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1. It comes and it goes (something is gained, when something is lost) by metsuryuogi

   Fandoms: Anne of Green Gables - L. M. Montgomery, Anne with an E (TV)  

   • Mature
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • F/M
   • Complete Work

   10 Mar 2026

   Tags

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   • Gilbert Blythe/Anne Shirley
   • Gilbert Blythe & Anne Shirley
   • Gilbert Blythe
   • Anne Shirley
   • Joyce "Joy" Blythe
   • mentions of Marilla
   • heavy trigger warning
   • loss of a child
   • do not read if this is triggering
   • POV Gilbert Blythe
   • gilbert introspection
   • Miscommunication
   • Married Life
   • domestic.... in a sense
   • Angst
   • Angst with a Happy Ending
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • anne and gilbert still argue even when married
   • no beta we die like men
   • mature for a reason; heavy loss
   • ai can take the em dash from my cold dead hands
   • can't believe this where we are at in art but no AI here
   • help i'm still at the restaurant
   • Stubborn Idiots
   • Minor Character Death
   • Character Study
   • Canonical Character Death
   • sort of book AND show compliant

   Summary

   Every step he felt the fear to go forward, yet a powerful tide that pulled him to her, down to the harbor. Down the dunes, onto the beach. His feet moved on principle, on duty, on love. There was something ancient in the way she tugged him forward. Always pushing him to be better, greater, accepting every existing piece of him, and every change he sprouted. Gilbert felt the need to do the same, even if she didn’t accept it. Even if she told him to leave. 

   Or, Anne and Gilbert find their way back to each other after the loss of their first daughter, Joy.

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