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As things change in Lisa's and Becky's marriage and as other relationships bloom, Lisa is struggling to know who the new her is.
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It’s 2010 and Carla Connor’s life feels like one big car crash. She’s grieving Liam and struggling under the weight of everything that happened with Tony. Realising that she is relying heavily on alcohol, she finds her way to an AA meeting for help. There, she meets Lisa Swain, who is battling her own demons. Can the pair help to save each other?
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AU. When Carla Connor is released from prison, her new living situation turns dangerous. Desperate, she reaches out to Betsy Swain, an old fellow inmate at Norcross. Standing in the way of salvation is Betsy's mother, Lisa, a former detective who retired on medical grounds and is not impressed by Carla's appearance in their lives.
Slow burn.
Carla's life is mostly canon up until her psychosis, but the Swains I have moulded to fit into this AU timeline
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“Ever felt like you're living under a microscope, trapped in a petri dish, bound to keep being slapped in the face by your past?” Carla Connor, businesswoman, factory owner, independent woman needed space. Space from the scrutiny that came with living your life out loud on Coronation Street.
Detective Sergeant Lisa Swain needed help. Help to make ends meet and not further break her daughter's heart by having to insist on a house move away from the only home she had ever known, the one which contained all the memories of her late mum, Becky. The same Becky who was the reason Lisa was up to her eyeballs in debt, having forged Lisa's signature and borrowed significant amounts of money against the house before her death. In desperation, Lisa advertises the spare room to rent out, a last ditch attempt to avoid what seemed inevitable.
When Carla places a call to enquire about the room, could it mark the beginning of something both of them never knew they needed?
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just hold me tight and tell me you'll miss me by Phoebmonster
Fandoms: Coronation Street
29 Apr 2026
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“Actually, if it’s all the same, I’ve got someone coming in for an interview.”
“That’s me.” Lisa said, her voice almost a whisper.
“What?” Carla looked her up and down. “I mean a job interview.”
“That’s still me.” Lisa muttered, a blush creeping over her cheeks.
“To be my new barmaid?”
or - carla owns the rovers, and lisa needs a second chance.
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The things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.
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Another Swarla affair fic in which they are both morally questionable but they’re soulmates so it’s probably okay
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Single mother DS Lisa Swain enrols her young daughter Betsy into an aerial class, in a bid to get her into a new hobby while she juggles parenthood and recovers from demons of the past.
What she doesn't anticipate is falling in love with Carla Connor, the owner and pole instructor of Elevé fitness studio, and learning how to love her own body once again. -
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After a fire rips through Carla’s home and takes her husband’s life, she’s left with nothing but ash, grief, and walls she won’t let anyone climb. When electrician Lisa Swain arrives to rewire what’s left, Carla braces herself for silence and distance.
But Lisa is running from something too. She buries it in her work, fixing what’s broken in Carla’s house while quietly holding together the ruins of her own life.
Two women. One house. And a connection they didn’t expect—and didn’t know they needed.
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When suspicious financial activity begins appearing in Underworlds accounts, Carla Connor finds herself under police scrutiny for the first time in years.
DS Lisa Swain is assigned to investigate what should have been a straight forward case.
But when the numbers lead to anonymous threats, late-night alarms and someone watching Carla from the shadow's, it becomes clear this isn't about money at all.
Its about Carla, and whoever is behind it knows her too well.
As the investigation deepens and the danger grows, the uneasy partnership between Carla and DS Swain begins to shift into something far more complicated - something neither of them expected.
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My attempt to be all suspicious sneaky sneaky with a story
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AU: When DS Lisa Swain is transferred to Weatherfield Police Station, she soon crosses paths with Inspector Carla Connor, the enigmatic and personable leader of the uniformed relief who make up the rank and file at the nick. Two strong women, each facing their own battles, must learn to work together to solve cases and maybe save one another along the way.
AU fic where both Carla and Lisa work for the police and must navigate an often volatile and fractious relationship between them. But something keeps pulling them into one another's orbits.
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Dating back to when Carla and Lisa first met, we follow their relationship from enemies, to friends, to lovers through their journal entries. (There is brief Carla/Peter, as it starts during the Stephen Reid storyline but as we know, DS Swain soon dispatches him!). Trying something a bit different to my usual style.
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Carla Connor thrives on control.
Lisa Swain survives on it.
When a chance encounter turns hostile, neither woman is prepared for the attraction simmering underneath.
There’s just one complication.
They’re already connected.This is an AU where Carla owns a PR firm and Detective Lisa Swain just relocated to Weatherfield.
When Carla and Lisa clash, Carla has no idea that this irritating woman is the mother of her new summer temp at the office. Lisa has no idea that this woman is her daughters boss. -
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Carla and Lisa fall in love. Something goes wrong. Can they find their way back to their happy ending?
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Carla is a widow with a 6 year old daughter, Betsy. Her wife Lisa died in the line of duty, 4 years ago.
Betsy is football obsessed and inspired by the Lionesses and wants to play for England when she grows up.
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What if Lisa never actually died.
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After enduring years of loss and burnout, Carla is sent to a two-week serenity retreat in Thailand by Ryan and Roy, who hope she’ll rediscover herself. As she immerses in the experience, she meets Lisa, a personal wellness consultant, and the two form a surprising friendship that changes everything.
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It began with late-night conversations and quiet confessions. Before they realised what was happening, Carla and Lisa had fallen into an affair neither of them planned but neither can seem to walk away from. When an unexpected curve ball is thrown their way, they're forced to end it. Now they’re left with a question neither of them knows how to answer—how do you go back to being just friends with someone you’ve fallen in love with?
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This idea has been in my head for ages and I've finally got round to starting to write it. Not an original story but my version of Carla and Lisa getting together. Some scenes/lines will mirror the show, others won't. I'm not planning on bring Becky back from the dead, but she will be mentioned.
The aim is for it to be updated weekly.
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I will be the best friend you ever had, I promise by JRed_CRuss_Berena
Fandoms: Coronation Street
27 Apr 2026
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This story is canon up until The Moment TM and then it veers into an AU. Carla and Lisa are friends but they are both pining for each other. Will they ever admit their feelings for each other?
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Carla Connor doesn’t do careful. Lisa Swain doesn’t do reckless.
Somewhere between a two-year-old who chooses her people fiercely, a grief that never quite loosens its grip, and a woman who feels like home far too quickly, boundaries blur and hearts hesitate.
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A series of drabbles, very fluffy with a smidge of angst (flungst...) loosely linked to the things the collective Connor-Swains do, and how they grow together as a family and heal.
Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by joining pieces back together and filling cracks with lacquer with either powdered gold, silver, or platinum thereby highlighting the flaws in the repaired object.