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When Ted has to go back to Kansas for two weeks to attend his cousin’s wedding, he’s hit with anxiety about going and having to see old family (and Michelle and Jake). Wanting to help, Rebecca offers to go with him. But on their arrival, Ted’s cousin and her wife-to-be assume they’re a couple and are so happy to see Ted with his ‘girlfriend’ that neither Ted nor Rebecca can bring themselves to correct them. That’s when they come up with the plan - if they’re fake dating, and everyone thinks Ted there with Rebecca as his partner, maybe this whole thing with his family will be a bit easier? Only neither of them factor into this plan that they’re both secretly in love with the other. Both believing they’re too broken to ever be good enough.
But now they’re on a healing journey, with some help from those around them.
Each chapter is inspired by a song from Noah Kahan’s album stick season we’ll all be here forever
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baby, i love you (tell me that you feel the same) by serendipitous_pseudonym
Fandoms: Ted Lasso (TV)
16 Dec 2025
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‘Here you go,’ she said softly, handing him the paracetamol.
‘Thank you, darlin’,’ he said, knocking the painkillers back as Rebecca sat down beside him. It was as he reached to put the glass down on the coffee table that he froze. ‘Oh…I’m sorry…’
‘What for?’ she asked, looking at him confused.
‘Well…Rupert called you darling. And I don’t want to…remind you of him.’
‘Ted,’ she shook her head. ‘You don’t. You couldn’t.’
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Ted has many different names for Rebecca and she might just love them all.
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When she woke with a familiar ache behind her eyes, Rebecca knew what faced her. She’d suffered from migraines since she was a teenager. Sometimes they snuck up on her, hitting her without much warning. Other times started like this. A dull headache the moment she woke which would only get worse as the day went on.
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Rebecca has a migraine and is trying very hard to manage. Ted shows her she doesn't need to manage because he is going to look after her.
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i might losen my grip but i won't ever let her go by serendipitous_pseudonym
Fandoms: Ted Lasso (TV)
06 Dec 2025
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He was too much for people. That was what he’d always been told, it was always the same. Ted, can you just stop being so much all the time? Ted, you need to calm down. Ted, I need space. He’d been too much for Michelle, even when he tried not to be, even when he’d given her space (over 4000 miles of it). He’d still been too much for her and in the end, he let her go and it damn near broke him. He was certain that he would always be too much for everyone and still never be enough.
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Ted worries he's being too much for Rebecca. Rebecca helps him see that he never could be.
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pain is like cold water, your brain just get's used to it. by serendipitous_pseudonym
Fandoms: All Creatures Great and Small (TV 2020)
14 Jul 2025
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He was ranting about some farmer he’d been out to see, he was going on and on about how the farmer had been incompetent and wasted his time. He’d then reached past Audrey to get the whiskey, but she didn’t see what he was doing, he moved so quickly, and for a moment she was suddenly back in the marriage she’d run away from.
She flinched. And everything stopped.
Siegfried stood still, his hands dropping to his side, his words failing him for a moment.
She looked at him, realising what she’d done.
‘Mrs Hall, I wasn’t going to…’ he couldn’t finish his sentence, his eyes meeting hers, as though he was putting it all together in his head. And she couldn't bear it.
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A look into Audrey's life before Skeldale, her marriage, leaving it and then coming to Skeldale and meeting Siegfried and the others, inspired by the Noah Kahan song 'pain is cold water'