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    Inexplicably, Steve's hand reaches out to touch the carved letters that don’t even spell out Eddie’s real name. “Fuck. Shitty first date. I mean, if you want it to be. Otherwise, it’s just a talk. Guess you’ll have to tell me sometime.” For a heartbeat, he breathes there, pretends, between inhales and exhales, that the scent of Eddie’s cheap cologne, something spicy and soothing, always mixed with earthy weed, twines into the crests of the wind.

    Murmurs after a fashion, “I think he just misses you. And I miss you, and I miss him. And if you were here, you could roll your eyes with me and say something dumb, and I’d huff, and he’d groan, and we’d laugh. It’s all just... It’s all just broken now."

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    Or, a series of Steve and Dustin moments that bring us from Eddie's death to Stranger Things 5. Or, Dustin is struggling with Steve being alive and Eddie being dead, and Steve is struggling with missing them both.

    Or: 2) Steve sews Dustin’s shirt up when the bullies rip it up. 3) Robin sews Steve up when Dustin rips him up. 4) Dustin can't stop worrying about Steve. 5) After their Vol. 2 fight, Steve breaks down alone. 6) Finally, they hug. 7) Catharsis and naps.

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    30 Dec 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 55

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    The cold metal of the gun barrel presses harder into the spot between his eyes.

    “Witnesses aren’t a luxury I can afford, O.X.E,” The Widow muses in fluent English, velvety as a cobra’s dance, strike imminent— she squeezes her thighs iron-tight around his windpipe, heels locked together, the hand clawed in his hair yanking it back, making sure it tilts far back enough for him to get a good, hard look at his executioner. She cocks her head. “So, why do you keep testing me?”

    There’s a multitude of reasons for tracking down a target— suspicious activity, a reason for intervention, a tip-off, a shadow-op, a direct order— All of these are realistic players in this messed up game of chess; this deck of cards he’d been saddled with by his circumstances and all the powers that be, the people who insist he does good so much, he becomes it.

    This particular assassin, however?

    “Morbid curiosity,” Bob answers.

    The gun fires.

    Best to get it inside your head now, Mr. Reynolds. There’s nothing more disarming than a person you would die for.

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    21 Aug 2025

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    Twenty-three years of head-over-heels, devastating devotion and love, love, love for the man with bright eyes and dark hair. Fourteen years of friends, best friends, of always together. One moment of rejection.

    Nine years of apart. Nine years of heartbreak, nine years of continents away, of not speaking, of no acknowledgement, no interaction, no closure, no peace. No happiness. Nine years of Dean’s life entering motions, going through them, constant, cold and mechanic, like clockwork. Nine years of alone.

    God. Nine years. A lot has changed. And yet Dean still loves Cas just the same. Even if his heart hurts all kinds of different.

     

    On the day of Jimmy Novak's funeral, Dean sees Cas for the first time in nine years. He adored Castiel the moment he met him, at only four years old. But after fourteen years of friendship destroyed by one moment of heartbreak, and after nine years of silence, Dean is convinced Cas will want nothing to do with him. And it's killing him.

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    29 Dec 2020

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    Dean drains his bottle of beer, sets it on the table and gets up, heading for the kitchen. Maybe to fetch another, maybe to leave. But Castiel doesn’t want him to go, doesn’t want to leave this conversation unfinished; he remembers his regret of just a few hours ago, that Dean had never known how he loved him.

    “Wait,” he says and gets to his feet as Dean passes by. They’re standing close – close enough that Castiel can feel the heat of Dean’s body, the vibrancy of his soul brushing against his grace. “Dean, I have to tell you something...”

    Set after the S11 finale.

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    05 Dec 2020

  5. Public Bookmark 34

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    When Lorenzo finds out that two of his exes are marrying each other and have invited him to the wedding, his pride won't let him show up alone even though he's currently single, so he decides to do what any sensible person would do in the situation: enlist his roommate Francesco to come with him to the wedding as his pretend fiancé.

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    07 Dec 2019