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    “Vi?” she blurts. Her heartbeat only thumps harder as the panic sets because how—why was Vi here right now? It was almost like she’d—

    She rakes her fingers through her hair, hoping it looks like she wasn’t up to anything but a quiet night on the couch and then before she can think any harder about it, she’s unlocking the deadbolt and then the chain and pulling the door open.

    Vi leans cooly against the door jam, one arm resting above her head and the other holding a large, greasy bag of takeout. “Heya, Cupcake,” Vi greets with a wide smile.
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    Or, hormones are high (i.e. Caitlyn just might let Vi make her Juno).

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    09 Jan 2026

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    "There's so many more than last year," Caitlyn says absently.

    "More what?" Vi asks, still patiently, indulgently still under her touch.

    "Freckles," Caitlyn says, and shifts her grip to the nape of Vi's neck, urging her down so Caitlyn can kiss her face, dragging her lips softly, reverently over the new constellations of them blooming across Vi's face. They're faint, light brown, a beautifully chaotic spread stretching across her cheeks, over the slightly crooked bridge of her nose, curling up under her eyes.

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    Caitlyn is determined to show Vi how much she loves every part of her.

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    18 Nov 2025

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    Hard-boiled detective Caitlyn is ready to close up shop, when she finds herself pulled into one last mystery by Vi. The handsome stranger came back to town in search of her long lost younger sister, who happens to be Caitlyn's archnemesis. Meanwhile, starting first grade in Bridge Elementary, Caitlyn's daughter and Vi's adopted kid become best friends, forcing the two single moms closer while the case drives them apart.

    A story about a blended family that probably should have stayed in the blender a little longer.

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    10 Nov 2025

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    “Say it again,” Vi all but begs. Her fingers dig into Caitlyn’s wrist and hip where she holds her close like she’ll float away in the ripples the wind makes in the grass, like the tide, like she isn’t Caitlyn’s anchor. Like she isn’t the only thing keeping Caitlyn afloat.

    “Qīn’ài de. Oh, qīn’ài de. My dearest.”

    Vi kisses her under the sunshine, the first time she’s felt it in years, and Caitlyn kisses back. Wind rustles through the trees, birds are singing, Caitlyn’s mom is dead, and she kisses Vi in the backyard she grew up in like she’s wanted to from the moment those bars between them slid open and Inmate 516 had a name again, a future again.

    “Again,” Vi breathes. Their noses brush.

    Caitlyn says it into her mouth as if Vi swallowing will keep it in her forever. “Qīn’ài de.”

    (Or, it’s not just language. There's knowing and then there's understanding.)

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    19 Oct 2025

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    It has been weeks since the war on Piltover and Caitlyn is at her wits end. Yes, she is wounded, yes she is bedridden, and yes, maybe she did almost die. But she isn't the only one who is hurting, and she is so tired of Vi acting like it.

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    A collection of one shots following Caitlyn and Vi after the war, and Caitlyn teaching Vi that she doesn't always have to be a caregiver, in fact, she could use some of that care herself.

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    06 Oct 2025