we're older now, and the light is dim
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Sure, he likes sleepin’ outside, beneath the stars and the horizon, closer to the earth - but when he gets like this, all soft and mellow from whiskey, it’s warmth that he craves.
Cielito lindo - Javier had told him it meant lovely sky. It sure ain’t lovely no more, although Arthur still thinks there’s beauty in it.
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- Part 1 of we're older now, and the light is dim
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you who wish to conquer pain, you must learn what makes me kind by wayfaringstranger154
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
07 Sep 2024
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Wanting and craving is in America's blood, comes as natural to them as love and blasphemy.
Arthur pushes the sleeve up to Dutch's elbow, resting his fingers against warm skin, content to sink into the sensation for a minute. It might remind Dutch that Arthur's human, too.
Then he pulls Dutch's arm down until the gun is pointed at his mouth. He licks the tip of the barrel.
"Jesus, son!" Dutch hisses, something electric running down his spine as he tightens his grip on Arthur's face. He tells himself that this is a shock, and not exactly what he'd had in mind since he'd aimed the revolver at Arthur.
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- Part 2 of we're older now, and the light is dim
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hold me amongst all of your cards by wayfaringstranger154
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
25 Sep 2024
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“And besides,” he continues, getting that queer look in his eye when the magpie, for a moment, becomes an eagle. "We both know this is the kind of innocent fun you thrive on, Arthur Morgan.”
Arthur hates how well the English bastard can see through him, hates how transparent he is.
But-
-ain’t it nice, for once, to be seen?
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- Part 3 of we're older now, and the light is dim
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overcome the apathy that has made us by wayfaringstranger154
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
26 Sep 2024
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"I, uh-" he blushes furiously, then thrusts out the handful of flowers, tied hastily with a piece of fraying twine. It’s a vivid riot of color - red poppies, wild daisies and violet snowdrops, simple but vibrant. There's earth on his skin and the stems are slightly crushed from how tightly he’d held them on the ride down to the bayou, desperate not to lose them or have them wilt in his satchel. “I saw these, up near O’Creagh’s Run, and I thought you’d… like them, but now it just seems kinda stupid, and-”
“Arthur,” Josiah cuts in, smiling. “I think they’re lovely.”
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- Part 4 of we're older now, and the light is dim
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show me how to lay my sword down by wayfaringstranger154
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
04 Oct 2024
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“Do you know what fine living is about? Rituals, Arthur. Real luxury is having the time to pay attention to the small things we care about.”
“Like the river boat job?” Arthur says, tone softer, the memory of that evening still settled sweet and comforting in his chest. He’d never felt so *cared* for, and it was by a man he hadn’t even known that well by that point.
“Like you,” Josiah says tenderly.
He’s never known how to love without hurting - but now, he thinks he could learn.
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- Part 5 of we're older now, and the light is dim
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and all god's people said amen by wayfaringstranger154
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
23 Sep 2024
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With the lantern’s glow flickering inside the tent, their silhouettes would be visible to anyone outside. Arthur thinks, bitterly, that it’s a good thing there ain’t hardly no one left to look.
“He tells me that I’m good.”
Dutch laughs so loud that Arthur flinches. “Well, now it makes sense! The man’s a con artist, of course you’d go to him to hear a lie!”
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- Part 6 of we're older now, and the light is dim