crack_van | the beginning after the end by bugbitten (PG-13)

Fandom: SKINS
Pairing: Katie/Effy (gen 2)
Length: 5,000 words
Author on lj:

bugbitten
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Why this must be read: If there's any fandom that needs fix-it fic, it's Skins, and fix-it fic that is cautiously optimistic in a way that fits in with canon, with delicious, believable femslash on top is just all the more wonderful. It's set post-season three, and takes things in a direction that I would have loved to see explored more fully in the show (with or without the romance.) The Katie voice is sharp and deft, and the whole thing is completely enjoyable, beginning to end (pun intended).

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In the dream, Effy’d climbed into her window, her pale face iridescent in the light of the moon. Silently, she’d crawled into Katie’s bed and pulled their bodies close together, whispered into her ear, “I came back for you, you know.”

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Someday, Katie tells herself, she’ll look back at being seventeen and filled with angst and laugh at herself for having such a myopic worldview that she couldn’t think herself out of a stupid crush on a girl who’d fucked her life up in numerous ways.

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the beginning after the end