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    Michelle and the girls are bored one day, and so they decide to ransack James's room - it seemed like a good idea, until James came home with an unexpected guest...

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    Erin is fresh out of a long-term relationship and crashing at Michelle’s. James returns to Derry just in time for a chaotic reunion, only to find himself catching old feelings at the worst possible moment. Erin tries to bounce back, James tries not to get in too deep and Michelle tries to solve everything with tequila and unsolicited advice about riding.

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    6/10
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    When James moves into the flat upstairs, Erin pitches a foolproof friends with benefits arrangement with five simple rules:

    1. Only at Erin’s flat
    2. No overnight stays
    3. No lovey-dovey crap
    4. Either of them can end it anytime
    5. And under no circumstances can Michelle find out

    Erin is confident it’ll work. James… has his doubts.

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    11/11
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    1,307
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    The fourth instalment in my Derry Girls series. Now approaching the post canon content. The girls embark on life after Our Lady Immaculate College, just before and following the Good Friday Agreement finale

    Series
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    12/?
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    79
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    27
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    2
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    1,198
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    After years of little contact, James and Erin find themselves in each other's lives again. They never acted on their mutual feelings for each other, but those are water under the bridge now. Or are they?

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    35/?
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    This was a request I found on Pinterest, basically asking what would happen if Yellowjackets happened to the Derry Girls, so I wrote it!! A lot of the happenings were inspired by some of the comments, but this is all my own work. Enjoy!

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    1/?
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    3
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    When James unexpectedly receives a wedding invitation from his ex-girlfriend, he’s torn. He doesn’t want to decline the invite in case it seems like he still cares, but he also can’t face going alone. Erin offers a solution: she’ll pose as his new girlfriend for the weekend.

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    5/5
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    Saoirse came forward and placed a hand on her forehead without hesitation. The touch was gentle, warm and unwelcome from a total stranger. Erin jerked away from the unfamiliar hand, hissing out a curse under her breath at the pain inside her head. “Don’t… don’t touch me.”

    “You truly are sick. Ach, poor critter...” Saoirse breathed softly, a pitying gaze locked on hers that made her feel downright judged.

    Erin was sick and she knew it, sick in a way she’d never felt before. That didn’t mean she just forgot an entire cousin.

    ___

    A Stranger comes to Derry

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    When Erin was 16, she tried to stop James from hooking up with Katya at a Jenny Joyce party. Now they’re 25, somehow at another Jenny Joyce party, and she’s at it again. Only this time, the girl is called Katie and the stakes feel weirdly higher.

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    1/1
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    7
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    593
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    A few decades after graduating from Our Lady Immaculate College, the Derry Girls take a trip to the Vatican City to visit Erin's little sister Anna, who works as an archivist in the Vatican archives.

    After arriving, however, their vacation plans are interrupted as news of the pope's death breaks, and preparations are underway for the coming conclave.

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    Chapters:
    6/6
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    15
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    [pride month ficlet 2025 #2] It's Clare's eighteenth birthday, and Michelle generously takes it upon herself to provide her with a little pre-university sex education (granny pants and nosebleeds notwithstanding).

    (Set after the second-to-last episode of Season 3, b/c I do headcanon that Erin and Orla are the babies of the group.)

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    Chapters:
    1/1
    Comments:
    10
    Kudos:
    39
    Bookmarks:
    1
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    Thirty days. Thirty stories. A collection of short ficlets I want to write for the June of Doom prompt challenge.

    1. Tenth Doctor & Donna Noble
    2. Marty McFly & Emmett Brown
    3. Steve Harrington
    4. Tommy Shelby & Ada Shelby
    5. Sybil Crawley/Gwen Dawson
    6. Thomas Barrow
    7. Claire Devlin & James Maguire
    8. Tenth Doctor/The Master (Simm)
    9. Einstein the Dog
    10. Thirteenth Doctor/Yasmin Khan
    11. Robin Buckley/Nancy Wheeler
    12. Thomas Barrow & Anna Bates
    13. Max Mayfield/Lucas Sinclair
    14. Tom Branson/Sybil Crawley
    15. Orla McCool

    *ON HOLD UNTIL I DECIDE TO WRITE ONE-SHOTS AGAIN*

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    15/30
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    “Ears are important.”

