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1. If the door were to open by spitzerspace

   Fandoms: Portrait de la jeune fille en feu | Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)  

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   • F/F
   • Work in Progress

   09 Jan 2026

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   • Héloïse/Marianne (Portrait of a Lady on Fire)
   • Marianne (Portrait of a Lady on Fire)
   • Héloïse (Portrait of a Lady on Fire)
   • Marianne's Father (Portrait of a Lady on Fire)
   • Sophie (Portrait of a Lady on Fire)
   • The Countess (Portrait of a Lady on Fire)
   • Researcher AU
   • is this author romanticising research life after experiencing the horrors of it?
   • sure am!

   Summary

   In 1980, 14-year-old Marianne meets a solitary girl freshly moved into her small seaside town and dreams of running away.

   In 1994, 28-year-old Héloïse joins a small research lab at the precipice of advanced discoveries and instead discovers something from her past.

   Language:

   English

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