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If she were braver, maybe, Francesca would tell her the truth: I think I want to stay over tonight but also maybe forever. But Francesca says nothing because a love confession after sex is ridiculous, even for her.
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21 Apr 2026
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What Was Left Unsaid - A Bridgerton (Franchaela) Story by secretscriptwriter
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV)
23 Mar 2026
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Set directly after Season 4 of Bridgerton- After John Stirling’s death and his cousin’s abrupt departure, Francesca flees Scotland, unable to endure the silence of Kilmartin House alone. Instead, she retreats to a newly prepared London residence, clinging to routine and society, to anything that might keep her from unraveling.
Then Michaela Stirling returns.
What begins as a necessary reunion to settle the affairs of John’s Scottish estate quickly becomes something far more dangerous. Grief lingers between them, sharpened by unfinished conversations, lingering glances, and a tension that refuses to be ignored, no matter how desperately it should be.
Michaela is only meant to stay a few days. But as the hours slip away, restraint begins to fracture, and Francesca finds herself standing on the edge of something she cannot name, cannot allow, and cannot seem to resist. Because when Michaela leaves again on Monday morning, she may not be the same woman who let her go the first time.
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20 Apr 2026
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19 Apr 2026
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John is dead. Michaela is gone. Michaela, halfway across the world and drowning in grief of her own.
After John Stirling’s death, Francesca is left with grief, unanswered questions, and a pregnancy no one saw coming. Michaela Stirling is left with a title she never wanted, feelings she cannot confess, and the unbearable knowledge that she has fallen in love with her cousin’s widow.
Forced back into each other’s lives by duty, mourning, Francesca and Michaela build a life together one moment at a time, until friendship becomes longing, longing becomes scandal, and London threatens to tear them apart before they can name what they are to each other.
Or: Francesca Bridgerton and Michaela Stirling fall in love very slowly, very painfully, and very inevitably.
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19 Apr 2026
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Before We Were Brave by VelvetVerse
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Franchaela - Fandom, Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
11 May 2026
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“Excuse me,” said a voice beside her. “I was wondering if you could help me. There’s something wrong with my phone.”
(...) Francesca blinked. “Sorry?”
The woman held up her phone with a solemnity that fooled no one. “Terrible malfunction.”
Francesca, still a step behind whatever was happening here, said, “Do you need to ring someone?”
“That’s the issue,” the woman said. “It doesn’t have your number in it.”A modern AU Franchaela story in which Francesca Bridgerton goes to Spain for two weeks with her sister Eloise and their friend Sophie, fully intending to recover from heartbreak quietly and in peace.
Instead, she meets Michaela Stirling.
What begins as sun, flirtation, and something that looks like a holiday distraction slowly becomes harder to define, and even harder to ignore. In a place that feels far from home, Francesca finds herself drawn to a woman who makes wanting feel easy, and honesty feel like something neither of them quite knows how to do.
And when the holiday ends, neither of them is brave enough to say what happens next.Series
- Part 1 of The Shape of Wanting
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19 Apr 2026
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Where the Widow Belonged by multi_wlw
Fandoms: Franchaela - Fandom, Francesca x Michaela - Fandom, Francesca Bridgerton x Michaela Stirling, Bridgerton - Fandom, BridgertonWLW, BridgertonFranchaela, michaela stirling - Fandom, francesca bridgerton - Fandom
06 Apr 2026
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- Part 2 of The Widow of Kilmartin Series
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18 Apr 2026
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Composure by ocean19
Fandoms: Francesca Bridgerton/Michaela Stirling - Fandom, Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
02 May 2026
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Michaela plucked a strawberry from the platter. It was deeply red and ripened to the point that was uncommon for fruit in early spring. She assessed it before she bit into it, turning it around in her fingers.
Francesca detected the white of her teeth as her mouth closed on the tip.
She took two bites. When she got to the heart of it, her lips enclosed around the remainder and she drew the last of it into her mouth slowly, sucking at its juices.
Then she looked up.
Francesca was still watching.
Their eyes met and held.
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Michaela Stirling has returned to Mayfair after two years of unexplained absence. Her presence slowly whittles away at Francesca's carefully maintained composure, until it breaks.Bookmarked by SD21
15 Apr 2026
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A Strange and Bitter Mercy by orphan_account
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
10 May 2026
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Francesca Bridgerton is a concert pianist who has not played in eight months. Not since her daughter was born still, and the silence moved in where the music used to be.
Michaela Stirling is a painter whose work hangs in the Tate Modern and whose life has been falling apart in public since her fiancée died of a brain aneurysm two years ago. She is brilliant, reckless, and has earned every inch of her reputation as the art world’s favourite disaster.
They meet at a gallery opening and something happens that neither of them can name.
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14 Apr 2026
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In a world bound by duty and tradition.
Michaela stands apart, wealthy, independent, and unafraid to live as she pleases. Yet beneath her freedom lies a quiet struggle, torn between family ties and the pull of her heart. Meanwhile Francesca, admired as one of Mayfair’s most beautiful women, is herself caught between roles; a wife bound by expectation, a soul yearning for freedom.
