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    “It’s a lot easier for me to keep my grip on you when I can actually feel your body.”

    The phrase feel your body said in Kara’s voice rattles around in Lena’s head like a pinball machine, but she manages to shrug her sweater off and throw it somewhere behind them before she can second-guess herself. Kara is looking comfortable in a loose white t-shirt, and when she takes Lena by the waist and puts Lena’s hand on her shoulder the texture of it is light and soft.

    “Let’s start from square one,” Kara says, so kindly that her next words take a few seconds to register in Lena’s brain. She tightens her grip on Lena’s waist, and says with full confidence:

    “Dancing is a lot like sex.”

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    Against her better judgement Lena agrees to compete on Dancing with the Stars for the PR boost. When her chemistry with her partner Kara gets misconstrued by the press, there’s obviously only one solution.

    AKA, a Dancing with the Stars/Fake Dating AU.

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    14 Mar 2022

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    Kara Zor-El, last heir to the lost throne of the planet Krypton, is one of a thousand refugees fleeing the galactic tyranny of a brutal Luthorian regime. At last, her people have found a new home but before they can rebuild, a new arrival stands in their way.

    In the dark cold of space, Kara battles with a lone Luthorian cruiser until she gains the upper hand. She wins, but the damage to her ship forces her to crash on an empty, lifeless moon.

    Lost and wounded with no way to contact her people, Kara is marooned without hope of rescue or escape.

    Until Kara discovers she’s not alone, and the other person is her sworn enemy.

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    06 Mar 2022

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    Not much else grows in the garden because of the weeds that steal space and smother the other crops. Only the memory of old labour remains, the symmetrical lines of plants now choked by dark shrubs. Their roots aren't deep and could be easily uprooted by a firm hand, but Lena lets them thrive. Few bright wild flowers paint the garden with blue, like a handful of star fragments.

    "You have a beautiful garden."

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    When an amnesiac pilot moves in the house next to hers, Lena's world shatters

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    06 Mar 2022

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    When Lena meets Kara, a soldier home on leave as she waits for her next deployment, at a local coffee shop one afternoon, her life is completely tipped upside down in an instant. As they start talking, Lena feels drawn to Kara; there's something about her warmth and openness that fills the gap left by Lena's troubled childhood.

    Growing closer over the next few months, falling fast for each other, the two of them find themselves unable to stay away, but Kara's next deployment is inevitable, and with promises that she'll come home, Lena waits for her.

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    06 Mar 2022

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    Kara cradles her pile of dirty plates. She doesn’t know how to open Lena’s brand new dishwasher without ripping the handle apart. She usually figures these things out through trial and error, but she’s never been alone in Lena’s apartment, and she can’t risk winging it in front of her.

    So, she just stands by the sink and watches the hot water redden Lena’s sensitive skin, the light glinting off her beautiful earrings, and my happiness bites the plum of your mouth.The verse comes to her, unbidden, from one of their weekly poems. Lena always chooses poems with such physicality to them. Always real, touchable.

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    Or: Kara is an alien, Lena is a genius. Their strangeness separates and connects them to the world and each other in peculiar ways. Being human in Lena’s eyes allows Kara to tap into parts of herself she hadn’t been able to explore before, but she knows her secret will one day stop being a bridge between them, and they’ll both lose the version of Kara Lena has grown to love. (Tender slow burn, mutual respect, bittersweetness and tentative physicality galore! Some angst and a lot of joy)

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    02 Feb 2022