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“Helen knew how… scared you were. She didn’t want to spook you, which is why she waited. She loved you after knowing you for only a few months, but knew if she took that step forward, you would…”
“But I didn’t,” Carol said. “I didn’t run.”
“No,” Zosia said quietly. “You didn’t.”
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20 Jan 2026
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Of course, Natalie had always thought Lottie was pretty. More on an intellectual level. Shit, it was just a fact. But the way her dark curls framed her jaw and neck… Well, the sight had suddenly grown interesting. Interesting and previously unnoticed. And now, like the memory of their encounter in the washroom, it was stirring something in Natalie she hadn’t realized was there.
// OR: The one where Nat and Lottie catch feelings in the wilderness, and it's everyone's problem. (But mostly theirs.)
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- Part 1 of play god and destroy the world
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13 Sep 2025
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Melissa, Gen, Mari, and Akilah infiltrate Shauna’s place of work. Melissa is plotting, Akilah is a perfect angel, Mari is drunk, and Gen is at her wits end.
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07 Sep 2025
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“Oh, fine.” Natalie replied. “A little warm for fur, isn’t it?”
“It’s faux. Don’t get any ideas about red paint.”
“Hm. Okay.” Natalie nodded, then sucked in a breath. “So, you’re a lesbian, though?”
Lottie straightened and shut the fridge door, then turned back to Natalie. She had a bottle of water in her hand. “Don’t be reductive, Nat, I could be bisexual.”
“…are you bisexual?”
Lottie looked at her like she was stupid. “No, I’m a lesbian.”
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Or,A year after moving in with Lottie, Natalie makes a discovery about her roommate that sets off a chain reaction of catastrophic proportions.
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11 Aug 2025
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"Are you here because you want to be?" Lottie asks, fingers dancing up Natalie's sides. "Or is it because Travis ignored your calls again?”
It starts because Shauna needs to make sure no one finds out about what happened out there. It continues because… well, Natalie’s trying to figure that out.
Or, Natalie visits Lottie throughout the years after rescue.
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02 Jul 2025
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“So Mercury was being gross around Blake and she told him she was seeing someone and when Yang came over and told him to get lost he assumed that Yang was Blake’s girlfriend and so now you’re just going for it and pretending to be in a committed, romantic relationship because you don’t want to give Mercury the satisfaction of thinking he was worth coming up with a lie to avoid.” Ruby sucks in a deep breath and nods to herself, head bobbing with the sharp and rapid jerks of her chin. “Got it! Makes sense to me!”
(or: the fake dating wedding au)
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- 2/2
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23 May 2025
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Five months into living with her fellow survivor of the Flight 2525 plane crash, Natalie starts to question whether her attachment to her roommate runs deeper than trauma-bonded friendship. If only her own penchant for bad timing didn't make it so hard to sleep with said roommate.
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- Part 2 of Life's Long Night is Ended
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17 Apr 2025
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don't make a mess of my love (i know i read the room wrong, alright?) by pinkranger
Fandoms: Legacies (TV 2018)
21 Apr 2022
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But ever since she and Lizzie had begun to grow closer—had become best friends instead of friends instead of frenemies instead of enemies—she'd been forced to reckon with feelings that she'd only be able to ignore if she lacked her humanity. (Maybe not even then.)
And she'd been working with Miss Tig, and her other therapists after Miss Tig left, about not entirely repressing her feelings and emotions, because it's not healthy to bottle things up and deny yourself the truth and et cetera, et cetera. Whatever, she knows the spiel.
So, she acknowledges it, but only to herself. Just so she won't blow up and overflow from denial.
And if that means her smiles get a bit tender, and her touches last a bit longer, sue her. She's trying her best. To be a good best friend.
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Or: 5 times Hope doesn't realize she and Lizzie are already dating + 1 time she does
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28 Feb 2025
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“Sure, I'll do it,” Nat agrees. Against her better judgement, maybe, but fuck it—she’s never been one for smart decisions, and she won't start now. “I'll be your arm candy, rage bait, whatever. Just don’t go falling in love with me or anything.”
The corner of Lottie’s mouth curls upwards, showing her crooked tooth. “I’ll do my best.”
She holds out her right hand, waiting. Nat reaches out and takes it, and there: an agreement struck by words, bound by skin. Down the hall, across sun-drenched tiling, the shadows of tree branches stretch out like antlers below them.
