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1. Who'd Want To Be Human Anyway? by Teddy006

   Fandoms: The Long Walk (Movie 2025), The Long Walk - Richard Bachman  

   • Not Rated
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
   • M/M, Multi
   • Work in Progress

   19 Mar 2026

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Major Character Death
   • Ray Garraty/Peter McVries/Stebbins
   • Ray Garraty/Stebbins
   • Peter McVries/Stebbins
   • Billy Stebbins & the musketeers
   • Billy Stebbins & Richard Harkness
   • Billy Stebbins & Collie Parker
   • Curley & Stebbins (The Long Walk)
   • Stebbins (The Long Walk)
   • Ray Garraty
   • Peter McVries
   • Art Baker
   • Hank Olsen
   • Collie Parker
   • Gary Barkovitch
   • Richard Harkness
   • Curley (The Long Walk)
   • Rank (The Long Walk)
   • Original Characters
   • Angst
   • Hurt No Comfort
   • Angst and Hurt/Comfort
   • but the comfort is a long way off
   • Time Loop
   • Graphic Depictions of Illness
   • Emotional Hurt
   • Implied Suicidal Thoughts/Ideation
   • Depression
   • putting billy in the blender
   • Billy Stebbins needs a hug
   • eventual gavribbins
   • no beta we die like billy is going to (copious times)
   • Found Family
   • because sometimes family is you
   • the homoerotic situationship you have a parasocial relationship with
   • and said situationships friend group
   • all of whom you've seen die countless times
   • Other Additional Tags to Be Added
   • stebbins centric
   • lowkey autistic stebbins

   Summary

   All this happened, more or less. The first walk and the last walk, anyway, are pretty much true. Billy really was shot that fifth night, out on the bridge. The last night, too he really did manage to walk away. And he really was the rabbit, all mechanical workings and inhuman desires, right up until all those moments when he learned he wasn’t.

   Listen:
   Billy Stebbins has come stuck in time.

   ~~~~~~~~~
   Putting Billy in the blender and not letting him out until he learns the power of friendship (and that he is deserving of that friendship)

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   39,368

   Chapters:

   4/5

   Comments:

   38

   Kudos:

   85

   Bookmarks:

   14

   Hits:

   865