Hi, everyone! Now that the tropefest authors have been revealed, I’m happy to share the works that I wrote for this awesome event!
Once again, thank you to the mods for putting this together!
i always felt i must look better in the rear view
[Alexis & David, Alexis/Twyla, David/Patrick, Alexis & David & Johnny & Moira - T - 13,141]
“I have everything I need right here,” Twyla says, and something very fond stirs in Alexis’s chest. “I don’t need to wish for anything else. But you… You have big dreams, Alexis, and… If anyone deserves to have their wishes come true, it’s you. I want you to have it.”
OR: When her family’s past stands in the way of a career opportunity, Alexis makes a wish that completely upends their lives all over again… but is it really what she wants?
Her own voice echoes in her ears and she’s suddenly standing, dumbfounded, outside Cafe Tropical almost seven years ago. Watching Ted step into the bistro felt eerily similar to watching him step off that motorcycle for the first time. It’s the kind of shock that makes the sparkling restaurant tile quake under her Louboutins.
Except, this time, the feelings bubbling to her chest are now far more nuanced than she knows how to process — no amount of personal growth or number of self-care retreats with Oprah could’ve prepared her to suddenly come face-to-face with the first person she ever loved more than herself.
OR: Alexis has a blind date. It's not what she EX-pected
Collect Me With Your Steady Hand
[Patrick/David; Alexis/Ted - T - 5,695]
“You want everyone to know that you got drunk enough to marry me?”
“‘Drunk enough’ to marry you?” Patrick frowns. He sounds more incredulous than he should. “You think that’s the only way I’d want to marry you?”
OR: David and Patrick go to Vegas. You know what happens.