Their story unfolds in the fragile spaces where tradition collides with rebellion and where love blooms not in certainty, but in between.
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13 Apr 2026
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Michaela, whilst grieving and overwhelmed with the feelings blossoming in her chest for her cousin's widow, does the only thing she can think to do when asked so sweetly to stay, she flees.
But now, after two years of running, she has returned to London, determined to make amends with the woman she has managed to convince herself she cannot fall in love with, under any circumstances.
Yet her chosen path is not an easy one, for Francesca Stirling, now seething with rage, grief, and a furious current of feelings she neither understands nor can explain, is just as determined to discover the very reason for Michaela's flight in the first place, a reason Michaela is intent on keeping to herself.
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07 Apr 2026
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When Loving Her Was Wicked by kinverses
Fandoms: Franchaela - Fandom, francesca bridgerton - Fandom, michaela stirling - Fandom, Bridgerton - Fandom
25 Apr 2026
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How could something feel so natural and so unforgivable at once?
That was the thing Francesca could not reconcile. Not the wickedness of it, which society would have named readily enough if society had known. Not even the betrayal, though that cut its own deep wound. But the ease of it. The instinct. The terrible, unsought understanding of how one woman could want another and be answered without translation. She had thought, once, that desire had a shape. A prescribed form. A body it belonged to.
Michaela Stirling had shown her, in a single evening, how wrong she had been.
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Inspired by When He Was Wicked, this version rewrites the original story through Michaela Stirling, transforming it into a romance shaped by secrecy, grief, friendship, and a love even harder won.
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05 Apr 2026
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Public Bookmark 206
Mystery Work
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
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03 Apr 2026
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Francesca Bridgerton doesn’t miss.
Except suddenly—she does.
After one brutally honest critique from a woman she can’t stop thinking about, her most reliable dish stops feeling right, and “good” starts to feel like failure. What follows is a month-long spiral of overthinking, control issues, and quietly losing her mind in the middle of service, until she meets the woman again.
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03 Apr 2026
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Five years.
Twenty matches.
One hotel, different floors and the kind of tension that has been mislabeled competitive awareness for far too long. Francesca and Michaela are the greatest rivalry in women's tennis — and, it turns out, each other's most inconvenient problem.
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02 Apr 2026
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01 Apr 2026
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The Widow's Reckoning by multi_wlw
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Frichaela, michaela stirling - Fandom, francesca bridgerton - Fandom
18 Mar 2026
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When Francesca Bridgerton returns to Kilmartin House in the wake of her husband's sudden death, she finds the one complication she cannot manage: Michaela Stirling, John's cousin, still in residence, and still capable of unsettling Francesca with a single look.
Michaela was the first person to offer Francesca comfort in London, and the first to abandon her without explanation. Now, forced into uneasy proximity by estate politics and watchful eyes, the two women circle each other through icy silences, sharp arguments, and moments of tenderness neither is willing to name. Francesca insists she is only trying to restore order. Michaela insists she is only trying to keep Francesca safe. But beneath the rules of mourning and the ruthless scrutiny of society, something forbidden begins to breathe.
Francesca is forced to confront an unbearable truth: she may be losing herself to a love she never knew she was allowed to want. Michaela, torn between devotion and fear, must decide whether protecting Francesca means leaving her... or choosing her.
The Widow's Reckoning is a passionate continuation of Francesca's story, where love does not replace what was lost, but dares to exist beside it... even if it becomes scandal.Series
- Part 1 of The Widow of Kilmartin Series
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31 Mar 2026
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The road to their happy ending.
Season 4. Love - Complete.
Season 5. Grief - Complete.
Season 6. Courage - Complete.
Season 7. Harmony - Complete.
Season 8. Love - Complete.- Language:
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31 Mar 2026
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to tip the scales by astridsdeath
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
26 Mar 2026
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When she turns her head back towards the door, searching for the girl from the internet, she’s met with the sight of a breath-taking woman. Her hair is thick, yet straightened, curling around the tops of her shoulders. Even better, she wears a translucent lilac blouse that compliments her brown skin so beautifully. Francesca is certain this is who she was waiting for, but she waits for the confirmation.
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Francesca Bridgerton finds equilibrium where she least expects it.
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29 Mar 2026
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Love Begins Again by kinverses
Fandoms: Franchaela - Fandom, francesca bridgerton - Fandom, michaela stirling - Fandom, Bridgerton - Fandom, WLW - Fandom, Bridgerton Franchaela - Fandom, Bridgerton (TV)
16 Apr 2026
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My take on Bridgerton Season 5, centered on Francesca and Michaela’s slow-burn love story.
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- 11/11
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29 Mar 2026
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Sympathetic resonance is a phenomenon in which a string initially at rest responds to external vibrations that are harmonically similar to its own without direct physical contact. It’s always made sense to Francesca that when she holds down a key on the piano, those with frequencies alike echo and the sound waves continue to ring in the wooden body after the original note has faded away. It’s physics, it’s music theory, it’s perfectly comprehensible.
At least, it had been all of that until she started noticing the sensation within her, the amplified waves crashing through every nerve in reaction to another person. A stranger. Her husband’s cousin. A woman.- Language:
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28 Mar 2026