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evita-shelby · 1 year

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Tie your heart to mine

Chapter 4

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“What you did was very stupid, sweetheart.” Thomas Shelby cleaned his glasses with a cloth and acted as if Diane had taken extra sweets at dinner or snuck out with her friends.

They sat in his office with a locked door, and she could hear ten-year-old Florence pressing her ear behind it.

“Had I understood mancunian slang it would not have happened, daddy.” She smoothed her skirt and clasped her hands on her lap.

He lifts an eyebrow knowing she’s trying to minimize the damage; bit doesn’t care to yell at her…yet.

“They recognized you and they told their papers you were there with a known criminal.” He shows her the missive written in the Manchester Gorton’s MP.

Luckily the man was a member of the Labour Party and hated Mosely as much as they did for the disturbances he caused in his constituency.

She didn’t like how they called Tom and Lois wayward children with a pacifist father.

“Now, I know Douglas Bennett and I know he wouldn’t have raised his children to be criminals, but I’ve seen the boy’s record myself, sweetheart.” He placed the glasses back on and mirrored her stance. “Didn’t you learn anything from your fuck up with Jack Nelson’s boy?"

There it was.

He was angrier about her having another boyfriend than getting arrested.

Not that he raised his voice, just looked at her with disappointment.

Expecting better from her because Charlie and her younger siblings combined aren’t even close to matching her track record.

“There’s nothing for you to worry about, dad, things are over between me and Tom Bennett.” She said wanting to go to her mother for comfort instead of having her father punish her for wanting to be the fuck away from here.

He was not a bad father, she loved her family, but sometimes she just wanted to step away from Tommy Shelby’s long shadow and into the sunlight.

Which was why she loved being Diane no last name in Manchester.

Once it’s revealed her former boyfriend’s name is Tom, Florence is given away by her gasp.

“So, am I getting my things tomorrow myself, or are am I back in my tower?” Diane asks, knowing this is far from over but done for now.

Can’t handle Florence repeating his verdict to everyone who can hear her, especially Andy Roberts, her boyfriend these past four years.

“I am going with you.”

Douglas Bennett is surprised to see him there.

“Mr. Shelby, what can I do for you?” he calls him that as if he didn’t change beds so Tommy could be next to John who’d woken up to the news his wife had died.

They would leave with Douglas, only they would be made to come back once Martha Shelby, the second Mrs. Shelby with that name, was burned and the children told their mother was dead.

“You put up with us on the boat to Portsmouth and the train to Birmingham, Douglas, call me Tommy.” Tommy said hoping to make the man relax.

“This about your Diane and my Tom, I take it.” Douglas did not beat around the bush after letting him in.

The man had tact, but he knew when to get to the point.

Good man, shame Tommy isn’t here to renew their acquaintance.

“Yes, is your boy here?” he asked as the gangster turned politician made himself comfortable in the modest little house.

They could have lived like this if he hadn’t been ambitious.

Douglas only wanted enough to keep his wife and his children healthy and happy.

Thomas wanted everything. Nothing had ever been enough ever since he was little, it only took the war and Greta dying in his arms for him to stop hiding it.

“He will be, never misses a meal.” Douglas tried to make his son look less irresponsible than he was.

And sure enough, the boy comes in asking about the car outside.

Thomas knew in this moment, he would hate this man forever.

Too much like them at his age.

Only difference, he had a dad who loved him and raised him.

Arthur Shelby Sr only came when he wanted to give his mother another burden or drag them into his life of crime.

If only they had not taken to it like a fish to water.

Thomas Bennett is not what he wants for his daughter.

The lanky blond young man who steals what he can because he can’t commit to a job or have enough ambition to get out there is not the man he wants for his little witch.

“You can have it, if you want it.” Tommy begins, taking out the silver cigarette case with a sapphire to match the one he gave his wife and offering them a cigarette.

“Who the fuck are you?” the manc said eyeing him with suspicion.

With some work he might be a good addition to the company.

“Tom, have some respect.” Douglas chastised him, but the boy only rolled his eyes and stood there with crossed arms.

“Sorry, Tommy, he’s been wayward since his mother passed.” Douglas apologized for his son and Tommy knew this man had no idea what to do with his own children even before his wife died.

