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“Nathan, Audrey –” Duke gestures at the woman next to him. “This is Evi.”
Evi offers a pointed nod. “Evi Crocker.”
Nathan tightens his jaw, looks at Duke, and speaks without thinking at all. “I never took you for a polygamist.”
“You have a – ?” Audrey stops short, turning on her heels toward Nathan. “What?”
“What the fuck, Nathan.” Duke says, voice pitching, “You’re the one who forced –” His eyes get big while the rest of his face seems to come loose. “You didn’t file the paperwork, did you?”
Nathan wets his lips. “I got busy.” He refuses to look away from the challenge of Duke’s outright disbelief, although Audrey appearing like she’s about to vibrate to pieces about makes him want to jump off the dock.
Duke is uncharacteristically silent for a pair of beats, then scoffs with a jerky gesture. “For a decade?”
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“Ah, Dick,” Sink says, pressing his lips in a flat line, as he regards Dick for a pair of seconds, then gradually stepping back with a weak cough. “I’ll have to admit I… didn’t expect you this quick.”
“Why haven’t I been notified of being mobilized?” Dick asks, glancing down to Strayer at the desk, then back up to Sink with a slight lift of his chin. He hasn’t felt half this insecure in his position since Sobel got sent down to Idaho. “Half the units are moving, but I haven’t gotten so much as an update.”
“You’re not on this one,” Strayer says, looking up from his toughbook on the desk with a peer that mostly lands on Sink. “We’ve got a conflict with personnel out in the field.”
“Conflict?” Dick repeats, as he looks up at the board, only to pause, staring at the coordinates and the label of the fire reports far too close to his name.
Only, it isn’t his name up there, is it?
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“Did you talk to Jake?”
Jack looks up properly at Robby with a flick of his eyes, sighs through his nose, then drops his hand to the remote next to his thigh and pauses the television.
Robby rolls his eyes with another scrub of his hand through his hair. “You didn’t need to –”
“I did,” Jack interrupts, somewhat flatly, as he sits back and laces his hands in his lap. “Actually. And we didn’t even talk about you.”
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“Hey, Janey,” Jack says, as he pokes his head around the curtain, peeking down at Jake, then back to Janey while pasting on the best smile that he can manage. “I’ll watch him for a minute.”
Janey looks over at Jake – who shifts on the cot, but doesn’t disagree – then offers a wan smile while she nods and reaches back to pick up her purse. “Thanks. I’ve been meaning to check out the new cafeteria.”
Jake peeks up with a visible swallow, then looks back down at his feet, though it’s hard to tell if he’s really focusing on the injury or just avoiding Jack.
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Purlieu by ezlebe
Fandoms: Sonic the Hedgehog (Live Action Universe), Sonic the Hedgehog - All Media Types
08 Mar 2025
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“I believe we are… between planes,” Shadow says, slowly, as he looks around the square while speaking nonsense an unhelpful tone of reluctance. “Of reality.”
Ivo throws out his hands in the direction of Stone in front of him, then jerks backward when his hand sweeps right through him. He stares at the spot on Stone’s chest, then reaches out again to confirm his hand cannot meet flesh in any way. “For how long!?”
“I cannot know,” Shadow says, markedly dour, and looking over at Stone, as well, with a slight pinch and release of his brow. “The last time was a few weeks.”
“Augh!” Ivo says, bending down deep, then crossing his arms tightly over his chest. “Useless!”
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Greg laughs awkwardly, a familiar reaction to calling him out on his shit. “But I was uh, just…” He pauses, then raises his brows, imploring, “Really into you just touching me and telling me I was being, you know, good? And, and the collar. Obviously.”
Obviously. He’s only mentioned it about thirty times.
Tom quirks one of his own brows at the sincerity, a throb southward that has him set his heels and lean back in his chair with a low creak of metal.
“Or, um,” Greg stutters, wetting his lips while his eyes darting markedly downward at Tom’s lap. “Hey, you could, like, tell me what to do? And then I do it?”
