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Michaela and Francesca's love story :,)
Featuring a mix of canon/author-created moments, a ton of angst, and all the Brigdy siblings.
Excerpt from Chapter 9: The Past SeeksMichaela reads of Francesca’s disappearance in the latest edition of Lady Whistledown.
...While Dowager Lady Kilmartin made quite the scene racing up the grand staircase at Lady Danbury's ball, the entire truth is even more sensational. Lady Kilmartin did not just flee the Ball of Shadows, but London itself. She left that very night for her primary estate in the Scottish highlands, leaving behind not only a stunned family but also an imminent proposal. Perhaps, this season proved too much too soon for the young widow...
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27 Jun 2026
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A map back to you by VelvetVerse
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Franchaela - Fandom, Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
26 Jun 2026
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Part 2 of The Shape of Wanting series. Sequel to Before We Were Brave.
Modern AU Franchaela, with characterisation kept close to canon. All of the Bridgertons will make an appearance.
Francesca Bridgerton thought Spain was over. She thought Michaela Stirling belonged to the holiday: to sunlit streets, late-night bars, warm skin, dangerous smiles, and the kind of wanting Francesca had never quite known what to do with before.
Then her dog gets hurt, and the vet who walks through the clinic door is Michaela.
They find each other again in London, but the reunion is far from simple. Francesca has questions she never asked. Michaela has grief she never explained. Between them sit missed messages, wrong assumptions, and all the things they were not brave enough to say before goodbye.
Spain was supposed to be temporary.
This was not.
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- Part 2 of The Shape of Wanting
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26 Jun 2026
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Michaela has a new sundress for Benedict’s art gallery showing and Francesca’s all over it.
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25 Jun 2026
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"Do you know what your problem is?" Eloise asks.
"Several paid professionals have tried to answer that question."
"You're in love with Michaela."
Francesca nearly drops her wine glass.
"That's absurd."
"You learned Portuguese when she had to spend a month in Sao Paulo."
"I learned Portuguese for practical reasons."
"She's the practical reason."
Francesca Bridgerton is definitely not in love with her best friend. Unfortunately, the evidence would like a word.
(or the very slow friends-to-lovers modern AU in which everyone has already figured it out except the two women sharing lingering eye contact, emotional dependency, and an alarming commitment to calling it friendship)
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24 Jun 2026
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Francesca has never known love until Michaela.
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21 Jun 2026
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When Lena Luthor takes over CatCo, she doesn’t expect to be thrown off balance by Kara Danvers, an eager, determined journalist with secrets of her own. As Kara struggles to prove herself, their professional partnership quickly ignites into a charged, complicated attraction neither can ignore.
Balancing intense missions with the DEO and a high-stakes media world, Lena and Kara’s hidden feelings become impossible to hide. But with Kara’s secret identity as Supergirl at risk, and powerful enemies closing in, their growing bond is tested by trust, danger, and passion.
In a game of secrets and desire, Lena and Kara must decide how far they’re willing to go and if love is worth the risk.
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19 Jun 2026
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She remembered -McKay’s- order “just in case”. Just McKay’s order. So yeah, maybe, her crush was smedium. Small adjacent. A touch above small. She honestly couldn’t help it if she tried.
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18 Jun 2026
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marrying the woman she loves in the name of friendship is easier said than done
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18 Jun 2026
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Michaela doesn’t feel like trying to instill all her knowledge in her best friend before her “obsessed with my wife” upgrade fully takes over.
Cressida keeps getting closer to her best friend’s sister-in-law/her old secondary school nemesis and doesn’t know what to do about it.
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17 Jun 2026
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Francesca Bridgerton is a very wealthy and well known pianist-composer around the world. She is always angry and cares a little too much. Michaela Stirling is a painter that works for her mother and is very good at what she does. She doesn't care about much and is always late. One portrait and two opposite people running parallel finally converge.
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03 Jun 2026
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Losing a Stirling was a pain unlike anything Francesca could have ever fathomed. And she’d already lost two. John, she’d lost to fate. Michaela, she’d lost to —
Well. She still did not know why.
But the twin losses struck her and left her with wounds that would not heal.
To think there was a Stirling in need of a home. In need of love.
And Francesca had nothing but love to give a Stirling.
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or, the canon-compliant kidfic, because regency sapphics can, in fact, have a child
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31 May 2026
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What the crown forbids by Lesbianoftheton
Fandoms: Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn, Bridgerton (TV)
11 Jun 2026
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‘Here,’ Francesca continued awkwardly, ‘we can share the blanket. You can sleep on the right side and I’ll sleep on the left side. But uh… if you prefer another side, you can choose. I do not want you to feel forced into sleeping somewhere specific.’
Michaela smiled slightly.
‘I think I’ll survive whichever side you give me, princess.’
She climbed onto the bed and ended up laying on one of Francesca’s plushies.
Francesca realized Michaela was probably too tired for another conversation, so she quietly laid down beside her.
For some reason, sleeping next to Michaela made her stomach feel strangely warm and nervous at the same time, though Francesca didn’t really understand why.
At Westbridge Royal Academy Francesca Bridgerton tries her best to be the perfect princess, the perfect student, and the perfect girlfriend to John Stirling.
Unfortunately for her, Michaela Stirling has just arrived at the academy, and the fact that she also happens to be John’s cousin certainly does not help Francesca avoid falling in love.
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28 May 2026
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University AU where Francesca is supposed to be in a perfectly loving relationship with her boyfriend, John, with a sensible future of marriage and children on the horizon, right up until John's cousin, Michaela Stirling, returns from a sabbatical abroad and Francesca finds herself, suddenly, hopelessly curious about another woman in ways that are utterly nonsensical.
