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A symphony AU in which Ava is a non classically trained prodigy of music and has only entered the classical music scene a few years prior. Beatrice has been training to play violin since she was three and now holds first chair at the OCS Symphony in Spain.
Jillian and Michael Salvius, along with Suzanne are board members of the OCS. After their resident conductor announced her retirement. The board needed to name a new conductor. Although not the most traditional or experienced choice, after the Salvius’ convincing pitch, the board voted (a close race) to bring on Ava Silva in hopes she can usher in a new age for the OCS, as their tickets sales had been declining steadily for years now.
How will the symphony adjust to Ava taking the new role? How will the board? How will the public who attends?
Along the way, a certain first chair violin player who is always serious, may learn to enjoy the feeling of the music more than the technique.
And perhaps a certain wild child might finally feel like she has found herself a place she wants to stick around in.
Cheesy pining, music, and sexy times ensue.
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17 Jun 2023
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Beatrice Lin-Watson, an extremely private famous actress, is cast as the lead role in a new film opposite a largely unknown new actress, Ava Silva.
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08 Feb 2023
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Beatrice finds herself musing not over duty and sacrifice and God, but the truth of angels, if they can be created rather than summoned. If they can take the form of women with overeager mouths and careless limbs and eyes with a depth that beckons - a crooked finger, a spiral staircase - if they can be both human and not, both beautiful and terrifying.
Ava asks, What do you want, Beatrice?
(Tell me and I’ll give it to you. Tell me and I’ll build you a home there. Tell me and I’ll rearrange the universe to make it all fit, angels and demons be damned. Tell me it’s me. Me. Me.)
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03 Dec 2022
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“Well, what you need is somebody who’s extremely lovable.”
Beatrice scoffs. “Yeah? And who’s going to agree–”
“You know who.” Camila raises both of her eyebrows in smug anticipation.
“No,” Beatrice says firmly. “No. I am not asking Ava to fake-date me.”
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Beatrice panics and tells her mother that she has a girlfriend when she does not. The solution?
Ava pretends to be her girlfriend for a week.
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01 Dec 2022
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After the war is over, Beatrice and Ava have settled in Paris and try to figure out what it means to have ordinary lives.
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13 Nov 2022