“I wish, Greg, I could, but I’ve accepted you’re a wildcard in that respect,” Tom says, pretending at discontent, setting his chin atop his knuckles with a low tut. “However burning and bitter, as the finest battery acid, that acceptance has been to swallow.”
“Well, I know, I – ” Greg pauses, moping briefly, but then his eyes get big and round, as his mouth twists into this frankly incredible little grin. “Are you like making me beg on purpose?”
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“You just don’t…” Tom falls quiet for a beat, staring at some middle distance through the windows behind Greg. He looks at Greg, again, something awful and resigned in his eyes. “Maybe, she’s right, I should be grown up about it. I’m on the other side of fucking forty. I don’t have a wife, or kids, or – or… shit, I’ve never even had a real house.”
“Is not having any of that so bad?” The words escape from Greg’s throat not entirely with his permission. He looks down at his hands, as he uneasily cracks the knuckle of his ring finger.
Tom is quiet for a long few moments, then his voice returns with a croak. “Greg, you can’t say that to me.”
“Why?” Greg asks, barely above a rasp himself.
“Because you don’t – ” Tom pauses, then takes a shaky breath, his next words even less distinct. “D-Do you?”
Greg lifts his shoulders weakly and gestures around them at the cramped galley slash pilothouse slash living room of the boat – their boat.
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Not Just Something You Read in Teen Vogue by neglectedtuesday for steviekat
Fandoms: Succession (TV 2018)
29 Jun 2022
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“I just,” Tom continues, gesturing in Greg’s direction, “want to understand it all. You, specifically. I want to understand you.”
Greg chews another piece of sashimi, wondering what path to take here. It’s a complicated knot to untangle, only ever referring to yourself as a man out of obligation and politeness. He’s not had much cause to question it, has only ever considered gender in an abstract way, and now finds himself rather ambivalent about the whole thing. Gender: No? Gender: He/Him in the same way you refer to most dogs as a good boy? At this point in his life, gender: businessperson, but in previous iterations, gender: stoner?
Bookmarked by ezlebe
29 Sep 2022
Bookmarker's Notes
I've read this over about seven times, so legally I have to rec; the note asks for outfits, but the last one is perfect and always in the back of my mind.
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Greg follows a rabbit down a thought hole in thinking that sometimes Tom is like hot oil, a flash in the pan, a quick sizzle of a burn. Maybe if Greg pays attention, he will be crispy and deliciously fried instead of burnt.
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19 Nov 2021
Bookmarker's Notes
If the Long Halloween was a tumultuous Succession romance, exclusively in the sense that it is centered around holidays and is also Choice.
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“Well, well,” says a cool voice from the sidewalk. Johnny squints against the sunlight, and smiles at last: it’s a slim, dark-haired figure, leaning against Johnny’s Cadillac, hands tucked into the pockets of his ill-fitting suit.
“LaRusso,” he says. “Keep following a guy around like this, he might start to get ideas about calling the cops.”
“I knew you stooped low, Johnny Lawrence,” says LaRusso, “but I didn’t know you stooped this low.”
“A guy’s gotta make an honest living somehow,” says Johnny pleasantly.
“Really,” says LaRusso. “Well, I ever see a guy living honest, I’ll be sure to keep that in mind.”
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“It began as a thought experiment,” said Gilfoyle, “But after some consideration it became clear to me that it’s the best solution."
Bookmarked by ezlebe
08 Jun 2018
Bookmarker's Notes
They’re both so well characterized in their pining, particularly Gilfoyle.
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Till Escrow Do Us Part by acaramelmacchiato
Fandoms: Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens (2015)
28 Feb 2016
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Or, How Hux and Kylo Burnt Down a Home and Saved Their Marriage
Hux and Kylo are married and flip houses for a living. Rey and Finn are their long-suffering unpaid house-flipping interns. Millicent is their cat who gets feline acupuncture. It's in LA.