“I’ve been called worse; you wouldn’t believe the shit I put up with in London.” The MP dismissed his apology.

Besides, Douglas will be tossing him out in his arse after this.

“Thomas Shelby, Diane’s father.” Thomas said without stretching out a hand for the boy to shake.

Diane would be allowed to stay here.

If she worked on the factories like she promised and kept away from protest, she could stay here and carve out her own path for their company.

Lois had dropped by, and Diane apologized.

To her surprise, Lois Bennett forgave her.

And to Lois’ surprise, Diane had used her connections to get her the address of the family hosting Harry Chase in Poland.

Harry Chase had told her he loved her before she broke his heart right before he left and she hadn’t said it back.

Now that it was going on to four months with no letters from him, Lois was worried he had forgotten about her.

That, worse, he had moved on to some Polish girl who was everything she was not.

“Its been three months since I’ve gotten anything back from him. I don’t even know if he’s alive, Di.” Lois admitted while she wrote down her letter in stationary Diane took straight from her father’s desk this morning.

Anyone can ignore the letters of a lovesick girl from Longsight, but no one could ignore one from Sir Thomas Shelby, MP OBE and first Baronet Shelby.

“Which is why you need something no one can ignore.” The witch said hoping things can go as smoothly with Tom as it did with his sister. “If he hasn’t been getting your letters, he will know. If he can’t get any out, he will now.

No one refuses Mr. Shelby.”

“How much do you want?” Tommy said pulling out his checkbook ready to see how much it would cost him to be rid of this boy.

Diane deserved better, this was for her.

Besides if he took the money, he was never with her for the right reasons.

“Now I know why Diane lied about who she was.” The boy ---Thomas refused to see the twenty-two year old as anything else than a boy— said to hurt him.

Diane hated the spotlight as much Tommy did, had been relieved when she saw she lacked the height requirements for professional ballet like her mother.

Strange how Polly saw she would be an actress in Hollywood.

But even Elizabeth Pollyanna Gray could be wrong.

“I don’t want your money, I told her I never wanted her for her money either.” The boy refused and Douglas looked proud of his son.

There was hope for him yet.

But Thomas Shelby doesn’t give a shit about whether Bennett has something resembling morals or a brain.

Thomas Shelby just wants him out of his daughter’s life.

“So you say, and yet everyone has a price, boy.” Tommy looks him in the eye and the boy, to his credit, doesn’t back down.

“Shelby, I’m warning you.” Douglas said growing angry and borrowing the courage from the son who never sees eye to eye with him.

“I don’t need to you to defend me, dad, I can handle him myself.” Tom stops his father before the pacifist does something against his code.

“Not me, old man. You can give me everything you have, but I won’t take it. You can’t make me take your fucking money, Shelby.” The boy continued to refuse.

And then made it all worse.

“No wonder she hates being your daughter.” The boy spat and Tommy fought every urge he had in him to throttle him.

Polly laughs at him from the great beyond.

Was he like this before the war, when Mr. Jurossi did all he could to chase him away from Greta?

Did Eva’s family think of him as low as he did of Douglas’ boy when they found out they married less than four months after they met one December morning?

“I don’t give a fuck about your money, Mr. Shelby, I wouldn’t change my feelings for your daughter for all the money in the world either. I love her, and I know she loves me and you are just going to have to live with that.”

Tom Bennett looked damn proud of himself, just as Tommy did once upon a time.

“Fine, suit yourself, boy. Just know this, even if you managed to get your head out of your arse, you wouldn’t be worthy of my daughter.

I’ll see myself out, Douglas.”

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brightlotusmoon · 6 months

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Martha Nelson Thomas and the Cabbage Patch Lawsuit

I got my first Cabbage Patch Doll in the 1980s, of course. I even got one labeled Preemie, like myself. (I could have fit in the clothes when I was born.)

Justice for Martha, etc.

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Burke’s Law - List of Guest Stars

The Special Guest Stars of “Burke’s Law” read like a Who’s Who list of Hollywood of the era. Many of the appearances, however, were no more than one scene cameos. This is as complete a list ever compiled of all those who even made the briefest of appearances on the series.

