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Even as a Shadow, Even as a Dream by Michael__Cera for quillandinktwink
Fandoms: Spies Are Forever - Talkfine/Tin Can Brothers
08 Jan 2025
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In theory, it should be easier the second time around.
Curt knows what Owen looks like when he's dying, after all. He's seen it more times than he would ever wish on anyone – each addition to the ever-growing list is both a blessing and a curse.
A blessing, because for some unconscionable reason that has Curt thanking a God he does not believe in, it means that he comes back. Owen comes back to him with acrid words on his tongue and spite in his heart, but he comes back. A curse, because each spark of hope that stirs in Curt's chest is swiftly crushed, stomped out with a steel-toed boot. Snuffed. A reminder that Owen is only ever given back to Curt in order to twist the knife in his back when Owen is inevitably ripped away again.
In practice: it is not easier the second time around.
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Curt gets exactly what he asks for. Owen comes back again, and again, and again. -
If You're Ever In Trouble, I'll Be There On The Double by Michael__Cera
Fandoms: Spies Are Forever - Talkfine/Tin Can Brothers
18 Oct 2024
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“Do you want me to help with this, or not?” Owen asks and Curt falters, rebuttal stifled on the edge of his tongue. “Because I don’t see anyone else lining up to pretend to be your boyfriend, parading you around to the elitist bunch of pricks we both know will be there tonight.”
“...I could totally get someone else to do it if I had to.” Curt adds. It’s a cheap defence: one that Owen doesn’t buy for a second.
-Cynthia Houston is a pushy bitch when she wants to be. So when she insists that Curt brings someone along to an "incredibly prestigious evening with my colleagues that if you even think about fucking up, you're fired," he panics. Fortunately for him, there's someone that is more than willing to help.
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And I Want a Love that Falls as Fast, as a Body from a Balcony by Michael__Cera
Fandoms: Spies Are Forever - Talkfine/Tin Can Brothers
30 Jun 2024
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Then Curt hears something moving.
It’s faint, but it’s undeniably there, and it sounds like the rhythmic thudding of a march against the ringing in his ears. Someone pulling away the rubble, broken brick by broken brick, defying nature just to reach him. Scavenging any survivors from the fall.
It’s Owen, he thinks. It’s Owen, it has to be Owen, because how could it possibly be anyone else?
(The words ‘he’s not cruel enough to let me die alone’ go unsaid, but he can feel them anyway. In his lungs, in his stomach, in his heart. A sickening weight settles on top of Curt’s chest.)
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Curt falls. Chimera's there to pick him back up again.
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- Part 2 of Curt Mega Falls AU
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And This Is The Room, One Afternoon, I Knew I Could Love You by Michael__Cera
Fandoms: Spies Are Forever - Talkfine/Tin Can Brothers
17 Jun 2024
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“And just to get this straight, you didn’t think to hold the door open.” Owen deadpans. Curt startles, before he begins to shift guiltily, gaze veering between Owen’s back and the door.
“Well not really, no.”
“The door that we were told explicitly not to let close,” Owen starts, finally turning to face Curt, and Curt moves to say something but is quickly cut off by Owen’s ranting, “-because it was tricky, and wouldn’t open again. The door with the broken lock. That door.”
"Yes, that door."
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Curt and Owen find out first-hand just how cosy a storage room can be.
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At This Moment, You Mean Everything by Michael__Cera
Fandoms: Spies Are Forever - Talkfine/Tin Can Brothers
10 Jun 2024
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“Good. Maybe it’ll be an incentive to stop throwing yourself into the way of oncoming knives.”
“Oh come on,” Curt starts, wincing slightly as Owen pulls the needle out, “-you have to admit it was pretty cool.”
“It was cool,” Owen gives in, finally. “I’d just prefer it if you didn’t try and get yourself killed every time we head out on a mission together. If I didn’t know any better, I’d say you were trying to get away from me.”
-In which Owen and Curt return from a mission, Curt Mega recovers from a stab wound, and the pair finally face an issue they've been putting off for far too long. It goes better than either of them could expect.
