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Abbot lifted his head to look down at her. “See, that’s the post-traumatic stress. Something happens that your brain decides is a life or death situation. You have a massive adrenaline kick while it’s all happening, and then when it’s bleeding out of you on the comedown, your brain throws out anything that’s not completely vital. The amount of car crash patients we have who don’t even remember coming to the ER when they submit requests for their medical records for insurance… the brain’s a weird thing, Mohan.”
“Yeah,” she said, shooting him a look out of the side of her eyes. “It can even make you convinced you have to hurt yourself in order to seek external validation when the most logical course of action is rest.”
He snorted softly, shaking his head and leaning it back. “God,” he muttered, his cheeks stained pink. “Robby was right. You should have gone into psych.”
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A night shift from hell ends in Mohan giving Abbot a ride back to his place, where tensions finally boil over.
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03 May 2025
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All that to say, it was difficult for him to understand just how Samira Mohan seemed to sneak up on him. How she managed to take root in his life as if she’d been planted there beside him all along.
In hindsight, he could see that finding her red-eyed and flustered had been the beginning of something. He had, unthinkingly, taken the leap from professional to personal. Jack hadn’t seen it that way. His mental file on Samira Mohan was long; nowhere within it had he noted that she was the type to cry at work or leave early.
Jack was worried about her. So what?
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A rambling four year character study examining just how Samira snuck up on Jack.Series
- Part 1 of i wanna know peace again
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03 May 2025
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Samira takes a temporary night rotation to get some distance. It doesn’t last.
Slow-burn medical codependency with post-it flirting, trauma-induced restraint, and a diagnosis neither of them wants to read out loud.
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02 May 2025
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"Steve 'the Hair' Harrington, a rage-filled barbarian, who knew?" Eddie says, like its a compliment, like Steve has ANY idea what that means.
"Uh, I knew. Obviously." Steve says, wisely, even though he clearly didn't. "Anyway, do you think we could eat a demobat? Or would we turn into some kind of monstrous freak? I'm starving, and Dustin's cheese crackers are not enough to get me on my feet again."
"What difference does it make to me if I'm a human freak or a monster one?" Eddie shrugs, and Steve butts his shoulder up against Eddie. It's meant to be brotherly, maybe friendly, but it's too soft. Felt like something he might have done before slinging an arm around a girl's shoulders.
"You're not a freak." Steve says, and finds he means it.
Eddie's eyes, when he looks at Steve, are curious. "No?"
"No."
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30 Sep 2022
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After Vecna and after the Upside Down and after the hospital, comes the even harder part of putting all the shattered pieces of their lives back where they belong, and it should be easy because they've done it before, except something is different this time and they don't quite fit together the way they used to.
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Eddie Munson was loud and big and weird like no one Steve had ever known before, and Steve thought he might be a little bit in love with him.
It kind of scared him.Steve Harrington looked like he tasted of Cherry Coke and spearmint, and Eddie really fucking hated Cherry Coke and spearmint, but he loved Steve Harrington, and he knew his younger self would be having a conniption if he could see him now.
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08 Aug 2022
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It's been six years since Eddie died. Steve manages a sporting goods store at the mall, and everyone else has moved on and left town. He's twenty-five and he's tired and alone.
But the Upside Down is shut away and he's alive and that's what really matters.
Until Eleven calls and says she feels something. Something in Hawkins.
And then Something shows up in Steve's living room and flashes sharp teeth.
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- Part 1 of The Prettiest Universe
- Part 1 of Bow to the Beast Inside: Monsterfucker Anthology
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02 Aug 2022
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the most remarkable thing about you standing in the doorway is that it’s you by greatunironic
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
21 Jul 2022
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Sixteen years after the world didn't end for the last time, Max Mayfield showed up on Steve’s doorstep and said, “You gonna walk me down the aisle in May or what?” Or, it’s 2002 and Steve Harrington attends a wedding, a funeral, and a birth.
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26 Jul 2022
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"Okay," Eddie says at last, voice betraying his cool demeanor. "I'll go first." He clears his throat, folds his hands politely in his lap. "I have never been more confused in my life than when I'm with you. And I've taken trig three times and I'm still not a hundred percent on what a hypotenuse is, so, like, it's not difficult to confuse me or anything. But you really take the cake, man."
Steve chews on his lip. "Sorry? I'm... confused too."
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two dudes navigate their feelings in the most normal way possible.- Language:
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04 Jul 2022
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This is just how straight friends act... Right? by Candydee98
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
17 Jun 2022
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A few months after graduating, Eddie finds himself very comfortable in his new friend group. He feels supported and he wants to support his friends. His feelings for Steve however... go a bit deeper then friendship. But Steve is straight, right? If that's the case, why does he keep staring at his lips when they talk. He decides it's better to be friends than find out Steve would hate him for daring to fall in love with him.
It's too bad Steve is in fact looking at his lips, is absolutely aware he isn't totally straight, and he really wants to kiss his favorite dweeb.
