We Were Never Bad
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Ten years after the war—Cassie persists through her mundane daily efforts to save the world as a bureaucrat. Meanwhile, Rachel's media image is polarized, surrounded with controversy, and when she returns to California, Cassie is swept into an unfamiliar public eye and a volatile, dangerous relationship with a person that she's known since she was a child, and they find themselves sheltering in the tattered dirty apocalypse of that childhood.













