16 Works by pearlcages
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Agatha wants to kiss her. Her lips skim the edge of Rio’s hairline, her jaw, the nape of her neck.
She imagines her tongue in Rio’s mouth. Rio sucking on it. The heat of her. The taste.
Agatha moans, still running her lips along every inch of Rio’s skin she can get at. Agatha licks and bites bruises into the tops of Rio’s shoulders and watches as they fade, thinking of Rio’s mouth. She’d bite her there, too.
“Look at me,” Agatha urges, releasing Rio’s throat so that Rio can turn towards her. “Look at me.”
Or: I hated the idea of that being their first kiss so much that I wrote a 15k fic where it's fun and sexy instead of tragic. Unfortunately, it is still tragic but at least now it's also hot!
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To Arizona, Callie is like having the wind knocked out of her. Not in a cute way. It’s not charming. It’s the feeling of being flat on her back with no air in her lungs, staring up at the other kids swinging from the jungle gym. Sun and tears in her eyes.
Or: Post s14. Arizona's move to New York doesn't go as planned. But life doesn't go the way you want it to— ever.
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say my name and everything just stops (i don't want you like a best friend) by pearlcages
Fandoms: Grey's Anatomy
26 Jul 2023
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Instinctually, Arizona’s hips move against her. “Oh— oh," Arizona moans.
Callie gasps, feeling something hot and wet slide against her chest. Oh.
Or: Callie and Arizona are at a conference. Things get a little out of control.
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The welcome bell rings behind them as another customer comes in, and the reminder that they’re in public has Arizona leaning into Callie conspiratorially, hissing under her breath, “You, you have a girlfriend.”
“I can fix that.”
“You can fix—“
“Yeah, actually, I can.” Callie grabs her phone out of her pocket, shooting off a quick text to Penny that reads: In love with Arizona. I’ll leave your stuff with Julie. I’m rly sorry. “There. Fixed.”
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Arizona watches the grass of their backyard sway in the wind through the window above the kitchen sink. She must look just like her mother. It’s something she’s accepted, recently, something she’s learning to come to peace with, even as she takes the time to remember this exact, breathtakingly perfect moment. She wants to hold onto this for as long as possible. It’s not a very peaceful instinct to cling to things the way she does, but she’s working on that. She’s learning. She hasn’t learned.
Callie comes up behind her, wrapping her arms around Arizona’s waist and hooking her chin over Arizona’s shoulder. “Whatcha thinkin’?”
Everything. Nothing. Too much and too little and nothing she can say out loud.
“We should get chickens,” Arizona says instead.
Or: Arizona's weird thing for chickens finally gets its day in the sun.
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Arizona stumbles out of the entrance, wrapped in a dark blue dress and her hair is just barely curled enough that it’s wild and sexy, falling over one of her eyes as she walks. It’s Arizona’s please fuck me hair. She only wears her hair like this when she’s already decided to beg for it. Callie’s mouth goes dry. She will not have sex with Arizona tonight. She has already promised herself that Arizona is off limits. Callie is choosing wholeness, she is choosing a shot with someone who isn’t Arizona.
If only the thought of that didn’t make her so Goddamn miserable.
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Callie and Arizona are having an affair. Circa s12 if Penny never got the Preminger Grant.
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It's as good a place to fall as any by pearlcages
Fandoms: In the Heights - Miranda/Hudes, In The Heights (2021)
03 Sep 2021
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Daniela is a creature of joy. If she knows anything— and she knows a lot— she knows how to have fun. She can throw her head back and laugh and sing along to all the old songs they’re playing, reveling amongst the wreckage of her life’s work.
No. Not the wreckage.
Not the end, either. Just an end, just an empty building, just a new sign on the storefront and a new space to fill. Daniela is a creature of joy, a blur in the club lights; she’s gonna be okay.
Yeah.
That’s it.
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Dani & Carla come to terms with leaving the heights (through banging in an alley).
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- Part 2 of Bedroom Hymns
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Make me your Maria (I’m already on my knees) by pearlcages
Fandoms: In the Heights - Miranda/Hudes, In The Heights (2021)
21 Aug 2021
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“What can I do?” Carla says, grabbing Daniela’s face and guiding her until their eyes are level. “Tell me how to make this better. You’ve been carrying all of this on your own, Dani, please just… tell me what to do.”
Daniela sighs, brushing her lips gently against Carla’s jaw.
“Get on your knees.”
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Dani & Carla come to terms with leaving the heights (through banging).
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- Part 1 of Bedroom Hymns
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Like a prayer for which no words exist. by ifthebookdoesntsell, pearlcages
Fandoms: In the Heights - Miranda/Hudes, In The Heights (2021)
08 Aug 2021
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Carla can't help but imagine her future walking through the door with her one day and wanting to be able to point out every face, every smile, every set of eyes, and introduce them to the woman she's meant to love.
That’s who all of this is for, anyway. Why she’s fought to find a place where they could have faith, or where Carla could teach her about having it.
Carla doesn’t know what her love looks like, not yet. All she knows is that their life together will be beautiful, that even if all they do between the pews is watch the sunlight move against the stained glass, she can’t wait to have someone beside her in the seat she’s saved.
