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And this year’s event has now officially started - inspired writing everyone!

A (not so) Silent Night

Hello everyone,

thanks again to everyone who has signed up - we love how many of you want to take part!

We just finished sending out a message with not just one, but two inspiration songs to everyone who signed up for the Berena songfic event!

It’s up to you to write one fic for one or both songs - or even two fics for one song each. 

If you signed up and didn’t get a message from either @ktlsyrtis​ or @batnbreakfast​ , please let us know!

Same goes if you like to take part in this, but didn’t sign up on time. Everyone was very generous in their song recommendations and we still got songs left.

Now we all “just” have to do the writing part of this. 😅

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While there sadly won’t be a Secret Santa 2022, there will still be a Berena event during December!

Come have a look at @berena-winter-event​ to take part in this year’s festive merriment!

Berena Winter Event 2022

Hi everyone,

’Tis the season to curl up on the couch with a hot beverage and some good fandom content. Sounds like the perfect reason to make some new stuff!

This year we’re doing something a little different than our usual Secret Santa. (While we love the event dearly, finding the time to organize it is a bit of a challenge.)

In its stead, we present:

So how does this work?

Easy! When you sign up, you’ll be asked to list up to three of your favourite seasonal songs. Keep in mind these don’t need to be songs associated with a specific holiday, just something that fits the Winter season. Sign ups will close on Saturday, November 19th.

On Monday, November 21st you'll be assigned a random song from the list of nominations. Then it’s up to you to use the song for inspiration to write a fic to or make some art.

Over the next month, we’ll be offering various opportunities for writing sprints and uploading banners you can use to share your in progress works, so keep an eye on this space!

Posting day will be the 26th of December. To accompany all the lovely creations, we’ll also post a playlist of songs from the event, along with the names of their nominators.

Interested in joining us? Sign ups are open now at the link below!

Event Sign Up

If you have any questions, the ask box is open. Alternatively you can reach out to mods @ktlsyrtis and @batnbreakfast

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Berena Secret Santa - The Masterpost

Something Borrowed, Something New by Bat_and_Breakfast for @squishmittenficfan

a firewarm hearth; a frozen flowerbed by bonnissance for @sententiousandbellicose

Cloud 9 (Or, How Serena Campbell Nearly Missed Her Plane To Paris (Twice)) by CommanderInChief for @ariverandasong

Snow was falling, snow on snow by Corvidden for @doctorjameswatson 

Keeping Mum by daisydoctor13 for @daystarsearcher

Unspoken Things by daystarsearcher for @seahorsepencils

Let it snow by fortytworedvines for @ktlsyrtis

Mending Fences: Scenes Of Love by Guinan333 for @slightlyintimidating

the sweetest flower that the wild-bee sips by ktlsyrtis for @lord-of-killer-indecencies

The Writer, The Surgeon and….? by Lapal for @batnbreakfast

Not Fake For Long by lilolilyrae for @daisydoctor13

In Fear of the New Year by TheNerdVoice for @tea-and-shoelaces 

Traditionally Yours by TheNerdVoice for @tea-and-shoelaces 

Amitié et Amour by robliz for @corvidden

In the glow of a candle by robliz for @danceswithcows01

Bridge Over Troubled Water by Sanctitatem for @eraisme

good times we had return to haunt me by sevtacular for @lapalfruity

Holiday by sockssss for @fortytworedvines

Blame it on the Mistletoe by Squishmitten for @lilolilyr

We are seriously amazed and impressed by the outcome of this last year’s Berena Secret Santa! We hope you enjoyed taking part, giving and getting a gift.

We certainly had a lot of fun organising and we do appreciate every single one of you.

Thanks to all of you for joining in on this!

The Santa Team

@ktlsyrtis​ & @batnbreakfast​

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Holby City Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Serena Campbell/Bernie Wolfe Additional Tags: Berena Secret Santa (Holby City), Healing from everything Holby has thrown at them, References to Canonical Character Death Summary:

Christmas 2022. Spain.

