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    It begins, as most things do, rather innocuously. With a phone call.

    A phone call that shocks Francesca from her deep sleep, blinking confused and discombobulated in the dark.

    She registers her phone ringing on her nightstand with a jolt, and crawls out of the warm nest of blankets, flinging an arm over and answering without even glancing at the caller ID. Her voice is hoarse, brimming over with sleep as she clears her throat and mutters, “Hello?”

    “Frannie,” Michaela breathes on the other end.

    All of a sudden Francesca’s wide awake.

     

    Or: Michaela’s apartment floods. She moves in with Francesca until it gets fixed. And that should’ve been fine, right? But Francesca’s used to her simple, quiet routine -– bookstore job, piano on the weekends -– and, well, there’s nothing less routine, less controllable, than Michaela. Except maybe the feelings Michaela stirs up within her.

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    23 Jun 2026

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    "Would you kiss me?" Francesca asks the question before she can register how insane it sounds.

    Michaela responds pretty much exactly how she expects her to: like she can't believe what she heard. Her head whips up, eyes as wide as saucers. "I'm sorry—what?" Michaela sputters out.

    If the ground opened up right now and swallowed her, she would be thankful.

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    Francesca thinks kissing is overrated until she kisses her roommate-best friend-crush, Michaela.

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    21 Jun 2026

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    When John's best friend Francesca confesses she's never reached her pinnacle. He does what any rational bff would do in this situation and suggest his gorgeous, emotionally intelligent neurosurgeon cousin as a ... consultant.

    "Can I ask you something? And you have to promise not to get weird about it."

    "I'm seconds away from crying in a bar. How much weirder can it get?"

    "Fair point." He takes a breath. "Have you ever thought about … I don't know. Sleeping with a woman?"

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    20 Jun 2026

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    “You know what I mean,” Robin pleaded. “You keep cornering me, appearing out of thin air for these drive-by make-outs, then vanishing like a… a sexy ghost!”

    Nancy’s brows bounced in slight amusement.

    “You keep running away from me,” Robin said, softer now.

    Nancy paused at that. “That’s why you locked me in here? So I couldn’t run?”

    “Whoa, okay—don’t say it like that. Makes it sound… predatory.” Robin scratched the back of her neck, her eyes flicking toward the padlock. “You can leave if you want. Just to be clear.”

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    Hawkins is in ruins. The gang is surviving in a bunker. Nancy is composed on the surface, yet slightly troubled underneath. Robin is just... underneath Nancy a lot.

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    11 Apr 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 48

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    “I’ve been lonely,” she finishes, before she can talk herself out of saying it.

    Suddenly the look on Robin’s face falls solemn, and she reaches out to put a hand on Nancy’s knee. “Hey. Me too.” She rubbed her thumb over the material of Nancy’s slacks slightly, almost imperceptibly, comfortingly. It would be comforting, if Nancy didn’t feel like every nerve ending on her knee where Robin’s hand rested was on fire. This should be normal, she thinks. This is how girls are with each other. That’s how she was with Barb, once. But this was Robin. Robin had a girlfriend. She was gay. And Nancy wasn’t--

    Blue eyes made contact with her own, and Nancy felt something inside of her ache.

    Oh.

    Maybe there were more things than just her trauma that she had been avoiding, not thinking about. She had been busy saving the world, after all. Or maybe she did have too much wine.

     

    OR - a fic where Nancy comes to terms with her sexuality and her trauma when Robin comes to visit her in Boston.

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    17 Mar 2026