I mean, literally every day is Kalida Sharma Deserved Better Day but today is also [a] a Thursday, which is (my reading list informs me) rec things day, and [b] a day when I actually have the brain + time for a reclist. So. Mostly femslash. A fair amount of Kalinda/Lana, because goddamn does Lana also deserve better, but not entirely. Not in any real order.

where two lines meet. kalinda/lana. 5k words, rated m. by feartown

"Maybe we should just leave, Kalinda."

For a moment the idea hangs in the air, absurd, but then Kalinda starts to wonder if Lana might be right. Chicago has dragged her down for years. Chicago is a place of death and cracks that can’t seem to be patched up. She shrugs her free shoulder. “We could.”

The summary says "Set post 6x09", but, really, it's a story about their entire relationship, in flashbacks - the way coming together means something different every time, how Kalinda starts to believe she was telling the truth when she said I take you seriously, and how they prove to each other that the future exists.

existent. kalinda/lana. 700 words, rated m. by PoeticallyIrritating

Kalinda doesn't seem real.

Lana, on Kalinda, appearances, and reality. A really interesting look at how Lana always saw more than Kalinda strictly meant to show her, but never found the will to use it against her.

dreaming gives one such bad luck. kalinda/lana. 2.3k words, rated t. by summerstorm

It kills time, leaving a question in the air. At least it helps Lana stop thinking about what a waste of it Kalinda's relatively irregular middle-of-the-night appearances on Lana's floor at the FBI are.

Kalinda visits Lana, Lana finds all of the knives she's carrying.

ladies who lunch. kalinda/diane. 1.4k words, rated g. by kathryne

Here's to the girls on the go / Everybody tries / Look into their eyes and you'll see what they know / Everybody dies. Diane, Kalinda, and a power lunch.

Pre-canon, Diane interviews Kalinda for the in-house job. Really excellent getting-to-know-you power games and understated not-flirting and wardrobe details.

at the border. kalinda/sophia. 6.5k words, rated m. by lunchinanelevator

Kalinda and Sophia before, during, and after.

Weird domesticity and genuine affection set against a whole lot of politics, and one of my favourite examples of the sort of - comfort that's doesn't permanently fix things but that matters and is important.

in pieces, quietly. kalinda & alicia, will, cary. 1.4k words, rated g. by fiftymissioncap

Kalinda spends the Christmas holidays alone. Post Battle of the Proxies.

Kalinda opens presents, deals with the fallout from Nick, survives.

something to think about. kalinda &/ will, diane, cary, eli, alicia. 1.1k words, rated t. by Vampire_Penguin

Kalinda's mind wanders, when she gets bored...

Specifically, wanders to the ways she might seduce or kill her coworkers. Kalinda picking people apart is always one of my favourite Kalindas.