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Conde and his Bash 2.0 Mary-pining antics have only succeeded in making me extremely nostalgic for Original Flavor Bash! And so I decided to bust out some season two Bash/Mary interaction my damn self. Come onnnn, show writers. Follow suit. You know you want to! (Why don't they want to??)

Content warning: this takes place after 2x10, and there is some vague discussion of rape.


and in my heart there stirs a quiet pain (for unremembered lads) - Reign ; Bash/Mary (past romance, present friendship), slight Francis/Mary and Henry/Catherine ; 2,800 words. After reading Conde's letter, Mary's thoughts are pulled to someone else entirely, and she decides to mend old wounds.

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If I had not written this, I would not be me.

Honestly, friends, there’s a part of me that thinks this story is what happened, and another part of me that is totally just like, ‘Yeah, they totally got it on in order to celebrate their successful effort at rebranding manslaughter as suicide. What about that is not normal married couple behavior? Date night, baby!’

I guess we’ll never know for sure. Isn’t it splendid??

For those of you who haven’t seen the scene yet, you can watch it on YouTube in this compilation of deleted scenes featuring Catherine; it’s at around the 2:00 mark.



The Element of Surprise - Reign ; Henry/Catherine ; 1,300 words. Why, exactly, was Catherine hanging out naked in Henry’s bed in the deleted scene from “Dirty Laundry”?

( As soon as they return to his chambers, Henry wastes no time in collapsing on top of his bed. )

a well of hope - Reign ; Greer/Lord Castleroy ; 1,500 words.

Note: My heart has just been aching for Greer ever since I watched this episode, so naturally I had to write some fic in which she receives at least a bit of comfort! From Lord Castleroy, obviously, since he is Reign’s resident peppery feminist dreamboat, a man so great I am still pretty paranoid that he’s going to turn out to be a serial killer or something awful like that. But for now, I’m just going to believe he’s as wonderful as he appears to be.

Title from “Heart Made of Stone” by Matt Corby, a.k.a. the song that’s playing during Greer and Castleroy’s kiss in “Toy Soldiers.”


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we queens - Reign ; Mary & Catherine, Henry/Catherine, Mary/Francis, Mary/Bash ; 2,600 words. Happiness is the one thing we queens can never have. Catherine and Mary are not so very different. (Character study set during 1.11.)


Note: Good heavens, this took forever to write! Probably because it involved an irrational amount of thinking, as opposed to just spewing out some OTP banter and calling it a day. (That's the life!) Anyway, one thing I've been super into about the past few episodes of Reign: the way Catherine/Henry has been presented as this really interesting cautionary tale for Mary and the way she chooses to pursue her relationships with Bash and Francis.

And that mirror sequence at the end of "Inquisition"? That is the stuff of my TV fangirl dreams! So I just had to do the feels-y introspective fic thing. Really, I had no choice.


( And if you're still breathing you're the lucky ones / 'Cause most of us are heaving through corrupted lungs. )