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Malfoy and Hermione are locked in an unrelenting workplace rivalry.
Harry is really fucking fed up with hearing about it. For entirely normal reasons.
Reasons that have absolutely nothing to do with the fact that Malfoy seems to have found himself a new nemesis, and Harry isn't sure how he feels about being replaced.
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08 Jul 2026
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There is a potion that grants the drinker a dick, in the size that they deserve. Francesca drinks that potion.
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07 Jul 2026
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Anthony laughed. “Ah, I see. You’re one of those music snobs. I think you’d get on well with one of my sisters. She never said it out loud, but I’m pretty sure she judged me a bit for that choice.”
Michaela’s first thought was Great, there’s more of you, and her second Who wouldn’t judge someone for choosing ‘Wrecking Ball’ as a wedding song?
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In three months, Michaela will meet the love of her life. Only she doesn't know it yet. In the meantime, by a strange twist of fate, she finds herself crossing paths with all the Bridgertons - without really planning to.OR
Michaela meets all the Bridgerton siblings before she meets Francesca.modern AU
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- Part 1 of Your family
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05 Jul 2026
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An accomplished principal ballerina with the Royal Ballet. A jaded photographer who never stays in one place for too long. Ten years ago, the summer romance between Francesca Bridgerton and Michaela Stirling came to an abrupt, heartbreaking end. Now, they are back in the same place, at the same time, only not exactly by choice. Will their second chance at first love end differently this time around? Or will the duet they try to dance together falter once again?
or the exes to friends to lovers ballet AU no one asked for!
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30 Jun 2026
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Under The Table by IWriteItGayer
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
02 Jul 2026
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Michaela Stirling returns from four years in India to find the life she fled exactly where she left it, John's ghost in every corridor, and Francesca at the top of the stairs.
She had told herself the distance had taught her restraint. That she could stand in the same room as Francesca Bridgerton and call herself only a friend. That four years and an ocean were enough to make loving someone bearable.
She had been wrong on all counts.
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michaela and francesca spend several chapters inventing new ways to avoid admitting the obvious.
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14 Jun 2026
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"Do you know what your problem is?" Eloise asks.
"Several paid professionals have tried to answer that question."
"You're in love with Michaela."
Francesca nearly drops her wine glass.
"That's absurd."
"You learned Portuguese when she had to spend a month in Sao Paulo."
"I learned Portuguese for practical reasons."
"She's the practical reason."
Francesca Bridgerton is definitely not in love with her best friend. Unfortunately, the evidence would like a word.
(or the very slow friends-to-lovers modern AU in which everyone has already figured it out except the two women sharing lingering eye contact, emotional dependency, and an alarming commitment to calling it friendship)
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13 Jun 2026
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“You’ve never bedded a woman before?” Michaela gasped.
“There was never any need.”
“Need?!” Michaela laughed again, thoroughly entertained by John’s misery, “Loving a woman cannot be reduced to just a need, darling. I could say the same about myself, that there was ‘never any need’, obviously, and yet…”
“I am well aware, Michaela,” John grumbled, “We used to share a wall. And I have given you your own wing in the castle as I hoped to be made less aware.”—
Everything John knew about women, he learnt from Michaela. It should come as no surprise, then, that he would choose to marry the woman of her dreams. Missing moments from Season 3 and 4, detailing all the ways guilt layers.
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- Part 1 of Franchaela Pre-Season 5 Canon Universe
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12 Jun 2026
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Composure by ocean19
Fandoms: Francesca Bridgerton/Michaela Stirling - Fandom, Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
02 May 2026
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Michaela plucked a strawberry from the platter. It was deeply red and ripened to the point that was uncommon for fruit in early spring. She assessed it before she bit into it, turning it around in her fingers.
Francesca detected the white of her teeth as her mouth closed on the tip.
She took two bites. When she got to the heart of it, her lips enclosed around the remainder and she drew the last of it into her mouth slowly, sucking at its juices.
Then she looked up.
Francesca was still watching.
Their eyes met and held.
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Michaela Stirling has returned to Mayfair after two years of unexplained absence. Her presence slowly whittles away at Francesca's carefully maintained composure, until it breaks.Bookmarked by Treebranchy
12 May 2026
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The balcony is empty. The air is thick with summer heat.
Michaela steps closer than she should. Francesca's legs part, almost reflexively, for her husband’s cousin. Michaela slips between them and rests her hands on Francesca's thighs.
She leans in. Francesca can smell the limoncello on her breath. Her nose brushes Francesca's cheek.
"Tell me it's killing you like it's killing me," Michaela whispers against her skin.
Francesca trembles. Her need pulses in her chest, her stomach, lower still.
"Please, Fran."
"We can't."
"I know. I know."
