Frerica

Frerica is the femslash ship between Franky Doyle and Erica Davidson from the Wentworth fandom.

Canon
Franky and Erica meet while Franky is a inmate at Wentworth prison and Erica works as the prisoner advocate. Erica is involved in education programs, and ends up tutoring Franky through her HSC. Franky is Erica's star pupil. Erica soon gets promoted to governor of Wentworth, meaning the two spend less time together. However, Franky manages to convince Erica to spend an hour a week tutoring her through her university degree. Franky chooses law, partly because Erica was previously a lawyer, and Erica suggested it. Their relationship grows more flirtatious over these sessions, mainly on Franky's part. Erica has feelings for Franky which she represses as she is already engaged to Mark Pearson, and a relationship between the two of them would be illegal. Erica begins to find it harder to hide her feelings for Franky from herself when she begins having sex dreams about her, and she begins acting strangely around Mark, putting a strain on their relationship.

When a scathing news report comes out doubting Erica's ability as the governor of Wentworth, her deputy convinces Erica it was Franky who told the press the story. This leads to her accusing Franky of doing so, and a very emotion scene follows, in which both women end up crying. Shortly after this fight, Franky is framed for drug dealing and send to solitary for five weeks. During this time Erica tries to repair her relationship with Mark, and begins wearing her engagement ring to work. When she comes to visit Franky she sees the ring, and learns that Erica is engaged, which hurts her greatly. Franky tries to get more information about him, but Erica ignores her questions.

In the finale of season one, Erica calls Franky into her office to discuss a conflict between some of the other inmates. Franky confronts her by saying that when she's having sex with mark she's thinking of her. Erica tells her to get out, but Franky takes her into the corner of her office and kisses her. Erica resists at first, trying to push her away, but a few seconds later she returns the kiss. Franky then breaks the kiss and leaves the room. Erica is left in a state of shock. This is the last time the two characters ever see each other, as Erica is forced to resign after the murder of an inmate.

Franky tries to send letters to Erica after she leaves, but they are intercepted by the prison and are not posted as the sexual content was deemed inappropriate to be send to an ex-governor. The actual content of the Letters are never shown, but we can assume they are romantic and emotional from Joan Ferguson saying they dispute Franky's tough girl act. Franky later confronts Derek Channing about reading the letters, asking him if it turned him on imagining them together and what they would do to each other. It is unknown if Erica ever tried to contact Franky after she left.

Fanon
Common themes in Fanfiction involve the aftermath of Franky's release from Wentworth. They often involve Erica leaving Mark for Franky, as well as the pair being in a BDSM relationship as Erica fantasies about it in canon. The Erica Davidson/Franky Doyle tag on AO3 currently has 209 works. It is the most common ship for Erica and the seconds most common ship for Frank, after Bridget Westfall

Fandom
FAN FICTION