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If Charles asked, would Arthur run away with him? The grasp Dutch has on Arthur is strong, and if Charles is going to save him, he's got his work cut out for him. But Charles is patient, and Arthur is worth saving.
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- Part 1 of the many miles we walk
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He’d tried, in the end, he really had. And it had been hard; so damn hard. Would’ve been so much easier to crawl off into the woods like a dying dog and let himself be reclaimed by the wilderness. But, getting them folks out, sending them to safety, doing his best to protect them from the Pinkertons and Dutch’s lunacy and that rat...
For maybe the first time in his life, there was no doubt in his mind about what was right or wrong, good or evil. He just knew.
The sunlight warms his face, and he smiles.
But then he hears footsteps.
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Meanwhile, Charles Smith can’t stop looking back at the mountains to the south, and wondering what it means to be home.
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Arthur knows he's dying, can feel the unstoppable pull of it, feels the spirit appear behind him to take him along. And yet, he finds he does not want to die. There is so much that went wrong, so much he regrets and he wishes, with all his being, he could change it. Could at least ensure those that managed to get away really make it out alive.
A second chance, he asks, begs, really. Just give me the chance to save them.
The being behind him pauses and Arthur can't look away from the moment he's frozen in, staring at the dark mountainside, aching to see the sun rise just one more time.
One chance, the spirit seems to whisper, voice satin soft. Make the most of it.
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In a world where Arthur is ten years older than in canon, it is not Dutch and Hosea who raise John in the gang. It's Arthur who finds him at the gallows, and Arthur who takes him in. Dutch is not impressed.
Bookmarked by Stagefour_fearoftrying
01 Mar 2025
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Y I P P P P P P P P P E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E
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It was like a switch had been pulled, and there was an animal in front of Arthur instead of a man. The impact knocked him backward. And suddenly Mr. Downes was fighting him tooth and goddamn nail– and then, he opened his jaw and bit, right at the spot between Arthur’s neck and shoulder blade.
Or: After a visit to Downes Ranch, Arthur finds himself coming down with an unusual sickness.
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Dutch sends Charles out to bring Arthur home when he's been gone away from camp too long. In his excursions to find Dutch's wayward son, he ends up discovering a lot more, and realizes that he needs to protect what he's found.
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There was a rumor that Dutch van der Linde sold his soul at a crossroad in exchange for the shapechanging beasts that followed at his beck and call. Frankly, Arthur didn’t buy it. He followed Dutch and Hosea because they fed him. Some deal with a devil had nothing to do with it.
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A big, broad-shouldered man came through the door, the look of a long-haul trucker hanging around him like a ratty coat. He was wearing old oil-stained jeans and a frayed flannel shirt thrown over a white t-shirt, his scuffed boots peeling up at the toes with age.
He had the air of a man who’d reached the end of his rope. He had a battered wide-brimmed hat pulled low to cover his long, frazzled hair, half of which was scraped back into a loose tail. He had dark hair and dark skin and dark eyes that were framed by the deep-set bruises Arthur only ever saw on long-haulers and cattlemen, the marks of too many nights at the wheel or in the saddle, the normal rhythms of life stretched out and pulling at the seams.
The feller was handsome. Arthur noticed that as an afterthought, his breath catching in his chest. Under the bruises and the loose strands of hair, the feller was handsome. His eyes were bright and keen.
“Uh,” said Arthur, caught flat-footed by the unanticipated surge of attraction tightening his belly. “Hi.”
The feller looked Arthur dead in the eye. “I need all of the caramel sauce that you have,” he said.
(or, a coffee shop au. yeah. i know.)
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Canada is within sight but the gang is stuck in a cave in the middle of a blizzard. Lenny picks up an interest in fashion. Arthur has too many coats. Charles does not want to let go of his personal heater. And Sean just wants his goat back.
Or: Lenny and Arthur talk about family and the future.
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- Part 1 of Campfire Tales AU
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Dear Sons and Daughters of Hungry Ghosts by Katowisp
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
31 Oct 2021
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The West is a hardscrabble place. Lonely graveyards are full of boys who tried to make men out of themselves and died for their troubles. Charles and Arthur come across a young card player who has been shot, and asks them in his dying to take the news to his mother. The task is ostensibly easy. What's not quite as easy is facing the consequences of the outlaw life on the men and women who are trying to tame the West.
(Previously Ballads of the Frontier, and with format fix)
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- Part 1 of Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads
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The Things We Leave Behind by Darling_Jack for Emmithar
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
24 Jun 2023
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This found family ain't big enough for the two of us.
