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  1. Public Bookmark 39

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    Conrad has had various scars across his body for as long as Belly has known him.  Using each line, every ridge as a metric system, she can measure the events of his life by his scars. She knows he was six years old when he earned the small dot on the front of his right shin from running into a rock along the beach; nine years old when he got a thin, inch long zigzag on his left forearm while hiking with his Boy Scout troop in the Spring. She’s read the story of his life through the marks on his body with her fingers, her lips, her tongue, to the point where she can map him with her eyes closed.

     

    Or: Belly Conklin is 25 years old when she realizes she might have a scar kink.

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    19 Feb 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 21

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    It's a text-story - baby just say yes!

    Sampling of Belly’s Text’s from the August before her non-wedding to Jeremiah to the one year after. (Covers ~S3-E7 to post S3-E11). Each chapter gives the correspondence with a different character.

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    8/8
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    13 Feb 2026

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    An incomplete list of things roommates Belly and Conrad will say just this once to:

    1.) Watching TV together when they can’t sleep. (Oops, it becomes a routine rather quickly.)

    2.) Sharing a bed. (A pipe burst in their apartment and they have to get a hotel room, what are they supposed to do?)

    3.) Having sex with each other. (Sexual tension is taut between them, and they’re getting it out of their system. But then they’re doing it again. And again, and then one last time, for real . . . Fifth time’s the charm, surely.)

    What’s next, falling in love? Yeah, right.

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    7/9
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    20 Jan 2026

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    " 'Conrad, you’re a great dad.’ She says after a while, breaking the daze he had found himself in. 'But you need to think of yourself sometimes, too.' ”

     

    alternate universe where belly and conrad never meet as children, but they do years later when she's conrad's daughter's third grade teacher.

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    Chapters:
    13/13
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    18 Jan 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 55

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    Belly and Conrad are back together and extremely happy, even if they only have a finite amount of time before Conrad has to go home. And they have to tell everyone else in their family and friend group the news.

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    Chapters:
    11/11
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    18 Jan 2026

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    His fist is soft on her door, but it swings open on the hinges almost immediately. And there she is: Belly, grinning, barefoot in a white sundress and red lipstick. She looks like a dream, Conrad thinks. He’s definitely had this dream once or twice before. He maybe even had it last night. He had no idea it was possible to dream about Belly more than he already did, but the last few nights have taught him to never say never.

    (Four days after Belly jumps on a train to confess her love, Conrad returns to Paris.)

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    05 Jan 2026

  7. Public Bookmark 55

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    Hearing Conrad's voice for the first time in two years is like being doused with a bucket of cold water.

    Belly's imagination has gotten his voice wrong. It’s a little lower, a little huskier, in real life, and her brain immediately gets to work on rewriting every time she’s heard his voice in her head so that it sounds like the real thing.

    (Conrad never sends the letters, so he doesn’t end up in Paris. Belly writes letters to Conrad instead, but never sends them.

    After two years, they reunite on a flight from Paris to Boston, on their way to Cousins for Laurel’s birthday weekend.)

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    04 Jan 2026

  8. Public Bookmark 21

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    "𝐼𝑓 𝐼 𝑚𝑒𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡, 𝐼 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢."

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    Isabel Conklin meets Conrad Fisher at her 22nd birthday party.

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    04 Jan 2026

  9. Public Bookmark 45

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    A year after the almost-wedding that shattered everything, Belly is graduating college, ready to step into her future—and yet, the past has a way of finding her. When Conrad shows up unexpectedly at her graduation, old feelings resurface with the same intensity they always carried, pulling her back to the love she’s never been able to let go of.
    At Laurel’s request, the whole summer family returns to Cousins Beach one last time. But as the summer unfolds late-night swims, letters unsent, and memories around every corner force Belly and Conrad to face what they’ve been avoiding for years: that what they had was never over.
    With Jeremiah determined to protect their friendship, Steven and Taylor cheering from the sidelines, and Conrad finally ready to stop running from his feelings, Belly finds herself caught between fear and possibility. Can they trust themselves enough not to break each other again? Can they choose love, even with all the history between them?

    Because sometimes love isn’t about starting over—it’s about finding your way back. And if they’re brave enough to try, it just might feel like infinity.

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    04 Jan 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    Jr mint rewrite

  10. Public Bookmark 9

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    What if Belly never wrote Conrad back?

    What if Conrad never went to Paris?

    What if they didn't see each other until Christmas, seventeen months after Belly and Jeremiah's failed wedding?

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    Chapters:
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    04 Jan 2026

  11. Public Bookmark 49

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    After Conrad gets into a car crash and loses his memory, Belly spends every waking minute of her life teaching him how to relearn everything — including how to love her all over again.

