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    “Caitlyn.”

    Oh,” Jinx says knowingly, glancing Vi’s way out of the corner of her eye. “That’s the, uh, the cop girl, right? Maddie’s ex?”

    A chorus of mutters and nods is the response.

    “I’m being warned about her,” Vi tells her sister and Jinx blows her bangs out of her face.

    “Good,” she says, almost snappishly. “Yeah, don’t date cop girl. You should date someone cool.”

    “I’m not going to date anyone, not for a while. I need to get back on my feet first,” says Vi, drumming her fingers against the condensation of the glass. Thinking of Cupcake in her contacts, and that teasing smile.

    Everything in Vi’s life right now is starting over. She’s spending the holidays on her sister’s pull-out futon, trying to make sense of the avalanche of changes, salvage what’s left of her family and figure out what she’s going to do next. The last thing she expects to do is include the beautiful woman she runs into on her first day in town, or this Caitlyn that everyone’s warning her to stay away from.

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    23 Jan 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 23

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    In which Caitlyn and her emotions exist in the extremes and when she starts to break, Vi is there to put her back together.

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    Caitlyn finds that hiding her regression from Vi is harder, now that they live together.

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    20 Jan 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 96

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    "So..." Vi began. "Thank you again. For actually talking to me."

    "I’d say this is thanks to a certain thief who stole my number, if I recall..."

    "Fuck." Vi covered her face with both hands, dragging them down hard enough to pull at her cheeks, voice muffled. "Give me a break."
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    College life/Swimming AU:
    Caitlyn Kiramman doesn't do messy. Vi Lanes is messy, infuriating, and the best swimmer Caitlyn's ever seen. Teaming up is a tactical move. Letting her see the cracks in the foundation? A catastrophic miscalculation.

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    11 Jan 2026

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    Five years after the Purge of Piltover, one woman struggles to move past who she used to be. Another tries desperately not to.

    (Summary may change with additional chapters. Updates on Fridays.)

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    08 Jan 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 60

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    Agatha lives alone on the cattle ranch she inherited too young, too stubborn, and too angry to ever leave. She's built a quiet life there, fence posts, coffee at dawn, hard work that leaves her too tired to want anything more. Until Rio Vidal shows up on the edge of her property with a field kit and a research grant.

    Rio is calm, focused, quietly competent and clearly out of place in the dust and heat. But she stays. And Agatha, who’s spent her whole life guarding softness like it’s weakness, finds herself watching.

    Through storms, silence, cattle, and coffee, they find something slow and steady between them. Something that doesn't need to be named to be real.

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    08 Jan 2026