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Rio thought she had her game day routine perfected. Then Agatha and her five-year-old son Nicky crash into the seat next to her (wearing Cardinals jerseys, no less) and suddenly Rio's carefully maintained rituals doesn't stand a chance.
(Or: A meet-cute in nine innings, featuring scorekeeping lessons, a foul ball, and a monumentous kiss cam)Bookmarked by onlywithlove
25 May 2026
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“Big day today, kiddo.” Carol says, slipping practiced fingers beneath the tabs of Ava’s diaper. “It’s mommy’s day.”
Ava kicks happily–not yet concerned with arbitrary holidays like Mother’s Day. As an adult, and a partner, Carol does not enjoy such luxury. She’s spent the past week planning for this single day; wants it to be perfect.
For Zosia.
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- Part 3 of Baby Stursia Series
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13 May 2026
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heal the scars from off my back (i don't need them anymore) by justalover
Fandoms: Pluribus (TV 2025)
07 Mar 2026
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"Carol knows in her heart that she shouldn’t pour herself another drink. The glass is sticky enough to remind her that she’s spilled the amber liquid over her own hands at least three times, and she’s licked them clean as if wasting a single drop of her favourite poison were a crime. If anyone could see her now, they would deem her pathetic, disgusting, hopeless. The fact that she can still feel the stinging shame of knowing that she’s exactly all those things makes her realize that she’s not drunk enough."
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“You’re Carol, right? I’m Zosia. I hear you’ve had quite a day.”
Carol scoffs, trying to conceal the cracks in her voice.
“And it’s not even noon yet.”or
the one where Carol struggles through loss, grief, addiction and trauma, doesn't ask for help, but gets it anyways.
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09 May 2026
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The heat in Zosia’s gaze deepened and Carol nearly choked on the air she was fucking breathing on – no. Oh no, no, no. It was a sex thing. It had to be a sex thing and she was not about to share any of that with Diabaté. It was the only thing she forbade the hive from doing because what happened between herself and Zosia was her business.
Zosia’s eyes didn't waver from Carol. “We watched a movie.”
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- Part 1 of Turning Me On, Turning Me Off
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03 May 2026
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“Carol."
Zosia Bartoś has said Sturka on panel shows and she has said my colleague on Twitter and she has said "the anchor at Liberty" in interviews and she has said "Carol Sturka" the full two-word name in writing, but she has not said Carol, just Carol, since a hotel room in Cincinnati ten years ago.
"You can say gay on television.”
Someone in the audience gasps, another says oh my god too loudly into a mic that should have been dead and the room comes apart.
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Carol Sturka is a closeted conservative anchor. Zosia Bartoś is her progressive ex. Netflix has them on a stage in 8 swing states for 4 months.
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First in a series of Stursia Romance/Smut AUs and one-shots. Different genres.Series
- Part 1 of Close Quarters
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26 Apr 2026
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Carol looks up at her and frowns, obviously not expecting her. But the fight doesn’t leave her. “He got my drink wrong three times.”
“Did he get your drink wrong, or are you downing them and then asking for a free remake?”
“I—” Carol stops. Lets out a breath. “Look, lady. It’s not my fault if he has to remake it. I shouldn’t have to pay for a drink that’s wrong.”
“Correct,” Zosia says. “If the drink is wrong, it will be replaced. You, however, are drinking the drink, despite it being wrong, and therefore are going to pay for the additional drinks you’ve been brought.”
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16 Apr 2026
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everybody's equal in the glow of radiation by thelittlestbear
Fandoms: Pluribus (TV 2025)
27 Mar 2026
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“Zosia, when I look at you I feel sick to my stomach.” That was not what Zosia was expecting to hear. From the look on her face, it was not what Carol had come in expecting to say either. She had stopped pacing. Zosia just gaped at her, front door still hanging open. “I didn’t mean it like that.”
Zosia shut the door and went to sit back down on the sofa. She looked up at Carol, and crossed her arms. “What could you have possibly meant it like?”
Carol sighed, and started pacing again.
“I used you. I hurt you, I drugged you, I blew you up, and I fucked you. I did all of those things knowing that you might still be in there, knowing that you couldn’t consent. I can’t sleep at night because every time I shut my eyes I think about every horrible thing I did to your body and now you’re back, you’re back because I wanted you to be back, I wanted it to be you, and now I can’t even look at you.” True to her word, Carol was staring up at the ceiling. The words poured out of her like sputum.
“To be fair, I killed your wife.”
“That’s not funny.”
“I’m not joking.”
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Zosia had a brother, once.
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05 Apr 2026
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each night, as sure as you’re born (you’ll hear me howling outside your door) by wanhedalycia
Fandoms: Pluribus (TV 2025)
19 Mar 2026
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Whoever it is is still fucking knocking, and Zosia pulls out, instantly plunging her fingers into her mouth, smiling at her almost innocently as she sucks the taste off.
“I think someone’s at your door,” she quips. The little shit. “I’ll be upstairs.”
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zosia gets drunk, carol is stupid, and manousos is SICK of them
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- Part 4 of sweet like honey
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23 Mar 2026
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Holy shit,” Rio says aloud. Agatha is somehow, miraculously, alive. Rio feels her own heart start beating faster in her chest with each distinct thump of Agatha’s heart through the warm skin in her neck.
