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Sydcarmy - The Bear Fic
Ongoing
How Do I Get You Alone? | E | Chapters 5/6
Six months after their fight behind the restaurant, Carmy's moving to Copenhagen. In the dwindling hours he has left in Chicago, can he and Syd manage to let themselves say goodbye, let alone talk?
but I'm runnin' just in case (aka Witness Protection) | E | Chapters 12/20-ish or anyone's guess
“Take a seat, Ms. Adamu,” Carmy's agent says, gesturing to the folding chair next to him. She sits down, sliding her chair closer to Carmy's as she does. He can feel the warmth of her from the mere inches of space between them. The agent drops a heavy binder down on the table. “Mr. Berzatto, Ms. Adamu, let me be the first to welcome you to the Witness Protection Program.” | A Sydcarmy Witness Protection AU for the "Strange Currencies" day of Sydcarmy Week 2024 and the "You're Leaving" AU day of Sydcarmy Week 2025
turbulent handholding | E | Chapter 1/4
Syd shakes her head. Again. And again. And when she finally speaks, as the plane starts to pull back from the gate, she stutters, “I…You're Carmen Berzatto.”
“How do you…?” he asks, intrigued, eyes sparkling.
“I love you,” slips from her lips, unbidden.
“What?” he asks, his cheeks instantly ignite to a blushing scarlet, his hands clenching into fists on his thighs.
“I…Your food, I mean. I ate at Empire a few weeks ago,” she begins to babble.
// Syd unexpectedly sits next to Carmy on a flight back to New York City shortly after eating at Empire (aka the expansion of my drabble from the Say More Please Drabble Challenge on tumblr)
Get ready for a gapers' delay if you're heading down Sheridan Road, folks! (Find an alternate route if you can) | Collaboration with @anxietycroissant | M | Chapter 11/13-ish | CW: Claire POV
“Carmy, sorry but… this is the first day off we’ve both had in weeks, and I got Lisa to trade shifts with me so I could spend time with you. I never see you anymore,” Claire complained, sighing softly. “I know The Bear is important to you, but like, we’re important, too. Right?”
Multi-Chapter Completed
...and in the house we see a light that comes from what we feel inside (aka Advent 2025) | E | 27 chapters (but additional spice baby content forthcoming)
2025 Sydcarmy Advent Fic: Carmy has an accident leaving The Bear one night and ends up in a coma. Find out what happens when he ends up in all of Sydney's dreams.
All This Nothing (Has Meant More to Me than So Many Somethings) (aka Advent 2024) | M | 27 chapters
Post-season 3 You've Got Mail-inspired Advent Fic. With a good enough review, Jimmy gave them until the end of the year to save The Bear; Carmy and Syd have one month left to manage it. Carmy turns to Reddit for advice and makes a new friend.
me in honey | M | 10 chapters
"there's a fly in the honey / and baby's got a baby with me / that's a part, that's a part of me / left me to love / what it's doing to me"
Very loosely finished speed-run the relationship/accidental pregnancy story.
soul meets body | M | 18 chapters
Emmanuel is unable to make himself say the words to his daughter: you, somewhere, have a soulmate, and the permanent marks of their life will be written across your skin for all of yours, just as your life is being written on theirs. No, I don't know who or how to find them. No, I don't know why. It's like magic, baby, in this sad and awful world of ours where magic does not exist and bad things happen all of the time.
One Shots
Clear the Air | M | 838 words
“Hey, Carm?” Syd whispers in the still of the night.
“Yeah, baby?”
“Can I confess something to you?”
Carmen Berzatto's Personalized Sleep Story | E | 1523 words
“What's wrong, Syd?” Carmy asks, the concern in his voice potent as it rings through her head.
“Just keyed up, I guess,” she says, adjusting the blankets over her. She hears a cabinet door close on his end of the phone. “Restless,” she says, letting the word hang before whispering, “Kind of like…physical. Or something.” // Syd and Carmy are dating, slowly. Syd can't sleep.
Sent from my iPhone | T | 1501 words
Later in the night after their argument during Goodbye, Syd sends Carmy an email. He replies. An epistolary ficlet.
Favor for a Favor | T | 1436 words
It's only right that Carmy asks Neil Fak to return Claire's green sweatshirt, since he had the audacity to give her Carmy's real phone number in the first place. Chaos ensues.
The Jewel-Osco Customer Service Counter 2/14 | T | 1090 words
Post-Sheridan Road, Syd gets a job at the customer service counter of a local grocery store. Carmy needs cigarettes. An old dude has no chill. It's Valentine's Day at the grocery store.
Frozen Pipe | T | 1524 words
A cold snap hits Chicago; Sydney gets concerned about The Bear.
Copenhagen (let me go home) | M | 9794 words
6 months after The Bear opens, Carmy goes to Copenhagen for a short guest stint at Noma before it closes and realizes some things about his life back in Chicago.
The Bear Meta
Birthday party blocking and updated here (season 5)
Sydney's polka dots and Yayoi Kusama (post-season 3)
Why Frank Lloyd Wright? (post-season 4)
Carmy's Re-Introduction to Claire in Pasta (post-season 2)
Unhinged The Bear Musical or Movie Speculation or Analysis
Music Speculation: Season 5
Part 1 - Right in Time
Part 2 - Electrolite
Part 3 - Head Over Heels
Part 4 - Chicago Promenade
Part 5 - I Can Wait
Part 6 - Chicago (the band)
Hairshirt
Part 7 - Twisted
Part 8 - Taylor's Version
Part 9 - THIS MUST BE THE PLACE
Music Speculation: Season 4
How You Get the Girl + 1989
Leave
Music Speculation: Season 3
This Must Be the Place
Hope the High Road - used in Season 4!
Chicago Promenade
I Don't Want to Lose You Yet
The Long Race
R.E.M. - Sydcarmy verison
R.E.M. - Syd version
R.E.M. - Carmy version
Bang and Blame
Animal
Crazy
You Are the Everything
Music Analysis
Apron Strings (Season 4)
Finest Worksong (Season 4)
Richie as Director Avatar and Taylor Swift
Nice Dream (Season 3)
Strange Currencies
Movie Analysis
While You Were Sleeping
Groundhog Day
Other Speculation
Season 4 Theme Speculation
Harry Potter Fic
Disclaimer: fuck JKR forever!
Harry/Pansy
Touch (aka Advent 2016) | M | 26 chapters
A Hansy Advent Story. Not all of us handle the past the same way: some of us embrace it, reject it, grow with it, or relive it in recurring nightmares. Harry has saved the wizarding world before; now it's his turn to be saved. Rated M for substance abuse, PSTD, language and sexual situations in later chapters.
Vice | M | 4 chapters
Pansy's growing up, taking on new responsibilities and wanting new things, but she has one last vice: her not-friend with benefits. HANSY.















