lyricii’s masterlist ii
Paige Bueckers:
one shots:
wrapped in your jersey:
summary: it’s the holidays at uconn, and finals have you stressed. luckily, you’ve got paige by your side for your very first christmas together. between snowstorms, late-night cuddles, and her steady encouragement, you realize that finals aren’t so scary when she’s waiting for you on the other side.
everyone is falling in love but I’m falling behind:
summary: after a painful breakup with josh, you meet paige at a uconn basketball game, and sparks ignite. as texts, dates, and late-night conversations bring you closer, she helps you heal, protects you from his cruelty, and shows you that love can be safe, kind, and real.
under pressure:
summary: after tearing her acl, paige comes to your office for rehab, and through playful flirting and emotional connection, your relationship grows.
stronger with you:
summary: after you tear your acl, but with paige by your side, you find your way back stronger.
learning to love you:
summary: a quiet, insecure girl learns to trust herself as paige patiently shows, her love and admiration for every part of her.
tangled chords:
summary: paige meets a magnetic, messy, and talented musician on campus, sparking a slow-burn romance full of stolen glances, whispered warnings, jealousy, and tension, as they navigate gossip, overprotective friends, and the intoxicating pull of desire, ultimately discovering a connection that’s messy, rebellious, and entirely theirs.
piña colada & sunsets:
summary: a vacation, a piña colada, and the girl you can't stop thinking about.
talk you through it:
summary: after years of rivalry, envy, and hidden love, raven finally confesses her feelings to paige, and as long-distance college and professional careers pull them apart, the two navigate heartbreak, unspoken emotions, and basketball as their language of connection—leaving everything unresolved and their reunion inevitable.
dust & wildflowers:
summary: rae, a professional cowgirl, becomes captivated by paige's talent and grace on the basketball court, and their worlds collide in a slow-burn romance filled with quiet longing, playful banter, and tender moments that bridge city lights and open fields.
when the noise breaks:
summary: after a crushing loss, everything you’ve been holding in comes spilling out, and paige is the one who stays when the world feels like it’s falling apart.
regretting you:
summary: people tell you not to regret or forget your first love, but it was different with paige—or so you thought. she wasn’t a spark; she was a slow, steady flame. and maybe that’s why it still hurts, knowing something that felt so certain could still slip away.
sneezing for attention:
summary: paige visits the vet more than her needs, and little by little, speaks fly until they can’t ignore it.
warm like home:
summary: thanksgiving with the uconn team turns cozy, chaotic, and unexpectedly tender as you and paige find warmth in each other—and in the mess that feels like home.
unspoken plays:
summary: after a fiery commissioner’s cup game and a tension-filled locker room moment that ends in a kiss, you and paige quietly go public with your relationship—balancing the intensity of competition with the tenderness of secret glances and surprise dates that remind you both there’s more to love than winning.
dracula (halloween special):
summary: on halloween night, you finally learn the truth about paige—the girl who loved the dark a little too much—and as dawn breaks, you realize that even monsters can love you back, just not enough to stay.
oops, she said it:
summary: paige can't keep a secret, you try not to die of embarrassment, and everyone else gets the show.
fool for you:
summary: you’ve loved her from the shadows for years, but one night changes everything—and nothing will ever feel the same.
encourage, again:
summary: you promised you’d stop writing songs about her. but promises, like people, don’t always stay.
under the lights:
summary: dallas gets hotter, the lights get brighter, and somewhere between the court and the field, paige finds herself falling for someone who makes the whole city feel a little less overwhelming.
sidelines:
summary: in the middle of the noise and lights of a dallas wings season, a glance across the court changes everything—but neither of you are ready to admit what it means.
motivation:
summary: a night that starts with teasing paige in which ends in a quiet confrontation—but ends up turing into a fuck sesh that changes everything.
anonymously yours:
summary: you leave her love notes she’ll never know are yours—until one day, she replies. but will she ever truly know it’s you?
sweets fixes everything:
summary: finals drain you dry, but paige your paige comes home early, and for one night, the world feels soft again.
chasing glances:
summary: after a transformative summer, the “ugly” friend is unrecognizable—and paige finally notices, but admitting her jealousy might be harder than she expects.
the weight of it all:
summary: on a night when pain keeps you on the sidelines and pressure weighs heavier than usual, paige finds herself torn between the game in front of her and the girl she refuses to leave behind.
where the light bends toward you:
summary: old love doesn’t die when you leave home—it waits, steady and stubborn, until the night it walks back through your door and asks who you’ve become without it.
as long as you’re mine:
summary: two former rivals collide again, and the spark they've spent years trying to ignore finally burns too close to outrun.
the way she looks at you when the world isn’t watching:
summary: you play through an injury you shouldn’t, and the fallout forces you and paige into a moment neither of you are ready for—one that only gets more complicated when the coach reveals what’s waiting behind the next door.