Beverly Adams, Nick Adams, Stanley Adams, Eddie Albert, Mabel Albertson, Lola Albright, Elizabeth Allen, June Allyson, Don Ameche, Michael Ansara, Army Archerd, Phil Arnold, Mary Astor, Frankie Avalon, Hy Averback, Jim Backus, Betty Barry, Susan Bay, Ed Begley, William Bendix, Joan Bennett, Edgar Bergen, Shelley Berman, Herschel Bernardi, Ken Berry, Lyle Bettger, Robert Bice, Theodore Bikel, Janet Blair, Madge Blake, Joan Blondell, Ann Blyth, Carl Boehm, Peter Bourne, Rosemarie Bowe, Eddie Bracken, Steve Brodie, Jan Brooks, Dorian Brown, Bobby Buntrock, Edd Byrnes, Corinne Calvet, Rory Calhoun, Pepe Callahan, Rod Cameron, Macdonald Carey, Hoagy Carmichael, Richard Carlson, Jack Carter, Steve Carruthers, Marianna Case, Seymour Cassel, John Cassavetes, Tom Cassidy, Joan Caulfield, Barrie Chase, Eduardo Ciannelli, Dane Clark, Dick Clark, Steve Cochran, Hans Conried, Jackie Coogan, Gladys Cooper, Henry Corden, Wendell Corey, Hazel Court, Wally Cox, Jeanne Crain, Susanne Cramer, Les Crane, Broderick Crawford, Suzanne Cupito, Arlene Dahl, Vic Dana, Jane Darwell, Sammy Davis Jr., Linda Darnell, Dennis Day, Laraine Day, Yvonne DeCarlo, Gloria De Haven, William Demarest, Andy Devine, Richard Devon, Billy De Wolfe, Don Diamond, Diana Dors, Joanne Dru, Paul Dubov, Howard Duff, Dan Duryea, Robert Easton, Barbara Eden, John Ericson, Leif Erickson, Tom Ewell, Nanette Fabray, Felicia Farr, Sharon Farrell, Herbie Faye, Fritz Feld, Susan Flannery, James Flavin, Rhonda Fleming, Nina Foch, Steve Forrest, Linda Foster, Byron Foulger, Eddie Foy Jr., Anne Francis, David Fresco, Annette Funicello, Eva Gabor, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Reginald Gardiner, Nancy Gates, Lisa Gaye, Sandra Giles, Mark Goddard, Thomas Gomez, Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez, Sandra Gould, Wilton Graff, Gloria Grahame, Shelby Grant, Jane Greer, Virginia Grey, Tammy Grimes, Richard Hale, Jack Haley, George Hamilton, Ann Harding, Joy Harmon, Phil Harris, Stacy Harris, Dee Hartford, June Havoc, Jill Haworth, Richard Haydn, Louis Hayward, Hugh Hefner, Anne Helm, Percy Helton, Irene Hervey, Joe Higgins, Marianna Hill, Bern Hoffman, Jonathan Hole, Celeste Holm, Charlene Holt, Oscar Homolka, Barbara Horne, Edward Everett Horton, Breena Howard, Rodolfo Hoyos Jr., Arthur Hunnicutt, Tab Hunter, Joan Huntington, Josephine Hutchinson, Betty Hutton, Gunilla Hutton, Martha Hyer, Diana Hyland, Marty Ingels, John Ireland, Mako Iwamatsu, Joyce Jameson, Glynis Johns, I. 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Don Taylor, Dub Taylor, Vaughn Taylor, Irene Tedrow, Terry-Thomas, Ginny Tiu, Dan Tobin, Forrest Tucker, Tom Tully, Jim Turley, Lurene Tuttle, Ann Tyrrell, Miyoshi Umeki, Mamie van Doren, Deborah Walley, Sandra Warner, David Wayne, Ray Weaver, Lennie Weinrib, Dawn Wells, Delores Wells, Rebecca Welles, Jack Weston, David White, James Whitmore, Michael Wilding, Annazette Williams, Dave Willock, Chill Wills, Marie Wilson, Nancy Wilson, Sandra Wirth, Ed Wynn, Keenan Wynn, Dana Wynter, Celeste Yarnall, Francine York.

