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“Is it so unthinkable of a suggestion? Am I that off-putting, that horrible that you cannot even imagine pretending to date me?"
"No, Fran. It's not that. It's—" Michaela stopped, shaking her head and sighing. "You deserve more than that. More than what I'm looking to offer."
"I want nothing more!" Francesca spoke too emphatically, drawing attention to herself. "It's seamless. It solves both of our problems. You get a steady, unobjectionable partner and in turn, the estate. I get a reprieve from my family's haranguing, as they'll see I'm happily coupled. Nobody needs to know that our partnership is platonic masquerading as something more."
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Michaela can’t inherit the Stirling Estate unless she reforms her womanizing ways and Francesca can’t get her family to cease their incessant badgering about her finding true love. Realizing they both stand to gain from a relationship, they start up a fake one. Inconveniently for their plan, they’re already in love.
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07 Jul 2026
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University AU where Francesca is supposed to be in a perfectly loving relationship with her boyfriend, John, with a sensible future of marriage and children on the horizon, right up until John's cousin, Michaela Stirling, returns from a sabbatical abroad and Francesca finds herself, suddenly, hopelessly curious about another woman in ways that are utterly nonsensical.
Now Francesca finds herself unable to stay away and trying very hard not to think about why telling Michaela she and John are dating feels like it would ruin everything. Surely keeping that little detail about her relationship status cannot be seen as lying if Michaela never asked. Right?
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Or, finding the courage to be yourself before it's too late.
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Doesn't love make us all a little crazy though? Or is that just Francesca?
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29 May 2026
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Terms and Conditions (Franchaela) by Pretty_hurts24
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
26 Apr 2026
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Francesca Bridgerton is set to become CEO of her family’s media empire—but there’s a catch: her grandfather’s will requires her to get married and produce an heir to secure her inheritance.
Struggling to find a suitable partner, Francesca’s assistant Michaela Stirling steps in with a solution—a marriage of convenience governed by strict rules. The arrangement is meant to be purely strategic:
Live together,
Present a perfect public image,
Avoid emotional attachment.However, as they spend more time together, their fake relationship begins to blur into reality. Feelings grow despite their efforts to suppress them, complicating both their personal and professional lives.
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This is NOT my work. The ENTIRETY of this story goes to Lauren Asher. I am just simply turning it into a fan fiction version with a few tweaks here and there. ENJOY.
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03 May 2026
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Francesca, quite structured and focused, believes her job as bridesmaid will be a piece of cake; it's her older brother and her best friend, so she knows she must put in all her effort to make the wedding day perfect. But the surprise factor related to Penelope's Scottish friendships seems to complicate things: in short, Michaela Stirling is too loud and charming for her own good.
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03 May 2026
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Sympathetic resonance is a phenomenon in which a string initially at rest responds to external vibrations that are harmonically similar to its own without direct physical contact. It’s always made sense to Francesca that when she holds down a key on the piano, those with frequencies alike echo and the sound waves continue to ring in the wooden body after the original note has faded away. It’s physics, it’s music theory, it’s perfectly comprehensible.
At least, it had been all of that until she started noticing the sensation within her, the amplified waves crashing through every nerve in reaction to another person. A stranger. Her husband’s cousin. A woman.- Language:
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03 May 2026
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Composure by ocean19
Fandoms: Francesca Bridgerton/Michaela Stirling - Fandom, Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
02 May 2026
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Michaela plucked a strawberry from the platter. It was deeply red and ripened to the point that was uncommon for fruit in early spring. She assessed it before she bit into it, turning it around in her fingers.
Francesca detected the white of her teeth as her mouth closed on the tip.
She took two bites. When she got to the heart of it, her lips enclosed around the remainder and she drew the last of it into her mouth slowly, sucking at its juices.
Then she looked up.
Francesca was still watching.
Their eyes met and held.
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Michaela Stirling has returned to Mayfair after two years of unexplained absence. Her presence slowly whittles away at Francesca's carefully maintained composure, until it breaks.Bookmarked by maneonx
03 May 2026
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my house of stone, your ivy grows (and now i’m covered in you) by namacomoon
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV)
07 May 2026
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In a universe where someone's Alpha/Omega subgender is revealed to them upon meeting their soulmate, Francesca Bridgerton assumes she must be Beta. She marries John, a fellow Beta, and is content with living a simple, tranquil life with him. That is, of course, until Michaela Stirling comes along and wrecks every single one of her plans.
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03 May 2026
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Francesca always thought the love her parents and siblings found was rare. It was love at first sight, fast, passionate, and a frenzy of feelings. Her mother always told her the best loves started when they began as friends, only for both parties to then feel more. That was not a love Francesca had ever felt, but some love stories take longer to present themselves than others.
Season 3 and Beyond of Franchaela's love story: A lot of drama, angst, and romance, sprinkle of humor, and heaps of smut with a happy ending.
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- Part 1 of Franchaela Season 5 and Beyond
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03 May 2026
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Michaela, whilst grieving and overwhelmed with the feelings blossoming in her chest for her cousin's widow, does the only thing she can think to do when asked so sweetly to stay, she flees.
But now, after two years of running, she has returned to London, determined to make amends with the woman she has managed to convince herself she cannot fall in love with, under any circumstances.
Yet her chosen path is not an easy one, for Francesca Stirling, now seething with rage, grief, and a furious current of feelings she neither understands nor can explain, is just as determined to discover the very reason for Michaela's flight in the first place, a reason Michaela is intent on keeping to herself.
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06 Apr 2026
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followed a dream and a strange desire by latkeparty
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
30 Mar 2026
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“The first time I saw you," Michaela says, "I thought you were the strong-minded sister of my cousin’s new wife.” She smiles then, small and sad. “Somehow you ended up more than that. You ended up being you.”
