We Two Boys Together Clinging
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After the first year of Dutch and Hosea's partnership comes the first year of their intimacy — Hosea's past experience brings with it hidden landmines, and Dutch's naivete brings with it his own demons.
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- Part 1 of We Two Boys Together Clinging
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The Corset Incident by deal_at_the_crossroads
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
27 Aug 2020
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On his twenty-second birthday, Dutch walks into a hotel room and nearly drops dead.
His Old Girl aims to make it a night he won't forget.
[Prequel to Take From Me (What You Want, What You Need)]
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- Part 2 of We Two Boys Together Clinging
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what's the worst that could happen to a man who's already hurt? by deal_at_the_crossroads
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
24 Mar 2021
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One year after Annabelle's murder, Dutch seeks out his widowed best friend in search of relief — in search of the days when they were lovers — and puts him in an impossible position.
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- Part 3 of We Two Boys Together Clinging
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The Promise by deal_at_the_crossroads for Disishistory
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
30 Mar 2021
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Freedom. That was always what Dutch promised. Being outlaws, living life day by day unworried about the future — they were supposed to be free.
But all Hosea could see anymore was death...
...until Dutch looks him in the eye, gets down on one knee, and makes a different promise.
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- Part 4 of We Two Boys Together Clinging
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put our able hands to labor (we will work through what went wrong) by deal_at_the_crossroads
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
23 Apr 2021
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After what seems like a lifetime of heartbreak and tragedy, binding his hands in grief to the wife he failed, the wave of hope brought on by the promised land of California inspires Hosea Matthews to return to the man he left — not to piece the ashes of their failed love back together, but to plant new seeds in the charred soil in hopes of something better. In hopes of something stronger. In hopes that maybe, just maybe... he can be happy again.
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- Part 5 of We Two Boys Together Clinging
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Take From Me (What You Want, What You Need) by deal_at_the_crossroads
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
19 Jul 2020
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A combination of the Montanan winter, an incoming storm front, and chronic stress plunge Hosea into the worst chronic pain flare he's experienced yet.
In response, Dutch shrugs off the recent strain in their relationship to give his life-partner the care, attention, and comfort he deserves.
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- Part 6 of We Two Boys Together Clinging
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Bulletproof Glass by deal_at_the_crossroads for julianequinox
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
13 Dec 2020
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On a beautiful spring day, suffocating under the smothering weight of Dutch's fussing after a long, dark Montanan winter that almost took his life, Hosea decides to singlehandedly hunt a massive, murderous boar.
Dutch refuses to allow it.
Hosea refuses to be contained until he's forced to be.
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- Part 7 of We Two Boys Together Clinging
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Just a Coffee by deal_at_the_crossroads for Disishistory
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
16 Oct 2020
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In the dark hollows of Colter, Hosea Matthews sits and stares into a cup of coffee, grieving those dead - as well as a man still living.
He wonders, in a moment of profound bitterness, what exactly is stopping him from leaving.
He finds his answer...
...alongside the discovery that he hasn't lost quite so much as he thought.
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- Part 8 of We Two Boys Together Clinging
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Watching Stars Collide by deal_at_the_crossroads
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
18 Sep 2020
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One night in the wake of the Blackwater Massacre and Colter, Dutch gets Low to a dangerous degree, and seeks out the one person he believes can pull him up out of the pit his mind has fallen in-
-Only to find out that Hosea is just as Low.
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- Part 9 of We Two Boys Together Clinging
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I'm Not Going Anywhere by deal_at_the_crossroads
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
25 Sep 2020
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There were so many demons, so many devils, so many storms and shadows all vying for them, gunning for them, from the outside and from within, hungering to destroy them.
But there, curled around each other, on that bed, on that night…
None of it could touch them.
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- Part 10 of We Two Boys Together Clinging
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Dutch van der Linde finds himself at a crossroads.
On one path is the path blazed by Micah. One of morphine, of opium, of blood and gold and black ink strangling the past into nothingness, ensuring that nothing and no one could ever hurt or doubt him again. Of listening only to the call of the new day's horizon.
On the other path is the path forged by Hosea. One of family, of selflessness. Of sacrificing oneself for the good of others. Of listening to those that love him, even if it means becoming unmade.
He tries to find a middle path.
He fails.
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- Part 11 of We Two Boys Together Clinging
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Hosea Matthews leaves love aside, and in doing so, gets to keep it.
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- Part 12 of We Two Boys Together Clinging
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listening to them as really love him by deal_at_the_crossroads
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
01 Dec 2021
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Hosea Matthews is done being a passive observer.
Dutch van der Linde is given an ultimatum.OR:
A story of recovery, love, family, redemption, and the breaking of a cycle of abuse.
(Reading previous entries not necessary)
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- Part 13 of We Two Boys Together Clinging