Here's another one I lost in that thumbdrive crash that I've mentioned several times. I was only reminded it of after stumbling across a reference to it on ATT: You've Got Ranma by Jennifer Morales.
It's a Ranma AU strongly patterned on the movie You've Got Mail: Ranma and Akane know each other from high school, but aren't on the best of terms with each other. Unbeknownst to either, though, they are each other's pseudonymous online "best friend", and they each end up coaching the other through the thawing of their real-world relationship and its growth into a romance. The story ends with an omiai held by their families, where they discover that not only have the families chosen to affiance them (unaware of their relationship), but that they are the online friends who were always there to help and listen.
I was going to note that it's disappeared from the Web and ask if anyone had it, but I just found a copy at The Wayback Machine. So this entry is now more a pointer at a good lost fic, rather than a plea for a copy.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
It's a Ranma AU strongly patterned on the movie You've Got Mail: Ranma and Akane know each other from high school, but aren't on the best of terms with each other. Unbeknownst to either, though, they are each other's pseudonymous online "best friend", and they each end up coaching the other through the thawing of their real-world relationship and its growth into a romance. The story ends with an omiai held by their families, where they discover that not only have the families chosen to affiance them (unaware of their relationship), but that they are the online friends who were always there to help and listen.
I was going to note that it's disappeared from the Web and ask if anyone had it, but I just found a copy at The Wayback Machine. So this entry is now more a pointer at a good lost fic, rather than a plea for a copy.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.