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“Hey Adora,” Catra rasps, her voice lower than usual. Adora blushes, “why’d you-” Catra cuts herself off to yawn, “why'd you transform?”
“I just wanted a better look at you,” Adora responds. Catra's face pulls into a frown and Adora has a realisation, “oh! I never told you. She-Ra has super vision. I can see things super well when I’m She-Ra,” Adora doesn’t mean to sound like she’s boasting, but it is pretty cool. Catra’s face stays frowning though.
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Adora thinks She-Ra has super vision, turns out she might be wrong
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“You kissed me.” Those three words coming from Adora’s mouth should sound perfect, after all the yearning Catra’s felt, but Adora’s voice was too distraught for Catra to feel warmth.
“I’m pregnant,” Catra revealed, watching Adora’s face crumple.
“You kissed me,” Adora repeated, this time bitterly. Catra’s heart sank as Adora’s eyes watered and her eyebrows furrowed, “you kissed me, whilst I have a girlfriend and you’re pregnant.” Catra opened her mouth but she was speechless. Slowly, she hugged herself, teary eyes, “I’m going.” Adora stormed toward the exit. Catra went to speak when Adora turned around, and suddenly Catra shrunk under Adora's stare. For just a moment, Adora’s eyes softened, the gaze that Catra loved returning, before her stare hardened. Catra blinked tears down her cheeks, trailing from her jaw to the floor.
“I’m sorry,” Catra said, and Adora walked out.
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Catra has been working the same dead end job at Eternian Essentials for fourteen years. When a hopeful Adora comes along with dreams to seize the day, Catra's world is thrown off its orbit
minimum wage worker catradora au
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“Why’d you call?” Glimmer tried again, growing increasingly frustrated.
“I just wanted to talk to you.”
“Right, I’m hanging up.” This wasn’t a chat line; it was 911. There were people who were in imminent danger and this woman was clearly just wasting Glimmer’s time. This was the third damn prank call in a row, and she was quite frankly exhausted from her long shift. Glimmer’s hand slid over to the end call button when Catra inhaled quickly.
“I’m out for a drive, sweetie,” Catra rushed out in one trembling breath, and in the background of the call Glimmer heard a muffled, deeper voice. Suddenly, Glimmer’s finger froze above the button, her body halting as she came to a chilling realisation.
“Is someone dangerous in the car with you?”
“Yes."
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An odd call to 911 reveals itself to be a disguised plea from none other than Catra, being held hostage in the back seat of a moving vehicle. Police Officers Adora, Glimmer and Bow race against the clock to find her before its too late.
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Adora knows it’s best to leave Catra alone when she’s inebriated, especially considering how moody she can get, so she goes back to talking with Glimmer. Glimmer’s in the middle of a rant, going off about some professor that really irked her when the door unexpectedly opens. Glimmer cuts off at the noise and Adora looks over. Catra’s standing in her doorway in her pyjamas, but the twinkling lights on Adora’s plant-turned-Christmas-tree seems to have captured Catra’s attention.
“Hey,” Adora says softly, and Catra’s half-lidded eyes turn to her. Her pupils are slightly blown out, as they always get from small lights. It makes Adora smile.
“Can I crash in here tonight?” Catra asks, hugging herself a little. Adora’s lips part in the slightest, both confused and surprised.
“Yeah, of course,” Adora agrees.
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How one night can change the course of a friendship
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Catra's the best cardiac surgeon in Etheria. There's no surgery too complicated for her until she's facing her unconscious wife on the operating table.
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“The patient is Adora,” Netossa winced as she spoke. Catra paused.
“You’re fucking- no,” Catra stammered in disbelief, opening the door to the operating room. Catra wasn’t squeamish- she was a surgeon, for God’s sake, she’d seen it all. But Catra flinched as she saw her wife on the operating table, gashes scattered across her body, her head bloody and her eyes shut; unconscious and unaware of just how wounded she was.
Adora was a wreck, her head covered in wounds and face pale as a sheet. Adora’s clothes had been cut open to access to her chest, Catra’s favourite dress of Adora’s torn in two to reveal her bruised and bloodied chest. Catra’s gloves had already been put on, she was in the gear, and the shift cuts meant that Catra was the only cardiac surgeon available.
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amnesiac adora / surgeon catra
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How to Make iOS Text Messages on AO3 by CodenameCarrot, La_Temperanza
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10 Apr 2016
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This is a tutorial/live example on how to mimic iOS text messages on AO3 without the need to use images. There's also a chapter on how to have emojis displayed on AO3 as well.
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18 May 2025
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I'll Keep You In Frame by Souless_Zaofu
Fandoms: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018)
11 Dec 2023
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Catra figured that if she went from working at local town bars to more upscale night clubs that the number of creepy men that try hitting on her would decrease significantly. Wrong, the only difference is the amount of money in their wallets.
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Catra is a bartender at a high-end club and Adora as a photographer in search of a model stumbles across Catra
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18 Nov 2022
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Your Friendly Neighborhood Adora by isa_nooodle
Fandoms: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018)
17 Oct 2022
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Adora is just your average college student with web-slinging powers and a dead best friend.
Things get complicated when an alien life form crash lands in Etheria, and Adora is forced to team up with a new antihero.
The main issue is that this new antihero won't stop flirting with Adora and may or may not be that supposedly dead best friend.
Spider-Woman AU
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17 Oct 2022
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"Are you with your soulmate? Or are you waiting around for them like 'half the world'?" Adora uses air quotes to emphasize Catra's words. Adora can feel her palms sweat, thinking of how she'll feel if Catra says she has found her other half.
Catra shrugs, a picture of carelessness. "Nah. I haven't thought about my soul mark since it disappeared off me." The blasé way she says it makes Adora feel like that wasn't the whole truth.
Adora doesn't press. "It aches sometimes. Feels empty, without the soul mark." Adora admits in a quiet whisper staring down at the bar top. Catra absentmindedly rubs her left shoulder.
Adora looks up at Catra. Both of Catra's hands press down on the bar top. Adora takes a chance and slowly slides her hand next to Catra's, only their pinkies touching. The small touch feels like it vibrates through Adora's body.
"But I don't ache when I'm here with you." Adora shrugs apologetically like she knows she shouldn't say something so forward to a woman who is just trying to do her job.
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Adora doesn't find her soulmate by 30 and her soul mark disappears. The next week, she meets a bartender that turns her world on its head. Soul Mark AU.
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07 Oct 2022
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pretend you love me (like I think I love you) by thestarlessky
Fandoms: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018)
29 Jul 2024
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When Adora's birth parents managed to track her down she had to leave her best friend- her safety- in an awful foster home. Years later Adora finds herself cast as Romeo in a wlw adaptation of Shakespeare's famous tragedy. Except old wounds are still to be reopened. And when press gets a wind of the less then functional relationship between the two leads, it becomes the perfect promotional opportunity for the brand new movie.
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30 Sep 2022