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What is it like to be in love?
Neither Nick nor Jay knew the answer to that question. While they defended themselves in saying they liked a woman, that thought was getting pushed away each passing day they spent together.
Nick had never felt a true spark and deep connection with Jordan, and the only times he's really felt seen is when he was with his neighbor.
Jay, on the other hand, had felt that connection with Nick but had placed all his hopes and dreams on Daisy. After the afternoon tea, however, that thought seemed to dwindle. His feelings didn't make any sense to him, and he kept telling himself he loved someone he really didn't.
By the time the next morning arrived, he was feeling even more lost than he did before the tea.
Yesterday was fun, yes, but I still had that empty feeling inside me. It didn’t make any sense. I thought reuniting with my first love would make everything come together, but it didn’t. It still has me chasing broken pieces to try and make my dream of true happiness come true.
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(I know the title is technically the title of the song that Daisy sings about her child but it fits so well for these oblivious gays)- Language:
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There’s Something Left For Me (A New Discovery) by daisyfays
Fandoms: The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
13 Oct 2025
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Title from ‘New Discovery’ by The Crane Wives (2015)
When Jay Gatsby realizes his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan isn’t what he once thought it was, his mind seems to shatter. Over a course of weeks and an unfortunate fall into depression, he comes to understand that his love for someone else (a certain neighbor of his, to be specific) is what he needs to carry on and stop trying to repeat the past.
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After the Green Light Faded by Alex (0JustANoOne0)
Fandoms: The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
11 Oct 2025
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After Daisy Buchanon’s rejection, Jay Gatsby has to find a new purpose to life — and someone’s come to help him find it.
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10 Inaccurate Conclusions by Nick Carraway by Donteatbatteries
Fandoms: The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
28 Sep 2025
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After breaking up with Jordan, Nick tries to avoid thinking about why... while his neighbor has been growing increasingly strange in their every interaction.
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This is a reimagining of "5 Times Jay Gatsby Failed to Seduce Nick Carraway" from Nick's pov and then assumes a continuation of the story where they navigate their relationship and both come to plenty of incorrect conclusions about what's being said. They're really bad at communicating.Reading the first story is not NECESSARY to understand this one, but I recommend it, because it makes this one much funnier.
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- Part 2 of Wet Cat Jay Gatsby
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where Nick convinces Jay to leave town and Jay convinces Nick to come with him
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Jay Gatsby's Diary by MilkBeforeCereal_17
Fandoms: The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (2013)
21 Sep 2025
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I had realised that I was determined not to chase after Daisy again or the foolish ambition which preceded her. I didn’t want Nick to be the one murmuring ‘poor fellow’, or ‘son-of-a-bitch’ when I was dead. I thought about Nick often, and was always profoundly affected by the conjurings of my own mind...
I wondered where he had been after the war. Suddenly, without even realizing it, I was interested in his interests. I wondered if he was secretly unconventional.
Gatsby meets Nick Carraway.
...He can't stop thinking about him.Or, the potential of the American Dream.
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It’s only supposed to be an hour. Maybe two. Gatsby, of course, bargains for three. And Nick, against his better judgment, lets him win.
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The Great Gaysby by Witches_Briar
Fandoms: The Great Gatsby (2013), The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
04 Sep 2025
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What if...
What if Tom and Daisy got consequences for their actions? If George don't listen to Tom, and decided to follow his original train of thought?
What if the aftermath is a much, much different story. One that would take a bit till it ends on a truly good note for all remaining parties.
Well, my dear readers, this story will explore this possibility and road. Hopefully,Series
- Part 1 of Old Assignments Rewritten
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It was not unusual for me to notice the beauty that was the man before me, I have eyes of course. It would be more unusual for me to ignore it, to act as though he was any other man. “Do you– want. . .?” I murmured gesturing with my cigarette.
“Sure,” Jay mumbled, standing up a little straighter and looking at me expectantly. With a sudden rush of boldness instead of handing him the embering cigarette I stepped into his space, looking down at him and blowing the smoke out and into his face. He faltered slightly and I hesitated and gave him the chance to step away, but he didn’t— instead he inhaled with an open mouth. The smoke curled between us, bright white in the dark between us and obscuring my vision of his face. I leaned in closer after another puff off my cigarette, his lips parting before I blew the smoke directly into his mouth.
