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They declared Brad officially KIA on the third Tuesday of October.
Coalition forces looked for him after the ambush, hopeful that if anyone could survive, it was a recon Marine. That hope flickered, day by day, until three months finally snuffed it out. Eventually they called it: Brad Colbert's final mission was a total loss.
Two weeks later, a FedEx envelope showed up at Nate's office. As the sealed note inside slid into Nate's hand, his gut dropped out.
He'd recognize the hastily-scrawled "Nate Fick" anywhere; Brad wrote this.
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28 Mar 2025
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"My mistake, sir. It won't happen again." Without offering anything more, Brad about-faced and walked off, like he couldn't wait to get away, but rushing was beneath his dignity.
Nate watched him go, bewildered, unable to shake the terrifying, nagging voice that insisted: he would never see Brad Colbert again.
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28 Mar 2025
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In the brief lull between the time heist and Bruce using the infinity gauntlet, Steve confesses his feelings to Tony.
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26 Mar 2025
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There is little that Agent Mike Wynn takes more seriously than the life of Vice President Nate Fick. When the number of death threats starts to climb, he calls in the one person he's sure he can trust, USMC Sgt. Brad Colbert, and assigns him the 24/7 task of being the Vice President's shadow.
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21 Mar 2025
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If this was gonna happen—and since it already had—then he would damn-well plumb his Captain's ass, none of this weak-titty halfway bullshit. If they were gonna do it, they would do it.
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10 Mar 2025
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Thank You for Participating in the Department of the Navy’s Long-Range Silent Partnered Communication Program by siegeofangels
Fandoms: Generation Kill
04 Nov 2018
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Brad realizes: it’s not Ray. Ray’s sleeping. Brad’s manifesting a fucking spontaneous bond with someone in the middle of a fucking mission.
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26 Feb 2025
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Preparations for the time heist marks the first time in years that Tony has spent any significant amount of time with Steve under the same roof. With the olive branch offered and taken, everything’s going well between them. Very well, actually. Better than it’s ever been. Tony's trying not to think about that too closely.
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17 Feb 2025
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Recently Tony has been communicating over the internet with a charming new friend. Two-way anonymity has its advantages, allowing Tony to express himself more earnestly than he usually would otherwise. It’s safe, too, because what are the chances that Tony and BD01432 know each other in real life? Very low, that’s for sure.
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16 Feb 2025
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With an Unselfish Love by Annie D (scaramouche) for derelover
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe
20 Jun 2023
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The night before the time heist, Tony seeks Steve out.
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14 Feb 2025
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Deserts to ocean. The rules of engagement themselves. Emotions. Superior officer to… something more?
Everything was always changing.
Brad had been warned not to let his emotions take over, but these emotions in particular shouldn’t even have existed. During their deployment, Fick ran hot and cold, and Brad was never sure if his camaraderie would be met with a smile or a rebuke. It kept him off balance — at least it did at first…
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09 Feb 2025
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The truth is written in the curve of your lips by Sarisia (rospeaks)
Fandoms: Terminator - All Media Types, Terminator (Movies)
07 Jun 2009
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Some morning. Set during the movie. Kyle Reese wakes up to the sound of machinery. Marcus is already awake.
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26 Dec 2024
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When Thanatos falls in love with the kingdom's trouble-making crown prince, he is not expecting it will amount to anything more than a passing infatuation. He is also not expecting to be made the prince's bodyguard, and he is certainly not expecting the prince will ever love him back.
Thanatos, it transpires, is wrong about many things.
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06 Dec 2024
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When Peace Corps assigns Nate to East Timor, a tiny half-island in eastern Indonesia, he figures he'll have a lot of time to catch up on his reading. But the year is 1999, and the shock fall of military dictator Suharto is still reverberating throughout the country, triggering changes nobody ever thought possible. As East Timor moves inexorably towards freedom – or war – Nate is drawn into events that will define the future of the province forever.
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01 Dec 2024
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“The fuuuuuck,” Jamie mutters to himself, swiping back through the team page and his own page to double check the numbers. Why does Roy have so many more than anyone else? Who’s out there writing thousands and thousands of stories about Roy that don’t have Jamie in them? He frowns down at the screen, scrolling through the list under Roy’s name to confirm they’re all the same ones that are on Jamie’s page. They are. He frowns harder.
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29 Nov 2024
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Roy Kent's career is, frankly, going down the tubes. He's on a Championship side, he's benched, and whenever he does play, he's shit. Thankfully, his ex-girlfriend, Keeley, is a PR wizard and has an idea to get Roy enough media attention that fans demand Roy gets minutes: a fake relationship with someone famous and beautiful, i.e. recent Lust Conquers All-reject Jamie Tartt. The only problem is that, all too soon, Roy's trapped in a fake relationship with perhaps the only person he's ever truly wanted something real with.
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04 Nov 2024
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It wasn’t supposed to go this way.
He doesn’t realise he’s said it out loud until Roy says, too loud: “What wasn’t supposed to go this way?”
Jamie just stares at him, mouth opening and closing, and this is - there’s so much he could say. So much he could tell the great Roy Kent about the way things were supposed to be - the way they should have been friends, the things he wanted when he was a kid—
Roy’s mouth - Roy’s mouth is so close to his.
“Nothing,” he says, voice suddenly flat - and turns, and runs away.
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A series of moments which are almost something else.
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27 Oct 2024
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Marcus loses his heart but doesn't die.
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13 Oct 2024
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Brad swiped the towel down his chest and turned back to the bathroom, voice calling behind him: "You'll be glad to know Iraq is familiar—it's just as fucked as when we left. I found myself nostalgic for 2003 levels of fucked, so I thought I'd visit."
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10 Oct 2024
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"People on the Internet are writing porn about us..."
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08 Oct 2024
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Who can tell fact from fiction these days?
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08 Oct 2024