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Curt Mega Falls AU by Michael__Cera
Fandom Spies Are Forever - Talkfine/Tin Can Brothers
30 Jun 2024
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remain nameless by astardanced
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
28 Jul 2024
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The classical world, the plays of Shakespeare, the Bible, every piece of literature and culture ever made, have all been burned to shreds in the nuclear fallout, lost to everyone except John and his excellent poetic memory. Sometimes he thinks it’s like that crap film, the one where everyone but that one guy forgot about the Beatles. Except instead of the Beatles, it’s all of human culture, ever. The names, the references— they mean nothing to anyone except him. He feels a certain responsibility, for blowing up the entire cultural canon. A shred of guilt. A shard. Sorry, William. Sorry, Geoffrey. Especially sorry, Jane.
They exist only in his head, now, and in his friend’s names.
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(after the apocalypse, john resurrects and renames.)Bookmarked by Michael__Cera
10 Dec 2024
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The world is going to end; you could get started early. Tip off the roof, splatter the ground in communist red, let the sunset hit your corpse like a bicentennial art piece to a bygone era that died when the revolution did. Maybe you should do it now.
Instead, you take a long, steadying drag, sprinkling cocaine for flavour over the tip as it burns. You don't fall off the roof. You still picture it.
You're starting to think you might be fucked, actually.
(a study in self-destruction; a study in Harrier du Bois)
Bookmarked by Michael__Cera
17 Oct 2024
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Tadius, hiding as best he can in the wedding-turned trap, watches the return of Ella Ashmore from the grave. The grave part is only a claim, not a certainty, but it seems somewhat late for scepticism. Tadius’ mind, separating itself neatly from the animal hindbrain focused on gibbering incoherently and seeking shelter, begins to work.
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The impressively quick journey Tadius takes from "We can't just kill the king!" to "Perhaps he smothered himself with that pillow," starting from the wedding of the Prince and Putrice.
Bookmarked by Michael__Cera
17 Sep 2024
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holy fuck. holy FUCK. i need anyone seeing this to stop what you're doing right now and read this fic. it is a NECESSITY.
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never let me fall from hopes so high by uhhhitsmars
Fandoms: Spies Are Forever - Talkfine/Tin Can Brothers
12 Aug 2024
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"You were afraid of me.”
Owen shouldn't say anything. Any answer he could give would only hurt him more. But now he's thinking of the way Curt's face crumpled when he reached out and Owen jerked back like his touch was fire, and of another man's back turned to him as the world burst into endless pain, and of the hands fisted in his shirt right before they pushed him into the dreamt-dark of the ocean—and suddenly, Curt worried gaze looks a lot like the same pitying eyes they gave him when he first woke up in a medical unit, and he asked for his partner.
What a strange sensation it is, to feel so much like an explosive, all the time. His blood thrumming with its energy, always moments away from sparking into uncontrolled violence at the gentlest push. He's so tired of the way it fills his head with this crackling, impatient noise—the way the world seems to warp around him—the way his heart feels like it's slipping out through his ribs.
His voice is too sharp when he says, firm and unflinching: "I was."
Bookmarked by Michael__Cera
12 Aug 2024
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HOLY FUCK. DEFINITELY worth a read
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stuck on the steps of the palace by quillandinktwink
Fandoms: Spies Are Forever - Talkfine/Tin Can Brothers
08 Aug 2024
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Curt spins and flings his arms around Owen, pulling him close. Owen huffs out a laugh and pats Curt’s shoulder. When Curt can bear to pull back, he drinks in the sight of Owen in front of him for the first time in far too long; his hair’s grown out in the way it does when he goes too long between haircuts, and his jacket is dirtier, but his smile at the sight of Curt is the same.
“Curt,” Owen responds softly, cupping his face in one hand. Then his smile turns smug, in the way it does when he thinks he’s about to be hilarious. “Or should I be calling you Tadius?”
“No,” Curt snaps, so quickly he almost overlaps with Owen speaking. Owen drops his hand and laughs.-
Curt Mega, undercover in Bogs Hollow as Tadius, is bored out of his mind. Owen is generous enough to drop in when he finds the time.
Bookmarked by Michael__Cera
09 Aug 2024
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they're SUCH guys im obsessed with them forever. not going to be able to watch cinderella's castle the same, despite the fact there are no actual spoilers in this fic. CANNOT recommend it enough