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Life at the Dallas Fire Department is annoying, frustrating, and stressful. And that's just Cruz's partner. An alternative of her past is unfolding before her very eyes and, despite her best efforts, Cruz can't help stepping in. Cruz's attempt to talk some sense into Bobby, to try to make Bobby show up for her soon to be ex-wife's kid, is hard fought. Due to Cruz's own past and turmoil, the guilt keeps her from just letting it go to rest.
Getting married on a whim really wasn't in Josie's cards. After trying to make something work that clearly wasn't, an event makes the ultimate decision in regards to a marriage neither parties were really part of. With a more tumultuous divorce than ever a committed marriage, it's weighing on her. Josie is alone at work, an outsider, as everyone at the workplace has seemed to take sides - not hers.
Until Cruz bleeds into Josie's personal life and the lines between professional and personal blur.
The most important thing in the world to Josie is Carlos and, over time, that becomes true for Cruz, too - Cruz and Josie have to make a choice: fight for their feelings or against them.
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After the battle, Josie and Cruz are called to Mexico to fly planes for Pablo Carrillo’s cartel as they look for a mole.
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A very domestic day-to-day fic on their relationship post-gunfight. There will be plot but I am mostly exploring their relationship development. They navigate Josie’s injury, both of their pasts and what their jobs hold for them going forward all whilst falling in love.
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After months of recovery and training, Josie is finally cleared to fly her first mission back with the QRF, while Cruz, after several months of grueling case officer training, is given her first lead assignment under Joe’s watchful eye.
Both are eager to prove themselves, but just as they’re ready to return to action, they fall ill, forcing them to postpone their long-awaited comeback.
Frustrated yet tender with one another, they take turns caring for each other, discovering that while the missions can wait, the love and devotion they share is what truly matters.
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The hunt for Imran Amrohi and Kamal Al Rashdi...Will Cruz and the QRF be able to take down these threats before they get to Aaliyah? Who can they trust? Can Cruz and Aaliyah find their way back amidst the chaos? Expect layered missions and some cat-and-mouse as motives come to light.
If you haven't yet, check out ACT I: Fallout and Fractures. This story picks up from there. Thanks for reading!
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- Part 2 of Lioness: Ashes and Embers
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After the harrowing events of Operation Skyhawk, Josie lies critically injured in a Kuwait hospital, and Cruz refuses to leave her side as she fights for her life. In the aftermath, they are both offered new paths, career-defining roles that pull them in separate directions. Where they make the decision to prioritize their call to duty over the growing feelings developing between them.
When fate unexpectedly reunites them on a vacation, their connection reignites with a passion too powerful to ignore. But in a world where life and death are constantly put to the test, they begin to realize love is both a risk and a lifeline.
As they face all they’ve survived, they must decide whether to keep running from what they feel or finally surrender to it.
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Two silver spoons.
One’s been polished and passed down for generations, steeped in the upper crust of the Arab world.
The other didn’t get hers until she was six, brand new, still shining, and already dented.
One girl is laser-focused on making her family proud.
The other? Hell-bent on tearing down everything her family built.There are rules, ancient ones—and one of them plays the longest game of chess.
The other? Plays chicken.No fairy tales here.
No heroes.
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A lot can happen in almost 3 years.
That was when Cruz took the fall for Josie. She did it for 2 reasons: 1, because she knew it would please Pablo and 2, because she could never watch anything happen to Josie. After 3 years of looking at Josie through a window, Cruz is released. She struggles to find her place in her relationship and the club she sacrificed for.
After Pablo dies, Josie becomes the President of Los Tigres MC. She fought like hell to hold the club, and her family, together. Only one thing was missing - the woman she loves by her side. Despite the judgement and prying eyes of club members, Josie protects Cruz above all else.
A slow reveal to the rest of the world in regards to where their loyalties lie.
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- Part 1 of Daughters of Disorder
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After Josie's promotion to Major, it leaves her stateside permanently. Not only that, Cruz hasn't had an op in awhile. After spending months together, seeing each other every single day for the first time since they first started dating, Josie's mind starts running wild. They have a conversation reminding them of what they once discussed years ago. Six years ago now. This conversation leads to their lives changing permanently in the best way possible.
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- Part 3 of if heaven's for lovers
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Sergeant First Class Cruz Manuelos thought she’d buried Zara along with the mission in Mallorca, but some ghosts don't stay dead, and some women won’t stay quiet.
After disappearing into the desert with blood on her hands and a woman’s scream in her ears, Cruz is reassigned to Riyadh and left to rot, until a failed abduction drags her back into Aaliyah Amrohi’s orbit. Alive, angry, and more trapped than ever, Aaliyah is now the wife of the man who replaced her dead fiancé. She doesn't want Cruz's protection. She certainly doesn't want her apology. But the world won't let either of them go quietly.
As past and present collide, the Lioness team scrambles to uncover a new network of corruption, arms deals, and American betrayal. While Cruz and Aaliyah try to navigate the wreckage of what was real, what was operational, and what might still be possible between them.
Love doesn't undo the blood. But it might decide what comes next.
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Lioness: Cruz and Aaliyah - The Whole story by BuffytheSlayHer
Fandoms: Special Ops: Lioness (TV)
09 Jul 2025
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Chapters 1 -4: The story we saw, filled in
Everything else:
Months after eliminating Amrohi, former Lioness, and Marine Cruz Manuelos, is taken from her post in Africa by a group of foreign mercenaries. While in captivity, Cruz is asked to answer for her crimes, bringing her back to the mission that changed her life, and the love she can't let go of.
