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To think Serena Joy is your only Hail Mary pass remaining is terrifying enough on its own, but there is nothing left to trust. Serena promises she will protect your baby.
In retrospect, maybe you should have had her specify how.
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Dope-blown veins doesn’t seem so harsh in comparison to not being allowed to read a fucking street sign.
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It’s funny that if June wanted to feel guilt, to feel some completely unnecessary responsibility for the downward trajectory of modern American history, she could easily misinterpret this whole thing as her fault.
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- Part 3 of the red thread
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god sent me as karma (baby, i'll fuck up your life) by doreah for warning_sine
Fandoms: The Handmaid's Tale (TV)
14 Feb 2022
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June meets Serena, over and over... and never remembers.
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- Part 1 of the red thread
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AITA for abandoning my girlfriend on top of a mountain?
I know this sounds bad but hear me out on this one. It wasn't even a big mountain.
June and Serena go for a hike, sort of.
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What made Serena Joy special made her dangerous, which was part of the attraction, probably, and definitely part of the problem.
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Self-harm, Moira thinks. Divine vengeance for sin, Serena Joy thinks.
Whatever it is, whatever its origins in man or god or simply nothing at all, it tastes sour and rotten. If shared grief had a flavour, it would be the same as kissing the enemy.
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Everything was a delicate balance, but she was—all things considered—your perfect match. And you were hers. Any lesser person would have likely killed themselves with Serena as a companion, but you’d kept each other distracted, occupied, challenged, and alive in the most fucked up way imaginable.
You fit into me.
Like a hook in an eye; that was the poem you read once. A fish hook, an open eye.
But who is the hook and who is the eye now?
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- Part 4 of your heart is a shaken fist
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They've been having an affair without even touching.
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June manages to convince Serena to go ice skating. It goes about as well as can be expected.
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There's sin, and then there's this.
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Serena kisses her like she’s screaming for help.
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[ God made me a hungry woman,
to travel deep waters with a neck
that cranes toward surrender
God is counting on my hunger now ]
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“what happens in gilead, stays in gilead” is easier said than done.(a follow-up to my previous fic, "surround me with shouts of deliverance" because i wasn't quite ready to let that story go. you probably have to read that first to understand any of this.)
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- Part 3 of your heart is a shaken fist
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This isn’t your fall from grace. Been there, done that, got the red robe and white bonnet.
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- Part 1 of your heart is a shaken fist
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"Who knows, maybe we were there at the same time... Serendipity." [2x06]
In fact, Serena and June were at Magnolias at the same time. Only one of them remembers it.
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- Part 2 of the red thread
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You are a hiding place for me;
you preserve me from trouble;
you surround me with shouts of deliverance.[ Psalm 32:7 ]
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After 2x13, June returns for Hannah. Sometime and a revelation or two later, Serena finds refuge hidden in the cracks and crevices of her world.
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- Part 2 of your heart is a shaken fist
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(or 5 times helen wasn't supposed to be there and 1 time she was)
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a sequel to "for better, for worse" because i couldn't just leave it that miserable, could i?
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- Part 2 of blackout
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the thing nobody really bothered to tell carol was how quickly it all could be over.
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- Part 1 of blackout
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Maybe Carol wasn't really as fragile and neurotic as they all believed. Maybe Helen wasn't as horrible and damaged as her shrink thought. Maybe they both needed a little bit of credit.