Agatha Harkness, of all people, against all odds, is alive. Rio has to amend her earlier statement. It’s just us out here. Just Rio and her stubborn, narcissistic, cruel, and gorgeous boss, trapped together miles and miles away from any other human life form.
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The Send Help AU
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Zosia wondered if she would ever fit into Albuquerque after moving there from Gdańsk. Luckily for her, Carol Sturka is spunky and willing to give a helping hand. Zosia learns about New Mexico, about Carol, about how grand this world could be.
Zosia wonders if falling in love with her best friend was a part of the learning process, too.
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“I don’t know what you want me to say, Zosia,” Carol admitted, exasperated. “That I feel like I’m walking on eggshells around you? That I feel like I owe it to you to be a little nicer? That I feel guilty for taking advantage of you while you weren’t really yourself?”
Zosia huffed. “So you decided that giving me this half-assed version of yourself was going to absolve you of your previous shitty behavior?”
Carol didn’t know what to do except shrug.
“I know you,” Zosia said slowly. “Intimately and against my will. You were shoved into my molecules, my pores. I know the fire you keep in your belly. I know you stoke it yourself. I know you swallow coals and timber just to keep yourself going, however unpleasant it may be.”
A cold sweat broke across Carol’s neck. She remained silent.
“It’s not going to… make me feel better if you repress that side of yourself with the intention of pacifying me,” Zosia continued. “It makes me feel guilty, for whatever reason, and feeling guilty about you is the last thing I need right now. Or ever. You don’t deserve my guilt. Not after everything.”
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Yet another rendition of the aftermath of Carol and Manousos un-hiving Zosia.
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18 Feb 2026
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“Turn me back. Please, please, Carol. Please, I want to go back!”
Carol reaches for Zosia, then doesn’t.
“I don’t think that’s possible,” she says.
Or: One more take on deplurb’d Zosia for your reading pleasure :)
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Carol and Zosia Meet before the joining AU
Carol is in Berlin for a writing residency, she becomes friends with a group of her residency mates who introduce her to Zosia, a young ex-pat who lives with more confidence than Carol has even been able to muster.
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14 Jan 2026
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“I didn’t keep most of the memories. Other people’s memories. I get flashes of big things, births, deaths. Except about you.”
Carol feels the confusion slip onto her face. Nervousness creeps up her spine again. “Me?”
“I know everything that anybody has ever thought about you, Carol. Every memory. Every feeling. Helen. Your ex-girlfriends. Your dentist. It’s like I have a Carol encyclopedia in my head.”
Carol had thought that she was done experiencing fresh horrors. What a nightmare it is to realize that she is not. “Oh, god.” She says.
“Oh, god,” Zosia agrees.
After they manage to break Zosia free of the hive, Zosia and Carol try to navigate the field of landmines that is their relationship.
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11 Jan 2026
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There’s something different in the way that Zosia looks at her now. Carol’s stopped moving, and she clings to Zosia’s shoulders with a vice grip as she spirals into her all-consuming stare.
There’s a gnawing hunger in Zosia’s gaze, so desperate that Carol herself can almost feel the sharp bite of its teeth ripping into her own flesh.
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31 Dec 2025
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For only a second, and maybe she imagined it, Carol thought she saw a glimmer of the most human expression Zosia had worn yet: annoyance.
“And you’ll still be working on reversing this?” Zosia asked.
“We wouldn’t be very good heroes if we didn’t, now would we?”
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or: Carol and Manousos have found a way to (maybe) undo the apocalypse. They need a willing(?) participant to help their cause.
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Zosia raises an eyebrow. “We never lied to you. I never lied to you.”
“And I didn't either,” Carol says. “But you chose to leave out the truth so you could turn me into something you know I don’t want to be.”
“So what did you do to me then?”
There’s a moment where they just stare at each other, pain mirrored on both of their faces.
or: carol and manousos manage to un-hive zosia. it goes as well as expected.
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Rio is a gunner through and through. The only thing greater than her loyalty to her club is her hatred to Agatha Harkness, the WSL troublemaker. When Agatha becomes Arsenal's hottest new signing, they must learn to work together or cost their team the league.
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Belatedly, Agatha realizes she’s nervous. She never gave Rio an answer one way or the other– not deeming the situation serious enough to unblock her number– but now she has the sudden burning fear that maybe Rio won’t be here after all and she’ll have to do this by herself.
She thinks she might throw up her coffee in the decorative, half-dead bushes lining the parking lot at the thought, but then Agatha sees her.
Leaning against the building just to the side of the front doors, face drawn in concentration beneath her sunglasses as she talks into her cell phone, her free arm crossed over her chest while her hand gesticulates in time with her words. She taps one brown loafer-clad foot against the concrete, clearly displeased with whoever she's talking to. The sunlight catches on the defined muscles of her arms, golden bronze and mouthwatering.
The moment Rio sees her she lifts the sunglasses from her face, meeting Agatha’s eyes and quickly wrapping up her conversation. She was waiting for me, Agatha realizes. Unsure what to do with that, she simply crosses the lot to meet her.
Or: The one where an estranged Agatha & Rio find themselves joining a class action lawsuit together.
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10 Dec 2025