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1. stalemate by lemonjelly

   Fandoms: Pluribus (TV 2025)  

   • Mature
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • F/F
   • Complete Work

   01 Aug 2026

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Carol Sturka/Zosia
   • The Others/Carol Sturka
   • Past Helen/Carol Sturka - Relationship
   • Carol Sturka
   • Zosia (Pluribus)
   • The Others (Pluribus)
   • Helen Umstead
   • Canon Compliant
   • a sort of groundhog day
   • endless push/pull
   • with mild biting
   • and fruit picking as a romantic gesture
   • canon-typical dubious consent
   • about a hundred different ways carol says sorry without saying it
   • some smut
   • some snippets of past Helen
   • grief grief grief
   • and also a mosquito

   Summary

    

   Every morning Carol wakes up and tells her it's doomed.

   But Zosia has been Tibetan monks and olive farmers; Zosia has been Carol’s swim instructor when she was four years old and flat refused to let the water above her neck. She knows patience.

    

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   This is a one-shot of the kind of day they have together.

   This is a one-shot of the love you can't let in, can't let go.

    

    

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