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    Rummaging through her pockets, Vi finds one of Powder’s hairpins. She bends it out, only meaning to kill time, but ends up crouched in front of the lock, making a real go of it.

     

     

     

    “What do you think you’re doing?” a man’s voice booms from behind her.

     

    “Breaking into a rich girl’s place.” Vi clicks her tongue, concentration lost. “Mind your own business.”

     

    “Call the police. Now,” a woman’s voice joins.

     

    Sighing, Vi pushes herself to her feet and says, “Calm down. My girlfriend lives here.”

     

    She turns, jerks her thumb at the door, and freezes. Before her are two strangers she’s caught glimpses of dozens of times: Caitlyn’s mother and father, caricatures of their own photographs. Vi can’t tell if it’s disbelief or horror on their faces, or if it’s worth discerning between the two. Caitlyn’s mother holds out her phone, thumb hovering over 9.

     

    “Shit,” Vi says.

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    03 Oct 2025

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    May I ask you something?

    Vi grabbed her phone off of the kitchen counter to respond.

    sure cupcake. shoot

    The dots that meant Caitlyn was typing popped up.

    Disappeared.

    Vi’s other eyebrow joined the first.

    It was fucking weird Caitlyn was hesitating to ask her anything.

    A few seconds later, the dots popped up again.

    Vi sighed, starting to type.

    well

    shit or get off the pot cupcake

    Vi laughed, picturing the wrinkle between Caitlyn’s eyebrows as she frowned at Vi’s word choice.

    She stuck the last bite of her breakfast in her mouth as the three little dots popped up in the corner of her screen.

    Would you consider this “tasteful”?

    Vi read the message, her own brow crinkling as she made a confused face at the screen. She started typing “what” but only got as far as “wh–” when an image popped up under the message.

    Her best friend had just…

    Her best friend had just sent her a fucking nude.

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    Vi and Caitlyn are best friends, they're completely in love with each other, and a saucy photo feedback request stokes the fire.

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    02 Oct 2025

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    “About that,” Vi says. “How’d you end up here? What did a girl like you do to get tossed into this two-star shithole?”

    “Really? That’s how you ask? No subtlety in it?”

    “Uh, yeah? I saved you from getting shanked in the shower, so fair’s fair. What’s your deal, topside?”

    “Caitlyn,” she says. That isn’t right. That wasn’t the answer Vi was after. Names are easily given away but so seldomly remembered in Stillwater, but it echoes in Vi’s head. She almost doesn’t hear the actual answer. “And though I have no doubt a thousand people have given this answer before, I did nothing. I was doing my job, and then I was here. No trial. No sentencing. No crime to speak of.”

     

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    Half a decade into Vi's stay in Stillwater, a topsider turns up, raving about being a Councillor's daughter.

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    02 Oct 2025

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    Vi lets Caitlyn say things to her that she would never, ever take from anyone else.

     

    “You’re wrong.”
    “You acted rashly.”
    “Perhaps there is a way to resolve this without punching someone.”

    But also. You know. Other stuff. Embarrassing stuff.

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    26 Sep 2025

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    Viktor's new lab partner has a lot to live up to.

    “I just realized- you never told me your name.” Jayce smiles at him with a certain glint in his eyes that makes Viktor feel something… inconvenient. Strange. He files it away in his brain and swallows it down.

    “It’s Viktor.”

    OR the Modern AU where Viktor and Jayce are Phd students sharing a lab. Gay crisis ensues.

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