The Many Other Lives Gladys Russell Should Have Had
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She doesn’t want the life that her mother wants for her, or even her father, she wants to be free. It’s no small thing for her freedom.
So Gladys chooses a man who will offer her that.
She chooses Jack.
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Endless Forms Most Beautiful by IWannaDoBadThingsWithYou237
Fandoms: The Gilded Age (TV 2022)
28 May 2026
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Season 3 (ish) AU-The Duke not at all impressed with her refusal rapes Gladys to guarantee a proposal. Gladys decides to do the only thing she can do and run away to build a life for herself…and her child. Along the way she meets a man and builds a life. But her family are not the richest in New York for nothing…and her mother is set to see her return home when the scandal breaks.
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New York 1894-Carrie Astor’s sudden death sends shockwaves through New York Society. The secrecy surrounding it provides Gladys Russell with a much needed escape route from her marriage to the Duke.
If only someone had a crystal ball and had warned her of what was to come next…
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Is This The Law Of Our Mortal Nature by IWannaDoBadThingsWithYou237
Fandoms: The Gilded Age (TV 2022)
28 May 2026
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MASSIVE AU-In which in a pointless effort to show off to his soon to be new bride the Duke of Buckingham shoots a dog…well…wolf. An appalled Gladys nurses said wolf to heath and—well—is somewhat surprised when he turns into a human man, stark naked in her bed at nine in the evening just after dinner.
What happens next is a scandal nobody would ever believe…
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For She's Only A Bird In A Gilded Cage by IWannaDoBadThingsWithYou237
Fandoms: The Gilded Age (TV 2022)
29 May 2026
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The last thing anyone expected at the engagement party of Gladys Russell and the Duke of Buckingham was for a shootout that resulted in the kidnapping of the bride to be by suspected government agents.
Then again…the truth about the Duke’s…extracurricular activities are enough to blow that scandal out of the water.
Sort. Of.Or the Gladys Russell Spook AU.
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It's A Love Story (Baby Just Say Yes) by IWannaDoBadThingsWithYou237
Fandoms: The Gilded Age (TV 2022)
20 Feb 2026
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MASSIVE SUPERNATURAL AU-It never occurs to Gladys that werewolves exist. So why would she believe that werewolf hunters exist. Or that the Duke of Buckingham and his sister, like seriously his SISTER! Had a thing for hunting and torturing them.
But when an opportunity presents an escape (even with unthinkable consequences) Gladys is forced to take it and in the process learns more about love, loss, life and using her brain in the real world than she ever could as a Duchess.
Gladys/OMC
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The Ladder Of Our Mortal Success by IWannaDoBadThingsWithYou237
Fandoms: The Gilded Age (TV 2022)
28 May 2026
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AU-In 1889 the world is shocked by the front page of the newspapers declaring that the Duke and Duchess of Buckingham are to divorce. It sends shockwaves through New York society (though rumours that Caroline Astor gives her staff a day off paid are unfounded). Despite the brides mother’s desperation it is clear that the Duke of Buckingham is to marry another.
As for the Duchess…well…she has disappeared.And rumour has it with her husband’s groundskeeper.
This is what happens next….
Alternatively, the Gladys/OMC Lady Chatterley’s Lover AU.
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AU-The arrival of her Aunt a week before her wedding should not give Gladys the need an escape. But with her Aunt comes her companions son…and that sets in motion certain choices of which there is no coming back from.
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Ashes Denote The Fire That Was by IWannaDoBadThingsWithYou237
Fandoms: The Gilded Age (TV 2022)
28 May 2026
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Though it has to be said, accidently finding out he is catfishing and then trying to attack underage girls, accidentally sheltering a gentleman gangsters baby sister and then helping to put in motion a target assassination and mob war was really not what she had intended to do.
Or (Christ Here We Go!) The Gladys Russell/Organized Crime AU.
Slight Change in Summary/Facecast
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A year after her marriage and a year after her miscarriage Gladys Russell separates from her husband the Duke of Buckingham and returns to New York.
Two years later Augustus Chamberlain returns to New York now a filthy rich man and determined to see the old breed pay for their crimes against his mother.
Watch the petty...I mean pretty fireworks.
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How To Make A Killing (Or Alternatively How To Depose Of A Duke And Marry His Better Looking Heir) By Gladys E. Russell by IWannaDoBadThingsWithYou237
Fandoms: The Gilded Age (TV 2022)
28 May 2026
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The Wedding of Gladys Russell to Hector the 5th Duke of Buckingham is all planned right up until the Duke is mysteriously struck down by an incapacitating illness that means he is little more than a shell inside his body.
Far from the escape that she had thought this to be Gladys Russell is left horrified when due to her mother’s inexperience with business dealings her father tells her that she is to marry the heir to the Duke of Buckingham, the new Duke in all but name in order to stave off the bankruptcy that the Russell family will endure if the marriage should not go ahead.
