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Lottie Matthews is soft and quiet, and yet lives just as she was born, screaming. A collage of perfectly pruned expectations, sliced off at the root, bound together with the barbed wire of the sickness in her skull. Malleable. Unpredictable. Breakable. A gentle breeze, never quite knowing if she’ll pass like a whisper or tear down the trees.
Natalie Scatorccio is hard and loud, and yet lives just as she was made, silenced. A shattered mirror of an angry man, devoid of expectations, ripped out at the root, torn apart by the sickness in her home. Avoidant. Destructive. Forgotten. A smoulder, never quite knowing if she exists to be stoked, or snuffed right out.
Spring Semester of Junior Year, Wiskayok High School: Breeze, meet Smoulder.
An inexplicable, inevitable connection. A hopeless, hurt group of misfits. A year and a half of high school. Hurting, healing, hating, loving, laughing, teasing, hoping, wanting, having, needing.
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28 Aug 2025
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"Sure, she had tons of “friends,” those girls who would enthusiastically greet her in the halls and talk to her to seem cooler. And then there were the boys. A lot of them. She occasionally exchanged a few words with some, while they stared at her lips obsessively, thinking that would somehow make her want to kiss them. It never happened, by the way.
She'd dated a few guys over the years, usually the ones not completely obsessed with her, and they always acted too polite, scared perhaps that a wrong move would ruin their reputation. But as soon as someone tried to take things further, she broke up with them. No explanations.
In the end, popularity wasn't her favorite thing, but she knew how to manage it. Her father was proud of her, that was what mattered. No teacher ever dared to raise their voice to her, and the whole school hung on her every word.
Well, almost everyone.
The whole school, except for Natalie Scatorccio."
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lottie is the most popular girl in school and has a reputation to uphold. nat is on the soccer team, she's a bit of a drug addict and doesn't have a good reputation. what will happen when nat winks at lottie and she blushes really hard? (lottie is hopeless)
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06 May 2025
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At a formal party, Natalie drinks in attempts to feel normal again. Instead, she muses on just how abnormal she feels apart from her fellow survivors.
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- Part 3 of Life's Long Night is Ended
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11 Feb 2025
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Several months after their rescue from the Wilderness, Natalie still struggles with feeling human again. In an effort to reconnect with someone who understands, she goes looking for her fellow surviving Yellowjackets. In true teen-prophet fashion, Lottie sees her coming.
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- Part 1 of Life's Long Night is Ended
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11 Feb 2025
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Jackie Taylor loved two things in this world: Soccer and Shauna Shipman (not specifically in that order). When she graduated she didn't expect much from her life. Her best friend was going to another state for college, and the sport she had dedicated most of her life to was over. She was going to Rutgers with an undeclared major expecting to be destined for the same miserable life her mother had. Then she got a call and her entire life was spilling into something she had never expected. Her best friend was pregnant with her ex-boyfriend's baby, and she wasn't about to let her go through it alone. And maybe she did deserve to be happy after all.
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I'm throwing my hat into the No Plane Crash AU ring because these characters deserve some peace.
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29 Jan 2025