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Something ticked in Paul’s mind as the familiar words washed through him. When he looked at John, his friend was already looking at him. And suddenly, it all became clear: He remembered having that conversation more than 50 years ago. He remembered it too well.
He had been thinking about it for years, wondering what he should have understood, how he should have reacted. If it was as meaningful as it had felt or if his memory had just romanticized it.
“I don’t think a love like that obeys to any rules,” John went on, unaware of Paul’s agitation. “It’s not something that humans have created, not like a societal thing. It’s deeper than that, and that’s what some people are afraid of I guess, because they can’t control it. Whatever laws they create, they can never control it. A white lad will fall in love with a black girl.” He paused. “A lad with another lad. You know.”
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Summer 2019, 77-year-old Paul wakes up feeling surprisingly good. One tiny problem: he is back in December 1965.
PLEASE DO NOT SHARE THIS FIC ON ANY PLATFORM. DO NOT PUT IT ON GOODREADS, OR ON ANOTHER FANFICTION PLATFORM, PLEASE.
NO TRANSLATIONS EITHER, SORRY.Series
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Attachment Therapy by CNWrites
Fandoms: Marvel, X-Men - All Media Types, X-Men (Comicverse)
17 Apr 2024
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Wolverine was an unsociable person. Kurt knew this. What he didn't know was how he was supposed to deal with his unsociable nature when they couldn't step more than a foot apart.
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In which Kurt and Logan get separated from the rest of the X-Men during a sentinel fight and end up handcuffed together in the middle of the woods. In order to get back in one piece they're going to have to learn something about each other... and maybe a bit about themselves in the process. -
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The Beatles during their first trip to Hamburg, September 1960.
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In the summer of 1959, Paul’s life is perfect. He has his music, his new band, and his first true love; his song-writing partner, his best friend. John.
But then autumn comes, and Paul’s dad convinces him that his dreams are nothing but a foolish fantasy, that he needs to grow up, get a real job, a real life.
Five years later, John is an international music sensation, his band taking the world by storm. And Paul? Paul is exactly where John left him, working a dead-end job, no family, no prospects, no life.
And then one day, John comes back to town…
A canon-divergent AU, inspired by Jane Austen’s Persuasion
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Through the Trees, the Sky Is Visible (Woodland Sprite Paul) by Crepe_Suzette for Overthetowans
Fandoms: The Beatles (Band)
14 Jul 2025
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The story of the Beatles, and John and Paul, in which Paul is a Woodland Sprite.
Thank you for the spectacular beta, bookofapril!
“I feel so close to you, so tamed in my blood and taming yours, so deep in the forest, so restful in rest, that one doesn’t really want to say anything, but that up there through the trees the sky is visible, that’s all.”
—Franz Kafka, 1920