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A love story where Carla plans for every beginning she can with Daniela, because every beginning should be perfect for the woman she loves. A study of religion and love throughout Carla's life and after.
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- Part 3 of The Styrofoam Cups Universe
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Come sweeten every summer evening, come pour sugar in my tea. by pearlcages
Fandoms: In the Heights - Miranda/Hudes, In The Heights (2021)
06 Aug 2021
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A conversation about love, split three ways.
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It's The Little Things by ifthebookdoesntsell, pearlcages, Thatonegayone
Fandoms: In the Heights - Miranda/Hudes, In The Heights (2021)
03 Aug 2021
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ficlets that explore the little moments in Carla and Daniela's relationship. Just some cutie fluff for the salon sapphics
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Daniela & the Series of Increasingly Bad Decisions (culminating in falling in love) by pearlcages for snixsrose
Fandoms: In the Heights - Miranda/Hudes, In The Heights (2021)
30 Jul 2021
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Daniela groans, blindly throwing an arm across her bed, half-asleep and vaguely considering hangover-induced arson just to make herself feel better. Her head throbs. She can only remember last night in bits and pieces; hands pressing into the curve of her back, linked arms and twin shot glasses, sharing a single lime chaser with… someone. Bright lights and brown eyes.
“Oh, God,” she groans again.
“Yes?” Her bed— not her bed— answers. Dani opens her eyes, blinking away the residual sleep. A mass of black hair peeks out from Daniela’s comforter, half of a familiar face.
“Dani,” Carla whines, “my head hurts. And I don’t think I did my rosaries last night.”
Carla shifts closer to Daniela, curling her body into Dani’s and resting her head against Daniela’s chest, eyelashes snapping closed as she fights off the sunlight filtering in through Daniela’s curtains.
“Carla, mí amor?” Daniela says. “Why are we both naked?”
Carla hums low in her throat, idly rubbing her forehead into Daniela’s chest. “Probably because we had sex?”
“Ah. Bueno.”
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A friends with benefits au.
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Thermos coffee mugs & the wrinkled hands that hold them. by ifthebookdoesntsell, pearlcages
Fandoms: In the Heights - Miranda/Hudes, In The Heights (2021)
02 Jul 2021
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Carla takes to her forties gracefully, allowing herself the crows feet and fine lines that come with a good life, a happy one. Daniela fights her fifties back with a surgeon’s knife, because she can, because she’s always been the slowest to change and she’s not about to start now.
“Mi amor,” Carla says, “You don’t need to. I’ll still love you if your forehead can move.” She teases, poking Daniela between her eyebrows.
“It’s not for you, querida. I don’t want to look in the mirror some day and not recognize the person staring back at me,” Daniela sighs, catching Carla’s hand and pressing a kiss to it.
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A love story, from beginning to end, because everything comes to an end.
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- Part 2 of The Styrofoam Cups Universe
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Styrofoam coffee cups & the soft hands that hold them. by pearlcages
Fandoms: In the Heights - Miranda/Hudes, In The Heights (2021)
01 Jul 2021
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She sees her for the first time on a Sunday-- divine intervention, Carla would whisper into the thin skin of Daniela's throat years later.
She sees her for the first time on a Sunday, holding an open city map upside down in one hand and shielding her eyes from the New York summer sun with the other, despite the sunglasses sitting high on her head, and, honestly, this is the moment Daniela decides she will not, under any circumstances, be hiring this woman.
And then she’s in the room, bright in a way Daniela doesn’t know what to do with, handing Daniela a package of sour-patch kids with her handwritten resume. Says her name is Carla and that she didn’t want to show up to her interview empty-handed. Thus. Sour-patch kids.
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A love story from beginning to beginning, because it simply doesn't end.
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- Part 1 of The Styrofoam Cups Universe
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Some Little Birdie Told Me by pearlcages
Fandoms: In the Heights - Miranda/Hudes, In The Heights (2021)
29 Jun 2021
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Last weekend Carla took the A train to Queens— “To see my sister,” she’d told Daniela, clammy fingers crossed behind her back— and came back with her abuela’s ring stuffed into her backpack, rolled in three pairs of socks, hiding under a rainbow playbill for Wicked. It was the good kind of lie, she thinks.
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i've always been a coward (and i don't know what's good for me) by pearlcages
Fandoms: Once Upon a Time (TV)
14 Jul 2020
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“We were actually close when we were younger. She used to be so kind. Almost like a big sister,” Mary Margaret’s tone softens.
“Yea, she seems like a real nice lady,” Emma scoffs.
“You didn’t know her then. She was… I don’t know, different.”
Emma doesn’t know if she believes her. She knows women like Regina; rich, entitled, cruel. At least Cora has the decency to pay Emma when she's all of those things. Emma grips her pen hard when she remembers the glint in Regina’s eyes as her composure melted into the kind of rage most people reserve for bar brawls.
They’d better start prepping David for debates soon.
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Emma is the assistant campaign manager for David Nolan's mayoral bid. Regina is the competition. What if they... like... fell in love...