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While the rest of her family seems to fit naturally into the world around them, Francesca has always felt different, too quiet, too overwhelmed and too difficult for people to fully understand her. Over the years she learns how to hide those parts of herself and become the version everyone expects her to be.
During a crowded house party, Francesca quietly sleeps away from the noise and hides in the library, there she meets Michaela Stirling for the first time.Bookmarked by Charibari
21 May 2026
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“Is it so unthinkable of a suggestion? Am I that off-putting, that horrible that you cannot even imagine pretending to date me?"
"No, Fran. It's not that. It's—" Michaela stopped, shaking her head and sighing. "You deserve more than that. More than what I'm looking to offer."
"I want nothing more!" Francesca spoke too emphatically, drawing attention to herself. "It's seamless. It solves both of our problems. You get a steady, unobjectionable partner and in turn, the estate. I get a reprieve from my family's haranguing, as they'll see I'm happily coupled. Nobody needs to know that our partnership is platonic masquerading as something more."
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Michaela can’t inherit the Stirling Estate unless she reforms her womanizing ways and Francesca can’t get her family to cease their incessant badgering about her finding true love. Realizing they both stand to gain from a relationship, they start up a fake one. Inconveniently for their plan, they’re already in love.
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20 May 2026
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“You’ve never bedded a woman before?” Michaela gasped.
“There was never any need.”
“Need?!” Michaela laughed again, thoroughly entertained by John’s misery, “Loving a woman cannot be reduced to just a need, darling. I could say the same about myself, that there was ‘never any need’, obviously, and yet…”
“I am well aware, Michaela,” John grumbled, “We used to share a wall. And I have given you your own wing in the castle as I hoped to be made less aware.”—
Everything John knew about women, he learnt from Michaela. It should come as no surprise, then, that he would choose to marry the woman of her dreams. Missing moments from Season 3 and 4, detailing all the ways guilt layers.
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18 May 2026
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Michaela sells flowers for apologies and confessions.
Francesca doesn’t seem interested in either as she helps make people's decisions feel permanent.
When a tattoo parlor expansion brings them together, what starts as business quickly turns into something harder to define. Something that is measured in glances, half-finished conversations, and tension that refuses to stay subtle.
Somewhere in the middle of it all, Michaela realizes this isn’t just another order while Francesca realizes that this isn't just another sketch she can ink onto skin.
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17 May 2026
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The Only Exception by NotTheBrightestt
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
17 May 2026
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After spending an ample amount of time with her family in Mayfair, and beginning to fully process what has now become of her life after John's passing--Francesca decides to return to Scotland. She returns in hope to find peace and comfort in the place her and John grew to call home. Though peace is a thing easily interrupted by the right force...
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17 May 2026
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Bearing Walls by SoftMelancholyAfterDark
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn, Bridgerton (TV) RPF, Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story (TV)
16 May 2026
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Francesca Bridgerton never forgot Michaela Stirling. She just got very good at not thinking about her.
Ten years.A career she built from the ground up. A life that worked exactly the way she’d designed it: controlled and precise. She was good at this. She was, by most measures, fine.
Then, the Altessence Heritage Institute briefing documents arrived. And there, third name on the list, was the one person she had spent a decade not thinking about.
Michaela Stirling. Lead Architect. The most ambitious architectural project London has seen in years and absolutely no way out.Francesca had eleven days to prepare.
It wasn’t enough.
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16 May 2026
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Michaela and Francesca's love story :,) featuring a mix of canon/author-created moments, focused on both Michaela and Francesca's POV, and including all the brigdy siblings.
Excerpt from Chapter 6: The Jealousy Thickens
Michaela is still in her mauve dress from the day, but Francesca dons her blue dressing robe. Michaela wonders if she’s wearing that sheer white nightgown underneath it. The one she was wearing the night Michaela returned. Oh, how Michaela would like to see Francesca in just that nightgown.
