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    After ten years in Stillwater for a crime she didn't commit, Vi breaks herself out and goes home. Her homecoming doesn't go like she thought it would.

    Two years later, she's out of control and out on the streets. She's now a champion pitfighter, a raging alcoholic, and completely on her own. Despite her family's best (and desperate) efforts to help, Vi's on a one-way track to ending up either dead or back in prison.

    At the same time, Caitlyn arrives in the undercity to collect data and information for her thesis. She starts her research from a local bar called The Last Drop, which puts her right into Vi's path. Vi might have been out of her family's home for years, but she's still not going to let a topsider put them in danger.

    Canon divergence (everyone lives!), enemies to lovers (barely, the lovers aspect happens fast), angst, trauma, addiction, and also fluff and humour (because these things can co-exist!)

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    06 Jun 2026

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    Vi rubbed her neck and looked away. “It was just something I thought would be perfect. You don’t have to keep giving me that weird look.”

    Caitlyn blinked and looked down into her drink. She was tapping the side of her cup, chewing her bottom lip in consideration. Looking more thoughtful than when she was staring into Vi’s soul. “You want to begin a friends with benefits?”

     I knew this was a bad idea.

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    Horny Yearning

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    24 Jul 2025

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    Because it turns out the Halo can want things now, sort of. Not the way a human would, with thoughts or motivation or articulable desires. The Halo wants things the way a tree wants water and shoves a taproot through flagstone to get it, which is all well and good for the tree, but less so for the idiot trying to keep her patio intact. Unfortunately for Ava, she’s both the idiot and the taproot. The flagstone is her dignity. The water – for reasons becoming rapidly and unavoidably apparent – is Beatrice.

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    the one where the halo imprints on beatrice like a duckling and is dead-set on making it ava’s problem

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    03 Apr 2025

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    Home, to Ava, is flannel-backed chairs and worn quilts and lacy placemats and a rocking chair they find abandoned on the side of the road.

    Home, to Beatrice, is Ava’s hand in her own as she drags Beatrice through the kitschy home store four towns over and Ava’s shout of triumph when she finds a matching set of salt and pepper shakers and Ava’s waggling eyebrows when they buy the bed that she (again) calls ours.

    (Six days in Switzerland, and then a few more afterwards.)

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    31 May 2024

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    Ava rolls over, shutting her brain off, and very carefully presses the palm of her hand on Beatrice’s waist.

    Beatrice tenses immediately, a sharp intake of breath filling the otherwise quiet bedroom.

    A few seconds pass with nothing and Ava starts to pull away, an apology on her lips, when Beatrice grabs her wrist. It’s so fast that Ava hardly registers what happened, but suddenly, she’s being pulled to the other side of the bed.

    Ava lets it happen, helps, and now she’s hovering over Beatrice. She’s so close she can see the shine in her eyes, how wide they are and she can see them flicker to her lips and back up.

    Bea’s made this move, it’s her turn now. Ava leans forward, giving Beatrice a chance to turn her away.

    When she doesn’t, it’s game over. Their lips meet and every functioning part of Ava’s brain that might tell her there will be consequences to this completely disappear.

    The world could set fire tonight and Ava would keep kissing her as the apartment collapsed around them.

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    Ava and Bea hook up in Switzerland and everything is a mess because of it.

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    04 Jul 2023