19 Works by runtlock
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"Despite everything," Venom starts quietly. He squeezes Kaz's thighs, as if to ground himself by touching him, "you still want to be with me?"
"Yes," Kaz replies, letting go of his hair to put his hand on his shoulder and steady himself. He leans his weight forward, pressing chest to chest with him. "Is it that hard to believe?"
Kaz has known since the first time they slept together again that he wasn't Big Boss. But he chose to stay anyway.
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"You wanted to be here when I woke up," Chris murmurs. The look in his eyes is soft. "I'm made of tougher stuff than a few bullets, Al. You didn't have to worry so much."
Wesker frowns at him as he paces back around the bed to his chair. "You'll need at least a month to recover fully. Likely a bit longer to recover the full range of motion in your arm."
"Don't look so glum," Chris says with a smile. "It's better this way."
He stares at him. "I'm afraid I don't follow."
"I mean it's better I got shot than one of the Hound Wolves," he replies, shrugging his unhurt shoulder. "I'm the one who probably most deserves it."
The Hound Wolves are fine. He's not sure Chris will be.
Chris gets hurt while out on a mission. Wesker decides to take matters into his own hands.
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- Part 2 of eidolon
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"Captain," Chris murmurs, pressing a hand now to his waist, fingers slipping beneath his tactical vest. He sounds so tired, worn down. "Come home with me."
He doesn't answer for a long time before sighing. "Sometimes I think you forget when I indulge you." He reaches up and places his hand over Chris's. "We live in different worlds."
"I know," he says.
No, Wesker thinks, you don't.
The problem with Chris Redfield is that he always manages to pull Wesker back, even across time and space.
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- Part 1 of eidolon
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V holds up a sleek black synthleather jacket with spikes on the shoulders and a minimalist red design over the left breast pocket, assessing it.
"Would look good on you," Johnny says before he thinks twice about it.
"You're saying that cuz it's your style," V replies, but he's smiling.
It doesn't take a genius to know red is Johnny's favorite color. Which is why it feels particularly funny that he gets stuck with V, who might as well be a walking advertisement for the color red.
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They're friends, chooms, but it's more than that and V doesn't think there's a word for someone who still holds a piece of him in him still. Alt said they were separated, and they are, but maybe she didn't account for the human soul.
V and Johnny navigate their feelings while they remain nebulously connected even after Mikoshi.
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"Be grateful," V says with a grin. "I could have asked him to give you a matching tattoo."
Johnny removes the data shard and turns to look at him, take in his visage properly. V's always been beautiful to him— pretty gold-green eyes, a tall proud nose accentuated by his septum piercing, deep scars over his cheek, full lips that Johnny gets distracted by when he talks. He aches in his chest, burns under his skin.
"You're staring," V points out. He raises an eyebrow at him, but his cheeks are starting to warm with color.
"I wouldn't have minded it."
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"I wish you would put that mouth of yours to better use."
Faust turns his head and there's a smile curling his lips. All of the tension in his body has suddenly faded and now he's languid and amused and stepping closer to him.
Strider bites his tongue. "Don't— I— That's not what I meant to say."
"I rather like my interpretation of it."
"Faust."
"When did we stop seeing eye to eye, Strider?" Faust asks, pressing close. He lays one hand over his chest, over his heart. "Let me in. Let's understand each other again."
They have the same argument as always. This one ends a little differently than normal.
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your heart is ranger dark red by runtlock
Fandoms: Metro 2033 & Related Fandoms, Metro Last Light
15 Dec 2024
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"Artyom," Pavel breathes. He sounds happy. "Can we start from the top?"
"What?"
"A do-over. Let's start over." Pavel strokes his thumb over the knuckle of Artyom's own thumb, where he's still holding his hand on the cell bar. "I'll treat you right from the start this time."
Artyom blinks at him. "You mean...," he pauses, the word sticky on his tongue, "dating...?"
Pavel stares at him before he grins, the look in his eyes bright, his voice giddy when he speaks. "Eh? Dating? You really do like me, Tyoma. You want us to?"
Artyom and Pavel meet again after Red Square.
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- Part 3 of ranger scarlet, red line crimson
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your heart is blood red with vengeance and desire (interlude) by runtlock
Fandoms: Metro 2033 & Related Fandoms, Metro Last Light
02 Dec 2024
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"Are you done?" he asks, glaring down his nose at Pavel. "Pull the trigger and finish it."
Pavel tsks, shaking his head. "Mm, I meant it when I called you beautiful before, Artyushka. It would be a waste." He tilts his head, thoughtful. "I think I can convince them you're worth keeping. If you spent more time with us, you would see why we're doing all of this. You'd understand. And the Red Line would treat you so well." He grins, and the look in his eyes is playful but sincere.
His voice is softer when he says, "I would treat you well too, if you still want me after it's all said and done."
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- Part 2 of ranger scarlet, red line crimson
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your heart is red on your sleeve by runtlock
Fandoms: Metro 2033 & Related Fandoms, Metro Last Light
29 Nov 2024
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"I never got to thank you for saving me back at the Fourth Reich's base."
Artyom is unable to bite back a shiver when Pavel's stubble rasps over his cheek. "You don't need to," he manages, but it sounds unconvincing to his own ears. "You saved me from the demon."
Pavel doesn't push though. He pulls back and smiles easily, dropping his hand from his side. "Just figure I could do something nice for you, Artyushka, but if you say we're square, we're square."
"That's not what I meant," Artyom says. He leans back against the wall and grips Pavel's wrist loosely. "Just that you don't owe me anything. If you want to... then you can. I don't need thanks otherwise."
Pavel stares at him before smiling. He leans in close again, resting his forehead against Artyom's. He closes his eyes and just focuses on the sound of Pavel's breathing.