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22 Feb 2025
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B. WALDORF, the card says, embossed in silver print, and Dan commits that to memory. He’ll probably never see her again, but even so, B. WALDORF etches a space in his brain ten times larger than any five-foot-two socialite should be able to.
He’s surprisingly okay with that.
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Dan is a bartender and Blair is the obnoxiously rich customer who keeps coming in to see him and it's casual, okay, it definitely doesn't mean she's in love.)
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05 Feb 2025
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Nat wonders how the fuck she ended up living in an adorable New York City apartment with Lottie and Laura Lee, of all people. If you’d told her that a year ago she would’ve laughed at you, but Nat from a year ago was kind of way too jaded for her own good, anyway.
OR: Nat, Lottie and Laura Lee leave Wiskayok but find each other.
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27 Jan 2025
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She feels terrible about it, and it’s selfish, but she really wants Natalie and Travis to break up. She knows it's not going to happen, but she can’t help how she's a little in love with her, and she knows that feeling isn’t going away. She's tried and it isn't fucking happening.
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- Part 1 of maybe just this once
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- English
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- 49,622
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- 12/12
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27 Jan 2025
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“Okay, but just don’t fall in love with me, okay?” Clarke says, only half-joking. “We would never live Clarke and Lexa down.”
“Okay.”
“You gotta promise.”
Lexa’s eyes are dancing as she says, “I promise I won’t fall in love with you.”
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Over 200 years after the end of the War, Clarke and Lexa meet anew.
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- 1/1
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23 Jan 2025
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Natalie likes Travis. At least, she thinks she does, up until a series of encounters leaves her questioning just what it is she's feeling for him. Is this how relationships are supposed to be? Do Van and Tai feel this way about each other? And where exactly does the enigma that is Lottie Matthews fit into this whole fucked up constellation?
(Or: it's hard to hide from yourself out in the wilderness. Better bundle up for a long winter.)
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23 Jan 2025
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After years of not hearing from Lottie, Natalie discovers she's taken up gigs at a small-town bar in New York. Natalie has spent life after graduation pining after Lottie and, unbeknowst to Nat, so has Lottie.
Or, Lottienat college au about getting together after years apart. Rated M for drug mentions, alcohol use, and liberal swearing.
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23 Jan 2025
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(i’m not) the guy you’re taking home by novel_concept26
Fandoms: The Haunting of Bly Manor (TV)
16 Jun 2022
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Once upon a time, college roommates fell in love. It ended poorly. Five years later, Jamie is adapting a steamy romance novel for the screen--and casts Dani Clayton as her lead.
Surely, this will go off without a hitch.
[a Tumblr (anon) prompt fill]
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22 Jan 2025
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on the hunt (for who i've not yet become) by novel_concept26
Fandoms: The Haunting of Bly Manor (TV)
14 Mar 2021
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Dani Clayton is six years old when the O’Mara family moves in across the street. The world, for the most part, makes perfect sense in ways that will unravel in two short years. She understands the suburban block on which she’s lived her entire life, the breadth of her father’s hands, the shine of her mother’s eyes. She understands everything.
She is six, and the world makes perfect sense, and the world will make sense forever.
(Or: AU in which Jamie is taken in by the O'Mara family, and Dani grows up wedged between two best friends with dark hair, learning slowly how to fall in love.)
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22 Jan 2025
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“Hello, Quinn,” Rachel says, pulling her hand back closer to her body and smiling very gently. Quinn tries to force a smile on her face, but it doesn’t come easily.
“Hi, Rachel,” she says. “How are you?”
“I’m doing rather well,” Rachel says. “I won a Tony Award recently.”
“I sent you flowers,” Quinn says, laughing. “I won a Golden Globe.”
Quinn Fabray has a pretty nice life. And then Rachel Berry shows up, again.
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22 Jan 2025
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“I never doubted that you’d end up here,” Quinn says. “In New York. On Broadway. I always knew you’d be the one to make it out of Lima.”
“You did too,” Rachel points out.
“I wasn’t ever a given, though,” Quinn says quietly. “You were always the sure thing.”
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22 Jan 2025
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been so good at wasting time (thank god for july) by novel_concept26
Fandoms: The Haunting of Bly Manor (TV)
18 Nov 2020
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An unhappily-married Dani living in the suburbs hires a lawn care service run by a woman who strikes her speechless.
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Bookmarked by chasingredballoons
22 Jan 2025