18 Works by chasingredballoons
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Nat has a pretty peaceful life. And then her ex-girlfriend moves in next door.
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everything you touch just feels like yours to me by chasingredballoons
Fandoms: Yellowjackets (TV)
22 Oct 2025
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“Nat,” Lottie interrupts, sounding vaguely amused. “Is this something you want to try?”
“I asked you first,” Nat says petulantly.
Lottie is quiet for another moment. Half-hidden by her hair, Nat can see her ears slowly going red, the way they always do when she’s embarrassed.
“It’s not that I don’t want to,” Lottie says eventually, almost shy. “I’ve just never done it before.” A pause. “Like, been on the receiving end, I mean.”
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- Part 2 of straight girl nat cinematic universe
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slow motion double vision in rose blush by chasingredballoons
Fandoms: Yellowjackets (TV)
21 Aug 2025
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“A couple weeks ago, I was talking to Van about Jackie’s wedding, and we were talking about plus-ones, and I—” Lottie sighs. “I kind of accidentally told Van I was seeing someone.”
Nat laughs. Laughs. Asshole. “And she believed you?”
Lottie reaches out with her leg and kicks Nat in the thigh, ignoring Nat's resulting offended squeak. “She did, because I’m a fucking catch, why wouldn’t she believe me, you dick.” Nat coughs pointedly. Lottie ignores her. “But obviously she told Jackie and now Jackie is insisting I bring this girlfriend to the wedding.”
“This girlfriend that you don’t have,” Nat points out, like Lottie isn’t already entirely fucking aware. “What are you gonna do?”
“Well." Lottie clears her throat awkwardly. "Here’s the thing. Van seemed to be under the impression that the someone I was seeing was you,” she says, wincing when Nat frowns. “And I kind of...didn’t correct her?”
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“We make a good team,” Lottie says, and Nat might be drunk but she’s not drunk enough to miss the way Lottie’s eyes flicker down to her mouth. “We should do this more often.”
Nat snorts. “Right. Whatever, Matthews. Never going to happen.”
“Okay,” Lottie says, tilting her head to the side with an eerily all-knowing smile. “If you say so.”
Lottie gives Nat another blatantly obvious once-over before turning on her heel and walking away, stupid tiny skirt swishing around her thighs, and Nat is reminded all over again of the fact that Lottie Matthews, in addition to being a frat girl and the most obnoxious person alive, is also on the University of Wiskayok’s soccer team, and the proof is right there in front of her.
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an inch away from more than just friends by chasingredballoons
Fandoms: Yellowjackets (TV)
14 Mar 2025
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Nat realises what she’s about to say a second before it comes out, a week’s worth of build-up tumbling out unbidden. “I think I want to try it. You know, with a girl. Just so I can stop fucking wondering. Just so I can finally know.”
Somehow that feels even more exposing than anything else she’s said so far. God. She wants to try it out. Did she really have to word it like that? Like something she can just try on for size and then put back on the rack if she doesn’t like it or it doesn’t fit right? She wonders if Lottie will tell her to fuck off, or grow up, or—
“I could do it.”
Nat blinks. “What?”
“If you want to try a girl,” Lottie says. “If you would rather try with someone you know rather than a total stranger, I’ll do it.”
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- Part 1 of straight girl nat cinematic universe
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In the aftermath, Lottie had wondered if Nat would just cut and run. Ghost everyone and drop off the face of the earth rather than willingly stay anywhere near Lottie’s orbit. Lottie’s the one who walked away, after all, and they share too many of the same friends and bars and cafés to allow for a clean and easy separation. She wouldn’t blame Nat for doing so.
Nat doesn’t run though, as it turns out. But she does avoid Lottie.
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“Oh my God, Cheryl?” A familiar voice interrupts, and Cheryl looks up from her drink in surprise — it’s been eight years but she would know that voice anywhere — to the sight of an older but still easily recognisable figure staring at her with the same look of disbelief that Cheryl is sure is now mirrored on her own face.
“Toni Topaz.” Cheryl manages to compose herself just before her jaw drops in a particularly undignified way. “It's been a while.”
(or, Cheryl is five when she first meets Toni. She’s twenty when she meets her for the second first time.)
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“Ask her about Saint Petersburg? Really?” The first words out of Widowmaker’s mouth as she stalks up to where Sombra is still lounging by the bar, one eyebrow raised in irritation and a pissed off frown on her pretty face, and it’s an annoyed accusation. How rude. “What if he had actually asked? Hm?”
