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“The church was… the only path before me, at the time, and I never questioned it," Beatrice admits.
“And now?” he asks, looking concerned, and Bea realizes she’s curled into herself against the counter. She didn’t even notice how small she’d become. He offers her the sugar. She takes it.
“Now, I think differently,” Beatrice says, rising to her full height, rolling her shoulders back. Now, the future is an open road, and she’s got her hands at ten and two and her foot on the gas.
Now, she sees how wrong it was: to be pushed into giving up her life as if it would mean she would no longer ache to live it, as if that could ever be possible. Now, she is learning how to choose herself. Sometimes when you’ve suffered a whole lot, it’s hard to stop, but she’s trying. She takes a sip of her tea, savoring the sweetness on her tongue.
“What about God?”
“What about Him?” Beatrice answers, trying to sound sure of herself. “I'm– I'm fairly confident that He still loves me.”
(Or, post-canon Beatrice, learning how to love herself while she waits for Ava to come back.)
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07 Dec 2025
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Run at the Cup. by TheHomelyBadger
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021), League of Legends
29 Apr 2023
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“So that’s why I bring Violet Wickett up,” says the first, feminine voice, “because there’s two things that have defined Vi her entire career. How hard she plays as a forward, especially on defence, and her rivalry with Caitlyn Kiramman.”
“See, if I’m Mel Medarda, I’m not even giving Wickett another glance. I’m taking Kiramman with my first pick and grabbing from the end of the Ironfist’s bench.”
“That’s what makes this so delicious, though, Jack. Mel Medarda can get both of them.”
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Hockey AU. The RHL is expanding, and both Caitlyn and Vi are up for grabs, their rivalry being a well documented storyline in the RHL for twelve years. What happens, however, when they're both taken to a new team? What happens when a relationship forged in belief of only seeing each other once in a while on road games is faced with playing beside each other every day?
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- Part 1 of The Runeterra Hockey League
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15 Nov 2025
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save the last dance for me by panglosian
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021), League of Legends
24 Dec 2022
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Caitlyn Kiramman is an instructor, principal dancer, and on the board of shareholders at Piltover School of Dance, a renowned dance academy owned by her parents. She's spent her whole life training, working, and doing everything right, but something has changed. Her love for contemporary dance and traditional form is failing, and she's willing to try anything to rekindle her love for dance.
Vi is a coach and soloist at Lanes Academy, a nonprofit urban dance collective dedicated to bringing art to the streets of the Undercity. When Caitlyn decides she wants to delve into the world of hip-hop and street dance, Vi finds herself at the crossroads of years of trauma brought on by the Kirammans and their school, fighting feelings for the one woman she can't let herself have.
Will they find the music in each other, or will they crumble?
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15 Nov 2025
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the electric charge of a change in the weather by anchors
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
23 Oct 2024
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A beat thuds from the stereo, so heavy it rattles the coins in the well of the passenger door. The crease deepens in Vi’s cheek until the smile breaks through, and when they’re back on the highway with the wind thundering through the open windows, sun on her skin and her hair cutting across her vision so that Vi comes to her in flashes of white teeth and black glasses, in arms shifting to the sixth gear, her voice full and loose as she sings, Caitlyn stops herself from closing her eyes around the moment because she can already see herself years from now running her thumb over this one like a worn photo from a wallet and she doesn’t want to be there yet, in the future where all of this is behind her — she wants to be here, now and in it, in the possibility that it could go on forever. Like asphalt, like sun.
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Oklahoma, 1996. Vi's a storm chaser, and Caitlyn's just along for the ride.
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15 Nov 2025
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cleopatra by dontaskmedude
Fandoms: House of the Dragon (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
30 Oct 2022
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But I must admit it, I would marry you in an instant
Damn your wife, I'd be your mistress just to have you aroundOR
sometimes a family can be a lesbian, her stepdaughter, her gay husband, his lover and their eight children
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13 Nov 2025