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From the loud chaos of a country dance hall to the hush of a moonlit prairie, Gon wants Killua to know exactly how he feels. No filters, no hesitation, just music, laughter and a promise that might change everything.
ps. this is a shamlis plug for my fav music. :P
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01 Apr 2026
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lay bare the bones of the earth by marchflower for emooni
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
26 Jul 2024
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Joel sighs, runs his hand wearily over his face. “Baby,” he says, and despite herself, Ellie feels her shoulders relax at the nickname. “This - it’s a threat against all of us. It’s not something we can let lie.”
“I’m not telling you to just let it lie,” Ellie retorts. “Just- why does it have to be you?”
Joel looks away, shifts on his feet. “Ellie,” he says, and the timbre of his voice rakes a claw down her spine. “You know why.”
She does, and that’s the thing- she’s not sure she’s worth it, this kind of love that goes blind with rage in the face of threats, the kind of love that drives people out of their homes and into the night and away from their families. The kind of love that demands sacrifice. It sits uneasily beneath her skin, like an electric current.
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Jackson is threatened - and Ellie steps up.
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27 May 2025
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“I mean-” Ellie licks her lips, swishes a bunch of pieces aside with the flat of her hand. “I mean, do you think, like, old women think Joel is attractive?”
A pregnant pause swells to fill the garage. Then Dina snorts and claws upright on the couch. She sways dizzily. “Oh, for sure.” Ellie squeaks, and Dina goes on, voice sing-songing, “And not just the old ones.”
Jesse says, slowly, bravely, “If we’re being honest, I think Joel’s attractive.”
Ellie falls backwards onto her ass, grunting at the impact. “Oh my God-”
“Tommy too,” Jesses adds, and Ellie throws a handful of puzzle pieces at him, shrieks:
“What?!”
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Ellie discovers that Joel might be Jackson's most eligible bachelor. Complications ensue.
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27 May 2025
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The Zoldycks are a family of inquisitors and witch hunters in a world where witches and demons are very real. Killua has a job of transporting Gon, who is possessed by a demon of unknown quality, to his death. However, Killua finds Gon's free spirit and ineffable energy to be hard to hate, and experiences a crisis of conscience over what to do with his charge. What will they do, and will they both make it out of this alive?
And why is Gon's face so... pleasingly symmetrical?
Also, why is Killua so damned pretty in the moonlight?
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Dark fantasy AU featuring a magic system, primitive gunpowder, a dash of witchcraft, and the usual fantasy stuff. Fighting, fluff, smut. Graphic depictions of violence, not torture porn or anything though. Killua 20, Gon 18.Series
- Part 1 of Witch Hammer
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15 Feb 2025
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the jaws that bite, the claws that catch by 872chickensinatrenchcoat
Fandoms: Hunter X Hunter
20 Mar 2025
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“Who are you?” Gon demanded, though he kept his voice to a harsh whisper—he didn’t want to risk waking Mito right now. “What do you want from me?”
“Like I’d tell you my name so easily,” the stranger said, almost condescendingly. “As for what I want—you’ve killed my family’s dog, Gon Freecss. For that, you must pay.”
Now he was just confused.
“What?” Gon blurted, and winced at his volume. Continuing in a quieter voice, he said, “No. I wouldn’t kill a dog. You must be confusing me with someone else.”
“I found Mike’s body in the woods earlier and tracked the blood to this village,” the stranger replied. “You’re the talk of the town for killing him. Don’t try to deny it.”
“Wait, you mean the—the jabberwocky?”
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14 Jan 2025
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A vignette story (series of scenes) exploring Gon and Killua’s changing relationship through the theme of sleep. From first starting to share a bed in Heavens Arena, to comforting each other through nightmares and difficult nights, to gradually getting closer and more accustomed to each others’ presence, and struggling with having to sleep apart from each other after they separate.
Explores themes like Killua’s insomnia and nightmares and how being with Gon helps him combat them, Gon occasionally being more cuddly in his sleep than Killua is prepared to deal with, how they spend some of the nights before or after pivotal battles and moments on their journey, and how the closeness and comfort they find in each other helps lead them back together again.
