Chapters: 8/? Fandom: How to Get to Heaven from Belfast (TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Greta Heaney | Greta O'Neill/Saoirse Shaw, Saoirse Shaw/Greta O'Neill, Saoirse Shaw/Greta Heaney, Implied Dara Friel/Robyn O'Casey Characters: Greta Heaney | Greta O'Neill, Saoirse Shaw, Dara Friel (How to Get to Heaven from Belfast), Robyn (How to Get to Heaven from Belfast) Additional Tags: Friends to Lovers, First Love, Mutual Pining, Slow Burn, Catholic School, Catholic Guilt, teenage girls, Coming of Age, Flashbacks, Past and Present, Memory, Grief/Mourning, Character Death, Angst, Heavy Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Unresolved Feelings, the one that got away, Longing, Nostalgia, Found Family, Internalised Homophobia, Queer awakening, Girls Who Are Strange About Each Other, Everyone is Bad at Feelings, People Who Should Have Talked Instead Of Becoming Tragic, They Thought They Had Time, The New Girl, Soft Saoirse, Greta Is Weird, but lovable, Catholic School As Psychological Horror, Saoirse/Greta, the beginning looked ordinary because beginnings usually do, School Project, Gaeilge | Irish Language, Secret language, Emotional Slow Burn, teenage longing, intense friendship, unspoken feelings, Mutual Noticing, Drawing as Emotional Expression, Greta Haynes Is Weird, Saoirse Is Trying Her Best, Gaeilge as a secret language, Greta draws feelings before she understands them, Religious Imagery, they are building a private language and pretending it is homework, soup as a love language, Daisies as Emotional Damage, Greta cares, Saoirse Is So Normal About Greta, acts of service, Emotional Support Soup, school presentations, Religious Symbolism, flowers as symbolism, Red Pen as a Love Language, The Worksheet Is Basically a Love Letter, They Are Not Talking About The Daisy, Saoirse Is Afraid Of Disappointing Greta, The Daisy Stayed, Officially Unnecessary But Still There, Teenage Girls Being Weirdly Intense Series: Part 2 of Separate but inseparable. Summary:
Years before funerals and silence and becoming women who stopped speaking, Greta showed up at Saoirse’s Catholic school.
Greta is strange. Greta is new. Greta follows rules like they only matter when she decides they do.
Years later, Saoirse will try to remember exactly when Greta stopped being a stranger. Because the problem with beginnings is that nobody recognises them while they’re happening.
