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1. Oh, how the guilt layers by BlackthornPyre4UrEnemies

   Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV)  

   • Explicit
   • Major Character Death
   • F/F, F/M
   • Work in Progress

   14 May 2026

   Tags

   • Major Character Death
   • Francesca Bridgerton/Michaela Stirling
   • Francesca Bridgerton/John Stirling I
   • John Stirling I & Michaela Stirling
   • Michaela Stirling
   • Francesca Bridgerton
   • John Stirling I
   • Lesbian Michaela Stirling
   • Lesbian Francesca Bridgerton
   • John is het but probably somewhere on the demi to ace spectrum
   • Compulsory Heterosexuality
   • Michaela Stirling Being a Rake
   • Virgin John Stirling
   • Francesca is trying her best
   • awkward conversations about sex
   • Likely followed by actual awkward sex (het)
   • For our more sapphic-minded friends please note there might be a lot of FranJohn given the premise
   • However this author will aim to remain faithful to the sexualities of the characters established in the tags
   • Michaela is somehow very involved in FranJohn's sex life (against her will)
   • John just can’t stop SOS-ing her
   • And she will never say no to that man like that's her baby cousin!
   • Even if it kills her inside
   • Retrospective angst (What?)
   • The guilt is eventually going to bite Franchaela once they get together and maybe you can guess how along the way
   • Work In Progress
   • However each chapter works as oneshots so it should be alright incomplete

   Summary

   “You’ve never bedded a woman before?” Michaela gasped.
   “There was never any need.”
   “Need?!” Michaela laughed again, thoroughly entertained by John’s misery, “Loving a woman cannot be reduced to just a need, darling. I could say the same about myself, that there was ‘never any need’, obviously, and yet…”
   “I am well aware, Michaela,” John grumbled, “We used to share a wall. And I have given you your own wing in the castle as I hoped to be made less aware.”

   —

   Everything John knew about women, he learnt from Michaela. It should come as no surprise, then, that he would choose to marry the woman of her dreams. Missing moments from Season 3 and 4, detailing all the ways guilt layers.

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   English

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   Chapters:

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