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Beatrice finds herself musing not over duty and sacrifice and God, but the truth of angels, if they can be created rather than summoned. If they can take the form of women with overeager mouths and careless limbs and eyes with a depth that beckons - a crooked finger, a spiral staircase - if they can be both human and not, both beautiful and terrifying.
Ava asks, What do you want, Beatrice?
(Tell me and I’ll give it to you. Tell me and I’ll build you a home there. Tell me and I’ll rearrange the universe to make it all fit, angels and demons be damned. Tell me it’s me. Me. Me.)
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15 Oct 2023
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choose the devil I know (over the heaven I don’t) by sapphicstacks
Fandoms: Warrior Nun (TV)
02 Sep 2023
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Firefighters know the importance of good water pressure. Or, at least, that's what Ava would tell the crew when they asked why she always took a shower at the station.
The water pressure at Ava's apartment was shit, and the station always had hot water. So, every night, every morning, and sometimes, randomly in the middle of the day, Ava would take full advantage of the facilities.
Except that wasn't the whole truth. They really were great showers, sure, but the real reason Ava carefully planned every time she showered was what Ava was doing right now.
Sometimes, if Ava got the timing right and said just the right things, she could convince someone to join her in the shower.
So, tonight, during her second shower of the day, Ava was pressed against and three fingers deep inside one Lieutenant Beatrice Lin-Watson while the rest of their crew was obliviously watching Sharknado: The 4th Awakens across the firehouse.
Here's how Ava managed it.
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An Avatrice Firefighter AU
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21 Sep 2023
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Because it turns out the Halo can want things now, sort of. Not the way a human would, with thoughts or motivation or articulable desires. The Halo wants things the way a tree wants water and shoves a taproot through flagstone to get it, which is all well and good for the tree, but less so for the idiot trying to keep her patio intact. Unfortunately for Ava, she’s both the idiot and the taproot. The flagstone is her dignity. The water – for reasons becoming rapidly and unavoidably apparent – is Beatrice.
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the one where the halo imprints on beatrice like a duckling and is dead-set on making it ava’s problem
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- Part 1 of sentient halo au
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10 Sep 2023
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“You’re too pretty to be a nun,” she—the patient, the charming patient, Ava Silva, 19, no family, paralyzed from the neck down—tells Beatrice when she walks into the room.
Beatrice doesn't know what to say to that. She doesn’t spend much time looking at herself except to smooth out her hair, to make sure there are no stray pieces of lint on her shirt. She definitely hasn’t thought about the word pretty in relation to herself.
“I’m not,” she tells Ava directly.
“Not pretty or not a nun?"
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10 Sep 2023
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From the road, Ava could only make out their broadest features: a woman in a white tank top, her muscled shoulders tanned from the sun, an axe dangling casually in one hand. She had already placed a log in front of her, and as Ava watched she lifted the axe above her head and swung it downwards in a single fluid motion, the taut muscles of her arms working so perfectly with the axe they might have all been one. The log split easily into two, as though she were cutting through paper, and the woman picked up the two halves to place them into a neat stack nearby.
“Ah,” Schaefer said, catching the line of her gaze, “That’s Beatrice. Your new neighbor. Don’t mind her too much, she’s a little… eccentric.”
Ava liked eccentric. She also liked women who looked like they could tear her in half without too much effort. She had a feeling she was going to like Beatrice a lot.
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10 Sep 2023
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Ava rolls over, shutting her brain off, and very carefully presses the palm of her hand on Beatrice’s waist.
Beatrice tenses immediately, a sharp intake of breath filling the otherwise quiet bedroom.
A few seconds pass with nothing and Ava starts to pull away, an apology on her lips, when Beatrice grabs her wrist. It’s so fast that Ava hardly registers what happened, but suddenly, she’s being pulled to the other side of the bed.
Ava lets it happen, helps, and now she’s hovering over Beatrice. She’s so close she can see the shine in her eyes, how wide they are and she can see them flicker to her lips and back up.
Bea’s made this move, it’s her turn now. Ava leans forward, giving Beatrice a chance to turn her away.
