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- All I Do Each Night Is Rehearse The Pray Routine
- Appendicitis
- An Act Of Un-Remembrance
- Beginnings
- Better Than Today - Kylie Minogue
- Black
- Breathe Out
- Christmas Shopping
- Choreography
- Dancers
- Dangling
- Days
- Default Settings/Do You Love Me? [Part One]
- Displacement Theory [Blue]
- DJ (I Could Be Dancing) - Alphabeat
- Enchanted
- Ends (Loose And Otherwise) [Ends]
- Enemies
- Family
- Fine Time To Lose Your Mind - Jack McManus
- Fireworks
- Flat Tyres And Palm Prints [Birth]
- Flu
- Friends: A Dictionary [Friends]
- From Angels To The Moon/The Soup
- Green Light [Green]
- Hell Raisers
- Home Invasion
- Hours
- In My Veins
- Insides
- It Was The Death Of Something [Death]
- Just Like Children [Children]
- Kiss And Make Up
- The Last Time
- Lonely At Christmas
- Love Songs
- Lovers
- Middles
- Midnight Sun
- Mistletoe
- Months Go By [Months]
- More Important Than Fear
- Muddied Stars [Brown]
- Not Enough
- Of Peacocks
- On The Subject Of Angels [Orange]
- Playing House [Parents]
- The Price Of Friendship
- The Prize
- Post-Match Analysis
- Puddles
- Red
- Secret Admirer
- Secret Agent Owen
- Shades
- Shine - Skies Of America
- Slow Dancing In A Burning Room
- Snap
- So Good To See You
- Stage Fright
- Stay (Oh Darlin')
- Study In Motion
- Summertime Feeling - S Club 7
- Sunrise
- Sunset
- Teammates
- That Night In Amsterdam/Do You Love Me? [Part Two]
- This
- Three Sets Of Three
- Twenty-Nine (And A Half)
- Under A Colourless Sky [Colourless]
- We Found Something That Belongs To You [Outsides]
- We Were Strangers Once [Strangers]
- Weeks
- What Did You Say This Time?
- What Will The Papers Say? [Purple]
- White Out [White]
- The Wordsmith/Breathe In
- Years
- Yellow
- Yesterday's Promise
- 3-0 Defeats
- Barlow's Music Shop Series
- Fanfiction Challenges
- The Postcard Prompts
- OT3, OT4 & OT5
- Stories By Band Member
- Stories By Ship
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- Stories By Era
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The Complete Fic Directory
All I Do Each Night Is Rehearse The Pray Routine (And Sometimes IN The Morning Too)
Jason re-teaches Robbie how to dance Pray before Progress Live's big opening night in Sunderland.
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Appendicitis
Mark is convinced he is dying of an appendicitis. The rest of the band are not as sympathetic as he had hoped.
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An Act Of Un-Remembrance
'I will never know
anyone but you and I will never know you again' - Jason cannot bring
himself to remember the one man he will never forget: Howard Donald.
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BeginningsSometimes all it takes is a last-minute baby-sitting request and suddenly, before they know it, Take That all find themselves - one by one - coming together at just the right time for yet another new beginning...
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Better Than Today
Howard is let down by Jason, so Mark tries to cheer him up.
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Black
What next? - it's a question Howard has asked Jason before, and though the answer has changed over the years, Howard knows there is no one else who can so effectively ease his fear of the unknown.
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Breathe Out
In his book, Gary talks about meeting up with Jason at a cafe in Islington in 2004. We know Gary's reaction, this is Jason's.
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Christmas SHopping
Jason has a big family, and an even bigger extended family - so it's hardly surprising that he finds the prospect of choosing presents for them all a little daunting.
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ChoreographyEverything is a dance with Howard and Jason - it always has been.
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Dancers
Dancers. It's always dancers with Jay. Mark knows this. But maybe he doesn't know as much as he thinks he does...
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DanglingRobbie contemplates the trust implicit in Jason - after everything - allowing him to dangle him over his shoulder on stage every night of the Progress tour.
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Days
Gary reflects on the ways the days pass by so easily in the company of his three best friends.
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Default Settings/Do You Love Me? [Part One]
Whilst promoting Beautiful World, the lads were asked to write down questions for each other during an interview in Taiwan. Jason asked Mark if he loved him. This is why.
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Displacement Theory [Blue]Robbie reflects on his first time being back in the company of the four men he was once in a band with, before things got ugly and fell apart. It's blue and beautiful...but it's not the same...
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DJ (I Could Be Dancing)
Jason just wants to dance. Howard just wants to indulge him.
