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From July 31 to August 29, we will be releasing 25 fics for an exchange hosted by the Rutag Discord Server! Follow along as we drop over 500k words of fanfic this coming month on our AO3 collection!

Your Hands Are Cold, But Your Lips Are Warm

for rose_coloured_visions by @okaycoolitsfine

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Summary:

Shortly after *the kiss* Rupert and Taggie start a secret relationship, hidden away in pure bliss... The The Article comes out causing the pair to split for three years. One party changes everything and residual feelings come bubbling back.

you would break your back to make me break a smile

for ophelia_hamlet by ixsmellxapples

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Summary:

This is a terrible idea. But Greece sounds lovely. And so does spending time with Rupert outside of her little shop. Plus, getting away from her parents for a little while sounds like a dream. She just can’t tell Daddy with whom she’s going away. Nor can she mention it to her mother. That would end in absolute disaster. or: in which Helen invites Rupert to her destination wedding in Greece and he asks Taggie to be his fake girlfriend. What could go wrong.

wishbone

for novellysarahwrites by @thehoneydoll

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Summary:

There are few moments where Taggie feels a shift, where she knows that this will be important years from now. Where everything aligns cosmically, stars exploding and becoming new universes. Butterfly wings in the air; a droplet of water rippling across a serene pond. Small moments becoming bigger, lasting. Impossible to forget. But this? This is one of those moments. OR: The Summer I Turned Pretty Best Friend’s Dad AU

What if?

for @hermioneobliviates by @someofusarequeer

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Summary:

Taggie O'Hara and Rupert Campbell-Black. Two artists, with completely different approaches to their passion. Both working at an art gallery for the summer, Taggie as an intern, and Rupert as the artist for an upcoming exhibition. Both talented, inspired individuals, with completely different styles. Both soulmates to other people. But will it matter in the face of their growing chemistry? When their own contrasting visions cause them to be stuck working together for the summer, they'll both grapple with what it means to be at the mercy of fate.

we unraveled a long time ago

for overdead by campbellblacks

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Summary:

taggie has grown up at the horse & hound, the local popular pub owned by the campbell-black family. she's learned to cook and live at the foot of her uncles, rupert and adrian campbell-black. but when tragedy strikes and adrian takes his own life, rupert runs away from rutshire to greece, and taggie is left heartbroken and alone. escaping to paris for culinary school, taggie gets a boyfriend and is lined up for a prestigious new job after, but rutshire and home calls. returning to save the restaurant she loves so much, she collides with rupert and the memories (and mistakes) of the past clash with decisions that will shape the future. aka the bear au or the campbell-blacks + o'haras run a restaurant together and there's grief!

We Could Be Together (Here, Forever)

for @someofusarequeer by cotswoldchronicles

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Summary:

"The conversation had started aimlessly, one of her father's self-indulgent and meandering stories. He had made an acquaintance one night, someone he was connected to through The Beeb. Or someone who knew someone who… None of the logistics were ever made too clear. All that she’d been told was a name and an intention: Rupert Campbell-Black needed a wife." OR: Needing to salvage his image for the sake of his seat as MP, Rupert Campbell-Black enters into an arranged marriage with Taggie O' Hara. From there, things take a turn for the spooky and absurd.

tiberius' nymph

for campbellblacks by peachabsinthe

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Summary:

“Rupert Campbell-Black, welcome to Emotional Support Brat!” “Happy to be here.” He’s not. Not really. And that makes her smile, even if she, too, wishes she could be anywhere else. or: the Call Her Daddy + dad's best friend au

that dizzy edge

for @popjunkie42 by @baenakinskywalker

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Summary:

On the heels of an extensive film shoot commemorating the 100th anniversary of the famous White Palace Hotel, the Venturer team decides to use the final long weekend to relax, unwind, and celebrate a job well done. Rupert and Taggie arrive on Friday afternoon only to learn that there’s just one hotel room left — so naturally, they’re sharing. Oh, and they kissed two weeks ago. With Declan and Venturer crew members around every corner, Taggie’s beach vacation gets complicated, and she gets more than she ever bargained for.

