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i'll be waiting (i am on your side) by Chill_with_Penguins
Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)
26 Mar 2021
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"Well, you coming back saved my life, at least. So there's that."
Buffy pauses for a second to look at her, and that smile gets brighter and softer all at once in a way that makes Faith's stomach swim in interesting directions. "Hey, I hadn't thought of that."
"That's why you need me around, B," she teases instead of saying any one of the million things she wants to, "I'm the brains of this whole operation."
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or: In between accidentally totally crushing on the cute new slayer, Faith plays (reluctant) therapist to the Scoobies. Somebody's gotta clean up this mess, after all.
(a companion piece from Faith's POV following my season 3 AU wherein everyone has more feelings about Buffy's time in LA, and it takes some time to sort them out.)
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- Part 2 of I'll Catch You, Darling
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don't hide away (there's something to be said for pushing through) by Chill_with_Penguins
Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)
13 Feb 2021
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Buffy realizes pretty quickly that when you come back from the missing-slash-presumed-dead, no matter how many questions people ask, there are some things they don't want to hear about. Cordelia, strangely, serves as a source of comfort: their feet move in perfect time until the brunette girl turns abruptly to face her.
"You fucked up," Cordy says, matter of fact. She's not being kind, but she's not being cruel, either. She's just being Cordelia, which is strangely reassuring. "I don't know what you were going through, and to be honest, I don't think I want to, because it was probably really dark and scary and horrifying. But you shouldn't have left. The answer is never leaving."
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A season 3 AU in which Buffy comes back from L.A. to strained relationships, Faith accidentally becomes the Scoobies' therapist, and everything goes a little better when characters can learn how to have healthy, open communication.
(Or: Dead Man's Party did not do justice to the amount of emotional aftermath from the season 2 finale/season 3 pilot, so I stretched those arguments and rebuilding trust out across most of season 3. And now Buffy's friends with Gunn. There, see? Better already.)
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- Part 1 of I'll Catch You, Darling
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01 Nov 2022
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If Josie hadn't turned Lizzie and Hope against each other when they were young, they might've been friends. They might've been more. Their relationship is once big "what if?" that neither girl can answer, not that they had enough time to try.
When Hope comes back from Malivore, with no one in her life being able to remember her, she accidently stumbles onto the answer some of those what if's.Bookmarked by usureboutthat
02 May 2020
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Life can be very difficult when your parents are old-fashioned and conservative people. High school student Josie Saltzman has unfortunately had to put up with them her whole life. They would always tell her to dress in an appropriate way, one that is approved by the community they live in with its mainstream values and beliefs, to speak and act in a proper and polite manner, and have excellent results in every school subject in order to secure herself a spot in an elite university in the future. Josie hates all the expectations people have of her and she is so fed up with the constant pressure that she is under. Thankfully, fate is generous enough to introduce her to Hope Mikaelson, the only person in this world she feels comfortable around and who understands her like no one else. They click from the moment they meet, but with the environment they live in will they be allowed to be together freely or will they be forced to keep their relationship a secret?
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13 Apr 2020
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Josie laughs in a short, sad kind of way. “In all the ways I might tick a box of his, you completely overwhelm it. He’d have been filled with joy just at the idea of you loving him. I will never have that effect.”
Hope shakes her head. “Well I don’t understand that.” Their bodies are pressed close in the cold, noses almost brushing. “Because everything about you is overwhelming.”
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Hope is desperate to regain Josie's trust after she and Landon collectively break her heart. But things become complicated as the three navigate their feelings under the growing threats within the school.
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