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yourself or someone like you by suzukiblu
Fandoms: My Adventures with Superman (Cartoon), Superboy (Comics), Superman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics)
18 May 2024
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"Crap!" the food truck worker shrieks in alarm. "Don't hurt him, Superman, he's just a kid!"
Clark . . . pauses, then looks up from the kid that he is currently pinning into the street as said kid struggles underneath him.
"'Hurt him'?" he asks in reflexive confusion, and then realizes how batting a teenager around like a person-shaped cat toy and pinning him to the street hard enough to crack it probably actually looks to an outside observer.
. . . um.
Whoops.
"Um," he starts awkwardly, and then the kid slips his pin while he's distracted and throws his arms around his neck with a gleeful laugh and a bright grin.
"Dad!" he crows triumphantly, and hugs Clark harder than literally anyone has ever hugged him before.
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Red Hood’s men are worried. Red Hood got hit by something nasty that has him laid up for days and everyone is starting to get nervous. Fortunately, a few off hand comments by a not so lucid Red Hood give them all the hints they needed to get the perfect cure for their boss, a cop by the name Dick Grayson.
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- Part 1 of Off The Fucking Rails
- Part 5 of Ace's DC Works
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Ghost, being the workaholic that he is, throws a fit about having to go on leave...until Soap invites him to stay at his flat for the next six months. Y'all know exactly where I'm taking this. Domestic fluff and potential implied smut, here I come! Thanks to all of my amazing Beta Readers; @CofeeBea, Paz and Giles Corey.
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Soulmate AU: In a world where having a soulmark is a rare and forgotten phenomenon, finding your other half can be more a curse than a blessing.
Soap joined the military intent on escaping the stigma of the mark, adamant he'd never find his soulmate.
When Soap’s lies begin to unravel, he must contend with his awakened soulmark, and a sicaria drug lord hell-bent on watching him burn.
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Jason died. But then he came back.
This keeps happening.
(Not a groundhog day loop, but something slightly worse.)
No. 8 EVERYTHING HURTS AND I’M DYING
Stomach Pain | Head Trauma| Back from the DeadSeries
- Part 24 of outrunning karma (whumptober '22)
- Part 1 of dead men tell no tales 'verse
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Stories older than civilization tell of the man in the moon, whose face can be seen if one knows what to look for - dark pockets in it that might resemble eyes, or a mouth, a nose. Soap can see the face now, gazing down with its large, flat eyes. He can't help the prickle along his skin; the sense that the moon is, indeed, watching him.
"Why do you keep sending me these dreams?" he asks the moon, who of course doesn't answer.
He doesn't know what it means, never has. Prophets and mystics, he's asked them by the dozen, but none of them have been able to explain his dreams. They chalk it up to stress - but why, he would ask, do they come so routinely? - or the fact that Soap was born on a full moon, in a particular alignment of the stars that hurts Soap's head when they try to explain it.
But why, he would ask, does that matter? Why would the day of his birth affect the dreams of his adulthood?
No answers, just a fond pat on his hand and a prescription for something to help him sleep. Useless, the lot of them.
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“Ye gotta give me something, LT,” Soap joked as he scanned the Shadow’s lifeless form for anything useful, “Is it a unique mark?"
"All marks are unique, Soap,” Ghost’s sigh was crackly in his ear.
“I mean, would ye know if ye met them?” Soap continued, pulling a knife from a holster on the Shadow’s waist.
There was a pause over the comms.
“I’d know. Might take me a few minutes, but I’d know,” Ghost’s voice had dipped to a low rumble and Soap was pretty sure he’d been able to hear his own heart break over the words.
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Soap spends his life chasing after death and pining for skeletons.
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The Shield and the Shadow by a_platypus, Martuzzio, TrashBard
Fandoms: Call of Duty (Video Games)
09 Nov 2024
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Ghost knows he's destined to spend the rest of his life going through the motions of being the sharp, shadowy knife those in power use to backstab one another. He's made peace with it. He's a professional. His newest contract, at least, seems promising. Taking down the head of the Royal Guard? A welcome challenge.
Sir John "Soap" MacTavish is far too busy to be fucking around in the frozen arse-end of Anfēowern. He's got an entire team of knights to direct, a king and a prince who are hell bent on making his life as difficult as possible, and an incoming visit from the king of a neighbouring country that will surely plunge his next few months into complete chaos. He’d love a day off. Fuck, he’d love five minutes off.
Fate must have a dark sense of humour, because Ghost and Soap are about to collide.
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- Part 1 of The Shield and the Shadow
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There’s a teddy in Soap’s bed; a beaten-up, old brown bear. Well-loved, if the state of the fur is any indication. Ghost lets out a choked laugh, mostly at his own expense. He wishes he was there, suddenly, wishes he was by Johnny’s side as he walked through the doorway and realised that his childhood room was waiting for him like a time capsule. Wishes he got to see the embarrassed scrunch of his face, the way the tips of his ears would flush red.
Soap has a whole second life, outside of the SAS. He’s got a mother, and a poorly-decorated bedroom, and a bear. All Ghost has is a flat that will be the same it is today as it will be the day he dies, like he was never even here at all.
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There was only so much you could do to a dead man, you see, before he became more of a liability than an advantage. In theory, the idea of not killing Ghost— of keeping him alive, taking him back to the base and torturing all the information they could get out of him was a good one. However, in practice, the issue became more complicated.
Or— Ghost is sent home to recover after being victim to cartel torture, and then Soap shows up.
REWRITE OF TENDER IS THE NIGHT