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01 Aug 2024
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Killua couldn’t shake the feeling that something was terribly wrong. The job had been simple, and ultimately below his family’s paygrade, but Illumi had insisted on it since it was the first job he’s been allowed to be on in over three months after his unfortunate ‘slip up’. It was nothing more than a way to humiliate him, really. Although, in Illumi’s words it was ‘to get back in the rhythm of things after his time off’. Laughable, honestly. As if Killua was ever going to be afforded the luxury of losing his tact or his skillset.
The job had been simple and straightforward and his target had been an idiot, so Killua wasn’t sure why he felt so uneasy now that the job was over.Orr... Killua is an assassin and after one of his missions, catches the eye of one Gon Freecs. And he isn't content with letting Killua get away.
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17 Apr 2024
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The Young Butler by Kisayuri for Ash_1875, Nebulasaurus, GonKilluLuciel, WhisperingMolly, leahistyping
Fandoms: Hunter X Hunter
10 Oct 2024
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An alternative story where Gon is recruited from a young age to work as a Butler for the Zoldycks.
KilluGon. Slow-burn romance."He's just a Butler in training. He's none of your concern," Mother said firmly, pulling him away. "He's beneath you."
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21 Mar 2024
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Gon Freecss, the most fearsome man in the underworld, has a bounty on his head as high as Heaven’s Arena. It has remained unclaimed but not for lack of trying—no one has ever returned to tell the tale.
No one, until Killua. While his failed assassination attempt doesn't nail him the bounty, it does leave him with something else: a perplexing impression of the mafia boss, who’s more charming and handsome than the rumors describe. Killua resolves to finish the job but little does he know, the hunter has become the hunted.
Gon, who has been searching for the perfect partner for several years, now has his eyes on Killua.
And as the rumors say, once Gon sets his sights on something, he never lets go.
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17 Feb 2024
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Five years without any contact was a long time. The distance had built new walls on top of old wounds. They were still best friends, maybe, but did they really know each other anymore? In an ideal situation, they'd spend some time alone, maybe go on a few small adventures. Take it slow. Rediscover what drew them to each other in the first place.
But Killua had officially decided that the situation was not ideal. In fact, it was so much the opposite that he was going to have an enormous hickey on the inside of his elbow.
Because instead of taking things slow, they were pretending to make out in a closet.
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10 Feb 2024
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Killua Zoldyck’s carefully crafted strategy to graduate early was all going according to plan. Until the beginning of his last scheduled year, when his academic advisor decided to share that he was missing all of his required athletics credits. And that all gym classes were full for the year. And, no, scanning into the workout center once a week could not count for credit.
What could count for full credit, though, was being a practicing athlete on a university sports team for a minimum of two semesters. Great news for the men’s baseball coach whose team desperately needed a new pitcher and was willing to give opposite-of-athletic Killua a shot. No hitting required, minimal fielding promised, and an unexpectedly killer curveball later, and Killua had a #99 jersey with his last name on it.
The issue? Killua knew nothing about baseball. Luckily for him, team captain and catcher Gon Freecss had selflessly volunteered to teach Killua everything he needed to know about the game outside of practices.
Luckily for him, Killua loved study sessions. And baseball pants. And maybe the fact that things didn’t always go according to plan.
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a modern uni & baseball killugon au | for the 2023hxhbb
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- 13/13
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18 Oct 2023
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“Happy Hunter Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.”
Fuck the odds, they aren't dependable. The only thing I can rely on now is myself.
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Every year, twenty-four kids are pitted against each other in a fight to the death known as the Hunter Games. The sole survivor is honored as a hero; the rest are left to rot in their graves in the name of national unity.
Killua was born and bred to kill, hailing from a long lineage of the most infamous Hunter Games Victors. After saving his sister's life by volunteering in her place, he’s shoved into the deadly spotlight he’d spent his whole childhood preparing for—but he's not as ready as he thought.
Timing leads him to meeting Gon Freecss, the male tribute from coastal District 4. Infectiously optimistic, determined to protect Reina, his younger District counterpart—he's everything that doesn't belong in a battle royale.
