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If Trinity thought her blood pressure had spiked when she saw the knife, the feeling that she gets when she sees Izzy in the doorway to the room Trinity had left is akin to the worst case of hypertension she's ever seen. She wouldn't be surprised if the veins in her eyes are bursting, sending ribbons of red spilling out across the whites.
Alex is beginning to speak again, his voice shaking but his tone firm and unrelenting. "I have to go—"
Trinity reaches out instinctively, unable to think about anything other than keeping Izzy out of his eyeline. "Alex! Don't—"
She doesn't see him pull out the knife. But a split second after he moves there's a sharp pain in her left arm, blood immediately welling up out of a slash across it. She presses onto it with her other hand, shying away from him in pain, her basic animal brain telling her to protect the injury.
This is the wrong move.
or: it turns out that, for trinity at least, getting stabbed makes you rethink a few things. among these things is included your ex-situationship-turned-tentative-work-friend-turned-awkward-avoidanceship (yeah, it's a mouthful. maybe quicker to just call her garcia)
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26 Jun 2026
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“When will I see you next?”
“Saturday,” Yolanda straightens, “on Rod Laver.”
“No pre-match good luck kiss?”
“You’d be so lucky.” Garcia walks to the door and grasps the handle for a second before turning on her heel. “Meet me in the players' lounge ten minutes before we leave for walkouts.”
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World #1 Trinity Santos and World #2 Yolanda Garcia are rivals on the court, but have been hooking up in secret for the entire offseason. After defeating each other in consecutive grand slam finals, things get messy while they dance around their feelings.
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25 Jun 2026
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After starting off the 2025 season by winning her maiden Grand Slam at the age of 28, Trinity Santos is learning how to handle not only the pressure and expectation that comes with the highest level of success, but also a blooming friendship? rivalry? acquaintance? (Trinity doesn't know what to call it) with World No. 2, Yolanda Garcia.
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25 Jun 2026
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July begins with a bang. The bang is followed by another one, and another, and another; and before Santos knows it, she is stepping into the blindly bright sunlight of a summer day, cutting across the street to the construction site, looking for a way to unplug the monstrous drill splitting the ground open and keeping her awake.
“Hey! You cannot be here” is shouted on cue only for Santos to come face to face with a Latina. The most beautiful woman she has ever laid eyes on. Who is glaring at Santos with a look vicious enough to have her lose any human ability of forming a coherent thought.
“You need to get the hell out of my site”.
Santos isn’t in the business of staying firm when spoken to by drop-dead gorgeous, condescending women. But she hasn’t been home for more than three hours after a brutal shift and so she snaps;
“I’m an R2 stuck in an ER’s night shift. What I need to do is get some fucking sleep”.
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Yolanda Garcia is the architect overseeing a project’s construction. Trinity Santos lives right across the street.
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25 Jun 2026
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Trinity Santos knows how to fight. She knows how to fight with her words–acerbic exegesis disguised as something lighter, something that takes a second or two before the burning really begins to sink in. She knows how to fight with her body, the exact shapes to make to cause maximum impact. And when, exactly, it’s appropriate to embody herself so wholly that she becomes only her body. She knows how to fight with silence so cold that she herself is scolded by the ice, left scarred and shivering. And she knows how to fight by running–her absence the final blow, any and all closure absconded alongside her ghost. So really, fighting is what she does best. She’s been doing it her whole life. Bruised knuckles, bruised heart, bruised soul. She’s been doing it her whole damn life–but she cannot seem to win the battle against one Yolanda Garcia.
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22 Jun 2026