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End of one road, starting the next.
Thanks to the wonderful Cygfa for betaing.
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- Part 4 of A Long Way Round
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the first post
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- Part 3 of A Long Way Round
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First messages, from Voyager to the Alpha Quadrent.
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- Part 2 of A Long Way Round
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Paul and Hugh, about to start their shared posting on the brand new science vessel USS Voyager.
Thanks of course to the lovely Discord fam!
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- Part 1 of A Long Way Round
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It's a college party and Paul has managed to get cosy with the cutest guy there.
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The Gardiners make the match.
It is not love at first sight, or second, or third.
It is love that comes later - in the accumulation of shared steps and conversations in the dark. In a stranger becoming, without your noticing, the first person you want to tell things to.
In having the deeply inconvenient realisation, somewhere in your marriage, that you have a crush on your spouse.
OR: Mary and Tom have a regency era marriage of convenience
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05 Jun 2026
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Arranged marriage, but Arranged by people who love them. Tom and Mary falling in love, afterwards.
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Mrs Mary Collins, recently widowed, needs legal assistance with her late husband’s estate.
Mr Tom Hayward, recently publicly embarrassed following the breakdown in his Understanding with Miss Ann Baxter, needs an escape from London.
How fortunate it is that Mr Gardiner knows of a solution to both their problems.
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05 Jun 2026
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Fabulous coming together love story. Mary and Tom find each other in a different way.
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Tom gets stuck in a time loop the day they climb Scafell Pike
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A wedding night in which two virgins discover that the distance between theory and practice is, in this particular arena, catastrophic — and that it does not matter in the slightest.
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02 Jun 2026
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Mary Haywood finding things out, with Tom in Kendal.
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Mary Bennett knew what was to happen on her wedding night. Or, more accurately, she sort of knew what was to happen on her wedding night. There were many books hidden under her bed, both in childhood and adulthood, that briefly mentioned the logistics of the activities that would occur, but only in the briefest, most clinical sense.
To be completely frank, she was unsure what the appeal was. Besides, it is not as if she thought she would ever have the opportunity to experience said activities. The only additional information she was provided had come from her sisters, and they all had different ideas of whether or not wifely duties were… pleasurable. And even Lizzie, who had expressed how wonderful her wedding night had been, never went into great detail about what had made it so wonderful.
Now, only a day before her wedding, Mary was more confused than she had ever been. For the first time ever, she had the realization that she would be acting out the intimate details she had read about, not just reading them.-
Or: I thought it would be nice if Mary learned the appeal of intimacy with her husband while he reads a particularly... spicy poem aloud to her.