Hi! Well I have a lot of free time during these couple of weeks and I want to share the fics that I love or the ones that I can read on repeat. Some of them are finished, but others are in process, but I hope you find someone you like or if there is someone you want to share. 🩵
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Long fics (more than 10k words)
Rules For (fake) Dating an Italian by poorlittlegreenie. ☀️☀️
WANTED: Female, aged 20-30, to be my date for Christmas eve dinner with my Italian-American family. Must be willing to eat my mom’s cooking. No physical intimacy required. No strings attached—I will drive you home after. 4pm-10pm, 12/24. Salary negotiable. Call Carmen: (773) 555-0901.
OR: The one in which Sydney just needs a job, and Carmy will die before he proves Richie right.
Scraping Together by mila_milax ☀️
Is it fucked up to ask out the caterer at your brother’s funeral? Probably. But today is already pretty fucked up, and he’s done it now.
All This Nothing (Has Meant More to Me Than So Many Somethings) by turbulenthandholding ☀️
With a good enough review, Jimmy gave them until the end of the year to save The Bear; Carmy and Syd have one month left to manage it. Carmy turns to Reddit for advice and makes a new friend.
Chef, This Is a Cry for Help by Emma_Swan3 ☀️
They had a whole lot of history in New York — late nights, trauma, and a kitchen that chewed them up. But this isn’t New York. It’s Chicago. And when Sydney walks into The Beef asking for a job, Carmen tells her to get the fuck out.
Because whatever held them together back then doesn’t mean shit now. Not after how it ended.
a Sunday kind of love by amaneeeta ☀️
Following the season finale, Sydney continues to struggle with Carmy's decision to leave The Bear. Meanwhile, Carmy is determined to hold his promise to pay off the restaurant's debt before time runs out, all while trying to repair his relationship with Sydney.
emotionally involved by stellarsupreme
Alternate Timeline AU. Every Thursday, college student Sydney Adamu orders her perfect pizza from Mikey's. Every Thursday, Carmen Berzatto makes it, remembering her custom order and the old, sentimental name, "Princess." But when Sydney is late and walks into a nearly empty restaurant, the comfortable distance between them dissolves. For the first time, Carmen is forced to acknowledge the quiet ritual, and Sydney realizes she's not just ordering food—she's become a perfect variable in his messed-up schedule.
To come alive at night, to die in the morning by Cosmicserenity
Sydney receives a hard blow after being friends-with-benefits with Carmy for three months.
connecting flights by puzzlepuppy
emmanuel and sydney's relationship takes a hit after sheridan road does the same, so he enlists the help of her "favorite" chef carmy to break her out of her funk.
how will i know? by sutherlins ☀️
Carmy finds a scribbled first draft of a resignation from Sydney, in an effort to make her stay he asks how long she has before Shapiro needs an answer from her.
One month. One month to show Sydney why she should stay and not lose her forever.
Night Shift by lalalena22 ☀️
He presses his back against the cold wall, feeling like he’s about to die. The panic attacks have gotten worse as well. They’re longer now, more difficult to control. He doesn’t try to picture Sydney’s face, because if he does, he would see her like the night that she left. Angry, and sad, and disappointed. Thinking about her doesn’t help anymore. It makes it even worse. And it’s his fucking fault.
bend and break by elkscrossing
“What the fuck is this?” Carmy snarled from behind her, slamming into the office and tossing his phone on the desk. Sydney’s heart sank as she registered the message in front of her.
"Hey Carman," the email read, somehow misspelling Carmy’s name, "It’s Adam. I’m sure Syd’s told you about the CDC position I’ve offered her at my new place. I just want you to know that it isn’t personal – she’s so fucking talented, you know? She’s going places, and I want to help her get there. I couldn’t let that kind of talent go without a fight. I hope you understand that it’s the best thing for her – hopefully no hard feelings?"
Daisy by debutante_gurl ☀️
Around her the world blurs. She wears a hole in the tile pacing, worrying about everything all at once.About how they’ve only been together three months, and they just started telling people, and she only just moved out, and they are in so much debt, and they don’t have their stars, and they are so fucking young, and, and, and… She is crying now, messy tears rolling down her cheeks. When the timer goes off she can hardly see. Pregnant, the test reads in thick black font.
