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We revisit Carla and Peter's New Year's Eve 2018 scene by the pool table, but this time with Lisa instead ;)
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- Part 1 of What If It Were Lisa
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26 Feb 2026
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"have you never seen anyone since Becky?"
"No!"
"What!? not even casually? just for some attention?"
"No I'd be hopeless at casual"
"I'd get too involved and I'm not going through.....no, I'm not risking it, It's not worth it"
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Carla is determined to seduce her friend Lisa.
Even though she knows deep down, it's probably going to end up bloody messy
but Lisa is just irresistible.
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I know there are already so many amazing slow burn, mutual pining, friends with benefits, stories like this out there already... but I needed to go back to basics and write one.... because Becky is dead and will always remain dead in this space.
It's not an original idea but hope you enjoy.
Bookmarked by Helminsh
15 Feb 2026
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Carla replayed it in her mind over and over— the cold look on Lisa’s face as she’d told Carla to go, the blame she had spat in Carla’s face. It was impossible to reconcile this with her love, her life, the Lisa who had held her hand all those months ago and told her she was never going anywhere.
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Lisa ends things seemingly for good after Rob takes them hostage and Betsy is shot. It turns Carla’s life upside down and sends her on a journey of self-exploration as she’s forced to confront the relationships that mean the most to her and the ways Lisa has changed her for good. But it's never over til it's over...
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Bookmarked by Helminsh
29 Dec 2025
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"I’m nothing without you. You’re my gravity, Lisa. You’re my air. I felt like I was holding my breath for forty-eight hours."
or: Carla has to leave for a two-day business trip to Milan. It should be easy—she used to love the escape of a silent hotel room. But with a toddler at home who demands dinosaur songs, and a wife she can't sleep without, Carla realizes that the silence isn't freedom anymore. It's just lonely.
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02 Dec 2025
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A year after what was supposed to be a temporary split, Carla and Lisa come face to face for the first time since Carla left Lisa and boarded a flight to Ireland and never looked back. When your fiancée’s dead wife suddenly comes back to life, it’s never really going to end well, and Carla knew it. She called things off before she got hurt any more than she already had.
What she didn’t expect was her almost stepdaughter, Betsy, refusing to give up on her. Fast forward a year, and Carla is heading back to Weatherfield for the Underworld Christmas party, the very one Betsy insisted she attend. But showing up means facing Lisa… and probably Becky, too.
Bookmarked by Helminsh
15 Nov 2025