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Why do you suddenly attack me, invading my stagnant nest of dreams? by Faderwold
Fandoms: Hacks (TV 2021)
03 Jun 2025
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Fixing the finale.
The club music shifts abruptly as Ava sees Deborah cheers-ing the bartender DJ with the dregs of her dirty martini. She recognizes the song with the first chords. It’s the song she and Deborah sang at Karaoke early on in their months here. Faye Wong's incredible cover of The Cranberrie’s "Dreams". Just the first notes hit her in the gut and feel hopeful, nostalgic, and a little sad. It’s a fitting soundtrack for what she feels as she watches Deborah dance playfully over to her. She looks stunning, and like she has something to prove.
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They are still a half step away from each other, sipping their tequila, as Ava peers over her glass at Deborah.
There’s something uncanny about seeing Deborah there in the flesh, looking just like she did on the screen as she quit the show and Ava heard her say for the first time that she loved her. As if Deborah is a vision. Which feels fitting, given how unbelievable she looks in that black dress, snugly hugging her chest and hips, beads catching the light, legs for days.
Deborah lets herself soak in Ava’s gaze for a bit then says, “Let me show you something.”
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- Part 3 of Garden Walls
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Deborah watches her get out of the car, then closes her eyes. Deborah can’t remember feeling this flustered by someone. It makes her feel off her game. As she puts the car in gear, her mind races. She determines she can’t need Ava as badly as she does. It makes her feel out of control. It’s dangerous to let anyone get this close. Why can’t she see that?
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- Part 2 of Garden Walls
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Paused in the parking lot looking out into the dark waves of the ocean, Deborah and Ava are side by side. Standing there in the afterglow of their conversation at the Oyster shack, and remembering the shock of the cold waves she braved to save Ava, Deborah shivers. She’s still wrapped in the towel and the new oversized hoodie that her waiter fan gave her. But she needs a warmth that runs deeper than it seems possible to get at the edge of the Pacific on this dark night. She still feels the precarity of having almost just lost Ava. The adrenaline of the near-miss still crackling in her body.
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- Part 1 of Garden Walls
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Tastes like she might be the one
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Bookmarked by Faderwold
26 Sep 2025
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Deborah gave up everything — her show, her dream — for Ava. But it’s not until they’re alone, away from the lights and the noise, that the truth settles in. In the silence between heartbreak and healing, two women rediscover what it means to choose each other.
/OS/ Following the events of "Slippery Slope"
Bookmarked by Faderwold
27 May 2025

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