25 Days of Sweetheart
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Carmilla just wanted to sneak in and out of the flower shop without any one noticing that the big bad vampire wanted a plant. The plan was going fine until she ran straight into Laura Hollis, the roommate she hasn't seen since they graduated school four years before. The crush who got away.
And while it makes perfect sense for a vampire to be hanging out in the magical world, there's no reason for her supposedly human ex-roommate to be running a magical flower shop where the flowers change colour and the vines grab onto customer wrists and refuse to let go.
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- Part 1 of 25 Days of Sweetheart
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It's been a long road from the first time Carmilla and Laura met as antagonistic roommates to their wedding but they've finally made it. With kisses, cupcakes, and wedding dresses the wedding is picture perfect. Papa Hollis is determined to keep it that way as he steps up to make his speech; if only he can stop crying every time his daughter smiles at her bride.
After all, he did promise Laura that he'd hold in the waterworks.
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- Part 2 of 25 Days of Sweetheart
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Laura is one the world's best pastry chefs and eager to share her skills on national tv as the host of a new cooking show. The only problem is her co-host: the ever snarky, fine dining extraordinaire, chef Carmilla Karnstein. The network liked their chemistry. That's probably because they don't know that Carmilla is also Laura's ex-girlfriend.
Laura puts up with the snark for 2 years but when Carmilla keeps winding her up with sass and seduction eyes, it only takes so long before Laura snaps.
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- Part 3 of 25 Days of Sweetheart
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How many centuries of practice does it take for the vampire to become human again?
Trick question.
You’ll get it at the end of this story. It’s funny. Trust me. Only everyone dies and the subway had nothing to do with it despite Mr Hollis's fears of microbial infection from unsanitary turnstiles. In this story, it starts with a vampire. Well, with a girl. Well, with a girl who became a vampire who was summoned by her mother to Silas University with one very specific task in mind.
The girl who was a vampire took the subway. The girl who was a human did not.
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- Part 4 of 25 Days of Sweetheart
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Laura eats a lot of strange and unhealthy food combinations but Carmilla gets a little concerned when her wife develops a sudden all-consuming craving for mustard. As Laura puts it on everything from pickles to ice cream, Carmilla briefly wonders if she's been hit with some kind of mustard curse from some god they accidentally annoyed.
The reality is so much better.
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- Part 5 of 25 Days of Sweetheart
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There's a formula to the high school love story: the down on his luck, underdog football player flirts with the cheerleader and finally earns her affections after winning the big game. So what happens when the cheerleader doesn't want to be there and the new quarterback is a tiny nerd who barely reaches her linebacker's shoulder?
When Laura Hollis steps away from her books to join the football team, Carmilla's forced time as a cheerleader gets a little more interesting. It's hard not to fall for the quarterback when they're an adorable nerd doing touchdown dances and hiding in the library from adoring fans.
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- Part 6 of 25 Days of Sweetheart
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The truth is that it’s hard to say where the story starts. Some days, Laura will consider her first year at Silas as the beginning. Some days, it will be five years after she left the school. Some days, she starts the story in 1698 while in others she wonders if it starts in 1872.
We're getting a movie soon. Let's talk about that.
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- Part 7 of 25 Days of Sweetheart
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When Carmilla's magic is finally spotted, hidden away at her core, no-one is exactly sure what to do with the 18 year old girl who has magic that no-one can identify. So, they make her roommates with the only other person on the Winding Circle campus who has magic that no-one can identify. Too bad that the last thing Carmilla wants is magic.
Magic is the only thing Laura wants but despite 5 years of trying to identify how her magic works, she still can't tap into it. Unfortunately, her new roommate Carmilla seems to have made it her personal mission to literally irritate the magic out of Laura.
It just might work.
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- Part 8 of 25 Days of Sweetheart
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At Silas the movies tend to jump right off the screen and force the viewers to become a part of the show. Carmilla knows to stay away but when Laura tromps off to movie night without weapon in hand, Carmilla grits her teeth and grabs a baseball bat to follow. She finds movie night to be a little more interesting when she can spend the night watching Laura punch the aliens from The Avengers into oblivion.
