Chapters: 3/3
Fandom: The Dawn Chorus Gala
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Lady Evengleam/Dame Nettle, Lady Evengleam & Loveday Vulpes, Lady Evengleam & Lord Murkmere, Sir Conifer, Spica, Brake, Callista, Ellowyn, background Fyodor/Jules, Background Anthe/Phoebe
Additional Tags: High school AU, whump, hurt/comfort, prep!Fanshawe, sorry guys but I don’t like him he’s just so stupid, redeemed!Evengleam, goth!Evengleam, Evengleam and Loveday are besties, I know I KNOW but I feel like they would be the cattiest gossip trio with Murkmere in another life, you know they have all the tea, Loveday is that anime nerd who always wears a wolf ear headband, Loveday/Koga from Inuyasha, they’re all theater kids lol, hints of Murkmere/Elijah if you squint
Summary:
Nettle has had a crush on Conifer, high school quarterback and prom king three years running, since she was thirteen and he protected her from a football hurtling towards her face. She even joins the cheer squad so she can be closer to him. But he never even looks at her. When she gets invited to his 16th birthday blowout, she thinks her dream’s come true at last. But it turns out that the popular kids never thought she fit in, and they’re planning to humiliate her in front of everyone to teach her a lesson.
Evengleam knows exactly how fickle the popular crowd is, because she used to be one of them. Until they turned on her when she was outed, and she became a disgraced outcast overnight. Now, her only friends are Murkmere and Loveday, who own their status as social pariahs, while Evengleam just wants to hide in the theater’s costume department and forget about it. But she keeps running into this annoying little ex-cheerleader while she’s trying to sneak a cigarette backstage, and realizes that maybe she has more in common with Nettle than she thinks.
Can the jaded Evengleam help Nettle to navigate her own fall from grace? Can Nettle finally be her true self, and find friends who like her for who she actually is…. and maybe even true love?
Songfic set to Angels by Within Temptation. Listen to it during the first part of the fic for best effect.