When she doesn’t, it’s game over. Their lips meet and every functioning part of Ava’s brain that might tell her there will be consequences to this completely disappear.
The world could set fire tonight and Ava would keep kissing her as the apartment collapsed around them.
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Ava and Bea hook up in Switzerland and everything is a mess because of it.
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26 Aug 2023
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To Ava, nothing had ever been so confusing, so gorgeous, so heartbreaking as the discovery of her own body. And then there was her discovery of Beatrice’s.
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Ava accidentally sees Beatrice naked. It makes the whole "sharing a one bedroom apartment in Switzerland" thing a little more complicated than it was before. A comedy of errors in three acts.
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Unbound for a second, Beatrice lifts her hand back up. There’s no dirt, no excuse, but she palms Ava’s face again, just to feel it, just for that special close lipped smile that graces Ava’s face again, just for her to sigh.
She removes it quickly—not quickly enough, too quickly—catching Ava’s eyes when they open again.
“Now,” Beatrice says, voice soft and serious. “Let’s try again.”
Ava nods, the halo glows, her feet leave the ground, and she doubles her time.
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Beatrice realizes that her touch helps Ava with her training, and, well, things escalate.
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She wants Beatrice to fingerprint her, to tattoo her, to leave a mark so deep not even the Halo can rid her of it. Her muscles feel too tight, stretched uncomfortably over her bones. There is something ravenous inside of her, and Beatrice is going to set it free.
You are the only thing I've ever lived for, Beatrice says.
You are the only thing I've ever died for, Ava says, and even that wasn't enough to keep me from you.
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“I need you to give me a hickey,” Ava says, a little out of breath like she’s just run across campus to deliver this incredibly important mission.
“I…” Beatrice starts, brain going unfortunately muddled. “I beg your pardon?”
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or: the three (3) times Beatrice gave Ava a hickey and the one (1) time Ava returned the favor
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- Part 1 of Hickey AU
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Beatrice just continues to stare. “Goodbye,” she says blankly before turning and power walking away, fuelled by the everlasting love of God.
Ava’s smile falls and she smacks her face groaning, “idiot, fucking idiot.”
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Ava is a mess, Beatrice is clueless and panicking, Camilla is the number 1 Avatrice shipperSeries
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They had to leave for the airport in a few hours, J.C would be heading over to them shortly to pick up Strike.
And Beatrice was only half packed.
This was a level of chaos that Ava would only ever expect from herself.
Was she a bad influence? Quite possibly.
Was she enjoying every moment of this? Absolutely.
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- Part 2 of Mark 12:31
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Lilith was her best friend.
Her sister.
"I'll let you choose where to eat as long as you don't bring up your hot British neighbour again."
Oh, how she hated her.
"I haven't even mentioned her that much!"
"Her eyes were so intense, Lilith." Lilith began in a mocking tone. "The leather jacket she wore was so fitting Lilith. Her neck was so-"
"Oh my god stop!" Ava slapped the button for the elevator. "I do not sound like that."
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- Part 1 of Mark 12:31
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it cut deep to know you ((right to the bone)) by themountainsweclimb
Fandoms: Dickinson (TV)
05 Apr 2024
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Emily and Sue were childhood best friends who became more, for a fleeting moment in time. Emily was in love, Sue was in turmoil. Sometimes the comeback is just as painful as the freefall.
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did the twin flame bruise paint you blue? by themountainsweclimb
Fandoms: Dickinson (TV)
26 Jun 2022
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prequel to "just between us, did the love affair maim you too?"
I fell in love with these two dum dums as I wrote “just between us…” and I wished I would have started the story at the beginning of their journey. So, that’s what we’re doing now. Every chapter will cover pieces and parts of a year(ish) of their lives together leading up to when they reunite for Austin’s wedding.
Enjoy :)
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just between us, did the love affair maim you too? by themountainsweclimb
Fandoms: Dickinson (TV)
26 Apr 2022
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Emily and Sue fell apart when Sue moved to Paris after college. Finding their way back to each other years later is messy, at best.