(Arthur feels isolated and abandoned by the gang. When John enters the picture, things get worse before they get better.)
Bookmarked by Stagefour_fearoftrying
19 Feb 2025
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doing a backflip and not landing it because im crying so hard
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Arthur scowls and moves to put the paper away, but a headline catches his attention: TRAIN ROBBED BY O’DRISCOLL GANG, PINKERTONS ON THE HUNT, screams a front-page article.
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In the Grizzlies, the gang doesn’t run into the O’Driscolls -- and they don’t rob Leviticus Cornwall.
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i'd tell them put me back in it by cupocoffee
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games), Red Dead Redemption 2
30 Jan 2024
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The last shot is accompanied by the trail of a cry, shrill, angry, fearful. Arthur lowers his revolver. Blinks. Tongues at a bloody tooth from getting hit while strangling an O’Driscoll, spits red mucus onto one of the bodies on the floor.
The crying starts up again, as if sensing Arthur’s confusion. For a moment, Arthur thinks it must be some poor lady these savages have taken alongside the house, but quickly knows it to be untrue. It’s too—wet, pointless in a way only the young can manage, knowing that something is wrong but not knowing what. Just a shout, not the bellowing anguish of someone who knows what god-awful situation they have been put in.
“Christ,” he says, once, twice. “Christ.”
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Arthur accidentally adopts a baby, and, despite his best judgement, ends up starting to raise him. He falls in love with Charles along the way.
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Bookmarked by Stagefour_fearoftrying
08 Feb 2025
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A A A AA A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A
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the future will take care of itself by adjourn
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
11 Jun 2020
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In which Arthur becomes a famous artist entirely by accident, and everything turns out alright.
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And In The Morning I Loved You Too by pipdepop
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
10 Jan 2022
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Since this... thing between them started, on a surreal, star-soaked night just outside of Blackwater, Charles has learned two things.
One: Arthur Morgan sleeps like the dead.
Two: the rest of the gang seem to view Arthur’s tent as communal property, and will happily barge in at any time of day or night.
With no warning whatsoever.
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Arthur doesn't do well with change. Small changes he can handle, but large ones have always knocked him a little off kilter. Usually he can adjust, given enough time - get his footing back and walk it off.
But not this time.
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- Part 1 of Menagerie Of Maladies
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Bookmarked by Stagefour_fearoftrying
04 Feb 2025
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aa a a a aa a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a
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It's Not a Big Deal (It's Alright) by Monotom
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
07 Aug 2020
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The members of the Van der Linde gang had watched the two men dance around each other for so long now, that most of them were getting tired of it.
Every time they saw Charles smiling at Arthur, or Arthur braiding Charles' hair, they all thought the same thing.
Just get together, already.
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5 times people wanted Charles and Arthur to get together. Plus the 1 time they found out.
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Then all of a sudden the moments slow down, filtering through his mind like the sand in an hourglass, and when he blinks he’s got Hargrove pinned up against the brick with his fists.
Hargrove is momentarily too stunned to do anything about it. He’s still got a cigarette dangling from his mouth. He is also sporting a hell of a shiner, which makes something like satisfaction coil up like a snake in Eddie’s belly.
Apparently Steve doesn’t pull his punches, either.
“The fuck did you do to Harrington?” Eddie asks, his voice so low it’s practically a growl.
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- Part 3 of ⟡ Anon's Omegaverse Works
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Bookmarked by Stagefour_fearoftrying
03 Feb 2025
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Y A A A A A A A A A A H O O O O O O
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Sure, he kind of figured people might make it a big deal. After all, it wasn’t just Sam Owens as their coach talking up how this men’s team for USA Gymnastics could be the ones to break the streak since the Trials — it’s the whole of the gymnastics world, and goddamn if people didn’t love an underdog. It’s only that he’d just also sort of figured it’ll be about all of them: him and Lucas and McKinney and the rest of them. But they’d latched onto him, and now Steve has people tweeting about him and asking if he has a girlfriend or a boyfriend or someone, making memes and TikToks and edits, there’s a fucking timer, apparently, on NBC, or so Erica’s saying there’s gonna be (and historically she can’t be trusted not to lie to Steve’s damn face for fun, so he’ll believe it when he sees it, right), when Finals for the team come around, counting down to his event. The Harrington countdown. And, like, someone called him Clark Kent during the team qualifications? Like! What the fuck. How fuckin’ wild, right? Him. Jesus!
Or: This Steve's job is horse. Also, he's got an unfortunate crush on a middle-aged former rock star.