"You've got a good heart, Artyom," the Red murmurs, "You should be more careful. Not everyone is so kind, you know."
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- Part 1 of ranger scarlet, red line crimson
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Estinien holds Thancred's gaze, “I've had a lengthy conversation with Aymeric about it. He's well aware of the situation.”
Thancred stares at him, seemingly struck speechless. He doesn't say anything for a long few moments.
“He doesn't... mind?”
Estinien feels his face warm further. “Far from it. He said it's fine for me to pursue it.”
“‘Pursue’?” Thancred considers his words and must find there is no insincerity in them. He leans closer, and the look in his eyes is warm, relieved. The teasing lilt to his next words is soft and private. “Is that so? Didn't realize I got so well under your skin, Wyrmblood.”
Estinien scoffs, turning from him, even as a warmth curls in his chest at the smile on Thancred's face. “You've an unruly ego already. I wasn't looking to inflate it any further.”
After Ultima Thule, Estinien spends the summer in Thavnair. What he doesn't expect is for Thancred to join him.
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"Have you ever thought of augmenting these rings?" he asks, his voice quiet.
Aymeric is about to ask what he means when he sees Estinien reach up to pull the ring on his necklace out from beneath his shirt. Somehow, he hadn’t expected Estinien would still be wearing the ring, even though he knows Estinien would never do anything he didn’t want to do. When he had accepted Aymeric’s offer of the ring, he had done so because he had wanted to. Aymeric forgets— Estinien is not as complicated as he makes him out to be sometimes in his own mind.
“I’ve heard tell that there is a way to make rings connected so you can teleport to the person with the other ring." Estinien averts his gaze, but Aymeric can feel his cheek warming beneath his palm. "Just thought it'd be useful. You're not always near an aetheryte and besides, it saves me some gil when I want to come visit."
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mortal choices (loose red thread) by runtlock
Fandoms: Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice (Video Game)
12 Jan 2021
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His eyes go wide when he lays them on Wolf. “...Sekiro?”
Wolf says nothing. They cannot communicate through their bond anymore, but they have not always needed words. Genichiro looks a little older, but time has been kind to him.
Genichiro and Wolf reunite after five years.
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- Part 2 of red threads that tie
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oathbound (divine red thread) by runtlock
Fandoms: Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice (Video Game)
22 Nov 2020
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"We are on the same side," he says, unimpressed. "Do not look so dour."
Wolf silently holds up his prosthetic arm, spreading the imitation bone fingers.
Genichiro considers him for a moment before the faintest trace of amusement rises to his eyes. "You possess both arms still from my perspective."
Wolf takes a step towards him and Genichiro presses a hand to his chest, stilling him. His gaze is heavy, considering, as he sweeps it over Wolf’s figure.
“I committed an injustice towards you,” Genichiro acknowledges softly, his eyes falling to the bone prosthetic. “You possess a second chance yet, in more ways than one. For that, I will not apologize.”
The one where Wolf and Genichiro are both oathbound and begrudging allies.
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- Part 1 of red threads that tie
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They are floating above the humdrum of it all, like archangels casting judgment on the lives under their wings, and Rorschach knows Daniel belongs here, but he’s not sure he does or ever will.
“You want a fight,” Daniel says, voice quiet, low, “but I’m not going to fight you. We spend every other waking moment of our lives battling this city and I refuse to be another person who can hurt you.”
Daniel and Rorschach negotiate the spaces between them, in search of what goodness remains.
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- Part 2 of mythos
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Walter thinks about how his eyes had lingered on Daniel’s silhouette the other night, graceful and practiced, chest heaving with the exertion of fighting off ten different people. His lip was split, his armored knuckles covered in blood, his cape torn, one glassy goggle lens cracked.
He should look like any other mask, but instead he had looked like a vicious god made of silk under steel, of softness under bone. Rorschach worships a blasphemous deity, one forged under fire, a kindness still in his heart despite all of his hardships.
Rorschach figures it out, eventually.
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- Part 1 of mythos
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“How curious,” the Outsider remarks, sweeping his hand in a broad gesture, “that you might be granted the attention of such a fickle, elusive god, but you do not kneel, yield, or praise me.”
“Am I supposed to?” Corvo asks. Oh, he is so treacherous, eyes dark and glimmering, he says, “I am not afraid of the ocean, your whales, or the otter black of your eyes.”
And so, the Outsider falls in love with Corvo Attano immediately, the ground crumbling beneath his feet, the green of his eyes threatening to supercede the black.
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"Perhaps you'll find another soul to torture,” Corvo teases, “Another tired middle-aged father who is so desperate for your fickle attention."
“There is no one else,” the Outsider replies suddenly, voice fierce. His brow pinches just barely. “There is no other soul like yours. When you’re gone, I’ll wait to find you again, when your soul is reincarnated in a thousand or so years.”
Corvo’s heart is thudding in his ears and the Mark burns hot on his skin, under his wrappings, like it's about to burst into flames.
And then, as though caught being too sentimental, the Outsider’s hands drop slowly from Corvo’s face. He looks away, voice quiet when he says, “Don't die, beloved. It would be so troublesome for me.”
Corvo Attano and the Outsider, in a dance not yet occurred, and so very, very human. Or, the transformation of a lifeless god to a god in human flesh and blood with a living, beating heart.
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thesis of a spark by runtlock
Fandoms: The Transformers (IDW Generation One), Transformers - All Media Types
25 Jun 2017
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"Primus. You thought—? You. You actually thought I was dating Nautica and Nightbeat.” Brainstorm sounds incredulous, but there’s a falter of recognition in his voice as well. “This is my fault. I— I’m not dating them. I’m not dating anyone. I'm single. Can we— Can we talk about this?"
In which Brainstorm and Perceptor finally figure things out.