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  1. Rec 25

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    For most of her young childhood, Natalie stumbles her way through her sentences. It doesn’t happen all the time. When she’s playing with Van or reading aloud from her favorite book, the words flow easily, slipping smoothly from her lips in a way that makes her mother smile fondly. But when Natalie gets nervous introducing herself in front of strangers or giving an answer after being called on in class, her words get stopped up in the back of her throat and the sounds stutter from her mouth. She gets stuck on her ‘s’ words the most, but sometimes gets stuck on entire words, and they tumble from her mouth over and over as she tries to move on to the next word.

    Van knows this and has never once made Natalie feel bad about the impediment.

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    24 Apr 2025

    Bookmarker's Notes

    vannat brotherhood <3

  2. Rec 47

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    All of it is blurry for Nat – well, it’s not, some of it is clearer than the hands in front of her face but she doesn’t think about that, she tells herself it’s blurry – except the last two days before rescue. And the first four days after.

    For six days, Natalie is inseparable from Lottie Matthews. And that’s what she remembers.

    or: natalie is useless until they need her; they need lottie until she's useless. so it works.

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    21 Apr 2025

  3. Rec 59

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    When Shauna leaves the bathroom, Jackie is bent over a chocolate milkshake, drinking deeply. She stares right at Shauna when she walks past and doesn’t even pretend to listen to Jeff’s baseball prattle. Shauna stares right back and tries to make her eyes as angry as Lottie’s, her jaw as set as Nat’s. She knows how soft she is around the edges and she wants it all to go away.

    Jackie doesn’t notice. Jackie never seems to notice.

    or: jackie friend-dumps shauna and lottienat come to the rescue. cue the emotional growth.

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    21 Apr 2025

    Bookmarker's Notes

    Nat and Lottie are Shauna's gay fairy godmothers

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    It’s just that sometimes, she thinks about Lottie, standing in her backyard, her eyes all soft in the starlight and her hair messy from climbing out of bed. Her mind slips past the memory, and the rain starts pouring down, and they stand there getting soaked and just looking at each other, and Nat feels like she’s reading poetry in Lottie’s eyes.

    or: 4 times lottie climbs through nat's bedroom window, and one time nat returns the favor.

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    21 Apr 2025

    Bookmarker's Notes

    sweet, sweet, weird Lottie and Nat being head over heals for her

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    “Um,” Jackie starts and twists at the bottom of her shirt with her fingers. “My, uh, parents aren’t…” She swallows, throat bobbing. “I can’t go home,” she whispers. “And Shauna is mad at me and she needs space even- even if she won’t say it, I know and— and I don’t want her to feel obligated… I just— I can’t— I have nowhere to go.”

    Nat blinks at her a few times before she sighs heavily. “Goddamnit, Taylor,” she mutters harshly before she looks at her, almost angrily. “Let’s go. I can’t leave you out here on your own and something happen to you. Shipman would kick my ass.”

    Jackie smiles wobbly and reaches out, carefully, and curls her fingers into Nat’s sleeve. “Thank you,” she says softly, thankfully despite the small tear tracks on her face.

    “Whatever,” Nat bites out, but doesn’t pull away from Jackie’s grip on her jacket.

     

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    How one horrible night of November ‘96 brings the yellowjackets together closer than they’ve ever been all due to Jackie’s shitty parents.

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    Jackie Taylor collects friendships like they’re pokemon and is (mostly) oblivious.

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    16 Apr 2025