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“You okay?” Mike asks him.
Will turns to look at Mike. The light of the TV is projected on the side of his face, bathing his skin in greens and oranges. Sometimes Will feels like the secret to digging himself out of the wreckage of his childhood is hidden in Mike. There are days when the only thing that can dull the sharp pressure of grief in his ribs is Mike’s presence at his side; steady, thrumming. Will knows the day when he will have to detach himself is coming fast, but here in this basement, where nothing has changed in over a decade, time seems to have come to a screeching halt. It’s just the two of them, sat in the last place they were innocent together.
“Yeah,” Will whispers, “I’m okay.”
or; The Party's senior year of high school, in ebbs and flows.
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14 Nov 2025
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notes on laundry detergent by peculiarblue
Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians (TV 2023), Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan
06 Feb 2024
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It’s like a math problem, really, if she thinks about it. a + b = c, and all she has to do is fill in the variables. She’ll get an answer. Easy. She’s good at math. Its a problem to solve. One answer. Reasonable.
a (Percy washed her favorite sweatshirt) + b (it smelled like him when she put it on) = c (she’s in love with him)
(or, one night before she and percy head to camp for winter break, annabeth realizes there's three words she wants to say to him for the first time. and she's totally normal about it, of course.)
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06 Feb 2024
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do you have to let it linger by peculiarblue
Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians (TV 2023), Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan
02 Jan 2024
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It’s the end of the summer now, and her schedule’s free, so she can think about the fact that her new friend Percy Jackson has been to the Underworld and back, yet still doesn’t know how to get his armor to sit quite right.
(annabeth fixes percy's armor for him, among other things, over the course of five impossible years)
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04 Feb 2024
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‘I’m sorry’ will never be in Billy’s vocabulary. They are just two dirty words that liars and cowards use. But he knows what it means to be sorry.
Billy picks up a butterfly bandage, holds it between his fingers for Steve to see. Waits for Steve to drop his chin in a nod, and then presses it into place against Steve’s busted eyebrow. It’s the best Billy has to give.
This probably isn’t going to work out. This thing Billy’s been trying to have with Steve since he got to Hawkins. Steve’s got these soft edges where Billy’s all blunt and sharp.
Billy drags his fingertips down the side of Steve’s face, presses his thumb against the scar he didn’t leave, and lifts a brow. “How many fights do you lose, Harrington?”
Steve grins, a half-formed thing that is sharp and sad at the same time. “All of them.”
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10 Nov 2022
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you were warm when everything was cold by lesbianrobin
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
29 Jun 2022
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There’s something about watching Steve and Eddie that makes his chest ache, just a little bit. Something that feels like it’s just out of reach, like if he could just jump an inch higher he could grasp it and know what it is, have a name for it, figure out what feels like it’s missing with Max. He never felt like something was missing with Max before. She was perfect. She is perfect! Like, sure, not actually perfect, because nobody’s actually perfect, but she’s perfect for him just like he hopes he’s perfect for her, and they’re perfect together.
Maybe Lucas is overcompensating.
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14 Jul 2022
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***I STARTED THIS IN 2021. Since then I have seen a lot of people attempting to copy it even using some of my original character, names, phrasing, etc. THIS is the original story.****Mentions of past child abuse. Occasional: manhandling, mild slurs. ***WARNING: CH 25 "Goober" Contains Graphic Scenes of Abuse***
Susan and Neil are dead. Billy is 20 at the start and Max is 15. Story covers their lives (eventual Harringrove but more about relationship than sex) over a period of several years, if you read all of it...but if you don't, I understand. :p
The original story is contained in Chapters 2 - 10. Those have more of the original cast, and involve monster hunting, etc.. (Chapter 2 was posted first as a stand alone, which is why it's so long.)
After that there are requests, prompts, etc and just things I wrote because I got an idea.
IF you want to read this giant meandering thing in chronological order, refer to chapter 1 -- and then save Drabbles and Summer nights for after, if you are still wanting more.
Thanks!
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06 Jan 2019
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The Long Road Begins at Home by owlet
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
24 Nov 2017
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Oh sure, reunion results in happiness, kittens, and rainbows, because that's definitely how life goes when you've just spent 70 years as a tool of villainy. I mean, what could possibly go wrong?