Michaela’s face grows warm as she thinks wicked thoughts, and she stands quickly to put distance between Francesca and herself. Francesca straightens up as well and puts the apple on the table. She looks at Michaela expectantly.
“Hello?” Francesca says, slightly annoyed and lightly amused.
“Hello,” Michaela responds, nervousness bubbling up inside of her. She wants to curse the alcohol running through her veins.
“You’re in the kitchen at midnight because…” Francesca gets to the point because clearly, Michaela is not following.
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14 May 2026
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"Congratulations," Francesca said. Only she could hear the slight edge beneath it, the anger that had been simmering for ten years finally finding its way to the surface.
"Thank you." Michaela's voice was quieter, softer, almost uncertain.
Francesca extended the award. The crystal was cold and heavy, the engraved plaque catching the light. For a moment they both held it—Francesca's hands on one side, Michaela's reaching for the other. Their fingers brushed. It was the barest contact—the pad of Michaela's thumb grazing Francesca's knuckles as she took hold of the trophy. But the sensation was electric, a shock that traveled up Francesca's arm and exploded somewhere in her heart. Heat and ice at the same time. Recognition. Memory. The ghost of every time they'd touched before.
Ten years ago, Francesca Bridgerton lost the girl she loved. Michaela abandoned her.
Ten years ago, Michaela Stirling lost the girl she loved. She was taken away from Francesca.
Now they’re co‑stars in the most anticipated movie of the year, pretending they don’t remember how it felt to lose each other.
Childhood friends to strangers to enemies (not really but they don't get along) TO LOVERSBookmarked by Charibari
14 May 2026
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Losing a Stirling was a pain unlike anything Francesca could have ever fathomed. And she’d already lost two. John, she’d lost to fate. Michaela, she’d lost to —
Well. She still did not know why.
But the twin losses struck her and left her with wounds that would not heal.
To think there was a Stirling in need of a home. In need of love.
And Francesca had nothing but love to give a Stirling.
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or, the canon-compliant kidfic, because regency sapphics can, in fact, have a child
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14 May 2026
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“So.” Michaela tilted her head, "what’s your angle?"
“No angle,” Francesca said, tapping her pen against her notebook twice, to give her hands something to do. "Just the truth."
5 times Francesca doesn’t tell Michaela she’s Supergirl and one time she does.
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11 May 2026
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Lost and Found by thegoldensword
Fandoms: Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn, Bridgerton (TV)
10 May 2026
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“Is that…” he trailed off in a choked whisper. His words failed him as he saw the beautiful, wide-eyed baby girl wrapped in Penelope’s arms. It was undeniable.
That baby was a Bridgerton.
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10 May 2026
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Francesca doesn't know how to do anything but keep Michaela safe.
Growing up running through hills and fields together, it made sense to everyone that knew them that Francesca and Michaela would end up on the most remote mountain rescue team in the Scottish Highlands.
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Franchaela Mountain Rescue AU
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10 May 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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10 May 2026
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What the crown forbids by Lesbianoftheton
Fandoms: Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn, Bridgerton (TV)
15 May 2026
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‘Here,’ Francesca continued awkwardly, ‘we can share the blanket. You can sleep on the right side and I’ll sleep on the left side. But uh… if you prefer another side, you can choose. I do not want you to feel forced into sleeping somewhere specific.’
Michaela smiled slightly.
‘I think I’ll survive whichever side you give me, princess.’
She climbed onto the bed and ended up laying on one of Francesca’s plushies.
Francesca realized Michaela was probably too tired for another conversation, so she quietly laid down beside her.
For some reason, sleeping next to Michaela made her stomach feel strangely warm and nervous at the same time, though Francesca didn’t really understand why.
At Westbridge Royal Academy Francesca Bridgerton tries her best to be the perfect princess, the perfect student, and the perfect girlfriend to John Stirling.
