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Carmy always wondered why Sydney'd come back, why she’d never threatened to leave again. He’d given her plenty reasons to and yet they’d never found themselves in that place since. He wasn’t eager to repeat the past, and the panic he could feel rising in his throat almost made him turn around, walk back out the door, put this off until he was more certain Sydney wouldn’t tell him she regretted ever responding to that help wanted ad and agreeing to open an entire fucking restaurant with him.
OR: Following the review, Carmy and Sydney have to navigate a new challenge that could mean the end, or the beginning, of everything.
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01 Dec 2025
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Epicure - someone who takes pleasure or interest in fine food and drink.
Carmy enters a fine restaurant in New York and wrestles with himself and the past, whilst watching the future through a mirror darkly.
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28 Nov 2025
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It’s none of her business, is it. It literally isn’t her business, regardless of how much time she spent agonising over plate diameter. And if he wants to knock down the walls of the building alone, design the menu alone, run the fucking restaurant alone—
Well, he can do it without her.
-A character study of Sydney Adamu, throughout Season 2 of The Bear. And before.
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17 Nov 2025
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“A team,” Sydney says with pointed sarcasm. “If we’re a team that means we need to communicate and work together and trust each other, right? And today it seemed like you had no confidence in me. Like you didn’t trust me to do my job, Carm. This isn’t the first time either. It probably won’t be the last. So, I guess…what I’m asking is if you even want me here?”
It’s the kind of vulnerable question that can break their bond or tether them even more tightly to each other.
Carmy feels the words moving through him before they make it to his mouth. “I want you here, Syd. I do.”
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11 Nov 2025
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Natalie and Richie have gone home, but Carmy and Sydney are still here. The restaurant is quiet again. Almost too quiet for her liking.
The clock on the wall reads 1:27. It's late. They should both be home. But Sydney doesn't have the energy to move.
A part of her still hopes she's having another nightmare. That she'll wake up soon, and find that the updated agreement was nothing but a cruel invention of her subconscious.
But this isn’t a dream. She knows because she can feel the exhaustion from all the crying, and her mouth still tastes like the cigarette she tried to smoke earlier that night.
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Carmy and Sydney continue their conversation right after the season finale
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- Part 1 of a sunday kind of love
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31 Aug 2025
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The first year of The Bear, through the eyes of its Chef de Cuisine and Executive Chef.
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30 Aug 2025
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The first day after he left The Bear, Carmen took up running.
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11 Aug 2025
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A month, six months, a year, and three years after the events of season 4.
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11 Aug 2025
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Friends and Family night is over and Sydney has feelings. And things to do.
Update: The chapter count has gone up to seven!
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01 Aug 2025
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Syd is 12 months deep in a crush she didn't expect, Carmy is 6 months into a relationship he doesn't want, The Bear is 4 months open and Nat is 2 months into motherhood....
Chapter count has gone up!
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01 Aug 2025
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Carmy ran warm. She saw him strip himself of his woolen jacket and brave Midwestern cold with bare arms and miraculously be without any goosebumps more times than she could count. He surely didn’t need the fuzzy packets of warmth, but he had them. Undoubtedly, he had them for her. Sydney would complain about her constant cold fingers and dry knuckles often, she shouldn’t have been surprised Carmy wasn’t just listening but cataloging the facts about her into some place in his brain. And yet—
It made her ache, to be thought of like that.
Or, when Carmy and Sydney finally start dating, everyone knows. Everyone, that is, except for Sydney.
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- Part 1 of the sundays between
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01 Aug 2025
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“You know, I think we have this tendency to think of chaos as a bad thing. Like, if something’s chaotic it must be harmful, and it must be changed, or…ordered. But I think chaos itself is…natural, you know? The world around us thrives on chaos. Small changes make big differences. The butterfly effect, I guess. And, at its best, out of chaos comes creativity. I think it’s more about how we respond to the chaos that counts.”
“And how do I...we— How does anyone do that? Respond to the chaos?”
“I guess…learn to ride the wave, chef.”
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Or, the bear, seasons five and six.
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01 Aug 2025
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Dreams are Never Real by BWForEva
Fandoms: Gossip Girl Series - Cecily von Ziegesar, Gossip Girl (TV 2007)
05 Apr 2025
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28 Jul 2025
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Going Back the Way We've Come by Obsessive_RS
Fandoms: Gossip Girl (TV 2007), Gossip Girl
31 Jul 2020
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"Dan." She whispers in a hushed tone, hands gripping to her elegant gown, not able to fix her gaze on one part of his vacant face.
"Waldorf." He replies, dryly.
Oh how the tables have turned.
(Post Season 5 AU)
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14 Jul 2025
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Hundreds of moments make up a lifetime of love. An anthology of Lonely Boy and Queen B’s moments from the first time they notice each other.
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Blair sighed out the truth; to commune with her history was to acknowledge Dan Humphrey.
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13 Jul 2025
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“Why didn’t I call you?” she sneered.
“Yeah, yeah, why didn’t you call me?”
The fuck. “Why didn’t I call you, Carmen?”
“Yes!”
“Because if I wanted to waste my fucking time, I would talk to the wall, dude. If I wanted to talk to myself, I would just talk to myself like I did at Kasama.”
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When Carmy brings Claire to the restaurant in S02:05 Pop, what if he follows Sydney after she storms out?
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12 Jul 2025
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If anyone asked what the hell was wrong with him, he’d have to refrain from saying it feels like he's being haunted by Sydney Adamu.
The last six months have been a blur of repetition, bills piling faster than he can collect them, and a beating heart so strong he doesn’t think Pepto-Bismol is gonna stop him from vomiting it right out.
Six months ago, Sydney left The Bear. Now she and Carmy are no longer on speaking terms.
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11 Jul 2025
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i've got you to let me down by icouldnotsee (herprettysleeper)
Fandoms: The Bear (TV 2022)
26 Sep 2025
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"You know when you're in college," she says, "and you meet someone in your dorm during the first week, and it's crazy and you're starved for human connection and you're attached at the hip and then like three years later you realize how many times they've made you cry?"
It's like that.
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18 Jun 2025
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Five years after Syd left with the Ever chef, Syd and Carmy cross paths outside of an event. A request for a few minutes turns into a long conversation, as they revisit all the echoes of their past.
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18 Jun 2025
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He presses his back against the cold wall, feeling like he’s about to die. The panic attacks have gotten worse as well. They’re longer now, more difficult to control.
He doesn’t try to picture Sydney’s face, because if he does, he would see her like the night that she left. Angry, and sad, and disappointed.
Thinking about her doesn’t help anymore. It makes it even worse. And it’s his fucking fault.
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05 Nov 2024