Crossover Fan Fiction

Title: Rebel Girl
Author: kuteki
Fandoms: Skins/The O.C.
Pairing: Kaitlin Cooper/Effy Stonem
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: ~1200
Warning: Mild drug use
Summary: Kaitlin runs away and ends up in Bristol.

A/N: This is ridiculously self-indulgent and it was born out of a comment I saw, which pointed out that the two actresses look alike. Yes, I thought, they really do. What is more, the parallels between their characters are pretty extensive: troubled younger siblings, overshadowed by troubled older siblings, which die/almost die/leave; messed up parents etc. Had the OC been English, Kaitlin would have been Effy. Anyway, this is a Kaitlin that doesn’t deal with everything as well as canon likes us to believe.

(Leaving is easy enough; she doesn’t look back; she can’t — the sun is low, reflecting orange light onto backyard swimming pools and through the back window of her cab and it blinds her)