#which probably explains why none of these fics write like they're familiar with the city & university lol

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#'sunnyvale' gets me various media that use it as a fake made-up place name :(#i promise sunnyvale is a real place i know 'sunnyvale california' sounds fake

Buffy the Vampire Slayer has much to answer for (real talk that might be Sunnydale but i always get them mixed up in my head)

#'san jose' is like 80% hockey rpf. a lot of people out there wondering if the sj sharks know each other carnally

this is not specific to the Sharks (or hockey) but yeah

Fun game I enjoy playing sometimes involves typing your hometown (or nearest mid-sized city) into ao3 search

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Yayyy congrats on a year of writing jatp fics, Rosie! 💙💙

For the writing prompts, how about 13. Detective AU + 60. Poorly Timed Confession? 👀

Okay so i'm going for a sort of Nancy Drew/Scooby Doo/Just Like Heaven kind of vibe here so bare with me. It's 1995 and three members of sunset curve have been hospitalised after the worst case of food poisoning that the city has ever seen. Their situation is so bad, they've been put into medically induced comas(we are suspending belief real hard here okay) and no one knows if they'll ever really wake up.

Julie is 17 and just trying to finish high school when her school becomes abuzz with the news that 3 of their own are in hospital while the 4th hasn't been heard of. She was never close to any of the boys past the occasional nod and hello in the hallway or sometimes working in group projects. But none of them were close. Which is why it takes Julie by complete surprise when she's walking home one day, something making her take a different route through a back alley when she bumps into 3 familiar faces. There's a lot of screaming. Hands passing through bodies and Julie forming a cross with her fingers.

Naturally, because they don't always know how to take a hint, the boys follow her home. There's some light arguing which quickly turns into bantering and somehow they probably find out they can touch the instruments in the garage? Julie worries she'll have to explain to them that they're in the hospital, but they already know, and their calmness confuses her. But it's not that they're okay with their situation, its just that, they don't know what else to do and are dealing with it the only way they know how (music and bad jokes).

There's probably some like scenes at school where Julie tells them to leave her alone because she doesn't want people to think she's crazy. And then she gets home later that day and finds Luke alone in the garage (Alex and Reggie are visiting their families and trying to force themselves back into their bodies) and they have A Moment. It's kind of quite, and gentle and it's Julie talking about feeling lost because of her mum and it's Luke saying he's scared to got to the hospital incase his parents aren't there. And somehow they end up talking about their theories on why they're 'ghosts' and why Julie can see them. They come to a very simple conclusion that she must have to help them somehow.

Which is how Julie Molina turns into a mini detective! And with the help of her ghostly friends she starts hunting to clues and working out what exactly happened to the boys on that night. And I'm not saying it was Bobby but right now he's the only one i can think to blame whoops! ANYWAY they find out who poisoned them, there's like a whole arresting thing but. The boys don't go back into their bodies. But they also don't cross over.

So, for the first time in a long time, Julie goes back to a hospital and finds the room that the boys are in. She goes to Reggie first, and brushes her fingers across his forehead to push back his hair and WHOOSH he goes back into his body, then she does the same to Alex and the same happens. But she touches Luke, nothing happens, and the two of them sort of stare at each other, and Julie's touching his face and his hand and trying so hard and Luke is just, not moving, and the machines with his vitals seem to be going down and it's A Whole Moment of panic until Luke gently tells her "it's okay Julie. It's okay to let me go. Tell the boys goodbye for me, okay?" and Julie's shaking her head and gripping his hand tighter and nothing it's happening and sadly Luke says something like "I've always kind of loved you. I'm sorry we never got a chance." before fading away.

And Julie is crying, and still holding his hand and whispering "Stay, stay, stay, please stay, please i love you too please stay." and the machines are beeping and there's people rushing into the room but Julie can't let go of his hand and then. his fingers squeeze her hand back.

hope you like it!! and thank you for sending one!💜

send me two and i'll come up with a fic!