Chaos Theory by MissAmyShay ☀️
“You know, I think we have this tendency to think of chaos as a bad thing. Like, if something’s chaotic it must be harmful, and it must be changed, or…ordered. But I think chaos itself is…natural, you know? The world around us thrives on chaos. Small changes make big differences. The butterfly effect, I guess. And, at its best, out of chaos comes creativity. I think it’s more about how we respond to the chaos that counts.”
down in the heart by sutherlins ☀️
Post S3 Finale. After almost losing Sydney to Shapiro, Carmy is determined to make a change. Eager to rebuild their friendship, they decide to spend the day together at Carmy's doing some recipe development but an accidental peek inside Carmy's notebook changes everything for them.
I Wouldn't Even Want To Do This W/o You by Charismaticc
Taking place right after the events of Season 3. Carmen finds Sydney in the midst of having her panic attack. This eventually leads to her revealing to Carmen that she has until the end of the week to let Adam Shapiro know if she will take his offer, making it seven days until Carmen knows if he will lose Sydney.
Take it from here by BlaquePantheress
As fate would have it, their paths cross. With Carmy looking for a sous and Sydney in need of a place to stay, what starts out as a simple arrangement turns into an unexpected partnership where both of them fulfill each other in ways they haven't experienced before.
My World, It Moves So Fast Today by seizethemothertruckingday
Carmen Berzatto, son of the president of the united states. He hates being in the public eye, everyday he faces scrutiny as a result of his mothers bad decisions. It doesn't get any easier, and as the election approaches it's only getting worse.
for the children who’ve made her by emilybrontay
Her parents are in the kitchen of The Bear. Where else would they be? Sydney’s dicing onions, Carmen’s grating garlic. For a moment Eulalia just stands there in the doorway, watching them, letting how much she loves them fill up her whole heart. Her mother says something, too quiet for Eulalia to hear, and her father laughs, and nudges her shoulder with his own.
i could never give you peace (would it be enough?) by make_easter_gay_again & melodicchaos
Olivia Berzatto has been her student for nearly a month and a half now, and she learned early on that the girl lived with her dad, and that her dad was a chef. How many chefs named Berzatto did Sydney know of?
“Carmen,” he says, his hand extended to her. “I’ve heard rave reviews.”
“Likewise,” Sydney blurts.
Run And Let It In by Shareece (kimbob)
What if Carmy had run into Sydney at the supermarket run-down with Claire? Set after episode 1.
State Of Flux by sutherlins ☀️
When Carmy’s piece of shit father finally dies, the news doesn’t come through family. It’s through a lawyer. An older man with a painter’s brush mustache, a Saint Laurent checkered cashmere suit, and a Chopard on his wrist. The inheritance is clear, his ill-gotten estate is to be split between his remaining biological children. When Carmy can see the dreams he’d be able to make a reality with that cash fade away he’d blurted out that he was engaged without thinking. Engaged to Sydney. The only issue with Carmy’s grand plan was Sydney hadn’t spoke to him since he left The Bear. Almost two years ago.
Sweet Home Charleston by browneyesparker
After being gone for years, Carmy goes home to Charleston for his sister's wedding. While he's there, he has to spend time with Syd, someone he has a history with and has been trying to forget ever since she didn't show up in Chicago when she was supposed to.
But unfortunately for him, he's still in love with her, and seeing her again is going to undo all the progress he thinks he's made.
Right Down the Line by shewalksoverme
The notification showed itself in a little box: Carmen’s iPhone would like to share one photo.
She frowned, peered around the place. She didn’t know a Carmen. That name was unusual. They couldn’t hack her phone through an Airdrop, could they? Syd was almost sure of that.
Simmer, Melt, Boil, Fire by gingervalentine1
If he looked up the definition of love, he'd find him and Sydney.
Carmy and Sydney through some days (and months).