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24 Days of La Fayette: December 15 - William Langborn

(If you do research on this fellow, especially in papers related to La Fayette, look out for different spellings, such as Longborn, Lang Born, Langbourne, Langborne, Langhorn, etc.)

Curtis Carroll Davis, The Curious Colonel Langborn: Wanderer and Enigma from the Revolutionary Period in The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Oct., 1956, Vol. 64, No. 4 (Oct., 1956), pp. 402-432.

If there is one thing to know about William Langborn than that he liked to walk – I will elaborate in a moment. Let us first lay the base.

William Langborn was born in 1756 in King William County in Virginia. He was a cousin of Martha Washington. Her father John Dandridge had an older sister, Mary Dandridge. Mary married Robert Langborn and together they had several children, among them a son named William Langborn. William in his turn had a son by the name of William as well. This William is “our” William.

Langborn was an Ensign in the 6th Virginia Regiment. Said Regiment was part of the division that La Fayette took command of after the Battle of Brandywine and after recovering from the wounds he had sustained during said battle. Langborn joined the staff of the Marquis in 1780 and stayed until (early) 1782. During his service he was promoted to Captain and later to Major and Colonel.

While Langborn at first seemed to the tasked with a lot of copying and writing. In particular, he copied/ wrote almost all the letters that La Fayette exchanged with William Phillips. But La Fayette also entrusted him with a few more delicate missions.

Firstly, he was sent to Timothy Pickering. La Fayette wrote from Philadelphia on February 27, 1781:

I Would Be truly Unhappy, My dear Sir, Should I think You Can in the Least Question My Confidence in Your Exertions, and the Gratitude I Feel for the Services You Have Already Rendered to the Expedition. I Had Requested Mr. Lang Born to tell You that I was Uneasy Least the Vessels Should Not Be Early Enough at Trenton and this Was occasioned By What You Said to me last Night that Perhaps they Could not get up Untill to morrow Night. (…) My desire of Seeing You Was Relating to the Embarkation of the troops to morrow. I Have proposed By Mr. Lang Born to walt on you at your quarters or that we would Meet at the Minister’s. But I think it Better You Should devote your time to the forwarding of every article, and if You are at Home to morrow in the Morning Will do Myself the Honor of Calling upon You.

Idzerda Stanley J. et al., editors, Lafayette in the Age of the American Revolution: Selected Letters and Papers, 1776–1790, Volume 3, April 27, 1780–March 29, 1781, Cornell University Press, 1980, p. 349-350.

In May of 1781, La Fayette had sent Langborn to meet with Thomas Jefferson but when the Major arrived at Tuckahoe on May 11, Thomas Jefferson hat already departed. Langborn wrote a letter the next day, detail the requests and questions that La Fayette had to Jefferson.

I arrived here last evening in hopes of having the honor of seeing your Excellency. The reinforcements that you expected we should receive from Fredericksburg, and the Counties adjacent, have not arrived, nor have we reason to expect but a very small part of them shortly, from Genl. Wedons letter, which I inclose. The Marquis requests that you would please inform him of the number called in, the rifle men, the deficiency of Arms, when you think they may arrive, what number of mounted militia, all the Reinforce[ment] the General requests may be immediately ordered by your Excellency to rendezvous at Richmond. I think it necessary to forward a letter which was yesterday received from Genl. Nelson. In consequence of it the Marquis would beg leave to suggest to your Excellency the propriety and necessity there is for having immediately brought in, all horses that can possibly fall into the Enemies hands, he is informed that the Country exposed to the Enemy on the south side of appamattox abounds in the best horses of this Country. Should all those fall into their hands they will have Cavalry almost equal to our little Army. I have directed Majr. Claiborne to hold in readiness four Quarter masters who will be furnished with a small force of Cavalry, and proceed on that business as soon as they can obtain your Excellencys Warrant.

