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   don't make a mess of my love (i know i read the room wrong, alright?) by pinkranger

   Fandoms: Legacies (TV 2018)  

   • Teen And Up Audiences
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • F/F
   • Complete Work

   21 Apr 2022

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   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Hope Mikaelson/Lizzie Saltzman
   • Hope Mikaelson
   • Lizzie Saltzman
   • really honestly truly oblivious gay not realizing they're in a full relationship
   • that's the premise that's the plot
   • i've had this in drafts for years for various ships
   • reworked it for this one
   • like you know how you can go through the motions of dating someone
   • but not realize you're together
   • because you're in denial
   • hello
   • That's this
   • 5+1 Things
   • this universe is a little wonky in terms of timeline so just think of it as timeline adjacent
   • like monsters all the time and such
   • mention of some events but ignoring some others
   • just think of it as a school au but still within the universe
   • no one asked for this but i am my target audience

   Summary

   But ever since she and Lizzie had begun to grow closer—had become best friends instead of friends instead of frenemies instead of enemies—she'd been forced to reckon with feelings that she'd only be able to ignore if she lacked her humanity. (Maybe not even then.)

   And she'd been working with Miss Tig, and her other therapists after Miss Tig left, about not entirely repressing her feelings and emotions, because it's not healthy to bottle things up and deny yourself the truth and et cetera, et cetera. Whatever, she knows the spiel.

   So, she acknowledges it, but only to herself. Just so she won't blow up and overflow from denial.

   And if that means her smiles get a bit tender, and her touches last a bit longer, sue her. She's trying her best. To be a good best friend.

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   Or: 5 times Hope doesn't realize she and Lizzie are already dating + 1 time she does

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