you’re my favorite win:
summary: a runaway girl with a past full of shadows meets a woman who turns an ordinary day in a basketball store into the beginning of the rest of her life—but neither of them sees the earthquake coming.
evangeline:
summary: after years of distance, reinvention, and unspoken feelings, paige finally confesses—but the moment you’ve wanted your whole life doesn’t feel as simple as it should.
where the quiet finds us:
summary: when the noise at home becomes too much, you find yourself in paige’s passenger seat—but the silence between you feels just as loud, tugging at truths you’ve never let her hear.
cozy chaos:
summary: after a brutal holiday fight sends you running into the snow, paige pulls you into a night of warmth, teasing, and old sparks rekindled—only for a quiet challenge between you to threaten everything you thought you had under control.
soft edges, steady hands:
summary: a quiet confession about pain opens a door neither of you knew you’d been standing in front of, and paige’s response shifts everything in a way you never expected.
holding court:
summary: you grow up being measured against someone else—until love, loss, and the space after rivalry teach you who you are when no one is watching.
a piece of your love: (also posted on ao3 @lyricii)
summary: alone with paige, every touch, every whisper, and every glance pulls you closer, and neither of you can resist what’s coming next
my last dance with you:
summary: one night meant to close a chapter quietly rewrites everything, as shared looks, unfinished sentences, and a promise that won't stay behind follow them through changing arenas and brighter lights.
light in december:
summary: tiana and paige, both carrying the weight of broken childhoods, have built a life together full of warmth, chaos, and love—but the holidays still hold their own kind of magic, and some moments are too precious to ever be forgotten.
untouchable (until we weren’t):
summary: from the outside, you and paige look flawless—but when the pressure finally cracks, you're forced to confront what it really means to choose each other when everything feels like it's falling apart.
between the lines:
summary: they call it mentorship, leadership, professionalism—but some things live in the silences, in the pauses, in the moments where neither of you steps back first.
after last night:
summary: a new year's eve celebration blurs into something quieter and far more dangerous when an unspoken connection finally ignites, leaving everything between you and paige beautifully unresolved.
tangled sparks:
summary: when the universe refuses to follow the rules, the sparks between three hearts burn hotter than anyone expected—messy, flirty, and impossible to ignore.
taller than me:
summary: she’s untouchable on the court, impossible off it—and somehow, only you get to see her slip.
always, already:
summary: paige is calm on camera, lethal on the court—except with you. with you, she’s already there. always.
not just a teammate:
summary: years of rumors, one draft night, and a sentence paige’s been holding back for far too long—some things refuse to stay quiet.
soft launch:
summary: in the quiet blur between practice and sleep, paige lets you turn her softer, prettier, seen—and the part that terrifies her most is how much she likes it.
mid-range privileges:
summary: paige survives an interview, the internet gives her a nickname she absolutely does not need, and you make sure she never forgets it.
layovers & landing gear:
summary: two women who spent years flying away from each other finally learn what it means to land.
tucked in:
summary: you come over exhausted and sick, expecting nothing more than a place to exist quietly-but paige notices anyway, and that changes everything in ways neither of you say out loud.
away games & almosts:
summary: a delayed confession turns a situationship into something real-jealousy, airports, media chaos, and the quiet realization that some games don't end when the buzzer sounds.
orange carpets & quiet promises:
summary: you win first. she follows. somewhere between long distance, championships, and flashing cameras, you keep choosing each other—again and again, even when the world is watching.
this is not a straight line:
summary: some battles are loud. others you learn to carry quietly—until someone notices, stays, and changes the way you move through the world.
ragebaiter:
summary: dating paige was supposed to be simple, but no one warned you how addictive it would feel to be wanted out loud.
braid theory (or how to love your rival):
summary: love wasn’t supposed to survive rivalry, draft boards, or west coast red-eyes—yet somehow it kept finding them anyway, showing up in braids, tunnels, and places no one was looking.
caught on camera:
summary: when the league’s most camera-shy star stops running from the girl behind the lens, one quiet question in an empty tunnel changes everything—and neither of them is ready for what happens after yes.
off camera:
summary: a night meant for noise and neon turns into something quieter—and far more dangerous but once the cameras stop rolling.
strength training:
summary: after a late practice at uconn, what starts as teasing over paige’s biceps turns into something quieter and deeper in the locker room—where strength isn’t about the flex, but about who she chooses to hold close.
american wedding:
summary: from rivalry to rings, from hardwood to headlines, they kept choosing each other long before the world realized they already had.
burn for you:
summary: on the eve of a political betrothal, a princess forced toward duty chooses something far more dangerous instead—and love and loyalty stand on the brink of becoming treason.
i’ll be your gentleman:
summary: in a room full of noise and watching eyes, one steady touch turns a quiet connection into something neither of them can pretend is casual anymore.