“To Thomas Jefferson from William Langborn, 12 May 1781,” Founders Online, National Archives, . [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 5, 25 February 1781 – 20 May 1781, ed. Julian P. Boyd. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1952, pp. 637–638.] (12/15/2022)

Jefferson replied on May 14, 1781:

I was sorry that the Situation of my family had occasioned my absence from this place when you were pleased to send Captn. Langhorne to me. I inclose you a State of the Counties who have been called on to come into the Field, some of them to perform a full Tour of Duty and others to make a present Opposition to the Junction of the two hostile Armies (…) I have the pleasure to inclose to you the four Impress Warrants desired by Captn. Langborn.

Idzerda Stanley J. et al., editors, Lafayette in the Age of the American Revolution: Selected Letters and Papers, 1776–1790, Volume 4, April 1, 1781–December 23, 1781, Cornell University Press, 1981, p. 98-101.

The warrant mentioned in the last two letters, refers to the wish of La Fayette’s that his four Quarter Masters may be enabled to press horses into service, least they would fall into the hands of the enemy. While we are at the topic of Quarter Masters, if you have read more than one entry so far, you might have realized that there was often a shortage of Quarter Masters and that nobody really liked to do the job. La Fayette had a tendency to make his aide-de-camp work as Quarter Masters in some capacity and Langborn was no exception. The Marquis wrote to the Baron von Steuben on May 17, 1781:

In order to Arrange Matters to the General Satisfaction I Have appointed Captain Lang Borne to Act as field Quarter Master. His Honesty and His Activity Have Been known to me these Many Years.

La Fayette also wrote to Nathanael Greene on the matter on May 18, 1781 and this letter also gives us insight into William Langborn’s opinion on his new position:

Every departement in this State Was in Such a Confusion that it takes great deal of My time to Arrange them. Clayburne Was not SatisfiedWith Mr. Elliot whom the Baron Had Appointed. As there Cannot Be Any Good done where there is no Harmony I Have to the Great Satisfaction of Clayburne appointed as field Quarter Master Mjor. Langburne My aid de Camp and Captain Jones for His assistant. Langburn's disinterestness is as clear to me as Could Be My own, and I Have in Concert With Clayburne fixed the plan of Conduct in that departement.

Langborn was not pleased at all and in case you were asking if La Fayette ever learned to spell is aides last name – he did not.

The position as Field Quarter Master was no smooth sailing for Major Langborn. He got into an, apparently very heated argument, with the Director Quarter Master, Richard Claiborne. Claiborne had promised wagons for La Fayette’s detachment and Langborn told Claiborne that he was to blame if these wagons would not appear on time. The issue was eventually resolved.

William Langborn also experienced imprisonment during the war. La Fayette wrote to Nathanael Greene on June 12, 1781:

Give me leave to observe, My dear Sir, that upon Every principle which Makes Mr. McHenry Useful to you, He Must in My Circumstances Be Still more useful to me. I May add that Clel. Nevill and Mr. Langhorne Being prisoners, I Have No aid de Camp But McHenry and Washington, But I am willing to give up My interest to your wishes, and McHenry's Remaining Some time with me is owing to an other Circumstance.

La Fayette also wrote to Washington on June 28, 1781:

Lang Born’s zeal and activity during this Campaign Have unfortunately put Him in the ennemy’s Hands while he was Reconnoitring.

“To George Washington from Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, 28 June 1781,” Founders Online, National Archives, [This is an Early Access document from The Papers of George Washington. It is not an authoritative final version.] (12/15/2022)

La Fayette was facing quite an alarming shortage of aide-de-camps at that point.

I said at the start that William Langborn liked to walk, and I will now elaborate on that statement. Here is an excerpt from the diary of John Adams from July 16, 1786:

Mr. Langbourne of Virginia, who dined with Us on Fryday at Col. Smiths, dined here Yesterday. This Gentleman who is rich, has taken the Whim of walking all over Europe, after having walked over most of America. His Observations are sensible and judicious. He walks forty five or fifty miles a day. He says he has seen nothing superiour to the Country from N. York to Boston. He is in Love with N. England, admires the Country and its Inhabitants. He kept Company with the King of Frances Retinue, in his late Journey to Cherbourg. He says the Virginians have learned much in Agriculture as well as in Humanity to their Slaves, in the late War.

