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AU. A deviation from Carla's psychosis storyline.
While deep in the grips of psychosis and hiding out at her childhood home-turned-squat, Carla is arrested and sent to Norcross, where she meets Betsy Swain. The two form an unlikely friendship.
When Carla is released early on licence, she is placed in a halfway house to finish out her sentence. After a violent run-in with another resident, she is forced to look for alternative accommodation. All she has to do is convince Lisa Swain that letting a complete stranger and ex-con move in with her is a good idea...
Slow burn.
Carla's life is mostly canon up until her psychosis, but the Swains I have moulded to fit into this AU timeline
Complete.
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- Part 1 of The Young Offenders (+Lisa)
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28 May 2026
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Lisa comes to in a hospital room on a firm, unforgiving bed. It’s quiet save for a slow beeping from a nearby monitor.
She sits up quickly to scan her surroundings. White walls, machines, white curtain.Her eyes drop to scan over her own body, but no discernible injury could be found.
Legs, fine. Torso, fine. Arms are…her eyes catch the metal on her finger.That’s not her ring.
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Lisa has amnesia and forgets the last four years (including having ever met Carla).
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15 Feb 2026
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Clarke was drunk and accidentally summoned demon wife. A rich one at that.
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04 Dec 2025
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This starts about a month after 'In any version' ends and you probably do need to have read it in order for a lot of this to make sense.
Set in March 2014 of my alternative timeline, Charity and Vanessa are very much together and everyone knows about their relationship. Charity is still reeling from their run in with Bails, even though he seems to have dropped off the radar and Vanessa is worried about her.
This is a rewritten history of Emmerdale - I'm basically picking and choosing what I include (based on how it serves the Vanity story I want to tell). I'm sorry if it ends up being messy and confusing! Updates probably won't be regular as I attempt to mark GCSE exams this summer as well as my full time job - but I'll do my best not to let this story die.
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- Part 2 of Rewriting History
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17 Aug 2025
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DS Swain knows about the hit and run. What will she do with that information and how will it affect her budding friendship with Carla?
Betsy has leapt to conclusions which have the potential to destroy Lisa and Carla’s growing closeness before it's even had chance to develop into anything solid. Will she be able to handle the consequences of her actions this time? Or has she gone too far to redeem herself?
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02 Aug 2025
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Set about a fortnight after Carla is discharged from hospital, Roy has talked some sense into Lisa and she's finally admitted to Carla that she wants to give things a go. Carla has asked Lisa out for a drink - a fresh start for them both. Deciding that they need to get to know each other a bit better, they start asking each other some questions. But, a few cocktails later, the evening takes a turn and they end up playing truth or dare.
Anyone who has read my stories before will know I favour fluff, silliness, flirting and, sometimes, smut over lengthy complex plot and loads of angst. This one is no different...set over the course of one night, this is just a silly idea I had, that I thought I could have a bit of fun with.
Rated E for later chapters...who knows what sort of dares they'll come up with!
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- Part 1 of I Dare You To Love Me
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30 May 2025
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When factory owner Carla Connor and Detective Lisa Swain embark on a secret affair, they quickly realise the challenges ahead. Carla, who has always identified as straight, must navigate her newfound feelings for Lisa. Meanwhile, Lisa is still mourning the loss of her wife and facing the complexities of being a single mother to her rebellious 16-year-old daughter. Adding Carla's ex-husband into the equation only intensifies the potential for chaos.
Can these two women navigate the complexities of their individual lives and gradually build a strong foundation for a relationship.
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30 May 2025
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20 Apr 2025
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Carla is happy with her little makeshift family in Devon: her daughter, Lily, her girlfriend, Lisa, and her girlfriend's daughter, Betsy. Until, she gets the news that she is dying of kidney failure and her whole world is turned upside down.
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a rewrite of Carla's 2018 kidney failure storyline but if she had a daughter in 2014 and when they moved to Devon in 2016, she met Lisa and fell in love.Series
- Part 1 of the lilia hayley connor verse
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07 Apr 2025
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Carla is married to Peter, and like many, their relationship has its flaws. When Carla discovers Peter's infidelity, she chooses not to confront him immediately. Instead, she finds herself at a bar, where she encounters a mysterious blonde woman. This impulsive encounter leads to a passionate night that alters the course of her life, as the stranger later reveals herself to be the newest detective in Weatherfield.
Carla is determined to mend her marriage, even in the face of Peter's unfaithfulness. However, she finds herself repeatedly entangled in the world of a captivating blonde detective
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29 Mar 2025
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Jo’s minding her own business in witness protection when she stumbles across her neighbour’s body and realises she’s been poisoned.
Kate is reluctant to say the least when ACC Carmichael decides to send her to investigate a murder in a small village that’s recently come under their jurisdiction.
Will the instant attraction between them overcome the weight of Jo’s secret? Will Kate solve the murder before it’s too late? And crucially, will she get fined because her grass is too long?
AKA the Midsomer Murders AU that literally only the grannies asked for.
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28 Mar 2025
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Beatrice is a top operative in one of the world's most elite secret agencies, tasked with filling in the gaps that superhuman kind could not or would not fill. She is intelligent, focused, driven, and one hundred percent dedicated to the agency's mission. That is, until Ava Silva literally crash lands into her life.
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05 Jan 2025
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Following on from 'How Does Forever Sound?', months after Carla and Lisa's engagement, the couple's wedding is almost upon them. But will other people sticking their noses in derail events?
First story: Finding Happiness
Second story: How Does Forever Sound
Third Story: The WeddingSeries
- Part 3 of The Finding Happiness Series
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17 Nov 2024
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Set three years after Finding Happiness, Carla and Lisa are happy and in love and living family life with Betsy. As they prepare to take a big step in their relationship, what happens if Carla has to choose between Lisa and Peter?
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- Part 2 of The Finding Happiness Series
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17 Nov 2024
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After Carla helps Lisa rescue Betsy from a 'bad part of town' the pair bond and begin to spend more time together but as they learn more about each other, is it possible that they could fall in love...?
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- Part 1 of The Finding Happiness Series
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17 Nov 2024
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Happily married to Peter, Carla gets a huge shock when she bumps into an ex she has never told anyone about. As old feelings resurface, did they ever truly go away in the first place...?
Set during the Stephen Reid storyline (although I have played around with the dates ever so slightly), when Carla and Lisa had their first scenes together on the show.
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08 Nov 2024
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The Mountain was brutal, an ending that never should have happened. But it has and she is alone. Alone with the weight of a thousand lives. She has brought death to many, and now death demands its due. (Sorry summarys are a B)
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04 Nov 2024
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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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11 Jun 2024
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Years have passed since ALIE’s defeat.
Clarke has survived wars, assassination attempts and everything else the ground could throw at her. And so some said her survival through the years was because of the Commander, while others said it was simply because she was Wanheda, the Commander of Death, the one most clans looked to for guidance in times of uncertainty, or as a source of blame in times of trouble.
But when the stresses and blame kept piling higher and higher could she really be blamed for leaving everything behind?
Maybe it was selfish that Clarke now lived a life of solitude tucked away in the depths of Trikru territory in a small cabin she had built almost entirely on her own. But she didn’t care when the only thing expected of her was only what she expected of herself.
But her past always had a way of catching up to her, especially when it involved the Commander.
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30 Mar 2024
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“She kisses her, closed mouth, soft and brief, and when she leans back, when she sees Jo’s slightly pink cheeks and her closed eyes, when she feels her heart twist, she knows that she’s going to cheat on her husband tonight.”
An AU where Kate has an affair with Jo instead of Richard Akers in series 2.
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24 Mar 2024