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    “Here’s the deal,” Tony says. “I’ll give you ten thousand dollars to pretend to date me.”

    Steve stares at him, but only for a second.

    “No thanks,” he says, and looks back down at his algebra worksheet.

    (Or, a High School Fake Dating AU.)

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    27 Aug 2025

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    “Why did you pick me? As a match. Howard forced you to marry, but you had - there were other options. Many of them.”

    “Maybe I wanted to help you,” Tony says. “To help - anyone, for once. Your people needed it.”

    Oh, Steve thinks dully. So it wasn’t about him at all. It’s - a comfort, in some ways. In others, it’s… less so.

    “And-” Tony hesitates. "Everyone said you were kind. I thought… if I had to marry, I’d prefer to marry someone kind.”

    (Or, Arranged Marriage AU.)

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    31 Aug 2021

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    The day Natasha first told Steve her idea, he never would have dreamed that her fool notion would land him here: watching the train roll into the station and trying to wrap his mind around the fact that somewhere in there is the man who agreed to marry him.

    Steve, an alpha farmer living outside a small town in the Rockies who doesn't want to admit how lonely he is, has been exchanging letters with omega Tony for nearly a year. When at last Tony arrives in Big Eden, Steve is confronted with the fact that he doesn't know Tony as well as he thought he did - and falls for him harder than a landslide anyway.

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    26 Aug 2021

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    Steve is trapped in a dream machine, programmed to make him believe he's living his happiest fantasy.

    Tony goes inside to wake him up, but what he finds is a lot more complicated than he expected.

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    22 Aug 2021

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    He’s tired, so tired of waiting, tired of touches with no meaning, tired of holding his breath when Steve’s in the room, tired of keeping this love to himself.

     

    “I can’t—I can’t, if you don’t mean it.”

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    Tony comes home exhausted after an SI event. Steve acts as welcoming committee. It's an old, careworn routine they've perfected over the years, but tonight ends up going in a very different direction.

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    08 Jun 2021