Now Francesca finds herself unable to stay away and trying very hard not to think about why telling Michaela she and John are dating feels like it would ruin everything. Surely keeping that little detail about her relationship status cannot be seen as lying if Michaela never asked. Right?
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Or, finding the courage to be yourself before it's too late.
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Or, doesn't love make us all a little crazy? Or is that just Francesca?
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23 May 2026
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The balcony is empty. The air is thick with summer heat.
Michaela steps closer than she should. Francesca's legs part, almost reflexively, for her husband’s cousin. Michaela slips between them and rests her hands on Francesca's thighs.
She leans in. Francesca can smell the limoncello on her breath. Her nose brushes Francesca's cheek.
"Tell me it's killing you like it's killing me," Michaela whispers against her skin.
Francesca trembles. Her need pulses in her chest, her stomach, lower still.
"Please, Fran."
"We can't."
"I know. I know."
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Francesca Stirling is a high-powered Manhattan attorney on her eighth round of IVF. Her husband's cousin, Michaela, arrives for the summer and immediately upends Francesca's routines. When her husband leaves for a work trip to London, Francesca is forced to reckon with the woman she has spent years refusing to look at — and with the question of whether she can finally become herself without breaking the man who loves her.
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21 May 2026
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Michaela, whilst grieving and overwhelmed with the feelings blossoming in her chest for her cousin's widow, does the only thing she can think to do when asked so sweetly to stay, she flees.
But now, after two years of running, she has returned to London, determined to make amends with the woman she has managed to convince herself she cannot fall in love with, under any circumstances.
Yet her chosen path is not an easy one, for Francesca Stirling, now seething with rage, grief, and a furious current of feelings she neither understands nor can explain, is just as determined to discover the very reason for Michaela's flight in the first place, a reason Michaela is intent on keeping to herself.
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08 May 2026
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Before We Were Brave by VelvetVerse
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Franchaela - Fandom, Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
11 May 2026
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“Excuse me,” said a voice beside her. “I was wondering if you could help me. There’s something wrong with my phone.”
(...) Francesca blinked. “Sorry?”
The woman held up her phone with a solemnity that fooled no one. “Terrible malfunction.”
Francesca, still a step behind whatever was happening here, said, “Do you need to ring someone?”
“That’s the issue,” the woman said. “It doesn’t have your number in it.”A modern AU Franchaela story in which Francesca Bridgerton goes to Spain for two weeks with her sister Eloise and their friend Sophie, fully intending to recover from heartbreak quietly and in peace.
Instead, she meets Michaela Stirling.
What begins as sun, flirtation, and something that looks like a holiday distraction slowly becomes harder to define, and even harder to ignore. In a place that feels far from home, Francesca finds herself drawn to a woman who makes wanting feel easy, and honesty feel like something neither of them quite knows how to do.
And when the holiday ends, neither of them is brave enough to say what happens next.Series
- Part 1 of The Shape of Wanting
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30 Apr 2026
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Francesca has lived as a secret alpha for her entire adult life - using herbs to repress her alpha instincts. She'd thought she'd found safety and comfort in the arms of John Stirling, but his tragic death stole that away from her. To make matters worse, his cousin, Michaela, is an omega who makes her feel excited and scared for reasons she cannot explain. When Michaela is named the new Lady Kilmartin and announces her intention to return to London, Francesca flees back to her brother's home and sets herself onto the marriage mart.
But of course, masking as a beta will not be as easy for Francesca as it was the first time, and complications quickly arise when her Majesty threatens to select a more "refined" diamond for the season.
Title & Vibes loosely inspired by "DON'T YOU SEE ME TRYING" by Erin LeCount
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29 Apr 2026
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“You have my phone number, right?” she asked softly, as if someone might overhear her, even though they were alone.
Michaela’s eyebrows shot up. “Yes,” she drawled, her tone questioning.
“Well,” Francesca started, eyes darting around. “If you wanted to use it for…non-pick-up-related reasons…” she steeled herself and met Michaela’s gaze then. “That would be alright with me.”
Michaela’s lips slowly spread into a teasing grin. “Oh?” she asked airily.
Her reaction soothed Francesca’s anxiety a notch. “Yeah,” she nodded.
“Alright then,” Michaela winked before she turned around and walked to her car.
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or, piano teacher fran meets her match when john's cousin michaela starts to pick up his daughter from piano lessons
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26 Apr 2026
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say my name (and everything just stops) by ossaw
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
26 Apr 2026
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“She was no stranger to grief… and yet, the emptiness Michaela had left behind struck her with a force unlike any loss she had ever known - grieving someone who was still very much alive.”
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When Michaela returns to Mayfair after two years of trying, and failing, to forget Francesca, she is determined to make amends, bury her feelings and be the friend she should have been. But being near Francesca again is harder than she imagined.And as Francesca begins to feel it too, something impossible to ignore, they find themselves drawn back, hopelessly, to one another.
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26 Apr 2026
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Composure by ocean19
Fandoms: Francesca Bridgerton/Michaela Stirling - Fandom, Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
02 May 2026
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Michaela plucked a strawberry from the platter. It was deeply red and ripened to the point that was uncommon for fruit in early spring. She assessed it before she bit into it, turning it around in her fingers.
Francesca detected the white of her teeth as her mouth closed on the tip.
She took two bites. When she got to the heart of it, her lips enclosed around the remainder and she drew the last of it into her mouth slowly, sucking at its juices.
Then she looked up.
Francesca was still watching.
Their eyes met and held.
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Michaela Stirling has returned to Mayfair after two years of unexplained absence. Her presence slowly whittles away at Francesca's carefully maintained composure, until it breaks.Bookmarked by Tsonase
26 Apr 2026