Root_and_Shaw



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    A League Of Their Own AU

    Carol Sturka is the Rockford Peaches' best pitcher. Zosia Bartoś is the catcher from the Belles who took her championship in September. "The Polish Wall" is traded to the Peaches next season, and Carol has thoughts about it.

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    17 May 2026

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    Carol finds it in the third week of living alone with an unhived Zosia: a New York Times article, “To Fall In Love With Anyone, Do This.” An intimacy experiment involving thirty-six increasingly personal questions and, at the end of it, four uninterrupted minutes of eye contact, which sounds fake and humiliating and somehow still not bad enough to stop her.

    Carol, obviously, prints it out.

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    02 May 2026

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    “Look, I don’t have time for this! If you lost my eggs, or let them defrost or something it’s fine. I don’t need ‘em anymore. So you can—“ 

    “They were implanted in another woman.” Clifton speaks quickly, rushing so fast to make his confession that the words almost blend together.

     

    Carol finds out her eggs were wrongly implanted in to a stranger, and her life is turned upside down overnight when she's drawn in to the woman's world.

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    18 Apr 2026

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    Carol and Zosia Meet before the joining AU

    Carol is in Berlin for a writing residency, she becomes friends with a group of her residency mates who introduce her to Zosia, a young ex-pat who lives with more confidence than Carol has even been able to muster.

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    13 Mar 2026

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    Rio steps into her room, turns around, and delivers her coolest: “See you never, Harkness!” before slamming the door hard enough to make the old and badly maintained handle clatter to the floor.

    “Gosh darnit!”

     
    OR: Rio accidentally moves in with her old school bully

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    31 Jan 2026