Thrust together in the worst of circumstances, an unlikely alliance forms, proving that the strongest bonds forge in the most unlikely of places—proving that love blooms even in the face of inevitable death.
(Based on The Hunger Games)
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31 May 2023
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“I’m not a person. I’m not the sort of thing you should worry about feeding. I’m a savage, violent animal that needs to be put down.”
Gon looks over the man carefully. His eyes are sunken, yes, but they’re wide and expressive and impossibly blue. The hand not holding the bun is clenched into a tight, shaking fist. There’s a mottled bruise on his cheekbone that looks like it’s only just begun to heal. His mouth, although full, keeps twitching downwards as if he were only just managing to hold back tears. He doesn’t look fierce or dangerous. He looks hungry. And scared. And like, in another life, he might be beautiful.
“I don’t think so,” Gon says simply. “I don’t think you’re all that savage or violent.”
“Why’s that?”
Gon smiles.
“You haven’t killed me yet, have you?”
Old stories have rules. Do not stray from the path where the forest is darkest. Do not stop to talk to strangers in the woods. Do not, whatever you do, feed the creature with hungry eyes and sharp teeth.
Gon Freecss, however, has never been particularly good at following rules.
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18 May 2023
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Killua finds himself on a pirate ship without his memories, without a clue how he got there, and without an escape.
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- Part 1 of A Song of the Wind
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- 12/12
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20 Dec 2022
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At the ripe old age of fifteen, Killua and his usual brand of existential crisis are still on a quest to figure out siblinghood, friendship, and Gon Freecs.
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17 Dec 2022
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“He told me he could give me the green I needed to get me out of Whale Island,” Gon explains. “But this isn’t the green that I was thinking of.”
Killua watches the tiny frog on the railing wave its limbs somberly, barely catching itself before it teeters off the side of the balcony. “You’re a prince,” he manages. ‘You have enough money of your own.”
Gon nods. “Oh, I know,” he says cheerfully. “But I always feel bad asking Aunt Mito for favors. Besides, I don’t think she’d let me take more than my monthly allowance if I said I was planning to abandon my princely responsibilities with it.”it's a pretty simple tale, really. ex-assassin meets prince. prince turns ex-assassin into a cat. ex-assassin and prince have to figure out a way to turn back before midnight. aside from the Zoldyck name hovering over ex-assassin's head and a curse hovering over the prince, nothing could go wrong, right?
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26 Nov 2022
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In which the boys are broke, have bad luck, and decide, fuck it, we're gonna have ourselves the summer adventure of the decade.
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23 Oct 2022
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Killua has the perfect plan for a Christmas Eve with Gon. Guaranteed free chocolate! But he got a couple of cultural details wrong.
Killua rolled his eyes, ignoring the sidelong glances of a few people they passed on the sidewalk. “No. We have to say, ‘Trick-or-treat!’ Then they give us the chocolate.”
“What does that even mean, anyway?”
“It means, ‘Give us chocolate or we’ll mess up your house.’”
Gon’s dark eyes were quizzical on Killua’s face; Killua didn’t dare meet them. “Are we really going to mess up people’s houses? And I mean, mess them up, how? That doesn’t really seem to be in the…what did Leorio call it? Christmas spirit?”
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23 Oct 2022
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Their days are a scatter of stolen clothes and chasing games, dreams and wishes, memories and possibilities, wolves and bears and sparrows and hawks, once and future picnics, monsters real and imaginary, fights and laughter, broken edges and healing wounds. Sometimes at night they say true things.
[Or: fluff and randomness. Still not a “Nightfall” story.]
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23 Jul 2022
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Killua stares and stares and stares at the beating space of skin at Gon’s throat. Beneath that skin is a fresh stream of blood, ever flowing, full of life. Killua has torn throats wide open with his bare hands but this is the first one he’s ever wanted to kiss. [Two boys talking in the dark as they fall asleep, entwined. Killugon, cuddlefluff. Set during episode 37.]
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27 Jun 2022