Unfortunately, not even an alien hoard can keep Laura from seeing her favourite films and dragging Carmilla along with her.
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- Part 9 of 25 Days of Sweetheart
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Since they interned together at Silas Hospital, Laura and Carmilla have been at each other's throats. Years later, Carmilla has turned into the best neurosurgeon that the hospital has and is quick to remind anyone in ear-shot of her skill. Most people let her get away with it; the exception being world class rare disease specialist Doctor Hollis.
However, when Carmilla suddenly needs an unusual consult, she finds herself knocking on Laura's door.
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- Part 10 of 25 Days of Sweetheart
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Batwoman may have been the broodiest member of the Justice League but even she had a soft spot for Wonder Woman, the Amazon Princess fresh off her island and ready to help the world. Carmilla figures it will be fine so long as she stay away from Laura and sticks to her cardinal rule - no dating for the Batwoman.
The only problem is that, whether punching bad guys or enjoying her first dance, Laura proves harder and harder to resist.
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- Part 11 of 25 Days of Sweetheart
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Carmilla's deal with a death goddess may have gotten Laura's heart back and beating in her chest but it's been three weeks and Laura still hasn't woken up. From her spot down in the underworld, Mattie has been watching her little sister refuse to leave Laura's side even as hope fades from her face. The now human Carmilla forgetting to eat and sleep; heart broken as she waits for Laura to just wake up.
So Mattie takes things into her own deadly hands. After all, why be the right hand to a death goddess if you can't make a few deals of your own?
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- Part 12 of 25 Days of Sweetheart
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Laura may work at a coffee shop but that doesn't mean she's any good at making coffee, she leaves that to her shift partner Carmilla. Laura's more interested in helping all of their customers fall in love by creating each one of them their own coffee shop au. Whether that means delivering them the wrong drink, spilling water, or literally shoving potential couples into each other, Laura is bringing her coffee shop au dreams to life. If there's a potential match, Laura will spot it.
The fact that she goes breathless every time Carmilla gets too close is just a coincidence.
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- Part 13 of 25 Days of Sweetheart
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Carmilla had left the world of mythology behind and was just minding her own business in the middle of nowhere when greek demi-god Laura Hollis plows directly into her life. Daughter of Hermes, Laura's a flailing mess of stories about missing gods and magical running shoes that she can't quite control. Carmilla's eager to be free of her.
If only the minotaur chasing Laura would get the message that Carmilla doesn't want to fight him.
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- Part 14 of 25 Days of Sweetheart
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Laura's heard her entire life that vampires and werewolves aren't supposed to get along so when Carmilla walks into her dorm room, Laura figures that they're doomed from the start. Carmilla is loud and messy and she doesn't even try to get Laura to like her. It would only take Laura a quick phone call to reveal Carmilla and have the vampire hunters at her door.
But it's hard to hate a girl who smells like fear under all the bravado.
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- Part 15 of 25 Days of Sweetheart
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With an unexpected mini-snowstorm and evil snowmen raging upstairs due one of Laf's toy's exploding, Laura is forced to seek refuge in the cellar of the manor where Carmilla is hiding from Vordenberg's anti-vampire agenda. Carmilla's not exactly pleased with being stuck with her ex for hours on end... especially her shivering human ex with nothing to protect her from the cold but a hideous bunny sweater.
As the cellar gets colder, it's harder for Carmilla's heart to stay as frosty as she'd like it to.
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- Part 16 of 25 Days of Sweetheart
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Every person has a different soulmate marker. For Carmilla, it's all about colour or the lack thereof. However, as a visual artist, Carmilla's not about to let her lack of a soulmate stop her from pursuing her dream job. There's plenty of work to be done in black and white. The colours will show up when they're ready.
So what happens on the day when, with no soulmate in sight, the colours start flickering into her vision?
It would probably be easier to figure out if someone's kid wasn't busy ogling her tattoos and demanding his own.
