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1. one must learn to love by earthcubed

   Fandoms: Original Work  

   • Explicit
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • F/F
   • Work in Progress

   06 Mar 2026

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Original Female Character(s)/Original Female Character(s)
   • Original Female Character(s)
   • Romance
   • Angst and Romance
   • Angst with a Happy Ending
   • Slow Burn
   • Fluff and Smut
   • Meet-Cute
   • Eventual Smut
   • Domestic Fluff
   • Lesbian Sex
   • Awkward First Times
   • Smut
   • Masturbation

   Summary

   Elena has a stable job, loving parents, and she's making good progress on her master's degree, but lately she's felt like she's just been spinning her wheels and going through the motions of being an adult.

   Elspeth is close to done with her own degree and has a job most people would dream of, but just telling herself she's happy is starting to not be enough.

    

   A chance meeting in a coffeeshop is about to massively change both of them, they just don't know it yet.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   131,736

   Chapters:

   21/?

   Comments:

   60

   Kudos:

   92

   Bookmarks:

   15

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