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how can we be lovers (if we can't be friends) by lynnearlington
Fandoms: Supergirl (TV 2015)
24 Apr 2025
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“Lena Luthor, right?” Kara says and Lena’s lips thin. Her ego scoffs at the idea that Kara doesn’t know who she is. Besides having had a class together every semester since freshman year, Lena’s a fairly known entity on campus if only because of her family, just the same as Kara and her goon teammates are well-known.
“I see your reading skills are intact. Nice to meet you,” she says sarcastically.
The tragic, amusing, altogether shocking story of how Lena Luthor agrees to tutor an idiot hockey player and, somehow, ends up with a fake girlfriend.
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11 Feb 2025
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The year is 1824. Eloise Bridgerton has remained staunchly unmarried. Cressida Debling married Penelope Bridgerton's leftovers. Marina Crane is dead.
Eloise is lonely, an offer is made, and she makes a pit-stop along the way to negotiating it. Her life is altered forever.
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05 Aug 2024
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Kara cradles her pile of dirty plates. She doesn’t know how to open Lena’s brand new dishwasher without ripping the handle apart. She usually figures these things out through trial and error, but she’s never been alone in Lena’s apartment, and she can’t risk winging it in front of her.
So, she just stands by the sink and watches the hot water redden Lena’s sensitive skin, the light glinting off her beautiful earrings, and my happiness bites the plum of your mouth.The verse comes to her, unbidden, from one of their weekly poems. Lena always chooses poems with such physicality to them. Always real, touchable.
---Or: Kara is an alien, Lena is a genius. Their strangeness separates and connects them to the world and each other in peculiar ways. Being human in Lena’s eyes allows Kara to tap into parts of herself she hadn’t been able to explore before, but she knows her secret will one day stop being a bridge between them, and they’ll both lose the version of Kara Lena has grown to love. (Tender slow burn, mutual respect, bittersweetness and tentative physicality galore! Some angst and a lot of joy)
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“They hired us to try and fix this, Lilith. To see what we can do to streamline patient care, help with funding and prevent them from having to sell and disband - so that’s what we’re going to try and do.”
She stops, just before they enter the hospital, giving Lilith a hard look to let her know she’s still the boss.
Thankfully, Lilith understands and at the end of the day, she brings Lilith with her because she’s very good at what she does. “Then let’s go get started.” They make their way inside, “you just know this Dr. Silva is going to be a kook though. She probably wears wicker shoes or treats broken bones with laughter or some shit.”
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24 Aug 2023
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you kept me like a secret (but I kept you like an oath) by lostariels
Fandoms: Supergirl (TV 2015)
01 Dec 2025
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Bitten by a werewolf when she was twelve years old, Kara soon finds herself kicked out of Ilvermorny and abandoned by her mother with no home to return to. Taken in by family friends and dragged halfway across the world to start fresh as a Second-Year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Kara struggles to balance school, grief and Lycanthropy as she adjusts to her new life.
It's at Hogwarts where she meets a First-Year Slytherin by accident and strikes up an unlikely, secret friendship that spans their years at school and finds them on opposite sides of the brewing First and Second Wizarding Wars as family loyalties, secrets, promises and fears keep them apart. As the years drag by with frequent crossing paths, just how long can they stay loyal to their cause while their hidden feelings threaten to ruin everything?
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19 Jul 2023