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"So hot," the other woman agreed, shooting a quick glance out at Jack. "Those arms. Have mercy."
Robby hid a smile. Jack was gonna love hearing about this.
Her friend made an agreeing sort of noise. "Yeah, but I'm gonna be so real with you: the leg kinda freaks me out."
And Robby froze, a ripple of offense sweeping him.
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23 Nov 2025
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“Bring everything,” Jack demands. “Send Collins, Mohan, Langdon, King— I want anyone even a little bit useful up here right now, Dana—”
“They’re coming,” Dana tells him down the other end, through the chaos he can hear, shouting voices and scrambling action. It’s such an eerie counterpoint to the thunder-rumbling silence up here on the roof that Jack’s stomach turns as he ducks for two more rescue breaths. “How bad is it?”
Jack pushes his fingers to Robby’s throat again and still finds nothing. His face is so white when he cups it between his hands, probing for anything, the slightest flutter of a pulse, and he can’t find it. Nothing.
“Bad,” he tells her. The phone slips from between his cheek and shoulder to crack on the rooftop.
or: robby gets struck by lightning one night when jack meets him up on the roof.
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- Part 1 of the puddles gather rain
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18 Sep 2025
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Shot down over Germany late in the war, Major Gale Cleven and John “Bucky” Egan survive against the odds — stranded deep in enemy territory with no clear path home. But amid the rubble, they stumble on something no one was trained to handle — not an enemy, not a target, but something far more unexpected.
Back at base, nothing is quite the same. What they found won’t let go — and neither will Gale.
It’s not what war trains you for. It’s not what Gale ever thought he’d be asked to carry.
And Bucky, watching it unfold, starts to realize he’s falling for more than just the man Gale’s becoming.Bookmarked by edbl
13 Sep 2025
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13 Jun 2025
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“You have to twist your hand the other way to tie that stitch correctly,” Robby says, looking over Jack’s shoulder.
“Fuck off,” he mutters under his breath.
“Just trying to help.”
“Go kiss ass over there ponyboy.”
“Ponyboy? We’re bringing it back to freshman year English class?”
Or: the history of Jack Abbot and Michael Robinavitch's relationship from med school and the ache that comes with it never being the right timing.
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- Part 1 of we’re like jupiter and mars
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19 May 2025
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“Marge takin’ good care of you, Buck?” he finally asks, lips barely moving.
“Yeah she really is, John. She looks out for me.”
John nods a little, stops when Gale tuts and rests a hand under his chin, featherlight restraint.
“She said you asked her if I’m takin’ good care of her too.”
“Yeah. Gotta make sure, you know?”
Gale hums, a sort of breathy ‘uh-huh’ through barely-parted lips as he carefully cleans the rewetted blood, swipes so gentle they don’t hurt even when he’s working right up next to John’s throbbing nose.
“You need someone to take care of you too, Bucky.”
“No point really,” John argues, definitely slurring now as everything catches up to him at once, adrenaline draining away to leave him nothing more than drunk and exhausted. “Not much here to care about. ‘S all back there.”
“That ain’t true.”
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John Egan has survived hell and returned to America after the war to find some promises have been kept, but most have been hollow. The one bright spot in his disappointing return to 'normal life' is his next door neighbor Gale Cleven and Gale's wife Marge, both of whom somehow still find John to be worth knowing, even after everything.
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- Part 1 of This You Will Be The One Worth Knowing
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11 May 2025
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Brady shakes his head, speaking to Buck, “You’ll never get rid of him. He follows you around like a lost puppy looking for scraps.”
And Bucky can’t really argue with that so he shrugs and plays into it, says, “I’ve been thinking of moving to Casper, Wyoming. See what all the charm is. Long as I can dodge the dog catchers I might make a life for myself there.”
Buck snorts next to him.
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Bucky doesn’t know anything about curses or soulmates, but he does know he’ll do anything to save Gale.Bookmarked by edbl
22 Feb 2025
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John pulls out his zippo lighter and unsuccessfully flicks it, finger missing the flint wheel rivet several times. Growling, he takes the cigarette out of his mouth and glares at Brady. “Do I look like a damn sailor? We’re trained to fly up in the air, not row row row gently down the stream.”
“We’re not pilots anymore,” Brady snaps, “Not right now, anyway. You can’t keep living in Crosby’s car."
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The Boys in the Boat Fusion AU — John goes back to school after the war, aimless and haunted by ghosts. He ends up joining the rowing team where he meets Gale Cleven, and finds a new purpose.
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22 Feb 2025
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The first Christmas after the war's end Gale finds himself traveling to New York to see the holiday city that John dreamed of in the stalag. He came prepared, desperate for be free from the horror and pain that plagued him since he was discharged, and he'll see the city but he can't see John. He can't.
But maybe, one last phone call wouldn't hurt.
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06 Jan 2025
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"At times, he entertained the dream. Two men can defy the world."
Buck, without Bucky.
