Beyond The Plenary
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The Senate was never meant to be a place for love. Yet somewhere between late-night hearings, endless debates, and quiet moments away from the public eye, two senators found something worth holding on to.
Beyond the Plenary is a story of love, sacrifice, family, and second chances. As politics, public scrutiny, and personal ambitions pull them apart, Risa and Sherwin must navigate the painful distance between duty and the life they once dreamed of together. Because sometimes, despite the years, the heartbreak, and all the chaos in between, love finds its way back home.
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THE SENATOR'S SECRET
FANFICTION | WINRI STILL UNDER EDITING AND REVISING
Bipartisan Secret (WINRI FANFIC)
In the halls of the Senate, power is built on composure, and theirs broke fifteen years ago. When six-year-old Shiela Therese Gatchalian vanished during a Valenzuela outreach program, the grief didn't just break a family; it split a power couple down the middle. Senator Risa Hontiveros withdrew into a cold, untouchable shell. Senate President Win Gatchalian buried himself in legislation, building walls faster than anyone could tear them down. Now, 21 years old Rocio Ciara Dee, a headstrong third-year nursing student with a penchant for trouble, is forced into a summer internship at Senator Risa's office as punishment by her grandmother, the formidable Atty. Astrid Dee. Rocio thinks she's just serving time filing documents. She has no idea she is walking straight into the quiet storm of a secret marriage, a shared tragedy, and a past that is about to catch up to everyone.
The Echoes of Us
Behind the high walls of the Senate, amidst fierce political debates and under the unforgiving glare of the public eye, no one would have ever guessed how their story began. Risa Hontiveros and Win Gatchalian-two different worlds, two opposing sides. To the public, they are nothing more than colleagues fulfilling their duties, walking completely separate paths. But behind closed doors, where the cameras stop rolling and the world is no longer watching, an unexpected connection sparks. What starts as professional respect slowly evolves into a hidden romance; a love woven in secret, dangerous, and demanding a cost too high to pay. As they navigate the treacherous waters of politics, they are forced to live a double life. Every glance, every smile, and every shared moment must be hidden from the rest of the world to shield their careers. But as their secret love deepens, it bears a reality that will change their lives forever, a profound truth that they must protect and conceal at all costs, wrapping it in absolute silence. This is the story of how it all started. Before the silence, before the sacrifices, and before the world was ready to listen to the echoes of what they had built in the dark. Every secret has a beginning. Every love leaves an echo.Complete
HonTrill: The Things We Fight For
"Dahil ang Pagibig ay Mapagpalaya, at ang Ibigin ka ay Pakikibaka" A slow-burn political romance set in the halls of public service, where two strong-willed senators Risa Hontiveros and Sonny Trillanes constantly find themselves at odds-but slowly begin to question whether what they feel is still just conflict, or something deeper. In a world built on duty, conviction, and public scrutiny, love becomes the one thing neither of them planned for... and both struggle to ignore.
The Hallways Between Us
Now serving side by side in the Senate, former lovers Sherwin and Risa slowly find themselves drawn back into each other's lives through quiet conversations, shared responsibilities, and fleeting moments between sessions. As colleagues begin to tease them, the media starts to speculate, and the internet eagerly writes a love story they believe is just beginning.
The Honorable Silence
Everyone sees Senator Risa Hontiveros as fearless. Only Senator Sherwin Gatchalian notices the cost of that fearlessness. And while the entire country watches her fight for others- he quietly fights for her. Not to save her. Just to make sure she always comes home.
Who Would've Thought?
Who Would've Thought? Since 2016 pa, may tinatagong sikreto si Senator Win Gatchalian-isang sikreto na kahit kailan ay hindi niya nagawang sabihin nang harapan. Sa likod ng kanyang pagiging kalmado at seryoso, matagal na pala niyang hinahangaan si Senator Risa Hontiveros. What started as admiration slowly turned into something more. Pero sa loob ng maraming taon, pinili niyang itago ang nararamdaman. Bakit? Dahil torpe siya. Takot siyang umamin. Takot siyang masira ang magandang samahan nila. At higit sa lahat, takot siyang malaman na baka kaibigan lang talaga ang tingin sa kanya ni Risa. Kaya tahimik na lang siyang nagmamahal mula sa malayo, umaasang balang araw ay magkakaroon siya ng sapat na lakas ng loob para sabihin ang lahat. Pero paano kung ang tadhanang matagal niyang hinihintay ay manggaling sa mga netizens? Dahil sa mga edits, posts, at walang tigil na pagtu-tugma sa kanilang dalawa online, unti-unting napunta sa kanila ang atensyon ng lahat. Hanggang sa isang hindi inaasahang pangyayari ang nagpilit kay Win na aminin ang damdaming halos sampung taon niyang itinago. At sa isang iglap, nagbago ang lahat. Ngayong alam na ni Risa ang totoo, ano na ang susunod na mangyayari? Matutupad kaya ang matagal nang inaasam na pag-ibig? O magiging dahilan ang pag-amin para tuluyan silang magkalayo? Sa dami ng taong nakapaligid sa kanila, sino ba naman ang mag-aakalang ang kwentong ito ay magsisimula sa isang simpleng lihim na itinago mula pa noong 2016? Who would've thought?
WinRi One Shots
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Project: Recruit the SP
Senator Risa is a very honorable person and so happens to be very much aware that she is a gorgeous woman. In her years of being an activist, a legislator, and an idealist, she never did, not even in mind, think of using her beauty to get her advocacy done. Not until this time. What happens when the opposition's target recruit, the newly elected Senate president, Sherwin Gatchalian, is in a relationship with Senator Pia Cayetano and Risa independently thought of a new strategy to covert Gatchalian into their side? Or Risa seducing Sherwin in all necessary ways to recruit him.
In Between Sessions
They were two of the nation's most prominent figures, occupying seats of power that kept them perpetually in the public eye. Across the digital landscape, a sudden shift occurred; every passing glance and casual gesture was suddenly dissected, analyzed, and woven into stories by a watching world. But what looked like a brand-new spark was actually just the beginning of a much older, deeper story. The seeds of their story had been sown in a distant past, long before the public started noticing It was an ancient history, only now beginning to reveal itself to a world that had finally learned where to look. @resiagatch
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