before_the_sun_sets



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  2. Summary

    My take on Maya and Carina's relationship throughout the years, from their perspectives.
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    AU from S3 onwards (no pandemic and Andrew is still alive; will take things from the show as new episodes air and new circumstances emerge but will largely be disconnected from the bigger moments/show's timeline)

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  1. Public Bookmark 8

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    Ava Sharpe has oil under her fingernails, a drum kit in her bedroom, and four brothers to wrangle in a chaotic house run mostly by her. She’s tough, loyal, and entirely in love with her best friend, Sara Lance — a secret she’s buried so deep even she pretends it’s not there.

    Sara Lance, meanwhile, is ambitious, artistic, and oblivious. With a sketchbook full of dreams and a plan to escape to art school in Chicago, she’s convinced that high school golden boy Oliver Queen is the perfect final piece to her teenage fairytale. She enlists Ava to help her win him over, not realizing the cost: Ava’s quiet heartbreak.

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    06 Dec 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 31

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    She and Mika said they are going to be friends. There’s been some vague discussions of ‘somewhere down the line’, which, she’ll admit, is something that makes her feel very excited, but for now, friends. She knows she’s not ready for anything more than that, not yet. Hence the compartmentalizing.

    She can do that. She can set aside any lingering romantic or sexual feelings she has for Mika and focus on just being friends. Besides, Mika might not end up moving to Chicago. This could all be a non-issue, really.

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    Seven years after Mika left Jules in that locker room, they've settled into a new normal; this fun new thing where they are just friends

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    09 Feb 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 3

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    Four times Leighton has questions and one time she gets answers.

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    27 Jan 2025

  4. Public Bookmark *

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    Leighton likes their other arrangement that started recently: a private — aside from amongst her roommates ever since they got caught in a very compromising position that included Leighton on her knees in their tiny kitchenette and Alicia sitting on the counter — and consensual form of relief that’s just meant to fill that touch-starved loneliness that began to set in at the end of the first quarter.

    Honestly, she doesn’t just like it. She loves it. It’s everything she’s been needing.

    (Or, a friends with benefits au.)

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    25 Jan 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 19

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    A loud knock breaks their bubble. “Yasuda,” Blue grumbles impatiently from the other side of her door. “Come on, we’re leaving in five.”

    Mika’s eyes go wide as she reluctantly rolls back onto her own pillow. “Uh— don’t come in!” she calls, immediately wincing.

    Jules snickers. “Very subtle,” she whispers, poking Mika in the ribs.

    “Oh, come on, like you’d have done better.”

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    mika forgets to consider the consequences of sneaking her secret girlfriend into the house she shares with their coworkers

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    12 Dec 2024