Wilderness Adjacent
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The life Jackie Taylor so carefully constructed has been demolished. At Lottie's graduation party, with nothing left to lose, a drunken fight with her favorite stray leads to an unexpected dare.
In a world where the plane never crashed, Jackie has to face the wreckage of her "perfect" life without the wilderness to blame.
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- Part 1 of Wilderness Adjacent
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A week-long flour sack baby project should be simple enough.
Too bad Shauna can't seem to keep "Jax Jr." out of harm's way. When disaster finally strikes, it forces both girls to confront feelings they've been avoiding for years.
Sometimes it takes killing a flour sack to realize what you're really afraid of losing.
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- Part 2 of Wilderness Adjacent
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Van's been harboring a massive crush on Taissa Turner for over a year, content to orbit Planet Taissa from a safe distance. But when the flu hits during soccer practice and she collapses in the locker room, she wakes up in Taissa's bed—and her fever-loosened tongue might just change everything.
Sometimes the biggest risks come with the sweetest rewards.
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- Part 3 of Wilderness Adjacent
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College AU. It's Shauna's first time in a queer bar since coming out, and she is failing spectacularly at flirting. Her wing-women, Tai and Van, can only do so much. But when a mysterious woman with short hair, tone arms, and a familiar smile catches her eye, Shauna feels a new resolve. Maybe the third time's the charm.
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- Part 4 of Wilderness Adjacent
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Lottie makes dinner from scratch. Nat buys cheap wine. They both completely fail at asking Jackie the question they've been building up to for weeks. Fortunately, Jackie Taylor has never been one to wait around for other people to figure out what they want.
Or: The one where Van Palmer has a very big mouth, and everything works out exactly as it should.
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- Part 5 of Wilderness Adjacent
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Jackie shows up at Shauna's window in the middle of the night, frantic and undone. A make-out session with Jeff has left her feeling broken, confused, and questioning everything. "It was awful, Shauna. Just... wet. And sloppy".
Convinced there's something wrong with her, Jackie makes a desperate request: "Show me what it's supposed to be like".
And Shauna, the world's foremost scholar on all things Jackie Taylor, agrees.
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- Part 6 of Wilderness Adjacent
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When Mr. Davies assigns Shauna and Jackie to perform the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet, Shauna expects humiliation. What she doesn't expect is for Jackie Taylor—soccer captain, prom queen, and object of her secret crush—to throw out the script entirely.
"Forget the lines," Jackie murmured, her voice so low only Shauna could hear. "Just listen."
Sometimes the best love stories happen when you stop pretending.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------A fluffy high school AU one-shot where Shakespeare provides the perfect excuse for Jackie to finally make her move, and Shauna discovers that maybe she's not the only one who's been pining.
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- Part 7 of Wilderness Adjacent
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A backdraft nearly takes Van from her. In the aftermath, Taissa needs to prove they're both still alive.
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- Part 8 of Wilderness Adjacent
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Shauna has been living in fear that Jackie will stop loving her if she becomes who she really is. Jackie has been living in patience, waiting for Shauna to trust that love means accepting all of someone—including the parts they're still discovering.
A Sunday morning confession changes everything...
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- Part 9 of Wilderness Adjacent
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Four years of high school on opposite sides of the social hierarchy wasn't enough—now Nat and Jackie are stuck working together at the world's most depressing ice cream stand. The bickering is constant, the sexual tension is suffocating, and something's got to give.
It does. On the counter. During closing shift.
"You think you know me so well," Jackie whispered, her voice losing its edge and becoming something huskier, more dangerous.
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- Part 10 of Wilderness Adjacent
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Lottie knows why Nat hates Christmas. So she sets out to give her a new memory—one that's warm, real, and theirs. Featuring trees, trauma recovery, lingerie, and the kind of intimacy that rewrites the past.
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A quick holiday themed Lottie / Nat (non-crash AU) one shotSeries
- Part 11 of Wilderness Adjacent
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It's almost Christmas. Van and Taissa are broke grad students in NYC with forty-five dollars in checking and big dreams they can't afford. When Van finds a way to buy Taissa the briefcase she deserves, and Taissa finds a way to buy Van the poster she's been pining for, they both learn that love is about the sacrifices you make when you think no one's watching.
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Taivan Holiday one shot with some Gift of the Magi vibes thrown in.Series
- Part 12 of Wilderness Adjacent
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Five years ago, Jackie Taylor blew up her carefully constructed life and landed on Natalie and Van's doorstep with a duffel bag and a wreckage of a smile. She's been rebuilding ever since.
She doesn't expect to find Mari Ibarra in a packed queer bar in the West Village, looking like a decade of unresolved tension given flesh and a leather jacket. She doesn't expect Mari to look at her like that, either.
But the wilderness of high school is long behind them, and Jackie Taylor has finally stopped performing.
Maybe it's time to start telling the truth.
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A Jackie / Mari Post-college AU.Series
- Part 13 of Wilderness Adjacent
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Baby Jack Shipman has decided—with the quiet authority of someone who has reviewed all available evidence—that Jackie Taylor is his *dada.*
And Jackie is handling it just fine... Except she's not.
(Or... Van and Nat form a coalition, Shauna is devastatingly soft about it, and Jackie discovers that some words don't need to be technically accurate to be true.)
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- Part 14 of Wilderness Adjacent