Eddie's Pov, tags update with each chapter!
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09 Jun 2022
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“Well, I didn’t think you were a good dude until about two days ago.” Eddie’s still watching Steve, studying the flutter of his eyelashes, the casual way his head turns. Noting the intensity in Steve’s eyes as they lock with Eddie’s.
“And now?”
“And now you’re lying in my bed listening to me spill my deepest, darkest secrets,” Eddie finishes.***
Steve's wounds are infected. Eddie's the only one who knows how to heal him. Add into the equation a bottle of strong vodka, subtract Steve's shirt, and Eddie's lips get a bit too loose for his own liking. (Or, Eddie gets a tragic backstory and flirts with Steve. Steve flirts back.)
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09 Jun 2022
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Summer of 1978. There is a lycanthropy epidemic in Britain. The Dark Lord is gathering forces. The Order of the Phoenix is preparing for fighting. Sirius Black has no idea about any of that – he just finished Hogwarts with his two best friends, the future is bright and endless before him, and he is just looking for a bit of fun before adult life is going to start – but somehow, he ends up right in the middle of a secret war. All because of a handsome stranger that, for some reason, saves his life.
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18 May 2022
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“They’re… chaos,” Remus said firmly. “And chaos is—”
“Rock and roll.”
He looked at Sirius sharply, and for once, matched his grin. “Yeah.”
“Maybe that’s my excuse then,” Sirius said. “I cause a bit of chaos now, and maybe one day, it’ll turn into rock and roll.”After losing his mother at age eleven, Remus has spent the better part of the last four years bouncing from school to school or else running around London and pretending as though he wasn't the kind of well-bred boy his father brought him up to be. Now, with his chances all run out, Remus is sent to Hawkings Independent School as a last-ditch effort to clean up his act. There he meets the very people who will set up the rest of his life, and is forced to confront the pieces of himself he'd long thought had been lost.
(genuinely not apologising for the slow-burn in this fic anymore. You've been warned <3)
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- Part 1 of The Cadence Opus
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27 Apr 2022
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Revisiting your hometown means revisiting a lot of old experiences, old feelings, old flings. Lexi had always known Fez was different, important, and hers. The night before she graduated, though, he'd vanished, which had always been part of his plan. He'd needed her to move on with her life, she was too brilliant to be tied to anything to do with him. Set 5 years after season 2, Lexi returns to her hometown for an unexpected but welcome reunion.
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16 Jan 2022
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Sirius Black, a loudmouth rockstar whose hobby it was to always make headlines. Sirius is beyond troubled and stuck in a constant cycle of sex and partying that he just can't seem to drag himself out of. Ever since a life-altering event occurred the previous year Sirius has lost his passion not just for music, but life, and doesn't believe he'll ever become the version of himself everyone thought he was destined to be all those years ago. He's stuck on a never ending roundabout with no way out, and with no control over his own life everything seems to be slowly crumbling around him.
Remus Lupin is just trying to get by. What with being a single parent to his four year old son while simultaneously trying to kickstart his career as a radio presenter. Remus has got everything he's ever needed though, friends that are always close by, his mum who's only a phone call away, and of course, his son, Teddy. What else is there? But it's not long before Remus' relatively normal life gets flipped on its head and he's suddenly forced to deal with situations he never thought he'd have to.
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06 Jan 2022
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Wolfstar Games 2020 - Team Sound / Prompt: typewriter
“Lupin didn’t seem pleased that I was filming last night,” Sirius said lightly.
“Most people that come here…” Lily spoke slowly, choosing her words carefully, “Remus put it like this to me once: most people who choose to spend years of their life so far from civilization have a reason for leaving it behind. Remus wanted someone like us and he held out for so long because he expected he would get sent a bunch of finicky artsy types. I don’t think he expected you. And now that you’re here, I don’t think he quite knows what to do with you.”
When wildlife filmmaker Sirius Black arrives on a remote Antarctic island for a year-long assignment, he isn't phased by the freezing wind, the perpetual darkness, or the hostility he meets from some of the biologists at the research base. He is used to living an itinerant existence. He is comfortable with unforgiving conditions. He expects the world to treat him harshly. But he does not expect to fall in love.
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- Part 1 of Rourke Island
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06 Jan 2022
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The Great Gay Pornstar Twitter Feud of 2020 by Vixeree
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
28 Feb 2020
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“So what I’m hearing is that you’ve got a date with your hot, clever, fellow porn-star twitter nemesis, of whom you once said ‘I’d rather die than let that pretentious knobcloud touch my dick’... is that about right?”
“... Yes.”
Or; Remus Lupin forgets to turn the fucking camera on.
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04 Jan 2022
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So maybe everything didn't work out perfectly for Harry. Still, most of his friends survived, he'd gotten married, and was about to become a father. If only he'd have stayed away from the Veil, he wouldn't have had to go back and do everything AGAIN.
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31 Jul 2021