    Featuring Belly and Conrad in a Rewrite of ‘The Vow’

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    03 Jan 2026

  12. Public Bookmark 56

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    Conrad steps through the door and turns around to look at her, flicking the light on for the foyer.  He smiles, and with all the cheesiness in her soul, Belly thinks she’ll never need Christmas lights to illuminate her world again as long as he keeps smiling at her.  She watches him lean against the door frame, the thick dark wool of his sweater bunching against the wood. Even though Conrad in every season is a Conrad she loves, Conrad in winter has always been her favorite Conrad.

     

    Or: Who says your first Christmas home with your boyfriend, your families, and your ex-fiancé who also happens to be your boyfriend’s brother has to be awkward?

     

    OR: Christmas 4.0

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    03 Jan 2026

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    “You’re one to talk,” Belly says, “with how needy you were on the staircase just now, practically begging for me to fuck you.”

    “Oh, Belly,” Conrad says, takes off his glasses and leans against her to set them on the coffee table behind her. “You’d know if I was begging."

    (Belly and Conrad have been hooking up for three weeks. When a thunderstorm hits Boston, she ends up staying with him for the weekend.

    This is totally fine, because she's definitely, absolutely not in love with him.)

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    Chapters:
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    Comments:
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    02 Jan 2026

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    He is incapable of pulling away, incapable of not kissing her. 

    The train is moving.  Not just moving, flying, really—Amtrak Northeast Regional this is not—and it is quickly becoming clear that the engineer of this railroad did not design it with romance in mind.  Because sometime during minute six or seven or ten of kissing Belly, it begins to feel like an extreme sport.  When they round a particularly sharp bend, Conrad has to steady himself on a seat back with one arm so that he can use the other to hold Belly upright and continue to kiss her like the world is ending.

    Honestly, he feels like it actually is, in some ways.  Or maybe it ended five years ago and this is some post-apocalyptic fantasy.  Either way, it all feels so terrifyingly good and new that Conrad is not about to tempt fate by letting her go.

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    A series of canon-compliant vignettes about a post-E11 Belly and Conrad. While each chapter can be read on its own, there is a cohesive storyline from one to the next. That storyline is mostly that they love each other a lot (and have sex a lot).

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    Chapters:
    5/5
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    31 Dec 2025

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    “I bet you’d pretend not to know me if we bumped into each other.”

    “I would never pretend to not know you, Belly.”

    (In which Conrad never writes the letters, and he and Belly reunite in California, five years after the failed wedding).

    Language:
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    Chapters:
    8/8
    Comments:
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    08 Dec 2025

  16. Public Bookmark 94

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    What if Belly never chose Jeremiah?

    A year and a half after that painful night in the motel, a heartbroken Conrad in California is trying to pick up the pieces and move on. Meanwhile, a guilt-ridden Belly is struggling to do the same. But some memories and secrets refuse to stay buried.

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    Chapters:
    20/?
    Comments:
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    26,222

    02 Dec 2025

  17. Public Bookmark 21

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    A month after getting back together in Paris, Belly and Conrad get vulnerable with each other on one of their scheduled FaceTime calls.

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    Comments:
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    2,240

    30 Nov 2025

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    Belly bit her lip, then whispered, “It’s just the way you look at me sometimes.”

    Conrad leaned closer. “How do I look at you?”

    Belly dipped her head low. “Like you’re conflicted,” she said. She looked directly at him. “You get storm clouds in your eyes.”

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    an au where conrad doesn’t go to stanford and him and belly are “just friends”

    Language:
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    Chapters:
    6/6
    Comments:
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    22,184

    15 Nov 2025

    Bookmarker's Notes

    Vial of sand

  19. Public Bookmark 42

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    A sequel to 'I saw Sparks', a partial re-write of S1 where Belly was a little more perceptive, and Conrad was a little more forthcoming with his feelings.

    This fic will explore how they navigate their relationship after the events of S1.

    AU / fluff & smut central

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    29,093
    Chapters:
    13/13
    Comments:
    188
    Kudos:
    495
    Bookmarks:
    42
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    16,510

    18 Oct 2025

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    "You shouldn't be out here," Conrad says without looking at her, even though he's only here so she can be too. "So close to the water when it's this dark."
    Belly sits down anyway. "Then neither should you."

     

    (Belly kisses Conrad that first night, at the bonfire. somehow everything changes and stays the same.)

    Language:
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    Words:
    131,235
    Chapters:
    10/10
    Comments:
    510
    Kudos:
    1,510
    Bookmarks:
    353
    Hits:
    66,487

    17 Oct 2025

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