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The listing went out to the appropriate places and an interview was held for a measly four candidates, of which three did not turn up. So, that was that.
Randy's first impression of the new boy, because he was a boy, was the memory that he was the same young man that he’d seen stabbing the end of a penknife into his thumb outside of the lonesome gas station where he filled up his car after work. He’d made brief eye contact with him and then scurried off because the smile he’d gotten in return had made the ends of his hair frizz and his stomach turn. The car he drove was old, a manual transmission, and after he’d fumbled with his keys and got the car going, he had stalled the engine twice with the thought of the tip of the knife slicing through the boy’s thumb.
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written for the tumblr anon prompt, "ranson, but their ages are reversed". Randy trains the new BBB employee, a twenty-one year old called Benson, across the first five days of the job. Wanting and needing are two very different things.
Bookmarked by PrecariousPlease
22 Oct 2025