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Carla is the fiercely independent owner of Manchester’s classiest burlesque club.
Lisa is a hardworking detective with a passion for justice.
After a chance meeting, they’re thrown into each other’s orbit by an unfortunate string of crimes, but how will they navigate their all consuming attraction to each other when past (and present) issues keep rearing their ugly heads?
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TW: Violence.
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Carla replayed it in her mind over and over— the cold look on Lisa’s face as she’d told Carla to go, the blame she had spat in Carla’s face. It was impossible to reconcile this with her love, her life, the Lisa who had held her hand all those months ago and told her she was never going anywhere.
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Carla Connor is haunted by the trauma of an abusive past relationship with Cate Henri whose name resurfaces when DS Lisa Swain arrives to investigate Cate’s connection to a possible murder and disappearance case. As Carla is forced to confront painful memories of coercive control, isolation, and emotional abuse through a series of flashbacks, Lisa’s calm and compassionate presence gradually becomes a source of safety and stability in her otherwise chaotic world.
While helping the investigation, Carla begins forming an intense emotional connection with Lisa, who sees beyond her guarded exterior, and after Lisa rescues a drunken, emotionally overwhelmed Carla and takes her home, it becomes clear that their bond may become the lifeline Carla desperately needs.
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Lisa Swain is the architect of order: Captain of Manchester City, a minimalist perfectionist, and the self-proclaimed "Ice Queen" of the league. She views football as a science to be mastered.
Carla Connor is the definition of chaos: Captain of Manchester United, a local hero fueled by adrenaline, instinct, and the roar of the crowd. She views football as a war to be won.
For ten years, they have been total opposites. For five years, they have been bitter rivals. But this season, the tackles are hitting harder, the stares in the tunnel are lingering longer, and the hatred is starting to feel dangerously like obsession.
When the rivalry spills over the touchline, Lisa discovers that the only thing more terrifying than losing control is giving it to the one person she’s sworn to destroy.
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Single mother DS Lisa Swain enrols her young daughter Betsy into an aerial class, in a bid to get her into a new hobby while she juggles parenthood and recovers from demons of the past.
What she doesn't anticipate is falling in love with Carla Connor, the owner and pole instructor of Elevé fitness studio, and learning how to love her own body once again. -
Nights We Don't Remember, With Friends We Won't Forget by Swarla_Fan
Fandoms: Coronation Street
06 Jun 2026
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Carla and Peter were together a long time, on and off, and his sudden departure has left a hole in Carla's life. After her annoying nephew turns up, Carla heads to a bar to drown her sorrows and runs into none other than the detective who arrested Peter for murder. Two women drinking alone. Not friends...certainly nothing more than that. Will their shared loneliness bring them together? Can they forge a friendship through a few drunken nights out?
Set in early 2024, this is a enemies to friends to lovers tale, laced with many cocktails and some drunken dancing.
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Firstly, Becky did not and will not exist in this fic. Given my other fic is very angst filled and at times heavy, I personally as a writer also needed something happy to write, something positive:
Lisa and Carla are being set up on a blind date after years of either having no luck or just not putting themselves out there into the dating world.
When two very different worlds collide, with a little outside help, will these two woman finally give in and let themselves fall in love. -
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Carla and Lisa should've been on their honeymoon, drinking cocktails, walking barefoot along the beach, and spending far too much time naked. But when Betsy finds Theo dead, everything changes. With Lisa throwing herself into the investigation to catch Theo’s killer, Carla is left trying to hold their family together and help their traumatised daughter cope.
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To the people I call family and the person I call home by She_Writes01
Fandoms: Coronation Street
08 Jun 2026
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Carla Connor is used to doing life on her own but at forty one this all changes. This leads her to a place called Weatherfield, could this be the place she was always meant to end up. How will she navigate finding love and a family when she's never really felt worthy of either.
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Lisa spent four years in witness protection after an undercover operation went south.
To Carla’s knowledge she became a widow at the time with their 2 year old daughter Betsy, because her wife Lisa died in the line of duty.
Betsy is football obsessed and inspired by the Lionesses and wants to play for England when she grows up. Will she ever get to meet the Lionesses?
