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The line doesn’t flip to static, but stays on and lets Steve hear the clack of Eddie’s rings as his fingers jostle his hair and Steve wonders when he learned to discern that one specific sound. Then, oh but then. Then every noise that has ever been and will ever be is tramped out of Steve’s brain and all he knows, all he ever wants to hear again in his goddamn life is the soft groan that sounds like it’s been yanked from Eddie’s gut. “You’ll be the death of me.”
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Max regrets the first time he kisses Nev Schulman. He regrets the fingers that scramble for purchase against Nev’s still too small frame. He regrets it most while his hands now search for the folds of Nev’s shirt to pull them together in a darkened hotel room. If he hadn’t kissed Nev back as early morning sleet stung his skin, he wouldn’t be here, ten years later, begging for Nev’s body to slam into Max’s orbit and stick there.
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“Helping someone in a class I was good at,” Race tells Finch over the scream of the milk steamer, “is not a date.”
“Sounds like a date,” Romeo offers as he hands off three Frappuccino cups to Race from his place at the register.
“Everything sounds like a date to you.” Race snarls back, no true bite in his words.Series
- Part 2 of Better Than Espresso
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Matthew Holt’s intention had never been to be placed within the hard confines of a mental ward. His intention had been to, well, die.
Takashi Shirogane didn’t have any intentions. If he had any prior to the crash, he didn’t remember them.
Neither boy had planned to spend the beginnings of their respective senior years admitted into the bright white and teal hallways of the “esteemed and recommend Altean Rehabilitation Center.”After a horrific car crash coming home from his last summer vacation with his family, Shiro is left without them, a home, and only two friends. He has memories of none of them.
Matt has had demons living inside the confines of his mind for as long as he can remember conscious thoughts. A particularly bad spell has him on a bathroom floor with a stomach that needed pumping and gashes that needed stitching.
Both incidents lead to Altea in August, right as the leaves start their slow change over and a new season begins with the promise of healing. But sometimes healing isn’t a straight-lined process. Sometimes you need a hand to guide you, or maybe just one to clutch onto. To know you’re not alone.
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Takashi Shirogane liked keeping the two most important facets of his life perfectly separate. At school he was senior varsity football captain and star quarterback. Football had been his dad’s dream for him, especially when Shiro ended up going to the same high school as his father. After school, he’d get in his hand-me-down Honda and drive forty five minutes, don a bright teal and white t-shirt and blindingly white shoes and become someone who would be unrecognizable to anyone who knew him at school. He’d become cheerleader Shiro, the Shiro who could do a layout-stepout-double and toss a flyer twenty feet into the air. It wasn’t that he was ashamed of that part of his life, just that he knew his teammates would use it as a way to undermine his football accomplishments, even though he left cheer even more tired than a football game.
So, he kept the two sides of himself completely separate from one another, kept his two things in their own corners. It worked, and he was happy. Until Matt Holt shows up and threatens to tear down the carefully crafted separation between high school and all star cheer, that is.
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Better Than Espresso by velocity_times_2
Fandom Newsies (1992), Newsies - All Media Types, Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken
28 Oct 2020
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Boys Who Kiss Boys On Stage (And Literally Everywhere Else) by Wormdebut
Fandom Stranger Things (TV 2016)
21 Jun 2023
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The Adventures of Frontman Eddie and Sailor Steve
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Don't Be Afraid and Don't Delay | End Racism in the OTW by brynnmck for belmanoir
Fandoms: Newsies (1992)
14 Aug 2013
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Jack's chin goes up, his arms cross, and there it is, after all this time: the opening, the weak spot, the news breaking, and David dives for it. "Prove it."
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13 Feb 2019
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Objectively, Keith Kogane should have had exactly zero shot at someone like Takashi Shirogane. The guy was a complete overachiever, a twelfth grade honour student, star of the football team, and overall Good Catholic Boy right down to the purity ring adorning his finger. But Keith couldn't get him out of his head. Ever since the guy had stuck up for Keith when he was being hassled for being gay by some kids on the basketball team, Keith had just found Shiro fascinating. And… Shiro seemed to like him, seemed to like talking to him, didn't seem anything like the other guys and girls in that little pretentious chastity circle. So fuck it, right? You never know until you try, right? Well, Keith was damn sure going to try.
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05 Dec 2018
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Lance's chest ached and he listened as the locker room door swung shut before he slowly turned his head to look at the bond mark sitting just at the edge of his peripheral vision on his neck. His fingers traced it, knowing the shape by heart.
Shiro had bonded him nearly three years ago.
Shiro didn’t remember.
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21 Nov 2018
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Matt can kick some serious ass with that staff, and Shiro enjoys it a little too much, especially when he's the one getting his ass kicked.
He decides to ask Matt for a private sparring session in their bedroom.
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- Part 7 of Cross the Stars for You
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