An ao3 screenshot of my fanfic 'Right person, wrong time'. The summary is a snippet from the fic, which reads as follows: As much as her rejection had hurt, it was the wakeup call Alex had needed. A fifteen-year-old who always had something to prove, some new goal to overcome, always climbing higher and higherโ rejected on the basis of something he couldnโt change. Or could he? Alex had never felt much like a girl: always loud and excitable and keen to get dirty, and not to mention his love of sports. His mom had been much the same, she just said they were both โtomboysโ, but that hadnโt felt right either. Pennyโs rejection made something stir in him. He realized on that late summer day, dumbstruck and abandoned in the meadow with a bouquet of poppies in his hand, that he was indeed a man. That made the sting of rejection sharper as he ruminated on it, like pouring water onto a fresh burn. Rejected not because she didnโt like him, but because he wasnโt good enough as he was. Another challenge to overcome.
I wrote a rare pair week fic that's Alex/Penny!! :3 Exploring Alex's struggles with masculinity via him working out that he's trans after Penny rejected him as a teenager. And then they meet again in college ๐
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