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Under The Table by IWriteItGayer
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
02 Jul 2026
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Michaela Stirling returns from four years in India to find the life she fled exactly where she left it, John's ghost in every corridor, and Francesca at the top of the stairs.
She had told herself the distance had taught her restraint. That she could stand in the same room as Francesca Bridgerton and call herself only a friend. That four years and an ocean were enough to make loving someone bearable.
She had been wrong on all counts.
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michaela and francesca spend several chapters inventing new ways to avoid admitting the obvious.
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22 Jun 2026
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“What’s stopping me from telling everyone that their precious Golden Girl howls at the moon?”
The corner of Bellatrix’s lips quirked. How dare she find this amusing. Hermione would be ruined. It wasn’t shameful, per se, but it was her private information that could potentially be used against her. Like now. And she’d already been bullied for it before; they’d used silver knuckles. Thankfully the wizards involved had been expelled, because Hermione had been in the Hospital Wing for weeks. She shuddered just thinking about it.
“I’ll do whatever you want!” She blurted. Oh, shit. She had not thought that through. At all. Now she had to face the consequences.
Hopefully Bellatrix would not take interest.
“Oh?”
Dammit.
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16 Jun 2026
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What if Hermione and Harry Apparate directly into the hands of Snatchers? Harry escapes, but Hermione is captured and brought to Malfoy Manor. She's presented to Bellatrix Lestrange- the most dangerous Death Eater. But it's only the beginning.
Can love appear in such circumstances? Can it survive? And can it change them both?- Language:
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11 Jun 2026
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“Bollocks…” Hermione mutters under her breath. And it is— bollocks, that is. The whole thing. She stares at the cover of the Daily Prophet with a blank expression— watching Black’s picture as she walks up the steps into the Great Hall of Hogwarts and embraces Professor McGonagall as if they are old friends. They were, she supposes, before the war. Now, seeing Minerva embrace the monster who had tortured her on the Malfoy’s parlor floor causes Hermione nothing but pain and confusion. Her eyes sting with tears of betrayal.
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10 Jun 2026
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all too often women tempered their instincts to allow themselves to become the soil underfoot rather than the sole of the shoe
so much as to say that Imogen does not care much if Laudna Bradbury had murdered her husband.
She cares more about what the words whispered and weaved and waded in the time after wrote:
Laudna Bradbury had used witchcraft to murder her husband.
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05 Jun 2026
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Bellatrix Black runs the fashion industry with immaculate taste, surgical instincts, and an unsettling ability to read a room faster than anyone else in it. Her life is built on control, excellence, on knowing exactly how people move, think, and fall in line.
Until one night at a charity gala, when she meets a stunning cellist who will quietly, irrevocably change everything she knows.
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29 May 2026
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It's 1988, and you're married to one of London's most influential financiers. He's handsome, unfathomably rich, and gives you everything you could possibly want. A perfect life in a perfect house, the perfect husband.
The problem?
You don't love him. You never have.
When he is called away on a three-month long business engagement, he leaves you with a stack of cash and free reign to renovate as you see fit.
The interior designer you employ to help with the task is clever, charming and impossibly good-looking. You find yourself enthralled by their company.
The other problem?
She's a woman, and you can't seem to look away.
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"You are playing a very dangerous game, sweetheart," Alcina says, in a voice that can't quite decide between warning and want. "That mouth of yours is going to get me into a lot of trouble."
"I think you want trouble, Alcina. I think you've wanted it from the second you first saw me."
Her fingers close around your wrist, arresting your wandering hand. "I mean it. This won't do, Mrs Barreau. You have a husband. I'm not interested in married women."
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27 May 2026
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The balcony is empty. The air is thick with summer heat.
Michaela steps closer than she should. Francesca's legs part, almost reflexively, for her husband’s cousin. Michaela slips between them and rests her hands on Francesca's thighs.
She leans in. Francesca can smell the limoncello on her breath. Her nose brushes Francesca's cheek.
"Tell me it's killing you like it's killing me," Michaela whispers against her skin.
Francesca trembles. Her need pulses in her chest, her stomach, lower still.
"Please, Fran."
"We can't."
"I know. I know."
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Francesca Stirling is a high-powered Manhattan attorney on her eighth round of IVF. Her husband's cousin, Michaela, arrives for the summer and immediately upends Francesca's routines. When her husband leaves for a work trip to London, Francesca is forced to reckon with the woman she has spent years refusing to look at — and with the question of whether she can finally become herself without breaking the man who loves her.
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25 May 2026
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Michaela sells flowers for apologies and confessions.
Francesca doesn’t seem interested in either as she helps make people's decisions feel permanent.
When a tattoo parlor expansion brings them together, what starts as business quickly turns into something harder to define. Something that is measured in glances, half-finished conversations, and tension that refuses to stay subtle.
Somewhere in the middle of it all, Michaela realizes this isn’t just another order while Francesca realizes that this isn't just another sketch she can ink onto skin.