Bernie wants to surprise Serena by decorating the house while she is out but she discovers something that brings back less than pleasant memories for Serena.

Featuring a healing Bernie and Serena both recovering after a rough few years.

I stepped into the breach to produce this belated Secret Santa Gift for @danceswithcows01 using the prompt Seasonal fluff love after Mogadishu. This went a bit more angsty than I intended but hopefully there is enough fluff in there for you!

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The holiday celebrations continue, with a gift from @bonnissance​ to @sententiousandbellicose!

❄️ Thanks for taking part, @bonnissance! ❄️

@berenasecretsanta fic for @sententiousandbellicose ☃️😸💖

Farms are good

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It’s still Christmas as far as we are concerned, because there’s still gifts to share - this one goes from @ktlsyrtis to @lord-of-killer-indecencies!

☃️ Thanks for taking part, @ktlsyrtis! ☃️

Chapters: 1/3 Fandom: Holby City, Bramwell (TV) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Eleanor Bramwell/Serena Campbell Characters: Eleanor Bramwell, Serena Campbell Additional Tags: Crossover Pairings, Bicycles & Bloomers AU, Meet-Cute, Slow Burn-ish, Berena Secret Santa 2021 Summary:

When Eleanor Bramwell has to take her beloved bicycle in for emergency repairs, the pretty shop-owner’s shockingly modern apparel isn’t the only unexpected thing she finds

Written for my pal @lord-of-killer-indecencies. We joked about this idea so many times on zoom, when I got your name I just had to 😉

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The holiday celebrations continue with a gift for @daystarsearcher from @daisydoctor13

🎄 Thanks for taking part @daisydoctor13! 🎄

Chapters: 1/? Fandom: Holby City Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Serena Campbell/Bernie Wolfe Characters: Serena Campbell, Bernie Wolfe, Adrienne McKinnie Additional Tags: Berena Secret Santa (Holby City), Established Relationship, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Light Angst Summary: Bernie arrives back home to find Serena has been struggling with her Mum’s dementia.

My gift to @daystarsearcher for @berenasecretsanta this year for the prompt ‘Canon-divergent established relationship story where Bernie and Serena get together while Adrienne is still alive’. It’s lightly angsty, the main source of this being from Adrienne’s dementia. 

Apologies for the lateness (life, eh?) but it will be completed fairly soon. Merry Christmas! 

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Next up a gift for @doctorjameswatson from @corvidden

🎄 Thanks for taking part @corvidden! 🎄

Chapters: 1/? Fandom: Holby City Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Serena Campbell/Bernie Wolfe Characters: Serena Campbell, Bernie Wolfe Summary:

Serena and Bernie are on their way to a conference when it begins to snow heavily. They make it to the venue, but soon discover that they’re the only ones who did make it…

for the lovely @doctorjameswatson for @berenasecretsanta - I hope you have had a lovely Christmas. More chapters to follow :)

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This is a gift from @tea-and-shoelaces to @ariverandasong!

☃️Thanks for taking part @tea-and-shoelaces! ☃️

@berenasecretsanta​ gift for ariverandasong / Robliz 

There are many places Serena would have liked to spend the second morning of her Christmas leave. This was, by far, her favourite of them all.

Yes, it’s a meet-cute Pilot AU. Yes, I did write this in the airport. No, I have no shame. 

Hope you enjoy! 

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This gift is coming from @fortytworedvines​ to @ktlsyrtis​!

🎄Thanks for taking part @fortytworedvines​! 🎄

En route to a conference, Bernie and Serena stop at a pub. Heavy snow leaves them stuck there. Oh no!

Written for @ktlsyrtis

Happy Christmas!

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Next up, a gift from @danceswithcows01 to @slightlyintimidating!

🎄Thanks for taking part @danceswithcows01! 🎄

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Holby City, Berena - Fandom Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Serena Campbell/Bernie Wolfe Characters: Bernie Wolfe, Serena Campbell Additional Tags: Berena Secret Santa (Holby City) Summary:

Bernie and Serena find time for a quiet evening of dinner and shiraz. And family.

