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The heavy bass is making the oil-puddles shiver. Arthur leans against the wall, watching with a lazy eye as the puddles of filthy, iridescent water dance. Lines of neon jittering across their surface, pounding in time with the music, some garbage iridium synth track with too many drops that makes the whole alley vibrate, reverberating in his cyberware.
It sure as shit ain't good music, but the club is eating it up. Arthur supposes he should just be glad that he's not inside. He leans back, fitting his cigarette to his lips. A slow drag in, and then out.
Arthur holds his cigarette out - offering.
Eyes flick his way, glowing gold in the dark. His companion tilts his head, a silent refusal.
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- Part 1 of KILL THE MESSENGER
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The Cowboy’s Interchronometric Guide To Pining by kaph, RocksCanFly
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
05 Oct 2025
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A late night hunt goes awry when Arthur and Charles are chased across the tracks cutting through the border of the Heartlands and Lemoyne, when a ghostly train barrels right into, or rather, through them. Somehow, they find themselves separated and ten years in the past.
Arthur finds himself looking after a teenage Charles, who's more of an angry, scrawny kitten than the calm, skillful hunter he knows so well.
On the other end, Charles comes face to face with a young Arthur who is smug, cocky, and a flirt.
(A cowboy's practical guide to time-travel, adolescent social services, and falling in love)
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“Herr Strauss,” Arthur greets, teeth gritted, plastering a fake smile onto his face. “How goes your money lendin’ business?”
“Ah, Herr Morgan.” Strauss turns on the rock, beady eyes swivelling around to peer up at him behind his spectacles. “It’s going swimmingly. As I like to say, Herr Morgan, there exists not a debtor who is unable to pay, only a debtor who is unwilling to pay. A little prod is all that is needed!”
Arthur sighs. “Okay,” he says, ready to confront the inevitable. “Well, do you need me to… prod anyone for you?”
“Ah! Not right now, Herr Morgan, not right now,” Strauss says. Arthur looks at him, confused. “As I said, swimmingly! I gave Herr Smith a list of debtors a few days back and he’s managed to get the money from all of them. Efficient work, that man does, though that leaves none for you, I’m afraid.”
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In which Arthur dies, lives, and almost dies again at the shock of it. And he swears that this time, in his future, he will not make the mistakes of his past.
And little does he know, he's not in this alone.
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Charles had been running from his soulmate for years. Arthur never wanted to believe in soulmates.
They'd never tried to find each other, never communicated since the string between them appeared. That was, until one lonely, fateful night, Charles decided to tug on their shared string. On the other side, still healing from Mary and Eliza and his son, Arthur is reminded of a soulmate he'd long since forgotten.
It's all up from there.
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In short, two idiots play tug-of-war with their soulmate string, unwanted feelings develop, and somehow everything turned out just fine.
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- Part 1 of by a thread (soulmate au)
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E Pur, Si Muove by kaph for Ailenn, Shirou & Miro & Qingqing & Danger
Fandoms: Metal Gear (Video Games)
13 Oct 2024
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He brings you on more missions, forces you into a role you’re unfamiliar with, all the while with a look on his face that says, isn’t this your job?
Big Boss is in mourning. In loss. In delusion. He thinks you’re someone else. Wants you to be someone else. Believes you’re someone else.
Him, the earth to your moon, the earth to Big Boss’s sun. He was special to you.
But now, you see, nine years too late, that he must have been someone special to Big Boss too.
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if you climb in the saddle be ready for the ride by HereHaveAFandom
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
05 Jun 2025
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Arthur has never felt like he’s a lesser man for what’s between his legs- but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t appreciate Charles giving him something to fuck him with.
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06 Jun 2025
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The gang knows how Arthur gets when he's not allowed to run free after a stressful few days of hunting and taking odd jobs to earn a few measly dollars, of scamming people into pennies and robbing lonesome stagecoaches in the dark of night. Seeing it fit, Charles took it upon himself to do something for him this time to make up for all the things he does for camp. For all the good Arthur does for Charles.
Or: Charles lures Arthur into the woods and they fuck. That's literally it.
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- Part 2 of this strange life of ours
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11 Dec 2024
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Arthur flushed, ears burning. “No need to bring up ancient history—”
“Why, Arthur here played a very convincing young damsel once upon a time!” Josiah said. “Cut a lovely figure in skirts, he did. Of course, the corset helped—”
“Corset?” Charles asked, brow cocked.
A chance encounter with an old friend reveals some interesting details about Arthur’s early days with the gang. In the aftermath, Arthur helps Charles explore a newfound desire.
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- Part 6 of a never ending kind of love
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21 Nov 2024
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Charles brings a kitten home to the cabin he and Arthur share. She's adorable, mischievous, and loves stealing hair ties. She's also waging a war against Arthur's dick.
Five Times Charles' Cat Cock-Blocked Arthur (And the One Time They Made Peace)
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- Part 5 of a never ending kind of love
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08 Oct 2024
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“If I’ve meant anything to you,” Charles said, pulling their twined hands between their chests, pressing closer. “Come with me.”
Arthur pressed his sweaty forehead to Charles’s shoulder. “I don’t know how to convince you that you’re the best thing that ever happened to me.”
Charles tightened his hand over Arthur’s. He swiped a thumb over the trigger callus on Arthur’s right pointer, traced the cuts and bumpy healed breaks of a life soaked in violence.
“Come with me,” Charles repeated. “Or admit that best isn’t the same as most important."
Three years after leaving the gang, Arthur receives a telegram from Dutch. Charles loses his fucking mind.
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- Part 4 of a never ending kind of love
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07 Oct 2024