8 Works by dancinglikebruce
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There had been an accident.
Ed and Stede were painting the bedroom again, this time Stede was sure the color they chose was the right one, the one that would tie it all together for sure. And Ed had been good-naturedly ribbing him, as they did, about maybe the lavender being too bright. They had been laughing and Ed had had a point to make, a point he of course had to make by gesturing emphatically with his brush, the brush he had recently dipped in the bucket. And, of course, paint flew everywhere.
“Oh, shit,” Ed had said absently, trying to assess the immediate damage to the floor and their furniture. “Sorry, love, this is a bit of a mess, hope you like some lavender on the bed, oops.” And he laughed, back still turned to Stede. This kind of thing tended to happen when they renovated together, really.
And he didn't notice. He didn't notice that paint had splattered all over Stede's face and shirt. Until he turned and Stede was just standing there covered, not saying anything.
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A tiny little accident and the release of some big emotions. Such is life.
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The first chords to Lady Gaga’s Bad Romance make the club’s floor shake as an anticipatory chill runs across the crowd dutifully pulling out their money from wherever it is stored. Everyone is staring at the stage with the reverence shown to a deity. It's a bit disturbing.
The stage gets covered in smoke way too quickly, which only seems to rile everyone up further. Steve thinks about going to the back, but that’s when a silhouette emerges and the lights come on illuminating Cherry Bomb in all her glory. She's standing at center stage, muscular thighs shining under the lights, electrifying eyes piercing right through Steve’s very soul.
Steve gets it. He gets it immediately.
This is a goddess.
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It's Jonathan's bachelor party, the girls go wild! There are drag queens and love once lost is found again.
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“Do you know why I fell in love with you?” he asks a while later, turning Steve’s attention away from Bob Seger’s voice floating out of the closed front door.
Steve feels his eyebrows reaching his hairline because getting Billy Hargrove to be this open about anything ever, willingly, takes weeks’ worth of work and deflection. Billy likes to keep what's his very close to home. So it can’t be taken away from him, Steve likes to think, when he’s not feeling frustrated about it. If Billy wants him to know this now, he must have his reasons, even when he’s already said so much more than most nights.
“Are you implying it was something other than my dashing looks, silky hair, and amazing ass?” Steve says around a smile, giving Billy an out if he feels like taking it.
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Billy is drunk and in love, Steve is very patient, everyone has deep feelings coming out of nowhere. That's marriage, babey!
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Steve can’t make the world feel safe again. Not for himself and not for Billy. But he can bring the sunshine in and hope it reminds Billy that there are still things for him out there. That there will always be a place for him beside Steve, but also in the world where there’s heat, music and laughter. And that it’s all his for the taking. Just waiting for him to rediscover the mundane glories of being alive. How there’s still joy to be felt, how Steve still wants to share it all with him.
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Steve just wants Billy to nap under the sun.
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Hey, I just Met You, And There Was Morphine by dancinglikebruce
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
26 Jul 2020
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"Who the fuck are you?" Billy snarls but nonetheless slows down his breathing. "And it's Billy, don't fucking call me that."
Whoever it is only chuckles, which does the job of irritating Billy further. He might not be sure if he has a body, but he very much fucking knows he hates being condescended to. This guy can choke.
"Well, Billy," says the guy, and now that Billy's vision is coming back, he can identify a veritable mane of brown hair and even bigger brown eyes. "Is that any way to talk to your husband?"
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Billy's appendix burst and Steve's his nurse, nonsense ensues.
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It ain't no sin to be glad you're alive by dancinglikebruce
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
07 Jun 2020
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Billy has a thing.
It's nothing embarrassing, though he also has plenty of things stored in the attic of his brain that will never again be said aloud while he's living and breathing. No, it's nothing big. But it is monumental to him, means too much, it's intrinsically part of himself at this point. Acknowledging it would be doing it a disservice, because he doesn't have the right words to make himself understood, he wouldn't know where to begin.
Well, he guesses, he can start by the one truth he'll always carry in heart.
Billy has always been in love with Bruce Springsteen.
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In which Billy works out his life through a lot of Bruce Springsteen songs.
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Steve doesn't feel responsible for what happens next. One minute he's staring at the fucking egg dick incredulously, and the next, his eyes snap up to the little window in front of the kitchen and lock with the smuggest mullet haired bitch he's ever seen his life.
It's like the rest of the world disappears, everything goes eerily silent, and he's out of his body, watching himself get up against Nancy's muffled protests, hard-boiled egg in hand. He watches the egg fly from his hand, as if in slow motion, across the whole diner, over the other customer's shocked looks, and hit the guy square in the forehead. And then the mullet bitch isn't laughing anymore. In fact, he's angrily untying his apron and opening the kitchen door.
"Oh, shit," is all Steve can say.
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This is 100% based on that Reddit post about the boyfriend who could not stop fighting the Waffle House cook, and I sincerely hope this is the next fandom trope to take off.
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One day, his vanity in their tiny cramped up apartment holds only his cologne and the odd pieces of jewelry he managed to collect through the years. And then, suddenly, bringing him to the verge of a heart attack, there's an honest to god pink caboodle sitting where, only yesterday, was his dusty bottle of hairspray and a hair teasing comb. It's off to the corner by the mirror, like it has always been there in this very space, and like it isn't the earth-shattering revelation that Steve has seen right through him.
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Billy can't really bring himself to admit he'd like to explore his femininity, Steve tries to solve this by secretly buying a pink caboodle.