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Title: A Thief In the Night
Fandom: Her Friend, the Burglar (Short Story)
Genre: Gen, romance.
Characters/pairings: Doris Lawton/The Burglar
Rating: PG-13
Word count: 1,632
Summary: After a few days at the seaside resort, Doris began to realize just how silly it was to expect the burglar to show up. (Or, a post-canon fic based on yet another pulp story that no one has read since it was originally published. The basic gist: An office worker accidentally gets locked in a vault after-hours, and ends up being saved by a burglar who just happens to break in that night. He lets her go free, but complications arise when all the incidental evidence points to her being the thief, or at least an accomplice. Said burglar later bails her out, and then—because she was such a good sport and didn’t immediately report him to the police—sends her a wad of cash he stole from her now-former boss. Heroine happily goes on vacation, the end.)

While this is technically a fanfic, in all honesty, it probably reads as original fic. Anyway, if you’d like to leave a comment, please do so on AO3!

( Sure, he’d gifted her all that money, but that was just…well…a momentary bout of kindness, she suspected. )