Brianna Has A Lot Of Anxiety
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Cape Cod: A Story About The Randalls by auntie_kat
Fandoms: Outlander Series - Diana Gabaldon, Outlander (TV)
19 Dec 2024
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(Re-uploaded and complete)
“I saw a whale fluke off of Cape Cod once…”
That quick line spoken by Brianna in season 5, episode 10 (“Mercy Shall Follow Me”) launched an entire fic!
It’s August, 1960. Brianna and her parents are enjoying a late summer trip to a rented beach bungalow in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. An early bloomer and somewhat socially awkward, Brianna is both eagerly anticipating, and nervously dreading, the public debut of her first two-piece swimsuit. Her father Frank feels only the latter, while Claire, as per usual, is only paying half-attention to her husband and daughter’s personal lives. All of them have secrets they cannot speak of to one another, and burdens they do not know where to place safely. Their afternoon of family drama plays out against a backdrop of early 1960s American abundance, pop culture, and technological innovation; a shiny, tantalizing world curated for the “Baby Boomer” generation.
I had other chapters uploaded for a while, but the extra plot would be better told in its own fic another time, and this story can be wrapped up as a little slice-of-life, coming-of-age tale that explores Brianna’s relationships with both parents as she was growing up.Series
- Part 1 of Brianna Has A Lot Of Anxiety
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Living In The Past: A Story In Four Parts by auntie_kat
Fandoms: Outlander Series - Diana Gabaldon, Outlander (TV)
16 Mar 2024
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A slightly canon-divergent extension of Marsali and Brianna’s late night conversation over a bottle of whisky in episode 504 (“The Company We Keep”), this is a tale of the two women telling tales of their own, each sharing a story about adolescent experiences with the men who chose to be their fathers (Frank, who raised Brianna as his own, and Jamie, who took on the responsibility of being Marsali’s stepfather) which shaped who they became, and still effects the relationships with the men in their lives.
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- Part 2 of Brianna Has A Lot Of Anxiety
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Date Night, 1979: A Roger And Brianna (and Stephen Bonnet) Story by auntie_kat
Fandoms: Outlander Series - Diana Gabaldon, Outlander (TV), Ted (2012)
08 Feb 2025
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COMPLETED!
Roger and Bree have returned to the 20th century. They are currently in Boston, with their children, staying in Brianna’s childhood home. After a few months, their daughter Mandy is fully recovered from her heart surgery, but the stress of caring for a sick baby, and re-adjusting to life in the late 1970s, makes a real date night for the Mackenzies feels like a dream come true!
Unfortunately, though they have left the past, the past hasn’t quite left them. A demon lurking in Brianna’s mind makes an appearance, spawned by the ill-informed choice to go to a late-night movie at the old “grindhouse” movie theater, unaware that the 1970s trends in the horror genre are much more visceral and graphic than they remember cinema ever being!
While at the theater, they have multiple interactions with another couple, Ted (a human in this fic, not a talking teddy bear) and Tami-Lynn, on a night out of their own, discovering startling similarities and connections as the evening progresses.
When shameful secrets are finally revealed after years of silence, what was meant to be a night of lighthearted fun becomes an endurance test that will prove to the Mackenzies how strong their marriage truly is!
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- Part 3 of Brianna Has A Lot Of Anxiety