Sandra Dearing
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This is the start to my second Fan Fiction following a new divergent original ending for Valerie, and Judy.
After dismantling Arasaka’s grip on Night City and narrowly surviving the neural toll of the relic, Valerie and Judy return home battered, burned, but still holding onto each other. Inside the quiet hum of their apartment, they navigate the aftermath of war, loss, and fragmented bodies patched together with experimental tech. Valerie’s pain is constant, her cyberware misfiring, the ghost of Johnny now fully gone. Judy remains steady, grounding her through nightmares, relapse, and recovery. Together, they share intimate moments of care, humor, and aching tenderness showering slowly, eating burnt toast, dodging corporate fallout, and dreaming of a quieter life. As the world watches for the fugitives behind Arasaka’s fall, the two women hold to one truth: they survived, and they’ll keep surviving, one step, one kiss, one morning at a time.
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- Part 1 of Echoed Hearts
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Four years have passed since the Alvarez-Dearing family built their new life beyond Night City. Where Fallen Stars was a story of survival, healing, and the fight to hold on, Rising Stars is about the life they’ve built in the aftermath.
Set in 2081, this series shifts into the quiet but no less powerful rhythm of family: Valerie and Judy balancing their art and their love, Sera and Sandra finding their voices and their first taste of independence, Vicky and Velia shaping their own paths within the home they’ve all created.
At the heart of Rising Stars is the comfort and warmth of the everyday the lakehouse mornings, late nights at Starfall, laughter, mistakes, and small victories that echo louder than any battle ever could. It’s a slice-of-life chronicle of what comes after the fight is won: a family learning that love, in all its forms, is still the greatest rebellion.Series
- Part 2 of Echoed Hearts
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The Alvarez Family has always been about what comes after: the life built from love, the peace earned through survival, and the quiet promise that there’s still more to discover.
Shining Stars follows the next chapters of their lives.
Sera, Sandra, and Velia step into a world beyond the Lakehouse as they begin college together learning more about art, expression, and who they are becoming. For Sera and Sandra, it’s a life of deepening love and creative discovery; for Velia, it’s the start of understanding what it truly means to be human.
Valerie, following her public retirement, begins to rediscover rhythm and meaning beyond the stage music still part of her soul, even when the world isn’t watching. Before long the old flames begin to reignite.
Judy releases her long-awaited Echoes of the Lake, finding her career blooming again in new ways she never expected. Together, Valerie and Judy learn to slow down and savor the quiet days they fought so hard to reach, watching their children chase their own horizons.
At its heart, Shining Stars is about growth the beauty in stillness, the strength in love, and the moments of light that carry through even the softest days.
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- Part 3 of Echoed Hearts
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Across the Stars is a collection of quiet moments in the life Sera Alvarez and Sandra Dearing-Alvarez build together.
These stories follow two young married women in the spaces between everything else — mornings, evenings, shared work, shared silence.
Across the Stars isn’t about conflict or survival.
These are stories of intimacy, domestic rhythm, creative companionship, and the kind of love that doesn’t need to prove itself, because they already chose each other.Series
- Part 5 of Echoed Hearts
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Night City doesn’t care if you live, only that you keep paying for the privilege.
Sera Starling and Sandra Dearing know that better than most. Orphaned, unaugmented, and scraping by, they survive on dangerous jobs, cheap meals, and the bond they’ve built since childhood.
Sera is reckless and fiercely protective, always throwing herself into the fire first. Sandra is careful and perceptive, the one who stitches wounds and keeps them grounded when the city tries to pull them under.
Between bruised nights and stolen moments of warmth, they build something fragile, a love that exists not in spite of Night City, but in defiance of it.
As their world expands and their path leads them to the Aldecaldos, they must decide whether survival alone is enough, or if they’re brave enough to choose something better together.
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Valerie Hartly didn’t survive to make a mark on the world.
She survived to make rent, to keep her daughter fed, and to wake up every morning in the same apartment so Sera would never have to wonder where home was.
Seattle, isn’t kind to people like her — single mothers, working musicians, women who fell through the cracks and kept going anyway. Valerie lives on West Street, in a second-floor apartment above corner stores and dive bars, where the stairwells smell like detergent and rain and everyone knows who belongs. She plays small gigs, stretches eddies, and builds a life that looks quiet from the outside and hard-won from the inside.
Sera grows up watching everything — how her mom moves through rooms, how adults talk when they think kids aren’t listening, how love is built from consistency instead of promises. She sketches stars, learns the shape of the neighborhood, and slowly ventures outward, where she meets Sandra, another kid learning how to exist inside the cracks of the city.
Judy Alvarez enters their lives later — a braindance editor passing through Seattle after leaving Night City, who recognizes something familiar in Valerie’s quiet resilience and chooses to stay.
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Judy Alvarez never meant for anyone to read this.
After Valerie is presumed dead, the journal becomes the only place Judy allows herself to speak freely — about grief, fear, love, and the slow, ordinary work of keeping Sera safe when the future no longer makes sense.
These entries span the year of absence. Chronicling how love changes when it has to carry weight alone — and how it survives anyway when life becomes more than just pages.
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The Promise Starlight Keeps by AndrosF
Fandoms: Original Work, Cyberpunk 2077 (Video Game)
14 Feb 2026
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The Promise Starlight Keeps is a quiet, intimate spin-off of Dear Valerie, set in 2088.
The series follows Sera Hartly, Sandra Dearing-Hartly, and their three-year-old daughter Liana, as they build a life shaped by love, creativity, and chosen family. Sera navigates her growing music career. Sandra writes—poems, stories, truths—finding her voice as an author. Together, they learn the rhythms of motherhood, partnership, and raising a child in a world that keeps moving forward.
Their mothers—Valerie, Judy, Vicky, and Juliana—remain a constant presence: steady, imperfect, deeply loving. Not as saviors or lessons, but as proof that survival can turn into something softer, fuller, and enduring.
This is a story about mornings, small victories, inherited tenderness, and the kind of promises that don’t fade—the ones starlight keeps.