What happens when Lisa can finally come home and Carla had psychosis and couldn’t care for Betsy?
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First year of uni was supposed to be simple: new city, new people, fresh start.
Instead, Carla Connor ends up in a chaotic house full of strangers, cheap wine, and too many personalities to keep track of, including one quiet, observant blonde who seems to see right through her.
Lisa Swain didn’t come to uni to make friends. She definitely didn’t come to get involved.
But somewhere between late-night kitchens, shared spaces, and conversations that hit a little too close to home, something starts to shift.
Slowly. Quietly.
And neither of them are quite ready for it.
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It began with late-night conversations and quiet confessions. Before they realised what was happening, Carla and Lisa had fallen into an affair neither of them planned. When an unexpected curve ball is thrown their way, they're forced to end it. Now they’re left with a question neither of them knows how to answer—how do you go back to being just friends with someone you’ve fallen in love with?
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A cruise leads Carla to a path of self discovery. Even if it was by mistake.
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Carla is straight. Has a boyfriend. Yet somehow she's ended up on a dance floor, with a woman, wanting her to take her home.
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When Becky returned from the dead Carla knew it wasn’t going to be an easy ride. She was determined to fight for her relationship with Lisa. But after months of fighting, tension, and holding on for dear life it all became too much for Carla and Lisa, and they mutually decided to split.
Carla moved to Ireland – left everything behind to start fresh, apart from the factory - she did as much as she could remotely while Sarah did more of the in-person management. Lisa moved away to Brighton after the house sold, transferring to Sussex police.
Carla kept in touch with Betsy – never mentioning Lisa or Becky.
5 years later a sudden attack at Underworld takes place that requires Carla to come back to Weatherfield.
How will she react when she comes face to face with ex Lisa who unbeknown to Carla has been back in Weatherfield for the past year. -
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Who doesn’t love a little affair fic?!
Lisa Swain is trapped in an unhappy marriage with her wife, Becky. When she crosses paths with natural charmer, Carla Connor, Lisa finds herself unable to resist the pull between them. What begins as a dangerous affair soon spirals into something far more complicated, what happens when unexpected events shatter Lisa’s world mid affair?
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There’s excitement in the air at Weatherfield Primary School when a police officer comes to deliver a talk to one of the classes. Teachers and teaching assistants alike are readying themselves for the arrival of a, hopefully, tall, dark and handsome policeman. How will the staff react when, instead, the tiny, blonde and beautiful DS Swain rocks up to the building?
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“You’re such a good mate,” Lisa smiles at Carla. Teeth out, creases around her eyes, the lot.
Carla’s heart sinks in her chest. It’s not just a metaphorical feeling, she actually feels it happening, feels the weight of Lisa’s words pushing down deep within her. So she does the only thing she can think of in that moment so as not to completely give the game away; she takes a long sip of her drink, eyes darting around the room, looking for anything to focus on beside Lisa.
Well that backfired, didn’t it?
Lisa’s still smiling.
Friendzoned much?
God, she’s not used to this. Doesn’t think she’s ever been friendzoned in her life.
First time for everything, she supposes.
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Swarla do friends with benefits
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just hold me tight and tell me you'll miss me by Phoebmonster
Fandoms: Coronation Street
07 Jun 2026
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“Actually, if it’s all the same, I’ve got someone coming in for an interview.”
“That’s me.” Lisa said, her voice almost a whisper.
“What?” Carla looked her up and down. “I mean a job interview.”
“That’s still me.” Lisa muttered, a blush creeping over her cheeks.
“To be my new barmaid?”
or - carla owns the rovers, and lisa needs a second chance.
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Lisa Swain is a rule following police detective living a predictable, quiet suburban life with her wife, Becky, and their teenage daughter. But her carefully structured world is completely upended when Carla Connor, a stunning, unapologetic party girl and erotic novel author, moves in next door. To get away from her busy dramatic city life. What begins as a voyeuristic curiosity from Lisa's spare room window quickly spirals into a consuming obsession. Drawn to Carla's chaotic energy and explicit world, Lisa finds herself risking everything to cross the property line and the boundaries of her 13 year marriage, plunging into a passionate, illicit affair with the woman next door.