“London July 16, 1786. Sunday.,” Founders Online, National Archives, [Original source: The Adams Papers, Diary and Autobiography of John Adams, vol. 3, Diary, 1782–1804; Autobiography, Part One to October 1776, ed. L. H. Butterfield. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1961, p. 194.] (12/15/2022)

Adams wrote again on June 21, 1786:

Maj. Langbourne dined with Us again. He was lamenting the difference of Character between Virginia and N. England. I offered to give him a Receipt for making a New England in Virginia. He desired it and I recommended to him Town meetings, Training Days, Town Schools, and Ministers, giving him a short Explanation of each Article. The Meeting house, and Schoolhouse and Training Field are the Scaenes where New England men were formed. Col. Trumbul, who was present agreed, that these are the Ingredients.

“London July 21. Fryday.,” Founders Online, National Archives, [Original source: The Adams Papers, Diary and Autobiography of John Adams, vol. 3, Diary, 1782–1804; Autobiography, Part One to October 1776, ed. L. H. Butterfield. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1961, pp. 195–196.] (12/15/2022)

Founders Online has a transcript/summary of the passport that was issued to Langborn in Paris on June 15, 1786 by Thomas Jefferson. While in France, Langborn certainly did not miss the opportunity to visit La Fayette as well. The Marquis wrote to George Washington on February 6, 1786:

Humphreys is Now in England—LangBourne is Arrived in Paris these two weecks—But the same queer fellow you know Him to Be, and you will Hardly Believe that I could not as yet prevail on Him to Come and see me.

“To George Washington from Lafayette, 6 February 1786,” Founders Online, National Archives, [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Confederation Series, vol. 3, 19 May 1785 – 31 March 1786, ed. W. W. Abbot. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1994, pp. 538–547.] (12/15/2022)

Langborn had come from America to France (La Fayette and Jefferson) and from there to England (Adams). He proceeded to Copenhagen in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, from Lapland to Archangel and Jukasjeroi within the Arctic Circle. His Walking Tour took him twelve years and ended in 1796. In 1786 he was in his second years. He apparently kept a diary, but this diary had never been found. There are however two short passages that Richard Rush copied in a letter to John Adams from May 2, 1818:

An old Scotch woman, in North-Shields, signing herself Ann Hewison, has sent me a manuscript Quarto of what she calls extracts from the diary of William Langborn, an American officer, kept during his travels through several parts of Europe. I copy, word for word, the following passages.

London July 18. 1786.

“Saturday—Did myself the pleasure, agreeably to yesterdays invitation, of dining with Mr Adams and his family. We had but one stranger, he remarkable for his American attachments. Our dinner was plain, neat, and good. Mrs Adams’s accomplishments and agreeableness would have apologized for any thing otherwise; after dinner took an airing in the park.”

“Thursday the 23. Dined again with Mr Adams. Mr Trumbull, a student of Mr Wests was there. The English custom although bad still exists; we set to our bottle; I not for wine, but for the conversation of the Minister, which was very interesting, honest and instructive. He informed us that the Portuguese Minister had by order of his Queen a pleasing piece of intelligence, which was, that her fleet in the Mediterranean had her orders to give the same protection to all American vessels as to her own. I must not forget Mr Adams’s requisites to make citizens like those republicans of New England; they were, that we should form ourselves into townships, encourage instruction by establishing in each public schools, and thirdly to elevate as much the common people by example and advice to a principle of virtue and religion.”

These sentiments will bear reviewing after a lapse of thirty years. If they serve to excite one agreeable recollection, I shall be amply compensated for transcribing them.

“To John Adams from Richard Rush, 2 May 1818,” Founders Online, National Archives, [This is an Early Access document from The Adams Papers. It is not an authoritative final version.] (12/15/2022)

Major William Langborn died in 1814.

I highly recommend the paper The Curious Colonel Langborn: Wanderer and Enigma from the Revolutionary Period by Curtis Carroll Davis.

