Love Is A Funny Thing by SeptemberGirl84 is a 16-chapter Jem fanfic. It's a Jerrica/Riot story.
Set after the series, Jerrica decides to reveal her double life to her boyfriend Rio. Rio reacts badly and breaks up with her. Jerrica isn't as phased by the break up as she would have been a while back, especially since she's met Riot. The break up allows for Jerrica and Riot to get closer.
The story can be read here
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This fanfic provides examples of:
- Adaptation Dye-Job: The fanfic refers to Riot as having blue-grey eyes, but Riot is green eyed in canon.
- Continuation: The story is set a few years after the series ended.
- Deep Sleep: Being Jem puts a strain on Jerrica. After concerts she can sleep for hours. One time in particular, she slept for three days straight.
- First-Name Basis: Riot asks Jerrica to call him "Rory" in the second chapter.
- Finale Title Drop: The words "love [was] a funny thing" get title dropped with the very last lines of the story:All in all, love still was a funny thing. Something that could change lives forever. Love was all I ever wanted and now it was everything I ever needed.
- Tears of Joy: When Rio breaks up with her, Jerrica starts crying, but out of relief rather than grief. It feels good to reveal her secret after keeping it for years.
