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AU. A deviation from Carla's psychosis storyline.
While deep in the grips of psychosis and hiding out at her childhood home-turned-squat, Carla is arrested and sent to Norcross, where she meets Betsy Swain. The two form an unlikely friendship.
When Carla is released early on licence, she is placed in a halfway house to finish out her sentence. After a violent run-in with another resident, she is forced to look for alternative accommodation. All she has to do is convince Lisa Swain that letting a complete stranger and ex-con move in with her is a good idea...
Slow burn.
Carla's life is mostly canon up until her psychosis, but the Swains I have moulded to fit into this AU timeline
Complete.
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- Part 1 of The Young Offenders (+Lisa)
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09 May 2026
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Lisa gave up everything. Her name, her home, and her heart to keep her family safe.
For four years, she’s been a shadow in the distance. Close but not close enough. Now Lisa is going back to the life she lost, and this time, she isn't running. They say the dead don't talk. Lisa is about to break her silence.
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08 May 2026
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After a fire rips through Carla’s home and takes her husband’s life, she’s left with nothing but ash, grief, and walls she won’t let anyone climb. When electrician Lisa Swain arrives to rewire what’s left, Carla braces herself for silence and distance.
But Lisa is running from something too. She buries it in her work, fixing what’s broken in Carla’s house while quietly holding together the ruins of her own life.
Two women. One house. And a connection they didn’t expect—and didn’t know they needed.
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17 Apr 2026
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This is a friends to lovers story, Carla cares freely and loves deeply. She becomes the shoulder to cry on for Lisa after her marriage breakdown.
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28 Mar 2026
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November 22nd 2024. Carla Connor walked into her flat, uttered the iconic line "Don't Get Dressed" and blew Lisa Swain's mind (and ours). But what if her gamble had backfired? What if...Lisa had turned her down?
Starting that infamous day, and continuing during the subsequent festive period, 'Hurt' tells the story from Carla's POV. How does she feel about being turned down? Can they go back to being friends, or has too much happened? What's been said cannot be unsaid and some things are difficult to get past.
This is a slow burn and a bit more angsty than most of my previous stories but, rest assured, there'll be some fluff coming!
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28 Mar 2026