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    Rules have never been a difficult concept for Rio Vidal. Following them hasn't either, although she has never been beyond the human experience of making mistakes.

    After years kept within the steel walls of the Cook County Coroner's Office, very little has come to challenge her anymore. That is, until a series of deceased men come across her table, all seemingly fine and yet, all in possession of a severed spinal cord.

    By the fifth body, Rio is beginning to saw her nose off to spite her face; not knowing how such a thing keeps happening, even if it is at the hands of another human being, starts to tilt her focus and skew her moral compass.

    How far will she go to get answers?

    Rio isn't even sure she knows.

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    18 Nov 2025

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    Ancient (and chronically unemployed) vampires Agatha Harkness and Rio Vidal have been strictly best friends for 600 years.

    That is, until Agatha bites her.

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    05 Nov 2025

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    “So, if I’m such a lost cause, why the hell are you here?”

    “Because I’m good at my job and I love a challenge.”

    “A congressional race is not the same as a presidential.”

    “I’ve managed races for congressmen, senators, governors.” She listed off breezily. “I’m interested in the big score.”

    “You wanna swing your dick around and show off?” Agatha scoffed.

    “Like you don’t.”

    Agatha leaned in now too, challenging her. “The difference is, I don’t need to wave mine around for everybody to know how big it is.”

    “Agatha,” She said, which was disrespectful given they’d only just met. “Let me run this campaign. I can make you someone America will want to vote for.”

    She finally pulled away, chuckling and sitting back down. “I don’t need you for that.”

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    VP Agatha has three months to run for president and begrudgingly makes Rio her campaign manager.
    AKA The Veep/Scandal/West Wing AU that twitter told me to write

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    10 Oct 2025

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    In a world of lesson plans and lecture halls,
    two women teach their students—and each other—what it means to live with passion, precision, and tenderness.

    Agatha, poised and deliberate, finds poetry in silence.
    Rio, restless and radiant, turns every moment into a spark.
    Together, they discover that the most profound lessons aren’t written on the board,
    but found in the spaces between—
    between thoughts, between glances, between hearts learning each other by heart.

    This is a story of dual devotion:
    to the art of teaching,
    and to the act of loving bravely.
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    OR: A lyrical exploration of love as lifelong education, where chalk-dusted hands hold more than books and syllabi.

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    22 May 2025

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    Rio pulled the Debussy piece out of her folder and placed it on the music rack in front of Agatha. Leaning slightly forward, she came closer to her head and hair, strongly smelling of lavender and sandalwood. She cleared her throat and scratched her nose instead of inhaling it. “Go slow, no need to rush if you haven’t done this in a while,” Rio mumbled as she arranged the sheets. “Oh,” Agatha grinned, “I always go slow when I can Miss Vidal,” she replied and placed her hands on the keyboard, hitting the first notes with a surety Rio hadn’t expected.

     

    Rio, an accomplished modern pianist, is asked to take 22-year-old Agatha on as a student

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    06 May 2025