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EnchantedWhen Mark meets a man named Jason at a party, he is under his spell immediately and cannot stop thinking about their brief, chance encounter. But he can't help but wonder: is Jason thinking about it too? And what about Howard - are he and Jason more than just friends?
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Ends (Loose And Otherwise) [Ends]
Howard isn't good with ends, even loose ones, and there is nothing he hates more than a goodbye - so his bandmates come together at the end of The Circus tour to help him cheer up, at least a little.
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EnemiesThey've all grown up far too much to be enemies anymore, and they can't stay angry at each other for long - especially not in the email age, when Jason can be there to make peace with a few simple clicks of a mouse...
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FamilyWhen an interviewer asks the lads what the secret to their comeback's success is, she gets four very different answers which are surprisingly similar at their core...
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Fine Time To Lose Your Mind
Mark can't seem to do anything right, and his bad mood seems to be rubbing off on everyone around him. And yet, somehow, Jason Orange is still happy to spare him some time out of his day.
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FireworksRobbie and Mark's relationship is like a chemical reaction: beautiful, explosive and unpredictable. It's dangerous and exhausting, and maybe Mark's getting a little tired of all the burns.
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Flat Tyres And Palm Prints [Birth]They both know what it's like to fall down, to roll around in the grass, even to hold hands - Howard and Jason always find themselves drifting in and out of each others lives, always picking up where they left off as if no time has passed at all, no matter what the circumstances are.
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FluJason isn't very good at being ill. Mark wants to look after him anyway.
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Friends: A Dictionary [Friends]
TT4's friendship comes with its own, distinctive language that sometimes needs translating.
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From Angels To The Moon/The Soup
Jason brings his own lunch to an interview. Robbie is the only one who doesn't mind.
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Green Light [Green]
When the band start to worry about Jason, Howard makes it his mission to be there for him.
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Hell Raisers
Howard makes one final apology to Jason.
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Home Invasion
Howard didn't realise that Jason had changed the locks...
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HoursMark was too ill to make it to the awards. So his bandmates brought the fun to him instead.
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In My Veins
Nothing lasts - it's the shared principal their entire relationship was formed on. Jason wants to disappear and forget. Howard tries to persuade him to break all his rules. [Companion piece: Stay (Oh Darlin')]
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InsidesIt's no secret that Jason isn't so fond of flying. But his bandmates can never resist a tease.
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It Was The Death Of Something [Death]
Mark and Jason, making peace and daisy chains after a rough few weeks of newspaper headlines.
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Just Like Children [Children]
Mark starts to question if he's really cut out to command a stage by himself as a solo artist, but one of his old bandmates shows up just in time to offer some perspective.
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Kiss And Make Up
Written for the prompt 'Fire, tables, poodles and helpful!Robbie', this fic sees Robbie try his best to do a good deed for his bandmates, despite their distrust of his methods.
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The Last Time
Howard Donald distinctly remembers the very last time he saw Jason Orange.
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Lonely At Christmas
Howard wants to make sure Jason isn't lonely on Christmas Day.
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Love Songs
Written for the prompt 'How Gary and Mark got together': Mark turns up on Gary's doorstep when things with the press start turning sour.
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LoversMark wanders the set of the Patience video shoot as he starts to remember what being in a band was really always all about.
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MiddlesMark has always known that - no matter what - if he turns up on Jason's doorstep in the middle of the night with a problem, Jason will listen.
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Midnight Sun
For some reason, even in the darkness, Howard knows that Jason still blazes with light. And he can't look away.
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MistletoeJason has an ulterior motive for asking one of the smallest people he knows to help him decorate for a Christmas party.
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Months Go By [Months]
The seasons change, but Mark still always shows up in Gary's life just the same.
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More Important Than Fear
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the
judgement that something else is more important than fear.” – Ambrose
Redmoon. Inspired by Take That's performance at the London 2012 Olympics' Closing Ceremony. This is my take on Jason's motives and his seemingly conflicting personalities: the showman and the private, quiet thinker.
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Muddied Stars [Brown]
Gary can't help but think that, logically speaking, gold is really just another shade of brown. The rest of the band are keen to reassure him that he's come a long way since he was down in the mud, and they won't let him fall there again.
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Not EnoughA year since Jason decided to make his leaving official, the remaining three lads reflect on what the real sadness of the whole thing actually is.
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Of Peacocks
The lads try on their costumes for The Flood video for the first time.
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On The Subject Of Angels [Orange]
Mark contemplates godparents, angels and his bandmates.
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Playing House [Parents]
Howard has come to accept that Jason is the real boss of his house and his family.
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The Price Of Friendship
Just after the comeback, Jason got hounded by some overenthusiastic fans whilst out shopping and ended up waiting for security whilst hiding in the loos. This is what he thought about it.
