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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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14 Feb 2026
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A giggle cuts through the air behind her. Carla turns around and is face-to-face with a tiny blonde woman climbing onto the treadmill that the brunette was just about to occupy.
Carla is flustered. Too many emotions race through her at once. She’s annoyed about the treadmill, angry about the eavesdropping, and embarrassed by how she cannot stop staring at the blonde.
The blonde who is incredibly attractive.
After what feels like minutes of staring, she decides she can only deal with one emotion at a time.
The blonde smirks, and Carla’s entire world flips upside down. Her stomach an’ all.
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14 Feb 2026
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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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12 Feb 2026
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In 1996, Lisa Swain is 19 and living a comfortable, middle class life with her parents and sister in a leafy Manchester suburb. Comfortable apart from the fact she’s struggling to come to terms with her sexuality.
Having recently spent the night with her best friend - she’s left humiliated and considering dropping out of university.
Carla Donovan is 21, and living far less comfortably, alone, in a freezing cold flat on an estate rougher than most prisons. Her brother Rob is constantly in trouble with the law, and she has to suffer the consequences of his actions. Her life has made her tough, and unforgiving, and she doesn’t suffer fools gladly. Without the support of her best friend Michelle - life would feel very bleak indeed.
So what could happen when these two polar opposite, but equally troubled young women cross paths by chance on a night out?
As time moves on and when fate continues to bring them together, during various stages of their lives - are they able to navigate so many changes and challenges? And accept that the universe keeps bringing them back to each other, and perhaps they are powerless to stop it?
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11 Feb 2026
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This is an AU where Carla and Lisa have not met as yet. Carla's backstory of rape, miscarriage and bad relationships is as per canon events up to and including Peter. Carla is a stripper and has been single for a while.
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08 Feb 2026