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  1. Public Bookmark 13

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    Kara bleeds and Lena does not handle it well.

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    11 Mar 2022

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    If someone were to ask what their painting nights were, Lena would call it art therapy and Kara would call it hanging out. They were both right (and wrong). It was both of those and more, unspoken confessions and relaxed barriers and expansions of trust.

    An AU built around painting beautiful things on your lover’s back.

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    15 Feb 2022

  3. Public Bookmark 37

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    Lena is unwilling to let Kara go in the mornings. Kisses and pouting ensues.

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    08 Feb 2022

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    Lena slides off of her stool, throwing self-preservation to the wind and flinging the door open without looking through the peephole first.

    Kara’s wearing a pair of dark blue jeans and a sweatshirt Lena vaguely remembers borrowing in what feels like another lifetime. Her hands are in her pockets and her head is dipped forward, but her eyes are looking up at Lena, and there’s an air of uncertainty to her that Lena hasn’t seen in nearly a year. It steals the breath from her lungs and the words from her mouth, and her lips part wordlessly as they watch each other across the threshold.

    “Hi,” Kara says softly.

    Her weight shifts to rest unevenly on one leg as she looks at Lena, and Lena remembers how easy it was to talk to her, once.

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    08 Feb 2022

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    “Help me understand,” Kara says. “Are you saying everyone falls in love with their best friend?”

    “I’m saying that queer women have a special affinity for it,” Lena repeats, fishing the cherry out of the bottom of her drink. “The whole ‘falling for your straight best friend’ is basically a rite of passage.”

    “Says who?”

    “Everyone.” She puts the cherry in her mouth, bites it off the stem. “The L Word was like, built on the premise that a friend group of queer woman in LA dated each other in some sort of terrible repeating circle for, god, however many seasons that went on. And it’s been my experience that when two people are attracted to each other, and they’re close, feelings are likely to develop.”

    “That’s just, I mean, come on.” Kara’s cheeks are a little pink. “A trope and a tv show? That’s your evidence?”

    “So you’ve never been in love with your best friend?” Lena looks down at her empty glass.

    “No!” Kara sounds affronted. “No, I have never been in love with my best friend.”

    Or, A love story, told in three acts.

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    06 Feb 2022