They haven't been left alone for one minute all evening and this is how Widowmaker greets Sombra? No hello? No merci for taking out the security cameras and warning us about Vialli’s men? No bonsoir chérie you are looking ravishing as always would you care to join me in the privacy of the ladies room so I can tear that dress off you? She’d picked this exact dress to get a reaction out of Widowmaker, and Sombra is a little put out that she hasn’t caught Widowmaker glancing at her chest once.
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Sombra glances over at Widowmaker. “I know you don’t trust me, or even like me, and you probably considered just leaving me for dead, or worse, for Overwatch to kidnap me and try to lure me over to the good side—” Widowmaker almost laughs. Almost. “—but thank you.”
“You are correct with your first two assumptions,” Widowmaker says. “But you are wrong about the third. I would not just leave one of my partners to die.”
“Partners?” Sombra’s face lights up, and Widowmaker gets the feeling Sombra is going to be crowing about this for the next year. “Huh, maybe I should get injured more often. It takes me nearly dying to bring out your soft side?”
“My soft side,” Widowmaker repeats, with an unimpressed expression.
“Yep,” Sombra giggles, and leans in unnecessarily close. Idly, Widowmaker notices that Sombra’s eyes aren’t violet like she first assumed, but a dark blue. "You should be more careful though, people might start to think you actually care."
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Sombra allows the kiss to continue for just long enough that Widowmaker's hands start inching towards her chest, before Sombra is inexplicably pulling back with a giggle. Widowmaker glares at her, and Sombra just grins wider. "I have a surprise for you."
Any remaining tendrils of sleepiness leave Widowmaker immediately. The last time Sombra had said something like that, accompanied by that mischievous smirk, Widowmaker had barely been able to walk right the next day, the red marks around her wrists from the handcuffs had taken a full week to fade, and Widowmaker was genuinely surprised that Sombra hadn’t actually drawn blood from the bite marks decorating her neck.
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i'm a moth to your flame (and my wings are burning) by chasingredballoons
Fandoms: Carmilla (Web Series)
06 Feb 2017
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The only thing worse than sleeping with Carmilla Karnstein is accidentally falling in love with Carmilla Karnstein. And somewhere along the line, between all the arguments and the flirting and the sex, that's exactly what Laura does.
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It's like something out of a bad teen movie: the popular cheerleader and the nerdy social outcast paired together for an irrelevant biology project that will probably have zero impact on their final grade. It somehow manages to get even more clichéd when Clarke realizes she might be crushing on the aforementioned nerdy (incredibly cute) social outcast.
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i am a fire, you're gasoline (come pour yourself all over me) by chasingredballoons
Fandoms: Carmilla (Web Series)
30 Jul 2015
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It takes a couple days — of Carmilla strutting around half-naked, of Carmilla finding every excuse to invade her personal space and touch her, of Carmilla and those goddamn suspenders — but eventually Laura reaches her breaking point. So she decides to take matters into her own hands.
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In Laura's defence, she had no idea Carmilla was her student before she slept with her.
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Inevitably, something new, dangerous, and of undetermined levels of humanity will come crashing into their lives sometime in the near future to cause more mayhem, but for now it’s just them. Laura and Carmilla and the stars. Alone. With a locked door to keep out interrupting roommates and cannibalistic witches and kobolds set on marrying small humans. With champagne and candles and a very intentionally romantic aura. This is probably their one allotted moment of peace for the month, and Laura sure as hell isn’t going to waste it.
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don't you want to claim my body like a vandal? by chasingredballoons
Fandoms: Carmilla (Web Series)
26 Feb 2015
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The one where Carmilla and Laura go travelling through Europe during summer break. And have sex. A lot.
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i'm not cold when you're by my side (it's the season for us to be together) by chasingredballoons
Fandoms: Carmilla (Web Series)
09 Dec 2014
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You start listing off the things you know Carmilla likes, and get as far as leather, books, sarcasm and flirting before you realise buying the perfect Christmas present for your three hundred or so year old undead roommate might be a bit more difficult than you first thought.
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because oh because, i've fallen quite hard over you by chasingredballoons
Fandoms: Lost Girl
16 Nov 2014
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The first time Tamsin sees her is during possibly one of the worst mornings of her life. In fact, if she had to rank awful mornings in order this would probably be somewhere near the top. Top five at least.