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A Gift of Tin by indoorbutch
Fandoms: Carol (2015), The Price of Salt - Patricia Highsmith
30 Nov 2025
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Carol and Therese have been together for ten years, but lately, things aren't as idyllic as they used to be. Life's distractions, and the passage of time, have driven a wedge between them, and insecurities pile up on both sides. Will they have the courage to find each other again? Or will this great love affair fizzle out with the passage of time?
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This is a series of post-ep one-shots for Season 6. The chapters are not connected to each other. Some are established relationship, some are first time, some are short, and some are long. And they're not necessarily in chronological order. I hope you enjoy!
I will mark the work as finished every time I upload a new chapter.
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This is a series of post-ep one-shots for Season 5. The chapters are not connected to each other. Some are established relationship, some are first time, some are short, and some are long. And they're not necessarily in chronological order. I hope you enjoy!
I will mark the work as finished every time I upload a new chapter.
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Academic Curiosity by indoorbutch
Fandoms: Carol (2015), The Price of Salt - Patricia Highsmith
29 Apr 2024
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Technically, she wasn’t my student.
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On a trip to Athens, Xena has an itch that needs to be scratched. But when she takes that need elsewhere, Gabrielle decides it's time for drastic action.
This is so cracky, guys, enjoy!
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“Xena?” We’re in our camp, getting ready for bed. I’ve had too much wine, whereas she obeyed me when I told her not to drink more than one cup.
“Hmm?” I grunt.
“Those guys at the tavern… Were any of them your lovers?”
I balk, make a disgusted face. “What? No.”
Gabrielle, frowning thoughtfully, asks, “Is that because you prefer women?”
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“You are still dripping on my floors,” Siuan interrupts, a biting rebuke, and Moiraine is about ready to storm out when her lover snaps, “Take that soaking shirt off at once.”
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In the beginning they pretend it isn’t happening.
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Moiraine paces some more. A couple of days in Caemlyn. With Siuan there on White Tower business, surrounded by an entourage that thinks Moiraine and her are enemies, would they even be able to see each other? Moiraine can’t go to the palace without arousing suspicion. But perhaps… somehow…
Just the thought of seeing her face again, of touching her again, makes Moiraine ache with longing.
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She has a memory of where she and Xena were a year ago, so close to their crucifixion. In those days, their passion was a constant, burning energy between them. There were nights they hardly slept, completely consumed with each other, driving each other to endless heights and then flipping over and doing it again.
It hasn’t been like that for a while.
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It was the same question Gabrielle wanted to ask. In so many ways, it made no sense. Why now? Why not the hundred other times when passion and need had surged between them? Why not some later date, in the aftermath of some other tragedy?
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Lover, I'm In (let's do some sin) by indoorbutch for Cosmicmoons
Fandoms: Carol (2015), The Price of Salt - Patricia Highsmith
26 Aug 2023
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Carol comes home from a night out with Abby, and Therese is eager to reunite with her gentle, tender lover. But Carol's not in her usual mood...
This fulfills a prompt from Cosmicmoons from FOREVER ago! Hope it scratches that itch.
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Nevermind Our Wicked Ways by indoorbutch
Fandoms: Carol (2015), The Price of Salt - Patricia Highsmith
12 Aug 2022
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Maybe seeing me again is as inconsequential to her as running in to an acquaintance from high school. After all, it was such a brief relationship, not even a relationship at all, just a—a thing. And when I was reckless enough to tell her that I loved her? Radio silence. No reciprocity. Over the past three years, I’ve come to the conclusion that all the intensity of emotion was one-sided, and Therese was just a straight girl who got caught up in the illicit thrill of being pursued by an older woman...
This is my take on the "Therese never went to the Oak Room" prompt, but make it a modern AU. Tell me if it's working for you. I'm feeling rusty.
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Another Christmas Triptych by indoorbutch
Fandoms: Carol (2015), The Price of Salt - Patricia Highsmith
31 Dec 2021
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A little Christmas cheer for you all. Thank you for being such a wonderful fandom. Happy Holidays!
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“Fine,” Richard snapped back. “You think I’m so boring? Well, how about this! Come to a club with me this weekend. It’s threesome night.”
In which Richard is the worst, Carol owns a club, and Therese bites off more than she can chew.
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A Misunderstanding by indoorbutch
Fandoms: Carol (2015), The Price of Salt - Patricia Highsmith
05 Oct 2021
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Carol Aird never went to Frankenburg's for a doll, and Therese Belivet had no reason to part ways with Genevieve Cantrell. It is Christmas 1954, and Carol needs a photographer...
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Their eyes met across the restaurant, and Carol felt like a ship at sea in a maelstrom, that strains and tips and crashes with the waves and calls out, “All is lost!”—until, at the very last moment, the shard of the lighthouse’s lamp breaks through the storm, and offers a way home.
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- Part 1 of The Perpetual Sunrise
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Play it Again by indoorbutch
Fandoms: Carol (2015), The Price of Salt - Patricia Highsmith
23 Apr 2021
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In Part III of my story Would You, there is a passage that several readers have asked me to expand on in my Alterations series:
“When we met, I thought I’d never see you again. I thought to myself as I was going, ‘My, wouldn’t it be nice to touch that girl? Once?’ And then, later, when we had lunch at Scotty’s, and everything seemed more possible, I thought, ‘Yes, let’s see where this leads. How I’d love to feel her skin against mine.’ But I told myself, sternly. ‘Just once.' By the time you came to my house, I was telling myself, ‘No. You mustn’t dare. How could once be enough? Best not to tempt it.’ But I did tempt it, didn’t I, Darling? When I touched your shoulders? God, if Harge hadn’t come, who knows what I would have done to you?”
Welp, here you go.
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- Part 3 of With One Wave of Your Hand
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Tell Me I'm Here by indoorbutch
Fandoms: Carol (2015), The Price of Salt - Patricia Highsmith
19 Apr 2021
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Therese takes a job at the local holiday market, hoping to bring in a little extra money. She never expects to meet a woman who will change her life forever.
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And I'm So In Love by indoorbutch
Fandoms: Carol (2015), The Price of Salt - Patricia Highsmith
15 Feb 2021
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Carol has little use for Valentine’s Day. She and Therese both have to work today, and they agreed a week ago not to make a fuss about it, not to make plans. Carol rolls over, toward Therese’s side of the bed—and stops. There is a flower resting on the pillow.
This was supposed to go up yesterday, but it just wasn't finished in time. I realize that Valentine's Day is a monstrosity of capitalism and has very negative connotations for some of us, but the thought of two women celebrating it in the 1950s feels very subversive and beautiful to me. I hope you like it!
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- Part 3 of The Perpetual Sunrise