Temptation Never Tasted This Sweet

for @inlovewithhisblueeyes by kaycharisse

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Summary:

Rupert watches as she rides away, bringing the two fingers still covered in custard to his mouth. He groans at the vanilla melting on his tongue. She’s probably just as sweet. “What I wouldn’t give for that one to lick my ice cream cone,” he chuckles to himself and Mrs. Bodkin coughs at his side, breaking his trance. “What?” He says, lifting his eyebrows with a cheeky grin. She glares at him knowingly, shaking her head before harrumphing back into the house. “Was it something I said?” He shouts after her. Smirking, he turns to look back at Taggie, watching as she grows smaller and smaller until she finally disappears around the corner, Gertrude following closely behind.

or, Rupert has trouble behaving himself anytime Taggie comes knocking at his door.

Pretty Little Baby

for fourleafclovers by Snow_Cherries658

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Summary:

‘I will not work with this condescending, arrogant, egotistical pig - I quit!’ Tony Baddingham has just lost one of the stars of his upcoming sitcom 'Pretty Little Baby,' a show he's sure will be an instant hit, England's answer to 'I Love Lucy.' He needs to find a new actress to play opposite megastar Rupert Campbell-Black ASAP. Imagine his luck when in walks inexperienced but talented young Taggie O'Hara....

Please fall in love with me

for @milady-macy by ophelia_hamlet

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Summary:

Taggie O’Hara keeps telling Rupert that she loves him. She doesn’t mean to. She doesn’t even realise that she does it, not really. Especially when she can’t seem to keep a lid on her own emotions. — Rupert doesn’t mind. He’s guilty of doing the exact same thing.

ours are the moments (i play in the dark)

for @thehoneydoll by tamara267

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Summary:

Rupert had sat in the passenger seat countless times, admiring the kaleidoscope cast across the car's interior by Taggie’s ring. That refractory brilliance was absent now. The hardly-there stripe of pale skin on her tanned hand taunted him; the only evidence left of what had been, and soon even that would fade. Every creak of the suspension and groan of the engine was like sandpaper over his skin, biting at him until he felt like an open wound. After some relief, Rupert reached to turn on the radio, before he did something foolish like reach for her. “Maybe if I told you the right words, at the right time, you’d be mine. I love you Is all that you can't say-” Yes, he would definitely have driven them off the road. OR: The Second Chance Road Trip Fic

once every few lifetimes

for ixsmellxapples by @popjunkie42

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Summary:

A year after Taggie left Rutshire, her family, and Venturer behind, she gets a call from her father begging for help. Rupert’s latest relationship has imploded, leaving them without a party planner for a Venturer celebration. Setting aside hurts and bad memories, Taggie decides to go back to that place she escaped, to see if there’s anything left for her to reforge. Inspired by Taylor Swift's The Alchemy, written for Cae for the 2025 RuTag Summer Playlist exchange!

i've got you down (i know you by heart)

for @baenakinskywalker by @bearholdingashark

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Summary:

Secretly dating, Rupert and Taggie write to each other while Rupert is away in America.

i've been yours since you stepped through the door

for kaycharisse by Rose_coloured_visions

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Summary:

‘Oh sweetheart, don’t tell me its too much for you’. Her grip tightened. ‘More Rupert, I want more’. Taggie is having a shit night, Rupert is determined to fix that.

indelible

for @icecoldcatberry by @hermioneobliviates

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Summary:

In the damp, dying light of nineteenth-century England, Agatha O’Hara dreams of Death—and Death dreams back. Haunted by visions of a pale rider crowned in shadow, pursued by a voice that knows her name too well, she teeters between fever and fate. When her father journeys to the heart of the Carpathians to fulfill a mysterious contract with the ancient and terrifying Count Black, a chain of dark reckonings begins. Blood calls to blood, vows are remembered, and old horrors stir beneath velvet and bone. A gothic tale of inheritance, hunger, and the love that devours. —— or - a nosferatu!au for cat for the Rutag Summer Playlist Exchange!