15 Works by LongWindedAnswer
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“C2 to Halo, do you copy?” A new voice said, interrupting Beatrice’s trivia game about the types of clouds in the air. Not recognizing the voice or the name, Beatrice thought it was a kid. “C2 to Halo, do you copy?” it repeated just as insistently.
“I copy,” she said, bringing her walkie talkie from her hip to her lips. “Who's Halo?” she asked.
“You are! Your balloon is big and yellow!”
Beatrice rolled her eyes. Definitely a kid, dialing into the wrong frequency. It wasn’t the first time and it wouldn’t be the last, so half exasperatedly and half gently, Beatrice clarified: “You can just call me Beatrice. Who's this?”
“Your new C2, reporting for duty, Bea!” the voice chirped.
Beatrice gave it a moment. First, to panic, then to experience discontent. “You are late.”
OR the one where Beatrice is a Hot Air Balloon pilot in a very small village called Great Haywood, and Ava crashes back into Beatrice's life like a very rough landing.
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Ava Silva, 23, New York City resident, two jobs, known troublemaker (*winks*), decidedly not a princess (*gasps*, "Never!"), gets told she is, in fact, a princess.
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Beatrice is sleepy. Ava is sleepy. It's their first night with what remains of the OCS, and they don't know how to break it to everyone that's looking at them: they'll be sharing the same bed just like they did back in the Alps.
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“I really don't,” Beatrice said over her glass of wine one afternoon at what had quickly become their favorite restaurant.
“Yes, you do. What better way to learn the Portuguese language and the culture than to date a local?”
To befriend a local, thought Beatrice as she swallowed. Camila was already her friend and after living in Lisbon for 8 years, Beatrice could very well say she was a local.
Learning the language was also not critical. Most people maintained a subscription for their Language Links. Her father's company even included a premium subscription to the translation service as a perk for everyone expected to travel around the globe as a company representative. So, while Camila continued her convincing, Beatrice did not even have to reach towards her ear to tell it that Camila was now cursing in Spanish.
Some people didn't wear their Links all the time, though. That, Beatrice discovered during the first blind date Camila sent her on. Her name was Ava.
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Leaning back, Ava wrapped a hand around her chocolate shake. Cold droplets drifted into her fingers.
Only familiar with wine as a symbol of blood, she had not decided yet what the other items on the cocktail menu were. She shook her head and decided the night should be over with.
It was under the restroom’s blue light that Ava spoke to Beatrice. A fleeting glance first as she washed her hands, never expecting the woman beside her to return it. A small smile that widened as Beatrice's golden eyes fluttered amongst hers. They exchanged timid hi’s, in turn.
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Ava Silva, Beatrice's favorite travel photographer posts a selfie for the first time, and much like Beatrice did by publishing her latest critically acclaimed novel, the act sets Beatrice's confined world ablaze.
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We Might Be at the Right Time, at the Right Space by LongWindedAnswer
Fandoms: Warrior Nun (TV)
13 Feb 2024
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Two years after the dramatic events of We Might Be Here by Mistake, Ava and Beatrice celebrate Valentine's Day weekend together.
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"Am I allowed to test the verity of your words?" With the question, Ava moved to stand in the middle of the kitchen and bowed like a host about to introduce a magic act.
In hindsight, her challenge was nothing but a display of delusion, for Ava had never charmed a betrothed woman or man. Her game mostly worked against anarchistic minds like her own, who, in the first place, would never fall prey to holy matrimony. Nonetheless, in her reverie, all possibilities, especially that of buckling under her brother’s wife, outdid Ava’s ability to give a shit.
Michael just stared, thoughts scintillating behind his eyes, a look that Ava recognized from her teenage years, particularly when he would catch her doing something he had not asked.
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Due to multiple volcanic eruptions, a wedding that she had missed, and a massive scandal, Ava spends a portion of The Year Without a Summer in Switzerland, getting to know her brother's wife
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Beatrice gets sent to a summer camp for troubled kids where she makes a bunch of peculiar friends that she grows into adulthood with: Lilith who's convincing, Mary who's strong, Camila who cries a lot, Scooby, Ava's service dog, and well... Ava
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monday, tuesday, wednesday... by LongWindedAnswer for FujiPygmi
Fandoms: Warrior Nun (TV)
02 Nov 2023
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“How will I even know if Beatrice is here tomorrow?” Ava asks.
“The boat’s called Sunday, windows will be open, and you’ll see Monday,” Mary explains.
“Who’s Monday?”
“Her cat,” JC answers.
“Great, so I come over tomorrow and look for an old lady named Beatrice, a boat named Sunday, and a cat named Monday."
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Sailing AU, in which Ava goes to a very little but very cool island, and Beatrice is her captain.
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The handshake is firm, stark because of calloused fingers.Beatrice does not know what to do then. Her plan was not to come in. Her plan was not even to eat some of the pie.
"Ava," Beatrice repeats, unknowingly building a connection in her brain that will later associate the three letters with the very sweet and decadent taste of the huckleberry and blackberry pie in Beatrice's mouth.
Ava smiles as if she were aware of it.
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It is 1983, and Beatrice’s mother is dead set against the new neighbors. Beatrice ought to disagree. Ava Silva is the perfect neighbor - to experiment with.
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The woman and Beatrice were of the few in the coffee shop who stayed still and silent despite the news flashing on the TV, pondering: the world as they knew it would end in 30 hours to be exact.
Across the table, the woman sighed. She put her laptop away and left her backpack on the seat beside her. She strolled towards Beatrice with a smile on her lips. She extended a hand for Beatrice to shake. "Ava," the woman said.
There was a noticeable tremble on Beatrice's hands, but the woman's were firm and tender at the same time. She squeezed as Beatrice said her name.
“Beatrice," she repeated and swallowed, eyes brightening and watering as if the name had tasted almost too sweet for her. "I suggest we spend the rest of our lives together if you'd like, but there is a request - just one - I need to make." Beatrice quirked a brow, feeling her palm gather sweat. "May we kiss just before the world ends?”
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As if that was not enough to experience the explosive side effects of audacity induced fission, Beatrice also wore a pine colored strapback nearly flattened with use and men’s shorts. By all external reports and accounts, at 5:07am Ava was already sweating.And Chanel was squeezing Beatrice's fucking arm.
“Wow, all the legends about you seem to be true. Enlighten me, dear, in what temple are women lining up to perform sacrifices for you?”
Ava pepped her step towards Chanel. She was going to kill her.
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They are going camping, hiking, to theme parks, haunted houses... Problem is, Ava was not invited.
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Your vows (In sickness and in health) by LongWindedAnswer for Morjojo
Fandoms: Warrior Nun (TV)
18 May 2023
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Chastity, Obedience, Poverty.
These are not the vows of a nun.
These are Beatrice's vows to Ava.
OR: The one where Beatrice basically owns the largest airline in the world, and she keeps meeting Ava at airports.
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“Um, Beatrice?” Ava does not know how to say this. Does not know how Beatrice will take this, but the reasonable thing is to tell her. “Babe, we are dead.”
Now with a happy ending because you all insisted