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Francesca Bridgerton is a quiet girl, avoiding human interaction at all costs. When forced to go to a rugby camp, she must adapt and put herself out there. Her roommate is quite the opposite, a confident and charming Michaela Stirling. Will they learn to accomidate for eachother or will they keep to themsleves.
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Francesca and Michaela fall in love at a rugby camp
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This is also the first instalment of a triologySeries
- Part 1 of The Seasons Between
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17 Jul 2026
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When She Was Wicked by dianafm
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
02 Apr 2026
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After loss alters the course of her life, Francesca finds herself bound by grief, expectation, and a love she never believed she could have or want.
Michaela has always loved her--silently, steadfastly, and without demand.
This is my complete rewrite of When He Was Wicked, staying true to the source while exploring what changes when love is allowed to look a little different.
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17 Jul 2026
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After a lifetime of chasing women in dark corners, of smiling slyly as they chased her, of allowing herself to be caught and then turning the tables until she was the victor, of caressing and kissing and making love to them behind their husbands’ back but never actually allowing her heart to become engaged, she took one look at Francesca Bridgerton and fell so fast and so hard into love it was a wonder she managed to remain standing.
Unfortunately for Michaela, however, Francesca’s surname was to remain Bridgerton a mere thirty-six hours longer; the occasion of their meeting was, lamentably, a supper celebrating her imminent wedding to Michaela’s cousin.
Now Francesca is free, but still she thinks of Michaela as nothing other than her dear friend and confidant. Michaela dares not speak of her love until one dangerous night, when she steps innocently into Francesca's arms, and passion proves stronger than even the most wicked of secrets...
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'When He Was Wicked' by Julia Quinn (Francesca's book) rewritten as CANON to the show. For those, like me, who wanted to read the book itself but with Michaela and Francesca as they are in the Netflix adaptation. All rights go to Julia Quinn and Shondaland.
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13 Jul 2026
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Unscripted by artily
Fandoms: Hasali, Franchaela - Fandom, Bridgerton - Fandom, Hannah Dodd - Fandom, Masali Baduza - Fandom
24 Jul 2026
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On the set of Bridgerton, two actresses must film increasingly intimate scenes as their characters fall in love. But Hannah Dodd and Masali Baduza, already inseparable off-screen, discover that the heat between them isn’t staying in the script. As takes grow longer and boundaries blur, they’re forced to face their own story unfolding.
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11 Jul 2026
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"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself..." - The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Limits are set when it comes to pleasure, and Michaela has no problem with that. Her work allows her to fully indulge her two passions: design and physical contact, casual sex, without expectations of continuity or establishing an emotional or romantic bond.
If the opportunity presents itself, she takes it; if the desire is mutual, she will do her part. But after a quick encounter with her cousin's new wife (who ends up being the hostess of her next big project), she'll realize that, in reality, fighting against her own needs is much harder than giving in to them.
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10 Jul 2026
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“But I cannot remain here forever. Not when I know that every moment you spend in this place, you wish to be elsewhere." Francesca drew in a deep breath, and straightened her dress as though preparing herself to leave. “I would do you the kindness of removing myself from beneath your wings. I can only imagine how greatly you wish to flee again.”
Michaela Stirling, after fleeing to India to escape her grief and the feelings she could no longer bear for her late cousin’s widow, returns to London two years later to inherit the Kilmartin estate. Francesca Bridgerton has never forgiven Michaela for leaving after making the very promise to stay, and now, as the social season starts, she is persuaded to re-enter the marriage market. Faced with Michaela's return, Francesca finds herself experiencing feelings she struggles to identify and beginning to doubt her choices, while Michaela struggles to bury a love she has carried since they first met.
As they navigate duty, grief, guilt, and the expectations of society, both women must confront whether what lies between them is something to be denied, or something worth choosing.
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10 Jul 2026
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A Love in Waiting by artily
Fandoms: Franchaela - Fandom, Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
08 Jul 2026
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"Mama, I... I wished to ask you something of a rather delicate nature. It is hypothetical, of course, but I find myself curious."
Francesca had rehearsed the question in her mind a dozen times, yet it still felt clumsy when she spoke it aloud.
