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Colette and Lucienne meet a random day of October 1783(so she's around 5 years old), Lucienne is walking around and ends up in the city centre,She's lost for she only vaguely remembers how she got there in the first place and is visibly disoriented, suddenly a little girl starts asking her questions such as "Are you lost?" "What's your name?" "Are you far from home?" "Can I accompany you home?"

It takes Lucienne one quick look to realise that this girl,who presented herself as Colette, wasn't like Lucienne as all,she was clean for starters and wore really nice clothes so she excuses herself but promises to come back and come back she did :

Day after day year after year she'd run all the way to Colette, they'd play together outside, Colette would proudly show Lucienne her drawings ,sometimes even poor attempts at drawing Lucienne herself as gifts but Lucienne secretly doesn't like them and often doesn't accept the gifts (kinda like that one scene from smiling friends "That's a little version of YOU Lucienne,I want you to have it" "I don't really want this").

It kinda gets to a point where they both develop a crush on crush on eachother but since they're children in the 18th century they don't really know what to or that they're having crush on eachother at all,they process in different ways : Colette starts being more affectionate(hugs,hoding hands,innocent things like that) and says things like "If you were a boy I'd marry you!" or something along those lines while Lucienne doesn't know what to do,she's always blushing around Colette and starts trying to show she cares by shutting up completely to let Colette talk all she wants and all.

After Lucienne starts living with Robespierre she stops seeing Colette for some time,not because she is prohibited to or anything but 1)Due to her leg injury she cannot get around on her own and needs someone's help but is afraid to ask 2) the more time passe the more she fears Colette won't wanna see her

One day she's like "screw it" and goes back to Colette and explains everything and apologises and they're friends again!

They love eachother very much, Lucienne comes to Colette's house everyday, they hang out in Colette's room : Colette paints and Lucienne reads out loud whatever she's reading or tells Colette about her newest lesson with Robespierre or about anything at all really, Colette loves to hear her shy girlfriend talk nonstop while she paints.

Colette's subject can vary but often she paints Lucienne herself (huge improvement from the bad portraits she did as a child) and tries to gifts the canvas to Lucienne.

Colette is also extremely affectionate and is often the one to initiate kisses, sometimes she's content just holding Lucienne in her arms in complete silence just enjoying their time together

Lucienne is willingly to do anything Colette tells her to,even to go as far as to steal Robespierre's clothes after Colette suggested her to do so

Colette often gives gifts to Lucienne and in return Lucienne recites to her poorly written poems

They're really cheesy but that's just because they love eachother very much.

Things go south when in random day of April in 1794 Lucienne heads to Colette's house as usual and finds Colette and this boy who she has a long lasting rivalry with getting on a carriage with Colette's family, she runs to Colette and demands an explanation while tears run down her face.

Colette tries to calm her down, tries to explain that the boy was her new husband apparently and that she had to leave, that it all happened so suddenly and she didn't have a choice but Lucienne wants to hear none of it and tries to attack the boy but is stopped by Colette.

Before leaving Colette promises her to write,to come back to Paris as soon as she can, she's holding lucienne's hand while the other girl is holding onto her desperately,still crying softly she begs:

« Don't go please, I love you! Don't leave please!» but the carriage door was suddenly closed shut by Colette's father and before she can process anything the carriage has already started, there's an attempt at chasing it but she slips and falls, she gives up and starts crying in the middle of the street before finally going home.

From there Lucienne falls into a deep state of depression, she locks herself in her room, refuses meals,her physical health begins to worsen and all she does is cry all day, screaming and crying, asking herself why did Colette leave her, wondering if Colette's letters will even arrive, cursing out Jean - Micheal (the boy who " stole Colette from her") between tears

Then final after 17 days a letter from Colette arrives, it's five pages long complete with a sketch draw from memory of Lucienne.

While things don't change all of the sudden they do start to get better gradually, Lucienne cleans her room ("How can I ever write back to her a letter equally as beautiful if I'm surrounded by filth?"), she starts getting better herself,starts eating regularly once again,ecc...

When they write to eachother it's letters that go on for pages and pages, sprayed with a little perfume in some cases,a little sketch or flower attached...letters that keep on coming and coming,week after week.

Then Thermidor happens, Lucienne dies,letters stop coming but Colette is oblivious to it all - well actually she knows deep down l,but refuses to believe it - it's trough a visit in Paris much later that she's forced to accept it.

She's completely heartbroken,falls into sickness but also she desperately wants to make sure Lucienne stays engraved in her mind and she does that by obsessively drawing portraits of her lover from memory or based on her old ones, she's terrified of forgetting Lucienne,of forgetting her face or her smell,of forgetting what she sounds like. Of forgetting the love of her life.

She loses her mind, deep into the night she cries and screams in her studio asking God why did he give her lover such faith

She dreams of Lucienne every night,some are old memories fropm when they were teenagers, others are nightmares who always end up with Lucienne getting guillotined while Colette is forced to watch.

Everything around her reminds her of her beloved, when her first daughter is born she cries for she claims the baby looks exactly like the love if her life.

She doesn't even dare say Lucienne's name, it's too painful, even whispering it makes her want to break down crying, she curses herself for leaving,for not being there when the girl she loved needed her most.

The pain becomes so unbearable and Colette will take her own life on the day of lucienne's birthday in 1806

I like to think they reunited in the afterlife.

There's also the nice AU where Lucienne doesn't day and one day reunites with Colette when they're in their 30s, Colette who starts to support her financially and in return Lucienne lives with her and they raise Colette's children together in their home in Paris while Colette's husband is still in Austria and when they children are older Lucienne and Colette move to the countryside abd become cottage core lesbians until their death.