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Lena lets out a careful breath and says, “James and I have decided to end our— association.”
What a perfectly weird and roundabout way to describe the end of a romantic relationship, Kara thinks. “Oh?” she says, aptly demonstrating her own comparative lack of eloquence.
It earns her one of Lena’s crinkly smiles at least, affection clear on her best friend’s face. “Should I feel offended that you don’t seem all that surprised?” she flusters.
“No,” Kara says, “I am,” and she is, is the thing, she's actually stunned, but she’s something else, much more than that.
She’s elated.
“Bummer,” Kara says.
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In which Kara makes a tiny new enemy, Alex has an actual functioning gaydar, and Lena breaks up with James only to immediately start seeing someone else. And Kara is fine! Except for the part where she’s really, really not.
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04 May 2024
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“Okay so…don’t freak out.” Camila sets her down next to Beatrice’s and then pulls out her phone and starts tapping through it. Beatrice watches the sunflower keychain she has hanging from the case jangle around with each swipe of her finger. “Now, Lilith told me your situation. You need a fake girlfriend.”
Beatrice gets up. “Not another dating app, Camila. I can't…”
“No,” Lilith’s hands are on her shoulders, keeping her in place. “It’s not that.”
Camila makes a face, a wince, like it’s somehow worse than her nightmarish stint on eHarmony. “This feels vaguely familiar to when I was told I’d be taking some time away from home and ended up in a catholic boarding school.”
“Well,” Camila stops searching through her phone, apparently finding what she needed. “It’s nothing like that at all, but it might be equally as jarring. I had to break through like three security firewalls just to access this site.” She turns her phone around then for Beatrice to see the website she’s pulled up.
CAT’S CRADLE - ESCORT SERVICE
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20 Jan 2024
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“It’s a lot easier for me to keep my grip on you when I can actually feel your body.”
The phrase feel your body said in Kara’s voice rattles around in Lena’s head like a pinball machine, but she manages to shrug her sweater off and throw it somewhere behind them before she can second-guess herself. Kara is looking comfortable in a loose white t-shirt, and when she takes Lena by the waist and puts Lena’s hand on her shoulder the texture of it is light and soft.
“Let’s start from square one,” Kara says, so kindly that her next words take a few seconds to register in Lena’s brain. She tightens her grip on Lena’s waist, and says with full confidence:
“Dancing is a lot like sex.”
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Against her better judgement Lena agrees to compete on Dancing with the Stars for the PR boost. When her chemistry with her partner Kara gets misconstrued by the press, there’s obviously only one solution.
AKA, a Dancing with the Stars/Fake Dating AU.
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15 Oct 2023
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From the road, Ava could only make out their broadest features: a woman in a white tank top, her muscled shoulders tanned from the sun, an axe dangling casually in one hand. She had already placed a log in front of her, and as Ava watched she lifted the axe above her head and swung it downwards in a single fluid motion, the taut muscles of her arms working so perfectly with the axe they might have all been one. The log split easily into two, as though she were cutting through paper, and the woman picked up the two halves to place them into a neat stack nearby.
“Ah,” Schaefer said, catching the line of her gaze, “That’s Beatrice. Your new neighbor. Don’t mind her too much, she’s a little… eccentric.”
Ava liked eccentric. She also liked women who looked like they could tear her in half without too much effort. She had a feeling she was going to like Beatrice a lot.
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03 Sep 2023
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“I made a list!” Ava trills.
“A list.”
“Yeah!” Oh no. Ava’s grin is wicked. “Of all the things that turn me on when I’m with a boy.”
Jesus Christ. Good thing Beatrice lowered that bottle.
“Care to explain?” she groans.
“I call it the to do list. I figured if I do all of this stuff with a girl and I get turned on, it means I’m also into girls.”- Language:
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31 May 2023
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Your vows (In sickness and in health) by LongWindedAnswer for Morjojo
Fandoms: Warrior Nun (TV)
18 May 2023
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Chastity, Obedience, Poverty.
These are not the vows of a nun.
These are Beatrice's vows to Ava.
OR: The one where Beatrice basically owns the largest airline in the world, and she keeps meeting Ava at airports.
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22 May 2023
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When Suzanne tasked Beatrice with making the guest house handicap accessible for the new bookkeeper coming to Cat's Cradle Ranch in a few weeks, she was expecting someone much older - someone who wouldn't get in her way. Someone she could maybe share a few good books with.
What she didn't expect was for the beautiful and vibrant Ava Silva to roll out of the van that day and completely change her life.
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- Part 1 of cowboy!bea au
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17 May 2023
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Unbound for a second, Beatrice lifts her hand back up. There’s no dirt, no excuse, but she palms Ava’s face again, just to feel it, just for that special close lipped smile that graces Ava’s face again, just for her to sigh.
