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we'll take the train under the river by camwolfe
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
23 Feb 2026
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As Zaun crumbles around her, Vi is living two separate lives. In one, she's working herself to the bone to keep her family safe and housed. In the other, she's in a committed relationship with the Sheriff of Piltover. The two lives can't come together.
Then an opportunity arises to get her sister back. The sister that Vi thought was going to be lost to drugs and to Silco forever.
So she takes that opportunity, and it brings her two separate lives together inextricably.
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06 Nov 2025
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At The Daily Piltover, Caitlyn Kiramman’s life looks perfect on the surface. As the heiress to a powerful family and a gossip columnist at the city’s most renowned paper, she should have it all—but the glittering halls of journalism leave her restless. Caitlyn craves a chance to uncover something real, something meaningful, despite her mother’s insistence on keeping things light.
Meanwhile, Vi—a parolee with a criminal record and a sister’s health hanging by a thread—is assigned to the paper through a work-release program. Desperate to keep her head down and avoid trouble, trouble has a way of finding her.
When Caitlyn and Vi cross paths, their clashing worlds of privilege and survival spark tension, mistrust, and something unexpected. As tensions in the newsroom rise and dangerous players make their moves, the two must navigate fragile trust, growing stakes, and their own guarded hearts.
In a city that thrives on appearances, can they find something real before their carefully constructed lives unravel?
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21 Jun 2025
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where you go, I'm going (so jump and I'm jumping) by camwolfe
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
26 Jul 2025
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After ten years in Stillwater for a crime she didn't commit, Vi breaks herself out and goes home. Her homecoming doesn't go like she thought it would.
Two years later, she's out of control and out on the streets. She's now a champion pitfighter, a raging alcoholic, and completely on her own. Despite her family's best (and desperate) efforts to help, Vi's on a one-way track to ending up either dead or back in prison.
At the same time, Caitlyn arrives in the undercity to collect data and information for her thesis. She starts her research from a local bar called The Last Drop, which puts her right into Vi's path. Vi might have been out of her family's home for years, but she's still not going to let a topsider put them in danger.
Canon divergence (everyone lives!), enemies to lovers (barely, the lovers aspect happens fast), angst, trauma, addiction, and also fluff and humour (because these things can co-exist!)
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- Part 1 of the only way out is through
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30 May 2025
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When the Mopping Gets Tough, the Tough Get Mopping by Azulatara
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
11 May 2025
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As Vi methodically worked her way through empty corridors, she considered her options to deal with her current situation. 'The Caitlyn conundrum!', she snickered to herself.
She was weighing up the cost of setting up a duplicate academy when the distinctive click of heels on tile made her freeze. Mid-mop stroke. The rhythmic clicking echoed through the corridor as a familiar figure approached. Vi's heart rate quickened as she caught a glimpse of navy blue hair rounding the corner.
Vi briefly considered dumping the contents of the bucket on the ground and making a break for it. Those heels, insanely long legs and slippery floors were a perfect combination. At the very least it would buy her some time. The janitor imagined herself bounding away with all the poise of a graceful gazelle. Leaving the blue haired hunter in her soapy wake. Annoyingly, she then realised she would be the person responsible for cleaning up the resulting mess.
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Janitor Vi skips out on her one-night stand, who is way out of her league. She doesn't expect her to be introduced as Piltover Academy's new physics professor the next morning.
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- Part 1 of Mopping Gets Tuff
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20 May 2025
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Don’t you waste a drop by CherrywoodCrow
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
14 May 2025
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As she watches a sick woman in a hospital gown and beanie drag her IV pole down the moonlit road, Vi thinks she's found the easiest prey of her life. But just a few words in, maybe she's found her match instead.
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19 May 2025