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For the first sentence fanfic thing, feel free to ignore it if it doesn't spark anything. :)

Technically, the visitation room didn't look any different than the rest of the prison, but then nobody had eyes for the room - only the people showing up inside it.

Sorry for the wait! This one is a little angsty and through the eyes of a character that hasn't been written about a lot so... Hope that it's Ok! If not I can try a different angle or you can request something different.

Technically, the visitation room didn't look any different than the rest of the prison, but then nobody had eyes for the room - only the people showing up inside it. Didn't matter if the people were happy, sad, angry or nervous to be there - all that mattered was that there were people in that room.

And this wasn't something that Eduardo Alvarez let himself indulge in often, but every once in a while he would wander into the visitation room and watch the different people filter in and out. Sometimes he lets himself pretend that some of these people are here to visit him; that somewhere in the crowd are his wife and daughter - probably wouldn't recognize them even if they did come, it had been years since he last saw either of them.

Still it's nice to pretend that he hadn't cursed his family, that his father hadn't died in this shit-hole, that his son wasn't currently rotting in solitary; that maybe, someone in the world still thought of him.

But it wasn't a fantasy that he let himself dwell in often, after all the visitation room was only an extension of the prison.

Hi, saw you reblogged the thing about it being okay to send asks about your fics, and I'm curious as to what inspired you to write Suzanne/Tessie if you feel like talking about it? (They hadn't occurred to me, but it's interesting to think about them, given that we didn't get much about Tessie especially.)

Hello, I don't mind talking about it!

The short answer is that my brain is weird and that I over analyzed the hell out of one scene.

I have this tendency to fixate on the dead or absentee females (the "dead wife" for example) in shows, for what ever reason... so Tessie was already kind of in my brain from that first flashback of her.

And then Suzanne showed up, and I really liked her character despite Ryan not being one of my favorites. (I like his character, I just like other charcters more) And then there was this scene in at the end of season 5, episode 5 were the O'Reily family has a meeting about getting Cyril a lawyer.

In it Suzanne mentions that Seamus and Tessie didn't wait very long to get together after Suzanne left, which in my mind sounded like she was aware of Tessie...and she seemed shocked and upset when Seamus told her just how long he had been seeing Tessie. The whole scene was tense and kind of bitter in a way that probably was to show that Suzanne and Ryan had been talking and that at one point they had been a family.

But, to my ears, Suzanne also sounded a bit jealous??? So my brain went into "what if" mode: what if they had been friends, which makes this whole situation messier (and therfore more fun!), what if Tessie getting with Seamus had nothing to do with him but instead was about Suzanne, what if Suzanne coming back was more about Tessie then about Ryan, what if they had been girlfriends?!?!?!

And well things spiraled from there 🤪

And there were no fics for it, so I tried my hand at writing! That was the first creative writing I've done since high school, which was a long time ago! But it was fun so!!

I kinda like this messy pairing, so I think that I'm going to continue with it for a while! 😆

Sorry for the rambling! Hope that makes sense!

Thank you!