“You say that like it is something special,” Francesca says, voice small.
Michaela holds her gaze. “It is to me.”
or, 5 times Michaela leaves Francesca + 1 time she comes back (aka scenes from scotland + a s5 reunion)
Part 1: Francesca, Part 2: Michaela, Part 3: Together
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02 Apr 2026
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Grief-bound Tension by julie6769
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
23 Apr 2026
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Francesca has a hunch, silence is not an option when Michaela Stirling is around. "Have you seen Miss Stirling tonight? Has she gone to bed already?"
"Did Miss Stirling not inform you?" The maid wondered.
"Of what?" She mumbles.
"She has packed her belongings and left." For a moment, the world stills. The candlelight, the soft rustle of the maid’s apron—everything suspends. Francesca cannot move. She cannot think. She can only feel the now familiar, suffocating sense of loss settle over her again. Michael too, must think something is broken in her.
On the far edge of the ton, Michaela sits rigidly in her carriage, watching the night sky blur past the window. She wonders whether John is there watching over her. Grieving is certainly draining, but Michaela cannot help but be consumed by guilt. Guilt for leaving Francesca alone despite her promise to stay in Mayfair. But deeper still, guilt for the quiet flutter she felt when Francesca’s hand touched hers in the parlor. If fleeing to the farthest corner of the earth is what it takes to silence her own wicked mind, then she will flee. Even if it means breaking her promise.
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02 Apr 2026
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Michaela’s fingers, which are a bit cold, graze the inside of her wrist. “It’s not innocent like this.” She whispers now too, fingers slide up her forearm.
That certainly doesn’t feel innocent to Francesca, who bites down on her lip to suppress a whimper at the contact she’s not at all used to.
Most touches did not feel as Michaela’s fingers do now, tracing across the inside of her arm, pushing up the sleeve of her dress so that skin can meet skin in some distracting sort of way that immediately sparks a new melody in Francesca’s head. As her fingers dance in what is supposed to be an innocent action across the soft skin of her forearm, she is finding it harder and harder to breathe in any air.
“Many nights in France I found places full of the kind of touch that you cannot possibly imagine.” Michaela is still watching every feature on her face, so closely that it would make her self-conscious about it if she wasn’t so distracted by the way her careful fingers dance across her skin. “That is the most wicked thing I can tell you of, something so ruinous that even if I had ever wanted to be a debutante, I would not have the chance.”
or With Love, Franchaela.
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- Part 2 of With Love
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01 Apr 2026
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My Girl in the Shadows by shewriteslove
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
07 Apr 2026
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Francesca Bridgerton thought she could forget about her -- Until Michaela Stirling shows up at her door after a year of silence, and everything she tried to bury comes rushing back.
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30 Mar 2026
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29 Mar 2026
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Lucky by emotional_motionsickness
Fandoms: KATSEYE (Band), Pop Star Academy: Katseye (TV)
09 Jul 2026
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Sophia Laforteza is a journalist who has been stuck in a researcher position for ‘The Riff’, one of the biggest pop culture columns in L.A., for the last four years. She has tried every trick in the book to climb the corporate ladder, but none of it has worked. With living expenses rising and her salary staying the same, the rope is starting to tighten around her neck. That is when, after a vague comment, her best friend Megan showed her an ad: FULL-TIME DOG SITTER NEEDED.
Sophia almost laughed out loud, until Megan explained that this wasn’t just any regular dog-sitting position. It was a dog sitting for a burned-out pop star who had decided to move to the middle of nowhere after a nasty divorce from one of Hollywood’s top actors.
A lot of theories came out of the divorce: cheating, mistreatment, substance abuse, insanity. Nobody really had the answer. Joshua Abrams had come out the other side as the golden boy he had always been perceived to be, but Daniela Avanzini? She just vanished from the public eye.
How much would Sophia’s life change if she could find out what happened?
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25 Jan 2026
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I'm your biggest fan, I'll follow you until you love me by meizini
Fandoms: KATSEYE (Band)
04 Feb 2026
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Megan skiendiel is an orphan who’s learned she’s invisible unless she’s useful or successful, she moves to Chaehwa Girls’ High School, a top-1% pressure-cooker where students are privileged, hyper-competitive, and socially ruthless.
aka Meizini x Friendly Rivalry AU
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25 Jan 2026
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What devil had possessed Sophia Laforteza?
What was making her think of Daniela Avanzini again and again, until she swore she might choke on it?
What was making her remember the faint vanilla scent that followed her, or the way her curls refused to stay tamed, or how her hazel eyes caught the light and turned almost green?
And what, honestly, was she supposed to do to drive this demon out of her chest?
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Sophia and Daniela both struggle with comphet and Catholic guilt but they kiss a little and call each other baby.
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11 Jan 2026
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Lara has the best idea to help Dani cheer up after a breakup. Harmless flirting with a fake online profile should help Dani get her confidence back.
It works... Too well.
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18 Dec 2025
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i know if i'm haunting you, you must be haunting me by meizini
Fandoms: KATSEYE (Band), LE SSERAFIM (Band)
10 Jan 2026
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two cheer captains who hate each other and one combined team what could go wrong
aka Meizini x cheer AU
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- Part 1 of meizini cheer AU
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14 Dec 2025
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Daniela has always been stuck on Megans mind, like a plague.
She was either jealous of the compliments shed get at dance practice when they first started in dream academy. Or of the way she seemed to spend so much time with Sophia. And then everything clicked one night. Maybe she didn't want to be Daniela, maybe she wanted to be with her.or
Megan is in love with Daniela and has been since they first met. Finally she realizes this, and has a bit of a drinking problem at a label party and sings a Taylor song to get her attention. It's downhill from there.
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08 Dec 2025