It’s horrified, horrendous…and then the Duke in Waiting appears and…actually it turns out not to be that horrendous at all. But then there are secrets in the shadow and Gladys finds that she must make the decision to be respectable or bad…very…very…bad.
(Loosely Based on the film How To Make A Killing)
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Running For Daylight, To Stand For Something More by IWannaDoBadThingsWithYou237
Fandoms: The Gilded Age (TV 2022)
28 May 2026
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When marriage to the Duke becomes a matter of life or death (eg hers) Gladys does the unthinkable and fakes her own death. Smuggling herself back into the States with Adelheid the two traumatised woman set up shop in a little log cabin helpfully left by Aunt Monica and try to rebuild their lives.
Naturally of course they don’t consider the werewolf pack in their midst, the turf war they’ve wandered into, the family of brothers two of whom have found out that they are their mates and of course the full force of George and Bertha Russell (aided and abetted by their butler, cook and housekeeper) who even while championing for the Duke of Buckingham’s death do not believe for a second their daughters are actually dead.
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In Night So Ransomed Rouge by IWannaDoBadThingsWithYou237
Fandoms: The Gilded Age (TV 2022)
28 May 2026
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AU-All of New York society believes that Gladys Russell disappeared of the face of the Earth five years ago coincidentally the same night that poor Billy Carlton was shot and killed.
When she accepts Joan Cartlon’s urgent call the last thing Bertha Russell is expecting is to find her beaten child in the basement, finding out that a member of the opera board is an organized crime boss, that she has a son in law and a granddaughter and that her home is about to become a battleground.
If she had she…well…things might have been different.
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Make Thunder The Tribute For The Cage In Search Of A Bird by IWannaDoBadThingsWithYou237
Fandoms: The Gilded Age (TV 2022)
28 May 2026
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Werewolf AU: Finding out your husband is keeping you hostage so he can spend your father’s money on his lover/sister is one thing. Being held hostage with a werewolf is quite another. Especially when you fall in love with him and it turns out his family are the supernatural version of yours.
If she ever gets out of this Gladys Russell, Duchess of Buckingham is going to punch her mother into the middle of the next century.
Another Werewolf AU (Hangs Head In Shame)
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The Incandescent Sun Ember by IWannaDoBadThingsWithYou237
Fandoms: The Gilded Age (TV 2022)
28 May 2026
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AU-3x03, whereas Monica has a lot of skin in the game in terms of local land, Bertha finds a lesson in consequences, Gladys stays on the goddamn bed and men who can change into dragons roam the world.
Or (and the Lord Wept!) the dragon shifter AU.
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Love Is About Giving Someone The Power To Destroy You, But Trusting Them Not To. by IWannaDoBadThingsWithYou237
Fandoms: The Gilded Age (TV 2022)
28 May 2026
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Another AU. Gladys say no. George grows some balls and in order to mitigate the scandal his daughter is sent out of New York. Of course the train has to crash though, of course Gladys meets an attractive bleeding man. And of course that leads to a romance, a job and a whole new life.
Otherwise known as Gladys says no, gets empowered, gets a job, gets a man and gets a Bertha Free Happy Ending.
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Gladys Russell has not spoken to her family in years. She’s married now, to a man who loves her and not her money, she lives a modest life, she works for a living and actually loves it and she has a child. All in all things are very good.
And then thanks to some railroad shares her husband doesn’t know what to do with her family…specifically her parents, crash into her life once more.
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Change Is Coming And It's Our Turn Now by IWannaDoBadThingsWithYou237
Fandoms: The Gilded Age (TV 2022)
28 May 2026
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Kate McKenna has worked under Kate Warne first female detective for about ten years. When Pinkerton promotes her to a position of running an all female squad she relishes the opportunity…even if such things cannot be in New York.
When it becomes apparent that the Duke of Buckingham is into some right (to quote her subordinates) dodgy shit Kate McKenna makes Gladys Russell and offer. Help her take down the Duke of Buckingham and she will give her a new life in whatever state she wants. But Gladys Russell is the daughter of one of the countries toughest businessmen.
And she wants something else…
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James Russell is pretty sure his best friend is having a midlife crisis. That has to be the only reason why he turns up with a nineteen year old new wife who happens to be training to be a nurse, who has apparently just turned down some Duke to be with him.
Robby has no idea what he is doing but he supposes Gladys is alright. Ish
The last thing James expects is the brother that he has not seen in nearly twenty years turning up furious to find the daughter that ran away…
Nor is he expecting what follows.
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Sticks And Stones May Break My Bones But The Devil Will Never Hurt Me by IWannaDoBadThingsWithYou237
Fandoms: The Gilded Age (TV 2022), Ready or Not (Movies)
29 May 2026
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AU-Bertha does not hold credence to the gossip that a demon plagues Sidmouth Castle. Gladys seems perfectly fine there. That’s what she tells herself when the estrangement becomes painfully obvious.
Then her son in law dies and her daughter returns home with…
Well…Bertha doesn’t know who this Danforth man is but she knows dark and dangerous when she sees it.
And she can see it now.
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