erraticonstilts
Recent bookmarks
-
Tags
Summary
Richie's mom is coming for a visit. ... No seriously, that's it.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 1,022
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 2
- Kudos:
- 34
- Bookmarks:
- 1
- Hits:
- 630
Bookmarked by erraticonstilts
31 Jan 2026
-
Tags
Summary
After three years in the Marines, Corporal Cameron Cope is back stateside and wishing he wasn't, especially when he sees a familiar face on base. How much has changed in the last few years and is he really ready to face Sullivan again?
"Fault lines don’t announce themselves—they just move."
Series
- Part 1 of Earthquake Metaphors...
Bookmarked by erraticonstilts
20 Dec 2025
-
tell me all the ways (to stay away) by paperclipsentimental
Fandoms: Boots (TV), Boots (Netflix)
10 Nov 2025
Tags
Summary
You say, “get out of here, Recruit,” as mean as you can, as unfriendly as you can make it. The kind of voice that makes other recruits just about piss their pants.
Cope just looks at you, all the way from the door. A tin cup between his hands. In five small, carefully balanced steps, he crosses the room to you. He puts the cup down on the desk, beside your left wrist. “Dismissed, Cope,” you say through your teeth. He turns silently on his heel and leaves. He leaves the door open, so you can hear them cheering for him.
Someone jokes that he’s survived the dragons den, and you wonder if they know.
After a moment, you pick up the cup. It’s half full of whiskey, strong as a memory. Out there, the recruits start singing Bohemian Rhapsody, and you are elsewhere, remembering Maitra’s eyes that day when he’d called Wilkinson a faggot. The way he’d looked at you, your hands still over the pieces of your disassembled rifle, a song still on your lips, and he’d known—or, you’d known that he suspected.
You put your lips to the edge of the cup, imagining Copes mouth on the metal, and sip slowly, like it’s something else you’re tasting.
Again, you are wanting something you don’t deserve to have.
Bookmarked by erraticonstilts
19 Dec 2025
-
Tags
Summary
Sullivan has walked away, but Cameron can’t let go.
The weight of all that’s left unsaid presses down on him, won’t ease.
So he does the stupidest thing yet: he goes back to him.Bookmarked by erraticonstilts
19 Dec 2025
-
Tags
Summary
"What, still in the closet?" The question slips out, even as alarm bells start blaring in his head—
In a second, Sullivan is before him, crowding him against the wall. To anyone else, the scene might look ordinary, two guys about to kiss in a shadowy corner of a bar, but Cameron knows. Knows the anger in Sullivan’s eyes. The fear. Unfortunately for Sullivan, he’s no longer the weak little boy he was a decade ago.
He’s a fucking Marine now.
Cameron and Sullivan meet again, fourteen years later.
Bookmarked by erraticonstilts
18 Dec 2025