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Fandom: The O.C.
Pairing: Summer Roberts/Ryan Atwood
Length: ~22,000
Author Links: ffnet profile (I CAN'T FIND THEM ANYWHERE ELSE! IT'S A MYSTERY!)
Theme: female characters, rare pairings

Summary: There are moments when everything yet to come hangs in the balance. For Ryan and Summer, this was one of them.


Reccer's Notes: This is a truly exceptional story that I seriously cannot find anywhere but on fanfiction.net. I want to stalk this author and read everything they've read but they're like some mysterious fic fairy that has only three stories on a stupid, annoying archive and no other traces that I can find, anywhere. It's like magic! But no seriously, if you know who this author is tell me because I want to bake them cookies or something, holy shit I love this story.

It's a mid-season two AU that is structured at first as a series of post-ep ficlets that slowly coalesce into a coherent story. I, like a small yet dedicated part of OC fandom, got pretty fed up with the Marissa-and-Seth's-Emotions Rollercoaster around this period in canon, and thus Summer/Ryan was born, because they're both way too cool for all that bullshit. Or something, maybe it's more like, they're the hottest people on the show. Maybe both. Probably both.

Anyway, this is a really great love story and Summer is so very awesome in it. It switches between Ryan and Summer's POV and has wonderful characterization and oh my, oh my, Summer's chapter after the events of the season two finale is heartbreaking and fantastic, oh my. Spoilers for the second half of season two - and if you aren't familiar with canon, you might get confused as to what's happening, but that's what Wikipedia was invented for. Hint.

Story Links: Never

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