“We should go in,” Jay said suddenly, pulling away and flashing a wobbly smile, “Just so they don’t worry, old sport.”
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Nick and Jay have a lot of feelings about the coming new year... and eachother
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Green Harbour, City Lights by TippyTorri
Fandoms: The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
30 Aug 2025
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There should be some conflict within his heart, over a multitude of things. There was Jay, then there was Jordan, then there was himself. Who exactly was he meant to chose and if he did, would he really be choosing at all? Maybe he hated them all, or maybe he precisely loved the man who limped out of his hospital room.
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In which Nick Carraway deals with his own feelings while uncovering the enigmatic Jay Gatsby's that seem to be woven more tightly with his own than he expected. Oh, and Tom kicks the bucket.
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Nothing left to want by THEbroadwayfreak
Fandoms: The Great Gatsby (2013), The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1974)
29 Aug 2025
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Daisy’s gone. The parties are over. And Gatsby is alone with a loaded gun and nothing left to hope for.
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Drinks with a Side of Regret (Natsby) by yourlocalgingerraccoon
Fandoms: The Great Gatsby (2013), The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1974), The Great Gatsby (1949)
01 Aug 2025
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Nick and Jay go out to dinner with Jordan when they learn where Daisy has been since that infamous summer and now Gatsby is worried.
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A Change Of Plans (Natsby) by yourlocalgingerraccoon
Fandoms: The Great Gatsby (2013), The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1949)
29 Jul 2025
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Nick feels unappreciated by Gatsby after 3 months of dating, so Gatsby make plans to have a night on the town that ultimately get canceled because Gatsby ends but becoming sick, leaving Nick to take care of him.
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To make an end is to make a beginning by Augurey_Ray
Fandoms: The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (2013)
21 Jul 2025
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It's early 1923, and Nick has turned to writing to help him process what went down during the summer. He just isn't sure how to conclude the story.
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more natsby by BarricadeEnthusiast
Fandoms: The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (Musical)
07 Jul 2025
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Based on a few headcanons from a tiktok mutual!!!!! i suck at writting im so sorry guys
Look Gatsby didnt go around saying he was "Shellshocked" or whatever his psychatrist told him, those memories were shoved neatly into a box in his mind. Well until the past finally catches up to him. After Tom and Gatsby argue, Daisy and Tom leave the party leaving Gatsby alone to ponder just a moment.
super slow updates... heh... slso this is gonna be MULTICHAPTER WHATTTT
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gatsby and the goose by wistfulenchantress
Fandoms: The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
26 Jun 2025
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The Great Gatsby soulmate goose of enforcement au/fix-it fic because I cannot be stopped.
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Nick didn't know what was going to happen when he pulled Gatsby out of the water, sopping wet and covered in his own blood, let alone that Gatsby would want to keep him close after.
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no longer looking east by loverofracecars
Fandoms: The Great Gatsby (2013), The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
23 Jun 2025
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Jay Gatsby was no longer looking East. Daisy was out of his life and out of his mind. So why was the green light still shining?
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The Real Ending of The Great Gatsby by fan_of_words
Fandoms: The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
22 Jun 2025
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Nick is shot instead of Jay just after confessing their feelings for one another. What follows is the "real" ending of Nick Carraway's novel, "The Great Gatsby".
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Nick Carraway and Jay Gatsby have been together for over a year now and in spite of all the time they get to spend together in Jay's impossibly large mansion, they're still not really out to the public. This is because the public is ravenous for just about any detail they can get concerning the life of one of the few sexually ambiguous billionaires in America. The government would be too if they didn't know any better.
So Jay proposes he could take a day off. It's fall. It's a beautiful day. They've been cooped up for too long. Wouldn't it be nice to go to a pumpkin patch and pretend to be one of the thousands of couples that think fall is THEIR thing and NO ONE ELSE'S?
Like teenagers after curfew, they sneak out of the house to spend a day together. Only Jay hopes it's the beginning of the rest of their lives.Series
- Part 1 of Modern Natsby