Eli has never been the type to fade into the background. She owns every stage she steps on loud when it matters, fearless under the lights, and fully aware of the way people look at her when she performs. With a band that's gaining traction and a friend group that feels like chaos and home all at once, Eli is exactly where she's supposed to be. At least, that's what she tells herself. Because lately, something about the music feels... off. The shows are bigger, the crowds louder, but somewhere in between the rehearsals and the late nights, the spark that used to drive her doesn't hit the same. She still performs like she means it she just doesn't always feel it. Then there's Dean Di Laurentis. Confident, infuriating, and impossible to ignore, he wasn't part of the plan. But the more he pushes, teases, and refuses to be just another face in the crowd, the harder it is to brush him off. Around him, things feel sharper. Louder. Real in a way the music hasn't in a while. And that's the problem. Because Eli doesn't need a guy to make her feel something especially not one who comes with complications written all over him. She doesn't chase, she doesn't fall, and she definitely doesn't risk everything she's built for a maybe. But between the music that's starting to mean something again and the tension she can't seem to shake, Eli is forced to question what's actually worth holding onto. [Dean Di Laurentis x Female OC]

In the aftermath of the world's collapse, Alexandria stands as one of the last fragile attempts at rebuilding something worth saving. As a mechanical engineer, Jemma helps keep the community standing. As part of the recruitment team alongside her brother, Aaron, she helps bring survivors inside the safety of its walls. For the first time since everything fell apart, she believes that maybe people can start again. That people are the most important resource in the world. But safety is never as simple as it seems. And even in places built to protect what's left of humanity, cracks eventually start to show. The Walking Dead S5 - ? OC x OC

𝐈𝐍 𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐂𝐇, 𝐀𝐲𝐚𝐧𝐚 𝐖𝐞𝐬𝐭 avoids boys like 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐃𝐢 𝐋𝐚𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐬 who are arrogant, charming, reckless, and far too used to getting whatever he wants. But when 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐧 makes a bet that he can get 𝐀𝐲𝐚𝐧𝐚, the coldest girl at Briars, to go on a date with him, she finds out before he even gets the chance to play her. So she decides to play him first. --------------- [Dean Di Laurentis x female OC] [Enemies to lovers] [Read at the bottom of the introduction for TW!]

Violet Reed doesn't have the luxury of making mistakes. At Briar University on scholarships and two part-time jobs, every grade, every shift, and every decision matters. Failure isn't an option. Neither is Dean Di Laurentis. Rich. Connected. Entitled. Everything Violet has spent her life learning to avoid. After catching her boyfriend cheating on her, Violet swears off relationships altogether. Now living with Allie Hayes and trying to put her broken heart back together, she's focused on one thing: Herself. Then Dean decides he wants her. Unfortunately for him, Violet isn't impressed by his charm, his money, or his reputation. For the first time in his life, Dean hears a word no girl has ever dared tell him. No. Most guys would've walked away. But the more Violet pushes him away, the more determined Dean becomes to prove he's not the guy she thinks he is. And the more Dean gets to know Violet, the more he realizes she's worth fighting for. But trust isn't rebuilt overnight. Especially when the last people Violet trusted destroyed her. ────୨ৎ──── ✮ Dean Di Laurentis x Female OC ✮ Dual POV ✮ Based on the Off Campus TV series ────୨ৎ──── Highest rankings: #1 in DEANDILAURENTIS #1 in PRIME #4 in OFFCAMPUS

Talia Higgins, a spirited twenty-one-year-old who still lives with her father and indulges in smoking weed, lives by the motto "You only get one life." Her free-spirited nature mirrors a wildfire spreading uncontrollably. In contrast, Alex Feder is the epitome of the golden child. Renowned as the star basketball player and a popular straight-A student in school, he now lives independently at twenty-one and works as a model alongside his mother. Their paths intertwine at a funeral, where they are unexpectedly compelled to share a room in a lake house for the weekend. This encounter marks a turning point as Talia's uninhibited energy begins to influence Alex, while her captivating deep blue eyes leave an indelible mark on his dreams. |Oc×Oc| |Third Person POV| |Grown Ups-Movie One| |Strangers to Lovers| 150k on 1-18-25 200k on 6-7-25 250k on 1-10-26 ___ Drafted: 7-4-24 Published: 7-4-24 Finished: 8-3-24

New hospital, new people, new shift. Forrest Whitaker was ready to start again. She'd be a new ER attending in PTMC, after a year of sabbatical following PittFest, she was more than ready to get back into action. What she didn't count on was for a certain past from coming back to haunt her... right on her shift - Updates once a day!

Camryn Wells wasn't trying to rebuild her life so much as outrun the version of it that nearly destroyed her. After a year and a half off the grid, nursing wounds no one could see and some that still ached like hell, she's back in Pittsburgh. Sort of. She's here for Gwen, the woman who adopted her, who's now fading into early-onset dementia. She's on night shift, working trauma at PTMC, trying to remember the nurse she used to be-and to convince her small army of overprotective siblings that she's fine now. That she's not the broken girl they saw in that hospital bed in Boston. Camryn is sunshine incarnate: bright-eyed, too kind, stubbornly hopeful, and despite everything, still believes in second chances. What she didn't plan on? Her new next-door neighbor just happens to be the gruff, quiet, unflinchingly calm ED attending who runs her shift with surgical precision... and dry quips that cut sharper than a scalpel. Dr. Jack Abbot doesn't do distractions. Not from interns. Not from administration. And definitely not from the impossibly cheerful nurse who crash-landed into his backyard and, somehow, into his life. Guarded, fiercely competent, and more at ease in chaos than comfort, Jack prefers solitude-until Camryn. With her pastel mugs, man-hating cat, and maddening habit of calling him out with a smile, she worms her way into every corner of his neatly boxed-off world. She's not what he expected. And he's exactly what she wasn't ready for. But on the night shift, where everything broken comes through the door eventually, maybe they'll both learn healing doesn't always look like what you thought.

Andy couldn't stay in DC anymore, not when everywhere she looked she saw him. Neither could she stay in that ER, not when all of her colleagues had seen her have a mental break down. So now she was in Pittsburgh, beginning her life again. Andy had a plan to build a better, more stable and healthy life, only that plan was very quickly hijacked by a closed off veteran with a dry sense of humour and an obsession for his work.

The ED never sleeps, and neither do its doctors. Spencer Reeves is no stranger to late-night crises, but when Jack Abbot breezes into her life, her carefully structured world is thrown into chaos. Banter turns to tension, tension to unspoken attraction, and attraction becomes impossible to ignore. Through high-stakes trauma nights, awkward public encounters, and near-disasters, Spencer and Jack must navigate the fine line between saving lives and risking their hearts. **This is a slow burn/angsty romance. I'm going to try and kill all of us with their flirting and banter. I only own my storyline and characters, the rest belongs to HBO** Author note: I am currently a student so please be kind when it comes to updates! I'm just a girl trying to balance a degree and her favorite pass time (men over forty)

An ER shift is never sunshine and rainbows-but today feels like a descent straight into chaos. Follow Dr. Tara Javadi as she battles through the madness, finding moments of comfort and connection in the unlikeliest places. "You're like one of those flowers that grows through concrete," he says. Tara scoffs. "Did you just call me a weed?" "No-the pretty yellow kind." "Oh. A dandelion?" [The Pitt Fanfiction] Dr. Tara Javadi x Dr. Jack Abbott