Red Wine and Hope by Bluflamingo [NC-17]

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Rec Category: Femslash
Pairing: Laura Cadman/Katie Brown
Author on LJ: bluflamingo
Author's Website: The Home of the Blue Flamingos
Link: Red Wine and Hope


Why This Must Be Read: Katie and Laura's relationship, if indeed it can even be called that, is so fragile and tenuous in this fic. It is a relationship of inequalities and one that causes Laura great pain. What does it mean if she kisses you only when she's drunk? When she lets you touch her but won't touch you back? What does it say about you that you'll accept this, that you'll take whatever she'll give? In many ways, this is a very bleak story that hurts my heart for both characters but it ends with glorious hope.

Excerpt

Laura’s never figured out if it’s weird that Katie likes to kiss her, or weird that the other mostly-straight girls don’t. Maybe it’s both. Maybe she’s just reading into it. It shouldn’t matter – she likes to kiss, likes to kiss Katie, her mouth warm and soft under Laura’s, her teeth scraping over Laura’s lower lip.