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John Constantine x Bruce Wayne

John Constantine x Lucifer

Jon Kent x Damian Wayne (either aged up or still young, but if they’re young absolutely no NSFW)

Jonas Kahnwald x Martha Nielsen (any iterations)

Kaz Brekker x Inej Ghafa

Kaz Brekker x Jesper Fahey

Kyle Hyde x Brian Bradley

Kevin x Ilonka Pawluk

Laurent of Vere x Damen of Akielos

Leon Kennedy x Ada Wong

Leon Kennedy x Chris Redfield

Marius Josipovic x Julia Bowman

Marius Josipovic x Taylor Bowman

Mat Cauthon x Elayne Trakand

Mat Cauthon x Rand al’Thor

Mat Cauthon x Tuon Paendrag

Matt Murdock x Foggy Nelson

Matt Murdock x Frank Castle

Mike Ross x Harvey Specter

Moon Knight (all/any of them) x Layla El-Faouly

Moon Knight (all/any of them) x Peter Parker (adult Peter only)

Nate Fick x Brad Colbert

Nate Jacobs x Maddy Perez

Nathan Prescott x Max Caulfield

Percy Jackson x Nico di Angelo

Phoenix Wright x Miles Edgeworth

Rob Ryan x Cassie Maddox (book verse)

Roman Godfrey x Peter Rumancek

Ronald Speirs x Carwood Lipton

Sherlock Holmes x John Watson

Stephen Holder x Sarah Linden

Steve Harrington x Eddie Munson

Thomas Shelby x Alfie Solomons

Tomas Ortega x Marcus Keane

Tyrell Wellick x Elliot Alderson

Wade Wilson x Peter Parker (adult Peter only)

Will Graham x Hannibal Lecter

Wolfgang Bogdanow x Kala Dandekar

Ships (OC)

Alcina Dimetrescu x OC (female)

Atticus O’Sullivan x OC (any, supernatural or mythological)

Francis York Morgan x OC (any)

Holden Ford x OC (male, serial killer and/or detective)

John Constantine x OC (any)

Jonathan Reid x OC (any)

Peter Pan x OC (male, lost boy - no NSFW, though would feature dark themes as my Peter is inspired by the book The Child Thief. Would love platonic friends or enemies for this as well.)

Vanessa Ives x OC (any)

Platonic

Carmy Berzatto & Richie Jerimovich

Dexter Morgan & Harrison Morgan

Five Hargreeves & Any Hargreeves Siblings

Hank Anderson & Connor

Jesse Pinkman & Walter White

Joel Miller & Ellie Williams

Kratos & Atreus

Moon Knight System (any against any)

Norman Bates & Dylan Massett

Peter Pan & Hook

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Martha Nelson Thomas and her OG cabbage patch kids called “Doll Babies”

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New in September - Hallmark Movies Now

The 27-Hour Day (2021) Starring Autumn reeder and Andrew Walker. Hallmark Channel/Summer Nights

Matchmaker Mysteries: The Art of the Kill (2021) Starring Danica McKellar, Victor Webster, and Bruce Boxleitner. Hallmark Movies & Mysteries/Movie #3 of 3

Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: The Disappearing Game (2018) Starring Candace Cameron Bure, Lexa Doig, Marilu Henner, Niall Matter, Peter Benson, Brad Harder, Catherine Lough-Haggquist, Teryl Rothery, Dylan Sloane, Ken Tremblett, and Ellie Harvie Hallmark Movies & Mysteries/Movie #9 of 18

Ships in the Night: A Martha’s Vineyard Mysteries (2020) Starring Jesse Metcalfe, Sarah lind, Eric Keenleyside, Chelsea Hobbs, Sunita Prasad, and Nelson Wong Hallmark Movies & Mysteries/Movie #3 of 4

Mystery 101: Words Can Kill (2019) Starring Jill Wagner, Kristoffer Polaha, Robin Thomas, Preston Vanderslice, and Eric Keenleyside Hallmark Movies & Mysteries/Movie #3 of 7

Signed, Sealed, Delivered: The Vows We Have Made (2021) Starring Eric Mabius, Kristin Booth, Crystal Lowe, Geoff Gustafson, Gregory Harrison, Sherry Miller, Jill Morrison, and Rhiannon Fish Hallmark Movies & Mysteries/Movie #11 of 11 (so far)

