Szentimental_Checkmate



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    Vi looks at the big clock on the far wall. 7:46AM. She’s one minute late today. Every morning for the past six months - well, every morning Vi’s been on shift, so she’s just assuming about the other days - she’s passed by at exactly 7:45AM, always at a brisk walk, always in a perfectly-tailored suit, not a single long, silky-looking hair out of place.

    7:47AM. The crisp clack of heeled boots on concrete pulls Vi out of her musings. There must have been some sort of emergency, because the subject of Vi’s (minor) obsession walks past the fire station at a faster clip than normal. Which is sort of saying something, because Mystery Woman’s got legs for days, long and slender, visibly toned with long, lean muscle through her suit pants. At the faster clip, Vi has less time to admire her ass and tiny, tiny waist as she walks by, but that’s fine, because the view as she leaves is fantastic.

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    Caitlyn's route to work as a detective at the 51st Precinct takes her right by Fire Station #516, and Vi's been pining after the gorgeous Mystery Woman for six months...what will happen when she finds out that Caitlyn's a cop (AKA: The Enemy)?

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    Takes place right after Part II

     

    On her way back to Jackson, Ellie spends the night in an abandoned little cabin in the woods. If she had known that the cabin would teleport her into a world where the cordyceps doesn't exist and Joel is very much alive, she'd have made a ten mile detour around it.

    But as it is, she's stuck in a modern Jackson now and neither she nor Joel have any idea how to get her back. Ellie has no choice but to confront her demons, and Joel—

    Well, he has a few demons of his own to deal with.

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    “Do you think I made it worse?” she asks at the end of the night, fidgeting with her ring finger and keeping her eyes trained on the table. “By being there in the end?”

    Tommy halts in the doorpost. He looks at her for a long moment. “No,” he says then. “He loved you.” 

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    Vi made a promise before she left on her supply run, and she damn well intends to keep it. Back by midnight. Back in Cait's arms, in their warm feather bed, wrapped up in blankets that smell like lilac and gunsmoke and home.

    The journey is never easy, though.

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    “Cupcake…” But before she could even finish her sentence, Cait cut her off, having reached the bottom of the stairs and wrapping her in a tight hug.

    “I know, I know,” she mumbled, the shame in her voice evident. “I’m sorry, I—I did it again…I—”
    Vi pulled away from the embrace just enough to cup her girlfriends face with both hands. When she met Cait’s blue eyes, they were even more bloodshot up close.

    “Hey,” she said, holding her gaze. “You don’t have to apologise to me. I’m not upset at you or anything.”

    “But you look—”

    “Worried: yes. But I’m not mad.”

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    Or: Caitlyn is autistic and gets too caught up in work, leading to a pretty severe burnout. Luckily, Vi is there to be a good girlfriend and take care of her favourite piltie :)

    Or: I'm autistic, single, and definitely projecting

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