As:
summary: on a night where silence almost convinces you that love is already slipping away, paige chooses to stay—and staying changes everything.
the moment before you fall:
summary: after a quiet afternoon in their shared storrs apartment takes an unexpected turn, paige realizes just how fragile the moments she takes for granted might actually be.
lock the door:
summary: a quiet moment after practice turns into something more when paige pulls you into the training room—unfortunately for her, one interruption later the entire team seems to know, and now she’s determined to finish what she started…preferably with the door locked this time.
love bite:
summary: late nights, early mornings, and stolen moments blur together as paige tries to balance basketball, teasing affection, and the way you make it very hard for her to stay focused on anything but you, especially when love, competition, and temptation all start to feel dangerously close to the same thing.
washing machine heart:
summary: the gym was empty, the frost biting through campus, and every step you took felt heavier than the last—because letting go wasn’t just a moment, it was a thousand unspoken words, a thousand memories replaying, and somewhere between the echoes of the past and the ache in your chest, you realized love didn’t always mean staying.
meet me at our spot:
summary: three years in, it isn’t the distance or the noise that defines you—it’s the quiet moments in between, the ones she never jokes about, the ones she plans a little too carefully and the ones that might mean more than either of you are ready to say out loud.
literally a finger:
summary: she says it’s just a finger, but paige knows better—and she’s not letting it go.
count your reps (not my heartbeat):
summary: what starts as a normal lift turns into a slow unravel of focus, because paige doesn’t just train hard—she plays harder, and you’ve always been her favorite distraction.
baby powder:
summary: sometimes the biggest surprises are the ones you’ve been holding closest to your heart, and when the quiet finally breaks, everything changes—but not in the way anyone expects.
tickle wars & morning light:
summary: sometimes love hides in laughter, in harmless chaos, and in knowing exactly how to make the other one surrender—morning or night.beneath the armor
beneath the armor:
summary: she’s strict on everyone, untouchable in the gym, but somehow when it’s just you, her armor falters.
multitasking:
summary: in the middle of a loud, relentless practice, something quieter keeps slipping through—something paige can’t joke her way out of and you can’t quite ignore.
out of bounds:
summary: she wasn’t supposed to matter beyond the game, but somehow one collision turns into something neither of you can walk away from.
lover girl:
summary: she swears she can keep her cool in front of everyone else, but the moment you’re near, paige falls apart in all the ways she’ll never admit and somehow, you’re the only one she’s never tried to hide from.
still yours, even when it’s loud:
summary: after a chaotic post-practice tiktok live turns into something neither of you can fully joke your way out of anymore, paige asks a question that stops being content the second you answer it for real, and suddenly everything between you shifts into something quieter, closer, and harder to hide even with everyone still watching.
the girl is mine:
summary: you wore a dress to a uconn game and ruined two people’s lives—the only question is whose you’re going to save.
does ms. bueckers has a crush?:
summary: every morning, y/n drops off her five-year-old daughter at kindergarten before rushing off to practices, flights, and the endless demands of life as a wnba player and single mother. every morning, paige bueckers tells herself she's not looking forward to seeing her unfortunately for paige, she's a terrible liar.
you’re live, you know that right:
summary: paige bueckers has no shame, a twitter thread with twenty-seven entries, and apparently zero interest in keeping her feelings about you private—which would be a problem if you weren’t so completely, helplessly, embarrassingly in love with her too.
needy:
summary: paige loves you like the sun loves the ground it burns the problem with that kind of love is that it doesn't know when to stop.
series:
completed: evergreen: she don’t know you like me: she could never love you more:
summary: you loved her first, lost her to someone else, and now watching her drafted, every #pazzi post and fleeting smile hits like evergreen pain—leaving you wondering if some heartbreak ever really fades.
completed: better without you: almost again: maybe someday:
summary: two former college athletes who've loved each other since high school find themselves face-to-face again after years apart, a child between them, and everything unsaid hanging in the air.
completed: london girl: london nights:
summary: when paige visits london during her offseason, the two of you fall into a friendship that feels too easy, too charged to be just that-and when she comes back months later for what might be a date, you start to wonder if you're still capable of pretending it's nothing.
completed: sleeping beauty: when the heart forgets to sleep:
summary: when sleep starts to feel more like slipping away than resting, paige’s love becomes the only thing keeping you tethered — but even she can’t stop what’s coming.
completed: after the buzzer: unclaimed:
summary: after a close game and the roar of the crowd, the space between two players becomes more than just a court-it's everything left unsaid, everything still echoing, and one last glance that could change nothing or everything.
completed: setlist no. 9: verse in the dark:
summary: onstage, you sing like you’re untouchable—until the girl in the crowd makes you forget the lyrics, and a single midnight message threatens to rewrite everything.
completed: coach’s favorite: more than i should:
summary: paige's used to winning people over-until the new assistant coach shows up and doesn't even know who she is. that's when the game changes.
completed: she drew us like it was obvious: distance: stupid in love:
summary: sometimes it takes losing something that was never yours to realize you’ve already built a life you’re not ready to let go of—and maybe, finally, you don’t have to.