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The Prize
Jason can dance round anything. Robbie is desperately trying to keep up.
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Post-Match Analysis
After the band's football match at Robbie's, Howard tries to relax his aching muscles without anyone finding out just how tired he is - but nothing gets past Jason.
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PuddlesMark and his bike have a run-in with a puddle, and it falls to Gary to look after his limping bandmate.
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RedGary finds himself being styled for a night out by Mark. Jason and Howard are called on to referee.
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Secret Admirer
So it turns out, Gary's been sending Mark flowers. And now Mark would very much like to tackle the issue.
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Secret Agent Owen
Mark is trying to keep a low profile at a football match...until he spots Gary is also in the crowd.
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ShadesWhy is Jason wearing shades inside the studio? With Howard gone, Robbie decides it's his job to make sure everything is ok.
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ShineGary catches Jason at an unguarded moment and take the chance to think over just how much he admires him.
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Slow Dancing In A Burning Room
Everyone knows it's over between Mark and Jason - especially Mark and Jason. But there is time for one more dance as Mark wonders to himself where Jason might go - and who with - next.
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SnapJason and Howard fly to New York together for the first Progress recording session with Robbie.
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So gOOD tO sEE yOU
Jason and Howard know they're making a mistake, and setting themselves up for a fall - but it's been so long, and it was just so good to see each other again...
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sTAGE fRIGHT
Robbie's got a chronic case of last minute stage fright as the band wait backstage at The X Factor. He gets varying degrees of sympathy from his bandmates.
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Stay (Oh Darlin')
Companion piece to 'In My Veins' - Jason replies to Howard's letter.
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Study in Motion
Robbie eases his pre-Progress Live nerves by taking a moment to watch Jason dance.
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Summertime Feeling
It's a hot day in the studio, so Howard tries to persuade Gary to take a break and go for ice cream.
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SunriseGary often finds himself seeking Jason out at sunrise.
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SunsetHoward can't stand when things are over - but he's worried the only relationship he's ever stuck at might finally be about to see a sunset, and Jason is one goodbye he's not sure he would be able to survive.
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TeammatesOnly the best teammates refuse to let you be ill in peace - or at least, that's what Jason is choosing to believe.
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That Night In Amsterdam/Do You Love Me? [Part Two]
Whilst promoting Beautiful World, the lads were asked to write down questions for each other during an interview in Taiwan. Jason asked Mark if he loved him. This is Mark's reaction.
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ThisThis is spinning around. Endlessly. This is Jason Orange and Howard Donald.
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Three (The Hope Threshold)
Coming soon.
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Three Sets Of Three
Jason's fears, guilty pleasures...and his inability to stay mad at Howard Donald.
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Too Much
Coming soon.
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Twenty Nine (And A Half)
Jason can think of twenty-nine (and a half) reasons why he's sure he doesn't care if Howard Donald has really gone for good.
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Under A Colourless Sky [Colourless]
It's Mark's wedding day and, despite the ominously colourless sky, his bandmates are determined to brighten things with a spot of banter.
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We Found Something That Belongs To You [Outsides]
A tea shortage strikes the Beautiful World tour, so Mark takes matters into his own hands and ventures out in search of a shop, despite his bandmates' reservations.
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We Were Strangers Once [Strangers]
Sometimes it's difficult to remember that they were strangers once, thrown together by random happen-stance - it just seems to fit too well to have been down to chance.
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WeeksThose weeks just after the band split, Howard nearly went crazy, waiting for everyone to turn around and tell him they didn't mean it. Then Jason makes a well-timed phone call which Howard stays grateful for forever.
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What Did You Say This Time?
Jason once accidentally called Emma a nag during a radio interview. Afterwards, he phones her to apologise.
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What Will The Papers Say? [Purple]
None of them will ever forget the day Mark Owen accidentally knocked himself out on a door...
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White Out [White]
Gary reflects on his past mistakes and on how his relationships with his bandmates have changed for the better over time.
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The Wordsmith/Breathe In
In his book, Gary talks about meeting up with Jason at a cafe in Islington in 2004. This is how Jason prepared for that meeting.
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Years
Jason's given up measuring their friendship in years; now he measures it in Gary's microphone stands, Howard's bad jokes and Mark's laughter...
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YellowIt's a big band night out, and Mark and Gary take a tipsy moment to bond over Coldplay.
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Yesterday's Promise
Mark remembers all the promises Robbie's ever made to him, but he especially remembers the ones he's broken.
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3-0 Defeats
Jason has a way of dealing with his team losing. And it doesn't involve answering the phone to a gloating Howard Donald.
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