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    “Hey,” Vi said softly, her voice slurred just enough to betray her. “Didn’t mean to wake you.”

    Caitlyn’s eyes flicked to the bandage at her side, then back to her face. Her reply came just as gently, a mirror of that same effort to keep things from unraveling. “You didn’t.”

    Vi leaned against the doorframe, favoring one side. She gestured vaguely at herself, her mouth tugging into the shadow of a smile. “Looks worse than it is.”

    A joke missing its punchline.

    Caitlyn didn’t smile. She didn’t even blink.

    She wanted to drag Vi to the mirror. Make her look. Make her see the woman Caitlyn had just watched stagger into their home. The blood. The bruises. The way she always seemed to walk the line between defiant and self-destructing, like she thought pain made her real.

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    A one-shot set after the war, after Caitlyn and Vi return to their roles as Enforcers — after a day that left them both gutted.

    A boy died on their watch. Vi disappeared. Caitlyn waited.

    What follows is a fight that begins in silence and ends in the quiet gravity of a shared couch.

    There’s no closure. No clean resolution. But something softer: the certainty of love.

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    “No,” Caitlyn whispers, shoulders slipping. Oh, she’s not strong enough for this. “No, no- you- why you? Why you?”

    She still smells the way she did two years ago— standing at their doorstep, packing her bags, saying we shouldn’t have done this. I shouldn’t have done this.

    “Why me,” Vi repeats. “Isn’t that the fucking question.”

    or: they're exes, they're still in love, and they're pretty sure fate just fucking hates them

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    “I wasn’t planning on paying with my looks,” Blue said with a chuckle. She had confidence, but not arrogance, in her smile. “You know I have the cogs to pay.”

    “Then I’m all yours.”

    Blue pursed her lips, hiding a smile. “That’s a dangerous thing to say.”
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    (Cait/Vi) Vi's lived under a set of rules and laws for herself for years, here in Zaun. A mysterious woman named 'Blue' changes all of that.

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    Vi saw her and knew.
    Caitlyn saw Vi...and everything got complicated.

    One grew up in the South Side, where dreams don't survive.
    The other was raised in luxury, where perfection was a cage.

    They stand together for years, caught in the gravity of what’s never said.

    But something has been waiting in the dark — and it's finally reaching for them. And it will change everything.

    Will they ever name the light they’ve always kept hidden?

    "Vi swallowed thickly, her heartbeat pounding so loud in her temples it drowned out everything else.
    It felt like it was pumping molten gold; dense, burning, and unbearably precious.
    She was a paradox made flesh. A hurricane of stillness. Chaos flooding in perfect harmony.
    How could something so dizzying, so immense, feel so soothing?
    How could the tight knot in her throat be the only thing keeping her grounded?
    Nothing seemed to exist but the sheer need to answer those damn questions. Two forces crammed into a space too tight not to clash."

     

    Completed story. Full arc. Chapter updates daily.

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    It was a room. A very precarious state of what should be a room. Or maybe cell was a better description. There was a sink and a toilet on one side. A metal bed attached to the wall in front of her. Everything seemed very old, as if it had been stored and forgotten there for years.

    Caitlyn saw she was not alone. Under the bed, occupying the smallest possible space, there was a person.

    A child.

    "What's your name? I'm Vi," she continued when there was no response. If Caitlyn couldn't see the girl's chest rising and falling, she'd doubt whether she was even alive. "This is Caitlyn. Who are you?"

    The minutes passed. Caitlyn was already thinking of her fifth contingency plan when the child moved. An almost imperceptible movement. A slight lift of her neck, allowing for a better view of her intruders. "Lavender," her voice was thin, yet hoarse, as if it hadn't been exercised in a while.

    "Nice to meet you, Lavender."

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    After a mission in Zaun, Caitlyn and Vi find a child. This is a story about how they become a family

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