Unfortunately for her, Michaela Stirling has just arrived at the academy, and the fact that she also happens to be John’s cousin certainly does not help Francesca avoid falling in love.
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10 May 2026
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fake it 'til christmas by midnightlilac
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
12 May 2026
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Francesca is in trouble. Her family’s Christmas tree farm is struggling to stay afloat, and she desperately needs to win a small business contest to save it. The catch? In a moment of panic, she lied on the application, claiming she runs the farm with her boyfriend.
Now, a famous influencer is coming to visit for a week to film everything, and Francesca is missing a boyfriend. Her only solution — and the most dangerous one for her heart, is asking her best friend, Michaela, to play along.
They have five days to convince everyone they’re the perfect couple. The only problem is that for Francesca, pretending to love Michaela is the easiest thing in the world. The hard part will be remembering it's all a lie.
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09 May 2026
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"I am so sorry," a voice yelps from behind her. "I did not—I mean—"
"Perhaps you should—" Michaela starts to admonish her attacker, whirling around to face them, but the words sputter and die in her throat before she can finish.
Michaela must admit she recognizes most of the women here. Many of them, intimately. She has already lost count of the married women who have flushed and avoided her eyeline, and she has not even been here ten minutes.
But Michaela knows she has never met this woman. She is positive, because she would have remembered meeting an angel.
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Michaela and Francesca are forced to choose between love and loyalty.
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09 May 2026
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All The Words She Lost by judeseyes
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn, Francesca Bridgerton/Michaela Stirling - Fandom
19 May 2026
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"You have lost the privilege of Frannie".
Two years ago, Michaela Stirling left a London drawing-room one evening and did not come back. She left a letter. She left, also, the woman whose hand she had been holding on a sofa some hours earlier, and to whom she had said nothing of consequence.
She is, this April, returning. There are papers to sign, a title to inherit, and a season to survive, and there are, unfortunately, only so many ballrooms in Mayfair.
Francesca Bridgerton, Countess of Kilmartin, has been waiting. Not gladly.A literary slow-burn through the season of 1820. F/F; sixteen episodes; rated for the long view.
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04 May 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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29 Apr 2026
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“How long is this flight again?” Michaela asked.
“About ten hours,” Francesca answered while shoving her book into her backpack.
“Tits, that’s long,” Michaela hissed out. “If they let me drive the plane, we’d be there in six hours, max.”
Francesca rolled her eyes. “If they let you drive the plane, we’d be crash landing at the bottom of the ocean and touring the wreckage of the Titanic.”
Michaela hummed thoughtfully. “See, I was thinking —worst possibility— I accidentally cause another 9/11.”
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After two years of grieving John, Francesca decides to spend her summer on a solo road trip through America. She’s excited for the long drives to nowhere and the peace and quiet of the journey, that is, until a certain Stirling woman crashes her plans.
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The modern Franchaela road trip AU that no one asked for
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29 Apr 2026
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“She thinks… she asked for me when she woke up so they called me. She thinks we’re still engaged.” And curse his tone too for being so sympathetic and emotional when he’s saying something that could come straight from one of Michaela’s nightmares.
“What?” Michaela scoffs. “You haven’t been engaged for-”
“Nearly two years.” He says too calmly, even as her own anxiety worsens. “She doesn’t remember that she broke it off because-” He swallows, still some pain to the statement even with his endless support. He probably loves her as much as Michaela does. He probably felt the same terrified panic that was still easing through her chest now.
“Because of me.” She whispers quietly… not a fact she had known at the time but one she was well aware of now after six months of being with her… they had just moved in together for crying out loud, what does he mean she doesn’t remember?
“She doesn’t remember that.” John’s tone is pained but quiet, gentle as he reaches out toward her, but she flinches away from his grip, her mind struggling to process the information he’s feeding her.
“She doesn’t remember… that she loves me?”
Or the Franchaela amnesia au
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27 Apr 2026