Outer Darkness Club

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Fandom: Encanto Pairing: Bruno/Mirabel (felonious incest in most of the US… can legally marry in Colombia) Word count: 291

Also available on AO3:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/66266989

Inspired by @heartniche’s “City of Angels” series, an Encanto Bruno & Mirabel, then Bruno/Mirabel, mistaken identity AU set in modern Los Angeles and Bogotá:

Bruno had not set foot in a church in over three decades until the fateful Lenten Sunday that saw all of the Madrigal family secrets explode, and saw no good reason to bother with it again after that.

… until his mother grasped his and Mirabel’s hands from her hospital bed while recovering from that surgery that he still didn’t fully understand, and instead of excoriating them once more for their sins with each other and against the family, implored them to get married. Despite decades of faithful telenovela viewership, he’d forgotten something kind of important about Colombia: their relationship would be merely scandalous, not felonious. Mamá had apparently decided that a Church-sanctioned avunculate marriage would be less damaging for both la Familia Madrigal’s fortunes and possibly their souls than trying to sweep it all under the rug, as she would have before.

So there Bruno was, attending Mass every Sunday with Mirabel at the parish church nearest to “her” temporary apartment - at least until the Bishop of Pereira, who happened to be the brother-in-law of a Familia Madrigal board member, granted that dispensation. Despite having as little interest in what that priest in charge of their pre-marital catechesis had to say during the weekly service as he did when he was a fidgety child and sullen teenager, Bruno bore it with a far more cheerful attitude. Mirabel’s hand squeezed his any time his lack of attention turned to dozing off, which was far more pleasant than getting his ear pinched.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/48932944/chapters/123447259

“I’ll write the ending for this telenovela myself,” she said stubbornly, looking him in the eyes.