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I KNOW I just finished a fic and I KNOW finals are this week, but now I’m wondering about a no-murder Coco AU where:

– everyone decides to settle down in Santa Cecilia

– Ernesto’s still trying to figure out what to do with his life now that BFF is married with a kid

– Ernesto meets a very sweet but sassy girl while playing at the plaza one afternoon and she gently but very effectively cuts him down to size for the first time in his life before walking off

– And she’s totally a snob, how dare she, she doesn’t know him!!

– And now when he plays he always keeps an eye out to see if she’s coming to tell him what an ego he has again

– And sometimes she comes, but she’s always too far off down the street selling the cloth her family makes. She always wears a green ribbon in her hair. She’s always taking care of her little nephew. She’s always smiling the kindest smile he’s ever seen. So evil. 

– And he thinks about it all the time

– and the fifth time he’s complaining to Hector about it Hector asks him if he’s going to just ask her out already

– but, like, no!!! wasn’t he listening??? she’s super rude, she’s the one with an ego, not him

– and OBVIOUSLY he’s not the marrying type anyway. duh.

– and then Imelda walks into the room while chatting with her friend who is GUESS WHO to watch Coco for the evening

– but the reason Ernesto was there in the first place was because HE was going to watch his little adopted niece for the evening. 

– Hector says oh well, he’s sure they’ll both do fine and it’s not until Hector and Imelda are out the door that Ernesto realizes he’s fallen into a classic your-married-friends-are-trying-to-get-you-hitched trap

– but he’s too smart, he’ll just leave

– but then Sofia, which is a super cute name but that doesn’t matter, tells him to leave

– so of course now he can’t. 

– Coco is his adopted niece after all.

– Well Sofia has been friends with Imelda since childhood, so really Coco is her adopted niece even more

– stalemate. Coco has two babysitters for the evening.

I KNOW this is a rom com, I KNOW it’s the exact opposite of For Whom the Bell Tolls, but the possibility of seeing more happily married young Hector+Imelda as the well-meaning conniving married friends is a siren call… D: 

EDIT: Part one of this story has just been posted! Go check it out [here!]