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Understand What I've Become (It Wasn't My Design) by NowGodsStandUpForBastards
Fandoms: Derry Girls (TV)
15 Mar 2023
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The process of James becoming a Derry girl is slow, painful, embarrassing, and at least seventy-five percent unintentional. But four girls he was never supposed to care about – and who certainly weren’t supposed to care about him – make it happen nonetheless. This is the story of how.
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Fic title, and all chapter titles, from 'Ode to My Family', by the Cranberries, which I swear could have been written for James.
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09 Feb 2026
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She was right – it was his fault they were here, sitting together alone at Platform 2 waiting for the next train to Portrush to arrive. But, unlike Erin, he wasn’t very mad about it. In fact, he wasn’t mad at all; he was buzzing.
__________When James misses the train to Portrush, Erin makes sure he’s not alone.
A 3x03 AU story: what if James missed the train instead of Clare.
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08 Feb 2026
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"Of course you go! Don't you see how class this is? I mean, Christ, but she's trapped herself with this one. Here's what you've gotta do: you're gonna show up with a total ride as your date and eat all their posh food and drink everything, and rub it right in her face how happy you are."
___The disastrous idea that James might actually attend his ex-girlfriend’s wedding isn’t any less disastrous just because Erin agrees to accompany him, but it is infinitely more appealing. Besides total humiliation, supreme abjection, and heaps of arrested development, what’s the worst that could happen? You never know – maybe it might be fun.
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08 Feb 2026
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After they finally get their GCSE results, the girls celebrate their success.
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07 Feb 2026
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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.Bookmarked by swansong321
07 Feb 2026