"What would it signify, do you think, if a woman were to have... dreams of an intimate nature about another woman? A friend, perhaps. Someone she has known for some time and regards with great affection. Would that indicate anything particular, or is it merely the mind playing tricks in the quiet hours?"
Violet set her embroidery aside, her gaze sharpening with immediate interest. She studied Francesca for a moment before speaking, her tone gentle but direct. "I confess I am not entirely surprised by the question. Tell me, my dear, does this concern Michaela?"
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Michaela returns to Kilmartin after two years away, and Francesca becomes entirely, inconveniently, and helplessly obsessed with her.
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09 Jul 2026
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Beyond the wall by Moonstrucktraveller
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
04 Jun 2026
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“Oh my god,” Michaela said, snapping Francesca from er daze. “Are you staring at me right now?” A smug look covered Michaelas face as she raised her brows
Francesca’s eyes snapped upward instantly. “No.”
“You literally are.” Michaela shot back immediately enjoying every minute of catching Francesca during the act of checking her out.
“I-I literally am not.” She muttered back. She wanted to kick herself for this. It was no use to defend herself seeing as she WAS in fact checking Michaela out.
“Oh this is incredible,” Michaela continued with a grin. “You hate me and still wanna fuck me. That must be really hard for you emotionally.”
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Exes who find each other during the apocalypse (they still love each other)
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04 Jun 2026
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when the heart would cease (ours never knew peace) by weepingwillow713
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV)
16 Jun 2026
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It begins, as most things do, rather innocuously. With a phone call.
A phone call that shocks Francesca from her deep sleep, blinking confused and discombobulated in the dark.
She registers her phone ringing on her nightstand with a jolt, and crawls out of the warm nest of blankets, flinging an arm over and answering without even glancing at the caller ID. Her voice is hoarse, brimming over with sleep as she clears her throat and mutters, “Hello?”
“Frannie,” Michaela breathes on the other end.
All of a sudden Francesca’s wide awake.
Or: Michaela’s apartment floods. She moves in with Francesca until it gets fixed. And that should’ve been fine, right? But Francesca’s used to her simple, quiet routine -– bookstore job, piano on the weekends -– and, well, there’s nothing less routine, less controllable, than Michaela. Except maybe the feelings Michaela stirs up within her.
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27 May 2026
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Michaela Stirling wakes up in 2026 with no explanation, in a London flat she shares with Francesca Bridgerton. Their flat. Their life.
She spends two months learning to survive a century she doesn't understand, alone, until a hospital calls to say that Francesca needs to be picked up.
Now they must navigate a world that has already decided they belong together, while one of them is only beginning to understand what that might mean.- Language:
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25 May 2026
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University AU where Francesca is supposed to be in a perfectly loving relationship with her boyfriend, John, with a sensible future of marriage and children on the horizon, right up until John's cousin, Michaela Stirling, returns from a sabbatical abroad and Francesca finds herself, suddenly, hopelessly curious about another woman in ways that are utterly nonsensical.
Now Francesca finds herself unable to stay away and trying very hard not to think about why telling Michaela she and John are dating feels like it would ruin everything. Surely keeping that little detail about her relationship status cannot be seen as lying if Michaela never asked. Right?
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Or, finding the courage to be yourself before it's too late.
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Doesn't love make us all a little crazy though? Or is that just Francesca?
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23 May 2026
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waltz of four left feet by viteback
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
22 May 2026
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Francesca finds herself infatuated by a certain mysterious woman in a garden maze, she is struck with confusion and a sensation she does not know how to deal with.
Michaela, determined to find her dear cousin a wife, accompanies him to Mayfair for the best-suited bride for the Earl of Kilmartin. (And to have fun, of course.)
Fortunately, for both of them, fate has other plans.
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23 May 2026
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While the rest of her family seems to fit naturally into the world around them, Francesca has always felt different, too quiet, too overwhelmed and too difficult for people to fully understand her. Over the years she learns how to hide those parts of herself and become the version everyone expects her to be.
