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    A series of one-shots based on prompts for jxaappreciationweek2016!

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    Fics written in the universe of/inspired by the novel "Carry On" by Rainbow Rowell.

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    Title of series taken from the song "Sea of Love" by Cat Power. Likely to include post-S6 fics.

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    Caitlyn Kiramman doesn’t get butterflies. She never has, not really. The closest sensation has been the feeling right before pulling the trigger on a rifle–when the air is taught with anticipation, when every breath has to be measured. And still, it doesn’t compare to this. To seeing Vi in a white shirt and oversized boxers, standing at the foot of her bed and looking right at her—with those beautiful grey eyes, so soft now where they were once hard and untrusting.

    Something shifted between them, somewhere along the way. Caitlyn can’t pinpoint exactly where or when, but she knows there is no going back. And it’s still all so simple, so innocent. It’s warm glances and soft touches and hugs that last a little too long to be platonic.

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    Caitlyn and Vi must wait until the morning to speak to the council, and so Vi ends up spending the night at the Kiramman's house.

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    12 Oct 2025

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    “Houston, do you copy?”

    Caitlyn panicked, feeling extraordinarily unprepared having been thrust into her new position without so much as even a handbook to consult. What were the formalities? What was she supposed to respond with? Where was the damn push to talk button…

    “Hellooo? I said Houston, do you copy?”

    Caitlyn fiddled with her headset, having finally found the green button on the side and hastily letting out a rather breathless reply. “Um, yes. Hello? This is Houston. I copy.”

    There was a long pause in which Caitlyn sat twiddling her thumbs, anxiety pushing the frantic pulse of her heartbeat through her eardrums. Was that wrong? Did she already fuck up? She took a steady deep breath, finger hovering over the talk button until the familiar voice of the astronaut came through her headset once more.

    “Damn, Houston. I didn’t expect you to sound so sexy.”

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    Caitlyn has been assigned as the personal capcom to one of the astronauts currently on a year long expedition at the international space station. Cue long months of pining and desperate longing.

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    21 Sep 2025

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    “Well, who are you here with, then?”

    And this part is fun. Vi can't help that it feels good, in a petty way, flexing her status like this. She worries sometimes about the ways she's changed since crawling her way out of Zaun but this, the kick she gets out of turning the tables on rich upper city assholes, is in her blood. She twists in her seat, leaning one elbow back against the bar and, yep, there's Caitlyn absently nodding along to what the guy she's talking to is saying as she continues her lunatic vigil. She looks a bit startled to have been caught staring, but doesn't drop her gaze, only shifts on her feet across the room. Tuned in. Ready.

    It’s rude to point, Caitlyn has scolded her dozens of times since Vi’s entry into Piltie society. So of course Vi takes particular pleasure in doing it now anyway, aiming her finger at Caitlyn through the crowd. “Her.”

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    Caitlyn's got a jealous streak as wide as the River Pilt and twice as deep.

    Vi doesn't really mind.

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    20 Sep 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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    15 Sep 2025

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    They don't have a word for it, maybe they would if they properly spoke about it, or acknowledged it.

    How some nights Vi falls into Caitlyn's bed and doesn't leave until sunrise, their limbs pressed so tightly together it's hard to tell when one starts and the other stops.

    It's just casual, and Vi is fine with it. Until she isn't.

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    03 Sep 2025