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- Part 1 of worthwhile pleasures on this earth
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14 Dec 2024
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knocking on the door of unhappiness by MarionetteFtHJM
Fandoms: Masters of the Air (TV 2024)
18 Jul 2024
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“I had been right, I was still right, I was always right. I had lived my life one way and I could just as well have lived it another. I had done this and I hadn't done that. I hadn't done this thing but I had done another. And so?”
― Albert Camus, The StrangerBucky has spent his youth living life with an expiration date; letting his impulses lead, taking for granted what he had, uncaring of what others thought about him. But now that his shelf life was seemingly over, he has to think about what comes next. And worse yet, he has to do it all on his own.
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- Part 4 of The MOTA Files (unrelated)
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10 Dec 2024
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never saw things going so right by brianmaybrianmay
Fandoms: Masters of the Air (TV 2024)
11 Jun 2024
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"You need a break. I think the colonel ought to fix you up a weekend pass."
"You should come. London. Let's do it up, Buck. Paint the town red."
"Yeah, maybe next time."
"We'd have a hotel room. A bed, forty-eight hours of leave. You remember what we spoke about in Algeria, don't you?"Series
- Part 2 of blue skies
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05 Dec 2024
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AU where Gale is a world famous actor while John is a successful vet who loves animals more than people.
Since the moment they meet it seems as if they've met before, the connection is instantly there.Bookmarked by edbl
23 Nov 2024
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In your arms (I think I might survive) by MarvaLamb
Fandoms: Masters of the Air (TV 2024)
26 Mar 2024
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5 times Bucky is compromised while sharing a bunk with one Gale Cleven
+ 1 time Gale climbs into Bucky’s bunk because he might also be damned by his feelings for the man“Gale is a fire, and Bucky would be glad to burn for five eternities if being here in Buck’s arms for even another moment is the reward for the dangerous inferno of this man's embrace.”
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- Part 1 of I might survive
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12 Nov 2024
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The cold, dry Wyoming dirt fills Gale's lungs and passes into his blood, melts into the plasma there, begins making up his body again, it seeps into his white bones and every movement is part of that desert. England had not quite taken the cowboy out of him before he was back again, married and squirming in his bed from the nightmares. He is more than Casper, he wants more than what it gives; John can give him more, but he is half the man he wishes he was, and squirms all the more at night for he thinks little of that kind of adventure, and less still of himself.
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04 Nov 2024
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in between somethin' like home and somewhere far away by youllneverrecme
Fandoms: Masters of the Air (TV 2024)
15 Sep 2024
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A weekend furlough between officer training school and flight school.
Or, falling in love through a weekend of activities including dancing, an underground gay club, and some time on the beach.
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04 Nov 2024
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The first time he saw Buck sink to his knees in front of him he almost came on the spot. It had been one of the best he'd ever had, the pleasure Buck took from it clear in the way he was so desperate to take John's cock deeper that he kept choking himself. He hadn’t stopped once – not even to complain about his jaw being sore – until John was soft and oversensitive, and even then he had to be pulled away.
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07 Jun 2024
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The thing is, Gale is safe. He knows it.
But the only thing that has ever made him feel unequivocally safe is Bucky. And god, how he just wants to collapse into those familiar arms.
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Or: After the war, Gale gets on a bus to Wisconsin.
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06 Jun 2024
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Say it, (like you'll come back) by euph0riac
Fandoms: Masters of the Air (TV 2024), Band of Brothers (TV 2001)
23 Sep 2024
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John gets sick before the march.
He doesn’t get better during it.Not that Gale is surprised, the march is enough to drive healthy people to death, to send men dropping to their knees, never to get up again. It scares him that it could be John, that there would be nothing in the world he could do to stop it.
But for now, John is strong, the strongest man he knows– and that will have to be enough.OR
What would happen if Bucky got sick during the Stalag march?
What would happen if Easy Company were close enough to help?Series
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06 Jun 2024
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After the war, Bucky tries to lose himself in New York City. Gale finds him anyway.
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With a yawn, John unlocks the door and pulls it open, and that yawn becomes a squeak, which becomes a cough, which becomes “Buck?” He squeezes his eyes shut, rubs them with his knuckles, and pries them back open.
Gale is still there in the soft light of the hotel hallway, the leather of his A-3 jacket gleaming and crusher cap angled just-so, toothpick a taunt and temptation both in the corner of his mouth. He’s smirking and, if John didn’t know better, blushing as he gives John a quick once-over. John looks down at himself. Lipstick is still smeared on his nipples. Clearing his throat, he tugs the robe tighter shut, shielding his chest from Gale’s sight.
Blue eyes flick up to his, amusement crystal clear. John feels faint. Perhaps this is how a Victorian felt upon seeing an ankle.
“Hey, Major,” Gale says, his familiar drawl like fingernails over John’s skin, scattering goosebumps. John wants to shiver. He abstains. “You’re a hard man to find.”
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30 May 2024