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stay with me wherever you go: carmen (emotionally balanced) and sydney (also emotionally balanced) are well equipped for long distance and handle it very very well and very very normally.
not.
travel lightly, but keep me in your back pocket, okay?: sydney gets an offer and carmy almost fumbles his chances. again.
write me like it’s your last time, I’ll read it like it’s my first: carmy and sydney are an ocean apart. naturally they start exchanging love letters.
heal me when I’m hurt, I don’t care how far you are: sydney’s injured while away, all the while wishing her damn boyfriend was still with her at the very least.
tell me my love is enough, yours is etched on my heart all the same: sydney finally comes back home, and carmen makes a choice (for him, a no brainer.)
in another world it’s still you: a montage of sydney and carmen choosing each other again, and again, and again. (AUs in no particular order!)
forever alive, forever forward: sydney needs someone, and carmy is the one who tries to save her. (sheridan road au)
the singing of a body (electric): carmy and sydney are linked, for better and for worse. (soulmate au)
burn down the disco: syd and carmy want each other, even when the world tells them they're not supposed to. (black mirror hang the dj au)
this heart, with all its changing hues: rewind in time, sydney and carmen meet at CIA. it's not an instant friendship. (culinary school au)
wind and water; cloud and fire (meet me where the roads connect): sydney and carmy meet. sydney sees carmy. carmy sees sydney. not particularly in that order. (soulmate au)
the last five years: carmy, sydney, and a love story told in reverse. (divorce au)
the law of threefold return: bored and unassuming, sydney accidentally casts a love spell on her business partner. (love spell au)
a yellow blue countenance: in which carmy's desperate and sydney can't die with a perpetual witness by her side. right? (assassin au)
it starts with a swipe: boy meets girl, girl hates boy, boy is colossally screwed. (dating app au)
if that would save you: sydney meets carmen not knowing what they share. nothing is easy from there. (heart transplant au)
walk with me (down memory lane): sydney and carmy wake up one day together. married. with no idea how they got there. (marriage spell au)
sinking sun, departing star: overnight, sydney wakes up remembering anything and everything. everything except carmen. (amnesiac au)
there we two, content: carmy and sydney get a cat. he’s the love of their life. send tweet.
maybe this is just the next step: carmy, sydney and the adventures of cat parenting.
time with you is time well spent: a holiday montage with sydney, carmy, and their cat by their side.
hand to heart: three hearts in one house increases to four. (or: carmen and sydney learn to navigate the bond between their daughter and the family cat)
miscellaneous: canon compliant silliness
time nor place, distance avails not: it's not sydney's *first* choice to take her ex to get his wisdom teeth taken out, but so is the irony of life. at least carmy makes it easy (nope).
ceaseless musing (my soul is where you stand): sydney's dad makes an assumption, so she asks her very good friend carmen for a small favor.
of cities fill’d with the foolish: mom and dad (sydney and carmy) aren't on the same page. at all. naturally this leads to an appointment with a couple's counselor.
an unknown want (the word of the sweetest song): the ever ambitious sydney asks carmy if he can teach her to draw.
paddle in the stream: webster’s dictionary defines an acquaintance as “a person whom one knows but who is not a particularly close friend.” carmy and sydney are acquaintances.
concluded, dropt in the night: a night between sydney and carmen turns into several they can't let go. she sleep talks, he sleep walks.
without a friend, a lover’s near: the first february at the bear rolls around and carmy has a question for sydney. that is, if he can get the words out.
the distant brought near: carmy and sydney find a new way to communicate. it works out the way it works out.
parts toward eternity: sydney, carmy, and the art of asking for the answers they want.
connecting flights: 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.
lilacs in the dooryard: in the early days of sydney and carmen's relationship, they spend some time taking it slow.
(kinda)
day brighten’d in starlight: for the entire month of February, twenty eight drabbles to celebrate.
waiting on that sunshine: sydney wants to try something new, carmy just wants one thing.
standing on the edge, closing my eyes: Carmy takes Syd to the top of Sears Tower to conquer her fear of heights, amongst other things... (in collaboration with @ambeauty and @sutherlins 🩷)
plus one: when chef terry announces her plans for a wedding weekend in napa, california, carmen convinces sydney to be his date. platonically.
as I ebb’d with the ocean of life: two airheads figure out what they are to each other. (post s3 tales to be told)
the long calm, the darkness, the swell: outside ever, carmy and sydney have the conversation they've both been avoiding. one conversation paves the path for more. and more. (post s3 fix it of sorts)
late in the autumn day: time passes. sydney and carmen have shit to figure out. and moves to make.
coats and caps thrown down: math and love! (or: carmy and sydney pick up the pieces, post s4)
countless embodiments: carmen and sydney try to find a new way to connect, embracing the present, being chased by the future.
pause, listen, count: carmen, sydney, and four years of figuring it all out.
it takes a village (and this is mine): the adventures of richie the matchmaker and his two headaches (named carmy and sydney).
a curious token (would the talkers be talking?): sydney and carmy's lover's quarrel through richie's eyes. maybe he helps, maybe he doesn't.
no life alone (the voyage of the meddler): sydney and carmy run into issues at their apartment, so richie nobly offers his own (though, the results may vary).
listen’d to keep and sing: while they're away, sydney and carmen appoint uncle richie to take care of the baby.