Atoll by BlaquePantheress
Sydney Adamu has somehow ended up running a restaurant with her idol of cooking and man she has complicated feelings for. The process has ignited a coping mechanism she thought she left behind after Sheridan Road but has resurfaced in her moments of uncertainty. The ruthless but faceless character has a way of bringing her to her knees and yet she’s the only one who knows it exist. We call it: The feeling.
this heart, with all its changing hues by puzzlepuppy
rewind in time, sydney and carmen meet at CIA. it's not an instant friendship.
She tried to imagine how it would go but in every scenario telling someone that everything about their lives was fake and wrong ended with one or both of them in psychiatric treatment and Gemma, their daughter in the care of others and not her unfit, delusional parents. Sydney shifted the car into reverse and glanced at the child sleeping in her car seat. “We’ll have to figure it out ourselves.”
Tales In The Fast Lane by lecham44 ☀️
Sydney is a journalist and Carmy is a Formula 1 driver both desperately in need of kick-starting their careers.
I used to hear a simple song (that was until you came along) by Umightbinthewrongbuisnessrogers ☀️
When she looks up she's met immediately with bright, striking blue eyes staring at her from under a table. Or, what if Sydney and Carmen met when they were kids?
Chef Whites by ChampagneTasteBeerMoney
“Uh. Looks like a–marriage license. With both our names on it.”
Providence by tvfanatic97
Sydney and Carmy spend a night together just before she graduates from CIA. She never expected to see him again, much less wind up working at his family restaurant in Chicago.
The Awful Truth by mansfield
Sydney Adamu never meant to come back to Chicago. But after Emmanuel’s retirement, her mother’s flower shop became hers, and obligation began to look a lot like an ending.Then Carmen Berzatto started coming in. Every week, same order, same recipient—Claire Dunlap. He was polite, quiet, always looking like he was apologizing for existing. Sydney didn’t expect to notice him, but somehow, she did. And then one morning, another man walks in with the same order—same arrangement, same woman, same address.
This Time, Cigarettes Won't Cut It by s3nse0furg3ncy
Carmy has always avoided therapy. So afraid to go. Scared to prod at unhealed wounds. and to unearth more emotional baggage that he's quite frankly too tired to tend to.
One More Time by ADelicateEcosystem (clonesimpextra)
Following the review, Carmy and Sydney have to navigate a new challenge that could mean the end, or the beginning, of everything.
i've got you to let me down by icouldnotsee (herprettysleeper)
"You know when you're in college," she says, "and you meet someone in your dorm during the first week, and it's crazy and you're starved for human connection and you're attached at the hip and then like three years later you realize how many times they've made you cry?"
make me your future history by jdjupiter
He’s smiling, but she can tell it’s the smile he plasters on when he wants to tell her to fuck off. Carmy laughs, seemingly at himself, and shrugs. “You know what?” “What,” Sydney responds, more of a statement than a question. “This wine is starting to taste like ‘fuck it’,” he says, and they both laugh big, belly laughs. “So, fuck it. Go ahead and play the song, DJ.”
In Another Life by Only_one_brain_cell ☀️
Au where Mikey calls Carmy instead of ending his life, Carmy helps Mikey when he needs Carmy the most. Especially at The Beef where they both decide to hire someone else, that someone else however is none other then Sydney Adamu.
True Blue by littlemisslost
post s3 finale Carmy has an identity crisis and Sydney has an emotional crisis. the bear family tries it’s best.
Keeping Everything Professional by Only_one_brain_cell
Carmy and Sydney start dating, they just aren’t telling anyone.
Let Me Take Care Of You by Oncer993, Questionslovefears (Oncer993)
When Sydney gets a call that shatters her entire day, nearly her whole world, she sets out to face it alone. Carmy refuses to allow that. Despite her insisting that she wants to be alone and she can handle it, he sees through her.
soul meets body by turbulenthandholding
Emmanuel is unable to make himself say the words to his daughter: you, somewhere, have a soulmate, and the permanent marks of their life will be written across your skin for all of yours, just as your life is being written on theirs. No, I don't know who or how to find them. No, I don't know why. It's like magic, baby, in this sad and awful world of ours where magic does not exist and bad things happen all of the time.
Bear Cubs (Part One) by mila_milax ☀️
Five times Natalie's baby brings Carmy and Sydney closer together.
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short fics coming soon :))
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