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To Build a Home by strawbum
Fandoms: The Long Walk (Movie 2025), The Long Walk - Richard Bachman
05 Feb 2026
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When Pete's parents die in a car crash when he is only eight and he moves in to live with his uncle, he feels tired, sad and alone. But when he sees this strawberry blond hair freckled boy smile and wave at him from across the street, something sparks in him and maybe he had already made a new friend.
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Or in which Pete and Ray meet as kids and grow up together, and maybe, just maybe, they fall in love with each other a little too much.
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The only girl Mac will ever love is Dennis in drag.
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How can someone keep living without that one person who loved them unconditionally?
House was never the God he worshiped, Wilson was.
And whitout God, there's no worshipers.
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With Christopher away for the holidays and Buck unwilling to fly, Eddie agrees to a road trip that turns into three days of motel rooms, snow-slicked roads, and feelings he’s been avoiding for years.
Or love sneaks up on Eddie Diaz somewhere between here and Hershey.
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Salt of the Earth by kassidy for jaywright
Fandoms: Long Walk - Stephen King, KING Stephen - Works
26 Dec 2010
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Garraty and McVries, set sometime after Pete asked THAT question. You know. (The one where he asks if he can jerk Ray off. In case you didn't.)
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“I’m mortified, Eddie, I really thought Buck would have talked to you about it,” Maddie says. She looks genuinely regretful, her eyebrows pulling together with concern. “Obviously, he clarified things for me, told me that he wasn’t pining for his straight best friend, and I’m just…I’m so sorry. It wasn’t my place to speculate on your relationship like that.”
There must be a worm that’s wrapped itself around his thoughts — that’s constrained his neural pathways to just the thought of Buck’s in love with you — because something takes over Eddie’s mouth. Something entirely foreign and jarring prompts him to say with too much incredulity: “Buck said he wasn’t in love with me?”
Maddie gapes at him.
Eddie snaps his mouth shut with so much force his teeth click.
or: Maddie tells Eddie about the conversation she had with Buck. Eddie spirals about it.
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Roadside Assistance by Anonymous
Fandoms: The Long Walk - Richard Bachman, The Long Walk (Movie 2025)
28 Sep 2025
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“Keep walking,” McVries whispered.
Garraty bit down a groan.
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pointillism by chattrekisses
Fandoms: The Long Walk - Richard Bachman, The Long Walk (Movie 2025)
31 Dec 2025
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Garraty clears his throat, then asks, “What about you, Pete? You got a lady?”
McVries holds Garraty’s gaze for a moment, intensely, then says, “No, Ray. No, I don’t.”
Every molecule of Raymond Garraty slows to a snail’s pace. McVries peers at him, dark eyes half-lidded, smiling softly. Garraty feels a little like he’s fallen behind in a race he didn’t know he was running.
They keep looking at each other, silently, until McVries’s lips quirk up like Garraty’s said something funny, and he lifts his bottle to his lips.
“What is it?” Garraty asks. “What’s so funny?”
McVries shakes his head, still wearing that knowing smile. “Nothing, Ray. Not a thing.”
Ray Garraty and Peter McVries fuck around, get together, and fall in love. Not necessarily in that order.