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A Life Between the Lines by whispyedits
Fandoms: We Were Liars - E. Lockhart, Taylor Swift (Musician), The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid, Glee (TV 2009)
06 Oct 2025
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Penny Sinclair is everything her father demanded: polished, perfect, the mother of the heir. But behind her composure lies a secret love affair, spanning over a decade, hidden beneath the Sinclair performance.
Enter Vivian: flour-dusted, sunlit, fosterer of strays. Penny is pedigree and polish; Vivian is wild conviction. Not rivals, but mirrors—two women who see through each other, bound by desire the world will never allow.
This fic threads through canon, reframing Penny’s clipped jokes, brittle smiles, and disordered eating as survival, coupled with religious guilt, comphet, and a decade-spanning forbidden romance. The subtle remarks, the flicker of panic quickly smothered, the way composure slides over her like a second skin, the sharp intake of breath before a deflection—all of it gains new meaning.
For Penny, the stakes are suffocating. The Sinclair name demands composure, heterosexuality, motherhood. She cannot risk scandal. She cannot lose her inheritance, her place, her carefully curated image.
It’s fem-for-fem workplace rivals to lovers in pearls and pressed blazers, old money polish against small-town warmth, and an epilogue that finally lets Penny choose love in the open.