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i'd reach into your body and fix you if i could by wearenobodyelse
Fandoms: The Long Walk (Movie 2025)
14 Nov 2025
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“Okay. If you don't like your wish and you don't like mine, if you had a do-over, what would you ask for?” Ray asks, unimpressed, like this is a dare that he doesn't expect Pete to be able to complete.
Pete had spent a lot of time thinking about this after the Walk. It’s near impossible not to, really; you’re given the hardest choice you’ll ever make after the most horrific few days of your life, and you have forever to stew in the consequences of it. Pete has been stewing in it, indeed. “Do you really think you can wish for anything?” he asks. “It shouldn’t have been possible to get that kid an elephant so soon, but—”
“You want a magical wish, then? Like a fucking genie? It’s all hypothetical anyway. Go for it.”
Their feet move in tandem, like soldiers. The horrible ache in Pete’s stomach has gone away. This is the only time it ever goes away: here, in a dream, with Ray. “Well, I’d ask if I could just go on walking with you forever.”
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If Pete McVries had another chance, he'd choose a different wish. Post-Canon Garraty/McVries Fix-It.
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13 Nov 2025
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There’s something living in the wood shed.
With winter fast approaching it’s not surprising for animals to take shelter there. Last year he’d played host to a family of opossums nesting in the back corners.
He isn’t sure what’s taken up residence this year, though. After noticing his new neighbor he left out food and water, both of which were untouched the next day. But whatever is in there is coming and going. Through the latched door, even. Which signals a level of intelligence beyond the usual woodland creature. A stray kobold? Or a goblin? He guesses and leaves food suitable for either. It remains untouched.
That’s when his curiosity gets the better of him.
Or, Local hermit druid finds a vampire in his shed and decides to adopt it as he would any other wounded animal. As one does.
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- Part 1 of The Green Man and the Vampire
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10 Nov 2025
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my achilles always bent and bruised by newlydead
Fandoms: The Long Walk (Movie 2025), The Long Walk - Richard Bachman
06 Nov 2025
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Ray had sworn he'd been a dead man. His ticket had gotten punched. Three warnings to forty-seven, and he was more than sure that he'd die. He was ready to give it all up for Pete. He trusted him with his idea in taking out the Major. And when Pete was ready to give his own life up to make sure Ray's idea happened, he knew he had to do the same.
He falls unconscious due to his gun shot wounds, believing that he has succumbed to his injuries. Despite that, Ray finds himself waking in an unfamiliar room and a hazy memory of what had happened once the Walk had ended. The only thing he's sure of? He loves Pete - that wouldn't change. But there was no reason he should be alive, not if Pete was the winner.
Not until he finds out that Pete's one wish was his life.
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10 Nov 2025
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Who Told You a Calf to Be by enko_girl, lesbianwithacat, sly_as_an_alpaca
Fandoms: The Long Walk (Movie 2025), The Long Walk - Richard Bachman
08 Nov 2025
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PRETEND THIS IS A STUPID JOKE.
Day 3, Houlton. Protestors meeting us downtown. Rioters, molotovs, looters, etc. They’re on our side. We use the distraction—stop the Walk.
Laugh if you’re in. Push me away if not. No beef either way.
DO NOT fucking snitch or I will give you your ticket myself, I fucking swear.The Walk is ended abruptly by a half-assed plan, and Ray Garraty is caught up in something he can barely understand.
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10 Nov 2025
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Tomorrow is a Long Time by Idlerpawn
Fandoms: The Long Walk - Richard Bachman, The Long Walk (Movie 2025)
06 Nov 2025
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Takes place after the long walk in our fav AU where Pete wishes for Ray to live.
While Ray and Pete were on top of each other during The Long Walk… what happens after without any cameras, audience, or pressure?
Or: slow burn! Ray and Pete as they figure out living together, recovery, and trauma after the long walk. At first, they are both unexpectedly awkward around each other outside of the walk, but after living together for some time, both men realize what they had on the walk wasn’t just forced proximity or circumstances, but a bond that goes beyond just being friends
# trying to pioneer a longfic for this fandom
Bookmarked by lizard_newt
08 Nov 2025