An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Coronation Street
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Carla Connor/Lisa Swain
Characters: Lisa Swain, Carla Connor, Betsy Swain
Additional Tags: Angst, Hurt No Comfort, Obsessive Behavior, Self-Harm, Canon Compliant, Character Study, Implied/Referenced Sexual Assault
Summary:
Becky was back from the dead, and Lisa stopped sleeping.
For someone whose greatest wish was to do everything over again and get it right, the person she’d let down most of all coming back from the dead felt like a dream come true. You can do it better this time, a small voice in her head supplied, as she lay awake night after night, Carla asleep next to her. You can fix everything.
Months later, when Lisa was pulled from the wreck of the car, she realised, with perfect clarity, that the only thing she’d managed to do was nothing at all.
(or, lisa's POV / a lisa character study for the weeks she was apart from carla)