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    Sometimes your first week as an intern goes terribly. Sometimes you go to a bar and pick up a stranger about it. And sometimes that stranger shows up six months later to bleed all over your doorstep and you just have to go with it.

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    the one where Caitlyn and Vi accidentally find themselves in a strangers-with-benefits situationship except the benefits are medical care and anxiety

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    21 Feb 2026

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    Updated Summary, 1 August, 2025

    This fic has expanded far beyond its original scope, to the point that the stranded part isn't going to actually happen until closer to Chapter 30, so here's my attempt at a more accurate summary:

    This is a story of Caitlyn and Vi on an Era of Exploration expedition ship to recover a mysterious plant from a remote island. Caitlyn is a talented but overlooked botanist, socially isolated from her peers. Vi is the ship's first mate with a bit of a chip on her shoulder, and an uncanny ability to be friendly without ever letting anyone close enough to be an actual friend.

    This is a slo(ooo)w burn love story that embraces all the in-between, boring parts of life where relationships grow, so they're going to spend several chapters each being enemies, then friends, then finally learning to be lovers. They'll spend time together, they'll get to know one another, and their relationship will grow (in a way that I hope feels as authentic to you as it does to me) before their bond is ultimately tested.

    There is an MCD, but it's not Caitlyn or Vi.

    There is smut in this fic, but this is not a smut fic.

    Also, I don't overuse the nickname "Cupcake."

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    04 Nov 2025

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    “About that,” Vi says. “How’d you end up here? What did a girl like you do to get tossed into this two-star shithole?”

    “Really? That’s how you ask? No subtlety in it?”

    “Uh, yeah? I saved you from getting shanked in the shower, so fair’s fair. What’s your deal, topside?”

    “Caitlyn,” she says. That isn’t right. That wasn’t the answer Vi was after. Names are easily given away but so seldomly remembered in Stillwater, but it echoes in Vi’s head. She almost doesn’t hear the actual answer. “And though I have no doubt a thousand people have given this answer before, I did nothing. I was doing my job, and then I was here. No trial. No sentencing. No crime to speak of.”

     

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    Half a decade into Vi's stay in Stillwater, a topsider turns up, raving about being a Councillor's daughter.

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    01 Nov 2025

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    “Your initial treatment plan was sound, I suppose.”

    The voice is familar and still grating, the heat of their body so close to Vi’s that it’s both nauseating and unsettlingly alluring.

    “Odd, isn’t it? How I know what I’m doing,” Vi snarks back, her spine tightening as her steel-toe boot begins to tap on the linoleum beneath them.

    “I wouldn’t go that far,” scoffs the woman beside her, arms brushing against Vi’s as they come up to cross over her chest.

    Bright, sapphire-colored eyes meet hers from the corner of Dr. Kiramman’s gaze, the tiniest, most miniscule twitch of her lips preluding her next words. “I’d just say you’ve got decent enough luck to get easy cases.”

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    Or, Vi, a well-experienced Paramedic, and her constant struggle against the most insufferable doctor she's ever met.

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    16 Oct 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 11

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    "You and me, Cupcake?" Vi whispered, blood trickling down her face, her eyes clear and startling, "We're inevitable. There isn't a me without you,"

    It wasn't a shock. It was a stiletto, promised and pointed. It slipped between Caitlyn's ribs with the precision it was built for.

    "You thought I was dead,"

    "Yeah," Vi said, swallowing, "Yeah I did,"

     

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    Spies AU. They've been partners for years. Lines are crossed and secrets kept, but what wins? The state of their countries or their hearts?

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    29 Jul 2025