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A map back to you by VelvetVerse
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Franchaela - Fandom, Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
03 Jun 2026
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Part 2 of The Shape of Wanting series. Sequel to Before We Were Brave.
Modern AU Franchaela, with characterisation kept close to canon. All of the Bridgertons will make an appearance.
Francesca Bridgerton thought Spain was over. She thought Michaela Stirling belonged to the holiday: to sunlit streets, late-night bars, warm skin, dangerous smiles, and the kind of wanting Francesca had never quite known what to do with before.
Then her dog gets hurt, and the vet who walks through the clinic door is Michaela.
They find each other again in London, but the reunion is far from simple. Francesca has questions she never asked. Michaela has grief she never explained. Between them sit missed messages, wrong assumptions, and all the things they were not brave enough to say before goodbye.
Spain was supposed to be temporary.
This was not.
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- Part 2 of The Shape of Wanting
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24 May 2026
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The balcony is empty. The air is thick with summer heat.
Michaela steps closer than she should. Francesca's legs part, almost reflexively, for her husband’s cousin. Michaela slips between them and rests her hands on Francesca's thighs.
She leans in. Francesca can smell the limoncello on her breath. Her nose brushes Francesca's cheek.
"Tell me it's killing you like it's killing me," Michaela whispers against her skin.
Francesca trembles. Her need pulses in her chest, her stomach, lower still.
"Please, Fran."
"We can't."
"I know. I know."
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Francesca Stirling is a high-powered Manhattan attorney on her eighth round of IVF. Her husband's cousin, Michaela, arrives for the summer and immediately upends Francesca's routines. When her husband leaves for a work trip to London, Francesca is forced to reckon with the woman she has spent years refusing to look at — and with the question of whether she can finally become herself without breaking the man who loves her.
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23 May 2026
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University AU where Francesa 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 Francesa finds herself, suddenly, hopelessly curious about another woman in ways that are utterly nonsensical.
Now Francesa 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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23 May 2026
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When She Was Wicked by orphan_account
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
06 Jun 2025
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In every life there is a turning point. A moment so tremendous, so sharp and breathtaking, that one knows one's life will never be the same. For Michaela Stirling, London's most infamous rake, that moment came the first time she laid eyes on Francesca Bridgerton.
After a lifetime of chasing women, of smiling slyly as they chased her, of allowing herself to be caught but never permitting her heart to become engaged, she took one look at Francesca Bridgerton and fell so fast and hard into love it was a wonder she managed to remain standing. Unfortunately for Michaela, however, Francesca's surname was to remain Bridgerton for only a mere thirty-six hours longer—the occasion of their meeting was, lamentably, a supper celebrating her imminent wedding to her cousin.
But that was then... Now Michaela is the earl and Francesca is free, but still she thinks of her as nothing other than her dear friend and confidant. Michaela dares not speak to her of her love... until one dangerous night, when she steps innocently into her arms, and passion proves stronger than even the most wicked of secrets...
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22 May 2026
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All The Words She Lost by judeseyes
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn, Francesca Bridgerton/Michaela Stirling - Fandom
25 May 2026
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"You have lost the privilege of Frannie".
Two years ago, Michaela Stirling left a London drawing-room one evening and did not come back. She left a letter. She left, also, the woman whose hand she had been holding on a sofa some hours earlier, and to whom she had said nothing of consequence.
She is, this April, returning. There are papers to sign, a title to inherit, and a season to survive, and there are, unfortunately, only so many ballrooms in Mayfair.
Francesca Bridgerton, Countess of Kilmartin, has been waiting. Not gladly.A literary slow-burn through the season of 1820. F/F; seventeen episodes; rated for the long view.
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19 May 2026