imstressed
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A story about loss, love, and coming home.
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He stares at her on the bus and thinks of cherries. That’s the flavoured lippy she likes to wear. He knows this because he’s tasted it before and wonders if she’s wearing it now. He imagines leaning forward and kissing her. Of cupping her cheek in his hand and tasting cherries. He wonders if she’d pull away, or lean in.
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While Michelle is at work, and Orla’s at Step, James and Erin are left to their own devices. -
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While the Protestants and Catholics of Ireland are divided in 30-year long ethno-nationalist conflict called The Troubles, one protestant lad trapped in Londonderry suffers through The Horrors.
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Warning! The following fic contains:
- an excessive amount of Tommy Bahama shirts
- Margaritaville by Jimmy Buffett
- Florida*Reader discretion is advised.*
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Or: When his flight gets cancelled, James ends up spending his birthday in the Florida Keys. -
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She doesn’t know what to say; she can’t imagine what words might comfort her friend, and doesn’t want to add to the mewlings of trite platitudes she’s already heard: “it’s gonna be okay”, “everything will be okay”.
What a load of shite. It will never be okay.
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Some missing scenes from 3x6. James and Erin have a moment or two, and Erin comforts her friend.
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“We’ll always be friends. It’s just the once. Everything will be absolutely the same after.”
_The summer before they start their first term at Queens University Belfast, James and Erin do something stupid.
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22 Jan 2024
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So what if Erin's never been kissed? She's fine with that (mostly). And anyway, it's none of Michelle's business.
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30 Jul 2023
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When James comes knocking on her door in the middle of the night, Erin isn’t sure what to expect.
All she knows is that ever since that fateful autumn’s day, she can’t bear the thought of him leaving Derry.
And she slowly understands why.
(Alternatively: an eight-part-story of two morons going through every fucking stage of denial before coming to terms with their feelings. Expect a tad of jealousy, a little banter, a bit of angst and a lot of cursing. Michelle is there.)
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04 Nov 2022
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I love you, too.
It'll pass.
Much like God, that last bit turned out to be a lie.
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21 Jul 2023
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“It's nice, knowing that there was someone thinking of me like that. I always wanted that. Then, anyway."
"Not now?"
__________One cold January night, 31-year-old James and Erin have a conversation.
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15 Jul 2023