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- Part 17 of 25 Days of Sweetheart
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Carmilla grew up in a time when church was a family activity and service was attended every Sunday in her best dress. Even 300 years later, sometimes she still feels the call of the church bells and slips out when Laura's not looking to sit on rooftops and listen to the music. After all, vampires can't go inside church buildings.
So once Carmilla re-vamps, human life gone, she finds herself back on church steeples. But this time, Laura chases after her.
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- Part 18 of 25 Days of Sweetheart
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When Kirsch goes on vacation for a few weeks, Carmilla grudgingly agrees to look after his new puppy and handle his dog walking business while he's gone. When she realizes that one of her new clients is Doctor Laura's Hollis's vet clinic and that she'll get to see the cute veterinarian every day, the job gets a little bit brighter. If only Kirsch's puppy would stop stealing all of Laura's affection.
Not to mention the bigger problem: Laura doesn't just have dogs for her to walk and Carmilla can't quite find a way to say no to the pouting veterinarian.
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- Part 19 of 25 Days of Sweetheart
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When Laura wakes up in the hospital after taking down Vordenberg Industries gets more messy than expected, she's not thinking about the story. She's too busy being shocked at the girl sitting next to her bed and holding her hand. Carmilla Karnstein. Laura's old roommate and ex-girlfriend who she only ever broke up with because Carmilla had to move away. The ex-girlfriend that Laura's never quite gotten over because love doesn't vanish when the person does.
Her biggest question is why is Carmilla, after being gone for 9 years, the one sitting in the hospital with her? Perhaps the girl who got away was never legally gone at all.
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- Part 20 of 25 Days of Sweetheart
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In a world where everyone is born with the first words their soulmate says to them written on their arm, Laura's learned not to get excited when she hears her own. The word is common and constant and something she hears a hundred different times a day. So when Carmilla's first word matches her arm, Laura doesn't react. Luckily, Carmilla stops dead in her tracks at Laura's response. So they're soulmates.
Laura always thought finding her soulmate was the hard part; as it turns out, it's not that simple. Carmilla is the worst and doesn't even believe in soulmates.
Perhaps it's not the words on their arms that make a soulmate. Maybe it's something else.
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- Part 21 of 25 Days of Sweetheart
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As far as everyone's concerned, Laura and Carmilla hate each other and do their best to avoid working together as both seek graduate degrees studying the places where science and magic intersect. They gripe and argue and rumour has it that Carmilla almost got Laura gored by a unicorn.
The only person who isn't buying it? Lafontaine. They think Laura and Carmilla are actually hearteyes made flesh. To prove it, they're going to put Laura and Carmilla on the same project - figuring out the science behind love potions.
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- Part 22 of 25 Days of Sweetheart
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If you take a Carmilla story and crack it open to see what lies at the core, you're going to find a love story. There are certain pieces that make a story Hollstein's love story and others we can throw away. Today, Laura runs a bakery and Carmilla is the firefighter who won't stop coming by the shop to annoy her.
It's amazing to watch annoyance turn to love.
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- Part 23 of 25 Days of Sweetheart
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When Laura comes home from work to find her two year old daughter napping on her wife's chest, her heart grows three sizes. It's been years since Carmilla lost her spark, even longer since Silas, and as happy as Laura's been she's never stopped looking for a solution to being a mortal in love with an immortal. Today, she's found something that might work.
Carmilla's not about to let Laura go traipsing through the jungle alone so it becomes a family trip to go find the fountain of youth. Bringing a mischievous two year old to the jungle? What could go wrong?
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- Part 24 of 25 Days of Sweetheart
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When she died, Carmilla lost the ability to hear her soul music. She lost the song that played in her head and was made of everything she was; she lost the ability to hear the responding song of anyone who fell in love with her. When Elle learns the truth, she calls Carmilla a monster. Unlovable and unloved.
Even as Elle tries to warn Laura to stay away from the monster, Laura and her acoustic guitar soul music might have a slightly different opinion. She just has to figure out where the soft violin music filling her head is actually coming from.
To save Carmilla, she might have to figure it out more than once.
Thank you for 100 Carmilla stories.
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- Part 25 of 25 Days of Sweetheart