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Francesca Stirling is a high-powered Manhattan attorney on her eighth round of IVF. Her husband's cousin, Michaela, arrives for the summer and immediately upends Francesca's routines. When her husband leaves for a work trip to London, Francesca is forced to reckon with the woman she has spent years refusing to look at — and with the question of whether she can finally become herself without breaking the man who loves her.
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11 May 2026
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Before We Were Brave by VelvetVerse
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Franchaela - Fandom, Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
11 May 2026
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“Excuse me,” said a voice beside her. “I was wondering if you could help me. There’s something wrong with my phone.”
(...) Francesca blinked. “Sorry?”
The woman held up her phone with a solemnity that fooled no one. “Terrible malfunction.”
Francesca, still a step behind whatever was happening here, said, “Do you need to ring someone?”
“That’s the issue,” the woman said. “It doesn’t have your number in it.”A modern AU Franchaela story in which Francesca Bridgerton goes to Spain for two weeks with her sister Eloise and their friend Sophie, fully intending to recover from heartbreak quietly and in peace.
Instead, she meets Michaela Stirling.
What begins as sun, flirtation, and something that looks like a holiday distraction slowly becomes harder to define, and even harder to ignore. In a place that feels far from home, Francesca finds herself drawn to a woman who makes wanting feel easy, and honesty feel like something neither of them quite knows how to do.
And when the holiday ends, neither of them is brave enough to say what happens next.Series
- Part 1 of The Shape of Wanting
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13 Apr 2026
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To Miss Philippa, With Love by wooloowoo
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
05 Aug 2024
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A year after Albion Finch’s passing, Penelope urges her dear friend Eloise to write his widow and her sister, Philippa, a letter of assurance.
Eloise does not think much when the message is sent. After all, she barely knows Philippa. Philippa barely knows her. She’s sure nothing will come of it.
That is, until she receives a reply.
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31 Mar 2026
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"I would have drowned with you."
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Now Dowager Countess of Kilmartin.
The widow of John Stirling
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“And I insist on your happiness, Michaela.”
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Earl of Kilmartin.
Former, newly deceased.
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“I care for you deeply, in ways I- ways that are most kept to myself.”
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Appointed Heir of Kilmartin.
Confidant to John and Francesca Stirling.Bookmarked by Treebranchy
29 Mar 2026
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Five years.
Twenty matches.
One hotel, different floors and the kind of tension that has been mislabeled competitive awareness for far too long. Francesca and Michaela are the greatest rivalry in women's tennis — and, it turns out, each other's most inconvenient problem.
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27 Mar 2026
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*This summary and this work contain spoilers for Bridgerton S4*
Francesca is mourning the sudden loss of her husband, while navigating some confusing new emotions for her cousin-in-law, Michaela. Takes place during the events in the 2nd half of Bridgerton, S4
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26 Mar 2026
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We play to forget these thoughts in our head by newromantics04
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
02 Apr 2026
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The house was empty when Francesca got home.
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Michaela had left again.
Starts when Francesca and Michaela move to Scotland with John and Eloise, centers around Michaela coping + Fran trying to understand why she feels so oddly about her
THERE WILL BE A TIMESKIP PAST THE EVENTS OF S4 SO THAT CONTEXT IS NEEDED
Will then explore their relationship as Michaela ends up back at Kilmartin EstateBookmarked by Treebranchy
26 Mar 2026
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Sympathetic resonance is a phenomenon in which a string initially at rest responds to external vibrations that are harmonically similar to its own without direct physical contact. It’s always made sense to Francesca that when she holds down a key on the piano, those with frequencies alike echo and the sound waves continue to ring in the wooden body after the original note has faded away. It’s physics, it’s music theory, it’s perfectly comprehensible.
At least, it had been all of that until she started noticing the sensation within her, the amplified waves crashing through every nerve in reaction to another person. A stranger. Her husband’s cousin. A woman.- Language:
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15 Mar 2026
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Michaela, whilst grieving and overwhelmed with the feelings blossoming in her chest for her cousin's widow, does the only thing she can think to do when asked so sweetly to stay, she flees.
But now, after two years of running, she has returned to London, determined to make amends with the woman she has managed to convince herself she cannot fall in love with, under any circumstances.
Yet her chosen path is not an easy one, for Francesca Stirling, now seething with rage, grief, and a furious current of feelings she neither understands nor can explain, is just as determined to discover the very reason for Michaela's flight in the first place, a reason Michaela is intent on keeping to herself.
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09 Mar 2026
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“You come to me in the middle of the night begging for a touch you do not understand?”
Or the friends with benefits/jealous Michaela au
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- Part 5 of Commissioned Prompts
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06 Mar 2026
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Francesca is engaged to John Stirling and very much in love. She just wishes his cousin didn't make her so nervous.
A modern-day AU where Francesca finds out that love is much more complicated (and wicked) than she anticipated.
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02 Mar 2026
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In which Michaela comes back after four years of vanishing, and Francesca does not know what to do.
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01 Mar 2026