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01 Jun 2018
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Team-Building Exercises by owlet
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
30 Mar 2015
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Integration into adult human social dynamics requires attention and effort. Especially with this bunch of damaged bozos.
(A series of interconnected one-shots.)
Here's a great drawing of Barnes and cat Eleanor, doing what they do best: http://masykruger.tumblr.com/post/132543566312/i-love-these-fics-so-much
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- Part 2 of Infinite Coffee and Protection Detail
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24 May 2018
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The mission resets abruptly, from objective: kill to objective: protect
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- Part 1 of Infinite Coffee and Protection Detail
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24 May 2018
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The one downside of the Christmas season is that it's also the only time of the year Louis doesn't get his boys. Spending ten months out of the year in their pockets should get under Louis' skin but it's weirdly sobering to think of the few weeks he's not going to have their shoulders to lean against or their hair to tug and nipples to tweak, just having them around like the bass line to the song of his life.
Louis just wants to spend one of the days they have off to celebrate the little half-Christmas they'll never be able to properly have.
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10 Dec 2017
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we must unite inside her walls or we'll crumble from within by dirgewithoutmusic
Fandom Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
20 Dec 2014
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stories for the ladies of hogwarts, who cry, waver, giggle, trespass, and who deserve our respect all the same
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08 Oct 2017
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A somewhat pointless experiment on Sherlock's behalf leads to John having to re-evaluate pretty much his entire life.
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05 Sep 2017
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The Care and Maintenance of Your Spider-Child by TunaFishChris
Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
14 Dec 2018
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After a battle, the Avengers find and accidentally adopt a young orphan with spider-based abilities. This is how they go from "team" to "family."
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27 Mar 2017
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It's Tea Time by ellizablue
Fandom Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Thorne & Rowling
05 Apr 2026
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30 Jan 2017
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Truth be told, Derek was suffering from the mild delusion he lived in all summer wherein he actually thought this year might be different, and he might, perhaps, be able to bury the hatchet with Stiles and start over.
The superglue that’s destroyed a ninety dollar pair of pants, however, says otherwise. Derek knows how this play goes down; eventually, he’s going to have to climb out of the pants and trudge back to his dorm half naked. Stiles will gloat for a damn week; Derek will have to put up with constant remarks about Stiles getting him out of his pants... Dammit, he’s actually going to get Derek out of his pants, and it’s not even close to the way he pictured it happening.
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30 Jan 2017
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Derek always figured it'd be Stiles's recklessness and sheer disregard for his own safety that caused them to break up.
He's wrong about that.
It turns out they break up because Stiles is a lying liar who lies.
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30 Jan 2017
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“This is going to end in tears,” Scott told Derek as he watched the man easily lift Stiles’ desk with one hand and drive nails into the ceiling with the thumb of the other. “Probably mine.”
Or:
If a Stiles and a Failwolf love each other very much, they will engage in a prank war. Basically, it's a mating ritual for dorks in love.
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30 Jan 2017
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Written from a prompt that I was sent:
Sterek. D&S are not together, but Stiles’ dad catches Derek scent mark cuddling Stiles in bed (because, you know, pack reasons), and he chases Derek from the house with cries of Stiles being too young for him-Derek runs-he just jumps out the fucking window and runs into the woods. Stiles, of course, thinks this is hilarious, and plays along with his dad's assumption. Stiles hams it up for all its worth, calling Derek “honey” “baby” “sweetie” "puppy" to tease him. Derek is mortified but likes it.
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30 Jan 2017
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The doorbell interrupts what had turned out to be quite the epic shoe hunt but, really, he’s grateful for the break. Or at least, he is until he heads down the stairs to grab the door, trips over a stuff animal of some kind, bashes his head on the wall and barely manages to catch himself from falling down the entire flight of stairs. As with all things, Stiles would like to state, for the record, that this is Scott’s fault.
Or: Scott and Stiles are raising seven children. Derek is the entertainer they hire for a birthday party (not a clown though, he's very specific on that fact.)
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30 Jan 2017