Fanfiction

**Fanfiction** is a non-chapter update following the sixty-eighth chapter of *Push to the Limit*, Triple Date. It is 7,359 words long and told entirely in third person.

Julie tries to take her mind off her fight with Caleb by reading fanfiction about herself with Kitty, getting her to really reflect on what's happening with her relationship.

## Plot

The chapter opens with Sam, Julie, and a few other friends in the plot of *One Tree Hill*. It turns out that Julie is reading fanfiction about herself which happens to imagine a romance between her and Sam following the plot of the show. Upset by the fans' obsession with her and Sam's relationship, Julie decides to stop reading and moves on to the next interesting one.

This time it's based on *Reign*, in which Julie plays the main character Queen Mary of Scotland, while Alex plays her love interest, the king in waiting Francis of France. She reads the story out loud to Kitty, who is amused by the romantic dynamic of the characters and the assumed parallels between them and Julie and Alex in real life. After the two characters kiss, Julie feels uncomfortable reading so Kitty takes over. At the end of the fanfiction, the characters are about to have very vivid sex which Kitty wants to keep reading but Julie forces her to stop. Kitty teases her, telling her that perhaps she has always been attracted to Alex in real life and that's why they can't seem to help flirting with each other. She adds that Julie shouldn't be so hard on Caleb for his flirting with Haley, saying that maybe it was just a reflex after watching her do it with Alex.

Julie does not agree that she flirts with Caleb and decides to ignore what's been said by reading a new fanfiction. Kitty begins to read on based on *The O.C.* in which Alex and Sam are the main characters but after discovering that Julie is playing Marley's mother she decides she doesn't want to keep going.

Julie chooses the next one, a fic based on *Gilmore Girls*, and cuts herself off after just one scene. She is fixated on what Kitty said about her flirting with Alex because she always thought that the problem was Alex flirting with her. She is upset that Caleb is on a plane at the moment *with* Haley but Kitty points out that Julie *lives* with Alex which is much worse. She says that as long as Alex is that present in her life, neither Caleb nor the fans will stop thinking there's something between them. Julie decides then that it's time to end that, so she prepares to go visit Alex at John's but when she's leaving he is there at the door.

Julie is about to tell Alex that he has to move out but she backs out. Instead, she asks why he came over and he tells her that he shouldn't live there with her anymore. He explains that he enjoys it but now it's been awkward and crowded and it would be better if he moved out. Since Lyric is moving in with John soon and Tyler with Morgan, Alex has decided that he will move in with Sam and not be in her way anymore. Julie tells him he doesn't have to leave and wonders whether Haley has asked him to move out. He assures her that's not it at all and says he just doesn't want them to keep fighting and putting a strain on their friendship nor on her relationship with Caleb. He tells her that being around each other all the time isn't for the best and she agrees that his points are valid, telling him moving in with Sam is a great idea because he'd still get to spend plenty of time with the twins. After he tells her that he will be moving himself out in the next few days, they say goodnight and Julie heads upstairs again.

Julie joins Kitty in her room again and Julie where Kitty is still reading fanfiction. Julie tells her to look for a *Gossip Girl* one. Kitty asks if she's the only housemate left and Julie says yes.