Isn't It Just So Pretty-verse
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One is a small purple envelope with no mailing or return address, just April’s name written in loopy handwriting with a heart beside it.
April’s belly warms. She’d recognize that writing anywhere, and the fact that there are no addresses means Sterling made a special trip to drop the letter off herself.
Five times Sterling welcomes April home. (AKA April deals with jet lag, and her feelings for Sterling Wesley.)
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- Part 1 of Isn't It Just So Pretty-verse
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“Sometimes people push too fast, y’know? They’re not patient.”
“Patience is hard.”
“Yeah. But I think it’s so worth it in the end.”
A snapshot of the summer before Sterling and April get together.
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- Part 2 of Isn't It Just So Pretty-verse
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i know i can't express (this feeling of tenderness) by lco123
Fandoms: Teenage Bounty Hunters (TV)
14 Jan 2021
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"Why can't people just tell the truth? Is that so hard?"
Five times April doesn't tell Sterling the truth, and one time she does. Takes place over the summer they eventually get together.Series
- Part 3 of Isn't It Just So Pretty-verse
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“I’m serious,” Sterling says once her brain is mildly more functional. She pulls back just enough to crane her neck up and look at April’s face. “I’ve never felt this way with anyone.”
April bites her lip, eyes shining a little. “Really?”
Just a quick little deleted scene / coda of Sterling and April, the morning after. Complete fluff.
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- Part 4 of Isn't It Just So Pretty-verse
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So April’s plan is this: she will play the role of the perfect heterosexual daughter for exactly two more weeks—back by popular demand: an encore performance, she thinks to herself dryly—spending all of her moments away from her mother with Sterling. And then, the day before she leaves, she’ll sit her mom down and explain everything. That’ll give Jill time to process, separate from April.
It’s a solid plan, she thinks, and Sterling is supportive, if saddened at the idea of April once again feeling the need to hide herself.
And then two days before April flies home, the plan implodes.
Sterling and April's first Christmas as a couple.
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- Part 5 of Isn't It Just So Pretty-verse
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feels like i am changing (and i know it's for the best) by lco123
Fandoms: Teenage Bounty Hunters (TV)
30 Dec 2021
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This certainly wouldn’t be far off from actual dreams that she’s had: walking through a group of Willingham students with April’s hand in hers, all of their former classmates knowing that they are a couple and offering reactions ranging from mild surprise to relative indifference.
On Sterling and April's first New Year's Eve as a couple, a party at Hannah B.'s makes Sterling both horny and nostalgic.
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- Part 6 of Isn't It Just So Pretty-verse
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i know all your favorite spots (we can take it from the top) by lco123
Fandoms: Teenage Bounty Hunters (TV)
11 Oct 2021
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Sterling is alone in bed when she wakes up, and for thirty horrible seconds she thinks that last night was a dream, that April is still far away in another country, rather than here in Sterling’s apartment.
But then she hears a sound from the kitchen, the quiet patter of feet against hardwood; a domestic sort of noise that Sterling hopes she’ll get to hear for the rest of her life.
Sterling and April have sex in Sterling's kitchen after April returns from the Netherlands. Simple as that.
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- Part 7 of Isn't It Just So Pretty-verse
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you two are connected by pure coincidence (bound to him by blood, but baby, it’s all relative) by lco123
Fandoms: Teenage Bounty Hunters (TV)
10 Sep 2021
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They’ve been living together for a little over a month when Sterling comes home one evening to find April sitting at their little kitchen counter, which isn’t unusual. What is unusual is the fact that she doesn’t have a laptop or textbook in front of her, just a mug of tea as she stares at the sink with a vacant expression.
Sterling and April, newly living together, cope with an unwelcome phone call from John Stevens.
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- Part 8 of Isn't It Just So Pretty-verse
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someone is on your side (no one is alone) by lco123
Fandoms: Teenage Bounty Hunters (TV)
14 Sep 2021
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Now, Anderson watches John stalk off, Jill quick on his heels. He watches as April’s own fists clench, can just imagine how hard she’s biting her cheek to keep from crying.
As a kid, Anderson became very accustomed to the taste of blood in his mouth.
Five times Anderson Wesley tries to make the world a little safer for April Stevens.
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- Part 9 of Isn't It Just So Pretty-verse
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She’s, like, 99% sure that Sterling is completely in love with April, but Sterl hasn’t said those words yet, not even to Blair. And even if she had, Blair gets that Sterling needs to tell April on her own time.
Growth is a fucking bitch.
Blair Wesley grows up, watches her sister fall in love, figures out what she wants, and realizes how many people love her along the way.
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- Part 10 of Isn't It Just So Pretty-verse
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April is panting and sweaty, half-tangled in the sheet, but her voice is clear as she repeats, “I think we should stop having sex.”
“Like, today?”
“Like, for a while.”
Sterling is pretty sure her heart falls out of her ass.
April has an idea about how to spice up the last month before marriage. Sterling, reluctantly, agrees.
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- Part 11 of Isn't It Just So Pretty-verse
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Sterling can see from the set of April’s jaw how much this matters to her, and she thinks about all the other times April’s worn that very same expression; all the ways in which Sterling’s been privileged to more deeply understand and fall in love with April in the nearly twenty years they’ve known one another.
Sterling and April's journey to become parents.
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- Part 12 of Isn't It Just So Pretty-verse
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together forever (through rain or whatever) by lco123
Fandoms: Teenage Bounty Hunters (TV)
11 Sep 2021
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So this hasn’t just been a year of being with Luke. It’s also been a year of being without April.
Five times Sterling cries over her and April's anniversary.
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- Part 13 of Isn't It Just So Pretty-verse
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i can't conceal it (don't you see, can't you feel it?) by lco123
Fandoms: Teenage Bounty Hunters (TV)
06 Sep 2021
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“I’ve been waiting all day to hang out with you!” Sterling announces, pink-cheeked and breathless.
April feels her own face go a little red at that easy admission. She and Sterling are basically friends, but it’s still new, and April’s been trying hard to keep her enthusiasm in check, lest she find herself in another Adele Meisner situation. She knew that Sterling would be here, and of course she wanted to spend time with Sterling, but she didn’t let herself hope that Sterling might want the same thing.
Five weddings that Sterling and April end up attending together.
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- Part 14 of Isn't It Just So Pretty-verse