masterroadtripper
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Thomas’s chest tightened - could it be possible?
The idea was absurd, he told himself, it was impossible, and yet his mind betrayed him, returning to that makeshift stage in France, to the sight of Ruby’s painted lips parting as she sang.
His rational mind scolded him for even entertaining the thought. A certain flair in one's manner did not make this man Ruby, nor anyone else from Thomas’s past. But still, the resemblance in presence, if not entirely in feature, gnawed at him.
Perhaps it was only his own wishful thinking, some desperate attempt to stitch together his loose fragments of memory from the war with the present, and perhaps Thomas was just trying to drag Ruby out of the shadows of his imagination and give her shape again.
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“There was an incident in the infirmary,” the guard said flatly, “Gallagher’s been transferred to Cook County.”
Mickey knew what that meant, everyone did. If the infirmary couldn’t handle it, if they went to the trouble of calling an ambulance and shipping him out, it wasn’t stitches or a busted rib. It was bad. Bad enough that he needed a real hospital. A real doctor. Real help.
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After surviving an attack in the infirmary, Ian is left with a traumatic brain injury that changes everything. Released into Lip and Tami’s care, he struggles through recovery while Mickey remains trapped behind bars, desperate for answers and powerless to help. Even as the possibility of parole draws closer, Mickey can’t shake the fear - when he finally gets out, what kind of life, what kind of Ian, will be waiting for him?
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“Wow,” Mickey whispered simply because he couldn’t help it.
This wasn’t everything he’d ever wanted, not really. He’d wanted a real dick, he’d wanted to be a real man, but if this was as close to that as he was going to get, for the time being at least, he was going to fucking enjoy this, and he was going to make it good for Ian.
If anyone deserved it, it was his husband.
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- Part 3 of I got you something
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Ian had gotten good at palming a candy bar without Kash noticing. He’d done it so many times that he could almost convince himself Kash didn’t know, but deep down he figured the older man saw everything that moved in his store. Kash never said a word though, and when he glanced up from the counter there was always something in his eyes.
Sometimes, if Kash seemed to believe that he’d had too many snacks during his shift, the older man would tap the hard-sided black kit that Linda made Ian put up on the back counter of the Kash & Grab when he arrived, reminding him that his blood glucose meter was always there, always behind the register. A little nudge for Ian to test before he left.
Ian pretended to be annoyed by it, but the truth was he liked the attention, and he liked someone looking out for him who wasn’t Lip.
It hadn’t always been like this, and Ian could still remember, however fuzzy it was, the first time he got sick, truly sick, when he was seven.
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Anthony knew he was dying.
He’d known for a while now, though for a time he’d tried to pretend otherwise. It began as little things, like a cough that wouldn’t leave him, bruises that took too long to fade, the horrible type of fatigue that sat deep in his chest no matter how long he slept. Anthony didn’t need a test to tell him what came next.
But if he had a few days left, weeks maybe, he wasn’t going to spend them on a ward, waiting to fade away under white sheets. The antiseptic smell, the hollow voices in the corridor, the way the few nurses who were actually willing to tend to people like them spoke in gentle tones that always meant there’s nothing we can do.
Anthony didn't want that.
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Most of the challenges that Ted Lasso encounters when he begins coaching at AFC Richmond were more or less what he expected: still not really understanding soccer, people getting upset when he says things like 'soccer,' etc. He's got a whole new team full of players to get to know, who've all got their own stuff going on.
The part he didn't see coming is the kid he meets on his first day. Ted quickly learns a few things: his name is Jamie, he's fifteen years old, and he's the part-time groundskeeper's assistant at Nelson Road. The more time Ted spends with him, the more he learns about where Jamie fits into the Richmond ecosystem, and the more concerns he develops about just what, exactly, is going on in the kid's life outside of this building.
It's going to take Ted's determination and patience, an unlikely main ally in Roy Kent, the entire Richmond community, and Jamie's own willingness to be brave enough to let someone help him to stop Jamie from drowning. Then maybe, just maybe, they can bring him safe onto dry land.
(AU that follows the events of the three seasons of the show, with one major difference. completely gen, no ships.)
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Maverick was the most terrified he’d ever been in his goddamn life, up to and including the plane crash, because he wasn’t a parent but now he was all Bradley Bradshaw had in the world.
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- Part 1 of hold my hand
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