She removes it quickly—not quickly enough, too quickly—catching Ava’s eyes when they open again.
“Now,” Beatrice says, voice soft and serious. “Let’s try again.”
Ava nods, the halo glows, her feet leave the ground, and she doubles her time.
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Beatrice realizes that her touch helps Ava with her training, and, well, things escalate.
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13 May 2023
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give me trust (and watch what'll happen) by slippingunder (skinman)
Fandoms: Warrior Nun (TV)
28 Apr 2023
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“This is a terrible plan.”
“Well, it’s all we’ve got,” Ava said, pulling the oversized sweatshirt she’d been wearing over her head and throwing it aside, aware it was bound to catch on the window somehow if she didn’t. A part of her hoped Bea was looking as she revealed the bare arms underneath, flexing them under the pretence of limbering up. “Now, give me a boost.”
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There theoretically might be better ways to spend your Saturday night than locked in the university library with the hot hockey player you've been noticing non-stop for months, but Ava wouldn’t be interested.
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04 May 2023
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Set hundreds of years in the future, Earth became uninhabitable so humanity moved to the stars and Terraformed two planets. Beatrice is a Senator from Terra-One and Ava is a Mechanic from Terra-Two. An intercepted teleport lands them stranded and alone, together.
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16 Apr 2023
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After she falls at the conclave, Ava reflects on her feelings for Beatrice.
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08 Apr 2023
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Sister Beatrice lived her life with the shame and torment of who she really is, although she's usually able to hide it with her skills and excellence.
It becomes harder to hide around Ava, who takes the chance to help her in a process of accepting herself.
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07 Apr 2023
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Anyone else love how Ava got jealous in 2x2? What if it played out a bit differently? What if we got to see a bit more of a jealous Ava? Stays semi-canon (not exact same timeline as show) and has an original Female character.
Sorry not great at summaries. Starts out slow but picks up, I promise!
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26 Mar 2023
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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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- Part 1 of doctor!ava au
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24 Mar 2023
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Stay (and i'll be loving you for quite some time) by puppybusby for Dash_El, stoveek
Fandoms: Warrior Nun (TV)
08 Sep 2024
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Fresh out of a short lived relationship, stuck in a job that she hates and with parents that somehow manage to be overbearing and distant, Beatrice is having a rough time of things.
The fact that it's almost Christmas certainly doesn't help matters.
But a chance encounter with an old friend leads to an invitation to spend the holiday in a sleepy little town that she had never even heard of.
She certainly wasn't looking for the true meaning of Christmas or anything like that.
But maybe, just maybe, Beatrice might find everything she had never thought she could have.
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20 Mar 2023
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Ava visits the coastal town of Suncliff Beach thinking whales will be the most magnificent sight to behold. Beatrice works at the local bookstore and believes her first love is the ocean. They are both very, very wrong.
(or, a small town AU)
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18 Mar 2023
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“You could always kiss it better.”
Beatrice laughs, but it comes out strangled. She drops her gaze, keeping her eyes firmly on her hand. “I believe that’s the Halo’s job.”
“The Halo doesn’t have lips,” she says, matter-of-factly. “You have lips.”
"Yes." Beatrice hopes she’s too drunk to notice her blazing cheeks. “Thank you for that observation.”
(or, five times the Halo heals Ava and one time it heals Beatrice)
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05 Mar 2023
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Beatrice is on her knees, in a way that is not holy. It isn’t God who will bring Ava back to her, it’s the universe that she will bend around her if need be. Maybe life is all about sitting in the event horizon, letting the tide of fate exercise its will. But Beatrice knows fate. She has seen it in her dreams, draped in gold and wearing the smile that woke her from slumber. She has stared directly into the sun, and it’s her.
It’s her, it’s her, it’s her.
(or, it’s Beatrice against God, and Beatrice won’t lose)
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05 Mar 2023
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As Long As We Are Together (Yet Even When We Are Apart) by Abbers6
Fandoms: Warrior Nun (TV)
15 Aug 2023
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"And so she does. Beatrice puts pressure on the wound and Ava’s whine is in sync with the ringing of the Halo. She cleans the wound to the best of her ability and then begins wrapping gauze around the particularly deep spots. Ava winces a few times and Beatrice’s hands shake, but they are both smiling. Beatrice’s smile is tight, controlled, but Ava’s is comfortable, content even. It's not the same mischievous one she houses when she’s about to make a pun, but a smile Beatrice has only seen given to her."
Or: Rewriting S2 because I know the creators put all of their love into this show but we deserve to make it fluffier and have a happy ending that Netflix stole from us. Also Mary is there because of course she is.
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05 Mar 2023