm writing anyway.
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Art for 'When You Least Expect It' by FriendofCarlotta by seidenapfelArt (seidenapfelAlt)
Fandoms: Supernatural (TV 2005)
16 Mar 2025
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Ever since his father’s death, Castiel has been lonely. His job can only fill so many of his hours, but his attempts at dating have been unsuccessful.
A bright spot in his day is the tall stranger who shares his train platform during the morning commute. If Castiel could find someone as handsome and apparently successful as this man to share his life with, he’s sure his loneliness would be a thing of the past.
One day, the stranger falls onto the train tracks during a robbery gone wrong and Castiel saves his life. With the man — Sam — lingering in a coma, Castiel quickly finds himself adopted into the raucous, cheerful circle of Sam’s family. There’s just one problem: as the result of a misunderstanding, Sam’s family believes that Castiel is Sam’s boyfriend.
The situation only gets worse when Castiel finds himself falling fast and hard for Sam’s older brother Dean. Will Castiel ever be able to tell Dean and his family the truth? And if he does, will they still want him in their lives?
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¿Te has enamorado de una promesa lejana, un sueño cálido?
Draco Malfoy vive su vida lo mejor posible: un trabajo sencillo, un departamento pequeño, un gato mimado, amigos sin sentido común, un amor lejano- ¡Está bien! ¡De verdad! Entonces ocurre el ataque y su vida ordenada, simple y libre de amenazas, se convierte en una serie de eventos desafortunados fuera de control.
¡Y así es su suerte, porque por supuesto que Harry Potter tenía que presenciarlo!
¿Aún crees en los milagros de Navidad, Dragon? -
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“I really thought I'd found the man of my dreams, Robin! The only real issue was that he’s in a coma!”
“That does put a damper on things yes,” Robin said dryly.
“Well, ideally he’d wake up and fall head over heels in love with me, of course. But...”
“But?”
“The issue is, I think I'm falling for his cousin. Being with Eddie is like nothing else I've ever known, Robin! But he thinks I’m engaged to his cousin.”
“Steve, how do you get yourself stuck in these situations?”
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Due to a misunderstanding, the Munson-Byers family believes that Steve is engaged to Jonathan, who's in a coma after defending Will from bullies. Steve has a crush on Jonathan, and goes along with it, pretending to be his fiancé at first, but to his surprise, he ends up falling for Jonathan's cousin Eddie instead... -
you ask if I mean it (you know I do, I do, I do) by rayisokay for nubianamy
Fandoms: 9-1-1 (TV)
19 Feb 2025
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“Family of Eddie Diaz?”
Buck nearly trips over himself, standing up. “Yes?”
He looks at Buck with an arched brow behind wire-framed glasses. “You're family?”
A vaguely familiar voice answers before Buck can open his mouth.
“Oh, that's his husband.” Another nurse, a short woman with round cheeks and blonde hair, smiles at them.
The first nurse just nods and motions to Buck. “Right this way then, Mr. Diaz.”
“Um,” Buck says. “It's Buckley.”
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or: Eddie takes a nasty fall and Buck realizes that he's already fallen. Meanwhile, a familiar face keeps on thinking they're married, for some reason.