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Months after Operation Silent Shadow, Cruz and Josie continue their high-stakes work with the elite Lioness/QRF strike team. When a new target emerges—Tariq Al-Hamdan, a Saudi financier with ties to international arms trafficking, Cruz is forced to confront the most unexpected connection: his wife, Aaliyah Amrohi, the woman Cruz once loved while undercover as a Lioness.
As the team sets up operations in Istanbul, Cruz must balance the precision of the mission with the emotional turmoil of unfinished history. What begins as tactical surveillance turns into a reckoning with the past, threatening the hard-won peace she and Josie have built.
In this blend of covert operations and intimate reckoning, Cruz explores the cost of closure, the strength of chosen love, and the haunting pull of a past never dealt with.
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- Part 3 of The Missions
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Blood and Bond: The Fight for Family by N0va_Rogue6B9
Fandoms: Special Ops: Lioness (TV), SEAL Team (TV)
18 Jun 2025
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Set after Broken Compass, following Clay Spencer as he navigates a new chapter of his life—one where love, loyalty, and fatherhood collide in unexpected ways.
Now a member of the CIA’s Lioness program, Clay has found not only a mission but also a home with Cruz and Josie. Their bond is unshakable, forged in the fire of combat and deepened by something even stronger—love. But while their relationship is solid, the outside world isn’t so quick to accept it.
The biggest challenge? His son, Brian. Stella still isn’t sure where she stands with Clay’s new reality, but as Brian grows closer to Cruz and Josie, it becomes impossible to deny the truth: this isn’t some fleeting romance. This is a family.
With Bravo watching from the sidelines, Lioness backing him up, and an emotional court battle ahead, Clay must prove once and for all that he’s not the broken man he once was. He’s a father, a partner, and a man ready to fight for the life he’s built.
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- Part 2 of Clay Spencer: SHADOW OPS
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After Operation Skyhawk leaves them physically and emotionally wrecked, Cruz and Josie are sent to a medical recovery mansion with the QRF team for four months of mandatory healing. The house becomes a space where bonds are tested and slowly formed and where Cruz and Josie navigate their growing love with quiet tension, mutual care, and emotional and physical restraint.
Surrounded by teammates who move from wary detachment to real camaraderie, Cruz grapples with her fear of intimacy and her own painful past. While Josie, unsure of where she fits, finds strength in the team and security in Cruz.
As the group heals through shared pain, humor, and loyalty, Cruz and Josie come to trust not just each other, but the family forming around them, and they begin to believe in a future built on more than survival.
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- Part 1 of Recovering
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Six months after Operation Mali Veil, Josie is chosen for a deep-cover mission as the new Lioness, infiltrating a dangerous Venezuelan arms network. The decision shakes her relationship with Cruz, who knows firsthand the devastating cost of such missions.
As Josie is embedded under an alias and surrounded by enemies, Cruz must balance her role as case officer with the terrifying possibility of losing the woman she loves. Their bond is tested by secrets, duty, and the unrelenting pressure of life in the shadows, where trust is everything and survival isn’t guaranteed.
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- Part 2 of The Missions
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Fifteen months after the fallout of Operation Skyhawk, Josie and Cruz find themselves drawn back into each other’s orbit during a month of leave from their covert lives. What began as a casual, physical relationship rooted in survival and unspoken care has slowly transformed into something far more difficult to ignore. As they return to their respective hometowns: Josie to confront the fractured family she left behind and Cruz to face the ghosts of a painful past she’s long buried. They are forced to reconcile not only who they were, but who they’ve become. Amidst shared wounds, long silences, and slow revelations, Cruz and Josie come to realize that the connection between them is no longer just comfort or need....it is love.
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She pulls in a breath. Blows it out slowly. Wondering briefly if she should press down even further. Smother herself before she has to face that inevitable music. Whatever that music might be. Aaliyah’s fiancé and friends discovering them. Sending her home while they send Aaliyah somewhere to be punished or killed. Her team intercepting her. Yanking her from the mission. Sending her back to her unit to be court–martialed. And those are just the best case scenarios. There’s a third possibility. And it’s the worst possibility. They don’t get caught, Joe doesn’t mind that she literally fucked the mark, and she sees this mission through until the end. Killing Aaliyah’s father. Devastating the woman who showed her more care and compassion and kindness than she’s ever known in her life. Kissing her sweetly. Touching her so softly. Not acting disgusted about the scars on her back.
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Cruz slept with Aaliyah and now she’s losing her goddamn mind through the events of 1x04 and 1x05.
Work complete.
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- Part 2 of Sex, Lies, and Surveillance Tape
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Part 2 of the Storm Series.
With the team recuperating after their battle in Iran they must navigate their new normal while under strength due to injuries. A new mission will test their bonds and their individual skillsets. Cruz and Josie must figure out just what they are to each other.
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- Part 2 of The Coming Storm
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Missing moments from Season 2.
All in favor of more Cruz and Josie background scenes in place of Joe riding her husband and burning pancakes to a crisp, say “aye”.
Aye!
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Eighteen months after the fallout of Operation Skyhawk, the CIA activates its most elite black-ops team to intercept a growing threat in West Africa. A rogue private military contractor, backed by terrorist financing, is destabilizing Mali and Burkina Faso to carve out a lawless corridor for arms trafficking and extremist training. The Lioness QRF strike team is tasked with shutting it down, fast and lethal.
Cruz is now a rising CIA case officer and Josie is now a full fledged member of the QRF strike team. Once bonded by survival and now bonded by something deeper, Cruz and Josie must navigate the battlefield while guarding the trust and intimacy they’ve built. As the mission stretches them to the brink, love becomes both their shield and their greatest vulnerability. They fight to hold onto each other all while working together to take down the warlord, trying desperately to ensure what they have built doesn't burn down.
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- Part 1 of The Missions