Thread by @arielabarcr

fake dating deanoru au AND secret dating gertchase au!
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karolina, gert, & molly are in a popular up & coming band. nico & chase have a new tv series coming out soon. everyone has to navigate through relationships, fame, & more as they try & live their lives.

as always, pls ignore time stamps & quote rt instead of replying!!

everyone meets at a party. gert & chase hook up & then continue to see each other in private. nico & karolina develop crushes on one another & after seeing that their fans like the idea of them being a couple, their managers come up w/ the idea for them to fake date.

meet KAROLINA, NICO, GERT, & CHASE!
karolina & gert are bandmates, nico & chase are castmates.

meet MOLLY, KLARA, & ALEX!
molly is gert’s adoptive sister & karolina & gert’s bandmate. klara is a blogger & molly’s girlfriend & karolina’s adoptive sister. alex is a photographer & a friend of the band + klara.

meet karolina & nico’s managers, DALE & LIVVIE! dale is the manager for gert, karolina, & molly’s band. livvie is nico’s manager.

meet the band & tv show accounts, ON THE RUN & THE HOSTEL!

onto the au!

1. recent tweets from deanoru

2. recent tweets from gertchase

3. the best friend squad (aka gert, molly, klara, alex, & karolina)

4. chase wants to get drunk

5. party people

6. oh? what’s this?

7. gert & chase have been deserted by their friends

8. karolina & nico are oblivious

9. interesting 👀

10. the next morning

11. gert’s not THAT forgetful

12. livvie has an idea

13. some of the fan tweets

14. the two managers talk

15. time to talk to the clients

16. karolina explains her conversation w/ dale to gert & molly

17. nico talks to chase about the idea and... isn’t opposed to it

18. they’re in

19. the fake girlfriend adventures begin

20. the inner circle

21. oooooooh 👀💘

22. molly is intrigued

23. gert & chase talk about where to go from here

24. deanoru discusses the announcement they have to make

25. just gals being pals

26. gert wrote some songs that are obviously only for karolina & nico’s fake relationship

27. quality friend time

28. videos? released

29. molly continues to be suspicious & gert is not having it

30. molly tries to get the truth out of gert + gert gets a text

31. molly: 1 gert: 0

32. karolina visits nico on set & has a problem

33. karolina thinks nico is cute... obviously

34. some soft mollyklara fillers

35. the album track list (s/o to the runagays for helping me think of some song titles when i was struggling)

36. chase sees a song title that seems familiar in a way

37. nico wants to have a nickname for karolina

38. hanging out with deanoru

39. WHAT DID SHE SEE?

40. nico tell karolina what happened challenge

41. nico reveals what she saw

42. awwww

43. nico wants karolina to be her real girlfriend

44. the next day

45. nico is hopeful & chase is chase

46. some soft deanoru

47. gert & chase get texts from their best friends

48. things have started going downhill

49. nico is feeling a little defeated

50. nico tells chase about their moms (the angst is coming but first: other stuff)

51. the snap that chase saw

52. old lace is here, in all her glory

53. chase gets a text from another friend

54. victor finds out about a secret

55. victor asks some questions & chase spills the wrong beans

56. way to go, chase

57. nico finds out what chase did

58. victor has entered the chat

59. victor’s profile + victor sends gert a snapchat

60. gert & karolina talk

61. uh oh

62. uhhhhhh

63. ugh, of course she’s here

64. livvie & nico talk about the current situation

65. gert isn’t coming to the hostel premiere & that’s totally fine

66. the hostel premiere!

67. eiffel’s account + tweets after the premiere

68. sounds like SOMEBODY should have gone to the premiere

69. karolina & gert are ready to drink

70. chase is concerned

71. has the night just begun for gert?

72. chase is a too good not boyfriend

73. gert & karolina discuss relationships

74. much needed sister time

75. alex has a cruuuuush

76. (i’m sorry)

77. (i’m sorry) part 2

78. nico is concerned about chase

79. nico might take chase’s advice?

80. well would you look at that

81. maybe she likes her a lot

82. karolina & gert have relationship updates for one another

83. the squad wants gert to come to the watch party

84. the hostel watch party time!

85. gert is having not great feelings

86. gert tells molly the truth

87. karolina knows something... & nico knows something... but is it the same thing?

88. a cover (jojo aka @gertyorkiss dm’d me about this idea a little while ago so this is dedicated to her)

89. an event (i’m sorry i can’t think of good captions rn lol)

90. karolina wants to know if molly knows something

91. mission gertchase

92. dale still loves overusing emojis & karolina has a little surprise for gert

93. this is just a little filler

94. nico would like chase to do something

95. gert has come to a conclusion

96. concert night!!

97. some fan tweets

98. anticipation

99. huh?

100. he’s here! (i can’t believe this is the 100th update & it’s not angst)

101. gert’s pov (3rd person)

102. chase’s pov (3rd person)

103. fan tweets from after the concert

104. everyone is happy!!

105. THE END.

EPILOGUE: a little under a year later!!

part i

part ii

part iii

thank you to everyone who read this au!! i can’t believe this is my third runaways au!! this au was super fun & it means so much every time one of you reads it. thank you all so much 💓💓💓