During a crowded house party, Francesca quietly sleeps away from the noise and hides in the library, there she meets Michaela Stirling for the first time.Bookmarked by Charibari
21 May 2026
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“Is it so unthinkable of a suggestion? Am I that off-putting, that horrible that you cannot even imagine pretending to date me?"
"No, Fran. It's not that. It's—" Michaela stopped, shaking her head and sighing. "You deserve more than that. More than what I'm looking to offer."
"I want nothing more!" Francesca spoke too emphatically, drawing attention to herself. "It's seamless. It solves both of our problems. You get a steady, unobjectionable partner and in turn, the estate. I get a reprieve from my family's haranguing, as they'll see I'm happily coupled. Nobody needs to know that our partnership is platonic masquerading as something more."
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Michaela can’t inherit the Stirling Estate unless she reforms her womanizing ways and Francesca can’t get her family to cease their incessant badgering about her finding true love. Realizing they both stand to gain from a relationship, they start up a fake one. Inconveniently for their plan, they’re already in love.
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20 May 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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18 May 2026
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Michaela sells flowers for apologies and confessions.
Francesca doesn’t seem interested in either as she helps make people's decisions feel permanent.
When a tattoo parlor expansion brings them together, what starts as business quickly turns into something harder to define. Something that is measured in glances, half-finished conversations, and tension that refuses to stay subtle.
Somewhere in the middle of it all, Michaela realizes this isn’t just another order while Francesca realizes that this isn't just another sketch she can ink onto skin.
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17 May 2026
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The Only Exception by NotTheBrightestt
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
22 Jul 2026
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After spending an ample amount of time with her family in Mayfair, and beginning to fully process what has now become of her life after John's passing--Francesca decides to return to Scotland. She returns in hope to find peace and comfort in the place her and John grew to call home. Though peace is a thing easily interrupted by the right force...
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17 May 2026
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Bearing Walls by SoftMelancholyAfterDark
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn, Bridgerton (TV) RPF, Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story (TV)
16 May 2026
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Francesca Bridgerton never forgot Michaela Stirling. She just got very good at not thinking about her.
Ten years.A career she built from the ground up. A life that worked exactly the way she’d designed it: controlled and precise. She was good at this. She was, by most measures, fine.
Then, the Altessence Heritage Institute briefing documents arrived. And there, third name on the list, was the one person she had spent a decade not thinking about.
Michaela Stirling. Lead Architect. The most ambitious architectural project London has seen in years and absolutely no way out.Francesca had eleven days to prepare.
It wasn’t enough.
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16 May 2026
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Michaela and Francesca's love story :,)
Featuring a mix of canon/author-created moments, a ton of angst, and all the Brigdy siblings.
Excerpt from Chapter 10: The Present Answers
“Francesca…” Michaela repeats, this time with an edge of concern.
Franceca swallows and takes another step closer. She stares down at Michaela, finding the right words.
Michaela blinks and waits for Francesca to say something. When she finally does, Michaela’s heart skips a beat.
"Tell me about the wicked things you do.”
Both Michaela and Francesca’s eyes widen at the final request.
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14 May 2026
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"Congratulations," Francesca said. Only she could hear the slight edge beneath it, the anger that had been simmering for ten years finally finding its way to the surface.
"Thank you." Michaela's voice was quieter, softer, almost uncertain.
Francesca extended the award. The crystal was cold and heavy, the engraved plaque catching the light. For a moment they both held it—Francesca's hands on one side, Michaela's reaching for the other. Their fingers brushed. It was the barest contact—the pad of Michaela's thumb grazing Francesca's knuckles as she took hold of the trophy. But the sensation was electric, a shock that traveled up Francesca's arm and exploded somewhere in her heart. Heat and ice at the same time. Recognition. Memory. The ghost of every time they'd touched before.
Ten years ago, Francesca Bridgerton lost the girl she loved. Michaela abandoned her.
Ten years ago, Michaela Stirling lost the girl she loved. She was taken away from Francesca.
Now they’re co‑stars in the most anticipated movie of the year, pretending they don’t remember how it felt to lose each other.
Childhood friends to strangers to enemies (not really but they don't get along) TO LOVERSBookmarked by Charibari
14 May 2026