    “Your ears stick out.”

    “I know. That’s why I’m getting them pierced again, once I’m eighteen and Granda won’t pitch a fit. I’ll hide them somehow.”

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    Chapters:
    1/1
    Comments:
    6
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    33
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    2
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    151
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    Erin Quinn loses a lot of things over the course of her life — her back teeth, her Doc Martens, her car keys, and maybe, just maybe, her mind. Somewhere between the dentist’s chair and the quiet seat in Foyle’s, everything starts to unravel. A missing scene turned sideways — and then forward.

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    Chapters:
    3/3
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    2
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    19
    Bookmarks:
    2
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    418
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    “I will not be taking that chance. We nearly got attacked by Travelers and then hitched a ride with someone who I’m still not entirely sure wasn’t a serial killer. Never mind the escaped polar bear,” Erin recalled, her gaze now very distant as she was transported to all the potential dangers their gang had faced before, colored a lot differently when she thought about the same happening to her Matilda.

    Matilda blinked. She was always a bit confused whenever a bit of lore came out about her parents' younger days. She could never quite decide if it all happened as her Ma remembered it so.

    “… I can’t imagine that is an experience that would happen a second time Mammy,” she said.
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    James and Erin have had a lot of adventures (and misadventures) over the years and now their daughter Matilda starts to have her own.

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    James receives some bad news which leads to a butterfly effect of events.
    His friends step in to help, perhaps more than he'd like or expected.

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    Chapters:
    5/?
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    61
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    546
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    46
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    10,509
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    Next April’s the 10th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement and I want to do a short documentary about Northern Ireland. Nothing huge, just a retrospective over the past 10 years with a personal angle.

    And I want you to write the script.
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    Eight years after an ill-fated summer romance, 27 year old James and Erin make a film.

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    Chapters:
    9/10
    Comments:
    413
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    518
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    95
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    19,881
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    He wondered what a sight it would be, him kneeling in front of Orla, one hand resting gently on the hem of hir skirt, the other being held steadfast by James. Orla looked like an avenging angel, in his opinion, as the lights from the ceiling and from the early evening sun outside the door caught hir hair and spanned out in a halo. Blood on hir hands and the beginnings of a stain on hir skirt where his hand was. The fierceness, the protectiveness, the passion in hir eyes as xe bent over to look at him. James genuflecting next to him, one hand gripping his, the other running through his hair, subtly gripping at his curls. Both of them, on the ground in deference to this, this, this Otherworldly Being in front of them. Supplicants at the base of Heaven.

    Oh, to be so close and not get burned…

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    Chapters:
    4/?
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    42
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    7
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    1,662
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    AUS2E6. What if Chelsea Clinton had gotten the girls & James’s letter, what if she decided to take a risk for once? Chelsea decides to sneak out & meet up with our girls & James to spend a weekend in Derry; avoiding the secret service as she seeks to be a regular teenage girl to enjoy all the experiences & emotions that come with it, even if only for a short while.

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    English
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    Chapters:
    5/?
    Comments:
    15
    Kudos:
    44
    Bookmarks:
    4
    Hits:
    497
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    Set when the girls are all adults, go through the months as they build their families. Shown through both their hangouts and spotlights on certain girls. What I imagine they would do after the show ended and university.
    Clare is a teacher at Our Lady Immaculate. Orla is a host on the local radio show which is the perfect job for her. Erin and James work and live in London but they are back for a visit. Michelle works at a bar in Derry and has recently gotten engaged to her boyfriend, Patrick. He is the calm to her chaos.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    69,014
    Chapters:
    65/?
    Comments:
    6
    Kudos:
    16
    Bookmarks:
    3
    Hits:
    963

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