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25 May 2026
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Francesca's and Michaela's broken hearts through the years and how they finally mend them
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23 May 2026
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A Study in Harmony by julie6769
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
09 Apr 2026
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“The end‑of‑year Showcase is in three weeks,” Danbury said.
“Sponsors, donors, alumni, critics. This year’s theme is Music as Theatre.” Michaela perked up. Francesca did not.
“You will perform a duo,” She added. “Together.” Silence.
Michaela blinked. “A duo? With her?”
Francesca’s voice was quieter but no less startled. “With her?”
“Yes,” Danbury snapped. “With each other. Do try not to look so horrified.”
Pianist Francesca Bridgerton × Violinist Michaela Stirling
They’re the Royal Academy of Music’s two brightest soloists who’ve never spoken. They have three weeks to create something that will turn out to be much more than music.Bookmarked by Criticallyrolled
23 May 2026
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“How long is this flight again?” Michaela asked.
“About ten hours,” Francesca answered while shoving her book into her backpack.
“Tits, that’s long,” Michaela hissed out. “If they let me drive the plane, we’d be there in six hours, max.”
Francesca rolled her eyes. “If they let you drive the plane, we’d be crash landing at the bottom of the ocean and touring the wreckage of the Titanic.”
Michaela hummed thoughtfully. “See, I was thinking —worst possibility— I accidentally cause another 9/11.”
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After two years of grieving John, Francesca decides to spend her summer on a solo road trip through America. She’s excited for the long drives to nowhere and the peace and quiet of the journey, that is, until a certain Stirling woman crashes her plans.
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The modern Franchaela road trip AU that no one asked for
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23 May 2026
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Five years.
Twenty matches.
One hotel, different floors and the kind of tension that has been mislabeled competitive awareness for far too long. Francesca and Michaela are the greatest rivalry in women's tennis — and, it turns out, each other's most inconvenient problem.
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23 May 2026
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Hermione Granger knew exactly what she wanted when she joined Acheron. A fellowship in cutting-edge neuroadaptive systems, a Tier IV clearance badge, and the undivided attention of the woman who built it all.
Bellatrix Black is brilliant, married, and twenty years her senior. She should know better.
But some games are rigged from the start.
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31 Mar 2026
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Hermione didn't plan on being single - or on catching the attention of Bellatrix Black. When pretending starts looking real, the lines blur quicker than she could've ever anticipated.
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31 Mar 2026
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the nights are mainly made for saying things that you can’t say tomorrow day by YeahWelliveSeenit
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV)
10 Apr 2026
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Michaela’s company—all soft, and relaxed, and so very late into the evening like this—only seems to heighten Francesca’s braveness, “for after all that, I continue to remain pinnacle-less.”
Or…
Maybe Michaela can help with that.
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16 Mar 2026
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Two years after her promotion to MI5’s Counterintelligence branch, Hermione Granger has uncovered three universal truths: her brain tumor gives her less than a year to live, her workload is designed to kill her faster, and her boss, Bellatrix Black, is the devil in a designer coat. Her plan? Kill Bellatrix and go out with a sense of control.
Unfortunately, due to interference from a third party, Bellatrix doesn’t die on schedule and ends up with amnesia. Now, in a bizarre twist of fate, Bellatrix believes they’re a couple, Hermione thinks this is the worst undercover op ever, and MI5 HR finally has some entertainment.
Or: She wanted to kill her boss. Instead, she’s stuck dating her.
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04 Jan 2026
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It was the first time that the lady of the house had noticed you - properly that is. Not to insult her memory, or her in general, but you doubt she cared much about you when she hired you (judging by the flippant tone in which she conducted your interview). This - this - was the first time she had properly noticed you; and, it had been an accident.
Or, when you accidentally insult Lady Dimitrescu and she gives you increasingly impossible tasks (and gets soft on you in the process).
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20 Sep 2025
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In the shadowed halls of Nevermore, the Head of Literature (OC/Reader) and the Head of Music (Isadora Capri) are locked in a duet of discord. A vampire and a werewolf, trapped in an academic rivalry sharp enough to draw blood. Words and melodies collide, tension thrums like a dangerous refrain, and soon their discord tastes a lot like desire. Because some rivalries aren’t meant to be resolved—they’re meant to be devoured.
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OC/Reader is a Vampire (Head of Literature) and a new professor at Nevermore alongside Isadora Capri (Head of Music). Age-gap and there will sure be smut.Bookmarked by Criticallyrolled
03 Sep 2025
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High Infidelity by hurricxneamelia, thetbone
Fandoms: Agatha All Along (TV), WandaVision (TV), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel, The White Lotus (TV)
14 Jan 2026
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"If Agatha can’t have joy, she’ll take power. If she can’t have friends, she’ll take victims. If she can’t have love, she’ll take this — fucking someone’s wife at a luxury resort."
Rio Vidal is a lawyer stuck in a toxic marriage. Agatha Harkness is a con artist on the heels of a nasty divorce. The two cross paths at a Sicilian hotel and start an affair that will change their lives forever.
Or: the White Lotus AU.
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- 41/41
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29 Aug 2025