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1. The Shadows Are Brighter than the Light by zplenticys

   Fandoms: Thunderbolts (Movie 2025), Marvel Cinematic Universe  

   • Mature
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   22 Aug 2025

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Robert "Bob" Reynolds/John Walker (Marvel)
   • Robert "Bob" Reynolds & John Walker (Marvel)
   • The Void | Dark Sentry/John Walker (Marvel)
   • John Walker (Marvel)
   • Robert "Bob" Reynolds (Marvel)
   • James "Bucky" Barnes
   • Yelena Belova
   • Religion
   • Religious Guilt
   • Religious Cults
   • Religious Imagery & Symbolism
   • Fictional Religion & Theology
   • Angst
   • Fluff and Angst
   • Heavy Angst
   • Angst and Tragedy
   • Angst and Romance
   • Angst and Feels
   • Angst and Fluff and Smut
   • Hurt No Comfort
   • Possession
   • Fluff and Smut
   • Blood and Injury
   • Blood and Gore
   • Blood and Violence
   • John Walker Needs A Hug (Marvel)
   • Bisexual John Walker (Marvel)
   • Eventual Smut
   • Shameless Smut
   • Gratuitous Smut
   • Consensual Sex
   • Spirits
   • Alternate Universe - Historical
   • Gay Sex
   • Gay Panic
   • Robert "Bob" Reynolds Needs a Hug (Marvel)
   • Bipolar Robert "Bob" Reynolds (Marvel)
   • Rough Sex
   • Oral Sex
   • Kissing
   • Guilt
   • Police Uniforms
   • Undercover Missions
   • Messiah Bob
   • Undercover cop John Walker
   • Cult Victim Bob Reynolds
   • Major character death - Freeform
   • emotional smut
   • Like super fucking emotional
   • Porn with Plot
   • hold onto ur horses peeps
   • I Wrote This While Listening to Tame Impala's Music

   Summary

   “It is in the dark that God is passing by. The bridge and our lives shake not because God has abandoned, but the exact opposite: God is passing by. God is in the tremors. Dark is the holiest ground, the glory passing by. In the blackest, God is closest, at work, forging His perfect and right will."
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   John Walker is an undercover cop on a hunt for one of the States' most notorious cults in it's origin town, according to the intel. He meets a rather benign looking man named Bob Reynolds in the town, who offers to show him around, just for a few days. He doesn’t realize it yet, but the air here clings to the lungs, and nothing you breathe in ever truly leaves.

   Not even the scent of Bob's shirt.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   3,308

   Chapters:

   2/?

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