Garage Sale Mystery: The Novel Murders (2016) Starring Lori Loughlin, Sarah Strange, Steve Basic, Eva Bourne, Connor Stanhope, Kevin O’Grady, Ken Tremblett, Fiona Vroom, and Jason Cermak Hallmark Movies & Mysteries/Movie #6 of 16

Garage Sale Mystery: The Art of Murder (2017) Starring Lori Loughlin, Sarah Strange, Steve Basic, Eva Bourne, Connor Stanhope. Kevin O’Grady, Martin Cummins, Susan Hogan, Leanne Lapp, Matty Finochio, and Karen Holness Hallmark Movies & Mysteries/Movie #7 of 16

Garage Sale Mystery: The Beach Murder (2017) Starring Lori Loughlin, Sarah Strange, Steve Basic, Eva Bourne, Connor Stanhope, Kevin O’Grady, and Catherine Lough-Haggquist Hallmark Movies & Mysteries/Movie #8 of 16

A Taste of Summer (2019) Starring Roselyn Sanchez, Eric Winter, Alison Araya, and Antonio Cayonne Hallmark Channel/Summer Nights

Crossword Mysteries: Riddle Me Dead (2019) Starring Lacey Chabert, Brennan Elliott, Barbara Niven, John Kapelos, Perveen Dosanjh, Cardi Wong, Jon Cor, and Lucia Walters Hallmark Movies & Mysteries/Movie #5 of 5

Sweet Pecan Summer (2021) Starring Christine Ko, Wes Brown, Lauren Tom, and Chase Ramsey Hallmark Channel/Summer Nights

Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: A Game of Cat and Mouse (2019) Starring Candace Cameron Bure, Niall Matter, Marilu Henner, Lexa Doig, Peter Benson, Miranda Frigon, Dylan Sloane, Ellie Harvie, Catherine Lough-Haggquist, and Tammy Gillis Hallmark Movies & Mysteries/Movie #10 of 18

Chesapeake Shores Season 6 (2022) New Episodes Every Thursdays Starring Meghan Ory, Barbara Niven, Treat Williams, Laci J Mailey, Emilie Ullerup, Brendan Penny, Andrew Francis, Robert Buckley, Stephen Huszar, Jessica Sipos,Carlo Marks, Greyston Holt, and Mariesa Crouse Hallmark Channel

September 1

Unthinkably Good Things (2022) Starring Karen Pittman, Eria Ash, Joyful Drake, Lance Gross, Jermaine Love, and Luca Seta Hallmark Movies & Mysteries/Mahogany Films

South Beach Love (2021) Starring Taylor Cole and William Levy Hallmark Channel/Fall Harvest

Garage Sale Mystery: Murder by Text (2017) Starring Lori Loughlin, Sarah Strange, Steve Bacic, Eva Bourne, Connor Stanhope, Kevin O’Grady, Gabrielle Miller, Tegan Moss, Jesse Moss, and Emily Tennant Hallmark Movies & Mysteries/Movie #9 of 16

September 8

Poisoned in Paradise: A Martha’s Vineyard Mystery (2020) Starring Jesse Metcalfe, Sarah lind, Eric Keenleyside, Chelsea Hobbs, Sunita Prasad, Tammy Gills, Lucia Walters, and Nelson Wong Hallmark Movies & Mysteries/Movie #4 of 4

Garage Sale Mystery: Murder Most Medieval (2017) Starring Lori Loughlin, Sarah Strange, Steve Bacic, Eva Bourne, Connor Stanhope, Kevin O’Grady, Sebastian Spence, Casey Manderson, Aren Buchholz, April Telek, and Nathan Witte Hallmark Movies & Mysteries/Movie #10 of 16

Sealed with a Kiss: Wedding March 6 (2021) Starring Jack Wagner, Josie Bissett, Caitlin Stryker, and Nathan Witte Hallmark Channel/Summer Nights/Movie #6 of 6

September 29

Redemption in Cherry Springs (2021) Starring Rochelle Aytes, Keith D. Robinson, Frankie Faison, and Scott Bryce Hallmark Movies & Mysteries

Plus many more films.

#new on hmn #hallmark movies #hallmark movies now

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