Merry Christmas to @slightlyintimidating Ho! Ho! Ho!

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Our next gift is for @corvidden from @ariverandasong!

❄️ Thanks for taking part @ariverandasong​! ❄️

Chapters: 1/6 Fandom: Holby City Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Serena Campbell/Bernie Wolfe Additional Tags: Berena Secret Santa (Holby City), Friends to Lovers, Mutual Pining, Falling In Love, Friendship Summary:

Serena, long serving librarian at Holby City Sixth Form College, is intrigued when Bernie Wolfe starts as the new French teacher. She is determined to get to know her and start a new friendship but will it turn into anything more?

My secret santa gift for @corvidden. Hope you enjoy! There is plenty more to come. I’ve currently written about 4 and a half chapters and I hope to get the rest posted soon.

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It’s even double a gift from @eraisme to @tea-and-shoelaces!

🎄Thanks again for taking part @eraisme​! 🎄

Here is the second gift for the Berena Secret Santa for @tea-and-shoelaces!

This one was...a bit difficult to watch. It's pretty dark, but it just...it came to me and I couldn't get it out of my brain at all. So...I knew I had to just let things run their course, know what I mean?

I hope it isn't too dark for the assignment. <3

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And we start the day with a gift from @eraisme to @tea-and-shoelaces!

🎄Thanks for taking part @eraisme​! 🎄

This is one of my Berena Secret Santa gifts to @tea-and-shoelaces.

I had written this for my previous assignment, and it was much darker then, but I kinda turned it around to...fit what was given. So, I reworked what I had outlined and made it fit the new assignment. At least, I hope it does a bit. 😉

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And the next gift goes from @doctorjameswatson to @eraisme

❄️ Thanks for taking part @doctorjameswatson! ❄️

Chapters: 1/3 Fandom: Holby City, Berena - Fandom Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Serena Campbell/Bernie Wolfe Characters: Bernie Wolfe, Charlotte Dunn, Serena Campbell Additional Tags: Angst, But I promise a happy ending, Mother-Daughter Relationships, Berena Secret Santa 2021, Berena Secret Santa, Berena Secret Santa (Holby City) Summary:

As Bernie’s divorce draws to a close, she and Charlotte aren’t talking. Can they build bridges and heal their relationship?

This is my @berenasecretsanta gift for @eraisme

I tried to combine the building bridges between Bernie and Charlotte idea with a happy family Christmas (I promise this will happen in a later chapter). I only had time to write the first chapter this month so have a chapter of angst for Christmas, lol! I hope you enjoy :)

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And the next gift goes from @lilolilyr to @daisydoctor13​.

❄️Thanks for taking part @lilolilyr! ❄️

Not Fake For Long

Summary: Serena needs someone to convince her mother that she isn't single - Bernie needs somewhere to spend the holidays that isn't her pitiful one-bedroom flat. By coincidence or fate, their hopes and fears turn into a common goal...

This is my @berenasecretsanta gift for @daisydoctor13! I hope you'll like it :)

~6k, no warnings, canon divergence

Chapter 1: getting-together rated T (can be read as a stand-alone)

Chapter 2: rated E pwp

Thx so much for organizing this event, Bat & Jess, you guys are epic!

Header image sources: Jemma Redgrave - background - (Berena kiss Holby City screenshot) - Catherine Russell; all edits by me! Same edits with less colour filters, plus Jemma png:

Free to use in fanworks without crediting me, tho I'd be happy if you reblogged this post!

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Read 'Not Fake For Long' on Ao3

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Ho, ho, ho - another Secret Santa has gifted a fic: From @seahorsepencils to @fortytworedvines.

☃️Thanks for taking part @seahorsepencils ☃️

Summary:

After a challenging week on AAU, Serena books a short holiday at a cottage, hoping she’ll feel better after a few days of alone time – and some distance from her colleagues at Holby.

Things don’t go quite as planned.

For @fortytworedvines

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